of faith and labour of love c. knowing beloved your election of God For our gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power c. and ye became followers of us and of the Lord having received the word in much affection c. ye turned to God c. to serve the living and true God and to wait for his Son 1 Thes 1. 3 4 5 6 9 10. The word of God which effectually worketh also in you who believe for ye brethren became followers of the Churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus for ye also have suffered like things of your own country-men 1 Thes 2. 13 14. Ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief ye are the children of the light c. 1 Thes 5. 4 5. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me c. who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy c. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the chief 1 Tim. 1. 12 13 15. Let every one who nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2. 19. A peculiar people zealous of good works Titus 2. 14. Ephes 2. 10. He who hath entred into his rest hath ceased from his own works Heb. 4. 10. They who believe desire a better country that is an heavenly c. Moses c. chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt c. Heb. 11. 16 24 25 26. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. John 13. 8. We trust we have a good conscience in all things as those who count in all things to live honestly Heb. 13. 8. If any among you seem to be religious and bridle not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this man's religion is vain Pure religion and undefiled between God and the Father is this To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction to keep himself unspotted from the world James 1. 26 27. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have not works c. Faith if it have not works is dead c. I will shew thee my faith by my works c. Faith without works is dead 〈◊〉 James 2. 14 18 26. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge amongst you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envying c. this wisdom desceadeth not from above c. But the wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and eaâ—â—â— to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace c. James 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18. Jesus 〈◊〉 whom having not seen ye love c. Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth c. unto unfeigned love of the breâ—men 1 Pet. 1. 8 22. Cant. 1. 3 4. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word of God that ye may grow thereby if so be ye have tasted c. Ye are a chosen generation c. that ye should shew forth the vertues or 〈◊〉 of him who hath called you c. 1 Pet. 2. 2 3 9. Luke 10. 39 42. The time of our life may suffice c. when we waâ—ked in lasâ— viousness c. wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot 1 Pet. 4. 3 4. Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust Add to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge c. for if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus but he who lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off c. 2 Pet. 1. 4 5 6 7 8 9. Just 〈◊〉 vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. Psal 119. 53 126 136 158. Jer. 9. 1 2. ch 13. 17. God is â—ight c. If we say we have 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 and walk in darkness we lye c. But if we walk in the light c. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves 〈◊〉 1. 6 7 3. 〈◊〉 we know that we know him if we keep his commandments He who faith I know him and keepeth not hâ—s commandments is a lyar and the truth is not â—n him c. He who abideth in 〈…〉 himself also to walk even as he walked c. He who â—aith he is in the light and 〈◊〉 hâ—s Brother is in darkness even until now 〈◊〉 who loveâ—â— his brother abideth in the light c. If any man loveth the world the love of the 〈◊〉 is not in him c. If ye know that he is 〈◊〉 ye know or know ye that every one 〈◊〉 righteousness is born of God 1 John 2. â— 4 6 â— 10 11 15 29. We shall see him as he is And every man who hath this hope in him 〈◊〉 himself as he is pure c. Whâ—soever abideth in him sinneth not c. He who committeth sin or giveth his labour to sin is of the devil c. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil Whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither is he who loveth not his brother c. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren c. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murtherer and ye know that no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him c. Whosoever hath this world's goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up the bowels of his compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him c. Let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth And hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before God c. For if our hearts condemn us he is greater c. And hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath given us 1 John 3. 2 3 5 6 8 9 10 14 15 17 18 19 24. ch 4. 12 13. ch 5. 18. Whoso knoweth God heareth us those who are not of God hear us not By this we know the spirit c. Love is of God and every one who loveth is born of God and knoweth God c. God is love he who dwelleth in love dwelleth in God
God even to them who believe on his name who are born not of blood c. but of God John 1. 12 13. Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst c. John 4. 14. Jesus said I am the light of the world he who followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life c. If the Son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed c. He who keeps my sayings shall never see death c. John 8. 12. 36. 51. My sheep c. I know them c. and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand John 10. 27 28. 1 John 5. 12 13. If any man serve me let him follow me and where I am there also shall my servant be If any man serve me him will my Father honour John 12. 26. I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you c. Ye see me c. Because I live ye shall live also c. He who loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self unto him c. And my father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him c. Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you c. John 14. 18 19 21 23 27. ch 16. 27. ch 17. 23. Rev. 3. 20. Ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you c. Ye are my friends c. henceforth I call you not servants c. but I have called you friends for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you John 15. 7 14 15. 1 John 3. 22. John 9. 31. Rom. 10. 12 13. The Father himself loveth you because ye have loved me c. John 16. 27. Christ prays for them only not for the World John 17. 9 10. Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God John 20. 17. God is no respecter of persons but in every nation he who feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him Acts 10. 34 35. Being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ c. The love of God is shed abroad into our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us Rom. 5. 1 5. Sin shall not have dominion over you because ye are not under the law but under grace c. Now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life Rom. 6. 14 22. There is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus c. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death c. As many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God for ye have not received the spirit of bondage c. but the spirit of adoption c. And if children then heirs heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ c. We know that all things work together for good to them who love God c. If God be for us who can be against us He who spared not his own Son c. how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect is it not God that justifies Who is he that condemns c. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ c. We are more than conquerors c. Rom. 8. 1 2 14 15 16 17 28 31 32 33 34 35 37. Gal. 4. 5 6 7. Psal 25. 10. Whosoever believeth c. shall not be ashamed c. They that call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved Rom. 10. 11 12 13. The God of peace shall tread Satan under your feet shortly Rom. 16. 20. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God c. Whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours and ye are Christ's and Christ is God's 1 Cor. 3. 16 22 23. chap. 6. 19. Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world c. We shall judge Angels how much more things which pertain unto this life 1 Cor. 6. 2 3. The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband else were your children unclean but now are they holy c. He who is called in the Lord being a servant he is the Lord's free-man 1 Cor. 7. 14 22. If any man love God the same is known of him 1 Cor. 8. 3. To the glory of God by us 2 Cor. 1. 20. Ye are the temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people c. I will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6. 16 18. 1 Cor. 6. 19. Christ gave himself c. that he might deliver us from this present evil world Gal. 1. 4. Ye are all the children of God c. And if Christ's then Abram's seed and heirs according to the promise Gal. 3. 26 29. ch 4. 28. And because ye are sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father c. And if a son then an heir of God through Christ Gal. 4. 6 7. Brethren ye have been called unto liberty only use not liberty for an occasion unto the flesh c. If ye are led by the spirit ye are not under the law Gal. 5. 13 18. Blessed be God who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things c. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children c. What is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints c. The church which is his body the fulness of him who filleth all in all Ephes 1. 3 5 18 23. God who is rich in mercy and hath made us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus c. We are no more strangers c. but fellow-citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God c. Ye are built together for an habitation for God through the spirit Ephes 2. 4 6 13 19 22. For me to live is Christ and to die is gain Philip. 1. 21. The peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ c. The God of peace shall be with you Philip. 4. 7 9. Giving thanks to the Father who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son c.
on purpose that it might appear they are the Failings of Saints and so proper to the Head 2 dly Note also That the words within a Parenthesis beginning with or are the Marginal Readings 3 dly Some General Heads have no Particulars following but the whole placed under that General Head This is so done either because the Texts which the Scripture affords to that Subject are but few in the whole and so easily run through or that the Matters are so various that almost every Verse carries a distinct thing in it yet still relating to the General Head as that Of the Saints Privileges each Text almost a distinct Privilege So that Of the Character of Saints and some other of like Nature And here to have descended to Particular Heads would have been tedious and unnecessary for the words being there transcribed the Reader may presently inform himself in the whole and in every particular Lastly A little pains in observing the Contents or Table in the Front of the Book which doth contain the General and Particular Heads therein and also the References thereto and directs to Chapter and Page where each lieth will enable thee to discern more of the Method and usefulness of the Work than can be well expressed in a short Epistle Therefore this shall suffice supposing the Work it self will shew its own Usefulness and Advantage to the Meditation about Divine Matters holding a Man to one Subject and yielding variety of Matter to enforce upon the mind and leave impression there When bare reading a Chapter or two as some use to do as a task proves not effectual for that end and searching proves laborious and to many by reason of the difficulty of finding discouraging also In this Edition the Errata of the former Edition are Corrected and the Work is enlarged about a fourth Part. ADVERTISEMENT THERE is now Printing a New Edition of the large Cambridge Concordance in Folio with very great Improvements to which Edition is added the Concordance to the Aprocrypha never before Published to be sold by A. and J. Churchil THE CONTENTS OR A TABLE OF THE Several HEADS herein Contained AND THEIR SUBDIVISIONS In Order as they lie AND Directing to Chapter and Page Chap. I. OF the Scriptures their Authority Use and Excellency Page 1. Chap. II. Of God Page 5. His Name and Title 5 He is a Spirit ibid. His Excellency Majesty Greatness Perfection Glory Soveraignty and Absoluteness ibid. See more in the Duty of fearing God c. 16 p. 102 He is Invisible 10 He is Incorruptible ibid. He is the most strong Almighty Omnipotent God A Rock ibid. He is Omniscient Omnipresent 11 He is most Wise 12 He is most Holy ibid. He is most Just ibid. He is compassionate pitiful and merciful 1â— He is long-suffering and patient ibid. He is gracious good kind and bountiful ibid. He is Faithfulness and Truth 14 He is Unchangeable ibid. He is infinite and unsearchable ibid. He is Eternal 15 He only is the true and living God ibid. Chap. III. Of the one God Father Son and Spirit or the Trinity See more of the Christ's Excellency Chap. 7 Page 31 See more of the Spirit Chap. 21 Page 173 Chap. IV. Of Man in his first Estate wherein he was Created and his Fall Page 18 Chap. V. Of Man's state by Nature since Sin entred Page 18. 1. Corrupt unclean and desperately wicked 18 See more of Sin Chap. 16 Page 125 2. Ignorant and sottishly opposing the true God and adoring Idols 21 See more of Ignorance Chap. 38 Page 264 3. In servitude to Sin and Satan 28 4. The sad fruit and end of such a state ibid. See more of Gods Judgment against Sinners Chap. 16 Page 125 Chap. VI. The Case the Law concludes Men under Page 25. Under Sin and Guilt 25 Under the Curse thereof ibid. The Deeds of the Law or Sacrifices under it cannot Justifie or Purge Sin but still leaves Sinners under Guilt Condemnation and Wrath. 26 Chap. VII Of Man's Salvation and Redemption how it came and by what means Page 27. From God only and no otherwise 27 Who is he and by whom this Salvation is conveyed and wrought Jesus Christ 28 The Excellency of this Saviour his Dignity and Authority in his Person and Nature his Person and Authority 31 his Nature 34 See more in Pardon and Salvation by Christ alone Chap. 10 Page 48 Chap. VIII How Christ wrought this Salvation for Sinners what he was made and what he did in order to it Page 35. 1. He is Mediator 35 2. He took upon him the Nature of Man and humbled himself ibid. 3. He is made an High Priest 36 4. He offered himself to God as a Sacrifice suffered for the Sins of Mankind made Peace through the shedding of his own Blood by which he entred into the Holiest 37 5. He fulfilled all Righteousness of the Law bore the Curse took away the Hand-writing of Ordinances is our Righteousness 39 See more of Justification Chap. 10 Page 50 6. He Sanctifieth us is our Sanctification 40 7. He Riseth from the Dead ibid. 8. He Ascended into Heaven is our way to the Father our Advocate and Intercessor there 41 9. He is made our King and Head to Encounter and Conquer our Enemies to Rule for and in us 42 10. He is our Prophet and Shepherd to Teach Guide and Feed us 43 11. He is our All in all things our Compleatness and Perfection 44 Chap. IX God's free choice of his in Christ Jesus to Eternal Life and calling of them according to his Purpose and Grace Page 45 Chap. X. Pardon and Remission of Sins Reconciliation and Peace with God Justification and Sanctification before God Eternal Life and Salvation free through the Grace of God by the Death Sacrifice and Sufferings of Christ without works Page 48 1. In General 48 2. In particular Pardon of Sins ibid. 3. Reconciliation and Peace with God 49 4. Justification and Sanctification before God 50 5. Eternal Life and Salvation 51 See more in Chap. 11 of Faith Page 53 Chap. XI How Men have the benefit of this Salvation or by what means it becomes theirs in particular P. 53. By Faith 53 Of Faith in its Nature and Objects Use Benefits and Advantages further then as before relating to this Salvation 1. In its Nature and Objects 54 2. In its Use Benefits and Advantages further 57 See more Trusting in God Chap. 16 p. 106 The Effects or Fruits by which Faith is known to be true 58 Also See Fruits of the Spirit Chap. 21 Page 176 The dangerous State and Issue of Unbelief 59 Chap. XII Characters of Saints good Men Believers appearing in Word and Deed Page 60. 1. That such may be known from others by their Fruits 60 2. The particular Fruits of the Spirit in them or good things appearing or necessary to be in such who are real Saints 61 See more of the Fruits of Faith Chap. 11 Page 58 Of the Fruits of the Spirit
Which in other ages was not made known c. That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ Ephes 3. 5 6 11. Work out your own salvation c. for it is God who worketh in you both to will and 〈◊〉 do of his good pleasure Phil. 2. 13. Giving thanks to the Father who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son Col. 1. 12 13. Knowing c. your election of God For our Gospel came not unto you in word but also in power c. 1 Thes 1. 4 5. 1 Cor. 1. 18 24. God hath not appointed us unto wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord 1 Thes 5. 9. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation c. Whereunto he called you by our Gospel 2 Thes 2. 13 14. God who hath saved us and called us with a holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began 2 Tim. 1. 8 9 10. Rom. 1. 6. I endure all things for the elects sake c. Who concerning the truth have erred c. Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal the Lord knoweth them that are his 2 Tim. 2. 10 18 19. If they shall enter into rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world Hebr. 4. 3. By one sacrifice he hath for ever perfected them who are sanctified Hebr. 10. 14. To the strangers c. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father 1 Pet. 1. 1 2. Titus 1. 1. Being disobedient whereto they were appointed but ye are a chosen generation a royal Priesthood a peculiar or a purchased people that ye may shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness c. 1 Pet. 2. 8 9 10. The God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory c. 1 Pet. 5. 10. They went out from us c. that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us 1 John 2. 19. We love him because he first loved us 1 John 4. 19. All who dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Book or life of the Lamb Rev. 13. 8. ch 17 18. And they who dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the Book of life from the foundation of the world when c. Rev. 17. 8. Whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire c. Rev. 20. 15. There shall in no wise enter into the new Jerusalem but those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life Rev. 2â— 27. CHAP. X. Pardon and Remission of Sins Reconciliation and Peace with God Justification and Sanctification before God Eternal Life and Salvation free through the Grace of God only by the Death Sacrifice and Sufferings of Christ without Works In General THE life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you c. For it is the blood maketh an atonement for the soul Levit. 〈◊〉 11. This is the true grace of God wherein ye stand 1 Pet. 5. 12. The law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ John 1. 17. If by grace then is it no more works otherwise grace is no more grace but if it be of works then is it no more of grace otherwise work is no more work c. That he might have mercy on all O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom c. Rom. 11. 6 32 33. 2 Thes 2. 16. Ephes 2. 8. We are chosen adopted accepted have remission of sin c. and all in and through Jesus Christ Ephes 1. 2 3 c. We are the Circumcision who worship God in spirit rejoice in Christ have no confidence in the the flesh Phil. 3. 3. We are come c. to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel Hebr. 12. 24. Who testified before-hand the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow 1 Pet. 1. 11. In Particular I. Pardon of Sins THE Lord proclaimed himself The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth c. forgiving iniquity transgression and sin Exod. 34. 6 7. Numb 14. 17 18 19. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin Psalm 32. 1 2 5. Rom. 4. 7 8. As for our transgressions thou shall purge them away Psalm 65. 3. Thou wast a God who forgave them thou tookest vengeance on their inventions Psalm 90. 8. But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared Psalm 130. 4. Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red as crimsâ—n they shall be as wooll Isa 1. 18. I am he who blotteth out thy transgression for mine own sake and will not remember thy sins Isa 43. 35. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins Sing O Heavens for the Lord hath done it Isa 44. 22 23. He was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities c. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all c. he shall bear their iniquities Isa 53 5 6 11. Let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and unto our God for he will abundantly pardon or multiply pardons for my thoughts are not your thoughts c. Isa 55. 7 8 9. Ezek. 33. 14 15 16. I will make a new covenant c. for I will forgive their iniquity and will remember their sins no more Jer. 31. 31 34. Hebr. 10. 17 18. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned against me and whereby they have transgressed against me Jer. 33. 8. In those days and in that time saith the Lord the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the sins of Judah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I reserve Jer. 50. 20. Isa 33. 24. Seventy weeks are determined c. to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity c. The Messiah shall be cut off but not for himself c. Dan. 9. 24 26. Who is a God like unto thee who pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage c. thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea Micah 7.
c. And Moses said c. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them c. He believed not God to sanctifie him He spake unadvisedly with his lips being provoked in his spirit Exod. 4. 10 11 12 13 14 ch 5. 22 23. Numb 11. 11 12 14 15 21 22 23. ch 16. 15. ch 20. 10 11 12. Psal 106. 32 33. Numb 27. 14. Joshua also erred and wished they had not come over Jordan Josh 7. 7. Aaron made a Molten Calf for Israel c. He built an Altar before it and Aaron made Proclamation and said To morrow a feast to the Lord c. And Moses saw that the people were naked for Aaron had made them naked to their shame amongst their enemies Exad 32. 1 2 3 4 5 6 25. When God had told Gideon Surely I will be with thee and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man He said unto him c. Shew me a sign that thou talkest with me c. If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand as thou hast said behold I will put a fleece of wool in the floor c. Let not thine anger be hot against me and I will speak but this once Let me prove I pray thee but this once with the fleece c. Heb. 11. 32. Judges 6. 16 17 36 37 38 39 40. 1 Kings 12. 28. Eli is charged with iniquity in not restraining his Sons from violence 1 Sam. 3. 13. My servant David who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart to do that only which is right in mine eyes c 1 Kings 4. 18. Acts 13. 22. David hastily resolved to have avenged himself on Nabal by cutting off him and his of the Males c. And David c. was fore afraid of Achish 〈◊〉 king of Gath And he changed his behaviour before them and seigned himself mad in their hands c. David said in his heart I shall now perish one day by the harâ—â—â—â— of Saul c. He went on with the Philistines against Israel c. He sent Messengers to fetch Uriah's Wite and he lay with her c. To cover it made Uriah drunk and then sent to Joab to put Uriab into the hottest Battel and then retire from him that he might be smitten and die c. O my son Absalom my son my son Absalom Would God I had died for thee c. He caused the Children of Israel to be numbred c. I said in my haste I am 〈◊〉 off from before thine eyes c. I said 〈◊〉 my haste that all men are lyars c. 1 Sam 11. 12 13 14. ch 25. 5 6 7 8 c. ch â— 1. ch 29. 2. 2 Sam. 11. 2 3 4 13 14 15. ch 18. 33. ch 24. 1 2 3 4 c. Psal 31. 22. Psal 116. 11. 1 Sam. 20. 6 29. When God bid Samuel go he said How can I go if Saul hear he will kill me 1 Sam. 16. 1 2. And Asa did thaâ— which was right in the eyes of the Lord as did David his father c. Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days 1 Kin. 15. 11 14. He removed not the High Places 1 Kings 15. 14. He took out Silver and Gold out of the Treasures of the House of the Lord c. made a League with the King of Assyria And Hanani the Seer came to him and said Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria and not relied on the Lord thy God c. Then Asa was wroth with the Seer and put him in a prison-house for he was in a rage with him because of this thing And Asa oppressed or crushed some of the people at that time c. In his Disease he sought not to the Lord but to the Physicians 2 Chron. 16. 1 2 3 4 7 10 12. Solomon failed very greatly 1 Kings 11. 1 2 3 4 c. When Elijah the Prophet was in trouble he said enough Now O Lord take away my life for I am not better than my fathers 1 Kings 19. 4. And Jehoshaphat walked c. doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord 2 Chron. 20 32. 1 Kings 22. 42 43. The Seer meets him after he had gone out with the wicked King of Israel and said unto him Shouldst thou help the ungodly and love them who hate the Lord Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord 2 Chron. 19. 1 2. ch 20. 33. ch 17. Hezekiah did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. He removed the high places c. He trusted in the Lord God of Israel so that after him was none like him c. for he clave to the Lord departed not from following him c. 2 Kings 18. 1 3 4 5 6. 2 Chron. 31. 21. When Isaiah had told Hezekiah being sick that he should be healed c. he said unto Isaiah What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me c. He shewed his treasures to the Messenger of the King of Babylon's Son For which God was angry c. Hezekiah rendred not again according to the benefit done unto him for his heart was lift up Therefore there was Wrath upon him c. In the business of the Ambassadors of the King of Babylon c. God left him to try him that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Kings 20. 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 2 Chron. 32. 25 31. Good Josiah though warned to the contrary followed Pharo Necho and was slain 2 Chron. 35. 20 21 22 23. Job that man was perfect and upright one who feared God and eschewed evil Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and upright man c. Ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right like my servant Job c. Ye have heard of the patience of Job Job 1. 1 8. ch 42. 8. James 5. 11. After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day c. See at large Job 3. 1 2 c. O that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing which I long for even that it would please God to destroy me that he would let loose his hand and cut me off c. so that my soul chuseth strangling death rather than my life c. He confessed thus I have uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 6. 8 9. ch 7. 15. ch 42. 3 6. As for me my feet were almost gone c. for I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked c. Verily I have cleansed my hands in vain c. so foolish was I and ignorant as a beast c. Psalm 73. 2 3 13 22. Jer. 12. 1 2. Will the Lord cast off for ever will he be favourable no more is his mercy clean gone
his resurrection c. Phil. 3. 8 10. Since c. ye knew the grace of God in truth we desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and understanding c. increasing in the knowledge of God c. the Saints to whom God would-make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ c. Col. 1. 6 9 10 26 27. Unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Col. 2. 2 3. The new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him who created c. Col. 3. 10. Knowing brethren c. your election of God for our Gospel came not to you in word only but also in power c. 1 Thes 1. 4 5. I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep 1 Thes 4. 13. Taking vengeance upon them who know not God 2 Thes 1. 8. Desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm but we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully c. but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief c. 1 Tim. 1. 6 7 8 9 13. Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim. 2. 4. If any man teach otherwise c. he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions c. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4. They profess that they know God but in works they deny him Titus 1. 16. They do err in their hearts not having known my ways Heb. 3. 10. Every high Priest taken from among men c. who can have compassion on the ignorant c. concerning whom I have many things to say and hard to be unfolded seeing ye are dull of hearing c. Heb. 5. 1 2 11 12. If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth c. Hebr. 10. 26. 2 Pet. 2. 20 21. If any man lack wisdom let him ask it of God who giveth to all men liberally c. James 1. 5. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you let him shew out of a good c. James 3. 13. To him who knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin James 4. 17. Not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance c. 1 Pet. 1. 14. With well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 15. Grace c. be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord c. Add c. to vertue knowledge c. If these things be in you c. ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus c. but he who lacketh these c. is blind c. knowing this first that no Scripture is of private interpretation 2 Pet. 1. 2 3 5 8 9 20. But these c. speak evil of things they understand not c. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord c. it had been better c. not to have known c. 2 Pet. 2. 12. 20 21. Jude v. 1. This they are willingly ignorant of c. Paul c. in all his Epistles c. in which are some things hard to be understood which they who are unlearned wrest c. seeing ye know c. Grow in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus c. 2 Pet. 3. 5 15 16 17 18. Hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments he that saith I know him and c. I write to you fathers because ye have known him c. ye know all things c. as the same anointing teacheth you all things c. 1 John 2. 3 4 13 20 21 27. Therefore the world knew us not because it knew him not c. whosoever sinneth hath not c. known him we know that we have passed from death to life c. hereby we know that we are of the truth c. 1 John 3. 1 6 14 19. ch 5. 2. Hereby know ye the spirit of God c. he who knoweth God heareth us c. hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of errour c. he that loveth God knoweth God he who loveth not knoweth not God we have known and believed the love that God hath to us 1 John 4. 2 6 7 8 16. That ye may know that ye have eternal life c. we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not c. we know that we are of God c. we know that the son of God is come c. 1 John 5. 13 18 19 20. These speak evil of those things which they know not Jude v. 10. All the Churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and heart c. Rev. 2. 23. And knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind c. Rev. 3. 17. See the Ignorance of Natural Men Chap. 5. See the Giver of knowledge Chap. 20. CHAP. XXXIX Of this present World and the Riches Honours Pleasure and other Things in this World the use of them the Snares and Tentations in them and of the Saints Duty in Relation to them WHile the earth remaineth seed time and harvest cold and heat and summer and winter day and night shall not cease Gen. 8. 22. And Abraham was very rich in Cattel in Silver and in Gold c. Lot also went with Abraham c. their substance was great so that they could not dwell together Gen. 13. 2. Job 1. 3. Gen. 26. 12 13 14. If God will c. give me bread to eat and raiment to put on c. then c. Gen. 28. 20 21. When Rachel said Give me children c. Jacob said Am I in Gods stead who withheld c. Gen. 30. 1 2. ch 33. 5. All the earth is mine said the Lord to Moses Exod. 19. 5. God gave inventions to men to work of divers sorts Exod. 35. ch 36. ch 37 c. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours c. nor any thing that is thy neighbours Exod. 20. 17. Israel wept again and said Who shall give us flesh to eat c and God was angry Numb 11. 4. 10. 1 Cor. 10. 6 10. Balaam upon great news offers Balak went out being desired to curse Israel Numb 22. He sed thee with Manna c. that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but c. thy raiment waxed not old c. The Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land c. wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness c. when thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the
in Christ c. Chosen us predestinated us to the adoption of sons by Jesus c. made us accepted in the Beloved in whom we have c. the remission of sins of the riches of his grace Ephes 1. 3 4 5 6 c. God c. hath quickned us with Christ c. raised us and set us in heaven in Christ Jesus and made us nigh c. Jesus himself being the chief corner-stone in whom all the building c. Ephes 2. 5 6 13 14 20 21. Christ is the Head of the Church and the Saviour of the body Ephes 5. 23. We look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Phil. 3. 20. It pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell c. By him to reconcile all things to himself c. Christ in or among you the hope of glory Col. 1. 19 20 27. Your life is hid with Christ in God When Christ who is our life shall c. Col. 3. 3 4. His Son Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come 1 Thes 1. 10. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I chief 1 Tim. 1. 15. One Mediator between God and man the Man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time 1 Tim. 2. 5 6. Is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light 2 Tim. 1. 10. Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people c. Titus 2. 14. Ephes 5. 2. His Son c. when he had by himself purgeâ— our sins â—ate down c. Heb. 1. 3. Christ c. He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them c. Heb. 5. 5. 9. 2 Tim. â— 10. He remains for ever c. therefore able to save perfectly or for ever those who come to God by him Hebr. 7. 24 25. Christ now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself c. Unto them who look for him he shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation Hebr. 9. 24 26 28. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once for all c. By one offering he he hath perfected for ever them who are sanctified c. Heb. 10. 10 14. Looking to Jesus the Author and finisher of our saith Heb. 12. 2. Who hath begotten us again to a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ c. The Prophets c. who prophesied of the grace c. searching what c. the spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie before hand the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow c. Ye were not redeemed with silver and gold c. but with the precious blood of Christ c. who verily was ordained before the foundation of the world c. 1 Pet. 1. 3 10 11 18 19 20. We did not by art c. make known the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ c. but as those who had seen his majesty with our eyes c. He received from God the Father honour and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and this voice we heard from heaven declared when we were with him c. 2 Pet. 1. 16 17 18. Jesus Christ c. he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world c. Who is a lyer but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ 1 John 2. 2 22. And ye know that he was made manifest to take away our sins and in him is no sin c. For this purpose was the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil 1 John 3. 5 8. God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him c. We c. testifie that the Father sent the Son the Saviour of the world 1 John 4. 9 14. God hath given us eternal life and this life is in his Son 1 John 5. 11 12. Unto him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood Rev. 1. 5. Col. 1. 14. They fell down before the Lamb c. saying Thou art worthy c. for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and hast made us unto God c. Rev. 5. 8 9 10. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the World c. Rev. 13. 8. I Jesus have sent mine Angel to testifie unto you these things c. I am the root and the off-spring of David and the bright and morning star Rev. 22. 16. See Pardon and Reconsiliation by Christ only Chap. 10. The Excellency of this Saviour and his Fulness and Dignity In his Person and Authority YET have I set my King or anointed upon my holy hill of Sion c. The Lord hath said Thou my Son this day have I begotten thee c. I will give thee the heathen for thy inheritance c. thou shalt break them with a rod of iron c. Psalm 2. 6 7 8 9. Psalm 18. 43 44. Thou art fairer than the children of men grace is poured into thy lips c. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh O Mighty with thy glory and thy majesty and in thy majesty ride c. Thine arrows sharp in the hearts of the kings enemies whereby the people shall fall under thee Thy throne O God for ever and ever The scepter of thy kingdom a right scepter c. God thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows c. The King c. he is thy Lord and worship thou him Psalm 45. 1 2 3 4 5 6 11. Isa 49. 2. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts Psalm 68. 18. Ephes 4. 8. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth they c. shall bow down before him and his enemies shall lick the dust c. All kings shall fall down before him all nations shall serve him c. His name shall endure for ever his name shall be continued as long as the sun or shall be as a Son to continue his Father's name for ever c. And all nations shall call him blessed Psalm 72. 8 9 11 17 18. I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers c. Also I will make him first-born higher than the kings of the earth c. His throne as the days of heaven c. as the sun before me Psalm 89. 25 27 29 36.
himself a ransom for all c. 1 Tim. 2 5 6. His Son who c. when he had by himself purged our sins c. Heb. 1. 3. Jesus made c. for the suffering of death c. that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man for it became him c. to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings c. that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the devil Heb. 2. 9 10 14. Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered Heb. 5. 8. Who needed not daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifice c. for this he did once when he offered up himself Heb. 7. 27. ch 10. 26. Christ being come c. by his own blood he entred in once into the holy Place c. How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered up himself without spot to God purge your consciences c. that by the means of death for the redemption of transgressions c. Where a testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the testator c. Neither was the first testament dedicated without blood c. And without shedding of blood is no remission c. Nor yet that he should offer himself often c. But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself c. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many c. Heb. 9. 11 14 15 16 18 22 24 25 26 28. Levit. 16. 14 c. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once for all c. This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down c. For by one-offering he hath perfected for ever them who are sanctified c. To the blood of sprinkling which speaks better things than that of Abel Heb. 10. 10 12 14. ch 12. 24. Jesus also that he might sanctifie the people with his own blood suffered without the gate Heb. 13. 12. The Spirit of Christ c. When it testified before-hand the sufferings of Christ Ye were not redeemed with silver and gold from your vain conversation received of c. but by the precious blood of Christ 1 Pet. 1. 11 18 19. Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example c. who his own self bare our sins in his own body on or to the tree 1 Pet. 2. 21 24. Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust c. being put to death in the flesh c. 1 Pet. 3. 18. Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh let us c. 1 Pet. 1. 1. Jesus Christ the just one c. he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only c. but c 1 John 2. 1 2. Jesus Christ who gave himself a ransom for all c. 1 John 2. 6. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us 1 John 3. 16. Unto him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood Rev. 1. 5. Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood c. Rev. 5. 9. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world Rev. 13. 8. He treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God Rev. 19. 15. V. He fulfilled all Righteousness of the Law bare the Curse took away the Hand-writing of Ordinences is our Righteousness I Will make mention of thy name of thine only Psalm 71. 16. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted Psalm 89. 16. Surely shall one say In the Lord have I righteousness c. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory Isa 45. 24 25. The servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of me saith the Lord Isa 54. 17. I will cause the branch of righteousness to grow up unto David c. and this is the name wherewith he shall be called The Lord our Righteousness Jer. 33. 15 16. ch 23. 6. Seventy weeks are determined c. to make an end of sins c. and to bring in everlasting righteousness Dan. 9. 24. Jesus came to John to be baptized c. Jesus said Suffer it to be so now for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness Matth. 3. 13 15. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the Prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfil Matth. 5. 17 18. The Spirit will convince the world c. of righteousness because I go to my Father John 16. 8 10. I am not ashamed of the Gospel for therein is the righteousness of God revealed Rom. 1. 16 17. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one who believeth Rom. 10. 4. Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us c. righteousness c. 1 Cor. 1. 30 31. He hath made him to be sin for us c. that we may be made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5. 21. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us For it is written Cursed is every one who hangeth on a tree Gal. 3. 13. Deut. 21. 23. But now in Christ Jesus ye are made nigh c. For he c. hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us having abolished in his flesh the enmity the law of commandments in ordinances c. Ephes 2. 13 14 15. Paul counted all things but dung that he might win Christ and be found 〈◊〉 him not having his own righteousness c. but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith Phil. 3 8 9 Blotting out the hand-writing of ordinances which was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to his cross Col. 2. 13 14. See more of Justification Chap. 10. VI. He sanctifieth us is our Sanctification IN that day there shall be a fountain opened c. for sin and for uncleanness Zech. 13. 1. Peter said unto him Thou shalt never wash my feet Jesus saith unto him If I wash thee not thou hast no part in me Simon Peter saith unto him Lord not my feet only but also my hands and my head John 13. 8 9. And for their sakes I sanctifie my self that they also might be sanctified through the truth or truly Sanctified John 17. 19. Christ Jesus who is made of God unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification c. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Ye are washed ye are sanctified c. in the name of our Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 6. 11. Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word that he might
convince the world c. of righteousness because I go to my Father c. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world Again I leave the world and go to the Father John 16. 7 8 10 16 28. Christ prays for his at large John 17. Psal 69. 7 8 9 10. Jesus said unto her Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father but go unto my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and unto your Father and to my God and your God John 20. 17. All that Jesus began both to do and teach until the day in which he was taken up c. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion c. When he had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their fight and while they looked stedfastly towards heaven as he went up behold two men c. said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven This same Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven shall c. Acts 1. 1 2 3 9 10 11. This Jesus c. being by the right hand of God exalted c. For David is not ascended into the heavens but he faith himself The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand c. God hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 33 34 36. Jesus c. whom the heavens must receive untâ— the times of restitutions c. Acts 3. 21. Behold said Stephen I see the heavens open and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God Acts 7. 56. Reconciled to God by the death of his Son c. Much more c. we shall be saved by his life Rom. 5. 10. Who is he who condemneth It is Christ who died c. who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Rom. 8. 34. He raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places c. Ephes 1. 20. But now in Christ Jesus ye who were sometimes far off are made nigh c. Through him we both have an access by one spirit unto the Father Now therefore ye are no more strangers but fellow-citizens c. of the houshold of God Ephes 2. 13 18 19. Jesus our Lord in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith Ephes 3. 11 12. Christ sitteth at the right hand of God c. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Col. 3. 1. 17. Heb. 13. 13. 1 Pet. 2. 5. God was manifest in the flesh c. received up into glory 1 Tim. 3. 16. When he had by himself purged our sins sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1. 3. ch 12. 2. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who is passed into the heavens Jesus the Son of God c. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace c. Heb. 4. 14 15 16. Within the vail whither the Fore-runner is for us entred Jesus made an High Priest for ever Heb. 6. 19 20. He is able also to save them for evermore or to the uttermost who come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them For such an High Priest became us who is c. made higher than the heavens Heb. 7. 25 26. We have such an High Priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens Heb. 8. 1. But Christ being become an High Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands c. By his own blood he entred in once into the holy place c. For Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands c. but into heaven it self now to appear before God for us Heb. 9. 11 12 24. Ephes 4. 8. After he had offered one sacrifice c. sate down on the right hand of God c. Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which he hath consecrated or new made for us c. let us draw nigh Heb. 10. 12 19 20 21 22. Ye are come to the heavenly Jerusalem c. and â—o Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel Heb. 12. 22 24. Christ c. once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God c. Christ who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God 1 Pet. 3. 18 22. If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous 1 John 2. 1 2. IX He is made our King and Head to encounter and conquer our-Enemies to rule for us and in us THere shall come a Star out of Jacob and a Sceptre shall arise out of Israel Numb 24. 17. Gen. 49. 10. Yet have I set my King or mine Anointed upon my holy hill of Sâ—on I have given thee the Heathen for thine inheritance c. Psal 2. 6 8. Thine arrows are sharp in the hearts of the king's enemies whereby the people fall under thee Thy throne O God is for ever and ever the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre c. The Lord thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl c. Psal 45. 5 6 7. Heb. 1. 8. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts for men Psal 68. 18. Isa 53. 12. He shall judge c. He shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppresser Psal 72. 2 4 12 13 14. Unto us a Son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders c. Of the increase of his government shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it c. Isa 9. 6 7. ch 32. 1. The days come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch and a King shall reign and prosper c. in his days shall Judah be saved and Israel shall dwell safely Jer. 23. 5 6. ch 33. 17. Zech. 6. 12 13. I will set up one shepherd over them and he shall feed them even my servant David c. I will be their God and my servant David a Prince among them Ezek. 34. 23 24. The Messah the Prince Dan. 9. 25. Thou Bethlehem c. out of thee shall he come forth unto me to be ruler in Israel Micah 5. 2. Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Zion c. Behold c. Zech. 9. 9. Jesus he shall be great c. And the Lord shall give him the throne of his father David and he shall reign c. for ever and of his kingdom no end Luke 1. 31 32 33. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are
thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world c. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me and they received them c. While I was with them in the world I kept them c. I have given them thy word c. I have declared unto them thy name and will declare it John 17. 6 8 12 14 26. ch 1. 18. To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice John 18. 37. God who c. spake in times past to the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoke unto us by his Son c. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard c. Heb. 1. 1 2. ch 2. 1. Wherefore c. consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession Jesus Christ who was faithful to him who appointed him as also Moâ—es was faithful in all his house c. Christ as a Son in his own house whose house are we c. Wherefore c. to day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts Heb. 3. 1 2 3 5 6 7 8. Our Lord Jesus Christ that great Shepherd of the sheep Heb. 13. 20. Ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls 1 Pet. 2. 25. XI He is our ALL in all things our Compleatness and Perfection I Will make him First-born c. My covenant shall stand fast with him Psal 89. 27 28. Let him take hold of my strength he may make peace with me he shall make peace c. Isa 27. 5. By the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit Zech. 9. 11. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased c. Matth. 17. 5. Of his fulness have all we received grace for grace c. John 1. 16. I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture John 10. 9. I am the way the truth and the life John 14. 6. As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the Vine ye are the branches he who abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me or severed from me ye can do nothing John 15. 4. 5. It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace in the world ye shall have tribulation John 16. 7 33. I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one John 17. 23. Jesus Christ c. He is that Stone which the builders counted foâ—â—nothing is made the Head of the corner Acts 4. 10 12. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ c. All things are yours whether Paul or Apollos c. all are yours and ye are Christ's 1 Cor. 3. 11 21 22 23. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. 56 57. All the promises of God in him are yea and in him Amen to the glory of God 2 Cor. 1. 20. He became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 8. 9. I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Gal. 2. 20. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ c. There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus and if Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise Cal. 3. 14 28 29. Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places or things in Jesus Christ c. Chosen us in him c. predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ c. he hath made us accepted in the beloved c. that he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him c. who filleth all in all Ephes 1. 3 4 5 6 10 23. Hath quickned us together with Christ c. and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner-stone in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God c. Ephes 2. 5 6 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22. That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promises in Christ c. The unsearchable riches of Christ Ephes 3. 6 8. Grow up into him in all things who is the head Christ from whom the whole body is fitly joyned together Ephes 4. 15 16. We are the circumcision c. who rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3. 3. It pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell c. Christ in or among you the hope of glory whom we preach warning every man c. That we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1. 19 27 28. In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily and ye are compleat in him who is the head c. Not holding the head from which all the body by joynts and bands having nourishment administred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God Col. 2. 9 10 19. Your life is hid with Christ in God when Christ who is our life c. Put on the new man c. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew c. But Christ is all in all c. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus c. Col. 3. 3 4 10 11 17. 1 Cor. 1. 30. ch 2. 2. Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel 2 Tim. 1. 9 10. In that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2. 18. By one offering he hath perfected for ever them who are sanctified c. Heb. 10. 14. Ye are built up c. To offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. Heb. 13. 15. The God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 5. 10. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou
his life c. If by one offence death reigned by one how much more they who received abundance of grace c. shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ c. That as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 5. 9 10 17 21. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6. 23. Whom he justifies them also he glorifies What shall we say c. Rom. 8. 30 31. I declare unto you the gospel c. by which also ye are saved if c. 1 Cor. 15. 1 2 3 4. In Christ c. in whom also we have obtained an inheritance Ephes 1. 11. God who is rich in mercy for the great love wherewith he hath loved us even when we were dead in sins hath quickned us together with Christ By grace are ye saved that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace c. for by grace are ye saved through faith c. not by works lest any man should boast Ephes 2. 4 5 7 8 9. Christ in or amongst you the hope of glory Colos 1. 27. Ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God and Christ who is our life c. Col. 3. 3 4. 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 died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him 1 Thes 5. 9 10. 2 Tim. 1. 9. ch 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. that 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. 2 Tim. 2. 10. And this is the promise which he hath promised us eternal life 1 John 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 unto 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 vers 21. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation Heb. 2. 3. ch 10. 26 27 28 29. See more in the next Chapter CHAP. XI How Men have the Benefit of this Salvation On by what Means it becomes theirs in particular By Faith 1 Tim. 6. 12. THE kingdom of God is at hand repent ye and believe the gospel Mark 1. 15. This is the commandment That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 3. 23. John 6. 29. Let us put on the breast-plate of faith 1 Thes 5. 8. 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 baptized shall be saved Mark 16. 16. Blessed is she who believeth that there or for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord Luke 1. 45. Acts. 27. 25. Jesus said to the woman Thy sins are forgiven c. Thy faith hath saved thee go c. Luke 7. 48 50. But to as many as received him to them he gave power or the right or privilege 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 on 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. Whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst c. John 4. 14. 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 caâ—e 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 c. he dwelleth in me and I in him c. I live by the Father so he who eateth me even he he shall live by me This is c. John 6. 28 29 35 40 47 51 54 56 57. He who believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever â—iveth and believeth in me shall never die c. John â— 25 26. Jesus said unto Thomas Reach hither thy finger c. Be not faithless but believing c. Jesus 〈◊〉 unto him Because thou hast seen thou 〈◊〉 believed Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed c. These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name John 20. 27 29 31. Through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins Acts 10. 43. By him all who believe are justified from all things c. Acts 13. 39. We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved Acts 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 Acts 16. 30 31. I kept back nothing which was profitable c. Testifying both to the Jews and also to
and God in him c. It a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a lyar for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4. 6 7 16 20. ch 5. 1. Whsoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and whosoever loveth him c. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that c. Whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he who is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not 1 John 5. 1 4 18. He who doth good is of God but he who doth evil hath not seen God 3 John Vers 11. He who abideth in the doctrine or Christ hath both the Father and the Son 2 John Vers 9. Those whose names are written in the book of life they will not subscribe to Antâ—christ Rev. 13. 8. ch 14. 4. ch 17. 8. ch 21. 27. See more in the Fruits of the Spirit Chap. 21. See more in the Fruits of Faith Chap. 11. See more in Duties Chap. 10. under each Duty And Chap. 22. under each Duty in Affliction And Chap. 24. Duties to Magistrates CHAP. XIII Saints Believers the Children of God themselves may be overtaken with Faults are not altogether free from sinful Dispositions and Inclinations in this Life and may be corrected of God for them I. In general it is affirmed FOR there is no man who sinneth not 1 Kings 8. 46. How should man be just with God or before God If he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand c. Whom though I were righteous yet would I not answer I would make supplication to my Judge c. If I justifie my self my own mouth shall condemn me If I say I am perfect it shall also prove me perverse Job 9. 1 2 3 15 20. Who can understand his errours Cleanse thou me from secret faults keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins let them not have dominion over me Psal 19. 12 13. If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquity O Lord who shall stand Psal 130. 3. The rod of the wicked shall not rest c. lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity Psal 125. 3. Who can say I have made my heart clean I am pure from my sins Prov. 20. 9. A just man falleth seven times a day and riseth up Prov. 24. 16. For that there is not a just man upon earth who doeth good and sinneth not Eccles 7. 20. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the things that ye would Gal. 5. 17. Rom. 7. 14 15 16 17 c. If any man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual restore such c. considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Gal. 6. 1 2. I have no man like-minded c. for all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christ's Philip. 2. 20 21. Paul saith I count not my self to have apprehended but this one thing c. I press towards the mark c. Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded Philip. 3. 13 14 15. For in many things we offend all If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man James 3. 2. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us It we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins c. If we say that we have not sinned we make him a lyar and his word is not in us 1 John 1. 1 8 9 10. If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them who sin not unto death There is a sin unto death I do not say that he shall pray for it 1 John 5. 16. II. Particular Instances of the Saints Failings recorded NOah was a just man perfect in his generation Noan walked with God Gen. 6. 9. ch 7. 1. Noah drank of the wine and was drunken and was uncovered within his tent Gen. 9. 21. Abraham believed the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness c. Abraham my Friend He staggâ—red not through unbelief Gen. 15. 6. Isa 41. 8. Rom. 4. 16 18 19 20. They will kill me they will save thee alive Say I pray thee thou are my sister c. And when God had promised him to inherit the Land he said Lord God Whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it c. When the Promise was made to him of a Child he fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart Shall a child c. Oh that Ishmael might live before thee c. He said of his Wife She is my sister again at Gerer for fear of being slain Gen. 12. 12 13. ch 15. 8. ch 17. 16 17 18. ch 20. 2 11. Sarah laughed at the Promise and then denied that she had laughed Gen. 18. 12 13 15. Good Isaac said of his Wife also She is my sister for fear of the Men of the place lest they should kill him for her Gen. 26. 7. Just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man c. 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. He lingered the men laid hold upon his hand c. and said Go escape for thy life c. And Lot said unto him Oh not so my Lord c. I cannot escape to the mountains lest some evil take me and I die Behold this city is near to flee unto Is it not a little one c. He afterwards drinks Wine and then lay with his two Daughters Gen. 19. 16 17 18 19 20 33. 34 35 36. Jacob when he heard his Brother Esau was coming with four hundred men against him he was greatly afraid and distressed c. Gen. 32. 6 7. He was sore distressed when one of his Sons was kept by Joseph and another sent for Gen. 42. 36 37 c. Moses was very meek above all the men upon the face of the earth c. Moses my servant is dead c. Who is faithful to him in all his house c. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant Numb 12. 3 7. Jos 1. 2 13 Heb. 3. 2 5. When God was sending Moses he saith O my Lord I am not eloquent c. And the 〈…〉 unto him Who hath made man's mouth c. And he said O my Lord Send I pray thee by the hand thou wilt send or shouldest send And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses c. Moses returned unto the Lord and said Wherefore hast thou so evilly intreated this people Why is it that thou hast sent me c. Moses was very wrath c. Now ye rebels Must we fetch water out of the rock c. I am not able to bear this people c. If thou deal thus with me kill me I pray thee out of hand
their children for ever c. You shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you you shall not turn aside to the right and or to the left you shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you Deut. 5. 27 28 29 32 33. Levit. 18. 3 4 26. Hear therefore O Israel and observe to do that it may be well with thee Deut. 6. 3. The Lord thy God is a faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love and keep his commandments to a thousand generations Deut. 7. 9. Levit. 20. 22. 1 Kings 6. 12. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his commandments alway c. And it shall come to pass if you will hearken diligently unto my commandments c. then will I give you c. Deut. 11. 7 8 13 14. ch 10. 12 13. Levit. 26. 3 4 5 c. God commanded thee that thou do these statutes c. and that with all thy heart and from thy whole soul Deut. 26. 16. See I have set before you this day life and good and death and evil c. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore chuse life c. that thou mayest love the Lord thy God that thou mayest obey his voice and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life c. Deut. 30. 15 16 19 20. ch 13. 4. ch 32. 46 47. Prov. 19. 16. Isa 1. 19 20. Take diligent heed to do the commandments and laws c. to love the Lord your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep all his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart c. Josh 22. 5. Deut. 10. 12 13. If ye will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord then shall both ye and the king who reigneth over you continue c. 1 Sam. 12. 14. Behold to obey is better than sacrifice to hearken than the fat of rams for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft c. 1 Sam. 15. 22. David charged Solomon to keep the Charge of the Lord his Statutes his Commandments c. as it is written in the Law of Moses 1 Kings 2. 1 2 3. ch 9. 4 5. Hear O my people and I will testifie unto thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me c. But my people would not hearken unto me and Israel would none of me so I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and they walked in their own counsels Oh that my people had hearkned unto me and Israel had walked in my ways I should soon have subdued their enemies c. Psal 81 8 11 12 13 14 16. 2 Kings 21. 8 9. Because they rebelled against the word of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High therefore he brought down their heart with labour Psal 107. 11 12. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently c. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments c. I will run the ways of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart c. Oh how love I thy law c. I love thy testimonies c. It is time for thee O Lord to work they have made void thy law therefore I love thy commandments above gold c. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law c. My soul hath kept thy restimonies and I love them exceedingly Psal 119. 4 6 32 97 119 120 127 136 158 167. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at nought my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh c. Prov. 1. 24 25 26 30 31. My son forget not my law but let thy heart keep my commandments Prov. 3. 1. Blessed is the man who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors Prov. 8. 32 33 34. He who turneth away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer shall be abomination Prov. 28. 9. Thus saith the Lord Thy Redeemer c. Oh that thou hadst hearkned to my commandments then had thy peace been as the river c. Isa 48. 17 18. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way that is not good after their own thoughts Isa 65. 2. I will bring their fears upon them because when I called none did answer when I spake they did not hear but they did evil c. Isa 66. 4. Jer. 35. 17. Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee c. Their ear is uncircumcised they cannot hearken Jer. 6. 8 10. I speak not unto your fathers c. But this thing commanded I them saying Obey my voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my people and walk ye in all my ways which I have commanded you that it may be well unto you But they hearkned not nor inclined their ear but walked in the counsels and in the imaginations of their evil heart c. Jer. 22 23 24. chap. 11. 4 7 8. Cursed the man who obeyeth not the words of this covenant Jer. 11. 3 4. The Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the Prophets rising early and sending but ye have not hearkned nor inclined your ear c. Jer. 25. 4. ch 44. 4 5. Will ye not receive instruction to hearken unto my words faith the Lord The words of Jonab the son of Rechab that he command his sons not to drink wine are performed for unto this day they drink none but obey their fathers commandment notwithstanding I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye hearkned not unto me Jer. 35. 13 14 15. As for the word thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord we will not hearken unto thee Jer. 44. 16. Thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. ch 3. 11 27. For they hear thy words but they do them not Ezek. 33. 32. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts saying Execute true judgment c. but they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear yea they made their hearts as an adamant-stone lest they should hear the law and the words which the Lord of Hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets c. Therefore it is come to pass as he cryed and they would not hear so they cried and I would not hear c. Zech. 7. 9 10 11 12 13. Not every one who saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into
the work of faith 2 Thes 1. 11. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father who hath loved us comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work 2 Thes 2. 16 17. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course or may run and be glorified and that we may be delivered c. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God c. 2 Thes 3. 1 2 5. Exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all who are in authority or eminent place that we may lead a quiet c. For this is good and acceptable in the fight of God our Saviour c. I will therefore that men pray every where listing up holy hands without wrath or doubting 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3 8. Every creature of God is good c. if it be received with thanksgiving c. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. She that is a widow indeed c. and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day 1 Tim. 5. 5. I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day 2 Tim. 1. 3. Philemon vers 4. Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens Jesus c. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4. 14 15 16. Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cries and tears unto him who was able to save Hebr. 5. 7. Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest c. and having an high priest over the house of God let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith c. Hebr. 10. 19. 20 21 22. Ephes 3. 11 12. He who prays to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him Hebr. 11. 6. Pray for us c. Now the God of peace c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well-pleasing c. Heb. 13. 18 20 21. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth unto all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him But let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he who wavereth is like a wave of the sea c. and let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord James 1. 5 6 7. Ye have not because ye ask not ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts or pleasures James 4. 2 3. Is any among you afflicted let him pray c. is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the Church and let them pray over him c. and the prayer of faith shall save the sick c. Pray one for another the effectual fervent prayer c. James 5. 13 14 15 16 17. And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons judgeth c. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Likewise ye husbands dwell with them c. that your prayers be not hindered c. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers 1 Pet. 3. 7 12. Be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight 1 John 3. 22. This is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according unto his will he heareth us and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask we know that that we have the petitions that we desire of him If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death There is a sin unto death I do not say that ye shall pray for it 1 John 5. 14 15 16. Praying in the holy Ghost Jude verse 20. The elders c. having every one of them harps and golden viols full of odours or incense which are the prayers of the saints Rev. 5. 8. Another Angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with or add it to the prayers of all saints c. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the Angels hand Rev. 8. 3 4. See more of Prayer in Affliction Chap. 22. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. See more in Duty towards all Men Chap. 19. See Prayer for Magistrates Chap. 24. To take special notice of the Acts of God's Goodness and Mercy keep memorials thereof celebrate his Praises extol him and stir up others so to do THY glorious name c. is exalted above all blessing and praises Nehem. 9. 5. Abraham's Servant when God had heard his request he bowed down his head and worshipped the Lord. And he said Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth c. When he he heard their words he worshipped the Lord c. Gen. 24. 26 27 52. I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God that thou wast pleased with me Gen. 33. 10. Then Jacob said c. Let us arise and go to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went c. And he built there an altar and called the place El-Bethel because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother Gen. 35. 2 3 7 14 15 ch 28. 18 19 c. God commanded Israel to commemorate their deliverance from Egypt once in every year Exod. 13. 3 4 5 c. Moses and Israel solemnly celebrated his praise for their deliverance at the Red Sea in a Song of Praise Exod. 15. 2 3 to the 22. When Israel got victory over the Amalâ—kites he built an Altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi that is the Lord my banner Exod. 17. 13 14 15. And Moses told unto Jethro his Father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharoch and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake c. And Jethro rejoyced for all the goodness which the Lord had done unto Israel c. and said Blessed be the Lord that hath delivered you c. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods Exod. 18. 8 9 10 11. When thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee Deut. 8. 10.
c. Unto him that sits on the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever Rev. 5. 9 11 12 13. ch 7. 11 12. The four and twenty Elders c. worshipped God saying We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty c. Rev. 11. 16 17. Fear God give glory unto him Rev. 14. 7. And they sung the song of Moses c. saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty c. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name For thou only art holy c. Rev. 15. 3 4. Salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgments c. And again c. Praise our God all ye his servants and ye who fear him both small and great Rev. 19. 1 2 5 7. To fear God alone and none else The Arguments for it Not to fear any else Or other Fear FEar not Abram I am thy shield thy exceeding great reward Gen. 15. 1. God appeared unto Isaac the same night and said I am the God of Abraham thy father fear not for I am with thee c. Gen. 26. 24. Moses said to Israel Fear not for God is come to prove you that his fear may be before you c. Exod. 20. 20. If thou shalt say in thine heart These nations are more than I how can I disposiess them Thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh c. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them for the Lord thy God is among you a mighty God and terrible c. Deut. 7. 17 18 21. chap. 20. 1. Be strong and of a good courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the Lord thy God he who goeth with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee Deut. 31. 6 8. Josh 1. 5 6 7 9. Nekemiah feared not when the Enemy designed to make him afraid and sin c. Neâ—em 6. 10 11 12 c. I will not be afraid of ten thousand of people that have set against me round about Psal 3. 6 7. 2 Chron. 20. 15 16 17. I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Psal 4. 8. Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou with me c. Psal 23. 4. The Lord is my light and my salvation Whom shall I fear The Lord is the strength of my life Of whom shall I be afraid c. Though an host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear c. Psal 27. 1 3. God is our refuge c. therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried c. Psal 46. 1 2 3 c. In God will I put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Psal 56. 4 11. The righteous c. shall not be afraid of evil tidings c. Psal 112. 6 7 8. The Lord is on my side I will not fear what man can do Psal 118. 6 7. Be not afraid of sudden fear neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh for the Lord shall be thy confidence c. Prov. 3. 25 26. The righteous are as bold as a lion Prov. 28. 1. The fear of man bringeth a snare Prov. 29. 25. Take heed and be quiet fear not neither be faint-hearted for the two tails c. Isa 7. 4 5 6 c. Say ye not a confederacy c. neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid c. Isa 8. 12. ch 7. 3 4 5 6. Say unto them who are of a fearful heart Be strong fear not behold your God will come Isa 35. 4. Fear thou not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God c. fear not I will help thee c. Fear not thou worm Jacob Ye men of Israel I will help thee faith the Lord Isa 41. 10 13 14. Thus saith the Lord who created thee O Jacob c. Fear not for I have redeemed thee c. when thou passest through the waters I with thee Isa 43. 1 2 5. Fear ye not neither be afraid Have not I told thee c. Is there a God besides me c. Isa 44. 2 8. Hearken unto me ye who know righteousness c. Fear ye not the reproach of men neither be afraid of their revilings for the moth shall eat them c. I am he who comforteth you Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die and of the son of man who shall be made as grass and forgettest the Lord thy Maker Isa 51. 7 8 12 13. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee c. Jer. 1. 7 8 17 18 19. Learn not the ways of the Heathen and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens for the heathen are dismayed at them for the customs of the people are vain Jer. 10. 2. Be not afraid of the king of Babylon c. for I am with you to save you c. Jer. 42. 11. Be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words c. nor be dismayed at their looks c. Ezek. 2. 6. ch 3. 9. When Christ had told his Disciples what Persecutors would do to them he faith Fear them not c. And Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul Matth. 10. 26 28 31. Luke 12. 4. Why are ye so fearful How is it that ye have no faith Mark 4. 40. We being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear Luke 1. 74. Fear not little flock for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 32. Let not your hearts be troubled c. neither let it be afraid John 14. 1 27. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but c. Rom. 8. 15. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power 2 Tim. 1. 7. Moses's Parents feared not the King's Edict nor did he the King's Wrath Heb. 11. 25 27. We may boldly say The Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do unto me Heb. 13. 5 6. If ye suffer for righteousness sake happy and be not afraid of their terrour neither be troubled but sanctifie the Lord c. 1 Pet. 3. 14 15. There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment He who feareth is not made perfect in love 1 John 4. 18. Fear God GOD said unto Abraham Now I know that thou fearest God c. Gen. 22. 12. Now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou hast not with-held thy son Gen. 22. 12. But the midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the men-children alive c. Therefore God dealt well
own who is Lord over us Psal 12. 2 3 4. Psal 31. 18. Lord Who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. He who speaketh the truth in his heart he who back-biteth not with his tongue Psal 15. 1 2 3. Isa 23. 15. I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress Psal 17. 3. Psal 141. 3. What man is he who desireth life c. Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile Psal 34. 12 13. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment Psal 37. 30. Psal 119. 46 172. I said I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me Psal 39. 1. Psal 141. 3. Thou gavest thy mouth to evil and thy tongue framed deceit Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother c. Psal 50. 19 20. The wicked c. go astray as soon as they are born speaking lyes Psal 58. 3. The mouth of them who speak lyes shall be stopped Psal 63. 11. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long Psal 71. 24. Psal 119. 46 172. It went ill with Moses for their sakes because they provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips Psal 106. 32 33. I hate and abhor lying Psal 119. 163. The Saints should speak of God and of his greatness goodness and memorable acts Psal 145. 5 6 7 11 12. Put away from thee a froward mouth and perverse lips put far from thee Prov. 4. 24. These six things doth the Lord hate c. a lying tongue c. a false witness speaking lyes Prov. 6. 16 17 19. A prating fool shall faâ—â— the mouth of a righteous man is a well of life c. In the lips of him who hath understanding wisdom is found c. He who hideth hatred with lying lips and he who uttereth a slander is a fool In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin but he who refraineth his lips is wise The tongue of the just is as choice silver c. The lips of the righteous seed many c. The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom c. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable Prov. 10. 10 11 13 18 19 20 21 31 32. He who speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness c. Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord but they who deal truly are his delight Prov. 12. 17 20 22. He who keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but he who openeth wide his lips shall have destruction c. A righteous man hateth lying Prov. 13. 3 5. A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright but the mouth of fools poureth forth foolishness c. A wholsom tongue is a tree of life but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit c. The lips of the wise disperseth knowledge c. A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth and a word spoken in due season how good it is The heart of the righteous studieth to answer but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things Prov. 15 1 2 4 7 23 28. Righteous lips are the delight of Kings and they love him who speaketh right c. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth and addeth learning unto his lips Pleasant words are as an honey-comb sweet to the soul Prov. 16. 13 23 24. Excellent speech becomes not a fool much less do lying lips a prince c. He who hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief c. He who hath knowledge spareth his â—words c. Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise he who shutteth his lips is a man of understanding Prov. 17. 7 20 27 28. A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes c. His mouth is his destruction and his lips the snare of his soul c. The words of a tale-bearer or whisperer are as wounds c. He who answereth a matter before he heareth it is folly and shame unto him c. Death and life is in the power of the tongue c. The rich man answereth roughly Prov. 18. 6 7 8 13 21 23. He who speaketh lyes shall perish c. shall not escape Prov. 19. 5 9. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from trouble Prov. 21. 23. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver Prov. 25. 11. Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit Prov. 26. 4 5. Let another man praise thee not thine own mouth a stranger not thine own lips Prov. 27. 2. A fool uttereth all his mind but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards c. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words there is more hope of a fool than of him Prov. 29. 11 20. A time to keep silence and a time to speak Eccles 3. 7. Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God c. Let thy words be few c. for many words also divers vanities but fear thou God Eccles 5. 2 3 7. The words of wise men are heard in quiet Eccles 9. 17. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious or grace c. A fool also is full of words a man cannot tell what shall be Eccles 10. 12 14. The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastned by the master of the assemblies Eccles 12. 11. I hearkned and heard they spake not aright c. Jer. 8. 6. They bent their tongue like their bow for lyes but are not valiant for the truth c. will not speak the truth they have taught their tongue to speak lyes c. Their tongue is an arrow shot out it speaketh deceit One speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth in his heart he layeth in wait Jer. 9. 3 5 8. Acts 6. 9 11. 13. 1 Kings 21. 7 8. The Lord hath a controversie c. because there is no truth c. By swearing and lying c. Hos 4. 1 2. The prudent shall keep silence in that day for it is an evil time Amos 5. 13. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lieth in thy bosom Micah 7. 5. Speak ye every man truth to his neighbour Zech. 8. 16. Let your communication be yea c. for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil Matth. 5. 37. How can ye being evil speak good things for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth evil things But I say unto you That every idle word which men shall speak they shall give
promises Heb. 6. 1 11 12. Make strait or even paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way Heb. 12. 13. The wisdom which is from above is pure c. without partiality and without hypocrisie c. James 3. 17. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend unto the world is the enemy of God c. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you c. Purifie your hearts ye double-minded James 4. 4 8. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying c. unto unfeigned love of the brethren See that ye love one another with a pure heart servently 1 Pet. 1. 22. Wherefore laying aside c. all guile and hypocrisie c. Neither was guile found in Christs mouth 1 Pet. 2. 1 22. Whose adorning let it not be that outward c. but the hidden man of the heart 1 Pet. 3. 3 4. Give all diligence to add to your faith virtue c. wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall c. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Seeing that ye look for such things c. be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and blemish c. but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus c. 2 Pet. 3. 14 18. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth 1 John 1. 6. Let us not love in word c. but in deed and in truth c. If our hearts condemn us God is greater c. 1 John 3. 18 19 20 21. I rejoyce greatly that I have found of thy children sincerely walking in truth 2 John verse 4. The brethren by their testimony did commend thy sincerity as thou walkest sincerely c. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth Beloved thou dost faithfully whatsoever thou dost to the brethren and to strangers 3 John verse 3 4 5. But ye beloved building up your selves in your most holy faith c. Jude verse 20. Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Revel 2. 10. Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead be watchful and strengthen the things which remain I have not found thy work perfect before God c. Thou hast a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments c. I know thy work that thou art neither hot nor cold I would thou wert cold or hot so then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth Because thou sayest I am rich c. and knowest not that thou art wretched c. As many as I love I rebuke c. be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 1 2 3 4 15 16 17 19. These are they who were not defiled with Women for they are Virgins these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Revel 14. 4. Let every man prove his own work c. for every man shall bear his own burthen c. Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also rcap c. Gal. 6. 3 4 5 6 7. See the spirits and practices of Hypocrites and the danger of Hypocrisie Chap. 28. To stick fast to God and not to depart from him abide in the faith and practice of what we know of his Will and persevere to the end The reasons That the Saints shall be kept To persevere and abide with God in the faith and practice c. THat thou keep this Commandment without spot unrebukable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 6. 14. Enâ—ch walked with God and he was not for God took him Gen. 5. 23 24. Your eyes have seen c. But ye who did cleave unto the Lord c. are alive every one of you this day Deut. 4. 3 4. Jesurun waxed fat and kicked then he forsook God who made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation c. of the Rock which begat thee thou art unmindful and hath forgotten God who formed thee and when the Lord saw it he abhorred them Deut. 32. 15 16 17 18 19. Psal 78. 56 57 58 59. Jer. 6. 28 30. Cleave unto the Lord your God as ye have done unto this day Josh 23. 8. Deut. 10. 20. ch 30. 20. Chuse you whom ye will serve c. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord Josh 24. 15. Israel departed from God after Joshua c. were dead often Judges 2. 8 9 10 c. Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face continually 1 Chron. 16. 11. Thou Solomon c. know thou the God of thy fathers c. If thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever 1 Chron. 28. 9. Hear ye me Asa and all Judah c. the Lord is with you while ye be with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you 2 Chron. 15. 2. Ye cannot prosper because ye have forsaken the Lord he hath forsaken you 2 Chron. 24. 20. ch 26. 5. The righteous also shall hold on his way Job 17. 9. I have kept the ways of the Lord I have not wickedly departed from my God c. I did not put away his Statutes from me Psalm 18. 21 22. Job 23. 11 12. 2 Sam. 22. 22 23. Psal 26. 3 2 Kings 18. 6. Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee Psalm 37. 34. All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee c. Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way though thou hast sore broken us c. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to strange gods shall not God search this out Psal 44. 17 18 19 20 21. Psal 119. 157. He will speak peace to his people but let them not turn again to folly Psal 85. 8. Then believed they his words they sang his praise they soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel c. they forgat God their Saviour who had done great things Psal 106. 12 13 21. Psal 78. 10 11 37 41 56 57 58 59. As for such who turn aside unto their crooked ways the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal 125. 5. My son forget not my law Prov. 3. 1. The back-slider in heart shall be filled with his own ways Prov. 14. 14. He who keepeth his way preserveth his soul Prov. 16. 17. My son give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways Prov. 23. 26. I have nourished and brought up children c. they have forsaken the Lord they
any of you should seem to come short of it c. Lest any man fall c. Heb. 4. 1 11. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear c. 1 Pet. 1. 17. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the Devil like a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5 8 9. Seeing ye know before beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness 2 Pet. 3. 17. 1 Thes 3 5. James 5. 19. Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have gained 2 John ver 8. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain c. If thou shalt not watch c. Rev. 3. 2 3. Behold I come as a thief blessed is he who watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walketh naked and they see his shame Rev. 16. 15. See the Saints aptness to fall into Sin Chap. 13. See the Devil and Deceivers ways to draw aside Chap. 30. CHAP. XVII Of the Duties of Saints Believers Brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that relation one to another 1. To Love one another the kinds of it THou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self I am the Lord Levit. 19. 18. My goodness extends not unto thee but to the saints who are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight Psalm 16. 2 3. I am a companion of all them who fear thee c. Psalm 119. 63. Love covers all sins Prov. 10. 12. 1 Pet. 4. 8. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a sâ—alled ox where hatred is Prov. 15. 17. Open rebuke is better than secret love Prov. 27. 5. Love is as strong as death c. many waters cannot quench love Cant. 8. 6 7. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets Matth. 22. 39 40. The love of many shall wax cold Matth. 24. 12. A new commandment I give unto you That ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye love one another John 13. 34 35. This is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you John 15. 12 13 17. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another c. Let love be without dissimulation c. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love or in the love of the Brethren Rom. 12 5 9 10. 1 Cor. 12. 13 25 27. Malachi 2. 10. 1 Cor. 10. 17. Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he who loveth another hath fulfilled the law c. It is briefly comprehended in this saying namely Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selâ— Love worketh no ill to his neighbour Rom. 13. 8 9 1. Gal. 5. 13 14. Love edifieth 1 Cor. 8. 1. Though I speak with the tongue of men or angels c. have the gift of prophesie c. have all faith c. Bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it proficeth me nothing charity suffereth long c. charity never faileth c. 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13. Follow after charity 1 Cor. 14. 1. Let all your things be done with charity 1 Cor. 16. 14. There is neither Jew nor Greek c. for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 3. 28. The fruit of the spirit is love c. Gal. 5. 22. Walk in love as Christ also hath loved us c. Ephes 5. 2. I pray that your love may abound more and more in knowledge c. Phil. 1. 9. Having the same love c. Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others Phil. 2. 2 3 4. 1 Cor. 8. 1. Gal. 5. 13. We give thanks c. since we heard c. of the love which ye have unto all saints Col. 1. 3 4. Ephes 1. 15. That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love Col. 2. 1 2. Above all these things put on charity which is the bond of perfectness Col. 3. 14. The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another 1 Thes 3. 12. As touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you for ye your selves are taught of God to love one another c. that ye increase more 1 Thes 4. 9 10. We are bound to thank God c. because that your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth 2 Thes 1. 3. Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart 1 Tim. 1. 5. Follow c. love 2 Tim. 2. 22. 1 Tim 6. 11. I thank my God c. hearing of thy love c. toward all saints Philem. ver 4 5. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name in that ye have ministred to the saints and do Heb. 6. 10. Let brotherly love continue Heb. 13. 1. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self ye do well James 2. 8. Gal. 5. 13 14 15. If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not c. This wisdom descendeth not from above c. James 3. 14 15 16. 1 P. t. 2. 1. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently 1 Pet. 1. 22. Love the brotherhood 1 Pet. 2. 17. Finally c. love as brethren or loving to Brethren 1 Pet. 3. 8. And above all things have servent charity among your selves for charity will cover a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. Add c. brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity 2 Pet. 1. 7. He who saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now he who loveth his brother abideth in the light 1 John 2. 9 10 11. Is not of God neither he who loveth not brother for this is message that ye heard from the beginning that we should love one another c. We know that we are passed from death to life because we love the brethren c. We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth This is his commandment c. that we love one another 1 John 3. 10 11 12 14 16 18 19 23. Let us love one another for love is of God and every one who loveth is born of God and knoweth God He who loveth not knoweth not God
find more favour than he who flattereth with the tongue Prov. 28. 23. If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone c. If he will not hear thee then taken one or two more c. Matth. 18. 15 16 17. Luke 17. 3 4. Ye also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge able to admonish one another Rom. 15. 14. Paul rebuked Peter for not walking uprightly Gal. 2. 11 13 13 14. If a man be overtaken with a fault ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness Gal. 6. 1. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly c. teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. Comfort or exhort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do c. Warn them who are unruly or disorderly comfort the feeble-minded 1 Thes 5. 11 14. 1 Cor. 8. 1. If any man obey not c. have no company with him c. but admonish him as a brother 2 Thes 3. 14 15. Rebuke not an Elder but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren the elder women as mothers the younger as sisters c. Them that sin rebuke before all that others also may fear 1 Tim. 5. 1 2 20. Exhort one another daily c. lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. 12 13. Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works not forsaking the assemblings of your selves c. but exhorting one anoother Heb. 10. 24 25. Brethren if any one of you do err from the truth and one convert him let him know that he c. shall save a soul from death and shall hide c. James 5. 19 20. Of some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh Jude ver 20 22 23. See Discipline Chap. 27. To take Rebuke Admonition c. mell from each other WHen David had rashly resolved to cut off all Nabal's family and Abigail had met him and humbly and wisely admonished him David accepts of the advice and faith Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou who hast kept me this day from shedding of blood c. I have hearkned to thy voice 1 Sam. 25. 22 23 24 25 to v. 35. When Nathan had told David his sin in the matter of Uriah David said I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12. 7 13 When Joab had told the King of his errour in mourning so for Absalom as to discourage his subjects who had fought for him David hearkned and arose and sate in the gate as Joab advised 2 Sam. 19. 5 6 7 8 Let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindness and let him reprove me it shall be as excellent oyl which shall not break my head Psal 141. 5. A wise man will hear and will increase learning Prov. 1. 5. He who rebuketh a scorner getteth to himself shame and he who rebuketh a wicked man getteth a blot Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser c. Prov. 9. 7 8 9. chap. 19. 25. He is in the way of life who keepeth instruction but he who refuseth reproof erreth or causeth to err Prov. 10. 17. Whosoever loveth instruction loveth knowledge but he who hateth reproof is brutish c. He who hearkneth unto counsel is wife Prov. 12. 1 15. A wise son heareth his father's instruction but a scorner heareth not rebuke c. Poverty and shame to him who refuseth instruction but he who regardeth reproof shall be honoured Prov. 13. 1 18. A fool despiseth his fathers instruction but he who regardeth reproof is prudent c. He who hateth reproof shall die c. A scorner loveth not one who reproveth c. The ear which heareth reproof of life abideth among the wise He who refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul c. Prov. 15. 5 10 12 31 32. A reproof entreth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool Prov. 17. 10. As an ear-ring of gold c. so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear Prov. 25. 12. He who being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy c. The rod and reproof gives wisdom Prov. 29. 1 15. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than c. the song of fools Eccles 7. 5. Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4. 16. Submit your selves one to another in the fear of God Ephess 5. 21. Ye younger submit your selves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility 1 Pet. 5. 5. VII To Confess to and Pray each for other WHen a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the Lord c. then they shall confess their sin which they have done and he shall recompence his trespass c. and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed Numb 5. 6 7. And many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds c. Acts 19. 18 19. Paul confesseth that beyond measure he persecuted the Church of God and wasted it c. Gal. 1. 13. 1 Tim. 1. 12 13. Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed Jam. 5. 16. If a man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them who sinneth not unto death 1 John 5. 16. VIII To be of one mind BEhold how good and how pleasant is it for brethren to dwell together in Unity like the precious ointment upon the head c. Psal 133. 1 2. Christ prays that they may be kept that they may be one as we are c. John 17. 11 22. And the multitude of them who believed were of one heart and of one soul c. Acts 4. 32. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another c. Be of the same mind one towards another Rom. 12. 5 16. Now the God c. grant you to be like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God even the father Rom. 15. 5 6. I beseech you brethren c. that ye all speak the same things and that there be no division but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment 1 Cor. 1. 10 12. Whereas there is among you c. divisions Are ye not carnal c. One saith I am of Paul c. 1 Cor. 3. 3 4. When ye come together in the Church I hear there
you c. that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing being fruitful in every good work c. strengthened with all might according to his glorious power c. And he is the head of the body the Church c. for it pleased the father that in him should all fulness dwell Col. 1. 9 10 11 18 19. The head from which the body c. having nourishment c. increaseth with the increase of God Col. 2. 19. Ye received it as the word of God which effectually worketh also in you who believe for ye brethren became followers of the Churches 1 Thess 2. 13 14. Now our Lord Jesus Christ c. establish you in every good word and work 2 Thess 2. 17. Now the God of Peace c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will working or doing in you that which is well-pleasing in his â—ight Heb. 13. 20 21. God gives more grace to the humble James 4. 6. V. To give Power and Ability to persevere in Faith and Obedience through Straits and Tentations to Eternal Life THE Lord thy God he will go over before thee c. Be strong and be of good courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the Lord thy God he it is who doth go with thee he will not fail thee not forsake thee Deut. 31. 3 6 8. Hebr. 13. 5 6. Wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart Psal 27. 14. 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 him with his hand Psal 37. 23 24. 1 Sam. 2. 9. Psal 17. 5. Renew a constant or right spirit in me c. uphold me with thy free spirit Psal 51. 10 12. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee he shall never suffer the righteous to be removed Psal 55. 22. Thou shalt guide me by thy Counsel and afterwards receive me to glory Psal 73. 23 24. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God they shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be sat c. Psal 92. 13 14. Hold thou me up and I shall be safe and I will c. Psal 119. 116 117. The Lord upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all that are cast down Psal 145. 14. Be not afraid c. for the Lord shall be thy confidence and shall keep thy foot from being taken Prov. 3. 25 26. When thou goest thy steps shall not be straitned and when thou runnest thou shalt not stumble Prov. 4. 12. Who is this coming out of the wilderness leaning upon her beloved c. Cant. 8. 5. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee Isa 26 3. A vineyard of red-wine I the Lord do keep it I will water it every moment I will keep it night and day Isa 27. 2 3. And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying This is the way walk ye in it when ye turn to the right-hand and when ye turn to the left Isa 30. 21. And a man shall be an hiding-place from the wind a covert from the tempest c. Isa 32. 2. The everlasting God c. fainteth not neither is weary c. He giveth power to the faint and to them who have no might he encreaseth strength even the youths shall faint c. but they who wait on the Lord shall renew or change their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary and walk and not faint Isa 40. 28 29 30 31. I will bring the blind by a way they know not c. These things will I do unto them and not forsake them Isa 42. 16. Fear not for I have redeemed thee c. When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned c. for I am the Lord thy God Isa 43. 1 2 3. The Lord hath given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary Isa 50. 4. Thus saith the high and lofty one c. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones for I will not contend for ever neither will I be always wroth for the spirit should fail before me and the soul I have made Isa 57. 15 16. I will make an everlasting covenant with them and I will not turn away from them to do them good but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me Jer. 32. 40. Rejoycè not against me O mine enemy when I fall I shall rise when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me Micah 7. 8. Ye shall be brought before governours and before kings for my sake c. take no thought how or what ye shall speak for it shall be given you in that same hour what we shall speak Matth. 10. 18 19 20. Luke 21. 15. Simon Simon Behold Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not Luke 22. 31 32. Whosoever shall drink of the waters which I shall give them shall never thirst but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life John 4. 14. My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give them eternal life and they shall never perish nei her shall any man pluck them out of my hand my father who gave them me is greater than I and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hands I and my father one John 10. 27 28 29 30. Holy father keep through thine own name those thou hast given me c. while I was with them in the world I kept them in thy name c. I pray c. that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one John 17. 11 12 15. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ tribulation or distress c. nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us for I am perswaded that neither death nor life c. shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8. 25 30 37 38 39. Who art thou who judgest another man's servant yea he shall be holden up for God is able to make him stand Rom. 14. 4. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly c. Now to him who is of power to establish you according to my Gospel c.
99. 8. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him c. Psal 34. 19. For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as the father the son in whom he delighteth Prov. 3. 12. Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and wonders in Israel Isa 8. 18. He who departeth from evil maketh himself a prey Isa 59. 15. They watch for iniquity they make a man an offender for a word c. Isa 29. 20 21. You only have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. Beware of men for they will deliver you up to the Councels and they will scourge you in their Synagogues and ye shall be brought before governours and kings for my sake c. and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death and the father the child c. and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake c. The disciple is not above his master c. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his Master and the servant as his Lord if they have called the master of the house Belzebub how much more shall they call them of the houshould c. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth c. A man's enemies shall be they of his own houshold Mat. 10. 17 18 21 22 24 25 34 35 36. chap. 24. 9 10. Luke 21. 12 13 14 c. Mark 10. 30. Then said Jesus unto his disciples If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Matth. 16. 24. Mark 8. 34 35. Wo unto you who laugh now for ye shall mourn and weep wo unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets Luke 6. 25 26. Jesus said unto him Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Luke 9. 58. If the world hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you If ye were of the world the world would love its own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you Remember the word I said unto you The servant is not greater than his Lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you c. These things they will do unto you for my name's sake because they know not him who sent me John 15. 18 19 20 21 1 John 3. 13. John 17. 14. These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended But they shall put you out of their Synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they have not known the father nor me c. Ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce ye shall be sorrowful c. In the world ye shall have tribulation John 16. 1 2 3 20 22 33. Of a truth against the holy child Jesus c. both Herod c. were gathered together to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Acts 4. 27 28. The Lord said of Paul I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my Name Acts 9. 15 16. Exhorting them to continue in the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God Acts 14. 22. Mark 10. 30. The holy Ghost witnesseth in every city saying That bonds and afflictions abide me Acts 20. 23. Always we who live are delivered to death for Christ's sake that also the life of Jesus c. 2 Cor. 4. 11. ch 7. 5. But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the spirit so it is now Gal. 4. 29. We wrestle not with flesh c. but with principalities c. Ephes 6. 11 12 13. Unto you it is given c. not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake Phil 1. 29. That no man be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed thereunto 1 Thes 3. 3. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3. 12. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth c. for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not but if ye be without chastisements whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 6 7 8. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial c. as though some strange thing happened to you but rejoyce in as much as ye are made partakers of Christ's sufferings judgment must begin at the house of God 1 Pet. 4. 12 13 17. The devil c. whom resist c. that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. Behold the devil shall cast some of you in prison that ye may be tried and ye shall have tribulation ten days Rev. 2. 10. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 19. These are they who came out of great tribulation and have washed c. Rev. 7. 14. Secondly That the Saints have been so exercised with Afflictions in Soul and Body from God and in their Bodies and outward Concerns from Men by Persecutions 1. From God more immediately Prov. 18. 14. JAcob sorely afflicted in Joseph and other of his sons Gen. 37. ch 34. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me I went forth full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty c. Ruth 1. 20 21. Job greatly afflicted in his out-things and his body Job 1. 13 to the end ch 2. 5 6 7 8. ch 7. 3 4 5 c. ch 9. 27 28 c. O that my grief were thoroughly weighed c. for now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea therefore my words are swallowed up or I want words to express my grief for the arrows of the Almighty are within me the poison thereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me Job 6. 1 2 3 4. ch 13. 24 26. ch 19. ch 30. Psal 38. 2. Psal 55. 4 5. I was full of confusion therefore see my affliction Job 10. 15 16 c. My soul is sore vexed O Lord how long c. I am weary with my groaning all the night or every night make I my bed to swim I water my couch with tears mine eye is consumed because of grief c. Psal 6. 3 7. Psal 32. 4. Psal 102. 3 4 c. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me c. I cry in the day-time and thou hearest not Psal 22. 1 2. I am desolate and afflicted the troubles of mine heart are enlarged c. Psal 25. 16 17. Ps 40. 12. Ps 102. 3 4 5 6 9. Ps 143. 4. My
remembered that God was their rock c. Psal 78. 34 35. Isa 9. 13. It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes the law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold c. Psal 119. 71 72. My beloved had withdrawn himself was gone my soul failed c. I sought him c. Cant. 5. 6. Such as escape of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him who smote them but shall stay upon the Lord the holy one of Israel in truth Isa 10. 20 21. In that day it shall come to pass that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin c. At that day shall a man look to his maker and his eyes shall have respect to the holy one of Israel and he shall not look to the altars c. Isa 17. 4 5 6 7 8. In vain have I smitten your children they receive no correction Jer. 2. 30. Amos 4. 10. Wherefore doth a living man complain c. let us search and try our ways and turn again unto the Lord Lam. 3. 39 40. Isaiah 9. 13. Jeremiah 31. 18 19. I will cause you to pass under the rod c. and ye shall know that I am the Lord Ezekiel 20. 37 38. Behold I will hedge up thy way c. Then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me than now c. Hos 2. 6 7 8 ch 5. 15. I will bring a third part through the fire c. they shall call on my name and I will hear them Amos. 4. 10. We had the sentence of doath in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead who delivered us c. 2 Cor. 1. 8 9 10. Our light affliction worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. 2. Cor. 4. 17 18. See Repentance Chap. 33. 4. For Gods own Glory and the furtherance of the Gospel I will harden Pharaohs heart that he shall follow after them and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh and upon all his host that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord c. And the Egyptians pursued after them c. and the children of Israel were sore afraid c. Exod. 14. 4 9 10 17 18. He fed thee with Manna c. that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live Deut. 8. 3. Howbeit because by this deed thou hast given great cause to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die 2 Sam. 12. 14. Hast thou considered my servant Job c. and still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause Job 2. 3. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain Psalm 76. 10. The Three Children's Sufferings made Persecutors acknowledge and give Honour to God Dan. 3. 27 28 29. So Daniel's Sufferings made Darius the King who had caused him to be cast into the Lions Den to acknowledge and honour God Dan. 6. 20 26 27. Master Who did sia this man or his parents that he was born blind Jesus answered Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents but that the work of God might be made manifest in him John 9. 1 2 3. Jesus said This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified thereby John 11. 3 4. This spake he signifying by what death he should glorifie God John 21. 18 19. We are troubled on every side c. that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body for we who live are always delivered unto death that the life of Jesus might be manifest in our mortal flesh 2 Cor. 4. 8 9 10 11. When Paul was buffeted c. he besought the Lord thrice that it might depart and it was said My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness Most gladly will I therefore rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me c. 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9 10. I would have you understand c. that the things which have happened to me have fallen out to the furtherance of the gospel c. and many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear Philip. 1. 12 13 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ c. the spirit c. on your part he is glorified 1 Pet. 4. 14. 5. For the effecting of great Good and Advantage to those who are exercised with Trouble c. JOseph's Afflictions and Sufferings his being sold by his brethren and afterwards being imprisoned happened through God to his great honour and advantage He advanced to be next the King his Brethren who sold him made to bow to him and honour him and are nourished by him his Father's Sorrow also recompenced in that Joseph provided for him in the Famine Gen. 37. 28 34 35. ch 29. 5 20. ch 41 39 40 41 42 43 44. ch 45. 5 7 8. ch 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. ch 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. Hezekiah left of God to try him that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. 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. 3. 3 11 12 13 15 16. Tatnai the Governor opposing the Jews wrought for their advantage in the end Ezra 5. ch 6. If they be bound in fetters c. then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they may have exceeded He openeth also their ear to discipline Job 36. 8 9 10. Before I was afflicted I went astray but now I have 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
this matter c. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us c. and he will c. But if not Be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up Dan. 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18. When a Decree was passed That whosoever should ask a Petition of any God or Man for thirty days save of the King he should be cast into the Lions Den And Daniel knew that the Writing was signed He went into his house and his windows being open in his chamber towards Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks as he did aforetime Dan. 6. 7 8 9 10. Ye shall be hated of all men for my name sake but he who endureth unto the end shall be saved c. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me c. And he who taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me c. He who loseth his life for my sake shall find it Matth. 10. 22 37 38 39. ch 16. 24 25 26. He heareth the word and anon with joy receiveth it yet hath he not root in himself but dureth for a while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word by and by he is offended Matth. 13. 20 21. When Christ was taken his Disciples fled Peter denied him but afterwards wept bitterly for his so doing Matth. 26. 56 70 72 74 75. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father c. Mark 8. 36. John 9. 21 22. These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended John 16. 1. Gal. 5. 11. ch 6. 32. When the Apostles had been commanded not to speak at all c. in the name of Jesus they say Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard Acts 4. 19 20. Again When they were charged with Preaching contrary to their Command the Apostle said We ought to obey God rather than men And they preached Christ before the Council who caused them to be beaten and gave them a new Charge not to preach yet they daily in the Temple and in every House ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ Acts 5. 27 28 29 30 40 41 42. None of these things move me c. so that I may finish my course with joy and the ministry c. Acts 20. 23 24. I am ready not only to be bound but also to die c. for the name of the Lord Jesus Acts 21. 13. Paul before Foelix said after the way they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Acts 24. 14. If I preach circumcision why do I yet suffer c. Then is the offence of the cross ceased Gal. 5. 11. ch 6. 12. Many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear c. That ye stand fast c. striving together for the faith of the gospel and in nothing terrified by your adversaries Philip. 1. 14 27 28. Be thou not therefore ashamed of the testimony of the Lord nor of me his prisoner but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel c. I suffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed 2 Tim. 1. 8 12. Heb. 13. 13. If we suffer c. If we deny him he also will deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. Nor faint when thou art rebuked of him Heb. 12. 5. If any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but glorifie God 1 Pet. 4. 16. Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints Jude vers 3. Thou shalt suffer c. Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Rev. 2. 10. ch 12. 11. See more of Perseverance Chap. 16. 5. To be chearful under Affliction and rejoyce to to be counted worthy to suffer for Christ BE of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all ye who hope in the Lord Psal 31. 24. Although the fig-tree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vine c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation Heb. 3. 17 18. When they shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad Mat. 5. 11 12. He who taketh not up his cross and followeth me is not worthy of me Matth. 10. 38. ch 16. 24 25. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the world John 16. 33. When the Apostles had been put into the common Prison brought before the Council and been beaten there they departed from the presence of the Council rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name Acts 5. 18 27 40 41. Paul and Silas being thrust into the inner Prison and their Feet made fast in the Stocks sang Praises unto God and the Prisoners heard Acts 16. 24 25. Bonds and afflictions abide in me but none of these things move me Acts 20. 23 24. What mean ye to weep c. I am ready not to be bound only but also to die Acts 21. 13. And not only so but we glory in tribulation also Rom. 5. 3. As sorrowful yet always rejoycing 2 Cor. 6. 10. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christ's sake 2 Cor. 12. 9 10. I Paul am made a minister who now rejoyce in my sufferings for you Col. 1. 23 24. That no man should be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed c. 2 Thes 3. 3. Thou therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ 2 Tim. 2. 3. Heb. 12. 5. For 〈◊〉 c. took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves c. Heb. 10. 34. Moses chusing rather to suffer c. esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt Heb. 11. 25 26. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees Heb. 12. 12. My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience c. Blessed is the man who endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown James 1. 1 2 12. If ye suffer for righteousness sake c. be not afraid of their terrour neither be troubled 1 Pet. 3. 14. Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you c. but rejoyce in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings that when his
from death O death I will be thy plagues c Hos 13. 14. 1 Cor. 15. 55. Fear not them who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul c. Matth. 10. 28. Jesus said unto the man on the cross Verily c. to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise c. Father into thy hands I commend my spirit c. he gave up the Ghost Luke 23. 42 43 46. Psal 31. 5. Simeon said Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes haue seen thy salvation Luke 2. 26 29. The beggar died also was carryed by the Angels into Abrahams bosome Luke 16. 22. I must work c. while it is day the night cometh wherein no man can work John 9. 4. And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother c. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping c. he groaned in his spirit and was troubled c. Jesus wept John 11. 19 33 35. Ananias and Saphira both fell down and yielded up the ghost Acts 5. 5 10. And they stoned Stephen calling and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit Acts 7. 59. And devout men carried Stephen and made great lamentation over him Acts 8. 2. He hath made of one blood all nations of men c. and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation Acts 17. 26. 2 Sam. 7. 12. 1 Chron. 17. 11. Whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we die we die unto the Lord whether we live therefore or die we are the Lords for to this end Christ both died and rose again and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and living Rom. 14. 7 8 9. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law but thanks c. 1 Cor. 15. 56 57. We have this treasure in earthen vessels 2 Cor. â— 7. If our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God c. We groan being burdened c. Whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord we are c. willing to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5. 1 2 6 7 8. I knew a man c. whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell 2 Cor. 12. 2. To die is gain c. having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better Phil. 1. 21 23. Indeed he was c. nigh unto death but God had mercy on him and not on him only but on me also left I should have sorrow upon sorrow Phil. 2. 27. Who shall change our vile body c. Phil. 3. 21. I would not have you ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others who have no hope 1 Thess 4. 13. Christ who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him 1 Thess 5. 10. We brought nothing into the world and it is certain we can carry nothing out 1 Tim. 6. 7. Job 1. 21. I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought c. 2 Tim. 4. 6 7. He took part of the same that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 14 15. It is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment Heb. 9. 27. But ye are come c. unto the Spirits of just men made perfect c. Heb. 12. 23. We have no continuing City here but we seek one to come Heb. 13. 14. Go to now ye who say to day c. we will go into such a City c. whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow for what is your life it is even a vapour which appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away for that ye ought to say If the Lord will we shall live and do this or that James 4. 13 14 15. ch 1. 10. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 1 Pet. 1. 17. I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain c. 1 Pet. 2. 11. 1 Chron 29. 15. Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle even as our Lord c. 2 Pet. 1. 14. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labour and their works do follow them Rev. 14. 13. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching Luke 12. 37 38. CHAP. XXXV Of the Resurrection of the Dead SO man lieth down and riseth not till the heavens be no more they shall not awake Job 14. 12. I know my redeemer liveth c. and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my felt and mine eyes shall behold and not another c. Job 19. 25 26 27. Psal 49. 15. I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness Psal 17. 15. He will swallow up death in victory c. Isa 25. 7 8. Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise awake and sing ye who dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead Isa 26. 19. And many who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life c. Thou shalt rest and stand in the lot at the end of the days 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. Many of the bodies of the saints did arise at the death of Christ Matth. 27. 52. 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 voice and shall come forth they who have done good unto the resurrection of life c. John 5. 28 29. I should loose 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
not soon shaken in mind c. as that the day of Christ is at hand c. except there come first a falling away and that man of sin be revealed c. 2 Thes 2. 1 2 3. Until the illustrious appearance of our Lord Jesus c. 1 Tim. 6. 14. The Lord Jesus who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom c. a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day c. unto them also who love his appearance 2 Tim. 4. 1 8. Looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Titus 2. 13. 2 Tim. 1. 10. Not laying again the foundation c. of eternal judgment Heb. 6. 1 2. It is appointed for aâ—l men once to die but after this the judgment so Christ c. unto them who look for him shall â—e appear the second time without sin Heb. 9. 27 2â— A certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indâ—gnation which shall devour the adversary c. It is a feartel thing so fall into the hands of the living God Heâ— 10. 27 31. Ye are câ—â—e unto mount Zâ—on c. and to God the Judge of all c. Heb. 12. 22 23. Be patient therefore brethren to the coming of the Lord c. for the coming of the Lord draweth near c. James 5. 7 8. That the tryal of our faith c. might be found uâ—to praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ c. the Father who without respect or persons Judgeth according unto every mans works 1 Pet. 1. 7 13 17. Psal 62. 12. Who shall give account unto him who is ready to judge the quick and the dead c. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and waten unto prayer c. The time is come that judgment must began at the house of God c. What shall the 〈◊〉 be of them who obey not the Gospel of God And if the righteous scarcely be saved Where shall the ungodly and sinners appear 1 Pet. 4. 5 7 17 18. When the chief shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a crown c. 1 Pet. 5. 4. If God spared not the Angels who sinned but cast them down c. to be reserved unto judgment c. The Lord knoweth how c. to reserve the the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished 2 Pet. 2. 4 9. There shall come in the last days scoffers c. and saying Where is the promise of his coming For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the â—eginning c. the heavens and the earth which now are by the same word are kept in store reserved unto she against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men c. One day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day c. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise c. Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be c. looking for and hasting unto the day of God 2 Pet. 3. 3 4 7 8 10 11 12. Psal 102. 25 26. Abide in him that when he appears we may have conndence at his coming 1 John 2. 28. That we may have â—oldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we 1 John 4. 16 17. The Angels who kept not their first state c. hath he reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day c. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgment upon all c. Jude ver 6 14 15. Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also who pierced him c. Rev. 1. 7. I will give to every one of you according to to your works Rev. 2. 23. And the heavens departed as a scroul c. and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighâ—y men c. hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said unto the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face or him who sitteth upon the throne and from the wâ—ath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 14 15 16 17. Mark 13. 31. The nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and thou shouldit give unto thy servants a reward c. Rev. 11. 18. ch 14. 7. I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away c. and I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened c. and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works Rev. 20. 11 12 15. Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his works shall be c. And the Spirit and the Bride say Come c. He who restified these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Even so come Lord Jesus Rev. 22. 12 17 20. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them who do such things Râ—â— 2. 2. Be not deceived c. for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he who soweth to the flesh shall or the flesh reap c. Gal. 6. 7 8. See the Duty of Waiting for Christ's Coming Chap. 16. CHAP. XXXVII Of the Glory prepared for the Saints and reserved to be given to them at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ MAN hath not heard nor perceived c. what he hath prepared for them who wait for him Isa 64. 4. 1 Cor. 2. 9 10. Verily there is a reward for the righteous Psal 58. 11. If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable 1 Câ—r 15. 19. 1 Tim. 4. 8. After I awake c. yet in my flesh or out of my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another Job 19. 26 27. In thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand pleasure for evermore Psalm 16. 11. Psalm 17. 15. Death shall feed on them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning Psal 49. 14. Many of them who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life c. and they who be wise or teachers shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they who turn many to righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12. 2 3. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall
c. look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. He who doeth the will of God abideth for ever 1 John 2. 17. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2. They shall walk with me in white c. cloathed in white c. will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out c. will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set down c. Rev. 3. 4 5 11 12 21. ch 2. 26 27 28. I beheld and lo a great multitude c. stood before the throne c. cloathed with white robes and palms in their hands c. These are they who came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple and he who sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them they shall hunger no more nor thirst no more neither shall the sun light on them or any heat for the Lamb c. shall feed them c. and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Rev. 7. 9 13 to 18. Isa 25. 8. The souls of them who were beheaded and which had not worshipped the beast c. nor received his mark c. Rev. 20. 4. The New Jerusalem's Glory described at large c. Behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them c. and wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away Rev. 21. 1 to 5. ch 22. 1 to 6. 2 Pet. 3. 13. See more of Eternal Life Chap. 10. See the sad End of wicked Men Chap. 5. CHAP. XXXVIII Of Knowledge and Understanding in and about Divine Things and of the Want thereof Ignorance about such things and the Evil thereof WHen Abimelech had taken Sara Abram's Wife though in the Integrity of his Heart not knowing her to be Abram's Wife because he had said she was his Sister yet God said unto him Behold thou art a dead man for the woman thou hast taken for she is a man's wife Gen. 20. 2 to 10. Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey him Exod. 5. 2. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring forth the children of Israel from among them Exod. 7. 5. Ezek. 6. 7 10 13. Exod. 14. 4 18. According to thy word that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord Exod. 8. 10. I have hardned his heart and the heart of his servants that I might shew these my signs c. that ye may know how that I am the Lord Exod. 10. 1 2. Deut. 4. 35. Exod. 6. 7. Jethro said when Moses had told him what God had done Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he c. Exod. 18. 11. 2 Kings 5. 15. Under the Law they were to offer Sacrifices for Sins of Ignorance whether of a Person or of the Congregation Levit. 4. 2 3 4 13 14 15. ch 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 17 18 19. Numb 15. 24 25 26. Ye have seen all that the Lord did c. yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day Deut. 20. 2 4. They sacrificed c. not to God to gods whom they knew not to new gods Deut. 32. 17. There arose another generation c. who knew not the Lord nor the works he had done c. Judges 2. 10. Sampson said to his father Get her for me c. but his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord that he sought an occasion against the Philistines Judges 14. 3 4. The sons of Eli wicked men knew not the Lord 1 Sam. 2. 12. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him 1 Sam. 3. 7. That all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel c. that the Lord saveth not by sword c. 1 Sam. 17. 46 47. Elijah prayed that God would by an extraordinary means let it be known that thou art a God in Israel c. that this people may know that thou art the Lord God 1 Kings 18. 36 37 38. Because the Syrians have said The Lord is God of the hills but he is not God of the Valleys therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hands and ye shall know that I am the Lord 1 Kings 20. 28. Solomon asked wisdom and knowledge and God gave it and riches also 2 Chron. 1. 9 10 11 12. Nevertheless they shall be his servants that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the Countreys 2 Chron. 12. 8. God left Hezekiah to try him that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. Canst thou by searching find out God Carst thou find out the Almighty to perfection c. Job 11. 7 8 12. ch 37. 5. Eccles 11. 5. I have understanding as well as you I am not inferiour to you Job 12. 3. ch 13. 2. Lo these are parts of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him Job 26. 14. There is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding great men are not always wise neither do the aged understand judgment Job 32. 8 9. ch 38. 36. I uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee wherefore I abhor my self c. Job 42. 5 6. They who know thy name will put their trust in thee c. The Lord is known by the judgments he executeth Psal 9. 10 16. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people c. Psal 14. 4. Psal 53. 4. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shew his handy work day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night teacheth knowledge c. The testimonies of the Lord are sure making wise the simple c. The commandments of the Lord is pure inlightning the eyes Psal 19. 1 2 3 4 7 8. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted c. Psal 46. 10. Consume them c. and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earthâ— Selah Psal 59. 13. Ps 99. 10. When I thought to know this it was too painful for me until I went into the Sanctuary of God then understood I their end c. so foolish and
sometimes foolish c. living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another Tit. 3. 3. Be content with such things as ye have for he hath said I will never leave thee nor c. Hebr. 13. 5. Let every man be c. flow to wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God James 1. 19 20. The tongue is a little member c. a fire a world of iniqusty c. setteth on fire the course of nature c. an unruly evil full of deadly poison c. Who is a wise man c. let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envyings and strife in your hearts glory not c. This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual or Natural devillish for where envy and strife is there is confusion or Tumults or Unquietness and every evil work James 3. 5 6 8 13 14 15 16. Grudge not or grieve not one against another brethren left ye be condemned c. James 5. 9. Wherefore laying aside all malice c. and envyings and evil speaking c. 1 Pet. 2. 1. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murtherer and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 John 3. 15. If any man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a lyar for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4. 20. CHAP. LXI Of Murther and taking away the Life of Man BEcause God accepted of Abel's Offering and had no respect unto Cain and his Offering Cain rose up against his Brother Abel and flew him c. And the Lord said c. What hast thou done the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground And now thou cursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand c. And Lamech said c. I have slain a man in my â—ounding and a young man to my hurt If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold truly Lamech seventy and seven fold Genesis 4. 5 6 8 10 11 12 23 24. Your blood of your lives I will require at the hand of every beast and at the hand of man at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man c. Gen. 9. 5 6. Because Jacob had gotten his Father's blessing Esau hated him And Esau said in his heart the days of mourning for my father are at hand then will I slay my brother Jacob c. Gen. 27. 41. Joseph's Brethren hated him and conspired together to slay him Gen. 37. 4 11 18. Simeon and Levi Brethren Instruments of Cruelty c. O my Soul come not thou into their secrets c. For in their anger they slew a man and in their their self-will c. cursed their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel c. Gen. 49. 5 6 7. ch 34. 25 26 c. Thou shalt not kill Exod. 20. 13. He who smiteth a man so that he die he shall surely be put to death c. If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with guile thou shalt take him c. that he may die Exod. 21 12 13 14. Levit. 24. 17. If a thief be found breaking up and be smitten that he die there shall be no blood shed for him c. Exod. 22. 2 3. If he smite him with an instrument of iron so that he die c. or with throwing a stone c. or with an instrument of wood wherewith he may die and he die he is a murderer the murderer shall surely be put to death c. If he thrust him of hatred or hurl at him by laying of wait that he die or in enmity smite him with his hand that he die he who smote him shall surely be put to death c. He is a murderer c. But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity or have cast upon him without lying in in wait or with any stone wherewith he may die seeing him not and cast upon him that he die and was not his enemy sought his harm Then the Congregation shall judge and deliver the slayer out of the hands of the avenger of blood c. The murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses but one witness shall not testifie against any person to die Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer but he shall be surely put to death c. So shall ye not pollute the land wherein ye are for blood defileth the land and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that 〈◊〉 shed therein or there can be no expiation for thâ—â—and but by the blood of him who shed it Numb 35. 16 17 c. Deut. 19. 4 5 6 10 11 12 13. When David had met with Saul who was pursuing his life upon an advantage in the Cave and might have slain him and moved thereto yet refused and said The Lord avenge me but mine hand shall not be upon thee 1 Sam. 24. 12 13. ch 26. 9 10 11. David's Murther of Uriah and Judgments from God on David's House for it 2 Sam. 11. ch 12. The Murdering of Naboth threatned and punished upon Ahab's House 1 Kings 21. ch 22. 38. Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah to remove out of his sight for the sins of Manasseth c. and for the innocent blood that he shed For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood which the Lord would not pardon 2 Kings 24. 2 3 4. The murderer riseth with the light killeth the poor and needy and in the night is as a thief Job 24. 14. Psalm 10. 4 8. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness O God thou God of my salvation c. Psalm 51. 14. 2 Sam. 11. They sleep not except they have done some mischief and their sleep is taken away except they cause some to fall Prov. 4. 16 17. Will ye steal murder c. and come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name Jer. 7. 9 10. The Mariners when they were to cast out Jonah into the Sea prayed to God That they might not perish for his life and that God would not lay innocent blood to their charge Jonah 1. 14. The Barbarians thought that Vengeance would not suffer a Murderer to live Acts 28. 3 4. Love one another not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore slew he him because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous c. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 John 3. 11 12 15. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts murders c. Matth. 15. 19. You are
Faiths Nature c. 11 p. 54 Its Objects c. 11 p. ibid. It 's further benefit c. 11 p. 57 It 's Fruit and Operation c. 11 p. 54 Faith is Gods Gift c. 20 p. 168 Falling away See Apostacy   False Teachers c. 30 p. 246 Fasting See Prayers   Fathers See Parents   Favour of God to Saints in general c. 14 p. 71 In time of Afflictions c. 22 p. 185 In common Calamities c. 23 p. 209 Fear not Man c. 16 p. 101 Fear God c. 16 p. 102 Fear lest we Sin or fall away See Watching   Fervency of Spirit See Sincerity   Flesh of Christ c. 8 p. 35 Follow God fully c. 16 p. 132 Follow after the Spirit c. 21 p. 177 Forgive one another c. 17 147 Forgive Enemies c. 19 p. 161 c. 22 p. 204 Forgiveness in God c. 10 p. 48 Forgiveness of Sin See Pardon   Formality See Hypocrisie   Formal Professors fierce Persecutors c. 22 p. 181 Forsake Sin c. 16 p. 123 Forsake not God or his ways c. 16 p. 139 Fortress is God to his See Trust in God   Free Grace c. 9 p. 45 c. 10 p. 48 Frowardness of Spirit See Meekness   Fruits of Gods Love to Men c. 7 p. 27 c. 22 186 Fruits of Faith c. 11 p. 58 Fruits of the Spirit c. 21 p. 174 176 Fruits of Man's Love to God c. 16 p. 83 Fruits of our Love to the Saints c. 17 P. 146  c. 22 p. 207 Fruitfulness in good Works c. 16 p. 79 Fruitfulness therein is Gods Gift c. 20 p. 168 G GEntle towards all Chap. 19 Page 161 Gifts Extraordinary c. 27 p. 226 Giver of Knowledge and all Grace who c. 20 p. 164 Glory for Saints at last c. 37 p. 262 Glory not in our selves See Humility   Glory in God and Christ alone c. 16 p. 83 God his Name and Attributes c. 2 p. 5 His Greatness Majesty Perfection and Absoluteness c. 2 p. ibid. God's Repentings c. 33 p. 253 God knows Satan and Wicked Men's Devices and Over-rules them c. 22 p. 187 God will uphold his Saints in Trouble and deliver them c. 22 p. 190 195 Goodness of God See Bounty   Good Men's Spirit and Behaviour c. 12 p. 60 Good to all c. 19 p. 162 Good though little commended and rewarded c. 50 p. Governors See Magistrates in general   Grace of God free in Election c. 9 p. 45 In Calling c. 9 p ibid. In Pardon of Sin c. 10 p. 48 In Justification c. 10 p. 50 In Reconciliation c. c. 10 p. 49 In giving Eternal Life and Salvation c. 10 p. 51 Graces of the Spirit freely given of God c. 20 p. 164 Grave See Death   Graven Images c. 40 p. 276 Greatness of God c. 2 p. 5 Greatness in the World See World   Greedy of Gain See World   Grieve not the Spirit of God c. 21 p. 177 Grieve not Saints in the time of their Trouble c. 22 p. 207 Ground of Comfort and Support in a time of Trouble c. 22 p. 186 H. HAppiness of the Saints See Glory   Hard thing to be a true Saint Chap. 46 Page 286 Harmless and honest towards all c. 19 p. 159 Hate Sin c. 16 p. 123 Hear Rebuke willingly c. 17 p. 150 Hearken to God c. 16 p. 85 Heart for God See Sincertiy   Heart upright See Sincerity   Help such as are afflicted c. 22 p. 107 Help Saints in general c. 17 p. 146 Help all Men c. 19 p. 162 Holiness should be in Saints c. 16 p. 79 Holiness of God c. 2 p. 12 Honesty towards all c 19 p. 159 160 Honour God c. 16 p. 79 Honour Saints c. 17 p. 147 Honour Magistrates c. 24 p. 216 Honour Parents See Parents   Honour all Men c. 19. p. 162 Honour of the Saints c. 14 p. 71 Honours amongst men See World   Honour is of God c. 24 p. 211 Hope in God in general c. 16 p. 100 In Time of Trouble c. 22 p. 203 When all Hope seems to be gone c. 49 p. 289 Humane Nature of Christ See Humility of Christ   Humiliation of Christ c. 1 p. 35 37 Humility in Man c. 16 p. 113 Humble Behaviour towards all c. 19 p. 162 Husbands c. 18 p. 154 Hypocrites Hypocrisie c. 28 p. 237 Hypocrites Reward c. 28 p. 242 I. IDleness Chap. 54 Page 294 Id lâ—â—ry c. 40 p. 276 Jesus the Christ c. 7 p. 28 Jews Murmurings c. 53 p. 292 Ignorance in general c. 38 p. 264 Ignorance of Man by Nature c. 3 p. 21 Ignorance of each other when â—ead c. 68 p. 309 â—â—â—mination See Knowledge   Images See Idolatry   Imagination See Thought   Imperfection of Saints c. 13 p. 67 Impotency of Man in Spirituaâ—â— c. 20 p. 164 Imposition of Hands c. 27 p. 232 Inâ—lination to Sin in Saints c. 13 p. 67 In â—â—ruptibleness of God c. 2 p. 11 Incouragement in Afflictions c. 22 p. 186 Incouragement to come to Chrest for all Grace c. 20 p. 171 To look to God when but a Possibility left c. 49 p. 289 Indifferent things c. 17 p. 151 Industry in our Callings c. 54 p. 294 Infiniteness of God c. 2 p. 14 Intercession of Christ Chap. 8 Page 41 Invisible God c. 2 p. 10 Invitations to come to Christ See Incouragements   Joining of Church-Members together c. 27 p. 225 Israel's Restoration c. 57 p. 297 Judge not Saints rashly c. 17 p. 147 Judge not others c. 19 p. 160 Judgments denounced against Sinners c. 16 p. 125 Judgment of the Great Day c. 26 p. 260 Judgment righteous See Magistrates   Just to all Men c. 19 p. 160 Justice of God c. 2 p. 12 Justification not by Works or Legal Sacrifices c. 6 p. 25 Justification free by the Grace of God through Christ c. 10 p. 50 Justifie God under our Troubles c. 22 p. 199 K. KIndness of God Chap. 2 Page 13 Kindness of Saints to Saints c. 17 p. 147 Kindness of Saints to Enemies c. 22 p. 205 Kindness of Saints to all c. 19 p. 162 Kinds of Love See Nature of Love   King Jesus c. 8 p. 42 Kings of Israel c. 44 p. 284 Knowledge of Divine Things in general c. 38 p. 264 Knowledge in such Things not in Natural Men c. 5 p. 18 c. 20 p. 164 Knowledge therein God's Gift c. 20 p. 166 Known unto God are all things c. 2 p. 11 L. LAbour for Heaven Chap. 46 Page 286 Labour in our Calling c. 54 p. 299 Labour for the best Things See Encouragement to come to Christ   Lament Sins See Mourning for Sin   Last Times c. 48 p. 289 Laws of God to be obeyed c. 16 p. 85 Law concludes all under Sin c. 6 p. 25 Law 's Curse c. 6 p. ibid. Law 's Works or Sacrifices under it justifie not Men have no Cause to