Cannot I do with you as this Potter saith the Lord Behold as the clay in the Potter's hand so are ye in my hand O house of Israel At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up aud to pull down and to destroy c. Jer. 18. 6 7 8 9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts c. I have made the earth the man and the beast that are upon the ground by my great power and by my out-stretched arm and have given it unto whom it seemeth meet unto me And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar c. Jer. 27. 4 5 6. c. ch 32. 17. The great the mighty God the Lord of hosts is his name great in counsel and mighty in works c. I the Lord the God of all flesh Is any thing too hard for me Jer. 32. 18 19 27. Who is like me Who will appoint me the time or convince me in judgment Who is that Shepherd Who will stand before me Jer. 49. 19. Behold all souls are mine as the soul of the father so also the soul of the son is mine Ezek. 18. 4. Psal 24. 1. Behold the glory of the God of Israel c. And his voice was like a voice of many waters and the earth shined with his glory c. The glory of the Lord filled the house Ezek. 43. 2 4 5. ch 8. 4. ch 9. 3. Wisdom and might are his and he changeth the times and the seasons he removeth kings and setteth up kings c. The God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom power and glory c. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed c. He is a God of gods and Lord of kings Dan. 2. 20 21 37 38 44 47. Ye servants of the most high God come forth c. Dan. 3. 26. Mark 5. 7. Luke 1. 32 35 76. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and his dominion from generation to generation c. The Most High ruleth in the kingdoms and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over it the basest of men c. The Most High c. whose dominion is an everlasting dominion c. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing and he doth according to his will in the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him What doest thou c. Those who walk in pride he is able to abase Dan. 4. 3 17 25 32 34 35 37. Jer. 49. 19. Luke 1. 53. The God in whose hands thy breath is and whose are all thy ways hast thou not glorified Dan. 5. 23. Thy God he who formeth the mountains and createth the wind or spirit c. Amos 4. 13. The Lord hath sworn by the Excellency of Jacob Amos 8. 7. Who can stand before his indignation and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger c. Nahum 1. 6. I am a great King saith the Lord of hosts and my Name is dreadful among the heathen Mâ—l 1. 14. Thine is the kingdom and the power c. Maâ— 6. 13. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will send sorth labourers into the harvest Matt. 9. 38. I thank thee O Father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Even so Father for it seemed good in thy sight All things are delivered to me of my Father With God all things are possible Matt. 11. 25. 26 27. ch 19. 26. Luke 1. 37. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham c. Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands as saith the prophet Heaven is my throne c. He looked up c. and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing c. Acts 7. 2 48 55. Turn from these vanities unto the living God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all things therein c. He gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons c. Acts 14. 15 17. Rev. 14. 7. God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands neither is worshipped with men's hands as though he needed any thing seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things and hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth and hath determined the times before-appointed and the bounds of their habitations c. For in him we live and move and have our being c. Acts 17. 24 25 26 28 29. Psal 50. 10 11 12. For the invisible things of him c. are clearly seen c. his eternal power and Godhead c. They glorified him not as God c. and changed the glory of the incorruptible God Rom. 1. 20 21 23. For of him and through him and to him are all things c. Rom. 11. 3 6. Who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will c. The God of our Lord Jesus the Father of glory Ephes 1. 11 17. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his saints 2 Thes 1. 9 10. God who quickeneth all things c. who is the blessed and only Potentate the king of kings and lord of lords who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see to whom be honour and power everlasting 1 Tim. 6. 13 15 16. Ephes 4. 6. Who being the brightness of his glory c. sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1. 3. ch 8. 1. He who buildeth all things is God Heb. 3. 4. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. 31. For our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12. 29. There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy James 4. 12. The God of all grace who hath called us unto hâ—s eternal glory c. 1 Pet. 5. 10. Jude ver 24. There came such a voice to him from the excellent Glory c. 2 Pet. 1. 17. Thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created Rev. 4. 11. The city had no need of the sun c. for the glory of God did lighten it c. Rev. 21. 23. IV. He is Invisible AND he said Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see my face and live Exod. 33. 20. Lo he goeth-by me and I see him not he passeth on also but I perceive him not Job 9. 11. ch 23. 8 9. No man hath seen God at any time c. John 1. 18. 1 John 4. 12. Ye have neither heard
said unto him Art thou he who should come or do we look for another Jesus said c. Shew John c. The blind receive their sight c. And blessed is he who shall not be offended in me c. For this is he of whom it is written c. Come unto me all that labour c. Matth. 11. 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 28 29. The voice out of the cloud said This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Hear ye him Matth. 17. 5. And the Angel said c. I bring you tidings of great joy which shall be to all people For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign to you You shall find the Babe wrapped in swadling-clothes lying in a manager c. Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will towards men c. Simeon to whom it was revealed by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord Christ took up the Child Jesus into his arms and blessed God and said c. For mine eyes have seen thy Salvation c. Luke 2. 10 11 12 14 25 26 28 30 31 32. They who are whole need not a Physician c. I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Luke 5. 31 32. Jesus said unto Zacheus This day is salvation come to this house c. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost Luke 19. 8 9 10. Matth. 18. 11. John seeing Jesus coming unto him said Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away or â—eareth the sins of the world c. We have found the Messiâ—s which is being interpreted the Christ And he brought him to Jesus c. Philip said to Nathaniel We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write Jesus c. John 1. 29 30 34 36 41 42 45. As Moses lifted up the serpent c. even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life c. That the world through him should be saved John 3. 14 15 17. Numb 21. 8 9. I know that Messias cometh which is called Christ when he cometh he will tell us all things Jesus said unto her I who speak unto thee am he John 4. 25 26. Acts 9. 5. ch 22. 8. The works that I do bear witness of me that the Father sent me c. And ye will not come to me that ye might have life John 5. 36 40. Labour c. for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life which the Son of man shall give you for him hath God the Father sealed c. The Bread of God is he who cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world c. And Jesus said unto them I am the Bread of Life he who cometh to me shall never hunger c. I am the living Bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this Bread he shall live for ever c. John 6. 27 33 35 51. When ye have lift up the Son of man then shall ye know that I am he c. John 8. 28. Jesus said Dost thou believe on the Son of God He said c. Who is this Lord that I might believe on him And Jesus said unto him Thou hast both seen him and it is he who talketh with thee John 9. 35 36 37. I am the door said Jesus by me if any man enter in he shall be saved c. I am come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly I am the good Shepherd c. I give them eternal life John 10. 9 10 11 15 28. ch 14. 6. I came not to judge c. but to save the world John 12. 47. I have glorified thee on earth I have finished the work thou gavest me to do John 17. 4. These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is that Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name John 20. 31. Jesus Christ c. whom ye crucified whom God raised c. This is the Stone which was set at nought c. Neither is there salvation in any other For there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved c. Against thy holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate Acts 4. 10 11 12 27. Jesus whom ye flew c. him hath God exalted c. to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance unto Israel and forgiveness of sins Acts 5. 30 31. Through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins Acts 13. 38. We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved Acts 15. 11. Paul c. reasoned with them out of the scriptures c. that this Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ Acts 17. 2 3. Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth or fore-ordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood Rom. 3. 24 25. Who was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification Rom. 4. 25. When we were yet without strength in the set time Christ died for the ungodly c. While we were yet â—â—nners Christ died for us c. If when we were enemies we were reconciled unto God by the death of his Son c. Our Lord Jesus by whom we have now received the atonement Rom. 5. 6 8 10 11. Who shall deliver me from this body of death I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7. 24 25. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3. 11. They were all baptized into Moses c. did all drink the same spiritual drink for they did all drink of the same spiritual Rock which followed or went with them and that Rock was Christ c. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them c. 1 Cor. 10. 4. 9. All the promises of God in him are yea and in him are Amen unto the glory of God 2 Cor. 1. 20. God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ c. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins Gal. 1. 3 4. In him we are blessed chosen adopted accepted have remission of sins all things Ephes 1. 3 4 c. The Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Gal. 2. 20. God sent forth his Son made of a woman c. to redeem them who were under the law c. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us c. Gal. 3. 13. ch 4. 4 5. Colos 1. 14. Heb. 9. 11 12. Blessed be God who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings c.
c. My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness thy salvation all the day Psal 71. 6 15 24. We will not hide them from their children shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord c. Psal 78. 4. Psal 89. 1. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing unto thy name O most High to shew forth thy loving-kindness in the morning and thy faithfulness every night Psal 92. 1 2. O come let us sing unto the Lord let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation let us come before his presence with thanksgiving c. Psal 95. 1 2. Psal 96. 1 2. Psal 100. 1 2 4. Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory c. Psal 98. 1 2. Psal 105. Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name c. and forget not all his benefits who forgiveth thee all thy iniquities who healeth all thy diseases c. Psal 103. 1 2 3 4 22. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise to my God while I have my being Psal 104. 33. Psal 146. 2. Praise ye the Lord O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord Who can shew forth all his praises c. Then believed they his words they sang his praise they soon forget his works c. Psal 106. 1 2 12â— 13. Psal 147. 1. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good c. let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath redeemed c. Oh that men would praise the Lord c. let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders Whose is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal 107. 1 2 6 8 15 21 22 31 32 43. Psal 135. 1 2 3 4 5. Psal 118. 1 2 3 c. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation Psal 111. 1 2 Psal 86. 12. Praise ye the Lord praise O ye servants of the Lord c. from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised Psal 113. 1 3. Psal 135. 1 2 3. Psal 68 32. Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give glory c. But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore Psal 115. 1 18. I believed therefore have I spoken Psal 116. 10. At midnight will I arise to give thanks to thee because of thy righteous judgments Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments Psal 119. 62 164. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side we had been swallowed up quick or alive Psal 124. 1. 2 c. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good c. O give thanks unto the God of gods for his mercy is for ever O give thanks to the Lord of lords Psal 136. 1 2 3 26. I will praise thee with my whole heart before the gods will I sing praise unto thee c. for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth c. Psal 138. 1 2. I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made c. Psal 139. 14. I will extol thee my God O King and I will bless thy name for ever and ever c. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable c. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works and shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and will declare thy greatness they shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness c. Thy saints shall bless thee they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power to make known unto the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious Majesty c. Psal 145. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12. Praise c. for it is good to â—ing praises unto our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely c. Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion Psal 147. 11 12. All persons and things called upon to praise the Lord Psal 148. Psal 149. Psal 150. The Church's Song propheâ—â—ed of which she shall sing in the Day of her Glory Isa 12. O Lord thou my God I will exalt thee I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonderful things c. Isa 25. 1. ch 26. Sing unto the Lord a new song c. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man c. Isa 42. 10 11 12 c. This people have I formed for my self that they should shew forth my praise but thou hast not called upon me c. Isa 43. 21 22. Give glory to the Lord your God before he cause darkness c. Jer. 13. 16. Daniel said Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever for wisdom and might are his and he changeth the times and the seasons He removeth kings and setteth up kings he giveth wisdom to the wise c. He revealeth the deep and secret things c. I thank thee and praise thee O thou God of my fathers who hast given me wisdom and might and hast made known unto me now what I desired of thee for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter Dan. 2. 19 20 21 22 23. Nebuchadnezzar when his Understanding returned to him blessed and praised God Dan. 4. 34 37. When Christ had healed the two blind Men they spread abroad his Fame in all that Country Matth 9. 30 31. Luke 5. 25. ch 18. 43. Mary upon the Promise made to her praiseth at large My soul doth magnifie the Lord c. The Heavenly Host praised God saying Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace c. Simeon took up Jesus and blessed God saying c. Anna the Prophetess coming in at that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord Luke 1. 46 c. ch 2. 13 14 28 29 38. Christ said unto the Man out of whom he had cast Devils Return to thine own house and shew how great things God hath done unto thee And he went his way and published it throughout the whole city c. Luke 8. 38 39. When Christ had healed ten Lepers one of them returned back and with a loud voice glorified God and fell down on his face at his feet giving him thanks c. Jesus answered and said Were there not ten cleansed but where are the nine There are not found who returned to give glory to God save this stranger Luke 17. 14 15 16 17 18. The whole multitude of the Disciples began to rejoyce and to praise God
quaked greatly Exod. 19. 18. ch 20. 18 19. And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai c. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount c. Exod. 24. 16 17. Ezek. 3. 23. chap. 8. 4. chap. 9. 3. There will I meet with the children of Israel and they shall be sanctified by my glory Exod. 29. 43. I beseech thee shew me thy glory c. Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me and live c. And it shall come to pass while my glory passeth by that I will put thee in a clift c. Exod. 33. 18 19 20 22. I will do marvails such as have not been done in all the earth c. And all the people c. shall see the work of the Lord for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee Exod. 34. 10. The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle Exod. 40. 34 35. Levit. 9. 23. Numb 14. 10. chap. 16. 42. As truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord because all those men who have seen my glory and my miracles c. Numb 14. 21 22. Balaam said c. All that the Lord speaketh that I must do Numb 23. 26. Let the Lord God of the spirits of all flesh set a man Numb 27. 16. ch 16. 22. O Lord God thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hands For what God is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy work and according to thy might Deut. 3. 24. The Lord thy God is a consuming fire a jealous God c. Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live c. The Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else Deut. 4. 24 33 39. ch 5. 24 25 26. The Lord thy God is among you a mighty God and terrible Deut. 7. 21. Nehem. 1. 5. ch 4. 14. The Lord thy God he who goeth before thee is a consuming fire c. Thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness c. Deut. 9. 3 26. Isa 60. 16. Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord thy God's the earth also with all that therein is c. For the Lord your God is God of of gods and Lord of lords a great God mighty and terrible who regardeth not persons nor taketh rewards Deut. 10. 14 17. Josh 22. 22. And know you c. The Lord your God his greatness his mighty hand and his stretched-out arm and his miracles and his acts which he did c. Deut. 11. 2 3. Thou maist fear this glorious and fearful name the Lord thy God Deut. 28. 58. Ascribe ye greatness unto our God the Rock his work is perfect all his ways are judgment c. When the Most High divided c. See now that I I am he and there is no God with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any who can deliver out of my hands For if I lift up my hand to heaven c. Deut. 32. 3 4 8 39 41 42 c. There is none like unto the God of Jesurun who rideth upon the heavens in thy help and in his excellency on the sky The eternal God thy refuge and underneath are everlasting arms and he shall thrust out c. Deut. 33. 26 27. There is none besides thee neither is there any rock like our God c. The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him are actions weighed c. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up he raiseth up the poor c. So the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he hath set the world upon them He will keep the feet of his saints c. 1 Sam. 2. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 c. Job 9. 5 6 7 8 9. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God 1 Sam. 6. 20. Thou art great O Lord God for none is like thee neither is there any God beside thee 2 Sam. 7. 22. 1 Chron. 17. 20. The earth shook and trembled the foundations of heaven moved and shook because he was wroth There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured c. 2 Sam. 22. 8 9 10 11 12. Psal 18. 7 8 c. The glory of the Lord hath filled the house 1 King 8. 11. Thou art the God thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth thou hast made heaven and earth 2 King 19. 15. The heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him 2 Chron. 2. 6. ch 6. 18. Declare his glory c. For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised to be feared above all gods For all the gods of the people are idols but the Lord made the heavens Glory and honour are in his presence strength and gladness in his place c. Give unto the Lord the glory due to his Name 1 Chron. 16. 24 25 26 27 28 c. Psal 96. 4 5. Thine O Lord is the greatness and the glory and the victory and the majesty for all in heaven and earth is thine Thine the kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted above all Both riches and honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand to make great and to give strength unto all 1 Chron. 29. 11 12. Blessed be thy glorious name who art exalted above all blessing and praises thou thou art Lord alone thou hast made heaven c. And thou preservest them all Nehem. 9. 5 6. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Job 1. 21. God c. who doeth great things and unsearchable without number Who giveth rain upon the earth and sendeth waters upon the fields to set up on high those who are low c. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform c. Job 5. 8 9 10 11 12 c. Canst thou by searching find out God Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection c. It he cut off or make a change and shut up or gather together then who can hinder him c. Job 11. 7 8 9 10. ch 9. 10 11 12 13 c. ch 23. 13 14. ch 37. 23. Psal 77. 19. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this in whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind c. With him is wisdom and strength he hath counsel and understanding Behold he breaketh down and it cannot be built up again he shutteth up a man and there can be no opening he withholdeth the waters and
3 4 5. Psal 96. 4. Psal 97. 9. Psal 135. 5 6 c. The Lord made the heavens honour and majesty are before him strength and beauty in his sanctuary c. Psal 96. 5 6. Fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about him c. The hills melt like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth c. Psal 97. 3 4 5. Psal 114. 7. Nahum 1. 4 5. Know ye that the Lord he is God he hath made us and not we our selves or his we are Psal 100. 3. 4. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth over all Psal 103. 19. The Lord is high above all nations his glory above the heavens Who like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high c. He raiseth the poor out of the dust c. that he may set him with princes c. he maketh the barren woman to keep house c. Psal 113. 4 5 7 8 9. Our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased c. The heaven the heavens are the Lord's but the earth hath he given to the children of men Psal 115. 3 16. Psal 135. 6. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and I will declare thy greatness c. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion throughout all generations c. Psal 145. 5 6 13. Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is excellent his glory is above the earth and heaven Psal 148. 13. The lot is cast into the lap but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord Prov. 16. 33. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord Prov. 21. 30. The building of Babel Gen. 11. Joseph's dream brought to pass Gen. from ch 37. to ch 48. I know that whatsoever God doeth it shall be for ever nothing can be put to it nor any thing taken from it and God doth it that men should fear before him Eccles 3. 14. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth Isa 2. 10 19 21. Job 37. 22 23. Holy holy holy the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of thy glory Woe is me c. I have seen the king the Lord of hosts Isa 6. 3. The Lord of hosts hath purposed and who shall disanul and his hand stretcheth out who shall turn it back Isa 14. 27. Great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee Isa 12. 6. Rev. 19. 17. Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not c. behold the majesty of the Lord Isa 26. 10. The Lord of hosts wonderful in counsel and excellent in working Isa 28. 29. The Lord God c. who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven with the span and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a ballance Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord or being his counsellor hath taught him With whom took he counsel c. Behold the nations are as the drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the ballance Behold he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing c. All nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity To whom then will ye liken God or what likeness will ye compare unto him c. He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth c. that bringeth the princes to nothing c. To whom will ye liken me or shall I be equal saith the Holy One Lift up your eyes on high and behold who hath created these things Isa 40. 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 22 23 24 25 26. ch 42. 5. ch 46. 5 9 10. Jer. 5. 22. Job 9. 7 8 9. Yea before the day was I am he and there is none that can deliver out of my hand I will work and who shall let c. I the Lord your Holy One the Creator of Israel your King c. who maketh a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters c. I have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches Isa 43. 13 15 16 28. I the Lord who maketh all things who stretcheth forth the heavens alone who spreadeth abroad the earth by my self who frustrateth the tokens of the lyars and maketh diviners mad who turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish c. who saith to the deep Be dry and I will dry Isa 44. 24 25 27. Rev. 10. 6. ch 14. 7. I form light and create darkness I make peace and create evil I the Lord do all these things c. Woe to him who striveth with his Maker Let the potsheard strive with the potsheards of the earth c. I have made the earth and created man upon it I even my hands have stretched out the heavens c. Every knee shall bow to me every tongue shall swear c. Isa 45. 7 9 12 18 23. To whom will ye liken me c. I am God my Counsel shall stand I will do all my pleasure Isa 46. 5 9 10. Behold at my rebuke I dry up the sea c. I cloath the heavens with blackness c. Isa 50. 2 3. Nahum 1. 4. My word shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper Isa 55. 11. Thus saith the high and lofty One who inhabiteth eternity whose Name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place c. Isa 57. 15. Thus saith the Lord The heaven is my throne and the earth my foot-stool where is the house ye build unto me and where is the place of my rest for all these things hath mine hand made c. Isa 66. 1 2. 2 Chron. 2. 6. ch 6. 18. Hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods but my people have changed their glory c. Jer. 2. 11. The Lord our God who giveth rain both the former and the latter in its season he reserveth unto us the appointed week of the harvest Jer. 5. 24. There is none like unto thee O Lord thou art great and thy name is great in might Who would not fear thee O King of nations For to thee doth it appertain forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms are none like unto thee c. At his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations c. He hath made the earth by his power c. The Portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the Former of all things Jer. 10. 6 7 10 11 12 13 16. ch 51. 15 16 19. Job 9. 5.
c. for thou art a gracious and merciful God Nehem. 9. 17 31. Psal 145. 8. Lam. 3 21 22 23. Joel 2. 13. Thy mercy O God is in the heavens c. Psal 36. Psal 57. 10. Thou a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy c. Psal 86. 15. Psal 111. 4. Psal 145. 8. Psal 78. 38 39. Mercy c. shall go before thy face Psal 89. 14. The Lord is God his mercy is everlasting Psal 100. 5. The Lord is merciful c. he will not alway chide c. As the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy towards them who fear him c. Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them who fear him for he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust Psal 103. 8 9 11 13 14 c. Hos 11. 8 9. James 5. 11. His mercy endureth for ever c. Psal 136. 1 2 c. Luke 1. 50. Where c. is the founding of thy bowels and of thy mercies Isa 63. 15. I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am merciful saith the Lord I will not keep anger for ever c. Jer. 3. 12. Judges 10. 15 16. Ephraim my dear son c. my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him c. Jer. 31. 20. 2 Chron. 36. 15. To the Lord our God belongs mercy c. Dan. 9. 9. I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful flow to anger and of great kindness and repentest thee of the evil c. Jonah 4. 2. Joel 2. 13. Hos 11. 8 9. Judg. 2. 18. Who is a God like unto thee who pardoneth iniquity c. He retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy Micah 7. 18. I am the Lord who change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed Mal. 3. 6. Lam. 3. 22. Remission of their sins Through the tender mercies or bowels of mercy of our God whereby the day-spring from on high c. Luke 1. 50 77 78. Blessed be God c. Father of mercies and God of all comfort 2 Cor. 1. 3. But God who is rich in mercy for his great love c. Ephes 2. 4. See Chap. 33. XII He is Long-suffering and Patient MY Spirit shall not always strive c. yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years Gen. 6. 3. The Lord c. long-suffering c. Exod. 34. 6. Psal 86. 15. The Lord is long-suffering c. Num. 14. 18. Thou art a God c. slow to anger c. Neh. 9. 17. Psal 104. 8. Joel 2. 13. Jonah 4. 2. Despisest thou the c. forbearance and long-suffering c. Rom. 2. 4. The Lord is not slack c. but his long-suffering to usward c. 2 Pet. 3. 9 15. XIII He is Gracious Good Kind and Bountiful I Am gracious Exod. 22. 27. The Lord God merciful and gracious c. abundant in goodness c. Exod. 34. 6. Psal 33. 5. Thou a God c. gracious c. and of great kindness Nem. 9. 17. 31. For the Lord God is a sun and shield no good thing will he withhold from them who walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. For the Lord is good c. Psal 100. 5. Psal 86. 5. Psal 136. 1 2 3 c. Great is thy bounty above the heavens Psal 108. 4. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness c. The Lord is gracious c. The Lord is good to all c. Psal 145. 7 8 9. Therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious to you c. and that he may have mercy c. Isa 30. 18. Let him who glorieth glory in this That c. he knoweth me that I am the Lord who exerciseth loving-kindness c. in the earth For in these things I delight saith the Lord c. Jer. 9. 2â— Matt. 5. 45. The Lord your God for he is c. of great kindness c. Joel 2. 13. Jonah 4. 2. Not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance Rom. 2. 4. The forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded towards us c. Ephes 1. 7. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Jesus Christ Ephes 2. 7. God who giveth unto all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given c. James 1. 5. The God of all grace who hath called us c. 1 Pet. 5. 10. XIV He is Faithfulness and Truth THE Lord c. abundant in goodness and truth Exod. 34. 6. God is not a man that he should lye c. Hath he said and shall not he do it or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Numb 23. 19. Heb. 6. 18. 1 Sam. 15. 29. Tit. 1. 2. Rom. 3. 4. Know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant c. to a thousand generations c. Deut. 7. 9 1 Cor. 1. 9. 2 Tim. 2. 13. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you all are c. Josh 23. 14. ch 21. 45. Thou art that God and thy words be true and thou hast promised 2 Sam. 7. 28. Heb. 10. 23. 1 Kings 8. 56. Thy faithfulness reacheth to the clouds Psal 36. 5. Psal 108. 4. The heavens shall praise thy wonders O Lord thy faithfulness also in the congregation of thy saints c. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face c. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail Psal 89. 5 14 33. Psal 36. 5. Deut. 32. 4. Psal 108. 4. The Lord is good c. his truth endureth to all generations Psal 100. 5. Psal 117. 2. Psal 119. 89 90. He will ever be mindful of his covenant c. The works of his hands are verity c. are done in truth and uprightness Psal 111. 5 7 8. Happy is he c. whose hope is in the Lord his God c. who keepeth truth for ever Psal 146. 5 6. Heb. 10. 23. He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth and he who sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth Isa 65. 16. Great is thy faithfulness c. Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good c. Lam. 3. 23 38. God is faithful and will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able c. 1 Cor. 10. 13. 1 Thes 5. 24. 1 Cor. 1. 9. Two immutable things wherein it is impossible for God to lye c. Heb. 6. 18. Commit the keeping of their souls c. as unto a faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge c. Rev. 6. 10. XV.
was made by him c. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled amongst us and we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father full of grace and truth c. Is preferred before me for he was before me John 1. 3 9 10 14 15 18 27 30. ch 3. 16. 1 John 1. 1 2. 1 Cor. 10. 4. 9. Hebr. 3. 3 4. Jesus c. knew all men and needed not that any man should testifie of man for he knew what was in man John 2. 24 25. Luke 9. 47. No man hath ascended up to heaven but he who came down from heaven even the Son of man who is in heaven c. He who cometh from above is above all c. The Father loved the Son and hath given all things into his hands John 3. 13 31 34 35. Whatsoever things the Father doth those also doth the Son likewise c. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will c. He hath committed all judgment to the Son that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father c. As the Father hath life in himself so hath he given the Son to have life in himself and hath given him authority to execute judgment also because c. John 5. 19 21 22 23 26 27. Him hath God the Father sealed c. I came down from heaven c. If ye see the Son of man ascend up where he was before c. Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not and who should betray him c. We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God John 6. 27 38 51 62 64 69. Jesus said I am the light of the world c. Jesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you before Abram was I am John 8. 12 38. ch 9. 5. 1 Cor. 10. 4 9. Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God c. Ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well for so I am John 13. 3 13. Philip said unto him Lord shew us the Father and Jesus said c. He who hath seen me hath seen the Father c. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me c. The Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me John 14. 8 9 11 30. When the Spirit of truth comes c. he shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you All things which the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine c. We are sure that thou camest forth from God c. John 16 13 14 15 28 30. O Father glorifie thou me c. with the glory which I had with thee before the world was John 17. 5. When Jesus said I am he those who came to take him went backward and fell to the ground John 18. 5 6. Thomas said unto Jesus My Lord and my God John 20. 28. ch 21. 12. Jesus c. a man approved of God c. he hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 22 36. But ye denied the holy One and killed the Prince of life c. Acts 3. 14 15. ch 7. 52. Against the holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed c. Acts 4. 27 30. Jesus Christ he is Lord of all c. God anointed Jesus c. with the Holy Ghost and power Acts 10. 36 38. 2 Cor. 4. 5. Feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 20. 28. Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord c. and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of Holiness c. Rom. 1. â— 4. Christ who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Rom. 9. 5. Christ both died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and living Rom. 14. 9. There is one Lord Jesus by whom are all things and we by him 1 Cor. 8. 6. When he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet 1 Cor. 14. 24 25. He hath made him c. who knew no sin c. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Hebr. 4. 15. He raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all principalities and powers might and dominion and every name which is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come and hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church c. who filleth all in all Ephes 1. 20 21 22 23. The unsearchable riches of Christ c. God who created all things by Jesus Christ c. or whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named Ephes 3. 8 9 15. He descended first into the lower parts of the earth he who descended is the same who ascended up far above all heavens Ephes 4. 9 10. Jesus who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God c. God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord c. Phil. 2. 5 6 9 10 11. John 5. 17 18. ch 10. 33. Jesus Christ who shall c. according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself Phil. 3. 21. Who is the image of the invisible God the first-born of every creature For by him were all things created that are in heaven and which are in earth visible and invisible whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him and he is before all things and by him all things consist and he is the head c. That in or amongst all things he might have the pre-eminency for it pleased the Father that in him all fulness c. Col. 1. 15 16 17 18 19. 2 Cor. 4. 4. Heb. 3. 3 4 6. Christ for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily c. The Head of all principalities and powers c. Having spoiled principalities c. Col. 2. 9 10 15. God was manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angels c. received up c. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Jesus Christ who in his times he shall shew who is the blessed and only Potentate the King of kings and Lord of lords who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto which no man hath seen c. To whom honour c. 1 Tim. 6. 14 15 16.
mayest be clothed that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve that thou mayest see Rev. 3. 18. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation Heb. 2. 3. CHAP. IX God's free Choice of his in Christ to Eternal Life and calling them according to his Purpose and Grace I Will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and I will be merciful to whom I will be merciful Exod. 33. 19. And ye shall be holy unto me for I the Lord am holy and have severed you from other people that ye should be mine Levit. 20. 26. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth the Lord did not set his love upon you nor chuse you because ye were more in number than any people for ye were the fewest of all people but because the Lord loved you c. Deut. 7. 6 7 8 ch 14. 2. Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as at this day Deut. 10. 15. The Lord will not forsake his people for his names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people 1 Sam. 12. 22. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people like Israel whom God went to redeem for a people to himself and to make him a name and to do for you great things c. For thou hast confirmed to thy self thy people Israel a people unto thee for ever and thou Lord art become their God 2 Sam. 7. 23 24. Woe unto him who striveth with his maker let the Potsherd strive with the Potsherds of the earth Shall the clay say to him who fashioneth it What makest thou Woe unto him who saith unto his father What begettest thou c. Isa 45 9 10. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction c. for mine own sake will I do c. Isa 48. 10 11. Zech. 13. 9. The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit a wife of youth when thou wast refused saith thy God Isa 54. 5 6. I am found of them who sought me not I said Behold me behold me unto a nation which was not called by my name Isa 65. 1. Rom. 10. 20. ch 15. 21. Isa 55. 5. The Lord said to Jeremy Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest out of the womb I sanctified thee I ordained thee a Prophet unto the nation Jer. 1. 5. I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee Jer. 31. 3. Hosea 14. 4. When God gives out the great promises of a new heart a new spirit c. he said Not for your sakes do I do this be it known unto you be ashamed c. Ezek. 36. 22 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32. ch 20. 43 44. When I c. saw thee polluted in thy blood I said unto thee in thy blood Live c. Ezekiel 16. 6 8. It shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them Ye are not my people there it shall be said unto them Ye are the sons of the living God Hosea 1. 10. I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy and will say to them which were not my people Thou my people and they shall say Thou my God Hosea 2. 23. Zechar. 2. 10 11. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God c. and shall fear the Lord c. Hosea 3. 5. ch 2. 19 20. Zechar. 13. 9. When Israel a child then I loved him c. I taught Ephraim also to go taking them by their arms but they knew not that I healed them I drew them with cords of a man with bands of love c. Hosea 11. 1 2 3 4. O children of Israel c. You only have I known of all the families of the earth Amos 3. 2. I have loved you faith the Lord c. Is not Esau Jacob's brother c. yet I loved Jacob and hated Esau Malachi 1. 2 3. At that time Jesus answered and said I thank thee O Father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight Matth. 11. 25 26. Luke 10. 21. It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given c. Therefore spake I to them in parables because they seeing not c. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear Matth. 13. 11 13 16. Mark 4. 12 34. I will give unto this last even as unto thee Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own Is thine eye evil because I am good So the last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few chosen c. To sit on my right hand or my left is not mine to give but to them for whom it is prepared of my Father Matth. 20. 14 15 16 21 23. Mark 10. 10. Jesus called Simon and Andrew and James and John to follow him and they did Mark 1. 16 17 18 19 20. Except that the Lord had shortned those days no flesh should be saved but for the Elects sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortned the days Mark 13. 20. Thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shalt call his name John He shall be great in the sight of the Lord c. He shall be filled with the holy Ghost even from his mother's womb Luke 1. 13 15. Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias c. when great famine was throughout all the land but unto none of them was Elias sent save unto Sarepta c. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elizeus the Prophet and none of them was cleansed saving Naaman c. Luke 4. 25 26 27. Christ called Zacheus to come down c. and he received him joyfully and Christ said to him This day is Salvation come to thy house for 〈◊〉 much as he also is the Son of Abraham For the Son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost Luke 19 5 6 8 9 10. All which the Father hath given me shall come to me and him who cometh to me I will in no wife cast out c. This is the Father's will c. That of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing c. There are some of you who believe not c. No man can come unto me except it were given him of my Father John 6. 37 â—9 64 65. Jesus called the blind man whom he had healed and discovers himself to him
true God he is the living God and an everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble c. he hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion when he uttereth his voice c. Jer. 10. 10 12 13. Heb. 9. 14. Yet I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt know no God but me for there is no saviour besides me Hosea 13. 4. Isa 37. 20. I hate I despise your feasts and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies c. But let judgment run down c. Amos 5. 21 22 23 34. Psalm 66. 18. Isa 66. 3. Jer. 6. 20. Isa 1. 11 12 c. And it shall come to pass that every one who is least of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King the Lord of Host c. Zech. 14. 16. If then I be a father where is mine honour c. And if ye offer the blind and the lame c. offer it now unto your governor will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person c. Ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick thus ye brought an offering should I accept this at your hand saith the Lord But cursed the deceiver who hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto God a corrupt thing for I am a great king saith the Lord of hosts and my name is dreadful among the heathen Mal. 1. 6 8 13 14. ch 2. 2 3 13. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come c. then shall the offerings of Judah c. be pleasant unto the Lord Mal. 3. 1 4. Get thee behind me Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Matth. 4. 10. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matth. 18. 20. There is one God and there is none other but he Mark 12. 32. Our father 's worshipped in this mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship c. The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the Father Ye worship ye know not what c. but the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth For the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a Spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 20 21 22 23 24. The Father himself c. ye have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his shape John 5. 37. Exod. 33. 20. And he said Lord I believe and he worshipped him John 9. 38. The most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands c. Heaven is my Throne c. hath not my hands made all c. Acts 7. 48 49 50. Whom ye ignorantly worship him declare I unto you God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord or heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands neither is worshipped with mens hands as though he needed any thing seeing he gave to all life and breath and all things and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitations c. Acts 17. 24 25 26. After the way they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Acts 24. 14. God whom I serve with my spirit c. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made his eternal power and God-head so that they were without excuse because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God c. but became vain c. Changed the truth of God into a lie and served and worshipped the creature more than the Creator who is blessed for ever Amen Rom. 1. 9 20 21 23 25. 2 Tim. 1. 3. Not slothful in business servent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. This I speak c. that ye may attend on the Lord without distraction 1 Cor. 7. 32 35. We know that an idol is nothing in the world and there is none other God but one For though there be that are called Gods c. but to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in or for him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. So falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth 1 Cor. 14. 25. Gen. 24. 26 52. Exod. 4 31. ch 12. 27. ch 34. 8. Joshua 5. 14. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he faith and let all the angels of God Worship him Hebr. 1. 6. God c. because he could swear by no greater he sware by himself c. The living God c. Heb. 6. 13. ch 9. 14. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace or hold fast whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12. 28 29. Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. No man hath seen God at anytime 1 John 4. 12. The four and twenty elders fell down before him who sate on the throne and worshiped him who liveth Rev. 4. 10 11. Fear God and given glory unto him c. And worship him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters Rev. 14. 7. chap. 15. 4. ch 4. 8 9 10 11. ch 5. 13. Worship God Rev. 19. 10. ch 22. 9. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts 1 Pet. 3. 15. The Lord c. he will famish all the gods of the earth and Men shall worship him every one Zeph. 2. 11. See more of Idolatry and Worshipping strange Gods c. Chap. 40. See the Order of Publick Worship Ordinances Officers c. Chap. 27. Believe imbrace and be found in the Practice of nothing in the things of God and about his Worship but that which clearly according to Precepts Rules and Examples of the Scriptures appears to be Christ's mind upon which we can in Faith expect acceptance AND Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments and all the people answered with one voice and said All the words which the Lord hath said will we do And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord c. And he took the book of the covenant and read in
saints and to be had in reverence of all about him Psalm 89. 7. Before the mountains were c. even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men Who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fear is thy wrath Psalm 90. 2 3 11. The Lord reigneth he is clothed with majesty the Lord is clothed with strength c. Thy throne is established of old thou from everlasting c. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters Psalm 93. 1 2 4. The Lord a great God and a great King above all gods Psalm 95. 3. Psalm 135. 5 6. 7. The Lord is great c. he is to be feared above all gods c. The Lord made the heavens honour and majesty are before him c. Fear before him all the earth Psalm 96. 4 5 6 9. 1 Chron. 16. 25. A fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about his lightnings enlightneth the world the earth saw and trembled the hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth Psalm 97. 3 4 5 9. The Lord reigneth let the people tremble He sitteth between the Cherubins let the earth be removed or stagger The Lord is great in Zion he is high above all people let them praise the great and terrible name it is holy Psal 99. 1 2 3. As the heavens are high above the earth so great is his mercy towards them who fear him c. As a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them who feareth him c. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting unto them who fear him Psalm 103. 11 13 17. He hath given meat unto them that fear him c. Holy and reverend is his name The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom Psal 111. 5 9 10. Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob who turneth the rock into a standing water the flint into a fountain of water Psalm 114. 7 8. He will bless them who fear the Lord small and great Psalm 115. 13. Psalm 128. 1 2 c. He will fulfil the desire of them who fear him he also will hear c. Psalm 145. 19. The Lord taketh pleasure in them who fear him c. Psalm 147. 11. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge Prov. 1. 7. ch 9. 10. Fear the Lord and depart from evil Prov. 3. 7. In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence c. It is the fountain of life to depart from the snares of death Prov. 14. 26 27. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasures c. Prov. 15. 16. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil Prov. 16. 6. Let not thine heart envy sinners but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long Prov. 23. 17. Whatsoever God doth it shall be for ever c. and God doth it that men should fear before him Eccles 3. 14. It shall be well with them who fear God who fear before him Eccles 8. 12. Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man Eccles 12. 13. The Lord alone shall be exalted in that day c. And they shall go into the holes c. for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth Isa 2. 10 17 19 21. I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne c. and one cried unto another and said Holy holy holy is the Lord of Hosts the whole earth is full of his glory c. Then said I Wo is me c. because I a man of unclean lips c. have seen the King the Lord of Hosts Isa 6. 1 3 5. Sanctifie the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread Isaiah 8. 13. The Lord of hosts hath sworn saying Surely as I thought so shall it come to pass and as I have purposed it it shall stand c. The Lord of hosts hath purposed and who shall disannul it And his hand is stretched out and who shall uurn it back Isa 14. 24 27. Thou hast made of a city an heap c. therefore shall the strong people glorifie thee The city of the terrible nations shall fear thee Isa 25. 1 2 3. Who would set the briers and thorns against me in battel c. I would burn them together Isa 27. 4. Forasmuch as this people draw near hnto me with their mouth c. and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men therefore c. they shall sanctifie my name and sanctifie the holy one of Jacob and shall fear the God of Israel Isa 29. 13 14 15 23. Behold the Lord God will come c. who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meeted heaven with the span and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure c. Behold the nations as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the ballâ—nce Behold he taketh up the isles as a very little thing c. all nations before him are as nothing Isa 40. 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. I the Lord the first and with the last I am he the isles saw it and feared the ends of the earth were afraid drew near c. Isa 41. 4 5. ch 43. 10 11 12 13. The heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool where is the house Isa 66. 1. Acts 7 48 49 50. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God and that my fear is not in thee Jer. 2. 19. When God had put away Israel yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not but c. Jer. 3. 8. O foolish people c. fear ye not me faith the Lord Will ye not tremble at my presence Who hath placed the sands for the bounds of the sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass it c. But this people hath revolted c. Neither say they in their hearts Let us now fear the Lord our God who giveth rain c. Jer. 5. 21 22 23 24. None like unto thee O Lord thou great and thy name great in might who would not fear thee O King of nations for to thee it appertaineth c. The Lord is the true God he the living God an everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation c. Jer. 10. 6 7 10 12 13. Dan. 2. 20 21 22 47. ch 4. 17 32. O House of Israel cannot I do with you as this potter saith the Lord Behold as the clay in the potter's hand so ye in my hand O house of Israel Jer. 18. 6. Can any
45. 1 Kings 8. 56. There is none besides thee neither is there any rock like our God c. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up he raiseth up the poor out of the dust lifteth up the beggar from the dunghil to set among princes and make them to inherit the throne of glory for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he hath set the world upon them 1 Sam. 2. 2 6 7 8. Luke 1. 51 52 53. It may be the Lord will work for us for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few 1 Sam. 14. 6. 2 Chron. 14. 11. Then said David to the Philistine Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield but I come unto thee in the name of the Lord of hosts the God of the Armies of Israel c. I will smite thee c. that all the earth may know there is a God in Israel 1 Sam. 17. 45 46 47. And David was greatly distressed for the people spake of stoning him c. But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God 1 Sam. 30. 6. The Lord is my rock c. the God of my rock in him will I trust c. He is a buckler to all them that trust in him For who is God save the Lord and who a rock save our God 2 Sam. 22. 2 3 31 32. Alas my master how shall we do And he answered Fear not for they with us are more than they with them And Elisha prayed c. 2 Kings 6. 16. The children of Judah prevailed because they relied upon the Lord God or their fathers 2 Chron. 13. 18. ch 16. 7. ch 20. 20. ch 14. 11. Hezekiah said unto the people when the king of Assyria came against him Be strong and courageous be not afraid or dismayed for the king of Assyria nor for all the multitude that is with him for there are more with us than with them with him an arm of flesh but with us the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battels 2 Chron. 32. 6 7 8 Deut. 31. 6 8. The Lord stirred up the Spirit of Cyrus to make Proclamation for the building of Jerusalem the Temple and restoring the Vessels of the House of the Lord when the Jews were in Captivity Ezra 1. 1 2 3 4 7 11. I would seek unto God unto him would I commit my cause Job 5. 8. Canst thou by searching find out God c. If he cut off and shut up and gather together then who can hinder him or turn him away Job 11. 7 10. Though he slay me yet will I trust in him Job 13. 15. Job reckons up many Works of God and concludes thus Lo these parts of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him Job 26. 14. I know that thou canst do every thing and no thought can be with-holden from thee or no thought of thine can be hindred Job 42. 2. Kiss the Son c. Blessed are they who put their trust in him Psal 2. 12. I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Psal 4. 8. Psal 3. 5 6. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in times of trouble and they who know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast not forsaken them who seek thee Psal 9. 9 10. In the Lord put I my trust how say ye to my soul Flee as a bird c. Psal 11. 1. Psal 31. 1 6. The Lord is my Rock and my Fortress c. in whom I will trust c. Psal 18. 2. 31. Psal 91. 2. In the name of our God we will set up our banners c. Some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God Psal 20. 5 7. The king trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved Psal 21. 7. Our father 's trusted in thee they trusted and thou didst deliver c. They trusted in thee and were not confounded Psal 22. 4 5. Who is this King of glory The Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battel c. The Lord of hosts he the King of glory Psal 24. 7 8. The Lord my strength and my shield my heart trusteth in him and I am helped Psal 28. 7. Psal 3. 3. In thee O Lord do I put my trust let me not be ashamed c. Oh how great is thy goodness c. which thou hast wrought for them who trust in thee c. Thou shalt hide them c. Psal 31. 1 6 14 19 20 24. He who trusteth in the Lord Mercy shall compass him about Psal 32. 10. The Lord bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to nought c. The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever Psal 33. 10 11. Prov. 19. 21. Isa 46. 10. Trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the land c. Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass c. The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord he their strength in time of trouble and the Lord shall help them c. He shall deliver them c. because they trust in him Psal 37. 3 5 39 40. Blessed is the man who maketh the Lord his trust Psal 40. 4. Psal 84. 12. He maketh wars to cease c. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted c. The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob our refuge Psal 46. 9 10 11. I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever Psal 52. 8. Cast thy burthen on the Lord and he shall sustain thee Psal 55. 22. What time I am afraid I will trust in thee c. In God I have put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Psal 56. 3 4 11. For my soul trusteth in thee yea in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge until calamities be over-passed Psal 57 1. Psal 61. 3 4. Through God we shall do valiantly for we shall tread down our enemies Psal 60. 12. In God is my salvation and my glory the rock of my strength my refuge is in God Trust in him at all times ye people c. God hath spoken once twice have I heard this that power belongeth unto God Psal 62. 7 8 11 12. Psal 61. 2. The God of Israel is he who giveth strength and power unto his Psal 68. 35. They spake against God they said Can God furnish a table in the wilderness c. A fire was kindled against Jacob c. because they believed not God and trusted not in his salvation though he commanded the clouds c. Psal 78. 19 21 22 23. Psal 106. 24 25 26. The
from the Lord of Hosts Isa 28. 24 to the 30. All flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field the grass withereth the flower fadeth c. Isa 40. 6 7 8. Thou saidst I shall be a Lady for ever c. Hear now this thou who art given to pleasures who dwellest carelesly who sayest in thine heart c. I shall not sit a widow neither shall I know the loss of children but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day the loss of children and widowhood and they shall come upon thee in their perfection Isa 47. 7 8 9. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause â—â—in c Art not thou he O Lord c. Jer. 14. 22. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches c. Jer. 9. 23. He who getteth riches and not by right shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be a fool Jer. 17. 11. I have made the earth the man and the beast upon the ground c. I have given them to whom c. Jer. 27. 5 6. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord they shall not satisfie their soul nor fill their bowels Ezek. 7. 19. Zephan 1. 17 18. Thou hast gotten thee riches and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasury c. and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches therefore thus saith the Lord c. Ezek. 28. 4 5 6 7. She said I will go after my lovers who give me my bread and my water my wool and my flax mine oyl and my drink c. She did not know that I gave her corn wine and oyl and multiplied her silver and gold therefore I will return and take away my corn in the time thereof c. Hosea 2. 5 6 7 8 9. God threatens such who took their pleasures in those things and not afflicted c. Amos 6. 3 4 c. Although the fig-tree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vines the labour of the Olive shall fail c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord c. Habbak 3. 17 18. When will the new moon be over that we may sell corn and the Sabbath that we may set forth wheat c. Amos 8. 4 5 6 c. Is it a time for you O ye to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lie waste c. Consider your ways ye have sown much and bring in little ye eat but ye have not enough c. I did blow upon it Why saith the Lord of Hosts because of mine house that is waste and ye run every man unto his own house Haggai 1. 4 5 6 7 8 9. Ask of the Lord rain in the time of the latter c. the Lord shall c. give them showers c. Zech. 10. 1. Lay not up treasure on earth where moth and rust corrupt and thieves break in c. for where your treasure is there will your hearts be c. No man can serve two masters c. ye cannot serve God and Mammon c. Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat c. Is not your life more than meat c. Behold the fowls c. are ye not much better than they they Which of you by taking thought can add a cubit unto his stature c. your heavenly Father knoweth you need these things c. but seek ye first the kingdom of God c. and these things shall be added unto you Matth. 6. 19 20 21 24 25 26 27 to ver 35. When Christ had suffered the evil spirit to go into the herd of Swine so that they were drowned the whole City came out and besought Jesus to depart Matth. 8. 31 32 33 34. He who loveth father or mother c. or son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me c. and he who taketh not up his cross and followeth me is not worthy of me c. he who loseth his life for my sake shall find it Matth. 10. 37 38 39. Luke 14. 26. He who received seed among the thorns is he who heareth the word and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choak the word c. Matth. 13. 22. Luke 8. 14. Mark 4. 19. Herod to please Herodia's Daughter and others orders cutting off John Baptist's head Matth. 14. 3 4 to the 10. Mark 15. 15. What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul Matth. 16. 26. Luke 9. 25. Mark 8. 36 37. Judas his covetousness made him to betray Christ into the hands of the Jews Matth. 26. 15. Go and sell that thou hast and give c. but when the young man heard that saying he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions Then said Jesus c. That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven Matth. 19. 21 22 23. Luke 18. 24. The Disciples ambition made them to envy each other Christ rebuked them Matth. 20. 21 22 23 c. Those who were invited to the feast made light of it and went their ways one to their farm another to their merchandize c. Matth. 22. 4 5. Luke 14. 16 to 21. The devil tempted Christ with the things of this world Luke 4. 4 5 6. Wo unto you who are rich for ye have received your consolation wo unto you who are full for ye shall be hungry wo unto you who laugh now for you shall mourn and weep wo unto you when all men shall speak well of you Luke 6. 24 25 26. Christ said to one Follow me but he would bury his father first another would go and bid them farewell who were at home Luke 9. 59 60. 61. Martha Martha Thou art careful about many things but one thing is needful c. Luke 10. 40 41. Jesus said Take heed and beware of covetousness for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth c. The rich man said to his soul Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry but God said unto him Thou fool this night thy soul shall be required of thee then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided So is he who layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God Luke 12. 15 to 22. The Parable of the rich Man and poor Lazarus Luke 16. 20 c. Take heek to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come c. Luke 21. 34. Judas for Money betrays Jesus Christ Luke 22. 3 4 5 6. Matth. 26. 14 15. How can ye believe who receive honour from one another
and seek not the honour which cometh from God only John 5. 44. Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that which endureth c. John 6. 27. He is of age ask him c. These words spake his parents because they feared the Jews for the Jews had agreed already That if any man did confess that he was Christ he should be put out of the Synagogue therefore said his parents c. John 9. 21 22 23. Judas displeased at the use of the ointment upon pretence of the poor but 't was because he bare the purse c. Among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 4 5 6 42 43. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the world John 16. 33. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil John 17. 15. Jesus answered My kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not c. John 18. 36. Pilate â—ought to release â—esus but the Jews cried out saying If thou let this man go thou art not Caesar's friend c. When Pilate therefore heard that saying he brought Jesus forth c. John 19. 12 13 15 16. Mark 15. 15. What house will ye build for me saith the Lord c. Hath not my hand made all these things c. Acts 7. 48 49 50. ch 14. 15 17. When Paul had cast out the evil Spirit out of the damsel and her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone they caught Paul and Silas c. and said That they did exceedingly trouble the City c. Acts 16. 18 to 22. God who made the world c. he is Lord of heaven and earth c. He giveth to all life c. and all things Acts 17. 24 25. So Demetrius a Silver-smith and others of the same trade who made silver Shrines for Diana c. complained against Paul for Preaching the Gospel cried up Diana because they were like to lose their gain if men esteemed not of Diana as a Goddess Acts 19. 24 to 28. Your selves know that these hands of mine have ministred to my necessities and them who were with me I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said If is more blessed to give than to receive Acts. 20. 33 34 35. The carnal mind is enmity against God It is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8. 7. Make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Rom. 13. 14. Ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wife c. that no flesh should glory c. 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 28 29. I will not be brought under the power of any meats for the belly c. but God shall destroy both c. 1 Cor. 6. 12 13. The time is short it remaineth that both they who have wives be as though they had none and they who weep as though they wept not and they who rejoice as if they rejoiced not and they who buy as though they possessed not and they who use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passeth away c. He who is married careth for the things which are of this world how he may please his wife 1 Cor. 7. 29 to 34. I keep under my body and bring it in subjection lest that by any means c. 1 Cor. 9. 27. The Devil is called the God of this world 2 Cor 4. 4. The sorrow of the world worketh death 2 Cor. 7. 10. You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 8. 9. God is able to make all grace abound towards you that ye always having all sufficiency c. 2 Cor. 9. 8. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God c. Gal. 1. 4. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the thing that ye would Gal. 5. 17. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom or whereby the world is crucified to me and I unto the world Gal. 6. 14. Covetousness let it not be once named among you as becometh Saints c. for this ye know that no whoremonger c. nor covetous man who is an idolâ—er hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God Ephes 5. 3 5. 2. Cor 6. 10. Whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 15. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication c. let your request be made known to God c. I have learned that in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and suffer need c. but my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Jesus Christ Psal 4. 6 12 19. Set your affections or mind on things above not things on the earth c. Mortifie therefore your members c. inordinate affections evil concupiscence and covetousness which is idolatry Col. 3. 2 5. Meats which God hath created to be received c. for every creature of God is good and nothing to c. 1 Tim. 4. 3 4. 1 Cor. 10. 25 26 27. She who liveth in pleasure or delicately is dead while she liveth 1 Tim. 5. 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into the world it is certain we can carry nothing out and having food and raiment let us be therewith content but them who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition for the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after have erred from the faith and pierced themselves thorow with many sorrows but thou O man flee these things c. Charge them who be rich in this world that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth all things richly to enjoy that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute c. laying
hearing c. that they may hear that they may learn and fear the Lord your God and observe to do all the words of this law and that their children who have not known may hear and learn to fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. ch 17. 18 19 20. Jâ—sh 1. 3. When Josiah heard it read he rent his clothes 2 Kings 22. 11 c. Ezra 9. 4. I have esteemed hid or laid up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food or appointed portion Job 23. 12. The word of the Lord is tryed or refined Psal 18. 30. Psal 12. 6. The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure enlightning the eyes c. the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether more to be desired than fine gold sweeter also than the honey and the honey-combs c. Moreover by them is thy servant warned Psal 19. 7 8 9 10 11. Psal 93. 5. Psal 119. 105. 2 Sam. 22. 31. Lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me c. Psal 40. 7. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children that the generation to come might know the children who should be born should arise and declare to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments and might not be as their fathers c. Psal 78. 5 6 7 8. Because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High therefore he brought down their heart c. Psal 107. 11. 12. Luk. 7. 30. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his ways By taking heed according to thy word c. Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee c. Remember thy word unto thy servant upon which thou caused me to hope c. I will speak of thy testimonies before kings thy word hath quickned me c. Unless thy law had been my delight I had perished in my affliction c. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies c. I have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation I understand more than the ancients c. How sweet are thy words to my taste thy word is a lamp to my feet c. I hope in thy word the entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth understanding to the simple Psal 119. 9 11 46 49 50 92 96 98 99 103 105 114 130. Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name c. All the kings of the earth shall praise thee O Lord when they hear the words of thy mouth Psal 138. 2 4. He shewed his words to Jacob and his statutes and his judgments unto Israel he hath not dealt so with any nation And as for his judgments they have not known them Psal 147. 19 20. Deut. 4. 8. Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed but he who feareth the Commandments shall be rewarded or in peace Prov. 13. 13 Every word of God is pure c. Prov. 30. 5. To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light or morning in them Isa 8 20. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who bringeth good-tidings who publisheth peace who bringeth good-tidings of good who publisheth salvation who faith unto Zion Thy God reigneth Isa 52. 7. As the rain cometh c. so shall my word be which goeth out of my mouth it shall not return unto me void but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it Isa 55. 10 11. To this man will I look to him who is poor c. And trembleth at my word c. Hear the word of the Lord ye who tremble at his word c. he shall c. Isa 66. 2 5. Behold the word of the Lord is to them a reproach they have no delight in it Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord c. Jer. 6. 10 11. The wise men are ashamed c. Lo they have rejected the word of the Lord and what wisdom is in them Jer. 8. 9. Luke 7. 30 The prophet who hath a dream let him tell a dream and he who hath my word let him speak my word faithfully What is the chaff to the wheat faith the Lord Is not my word like as fire saith the Lord and like a hammer which breaketh the rock in pieces Jer. 23. 28 29. I will shew thee that which is noted in the scriptures of truth Dan. 10. 21. Because Ephraim hath made many altars c. I have written unto him the great things of my law but they were counted as a strange thing Hos 8. 11 12. Psal 119. 129. Behold c. I will send a famine c. not of bread c. but of hearing the word of the Lord and they shall wander from sea to sea c. to seek the word oâ— the Lord and shall not find Amos. 8. 11. 12. Do not my words do good to him who walketh uprightly Micah 2. 7. Christ when the Devil tempted him said to him It is written Man lives not by bread alone c. It is written again Thou shalt c. Matt. 4. 4 7 10. Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doth them I will liken him to a wise man who buildeth his house upon a rock c. Matt. 7. 24 25. When the Pharisees contended Christ said unto them Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungry c. Or have ye not read in the law how that on the Sabbath-day c. Matt. 12. 2 3 4 5. ch 21. 16. Have ye not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female c. What God hath joyned together let no man c. Matt. 19. 4 5 6. And he said It is written My house shall be called a house of prayer but ye have made it a den c. Did ye never read in the scriptures That the stone which the builders refused the same is become the head of the corner Matt. 21. 13 16 42. Luk. 20. 17. Have not you read that which was spoken unto you by God saying I am c. Matt. 22. 31 32. Luk. 20. 37 38. All ye shall be offended c. For it is written I will unite the shepherd and the stock shall be scatterd abroad c. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray c. But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be c. But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled Matt. 26. 31
him the plagues which are written in this book And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life c. Rev. 22. 18 19. Secret things belong to God revealed things to us and our children that we may do all the words of this law Deut. 29. 29. Pray for us that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified 2 Thes 3. 1. See that ye refuse not him who speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him who spake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him who speaketh from heaven Heb. 12. 25. The parable of the good seed sown in good and bad ground and the success thereof Matth. 13. 3 4 5 6 c. See Preaching of the Word Chap. 27. CHAP. II of GOD. I. His Names and Titles IN the beginning God created the heavens c. Gen. 1. 1. And the Lord God formed man c. Gen. 2. 7. ch 15. 7. ch 28. 13. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord Gen. 4. 26. And he was the Priest of the Most High God c. Gen. 14. 18 19 20. The Lord appeared unto Abraham and said I am the Almighty God c. Gen. 17. 1. ch 28. 3. Rev. 21. 22. The name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 21. 33. The Lord the God of heaven and the God of the earth Gen. 24. 3 7. And God said unto Moses I am that I am c. Thus shall you say c. I am hath sent me unto you c. The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath sent me c. This is my name for ever and this is my memorial unto all generations c. The Lord God of the Hebrews c. Exod. 3. 6 14 15. ch 9. 1 13. I appeared unto Abraham c. by the name of God Almighty but by my name Jehovah was not known unto them Exod. 6. 2 3. Isa 12. 2. chap. 26. 4. And the Lord c. proclaimed the name of the Lord c. The Lord God merciful and gracious c. The Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God c. Exod. 34. 5 6 14. ch 33. 19. The Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh Numb 27. 16. ch 16. 22. That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name The Lord thy God Deut. 28. 58. The Lord God of gods the Lord God of gods c. Josh 22. 22. To sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shilo c. 1 Sam. 1. 3 11. Jer. 46. 18. The Lord of hosts the God of the armies of Israel c. 1 Sam. 17. 45. Isa 28. 29. The God of Israel said the Rock of Israel spake to me c. 2 Sam. 23. 3. Extol him who rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah c. Psal 68. 4. That men may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah the Most High over all the earth c. Psal 83. 18. Let them praise thy great and terrible name Holy Psal 99. 3. Holy and Reverend is his name Psal 111. 9. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel Isa 1. 4. Ezek. 39. 7. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give unto another Isa 42. 8. Jer. 16. 21. As for our Redeemer the Lord of hosts is his name the Holy One of Israel Isa 47. 4. ch 54. 5. Jer. 32. 18. O the Hope of Israel the Saviour thereof c. Jer. 14. 8. I will sanctifie my great name c. And the Heathen shall know that I am the Lord Ezek. 36. 23. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel and the Heathen shall know that I am the Lord the Holy One of Israel Ezek. 39. 7. The Lord the God of hosts is his name Amos 4. 13. ch 5. 27. The Lord hath sworn by the Excellency of Jacob Amos 8. 7. Now the God of patience and consolation grant c. Rom. 15. 5. 33. Now the God of peace be with you all c. 1 Thes 5. 2 3. God is not the Author of confusion but of peace 1 Cor. 14. 33. Heb. 13. 20. God is Light and in him is no darkness 1 Joh. 1. 5. Jam. 1. 17. God is Love 1 Joh. 4. 8 16. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent c. Rev. 22. 6. II. He is a Spirit GOD is a Spirit Joh. 4. 24. III. His Excellency Majesty Greatness Perfection Glory and Sovereignty and Absoluteness HE created the world and all things in it Gen. 1. ch 2. Psal 100. 3. Psal 104. Psal 136. 5 6 c. Prov. 22. 2. And the fear of you c. shall be upon every beast c. Into your hands are they delivered c. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you c. I have given you all things c. Neither shall there be any more a flood to destroy the earth Gen. 9. 2 3 11. When men endeavoured to prevent their being scattered God scattered them by confounding their language Gen. 11. 4 5 c. And the Lord said to Abraham c. Lift up thine eyes c. For all the land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever c. Gen. 13. 14 15 16 17. Exod. 9. 29. Psal 24. 1. 1 Cor. 10 26 28. The Priest of the most high God c. The most high God Possessor of heaven and earth Gen. 14. 18 19 20 22. Psal 9. 2. Josh 3. 11. Who hath made man's mouth or who hath made the dumb or deaf or the seeing c. Have not I the Lord Exod. 4. 11. I am the Lord and I will bring you out from under the burthens of the Egyptians and I will rid you of their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgment c. Exod. 6. 6 7. That thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God c. I will sever c. To the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth Exod. 8. 10 22. ch 9. 14 16. ch 10. 2. Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious in power c. hath dashed in pieces the enemy and in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown c. With the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered c. Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods c. Glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders c. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever Exod. 15. 6 7 8 11 15 16 17 18. Psal 146. 10. Rev. 19. 6. I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing they dealt proudly he was above them Exod. 18. 11. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke because the Lord descended c. And the whole mount
they dry up c. he leadeth counsellors away spoiled and maketh the judges fools he looseth the bonds of kings c. he leadeth princes away spoiled and overthroweth the mighty c. Job 12. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 c. Shall not his excellency make you afraid and his dread fall upon you Job 13. 11. Jer. 5. 22. Job 23. 15. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those who are high Job 21. 22. He stretcheth out the north over the empty places and hangeth the earth upon nothing he bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds c. he hath compassed the waters with bounds until the day and night come to an end the pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof He divideth the sea c. By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens c. Lo these are parts of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him But the thunder of his power who can understand Job 26. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Psal 19. 1 2 3 4 c. Jer. 5. 22. Psal 74. 12 13 14 c. Psal 77. 17 18. Psal 104. 2 3 4 c. Destruction from God was a terrour to me and by reason of his highness I could not endure Job 31. 23. Isa 13. 3. ch 28. toto God is greater than man Why dost thou strive against him For he giveth not account of any of his matters Job 33. 12 13. ch 49. 19. Jer. 49. 19. Job 21. 22. When he gives quietness who can give trouble And when he hideth who can behold him Job 34. 29. He thundereth with the voice of his excellency c. God thundereth marvellously with his voice great things doth he which we cannot comprehend For he faith to the snow Be thou on the earth Likewise to the small rain c. He sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may know his works c. With God is terrible majesty c. Job 37. 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. 22 23. The Lord said unto Job c. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth c. Who hath laid the measures thereof c. Job 38. toto Psal 104. 2 3 4 5 c. Who is able to stand before me Who hath prevented me that I should repay Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine Job 41. 10 11. Jer. 49. 19. Psal 50. 9 10 11 12. The kings of the earth set themselves c. He that fitteth in heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision Then shall he speak unto him in his wrath c. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill Sion Psal 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the earth Who hast set thy glory above the heavens Psal 8. 1 9. The Lord is in his holy temple the Lord's throne is in heaven Psal 11. 4. The heavens declare the glory of God the firmament sheweth his handy-work Psal 19. 1 2. The kingdom is the Lord's and he is the Governor among the nations Psal 22. 28. Psal 47. 2 7. Who is the King of Glory The Lord of hosts he is the King of Glory Psal 24. 10. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters The God of glory thundereth the Lord is upon many waters The voice of the Lord is powerful â—x power the voice of the Lord is full of majesty The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars c. The Lord sitteth upon the floods yea the Lord sitteth King for ever Psal 29. 3 4 5 6 7 8 10. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made c. He spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations Psal 33. 6 7 8 9 10 11. Isa 14. 27. Psal 104. 2 3 4 c. Zech. 12. 1. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised Psal 48. 1. Psal 50. 1. Verily he is a God who judgeth in the earth Psal 58. 11. Let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth Selah Psal 59. 13. Isa 60. 16. Psal 47. 2 7. Psal 66. 7. He visiteth the earth and watereth it c. enricheth it c. Thou preparest them com c. Psal 65. 9 10. 11. He that is our God is the God of salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death c. To him who rideth upon the heaven of heavens c. His excellency is over Israel and his strength in the heavens O God thou art terrible out of thy holy places c. Psal 68. 20 33 34 35. Promotion cometh not from the east c. but God the Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another Psal 75. 6 7. In Judah is God known his name great in Israel c. Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey c. At thy rebuke O God of Jacob the chariot and horses are cast into a deep sleep Thou thou art to be scared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry c. He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the kings of the earth c. Psal 76. 1 4 6 7 12. Nahum 1. 5 6. Who is so great a God as our God Thou the God that doest wonders c. The waters saw thee O God c. they were afraid the depths also were troubled c. Psal 77. 13 14 16. Job 9. 10. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods Psal 82. 1. That men may know that thou whose Name alone is Jehovah art the Most High over all the earth Psal 83. 18. Psal 91. 1. Among the gods none like unto thee O Lord neither is there any works like unto thy works All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee c. for thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone Psal 86. 8 9 10. Psal 87. 5. Psal 111. 2 3 4 6 7. Who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord God is greatly to be feared c. Who is a strong lord like unto thee c. Psal 89. 6 7 8 9 11. Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men c. Psal 90. 2 3. Job 9. 13. The Lord reigneth he is cloathed with majesty c. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters yea than the mighty waves of the sea Psal 93. 1 4. Psal 97. 1. Psal 99. 1. Psal 104. 1 2 3 4 c. The Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods in his hands are the deep places of the earth c. Psal 95.
his voice at any time nor seen his shape John 5. 37. Not that any man hath seen the Father save he which is of God he hath seen the Father c. John 6. 46. The invisible things of him even his eternal Power and Godhead Rom. 1. 20. Who is the Image of the Invisible God Col. 1. 15. Who c. dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see 1 Tim. 6. 16. Now to the King eternal immortal invisible c. 1 Tim. 1. 17. V. Incorruptible WHO changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image c. Rom. 1. 23. To the King c. immortal c. 1 Tim. 1. 17. ch 6. 16. VI. He is the most Strong Almighty and Omnipotent God a Rock THE Lord appeared to Abraham and said c. I am the Almighty God c. Gen. 17. 1. ch 28. 3. ch 35. 11. And the Lord said c. Is any thing too hard for the Lord Gen. 18. 13 14. Jer. 32. 27. His hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob c. By the Almighty c. Gen. 49 24 25. I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm Exod. 6. 6. Jer. 30. 54. The Lord is a Man of War c. Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious c. Exod. 15. 3 6. He who saw the vision of the Almighty c. Numb 24. 4 16. Thou hast shewed thy servant c. thy mighty hand For what god is there c. who can do according to thy works and according to thy might Deut. 3. 24. Thou shalt not fear c. for the Lord thy God is among you a mighty God Deut. 7. 21. The Lord thy God c. he is a consuming fire Deut. 9. 3. Jehovah c. is the God of gods c. the most strong the greatest and the most powerful c. Deut. 10. 17. He is the Rock his work is perfect c. Jesurun c. forsook God c. and lightly esteemed of the Rock of his salvation c. Of the Rock who begat thee thou art unmindful c. Their rock is not as our Rock the enemies themselves being judges c. neither is there any who can deliver out of my hand Deut. 32. 4 15 18 31 39. 1 Sam. 2. 2. 2 Sam. 22. 3. 32. Psal 3. 3. That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty that ye may fear c. Josh 4. 24. ch 5. 14. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me c. And the Almighty hath afflicted me Ruth 1. 20 21. John 8. 3. There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few 1 Sam. 14. 6. The Strength of Israel will not lie c. 1 Sam. 15. 29. Behold God is mighty c. mighty in strength c. Job 36. 5. Isa 28. 2. Shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct c. Hast thou an arm like God or canst thou thunder c. Job 40. 2. 9. ch 9. 13. I know that thou canst do every thing and that no thought can be with-holden Job 42. 2. Luke 1. 37. Matt. 19. 26. Who is a strong Lord like unto thee c. Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thine hand high is thy right hand Psal 89. 8 9 13. Isa 63. 1. Psal 24. 8. Rev. 18. 8. The Lord is cloathed with strength Psal 93. 1. They shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee for I am with thee saith the Lord Jer. 1. 19. James 4. 12. The everlasting God never faints neither is weary c. He giveth power to the faint c. Isa 40. 28 29. The Lord is c. a strong-hold in the day of trouble Nahum 1. 7. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty Zephan 3. 17. 2 Cor. 6. 18. Isa 50. 2. ch 59. 1. With God all things are 〈◊〉 Mark 10. 27. Luke 1. 37. Do we provoke the Lord c. are we stronger than he 1 Cor. 10. 22. To him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us Ephes 3. 20. Rom. â—4 4. Strengthened c. according to his glorious power c. Col. 1. 11. Ephes 1. 19 20 c. Our God is a consuming 〈◊〉 Hâ—b 12. 29. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God c. 1 Pet. 5. 6. Lord God Almighty Rev. 4. 8. ch 11. 17. ch 15. 3. ch 21. 22. The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth Rev. 19. 6. VII He is Omniscient Omnipresent Immense THou Lord seest me for she said Have I here looked after him that seeth me Gen. 16. 13. The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed 1 Sam. 2. 3. Job 37. 16. ch 21. 22. The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart 1 Sam. 16. 7. Luke 16. 15. Thou thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men 1 Kings 8. 39. The Lord searcheth all hearts and understandall the imaginations of the thoughts If thou seek him he c. 1 Chron. 28. 9. Deut. 31. 21. Psal 147. 5. Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee c. 2 Chron. 6. 18. Jer. 23. 24. Hell is naked before him and destruction hath no covering Job 26. 6. God understandeth the way thereof and he knoweth the place thereof for he looketh to the ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven Job 28. 10 23 24. Isa 40. 28. His eyes are upon the ways of man and he seeth all his goings c. No darkness where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves Job 34. 21 22. Psal 11. 4 5. Job 31. 4. The righteous God trieth the hearts and reins Psal 7. 9. Jer. 11. 20. The Lord looketh from heaven and beholdeth all the sons of men c. Psal 33. 13 14 15. Heaven is thy throne earth is thy foot-stool Psal Understand ye brutish c. He that planteth the ear shall he not hear He that formeth the eye shall he not see c. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity Psal 94. 8 9 11. 1 Cor. 3. 20. Thou c. understandest my thoughts afar off thou c. art acquainted with all my ways For not a word in my tongue but loe O Lord thou knowest it altogether c. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me c. Whither shall I go from thy spirit or whither shall I flee from thy presence If I ascend up into heaven thou art there c. Psal 139. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. Prov. 5. 21. Jer. 23. 23 24. Job 9. 11. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the good and the bad c. Hell and destruction are before the Lord how much more then the hearts of the children of men
Prov. 15. 3 11. 2 Chron. 16. 9. Woe unto them who seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and say Who seeth us who knoweth us Shall the thing framed say of him that framed it He had no understanding Isa 29. 15 16. Mine eyes are upon all their ways they are not hid from my face neither is their iniquity hâ—d from mine eyes Jer. 16. 17. ch 32. 19 27. I the Lord search the heart I try the reins Jer. 17. 10. ch 20. 12. Psal 44. 21 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him c. Do not I fill heaven and earth Jer. 23. 23 24. I know the things which come into thy mind every one of them Ezek. 11. 5. Amos 4. 13. He revealeth the deep and secret things He knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with him Dan. 2. 22 28. Job 12. 22. Thy Father who seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly c. Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him Matt. 6. 4 6 8 18. Rom 8. 27. But of that day and hour knoweth no man c. but the Father Mark 13. 32. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Acts 15. 18. That should seek the Lord c. though he be not far from every one of us Acts 17. 27. O the depth of the riches c. of the knowledge of God c. Rom. 11. 33 34. Pleasing c. God who trieth our hearts c. 1 Thes 2. 4. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight But all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 12 13. This is the message That God is light and that in him is no darkness 1 John 1. 5. VIII He is most Wise HE is wise in heart and mighty in strength c. Job 9. 4. ch 12. 13. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth them who are high Job 21. 22 23. The Lord of hosts wonderful in counsel Isa 28. 29. The Lord is a God of judgment Isa 30. 18. He hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion Jer. 10. 12. ch 51. 15. Prov. 3. 19 20. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments c. Who hath been his counsellor c. Rom. 11. 33 34 35. To God only wise be glory c. Rom. 16. 27. 1 Tim. 1. 17. The foolishness of God is wiser than men 1 Cor. 1. 25. That by the Church might be made known c. the manifold wisdom of God c. Ephes 3. 10. To the only wise God our Saviour be glory c. Jude vers 25. IX He is most Holy WHO like thee O Lord c. glorious in holiness c. Exod. 15. 11. 〈◊〉 Lord thy God 〈◊〉 a jealous God visiting the iniquiry c. Exod. 20. 5. 〈◊〉 1. 2. Ye shall be holy for I am holy c. Levit. 11. 44. 45. ch 19. 2. ch 20. 26. I the Lord who sanctifieth you am holy Lev. 21. 8. For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you Deut. 6. 15. The Lord for he is an holy God he is a jealous God he will not forgive c. Josh 24. 19. There is none holy as the Lord for there is none besides 1 Sam. 2. 2. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God 1 Sam. 6. 20. Josh 5. 14 15. Shall mortal man c. be more pure than his Maker Job 4. 17. ch 15. 15 16. The Holy One of Israel is our King Psal 89. 18. Psal 99. 9. The knowledge of the holy is understanding Prov. 9. 10. Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts Isa 6. 3. Behold from the habitations of thy holiness c. The people of thy holiness have possessed c. Isa 63. 15. 18. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel c. And the Heathen shall know that I am the Lord the Holy One in Israel Ezek. 39. 7. Isa 43. 14 15. The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness c. Amos 4. 2. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look at iniquity Habak 1. 13. God cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth he any man James 1. 13. Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is c. Rev. 4. 8. Who shall not fear thee O Lord c. for thou only art holy c. Rev. 15. 4. X. He is most Just SHall mortal man be more just than God Job 4. 17. A God of truth and without iniquity just and right is he Deut. 32. 4. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right c. Nâ—hem 9. 33. Jer. 12. 1. Lam. 1. 18 20. Surely God will not do wickedly neither will the Almighty pervert judgment c. Wilt thou condemn him who is most just Job 34. 10 12 17 23. Psal 9. 8. Job 8. 3. He is excellent c. and in plenty of justice Job 37. 23. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness c Psal 11. 7. Psal 33. 5. Psal 7. 9. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne Psal 89. 14. No God besides me a just God c. Isa 45. 21. I am the Lord who exercise c. judgment and righteousness in the earth c. Jer. 9. 24. Psal 145. 17. Psal 19. 9. The justice of God both towards the righteous and wicked argued at large Ezek 18. ch 33. 8 9 c. The Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doth Dan. 9. 14. The just Lord is in the midst thereof he will not do iniquity every morning he doth bring his judgment to light Zeph. 3. 5. Hos 14. 9. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed c. Heb. 6. 10. Ezek. 33. 11 12 c. to 17. Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways c. Rev. 15. 3. XI He is Compassionate Pitiful and Merciful THE men laid hold upon his hand c. the Lord being merciful to him Gen. 19. 16. The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious c. keeping mercy for thousands c. Exod. 34. 6 7. The Lord is c. of great mercy Numb 14. 18. Psal 108. 4. The Lord thy God is a merciful God he will not forsake thâ—e neither destroy thee c. Deut. 4. 31. O give thanks unto the Lord c. for his mercy endures for ever 1 Chron. 16. 34. 2 Chron. 20. 21. Psal 118. 1 2 3 4. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if ye return c. 2 Chron. 30. 9. Psal 116. 5. Thou a God c. merciful slow to anger c. For thy great mercy sake thou didst not consume them
He is Unchangeable I Am the Lord I change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed c. Mal. 3. 6. God willing c. to shew the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye c. Heb. 6. 17 18. The Father of lights with whom is no variableness or shadow of turning James 1. 17. XVI He is Infinite and Unsearchable UNto God would I commit my cause who doth great things and unsearchable c. Job 5. 9. ch 37. 5 23. Who doth great things past finding out c. Loe he goeth by me and I see him not he passeth on also but I perceive him not Job 9. 10 11. ch 33. 12 13. Canst thou by searching find out God canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection Job 11. 7. By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens c. Loe these are part of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him Job 26. 14. Behold God is great and we know him not neither can the number of his years be searched out Job 36. 26. Great things doth he which we cannot apprehend c. Touching the Almighty we cannot find him out he is excellent in power c. Job 37 5 23. Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters and thy foot-steps are not known Psal 77. 19. O Lord how great are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep Psal 92. 5. Great is the Lord c. and his greatness is unsearchable Psal 145. 3. Great is our Lord c. his understanding is unsearchable Psal 147. 5. Who hath ascended up into heaven c. what his name or what his Son's name if thou canâ—t tell Prov. 30. 4. As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb c. even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all Eccles 11. 5. Hast thou not known hast thou not heard the everlasting God c. There is no searching of his understanding Isa 40. 48. Neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Matth. 11. 27. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counsellor c. Rom. 11. 33 34 35. XVII He is Eternal AND Abraham c. called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 22. 23. The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms Deut. 33. 27. And also the Strength or Eternity of Israel will not lye 1 Sam. 15. 29. The Lord shall endure for ever c. Psal 9. 7. Psal 104. 31. Before the mountains were brought forth c. even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God c. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night Psal 90. 2 4. 2 Pet. 3. 8. Thou Lord art high for evermore Psal 92. 8. The Lord reigneth c. Thy throne is established of old thou art from everlasting Psal 93. 1 2. Psal 146. 10. Thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations c. They shall perish but thou shalt endure c. Thou art the same and thy years shall have no end Psal 102. 12 26 27. Lam. 5. 19. Thy name O Lord endureth for ever and thy memorial throughout all generations Psal 135. 13. Isa 63. 16. Hast thou not known c. that the everlasting God the Lord c. Isa 40. 28. Yea before the day was I am he c. Isa 43. 13. Thus saith the Lord c. I the first and I the last and besides me there is no God Isa 44. 6 7. ch 48. 12. ch 41. 4. Thus saith the high and lofty One who inhabiteth eternity c. Isa 57. 15. The Lord the true God he is c. an everlasting King Jer. 10. 10. Dan. 4. 3 34. Thou Lord remainest for ever thy throne from generation to generation Lam. 5. 19. For the invisible things of him c. even his eternal power and Godhead Rom. 1. 20. Now is made manifest c. according to the commandment of the everlasting God Rom. 16. 26. Christ c. who through the eternal Spirit offered himself c. Heb. 9. 14. Now unto the King eternal c. the only wise God c. 1 Tim. 1. 17. I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending faith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty c. Rev. 1. 8 11 17. ch 11. 17. ch 2. 8. ch 22. 13. Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come Rev. 4. 8. Worshipped him who liveth for ever and ever Rev. 5. 14. ch 15. 7. XVIII He only is the True and Living God UNto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God there is none else besides him c. Know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else Deut. 4. 35 39. ch 7. 9. 1 Sam. 2. 2. The Lord our God is one Lord Deut. 6. 4. Mark 12. 29 32. 1 Corin. 8. 4 5 6. Galat. 3. 20. Mal. 2. 10. See now that I I am he and there is no God with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal c. Deut. 32. 39. Isa 43. 10 11 12. And Joshua said Hereby shall ye know that the living God is among you and that he will c Josh 3. 10. Ruth 3. 13. 1 Sam. 20. 3. 2 Sam. 22. 47 1 Kings 17. 1. Job 27. 2. Deut. 32. 40. Who is God save the Lord And who is a rock save our God 3 Sam. 22. 32. Psal 18. 31. Exod. 9. 14. 1 Sam. 2. 2. O Lord God of Israel c. thou art the God thou alone of all c. 2 Kings 19. 15 19. Nehem 9. 6. Psal 86. 10. Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God 2 Caron 15. 3. My heart and flesh crieth out for the living God Psal 84. 2. Jer. 44. 26. From everlasting to everlasting thou art God Psal 98. 2. Know ye that the Lord he is God he hath made us and his we are c. Psal 100. 3. 1 Kings 8. 60. ch 18. 39. 2 Kings 5. 15. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven images Isa 42. 8. Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel c. I am the first and I the last and besides me there is no God c. Have not I told you from that time and have declared ye are my witnesses Is there a God besides me Yea no God
c. The judgment was by one to condemnation c. For if by one mans offence or one offence death reigned by one man c. by one mans disobedience many were made sinners Rom. 5. 12 15 16 17 18 19. I fear c. as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility so your minds should be corrupted c. 2 Cor. 11. 3. CHAP. V. Of Man's State by Nature since Sin entred I. Corrupt unclean and desperately wicked ADam ready to excuse his Sin laying it upon Eve and Eve laid it upon the Serpent Gen. 3. 12 13. Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell because God had not respect unto his offering as unto Abels and he rose up against his brother and â—lew him Gen. 4. 8 9. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart or the whole imagination purposes and desires was only evil continually c. The earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence c. for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth c. Gen. 6. 5 11 12. The imaginations of man's heart are evil from his youth Gen. 8. 21. ch 11. 4. The wickedness of Sodom at the time when God came to destroy it Gen. 19. Esau sold his Birthright for a mess of pottage Gen. 25. 30 31 32 33. Esau hated his brother because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him and Esau said in his heart c. then will I slay my brother Jacob Gen. 27. 41. Joseph his brethren hated him could not speak peaceably to him envied him they conspired against him to slay him and to cover it with a lye Gen. 37. 4 18 19 20 23 24. And Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go Exod. 5. 2. After all the wonders Moses wrought and the judgments against Aegypt his heart was still hardened against God and would not yield and the Magicians accounted that to be the â—inger of God Exod. 7. ch 8. ch 9. ch 10. Ahab hardened 〈◊〉 Kings 22. Saul excuseth his disobedience upon pretence that the people preserved the Cattle for Sacrifice I Sam. 15. 15 19 21. Absalom had a Tent spread upon the top of the House and went in unto his Father's Concubines in the sight of all Israel 2 Sam. 16. 22. Ahab had sold himself to work evil in the sight of the Lord c. None like to Ahab who did fell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord 1 Kings 21. 25 26. Psal 141. 4 9. 1 Kings 22. Ahaziah being sick sent to an Idol to enquire and after sent a Captain with his fifty to take the Propher whom God destroyed with fire yet he sent again and again 2 Kings 1. 2 9 10 11 12 13. The King of Israel said c. This evil is of the Lord what shall I wait for the Lord any longer Hazael when the Prophet had told him how wicked he should be said Is thy servant a Dog c. 2 Kings 8. 11 12 13. Rabshaketh said What confidence is this wherein thou trustest c. Let not Hezekiah deceive you c. neither make you trust in the Lord c. Have any of the gods of the Nations delivered at all his land c. Who c. hath delivered c. that the Lord should deliver out of my hand c. 2 Kings 18. 30 32 33 35. Isa 36. ch 37. The words of Sennacherib who hath sent him to reproach the living God c. Whom thou hast reproached and blasphemed and against whom thou hast exalted thy voice c. Against the holy One of Israel by thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord c. 2 Kings 19. 16 22 23. 2 Chron. 32. 9. 10 c. King Ahaz did wickedly and in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. This that King Ahaz 2 Chron. 28. 19 22. Israel laughed to scorn and mocked the Messengers of Hezekiah who exhorted them to repent 2 Chron. 30. 6 7 c. The chief Priests and the People transgressed very much after all the abominations of the Heathen c. And the Lord c. sent to them his Messengers c. but they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose c. till there was no remedy 2 Chron. 36. 14 15 16. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean thing Not one Job 14. 4. What is man that he should be clean or he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous c. Yea the Heavens are unclean in his sight how much more abominable and filthy is man who drinketh in iniquity like water Job 15. 14 15 16. ch 25. 4. The wicked say c. Depart from us for we delight not in the knowledge of this ways What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what can he do c. Job 21 14 15. ch 22. 17. ch 34. 9. The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us Psal 2. 2 3. Matth. 2. 16. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek God God is not in all his thoughts c. his mouth is full of curâ—ing and deceit and fraud c. He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see c. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God c. Psal 10. 4 7 11 13. Psal 50. 17 18 19 c. With our tongue will we prevail our lips are our own who is Lord over us Psal 12. 4. The fool hath said in his heart There is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none who doeth good c. They are all gone aside they are together become filthy or stinking there is none who doth good no not one Psal 14. 1 2 3. Psal 53. 1 2 3. Eccl. 9. 3. He deviseth mischief on his bed he setteth himself in a way not good Psal 36. 4. Prov. 4. 16. I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Psal 51 5. The wicked estranged from the womb they go astray as soon as they are born speaking lyes c. Psal 58. 3 4 5. Pride compasseth them about as a chain violence covereth them as a garment c. They are corrupt and speak wickedly c. they set their mouth against the Heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth c. They say How doth God know and is there knowledge in the most high Psal 73. 6 8 9 11. Psal 94. 4 7. Job 24. 14 15. The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them c. For all this
shouldst magnifie him and that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him Job 7. 17. Psal 8. 4. Psal 144. 3. Heb. 2. 6. None can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him for the redemption of their soul is precious c. that he should live for ever Psal 49. 7 8. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousand rivers of oil Shall I give my first-born for my transgression the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul c. Micha 6. 6 7. Heb. 10. 5 6. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver or gold c. 1 Pet. 1. 18. He saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor therefore his arm brought salvation to him c. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion c. Isa 59. 16 20. The year of my redeemed is come And I looked and there was none to help therefore mine own arm brought salvation to me c. Isa 63. 4 5. Psal 98. 1 2 3. then thou spakest in a vision to thy Holy One and saidst I have laid help upon one who is mighty I have exalted one chosen amongst the people c. Psal 89. 19. Thus saith the Lord Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a Stone a tried Stone a precious Corner-stone a sure Foundation c. Isa 28. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 6. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together c. Isa 40. 5. Luke 3. 4 5 6. Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soul delighteth I have put my spirit upon him he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles c. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness c. and give thee for a covenant of the people for a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners c. Isa 42. 1 4 5 6 7. ch 49. 8. I have raised him up c. he shall let go my captives not for price or reward saith the Lord Isa 45. 13 22. I will bring near my righteousness it shall not be far off and my salvation shall not tarry and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel Isa 46. 13. It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the reserved of Israel I will also give thee for a Light unto the Gentiles that thou mayest be my Salvation to the ends of the earth c. that thou mayest say to the prisoners Go forth c. Isa 49. 6 9. Acts 13. 46 47. Isa 54. 1 2. To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground c. Isa 53. 1 2. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good-tidings to the meek he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted to proclaim liberty to the Captives and the opening of the prison to them who are bound to proclaim the acceptable year c. to comfort them who mourn c. Isa 61. 1 2 3. Saith the Lord I will raise unto David a righteous Branch c. In his days shall Judah be saved and Israel shall dwell safely And this his name whereby he shall be called The Lord our Righteousness c. Jer. 23. 5 6. Acts 13. 23. Bethlehem c. Out of thee shall he come forth unto me to be Ruler in Israel whose goings c. Micah 5. 2. Behold I will bring forth my servant the branch Zechar. 3. 8. Behold I will send my messenger c. And the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple even the Messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in Behold he shall come saith the Lord of Hosts c. Then shall the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the Lord Mal. 3. 1 4. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raised up an Horn of Salvation for us in the house of his servant David as he spake by the mouth of the holy prophets c. that we should be saved from our enemies c. To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant c. To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins through the tender mercy of our God whereby the day-spring or sun-rising or branch from on high visited us to give light c. Luke 1. 68 69 70 71 72 77 78 79. Mine eyes have seen thy Salvation which thou hast prepared before all people a Light to the Gentiles c. Luke 2. 30 31. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believed should not perish c. that the world through him might be saved John 3. 16 17. If thou hadst known the gift of God and who iâ— is that saith unto thee c. John 4. 10. I came from heaven to do the will of him who sent me And this is the Father's will who sent me That of all he hath given me I should lose nothing c. That every one who seethâ— he Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life John 6. 38 39 40. Heb. 10. 7. Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God ye have taken c. Acts 2. 23. Against the holy Child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate c. were gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Acts 4. 27 28. Him hath God exalted with his right hand a Prince and a Saviour Acts 5. 31. God commended his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us c. The grace of God and the gift by grace c. Rom. 5. 1 15 16. Titus 3. 4 5. Heb. 2. 9. What the law could not do c. God sending his own Son c. spared not his own son but delivered him up for us Rom. 8. 3. 32. All things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus 2 Cor. 5. 18. Jesus who gave himself c. according to the will of God and our Father Gal. 1. 4. God sent forth his Son made of a woman and under the law to redeem them who are under the law c. Gal. 4. 4 5. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Je 〈◊〉 c. who hath blessed us c. in Christ and 〈◊〉 us adopted us c. Ephes 1. 3 4 5 c. 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sins hath quicâ—â—ned us c. that in ages to come â—e might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness towards us through Jesus Christ for by grace are ye saved Ephes
2. 4 5 6 7 8 ch 3. 9 10. Titus 3. 4 5. 6. God c. who hath saved us c. by grace which he hath given us in Christ c. 2 Tim. 1. 8 9 10. What is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visitest him Heb. 2. 6. Psal 8. 4. 〈◊〉 this was manifest the love of God towards us 〈…〉 that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him Hereâ—n is love 〈◊〉 that we loved God but that he 〈…〉 and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins c. And we have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son the Saviour c. 1 John 4. 9 10 14 19. ch 3. 1. And this is the record that God hath given us eternal life and this life is in his Son 1 John 5. 11. God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an Oath that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us Heb. 6. 17 18. Who is he in and by whom this Salvation is conveyed and wrought John 1. 17. Ephes 3. 8. It is Jesus Christ THE Law was given by Moses but grace and truth by Jesus Christ c. John 1. 17. Of which salvation the prophets have enquired c. the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow 1 Pet. 1. 10. 11. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel Geâ— 3. 15. The Lord said unto Abram c. And in thee shall all the families in the earth be blessed Gen. 12. 3. Abraham shall c. And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him Gen. 18. 18. The Lord said to Isaac c. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Gen. 26. 4. The Lord said to Jacob c. And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed Gen. 26. 14. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a law-giver from between his feet until Shiloe come and unto him shall the gathering of the nations be binding his foal to the vine and his Ass's colt c. Gen. 49. 10 11. I know my Redeemer lives c. Job 19. 25. He keepeth all his bones not one of them is broken Psal 34. 20. John 19. 33 34 36 37. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire c. Then said I Loe I come c. Psal 40. 6 7 8. Heb. 10. 5 6 7. Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted c. hath lift up his heel against me Psal 41. 9. Matth. 26. 14 15 47 c. Psal 55. 12 13 14. Thou hast ascended on high led captivity captive received gifts for men c. Psal 68. 18. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the Son of man whom thou madest strong for thy self Psalm 80. 17. The Stone which the builders refused is become the Head of the corner Psalm 118. 22. Acts 4. 10 11 12. Isa 28. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 6. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works were old I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth was c. then I was by him one brought up and I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him rejoycing in the habitable parts of his earth and my delight with the sons of men Prov. 8. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light They who dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined c. For unto us a Child is born unto us a Son is given c. Isa 9. 2 3 6. Matt. 4. 15 16. There shall be a root of Jesse who shall stand for an Ensign of the people to it shall the Gentiles c. Isa 11. 1 2 10. Isa 60. 1 2 3 c. Behold a King shall reign c. a man shall be a hiding-place from the wind c. Isa 32. 1 2 3. O Zion who bringeth good tidings c Behold the Lord shall come c. His arm shall rule for him his reward is with him he shall feed his flock like c. Isa 40. 10. Behold my servant whom I uphold c. he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles he shall not cry nor lift up c. I will give thee for a Covenant to the people for a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners Isa 42. 1 2 6 7. ch 49. 6 8 9. Acts 13. 47. Matth. 12. 18 19. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season c. I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks c. Isa 50. 46. Matth. 26. 67. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings c. to bind up the broken heart to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison unto them who are bound c. Isa 61. 1 2 3 c. Luke 4. 17 18 19 20 21. Isa 45. 13. Who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments c. Mighty to save Why art thou red in apparel and thy garment like him who treadeth c. Isa 63. 1 2 3. I will raise unto David a righteous branch c. and in his days Judah shall be saved c. He shall be called the Lord our Righteousness Jer. 23. 5 6. John 1. 45. I called my Son out of Egypt c. Thou Bethâ—â—hem c. Out of thee shall he come Hos 11. 1. Micah 5. 2. Matth. 2. 6 15. I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come c. Haggai 2. 7. Behold the man whose name is the Branch and he shall grow up out of his place and he shall build the temple of the Lord c. Zech. 6. 12 13. Behold thy King cometh he is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the sole of an ass c. Zech. 9. 9. Matt. 21. 5 7 8. They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver c. Zech. 11. 12 13. Matth. 26. 15. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and she shall bring forth a Son and thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins Matth. 1. 21. ch 1â— 11. The Star directed the Wise Men unto Jesus Matth. 2. 9 10 11. The Spirit of God like a Dove lighted upon Jesus and loe a voice from heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Matth. 3. 16 17. John
The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool c. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies Psalm 110. 1 2 5 6. Isa 11. 4. The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner Psalm 118. 22. Acts 4. 11 12. Matth. 21. 42. Wisdom is better than rubies and all the things which may be desired are not to be compared unto it c. Counsel is mine and sound wisdom I Understanding I Strength by me kings reign and princes decree justice By me princes rule and nobles yea all the judges of the earth c. Riches and honour are with me yea durable riches and righteousness My fruit better than gold c. I may cause those who love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures c. the Lord possessed me in the beginning c. when he appointed the foundation or the earth then was I by him c. His delight whoso findeth me findeth life c. Prov. 8. 11 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 35. Thy name is as ointment poured out c. Cant. 1. 3. The beauty of his person described by the parts thereof and said in the close to be altogether lovely Cant. 4. 10 11 12 13 14 1â— 16. Rev. 1. 14 14 15. A Virgin shall c. bear a son and shall call his name Emanuel God with us c. Isa 7. 14. Matth. 1. 23. Unto us a child is born c. his name shall be called Wonderful Counseller the mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace of the increase of his government and peace no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it Isa 9. 6 7. There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of 〈◊〉 and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding the Spirit of Counsel and Might c. Isa 11. 1 2. And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his Shoulder So he shall open and none shall shut and he shall shut and none shall open Isa 22. 22. Rev. 3. 7. I lay in Zion c. a stone a tried stone a precious corner-stone a sure foundation Isa 28 16. Him whom man despiseth c. kings shall see and arise Princes also shall worship c. Isa 49. 7. ch 60. 3 10 12. Behold my servant shall prosper or deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high c. the kings shall shut their mouths at him Isa 52. 13 15. Behold I have given him c. a leader and commander to the people Isa 55. 4. I will overturn overturn c. until he come whose right it is and I will give it him Ezek. 21. 27. I will raise up for them a plant of renown c. Ezek. 34. 29. And my servant David their Prince for ever Ezek. 37. 25. From the going forth of the commandment c. unto the Meâ—iah the Prince c. Dan. 9. 25. They shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon his cheek c. Beth-lehem ephratah c. Out of thee shall come forth unto me to be ruler in Israel whose goings forth have been from of old or the days of eternity Micah 5. 1 2. The Deure of all nations shall come Haggai 2. 7. He shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne c. Zech. 6. 13. Rejoice greatly c. behold thy King cometh unto thee c. Zech. 9. 9. Awake O Sword c. against the man my fellow Zech. 13. 7. Psalm 80. 17. And the Lord shall be King over all the earth Zech. 14. 9. Who may abide the day of his coming and who may 〈◊〉 when he appeareth For he is like a refiners 〈◊〉 c. Malachi 3. 1 2 3. Mary c. was found with child of the Holy Ghost c. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost c. his name shall be called Emanuel which is God with us c. Matth. 1. 18 20 23. Luke 1. 35. He taught as one having authority and not as the scribes Matth. 7. 29. Luke 4. 32. The devil cryed out saying c. Jesus thou Son of God c. Matth. 8. 29. Jesus knowing their thoughts c. that ye may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins Matth. 9. 4 6. All things are delivered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son but the Father Neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son and he to whom c. Matth. 11. 27. John 10. 15. Behold a greater than Jonas is here c. a greater than Solomon is here Matth. 12. 41 42. Mark 1. 7. The woman of Canaan came and worshipped him and said Lord help me Matth. 15. 25. ch 14. 33. ch 28. 9 17. Luke 24. 52. Why callest thou me good there is none good but one God Matth. 19. 17. The mother of Zebedee's children with her sons came to him and worshipped Matth. 20. 20. When Christ was riding c. the multitude cryed Hosanna to the Son of David blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest Matth. 21. 9. Jesus said All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth c. Matth. 28. 18. The unclean spirit said I know thee who thou art the holy one of God c. with authority commanded he even the unclean spiritt and they obey him c. He cast out many devils and suffered not the devils to speak because they knew him or to say that they knew him Mark 1. 24 27 34. ch 5. 7. Christ said to the man sick of the palsie Son thy sins are forgiven thee c. Who can forgive sins but God only c. The Son of man hath power c. to forgive sins Mark 2. 5 6 7 9 10. Luke 5. 20 21 22 23 24. Jesus he shall be great and shall be called the Son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdom there shall be no end c. The holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luke 1. 31 32 33 35. At twelve years old he fate in the midst of the Doctors in the Temple both hearing them and asking them questions And all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers Luke 2. 46 47. John 7. 46. Then opened he their understandings that they might understand the scriptures Luke 22. 45. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God c. All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made which was made c. He the true light who enlightneth every man coming into the world He was in the world and the world
The doctrine of God our Saviour c. Titus 2. 10 13. His Son whom he hath appointed Heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds who being the Brightness of his Glory and the express Image of his Person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins fate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high being made so much better than the Angels c. As he hath a more excellent name c. Unto which of the Angels said he at any time Thou art my Son c. He saith And let all the Angels of God worship him c. Thy God O God hath anointed thee c. Heb. 1. 2 3 4 5 6 c. ch 8. 1. ch 10. 12. ch 12. 2. Col. 3. 1. We see Jesus c. crowned with glory and honour c. Heb. 2. 9. Having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like unto the Son of God c. Such an High Priest became us holy c. and made higher than the heavens Heb. 7. 3 26. Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever Heb. 13. 8. Our glorious Lord Jesus Christ or our Lord Jesus Christ of Glory c. That worthy name by which we are called James 2. 1 7. The precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without spot or blemish 1 Pet. 1. 19. 1 John 2. 1. A living stone c. chosen of God and precious c. who did no sin 1 Pet. 2. 4 22. Jesus Christ who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him 1 Pet. 3. 22. The power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ were eye-witnesses of his majesty for 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 2 Pet. 1. 16 17. 1 Pet. 1. 21. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to him be glory both now and for ever 2 Pet. 3. 18. Jude vers 25. In him is no sin c. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he said down his life for us 1 John 3. 5 16. 1 Pet. 3. 18. His Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternal life 1 John 5. 20. Jesus Christ c. the Prince of the kings of the earth c. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending faith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty c. I am the first and the last I am he who liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the keys of hell and death Rev. 1. 5 6 8 11 17 18. ch 2. 8. I am he who searcheth the reins and hearts Rev. 2. 23. Those things saith he who hath the seven spirits of God c. who is holy c. who hath the key of David he who openeth and no man shutteth c. Rev. 3. 1 7. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah the Rock of David c. Thou art worthy to take the book and open it c. Worthy is the Lamb which was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing c. Blessing honour and glory and power be unto him who sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever c. The elders fell down and worshipped him who liveth for ever Rev. 5. 5 9 12 13 14. ch 15. 3 4. And the kings of the earth and the great men c. said to the mountains c. Hide us from the face of him who fitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 15 16 17. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign Rev. 11. 15. The Lamb shâll overcome them for he is the Lord of lords and King of kings Rev. 17. 14. ch 19. 16. I am the Root c. of David and the bright and Morning-star Rev. 22. 16. See more of the One God Father Son and Spirit or the Trinity Chap. 3. In his Nature HE shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arms and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those who are with young or give suck Isa 40. 11. He shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street A bruised râ—ed shall he not break smoaking or daily burning flax shall he not quench Isa 42. 2 3. Matth. 12. 18 19 20. I gave my back to the imiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Isa 50. 6. Matth. 26. 67. He was oppressed c. he opened not his mouth He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so opened he not his mouth c. He had done no violence neither was guile found in his mouth Isa 53. 7 9. Mal. 2. 6. Thy King cometh unto thee he is just c. lowly and riding upon an ass c. Zech. 9. 9. The Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings Mal. 4. 4. Jesus fate at meat c. Many Publicans and sinners came c. The Pharisees said Why eateth your Master with Publicans and sinners c. Jesus said unto them They who are whole need not a Physician but they that are sick But go and learn what that meant I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance c. When he saw the multitude he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted or were tired and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd c. He healed their sick c. would not send them away fasting c. Matth. 9. 10 11 12 13 36. ch 14. 14. ch 15. 33 32. ch 20. 34. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart Matth. 11. 29. When Peter was sinking and cried out Lord save me c. Immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto him c. Wherefore didst c. Matth. 14. 30 31. O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou who killest the prophets c. How often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chicken under her wings but ye would not Mat. 23. 37. Christ excused his disciples when they siept c. He said The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak Matth. 26. 41. The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost c. When he came near the city he wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in
months and times and years c. Gal. 1. 6. Gal. 4. 9 10 11. Paul complains thus I have no man like minded whâ— will naturally â—re for your state for all 〈◊〉 their own not the things which are Jesus Christ's Phil. 2. 20. 21. Ye are dun of hearing for when for the time ye ought to bâ— teachers ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracies of God and are become such as have need of milk c. Hetr 5. 11 12. Thee hast born and hast patience and for my 〈◊〉 sake hast laboured and hast not fainted 〈◊〉 I have somewhat against thee because 〈…〉 thy first love c. So the Church of Pergamos c. and the Church of Thiatira c. See Rev. 2 3 4 12 13 14 15 18 19 20. III. That God will punish or correct his for sinning GOD was angry with Moses for his sin and would not suffer him to go into the good land Deut. 3. 25 26 27. ch 4. 21 22. God said to Moses Die in the mount as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel c. Because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel c. Because ye believed me not c. Deut. 32. 48 50 51. Psalm 106. 32 33. Numb 20. 12. Aaron shall be gathered unto his people he shall not enter into the land c. because ye rebelled against my word c. Numb 20. 24. I will be his Father and he shall be my son If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men but my mercy shall not depart away from him 2 Sam. 7. 14 15. God punished Solomon for his sin in his old age 1 Kings 11. David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord and Nathan said unto David The Lord also hath put away thy sin thou shaet not die how be it because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child shall sureâ—y die 2 Sam. 12. 13 14. Hezekiah sinned and there was wrath upon him 2 Chron. 32. 25. 2 Kings 20. 12 13 c. If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments c. 〈◊〉 I will 〈◊〉 their transgreâ—â—ions with a rod and their iniquities with itripes Psalm 89. 30 31 32. The man of God for his disobedience was slain 1 Kings 13. 18 19 20 c. Thou wast a God who forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions Psalm 99. 8. Christ withdrew himself from his Spouse when she grew sluggish and mindless of him Cant. 5. 1 2 3 4 c. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him I hid me and was wroth and he went on frowardly or turning away in the way of his heart I have seen his way and I will heal him Isa 57. 17 18. I have forsaken my house c. I have given the dearly beloved c. into the hand of enemies Jer. 12. 7 8 9 10. I will correct thee in measure and will not leave thee altogether unpunished Jer. 30. 11. ch 46. 28. You only have I known of all the families in the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. When God sent Jonah to Nineveh he fled from God's presence c. but the Lord sent out a great wind c. And Jonah was east into the Sea for this Jonah 1. 1 4 10. 11 12. Zacharias struck dumb for not believing Luke 1. 19 20. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep c. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11. 30 31. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 19. Hebr. 12. 6 7 8. See more of God's Judgments for Sin Chap. 16. CHAP. XIV Of the Privileges of Saints and their Excellency above others What God bath done doth do and will do for and be unto them more than others and what they can do with God c. THE Lord had respect to Abel and his offerings c. If thou do well shalt thou not be accepted Gen. 4. 4 7. Enoch walked with God and was not for God took him Gen. 5. 24. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord Gen. 6. 8. And the Lord said unto Noah Come thou and all thy house into the Ark For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation Gen. 7. 1. 2 Pet. 2. 5. And the Lord plagued Pharoah and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife Gen. 12. 17. ch 20. 2 3. The word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision saying Fear not Abram I am thy shield thy exceeding great reward Gen. 15. 1. ch 17. 1 2 7. God said Shall I hide from Abram what I am about to do c. the cry of Sodom c. is greater c. Abram interceded with God for Sodom and God granted him as much as he asked See at large Gen. 18. 17 18 20 23 24 25 26 27 28 c. When God had sent his Angels to destroy Sodom they said unto Lot Hast thon any here besides Son-in-law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast in the câ—y bring out of this place c. They hastened Lot saying Arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here lest thou be consumed c. And while he lingered the men laid hold upon his hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters the Lord being merciful unto him and they brought him forth c. He prevailed with God to spare Zoar c. Haste thee escape thither for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither c. God remembred Abram and sent Lot out or the midst of the overthrow c. Gen. 19. 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 29. 2 Pet. 2. 6 7. And God said unto Abram c. Of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation because he is thy feed Gen. 21. 12 13. God spake to Jacob friendly when he fled from his brother Esau Gen. 28. 13 14 15. Laban said unto Jacob I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blesled me for thy sake c. Jacob said to him c. The Lord hath blessed thee since my coming or at my foot Gen. 30. 27 30. Prov. 11. 10 11. When Laban was pursuing Jacob God came to Laban c. and said Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad or from good to bad c. Laban said It is in the power of my hands to do thee hurt but the God of your father spake unto me yester-night saying Take thou heed c. Gen. 31. 24 29. Jacob prevailed with God
c. I have seen God face to face Gen. 32. 28 30. When Jacob and his family were journying the terrors of God were upon the cities round about them God appeared unto Jacob again c. and blessed him c. Gen. 35. 5 9 13. The Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man c. and his master saw that the Lord was with him c. and made all that he did to prosper in his hand c. The Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's fake c. The Lord was with Joseph c. and gave him favour in the fight of the keeper c. When Joseph had the custody of the prisoners that which he did the Lord made it to proâ—per Gen. 39. 2 3 5 21 22 23. Joseph said unto his brethren c. As for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as at this day c. Gen. 50. 20. God gave Israel favour in the fight of the Egyptians and Pharoah's servants and so Moses c. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt such as there was none like it c. But against any of the children oâ— Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast that ye may know how that the Lord dâ—th put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel Exod. 11. 3 6 7. I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the first-born c. and the blood shall be to you for a token c. when I see the blood I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you c. Exod. 12. 12 13. I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God c. Exod. 29. 45. When God had said to Moses Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them that I may consume them c. Moses prayed for Israel and prevailed often for them And the Lord said I have pardoned according to thy word Exod. 32. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. Numb 14. 11 12 13 19 20. And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend c. When Moses had said I beseech thee shew me thy glory He said I will make all my goodness pass before thee c. Exod. 33. 11 17 18 19. ch 19. 19 20. ch 34. 2 3 5 6. My servant Moses is not so who is faithful in all mine house with him will I speak mouth to mouth apparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold Numb 72. 7 8. He hath blessed and I cannot reverse it He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob neither hath he seen perversness in Israel The Lord his God is with him and the shout of a King is among them c. Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob neither is there any divination against Israel Numb 23. 20 21 23. Deut. 23. 5. For what nation so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God in all things which we call upon him for And what nation so great which hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law c. Did ever people hear the voice of God c. as thou hast heard and live Deut. 4. 7 8 33. Rom. 3. 1 2. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself above all the nations which are upon the earth Deut. 14. 1. ch 26. 17 18. 19. For the Lord's portion is his people Jacob the lot of his inheritance c. He led him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye Deut. 32. 9 10. 1 Pet. 5. 3. Jer. 12. 7 8 9 10. The eternal God thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms c. Happy thou O Israel Who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord the Shield of thy help and who is the Sword of thine exceliency Deut. 33. 27 29. At the Word of Jeshua the Sun stood still and the Moon staid Josh 10. 12 13 14. When Gidâ—on asked signs of God he gave them to him Judg. 6. 17 21 36 37 38 39 40. Manoah inâ—eated the Lord c. and God hearkned c. And the Angel came again c. Judges 13. 8 9 23. He will keep the feet of his saints 1 Sam. 2. 9. she Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people 1 Sam. 12. 22. David went on and grew great and the Lord God of hosts was with him 2 Sam. 5. 10. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee c. Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake c. I will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen 1 Kings 11. 11 12 13. ch 15. 4. He only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel 1 Kings 14. 13. The Prophet Elijah was taken up into Heaven 2 Kings 2. 12. When the King of Israel and Jehoshaphat the King of Judah went together and wanted Water Elisha the Prophet said c. Were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah I would not look towards thee not see thee But now c. 2 Kings 3. 6 7 9 10 14 15 c. God hearkened to Hezekiah and gave him a Sign that God would heal him he brought the Shadow ten Degrees backward 2 Kings 20. 9 10. Isa 38. 7 8. Behold God will not cast away a perfect man c. Job 11. 20. Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly c. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water which bringeth forth his fruit in his season his fruit shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth it shall prosper Psal 1. 1 3. Know that the Lord hath set apart him who is godly for himself Psal 4. 3. A seed shall serve him it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation c. Psal 22. 30. The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me besides the still waters c. Psal 23. 1 2. All the paths of the Lord are goodness and truth unto such who keep his covenant c. What man is he who fearêth the Lord him shall he teach in the way which he shall chuse his soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the earth The secret of the Lord is with them who fear him and he will shew them his covenant or make them know it Psal 25. 10 12 13 14. Oh! how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them who fear thee thou hast wrought
for them who trust in thee before the sons of men Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues Psal 31. 19 20. Psal 27 5. Psal 36. 7 8. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sins are covered Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit is no guile I will instruct thee teach thee in the way that thou shalt guide thee with mine eye Psal 32. 1 2 8. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord the people he hath chosen for his own inheritance c. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them who fear him upon them who hope in his mercy to deliver their soul from death to keep them alive in famine Psal 33. 12 18 19. Psal 34. 7 9 10. 1 Kings 17. 3 4. Gen. 45. 6 7. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears open to their cries c. None of them who trust in him shall be desolate Psal 34. 15 22. Psal 5. 11 12. Delight thy self also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desire of thine heart c. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked c. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand c. Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging their bread c. For the Lord loveth judgment and forsaketh not his saints they are preserved for ever c. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord he is their strength in time of trouble Psal 37. 4 16 23 24 25 28 37 39. Prov. 29. 7. Psal 128. The King's daughter is all glorious within her clothing is wrought gold Psal 45. 15. The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob our refuge Psal 46. 7 11. Gather my saints to me those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice Psal 50. 5. Blessed is he whom thou chusest to approach unto thee c. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house of thy holy temple Psal 65. 4. Psal 36. 8. Truly God is good to Israel to such who are of a clean heart Psal 73. 1. The Lord will give grace and glory no good thing will I withhold from them who walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. He will speak peace unto his people and to his saints c. His salvation is nigh unto them who fear him Psal 85. 8 9. Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound they shall walk in the light of his countenance Psal 89. 15 16 c. The righteous shall flourish like the Palm-tree he shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Those who be 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 fat and flourishing Psal 92. 12 13 14. The Lord will not cast off his people neither will he forsake his inheritance Psal 94. 14. Psal 9. 10. He is our God and we the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hands Psal 95. 7. He preserveth the souls of his saints c. Light is sown for the righteous c. Psal 97. 10 11. Psal 72. 14. When they were few c. he suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm Psal 105. 12 13 14 15. Psal 124. 2 3. Psal 125. 1 2. Blessed is the man who feareth the Lord his seed shall be mighty on the earth The generation of the upright shall be blessed c. Surely he shall not be moved for ever the righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance Psal 112. 1 2 3 4 6 7. As the mountains round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people from hence for ever Psal 125. 2. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints Psal 116. 15. Psal 72. 14. The Lord hath chosen Jacob for himself and Isreal for his peculiar treasure Psal 135. 4. 1 Pet. 5. 3. Happy that people who is in such a case happy that people whose God is the Lord Psal 144. 15. He will fulfil the desire of them who fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them Psal 145. 19. Happy is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God Psal 146. 5. The Lord taketh pleasure in them who fear him in them who hope in his mercy Psal 147. 11. The Lord taketh pleasure in his people c. This honour hath all his saints Psal 149. 4 9. The froward is an abomination to the Lord but his secret with the righteous Prov. 3. 32. I love them who love me c. that I may cause those c. to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures c. Blessed are they who keep my ways c. who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors for whoso findeth me findeth life and shall obtain favour of the Lord Prov. 8. 17 21 34 35. Psal 119. 1 2. Righteousness shall deliver from death The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish c. Blessing upon the head of the just c. The memory of the just blessed c. The desire of the righteous shall be granted Prov. 10. 2 3 6 7 24. By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted Prov. 11. 11. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour Prov. 12. 26. Psal 16. 3. When a man's ways please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him Prov. 16. 7. The righteous are as bold as a lion Prov. 28. 1. The woman whose heart is snares and nets c. Whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her Eccles 7. 26. Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well for they shall eat the fruit of their doings Isa 3. 10. Eccles 8. 12. Psal 37. 10 11 17 18. Isa 65. 13 14. Bind up the testimony seal the law among my disciples Isa 8. 16. He walketh righteously or in righteousness c. he shall dwell on high his place of defence the munition of rocks bread shall be given him hâ—s waters sure thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty and shall behold the land that is far off Isa 33. 15 16 17. God caused the Sun to go backward ten degrees for a sign to Hezekiah of his recovery Isa 38. 6 7. This people have I formed for my self they shall shew forth my praise Isa 43. 21. Ask me of things to come concerning my sons and concerning the
works of my hands Command ye me c. Israel shall be saved with an everlasting salvation c. Isa 45. 11 17. Zion said The Lord hath forsaken me c. Can a woman forsake her sucking-child c. Yet will I not forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands thy walls are continually before me Isa 49. 14 15 16. Thy Maker is thy Husband c. and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel the God of the whole earth c. With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord No weapon which is formed against thee shall prosper c. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness of me saith the Lord Isa 54. 5 8 10 17. Unto them will I give in my house c. a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off c. Them will I bring unto my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer and their burnt-offerings accepted upon my altar Isa 56. 3 4 5 6 7. In all their afflictions he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them c. Doubtless thou art our Father c. Return for thy servants sake the tribes of thine inheritance the people of thy holiness c. Isa 63. 9 16 17 18 ch 64. 9. Since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither hath the eye seen O God besides thee what he hath prepared for him who waiteth for him or a God besides thee who doth so for him who waiteth c. Isa 64. 4. 1 Cor. 2. 9. Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem c. if ye can find a man if there be any who executeth judgment who seeketh the truth and I will pardon it Jer. 5. 1. Gen. 18. 26 32. Is Ephraim my dear son he a pleasant child Since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord c. If the ordinances of heaven cease then the seed of Israel shall cease from being a nation before me Jer. 31. 20 36 37. When Jerusalem was taken and Jeremiah the Prophet the King of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah c. Look well to him and do him no harm but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee Jer. 39. 11 12. Numb 14. 37 38. The precious Sons of Zion comparable to fine Gold how are they esteemed c. Lam. 4. 2. God ordered the Mark of Salvation to be upon his when all others were to be smitten Ezek. 9. 4 5 6. Though I have scattered them c. yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the Countries where they shall come Ezek. 11. 16. Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver their own souls by their righteousness saith the Lord c. they only shall be delivered themselves Ezek. 14. 14 16 18 20. I sought for a man amongst them who should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none therefore c. Ezek. 22. 30 31. Because thou hast said c. These two Countries shall be â—hine and we will possess it whereas the Lord was there or though the Lord was there Therefore c. Ezek. 35. 10 11. Psal 14. 5. O Daniel a man greatly beloved c. O man greatly beloved fear not c. Dan. 10. 11. 19. ch 9. 23. Jacob. c. by his staength he had power with God yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed he wept c. There he spake with us even the Lord God of hosts Hos 12. 2 3 4 5. Gen. 32. 24 25. Hos 11. 12. I will be as the dew unto Israel he shall grow as the lilly c. Hos 14. 5 6. And my people shall never be ashamed Joâ—l 2. 26 27. For he who toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eyes Zech. 2. 8. We will go with you for we have heard God is with you Zech. 8. 23. Ezra 8. 22. The Lord harkned and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him for them who feared the Lord and that thought upon his name And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in that day when I make up my jewels or special treasure and I will spare them as a man spareth his son who serveth him Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him who serveth God and him who serveth him not Mal. 3. 16 17 18. Unto you who fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves in the stall Mal. 4. 2. They are pronounced blessed and many privileges mentioned by Christ They are the salt of the earth the light of the world c. Matth. 5. 3 4 5 to 14. The very hairs of your head are all numbred c. Ye are of more value than many sparrows Matth. 10. 30 31. Among them who are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist Notwithstanding he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he Matth. 11. 11. It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven c. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear c. Matth. 13. 11 16. Mark 4. 11 12 34. When Peter began to sink Christ helped him Matth. 14. 30 31. Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me it were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck c. Woe unto the world because of offences c. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you that in heaven their Angels do always behold the face of my Father c. Matth. 18. 6 7 10. That they should deceive the elect if it were possible Matth. 24 24. For the elect's sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortned the days c. Mark 13. 20. Matth. 24. 22. To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom Christ opened the parable to them Rejoyce not that the spirits are subject to you but rather rejoyce because your names are written in the book of life Luke 10. 20. The hairs of your head are numbred c. Fear not little flock it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 7 32. Joy in heaven over one sinner who repenteth more than over ninety nine just persons c. There is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over him c. Luke 15. 7 10. To as many as received him to them he gave power or the right or privilege to become the sons of
magnifie the Lord with me let us exalt his name together c. Oh taste and see that the Lord is good Psal 34. 2 3 8. How excellent or precious is thy loving-kindness O God c. For with thee is the fountain of life In thy light shall we see light Psal 36. 7 9. Delight thy self also in the Lord c. Psal 37. 4. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew c. And now Lord what wait I for my hope is in thee Psal 39. 6 7. As the hart panteth after the water-brooks so panteth my soul after thee O God My soul thirsteth for God for the living God When shall I come and appear before God My tears have been my meat day and night while they continually say unto me Where is thy God When I remember these things I pour out my soul in me for I had gone with the multitude c to the house of God c. Why art thou cast down O my Soul c. Hope thou in God c. Psal 42. 1 2 3 5 11. Thou the God of my strength Why dost thou cast me off Then will I go c. unto God my exceeding joy or the gladness of my joy Psal 43. 2 4. In God we boast all the day long Psal 44. 8. As we have heard so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts c. According to thy name O God so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth c. This God is our God for ever and ever he will be our Guide unto death Psal 48. 8 10 14. Ezra 8. 22. Cast me not away from thy presence c. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation Psal 51. 11 12. Psal 119. 8. O God thou my God early will I seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land c. to see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary because thy loving kindness is better than life c. My soul followeth hard after thee Psal 63. 1 2 3 8 11. Blessed is he whom thou chusest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy Courts We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house of thy holy temple Psal 65. 4. He who is our God is the God of salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death c. Psal 68. 20. Whom have I in heaven but thee and none upon earth whom I desire besides thee My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever c. It is good for me to draw near unto God Psal 73. 25 26 28. Who so great a God as our God Psal 77. 13. Turn us again O God and cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved Psal 80. 3 7 19. How amiable are thy tabernacles O Lord of hosts My soul longeth yea fainteth for the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh crieth for the living God Blessed are they who dwell in thy house c. Behold O Lord our Shield c. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness for the Lord God is a Sun and a Shield c. Psal 84. 1 2 4 9 10 11. Psal 26. 8. Psal 122. 1. Blessed the people who know the joyful sound they shall walk O Lord in the light of thy countenance in thy name shall they rejoyce all the day c. For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted The Lord is our Defence and the Holy One of Israel our King c. How long O Lord wilt thou hide thy face for ever Psal 89. 15 16 17 18 46. In the multitude of thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul Psal 94. 19 22. Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous Psal 97. 12. My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord Psal 104. 34. He satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness Psal 107. 9. Prov. 27. 7. The Lord is high above all nations and his glory above the heavens Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high Who c. Psal 113. 4 5. Wherefore should the Heathen say Where is now their God But our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleaseth Psal 115. 2 3. Psal 74. 9 10. Return unto thy Rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee Psal 116. 7. Thou art my portion O Lord c. I intreated thy favour or face with my whole heart c. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant c. Psal 119. 57 58 135. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they who wait for the morn Psal 130. 6. I know that the Lord is great and our God is above all Gods Psal 135. 5. Thou my refuge my portion in the land of the living Psal 142. 5. My soul thirsteth after thee as a thirsty land c. Hide not thy face from me Psal 143. 6 7. The Lord my strength or rock c. my goodness and my fortress my high tower and my deliverer my shield c. Happy is that people whose God is the Lord Psal 144. 1 2 15. Psal 146. 5. Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is excellent or exalted his glory above the earth and the heaven Psal 148. 13. As the apple-tree is among the trees of the wood so is my Beloved c. I sate down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste c. Cant. 2. 3. By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loved but found him not I will arise now and go about the city c. I found him I held him and would not let him go c. Cant. 3. 1 2 4. I opened to my Beloved but my Beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone my soul failed when he spoke I sought him c. I am sick of love c. My Beloved is white c. This is my Beloved Cant. 5. 6 8 10 16. ch 8. 6 7. In the way of thy judgments we have waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early Isa 26. 8 9. In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people Isa 28. 5. The Lord is our Judge the Lord our Law-giver the Lord our King he will save us Isa 38. 22. As for our Redeemer the Lord of hosts is his name the Holy One of Israel Isa 47. 4. I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord my soul shall be joyful
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 kingdom of heaven but he who doth the will of my father which is in heaven c. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doth them I will liken him unto a wise man who built his house upon a rock c. and every one who heareth these sayings of mine and doth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand c. Matth. 7. 21 24 25 26 27. James 1. 23 24 25. Matth. 5. 18 19 20. John 9. 31. Whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when ye depart c. shake off the dust of your feet It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom Matth. 10. 14. 15. Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven the same is my brother and sister and mother Matth. 12. 15. Zacharias c. walking in all the ordinances and commandments of the Lord blameless Luke 1. 5 6. Why call ye me Lord and do not the things which I say Luke 6. 46 47 c. But the pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against or within themselves Luke 7. 30. Yea rather blessed are they who hear the words of God and keep it Luke 11. 28. Rom. 2. 13. James 1. 25. And that servant which knew his master's will and did it not shall be beaten with stripes Luke 12 47. James 4. 17. If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God c. John 7. 17. He who is of God heareth my word but ye hear not my word because ye are not of God c. Verily verily I say unto you If a man keep my sayings he shall never see death John 8. 51. If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them John 13. 17. James 1. 22 23 25. If ye love me keep my commandments c. He who hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is who loveth me c. Jesus said If any man love me he will keep my words c. He who loveth me not keepeth not my words John 14. 15 21 23 24. If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love c Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I have commanded you John 15. 10 14. Now therefore are we all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God Acts 10. 33 Yet have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered unto you Rom. 6. 17. The law is holy and the commandment holy just and good Rom. 7. 12. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the commandments of God 1 Cor. 7. 19. To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts Heb. 4. 7. Psalm 95. 7 8. Therefore to him who knoweth to go good and doth it not to him it is sin James 4. 17. That righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2. 8. Hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments He who saith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a lyar and the truth is not in him and whose keepeth his word in him verily is the love or God perfected Hereby know we that we are in him c. He who doth the will of God abideth for ever 1 John 2. 3 4 5 17. Love not in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth c. And whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments c. This is his commandment That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another c. And he who who keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him and he in him 1 John 3. 18 22 23 24. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments For this is the love of God That we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous 1 John 5. 2 3. And this is love that ye walk after his commandments 2 John ver 6. Blessed are they who do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in thorow the gates into the city Rev. 22. 14. See that ye refuse not him who speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him who spake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him who speaketh from heaven whose voice then shook c. Heb. 12. 25 26. See God's threatnings of and Judgments for disobedience after in this same Chap. See the great Day of Judgment Chap. 36. Worship God and sanctifie him therein GOD had respect to Abel and to his offering but not unto Cain's Gen. 4. 3 5 7. Hebr. 11. 4. Thou shalt have no other God before me Thou shalt not make any graven image c. thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God a jealous God c. In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee Exod. 20. 3 4 5 24. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods nor serve them c. ye shall serve the Lord your God c. Exod. 23. 25. There will I meet with thee and commune with thee above the mercy seat At the door of the tabernacle of the congregation c. where I will meet you to speak there unto thee And there will I meet with the children of Israel and the tabernacle or Israel shall be sanctified by my glory c. Exod. 25. 22. chap. 29. 42 43. chap. 20. 24. Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see my face and live Exod. 33. 20. Thou shalt worship no other God for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God Exod. 34. 14. Deut. 6. 15. When the tabernacle was set up the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle Exod 40. 33 34 35. When Aaron's sons were consumed for offering strange fire Moses said unto Aaron This that the Lord spake saying I will be sanctified in them who come nigh me and before all the people I will be glorified Levit. 10. 1 2 3. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and him serve c. Thou shalt not go after other gods c. The Lord our God is one Lord c. Deut. 6. 4 13 14. And now Israel what doth the Lord require of thee but to fear the Lord c. and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul c. Behold the heavens and heaven of heavens is the Lord 's thy God the earth with all that therein is c. For the Lord your God is God of Gods and Lord of Lords a great God a mighty and a terrible who regardeth not persons c. worship him Deut. 10. 12
14 17 20. chap. 11. 13. Thou may not sacrifice the passover within any of the gates c. But at the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse to place his name in there thou shalt sacrifice Deut. 16. 5 6. Serve ye the Lord and if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord c. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. And the people answered and said God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods c. He is a holy God he a jealous God Joshua 24. 14 15 16 19. Elkanah went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts 1 Sam. 1. 1 3. Prepare your hearts unto the Lord and serve him only 1 Sam. 7. 3 4. Only fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart 1 Sam. 12. 24. And Elijah came unto all the people and said How long halt ye between opinions or thoughts if the Lord be God follow him but if Baal follow him 1 Kings 18. 21. That the heart be prepared to serve God is expected commended and the contrary taken notice of 2 Chron. 12. 14. ch 19. 3. ch 29. 36. ch 30. 18 19. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling Psalm 2. 11. But as for me I will come unto thy house c. and in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy holy temple or the Temple of thy holiness Psalm 5. 7. Who is God save the Lord Psalm 18. 31. All the ends of the world shall remember and return unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee for the kingdom is the Lords and he the governor among the nations All they who are fat on earth shall eat and worship c. A seed shall serve him Psalm 22. 27 28 29 30. I will wash my hands in innocency so will I compass thine altar O Lord c. I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth Psalm 26. 6 8. Isa 1. 11 12 c. ch 66. 3. Jer. 6. 19 20. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto or the honour of his name worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness or in his glorious sanctuary Psalm 29. 2. Psalm 96. 4 6 7 8 9. 1 Chron. 16. 29. For he is thy Lord and worship thou him Psalm 45. 11. All the earth shall worship thee and shall sing unto thee c. Psalm 66. 4. Psalm 63. 1 2 3 c. Neither shalt thou worship any strange God I the Lord thy God Psalm 81. 9 10. How amiable are thy tabernacles c. my soul longeth c. A day in thy courts is better c. Psalm 84. 1 2 c. Psalm 63. 1 2. Psalm 65. 4. I will call upon thee among the Gods none like unto thee O Lord neither are there any works like unto thy works All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy name For thou art great and dost wonderful things thou art God alone Psalm 86. 7 8 9 10. Rev. 15. 4. For who in heaven can be compared unto the Lord Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them about him Psalm 89. 6 7 Before the mountains were c. even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Psalm 90. 2. The Lord is great and a great King above all gods c. O come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture Psalm 95. 3 6 7. The Lord reigneth c. worship him all ye gods c. for thou Lord art high above all the earth thou art exalted far above all gods Psalm 97. 1 7 9. Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool he is holy Psalm 99. 5 9. Psalm 13. 2 7. Serve the Lord with gladness come before his presence with singing c. He is God Psalm 100 2 3. Holy and Reverend is his name Psal 111. 9. I will worship toward his holy Temple Psalm 138. 2. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools c. Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing or word before God for God is in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few Eccles 5. 1 2. Be not righteous overmuch neither make thy self over wise c. Eccles 7. 16. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand c. to whom then will ye liken God or what c. Isa 40. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give unto another Isa 42. 8. That ye may know and believe me and understand that I am he before me there was no god formed or nothing formed of God neither shall there be after me I the Lord and besides me no Saviour I have declared and have saved and I shewed when there no God among you Therefore ye my witnesses saith the Lord that I am God yea before the day I am he and there is none who can deliver out of my hand I will work and who shall let it Thus saith the Lord your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel c. But thou hast not called upon me O Jacob Isa 43 10 11 12 13 14 15 22. Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his redeemer the Lord of Hosts I am the first and I the last and besides me no God c. Ye are my witnesses is there a God besides me yea no God I know not any c. Thus saith the Lord c. I am the Lord who maketh all things who stretcheth forth the heavens alone who spreadeth abroad the earth by my self c. Isa 44. 6 8 24. Psalm 96. 5. I am the Lord and none else no God besides me I girded thee though thou hast not known me That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me I am the Lord and none else I form the light and create darkness I make peace and create evil I the Lord do all these things c. Thus saith the Lord who created the heavens God himself who formed the earth and made it he hath established it c. I am the Lord and there is none else Isa 45. 5 6 7 18 21 22. I am God and there is none besides me I am God and none like me declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things which are not done saying My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure Isa 46. 9 10. ch 41. 4. But the Lord is the
the audience of the people and they said All that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient Exod. 24. 2 4 7. And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them according unto all that I shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof even so shall ye make c. Exod. 25. 8 9. In the tabernacle without the vail which is before the testimony Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening till morning before the Lord c. Exod. 27. 21. And these are the garments which they shall make a breast plate c. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy Brother and his sons that they may minister unto me in the Priest's office c. Exod. 28. 4 5 6 c. They made the holy garments for Aaron as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 39. 1. Thus did Moses according to all that the Lord commanded him so did he c. He spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle c. as the Lord commanded Moses c. And he lighted the lamps before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses c. When they came near unto the Altar they washed as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 40. 16 19 21 23 25 27 29. Levit. 8. 4 5 36. So did David in all he did as he received from God 1 Chron. 28. 12 13 19. 2 Chron. 29. 25. Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron c. offered strange fire which he commanded them not and there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord. And Moses said unto Aaron This is that the Lord spake I will be sanctified in them who come nigh me and before all the people c. Levit. 10. 1 2 3. After the doings of the land of Egypt c. and after the doings of the land of Canaan c. shall ye not do neither shall ye walk in their ordinances Ye shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances to walk therein I am the Lord your God Levit. 18. 3 4. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai according to all that the Lord commanded Moses so did the children of Israel c. They shall leave none of it c. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it Moses enquired of God in an unrevealed Case about the Passover Numb 9. 5 6 7 8 9 10 12. Levit. 19. 5 6. ch 22. 30 31 32. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you neither shall you c. Deut. 4. 2. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods c. ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God but unto the place the Lord your God shall chuse out of all your tribes to put his name there unto his habitation shall ye seek and thither shalt thou come and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings c. and ye shall not do c. every man what is right in his own eyes c. When you go over Jordan c. then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall chuse to cause his name to dwell there thither shall ye bring all that I command you your burnt-offerings c. Take heed to thy self that thou be not snared by following them c. And that thou enquire not after their gods saying How did these nations serve their gods Even so will I do likewise Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God c. Whatsoever thing I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereunto nor diminish from it Deut. 12. 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 11 13 14 30 31 32. Numb 15. 39 40. Secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may do all the words of this law Deut. 29. 29. Rebel not c. in building an altar besides the altar of the Lord our God Josh 22. 19 29. Jeroboam ordained a feast c. like unto the feast in Judah c. upon the month which he had devised in his own heart 1 Kings 12. 32 33. 2 Kings 17. 8. Israel sinned c. in walking in the Statutes of the Heathen c. and of the kings of Israel which they had made c. 2 Kings 17. 7 8 19. Be not righteous overmuch neither make thy self overwise Eccles 7. 16. To the law and to the testimony If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa 8. 20. Jer. 8. 9. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinances c. Isa 24. 5. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed c. Wherefore the Lord said Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me with their mouth c. and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvellous work c. The wisdom of the wise men shall perish c. Isa 29. 11 12 13 14. I have spread out my hand all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way that is not good after their own thoughts c. who sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick c. Isa 65. 2 3. Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest c. Jer. 6. 16. I spake not to your fathers nor commanded them c. concerning burnt-offerings c. Jer. 7. 22 23 31. The place of my throne c. shall the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their kings by their whoredom c. in their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their posts by my posts c. Ezek. 43. 7 8. Son of man mark well c. all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord and all the laws thereof c. And thou shalt say to the rebellious c. Ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers uncircumcised in heart c. to pollute it even my house when ye offer my bread c. And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things but ye have set keepers of my charge or ordinance in my sanctuary for your selves Ezek. 44. 5 6 7 8 9. If ye offer the blind c. offer it to your governor c. I am a great King c. Mal. 1. 6 8 13 14. Why do you transgress the commandments of God by your traditions For God commanded saying c. But ye say c. Thus have ye made the commandments of God of none effect by your traditions c. In
said to Solomon Ask what I shall give thee And Solomon asked Wisdom to govern And God was pleased so with that and in that he had not asked long Life and Riches that God gave him Wisdom and Understanding and Riches and Honour also 1 Kings 3. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. King Solomon prayed at large at the Dedicacation of the Temple and God heard him 1 Kings 8. 22 23 24 c. ch 9. 2 3. 2 Chron. 1. 7 8 c. Elijah the Prophet prayed that it migh be made known that God was God in Israel when others were for Baal And God be heard him and caused Fire to come down and consume the Sacrifice 1 Kings 18. 36 37 38. ch 17. 21 22. Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face continually 1 Chron. 16. 11. If thou seek him he will be found of thee 1 Chron. 28. 9. Judah c. sought him with their whole desire and he was found of them 2 Chron. 15. 15. There are good things found in thee Thou hast taken away c. and hast prepared thine heart to seek God 2 Chron. 19. 3. Asa prayed for Help against the Ethiopian Army of an Hundred Thousand Men and prevailed 2 Chron. 14. 10 11 12. When Moah c. came against Jehosaphat he stood in the Congregation in the House of the Lord and prayed for help And God heard and answered 2 Chron. 20. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 24. Hezekiah being sick prayed 2 Chron. 32. 24. Nehemiah when he heard of the Affliction of the Jews he wept and mourned and fasted and prayed Nehem. 1. 4 5 6 7 8 c. So again when Israel were building and in danger of enemies Nehem. 4. 4 5 9. Ezra 8. 21. chap. 9. I would make supplication to my Judge Job 9. 15. My God for unto thee will I pray my voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct unto thee and look up Psal 5. 2 3. Our fathers c. prayed and thou didst deliver Psal 22. 4 5. He forgetteth not the cry of the humble Psal 9. 12. Psal 10. 17. I acknowledged my sin c. For this shall every one who is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found Psal 32. 5 6. They who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing c. His ears are open to their cry Psal 34. 10. Call upon me in the time of trouble I will deliver thee c. Psal 50. 15. Though Nathan had told David his Sin was forgiven him yet he prays earnestly to be delivered from Blood-guiltiness c. Psal 51. 1 2 3 4 to 15. As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me Evening and morning at noon will I pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice Psal 55. 16 17. I will cry unto God most high unto him who performeth all things for me Psal 57. 2 3 c. O thou who hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come Psal 65. 2. If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me But verily God hath heard Psal 66. 18 19. Isa 58. 6 7 8 9. ch 59. 1 2 3. ch 1. 11 12 13 c. The Saints have pleaded with God their own Relation to him and the enemy's Non-relation Psal 79. Isa 63. 15 16 c. ch 64. 8 9 c. Thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee Give ear O Lord unto my prayer c. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me Psal 86. 5 6 7. He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayers Psal 102. 17. Psal 10. 17. I am thine save me I am thy servant give me understanding that I may know c. I cried with my whole heart c. I prevented the dawning of the morning and cried Psal 119. 94 125 145 147. In my distress I cried unto the Lord and he heard me Psal 120. 1. 2 Sam. 22. 7. Psal 34. 4 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper who love thee Psal 122. 6. The Lord is nigh unto all who call upon him to all who call upon him in truth He will fulfil the desire of them who fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them Psal 145. 18 19. Nehem. 1. 11. Because I have called and ye refused c. they shall call upon me but I will not answer Prov. 1. 24 25 c The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord but the prayer of the upright is his delight c. He heareth the prayer of the righteous Prov. 15. 8 29. He who turneth away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer shall be an abomination Prov. 28. 9. Be not rash with thy mouth and be not hasty to utter any thing before God for God is in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few Eccless 5. 2. My Dove let me hear thy voice c. for sweet is thy voice Cant. 2. 14. When ye spread forth your hands I will hide my eyes from you yea when ye make many prayers or multiply prayers I will not hear Your hands are full of blood wash ye c. Isa 1. 13 15 16. ch 59. 1 2 3. ch 66. 3. In trouble have they visited thee they poured out a prayer or secret speech when thy chastening was upon them Isa 26. 16. Thou hast not called upon me O Jacob Isa 43. 21. Thus saith the Lord c. Ask me of things to come concerning my sons and concerning the works of my hands command ye me c. I said not unto the seed of Jacob Seek ye me in vain Isa 45. 11 19. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found call ye upon him while he is near Isa 55. 6. When thou criest let thy companions deliver thee Isa 57. 13. Loose the bonds of wickedness c. then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer thou shalt cry c. Isa 58. 6 7 9. For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until the righteousness thereof goeth forth c. I have set watch-men upon thy walls O Jerusalem who shall never hold then peace day nor night Ye who make mention of the Lord or are the Lord's remembrancers keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish and till he make Jerusalem a praise on the earth Isa 62. 1 6 7. The Church's Prayer for the Lord's Return unto them Isa 63. 15 16 17 18 19. ch 64. I am found of them who sought me not Isa 65. 1. Therefore pray not thou for this people neither lift up cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee Seest thou not what they do c. Jer. 7. 16 17. Pour our thy fury upon the
Heathen who know thee not and upon the families who call not on thy name Jer. 10. 25. Psal 14. 4. I will bring evil upon them c. and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them c. Therefore pray not thou for this people c. for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble Jer. 11. 11 14. ch 14. 11 12. Jeremiah prays for Israel when he prophessed of the dearth Jer. 14. 7 8 9 18 19 20 21 22. The Lord said unto him Though Moses and Samuel stood before me my mind could not be towards the people c. Jer. 15. 1. Then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you And ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart Jer. 29. 12 13. Call upon me and I will answer thee and shew thee great and mighty or hidden things which thou knowest not Jer. 33. 3. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens c. Thou hast covered thy self with a cloud that our prayers should not pass thorow Lam. 3. 41 44. When God had promised many things that he would do for his he saith I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them Ezek. 36. 24 to 37. Daniel desired his Companions that they would ask mercy of the God of Heaven concerning the Secret of the King's Dream that Daniel and his Fellows should not perish c. And it was revealed to him Dan. 2. 17 18 19. Now when 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 before his God as he did aforetime Dan. 6. 10 11. And I set my face unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplication and I prayed unto the Lord my God and made my confession and said O Lord c. forgive c. for the Lord's sake for thy own sake for thy mercy's sake Dan. 9. 3 4 5 c. They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord but they shall not find he hath withdrawn himself from them They have dealt treacherously against me the Lord Hos 5. 6. They have not cryed unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds Hosea 7. 7. 14. By his strength he had power with God yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed he wept and made supplication unto him Hosea 12. 3 4. Gen. 32. 24 25 26 27. Sanctifie a fast c. and cry unto the Lord Alas for the day c. Joel 1. 14 15 c. Sanctifie a fast c. let the priests ministers of the Lord weep c. and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heathen should rule over or use a by-word against them wherefore should they say amongst the people Where is their God Then will the Lord be jealous for his land and pity his people c. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered Joel 2. 15 16 17 18 32. Acts 2. 21. Seek ye me and ye shall live c. seek the Lord and ye shall live c. I hate and despise your feasts c. Let judgment run down as water and righteousness c. Amos 5. 4 6 21 22 23. When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee into thine holy temple Jonah 2. 7. Let man and beast be covered with sack-cloath and cry mightily unto God c. who can tell if God will return c. And they prevailed Jonah 3. 8 9 10. Seek ye the Lord all ye meek of the earth c. it may be ye shall be hid Zeph. 2. 3. As he cryed and they would not hear so they cryed and I would not hear saith the Lord of hosts Zech. 7. 13. Prov. 1. 24 25 28. The inhabitants of one city shall go to another saying Let us go speedily or continually be going to pray before the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts I will go also Zech. 8. 20 21. Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain The Lord shall Zech. 10. 1. I will pour upon the house of David c. a spirit of prayer and supplication Zech. 12. 10. Pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you Matth. 5. 44. When thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the synagogues c. but when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut the door pray to thy Father c. and when ye pray use not vain repititions as the heathens do for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking c. Your Father knoweth what things ye have have need of before ye ask them after this manner therefore pray ye Our Father c. Matth. 6. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Luke 11. 1 2 c. Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you for every one who asketh receiveth c. What man is there among you who if his son ask bread will he give him a stone c. If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things unto them who ask him Matth. 7. 7 8 9 10 11. Luke 11. 9 10 11 12 13. Christ looking up to heaven he blessed the bread and fishes c. he went up into the mount apart to pray c. Peter said Lord save me Mat. 14. 19 23 30. The woman of Canaan would not give off asking till she had obtained Matth. 15. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven c. Matth. 18. 19. Ye know not what ye ask said Christ unto the mother of Zebedee's children c. The two blind men would not cease crying till they were heard Matth. 20. 21 22 30 31 32 33. All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing ye shall receive Matth. 21. 22. Mark 11. 24. James 1. 5 6 7. Christ fell on his face and prayed saying O my Father if it be possible c. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation c. He prayed again and again c. He kneeled down anâ— prayed Matth. 26. 39 41 42 44. Luke 6. 12. Luke 22. 41 46. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into the harvest Luke 10. 2. And it
Israel is commanded especially to remember their deliverance out of Egypt Deut. 26. 1 2 3 c. Exod. 13. 14 15. Moses Song Deut. 32. Joshua pitched stones in Gilgal in memory of Israel's passing dry thorow Jordan that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty Josh 4. 5 6 7 20 21 22 23 24. The Song of Deborah and Barak which they sang after the victory against Sisera and his Army Judges 5. 2 Chron. 20. 26. Psalm 124. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Hannah sang praise when she brought Samuel her Son to the House of the Lord whom the Lord had given her upon her Prayer 1 Sam. 2. 1 2 3 4 to the 11. When the Philistines were beaten Samuel set up a stone called the name thereof Eben-Ezer saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us 1 Sam. 7. 10 11 12. When Abigail met David and prevented him in his hasty purpose concerning Nabal's House he said unto Abigail Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice c. And when David heard that Nabal was dead he said Blessed be the Lord who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and hath kept his servant from evil c. 1 Sam. 25. 32 33 39. When God had promised many things unto David he faith Let thy name be magnified for ever saying The Lord of Hosts is the God over Israel c. 2 Sam. 7. 26. And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hands of Saul And he said The Lord is my rock my fortress and my deliverer c. 2 Sam. 22. Blessed be God who hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he hath promised 1 Kings 8. 56. Upon the return of the Ark to the City of David he prepares a Song and delivers it to be sung by way of Thanksgiving unto God 1 Chron. 16. 8 9 to the 37. When the people had offered willingly towards the building of the House of the Lord David blessed the Lord before all the Congregation and David said Blessed be thou Lord God of Israel our Father for ever and ever c. Now therefore our God we thank thee and praise thy glorious name c. that we should be able to offer so willingly c. The congregation did so 1 Chron. 29. 9 10 to the 20. Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord and he spake unto him c. but Hezekiah rendred noâ— again according to the benefit done unto him c. 2 Chron. 32. 24 25. Isa 28. 8 9. ch 39. Ezra takes notice of a little favour and acknowledgeth it to the praise of God Ezra 9. 8 9 13 14. ch 7. 27 28. Stand up bless the Lord your God for ever and ever and blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise c. Nehem. 9. 5 6 c. When Job had lost all then he said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken blessed be the name of the Lord Job 1. 20 28. I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness and will sing to the name of the Lord most high Psalm 7. 17. O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the heavens c. Psalm 8. 1 9. I will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart I will shew forth all thy marvellous works I will sing praise to thy name O thou most high c. Sing to the Lord who dwelleth in Sion declare among the people his doings Psalm 9. 1 2 11. Psalm 96. I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with me Psalm 13. 6. David's Song of Praises for his Deliverances Psalm 18. Thou art holy who inhabiteth the praises of Israel c. Ye who fear the Lord praise him all ye the seed of Jacob glorifie him Psalm 22. 3 23. That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works Psalm 26. 7. The Lord is my strength c. with my song will I praise him Psalm 28. 7. Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance or to the memorial of his holy name c. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing c. to the end that my glory may sing praise unto thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Psalm 30. 4 11 12. Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness Psalm 31. 21. Praise is comely for the upright Psalm 33. 1. Psalm 147. 1. I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth c. O magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together I sought the Lord and he heard me c. O taste and see that the Lord is good c. Psalm 34. 1 3 4 6 8. Psalm 54. 6 7. My tongue shall speak of thy righteousness of thy praise all the day Psalm 35. 28. Psalm 105. 1 2 3. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God c. according to thy name so is thy praises O God unto the ends of the earth Psalm 48. 1 10. Offer unto God thanksgiving c. I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me c. Whose offereth praise glorifieth me Psal 50. 14 15 23. My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed or prepared I will sing praise awake up my glory c. I will praise thee O Lord among the people I will sing unto thee among the nations Psal â—7 7 8 9. Psal 108. 1 2. I will sing of thy power yea I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning for thou hast been my defence c. Psal 59. 16 17. Psal 62. 7. Praise waiteth for thee O God in Sion c. Psal 65. 1. Isa 12. Make a joyful noise unto God all ye saints sing forth the honour of his name make his praise glorious c. All the earth shall worship thee and shall sing unto thee Oh bless our God ye people c. Come hear c. all ye who fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my soul I cried c. Blessed be God who hath not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from me Psal 66. 1 2 4 8 16 17 20. Psal 81. 1. Sing unto God sing praises unto his name extol him who rideth upon the heavens c. A Father to the fatherless c. Psal 68. 4 5. I will praise the Lord with a song and will magnifie him with thanksgiving this also shall please the Lord better than an ox c. Psal 69. 30 31. By thee have I been holpen up from my womb my praise shall be continually of thee
with the midwives c. Exod. 1. 17 20 21. I will at this time send all my plagues c. that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth c. He who feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants c. flee into the houses Ezod 9. 14 16 20. ch 10. 1 2. Israel saw that great work of drowning the Egyptians c. which the Lord did and the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord Exod. 14. 31. The sea covered them c. Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods or mighty ones Who like thee glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders Exod. 15. 10 11. When God appeared upon the mount with a found of a trumpet c. all the people that was in the camp trembled Exod. 19. 16 18. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in vain c. God appeared on Mount Zinai terribly that he people might fear him Exod. 20. 7 18 19 20. Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me and live Exod. 33. 20 21 23. Thou shalt not curse the deaf c. but shalt fear thy God I the Lord c. Levit. 19. 14 32. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another but thou shalt fear thy God for I am the Lord your God c. Levit. 25. 17 36 43. Did ever people hear the voice of God c. as thou hast heard and live c. Unto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God there is none else besides him Deut. 4. 32 33 35. Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would serve me and keep c. Deut. 5. 29. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him c. Deut. 6. 13. chap. 10. 20. 1 Sam. 12. 24. Understand therefore this day that the Lord thy God he who goeth over before thee as a consuming fire he shall destroy c. I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure wherewith the Lord was wroth against you c. Deut. 9. 3 19. And now Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God c. Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens are the Lord's c. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords a great God and a mighty and terrible who regardeth not persons nor taketh reward Deut. 10. 12 14 17. Read this law before all Israel c. that they may learn and fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. I I am he and there is no God with me I kill c. neither is there any who can deliver out of my hands c. If I whet my glittering sword c. Deut. 32. 39 41. That all the people of the earth may know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever Joshua 4. 24. Deut. 3. 24. There is none holy as the Lord c. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down unto the grave and bringeth up the Lord maketh poor c. 1 Sam. 2. 1 6 7 8. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God! 1 Sam. 6. 20. Then the earth trembled the foundations of heaven moved and shook because he was wroth there went up a smoke out of his nostrils c. 2 Sam. 22. 8 9 10 11 12. My servant Job c. one who feareth God and escheweth evil Job 1. 1 8. How should man be just with God! c. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength Who hath hardened against him and hath prospered who removeth the mountains and they know not who overturneth them in his anger who shaketh the earth out of her place and the pillars thereof tremble who commandeth the sun and it riseth not and sealed up the stars who alone spreadeth out the heavens c. Job 9. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Canst thou by searching find out God canst thou find out the Almighty Job 11. 7 8 9 10. The Lord hath wrought this in whose hand is the soul or life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind Job 12. 9 10. Will you speak wickedly for God c. Shall not his excellency make you afraid and his dread fall upon you Job 13. 7 8 11. Therefore am I troubled at his presence when I consider I am affraid of him Job 23. 15. Psalm 119. 120. And unto man he said Behold the fear of the Lord that is wisdom Job 28. 28. God said to Job None is so fierce who dare stir him up speaking of a creature Who then is able to stand before me Job 41. 10. Stand in awe and sin not Psalm 4. 4. Nehem. 5. 9 15. Who is the king of glory the Lord of hosts he is this king of glory Psalm 24. 10. What man is he who feareth the Lord him he shall teach in the way which he shall chuse c. The secret of the Lord is with them who fear him and he will shew them his covenant Psalm 25. 12 13 14. O! how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them who fear thee Psalm 31. 19. He gathereth the waters of the sea together and c. Let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him for he spake and it was done c. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them who fear him c. Psalm 33. 6 7 8 9 18. The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them who fear him and delivereth them c. O fear the Lord ye his saints for there is no want unto them who fear him c. Hearken unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord Psalm 34. 7 9 11. The transgression of the wicked saith Within my heart there is no fear of God before his eyes Psalm 36. 1. He uttereth his voice the earth melteth Psalm 46. 6. The Lord most high is terrible he is a great king over all the earth Psalm 47. 2. Because they have no changes therefore they fear not God Psalm 55. 19. To him who rideth upon the heavens of heavens of old lo he doth send or give out his voice a mighty voice c. His excellency over Israel and his strength in the clouds or Heavens O God thou art terrible out of thy holy places Psalm 68 33 34 35. At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep Thou thou art to be feard and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry c. The earth feared and was still Psalm 76. 6 7 8. Surely his salvation is nigh them who fear him Psalm 85. 9. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the
hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him faith the Lord Do not I fill heaven and earth c. Jer. 23. 24. The great the mighty God the Lord of hosts is his name great in counsel and mighty in word c. I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever c. I will put my fear into their hearts Jer. 32. 18 19 39 40. The children of Israel c. shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days Hosea 3. 5. The Lord shall utter his voice before his army c. for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible and who can abide it Joel 2. 11. I fear the Lord the God of heaven c. Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly c. Jonah 1. 9 16. God is jealous the Lord revengeth c. He rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry c. The mountains quake at him and the hills melt c. Nahum 1. 2 3 4 5 6. It I be a master where is my fear c. I am a great King faith the Lord of hosts and my name is dreadful amongst the heathen Mal. â— 6 14. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerer c. and against those c. who fear not me saith the Lord of hosts c. A book of remembrance was written before him for them who feared the Lord and that thought of his name And they shall be mine saith the Lord Mal. 3. 5 16 17. But unto you who fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall grow c. Mat. 4. 2. Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell Matth. 10. 28. His mercy is on them who fear him from generation to generation he hath shewed strength c. He hath put down the mighty c. Luke 1. 50 51 52 53. The most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands c. Heaven is my throne c. Hath not my hand made all these things Acts 7. 48 49 50. The Churches were edified and walked in the fear of the Lord Acts 9. 31. Cornelius c. a devout man and one who feared God with all his house c. In every nation he who feareth him c. is accepted with him Acts 10. 2 35. ch 13. 26. God who made the world and all things therein seeing he is God c. Acts 17. 24 25 c. All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 13. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. 31. So terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly fear and quake c. Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear For our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12. 21 28. 29. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 1 Pet. 1. 17. 2 Cor. 7. 1. Fear God 1 Pet. 2. 17. Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come Rev. 14. 7. 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 Rev. 15. 3 4. To trust in God and in none else in all Cases The Arguments thereto I. Not in any else THE Babel builders trusted to a City and Tower for their security but God scattered them Gen. 11. 1 2 c. There is none besides thee neither is there any rock like unto God 1 Sam. 2. 2. Because thou hast relied on the King of Affyria and not relied on the Lord thy God therefore is the host of the King of Syria escaped out of thy hands c. Asa in his Disease sought not to the Lord but to the Physicians 2 Chron. 16. 7 12. I would seek unto God unto him would I commit my cause Job 5. 8. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host A mighty man is not delivered by much strength A horse is a vain thing for safety neither shall he deliver by his great strength Psalm 33. 16 17. Isa 31. 1 3. Job 15. 31. Psalm 20. 7. I will not trust in my bow nor shall my sword save me Thou hast saved Psalm 44. 6 7. They who trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches None can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ranson for him c. that he should live for ever Psalm 49. 6 7 9. Ezek. 7. 19. Lo this is the man who made not God his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches But I trusted in the mercy of God for ever Psal 52. 7 8. Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man Psal 60. 11. Surely men of low degree are vanity men of high degree a lye to be â—aid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity Trust not in oppression c. Psal 62. 9 10. Put not your trust in princes nor in the sons of men in whom is no help his breath goeth forth he turneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish Psal 146. 3 4. Psalm 118. 8 9. He who trusted unto his riches shall fall Prov. 11. 28. He who trusteth in his own heart is a fool Prov. 28. 26. Create from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of Isa 2. 22. What will ye do in the day of your visitation c. to whom will ye flee for help c. Isa 10. 3 4. ch 20. 6. Thou didst not look in that day unto the armour of the house of the forest c. ye made also a ditch between the two walls c. But ye have notlooked unto the maker thereof Isa 22. 8 9 10 11. Wo unto the repellious children c. who take counsel but not of me c. who walk to go down to Egypt and have not asked at my mouth to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharoah and to trust in the shadow of Egypt Therefore shall the strength of Pharoah be your shame and the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion c. For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose c. Their strength is to â—it still c. No we will flee upon horses therefore shall ye flee c. Isa 30. 1 2 3 5 7 15 16 17. ch 1. 23 29 c. Wo to them who go to Egypt c. Stay on horses and trust in chariots because many c. Isa 31. 1 3. Thou hast trusted in thy wickedness thou hast said None seeth c. Thou hast said in thine heart I am and none else besides me c Stand now with thine enchantments c. let them stand up and save thee c. Behold they shall be as stuble c. None shall save thee Isa 47. 10 11 12
13 14 15. Let thy companions deliver thee but the wind shall carry them all away vanity shall take them Isa 57. 13. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitudes of mountains c. Jer. 3. 23. Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord c. Jer. 7. 4. Trust ye not in any brother for every brother will utterly supplant Jer. 9. 4 5. This is thy portion c. because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in falshood Therefore still I discover thy skirts upon thy face c. Jer. 13. 25 26. Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the man who who trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from God for he shall be like the heath in the desert c. Jer. 17. 5 6. For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures thou shalt also be taken c. Jer. 48. 7. Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys c. O back-sliding daughter who trustest in her treasures saying Who shall come unto me Behold I will bring fear upon thee saith the Lord of host Jer. 49. 4 5 16. As for us our eyes as yet failed for our vain hope in our watching we have watched for a nation which could not save us Lam. 4. 17. Egypt shall know c. because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel When they took hold of thee by thy hand thou didst break and rent all their shoulders And when they leaned upon thee thou breakest all their loins c. Ezek. 29. 6 7. Isa 20. 5 6. They shall know that I am the Lord when I have set a fire in Egypt and when all her helpers shall be destroyed Ezek. 30. 8. Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart they call to Egypt they go to Assyria when they shall go I will spread my net upon them I will bring them down c. Wo unto them for they have fled from me Hosea 7. 11 12 13. Jer. 2. 36 37. Ephraim feedeth upon wind c. they do make a covenant with the Assyrians c. Hosea 12. 1. Wo unto them who are at ease or secure in Zion and trust in the mountains of Samaria Amos 6. 1. Trust ye not in a friend put ye not confidence in a guide keep the door of thy mouth from her who lyeth in thy bosom For the son dishonoureth the father c. Micah 7. 5 6. Charge them who are rich c. that they trust not in uncertain riches c. 1 Tim. 6. 17. We had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves 2 Corin. 1. 9. II. In God alone a suitable Object GOD said Let their be light and there was light c. Gen. 1. 3 6 9 c. When Sarah doubted of the promise because of her age The Lord said to Abraham Wherefore did Sarah laugh saying Shall I of surety bear a child which am old Is any thing too hard for the Lord Gen. 18. 12 13 14. Luke 1. 37. When Hagar was fainting and thought there was no way but death with her child God shewed her a well of water c. Gen. 21. 15 16 17 18 19. When Joseph's Brethren had conspired to kill him God works for his deliverance Gen. 37. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 c. When God was sending Moses upon a great Work Moses said unto the Lord O my Lord I am not eloquent c. but I am slow of speech c. And the Lord said unto him Who hath made man's mouth Or who maketh the dumb or the deaf or the seeing or the blind Have not I the Lord Now therefore go and I will be with thy mouth c. Exod. 4. 10 11 12. And Moses said unto the people Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will shew to you to day c. the Lord shall fight for you c. And the Angel of God which went before the camp removed and went behind them between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel c. Led them through the Red-sea Exod. 14. 13 14 19 20 21 22. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever Exod. 15. 18. The Lord c. proclaimed the name of the Lord The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sin c. Exod. 34. 5 6 7. And Moses said The people amongst whom I am are six hundred thousand c. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them c. And the Lord said unto Moses Is the Lord's hand waxed short Thou shalt see c. Numb 11. 21 22 23. God is not a man that he should lye neither the son of man that he should repent Hath he said and shall he not do Or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Behold c. he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it Heb. 6. 18. Numb 23. 19 20. Tit. 1. 2. What god is there in heaven or earth that can do according to thy works and according to thy might Deut. 3. 24. Unto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God there is none else besides him c. Deut. 4. 35 39. Know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love him c. Deut. 7. 9. Understand therefore this day that the Lord thy God he who goeth before thee as a consuming fire he shall destroy them and he shall bring them down before thy â—ace so shalt thou drive them out c. Deut. 9. 3. ch 31. 6. There shall be no man able to stand before you for the Lord your God shall lay the sear of you c. Deut. 11. 25. Josh 5. 1. 2 Chron. 14. 14. chap. 17. 10. Their rock is not as our Rock the enemies themselves being judges c. See now that I I am he and there is no god with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal Neither is there any who can deliver out of my hand for I lift up my hand to heaven and say I live for ever Deut. 32. 31 39 40. There is none like unto the God of Jesurun who rideth upon the heaven for thy help and in his excellency on the sky The eternal God thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee c. Deut. 33. 26 27. Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you c. Josh 3. 10. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you all are come to pass unto you and not one thing hath failed thereof c. Josh 23. 14. chap. 21.
Lord reigneth the Lord is cloathed with majesty the Lord is clothed with strength c. Psal 93. 1. Psal 97. 1. Psal 146. 10. Rev. 19. 6. The righteous c. he shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord Psal 112. 6 7. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes Psal 118. 8 9. My help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and earth c. Behold he who keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep Psal 121. 2 3 4. They who trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion which cannot be removed c. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever Psal 125. 1 2. The Lord great and our God above all gods Whatsoever the Lord pleaseth did he in heaven and in earth Psal 135. 5 6. Happy is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that therein if who keepeth truth for ever Psal 146. 5 6. He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds He telleth the number of the stars Great is our God and of great power his understanding is infinite c. Psal 147. 2 3 4 c. Trust to the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths Prov. 3. 5 6. Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established c. Man's heart deviseth his way but the Lord directeth his steps c. Whoso trusteth in the Lord happy is he Prov. 16 3 9 20. The name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runneth into it and are safe Prov. 18. 10. There is no wisdom or understanding nor counsel against the Lord. The horse is prepared against the day of battel but safety or Victory is of the Lord Prov. 21. 30 31 ch 19. 21. Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be sate Many seek the rulers favour but every mans judgment is from the Lord Prov. 29. 25 26. If ye will not believe surely ye shall not be established Isa 7. 9. Associate your selves c. take counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand for God is with us Isa 8. 9 10. Jer. 1. 18 19. I will trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my refuge Isa 12. 2. For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed and who shall disannul it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back Isa 14. 27. There shall be desolation because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength Isa 17. 10. Thou hast been a strength to the poor a strength to the needy in his distress a refuge from a storm a shadow from the hear when the blast of the terrible ones is a storm against the wall Isa 25. 4. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee trust ye in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength for he bringeth down c. Isa 26. 3 4. Behold the Lord a mighty and a strong one Isa 28. 2 6. The Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose therefore have I cried concerning this Their strength is to sit still c. For thus saith the Lord God the holy one of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would not c. Isa 30. 7 15 16. Behold the Lord God will come c. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd c. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven c. Isa 40. 10 11 12. I the Lord the first and with the last I am he c. Isa 41. 4. ch 44. 6. When thou passest â—horow the waters c. they shall not overflow thee c. For I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy Saviour c. And besides me there is no Saviour c. I will work and who shall let it c. Isa 43. 2 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. ch 45. 21. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer and he who formed thee from the womb I the Lord who maketh all things who stretcheth forth the heavens c. who confirmeth the word of his servant and performeth the counsel of his messengers c. who saith to the deep Be dry Isa 44. 24 25 26 27. I am the Lord and there is none else I form the light and create darkness c. O God of Israel the Saviour Isa 45. 6 7 15 21. My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure Isa 46. 10. Is my hand shortned at all that I cannot redeem or have I no power to deliver Behold at my rebuke I dry up the sea c. Who is among you who feareth the Lord c. who fit in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord c. and stay upon his God Isa 50. 2 3 10. Isa 8. 17. ch 59. 1. Psalm 115. 11. Fear not c. for thy maker is thy husband the Lord of hosts is his name and thy redeemer the holy one of Israel the God of the whole earth Isa 54. 4 5. But he who putteth his trust in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain Isa 57. 13. Behold the Lord's hand is not shortned that it cannot save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear but your iniquities have separated Isa 59. 1 2. ch 50. 2. Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters c. O Lord the hope of Israel Jer. 17. 7 8 13. Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh is there any thing too hard for me Jer. 32. 27. I will surely deliver thee c. because thou hast put thy trust in me saith the Lord Jer. 39. 18. Leave thy fatherless c. and let the widows trust in me Jer. 49. 11. Their Redeemer is strong the Lord of hosts the Lord of hosts is his name he shall throughly plead their cause c. Jer. 50. 34. I the Lord have spoken and will do Ezek. 22. 14. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us c. and he will deliver us Dan. 3. 17 28. Daniel was taken out of the den and no manner of hurt was found upon him because he believed in his God Dan. 6. 23. Blesâ—ed be God c. for wisdom and might are his he changeth the times c. removeth kings c. Dan. 2. 20 21 22
for him fret not thy self c. because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass c. Fret not thy self in any wise to do evil c. Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee c. Psalm 37. 5 7 8 34. And now Lord what wait I for my hope is in thee Psal 39. 7. I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry he brought me up out of an horrible pit out of the mire Psalm 140. 1 2. Why art thou cast down O my soul why art thou disquieted in me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him Psalm 42. 6 11. Psalm 43. 5. God our refuge c. a very present help in time of trouble Psalm 46. 1. O God thou my God early will I seek thee my soul thirâ—teth for thee c. My soul wait thou only upon God for my expectation is only from him he only my rock and c. Psalm 62. 1 5. I am weary of my crying my throat is dried mine eyes fail while I wait for my God Psal 69. 3. Psalm 119. 123. Isa 38. 14. But I will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more Psalm 71. 14. Psalm 52. 9. Thou O Lord art a God full of compassion and gracious long suffering and plenteous in mercy and truth Psalm 86. 15. Psalm 111. 4. Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Thou turnest Man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men Psalm 90. 2 3. The Lord will not cast off his people neither will he forsake his inheritance Psalm 94. 14. Deut. 31. 6 8 The Lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger plenteous in mercy he will not always chide neither will he keep anger for ever c. Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them who fear him c. The mercy of God is from everlasting to everlasting Psalm 103. 8 9 13 17. Psalm 78. 38 39. These all wait on thee that thou mayest give them their meat in due season Psalm 104. 27. They soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel Psalm 106. 13. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion he hath given meat unto them who fear him he will ever be mindful of his covenant Psalm 111. 4 5. Psalm 116. 5. Psalm 112. 4. My soul fainteth for thy salvation I hope in thy word Psalm 119. 49 81. Behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters c. so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until he have mercy upon us Psalm 123. 2. I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope c. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they who watch for the morn let Israel hope in the Lord for with the Lord is mercy and plenteous redemption Psal 130. 5 6 7. Our bones are scattered c. but mine eyes are unto thee O God the Lord Psalm 141. 7 8. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy the Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works c. The Lord upholdeth all that fall c. The eyes of all wait upon or look unto thee and thou givest them their meat in due season Thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing Psalm 145. 8 9 14 15 16. Happy is he c. whose hope is in the Lord his God Psalm 146. 5. The Lord taketh pleasure in them c. who hope in his mercy Psalm 147. 11. Hope deserred maketh the heart sick but when it cometh c. Prov. 13. 12. Say not thou I will recompence evil wait on the Lord and he shall save thee Prov. 20. 22 If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small Prov. 24. 10. I will wait upon the Lord who hideth his face from the house of Jacob and I will look for him c. Should not a people seek unto the Lord Isa 8. 17 19. At that day shall a man look to his Maker and his eyes shall have respect unto the holy One of Israel and he shall not look to the altars Isa 17. 7 8. And it shall be said in that day Lo this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this the Lord we have waited for him Isa 25. 9. In the way of thy judgment O Lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to the remembrance of thy name With my soul have I desired thee in the night c. Isa 26. 8 9. He who believeth shall not make haste Isa 28. 16. Wo to the rebellious children who take counsel but not of me and who cover with a covering but not of my Spirit c. Their strength is to sit still c. For thus saith the Lord the holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved In quietness and conâ—idence shall be your strength and ye would not c. therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you c. for the Lord is a God of judgment blessed are all they who wait for him Isa 30. 1 7 15 18. Wo to them who go down to Egypt for help c. but they look not to the holy One of Israel neither seek the Lord Isa 31. 1. O Lord be gracious to us we have waited for thee Isa 33. 2. Hast thou not known c. the everlasting God the Lord the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding he giveth power c. But they who wait upon the Lord shall renew strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint Isaiah 40. 28 29 30 31. Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of earth for I am God and there is none else Isa 45 22. Thou shalt know that I am the Lord for they shall not be ashamed who wait for me Isaiah 49. 23. Who is among you who feareth the Lord c. and walks in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Isa 50. 10. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither hath the eye seen O God besides thee what he hath prepared for him who waiteth for him Isaiah 64. 4. I am the Lord who exercise loving-kindness judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord Jer. 9. 24. O the hope of Israel the saviour thereof in time of trouble c. Are there any among the vanities of the heathen who can cause rain c. Art not thou he O Lord our God therefore will we want upon thee for thou hast made all these things Jer. 14. 8 22. ch 17. 13. Blessed is
Exod. 3. 11. Moses c. said c. Thus saith the Lord c. How long wilt thou refuse to humble thy self before me Exod. 10. 3. I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them Exod. 18. 11. Hath the Lord spoken only by Moses hath he not spoken also by us And the Lord heard c. and the anger of the Lord was kindled against them Numb 12. 1 2 9. Korah Dathan and Abiram and others gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron and said unto them Ye take too much upon you or it is much for you seeing all the Congregation are holy every one of them and the Lord is among them Wherefore then lift you up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord c. Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram c. who said We will not come up c. God was angry and the earth opened and swallowed them up Numb 16. 1 2 3 12 21 31 32. Israel warned that when they should be full they should not be lifted up in heart Deut. 8. 10 11 12 13 14. Speak not thou in thine heart after that the Lord thy God hath cast them cut from before thee saying For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land c. Understand therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness for thou a stiff-necked people c. Deut. 9. 4 5 6. Saul hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands and Saul was very wrath and the saying displeased him and he said They have asscribed unto David ten thousands and to me they have ascribed one thousand and can he have more but the kingdom 1 Sam. 18. 7 8. I will yet be more vile than thus and will be base in my mine own sight 2 Sam. 6. 22. But thine eyes are upon the haughty that thou mayst bring them down 2 Sam. 22. 28. Obadiah vers 3 4. Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself c. because he humbleth himself before me I will not bring the evil in his days 1 Kings 21. 25 27 29. Naaman was wroth and went away and said Behold I thought he would surely have come out unto me c. Are not c. rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel c. So he went away in a rage c. 2 Kings 5. 10. 11 12 13 14. Because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy self before the Lord c. behold therefore c. thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring c. 2 Kings 22. 19 20. What am I what is my people that we should be able to offer c. of thine own have we given thee 1 Chron. 29. 14. When Uzziah was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction 2 Chron. 26. 16. But Hezekiah rendred not again according to the benefit done unto him for his heart was lifted up therefore there was wrath upon him c. Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart or lifting up of his heart so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah God left them c. that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32 25 26 31. Isai 39. Haman his Pride put him upon Revenge and Blood and that proved his ruine Hester 3. 5 6. ch 5. 5 9 10 c. ch 7. What is man that thou shouldst magnifie him and that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him Job 7. 17. Psalm 144. 3. Psalm 90. 5 6. For vain or empty man would be wise though man be born like a wild Asses colt Job 11. 11 12. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble for thou writest bitter things against me Job 13. 25 26. Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble he cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not and dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one Job 14. 1 2 3 4. Psal 144. 3. When men are cast down then thou shalt say There is lifting up and he shall save the humble person Job 22. 29. The stars are not pure in his sight how much less man a worm Job 25. 5 6. ch 35. 5 6 7 8. Elihu being young would not speak before the old men had spoken Job 32. 4 5 6. Job said Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth Once have I spoken c. but I will proceed no farther Job 40. 2 3 4. Ezra 9. 10 13. Now mine eye seeth thee wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 42. 5 6. When I consider the heavens c. what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him Psalm 8. 3 4. Hebr. 2. 6. Psal 144. 3 4. He forgetteth not the cry of the humble Psalm 9. 12. Psalm 10. 17. But I a worm and no man Psalm 22. 6. The Lord is nigh unto them who are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit Psalm 34. 18. Every man at his best estate is altogether vanity Psalm 39. 5 11. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Psalm 51. 17. Surely men of low degree are vanity men of high degree a lye to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity Psalm 62. 9. Psalm 146. 3 4. So foolish and ignorant was I as a beast before thee Psalm 73. 22. If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psalm 130. 3. Lord my heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty c. Psalm 131. 1 2. Though the Lord be high yet hath he respect unto the lowly but the proud he knoweth afar off Psalm 138. 6. Lord what is man that thou takest knowledge of him c. that thou makest account of him Man's like vanity Psalm 144. 3 4. Be not wise in thine own eyes c. Surely he scorneth the scorners but he giveth grace unto the lowly Prov. 3. 7 34. These things doth the Lord hate a proud look or haughty eyes Prov. 6. 16 17. Pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is wisdom Prov. 11. 2. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes Prov. 12. 15. Only by pride cometh contention Prov. 13. 10. Before honour is humility Prov. 15. 33. ch 18. 12. All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes c. every one who is proud in heart is an abomination unto the Lord c. Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty look before a fall better be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil
with the proud Prov. 16. 2 5. 18 19. ch 18. 12. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his maker Prov. 17. 5. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness or bounty Prov. 20. 6. Every way of man is right in his own eyes but the Lord pondereth the heart Prov. 21. 2. Put not forth thy self in the presence of the King and stand not in the place of great men For better it is that it be said unto thee Come up hither than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the Prince Prov. 25. 6 7. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a fool than of him Prov. 26. 12. Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips The full soul loatheth the honey-comb but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet Prov. 27. 2 7. He who is of a proud heart stirreth up strife Prov. 28. 25. A man's pride shall bring him low but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit Prov. 29. 23. Surely I am more brutish than man and have not the understanding of a man c. There is a generation pure in their own eyes and yet not washed from their filthiness c. how lofty are c. Prov. 30. 2 12 13. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of man shall be brought down c. for the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one who is proud and lofty and upon every one who is lifted up and he shall be brought low c. Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of Isaiah 2. 11 12 13 17 22. ch 5. 15. Job 9. 13. Wo unto them who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight Isa 5. 21. Wo is me c. I am of unclean lips c. for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts Isa 6. 5. I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks for he saith By the strength of my hand I have done it c. Shall the ax boast it self against him that heweth therewith c. Therefore shall the Lord the Lord of Hosts send among his fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle a fire c. The high ones of stature shall be hewn down and the haughty shall be humbled Isa 10. 12 13 15 16 33. ch 14. 11 12 13 14 15. The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it to stain or pollute the pride of all glory to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth Isa 23. 9. Hear you scornful men c. because you say we have made a covenant with death c. it shall be broken c. Isa 28. 14 15 18. Thus saith the high and lofty One c. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also who is of an humble and contrite spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite Isa 57. 15. Thus faith the Lord The heaven is my throne c. but to this man will I look to him who is pure and contrite in spirit and trembleth at my word Isa 66. 1 2. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the mighty man in his might c. Jer. 9. 23. I will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem c. who shall refuse to hear my word c. Jer. 13. 9 10 15 17 18. O house of Israel cannot I do with you as this potter faith the Lord behold as the clay is in the potters hands so ye in mine hand O house of Israel Jer. 18. 6. When the prophet Jeremiah had spoken the words of the Lord to the people then spake Azariah c. and all the proud men saying unto Jeremiah Thou speakest falsly The Lord our God hath not sent thee to say c. Jer. 42. 1 2. Behold I am against thee O thou most proud or pride faith the Lord God of Hosts c. And the most proud shall stumble and fall c. Jer. 50. â—1 32. Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom pride c. and the more haughty c. Ezek. 16. 49 50. Thus faith the Lord c. exalt him that is low and abase him who is high Ezek. 21. 26. God threatens the Prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious Pride Ezek. 28. 1 c. When the King said unto Daniel Art thou able to make known unto me the dream c. Daniel answered c. There is a God in heaven who revealeth secrets c. but as to me this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living Dan. 2. 25 26 27 28 30. Is not this great Babylon which I have built by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty While the word was in the king's mouth there fell a voice c. saying c. The kingdom is departed from thee c. He was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen c. Those who walk in pride he is able to abase Dan. 4. 29 30 31 32 33 37. Isa 27. 4. When his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride or to deal proudly he was deposed from his kingly throne and took his glory from him c. and thou his son Belshazzar hast not humbled thine heart although thou knewest all this but hast lifted up thy self against the Lord of heaven c. Dan. 5. 20 21 22 23. Their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me Hosea 13. 6. He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly c. and walk humbly with thy God Micah 6. 8. Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him Habbak 2. 4. Moab shall be as Sodom c. This shall they have for their pride because they reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of Hosts Zephan 2. 9 10 Jerem. 48. 26 27 29. Behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just c. lowly Zech. 9. 9. The day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud c. shall be stubble Mal. 4. 1. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 3. The Centurion answered and said Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof Matth. 8. 7 8 Luke 7. 6 7. Thou Capernaum which art exalted unto heaven shall be brought down to hell For if the c. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest Matth. 11. 23 29. Whosever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 4. Luke 9. 46 47 48. Mark 10. 15. When the ten heard it
c. Gal. 5. 26. For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself Gal. 6. 3. Unto me who am less than the least of all Saints is this grace given Eph. 3. 8. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness c. unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Ephes 4. 1 2. Submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God Ephes 5. 21. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than himself look not every man on his own things c. Let the same mind be in you which also was in Christ c. He humbled himself c. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Philip. 2. 3 4 5 8 10. Not that I am already perfect but I press forward c. Philip. 3. 12 13 14. I know how to be abased and I know how to abound Every where and in all things I am instructed c. Philip. 4. 12. Charge them who are rich that they be not high-minded c. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4. Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved c. humbleness of mind meekness c. Col. 3. 12. If any man teacheth otherwise c he is proud knowing nothing doing c. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left of entring into his rest any of us should seem to come short of it Heb. 4. 1. The rich in that he is made low because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away James 1. 10 11. Isa 40. 6 7. 8. 1 Pet. 1. 24. Have not the faith of our Lord Jesus with respect of persons for if there come into your assemblies a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel and there come in also a poor man in vile rayment and ye have respect unto him who weareth the gay cloathing and say unto him Sit thou here in a good place or well or seemly and say unto the poor Stand thou there or sit here under my foot-stool are you not then partial in your selves c. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith c. Ye have despised the poor James 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6. My brethren be not many masters knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation For in many things we offend all c. James 3. 1 2. God resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble Submit your selves therefore to God c. humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall liâ—t you up James 4. 6 7 10. All flesh is as grass and the glory of man as the flower of grass the grass withereth the flower falleth 1 Pet. 1. 24. Likewise ye younger submit your selves to the elder yea all be subject one to another and be cloathed with humility for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 1 Pet. 5. 5 6. Thou sayest I am rich and increased with goodâ— and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked Rev 3. 17. See more Chap. 22. Of Submission to God in Affliction See Death Chap. 34. See Saints Sayings Chap. 13. Psal 117. To be moderate meek patient and quiet in all things And the Encouragement thereto SImeon and Levi are brethren instruments of cruelty or their swords are weapons of violence O my soul come not thou into their secret c. for in their anger they slew a man and in their self-will they digged down a wall Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel Gen. 49. 5 6 7. Gen. 34. 2â— 26 27. Now the man Moses was very meek above all the men upon the face of the earth Numb 12. 3. When Eli had charged Hannah with Drunkenness she meekly answered No my lord c. 1 Sam. 1. 15 16 17. David had rashly and hastily resolved to have avenged himself upon Nabal and his house And he blessed God for Abigail's Counsel which hindred him 1 Sam. 25. 22 32 33 34. With the froward thou wilt shew thy self unsavoury or thou wilt wrestle 2 Sam. 22. 27. The meek shall eat and be satisfied Psal 22. 26. The meek will he guide in judgment and the meek will he teach his way Psal 25. 9. Fret not thy self because of evil-doers neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity Fret not c. because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass c. Cease from anger and forsake wrath fret not thy self in any wise to do evil c. But the meek shall inherit the earth Psal 37. 1 7 8 11. The earth feared c. when God arose to judgment to save all the meek of the earth Psal 76. 8 9. Psal 149. 4. A froward heart shall depart from me Psal 101. 4. 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. The Lord lifteth up the meek Psal 147. 6. Put away from thee a froward mouth and perverse lips put far Prov. 4. 24. They who are of a froward heart are an abomination to the Lord Prov. 11. 20. A fool's wrath is presently known but a wise man hideth shame Prov. 12. 16. Onâ—y by pride cometh contention but with the well-advised is wisdom Prev 13. 10. He who is soon angry dealeth foolishly c. He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding but he who is hasty or short of spirit exalteth folly Prov. 14. 17 29. A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger c. A wrathful man stirreth up strife but he who is slow to anger appeaseth strife Prov. 15. 1 18. A froward man soweth strife c. He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he who ruleth his spirit than he who taketh a city Prov. 16. 28 32. ch 25. 28. The beginning of strife is as the letting out of water c. He who hath a froward heart findeth no good and he who hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief Prov. 17. 14 20. The discretion of a man deferreth anger his glory to pass over a transgression c. A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment for if thou deliver him yet thou must do it again Prov. 19. 11 19. It is an honour to a man to cease from strife but every fool will be medling Prov. 20. 3. Make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man thou shalt not go Prov. 22. 24. As coals to burning coals and wood to fire so is a contentious man to kindle strife Prov. 26. 21. A stone is heavy c. but a fool's wrath is heavier
our Saviour in all things Titus 2. 5. 10. See Repentance Chap. 33. See Subduing of Sin Chap. 20. IV. God's Reasonings with Complainings of and Threatnings and Judgments against Sinners for their several Sins Disobedience and Rebellions IT is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Hebr. 10. 31. For our God is a consuming fire Hebr. 12. 29. With Adam and Eve for eating of the forbidden fruit Gen. 3. 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19. Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him And the Lord said unto Cain c. Now art thou cursed from the earth c. Gen. 4. 8 9 10 11 12. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth c. and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at heart And the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth c. for it repenteth me that I have made them Gen. 6. 5 6 7. Accordingly he did destroy them by the Flood Gen. 7. 4 22 23. I will require of man the life of man He who sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed Gen. 9. 5 6. Sâ—dom and Gomorrah because their sin was very grievous and the cry of them waxed great before the Face of the Lord he rained upon them Brimstone and Fire from the Lord out of Heaven and he overthrew those Cities and all the Plain and all the Inhabitants of the Cities c. Lot's Wife for her disobedience in looking back was turned into a Pillar of Salt Gen. 18. 20. ch 19. 13 24 25 26. God slew Er and Onan for their wickedness Gen. 38. 7 10. God met with Joseph's Brethren for their Sin in selling Joseph Gen. 44. 16. ch 42. 21. Many Plagues and Judgments against and upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians for their sins in not letting Israel go Exod. 7. ch 8. ch 9. ch 10. ch 11. ch 12. God said he would send his angel before Israel but he would not go up because they had sinned Exod. 33. 2 3 c. And the Lord said unto Moses I have seen this people and behold it is a stiff-necked people now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them c. Whosoever hath sinned against me him will I blot out of my book c. I visit their sin upon them And the Lord plagued the people because they made a calf Exod. 32. 9 10 33 34 35. God's Judgment upon Nadab and Abihu for offering strange Fire c. Levit. 10. 1 2. Defile not your selves in any of these things for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you c. therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land it self vomiteth out her inhabitants c. Ye shall not commit any of these abominations c. that the land spue not you out also when ye defile it as it spued out the nations which were before you Levit. 18. 24 25 26 28. But if ye will not hearken unto me c. I will appoint over you terrour c. And if you will not for all this hearken c. then will I punish you seven times more for your sins Levit. 26. 14 15 to 39. The people murmured or complained and it displeased the Lord and his anger was kindled and the fire of the Lord burned amongst them and consumed in the uttermost parts of their camp c. And they fell a lusting c. and said Who shall give us flesh to eat c. And while the flesh was yet between their teeth ere it was chewed the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people and the Lord smote the people with a great plague Numb 11. 1 4 5 20 32 33. And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses c. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them c. And Miriaâ— became leprous Numb 12. 1 2 9 10. The children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron and said Would God we had died in the land of Egypt c. Wherefore hath the Lord brought us into this land to fall by the sword that our wives and children should be a prey c. Let us make us a captain and let us return c. And the Lord said c. How long will it be ere they believe me c. I will smite them with the pestilence and dis-inherit them c. Surely they shall not see the land c. Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness c. But your little ones which you said should be a prey them will I bring in and they shall know the land which ye have despised c. Those who brought up the evil report upon the land died of the plague c. Numb 14. 1 2 3 4 11 12 22 23 29 31 32 36 37. Korah and his Company for rebelling against Moses and against Aaron were swallowed up of the earth c. The People murmured against Moses for this And God sent the plague amongst them Numb 16. 1 2 3 30 31 32 33 41 45 46. Aaron and Moses both died and were not suffered to enter into the Land because they rebelled against God's Word at the Waters of Meribah Numb 20. 12 23 24. Deut. 3. 27. ch 32. 48 49 50 51. ch 4. 21 22. O that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me c. Deut. 5. 29. The people spake against God and against Moses Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the Wilderness for there is no bread neither is there any water and our soul loatheth this light bread And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people and much people of Israel died Numb 21. 4 5 6. The people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab c. and bowed down to their gods c. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel and there was a plague amongst them whereof twenty and four thousand died Numb 25. 1 2 3 8 9. All the men who followed Baal Peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed them Deut. 4. 3. If thou do at all forget the Lord thy God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them I testifie against you this day that you shall surely perish as the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face Deut. 8. 19 20. ch 31. 16 17 18. For the iniquity of the nations the Lord thy God hath cast them out c. Deut. 9. 5. ch 18. 9 10 11 c. If thy brother c. thy daughter or thy wife c. entice thee secretly saying Let us go and serve other gods c. thou shalt not spare him thou shalt surely kill him c. Deut. 13. 6 7 8 9 c. If thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to
and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Go ye up upon her walls and destroy c. Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholden good things from you c. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land the prophets prophesie falâ—ly and the priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Jer. 5. 7 8 9 10 25 29 30 31. ch 9. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ezek 20. 15 16. Thus hath the Lord of hosts said c. Cast a mount against Jerusalem this is the city to be visited she is wholly oppression in the midst of her c. Be then instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee c. I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land saith the Lord for from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given unto covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priests every one dealeth falsly c. Hear O earth Behold I will bring evil upon this people c. Jer. 6. 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 18 19. ch 7. 8 9 c. They were not ashamed nor could they blush therefore shall they fall c. Jer. 8. 12 13 14 c. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Cursed be the man who obeyeth not the words of this covenant They are turned back unto the iniquity of their fathers who refuse to hear my words c. Therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to escape and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them c. Therefore pray not thou for this people for I will not hearken c. Jer 11. 3 10 11 12 14. ch 35 17. ch 14. 11 12. ch 18. 17. Their tongue is as an arrow c. Shall I not visit them for these things saith the Lord Jer. 9. 8 9. What wilt thou say when I shall punish thee c. Shall not sorrow take thee as a woman in travail c. For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered c. Wo c. Wilt thou not be made clean c. Jer. 13. 10 14 21 22 27. ch 14. 11 12. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be towards this people cast them out of my sight c. such as are for death to death c. Who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem who shall bemoan thee c. Thou hast forsaken me saith the Lord Jer. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 c. Ye have done worse than your fathers for behold ye walk every one after the imaginations of his own heart that ye may not hearken unto me therefore will I cast you out of this land c. Jer. 16. 9 11 12 13 c. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond is graven upon the tables of their heart c. Jer. 17. 1 23 27. Return ye c. And they said There is no hope but we will walk after our own doings c. Jer. 18. 11 12 15 16 c. The land is full of adulterers for because of swearing or cursing the land mourneth the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up Jer. 23. 10 39 40. As the evil figs c. so will I give the king and the princes and the residue of Jerusalem which remain in this land and them who dwell in the land of Egypt I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt to be a reproach c. And I will send the sword the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land Jer. 24. 8 9 10. ch 25 7 8 9 10 11. Thus saith the Lord If they will hearken and turn every man from his evil way that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do because of the evil of their doings c. If ye will not c. then will I make this house like Shilo and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth Jer. 26. 2 3 4 5 6. God threatned and punished many for Prophesying falsly and lyes to Israel Jer. 28. 15 16 17. ch 29. 21 31 32. Thus saith the Lord Thy bruise is incurable c. for the multitude of thine iniquity thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee Jer. 30. 12 13 14 15. Because of all the evil of the children of Israel c. this city c. shall be delivered into the hand c. Jer. 32. 32 c. Ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty every man unto his brother and every man to his neighbour Behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the Lord to the sword and to the pestilence c. Jer. 34. 1 17. This Jerusalem c. hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations c. Therefore thus saith the Lord I even I am against thee c. therefore the fathers shall eat the sons c. Ezek. 5. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. When God had shewed Ezekiel Judah's abominations he saith unto him Therefore will I also deal in fury mine eyes shall not spare neither will I have pity And though they cry c. will I not hear them Ezek. 8. 18. ch 9. 8 9 10. ch 7. 3 4 8 9. But as for them whose heart walketh c. I will recompence their way upon their own head The glory of the Lord left in the City Ezek. 11. 21 22 23. When the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously then will I stretch out my hand upon it and will break the staff of bread thereof and will send famine upon it and will cut off man and beast c. Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver but their own souls c. Ezek. 14. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Pride fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was Sodom's sins for which God took her away Ezek. 16. 49 50. Thus saith the Lord God Are ye come to enquire of me As I live saith the Lord God I will not be enquired of by you c. Ezek. 20. 1 2 3 4. God reckons up many sins of Jerusalem and then says Can thine heart endure Can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee I the Lord have spoken and will do it and will scatter thee c. Ezek. 22. 1 2 to the 15. When the righteous man turneth from his righteousness and committeth iniquity he shall even die thereby Ezek. 33. 12 13 18. The heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed against me therefore c. Ezek. 29. 23 24. The Kings of Babylon
punished for their Pride c. Dan. 4. 31 32. ch 5. Let her therefore put her whoredoms out of her sight c. lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day she was born c. and I will not have mercy upon her children c. Hosea 2. 2 3 4 5. The Lord hath a controversie with the land because no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out and blood toucheth blood therefore shall the land mourn c. Ephraim is joined to Idols let him him alone Hosea 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 c. 17. The pride of Israel doth testifie to his face therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity Judah also shall fall with them they shall go with the flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord but they shall not find he hath withdrawn himself from them They have dealt treacherously against the Lord Hosea 5. 3 4 5 6 7. Zechar. 7. 11 12 13. They consider not c. now their own doings have beset them about they c. Wo unto them for they have fled from me destruction unto them because they have transgressed c. They return not to the most high they are like a deceitful bow their princes shall fall by the sword c. Hosea 7. 2 13 14 15 16. Wo unto them when I depart from them for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house I will love them no more c. Hosea 9. 12 15 17. They hate him who rebuke in the gate they abhor him who speaketh uprightly c. I hate I despise your feast days and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies c. Amos 5. 10 11 12 21 22 23. Wo unto them who are at ease in Zion c. ye who put far away the evil day c. who lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches c. who chaunt to the sound of the viol and invent to themselves instruments of musick like David who drink wine in bowls c. but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph therefore now shall they go captive c. I abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his palaces Amos 6. 1 3 4 5 6 7 8. Isa 5. 11 12 13 22. Though they dig into hell thence shall my hand take them though they clamb up c. thence will I c. Amos 9. 2 3 c. They shall cry unto the Lord but he will not hear them he will ever hide his face from them as they behaved themselves ill in their doings c. They build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity the heads thereof judge for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire and the prophets thereof divine for money yet will they â—â—an upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us none evil can come upon us Therefore shall Zion for your sakes be plowed as a field and Jerusalem become heaps c. Micah 3. 3 4 5 10 11 12. ch 1. 1 2 3 4 5 6. God warned Ninevah of her Desolation for her sin if she repented not Jonah 1. 2. ch 3. 2 3 4. Hear ye O mountains the Lord's controversie c. for the Lord hath a controversie with his people and he will plead with Israel O my people what have I done unto thee and wherein have I wearied thee testifie against me for I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt c. There are yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked c. the rich men thereof are full of violence c. therefore also will I make thee sick c. Micah 6. 2 3 4 10 11 12 13 14 15. Amos 2. 4 5 6 c. Several woes pronounced against Persons for divers Sins Habbak 2. 6 9 12 15 19. Micah 2. 1 2 c. I will punish the princes and the king's children and all such who are clothed with strange apparel c. all those who leap on the threshold who fill their master's house with violence and deceit c. I will punish the men who are setled on their lees and say in their heart The Lord will not do good neither will he do evil c. and I will bring distress upon men c. because they have sinned c. He shall make a speedy riddance of all them who dwell in the land Zeph. 1. 8 9 12 17 18. Is this a time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lie waste c. Because of mine house that is waste and ye run every man to his own house therefore the heavens over you is stayed from dew and the earth is stayed from fruit and I called for a drought upon the land Haggai 1. 4 9 10 11. Cursed be the deceiver who hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing Mal. 1. 13 14. I will be a swift witness against the forcerers and against adulterers and against false-swearing and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages the widow and the fatherless that turn aside the stranger c. Ye are gone away from mine ordinances c. ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me c. your words have been stout against me saith the Lord yet ye say What have we spoken so much against thee ye have said It is in vain to serve God c. Mal. 3. 5 9 10 13 14. Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all who do wickedly shall be stubble and the day which cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch Mal. 4. 1. Christ pronounceth a wo against Chorazin Bethsaida and Capernaum for not repenting Matth. 11. 21 22 23 24. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto your selves that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets fill ye up then the measure of your fathers Ye serpents ye generation of vipers how can ye escape the damnation of hell Wherefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucifie and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias c. whom ye slew between the temple and the altar Verily I say unto you All these things shall come upon this generation O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou who killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy children together c. and ye would not Behold your house is left to you desolate Matth. 23. 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38. Annanias and Sapphira for their Lying to the Holy Ghost
from before you but they shall be in your sides and their gods shall be a snare unto you Judges 2. 2 3. Jephthah concerning his vow said I have opened my mouth unto the Lord and I cannot go back c. Judges 11. 31 35 39. Psal 116. 14 18. The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him all actions are weighed 1 Sam. 2. 3. God had said to Saul Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all which they have c. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep c. Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel saying It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king for he is turned back from following me and hath not performed my commandment 1 Sam. 15. 3 8 9 10 11. The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart 1 Sam. 16. 7. I was also upright before him c. With the upright thou wilt shew thy self upright 2 Sam. 22. 24 26. Psal 18. 23. Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercies according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee 1 Kings 3. 6. Thou thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men c. Let your hearts therefore be perfect with the Lord your God 1 Kings 8. 39 61. Psal 44. 21. If thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked in integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all c. Then I will establish c. 1 Kings 9. 4 5. It came to pass that when Solomâ—n was old c. his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of David c. he went not fully after the Lord c. 1 Kings 11. 4 6. Asa did that which was right c. but the high places were not removed nevertheless Asa his heart was perfect with the Lord all his days 1 Kings 15. 11 14. How long halt ye between two opinions If the Lord be God follow him 1 Kings 18. 21. Elijah and Micaiah the prophets both faithful to God in a bad time 1 Kings 19. 10. chap. 22. 13 14. Thy servant will not offer c. to any other gods but the Lord In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant When my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship c. and I bow my self c. 2 Kings 5. 11. 18. Many kings of Israel did that which was right c. but yet did not take away the high places 2 Kings 14. ch 15. Josiah turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his might according to all the Law of Moses c. 2 Kings 23. 25. ch 18. 3 4 5 6. Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God 1 Chron. 22. 10. 2 Chron. 11. 16. ch 15. 12 15. Know thou the God of thy fathers and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth c. 1 Chron. 28. 9. I know also my God that thou triest the heart and hast pleasure in uprightness As for me in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things 1 Chron. 29. 17. Prov. 17. 3. Rom. 8. 27. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of or strongly to hold with them whose heart is perfect towards him 2 Chron. 16. 9. Amaziah did that which is right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart 2 Chron. 25. 2. Hezekiah c. wrought that which was good and right c. he did it with all his heart and prospered 2 Chron. 31. 20 21. Job was a perfect and upright man and one who feared God c. Job 1. 1 8. Still be holdeth his integrity although thou movest me against him c. Job 2. 3. Behold God will not cast away a perfect man Job 8. 20. My foot hath held his steps his way have I kept and not declined c. Job 23. 11. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Job 27. 6. Psal 26. 11. Doth not he see all my ways and count all my steps Job 31. 4. ch 34. 21. No darkness c. where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves Job 34. 22. God who saveth the upright in heart Psal 7. 10. The Lords throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eye-â—â—ds try the children of men Psal 11. 4 5 Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. he who walketh uprightly Psal 15. 1 2. I have set the Lord always before me Psal 16. 8. The Lord preserveth the faithful Psal 31. 23. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal 37. 37. Forget all thine own people and thy fathers house so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty Psal 45. 10 11. Like sheep they are laid in the grave c. and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning Psal 49. 14. Behold thou desirest truth in the inner parts Psal 51. 6. My soul followeth hard after thee thy right hand c. Psal 63. 8. Psal 119. 60. All the upright in heart shall glory Psal 64. 10. Psal 97. 11. I will pay my vows which my mouth hath uttered c. when I was in trouble Psal 66. 13 14. Psal 116. 14 18. The Lord God c. will give grace and glory no good thing will he withhold from them who walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. They say the Lord shall not see c. He who planteth the ear shall he not hear He who formed the eye shall he not see c. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man Psal 94. 7 8 9 11 15. It is a people who do err in their hearts c. Psal 95. 10. Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart Psal 97. 11. I will behave my self wisely in a perfect way c. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart Psal 101. 2. Psal 26. 11. Unto the upright there shall arise a light in the darkness Psal 112. 4. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments I will praise thee with uprightness of heart c. My zeal hath consumed me c. Psal 119. 6 7 139. Do good O Lord unto c. them who are upright in their hearts as for such who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal 125. 4 5. O Lord thou hast searched me and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and up-rising thou understandest my thoughts afar off thou compassest my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways for there is not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether Psal 139. 1 2 3 4.
Ezek. 11. 5. The upright shall dwell in thy presence Ps 140. 13. If thou seek wisdom as silver c. and seek it as hid treasures c. then shalt thou understand c. The Lord is a buckler to them who walk uprightly Prov. 2. 4 5 6 7. My son c. let thine heart keep my commandments Prov. 3. 1. ch 23. 26. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life Prov. 4. 23. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord and he pondereth all his goings Prov. 5. 21. He who walketh uprightly walketh surely c. Prov. 10. 9. The integrity of the upright shall guide them c. the righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way c. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver him c. Such as are upright in the way are his delight Prov. 11. 3 5 6 20. He who walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord Prov. 14. 2. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good c. the prayers of the upright is his delight c. A man of understanding walketh uprightly Prov. 15. 3 8 21. All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes but the Lord weigheth the spirits Prov. 16. 2. The just man walketh in his integrity Prov. 20. 7. Every way of man is right in his own eyes but but the Lord pondereth the hearts Prov. 21. 2. My son give me thine heart Prov. 23. 26. Joe 2. 12 13. If thou sayest Behold we know it nor doth not he who pondereth the heart consider Prov. 24. 12. A faithful man shall abound with blessings Prov. 28. 20. The upright love thee or they love thee uprightly Cant. 1. 4. The way of the just is uprightness thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just Isa 26. 7. Hezekiah c. Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart c. Isa 38. 2. Hearken unto me c. the people in whose heart is my Law fear ye not Isa 51. 7. Is it such a fast I have chosen c. to bow down his head as a bull-rush c. Is not this the fast I have chosen to loose the bands of wickedness Isa 58. 5 6 7 8. From the prophet to the Priest every one dealeth falsly for they have healed the nurt of the daughter of my people lightly saying Peace c. Jer. 8. 20. 11. O Lord of Hosts who judgest righteously who triest the reins and the heart Jer. 11. 20. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it I the Lord search the heart and try the reins even to give every man according to his ways according to the fruit of his doings Jer. 17. 9 10. ch 32. 19. Rom. 8. 27. I am God at hand c. not a God afar off Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him saith the Lord Do not I fill heaven and earth Jer. 23. 23 24. Heb. 4. 12 13. Job 34. 22. Cursed be he who doth the work of the Lord deceitfully or negligently Jer. 48. 10. I know the things which come to your mind every one Ezek. 11. 5. Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the Kings meat c. Dan. 1. 8. Do not my word do good to him who walketh uprightly Micah 2. 7. Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him Habbak 2. 4. When ye fasted and mourned c. did ye at all fast unto me unto me Zechar. 7. 5 6 7. Ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick c. sacrificed to the Lord a corrupt thing c. Mal. 1. 13 14. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Matth. 5. 23. When thou dost alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth c. No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other ye cannot serve God and Mammon Matth. 6. 3 24. Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life c. Not every one who saith Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom c. Matth. 7. 13 14 21. Because they had not root they withered away Matth. 13. 5 6. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out c. those things which proceedeth out of the mouth cometh from the heart and they defile the man Matth. 15. 11 18. ch 23. 25 26. Jesus said If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Matth. 16. 24 25. The Lord said unto him who had improved his talents Well done thou good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee ruler over many things enter thou into the joy c. Matth. 25. 20 21. Watch c. the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak Matth. 26. 41. Teaching them to observe all things which I have commanded you Matth. 28. 20. When Jesus called the blind man he cast away his garment rose and came unto Jesus Mark 10. 50. Zacharias and Flizabeth walked in all the Ordinances and Commandments of the Lord blameless Luke 1. 5 6. Mary c. kept all these sayings in her heart Luke 2. 51. Simon James and John they forsook all and followed Christ c. Levi left all rose up and followed Christ when he had called him Luke 5. 10 11 27 28. Jesus said unto another Follow me but he said Lord suffer me first to go and bury my father c. Another said Lord I will follow thee but let me first go and bid them farewel c. Jesus said unto him No man having put his hand to the Plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God Luke 9. 59 61 62. ch 8. 14. Take heed of hypâ—risie for there is nothing hid which shall not be uncovered Luke 12. 1 2. If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple and whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple c. Whosoever he be among you who forsaketh not all he hath cannot be my disciple Luke 14. 26 27 33. No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one c. you cannot serve God and Mammon Ye are they who justifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. 13 15. Jesus saw Nathaniel c. and said of him Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile John 1. 47. God
have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger they are gone away backward Why should ye be stricken any more ye will revolt more and more c. They who forsake the Lord shall be consumed Isa 1. 2 4 5 28. There shall be desolation because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength c. Isa 17. 10. They who wait upon the Lord shall renew strength they shall mount up c. they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not saint Isa 40. 31 This people have I formed for my self c. but thou hast not called upon me O Jacob but thou hast been weary of me O Israel Thou hast nor c. Isa 43 21 22 23. He feedeth upon ashes and a deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a lye in my right hand Isa 44. 20. I remember c. the kindness of thy youth c. when thou wentest after me in the wilderness c. Thus saith the Lord What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain c. Pass over the Isles c. Hath a nation changed their gods c. But my people have changed their glory c. Be astonished O ye heavens c. for my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters hewed them out cisterns broken cisterns which can hold no water c. Hast thou not procured this to thy self in that thou hast forsaken the Lord c. Thy back-sliding shall reprove thee Know therefore and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God c. I had planted thee a noble vine c. how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me c. They have turned their back unto me and not their face c. Have I been a barren wilderness unto Israel a land of darkness Wherefore say my people We are lords we will come no more unto thee Can a maid forget her ornaments or a Bride her attire Yet my people have forgotten me days without number Jerâ—m 2. 2 5 6 10 11 12 13 17 19 21 27 31 32. Hos 13. 6. Weeping c. of the children of Israel for they have perverted their way c. forgotten the Lord c. Jer. 3. 21. How shall I pardon thee for this Thy children have forsaken me c. This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart they are revolted and gone Jer. 5. 7 23. Hos 11. 7. Jer. 6. 28 30. ch 15. 5 6 7. Why is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual back-sliding Jer. 8. 5. O Lord the Hope of Israel all who forsake thee shall be ashamed and they who depart from me shall be written in the earth because they have forsaken the Lord the Fountain of living waters Jer. 17. 13. My people have been lost sheep c. and they have forgotten their resting-place c. Jerem. 50. 6. Hosea 8. 14. Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's meat Daniel 1. 8. Israel slideth back as a back-sliding heifer c. Ephraim is joined to idols let him alone Hos 4. 16 17. ch 11. 7. Wo unto them for they have fled from me Hos 7. 13. Keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy God continually Hos 12. 6. I will stretch out my hand upon Judah c. and them who are turned back from the Lord and those who have not sought the Lord nor enquired for him Zeph. 1. 4 6. I am the Lord I change not Mal. 3. 6. He who endureth unto the end shall be saved c. Whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father c. Matth. 10. 22 33. ch 24. 13. But dureth for a while for when tribulation c. ariseth c. by and by he is offended Matth. 13 20 21. Whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it Matth. 16. 25. Luke 17. 32 33. Jesus said c. No man having set his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God Luke 9. 62. The Prodigal Son 's Wandering and the Issue thereof Luke 15. 11 12 13 c. Thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee John 5. 14. ch 8. 11. From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him c. Will ye go also c. Lord Whither shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life John 6. 66 67 68 69. If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed John 8. 32. Abide in me c. If any man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered c. If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you c. Continue ye in my love John 15. 4 6 7 9. Whether is it right in the sight of God to-hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye for we cannot but speak c. Acts 4. 18 19. Barnabas exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord Acts 11. 22 23. Many of the Jews followed Paul and Barnabas who speaking unto them persuaded them to continue in the grace of God Acts 13. 43. They exhorted them to continue in the faith Acts 14. 22. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind or to a mind void of judgment Rom. 1. 28. To them who by patient continuing in well-doing seek for glory c. eternal life Rom. 2. 6 7. Behold then the goodness and Severity of God on them which fell severity but towards thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off Rom. 11. 22. Let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God 1 Cor. 7. 24. I praise you c. that you keep the ordinances as I delivered them unto you 1 Cor. 11. 2. Be ye stedfast unmoveable alway abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord 1 Cor. 15. 58. Stand fast in the faith quit you like men and be strong 1 Cor. 16. 13. Having therefore these promises c. let us cleanse our selves c. perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7. 1. I am jealous over you c. lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve c. so your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 2 3. I marvel that you are so soon removed from him who called you c. But though we or
be divisions among you c. 1 Cor. 11. 18 23. Finally brethren c. be of one mind 2 Cor. 13. 11. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace c. one body and one spirit Ephes 4. 3 4 5. That ye stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith Phil. 1. 27. If therefore there be any consolation in Christ c. fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded c. being of one accord of one mind let nothing be done through strife or vain glory c. Phil. 2. 1 2 3 4 5. Whereto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing Phil. 3. 16. I beseech 〈◊〉 c. that they be of the same mind in the Lord Phil. 4. 2. Finally be all of one mind 1 Pet. 3. 8. IX To walk wisely and charitably one towards another and in things indifferent to have respect to the meek to avoid offenees IF ye had known what this meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice ye would not have condemn'd the guiltless Math. 12. 7. Hose◠6. 6. The Pharisees would have accused the disciple◠for plucking corn and Christ for healing a withered hand on the Sabbath day till he said unto them which of you having one sheep c. fall into a pit on the Sabbath-day will he not lay-hold on it and lift it out c. it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath day Math. 12. 1 2 3 4 10 11 12. Luke 6. 1 2 c. Math. 15. 2. Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me it were better that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the midst of the Sea Wo unto the world because of offences for it must needs to that offences come but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh Matth. 18. 6 7. Luke 17. 1 2. His Disciples say unto him if the case of the man be so with his wife it is not good to marry But he said unto them all men cannot receive this saying save they to whom it is given for there are some Eunuchs which were so born c. and there are some Eunuchs who have made themselves c. He who is able to receive it let him Matth. 19. 10. 11 12. Judge not least ye be judged condemn not lest ye be condemned Luke 6. 37. Jesus said I have yet many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide John 16. 12 13. Why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the Disciples which c. Acts 15. 10. Gal. 5. 12. Him who is weak receive but not with doubtful disputations or not to judge his doubtful thoughts for one believeth that he may eat all things another who is weak eateth herbs let not him who eateth despise him who eateth not and let not him who eateth not judge him who eateth for God hath received him c. One man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth every day alike let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind he who observeth a day observeth it to the Lord c. Why dost thou judge thy brother why dost thou set at nought thy brother c. Let us not therefore judge one another any more but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion to fall in his brothers way I know c. that there is nothing unclean of it self but to him who esteemeth any thing to be unclean to him it is unclean And if thy brother be grieved with thy meat now walkest thou not charitably c. Let us therefore follow after things which make for peace c. All things indeed are pure but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence it is good neither to eat flesh c. whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or made weak c. he who doubteth is damned if he eat c. for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14. 1 2 3 5 6 10 13 14 15 19 20 21 23. We then who are strong ought to bear with the infirmities of the weak and not to please our selves let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification Rom. 15. 1 2 3. I have fed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able to bear it neither yet now are ye able to bear it 1 Cor. 3. 1 2. All things are lawful unto me but all things are not expedient or profitable all things are lawful for me but I will not be brought under the power of any c. 1 Cor. 6. 12. ch 10. 23. I would that all men were even as I my self but every man hath his proper gift of God one after this manner c. Is any man called being circumcised let him not become uncircumcised and is any called in uncircumcision let him not be circumcised Circumcision is nothing c. 1 Cor. 7. 7 18 19. We know that an Idol is nothing in the world c. howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge for some with conscience of the Idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered to Idols and their conscience being weak is defiled But meat commendeth us not to God c. Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumhling block to them who are weak for if any man see thee who hast knowledge sit at meat in the Idols temple shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldned to eat those things which are offered to Idols and through thy knowledge shall thy weak brother perish for whom Christ died but when ye sin so against the weak brethren and wound their weak conscience ye sin against Christ wherefore if meat make my brother to offend I will eat no flesh while the world standeth lest I make my brother to offend 1 Cor. 8. 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. For though I be free from all men yet have I made my self a servant unto all that I might gain the more and unto the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jew c. To the weak became I as weak c. I am made all things unto all men that I might by all means save some c. 1 Cor. 9. 19 20 21 22. All things are lawful for me but all things are not expedient c. all things edifie not let no man seek his own but every man anothers wealth whatsoever is sold in the shambles that eat asking no question for conscience sake for the earth is the Lords c. If any of them who believe not bid you and ye be disposed to go whatsoever is set before you eat asking no question for conscience sake But if any man say unto thee this is offered in sacrifice unto Idols eat not
c. a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them who sit in darkness out of the prison-house Isa 42. 6 7. Look unto me and be ye saved all ye ends of the earth for I am God c. In the Lord have I righteousness and strength Isa 45. 22 24. That thou mayest say to the prisoners Go forth To them who are in darkness Shew your selves They shall feed in the ways c. for he who hath mercy on them shall lead them even by the springs of water shall he guide them Isa 49. 9 10. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings c. he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them who are bound Isa 61. 1 2. Return c. and I will heal your back-slidings Behold we come unto thee Jer. 3. 22. I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their whole heart Jer. 24. 7. With loving-kindness I have drawn thee c. Turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon the thigh c. Behold the day cometh saith the Lord that I will make a new covenant c. I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts c. and they shall teach no more every man c. Jer. 31. 3 18 19 31 32 33 34. Heb. 8. 8 9 10 11. ch 10. 15 16 17. I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever c. I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me Jer. 32. 39 40. Psal 86. 11. Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Lam. 5. 21. I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within you and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and I will give them an heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and do them Ezek. 11. 19 20. ch 20. 43. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean c. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you I will take away the stony heart c. and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them c. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses c. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings which were not good and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities Ezek. 36. 25 26 27 29 31. chap. 16. 61 63. chap. 37. 14 23 24 25 26 27 28. I taught Ephraim to go c. I drew them with the cords of a man c. Hos 11. 3 4. I will strengthen them in the Lord and they shall walk up and down in his name Zech. 10. 12. I will pour upon the house of David c. a spirit of grace and of supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn Zech. 12. 10. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come c. and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord c. Mal. 3. 1 2 3 4. Jesus did but bid the Fisher-men follow him and they immediately leave all and follow him Matth. 4. 18 19 20 21 22. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Matth. 5. 6. Luke 1. 53. The whole need not a physician but they who are 〈◊〉 c. For I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Matth. 9. 11 12. ch 11. 28. The kingdom of God is come unto you Or else how can one enter c. except he bind the strong man and then spoil his goods Matth. 12. 28 29. Luke 17. 20 21. The Son of man is come to save that which was last c. How think ye If a man have one hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray doth he not c. and seeketh that which is gone astray Even so it is not the will of your Father c. that one of these little ones should perish Matth. 18. 11 12 13 14. Luke 19. 10. Which are born not of blood c. but of God c. Of his fulness have we received grace for grace John 1. 13 16. 1 Pet. 1. 23. Col. 1. 19. Except a man be born again or from above he cannot see the kingdom of God c. The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth so is every one who is born of the spirit John 3. 3 5 7 8. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will c. The hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they who hear shall live John 5. 21 25. All which the Father hath given me shall come to me and him who cometh to me I will in no wise cast out c. No man can come to me ex-the Father who hath sent me draw him c. Every man therefore who hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me c. It is the Spirit who quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing John 6. 37 44 45 63. God sent Jesus to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities Acts 3. 26. Jesus c. him hath God exalted with his right hand a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel c. Acts 5. 30 31. God gave them the like gifts as he did unto us c. They glorified God saying Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life Now they who were scattered c. spake unto the Gentiles c. and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord Acts 11. 17 18 19 20 21. Paul having made complaint of himself saith O wretched man that I am Who shall deliver me c. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7. 15 18 19 21 24 25. I was found of them who sought me not I was made manifest unto them who asked not after me Rom. 12. 20. Christ c. wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by word c. Rom. 15. 18. That no flesh should glory c. but of him are ye in Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 1. 29 30. I have planted and Apollo watered but God gave the increase 1 Cor 3.
6 7. There are diversities of operations but it is the same God who worketh all in all 1 Cor. 12. 6. But by the grace of God I am that I am c. I labour c. but the grace of God with me 1 Cor. 15. 10. Gal. 1. 15. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature c. But all these things are of God c. 2 Cor. 5. 17 18. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations c. 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live c. I live by faith Gal. 2. 20. What is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe c. Ephes 10. 19 20. Col. 1. 11 12 13. We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath c. Ephes 2. 10. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Ephes 4. 7. Work out your own salvation c. For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure Philip. 2. 12 13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthneth me Philip. 4. 13. In meekness instruct c. If God peradventure will give them repentance to the c. 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. The just shall live by faith c. Heb. 10. 38. 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 in his sight through Jesus Heb. 13. 20 21. 2 Thes 5. 23 24. Every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variableness c. James 1. 17. Giving thanks unto 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 translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son Col. 1. 12 13. 2. In Particular To give Knowledge of himself and of Jesus Christ and of the Mystery of Salvation by him in the Gospel and of our Duty Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day Deut. 29. 2. 3 4. There is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding Great men are not wise neither do the aged understand judgment Job 32. 8 9. Psal 94. 10. Job 38. 36. Behold God c. Who teacheth like him Job 36. 22. ch 38. 36. Good and upright is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way the meek will he guide in judgment and the meek will he teach his way c. What man is he who feareth the Lord hâ—â— shall he teach in the way that he shall chuse c. The secret of the Lord is with them who â—ear him and he will shew them his covenant Psal 25. 4 5 8 9 12 14. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go I will guide thee with mine eye Psal 32. 8. O send out thy light and thy truth let them lead me let them bring me unto c. Psal 43. 3 4. Open thou mine eyes that I may behold the wondrous things out of thy law c. Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I shall keep it to the end Give me understanding and I shall keep thy law Psal 119. 18 33 34. Psal 86. 11. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel Psal 147. 19. Wisdom crieth c. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity c. and fools hate knowledge Turn ye at my reproof Behold I will pour out my spirit upon you I will make known my words unto you Prov. 1. 20 22 23. If thou criest after knowledge c. then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God For the Lord giveth wisdom out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding Prov. 2. 3 4 5 6. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths Prov. 3. 6. I have taught them the way of wisdom I have led thee in the right paths Prov. 4. 11. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Isa 11. 9. Heb. 2. 14. Habak 2. 14. And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness c. They also who erred in the spirit shall come to understanding c. they shall learn doctrine Isa 29. 18 24. 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 the eyes of them who see shall not be dim c. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge and the tongue of the stammerers be ready to speak plainly or elegantly Isa 32. 3 4. Your God will come c. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped Isa 35. 4 5. I the Lord have called thee c. for a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes c. And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not I will lead them in paths they have not known I will make darkness light before them and crooked things streight Isa 42. 6 7 16. I will give them an heart to know me that I am the Lord c. Jer. 24. 7. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them Jer. 31. 34. Heb. 8. 11. Isa 54. 13. Jesus said I thank thee O Father c. because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Matth. 11. 25 27. It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given Matth. 13. 11 13. Mark 4. 11 12. Peter said Thou art that Christ c. And Jesus answered and said unto him Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jona for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father who is in heaven Matth. 16. 15 16 17. The day-spring from on high hath visited us to give light to them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death to guide our seet into the way of peace Luke 1. 78 79. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gain-say nor resist Luke 25. 15. These are the words which I spake
To God only wise c. Rom. 16. 20 25 27. Jesus Christ who shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be also blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ God is faithful c. 1 Cor. 1. 7 8 9. There hath no tentation taken you but what is common or moderate unto man but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it 1 Cor. 10. 13. Now he who establisheth us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God who hath also sealed us c. 2 Cor. 1. 21 22. I sought the Lord c. and he said unto me My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness most gladly therefore will I glory in mine infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me for when I am weak then am I strong 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9 10. Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand c. Ephes 6. 10 11 13. ch 3. 16. Being confident of this very thing that he who hath begun a good work in you will perfect or finish it until the day of Christ Phil. 1. 6. Every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry c. I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me Phil. 4. 12 13. And I pray God your whole spirit soul and body be preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ faithful is he who called you who also will do it 1 Thess 5. 23 24. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself c. establish you in every good word and work 2 Thess 2. 17. The Lord is faithful who shall stablish you and keep you from evil 2 Thess 3. 3. I know whom I have believed and am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 2 Tim. 1. 12. No man stood with me c. notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me c. and the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom 2 Tim. 4. 16 17 18. To an inheritance c. reserved for you or for us who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation 1 Pet. 1. 4 5. But the God of all grace who hath called us c. after that you have suffered a while make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you 1 Pet. 5. 10. 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 1 John 3. 9. ch 5. 18. Ye are of God little children and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4. 4. Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory c. to the only wise God c. Jude v. 24 25. See more That Saints shall be kept Chap. 16. God in Christ doth Command Invite and Encourage by Promises to come to him for Teachings Spiritual Life and Strength to bring forth Fruit and persevere and to cast our Care upon him for all THe Lord he it is who doth go before thee he will be with thee he will not fail thee neither forsake thee fear not neither be dismayed Deut. 31. 8. Wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart Wait I say on the Lord Psal 27. 14. Cast thy burthen upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee Psal 55. 22. Wisdom cryeth without she uttereth her voice in the streets c. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity turn ye at my reproof Behold I will pour out my spirit unto you I will make known my words unto you Prov. 1. 20 21 22 23. ch 8. v. 1 to v. 11. Happy is the man who findeth wisdom and the man who getteth understanding c. She is more precious than rubies and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her c. Then shalt thou walk in the way safely and thy foot shall not stumble Prov. 3. 13 14 15 23. I wisdom c counsel is mine and sound wisdom I am understanding I am strength By me kings reign c. I love them who love me and those who seek me early shall and me Riches and honour are with me yea durable riches and righteousness My fruit is better than gold yea fine gold and my revenue than choice silver I lead in the ways of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures c. Now therefore hearken unto me O ye children for blessed are they who keep my ways Hear instruction and be wise and refuse it not Blessed is the man who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors for whoso findeth me findeth life Prov. 8. 1 12 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 32 33 34 35. ch 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6. When the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue faileth for thirst I the Lord will hear them I the God of Israel will not forsake them I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the valleys I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water Isa 41. 17 18. Psalm 69. 3. I said not to the seed of Jacob Seek ye my face in vain c. Look unto me and be ye saved all ye ends of the earth for I am God Isaiah 45. 19 22. Who is among you who â—eareth the Lord c. who walketh in darkness and hath no light let hin trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Isa 50. 10. Ho every one who thirsteth come ye to the waters and ye who have no money come ye buy and eat yea come buy wine and milk without money and without price wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Hearken diligently to me and eat ye that which is good and let your souls delight it self in fatness incline your ear and come unto me hear and your souls shall live and I will make an everlasting covenant with you c. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found call upon him while he is near Let the wicked forsake his ways c. and let him return unto the Lord Isa 55. 1 2 3 6 7. I have seen thy adulteries c. Wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be Jerem. 13. 27. As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in
to go into Bithinia but the spirit suffered them not Acts 16. 6. 7. Paul came to Ephesus and finding certain Disciples he said unto them Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye believed and they said unto him We have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost c. and when Paul laid his hands upon them the holy Ghost came on them and they spake with tongues and prophesied Acts. 19. 1 2 6. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost who is given unto us Rom. 5. 5. That ye abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost Rom. 15. 13. Ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of God dwelleth in you now if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his if the spirit of him who raised up Jesus c. dwell in you he c. shall quicken c. by his spirit which dwelleth in you Rom. 8. 9 11. Fervent in the spirit c. Rom. 12. 11. We have not received the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of God c. 1 Cor. 2. 12. Ye are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3. 16. ch 6. 19. 2 Cor. 13. 5. He who is joyned to the Lord is one spirit 1 Cor. 6. 17. I think I have the spirit of God 1 Cor. 7. 40. The manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. 7 8 9 c. Who hath also sealed us and given us the earniest of his spirit into our hearts 2 Cor. 1. 22. ch 5. 5. Ye are the Epistle of Christ c. written not with Ink but with the spirit of the living God c. 2 Cor. 3. 3. We have the same spirit of faith according as it is written c. 2 Cor. 4. 13. Christ hath redeemed us c. that ye might receive the promise of the spirit through faith Gal. 3. 14. And because ye are sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba father Gal. 4. 6. In whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance c. Eph. 1. 13 14. In whom you also are built together for an habitation for God through the spirit Eph. 2. 22. ch 4. 6. Be not drunk with wine c. but be filled with the spirit c. Eph. 5. 18. This shall turn to my salvation through your prayers and the supply or the spirit of Jesus Christ Phil. 1. 19. If any fellowship of the spirit c. Fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded Phil. 2. 1 2. God who hath also given unto us his holy spirit 1 Thess 4. 8. Then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming 2 Thess 2. 8. Being by the holy Ghost who dwelleth in us 2 Tim. 1. 14. According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which he hath shed on us abundantly or richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour Tit. 3. 5 6. God also bearing them witness both with c. and gifts of the holy Ghost according to his own will Heb. 2. 4. The Prophets have enquired c. what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when he spake before hand c. unto whom it was revealed c. by them who have preached the Gospel unto you with the holy Ghost sent down from Heaven 1 Pet. 1. 10 11 12. Christ c. being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the spirit 1 Pet. 3. 18. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you c. 1 Pet. 4. 14. He hath given us great and precious promises that by these ye might be made partakers of the divine nature c. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 4 21. Ye have an unction from the holy one and ye know all things c. but the anointing which ye have received abideth in you c. the same anointing teacheth you all things John 2. 20 27. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath given us 1 John 3. 9 24. We know that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his spirit 1 John 4. 13. It is the spirit who beareth witness because the spirit is truth c. Three who beareth record in heaven the father the word and the holy Ghost and these three are one c. 1 John 5. 6 7 8. These are they c. not having the spirit Jude verse 19. Grace unto you c. and from the seven spirits which are before his throne Rev. 1. 4. ch 3. 1 5 Hear what the spirit saith unto the Churches Rev. 2. 7 11 17 29. I beheld and lo c. a lamb having c. seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth Rev. 5. 6. And the spirit and bride say come Rev. 22. 17. II. The Nature Workings and Fruits of the Spirit AND the spirit of God moved upon the waters Gen. 1. 2. And the Lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man Gen. 6. 3. Balaam who came with a purpose to curse Israel when the spirit of God came upon him he blessed them Numb 24. 1 2 to the 14. Is the spirit of the Lord straitned or shortned are these his doings Micah 2. 7. Handle me and see me for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me to have Luke 24. 39. I saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove and it abode upon him John 1. 32. He would have given thee living water c. water springing up into eternal life John 4. 10 14. He who believeth c. out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters c. This spake he of the spirit c. John 7. 38 39. When he is come he will convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment John 16. 8. They were not able to resist c. and the spirit by which he spake Acts 16. 10. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost Rom. 5. 5. We have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but the spirit of adoption by which we cry c. The spirit it self beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God Rom. 8. 15 16. Fervent in the spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. We have not received the spirit of the world but the spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.
1. 13 14. Ye also have suffered like things of your own countrey-men even as they have of the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us c. forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles 1 Thess 2. 14 15 16. Alexander the copper-smith did me much evil c. of whom be thou also aware for he hath greatly withstood our words 2 Tim. 4. 14 15. The dragon persecuted the woman Rev. 12. 13 15 16 17. See more Chap. 28. of Hypoeritet in this matter II. For what Ends doth God Chastise his Children and suffer them to be Persecuted 1. To Exercise and try their Faith and Obedience GOD tempted Abraham when he put him upon offering his son Isaac Gen. 22. 1 2 3 c. The Lord thy God led thee these forty years to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no Deut. 8. 2 16. I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died that through them I may prove Israel whether they will keep the way of the Lord c. or not Judges 2. 21 22 23 ch 3. 4. In the business of the Ambassadours God left Hezekiah to try him that he might know all that was in his heart c. 2 Chron. 32. 31. And the Lord said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Job c. still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause Job 2. 3. What is man c. that thou shouldst visit him every morning and try him every moment Job 7. 17 18. Thou O Lord hast proved us thou hast tried us as silver is tried thou broughtest us into the net thou laidst afflictions upon our loins Psal 66. 10 11 12. Some of them of understanding shall fall to try them c. Daniel 11. 35. I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refiued and will try them as Gold is tryed Zech. 13. 9. Others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings c. Heb. 11. 36 37. Count it all joy when ye fall into divers tentations knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience c. Blessed is the man who endureth temptations for when he is tryed he shall receive c. James 1. 2 3 12. Though now for a season it need be ye are in heaviness that the trial of your faith being much more precious c. 1 Pet. 1. 6 7. Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you But rejoyce in as much as ye are partakers of Christs suffering c. 1 Pet. 4. 12 13. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried Rev. 2. 10. I will keep thee from the hour of tentation which shall come upon all the world to try them who dwell upon the earth Rev. 3. 10. 2. To Humble and Purge them THE Lord thy God led thee forty years in the wilderness to humble thee c. Who sed thee in the wilderness with manna c. that he might humble thee c. c. Deut. 8. 2 16. So Manasseth made Judah c. to err to do worse than the heathen Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captain of the host of the King of Assyria who took Manassâ—h c. bound him with â—etters and carried him to Babylon And when he was afflicted he besought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers c. And God brought him again into his kingdom c. He then took away the strange Gods c. 2 Chron. 33 9 10 11 12 13 15 16. Job complains of his afflictions then saith what is man that thou shouldst magnifie him c. I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 16 17 18 19 20. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble for thou writest bitter things against me Job 13 25. If they be c. holden in cords of afflictions then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they have exceeded he openeth their ears to discipline and commandeth that they return from iniquity Job 36. 8 9 10. Behold I am vile What shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth once have I spoken but c. but I will proceed no farther Job 40. 4 5. I have heard of thee c. but now mine eyes see thee wherefore I abhor my self c. Job 42. 5 6. Hath he smitten him c. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin Isa 27. 7 8 9. Ephraim by chastisement was humbled and instructed Jerem. 31. 18 19. My fury and mine anger was poured out c. They are not humbled unto this day neither have they feared nor walked in my law Jer. 44. 6 10. I will cause you to pass under the rod c. and you shall remember your ways c. and ye shall loath your selves in your own sight Ezek. 20. 37 38 43. Some of them of understanding shall fall c. to purge and to make them white Dan. 11. 35. I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver Zech. 13. 9. Leâ—t I should be exalted above measure c. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh a messenger of Satan to buffet me 2 Cor. 12 7. 3. To make them to remember God and things above to look to own them and close with them JAcob was greatly afraid and distressed and Jacob said O God of my father Abraham c. the Lord who saidst unto me Return c. Gen 32. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. When Josephs brethren were dealt roughly with they remembred their sin against Joseph Gen. 42. 21. He suffered thee to hunger c. that thou mayst know that man lives not by bread alone but c. Deut. 8. 3. But when they in their trouble did turn to the Lord God of Israel and sought him c. 2 Chron. 15. 4. When Manasseh was in affliction he besought the Lord his God c. then manassethâ—knew that the Lord he was God 2 Chron. 33. 12 13. Job 36 9 10. God hath overthrown me and hath encompassed me with his net c. For I know my redeemer I veth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth c. in my flesh shall I see God Job 19. 6 25 26 27. When my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than I for thou hast been a shelter Psal 61. 2 3. When he slew them then they sought him and returned and enquired early after God and they
said unto him Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob from good to bad or either good or bad c. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt but the God of your father spake unto me yester-night saying Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob Gen. 31. 7 8. 23 24 29 42. When Esau was coming against Jacob with four hundred Men and Jacob was afraid yet God changed Esâ—u's Heart so that when he met Jacob he embraced him c. Which made Jacob say to Esau I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God and thou wast pleased with me Gen. 32. 6 7 8. ch 33. 3 4 10. And the terrour of God was upon the cities that were round about them and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob Gen. 35. 5. Joseph's brethren when they saw him c. conspired against him to slay him And they said one to another Behold this dreamer cometh Come now therefore and let us slay him c. and we shall see what will become of his dreams c. All which God prevented and purposed better things Gen. 37. 18 19 20 c. chap. 39. ch 50. 19 20. The King of Egypt designed the weakening of Israel and preventing their Increase But the more they afflicted them the more they multiplied Exod. 1. 9 10 11 12 20. And the Lord said I have surely seen the afflictions of my people c. for I know their forrows Exod. 3. 7. Acts 7. 34. Psal 10. 14. Pharaoh could not hurt Moses and Aaron though they came with so many threatnings from God Exod. 7. ch 8. c. Pharaoh's Design in pursuing Israel God knew and prevented Pharaoh and overthrew him Exod. 14. The enemy said I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword mine hand shall destroy or re-possess them Thon didst blow thy wind the sea did cover them they sank as lead c. Who is like unto thee O Lord Exod. 15. 9 10 11. Balak's Design was to have Balaam to curse Israel but God over-ruled him so that he could not but bless Israel Numb 22. ch 24. 10 11 12 13. ch 23. Saul designed to kill David made many Attempts and pursued him yet could never effect it God prevented him 1 Sam. 18. ch 19. ch 23. ch 24. ch 26. Achitophel gave counsel against David but God brought it to nought and suffered not his enemieâ— to bring their design to pass 2 Sam. 17. The King of Assyria came against Samaria and said The gods do so unto me and more also if the dust of Samaria shall suffise for handfuls for all the people who follow me But God prevented him 1 Kings 20. 1 2 to 21. God defeated the King of Assyria's Design against Elisha 2 Kings 6. 13 14 c. The enemies of Israel set themselves to hinder the building of the Temple asked who commanded them to do it wrote to the King against it But God prevented their Purpose and brought forth the contrary Effect Ezra 5. ch 6. When Israel were building the Adversaries conspired together to come to sight against Jerusalem to hinder it c. And when our enemies heard that it was made known unto us and God had brought their counsel to nought we returned c. Nehem. 4. 7 8 9 11 15. Haman's great Design was to destroy Mordecai and all the Jews and it went on far but God then turned it quite about Esth 5. ch 6. ch 7. ch 8. Job could not be touched by Satan any farther or otherwise than so far as God gave him leave Job 1. 9 10 11 11 12. ch 2. 4 5 6. He disappointeth the devices of the crasty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise He taketh the wise in their own craftiness c. They meet with darkness in the day and grope in the nâ—on Job 5. 12 13 14. Why do the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord c. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill c. Psal 2. 1 2 4 6. Psal 59. 7 8. He hath ordained his arrows against the persecutors Behold he travaileth with iniquity hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood he made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch he made his mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing come down upon his own pate Psal 7. 13 14 15 16. Psal 9. 15 16. They intended evil against thee they imagined a mischievous device which they are not able to perform Psal 21. 21. Thou preparest a table for me in the sight of mine enemies Psal 23. 5. The Lord bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations Psal 33. 10 11. By this I know that thou favourest me because mine enemy doth not triumph over me Psal 41. 11. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath thou shalt restrain Psal 76. 10. When Israel were but few in number c. when they went from one nation to another c. he suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings for their sake c. Psal 105. 12 13 14 15. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us then they had swallowed us up quick Psal 124. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Gen. 31. 42. There are many devices in the heart of man nevertheless the counsel of the Lord that shall stand Prov. 19. 21. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord Prov. 21. 30. Gen. 11. 4 5 6 7 c. Be quiet fear not c. Because Syria c. have taken evil counsel against thee saying Let us go up against Judah and vex it c. Thus saith the Lord God It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass Isa 7. 4 5 6. 7. Micah 4. 11 12 13. Associate your selves O ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces c. Gird your selves and ye shall be broken in pieces c. Take counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand for God is with us Isa 8. 9 10. Jer. 48. 30. O Assyrian the rod of mine anger c. I will lend him against an hypocritical nation c. Howbeit he meaneth not so c. It is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few c. Wherefore it shall come to pass when the Lord hath performed his work c. I will punish the fruit c. Isa 10. 5 6 7 12. Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say Who seeth
Pet. 5. 10. Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison c. and ye shall have tribulation ten days Be thou faithful unto death and I will give c. Rev. 2. 10. Cons 5. That God doth sometimes make Enemies and the Persecutors themselves to acknowledge the Saints innocency when they suffer And will surely avenge them upon their Adversaries GOD did so with Joseph's brethren and they acknowledged his innocency and God's justice Gen. 42. 21. Pharaoh acknowledged he had sinned against Moses c. and begs forgiveness Exod. 10. 16 17. He will revenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will be merciful to his land c. Deut. 32. 43. Psalm 10. 14. When the wicked increaseth transgression increaseth but the righteous shall see their fall Prov. 29. 16. When David had spared Saul being in his hands Saul said to David Is this thy voice my son David c. Thou art more righteous than I for thou hast rewarded me good whereas I have rewarded thee evil and thou hast shewed this day how thou hast done well with me forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hands thou killedst me not c. 1 Sam. 24. 16 17 18 19. Again in the like case Saul said I have sinned c. Behold I have played the fool and have erred exceedingly 1 Sam. 26. 21. Exod. 8. 8 19. Haman Mordecai's great enemy forced to honour Mordecai Esther 6. 7 8 9 10 11. Haman is hanged upon the same gallows he erected for Mordecai Esther 7. 9 10. He ordained his arrows against the persecutors Psalm 7. 13. Psalm 64. 7. They have digged a pit for me into the midst of which they are fallen Psalm 57. 6. Psal 9. 15 16. Psal 7. 15. 16. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance c. so that a man shall say c. Verily he is a God who judgeth in the earth Psalm 58. 10 11. The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all who are oppressed Psalm 103. 6. Rob not the poor c. neither oppress the afflicted in the gate for the Lord shall spoil that spoileth them Prov. 22. 22 23. Be not afraid c. for yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease and mine anger in their destruction Isa 10. 12 24 25. Jerem. 30. 16. 17 20. When thine hand is lifted up they will not seeâ— but they shall see and be ashamed for envy at thy people or towards thy People c. Isaiah 26. 11. All who watch for iniquity are cut off who make a man an offender for a word Isa 29. 20 21. Behold your God will come with vengeance with recompence he will come and save you Isa 35. 4. I was wroth with my people c. thou didst shew them no mercy c. therefore these two things shall come upon thee in a moment c. Isa 47. 5 6 7 8 9. Fear ye not the reproach of men c. for the moth shall eat them up like a garment and the wâ—rm shall eat them like wood c. Thus saith the Lord c. who pleadeth the cause of his people Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling the dregs of the cup of my fury c. but I will put it into the hands of them who afflict thee who have said to thy soul Bow down c. Isa 51. 7 8 20 22 23. Your brethren who hated you c. he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed Isa 66. 5. God threatens several nations for their insolent insulting over his people the Jews and for their cruel usages of them and declares the vengeance he would take against them Ezek. 25. ch 26. ch 35. ch 36. Jer. 50. 11 12 13. ch 30. 16. ch 12. 14 Obadiah ver 8 9 10 c. Micah 2. 1 2 3. Nebuchadnezzar who had caused Shadrach Meshech and Abednego to be cast into the fiery furnace now said unto them Ye servants of the most high God come forth c. and the king promoted them Dan. 3. 26 30. So did Darius when Daniel by the prosecution of the Presidents and Princes was cast into the Lions den came and said O Daniel servant of the living God c. And the king commanded and they brought those men who had accused Daniel and they cast them into the den of lions them their children and their wives c. Dan. 6. 20 24. Gen. 26. 27 28 29. God threatned the Heads and Princes of Israel for their persecuting and oppressing his people Micah 3. 1 2 c. I have heard the reproach of Moab and the revilings of the children of Ammon whereby they have reproached my people c. therefore as I live saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel Surely Moab shall be as Sodom Zephan 2. 8 9 10 11. Edom sadly threatned for his violence against his brother Jacob Obadiah ver 8 9 c. Whoso shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea Wo unto the world because of offences Matth. 18. 6 7 10. Luke 17. 1 2. I send unto you Prophets c. some of them you shall kill c. that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the bâ—ood of righteous Abel c. All these things shall come upon this generation Matth. 23. 34 35 36. Shall not God avenge his own elect who cry day and night unto him Though he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily Luke 18. 7 8. Pilate himself said of Christ I find no fault in him c. And the Centurians said of Christ Certainly this was a righteous man Luke 23. 14 47. King Agrippa and Festus both said of Paul This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds Acts 26. 30 31. ch 25. 25. In nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition c. and that of God Phil. 1. 28. Joshua 11. 20. They have persecuted us c. for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1 Thes 2. 15. 16. It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them who trouble you c. 2 Thes 1. 6. He who leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity he who killeth with the sword must be killed c. Here is the patience and the faith of the Saints Rev. 13. 10. Babylon is fallen here is the patience of the Saints Revel 14. 8 9 10 11 12. ch 18. 2. Thou art righteous O Lord c. because thou hast judged thus for they have shed the blood of Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy Rev. 16. 5 6. ch 18 19 20 24. cha ch 19. 2. Rejoice over ye holy Apostles and Prophets
up he woundeth and his hands make whole Job 5. 18 19. God brings his very low and then delivers them Job 33. 19 20 21 22 c. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job c. also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before Job 42. 10. Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress Psalm 4. 1. The needy shall not always be forgotten the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever Psalm 9. 18. Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble c. to judge the fatherless and the oppresied that the man of the earth may no more oppress or terrifie Psal 10. 17 18. Psal 146. 7 8 9. Prov. 22. 22 23. For the oppression of the poor for the sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him who would ensnare him or puffeth at them Psal 12. 5. Sing unto the Lord O ye saints of his c. for his anger endureth but a moment c. weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning Psal 30. 4 5. The righteous cry and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles c. many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Psal 34. 17 19. Psal 37. 39 40. I waited patiently for the Lord c. he brought me up also out of an horrible pit out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock c. Psal 40. 1 2. Call upon me in the time of trouble I will deliver thee and thou c. Psal 50. 15. Psal 46. 1. Thou who hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me again and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side Psal 71. 20 21. I will hear what God the Lord will speak for he will speak peace to his people but let them not turn again to folly Psal 85 8. The Lord will not cast of his people neither will he forsake his inheritance Psal 94. 14. 1 Sam. 12. 22. The Lord is merciful and gracious c. he will not always chide neither will he keep his anger for ever Psal 103 8 9 13 14 Jer. 3. 12. Our soul is escaped c. a bird c. the snare is broken and we are escaped Psal 124. 7. The rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put forth their hands unto inâ—qury Psal 125. 2 3. When the Lord returned the captivity of Zion we were â—â—ke 〈◊〉 who dream c. They who sow in tears shall reap in joy he who goeth forth and weepeth c. shall doubtless come again with rejoycing c. Psal 126. 1 2 5 6. The Lord will judge his People and he will repent himself concerning his servant Psal 135. 14. He healeth the broken heart and bindeth up their wounds Psal 147. 3. For yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease and mine anger in their destruction Isa 10. 25. Though thou wast angry with me thine anger is turned away and thou comfortedst me Isa 21. 1. The Lord will have mercy on Jacob and will yet chuse Israel and set them in their own land c. and they shall rule over their oppressors c. the Lord will give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy fear and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve Isa 14. 1 2 3. chap. 35. 3 4. Comfort ye my people c. her warfare is accomplished Isa 40. 1 2. God hath comforted his people and will have mercy upon his afflicted Isa 49. 13. The redeemed of the Lord shall return and come with singing unto Zion c. they shall obtain gladness and joy Sorrow and mourning shall flee away I I am he who comforteth you c. hear now this thou afflicted c. I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling c. thou shalt no more drink it again Isa 51. 11 12 21 22. For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercy will I gather thee in a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee Isa 54. 7 8. I will not contend for ever neither will I be always wroth for the spirit should sail before me and the souls I have made For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him I hid me c. and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart I have seen his ways I will heal him I will lead him also and restore comforts unto him and c. Isa 57 15 16 17 18. In my wrath I smote thee but in my favour have I had mercy on thee Isa 60. 10. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me c. to bind up the broken hearted c. to comfort all who mourn to appoint unto them who mourn in Zion to give unto them beauty for ashes and the oyl of joy for mourning c. Isa 60. 1 2 3. I know the thoughts that I think towards you saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end Jer. 20. 10. 11. Alas c. it is the time of Jacob's trouble but he shall be saved out of it for it shall come to pass c. I will heal thee of thy wounds saith the Lord because they called thee an outcast saying This is Zion whom no man seeketh after Jer. 30. 7 8 17. He who scattereth Israel will gather him c. I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoyce from their sorrow c. Is Ephraim my dear son c. I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord c. As I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down c. so will I watch over them to build and to plant saith the Lord Jer. 31. 10 13 20 28. For the Lord will not cast off for ever but tho he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies for he doth not afflict willingly Lam. 3. 31 32. Therefore thus saith the Lord God Now will I bring again the Captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for mine holy name after that they have born their shame c. Ezek. 39. 25 26. Ps 106. 8. Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up c. Hosea 6. 1. Rejoyce not against me O mine enemy though I fall I shall rise c. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him until he plead my cause c. he will bring me forth to the light and I shall be-behold his righteousness c. Who is a God like
I was wroth with my people I have c. given them into thine hand Isa 47. 6. Thou hast cast me into the deep c. thy billows and 〈◊〉 waves have passed over me Jonah 2. 3. The Lord's voice crieth unto the city c. Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it Micah 6. 9. In vain have I smitten your children they have received no correction Jer. 2. 30. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord 1 Cor. 11. 32. Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. Whom the Lord loves he chastenâ—th and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth Heb. 12. 6. 7. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. 2. To submit to God with an humble quiet and silent Spirit under Troubles WHen Benjamin must to Egypt or Jacob could have no food he saith If I am bereaved I am c. Gen. 43. 14. When God had slain Nadab and Abihu Aaron's son and Moses had told Aaron that God would be sanctified in all those who came near him c. Aaron held his peace Levit. 10. 1 2 3. If their uncircumcised hearts be humbled and they then except of the punishment of their iniquity then will I remember my covenant Levit. 26. 41 42. Ye shall eat until it come out at your nostrils and it be loathsome unto you because that ye have despised the Lord who is among you and have wept before him saying Why came we forth out of Egypt Numb 11. 19 20. Exod. 14. 10 11 12. Do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee deliver us only we pray thee this day Judges 10. 15. When Samuel had told Eli all which God had threatned against Eli's house Eli said It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good 1 Sam. 3. 14 15 16 1â— 1â— David said Carry back the Ark of God into the city it I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again c. But if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good to him 2 Sam. 15. 25 26. Behold the day cometh that all which is in thine house and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day shall be carried unto Babylon nothing shall be left saith the Lord c. Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah Good is the word or the Lord which thou hast spoken c. 2 Kings 20. 16 17 18 19. When Job had received all the sad messages of his Ladies he worshipped and said Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not Job 1. 19 20 21. Then said his wife to him c. Curse God and die But he said unto her c. What shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not 〈◊〉 evil in all this did not Job sin Job 2. 9 10. He is wise in heart c. Who hath hardened himself against him and prospered Who c. How much less shall I answer him and chuse out my words to reason with him whom tho I were righteous would I not answer c. Job 9. 3 4 13 14 15 32. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those who are high one dieth in his full strength or in the strength of his perfection c. and another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure Job 21. 22 23 24 25. God is greater than man why dost thou strive against him for he giveth not account of any of his matters for God speaketh once yea twice man perceiveth it not c. Job 33. 10 11 12 13 14 15. For he will not lay upon man more than is right that he should enter into judgment with God c. Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have born chastisement I will not offend that which I see not teach thou me If I have done iniquity I will do not more Job 34. 23 31 32. The Lord answered Job and said shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct him he who reproveth God let him answer it Then Job answered and said Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth once have I spoken but I will not answer c. Job 40. 1 2 3 4 5. chap. 42. 3 4 5 6. I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it Psal 39. 9. My son despise not the chastenings of the Lord neither be weary of his correction for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth Prov. 3. 11 12. Heb. 12. 5 6. Who would set the briers c. against me c. I would burn them together Isa 27. 4. Wo unto him who striveth with his maker let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth shall the clay say to him who fashioneth it what c. Isa 45. 9. In vain have I smitten your children they received no correction Jer. 2. 30. Cannot I do with you as this potter saith the Lord Behold as the clay is in the potter's hand so are ye in my hand O house of Israel Jer. 18. 4 5 6. Thou hast chastened me c. after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed c. Jer. 31. 18 19. God tells his people in Babylon that if they would abide there he would build them and not pull them down but if they submitted not to their condition but said They would go down to Egypt where they might see no war c. Then judgments should follow them thither and there they should die Jer. 42. 10 to v. 17. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth he sitteth alone and keepeth silence because he putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope c. Wherefore doth the living man complain c. for the punishment of sins Lam. 3. 27 28 29 39. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Micah 7. 9. In your patience possess ye your souls Luke 21. 19. None of these things move me neither is my life dear unto me so that c. Acts 20. 24. Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience c. Rom. 5. 4 5. Patience in tribulations Rom. 12. 12. Neither murmur ye as some of them murmured and were destroyed 1 Cor. 10. 10 11. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christ's sake for when I am weak then am I strong 2 Cor. 12. 10. 2 Tim. 2. 3. I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content Phil. 4. 11 12. Endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ c. 2 Tim. 2. 3. We our selves glory in you c. for your faith and patience in all your persecutions 2 Thes 1. 4. Consider him who
the afflictions of Joseph Amos 6. 1 3 4 5 6 7. I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease for I was but a little displeased and they helped forward the affliction Zecha 1. 15. Obadiah v. 11. 12 13 14. When Jesus saw the multitude he had compassion on them because they fainted or were tyred and laid down c. Matth. 9. 36. I was an hungry and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in naked and ye cloathed me I was in prison and ye came unto me I was sick and ye visited me c. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me Matth. 25. 35 36 37 40. When Jesus had put forth the parable of a man falling among thieves and was wounded and the Priest and Levite passing by and looking on but the Samaritan had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds and took care of him he said Go and do thou likewise Luke 10. 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37. Simon Simon Satan hath desired to have you that he might sift you as wheat but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not and when thou art converted strengthen thy brethren Luke 22. 31 32. Peter therefore was kept in prison but prayer was made without ceasing or earnest and instant prayer was made of the Church unto God for him Acts 12. 5. 12. Rejoyce with them who do rejoyce and weep with them who do weep be of the same mind one towards another Rom. 12. 15 16. The members should have the same care one of another and whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it or one member be honoured all the members rejoyce with it now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular 1 Cor. 12. 24 25 26 27. Blessed be God c. who comforteth us in all our tribulations that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we our selves are comforted of God 2 Cor. 1. 3 4. Bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ Gal. 6. 2. Be kind one to another render-hearted Ephe. 4. 32. Ye have done well that ye did communicate with mine afflictions c. Ye sent once and again to my necessity Phil. 4. 14 15 16. Isa 58. 10. Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercy Col. 3. 12 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel c. The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain But when he was in Rome he sought me out very diligently and found me the Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day c. how many things he ministred unto me at Ephesus thou knowest 2 Tim. 1. 8 16 17 18. At my first answer no man stood with me but all men forsook me I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge 2 Tim. 4. 16 Ye endured a great fight or affliction partly whiles ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions and pâ—â—tly whilst ye became companions of them who were so used for ye had compassion on me in my bonds c. Heb. 10. 32 33 34. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained Angels unawares Remember them who are in bonds as bound with them them who suffer adversity as being your selves also in the body Heb. 13. 2 3. Pure religion c. is to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction James 1. 27. See Duties in common Calamities Chap. 23. See Duty of Christians one to another Chap. 17 CHAP. XXIII Of Publick or Common Calamities and Judgments whence they are I. That they are of Gods ordering and none can keep them off GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth c. And the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created c. And behold I even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh c. Accordingly he brings the flood Gen. 6. 5 7 17. ch 7. 4. Job 37. 11 12 13. The Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven and he overthrew those Cities Gen. 19. 24 25. God said I will harden Pharaohs heart that he shall not let the people go Exod. 4. 21. ch 14. 4. Joshua 11. 20. See now that I am he and there is no God with me I kill I make alive I wound I heal neither is there any who can deliver out of my hand Deut. 32. 39. Gods anger was hot against Israel therefore he left their enemies amongst them Judges 2. 20 21 22 23. If ye turn away and forsake my statutes c. then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land c. 2 Chron. 7. 19 20. The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirits of the Philistines and of the Arabians c. and they came up into Judah and brake into it c. 2 Chron. 21. 16 17 2 Kings 24 2. 3. They mocked the messengers c. till the wrath of the Lord arose against his people and there was no remedy therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees who slew their young men c. 2 Chron. 36. 15 16 17. Afflictions come not out of the dust c. he maketh fore and bindeth up Job 5. 17 18. ch 9. 12. He turned their hearts to hate his people and to deal subtilly with his servants Psalm 105. 25. He gave them into the hand of the heathen and they who hated them ruled over them Psal 106. 41 42. Psal 44. 10. 11 12 13 14. Psal 60. 10. Lam. 2. 17. O Assyrian c. I will send him against an hypocritical nation c. to tread them down c. Isa 10. 5 6. Behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth Isa 26. 21. Ye scornful men c. when the over-flowing scourge shall pass through then shall ye be overthrown by it c. I have heard from the Lord of hosts a consumption determined upon the whole earth Isa 28. 14 15 18 22. Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers did not the Lord against whom c Isa 42. 24. Ezek. 39. 23 24. Job 12. 23. I make peace and create evil I the Lord do all these things Isa 45. 7. I was wroth with my people I have c. given them into thine hand c. therefore shall evil come upon thee c. thou shalt not be able to put it off c. Isa 47. 6 11. Jer. 46. 15. I have forsaken mine house I have left mine
heritage I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies Jer. 12. 7 8 9 10. At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy If that nation c. Jer. 18. 7. 8. O sword of the Lord c. how can it be quiet seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Askelon c. Jer. 47. 6 7. Is there any sorrow like unto my sorrow where with the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of the Lords anger Lam. 1. 12 13. 14 c. ch 3. Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it Amos. 3. 6. Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel c. prepare to meet thy God c. Amos 4. 12. Before these days there was no c. neither any peace to him who went out or came in because of the affliction for I set all men every man against his neighbour Zech. 8. 10. See more in Afflictions Chap. 22. II. The Priviledges of the Saints and Servants of God in such a time WHen God destroyed the whole world by the flood Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and he and his family were saved in the Ark Gen. 6. 8 17 18 ch 7. 1 c. God would have spared Sodom for the sake of ten righteous persons Gen. 18. 32. In the destruction of Sodom Lot was preserved and all his and sent out by the Angel from the overthrow and escaped Gen. 19. 12 13 15 16 17. Jacob and his family nourished by Joseph in the great famine Gen. 47. 12 13. I have seen the affliction of my people c. and I am come down to deliver them c. Exod. 3. 7 8. Acts 7. 34. God smote the Egyptians universally in the destruction of their â—rst-born But he said Against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast c. The plague shall not be upon you Exod. 11. 5 6 7. ch 12. 11 12 13. The Lord will judge his people c. when he sees that their power is gone Deut. 32. 36. 2 Kings 14. 26. Elijah and the widow fed in the time of the famine 1 Kings 17. God said to Josiah Thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place 2 Kings 22. 16 17 18 20. In famine he shall redeem thee from death in war from the power of the sword at destruction and famine thou shalt laugh Job 5. 20 22. Psal 33. 18 19. Thou shalt not be afraid c. nor for the pestilence c. for the destruction c. Psal 91. 5. 6 7. Psal 37. 18 19. Though the earth be moved c. There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God c. God is in the midst of her c. Psal 46. 2 3 4 5 6. Despise not the chastening of the Lord neither be weary c. Prov. 3 11 12. Come my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self c. until the indignation be over-past for behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth c. Isa 26. 20 21. The whole land shall be desolate yet will I not make a full end Jer. 4. 27. ch 5 18. Isa 17. 4 5 6. For my name sake will I defer mine anger c. that I cut thee not off c. for my name sake c. Isa 48. 9 11. Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem c. if ye can find a man if there be any who executeth judgment who seeketh truth and I will pardon it Jer. 5. 1. When Jeremy was taken with the rest of the Jews God took care of him Jer. 39. 11 12 14. I will make a full end of all nations where I have driven thee but I will not make a full end of thee Jer. 46. 48. Levit. 26. 44 45. Set a mark upon the foreheads of them who sigh and cry for all the abominations c. Slay utterly old and young c. but come not near any man upon whom is the mark Ezek. 9. 4 5 6. Though Noah Daniel and Job were in thee they should deliver but their own souls only Ezek. 14. 14 18 20. All ye meek of the earth who have wrought his judgment c. it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lords anger Zeph. 2. 3. Hurt not the earth c. till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads Rev. 7. 2 3. And it was commanded that they should not hurt c. but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads Rev. 9. 4. See more of the Priviledges Chap. 14. III. The Duties of Saints in such a Time WHen God had said he would not go with Israel but send his Angel because they had sinned The people mourned and would not put on their ornaments Exod. 33. 1 2 3 4 c. If they shall confess their iniquity c. if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity then I will remember my covenant with Jacob c. Lev. 26. 40 41 42. When Gods anger brake out against Israel Moses prayed for them Numb 11. 1 2. When Israel fled before the men of Ai Joshua prayed and God commands him to arise and search out the sin and remove the cause Joshua 7. 6 7 8 9 to the 16. Israel in all their distresses cryed to the Lord he helped Judges 3. 9. ch 4. 3. ch 6. 7. ch 10. 10 13 14. 1 Sam. 12. 9 10. If I shut up heaven that there be no rain c. or if I send pestilence c. If my people c. shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their evil ways then will I hear from heaven forgive their sins and heal their land 2 Chron. 7. 13 14. Deut. 4. 29 30. ch 30. 1 2 3 c. When Jerusalem was in distress the princes the king humbled themselves c. And God said They have humbled themselves I will not destroy them c. 2 Chron. 12. 6. 7. ch 32. 26. For a long time was Israel without the true God c. but when they in their trouble did turn c. and sought him 2 Chron. 15. 3 4. When Judas was beset by Israel they cryed unto the Lord 2 Chron. 13. 14. Jehosaphat proclaimed a fast throughout all Judea in such a case 2 Chron. 20. Ezra 8. 21 22 23. Nehemiah mourned and wept and fasted when he had heard of the sad calamity of the Jews and he prayed c. So did Jeremy Neh. 1. 3 4 5. ch 2. 2 3. Lam. 3. 48 49. When the Jews were near destruction by Hamans means c. Mordecai and the Jews greatly mourned
the kingdoms of the earth Ezra 1. 2. The kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins also they have dominion over our bodies c. our cattel c. Nehem. 9. 37. Promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west c. but God is the judge he putteth down one and setteth up another Psal 75. 5 6 7. God c. judgeth among the gods c. I have said Ye are gods c. Psal 82. 1 6. By me kings reign and princes decree justice by me princes rule and nobles even all the judges of the earth Prov. 8. 15 16. For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof Prov. 28. 2. And that day shall the Lord of hosts be c. for a spirit of judgment unto him who sitteth in judgment Isa 28. 5 6. I have made the earth c. and have given it unto whom it seemeth meet unto me And now have I given c. to Nebuchadnezzar Jer 27. 5 6 7. Blessed be the name of God c. he changeth the times and seasons he removeth kings and setteth up kings c. For the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom power strength and glory c. he is a God of Gods and Lord of kings Dan. 2. 20 21 37 38 47. To the intent thaâ— the living may know that the mâ—st High râ—â—leth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over it the bafest of men c. And they shall drive thee from men c. until thou know that the 〈◊〉 High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whom he will Dan. 4. 17 32. O thou king the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom and majesty and glory and honour and for the majesty he â—gave him all c. trembled c. Dan. 5. 18 19. ch 2. 37 38. There is no power but of God the powers which be are ordaineâ— or ordered of God whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God Rulers are not a terror c. for he is the minister of God to thee for good Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4. II. What they are in the sight of God and considered as Men. AGainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment I am the Lord Exod. 12. 12. He leadeth away counsellors spoiled and maketh the Judges fools he looseth the bonds of kings and girdeth their loins with a girdle he leadeth princes away spoiled and overthroweth the mighty c. he poureth contempt upon princes and weakneth the strength c. Job 12. 17 18 19 20 21. Psal 107. 40. Let me not accept of any mans person nor give flattering titles to man c. my maker c. Job 32. 21 22. Accepteth not the person of princes nor regardeth the rich c. for they are all the work of his hands in a moment shall they dye Job 34. 18 19 20. Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye Judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling kiss the son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled Psal 2. 2 10 11 12. He shall cut off the spirits he is terrible to the kings of earth Psal 76. 12. I have said Ye are Gods c. but ye shall dye like men and fall like one of the princes Psal 82. 6 7. The kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water he turneth it whither he will Prov. 21. 1. If thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of judgment and justice c. he who is higher than the highest regardeth and there is a higher than they Eccles 5. 8. The Lord will enter into Judgment with the ancients of his people and the princes c. Isa 3. 14. Ye scornful men who rule this people c. because ye have said We have made a covenant with death c. thus saith the Lord c. Your covenant with death shall be disanulled c. when the overflowing scourge shall pass thorow then ye shall be trodden down by it Isa 28. 14 15 16 18. He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth c. who bringeth the princes of the earth to nothing he maketh the Judges of the earth as vanity Isa 40. 22 23. Say to the prince of Tyrus Thus saith the Lord God because thine heart is lifted up and thou hast said I am a god I sit in the seat of God c. yet thou art a man and not God though thou set thine heart as the heart of God c. therefore thus saith the Lord God c. I will bring strangers upon thee c. and they shall bring thee down to the pit and thou shalt die the death of them c. but thou shalt be a man and no God in the hand of him who slayeth thee Ezek. 28. 2 6 7 8 9. Nebuchadnezzar the king in the height of his pride driven out among the beasts Dan. 4. 30 31 32 33. There is no respect of persons with God Rom. 2. 11. The spirit of devils which worketh miracles go forth unto the kings of the earth to gather them c. Rev 16. 13 14 15 16. The Kings of the earth committed fornication with the whore Rev. 17. 1 2. III. What are the Duties of Magistrates and what they should be Negatively and Affirmatively I considered all the oppressions under the sun and behold the tears of them who were oppressed and no comforter and on the side of the oppressors power but they no comforter Eccles 4. 1. Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men such as fear God men of truth hating covetousness and place over them to be rulers Exod. 18. 16 20 21. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor in his cause c. and thou shalt take no gift for gifts blindeth the wise c. Exod. 23. 6 8. Deut. 16. 19. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mighty in righteousness thou shalt judge thy neighbour Levit. 19. 15. Prov. 31. 9. Moses when the people had sinned prayed earnestly for them c. Numb 14. 13 c. Deut. 9. 25 26 c. Joshua 7. 7 8 c. Take ye wise men and understanding and known among your tribes and I will make them rulers over you c. And I charged your Judges at that time saying Hear between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger with him ye shall not respect persons in judgment you shall hear the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of a man for the judgment is God's and the cause which is too hard for you bring it unto me c. Deut. 1. 13 15 16 17. The Lord your God is a God of Gods c.
who regardeth not persons nor taketh reward he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow Deut. 10. 17 18. Judges and officers c. and they shall judge the people with just judgment thou shalt not wrest judgment thou shalt not respect persons neither take a gift for a gift doth blind c. that which is altogether just shalt thou follow Deut. 16. 18 19 20. Thou shalt in any wise set a king over thee whom the Lord thy God shall chuse one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee thou mayest not set a stranger over thee who is not thy brother but he shall not multiply horses to himself c. And it shall be that when he shall sit upon the throne of the kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book c. and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God to keep all the words of this law c. that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the commandment Deut. 17. 15 to the end Joshua 1. 8. If there be any controversie between men and they shall come unto judgment that the Judges may judge them then they shall justifie the righteous and condemn the wicked Deut. 25. 1. Prov. 17. 15. Samuel his sons walked not in his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment 1 Sam. 8. 1 3. Prov. 17. 23. Samuel said Whose ox have I taken Whom have I oppressed c. 1 Sam. 12. 3 4. And David executed judgment and justice unto all his people 2 Sam. 8. 15. He who ruleth over men must be or be thou ruler over men just ruling in the fear of God 2 Sam. 23. 3. When the plague was upon Israel for David's sins he said Lo I have sinned and done wickedly but these sheep what have they done Let thine hand be against me and against my father's house c. 2 Sam. 24. 17. Solomon said Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and bad c. And the speech pleased the Lord 1 Kings 3. 7 8 9 10. They set up false witnesses against Naboth so against Steven sought such against Christ 1 Kings 21. 10 13. Mat. 26. 59. Acts 6. 11 13. Rehoboam took the counsel of the young men and rejected the old men's advice and answered the people roughly and said He would add to their burdens and not ease them whereupon many of the tribes revolt and chuse them a king 2 Chron. 10. chap. 14. 7 8 9 c. He was going to fight against Israel but God forbid him 2 Chron. 11. 1 4. Jehoshaphat c. sent to his Princes to Benhail and to Obadiah c. to reach in the Cities of Judah and with them Levites even Shemajah c. and they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them and went about throughout all the Cities of Judah and taught the people 2 Chron. 17. 7 8 9. Jehoshaphat said to the Judges Take heed what you do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgment wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts 2 Chron. 19. 6 7. Jehoshaphat in a time of danger stood in the congregation in the house of the Lord and prayed himself with them and for them there 2 Chron. 20. 2 to v. 13. 1 Sam. 12. 23. 2 Chron. 30. 18 19 20. Ezra 9. and ch 10. Hezekiah sent letters throughout Israel and Judah to invite them to return to the Lord 2 Chron. 30. 6 7 8 9. Nehemiah saith From the time that I was appointed to be their governour c. I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governour but the former governours c. were chargeable unto the people c. yea even their servants bear rule over their people but so did not I because of the fear of God c. Nehem. 5. 14 15 16 18. I gave my brother Hanani and Hanania c. charge over Jerusalem for he was a faithful man and feared God above many Nehem. 7. 2. Ahasuerus the king forbid any to compel another to drink but according to his pleasure Esthâ— 1. 8. I was a father to the poor and the cause which I knew not I searched out and I brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of his teeth Job 29. 16 17. Deut. 19. 18. The Almighty will not pervert judgment Job 34. 12. Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Psal 2. 10 11. The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men or the vilest of the sons of men are exalted Psal 12. 10. Man in honour and understandeth not is like the beast who perisheth Psal 49. 20. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked Selah Defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hands of the wicked Psal 82. 1 2 3 4. David said I will not know a wicked person whoso privily standereth his neighbour him will I cut off him who hath a high look and a proud heart him will I not suffer mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me he who walketh in a perfect way shall serve me c. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land c. Psal 101. 3 to the end Where no counsel is the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors is safety Prov. 11. 14. ch 24. 6. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness for the throne is established by righteousness righteous lips are the delight of kings and they love him who speaketh right Prov. 16. 12 13. ch 29. 12. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked to overthrow the righteous in judgment Prov. 18. 5. A king who sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes c. A wise king scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheel over them c. Mercy and truth preserve the king and his throne is upholden by mercy Prov. 20. 8 26 28. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice Prov. 21. 3. Isa 1. 17 18. It is the honour of a king to search out a matter c. Take away the wicked from before the king and his throne shall be established in righteousness Prov. 25. 2 5. As a roaring lion c. so is a wicked ruler over the poor
the people rescued Jonathan that he died not 1 Sam. 14. 43 44 45. Hezekiah the Lord was with him c. and he rebelled against the king of Asiyria 2 Kings 18. 7. Mordecai bowed not to Haman notwithstanding the King's Commandment Esther 3. 1 2 3. ch 5. 9. When King Nebuchadnezzar had commanded the Worshipping of an Image Shadrach Meshach and Abednego refused to obey and said Be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the image c. Dan. 3. 15. to 18. When Darius had established a Decree that none should ask any Petition of any God or Man for thirty Days Daniel went into his house after his wonted manner and prayed three times a day Dan. 6. 7 to 10. When the Apostles were forbid to preach in the name of Christ they answered c. Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge you Acts 4. 18 19 20. When the Council charged them with preaching contrary to their Commands c. Peter c. said We ought to obey God father than man Acts 5 27 28 29. Moses was hid by his parents c. and they feared not the king's edict c. He feared not the wrath of the king Heb. 11. 23 27. Secondly What they ought to do or wherein they 〈◊〉 should acknowledge and obey them 1. Submit to and obey them in all Lawful Things MIriam and Aaron spoke against Moses and God smote Miriam with a Leprosie Numb 12 1 9 10 11. The Lord destroyed Korah and his Company for their Rebellion against Moses c. Numb 16. 1 c. Keep the king's commandment and that in regard of the oath of God c. Eccles 8. 2 3 4. God threatned the Jews for revolting from the King of Babylon and breaking their Oath and Covenant with him Ezek. 17. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Though there was no Tribute due from Christ yet he said to Peter Lest we should offend them go thou c. give unto them for me and thee Matth. 17. 24 to 27. Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar's Matth. 22. 21. Let every soul be subject to the higher power c. Whosoever therefore resisteth the powers resisteth the ordinance of God c. shall receive to themselves damnation c. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the powers Do that which is good c. Ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience-sake c. For this cause pay you tribute c. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers to obey magistrates c. Titus 3. 1. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the king as supream or unto Governors as unto them who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers c For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye shall put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15. 2. Give them due Honour and Respect Not contemn their Persons or speak Evil of them THou shalt not revile the gods or Judges nor curse the ruler of thy people Exod. 22. 28. David said to Saul My Lord the King And when Saul looked behind him David stooped with his face to the earth and bowed himself c. He said I will not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed 1 Sam. 24. 6 8 10. ch 26. 9 11. Nathan the prophet when he was come in before the king he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground and said My Lord O king c. 1 Kings 1. 23 24. Is it fit to say to a king Thou art wicked To princes Ye are ungodly Job 34. 18. The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion c. Prov. 19. 12. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul Prov. 20. 2. ch 16. 14 15. Put not forth thy self in the presence of a king c. Prov. 25. 6 7. Where the word of a king is there is power And who may say unto him What doest thou Eccles 8. 4. Curse not the king no not in thy thoughts Eccles 10. 20. Daniel said to Darius the King O king live for ever Dan. 6. 21. When the Apostle had spoken sharply to the High-Priest and some who stood by had said Revilest thou God's high-priest Then said Paul I wist not brethren that he was the high-priest for it is written Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people Acts 23. 2 3 4 5. Paul said I think my self happy king Agrippa because I shall answer for my self this day before thee c. Festus said c. Paul Thou art beside thy self much learning doth make thee mad But he said I am not mad most noble Festus but speak forth the words of truth and soberness c. Acts 26. 1 2 3 24 25. ch 24. 10. Render therefore to all their dues c. fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Rom. 13. 7. Honour the king 1 Pet. 2. 17. But chiefly them who walk in the lust of uncleanness and despise government c. a dominion c. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities whereas Angels who are greater in power and might bring not railing accusations against them before the Lord 2 Pet. 2. 10 11 Jude vers 8 9. 3. To pray for them 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 and a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. 4. To endeavour to get good Magistrates WHen Adonijah exalted himself saying I will be king and preparation was made for it Then Bathsheba the Queen and Nathan the prophet made application to David to set up Solomon to be King and accordingly prevailed 1 Kings 1. 5. To discover Treasons MOrdecai discovered the Design of the King 's two Servants against him Esther 2. 21 22 23. 6. To be content with such Magistrates which God hath set over us although they be not such as they should be WHen Samuel was old he made his sons judges over Israel c. and his sons walked not in or followed not his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel c. and said unto him Behold thou art old and thy sons walk not in thy ways Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations
sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth Isa 65. 16. Jer. 12. 16. And thou shalt swear the Lord liveth in truth in judgment and in righteousness Jer. 4. 2. ch 12. 16. ch 5. 2. How shall I pardon thee for this Thy children have forsaken me and sworn by them who are no gods Jer. 5. 7. Because of swearing the land mourneth c. Jer. 23. 10. Hosea 4. 1 to 5. The king sware secretly unto Jeremiah saying As the Lord liveth who made us this soul I will not put thee to death Jer. 38. 16. God threatned the Jews King for breaking his Covenant and despising his Oath he made to and with the King of Babylon and saith Surely mine oath which he hath despised and my covenant which he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his own head c. I will bring him to Babylon Ezech. 17. 15 16 18 19 20. I heard the man cloathed in linnen c. when he lift up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven and sware by him who liveth for ever that it shall be for a time c. Dan. 12. 7. God threatens to cut off them who swear by the Lord and that swear by Malchâ—â—n Zephania 1. 5. Every one who sweareth shall be cut off c. I will bring it forth saith the Lord of hosts and it shall enter into the house of c. and into the house of him who sweareth falsly by my name c. Zech. 5. 3 4. Love no false oath for all these are things which I hate saith the Lord Zech. 8. 17. Swear not at all neither by heaven for it is God's throne nor by earth for it is his foot-stool c. But let your communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil Matth. 5. 33 to 37. James 5. 12. Herod swore rashly to Herodias her daughter Matth. 14. 6 7 8 9 c. They sought false witness against Christ and two came Matth. 26. 60. Prov. 14. 5. They suborned false witnesses against Stephen Acts 6. 11 13. Men verily swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife Wherein God willing more abundantly c. confirmed it by an oath Heb. 6. 13 16 17 18. Jer. 22. 5. Numb 14. 21 22. And the Angel c. lifted up his hand to heaven and sware by him who liveth for ever c. that there should be time no longer Revel 10. 5 6. CHAP. XXVI Of Preachers in general Gospel-Ministers of what Spirits they should be their Duty and Recompence HOW shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard how shall they hear without a preacher how shall they preach except they shall be seat Rom. 10. 14 15 c. And though the Lord gave you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more but thine eyes shall see thy teachers Isa 30. 20. The Lord said unto Jeremy Thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak Be not afraid c. Jer. 1. 7 8. If thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth Jer. 15. 19. The word of the Lord was made a reproach c. and a derision daily then said I I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name but his Word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay c. Jer. 20. 8 9. If thou speakest not to warn the wicked c. to save his life c. he shall die c. but his blood will I require at thy hand c. Ezek. 3. 17 18 19 c. Freely ye have received and freely give provide neither gold nor silver nor brass in your purses c. for the workman is worthy of his meat c. I send you forth as sheep c. be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves Mat. 10. 7 8 9 10 16. John 20. 21. Luke 10. 1 2 3 4 c. Go ye therefore teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost â—eaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I am with you c. Matth. 28. 19 20. John 20. 21 22 23. He who despiseth you despiseth me and he who despiseth me despiseth him who sent me Luke 10. 16. He who speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory but he who seeketh his glory who sent him the same is true c. John 7. 18. The Apostles were very desirous to do good to the souls of others and therefore took all occasions possible to preach the Gospel every where Acts 2. 13 14 c. ch 3. 12 13 c. ch 4. 8 9 10 11. ch 5. 29 30 31 42. ch 7. 1. 2 3 c. When the Apostles were forbid to preach Christ they answer 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 we have seen and heard Acts 4. 19 20. We will give our selves to prayer continually and preaching of the Word Acts 6. 4. These are the servants of the most high God who shew unto us the way of salvation Acts 16. 17. Paul being a tent-maker abode with Aquilla being of the same craft and wrought with him c. He reasoned in the Synagogue every Sabbath c. He testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ c. Apollos shewing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ Acts 18. 1 2 3 4 5 28. Paul preached three months disputing and perswading about the kingdom of God but when divers were hardned c. he separated the disciples c. Acts 19. 8 9. Paul said I kept back nothing which was profitable unto you but have shewed you and have taught you publickly and from house to house c. testifying c. repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ c. Neither count I my life dear so that I might finish c. the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testifie the Gospel c. I am pure from the blood of all men for I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God c. I have coveted no man's silver or gold c. ye your selves know that these hands have ministred to my necessity and to them who were with me Acts 20. 20 21 24 26 27. 33 34 35. The Gentiles to whom I now send thee to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light c. Acts 26. 17 18 c. Gal. 1. 10 11 12 15 16. Paul dwelt two years in his own hired house and received all who came in unto him preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those
c. of Zion it shall be said This and that man was born in her and the highest himself shall establish her Psal 87. 2 3 5. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish c. still bring forth fruit Psal 92. 13 14. Holiness becomes thine house for ever O Lord Psal 93. 5. The Lord is great in Zion and he is high above all people Psal 99. 2. Psal 48. 1 2 c. The Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired iâ— for his habitation this is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it I will abundantly bless her provision I will satisfie her poor witâ—â— bread c. Psal 132. 13 14 15 16 17. Psal 48. 14. The Lord shall reign for ever thy God O Zion unto all generations Psal 146. 10. Praise thy God O Zion for he hath c. blessed thy children c. filled thee with the finest of the wheat c. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel he hath not dealt so with any nation c. Psal 147. 12 13 14 19 20. The mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills c. out of Zion shall go forth the law Isa 2. 2 3 4. Micah 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Psal 48. 8 9. The Lord will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion and upon her assembly a cloud and smoak by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence Isa 4. 5 6. The Lord of hosts who dwelleth in mount Zion Isa 8. 18. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb c. they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain Isa 11. 6 7 8 9. Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion for great is the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee Isa 12. 6. The Lord hath founded Zion and the poor of his people shall trust in it Isa 14. 32. The moon shall be confounded c. when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion Isa 24. 23. In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of wines on the lees c. and I will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people c. Isa 25. 6 7. A vineyard of red-wine I the Lord doth keep it I will water it every moment lest any hurt it I will keep it night and day Isa 27. 2 3. As when an hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth and he awaketh and his soul is empty c. so shall the multitude c. be who fight against Zion Isa 20. 8. As the Lion c so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion c. The Lord whose fire is in Zion and his furnace in Jerusalem Isa 31. 4 9. Look upon Zion the city of our solemnities thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle which shall not be taken down c. but there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams c. the Lord is our judge our law-giver the Lord our King c. the inhabitants shall not say I am sick the people c. shall be forgiven Isa 33. 20 21 22 24. God threatens nations as recompences for the controversy of Zion Isa 34. 1 2. 8. The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come unto Zion c. and they shall obtain gladness and sorrow and sighing shall fly away Isa 35. 10. ch 51. 11 12. Great promises are made to the Church of God Isa 41. 8 9 10 11 c. I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory Isa 46. 13. Zion said the Lord hath forsaken me c. can a woman forget her sucking child c. yâ—a they may yet will I not forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of mine hands thy walls are continually c. Isa 49. 14 15 16. The Lord shall comfort Zion he will comfort all her waste places Isa 51. 3. Psal 69. 35 36. Isa 54. Zion thy God reigneth Isa 52. 7. I will bring them to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house Isa 56. 6 7. The great glory the Church of God shall have upon her Isa 60. Zech. 12. ch 13. Say to the Daughter of Zion Behold thy salvation cometh c. and they shall call them the holy people the redeemed of the Lord and thou shalt be called Sought out a city not forsaken Isa 62. 11 12. I will take you one of a city c. and bring you unto Zion and will give you pastors according to mine heart Jer. 3. 14 15. Do not abhor us for thy names sake do not disgrace the throne of thy glory Jer. 14. 21. The place of my throne and the place of the soles of my â—eet where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever Ezek. 43. 7. And ye shall know that I am the Lord in the midst of Israel c. for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the Lord hath said Joel 2â— 27 32. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and heaven and earth shall shake but the Lord is the hope of his people c. I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain c. and a fountain shall come out of the house of the Lord and shall water the vailey c. Judâ—â— shall dwell for ever c. for the Lord dwelleth in Zion Joel 3. 16 17 18 19 20 21. For I saith the Lord will be unto her a wall of fire round about and will be the glory in the midst of her c. many nations shall be joyned to the Lord in that day and shall be my people and I will dwell in the midst of thee c. and the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion c. Zech. 2. 5 10 11 12. Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Zion c. behold thy king cometh unto thee he is just c. Zech. 9. 9. Upon this rock will I build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against her Matth. 16. 18. For where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matt. 18. 20. Feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 20. 28. The Churches the glory of Christ 2 Cor. 8. 23. The Church which is the fulness of him who filleth all in all Ephes 1. 22. 23. ch 4. 13. To the intent that unto principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God c. unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages c. Ephes 3. 10 11 21. That he might present to himself a
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees which i◠hypocrisie c. He who knoweth his master's will and doth not according shall be beaten with many stripes Luke 12. 1 47. James 4. 17. They shall begin to say We have eat and drank in thy presence c. but he shall say I know you not whence you are depart from me all ye workers c. Ye shall see Abraham c. in the kingdom of God and you thrust out Luke 13. 25 26 27 28. Ye are they who justifie your selves but God knows your hearts for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. 15. Every branch which beareth not fruit in me he taketh away John 15. 2. Ananias and Saphira both smote with death for their hypocrisie Acts 5. 5 10. They are not all Israel who are of Isreal c. Rom. 9. 6 7. ch 2. 28. 1 Cor. 10. 1 to 6. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against c. men who hold the truth in unrighteousness Rom. 1. 18. If a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself Gal. 6. 3. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways James 1. 8. The Jews c. forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins always for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1 Thes 2. 16. See Sincerity Chap. 16. CHAP. XXIX Of the Conscience AND it came to pass afterwards that David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt and he said unto his men The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master the Lord 's anointed to stretch forth my hand against him c. 1 Sam. 24. 5 6. And David's heart smote him after that he had numbred the people and David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly in that I have done 2 Sam. 24. 10. ch 12. 13. When Josiah had heard the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes c. and he commanded c. Go and enquire of the Lord for me and for the people c. for great is the wrath of the Lord c. Tell the man that sent you to me c. I will bring evil upon this place c. But to the king c. because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy self c. thine eyes shall not see all the evil c. 2 Kings 22. 11 12 13 15 16 18 19 20. I will not remove mine integrity c. my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Job 27. 5 6. Throw the first stone at her c. they c. being convicted by their own conscience went out c. John 8. 7 9. Now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and said c. What shall we do Acts 2. 37. Paul said c. I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day Acts 23. 1. And herein do I exercise my 〈◊〉 to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man Acts 24. 16. Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing them witness or the Conscience witnessing with them and their thoughts the mean while or between themselves accusing or else excusing one another Rom. 2. 15 16. I say the truth in Christ I lye not my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost Rom. 9. 1. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but for conscience sake Rom. 13. 5. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles eat asking no question for conscience sake for the earth is the Lord's c. If any of them who believe not bid you c. Whatsoever is before you eat asking no question for conscience sake but if any man say unto thee This is offered to idols eat not for his sake c. and for conscience-sake c. Conscience I say not thine own but of the others for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience c. Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God 1 Cor. 10. 25 26 27 28 29 32. ch 8. 7. Our rejoicing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity nor with sleshly wisdom c. 2 Cor. 1. 12. By the manifestation of the truth commended our selves to every man's conscience in the sight of God 2 Cor. 4. 2. We are made manifest unto God and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences 2 Cor. 5. 11. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience c. holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck 1 Tim. 1. 5 19. Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3. 9. The Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith c. speaking lyes in hypocrine having their consciences seared with a hot iron forbidding to marry c. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. I thank God whom I serve c. with a pure conscience 2 Tim. 1. 3. Unto them who are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled Titus 1. 15. In which were offered both gifts and sacrifices which could not make him who did the service 〈◊〉 as pertaining to the conscience c. If the blood of bulls and goats sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ c. purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9. 9◠13 14. The law having a shadow of good things c. can never with those sacrifiees they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins but in those sacrifices there is a remembrance c. Let us draw near c. having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience c. Heb. 10. 1 2 3 22. We trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly Heb. 13. 18. This is thank-worthy if a man for conscience towards God endure grief suffering wrongfully 1 Pet. 2. 19. Having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you c. Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus 1 Pet. 3. 16 21. Let us not love in word c. Hereby we know c. For if our heart condemn us God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things Beloved if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God 1 John 3. 18 to 22. CHAP. XXX Of the Devil Of his Subtilty Wiles and Ways by himself and in
Deut. 7. 17 18. ch 24. 9. Matth. 16. 8 9. Thou shalt consider in thine heart that as a man chasteneth c. so the Lord c. remember c. Deut. 8. 5 17 18. Therefore shall ye lay up all these my words in your heart and in your soul c. ye shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou â—ittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way when thou lyest down and when thou risest c. Deut. 11. 18 19. O that they were wise c. that they would consider their latter end Deut. 32. 29. Lam. 1 9. Jer. 23. 20. ch 30. 24. This book of the law shall not depart c. but thou shalt meditate therein day and night Joshua 1 8. Fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he hath done for you 1 Sam. 12. 24. 1 Chron. 16. 12. David hastily resolved to cut off Nabals house but when by Abigails words he considered the matter he was staid and blessed the counsel c. 1 Sam. 25. If they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carryed captive and repent 1 Kings 8. 47 Then I consulted with my self and I rebuked the nobles Nehem. 5. 7. Therefore am I troubled at his presence when I consider I am afraid of him Job 23. 15. Psal 77. 3. He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others because they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways Job 34. 26 27. Psal 28. 5. O Job stand still and consider the wondrous works of God Job 37. 14. Psal 105. 5. Blessed is the man c. whose delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate both day and night Psal 1. 1 2. Sin not commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still Psal 4. 4. Psal 77. 6. Eccles 1. 16. When I consider the heavens the works of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained what is man that thou art mindful of him c Psal 8. 3 4. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord c. Psal 22. 27. My heart was hot within me while I was musing the fire burned then spake I c. Psal 39. â— Luke 3. 15. Hearken and consider and incline thine ears forget all thine own people c. 45. 10. Now consider this ye who forget God lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver Psal 50. 22. Deut. 32. 18. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth shall praise c. when I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night Psal 63. 5 6. Psal 42. 6. All men shall fear and declare the work of God for they shall wisely consider of his doing Psal 64. 9. I have considered the days of old c. I call to remembrance my song in the night I commend c. I will remember the years of the right-hand of the most high I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate also of all thy works and talk of thy doings Psal 77. 5 6 10 11 12. When he slew them c. they remembred that God was their rock Psal 78. 34 35. I will sing praise to my God c. my meditation on of him shall be sweet Psal 104. 33 34. They forgot God their strong Saviour who had done great things in Egypt c. Psal 106. 7 20 21 22. Who is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal 107. 43. The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them who have pleasure therein his works are honourable c. he hath made his wonderful works to be remembred Psal 111. 2 3 4. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed according to thy word c. I will meditate in thy precepts c. Princes did sit and speak against me but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes c. I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies c. I remembred thy judgments of old O Lord and have comforted my self c. I have remembred thy name O Lord in the â—ight c. I will consider thy testimonies â— Thy commandment is exceeding broad c. Thy law is my meditation all the day c. they are ever with me I have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation c. Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I may meditate in thy word Psal 119. 9 15 23 48 52 55 59 78 95 96 97 98 99 148. How precious also are thy thoughts to me O God how great the sum of them Psal 139. 17 18. I remember the days of old I meditate on all thy works I muse on the work of thine hand c. my soul thirsteth after thee c. Psal 143. 5 6. Ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established or all thy ways shall be ordered aright Prov. 4. 26. Eccles 2. 14. Go to the Ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise Prov. 6. 6. The simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his going Prov. 14. 15. The heart of the righteous studieth to answer but the mouth of the wicked poureth c. Prov. 15. 28. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth or maketh wise his mouth Prov. 16. 23. A wicked man hardneth his face but as for the upright he directeth or considereth his way Prov. 21 29. When thou sittest to eat c. consider what is before thee and put a knife to thy throat c. Prov. 23. 1 2. Keep thy â—oot when thou goest to the house of God and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools for they consider not that they do evil be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God for God is in heaven Eccles 5. 1 2. Consider the work of God for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked c. in the day of adversity consider Eccles 7. 13 14. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth Eccles 12. 1. The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his masters crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider Ah sinful nation Isa 1. 3 4. They regard not the work of the Lord neither consider the operation of his hand therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge Isa 5. 11 12 13. Psal 28. 5. That they may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this and the holy one of Israel hath created it Isa 41. 20. Remember ye not the former things neither consider the things of old Isa 43 18. God complaining
my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies c. I hate vain thoughts c. Psal 119. 59 113. Thou knowest my down-sitting c. thou understandest my thoughts afar off c. Search me O God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts Psal 139. 2 23. His breath goeth forth c. in that very day his thoughts perish Psal 146. 4. The thoughts of the righteous are right but the counsels of the wicked c. Prov. 12. 5. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord Prov. 15. 26. Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established Prov. 16. 3. The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness but of every one who is hasty only to want Prov. 21. 5. Eat thou not the bread of him who hath an evil eye for as he thinketh in his heart so is he Eat c. saith he but his heart is not with thee Prov. 23. 6 7. The thought of foolishness is sin Prov. 24. 9. If thou hast thought evil lay thine hand upon thy mouth Prov. 30. 32. O Assyrian c. I will send him against an hypocritical nation c. howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think so but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few Isa 10. 5 6 7. Let the wicked man forsake his ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts let him return unto the Lord Isa 55. 7. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity Isa 59. 7. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way which is not good after their own thoughts Isa 65. 2. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness c. how long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee Jer. 4. 14. Neither say they in their heart let us now fear the Lord our God Jer. 5. 24. Behold I will bring evil upon this people the fruit of their thoughts Jer. 6. 19. Thus saith the Lord c. I know the things which come into your mind every one Ezek. 11. 5. Then the king's countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joynts of his loins were loosed Dan. 5. 6. A book of remembrance was written before him for them who feared the Lord and that thought upon his name Mal. 3. 16. Take no thought for your life c. Which of you by taking thought can add c. And why take ye thought for raiment c. Take therefore no thought for the morrow c. sufficient to the day is the evil of it Matth. 6. 25 27 28 31 34. Jesus knowing their thoughts said Wherefore think you evil in your heart Mat. 9. 4. Mark 2. 8. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth c. Mat. 12. 35. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts murders c. Mat. 15. 19. When Mary saw the Angel she was troubled at his sayings and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be c. He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts c. Luke 1. 29 51. This child is set for the fall and rising of many c. that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed c. Luke 2. 35. All men mused or reasoned or debated in their hearts of John whether he were the Christ or notâ— Luke 3. 15. The Scribes and Pharisees watched him c. but he knew their thoughts Luke 6. 7 8. Martha thou art careful and troubled about many things but one thing is needful Luke 10. 41 42. And the Lord c. looked and Peter remembred the words of the Lord c. Luke 22. 61. Why are ye troubled and why do thoughts arise in your hearts behold my hands Luke 24. 38 39. Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God might be purchased with money c. pray God if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven Acts 8. 20 22. They became vain in their imaginations and their foolish hearts was darkened Rom. 1. 21. They who are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh c. to be carnally minded is death c. because the carnal mind is enmity against God Rom. 8. 5 6 7. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain 1 Cor. 3. 20. Let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 12. Charity c. thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 5. Casteth down imaginations or reasonings c. and bringeth into captivity every thought 2 Cor. 10. 5. If a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself Gal. 6. 3. Many walk c. whose end is destruction whose God is their belly c. who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 18 19. Whatsoever things are true c. if there be any praise think on these things Phil. 4. 8. Set your affections or mind on things above and not on things of the earth Col. 3. 2. The word of God is quick c. a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart c. all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we c. Heb. 4. 12. 13. Are ye not then partial c. and are become Judges of evil thoughts James 2. 4. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though ye know them c. to stir you up by putting in remembrance c. I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance c. 2 Pet. 1. 12 13 15. ch 3. 1 2. Jude v. 4 5. CHAP. XXXIII Of Repentance in General wherein God cannot Repent and wherein or how he is said to Repent Repentance in Man and his turning to God from Sin and in such who have back-slidden from following God and otherwise First Wherein God cannot Repent and wherein or how he is said to Repent AND God saw that the wickedness of man was great c. and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart Gen. 6. 5 6. Moses prayed and said c. Turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil against thy people c. and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do Exod. 32. 11 12 14. Ye shall bear your iniquities c. and ye shall know my breach of promise or altering of my purpose Numb 14. 34. God is not a man that he should lye neither the son of man that he should repent hath he said and shall not he do it or hath he spoken and shall not make it good Num. 23. 19. 1 Sam. 15. 29. Heb. 6. 18. Titus 1. 2. The Lord shall c. repent himself for his servants when he seeth that power is gone
is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble he cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not c. seeing his days are determined the number of his months are with thee thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass c. man dieth and wasteth away yea man giveth up the ghost and where is he c. Man lieth down and riseth not till the heavens be no more c. If a man die shall he live again all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come And he passeth thou changest his countenance and sendeth him away c. Job 14. 1 2 5 7 10 12 14 20. Acts 17. 26. 2 Sam. 7. 12. 1 Chron. 17. 11. When a few years are come then I shall go the way whence I shall not return Job 16. 22. The grave is mine house c. I have said to corruption thou art my father to the worm thou art my mother and my sister Job 17. 13 14. Shall any teach God knowledge c one dieth in his full strength or very perfection being wholly at ease and quiet his breast full of milk c. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure they shall lie down alike in the dust Job 21. 22 23 24 25 26. I know that thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living Job 30. 23. If he set his heart upon man if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath all flesh shall perish together and man shall turn again unto dust Job 34. 14 15. In death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thanks Psal 6. 5. Isa 38. 18. Psal 88. 10 11 12. Psal 115. 17. Psal 30. 9. Lord make me to know mine end and the measure of my days what it is that I may know how frail I am behold thou hast made my days an hand-breadth and mine age as nothing before thee c. Spare me c. before I go hence and be no more Psal 39. 4 5 11 13. They who trust in their wealth c. none can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him c. that he should also live for ever and not see corruption for he seeth wise men die likewise the fool c. when he dieth he shall carry nothing away Psal 49. 6 7 8 9 10 14 16 17. The terrors of death are fallen upon me c. bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days Psal 55. 4 23. Psa 116. 3. And unto God the Lord belong the issues from death Psal 68. 20. I have said Ye are gods c. but ye shall die like men Psal 82. 6 7. What man is he who liveth and shall not see death c shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah Psal 89. 48. Thou turnest man to destruction c. they are like grass which groweth up in the morning it flourisheth c. in the evening it is cut down and withered c. the days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore c. it is soon cut off c. so teach us to number our days c. Psal 90. 3 5 6 10 12. He remembreth that we are dust as for man his days are as grass as the flower of the field so he flourisheth for the wind passeth over it and it is gone c. Psal 103. 14 15 16. Thou takest away their breath they die and return to their dust Psal 104. 29. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116. 15. Man is like to vanity his days are as a shadow which passeth away Psal 144. 4. 1 Chron. 29. 15. Psal 102. 11. Put not your trust in Princes c. his breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish Psal 146. 3 4. When a wicked man dyeth his expectation shall perish Prov. 11. 7. The righteous hath hope in his death Prov. 14. 32. Boast not thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth Prov. 27. 1. How dieth the wise man as the fool Eccles 2. 16. A time to be born and a time to die c. all go to one place all are of the dust and all turn to dust again who knoweth the spirit of a man which goeth upward and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth Eccles 3. 1 2 20 21. As he came forth of his mothers womb naked shall he return to go as he came and take nothing c. Eccles 5. 15 16. Job 1. 21. The day of death is better then the day of ones birth it is better to go to the house c. Eccles 7. 1 2. ch 4. 1 2. No man c. hath c. power in the day of death and no discharge in that war Eccles 8. 8. A living dog is better than a dead Lion c. there is no work c. in the grave whither thou goest Eccles 9. 3 4 5 10. Then shall the dust return unto the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it Eccles 12. 1 2 3 4 6 7. He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears c. Isa 25. 8. Set thine house in order for thou must die c. I said in the cutting off of my days I shall go to the gates of the grave c. The grave cannot praise thee c. the living the living he shall praise thee as I do this day Isa 38. 1 2 10 11 18 19. All flesh is grass and the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field the grass withereth the flower fadeth because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it Isa 40. 6 7 8. James 1. 10 11. 1 Pet. 1. 24. That thou shouldst be afraid of man who shall dye c and be made as grass Isa 51. 12. The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come Isa 57. 1 2. 2 Kings 22. 19 20. Lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel weeping for her children because they were not Jer. 31. 15. Matth. 2. 16 17 18. Son of man I will take away from thee the desire of thine eyes at a stroke yet neither shall thou mourn nor weep neither shall thy tears run down c. My wife died c. this was for a sign Ezek. 24. 16 17 18 24. Go thou thy way till the end for thou shalt rest and stand in the lot at the end Dan. 12. 13. Your fathers where are they and the prophets do they live for ever Zechar. 1. 5. I will ransom them from the power of the grave I will redeem them
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
see God Matth. 5. 8. Lay up for your selves treasure in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal c. Matth. 6. 20. Many shall come c. and shall sit down with Abraham c. in the kingdom of heaven Matth. 8. 11. Luke 16. 22 25. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of the Father Matth. 13. 43. Jesus was transfigured c. his face did shine as the sun and his raiment white Matth. 17. 2 3. In the resurrection they shall neither marry c. but are as the Angels of God in heaven Matth. 22. 30. Then shall the King say c. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you c. The righteous into life eternal Matth. 25. 34 46. Little flock it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 32. James 2. 5. Thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. And the resurrection c. Neither can they die any more for they are equal unto the Angels and are the children of God Luke 20. 36. John 5. 29. Isa 25. 8. Lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh Luke 21. 28. I appoint unto you a kingdom c. that ye may eat and drink at my table and in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel Luke 22. 29 30. To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise Luke 23. 43. I give to them eternal life and they shall never perish John 10. 28. Rom. 2. 7. Whither I go thou canst not follow me now but thou shalt follow me afterwards John 13. 36. In my Father's house are many mansions if it were not c. I go to prepare a place for you c. I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also John 14. 2 3 19. ch 12. 26. I will see you c. and your hearts shall rejoyce and your joy shall no man take from you John 16. 22. The glory which thou gavest me I have given them c. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me John 17. 22 24. Glory honour and peace to every one who worketh good Rom. 2. 7 10. We stand and rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God Rom. 5. 2. The end everlasting life c. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus c. Rom. 6. 22 23 31. Gal. 6. 8. 2 Tim. 1. 10. Heirs of God joint heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together c. The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us for the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God c. We our selves c. waiting for the adoption the redemption of our body c. Whom he justified them he also glorified Rom. 8. 17 18 19 23 30. Heb. 1. 14. ch 2. 10. They to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible 1 Cor. 9. 25. We know in part c. But when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away c. Now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known 1 Cor. 13. 10 12. As we have born the image of the earthly we shall also bear the image of the heavenly c. The dead shall be raised incorruptible c. This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality c. 1 Cor. 15. 19 49 52 to 56. 2 Cor. 5. 4. Our light affliction c. worketh for us a â—ar more exceeding and eternal weight of glory c. The things which are not seen are eternal 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. Matth. 5. 11 12. We have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens 2 Cor. 5. 1. Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body Philip. 3. 20 21. For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven Col. 1. 5. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Col. 3. 4. Then we c. shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one c. 1 Thes 14. 17 18. You who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed c. when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and admired in all them who believe 2 Thes 1. 7 10. He called you unto the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ 2 Thes 2. 14. That they may obtain the salvation which is in Jesus Christ with eternal glory 2 Tim. 2. 10. There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord c. shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4. 8. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God Heb. 4. 9. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward Heb. 10. 31 35. Prov. 8. 21. Abraham looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God c. They desire a better country that is an heavenly wherefore God c. for he hath prepared for them a city c. Others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11. 10 16 35. ch 13. 14. Ye are come to mount Sion unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerasalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general assembly c. unto God the Judge of all and to she spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the mediator c. Heb. 12. 22 23 24. Blessed be God c. who hath begotten us again unto a lively hope c. to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and which fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you c. The sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow c. Hope to the end for the grace which is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 3 4 9 11 13. ch 5. 10. Ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing 1 Pet. 3. 9. When the chief Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a crown of glory which fadeth not away c. The God of all grace who hath called us unto his eternal glory oy Jesus Christ c. 1 Pet. 5. 1 4 10. We
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
ignorant was I I was as a beast before thee Psal â—3 16. 17 22. Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen who have not known thee Psal 79. 6. They know not neither will they understand they walk on in darkness Psal 82. 5. Let them be confounded c. that they may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah art the most high over all the earth Psal 83. 18. Understand O ye brutish among the people and fools when will ye be wise He who planted the ear shall he not hear c. Psal 94. 7 8 9 10 11. It is a people who do err in their hearts and they have not known my ways Psal 95. 10. Whoso is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal 107. 43. For I know that the Lord is great and our Lord above all gods Psal 135. 5. Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk Psal 143. 8. Ps 146. 8. He shewed his word unto Jacob c. He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgments they have not known them Ps 147. 19 20. A wise man will hear and increase learning a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels c. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity c. and fools hate knowledge c. they shall call upon me but I will not answer c. for that they hated knowledge and did not chuse the fear of the Lord Prov. 1. 5 7 22 28 29. Apply thine heart to understanding yea if thou cryest after knowledge c. if thou seek her as silver c. then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord c. for the Lord giveth wisdom c. understanding shall keep thee Prov. 2. 2 3 4 5 6 10 11. ch 4. 7. Happy is the man who findeth wisdom and the man who getteth understanding for the merchandize of it is better than the merchandize of silver Prov. 3. 13 14. ch 8. 5 6 11. ch 16. 16. Job 28. 12 15 16 17 c. I beheld c. a young man void of understanding passing through the street c. Prov. 7. 7 8 c. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom the knowledge of the Holy understanding Prov. 9. 10. Wise men lay up knowledge Prov. 10. 14. The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way Prov. 14. 8. Evil men understand not judgment but they who seek the Lord understand all things Prov. 28. 5. Surely I am more brutish than any man and have not the understanding of a man Prov. 30. 2. Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thâ— feedest c. if thou know not O thou fairest c. go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock Cant. 1. 7 8. The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib Israel doth not know my people doth not consider Isa 1. 3. Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge Isa 5. 13. Hear ye indeed but understand not and see ye indeed but perceive not c. make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see c. and understand Isa 6. 9 10. Mat. 13. 13 14. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Isa 11. 9. Habak 2. 14. The Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day and shall do sacrifice c. Isa 19. 21. It is a people of no understanding therefore he who made them will not have mercy on them Isa 27. 11. The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes c. and the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book sealed c. therefore c. The wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid c. In that day shall the eyes of the blind see out of obscurity c. They who erred in spirit shall come to understanding c Isa 29. 10 11 12 13 14 18 24. Save us c. that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord c. Isa 37. 20. Have ye not known c. it is he who â—tteth upon the circle of the earth Isa 40. 21 22. That they may know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord c. Isa 41. 20. I will bring the blind by a way they knew not c. in paths they have not known Isa 42. 16. They have not known nor understood for he hath shut their eyes and they cannot see and their hearts and they cannot understand c. neither is there knowledge or understanding to say I have 〈◊〉 part of it c. Isa 44. 18 19. Nations c. which knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord c. Isa 55. 5. They who handle the law knew me not Jer. 2. 8. I will give you Pastors c. who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding Jer. 3. 15. My people is foolish they have not known me they are 〈◊〉 children they have no understanding they are wise to do evil but to do good they have no knowledge Jer. 4. 22. ch 8. 7. ch 9. 3 6. ch 5. 21. Hâ—sea 5. 4. Let him who glories glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord who exercise loving-kindness judgment and righteâ—â—sness Jer. 9. 24. I will give them an heart to know me that I am the Lord Jer. 24. 7. Hosea 2. 20. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least c. Jer. 31. 34. All the remnant c. shall know whose words shall stand mine or theirs Jer. 44. 28. Ezek. 6. 10. I will set my glory among the heathen so the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward c. And when I have brought them again c. then shall they know that I am the Lord their God who caused them to be led into captivity Ezek. 39. 21 22 23 27 28. ch 38. 23. Jer. 16. 21. To the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth c. They shall make thee eat grass as oxen c. till thou know that the most High ruleth c. Dan. 4. 17 25 32. But the people who do know their God shall be strong and do c. and they who understand among the people shall instruct many c. and some of understanding shall fall Dan. 11. 32 33 35. Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased c. And none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Dan. 12. 4 10. For she did not know that I gave her corn and wine and oyl c. Hosea 2. 8. The Lord hath a controversie c.
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
Lord thy God for the good land c. beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God c. lest when thou hast eaten and art full and hast built goodly houses c. then thine heart be lifted up and thou forget the Lord c. and thou say in thine heart My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth but thou shalt remember the Lord thy God for it is he who giveth thee power to get wealth Deut. 8. 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 17 18. Matth. 4. 4. I will give you the rain c. that thou mayest gather in thy corn c. I will send grass c. 〈◊〉 11. 14 15. 〈…〉 waxed fat c. then he sorsook God which made him and hightly esteemed c. Deut. 32. 14 15. Achans covetousness and worldliness was Israels trouble and his own ruine Joshua 7. 1 20 21 25 26. The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteht up he raiseth up the poor out of the dus◠lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill to sit among princes c. 1 Sam. 2. 7 8. Psal 75. 6 7. Dan. 4. 17 32. Saul said to Samuel I have sinned yet honour me now I pray thee before the Elders of my people and before Israel and turn again with me c. 1 Sam. 15. 30. The women c. said Saul hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands and Saul was very wroth and the saying displeased him and he said they have ascribed unto David ten thousands c. and what can he have more but the kingdom and Saul eyed David from that day forward 1 Sam. 18. 6 7 8 9. God said unto Solomon Because thou hast asked for thy self this thing and hast not asked long life neither hast asked riches c. I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked both riches and honour 1 Kings 3. 9. 10 11 12 13. Ahabs covetous desire of Naboths vineyard made him sick with discontent 1 Kings 21. 1 2 3 4. Gehazi Elisha his servant for his covetousness punished with Leprosie 2 Kings 5. 20 21 22 to the 27. Thine O Lord is the greatness c. both riches and honour come of thee c. 1 Chron. 29. 11 12. Deut. 10. 14. Haman then next the king boasted of his riches honour and worldly advantages yet so ambitious that because Mordecai did not bow to him he saith All the rest availeth me nothing Hester 5. 9 10. 11 12 13. Hast thou not made a hedge about him c. thou hast blessed the works of his hands and his substance is increased c. Job said when he was spoiled of all Naked came I out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither the Lord gave and the Lord taketh away blessed be the name of the Lord Job 1. 10 21. The wicked c. he hath swallowed down riches and he shall vomit them up again God shall cast them out of his belly c. In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits Job 20. 15. 22. The wicked live and prosper oft in every thing of this world Job 21. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Jer. 12. 1 2. Psal 73. 3 4 5 6 7 c. What is the hope of the Hypocrite though he hath gained when God taketh away his soul c. though he heap up silver as the dust and prepare rayment as the clay he may prepare it but the just shall put it on c. Job 27. 8 16 17. It I have made gold my hope or said to fine gold thou art my confidence If I have rejoyced because my wealth is great and because my hand had gotten much c. Job 31. 24 25 38 39. Who accepteth not the persons of princes nor regardeth the rich more then the poor for they are all the works of his hands Job 34. 19. Deliver my soul c. from men of the world who have their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest c. they leave the rest of their substance to their babes Psal 17. 14. The earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof c. Psal 24. 1. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked c. I have been young and now am old yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread c. I have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himseif like a green bay-tree yet he passed away c. Psal 37. 16 25 35 36. Every man walketh in a vain shew surely they are disquietted in vain he heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them Psal 36. 6. They who trust in their wealth and boast themselves in their riches none can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him c. wise men die c. likewise the fool c. and leave their wealth to others c. their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever c. they call their lands by their own name c. man in honour and abideth not is like the beast which perisheth c. be not afraid when one is made rich when the glory of his house is increased when he dieth he shall carry nothing away his glory shall not descend after him Psal 49. 6 7 10 11 12 16 17 20. Every beast of the forest is mine and the Cattel upon a thousands hills c. If I were an hungry I would not tell thee for the world is mine and the fulness thereof Psal 50. 9 10 12. Lo this is the man who made not God his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches Psal 52. 7 9. Men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lie c. If riches increase set not your hearts upon them Psal 62. 9 10. Thou visitest the earth and waterest it thou greatly enrichest it c. thou preparest them corn c. thou waterest the ridges c. Psal 65. 9 10 11 c. Deut. 11. 14 15. Job 37. 11 12 13. ch 5. 10. These are the ungodly who prosper in the world they increase riches Psal 73. 7. 12. And they tempted God in their hearts by asking meat for their lusts Psal 78. 18. Psal 106. 14 15. He caused the grass to grow for the Cattel and herb for the service of man that he may bring forth food out of the earth and wine c. these all wait upon thee that thou maist give them their meat in due season c. Psal 104. 14 15 26 27 28. Psal 145. 15. Psal 147 8 9. The heavens are the Lords but the earth hath he given to the children of men Psal 115. 16. He turneth rivers into a wilderness and the water-springs into dry ground a fruitful land into barrenness c. he turneth the wilderness into a standing water c. he blessed them also so that they are multiplied greatly
up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to time 1 Tim. 6. 6 7 8 9 10 11 17 18 19. Endure hardness as a good soldier of Christ no man who warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier 2 Tim. 2. 4. In the last times c. men shall be lovers of their own selves c. lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God 2 Tim. 3. 4. Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world c. 2 Tim. 4. 10. The earth c. bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receiveth blessing from God Heb. 6. 7. Ye c. took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and enduring substance c. Heb. 10. 34. By faith Moses when he came to years refused to be called the son of Pharoah's daughter 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 Hebr. 11. 24 25 26. Let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as ye have for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee so that we may holdly say The Lord is my helper c. Heb. 13. 5 6. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted but the rich in that he is made low because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away For the fun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass and the flower thereof falleth and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth so also shall the rich man perish in his ways c. James 1. 9 10 11. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith c. but ye have despised the poor Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment-seat do not they blaspheme that worthy name c. James 2. 5 6 7. Know ye not that the friendship of this world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God c. Go to now ye that say To day or to morrow we will go into such a City and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain whereas ye know not what will be on the morrow for what is your life it is even a vapour c. for that ye ought to say If the Lord will we shall live and do this or that but now you rejoice in your boastings all such rejoicings are evil James 4. 4 13 14 15 16. Acts 18. 21. 1 Cor. 16. 7. Go to now ye rich men weep and howl for your misery which shall come upon you Your riches are corrupted your garments moth eaten your gold and silver cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire ye have heaped treasures together for the last days Behold the hire of your labourers who reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth c. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth ye have been wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter c. ye have condemned the just James 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6. All flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass the grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away 1 Peter 1. 7 24. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God c. casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 6 7. Love not the world neither the things which are in the world if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world and the world passeth away and the lust thereof 1 John 2. 15 16 17. Greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world they are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth themâ— 1 John 4. 4 5. Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory which overcometh the world even our faith Who is he who overcometh the world but he who believeth that Jesus is the Son of God 1 John 5. 4 5. The kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men c. hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne c. Revel 6. 15 16 17. Heaven and earth shall pass away all these things shall end Psalm 102. 25 26. Isa 51. 6. Matth. 24. 35. 1 Pet. 4. 7. 2 Pet. 3. 7 10 11. 1 John 2. 17. CHAP. XL. Of Idolatry Setting up and Worshipping Strange Gods Graven Images IDols are called Dunghill-Gods 1 Kings 21. 26. 2 Kings 21. 21. Ezek. 6. 6 9 13. Laban said to Jacob Wherefore hast thou stolen my gods Gen. 31. 30. Jacob said unto his houshold Put away the strange gods that are among you c. And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hands and all their ear-rings which were in their ears and Jacob hid them under the oak Gen. 35. 2 4. I am the Lord thy God Thou shalt have no other gods before me Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the waters under the earth thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God c. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold Exod. 20. 2 3 4 5 23. Deut. 4. 15 16 17 18. Psal 81. 9 10. Hosea 13. 4. He who sacrificeth unto any god save unto the Lord only he shall be utterly destroyed Exod. 22 20. Deut. 30. 17 18. ch 31. 16 17 18. Make no mention of the names of other gods neither let it be heard out of thy mouth c. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods nor serve them c. Thou shalt utterly overthrow them and quite break down their images c. Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor with their gods c. If thou serve their gods it will surely be a snare unto thee Exod. 23. 13 24 32 33. Psal 106. 36. Judges 2. 3. The people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him Up make us gods which shall go before us for as for this Moses c. we wot not what is become of him And Aaron said
lyes vanity and things wherein is no profit Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods Jer. 16. 19 20. Then all the men who knew that their wives had burnt incense unto other gods and all the women who stood by c. answered Jeremiah saying c. We will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink-offerings unto her as we have done we and our fathers our kings and our princes in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem for then had we plenty c. So the Lord could no longer bear c. Jer. 44. 15 to 22. I am broken with their whorish heart which have departed from me and with their eyes which go a whoring after their idols c. Ezek. 6. 9. These men have set up their idols in their hearts and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their race Should I be enquired of at all by them c. I the Lord will answer him according to the multitude of his idols c. I the Lord will answer him by my self Ezek. 14. 1 4 5 6 7. Hosea 2. 2 3 4. The insatiable Idolatry of Jerusalem with all Nations Ezek. 16. 15 16 c. I will do these things unto thee because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen because thou art polluted with their idols Ezek. 23. 30. ch 16. 36 37 c. Such of the Levites who had offered before Idols God refused afterwards that they should offer any more unto him Ezek. 44. 10 to 15. The Image of Nebuchadnezar set up Dan. 3. Belshazzar and his Princes c. praised the Gods of Gold and of Silver c. Dan. 5. 3 4. My people ask counsel at their stock and their staff declareth unto them for the spirit of whoredems have caused them to err and they have gone a whoring from under their God they sacrifice upon the top of mountains and burn incense upon the hills under oaks c. Ephraim is joined to idols let him alone Hosea 4. 12 13 17. Of their silver and their gold have they made them idols that they may be cut off Thy calf O Samaria hath cast thee off mine anger is kindled c. The work man made it therefore it is not God but the calâ— of Samaria shall be broken in pieces for they have fown the wind Hosea 8. 4 5 6 7. According to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars according unto the goodness of his land they have made goodly images their heart is divided now they shall be found faulty he shall break down their altars he shall spoil their images Hosea 10. 1 2. And now they sin more and more and have made them molten-images of their silver and idols according to their own understanding all of it the work of the crafts-men They say of them Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves Therefore they shall be as the morning-cloud c. Hosea 13. 2 3. I will cut off them who worship the host of heaven c. swear by the Lord and swear by Malcham Zeph. 1. 4 5. Amos 8. 14. For their idols have spoken vanity and the Diviners have seen a lye and have told false dreams c. Zech. 10. 2. Nor will we say any more O our God to the works of our hands Hosea 14. 3. Judah hath prophaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved or ought to love and hath married the daughter of a strange god Mal. 2. 11. God c. gave them up to worship the host of heaven Acts 7. 42. The people said c. the gods are come down unto us in the likeness of men And they called Barnabas Jupiter and Paul Mercurius because he was the chief speaker Then the priest of Jupiter c. brought oxen and garlands unto the gates and would have done sacrifice with the people which when the Apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of they rent their clothes and ran in among the people crying out and saying Sirs What do ye in these things We are also men of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God who made heaven and earth c. Acts 14. 11 12 13 14 15 18. We write unto them that they stay from the pollutions of idols Acts 15. 20 29. Paul c. at Athens his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry or full of idols therefore disputed he in the Synagogue c. Ye men of Athens I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious for as I passed by and beheld your devotions or gods whom ye worship I found an altar with this Inscription To the unknown God Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship c. Forasmuch then as we are the off-spring of God we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone graven by art or man's device Acts 17. 16 17 22 23 29. Demetrius said This Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people saying that they be no gods which are made with hands So that not only this our craft is in danger c. but also that the temple of the great Goddess Diana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all Asia and the world worshippeth c. Great is Diana of the Ephesians c. The Image which fell down from Jupiter Acts 19. 26 27 28 34 35. When they knew God they glorified him not as God c. but became vain in their imaginations c. and changed the glory of the invisible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds c. who changed the truth of God into a lye and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator Rom. 1. 21 23 25. ch 2. 22. Psal 106. 19 20 21. Thou who abhorrest idols dost thou commit sacrilege Rom. 2. 22. We know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is none other God but one for though there be that are called gods whether in heaven or earth as there be gods many and lords many but to us there is but one God c. 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. Neither be ye idolaters as were some of them As it is written the people sate down to eat and drink and rose up to play c. My dearly beloved flee from idolatry c. What say I then that the idol is any thing or that which is offered in sacrifice is any thing But I say That the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifie to devils and not to God and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils 1 Cor. 10. 7 14 19 20. Ye know that ye were Gentiles carried away unto these dumb idols 1 Cor. 12. 2. Ye did service to them who by nature are not gods Gal. 4. 8. How ye turned to
God from idols to serve the living and true God 1 Thes 1. 9. Little children keep your selves from idols 1 John 5. 21. And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk Rev. 9. 20. The Lord terrible c. he will famish or make lean all the gods of the earth c. Zeph. 2. 11. See Worshipping of the true God Chap. 16. CHAP. XLI Of Angels appearing to Men What they are and do AND the Angel of the Lord found Hagar by a fountain of water c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return to thy mistress c. I will multiply thy seed exceedingly c. Gen. 16. 7 8 9 10 11. Three men appeared to Abraham his discourse with them and entertaining of them Gen. 18. Dan. 10. 5 6 7 c. And there came two Angels to Sodom at even c. and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them and he bowed himself with his face towards the ground c. but the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the house c. and they smote the men who were at the door with blindness c. And the men said unto Lot Hast thou here any beside son-in-law c. for we will destroy this place c. The Angels hastened Lot c. and while he lingred the men laid hold upon his hand c. When they had brought them out abroad that he said Escape for thy life c. And Lot said unto them O not so my Lord c. And he said unto him See I have accepted thee concerning this thing c. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah c. Gen. 19. 1 2 3 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 21 24. And the Angel of God called unto Hagar out of heaven and said unto her What aileth thee Hagar Fear not for God hath heard thy voice Gen. 21. 17. And the Angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham c. Lay not thine hand upon the Lad c. And the Angel of the Lord called unto Abraham the second time out of heaven Gen. 22. 11 12 15. Abraham said unto his servant The Lord God of heaven c. he shall send his Angel before thee and thou shalt take a wife unto my son c. Gen. 24. 6 7. Jacob dreamed and behold a ladder c. the Angels of God ascending and descending c. Gen. 28. 12. The Angel of God spake unto Jacob in a dream c. said For I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee I am the God of Bethel c. where thou vowest a vow unto me c. Gen. 31. 11 12 13. And Jacob went on his way and the Angel of God met him and when Jacob saw them he said This is God's Host c. And Jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him c. as a Prince hast thou power with Angels c. And Jacob said I have seen God face to face and my Life is preserved Gen. 32. 1 2 24 28 30. Hosea 12. 4. The Angel who redeemed me from all evil bless the lad Gen. 48. 16. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush c. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called unto him out of the midst of the bush c. said I am the God of thy father c. Exod. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Acts 7. 30 35. And the Angel of the Lord who went before the Camp of Israel removed and went behind them and the pillar of the cloud c. Exod. 14. 19 20. Behold I send an Angel before thee to keep thee in the way c. for mine Angel shall go before thee and bring thee in unto the Amorite Exod. 23. 20 23. ch 32. 34. ch 33. 2. He heard our voice and sent an Angel and brought us forth out of Egypt Numb 20. 16. God was angry with Balaam because he went and the Angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him c. And the ass upon which he rode saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and the ass turned aside c. But the Angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyard c. And when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord she thrust her self unto the wall c. And the Angel of the Lord went farther and stood in a narrow place c. and when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord she fell down under Balaam c. Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and he bowed down his head and fell flat on his face c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto Balaam c. The word which I shall speak unto thee that thou shalt speak Numb 22. 22 23 24 25 26 27 31 32 33 34 35. When Joshua was by Jericho c. behold there stood a man over-against him with his sword drawn in his hand And Joshua went unto him and said unto him Art thou for us or for our adversaries And he said Nay but as Captain or Prince of the Host of the Lord am I come And Joshua fell on his face unto the earth and did worship and said unto him What saith my Lord unto his servant c. Joshua 5. 13 14 15. An Angel of the Lord came c. when the Angel had spoken those words c. the people c. wept Judges 2. 1 4. Curse ye Meros said the Angel of the Lord c. because they came c. Judges 5. 23. And there came an Angel of the Lord and sat under an Oak c. appeared unto Gideon and said unto him The Lord is with thee c. And Gideon said unto him Oh my Lord c. The Lord said unto him Surely I will be with thee c. And the Angel of God said unto him Take thee flesh c. and lay them upon this rock c. Then the Angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff and touched the flesh c. And when Gideon perceived that he was an Angel of the Lord Gideon said Alas O Lord God for because I have seen an Angel of the Lord face to face c. Thou shalt not die c. Judges 6. 11 12 15 16 17 20 21. 22 23. The Angel of the Lord appeared to Manoah his wife c When Manoah knew that he was an Angel of the Lord he said unto his Wife We shall surely die because we have seen God c. Judges 13. 3 6 8 13 16 18 21
eat For we hear there are some among you who walk disorderly working not at all c. We command c. that with quietness they work and eat their own bread c. 2 Thes 3. 10 11 12. Withal they learn to be idle wandring about from house to house 1 Tim. 5. 13. That they who have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works or honest trades Titus 3. 8 14. CHAP. LV. God's Way of declaring his Mind of Old by Voices Dreams and Visions THE Lord spake to Adam to Cain Noah c. Gen. 2. 16 17. ch 3. 8 9 10 11 c. ch 4. 6 7 9 10 to 16. ch 6. 13 14 c. ch 7. 1 2 3 c. ch 9. ch 12. 1 2 3. After these things the word of the Lord came in a vision unto Abram saying I am thy shield c. Gen. 15. 1 2 3 c. God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said unto him Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken c. God said to him in a dream Yea I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart c. Gen. 20. 2 to 8. Jacob dreamed and behold a ladder set upon the earth and the top thereof reached to heaven c. The Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father c. The land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it c. Gen. 28. 11 to 16. And the Angel of God spake unto me in a dream saying Jacob c. I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedst the pillar where thou vowedst a vow to me c. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and said unto him Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob c. Gen. 31. 11 12 13 24. Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brethren c. And he dreamed yet another dream c. Gen. 36. 5 to 11. ch 42. 6. ch 43. 26 28. ch 44. 14. ch 50. 18. The Dreams of the Butler and Baker of Pharaoh in the Prison and of Pharaoh himself interpreted by Joseph Gen. 40. ch 41. God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night and said Jacob Jacob c I am the God of thy Father fear not to go down into Egypt c. Gen. 46. 1 to 5. God spake to Moses out of the burning bush Exod. 3. Moses went up unto God and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain saying Thus shalt thou say c. Moses spake and God answered him by a voice c. And the Lord said to Moses Go down charge the people c. Exod. 19. 3 4 9 10 19 20 21 22 24. If there be a prophet among you I c. will make my self known to them in a vision c. Numb 12. 6. He hath said who heard the words of God who saw the vision of the Almighty falling into a trance but having his eyes open c. Num. 24. 4 16. The Lord spake to Samuel by Voice or Word 1 Sam. 3. 4 10 11 21. To Nathan by Vision 2 Sam. 7. 17. The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night and God said Ask what I shall give thee c. 1 Kings 3. 5 6 7. ch 9. 2. The Lord answered not Saul by prophets nor by dreams c. 1 Sam. 28. 6 15. God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction Job 33. 14 15 16. Thou spakest in a vision to thy Holy One and saidst I have laid help upon one c. Psal 89. 19. Nebuchadnezzar's Dreams which Daniel expounded Dan. 2. ch 4. Belshazzar's Vision against the Wall Dan. 5. 5 25. Daniel's Vision of the Beasts c. Dan. 7. Of the Man cloathed in Linnen Dan. 10. 5 6 7 c. Of other things Dan. 7. ch 8. ch 10. I have also spoken by the prophets and I have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the ministery of the prophets Hos 12. 10. I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and c. your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 16 17. For the vision is yet for an appointed time but in the end it shall speak and not lye and though it tarry wait for it because it will surely come c. Habak 2. 3. Behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph thou son of David fear not c. Matth. 1. 20. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return unto Herod c. And when they were departed behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying Arise and take the young child c. Matth. 2. 12 13 19 22. Pilate c. said I will have nothing to do with that just Man for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him c. Matth. 27. 19. Saul saw a Vision and heard a Voice saying Saul Saul Why persecutest thou me c. A certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias And to him said the Lord in a vision c. Arise and go c. Acts 9. 1 2 3 4 to 11. ch 26. 13 14 15 c. Cornelius saw in a Vision evidently an Angel of God coming unto him and saying Cornelius thy prayers and thine alms are come up c. Peter also had a Vision and God spake to him c. Acts 10. 3 4 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 28 30 c. ch 11. 5. A Vision appeared to Paul in the night There stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him saying come over unto Macedonia and help us c. He endeavoured to go assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the Gospel unto them Acts 16. 9 10. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision be not afraid but speak c. for I am with thee Acts 18. 9. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord I knew a man c. 2 Cor. 12. 1 2 3. God who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in times past unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son c. Heb. 1. 1 2. CHAP. LVI The Call and Commission of the Apostles equal without Superiority JEsus c. saw two brethren Simeon called Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishers and he saith unto them follow me and I will make you fishers of men c. he saw other two brethren James the son of Zebedee and John his brother c. and he called them and they immediately c. followed
thee into the land which thy fathers possessed and thou shalt possess it c. and the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart c. to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart c. Deut. 30. 1 2 3 4 5 6. The Lord shall judge his people and repent himself for his servants when he seeth that power is gone and there is none shut up or least c. rejoyce O ye nations his people for he will avenge the blood of his servants c. and will be merciful to his land to his people Deuteronomy 32. 36 43. O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people Jacob shall rejoyce Israel shall be glad Psal 14. 7. And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established or prepared in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow in unto it And many people shall say come ye let us go up c. for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem Isa 2. 2 3. And it shall come to pass in that day the remnant of Israel c. shall stay upon the Lord the holy one of Israel in truth the remnant shall return the remnant of Jacob unto the mighty God for though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea a remnant of them shall return c. Isai 10 20 21 22 23. And it shall come to pass in that day the Lord shall fet his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be lest from Assyria c. and from the Island of the sea and he shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble the out-casts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth Isa 11. 11 12. The Lord will have mercy on Jacob and will yet refuse Israel and set them in their own land c. Isa 14. 1 2. 3 32. He shall cause them who came out of Jacob to take root Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit c. ye shall be gathered one by one O ye children of Israel c. and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the out-casts in the land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem Isa 27. 6 12 13. Look upon Zion the city of our solemnities thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle which shall not be taken down nor one of the stakes there of shall ever be removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken but there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers Isa 33. 20 21 c. Look unto Abram your father and unto Sarah who bare you c. for the Lord shall comfort Zion he will comfort all their wast places and he will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the Lord joy and gladness shall be found therein thanksgiving and the voice of melodie Isa 51. 2 3. ch 52. 1 2 3 4. ch 60. ch 61. 4 5 6 c. ch 62. ch 65. 18. 19 20 21 22 23 ch 66. 8 9 10 11 12 13 15. Micah 4. Zephan 3. 14 15 c. At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it to the name of the Lord to Jerusalem c. in those days shall the house of Judah walk with the house of Israel and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land which I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers but I said c. Jerem. 3. 14 15 16 17 18. The days come saith the Lord that it shall no more be said the Lord liveth who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt but the Lord liveth who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands whither he had driven them and I will bring them again into their land which I gave to their fathers Jerem. 16. 14 15. ch 23. 3 4 5 6 7 8. I will be the God of all the families of Israel and they shall be my people c. again I will build thee and thou shalt be built O virgin of Israel c. then shall ye plant vines upon the mountain of Samaria the planters shall plant and shall ear c. for this saith the Lord sing with gladness for 〈◊〉 and shout among the chief of the nations c. behold I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the coasts of the earth c. a great company shall return thither c. for I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my first-born hear the word of the Lord O ye nations and declare it in the Isles of the nations and say He who scattereth Israel will-gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock for the herd hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger then he therefore shall they come and sing in the height of Zion c. if heaven above can be measured c. I will also cast of all the seed of Israel for all that they have done saith the Lord behold the days come saith the Lord that the city shall be built to the Lord c. Jerem. 31. 1 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 27 28 38 c. ch 30. Behold I will gather them out of the countries whither I have driven them in mine anger c. and I will bring them again into this place and I will cause them to dwelt safely and they shall be my people c. Jer. 32. 37 38. Thus saith the Lord If my covenant be not with day and night c. then will I cast off the feed or Jacob and David my servant that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob For I will cause their captivity to return and have mercy on them Jer. 33. 25 26 ch 46. 27 28 In those days the children of Israel shall come they and the children of Judah together going and weeping c. Jer. 59. 4 20. Thus saith the Lord God although I have cast them far off among the heathen and although I have scattered them among the Countreys yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the Countreys where they shall come therefore c. I will even gather you from the people and assemble you out of the Countreys where ye have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel and they shall come thither and they shall take away all the detestable things c. Ezek. 11. 16 17 18 Ye shall
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.