the Saints Duty towards the Spirit in following him and not Sinning against him Grieving him or Quench-him I. Of the Spirit given to and in the Saints and others and what he did and doth THese be they who separated themselves sensual having not the spirit Jude 1. 18 19. And Pharaoh said unto his servants Can we find such a one as this is a man in whom the spirit of God is Gen. 41. 38. I have called by name Basaleel c. And I have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom and understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship to devise cunning work to work in gold and silver and in brass c. Exod. 31. 2 3 4. ch 35. 31 32 c. Gather unto me seventy of the Elders of Israel c. And I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee and will put it upon them and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee c. And the Lord came down c. and took of the spirit that was upon him and gave it unto the seventy Elders And it came to pass that when the spirit rested on them they prophesied and did not cease c. Would all the Lords people were prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them Numb 11. 16 17 25 26 29. My servant Caleb because he had another spirit with him and followed me fully him will I bring into the land Numb 14. 24. And Balaam lift up his eyes c. and the spirit of God came upon him and he blessed Israel instead of cursing them Numb 24. 1 2 3 10. Take thee Joshua the son of Nun a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him Numb 27. 18. The spirit of the Lord upon Jepthah c. Judg. 11. 29. Sampson and the child grew and the Lord blessed him and the spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan Judge 13 24 25. And the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and he rent the Lyon as he would have rent a kid c. and the spirit of the Lord came upon him and he c. slew thirty of them c. Judg. 14. 6 19. The spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and the cords which were upon his arms became as flax Judg. 15. 14. The spirit of the Lord will come upon thee and thou shalt prophesie with them and shall be turned into another man c. And the spirit of God came upon him and he prophesied 1 Sam. 10. 6 9 10. Samuel anointed David and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward c. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him 1 Sam. 16. 13 14. David had the pattern of Gods house given to him by the spirit 1 Chron. 28. 12 19. Yet many years dist thou forbear them and testified against them by thy spirit in thy prophets Neh. 9. 30. Zech. 7. 12. Truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord and of judgment and of might to declare unto Jacob his tranâ—gression and to Israel his sin Micah 3. 8. I indeed baptize you with water c. but he c. shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire c. Mat. 3. 11. Mark 1. 8. For it is not ye that speak but the spirit of your father who speaketh in you Mat. 10. 20. Luke 12. 11 12. It is said of John he shall be filled with the holy Ghost even from his mothers womb c. The Angel said unto Mary The holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee c. Elizabeth was filled with the holy Ghost and she spake c. Zacharias was filled with the holy Ghost and prophesied saying c. Luke 1. 13 15 35 41 47. The holy Ghost was upon Simeon And it was revealed unto him by the holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord Luke 2. 25 26. If ye then being evil know how to give good things to your children how much more shall your heavenly father give his holy spirit to them who asketh him Luke 11. 13. The kingdom of God cometh not with observation c. Behold the kingdom of God is among you or within you Luke 17. 20 21. The spirit of truth c. he dwelleth with you and shall be with you John 14. 17. ch 4 14. The comforter c. he will reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of judgment c. when the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth For he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unto you John 17. 7 8 13 14. He breathed on them and saith unto them Receive the holy Ghost John 20. 22. Job 32. 8. Wait for the promise of the father which ye have heard of me for John truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the holy-Ghost not many days hence c. ye shall receive power after the holy-Ghost is come upon you or the power of the holy Ghost cometh upon you Acts 1. 4 5 8. Luke 24. 49. ch 3. 16. This was fulfilled And they were all filled with the holy-Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance c. Jesus c. having received of the father the promise of the holy Ghost he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear Acts 2. 2 3 4 14 15 16 17 18 32 33. Then Peter filled with the holy-Ghost said c. the place was shaken c. And they were all filled with the holy Ghost and they spake the word c. Acts 4. 8 31. The holy Ghost whom God hath given unto them who obey him Acts 5. 32. Stephen a man full of the holy Ghost c. and they were not able to resist the spirit and wisdom by which he spake Acts 6. 5 10. ch 7. 55. Peter and John c. prayed for them that they might receive the holy Ghost for as yet he was fallen upon none of them c. and they received the holy Ghost Acts 8. 15. 16 17. The Lord c. hath sent me that thou mightest c. be filled with the holy Ghost Acts 9. 17. While Peter yet spake these words the holy Ghost fell on all them who heard the word c. they heard them speak with tongues c. Acts 10. 44 46. Barnabas was a good man and full of the holy Ghost c. Acts 11. 24. Acts 13. 9 52. God who knoweth the hearts bear them witness giving them the holy Ghost as he did unto us Acts 15. 8. They were forbidden by the holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia c. then they assayed to go into Bithinia but the spirit suffered
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
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
for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel saith the Lord Ezek. 39. 29. Not by might or power but by my Spirit saith the Lord c. grace Zach. 4. 6 7. I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie c. and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit Joel 2. 28 29. Acts 2. 16 17. Luke 24. 49. I will pour upon the house of David c. the Spirit of grace and of supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have have pierced c. Zech. 12. 10. Ephes 6. 18. Jude verse 20. When they deliver you up take no thought how or what ye shall speak c. for it is not ye who speak but the Spirit of your Father who speaketh in you Matth. 10. 19 20. Luke 12. 12. ch 17. 20 21. If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God then the kingdom is come unto you Matth. 12. 28. Except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit John 3. 5 6. It is the Spirit who quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing c. John 6. 36. 2 Cor. 3. 6. He who believeth on me out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water but this spake he of the Spirit which they who believed on him should receive John 7. 38 39. Gal. 3. 2. 14. John 4. 13 14. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive c. He dwelleth with you and shall be in you I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you c. The Comforter the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said John 14. 16 17 18 25 26. But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father the Spirit of truth c. John 15. 26. ch 1. 33. Acts 1. 5. It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto youâ— and when he is come he will convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment c. I have yet many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now Howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth c. he shall not speak of himself but c. He shall receive of mine and shew it unto you John 16. 7 8 12 13 14. They were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which Stephen spake Acts 6. 9. 10. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost c. Rom. 5. 5. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwell in you he who raised up the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit which dwelleth in you c. If ye through the spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body ye shall live For as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God c. Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit himself maketh intercession for us c. Rom. 8. 11 13 14 26 27. Eph. 2. 18. Eph. 6. 18. Jude verse 20. That ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost c. That the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the holy Ghost c. To make the Gentiles obedient c. by the power of the spirit of God Rom. 15. 13 16 18 19. Eye hath not seen c. but God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things c. The things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God Now we have received c. the spirit of God that we might know the things which are freely given unto us of God 1 Cor. 2. 9 10 11 12. Such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified c. and by the spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 11. Titus 3. 5. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost Now there are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. The manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal For to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom c. But all these worketh that one and the self same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will c. By one spirit we are all baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 13. We c. beholding c. the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image c. by the spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. We through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith Gal. 5. 5 22 Through him we both have an access by one spirit unto the father Ephes 2. 18. The mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as now it is revealed c. by the spirit c. I bow my knees unto the father c. that he would grant you c. to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man Ephes 3. 4 5 14 16. Who declared unto us your love in the spirit Col. 1. 8. Our Gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power and in the holy Ghost c. And ye became followers of us and of the Lord 1 Thess 1. 5 6. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth 2 Thess 2. 13. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the holy Ghost who dwelleth in us 2 Tim. 1. 14. He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which is shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ Tit. 3 5 6. Ephes 5. 26. Elect c. through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience c. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren 1 Pet. 1. 2 22. But ye have an unction from the holy one and ye know all things c. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things c. 1 John 2. 20. 27. Of the Spirit of God further his being given to and dwelling in the Saints and working in them and others The Nature Appearance and Fruit of the Spirit and
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
they sinned still and believed not for his wondrous work Psal 78. 30 31 32 56 57 58. They frame mischief by a law they gather themselves together against the Soul of the Righteous and condemn the innocent blood Psal 94. 20 21. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people c. they have consulted together with one consent or heart they are confederate against thee Psal 83. 3 5. The tender mercy of the wicked is cruel Prov. 12. 10. Fools make a mock at sin Prov 14. 9. Not a just man upon the earth who doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7. 20. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil Eccles 8. 11. Psal 55. 19. Woe to them who draw iniquity c. who say Let him make speed hasten his work that we may may see c. Isa 5. 18 19 20. The King of Assyria lifted up in pride said Shall not I do to Jerusalem as to Samaria c. By the strength of my hand have I done it and by my wisdom for I am prudent Isa 10. 10 11 13. Ye have said We have made a covenant with death and with hell c. the scourge shall not come upon us c. Isa 28. 15. Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness c. Deal unjustly in the land of uprightness and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord c. Thy hand is lifted up they will not see c. Isa 26. 10 11. They make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for him who reproveth in the gate c. Isa 29. 20 21. Thou hast trusted in thy wickedness thou hast said none-seeth me c. and thou hast said in thine heart I and none else beside me Isa 47. 10. All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way Isa 53. 6. The wicked like the troubled sea which cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt Isa 57. 20. Thou saidâ—t There is no hope no for I have loved strangers and after them will I go Jer. 2. 25. ch 22. 21. Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou qast consumed them they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder than a rock they have refused to return Jer. 5. 3. Were they ashamed c. They were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore c. Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the way and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein c. But they said We will not walk therein Jer. 6. 15 16. They spake not aright no man repented of his wickedness saying What have I done Every one turned to his course as the horse rusneth into the battel Jer. 8. 6. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron with the point of a diamond it is graven upon the table of their heart c. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked c. Jer. 17. 1 9. Thus faith the Lord Return ye c. And they said There is no hope but we will walk after our own devices and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart c. Let us devise devices against Jeremiah c. and let us not give heed to any of his words Jer. 18. 11 12 18. The King cut and burned the Roll wherein was written Jeremy's Prophesie and would have taken the Prophet himself Jer. 36. 21 23 24 26. The people told Jeremiah We will not hearken unto thee but we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth out of our own mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven c. Jer. 44. 15 16 17. They are stiff-hearted c. they are rebellious c. they are impudent Ezek. 2. 4 7. ch 3. 7. Hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark every man in the chambers of his imagery For they say The Lord seeth not us the Lord hath forsaken the earth c. Ezekâ— 8. 12. When they had slain their children to their idols then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it c. Ezek. 23. 39. Nebuchadnezzar said Who is that God who can deliver out of my hands Dan. 3. 15. The king said Is not this great Babylon which I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honour of my majesty While the word was in his mouth c. a voice said The kingdom is departed Dan. 4. 30 31. Though Belshazzar knew all which God had done to his father for his pride yet he humbled not his heart But thou hast lifted up thy self against the Lord of heaven c. Thou hast praised the gods of silver c. Dan. 5. 21 22 23. Their mother hath played the harlot c. For she said I will go after my lovers who gave me my bread c. Hos 2. 5. They set their heart on their iniquity Hos 4. 8. God repeats many Judgments he hath brought upon Israel and saith Yet they have not returned unto me c. Amos. 4. 6 7 8 9 10. They hate him who rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him who speaketh uprightly Amoâ— 5. 10. Isa 29. 21. None upright amongst men and the best of them as a briar c. Micah 7. 2 3 4. Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts 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 heart as an Adamant-stone lest they should hear the law c. Zech. 7. 9 10 11 12. I will punish the men c. who say in their hearts that the Lord will not do good neither will he do evil Zeph. 1. 12. Psal 2. 17. Your words have been stout against me saith the Lord Yet ye say What have we spoken against thee Ye have said It is vain to serve God and what profit that we have kept his ordinances c. Mal. 3. 13 14. Job 21. 14 15. O Jerusalem c. How often would I have gathered you c. and ye would not Matth. 23. 37. John 5. 40. Luke 14. 17 18 19 c. When Pilate had said I am innocent of the blood of this just person see ye to it Then answered all the people and said His blood be on us and our children Matth. 27. 24 25. See the desperate wickedness of the Priests and Elders Matth. 27 ch 28. The World hate Christ and all that are good Matth. 10. 22. John 15. 18 19 c. 1 John 3. 13. John 17. 14. That which cometh out of them and defileth the man For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts adulteries fornications thefts covetousness wickedness deceit lasciviousness an evil eye blasphemy pride foolishness
All these evil things come from within and defile the man Mark 7. 20 21 22 23. Matth. 15. 18 19 20. Jam. 4. 1. Matth. 12. 35 36. His citizens hated him c. saying We will not have this man to reign over us c. Luke 19. 14. John 7. 7. Certain of the Jews banded together and bound themselves with a Curse saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul More than forty Acts 23. 12 13. Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light c. John 3. 19 20. They became vain in their imagination and their foolish heart was darkned c. and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image c. Wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts c. Who changed the truth of God into a â—ye and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator c. For this cause God gave them up to vile affections for even the women did change the natural use to that which is against nature c. Being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murther debate deceit malignity whisperers back-biâ—ers haters of God despightful proud boasters inventers of evil things disobedient to parents c. covenant-breakers without natural affections implacable unmerciful c. Not only do the same but have pleasure in them who do them Rom. 1. 21 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32. They are all gone out of the way c. Their throat is an open sepulchre with theirtongues they have used deceit the poyson of Asps lies under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness Their feet are swift to shed blood c. There is no fear of God before their eyes Rom. 3. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19. Psal 5. 9. When we were yet sinners c. enemies we were reconciled Rom. 5. 8 10 12. The carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be c. Rom. 8. 7. Now the works of the flesh are c. adultery fornication uncleanness c. Gal. 5. 19 20 21. James 3. 14 15. You who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in times paâ—t ye walked c. In the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of our flesh Ephes 2. 1 2 3. Col. 2. 13. Other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds c. being alienated from the life of God Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness c. The old man which is corrupt Ephes 4. 17 18 19 22. The enemies of the cross of Christ c. Whose god is their belly whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 18 19. You who were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works Col. 1. 21. The Jews who kiâ—â—ed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men forbidding us to speak c. To fill up their sins alway for the wrath c. 1 Thes 2. 14 15 16. Who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy 1 Tim. 1. 13. A Description of the desperate Wickedness of some in the last Age of the World 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 c. We our selves were sometimes foolish disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another Tit. 3. 3. John 8. 34. Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed and when lust hath cenceived it bringeth forth sin James 1. 14 15. ch 4. 1 2. ch 3. 14 15. Ye rich men c. ye have â—ived in pleasures c. been wanton ye have nourished your selves c. James 5. 1 2 3 4 c. Your vain conversation by tradition from your fathers 1 Pet. 1. 18. The time past of our lives may suffice us c. when we walked in lasciviousness lusts excess of wine revellings banquetings and abominable idolatries wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess 1 Pet. 4. 3 4. They have eyes full of adultery who cannot cease from sin 2 Pet. 2. 14. We know that c. the whole world lieth in wickedness 1 John 5. 19. Ungodly men turning the grace of God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord c. Jude vers 10. When God poured out his Viol of Wrath Men blasphemed and repented not Rev. 16. 9 10 11 21. ch 9. 18 19 20 21. See more of Sin Chap. 16. See more of Persecutors Chap. 22. See the Spirits and Practices of Hypocrites Chap. 28. II Ignorant and sottishly opposing the true God and his Ways and adoring Idols of Stocks and Stones WHen Jacob went from Laban Laban complains that he had stolen his Gods Gen. 31. 30. Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey him c. I know not the Lord Exod. 5. 2. Israel by Aaron made a molten Calf and they said these be thy gods O Israel which brought thee out of Egypt c. They built an altar and offered sacrifice to it Exod. 32. 4 5 6. The Men of Ashdod were so sottish that when Dagon their Idol-God had fallen down before the Arâ— twice and was broken in pieces and themselves had confessed the Hand of the God of Israel to be sore against them and their God yet they continued to call him their God and neither the Priest nor any who came into Dagon's House would after tread upon the Threshold whereon Dagon fell 1 Sam. 5. 2 3 4 5 7. ch 6. 5 6. The wicked say unto God Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we pray unto him Job 21. 14 15. Who said unto God Depart from us and what can the Almighty do for or by them Job 22. 17. They are those who rebel against the light they know not the way thereof nor abide in the path thereof Job 24. 13. Great men are not wise neither do the aged understand judgment Job 32. 9. The fool hath said in his heart There is no God Psal 14. 1. But unto the wicked God said What hast thou to do to declare my statutes c. seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee c. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self Psal 50. 16 17 21. They slay the widow c. yet they say The Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard Understand O ye brutish c. He who planteth the ear shall c. Psal 94. 6 7 8. Evil men understand not judgment Prov. 28. 5. The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib Israel doth not know my people do
the Woman and a Curse on the Earth denounced Gen. 3. 8 10 16 17. Sin made Cain cry out and say his Punishment was greater than he could bear So Lamech Gen. 4. 13 23 24. Aaron made Israel naked by Sin Exod. 32. 25. If there be any among you c. That he bless himself in his heart saying I will have peace though I walk in the imagination or stabbornness of my heart to add drunkenness to thirst the Lord will not spare him but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoke against that man and all the curses which are written in this book shall lie upon him and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven Deut. 29. 19 20. If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him They who despise me saith the Lord shall be lightly esteemed 1 Sam. 2. 25 30. Saul's Sin made him cry out in his distress That God had departed from him 1 Sam. 28. 15. The triumph of the wicked is but short c. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach unto the clouds he shall perish for ever like his own dung c. Job 20. 5 6 c. ch 11. 20. How often is the candle of the wicked put out and cometh their destruction upon them God distributeth sorrows in his anger they are as stubble c. His eyes shall see his destruction he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty c. The wicked is reserved unto the day of destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath Job 21. 17 18 19 30. ch 27. 13 14 c. ch 31. 2 3. The ungodly are like the chaff which the wind driveth away c. They shall not stand in judgment c. The way of the ungodly shall perish Psal 1. 4 6. Thou not a God who hath pleasure in wickedness c. Thou hatest all workers of iniquity Psal 5. 4 5. The wicked his soul hateth Upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible or burning tempest this the portion of their cup Psal 11. 5. 6. Isa 33. 14. Because they regard not the works of the Lord c. he shall destroy them and not build c. Psal 28. 5. Psal 119. 155. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance c. Psal 34. 16. 1 Pet. 3. 12. The transgressors shall be destroyed together The end of the wicked shall be cut off Psal 37. 1 2 38. Unto the wicked God saith What hast thou to do to declare my statutes or that thou shouldst take my c. Consider ye who forget God lest I tear you in pieces and none to deliver Psal 50. 16 22. Prov. 11. 21. Psal 9. 18. Who knoweth the power of thine anger Even according to thy fear is thy wrath Psal 90. 11. When the wicked spring as the grass and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish That they should be destroyed for ever Psal 92. 7 10. Psal 49. 17 19. Such who turn aside unto their wicked ways the Lord will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal 125. 5. They shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices Prov. 1. 30 31. ch 5. 22 23. The name of the wicked shall rot c. The expectation of the wicked shall perish Prov. 1. 7 28. ch 11. 7. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof the ways of death Prov. 14. 12. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord c. so his thoughts are Prov. 15. 8 26. ch 21. 27. Isa 66. 3 4. Gen. 4. 3 4 5 6 7. The woman whose heart is snares and nets c. the sinner shall be taken by her Eccles 7. 26. But it shall not be well with the wicked c. because he feareth not before God Eccles 8. 13. Isa 3. 11. Woe unto them who draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were with a Cart rope c. Isa 5. 18 19 c. Michah 2. 1 2 3. No peace saith my God to the wicked Isa 48. 22. ch 57. 20. Against whom do you sport your selves c. when thou cryest Let thy Companions deliver thee c. Isa 57. 4 13. They shall look on the carkases of men who have tansgressed against me for their worm shall not die neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh Isa 66. 24. ch 33. 14. Every one shall die for his own iniquity Jer. 31. 30. The soul who sinneth shall dâ—e Ezek. 18. 4 20. ch 3. 19. Can thine heart endure can thine hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with thee I the Lord have spoken and will do Ezekiel 22. 14. Many shall awake some c. to everlasting shame and contempt Dan. 12. 2. Behold the day cometh which 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 Host and it shall leave them neither root hor c. Mal. 4. 1. Jude vers 7. The Axe is laid to the root of the tree therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire Matth. 3. 10. ch 7. 19. The children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outward darkness there shall be weeping c. Matth. 8. 12. ch 24. 51. The Angels shall gather out of the kingdom c. them which do iniquity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth c. At the end of the world the Angel shall come forth and fever the wicked from the just And shall cast them into the furnace of fire c. Matth. 13. 30 41 42 49 50. See Mark 9. 45 46. Every plant that my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be plucked up c. both fall into the ditch Matth. 15. 13 14. Cast the unprofitable servants into outer darkness there shall be weeping c. When the son of man comes c. then shall he say unto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil c. for I was an hungred and ye gave me not meat c. these shall go into everlasting punishment Matth. 25. 3â— 31 41 45. ch 23. 33. ch 8. 11 12. Judas sin made him to go out and hanged himself Matth. 27. 3 4 5. The chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire Luke 3. 17. Matth. 3. 12. The Parable of the Rich in dying and being in Hell in the flames Luke 16. 22 23 24 25 c. Those mine enemies who would not that I should reign over them c. slay them before me Luke 19. 27. Except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God c. He
took on him the seed of Abraham wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren Heb. 2. 9 11 14 16 17. Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers c. though he were a Son yet learned he obedience c. Heb. 5. 7 8. Sacrifice c. thou wouldest not but a body hast thou prepared me c. A new and living way which he hath consecrated or made for us through the vail that is to say his flesh Heb. 10. 5 20. Psal 40. 6 7. Every spirit who confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God and every spirit which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God 1 John 4. 2 3. Many deceivers are entred into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh 2 John Vers 7. III. He is made an High Priest AND I will raise me up a faithful Priest who shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind and I will build him a sure house and he shall walk before mine Anointed for ever 1 Sam. 2. 35. The Lord hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedeck Psal 110. 4. Heb. 5. 5 6. Thus saith the Lord David shall never want a man c. Neither shall the Priests the Levites want a man before me to offer c. Jer. 33. 17 18. The Man whose name is the Branch c. he shall be a Priest upon his throne and c. Zech. 6. 13. It behoveth him in all things to be made like his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for sins for in that he himself hath sufferred being tempted he is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2. 17 18. Luke 4 1 2 3 c. Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession Christ Jesus who was faithful to him who appointed him as also Moses was c. Heb. 3. 1 2. Seeing then that we have a great high-priest who is passed into the heavens Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast c. For we have not an high-priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin Hebr. 4. 14 15. ch 5. 2. For every high-priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining unto God that he may offer c. Who can have compassion on or can reasonably bear with the ignorant and them who are out of the way c. And no man taketh this honour to himself but he who is called of God as Aaron So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high-priest but he who said unto him Thou art my Son c. Thou a Priest c. Hebr. 5. 1 2 3 4 5. Hope which we have as an anchor of the soul sure and stedfast and which entereth within the vail whither the fore-runner is for us entered Jesus made an high-priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck Hebr. 6. 19 20. For this Melchisedeck king of Salem Priest of the most high God c. having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like unto the Son of God abideth a Priest continually c. After the similitude of Melchisedeck there ariseth another Priest who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment but after the power of an endless life for he testifieth thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck c. Not without an oath for those were made without an oath but this with an oath by him who said unto him The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a Priest c. And they truly were many Priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death but this man because he continueth for ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood or which passeth not from one another wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost or for evermore who come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them For such an high Priest became us who was holy c. who needeth not daily as those high Priests offer c. for this he did once whence he offered up himself For the law maketh men high Priests who have infirmities but the word of the oath which was since the law maketh the Son who is consecrated or perfected for evermore Hebr. 7. 1 3 15 16 17 21 23 24 25 26 27 28. But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle c. Hebr. 9. 11. Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum We have such an high-priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens A minister of the sanctuary or holy Things which the Lord pitched and not man for every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices wherefore it is of necessity that this man should have somewhat also to offer Hebr. 8. 1 2 3. IV. He offered himself as a Sacrifice to God suffered for the Sins of Mankind and so made Peace through the shedding of his own Blood by which he entred into the Holiest for us I A wâ—rm and no man a reproach of men and â—espâ—â—â— of the people All they who see me laugh me to scorn c. and shake the head saying He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him Let him deliver him seeing he trusted in him c. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me they pierced my hands and feet c. they part my garment amongst them and cast lots for my vesture Psal 22. 6 7 8 16 18. Matth. 27. 39 40 41 42 43. Psalm 109. 25. False witnesses are risen up against me and such as breath out cruelty Psal 27. 12. Mat. 26. 60 61. For thy sake I have born reproach shame hath covered my face I am become a stranger to my brethren an alien unto my mother's children for the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up and the reproaches of them who reproach thee are fallen upon me c. Reproach hath broken my heart and I am full of heaviness c. They gave me also gall for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink Psalm 69. 7 8 9 20 21. Matth. 27. 34. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the Son of man c. Psalm 80. 17. I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks 〈◊〉 to them who plucked off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Isa 50. 6. Matth. 26. 67 68. Job 16. 10. He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief c. Surely he hath born our grief and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him
faith towards our Lord Jesus Acts 20. 20 21. Believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets and have hope towards God which they themselves also allow that there c. Acts 24. 14 15. John 2. 22. That they may receive remission of sins c. through faith that is in me Acts 26. 18. Paul said Be of good cheer for there shall be no loss c. Be of good cheer for I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me Acts 27. 22 23 24 25. To him who worketh not but believeth on him who justifieth the ungodly his faith is accounted for righteousness c. Abraham against hope believed in hope c. And being not weak in faith considered not his own body now dead c. but was strong in the faith giving glory to God and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform and therefore it was imputed unto him for righteousness Rom. 4. 5 16 18 19 20 21 22. Now if we be dead with Crist we believe that we shall also live with him Rom. 6. 8. We are saved by hope But hope which is seen is not hope For what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for it But if we hope for what we see not then do we with patience wait for it c. I am persuaded that neither life c. Rom. 8. 24 25 38 39. The righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise Say not in thine heart Who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring Christ down from above Or Who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up Christ from the dead But what saith it The word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of saith which we preach That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness Rom. 10. 6 7 8 9 10. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ c. Rom. 13. 14. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Spirit of God I Cor. 12. 3. Our preaching is not with enticing words c. that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God I Cor. 2. 4 5. We also believe and therefore speak knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you c. while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. are eternal 2 Cor. 4. 13 14 18. We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God â—n house not made with hands eternal in the heavens c. We are confident I say and willing â—â—ther to be absent from the body and to be preâ—â—â— with the Lord c. Knowing therefore the 〈◊〉 of the Lord we persuade men c. 2 Cor. 〈◊〉 6 7 8 11. That we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted or hoped in Christ Ephes 1. 12. Buried with him in baptism wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead Col. 2. 12. We pray for you always that our God would c. fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power 2 Thess 1. 11. Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men especially of them who believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. Fight the good fight of faith lay hold of eternal life 1 Tim. 6. 12. When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee c. I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 2 Tim. 1. 5 12. James 1. 5 6. According to the faith of God's elect c. In hope of eternal life which God who cannot â—ye promised before the world began c. Rebuke them sharply that they may be found sound in the faith Titus 1. 1 2 13. ch 2. 2. And faith which thou hadst towards our Lord Jesus Philem. ver 5. Acts 20. 20 21. The word c. did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them who heard it c. We who have believed do enter into rest Heb. 4. 2 3. We c. who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 18. Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen c. For he who cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him c. By faith Abraham c. sojourned in the land of promise c. For he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God through faith Also Sarah her self received strength c. because she judged him faithful who had promised c. These all died in the faith not having received the promises but seeing them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed c. Abraham offered Isaac c. accounting that God was able to raise him up from the dead c. Moses had respect to the recompence of reward c. as seeing him who is invisible And some refused deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11. 1 6 8 9 10 11 13 17 19 26 35. ch 6. 18. Blessed be God c. who hath begotten us again to a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ c. whom having not seen ye love in whom though you see not yet believing c. who by him do believe in God c. that your faith and hope might be in God I Pet. 1. 3 8 21. To whom coming as unto a living stone c. ye also as living stones are built up c. 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. To them who have obtained like precious faith with us 2 Pet. 1. 1. Who is a lyar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ I John 2. 22. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 3. 2 3 23. ch 5. 13. We have seen and do testifie that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour c. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God And we have known and believed the love which God hath unto us c. 1 John 4. 14 15 16. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God c. Who is he who overcometh the world but he who believeth that Jesus is the
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 work of faith 2 Thes 1. 11. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father who hath loved us comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work 2 Thes 2. 16 17. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course or may run and be glorified and that we may be delivered c. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God c. 2 Thes 3. 1 2 5. Exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all who are in authority or eminent place that we may lead a quiet c. For this is good and acceptable in the fight of God our Saviour c. I will therefore that men pray every where listing up holy hands without wrath or doubting 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3 8. Every creature of God is good c. if it be received with thanksgiving c. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. She that is a widow indeed c. and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day 1 Tim. 5. 5. I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day 2 Tim. 1. 3. Philemon vers 4. Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens Jesus c. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4. 14 15 16. Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cries and tears unto him who was able to save Hebr. 5. 7. Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest c. and having an high priest over the house of God let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith c. Hebr. 10. 19. 20 21 22. Ephes 3. 11 12. He who prays to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him Hebr. 11. 6. Pray for us c. Now the God of peace c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well-pleasing c. Heb. 13. 18 20 21. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth unto all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him But let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he who wavereth is like a wave of the sea c. and let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord James 1. 5 6 7. Ye have not because ye ask not ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts or pleasures James 4. 2 3. Is any among you afflicted let him pray c. is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the Church and let them pray over him c. and the prayer of faith shall save the sick c. Pray one for another the effectual fervent prayer c. James 5. 13 14 15 16 17. And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons judgeth c. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Likewise ye husbands dwell with them c. that your prayers be not hindered c. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers 1 Pet. 3. 7 12. Be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight 1 John 3. 22. This is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according unto his will he heareth us and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask we know that that we have the petitions that we desire of him If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death There is a sin unto death I do not say that ye shall pray for it 1 John 5. 14 15 16. Praying in the holy Ghost Jude verse 20. The elders c. having every one of them harps and golden viols full of odours or incense which are the prayers of the saints Rev. 5. 8. Another Angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with or add it to the prayers of all saints c. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the Angels hand Rev. 8. 3 4. See more of Prayer in Affliction Chap. 22. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. See more in Duty towards all Men Chap. 19. See Prayer for Magistrates Chap. 24. To take special notice of the Acts of God's Goodness and Mercy keep memorials thereof celebrate his Praises extol him and stir up others so to do THY glorious name c. is exalted above all blessing and praises Nehem. 9. 5. Abraham's Servant when God had heard his request he bowed down his head and worshipped the Lord. And he said Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth c. When he he heard their words he worshipped the Lord c. Gen. 24. 26 27 52. I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God that thou wast pleased with me Gen. 33. 10. Then Jacob said c. Let us arise and go to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went c. And he built there an altar and called the place El-Bethel because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother Gen. 35. 2 3 7 14 15 ch 28. 18 19 c. God commanded Israel to commemorate their deliverance from Egypt once in every year Exod. 13. 3 4 5 c. Moses and Israel solemnly celebrated his praise for their deliverance at the Red Sea in a Song of Praise Exod. 15. 2 3 to the 22. When Israel got victory over the Amalâ—kites he built an Altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi that is the Lord my banner Exod. 17. 13 14 15. And Moses told unto Jethro his Father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharoch and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake c. And Jethro rejoyced for all the goodness which the Lord had done unto Israel c. and said Blessed be the Lord that hath delivered you c. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods Exod. 18. 8 9 10 11. When thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee Deut. 8. 10.
c. Wrath is cruel and anger is outragious but who is able to stand before envy or jealousie Prov. 27. 3 4. He who is of a proud heart stirreth up strife Prov. 28. 25. Wise men turn away wrath c. Seest thou a man who is hasty in his words or matters there is more hope of a fool than of him c. An angry man stirreth up strife and a furious man aboundeth in transgression Prov. 29. 8 20 22. Better c. the patient in spirit than the proud in spirit Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools Eccles 7. 8 9. The meek also shall increase or add to their joy in the Lord Isa 29. 19. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth c. Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God Matth. 5. 5 9. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart and ye shall find rest Matth. 11. 29. Behold thy King cometh unto thee meek c. Matth. 21. 5. Christ rebuked James and John for their Anger against the Samaritans Luke 9. 52 53 54 55. In your patience possess ye your souls Luke 21. 19. Who will render unto every man according unto his deeds to them who by patient continuing in well-doing seek for glory c. eternal life Rom. 2. 7. Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope c. Rom. 5. 3 4 5. If it be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men Dearly beloved avenge not your selves but rather give place unto wrath for it is written Vengeance is mine c. Be not overcome of evil Rom. 12. 18 19 21. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace Rom. 14. 19. Charity suffereth long and is kind charity envieth not c is not easily provoked c. 1 Cor. 13. 4 5. The fruits of the flesh c. are wrath strife c. but the fruits of the spirit are peace long-suffering gentleness c. meekness temperance c. Gal. 5. 20 22 23. If any man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering c. Gal. 6. 1. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing Be ye angry and sin not let not the sun go down upon your wrath neither give place to the devil c. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you with all malice Ephes 4. 1 2 26 27 31. Let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand Philip. 4. 5. That ye walk worthy of the Lord c. strengthned with all might according unto his glorious power unto all patience and long-suffering Col. 1. 10 11. But now you also put off all these anger wrath malice c. put on meekness long-suffering forbearing one another Col. 3. 8 12. Be patient towards all men 1 Thes 5. 14. But thou O man of God c. follow after c. patience meekness 1 Tim. 6. 11. 2 Tim. 3. 10. The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men c. patient or forbearing in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves if God c. 2 Tim. 2. 24 25. That aged men be sober grave temperate c. in patience Tit. 2. 2. Put them in mind c. to be no brawler gentle shewing all meekness unto all men Tit. 3. 1 2. Ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise Heb. 10. 36. Follow peace with all men Heb. 12. 14. The trial of your faith worketh patience But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing c. Let every man be c. slow to wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God c. Receive with meekness the ingrafted word James 1. 3 4 19 20 21. Who is a wise man c. Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envyings and strife in your heart c. For where envy and strife is there is confusion c. But the wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated c. James 3. 13 14 16 17. Gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope c. 1 Pet. 1. 13. What glory is it if when ye be buffetted for your faults ye take it patiently But if when ye do well and suffer for it you take it patiently this is acceptable with God 1 Pet. 2. 20. Whose adorning let it not be that outward c. but the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the fight of God of great price c. He who will love life c. let him seek peace and ensue it c. Be always ready to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3. 3 4 10 11 15. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober 1 Pet. 4. 7. Add c. to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience 2 Pet. 1. 6. See more in Duties to Brethren Chap. 17. In Duties towards all Men Chap. 19. In Duties towards Persecutors Chap. 22. In Words Chap. 16. To take heed to our Lips that our Words be not rash but true seasonable well ordered and savoury THE Angels said they would not go in with Lot yet being pressed did go in Gen. 19. 1 2 3 2 Kings 2. 16 17. Ye shall not c. lye one to another Levit. 19. 11 14. How forcible are right words But what doth your arguing reprove Job 6. 25 26. Ye are forgers of lyes c. Oh that you would altogether hold your peace and it should be your wisdom c. Will you speak wickedly for God and talk deceitfully for him Job 13. 4 5 7. He who speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of his children shall fail Job 17. 5. My lips shall not speak wickedness not my tongue utter deceit Job 27. 4. Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they were elder than he c. He said I am young and ye very old wherefore I was afraid and durst not shew my Opinion Job 32. 4 6. I uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not c. wherefore I abhor c. Job 42. 3 6. Thou shalt destroy them who speak a lye Psal 5 6. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour with flattering lips with a double heart do they speak The Lord will cut off all flattering lips c. who have said With our tongue will we speak our lips are our
own who is Lord over us Psal 12. 2 3 4. Psal 31. 18. Lord Who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. He who speaketh the truth in his heart he who back-biteth not with his tongue Psal 15. 1 2 3. Isa 23. 15. I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress Psal 17. 3. Psal 141. 3. What man is he who desireth life c. Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile Psal 34. 12 13. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment Psal 37. 30. Psal 119. 46 172. I said I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me Psal 39. 1. Psal 141. 3. Thou gavest thy mouth to evil and thy tongue framed deceit Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother c. Psal 50. 19 20. The wicked c. go astray as soon as they are born speaking lyes Psal 58. 3. The mouth of them who speak lyes shall be stopped Psal 63. 11. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long Psal 71. 24. Psal 119. 46 172. It went ill with Moses for their sakes because they provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips Psal 106. 32 33. I hate and abhor lying Psal 119. 163. The Saints should speak of God and of his greatness goodness and memorable acts Psal 145. 5 6 7 11 12. Put away from thee a froward mouth and perverse lips put far from thee Prov. 4. 24. These six things doth the Lord hate c. a lying tongue c. a false witness speaking lyes Prov. 6. 16 17 19. A prating fool shall faâ—â— the mouth of a righteous man is a well of life c. In the lips of him who hath understanding wisdom is found c. He who hideth hatred with lying lips and he who uttereth a slander is a fool In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin but he who refraineth his lips is wise The tongue of the just is as choice silver c. The lips of the righteous seed many c. The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom c. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable Prov. 10. 10 11 13 18 19 20 21 31 32. He who speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness c. Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord but they who deal truly are his delight Prov. 12. 17 20 22. He who keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but he who openeth wide his lips shall have destruction c. A righteous man hateth lying Prov. 13. 3 5. A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright but the mouth of fools poureth forth foolishness c. A wholsom tongue is a tree of life but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit c. The lips of the wise disperseth knowledge c. A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth and a word spoken in due season how good it is The heart of the righteous studieth to answer but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things Prov. 15 1 2 4 7 23 28. Righteous lips are the delight of Kings and they love him who speaketh right c. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth and addeth learning unto his lips Pleasant words are as an honey-comb sweet to the soul Prov. 16. 13 23 24. Excellent speech becomes not a fool much less do lying lips a prince c. He who hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief c. He who hath knowledge spareth his â—words c. Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise he who shutteth his lips is a man of understanding Prov. 17. 7 20 27 28. A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes c. His mouth is his destruction and his lips the snare of his soul c. The words of a tale-bearer or whisperer are as wounds c. He who answereth a matter before he heareth it is folly and shame unto him c. Death and life is in the power of the tongue c. The rich man answereth roughly Prov. 18. 6 7 8 13 21 23. He who speaketh lyes shall perish c. shall not escape Prov. 19. 5 9. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from trouble Prov. 21. 23. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver Prov. 25. 11. Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit Prov. 26. 4 5. Let another man praise thee not thine own mouth a stranger not thine own lips Prov. 27. 2. A fool uttereth all his mind but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards c. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words there is more hope of a fool than of him Prov. 29. 11 20. A time to keep silence and a time to speak Eccles 3. 7. Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God c. Let thy words be few c. for many words also divers vanities but fear thou God Eccles 5. 2 3 7. The words of wise men are heard in quiet Eccles 9. 17. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious or grace c. A fool also is full of words a man cannot tell what shall be Eccles 10. 12 14. The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastned by the master of the assemblies Eccles 12. 11. I hearkned and heard they spake not aright c. Jer. 8. 6. They bent their tongue like their bow for lyes but are not valiant for the truth c. will not speak the truth they have taught their tongue to speak lyes c. Their tongue is an arrow shot out it speaketh deceit One speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth in his heart he layeth in wait Jer. 9. 3 5 8. Acts 6. 9 11. 13. 1 Kings 21. 7 8. The Lord hath a controversie c. because there is no truth c. By swearing and lying c. Hos 4. 1 2. The prudent shall keep silence in that day for it is an evil time Amos 5. 13. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lieth in thy bosom Micah 7. 5. Speak ye every man truth to his neighbour Zech. 8. 16. Let your communication be yea c. for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil Matth. 5. 37. How can ye being evil speak good things for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth evil things But I say unto you That every idle word which men shall speak they shall give
an account thereof in the day of judgment for by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned Matth. 12. 34 35 36 37. Every Scribe instructed c. is like to a master of a family who bringeth forth c. both new and old Matth. 13. 52. Those things which proceed out of the mouth cometh forth from the heart and they defile the man Matth. 15. 18. And all wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth Luke 4. 22. Peter too rashly said unto Christ Thou shalt never wash my feet John 13. 8. Bless and curse not Rom. 12. 14. In the Church I had rather speak five words with my understanding that I might teach others also than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue c. It is a shame for a woman to speak in the Chruch 1 Cor. 14. 19 35. Evil communication corrupts good manners 1 Cor. 15. 33. Wherefore putting away lying speak every man truth with his neighbour c. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying or to edifie profitable that it may minister grace unto the hearers and grieve not the holy Spirit of God c. Let all bitterness c. and clamour and evil-speaking be put away Ephes 4. 25 29 30 31. But fornication c. let it not be once named amongst you as becometh saints neither filthy nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient Ephes 5. 3 4. But now also put off all these c. blasphemy filthy communication out of your mouth Lye not one to another c. Col. 3. 8 9. Let your speech be always with grace seasoned with salt that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man Col. 4. 6. Neither give heed to fables c. which minister questions rather than godly edifying 1 Tim. 1. 4. They learn to be idle c. and not only idle but tatlers also and busi-bodies speaking things which they ought not 1 Tim. 5. 13. Doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railing c. perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds c. 2 Tim. 6. 4 5. Charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit to the subverting of the hearers c. Shun prophane and vain bablings for they will increase to more ungodliness and their word will eat as doth a canker c. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strifes 2 Tim. 2. 14 16 17 23. In all things shew thy self a pattern c. Sound speech which cannot be condemned that he who is of the contrary party may be ashamed Titus 2. 7 8. Speak evil of no man to be no brawler c. Titus 3. 2. Let every man be swift to hear slow to speak c. It any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this man's religion is vain James 1. 19 26. If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole body Behold we put bits in horses mouths c. The ships though great c. yet are they turned about with a small helm whithersoever the governer listeth so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things c. And the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity so is the tongue among our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell For every kind of beast c. hath been tamed of man but the tongue can no man tame an unruly evil full of deadly poyson Therewith bless we God even the Father and therewith curse we men c. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blassings and cursings My brethren these things ought not so to be James 3. 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10. Speak not evil one of another brethren for whoso speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the law James 4. 11. Wherefore laying aside all malice c. and evil-speaking 1 Pet. 2. 1. Not rendring c. railing for railing but contrariwise blessing c. He who would love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile 1 Pet. 3. 9 10. But these as natural brute beasts c. speak evil of the things they understand not 2 Pet. 2. 12. The Lord c. to convince all c. of all their hard speeches which ungodly c. have spoken against me Jude vers 14 15. All lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth c. and there shall in no wise enter in c. whosoever worketh c. and maketh a lye Rev. 21. 8 27. Without are dogs c. and whatsoever loveth and maketh a lye Rev. 22. 15. To acknowledge and mourn for Sin dâ—part from it and watch against it The Arguments God complains of it Reasoning with Sinners about it Threatnings and Judgments against Sin and Sinners I. What Sin is BY the law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3. 20. ch 7. 7 13. Sin is the transgression of the law 1 John 3. 4. All unrighteousness is sin 1 John 5. 17. II. Acknowledge Sin unto God both their own and others and mourn for them AND Moses returned unto the Lord and said Oh this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold c. Exod. 32. 31. Deut. 9. 16 18 19 20. And Aaron shall lay both of his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel and all their transgressions and all their sins c. Levit 16. 21. If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespasses which they have trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary unto me c. then will I remember my covenant Levit. 26. 40 42. When a man or woman shall commit any sin c. then they shall confess their sins which they have done Numb 5. 6 7. Joshua said to Achan Give glory to the God of Israel and make confession c. â—osh 7. 19. And David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12 13. David's heart smote him c. And David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly in that I have done 2 Sam. 24. 10. Wicked Ahab his mourning kept off the threatned Judgments in his days 1 Kings 21. 27 29. Ezra said I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee my God for our iniquities are increased over our head and our-trespasses c. Ezra 9. 5 6 7 c. ch 10. 6. 2. Kings 22. 11 13 19. Nehemiah confesseth thus Both I and my father's house have sinned we have dealt very corruptly against thee and have not kept c. Nehem. 1.
6 7. ch 9. 16 17 c. Job saith I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 20. ch 9. 2 3. If any say I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profiteth me not He will deliver his soul c. Job 33. 27 28. Job answered the Lord and said Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay mine hand upon my mouth Job 40. 3 4. I acknowledged my sins unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin Psalm 32. 5. I will declare mine iniquity I will be sorry for my sins Psalm 35. 18. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight c. Psalm 51. 3. 4 5. We have sinned with our fathers we have committed iniquity c. Psalm 106. 6 7. Horror hath taken hold of me because of the wicked who forsake thy law c. Rivers of water run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law c. I beheld the transgressions and was grieved because they keep not thy word Psalm 119. 53 126 136. 158. Nehem. 13. 7 8. Jer. 9. 1 2. Gen. 34. 7. Mark 3. 5. Jer. 13. 17. Psal 139. 21 22. If thou shouldst mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psalm 130. 3 He who covereth his sin shall not prosper but whose confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. Behold thou art wroth for we have sinned c. We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness as filthy rags c. Isa 64. 5 6 7. Yet thou sayest Because I am innocent surely his anger shall turn from me Behold I will plead with thee because thou sayest I have not â—nned Jer. 2. 35. Go and proclaim these words c. Return thou back-sliding Israel saith the Lord I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you c. Only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God and hast scattered thy ways c. Jer. 3. 12 23. 1 Sam. 12. 9 10. If ye will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and mine eyes shall weep sore Jer. 13. 17. O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us do thou for thy name's sake for our back-sltidings are many We have sinned against thee c. We acknowledge O Lord our wickness the iniquity of our fathers for we have sinned against thee Jer. 14. 7 20. The Lord is righteous for I have rebelled against his commandments c. My heart is turned within me for I have grievously rebelled Lam. 1. 18 20. ch 3. 42. The crown is fallen from our heads we unto us that we have sinned Lam. 5. 16. Set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh who cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof Ezek. 9. 4. Ye shall remember your ways c. and ye shall loath your selves in your own sight for all your evil which ye have commited Exek 20. 43. chap. 16. 63. I prayed unto the Lord my God and made my confession c. We have sinned and committed iniquity c. Dan. 9. 3 4 5 6 15. I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offences and seek my face Hosea 5. 15. Turn ye unto me with all your-heart with fasting with weeping and with mourning Rent your hearts and not your garments Joel 2. 12 13. Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Matth. 5. 4. Peter remembred the words of Jesus which said unto him Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice and he went out and wept bitterly Matth. 26. 75. The prodigal Son said I will arise and go to my father and I will say unto him Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son c. Luke 15. 18. 19 21. And many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds Acts 19. 18. Paul made confession of his being a persecutor of the Saints Acts 22. 4 5 19 20. I rejoice not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner or according to God c. for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation never to be be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death c. ye sorrowed after a godly sort What carefulness it wrought in you yea clearing of your selves yea indignation yea fear yea vehement desire yea zeal yea revenge 2 Cor. 7. 9 10 11. And lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many who have sinned already c. 2 Cor. 12. 21. Many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you weeping the enemies c. Phil. 3. 18. Delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling amongst them in seeing and hearing vèxed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness If we say we have not sinned we make him a lyar and his word is not in us 1 John 1. 8 9 10. Be afflicted mourn and weep humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up James 4. 9 10. See Confession of Sin in time of Affliction Chap. 22. In time of Common Calamity Chap. 23. See Prayer Chap. 16. Saints Duty confess one to another Chap. 17. Depart from Sin and all appearance of it hate it and avoid the Occasions of it The reasons thereof THere shall not be found among you c. who useth divination an observer of times an inchanter or a witch or a charmer or a consulter with a familiar spirit c. All who do so are an abomination to the Lord c. Deut. 18. 10 11 12 14. When Adam had sinned he hid himself was afraid because naked Gen. 3. 8 10. Exod. 32. 25. Abimelech said unto Isaac What is this thou hast done unto us one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife and thou shouldst have brought guiltiness upon us And Abimelech charged all his people saying He who toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death Gen. 26. 8 9 10. ch 20. 2 3 4 c. When Joseph had been tempted to sin by Potiphar's Wife he answered her How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God c. when she laid hold on him he fled from her Gen. 39. 7 8 9 10 11 12. See the Ten Commandments Exod. 20. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to
do evil Exod. 23. 2. And be sure your sins will find you out Numb 32. 23. Gen. 44. 16. Psalm 44. 20 21. Joshua 7. 1 5 11 12 24 25 26. Job 34. 22. Psalm 44. 20 21 Jonah 1. 4 5 6. 1 Kings 2. 24 25 28 31 32 c. If any man sin against another the Judge shall judge him but if a man sinneth against the Lord who shall entreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 25. Tamar Sister of Amnon being tempted said Commit not this wickedness 2 Sam. 13. 11 12 13. I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God c. I have kept my self from mine iniquity 2 Sam. 22. 22 25. The drinking was according to law none did compel but according to every man's pleasure Esther 1. 8. Job feared God and eschewed evil Job 1. 1 8. To depart from evil is understanding c. Job 28. 28. I made a covenant with mine eyes why then should I think upon a maid Job 31. 1. Stand in awe and sin not Psalm 4. 4. For thou art not a God who hath pleasure in wickedness neither shall evil dwell with thee c. thou hatest all workers of iniquity Psalm 5. 4 5. I kept my self from mine iniquity Psalm 18. 23. I have hated the congregation of evil doers c. I will wash mine hands in innocency and so will I compass thine altar O Lord Psalm 26. 5. Depart from evil and do good Psalm 34. 14. Psalm 37. 27. He prophesied of Christ thus Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness Psalm 45. 7. Heb. 1. 8 9. If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me Psalm 66. 18. John 9. 31. He will speak peace to his c. but let them not turn again to folly Psalm 85. 8. Holiness becomes thy house O Lord for ever Psalm 93. 5. Ye who love the Lord hate evil Psalm 97. 10. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes Psalm 101. 2 3. Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee c. I have refrained my feet from every evil way c. I hate every false way Psalm 119. 11 101 104. Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up-rising thou understandest my thoughts afar off Thou c. art acquainted with all my ways for not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether c. Psalm 139. 2 3 4. My son if sinners intice thee consent thou not If they say Come with us c. walk thou not in the way with them Refrain thy foot from their path for their feet run to evil Prov. 1. 10 11 to 17. Enter not into the path of the wicked and go not into the way of evil men avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away for c. Prov. 4. 14 15 16. The lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb c. Remove thy way far from her and come not near the door of her house lest c. Prov. 5. 3 4 5 8 c. ch 6. 2 4 25 29 32 33. ch 7. 5 6 7 c. 25. ch 22. 14. ch 23. 27 28. ch 2. 16 17 18. ch 9. 13 14 c. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil Prov. 8. 13. ch 3. 7. Wickedness overthroweth the sinner Prov. 13. 6. Fools make a mock of sin c. A wise man feareth and departeth from evil c. Sin is a reproach to any people or nation Prov. 14. 9 16 34. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good Prov. 15. 3. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil Prov. 16. 6. With a furious man thou shalt not go lest thou learn his ways c. Prov. 22. 24 25. Whosoever confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me c. Bring no more oblations c. Wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil Isa 1. 11 12 13 14 15 16. Jer. 6. 19 20. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts c. Isa 55. 7. Is not this the fast which I have chosen c. to loose the bands of wickedness c. Isa 58. 3 4 5 6. The Lord's hand is not shortned c. but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear Isa 59. 1 2 3. Josh 7. 11 12 13. He who killeth an ox as if he slew a man c. they have chosen their own ways and their soul delighteth in their abomininations Isa 66. 3. Jer. 6. 19 20. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee c. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God Jer. 2. 19. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved how long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee c. Thy ways and thy doings have procured those things unto thee this thy wickedness because it is bitter because it reacheth unto thine heart Jer. 4. 14 18. Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have with-holden good things from you for among my people are found wicked men Jer. 5. 25. Thus saith the Lord Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord c. for if ye throughly amend your ways c. then will I cause you c. Will you steal murther and commit adultery c. and come and stand before me in this house c. Jer. 7. 3 4 5 7 8 9 10. It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil that I purpose to do unto them that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin Jer. 36. 2 3. Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruine Cast away from you all your transgressions c. Ezek. 18. 30 31. Turn ye turn ye from your evil ways why will ye die c. Ezek. 33. 11 14 15 16 18 19. Seek good and not evil that ye may live c. hate the evil and love the good Amos 5. 14 15. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity Habbak 1. 13. Be ye not as your fathers unto whom the former Prophet have cryed c. Turn ye now from your evil ways and from your evil doings but they did not hear not hearken unto me saith the Lord Zechar. 1. 4. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart and if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast
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
born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot c. 1 John 3. 9. Ye are of God c. and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4. 3 4. There is a sin unto death c. We know that every one who is born of God sinneth not but c. keepeth himself c. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world 1 John 5. 4 17 18. The truth which dwelleth in us and shall be in us for ever 2 John ver 2. Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to preserve you faultless before the presence of his glory c. to the only wise God c. Jude ver 24 25. Rom. 16. 25. Those whose names were not writen in the book of life they worshipped and wondred at the beastâ— Rev. 13. 8. ch 17. 8. See more of God's giving Power to Persevers Chap. 20. See more of God's upholding his in time of Trouble and Persecution Chap. 22. To take heed to observe and watch diligently over our selves with a holy jealousie and fear left we should Apostatize and Depart from God hiâ— Truth and Ways into any Error or Sin Thâ—â— Reasons Our Danger HEzekiah was left of God that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. Take heed to thy self lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee 〈◊〉 but ye shall destroy their altars c. lest c. they 〈◊〉 go a whering after their gods and do sacrince c. 〈◊〉 Exod. 34. 12 13 15 16. What nation so great who hath God so nighâ— unto them c. Only take heed to thy self and 〈◊〉 keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the thingsâ—â— which thine eyes have seen and left they depart from thine heart all the days of thy life c. Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves c. lest ye corrupt your selves and make you a graven image c. Deut. 4. 7 8 9 15 33. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land c. When thou shalt have eaten and be full beware lest thou forget the Lord c. Deut. 6. 10 11 12. ch 8. 10 11 12 13 14. I will give rain c. that thou maist eat and be full take heed to your selves that your hearts be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods Deut. 11. 14 15 16. Solomon whom God so much honoured sinned greatly in old age 1 Kings 11. If thy brother c. intice thee secretly saying Come let us go and serve other gods c. thou shalt not consent to him nor hearken unto him c. Deut. 13. 6 7 8 9. Take good heed therefore unto your selves that ye love the Lord your God c. Joshua 23. 11 12 c. There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan or the Adversary among or in the midst of them Job 1. 6 7. ch 2. 1 2. Stand in awe and sin not commune with your 〈◊〉 heart c Psalm 4. 4. Psalm 16. 8. 〈◊〉 I will take heed to my ways that I sin 〈◊〉 tongue c. Psalm 39. 1. 〈…〉 shall a young man cleanse his 〈…〉 taking heed thereto according to thy word Psalm 119. 9. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep the door of my lips Psalm 141. 3. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it the issues of life Prov. 4. 23. A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself c. Prov. 27. 12. Happy is the man who feareth always but he who hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief Prov. 28. 14. Blessed is the man who observes his hand lest he do any evil Isa 56. 2. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Jerem. 17. 9. And my people are bent to backsliding from me Hosea 11. 7. Jesus said Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of c. Matth. 16. 6. Luke 12 1 2. Jesus said Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many Matth. 24. 4 5. Watch and pray that ye enter not into tentations Matth. 26. 41. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness Luke 12. 35. Take ye heed Behold I have foretold you all things c. The day and hour knoweth no man c. Take ye heed watch and pray for ye know not c. Mark 13 23 32 33 35 36 37. Take heed and beware of covetousness c. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching Luke 12. 15 36 37 38. Take heed to your selves left at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life c. Watch ye therefore Luke 21. 34 36. Peter was confident and so denied Christ Luke 22. 32 34 59 60. Matth. 26. 69 70 c. Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them who are weak for if any man see thee c. 1 Cor. 8. 8 9 10. These things happened unto them for ensamples and they were written for our admonition c. Wherefore let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 11 12. Watch ye stand ye fast c. 1 Cor. 16. 13. I fear c. as the Serpent c. so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 3. See that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Ephes 5. 15. Praying always c. and watching thereunto with all perseverance Ephes 6. 18. Beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision Phil. 3. 2. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men c. not after Christ Col. 2. 8. Continue in praying and watch in the same Col. 4. 2. We are not of the night nor of darkness therefore let us not sleep as others but let us watch and be sober for they who sleep sleep in the night c. 1 Thes 5. 5 6 7. Some snall depart from the faith c. some are already turned aside c. have erred concerning the faith 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 12 15. ch 6. 10 21. ch 1. 5 6 18 19. 2 Tim. 2. 17 18. They c. shall be turned unto fables But watch thou in all things 2 Tim. 4. 4 5. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God c. Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin Hebr. 3. 12 13. ch 12. 15. ch 2. 1. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entring into rest
for his sake who shewed it and for conscience sake c. conscience I say not thine own but of the others c. Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God even as I please all men in all things not seeking my own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved 1 Cor. 10 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 33. ch 11. 1. Charity seeketh not her own 1 Cor. 13. 4 5. Let all your things be done with charity 1 Cor. 16. 14. Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Phil. 2. 4 5. Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you Nevertheless whereunto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing Phil. 3. 15 16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in eating or in drinking or in respect of an holy day or of the new moon or of the sabbath which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ Col. 2. 16 17. We exhort you brethren c. comfort the feeble minded support the weak be patient towards all men 1 Thes 5. 14. Neither give heed to fables c. which minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith now the end of the commandment is charity c. 1 Tim. 1. 4 5. Some shall depart from the faith c. forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received c. 1 Tim. 4. 3 4 5. Unto the pure all things are pure Tit. 1. 15. When Paul was writing many things concerning Christ he said of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered seeing ye are dull of hearing c. ye are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat c. strong meats belongs unto them who are of full age Heb. 5. 10 11 12 13 14. It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace not with meats which have not profited them who have been occupied therein Heb. 13. 9. Charity covereth a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. I will put upon you no other burden but that which ye have already hold fast till I come Rev. 2. 24 25. X. To Distribute and Communicate to one anothers Necessities give to the Poor IF thou lend money to any of my people who is poor by thee thou shalt not be unto them as an usurer neither shalt thou lay upon him usury c. Exod. 22. 25 26. When ye reap the harvest of your land thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy fields neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard c. Thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger I am the Lord your God Lev. 19. 9 10. ch 25 1 2 3 4 c. If thy brother be waxen poor c. then thou shalt relieve him c. that he may live Levit. 25 35. If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates c. thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thine hand against thy poor brother but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth Beware that there be not a thought or word in thy wicked heart saying The seventh year the year of release is at hand and thine eye be evil against thy brother and thou givest him nought and he cry unto the Lord against thee and it be sin unto thee thou shalt surely give him and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy work c. for the poor shall never cease out of the land therefore I command thee c. Deut. 15. 7 8 9 10 11. If I have withheld from the poor their desire c. or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless have not eaten thereof c. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any poor without covering If his loins have not blessed me c. The stranger did not lodge in the street I opened my door to the traveller Job 31. 16 17 18 19 20 32. The righteous sheweth mercy and giveth c. He is ever merciful and lendeth Psal 37. 21 26. Blessed is he who considereth the poor or weak the Lord will deliver him Psal 41. 1 2 3. A good man sheweth favour and lendeth c. He hath dispersed he hath given unto the poor c. Psal 112. 5 9. Honour the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruit of thy increase c. Say not unto thy neighbour go and come again and to morrow I will give when thou hast it by thee Prov. 3. 9 27 28. There is who scattereth and yet increaseth c. The liberal soul shall be made fat and he who watereth shall be watered also himself Prov. 11. 24 25. He who hath mercy on the poor happy is he c. He who oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker but he who honoureth him hath mercy on the poor Prov. 14. 21 31. He who hath pity on the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again Prov. 19. 17. Whose stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor he also shall cry himself but shall not be heard Prov. 21. 13. He who hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed for he giveth of his bread to the poor Prov. 22. 9. He who giveth unto the poor shall not lack Prov. 28. 27. Cast thy bread upon the waters for thou shalt find it after many days Give a portion to seven and also to eight c. Eccies 11. 1 2 3. Is not this the fast that I have chosen c. Is it not to do deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor which are cast out to thy house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh Then shall thy light break forth as the morning c. And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfie the afflicted soul then shal thy light rise in obscurity c. Isa 58. 6 7 8 9 10 11. I have desired mercy and not sacrifice Hosea 6. 6. Give to him who asketh thee and from him who would borrow of thee turn not away Mat. 5. 42. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them c. when thou doest thine alms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do c. that they may have glory of men c. But
21. chap. 11. 18 19. A man may not disinherit his first-born son If any man have a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastned him will not hearken unto them then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him c. and all the men of his City shall stone him c. Deut. 21. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Cursed be he who lightly esteems his father or mother Deut. 27. 16. Gather c. men women and children c. that they may hear c. that they may learn and fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. Set your hearts unto all the words c. which ye shall command your children to observe to do all the words of this law Deut. 32. 46. When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come saying What mean these stones then ye shall let your children know saying Israel came over Jordan on dry land for the Lord your God dryed up c. Josh 4. 20 21 22 23. Deut. 4. 9 10 ch 6. 20 21. Ruths great love to her mother-in-law recorded Ruth 1. 15 16 17. Eli was old and heard all that his sons did unto Israel and how they lay with the women c. and he said unto them Why do you such things for I hear of your evil dealings c. nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear c. If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 24 25. I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken c. for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not or frowned not upon them 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. Bathsheba king Solomon's mother came to him he rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her caused a seat to be set for her on his right-hand 1 Kings 2. 19. David prays for Solomon his son and instructs him to keep the law 1 Chron. 22. 11 12 13. Job offered burnt-offerings for his sons continually for Job said It may be that my sons have sinned c. Job 1. 4 5. I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us we will not hide them from their children shewing the generations to come the praises of the Lord c. that the generation to come might know the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God c. Psal 78. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Lo children are an heritage of the Lord the fruit of the womb a reward happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them Psal 127. 3 4 5. Ps 128. 3. Gen. 4. 1 25. ch 15. 2 3. ch 25. 21. ch 30. 22. 23 24. 1 Sam. 1. 5 6 10 11. Luke 1. 24 25. My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother Prov. 1. 8. ch 4. 1 2 c. ch 6. 20. A wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother Prov. 10. 1. ch 17. 25. ch 18. 13. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens children c. He who spareth his rod hateth his son but he who loveth him chasteneth him tâ— times Prov. 13. 22 24. Chasten thy son while there is hope and let not thy soul spire for his crying Prov. 19. 18. Whoso curseth his father or mother his lampshall be put out in obscure darkness Prov. 20. 20. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it c. Foolishâ—â—ss is bound in the heart of a child the rod of correction shall drive it Prov. 22. 6 15. Withhold not correction from the child for if thou beat him with the rod he shall not die thou shalt beat him with a rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell Prov. 23. 13 14. Whoso robbeth his father or his mother and saith it is no transgression the same is a companion of a destroyer Prov. 28. 24. The rod and reproof give wisdom but a child left bringeth his mother to shame Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest c. Prov. 29. 15 17. The eye which mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the Ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Prov. 30. 17. The sons of Jonadab commended by God himself for their obedience to their fathers commands and rewarded Jer. 35. 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 19. Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive Jer. 49. 11. In thee they have set light by father and mother Ezek. 22. 7. A son honoureth his father Mal. 1. 6. He shall turn the heart of the father to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers Mal. 4. 6. I am come to set a man at variance against his father c. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me Mat. 10. 35 37. God commanded saying Honour thy father and thy mother and he who curseth father or mother let him dye the death But ye say c. Mat. 15. 4 5 6. Jesus went down with his parents c. and was subject unto them Luke 2. 51. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children 2 Cor. 12. 14. Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right honour thy father c. And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Eph. 6. 1 2 3 4. Children obey your parents in all things for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. Fathers provoke not your children lest they be discouraged Col. 3. 20 21. One who ruleth well in his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity 1 Tim. 3. 4. If a Widow have children c. let them learn to shew kindness at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before God c. If any provide not for his own house c. If any man or woman believeth not have widows let them relieve them c. 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. Perilous times shall come c. Men shall be disobedient to parents c. without natural affection 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3. Teach the young men c. to love their children Tit. 2. 4. III. Masters to their Servants and Servants to their Masters HAgar despised her mistress Sarah dealt hardly with her she fled from her face c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return to thy mistress and submit thy self under her hands Gen. 16. 4
7. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers c. What communion hath light with darkness And what concord hath Christ with Belial Or what part hath he who believeth with an infidel 2 Cor. 6. 14 15. Believers Duties in Times of Afflictions and Persecutions towards God towards such as are afflâ—cted and persâ—cuted and towards Persecuters See Affliction and Persecution at large Chap. 22. Believers Duties in common Calamities See Common Calamities Chap. 23. See Believers Duties towards the Spirit Chap. 21. See Believers Duties in Church-Affairs Chap. 27. Believers Duties to Magistrates See Magistrates Chap. 24. See Believers Duties in case of Temptations by Satan and Faâ—se Teachers to Erroâ—r c. Chap. 30. See Believers Duties in relation to the Things of this World Chap. 39. CHAP. XX. How Men come truly and spiritually to know the only True God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent and the Mysteries of Salvation by him and expressed in the World To believe it bring forth Fruit and persevere therein through Difficulties to Eternal Life I. Man of himself can do neither of these EXcept the Lord build the house they labour in vain who build it Except the Lord keep the city the watch-man waketh but in vain Psal 127. 1. Man's goings are of the Lord how can a man then understand his own way Prov. 20. 24. A deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say A lye in c. Isa 44. 20. O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps Jer. 10. 23. Prov. 16. 9. Can the Ethiopian change his skin c. May ye also do good who are accustomed to do evil Jer 13. 23. No man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Matth. 11. 27. A rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven c. It is easier for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter c. With men this is impossible but with God all things are possible Matth. 19. 23 24 25 26. Who are born not of the flesh but of God c. John 1. 13. ch 3. 3 c. A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven John 3. 27. No man can come unto me except the Father who hath sent me draw him c. Except it were given to him of my Father John 6. 44 65. As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except you abide in me c. for without or severed from me ye can do nothing John 15. 4 5. The carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8. 7. The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned 1 〈◊〉 2. 14. John 8. 43. By the grace of God I am that I am c. Not I but the grace of God with me 1 Cor. 15. 10. Gal. 2. 20. Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. â— 5. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the thing that ye would Gal. 5. 17. Rom. 7. 15 18. By grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Ephes 2. 8. II. God in Christ doth all freely and hath promised so to do John 15. 1. WHO am I and what is my people that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort c. Of thine own have we given thee 1 Chron. 29. 14. But God had not given them a mind to know and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day Deut. 29. 4. I. In General Colos 1. 10 11. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy â—eed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live Deut. 30. 6. The hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment c. by the word 2 Chron. 30. 12. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength Psal 8. 2. Matth. 21. 16. Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right or constant spirit in me c. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation uphold me by thy free spirit Psal 51. 10 12. The God of Israel is he who giveth strength and power unto his people Psal 68. 35. I will go in the strength of the Lord God c. Psal 71. 16. Turn us again O God c. Quicken us and we will call upon thy name c. Psal 80. 3 1â— 19. I am the Lord thy God c. Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it Psal 81. 10. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee c. The Lord will gâ—ve grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold c. Psal 84. 5 11. All my springs are in thee Psal 87. 7. Blessed are the people who know the joyful found they shall walk O Lord in the light of thy countenance in thy name shall they rejoyce all the day long c. for thou art the glory of their strength Psal 8â— 15 16 17. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power Psal 110. 3. Exod. 35. 21. Trust to the Lord with all thine heart ann lean not to thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths Prov. 3. 5 6. The preparations or disposings of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue are from the Lord Prov. 16. 1. Man's goings are of the Lord Prov. 20. 24. Draw me we will run after thee Cant. 1. 4. Jer. 31. 3. Hos 11. 3 4. He who is left in Zion c. shall be called holy c. when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion c. by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning Isa 4. 3 4. Thou also hast wrought all our works in us or for us by thee only will we make mention Isa 26. 12 13. Behold your God will come then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped then shall the â—ame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing for in the wilderness shall waters break out and streams in the Desart c. the parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs c. and the high way shall be there c. the way-faring men though fools shall not err Isa 35. 4 5 6 7 8. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness c. will give thee
life 1 Kings 19. 1 2. Jeremy saith O Lord c. revenge me of my persecutors c. for thy sake I have suffered rebuke Jer. 15. 15. Matth. 5. 12. Jer. 20. 1 2 7 10. ch 26. 11. ch 37. 14 15 16. ch 38. 4 6. They hate him who rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him who speaketh uprightly c. they afflict the just Amos 5. 10 12. 1 Kings 22. 8. John came neither eating nor drinking and they say he hath a devil the Son of man came eating and drinking and they say behold a man gluttonous c. Matth. 11. 18 19. Behold I send unto you Prophets and wise men and Scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucifie and some of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues and persecute them from City to City Matth. 23. 31 32 34. Some said Christ was a good man others said no but he deceiveth the people howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews John 7. 12 13. Luke 23. 2. The Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ he should be put out of the Synagogue c. They reviled the man who owned Christ to them they say Thou wast altogether born in sins and dost thou teach us and they cast him out or excommunicated him John 9. 22 28 33 34. The chief Priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus John 12 10 11. When Peter had spake unto the people the Priests and the Rulers of the temple came upon them being grieved that they taught the people and preached c. the resurrection c. And they laid hands on them and put them in hold c. that it spread no further among the people let us straitly threaten them c. So when they had further threatned them c. Acts 4. 1 2 3 17 21. The high Priest rose up and all who were with him c. and were filled with indignation or envy and laid their hands on the Apostles and put them into the common prison c. when the Apostles had spoke to them they were cut to the heart and they took counsel to slay them Acts 5. 16 17 18 32. Mark 15. 10. They suborn witnesses against Stephen and said We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God c. That Jesus shall destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered us Acts 6. 10 11 12 13 14. So against Christ Matth. 26 59 60 61. so against Naboth 1 Kings 7. 8. to the 13. Psalm â—â—9 69. They run upon Stephen with one accord and cast him out of the City and stoned him Acts 7. 57 58. There was a great persecution against the Church at Jerusalem and they were all scattered abroad c. Saul made havock of the Church entring into every house and haling men and women committing them to prison Acts 8. 1 3. ch 26. 10 11. Saul breathed out threatning and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord Went unto the high Priest and desired of him letters c. that if he found any of this way whether they were men or women he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem c. When he was converted the Jews took council to kill him c. and they watched the gates day and night to kill him Acts 9. 1 2 22 23 24. Gal. 1. 13 14. 1 Tim. 1. 13. Herod having killed James and because he saw it pleased the Jews be proceeded Acts 12. 2 3. When the Jews saw the multitude they were filled with envy and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming c. But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the chief men of the City and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their coasts Acts 13. 45 50. In Iconium they went both together into the Synagogue to speak c. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentils and made their minds evil affected against the brethren c. and they fled unto Lystra c. And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch c. who perswaded the people and having stoned Paul drew him out of the City supposing he had been dead Acts 14. 1 2 6 19. When Paul had reasoned with them of Thessalonica that Christ had suffered c. the Jews who believed not moved with envy took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the City in an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason c. they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the City crying These who have turned the World upside down are come hither also whom Jason hath received and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar saying That there is another King one Jesus c. When the Jews c. had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea they came thither also and stirred up the people Acts 17. 1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 13. Aâ—ter Paul had preached at Corinth c. the Jews made an insurrection with one accord against Paul and brought him to the Judgment-seat saying This fellow perswaded men to worship God contrary to the law Acts 18. 11 12 13. The Jews when they saw Paul in the Temple stirred up all the people and laid hands upon him crying our Men of Israel help this is the man who teacheth all men every where against the people and the law and this place c. and hath polluted this holy place c. They took him and drew him out of the Temple c. went about to kill him Acts 21. 27 28 29 30 31. They cryed out against Paul and said Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit be should live c. After they bind themselves under a curse to kill him Acts 22. 22 23. ch 23. 12. The high Priest and Elders by Tertullus the Orator said of Paul before the Governor We have found this man a pestilent fellow a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarens who also has gone about to prophane the temple c. Paul said Neither can they prove the things whereof they accuse me c. I confess after the way they call heresie so worship I c. Acts 24. 1 2 5 6 13 14. The high Priest and chief of the Jews informed Festus against Paul and besought him c. that he would send him to Jerusalem laying wait in the way to kill him c. They laid many and grievous complaints against him which they could not prove Acts 25. 2 3 7. As concerning this sect we know that it is every where spoken against Acts 28. 22. Paul confesseth that when he profited in the Jewish religion he persecuted the Church Gal.
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
endured such c. lest ye be weary and faint in your minds c. Fathers of our flesh who correct us c. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the father of spirits and live for they c. chasten us after their pleasure but he for our profit Hebr. 12. 3. 9 10. James 1. 12. Submit your selves therefore to God resist the Devil James 4. 7. The husbandman waiteth c. Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord c. James 5. 7 8 11. If ye do well and suffer for it and take it patiently this is acceptable to God 1 Pet. 2. 20. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial c. as though some strange thing happened c. 1 Pet. 4. 12. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 1 Pet. 5. 6. I know thy work c. and thy patience c. Rev. 2. 2 3 19. 3. To confess their Sins and justifie God PHaraoh c. said I have sinned c. the Lord is righteous and I and my people are wicked Exod. 9. 27. If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespasses c. then will I remember my covenant c. Levit. 26 40 41 42. The princes c. and the king humbled themselves and they said The Lord is righteous 2 Chron. 12. 6. 1 Kings 21. 27 28 29. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly c. Ezra 9. 10 11 12 13. Neh. 9. 33 34 c. Judg. 10. 13 14 15. Dan. 9. 14. I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 20. How should man be just with God if he will content with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand c. If I justifie my self mine own mouth shall condemn me Job 9. 2 3 20. ch 4. 17. Psal 143. 2. He looked unto men and if any say I have sinned c. he will deliver his soul from going into the pit c. Job 33. 27 28. He will not lay upon man more than is right c. Job 34. 23. Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee c. Job 40. 3 4. I uttered that I understood not things to◠wonderful for me which I knew not c. I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 42. 3 5 6. Against thee thee only have I sinned c. that thou mayest be justified c. Psal 51. 4. He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities Ps 103. 10. Ezra 9. 13. The church in her affliction confesseth her sin Isa 59. 11 to v. 16. Thou art wroth for we have sinned c. Isa 64. 5 6 7. Thou sayest Because I am innocent surely his anger shall turn from me behold I will plead with thee because thou sayest I have not sinned Jer. 2. 35. Only acknowledge thine iniquity c. Jer. 3. 12 13 25. Daniel confesseth to God at large in the time of the captivity Dan. 9. 5 to v. 16. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned therefore she is removed c. Zion spreadeth forth her hands c. The Lord is righteous for I have rebelled Lam. 1. 8 9 18 20. It is the Lord's mercy we are not consumed c. wherefore doth the living man complain c. Let us search and try our ways and turn again c. Lam. 3. 22 39 40 42. The crown is fallen from our head wo to us that we have sinned Lam. 5. 16. I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face i◠in their afflictions they will seek me early Hos 5. 15. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Micah 7. 9. Dost thou not fear God seeing thou art in the same condemnation and we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our deeds c. Luke 23 40 41. See more of Confession at large Chap. 16. See more of Confession of Sins in time of Common Calamities Chap. 23. One to another Chap. 17. See Prayer Chap. 16. 4. To hold fast to God own the Lord Jesus his People and Ways in the midst of Trouble Afflictious and Persecutions SHall such an one as I flee c. and go into the temple to save his life Nehem. 6. 11. Job's Wife said unto him in his great Affliction Dost thou still retain thy integrity Curse God and die But he said unto her Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh What c. In all this did not Job sin with his lips Job 2. 9 10. All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee neither have we dealt falsly in thy covenant Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragous and covered us with the shadow of death if we have forgotten the name of our God c. Psal 44. 17 18 19 20. The proud have had me greatly in derision yet have I not declined from thy law c. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies yet do I not decline from thy testimonies c. Princes have persecuted me without a cause yet doth my heart stand in awe of thy word Psal 119. 51 87 157 161. The Lord spake unto me c. and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people saying Say ye not A confederacy to all them to whom this people shall say A confederacy neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid Sanfie the Lord of hosts himself and let him be your fear and your dread and he shall be for a sanctuary Isa 8. 11 12 13 14. When Jeremiah had prophesied to Judah then spake the priest and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people saying This man is worthy to die for he hath prophesied against this city c. Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people saying The Lord sent me to prophesie against this house c. therefore now amend your ways c. But as for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good c. Jer. 26. 11 to 15. Daniel when a Captive in Babylon he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the Portion of the King's Meat nor with the Wine which he drank and therefore he requested 〈◊〉 that he might not defile himself c. denied Pulse to eat and Water to drink Dan. 1. 8 to 13. When a strict Law had been made by the King that every one should fall down and worship the 〈◊〉 image he had set up under pain of being cast into the Fiery Furnace Shadrach Meshach and 〈◊〉 refuse to do it and in the presence of the King said We are not careful to answer thee in
c. This greatly displeased God and he said to Samuel They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them c. The people said Nay but there shall be a king over us 1 Sam. 8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 19 20. Ye have this day rejected your God who c. Ye have said But set a king over us 1 Sam. 10. 19. Samuel afterwards tells them their wickedness was great in the sight of the Lord in asking a King Which Sin the people acknowledged when God had sent Thunder and Rain in Harvest 1 Sam. 12. 16 to 19. They have set up kings but not by me they have made princes and I knew it not Hosea 8. 3 4. And thy judges of whom thou saidst Give me a king and princes I gave thee a king in mine anger and took him away in my wrath Hosea 13. 10 11. See the Kings of Israel c. Chap. 44. CHAP. XXV Of an Oath for Testimony Confirmation and Ending of Controversies and other Occasions And evil Oaths ABraham said unto the king of Sodom I have have lift up my hand unto the Lord the most high God that I would not take c. any thing lest thou shouldest say c. Gen. 14. 22 23. Abiâ—â—elech c. spake unto Abraham saying God is with thee c. Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsly with me nor with my son c. And Abram said I will swear c. They swore both of them Gen. 21. 22 23 24 31. Josh 2. 12 13 14. Abraham said unto his servant Put I pray thee thy hand under my thigh and I will make thee swear by the Lord the God of heaven and the God of the earth that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites c. And the servant did swear Gen. 24. 3 4 9. Abimelech and Isaac sware each to other not to hurt one the other Gen. 26. 28 29 31. Jacob and Laban made a Covenant and swore to it Jacob did swear by the fear of his father Isaac Gen. 31. 44 50 to 53. Joseph swore by the Life of Pharaoh Gen. 42. 15 16. Israel called Joseph his son to him and desired him to swear unto him that he would bury him not in Egypt but in his Father's Burying-place Joseph did swear unto him Gen. 47. 29 30 31. ch 50. 5. Joseph had straitly sworn the Children of Israel saying c. Ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you Exod. 13. 19. Gen. 50. 25. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour Exod. 20. 16. ch 2. 1. Prov. 24. 28. 〈◊〉 25. 18. If a man deliver to his neighbour an ass c and it die or is hurt c. no man seeing it then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods and the owner of it shall accept thereof Exod. 22. 10 11. If a soul sin and hear a voice of swearing and is a witness whether he hath seen or known it if he do not utter it then he shall bear his iniquity Levit. 5. 1. And ye shall not swear by my name falsly neither shalt thou prophane the name of thy God Levit 19. 12. Prov. 14. 5. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God c. and shalt swear by his name Deut. 6. 13. ch 10. 20. At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he who is worthy of death be put to death At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death The hands of the witness shall be first upon him Deut. 17. 6 7. One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sin At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses shall the matter be established If a false witness rise up c. the judges shall make diligent enquiry and if the witness 〈◊〉 a false witness c. then shall he do unto him c. Deut. 19. 15 to 19. Joshua made peace with the Gibeonites c. and the princes of the congregation sware unto them c. The princes said We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel therefore we may not touch them Joshua 9. 15 19. ch 2. 12 14. ch 6. 22. The men of Israel had sworn c. saying There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wise c. How shall we do seeing we have sworn by the Lord c. Judges 21. 1 7 18. Jonathan said unto David Go in peace â—orasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord saying The Lord be between me and thee and between my seed and thy seed for ever 1 Sam. 20. 13 17 42. Saul said unto David Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord that thou wilt not cut off my feed c. And David sware unto Saul 1 Sam. 24. 21 22. ch 30. 15. The king sware to Shimei that he should not die 2 Sam. 19. 23. God brought a famine upon Israel for the sin of Saul in staying the Gibeonites with whom Israel had made a covenant to which the princes swore 2 Sam. 21. 1 2 3. David had swoâ—n to Bathsheba his queen by the Lord his God that Solomon his son should reign after him c. And the king sware and said As the Lord liveth c. even as I sware unto thee by the Lord c. even so will I do 1 Kings 1. 17 29 30. They set up false witness against Naboth 1 Kings 21. 10 13. Matth. 26. 59. Acts 6. 11 15. Jehojada sent c. the rulers and captains c. and made a covenant with them and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord and shewed them the king's son c. 2 Kings 11. 4 5 6 c. Asa with Judah made a solemn Covenant to seek the Lord God of their Fathers with all their heart c. That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death c. And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice c. And all Israel rejoyced at the oath for they had sworn with all their hearts 2 Chron. 15. 8 9 12 to 15. Ezra made a covenant c. He made the chief priests the Levites and all Israel to swear that they should do according to this word And they sware Ezra 10. 3. 5. Nehemiah called the priests and took an oath of them that they should do according to this promise Nehem. 5. 11 12. The king shall rejoyce in God every one that sweareth by him shall glory Psal 63. 11. These six things doth the Lord hate c. A false witness who speaketh â—yes Prov. 6. 16 19. A false witness shall not be unpunished c. Prov. 19. 5 9. Keep the king's commandment and that in regard of the oath of God Eccles 8. 2. He who
things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ Acts 2â— 30 31. I thank my God c. that your faith is spoken of c. Without ceasing I make ment on of you always in my prayers c. I 〈◊〉 to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end you may be established c. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation Rom. 1. 8 9 10 11 16. Col. 1. 9. Ephes 1. 15 16. I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient c. I beseech you brethren for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake c. that ye thive together with me in your prayer to 〈◊〉 me that I may be delivered from them who do not believe c. Rom. 15. 18 â—0 When I came to you I came not in the excellency of speech or of wisdom declaring unto you the testimony of God for I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him 〈◊〉 c. and my speech and my preaching was not with inticing or perswasible words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit c. which things also we speak not in the words man's wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual c. 1 Cor. 2. 1 2 3 4 13. ch 15. 1 2 3 4. And I brethren could not speak unto you as spiritual c. I have fed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able c. I have planted c. but God gave the increase so then neither is he who planteth any thing c. 1 Cor. 3. 1 2 6 7. Account of us as c. stewards of the mystery of God moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful c. Even to this present hour we hunger c. and labour working with our own hands 1 Cor. 4. 2 11 12. Have we not power to eat and to drink c. Who goeth to warfare at any time upon his own charge c. so the Lord hath ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel t. but I have used none of these things c. wo is unto me if I preach not the Gospel c. though I be free from all men yet have I made my self servant to all that I might gain the more and unto the Jews I became as a Jew c. I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some 1 Cor. 9. 4 7 14 19 20 21 22 23. I speak as to wise men judge ye what I say the cup of blessing c. Even as I please all men in all things not seeking mine own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved 1 Cor. 10. 15 33. In the Church I had rather speak five words with my understanding that I might teach others also than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue 1 Cor. 14. 18 19. The Gospel which I have preached to you c. which I received c. that Christ died forour sins according to the scripture c. By the grace of God I am that I am c. I laboured c. yet not I but the grace of God which was with me 1 Cor. 15. 1 2 3 4 10. You also helping together by prayer for us c. not for that we have dominion over your faith but are helpers of your joy 2 Cor. 1. 11 24. If I make you sorry who is he then who maketh me glad but the same who is made sorry by me c. Out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears not that ye should be grieved but that c. we are not as many who corrupt the word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ 2 Cor. 2. 2 4 17. ch 4. 1 2. Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God who also hath made us able ministers c. 2 Cor. 3. 5 6. Ephes 3. 7. Commending our selves to every man's conscience in the sight of God c. we preach not our selves but Christ Jesus the Lord and our selves your servants for Jesus sake c. We have the same spirit of faith c. we believe and therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 2 5 13. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. the love of Christ constrains us c. God hath given unto us the ministry of reconciliation c. We are ambassadors for Christ as though God c. 2 Cor. 5. 11 14 18 19 20. Giving no offence in any thing that the ministry be not blamed but in all things approving our selves as the ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities and distresses c. by pureness by knowledge c. 2 Cor. 6. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. We have wronged no man we have corrupted no man we have defrauded no man c. though I made you sorry I do not repent c. I do rejoice not that you were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance c. that ye might receive damage by us in nothing 2 Cor. 7. 2 8 9 10. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God c. 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. Paul being forced to it for the Gospels sake justifies and commends himself 2 Cor. 11. ch 12. I will not be burdensom to you I seek not yours but you for the children c. and I will very gladly spend and be spent for you though c. we do all things for your edifying dearly beloved for I fear c. lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many who have sinned and have not repented 2 Cor. 12. 14 15 17 19 20 21. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth c. I should use sharpness according to the power which the Lord hath given me to your edification c. 2 Cor. 13. 8 9 10. Do seek to please men for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ c. Gal. 1. 10 c. Paul blamed Peter for dissembling openly Gal. 2. 11 12 13 14. Paul had a holy jealousie of the Galatians and after he had written largely to them about their turning back to the law he saith Ye observe days and months and years I am afraid of you left I have bestowed labour in vain Gal. 3. ch â— 10 11. When he ascended up on high c. he gave gifts unto mem c. and he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastours and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints c. for the work of the ministry c.
Ephes 4. 8 11 12 13. Praying c. for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly Ephes 6. 18 19 2 Thes 3. 1 2. Col. 4. 3 4. God is my record how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus c. some preach Christ out of envy c. what then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and I therein rejoice yea and will rejoice Phil. 1. 8 15 16 17 18. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of of your faith I joy c. I have no man like minded all seek their own things not the things which are Jesus Christ's Phil. 2. 17 19 20 21. Not that I desire a gift but I desire fruit that may abound to your account Phil. 4. 16 17. Christ whom we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus whereunto I also labour striving according to his working who c. Col. 1. 27 28 29. I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you and for they at Laodicea c. that their hearts might be comforted Col. 2. 1. Our exhortation was not of deceit c. but as were allowed of God c. even so we spake not as pleasing men but God who trieth our hearts for neither at any time used we flattering words as ye know nor a cloke of covetousness God is witness nor of men sought we glory c. but we were gentle among you even as a nurse cherisheth her children so being affectionately desirous of you we were willing to have imparted unto you c. labouring night and day because we would not be chargeable to any of you we preached unto you ye are witnesses and God how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved our selves c. What is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming 1 Thes 2. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 19. I could no longer forbear I sent to know your faith lest by some means the tempter c. for now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord 1 Thes 3. 5 7 8 9 10. Brethren pray for us 1 Thes 5. 25. We behaved not our selves disorderly among you neither did we eat any man's bread for nought but wrought with labour and travel night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you not because we have not power but to make our selves an ensample unto you to follow us c. 2 Thes 3. 7 8 9 10. Refuse profane and old wives fables and exercise thy self unto godliness These things command and teach c. be thou an example of the believers in word in conversation in charity in spirit in faith in purity c. Give attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine neglect not the gift which is in thee c. meditate upon these things give thy self wholly unto them that thy profiting may appear to all or in all things take heed to thy self and to the doctrine c. 1 Tim. 4. 7 11 to 17. Rebuke not an Elder but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren c. 1 Tim. 5. 1. Stir up the gift of God which is in thee c. hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love c. 2 Tim. 1. 6 13. The things thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also thou therefore endure hardness as a good souldier of Christ Jesus No man who warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a souldier c. I endure all things for the elects sake c. Study to shew thy self a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing c. foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strifes But the servants of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men apt to teach patient or forbearing in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance c. 2 Tim. 2. 2 3 4 10 15 16 23 24 25. Preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine c. But watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an Evangelist make full proof of or fulfil thy ministry 2 Tim. 4. 2 5. There are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers c. whose mouths must be stopped c. Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men c. Titus 1. 10 11 13 14. Speak thou the things which become sound doctrine in all things shew thy self a pattern of good works in doctrine uncorruptness gravity sincerity sound speech which cannot be condemned that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you Titus 2. 1 7 8. Avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable and vain Titus 3. 9. If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God c. that God c. 1 Pet. 4. 10 11. I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though ye know them and be established in the present truth yea and I think it meet as long as I am in this present tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle c. Moreover I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance for we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord c. 2 Pet. 1. 12 13 14 15 16. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you c. 1 John 1. 3. I rejoice greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth 2 John ver 4. 3 John verse 3 4. See more of the Officers of Churches Chap. 27. CHAP. XXVII Of the Church of Christ under the several Notions thereof and the Things belonging to the same in the General and also as considered in the several Congregations and particular Churches thereof First The several Acceptations of the Church mentioned in Scripture 1. General or Universal UPon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not c. Matth. 16. 18. Christ is head of the church and he is the Saviour of the body c. Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it c. that he might present it to himself a glorious church Ephes 5. 23 25 27. To the general assembly and church of
He directs his epistles to the Angel of the Church but the matter he speaks to the whole Church and concludes Hear what the spirit saith unto the Churches Rev. 1. 4. ch 2. ch 3. See mere of Church-Acts in Discipline Ninthly Of the ending of Controverses arising between the Members of the Churches to avoid going to Law before others DAre any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the Saints do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the world and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters know ye not that we shall judge Angels how much more things which pertain to this life c. Set them to judge who are least esteemed in the Church I speak to your shame Is it so that there is not a wise man among you no not one who shall be able to judge between his brethren but brother goeth to law with brother and that before the unbelievers Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to law one with another why do ye not rather take wrong c. 1 Cor. 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Tenthly Of the Relief of the Poor of the Churches and their Contributions to the Necessity of other Churches and the Order of it AND the multitude of them who believed were of one heart c. Neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own but they had all things common c. Neither was there any among them that lacked for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prises c. and laid them down at the Apostles feet and distribution was made unto every man according as he had â—â—ed Acts 4. 32 34 35. The price of thy land While it remained was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power why hast thou c. Acts 5. 1 2 3 4. When the number of the disciples were multiplied there arose a murmuring against the Hebrews by the Grecians because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration Whereupon the Church chose Deacons to look to this matter Acts 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6. The Disciples every one according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren c. Acts 11. 28 29 30. These hands have administred to my necessities and to them who were with me I have shewed you all things how that ye so labouring ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 34 35. It hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem Rom. 15. 25 26. Now concerning the collection for the Saints as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia so do ye upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gathering when c. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. By the occasion of the forwardness of others and to prove the sincerity of your love for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich c. Not that other men be eased and you burdened but by an equalility c. 2 Cor. 8. 1 2 3 7 8 9 13 14. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver c. The administration of this Service not only supplieth the want of the Saints but it is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God c. They glorifie God for your professed subjection to Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 9. 7 12 13. If any would not work neither should he eat c. But ye brethren be not weary in well-doing c. 2 Thes 3. 10 11 12 13. If any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to shew pity at home and to requite their parents c. If any provide not for his own c. If any man or woman who believeth have widows let them relieve them and let not the Church be charged that it may relieve them who are widows indeed 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. See the Duty of Distributing to the Saints Necessity at large Chap. 17. Eleventhly Of the Officers of particular Churches their Power Duty and Recompence How they should be Qualified for the Office and of the Churches Duty to them as such I. Of the Officers Power Duties c. I Will give you Pastors according to mine heart who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding Jer. 3. 15. ch 23. 4. Thou shalt speak my word unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. Levit. 10. 11. I have made thee a watchman c. give them warning from me when I say c. and thou givest him not warning c. his blood will I require at thine hand yet if thou warn c. Ezek. 3. 17 18 19. They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and prophane and cause men to discern between the unclean and the clean c. and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies c. Ezek. 44. 23 24. Jer. 15. 19. Levit. 10. 8 9 10. Their widows are neglected in the daily ministration Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables c. look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of the holy Ghost and wisdom c. we will give our selves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word Acts 6. 1 2 3 4. Paul sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the Church c. he said unto them c. Take heed therefore to your selves and to all the flock over the which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers or Bishops to seed the Church of God c. I know this that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter c. therefore watch c. and I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 17 18 28 29 30 31 35. Let us wait on our ministring or he who teacheth on teaching or he who exhorteth on exhortation c. he who ruleth with diligence c. Rom. 12. 7 8. It is required in stewards that a man be sound faithful 1 Cor. 4 2. God hath set some in the Church first Apostles secondly Prophets thirdly Teachers c. helps governments 1 Cor. 12. 28. He gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the
your â—ast you and pleasures and exact all your labours c. ye fast for strife c. Isa 58. 1 2 c. I have spread out my hands all the day long to a reâ—ellious people c. who provoke me to anger continually c. who say Stand by thy self come not near to me for I am holier than thou these are a smoke in my nose Isa 65. 2 3 4 5. Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart but feignedly Jer. 3. 10. Thus saith the Lord c. Amend your ways c. trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord c. Behold ye trust in lying words which cannot profit Will ye steal murder c. and come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name c. Jer. 7. 3 4 8 9 10. Ezek. 23. 38 39. Matth. 3. 8 9 10. Egypt c. are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel uncircumcised in heart Jer. 9. 26. Thou art near in their mouth and far from their reins Jer. 12. 2. Judah said Pray for us to the Lord c. that the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk and the thing that we may do c. We will obey the voice of the Lord c. But Jeremy afterwards said O ye remnaâ—t of Judah c. Ye dissembled in your hearts or have used deceit against your souls when ye sent me unto the Lord your God saying Pray for us c. We will do c. ye have not obeyed the voice of God nor any thing c. Jer. 42. 1 2 3 4 5 6 19 20 21. And they come unto thee as the people cometh and they sit before thee as my people and they hear thy words but they will not do them for with their mouth they shew much love but their heart goeth after their covetousness c. thou art unto them as a very lovely song c. for they hear thy words but they do them not Ezek. 33. 31 32. Luke 12. 1 2. O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee O Judah what shall I do unto thee for your goodness is as a morning cloud and as an early dew it goeth away Hosea 6. 4. They have not cried to me with their heart c. they return not to the most high c. Hosea 7. 14 16. The heads judge for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire c. yet will they lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us c. Micah 3. 11. When ye fast Did ye at all fast unto me c. Did ye not eat c. Zech. 7. 5 6. Herod sent to seek Christ under pretence of worshipping him but he designed to kill him Mar. 2. 3 5 8 16. When thou dost thine aâ—ms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory or men c. And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the Synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men c. Moreover when ye fast be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast Mat. 6. 2 5 16. Why beholdest thou the moâ—e which is in thy brother's eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye or how wilt thou say to thy brother Let me pull out the moâ—e out of thine eye and behold a beam in thine own eye thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye c. Not every one who saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven c. Many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name c. then I will profess I never knew you Mat. 7. 3 4 5 21 22 23. Luke 13. 26 27. John came neither eating nor drinking and they say he hath a devil the Son of man came eating and drinking and they say behold a man gluttonous and a wine-bibber and a friend of Publicans and sinners Mat. 11. 18 19. When the Pharisees saw the disciples plucking corn on the Sabbath-day they said Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath-day Jesus said Have ye not read c. how that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple prosane the Sabbath and are blameless c. They asked him saying Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath-day that they might accuse him c. then he cured the man c. Then the Pharisees went out and held a council against him that they might destroy him c. They said This fellow doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of Devils Matth. 12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 14 24. John 5. 16. The stony-ground c. is one who hath not root in himself but temporal persecution ariseth he is offended c. They said of Christ Is not this the Carpenter's son c. whence then hath this man all these things and they were offended in him Mat. 13. 22 54 55 56 57. Then there came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisees c. saying Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders for they wash not their hands when they eat bread But he answered and said unto them Why do you also transgress the commandment by your traditions for God commanded saying Honour thy father c. but ye say c. thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition ye hypocrites well did Isaias prophesie of you saying This people draw near to me with their mouth c. but their heart is far from me Matth. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Mark 7. 1 2 3 4 c. The young rich man had observed much of the law yet when Christ had said unto him If thou wilt be perfect go and â—ell that thou hast and give to the poor he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions c. Many who are first shall be last and the last shall be first Mat. 19. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 30. Those who agreed for wages murmur because those who did not agree nâ—r do so much work as they had alike wages freely given them Mat. 20. 1 2 to v. 15. When the chief Priests and Scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying Hosanna to the son oâ— David they were sore dispâ—eased c. And when he was come into the temple the chief Priests and the Elders c. came unto him as he was teaching and said By what authority dost thou these things and who gave thee this authority When Christ had put forth the parable of the vineyard and the chief Priests had heard this parable they perceived that
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
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
that ye may be found of him in peace without spot or blemish 2 Pet. 3. 14. Blessed are the dead c. they rest from their labours and their works follow them Rev. 14. 13. See Watching Chap. 16. See God's doing in and for the Saints Chap. 20. CHAP. XLVII Of Time or Opportunity AND the Lord said My Spirit shall not always strive with man for he is also flesh but his days shall be an hundred and twenty years c. Gen. 6. 3. For this shall every one who is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayst be found or in a time of finding Psalm 32. 6. When God speaks and men will not hearken then though they cry to him he will not hear Prov. 1. 22 c. Zech. 7. 13. Boast not thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth Prov. 27. 1. To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the Sun a time to be born and a time to die c. He hath made every thing beautiful in its time Eccles 3. 1 2 c. A wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment because to every purpose there is time c. Ecces 8. 5 6. Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do do it with thy might for no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest Eccles 9. 10. John 9. 4. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth before the evil day c. Eccles 12. 1. Seek ye the Lord while he may be sound call ye upon him while he is near Isa 55. 6. Break up your fallow ground for 't is time to seek the Lord till he come c. Hosea 10. 12. Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with him lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge and the judge deliver thee to the officer and thou be cast into prison Verily I say unto thee Thou shalt by no means come out till thou hast paid the utmost farthing Matth. 5. 25 26. The foolish Virgins neglected getting Oil till the door was shut against them And those who had talents did not use them Matth. 25. 5 6 to the 29. He cometh and findeth them sleeping and saith unto Peter Simon sleepest thou couldst not thou watch one hour Watch and pray lest ye enter into temptation Mark 14. 37 38. The day will come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man and ye shall not see it Luke 17. 22. He beheld the city and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes for the days come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee c. Luke 19. 41 42 43. Matth. 23. 37 38. A little while is the light with you walk while ye have the light left darkness come upon you John 12. 35. God c. hath of one blood made all nations of men c. and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation that they should seek the Lord if happily they might seek after him c. In the time of ignorance God winked c. but now he commandeth all men to repent Acts 17. 24 25 26 27. And that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now c. the night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness c. Rom. 13. 11 12. This I say brethren the time is short it remaineth that both they that have wives be as though they had none c. 1 Cor. 7. 27. Behold now is the accepted time Behold now is the day of salvation 2 Cor. 6. 2. Isa 59. 8. In due season we shall reap if we faint not As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto them c. Gal. 6. 9 10. Awake thou who sleepest c. redeeming the time because the days are evil Wherefore be not unwise but understand what the will of the Lord is Ephes 5. 14 16 17. Coloss 4. 5. Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith to day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the day of provocation c. wherefore I was grieved c. so I sware in my wrath they shall not enter into my rest Heb. 3. 7 8 9 10 11. Psalm 55. 7 8. Heb. 4. 7. Go to now ye who 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 our life It is even a vapour c. For that ye ought to say If the Lord will we shall live and do this and that James 4. 13 14 15. If ye call on the Father c. pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 1 Pet. 1. 17. That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust of men but to the will of God For the time past of our lives may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles 1 Pet. 4. 2 3. I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not Behold I will cast her into a bed c. Rev. 2. 20 21 22. And the Angel c. sware c. that there should be time no longer Rev. 10. 5 6. The Devil is now come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth he hath but a short time Rev. 12. 12. See Diligence in our Callings Chap. 53. See Death Chap. 34. See more in God's Threatnings and Judgments against Sinners Chap. 16. CHAP. XLVIII Signs of the last Times or End of the World MAny shall come in my name saying I am Christ and deceive many c. And ye shall hear of wars c. Because iniquity shall abound the hope of many shall wax cold The Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness c. As the days of Noah was so shall the coming of the Son of man be c. They were eating c. Matth. 24. 5 6 7 12 14 37 38. That day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed 2 Thes 2. 1 2 c. In the last days perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves c. 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 4. Knowing this first that in the last days there shall come scoffers walking after their own lust and saying Where is the promise of his coming c. 2 Pet. 3. 3 4 c. See Deceivers Chap. 30. CHAP. XLIX Encouragements to Hope in and Cry to God when our Case seems Desper ate and Low MOses said unto the People ye have sinned a great sin and
Elah was drinking himself drunk in his house c. Zimri smote and killed him 1 Kings 16. 8 9 10. Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the Pavilion when Israel came and slew the Assyrians with a great slaughter c. 1 Kings 20. 16 17 18 19 20. And they gave drink in vessels of gold c. and royal wine in abundance and the drinking according to law none did compel for the king had appointed to all the officers of his house that they should do according unto every 〈◊〉 pleasure Hester 1. 7 8. They who sate in the gate spake against me I am the long of the drunkards or drinkers of drink Psalm 69. 12. Wine is a mocker strong drink is raging whosoever is deceived hereby is not wise Prov. 20. 1. Be not amongst wine bibbers nor amongst riotous eaters of flesh c. for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty Prov. 23. 2 20 21. It is not for kings to drink wine c. lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted Prov. 31. 4 5. Wo unto them who rise up early in the morn that they may follow strong drink who continue until night till wine inflame them c. Wo to the mighty to drink mine and men of strength to mingle strong drink Isa 5. 11 22. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard c. Isa 24. 20. They also have erred through wine and through strong drink are out of the way the Priest and the Prophet have erred through strong drink they are swallowed up of wine they are out of the way through strong drink they err in vision they stumble in judgment for all their tables are full of vomit and filthiness c. Isa 28. 7. 8. His watch-men are blind c. Come ye say they I will fetch wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Isa 56. 10. 11 12. Awake ye drunkards weep and house all ye drunkards of wine because of the new wine because it is cut off from your mouth Joel 1. 5. Wo to them who are at ease in Zion c. who drink wine in bowls c. Amos 6. 1 6. While they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured Nahum 1. 10. Wo unto him who giveth his neighbour drink who putteth thy bottle to him and makest drunken also that thou mayst look on their nakedness Habak 2. 15. But if that evil servant c. shall begin to smite his fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunken The Lord of that servant shall come c. Matth. 24. 48 49 50. Luke 12. 45. Others mocking said Those men are full of new wine But Peter c. said c. These are not drunken as ye suppose seeing it is but the third hour of the day c. Acts 2. 13 14 15. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness c. Rom. 13. 13. I have written to you not to keep company c. if any man who is called brother be c. a drunkard c. with such a one no not to eat 1 Cor. 5. 11. Be not deceived neither fornicators c. nor drunkards c. shall inherit the kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Ephes 5. 21. One is hungry another is drunken c. 1 Cor. 11. 21. Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit c. Ephes 5. 8. They who are drunk are drunken in the night but let us who are of the day be sober c. 1 Thes 5. 7 8. CHAP. LXIV Great Outward Privileges nor our own Righteousness alone will be our Security against Judgments here or Damnation for ever No Cause of Boasting in these only WHat nation so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God in all that we call upon him for And what Nation so great that hath Statutes c. so righteous as all this law Only take heed and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things thine eyes have seen c. left ye corrupt and make you a graven image c. leâ—t ye forget the covenant c. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire c. When c. ye shall do evil in the light of the Lord to provoke him to anger c. ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land c. be utterly destroyed c. Ask of the days past c. Did ever people I ear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live Or hath God essayed to go and take him a nation from the middest of a nation by tentations by signs c. Because he loved thy fathers he chose their feed after them and brought them out in his sight with his mighty power c. Thou shalt therefore keep his statutes Deut. 4. 7 8 9 10 16 23 24 25 26 27 33 34 36 37 40. Speak not thou in thine heart after the Lord hath cast them out from before thee saying for my righteousness the Lord hath brought me into possess this good land but for the wickedness of these nations c. not for thy righteousness nor for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to possess their land but for the wickedness c. the Lord thy God doth drive them out c. And that he may perform the word which the Lord swore unto thy rathers Abraham c. the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness for a stiff-necked people c. Deut. 9. 4 5 6 7 c. To the wicked God saith What hast thou to do to declare my statutes or that thou shouldest â—ake my Covenant into thy mouth seeing thou harest instruction and castest my words behind thee c. Psal 50. 16 17 18. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord I am full of the burâ—t-offerings c. who hath required this at your hands to tread my Courts c. bring no more vain oblations incense is an abomination to me the new moon and sabboths the calling of assemblies I cannot away with it c. they are a trouble to me I am weary to bear them when you make many prayers I won't hear c. your hands are full of blood wash you make you clean c. Isa 1. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. Jer. 6. 19 20. We are all an unclean thing and all our righteousness as filthy rags Isa 64. 6. He who killeth an ox is as if he slew a man he who sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck c. They have chosen their own ways c. Isa 66. 3. Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord c. If ye throughly amend your ways c.