every one who believeth c. If thou 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 c. For the scripture faith whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed Rom. 10. 4 9 10 11. Isa. 28. 16. For by faith ye stand 2 Cor. 1. 24. A man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the â—…aith of Christ and not by the works of the law c. And the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God Gal. 2. 16 20. Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness c. God would justifie the heathen through faith c. They who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham c. That the promise through faith of Jesus might be given unto them who believe c. We are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ Gal. 3. 6 8 9 11 22 26. We through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth any thing but faith which worketh by love Gal. 5. 5 6. In whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with the holy spirit c. Ephes. 1. 13. By grace are ye saved through faith Ephes. 2. 8. We have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him c. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith Ephes. 3. 12 17. Not having mine own righteousness c. but that which is through the faith of Christ Phil. 3. 9. You are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God c. Col. 2. 12. God hath c. chosen you to salvation through sanctification c. and belief of the truth 2 Thes. 2. 13. Now the end of the commandment is Charity c. and of faith unfeined 1 Tim. 1. 5. Wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 3. 15. Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ c. Of faith towards God c. but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises Heb. 6. 1 12. Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward c. Yet a little while and he who shall come will come and will not tarry Now the just shall live by faith c. We are not of them who draw back to perdition but of them who believe to the saving of the soul Heb. 10. 22 35 37 38 39. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Kain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous c. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death c. He had this Testimony that he pleased God but without faith it is impossible to please God For he who cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him By faith Noah c. And became heir of righteousness which is by faith Heb. 11. 4 5 6 7. For you who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation For you who do believe in God who raised him c. 1 Pet. 1. 5 21. Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner-stone c. and he who believeth on him shall not be confounded 1 Pet. 2. 6. This is his commandment that we should believe on the name of his son Jesus Christ and love c. 1 John 3. 22 23. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God c. This is the victory which overcometh the world even our faith Who is he who overcometh the world but he who believeth that Jesus is the son of God c. He who believeth on the son of God hath the witness in himself c. You that believe c. that ye may know that ye have eternal life 1 John 5. 1 4 5 10 13. Blessed be God c. who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3. Of Faith in its Nature and Objects and Use Benefits and advantages further the nas before as relating to this Salvation Holding the mistery of faith in a pure conscience c. Without controversie great is the mistery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh c. 1 Tim. 3. 9 16. 1. In its Nature and Objects I know my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body or after I shall awake this body shall be destroyed yet out or in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and not another c. Job 19. 25 26 27. Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone c. He who believeth shall not make hast The Centurion said Lord I am not worthy c. But speak the word only and my servant shall be healed for I am a man under authority c. And I say to this man go and he goeth and unto another come and he cometh c. When Jesus heard this he said c. I have not found so great faith no not in Israel c. Many shall come from east and west and shall sit down with Abraham c. Matt. 8. 8 9 10 11 13. The woman of Canaan would not be put off though Christ spake harsh to her whereupon Jesus said to her O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee as thou wilt Matt. 15. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. Simon Peter said thou art Christ the son of the living God And Jesus said unto him blessed art thou c. For flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my father which is in heaven Matt. 16. 16 17. The woman of the bloody Issue said if I may but touch his clothes I shall be whole c. Jesus said unto her thy faith hath made thee whole go in peace Mark 5. 27 28 29 34. Jesus said unto them have faith in God c. And shall not doubt in his heart Mark 11. 22 23. O fools and slow of heart to believe all which the Prophets have spoken Luke 24. 25. His own received him not but as many as received him to them he gave to become c. John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world This is he of whom I said after me cometh a man who is preferred before me for he was before me c. And I saw and bare record that this is the son of God c. Andrew said to his brother Simon we have found the Messias which is being
good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power 2 Thes. 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 unfeined faith that is in thee c. I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 2 Tim. 1. 5 12. According to the faith of Gods Elect c. In hope of eternal life which God who cannot lye 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. The word c. did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them who heard it Heb. 4. 2. 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 Abram 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 dyed in the faith not having received the promises but seeing them afar off and were perswaded of them and imbraced them and confessed c. Abram 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. chap. 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 1 Pet. 1. 3 8 21. To them who have obtained like precious faith with us 2 Pet. 1. 1. Who is a lyer but he that denyeth that Jesus is the Christ 1 John 2. 22. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him For we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2 3. 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 Son of God c. We know that the Son of God is come c. His Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and eternal Life 1 John 5. 1 5 20. But ye beloved build up your selves in your most holy faith Jude vers 20. 2dly In its Use Benefits and Advantages further I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the living Psal. 27. 13. Behold God is my salvation I will trust c. therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation Isa. 12. 3. Jesus said unto the blind man believe ye that I am able to do this They said unto him yea Lord then touched he their eyes saying according to your faith be it unto you And their eyes were opened Matt. 9. 28 29 30. Luk. 18. 42. When Peter came out of the Ship he walked on the water to go to Jesus but when he began to fear he began to sink c. And Jesus said unto him O thou of little faith why didst thou doubt Matt. 14. 28 29 30 31. When Christ saw the faith of the Woman of Canaan Jesus answered and said unto her O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt and her daughter was made whole Matt. 15. 26 27 28. The Disciples came to Jesus apart and said why could not we cast him out And Jesus said unto them because of your unbelief For verily I say unto you if ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed ye shall say to this mountain remove hence unto yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible unto you Matt. 17. 19 20. Mark 11. 23. The saith of the Woman with the bloody-issue derived virtue from Christ to heal her c. Jesus said to the Ruler when news was brought that his daughter was dead be not afraid only believe and Christ raised her Mark 5. 27 28 29 34 36 42. If thou canst believe all things are possible to him who believeth c. He cryed ouâ—… Lord I believe help thou my unbelief Jesus healed his child Mark 9. 23 24 25. What things soever ye desire when ye pray believe that ye receive and ye shall have them Mark 11. 24. He who believeth on me as the scripture saith 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. If thou wouldest believe thou shouldest see the glory of God John 11. 40 Christ prayed only for those who had and afterwards should believe in him John 17. 20. Through faith in his name hath made this man strong whom ye see and know yea the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect souâ—…ness in the presence of you all Act. 3. 16. What doth hinder me to be baptized And if thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest Act. 8. 36 37. Putting no difference between them and us purifying their hearts by faith Act. 15. 9. Rejoycing in hope Rom. 12. 12. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing Rom. 15. 13. We are always confident knowing that whilest we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord for we walk by faith and not by sight we are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5. 6 7 8. They who are of faith the same are the children of Abraham c. We received c. the spirit through faith Gal. 3. 7 14. In whom after that ye believed ye were sealed with the holy spirit Ephes. 1. 13. In whom ye have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him c. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith Ephes. 3. 12 17. Heb. 4. 16. Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be
glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased 2 Pet. 1. 16 17. 1 Pet. 1. 21. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to him be glory both now and for ever 2 Pet. 3. 18. Jude vers 25. In him is no sin c. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us 1 John 3. 5 16. 1 Pet. 3. 18. His son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternal life 1 John 5. 20. Jesus Christ c. The Prince of the kings of the earth c. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty c. I am the first and the last I am he who liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the keys of hell and death Rev. 1. 5 6 8 17 18. I am he who searcheth the reins and hearts Rev. 2. 23. Those things saith he who hath the seven spirits of God c. Who is holy c. Who hath the key of David he who openeth and no man shutteth c. Rev. 3. 1 7. Worthy is the lamb which was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing c. Blessing honour and glory and power be unto him who sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb for ever c. The elders fell down and worshipped him who liveth for ever Rev. 5. 12 13 14. And the kings of the earth and the great men c. Said to the mountains c. Hide us from the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the lamb For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 15 16 17. The Lamb shall overcome them for he is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Rev. 17. 14. ch 19. 16. See more of the one God Father Son and Spirit or the Trinity Chap. 3. In his Nature He shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street A bruised reed shall he not break smoaking or daily burning flax shall he not quench Isa. 42. 2 3. Matt. 12. 18 19 20. I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them who plucked off hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Isa. 50. 6. Matt. 26. 67. He was oppressed c. He opened not his mouth he is brought as a Lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth c. He had done no violence neither was guile found in his mouth Isa. 53. 7 9. Mal. 2. 6. Thy king cometh unto thee he is just c. lowly and riding upon an Ass c. Zech. 9. 9. The son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings Mal. 4. 2. Jesus sate at meat c. Many publicans and sinners came c. The Pharisees said why eat your Master with Publicans and sinners c. Jesus said unto them they who are whole need not a Physician but they who are sick but go and learn what that meant I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance c. When he saw the multitude he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted or were tired and were scattered abroad as sheep having no sheepherd c. He healed their sick c. Would not send them away fasting c. Matt. 9. 10 11 12 13 36. chap. 14. 14. ch 15. 30 32. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart Matt. 11. 29. When Peter was sinking and cryed out Lord save me and immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto him c. wherefore didest c. Matt. 14. 30 31. O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou who killest the prophets c. how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not Matt. 23. 37. Christ excused his Disciples when they slept c. He said the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak Matt. 26. 41. When he came neer the City he wept over it saying if thou hadest known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy peace c. Luk. 19. 41 42. And the word was made flesh c. full of grace and truth John 1. 14. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping c. He groaned in the spirit and was troubled c. Jesus wept then said the Jews behold how he loved him John 11. 33 35 36. Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God c. Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you c. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid John 14. 1 27. When Mary sought Jesus weeping he appeared to her to comfort her c. He shewed himself also to his Disciples his hands and feet and the second time to Thomas when he would not believe the report of the rest John 20. 11 14 15 16 19 25 27. Christ gives charge three times to Peter that if he loved him he should feed his lambs and his sheep John 21. 15 16 17. Ye denied the holy and just one Act. 3. 14. I obtained mercy for this cause that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe on him 1 Tim. 1. 16. In that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2. 18. chap. 4. 15. Who is holy harmless undefiled c. Heb. 7. 26. Christ as of a Lamb without spot and blemish 1 Pet. 1. 19. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us c. 1 John 3. 16. Behold I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and sup with him and he with me Rev. 3. 20. CHAP. VIII How Christ wrought this Salvation for sinners and what he was made and is what he undertook and did in order to it First He is Mediatour THere is one God one Mediatour between God and man the man Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 2. 5. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament Heb. 7. 22. He is made the Mediatour of a better Testament which was established upon better promises Heb. 8. 6. And for this cause he is the mediatour of the New-testament that c. Heb. 9. 15. And to Jesus the Mediatour of the new Covenant or Testament Heb. 12. 24. 2dly He took upon him the nature of man and humbled himself God said to the serpent c. I will put enmity between thee and
far off and to them who are near c. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and forreigners but fellow-citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God Eph. 2. 13 14 15 16 17 8 19. And having made or making peace through the blood of his cross by him to reconcile all things to himself by him whether they be things c. And you who were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked works yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable c. Col. 1. 20 21 22. It behoveth him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High-Priest c. to make reconciliation for the sins of the people Heb. 2. 17. Who his own self bare our sins c. by whose stripes ye were healed for ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of our souls 1 Pet. 2. 24 25. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God 1 Pet. 3. 18. Justification and Sanctification before God Let not them who wait on thee O Lord God of Hosts be ashamed for my sake let not those who seek thee be confounded for my sake O God of Israel because for thy sake I have born reproach shame hath covered my face I am become a stranger to my brethren c. for the zeal of thine house c. and the reproaches of them who reproached thee have fallen upon me c. Psal. 69. 6 7 8 9 10 c. Surely shall one say In the Lord have I righteousness and strength c. in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory Isa. 45. 24 25. By his knowledg shall my righteous servant justifie many for he shall bear their iniquities Isa. 53. 11. I will sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you c. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses c. Not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord God be it known unto you Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways O house of Israel Thus saith the Lord God in the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities c. Ezek. 36. 22 25 29 32 33. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come c. for he is like a refiners fire c. He shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver c. then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord Mal. 3. 1 2 3 4. The Pharisee prayed thus God I thank thee that I am not as other men are extortioners c. I fast twice a week c. And the Publican standing afar off would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven c. saying God be merciful unto me a sinner I tell you This man went down unto his house justified rather than the other Luke 18. 10 11 12 13 14. And by him all who believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses Acts 13. 39. Therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written The just shall live by faith Rom. 1. 17. The righteousness of God without the law is manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them who believe c. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth c. to declare his righteousness c. to declare I say his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of them who believe in Jesus where is boasting then c Wherefore we conclude That a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law Rom. 3. 21 22 24 25 26 27 28. Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness Now to him who worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt But to him who worketh not but believeth on him who justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted unto him for righteousness even as David describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works c. He received the sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith c. that he might be the father of them who believe though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them also c. for the promise c. not to Abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith c. It was imputed to him for righteousness now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed unto him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him who raised up Jesus c. who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification Gen. 15. 6. Rom. 4. 3 4 5 6 11 13 22 23 24 25. Being justified by faith c. much more then being now justified by his blood we shall be saved c. The free gift of many offences unto justification c. As by one offence judgment came upon all to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one or by one righteousness the free gift came upon all men to justification of life c. By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Rom. 5. 1 9 16 17 18 19. There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus c. Whom he did foreknow c. them he also justified c. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect it is God who justifieth Who is he who condemneth it is Christ who died yea rather that is risen again c. Rom. 8. 〈◊〉 29 30 33 34. The Gentiles who followed not after righteousness have attained unto righteousness c. which is of faith But Israel who followed after the law of righteousness hath not attained unto the law of righteousness Wherefore because they sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the law Rom. 9. 30 31 32. They being ignorant of Gods righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one who believeth c. The righteousness which is of faith saith on this wise c. for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness Rom. 10. 3 4 6 7 8 9 10. Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification c. 1 Cor. 1. 30. But ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 6. 11. God was in
interpreted the Christ c. Philip said to Nathaniel we have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph c. Nathaniel said Thou art the son of God thou art the King of Israel Jesus said Because I said c. Believest thou thou shalt see greater c. John 1. 11 12 29 30 34 36 40 41 45 49 50. He who hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true John 3. 33. The Samaritans believed on him for the saying of the woman c. And more believed because of his own word and said unto the woman now we believe not because of thy saying for we have heard him our selves and know that this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the world c. Jesus said to the nobleman go thy way thy son liveth and the man believed the word which Jesus had spoken and he went his way c. And himself believed and his whole house John 4. 39 41 42 50 53. He who believeth on him who sent me c. Had ye believed Moses c. But if ye believe not his writings c. John 5. 24 46 47. Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the son of the living God John 6. 68 69. For if ye believe not that I am he ye shall dye in your sins Joh. 8. 24. The man who was born blind Christ cured and when the Jews had cast him out Jesus heard of it and when he had found him he said unto him dost thou believe on the son of God and he answered and said who is he Lord that I might believe on him c It is he who talketh with thee And he said Lord I believe and he worshipped him John 9. 35 36 37 38. Jesus c. whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never dye Believest thou this She said unto him yea Lord I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God which should come into the world John 11. 25 26 27. He who believeth on me believeth not on me but on him who sent me John 12. 44. That when it is come to pass ye may believe that I am he John 13. 19. Ye believe in God believe also in me John 14. 1. The father himself loveth you because ye have loved me and believe that I came out from God c. Now we are sure that thou knowest all things c. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God John 16. 27 30. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest to me and they have received them and they have known surely that I came out from thee and they have believed that thou didest send me John 17. 8. 1 John 5. 10 11. Thomas c. said unto him my Lord and my God c. Jesus said c. blessed are they who have not seen yet believed These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God John 20. 28 29 31. The Eunuch said what doth hinder me to be baptized And Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest And he answered and said I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God He baptized him Acts. 8. 36 37 38. Paul preached Christ in the Synagogues that he is the Son of God c. Proving that this is very Christ Act. 9. 20 22. ch 17. 3. God gave them the liâ—…e gifts c. Then hath God also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life Act. 11. 17 18. We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved even as they Act. 15. 11. 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. Paul said be of good cheer for there shall be no loss c. Be of good chear 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 â—…or 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 perswaded 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 Christ 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 that we see not then do we with patience wait for it c. I am perswaded 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 inâ—… 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 faith 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. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the spirit of God 1 Cor. 12. 3. Our preaching is not with inticeing words c. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God 1 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 an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens c. We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord c. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. 2 Cor. 5. 1 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. fulfill all the
who eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him John 6. 56. I am the good shepherd the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep c. I c. know my sheep and am known of mine John 10. 11 14. I am glad for your sakes that I was not there to the intent ye may believe John 11. 14 15. Ye call me master and Lord and ye say well for so I am John 13. 13. Let not you hearts be troubled c. I will come again and receive you to my self that where I am there ye may be also c. Ye see me because I live ye shall live also c. You in me and I in you c. Peace I leave with you c. Let not your hearts be troubled John 14. 1 3 19 20 27. I am the vine ye are the branches c. As the father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love c. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full c. I have loved you greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends John 15. 5 9 11 12 13. Luk. 12. 4. These things have I spoken that ye should not be offended c. I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce and your joy no man taketh from you John 16. 1 22. Christ prays for his Church at large John 17. Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my father and your father to my God and to your God John 20. 17. Jesus said feed my sheep feed my lambs John 21. 15 16 17. When Saul persecuted the Church Christ said unto him why persecutes thou me c. I am Jesus whom thou persecutest Act. 9. 4 5. Ye are become dead unto the Law c. That ye should be married unto another even to him who is raised from the dead Rom. 7. 4. ch 14. 9. Thou bearest not the root but the root thee Rom. 11. 17. Ye are Christs 1 Cor. 3. 23. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ c. He who is joyned unto the Lord is one spirit 1 Cor. 6. 15 17. When ye sin so against the brethren ye sin against Christ 1 Cor. 8. 12. The head of every man is Christ 1 Cor. 11. 3. All the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ c. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. 12 13. Gal. 3. 28. The love of Christ constraineth us 2 Cor. 5. 14. I have espoused you unto one husband that I may present you a chast Virgin to Christ 2 Cor. 11. 2. Gave him to be the head over all things to the Church which is the body the fulness of him who filleth all in all Ephes. 1. 22 23. Col. 1. 18. To know the love of Christ which passeth knowledg Ephes. 3. 19. Grow up into him in all things who is the head Christ from whom the whole body fitly joyned together and compacted c. Ephes. 4. 15 16. Christ hath loved us and given himself for us an offering c. Christ is the head of the Church and the saviour of the body c. Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it c. that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinckle c. No man ever hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the Church for we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones Ephes. 5. 2 23 25 26 27 29 30. I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better Phil. 1. 23. What things were gain to me those I counted loss for Christ yea doubtless I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ Phil. 3. 7 8. Not holding the head from which all the body by joynts and bands having nourishment ministred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God Col. 2. 18 19. Both he who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren Saying I will declare thy name c. Heb. 2. 11 12. Christ as a son over his own house whose house are we if we hold fast c. Heb. 3. 6. Unto you who believe he is precious c. 1 Pet. 2. 7. Jesus Christ c. who loved us and washed us c. Rev. 1. 5. CHAP. XVI Of the Duties of Believers such as profess to be Saints First Towards God In the general to live to God not to themselves to be holy fruitful walking in the light in an honest heavenly and spiritual conversation worthy of their high calling Glorifie God and mind things above ENoch walked with God Gen. 5. 22 24. Noah walked with God Gen. 6. 9. And the Lord said unto Noah come thou c. For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation c. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord had commanded him Gen. 7. 1 5. I am the Lord your God ye shall therefore sanctifie your selves ye shall be holy for I am holy Levit. 11. 44 45. ch 19. 2. Seek not after your own heart c. But be ye holy unto your God c. Num. 15. 39 40. Thou art an holy people to the Lord c. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing Deut. 14. 2 3. Behold all souls are mine as the soul of the father so also the soul of the son is mine the soul which sinneth it shall dye Ezek. 18. 4. Israel is an empty vine he bringeth forth fruit unto himself Hosea 10. 1. Is it time for you O ye to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lye waste c. Ye have sown much and brought in little c. Why saith the Lord of hosts because of mine house that is waste and ye run every man to his own house therefore c. Haggai 1. 4 6 9 10. Bring forth therefore fruit meet for repentance c. The Axe is laid unto the root of the trees therefore every tree which bring forth not fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire Matt. 3. 8 10. Luk. 3. 8. Let your lights so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your father which is in heaven Matt. 5. 16. Lay up for your selves treasure in heaven c. For where your treasure is there will your hearts be also Matt. 6. 20 21. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things Matt. 12. 35. They are to improve their Talents See the Parable Matt. 25.
tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance 2 Pet. 1. 12 13. chap. 3. 1 2. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the father and with his son Jesus Christ 1 John 1. 3. Blessed is he who readeth and they who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein Revel 1. 3. See Ministers of the Gospel in general Chap. 26. See gifts of the members of Churches before See of the word of God chap. 1. 3dly Baptisms God said unto Abram Thou shalt keep my covenant c. Every man-child among you shall be circumcised c. and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you c. Abram took Ishmael his son and all who were born in his house c. and circumcised the flesh c. And Abraham was ninety and nine years old when he was circumcised c. and Ishmael his son thirteen years old when he was circumcised Gen. 17. 9 10 11 12 13 23 24 25. Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of heaven and he laid his hands on them Matth. 19. 13 14 15. Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Matth. 28. 19. John said I indeed baptize you with water but one mightier than I cometh c. he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire Luke 3. 16. Acts 11. 15 16. Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples John 4. 1 2. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins for the promise is unto you and to your children c. then they who gladly received the word were baptized Acts 2. 38 39 41. But when they believed c. they were baptized both men and women c. Simon was baptized c. The Eunuch said Here is water what hinders me to be baptized and Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart thou maist c. they went down into the water and he baptized him Acts 8. 12 13 36 37 38. Saul arose and was baptized Acts 9. 18. Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized who have received the holy Ghost as well as we and he commanded them to be baptized in the name c. Acts 10. 47 48. Who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved Acts 11. 14. Lydia c. whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul and when she was baptized and her houshold c. believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved thou and thine house c. and he took them the same hour c. and was baptized he and all his straightway Acts 16. 14 15 30 31 32 33 34. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death buried c Rom. 6. 3 4. I baptized also the house of Stephanus besides I know not whether I c. 1 Cor. 1. 16. The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband otherwise were your children unclean but now they are holy 1 Cor. 7. 14. Leaving the principles c. of the doctrine of Baptisms Heb. 6. 1 2. The ark wherein few c. were saved by water the like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 3. 20 21. 4thly Breaking of bread or the Lords Supper The Passover instituted and all the directions about it Exod. 12. The people not prepared yet did eat Hezekiah prayed for them 2 Chr. 30. 18 19. As they were eating Jesus took bread and blessed it and brake it and gave it to his disciples and said Take eat this is my body and he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of it for this is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins but he said unto them I will not drink it henceforth c. and when they had sung c. Matth. 26. 26 27 28 29 30. They all drank of the cup Mark 14. 23. He sate down and the twelve Apostles with him c. He took the cup and gave thanks and said Take this and divide it among your selves c. And he took bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying This is my body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me Likewise also the cup after supper saying This cup is the new Testament in my blood which is shed for you Luke 22. 14 16 17 18 19 20. When Judas had received the sop at supper he went immediately out John 13. 26 30. And they continued stedfastly c. in breaking of bread Acts 2. 42. Upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread c. Paul preached to them c. in the upper chamber where they were gathered together c. When he therefore was come up again and had broken bread c. Acts 20. 7 8 9 10 11. Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump c. let us keep the feast not with old leaven c. but with the unleavened bread of sincerity 1 Cor. 5. 7 8. The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the comunion of the blood of Christ the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ for we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread c. ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils ye cannot c. 1 Cor. 10. 16 17 21 22. When ye come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lords supper or ye cannot eat for in eating every one taketh before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken what have ye not houses to eat and to drink in or despise you the Church of God and shame them that have not or are poor for I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in or for a remembrance of me After the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped saying This cup is thenew Testament in my blood this do ye as often as ye drink it in remembrance of me for as often as
him they worshipped him c. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given to me in heaven and earth go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy Ghost Matt. 28. 16 17 18 19 20. Why doth this man speak blasphemy Who can forgive sins but God only c. but that ye may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sin he saith unto the sick c. arise Mark 2. 7 9 10 11. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God c. The world was made by him c. And the word was made flesh c. John 1. 1 2 10 14. Jesus c. knew all men and needed not that any should testify of man For he knew what was in man John 2. 24 25. No man hath ascended c. but he who came down c. even the son of man who is in heaven John 3. 13. Jesus answered them my father worketh hitherto and I work c. The Jews sought the more to kill him c. Because c. He said God was his father making himself equal with God c. The son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the father do for whatsoever things he doth these also doth the son likewise c. As the father raised up the dead and quickened them even so the son quickeneth whom he will c. That all men should honour the son even as they honour the father he who honoureth not the son honoureth not the father who sent him John 5. 17 18 19 21 22 23. What and if ye shall see the son of man ascend up where he was before John 6. 62. Jesus said unto them verily verily I say unto you Before Abraham was I am John 8. 58. Dost thou believe on the son of God and Jesus said c. Thou hast both seen him and it is he who talketh with thee c. and he worshipped him John 9. 35 36 37 38. My father who gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my fathers hand I and my father are one c. Believe the work that ye may know and believe that the father is in me and I in him John 10. 29 30 38. Jesus knew Lazarus was dead John 11. 14. He who believeth on me believeth not on me but him who sent me And he who seeth me seeth him who sent me John 12. 44 45. Jesus knowing c. That he was come from God and went to God John 13. 3. If ye had known me ye should have known my father also and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him Philip saith unto him Lord shew us the father and it sufficeth us Jesus faith unto him have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me Philip He who hath seen me hath seen the father and how sayest thou shew us the father believest thou not that I am in the father and the father in me The words I speak unto you I speak not of my self but the father who dwelleth in me he doth the works Believe me that I am in the father and the father in me c. Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do c. 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 c. I will come to you c. He who loveth me I will love him and manifest my self to him c. My father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him c. The comforter the holy Ghost whom my father will send in my name he shall teach you John 14. 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 16 17 18 21 23 26. When the spirit of truth is come c. He will shew you things to come he shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unto you All things which the father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you c. Whatsoever ye shall ask the father in my name he will give it you c. I came forth from the father and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the father c. John 16. 13 14 15 23 27 28 30. Now O Father glorify thou me c. With the glory which I had with thee before the world was c. And all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them c. That they may be one as thou father art in me and I in thee John 17. 5 10 21. Thomas answered and said unto him my Lord and my God John 20. 28. Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the holy Ghost c. Thou hast not lied unto men but to God c. How is it that ye are agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord Act. 5. 3 4 9. Stephen calling and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit Act. 7. 59. Peter said to Aeneas Jesus Christ maketh thee whole arise c. Act. 9. 34. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Act. 20. 28. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Rom. 9. 5. With all in every place who call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. The spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God For what man knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God 1 Cor. 2. 10 11. Know you not that ye are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you c. 1 Cor. 3. 16. He who is joyned unto the Lord is one spirit c. Know you not that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost who is in you which ye have of God c. 1 Cor. 6. 17 19. To us there is but one God the father of whom are all things and one Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 8. 6. Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty c. Even as by the spirit of the Lord or the Lord of the spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the Love of God and the Communion of the holy Ghost be with you all 2 Cor. 13. 14. God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into our hearts c. Gal. 4. 6. Through him we both have an access by one spirit unto the father c. In whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the spirit Ephes. 2. 18 22. By him were all things created c. By him and for him and he is before all
of the heathen c. And the Lord c. Sent to them his messengers c. But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose c. Till there was no remedy 2 Chron. 36. 14 15 16. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean thing not one Job 14. 4. What is man that he should be clean or he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous c. Yea the heavens are unclean in his sight how much more abominable and filthy is man who drinketh in iniquity like water Job 15. 14 15 16. ch 25. 4. The wicked say c. What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what can he do c. Job 21. 15. ch 22. 17. The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us Psal. 2. 2 3. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek God God is not in all his thoughts c. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud c. He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see c. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God c. Psal. 10. 4 7 11 13. With our tongue will we prevail our lips are our own who is Lord over us Psal. 12. 4. The fool hath said in his heart there is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none who doeth good c. They are all gon aside they are together become filthy or stinking there is none who doth good no not one Psal. 14. 1 2 3. Psal. 53. 1 2 3. He deviseth mischief on his bed he setteth himself in a way not good Psal. 36. 4. Prov. 4. 16. I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Psal. 51. 5. The wicked estranged from the womb they go astray assoon as they are born speaking lyes Psal. 58. 3. Pride compasseth them about as a chain violence covereth them as a garment c. They are corrupt and speak wickedly c. They set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth c. They say how doth God know and is there knowledg in the most high Psal. 73. 6 8 9 11. The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them c. For all this they sinned still and believed not for his wondrous work Psal. 78. 30 31 32. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Thou said there is no hope no for I have loved strangers and after them will I go Jer. 2. 25. Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast 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. 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. 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 rusheth into the battle 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 saith 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 Jeremy 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 Jeremy 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. 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. Ezek. 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 Nebuchadnezzar 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. Hosea 2. 5. They set their heart on their iniquity Hos. 4. 8. God repeats many judgments he had 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 Amos 5. 10. Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts execute true judgment c. But they refused to hearken
able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked Ephes. 6. 16. We are the circumcision c. Who rejoyce in Christ and have no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3. 3. Putting on the brest-plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation 1 Thes. 5. 8. 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. The word c. did not profit not being mixed with faith in them who heard it c. For we who have believed do enter into rest c. For he who is entred into his rest he also hath ceased from his own works Heb. 4. 2 3 10. That by two immutable things c. we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast c. Heb. 6. 18 19. Faith enabled men to do and suffer great things for God See at large Heb. 11. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him James 5. 15. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation c. receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls 1 Pet. 1. 5 9. To them who have obtained like precious faith with us 2 Pet. 1. 1. This is the victory which overcometh the world even our faith 1 John 5. 4. â—…dly In its effects or the fruits by which it 's known to be true Examine your selves whether ye be in the saith 2 Cor. 13. 5. All men have not faith 2 Thes. 3. 2. It 's called the faith of Gods elect sound and unfeigned faith 2 Tim. 1. 5. Tit. 1. 13. chap. 2. 2. That the trial of your faith being much more precious than that of gold c. might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 7. Be ready always to give c. a reason of the hope that is in you 1 Pet. 3. 15. He who believeth will not make haste Isa. 28. 16. The people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloath c. Who can tell if God will turn and repent c. And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way c. Jonah 3. 4 5 8 9 10. The vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and shall not lye though it tarry wait for it c. Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him but the just shall live by faith Hab. 2. 3 4. The woman who had much forgiven unto her loved much and expressed it much and Jesus said Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little Luke 7. 38 42 43 47. And the Apostles said unto the Lord Increase our faith Luke 17. 5. Mar. 9. 24. The faith of poor impotent people made them wait at the Pool for the moving of the water and though they were disappointed often yet still waited John 5. 3 4 5 6 7. We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard Acts 4. 20. When the Eunuch had believed he went on his way rejoycing Acts 8. 38 39. Purifie their hearts by faith Acts 15. 9. If we hope for what we see not then do we with patience wait for it Rom. 8. 25. Rejoycing in hope Rom. 12. 12. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing Rom. 15. 13. We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken We also believe therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 13. We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord c. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men to believe 2 Cor. 5. 8 11. Examine your selves whether you be in the faith prove your own selves know you not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates 2 Cor. 13. 5. In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love Gal. 5. 6. In whom after that ye believed ye were sealed with the holy spirit of promise Ephes. 1. 13. We give thanks to God remembring without ceasing your works of faith c. patience of hope 1 Thes. 1. 2. We who believe do enter into rest Heb. 4. 3 10. We might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 18. By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with fear prepared an Ark c. By faith Abraham when he was called to go c. obeyed and he went out not knowing whither he went c. confessed themselves strangers c. By faith Abraham when he was tryed offered up Isaac c. his only begotten son of whom it is said c. By faith Moses c. refused to be called the son of Pharoahs daughter chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt for c. Heb. 11. 7 8 13 17 18 24 25 26. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath saith and have not works can faith save him c. faith if it hath not works is dead being alone or by it self yea a man may say Thou hast faith and I have works shew me thy faith without thy works and I will shew thee my faith by my works Thou believest that there is one God c. but wilt thou know O vain man that faith without works is dead Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect c. faith without works is dead James 2. 14 17 18 19 20 21 22 26. Jesus Christ whom having not seen ye love in whom though now ye see not yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 7 8. Unto you therefore who believe he is precious or an honour 1 Pet. 2. 7. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is And every man who hath this hope in him purifieth himself as he is pure 1 John 3. 2 3. The dangerous state and issue of Unbelief When Lot had told his sons in law that God would destroy the city and had advised him to get out they believed him not and were destroyed in the overthrow Gen. 19. 12 13 14 25. He did not many
the sheep followeth him for they know his voice and a stranger they will not follow but will flee from him for they know not the voice of a stranger c. I know my sheep and am known of mine c. my sheep hear my voice c. and they follow me John 10. 4 5 14 27. Simon Peter saith unto him Lord not my feet only but also my head and my hands c. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another John 13. 8 35. If ye love me keep my commandments c. He who hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is who loveth me c. If any man love me he will keep my words John 14. 15 21 23. chap. 15. 14. Every branch in me who beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch which beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit c. If ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you John 15. 1 2 16 18 19. The world have hated them because they are not of the world even as I c. John 17. 14. Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice John 18. 37. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled and took knowledg of them that they had been with Jesus Acts 4. 13. Saul when Christ came to him and converted him he said Lord what wilt thou have me to do Acts 9. 6. God is no respecter of persons but in every nation he who feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him Acts 10. 34 35. When the priests of Jupiter would have done sacrifice to the Apostles Barnabas and Paul they rent their clothes and ran in amongst the people crying out and saying Sirs why do ye these things we also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that you should turn from these vanities unto the living God Acts 14. 13 14 15. chap. 3. 12 13. Apollos that eloquent man was content to learn the way of God more perfectly of Aquila and Priscilla tent-makers Acts 18. 24 25 26. Many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds Many also of them who used curious arts brought their books together and burnt them and they counted the price of them and found it 50000 pieces of silver Acts 19. 18 19. None of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto my self so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have c. Acts 20. 24. I am ready not only to be bound but also to dye for the name of the Lord Jesus Acts 21. 13. I wist not that he was the High-priest for it is written Thou shalt not speak evil of c. Acts 23. 4 5. Paul confesseth freely thus I verily thought with my self that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus c. which thing I also did in Jerusalem and many of the saints I did shut up in prison c. and being exceeding mad against them I persecuted them c. I would to God that not only thou but all that hear me c. were both almost and altogether such as I am except these bonds Acts 26. 9 10 11 29. Gal. 1. 13. VVe glory in tribulation also knowing that tribulation worketh patience c. the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost Rom. 5. 3 5. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer therein c. Ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine whereto ye were delivered being made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness Rom. 6. 2 17 18. That which I do I allow not what I would that do I not but what I hate that do I c. I consent unto the law that it is good now then it is no more I that do it but sin which dwelleth in me c. To will is present with me c. The good that I would I do not c. I find then a law that when I would do good then evil is present with me For I delight in the law of God after the inner man but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind c. O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me c Thanks be to God through Jesus c. So then with my mind I my self serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin Rom. 7. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25. There is therefore no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit c. For they who are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh but they who are after the spirit the things of the spirit c. If any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his and if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of righteousness c. As many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father c. We our selves groan within our selves waiting for the adoption the redemption of our body c. Rom. 8. 1 5 9 10 14 15 23. I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart c. For my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh c. Rom. 9. 2 3. ch 10. 1. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy Ghost For he who in these things serve Christ is acceptable to God and c. Rom. 14. 17 18. The preaching of the Cross is to them who perish foolishness but unto us who are saved it is the power of God c. Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block c. but unto them who are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1. 18 24. That no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 12. 3. Though I speak with the tongue of men and of Angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal and though I have the gift of prophesie and understood all misteries and all knowledg and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not charity I am nothing And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth nothing to me 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. We beholding c. the
judgment who seeketh the truth and I will pardon it Jer. 5. 1. Gen. 18. 26 32. Is Ephraim my dear Son he a pleasant child since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord c. If the ordinances of heaven cease then the seed of Israel shall cease from being a Nation before me Jer. 31. 20 36 37. When Jerusalem was taken and Jeremiah the Prophet the King of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah c. Look well to him and do him no harm but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee Jer. 39. 11 12. The Precious sons of Zion comparable to fine gold how are they esteemed c. Lam. 4. 2. Though I have scattered them c. yet will I be unto them as a little sanctuary in the Countreys where they shall come Ezek. 11. 16. Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver their own souls by their righteousness saith the Lord c. They only shall be delivered themselves Ezek. 14. 14 16 18 20. I sought for a man amongst them who should make up the hedg and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none therefore c. Ezek. 22. 30 31. Because thou hast said c. These two Countreys shall be mine and we will possess it whereas the Lord was there or though the Lord was there Therefore c. Ezek. 35. 10 11. O Daniel a man greatly beloved c. O man greatly beloved fear not c. Dan. 10. 11 19. Jacob c. by his strength he had power with God yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed he wept c. There he spake with us even the Lord God of Hosts Hosea 12. 2 3 4 5. Gen. 32. 24 25. I will be as the dew unto Israel He shall grow as the Lilly c. Hosea 14. 5 6. For he who toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eyes Zech. 2. 8. We will go with you for we have heard God is with you Zech. 8. 23. Ezra 8. 22. The Lord hearkened and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him for them who feared the Lord and that thought upon his name And they shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts in that day when I make up my Jewels or special treasure and I will spare them as a man spareth his son who serveth him then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him who serveth God and him who serveth him not Malachi 3. 16 17 18. Unto you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as Calves in the stall Mal. 4. 2. They are pronounced blessed and many priviledges mentioned by Christ. They are the salt of the earth the light of the world c. Matt. 5. 3 4 to the 14. The very hairs of your head are all numbred c. Ye are of more value then many sparrows Matt. 10. 30 31. Among them who are born of women there hath not risen a greater then John the Baptist. Notwithstanding he who is least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he Matt. 11. 11. It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven c. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear c. Matt. 13. 11 16. Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me it were better for him that a Millstone were hanged about his neck c. Wo unto the world because of offences c. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you that in heaven their Angels do always behold the face of my father c. Matt. 18. 6 7 10. For the elects sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortened the days c. Mark 13. 20. Rejoyce not that the spirits are subject unto you but rather rejoyce because your names are written in the book of life Luk. 10. 20. Fear not little flock it is your fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luk. 12. 32. Joy in Heaven over one sinner who repenteth more then over Ninety nine just persons c. There is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over him c. Luk. 15. 7 10. To as many as received him to them he gave power or the right or priviledge to become the sons of God even to them who believe on his name who are born not of blood c. but of God John 1. 12 13. Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst c. John 4. 14. Jesus said I am the light of the world he who followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life c. If the son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed c. He who keeps my sayings shall never see death c. John 8. 12 36 51. ch 12. 46. My sheep c. I know them c. And I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand John 10. 27 28. 1 John 5. 12 13. If any man serve me let him follow me and where I am there also shall my servant be If any man serve me him will my father honour John 12. 26. I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you c. ye see me c. Because I live ye shall live also c. He who loveth me shall be loved of my father and I will love him and will manifest my self unto him c. And my father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him c. Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you c. John 14. 18 19 21 23 27. ch 16. 27. ch 17. 23. Ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you c. Ye are my friends c. Henceforth I call you not servants c. But I have called you friends for all things which I have heard of my father I have made known unto you John 15. 7 14 15. 1 John 3. 22. Christ prays for them only not for the world John 17. 9 10. Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my father and your father and to my God and your God John 20. 17. God is no respecter of persons but in every nation he who feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him Act. 10. 34 35. The love of God is shed abroad into our hearts by the holy Ghost which is given unto us Rom. 5. 5. Sin shall not have dominion over you because ye are not under the law but under grace c. Now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have
Lord because he hath heard my voice Psal. 116. 1. Thy name is as ointment poured out therefore do the virgins love thee Cant. 1. 3. Thus faith the Lord I remember thee or for thy sake the kindness of thy youth the love of thine espousals when thou wentest after me in the wilderness Jer. 2. 2. Judah hath prophaned the holiness of the Lord whom he loved or ought to love Malachi 2. 11. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind This is the first and great commandment c. On these c. hang all the law and the prophets Matt. 22. 37 38 39 40. Iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold Matt. 24. 12. Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little Luk. 7. 47. He who loveth me shall be loved of my father and I will love him and will manifest my self to him c. VVe will come unto him and make our abode with him John 14. 21 23. Peter c. lovest thou me more than these he saith unto him yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee c. Again the second and third time John 21. 15 16 17. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghosts Rom. 5. 5. If any man love God the same is known of him 1 Cor. 8. 3. Though I speak with the tongue of men and angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling-cymbal and though I have the gift of prophesie and understand all mysteries c. I have all faith c. and have no charity I am nothing And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have no charity it profiteth me nothing c. Charity never faileth c. Now abideth faith hope charity but the greatest of these is charity 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3 8 13. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be anathema maranatha 1 Cor. 16. 22. Whether we are besides our selves it is to God c. for the love of Christ constraineth us 2 Cor. 5. 13 14. Circumcision availeth nothing c. but faith which worketh by love c. fruit of the spirit is love Gal. 5. 6 22. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God 2 Thes. 3. 5. Hearing of thy love c. which thou hast towards the Lord Jesus c. Phil. ver 5. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name Heb. 6. 10. Jesus Christ whom having not seen ye love 1 Pet. 1. 7 8. God is love and he who dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him c. there is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear c. He who feareth is not made perfect in love We love him because he first loved us If any man say I love God and hateth his brother is a lyar for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4. 16 17 18 19 20. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God c. 1 John 5. 2. I have something against thee because thou hast left thy first love remember therefore from whence thou art fallen c. Rev. 2. 4 5. As fruits of love to God and Christ. To delight themselves in him long for and pant after him make their boast of and glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their portion all and rest and to obey and hearken to him First To delight in long for pant after make their boast of glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their portion all and rest My presence shall go and I will give thee rest and he said unto him If thy presence go not carry us not up hence Exod. 33. 4 14 15. Their rock is not as our rock even our enemies themselves being Judges Deut. 32. 31. I rejoyce in thy salvation there is none holy as the Lord for there is none besides thee neither is there any rock like our God c. 1 Sam. 2. 1 2. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer the God of my rock c. my shield and the horn of my salvation my high tower and my refuge and my saviour who is God save the Lord and who a rock save our God 2 Sam. 22. 3 32. When he giveth quietness who can make trouble and when he hideth his face who then can behold him c. Job 34. 29. Thou O Lord a shield for or about me my glory and the lifter up of my head Psal. 3. 3. There be many who say who will shew us good Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us Thou hast put gladness into my heart more than in the time that their corn and their wine encreaseth Psal. 4. 6 7. I will be glad and rejoyce in thee I will sing praises to thy name c. Psal. 9. 2. Why standest thou afar off O Lord why hidest thou thy self in times of trouble Psal. 10. 1. How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me Psal. 13. 1. The Lord the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou maintainest my lot the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly heritage c. in thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore Psal. 16. 5 6 11. O Lord my strength and my redeemer Psal. 19. 14. We will rejoyce in thy salvation and in the name of our God we will set up our banners Psal. 20. 5. The king shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce Psal. 21. 1. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me why art thou so far from helping me c Be not far from me for trouble is near c. be not thou far from me O Lord O my strength c. Psal. 22. 1 11 19. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want c. thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me Psal. 23. 1 4. The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his temple c. My heart said Thy face Lord will I seek hide not thy face far from me put not thy servant away in anger thou hast been my help leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation c. Psal. 27. 1 4 8 9. Sing unto the
my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early Isa. 26. 8 9. In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people Isa. 28. 5. As for our redeemer the Lord of hosts is his name the holy one of Israel Isa. 47. 4. I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord my soul shall be joyful in my God Isa. 61. 10. Hath a nation changed their gods which yet are no gods but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit c. My people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns broken cisterns c. Have I been a barren wilderness unto Israel c Can a maid forget her ornaments a bride her attire yet my people have forgotten me days without number Jer. 2. 11 13 31 32. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might c. But let him who glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord who exerciseth loving kindness c. Jer. 9. 23 24. 2 Cor. 10. 17. 1 Cor. 29. 31. The portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the former of all things c. The Lord of hosts is his his name Jer. 10. 16. chap. 51. 19. O the hope of Israel the saviour thereof in time of trouble why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land and as a wayfaring man turneth aside to tarry for a night why shouldest thou be as a man astonied c Yet thou O Lord in the midst of us and we are called by thy name c. Jer. 14. 8 9. chap. 17. 13. The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in him Lam. 3. 24. Wo also unto them when I depart from them Hosea 9. 12. Fear not O land be glad and rejoyce for the Lord will do great things c. Be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoyce in the Lord your God Joel 2. 21 23. But the Lord the hope or harbour of his people and the strength of the children of Israel Joel 3. 16. Arise and depart ye for this is not your rest because it is polluted Micha 2. 10. Although the figtree shall not bloâ—…om neither fruit in the vine c. Yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation The Lord God is my strength c. Habbak 3. 17 18 19. Rejoyce because your names are written in heaven Luk. 10. 20. Zacheus came down and received Christ joyfully Luk. 19. 5 6. Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal â—…ife c. Thou art that Christ the son of the living God John 6. 68 69. Philip said unto him Shew us the Father and it sufficeth John 14. 8. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full John 15. 11. The Eunuch went on his way rejoycing Acts 8. 38 39. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God c. we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 5. 2 11. Rejoycing in hope Rom. 12. 12. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing Rom. 15. 13. Our consolation also aboundeth by Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 1. 5. Now thanks be to God who always causeth us to triumph in Christ 2 Cor. 2. 14. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Gal. 6. 14. My brethren rejoyce in the Lord c. we are the circumcision c. who rejoyce in Christ c. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord Phil. 3. 1 3 8. Rejoyce in the Lord alway and again I say rejoyce c. And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your heart and mind c. Phil. 4. 4 7. Rejoyce evermore 1 Thess. 5. 16. That by two immutable things wherein it is impossible for God to lye we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 18. In whom though now ye see not yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 8. 2dly To obey and hearken to the Laws and Word of God in Christ. There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy James 4. 12. Now the Lord had said unto Abram Get thee out of thy countrey and from thy kindred and from thy fathers house unto a land I will shew thee c. So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him Gen. 12. 1 4 5. Heb. 11. 8. God said unto Abraham Take now thy son thine only Isaac whom thou lovest c. and offer him there for a burnt-offering c. and Abraham rose up early in the morning and took Isaac c. he stretched forth his hand and took his knife to slay his son c. in blessing I will bless thee c. because thou hast obeyed my voice Gen. 22. 1 2 3 10 17 18. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statutes and my laws Gen. 26. 4 5. Thus did the children of Israel as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron so did they Exod. 12. 50. If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and will give ear unto his commandments and keep all his statutes I will put none of these diseases upon thee Exod. 15. 26. Deut. 28. 1. I will rain bread c. that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no c. How long refuse ye to keep my commandments c Exod. 16. 4 28. Now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people c. And all the people answered together and said all that the Lord hath spoken we will do Exod. 19. 5 7 8. ch 24. 3. 7. Shewing mercy unto thousands of them who love me and keep my commandments Exod. 20. 6. Behold I will send an Angel before thee c. Beware of him and obey his voice provoke him not for he will not pardon you c. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice and do all that I spake then c. Exod. 23. 21 22. That ye seek not after your own heart c. Do all my commandments and be holy Numb 15. 39 40. We will hear it and do it And the Lord said c. they have well said all that they have spoken O that there were
them who come nigh me and before all the people c. Levit. 10. 1 2 3. After the doings of the Land of Egypt c. and after the doings of the Land of Canaan c. shall ye not do neither shall ye walk in their ordinances Ye shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances to walk therein I am the Lord your God Levit. 18. 3 4. And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai according to all that the Lord commanded Moses so did the children of Israel c. They shall leave none of it c. according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it Num. 9. 5 12. Levit. 19. 5 6. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you neither shall you c. Deut. 4. 2. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods c. ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God but unto the place the Lord your God shall chuse out of all your tribes to put his name there unto his habitation shall ye seek and thither shalt thou come and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings c. and ye shall not do c. every man what is right in his own eyes c. When you go over Jordan c. then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall chuse to cause his name to dwell there thither shall ye bring all that I command you your burnt-offerings c. Take heed to thy self that thou be not snared by following them c. And that thou enquire not after their gods saying how did these nations serve their gods even so will I do likewise Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God c. Whatsoever thing I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereunto nor diminish from it Deut. 12. 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 11 13 14 30 31 32. Secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may do all the words of this law Deut. 29. 29. Jeroboam ordained a feast c. like unto the feast in Judah c. upon the month which he had devised in his own heart 1 Kings 12. 32 33. 2 Kings 17. 8. Be not righteous overmuch neithâ—… make thy self over wise Eccles. 7. 16. To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa. 8. 20. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinances c. Isa. 24. 5. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed c. Wherefore the Lord said for as much as this people draw nigh unto me with their mouth c. and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvellous work c. The wisdom of the wise men shall perish c. Isa. 29. 11 12 13 14. I have spread out my hand all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way that is not good after their own thoughts c. who sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick c. Isa. 65. 2 3. Thus saith the Lord stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest c. Jer. 6. 16. The place of my throne c. shall the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their kings by their whoredom c. In their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their posts by my posts c. Ezek. 43. 7 8. Son of man mark well c. all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord and all the laws thereof c. And thou shalt say to the rebellious c. Ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers uncircumcised in heart c. to pollute it even my house when ye offer my bread c. And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things but ye have set keepers of my charge or ordinance in my sanctuary for your selves Ezek. 44. 5 6 7 8 9. Why do you transgress the commandments of God by your traditions for God commanded saying c. But ye say c. thus have ye made the commandments of God of none effect by your traditions c. In vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men Matt. 15. 3 4 5 6 8 9. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matt. 18. 20. Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you Matt. 28. 20. Act. 10. 33. When Paul according to advice had observed some Jewish ceremonies the Jews came upon him and layd hold on him the very thing his advisers proposed to prevent by it Act. 21. 20 21 22 23 c. After the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets Acts 24. 14. That ye may prove what is that good that acceptable will of God Rom. 12. 2. Ephes. 5. 10 17. He who doubteth is damned if he eat because not of faith for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14. 23. Now I praise you brethren that you c. keep the ordinances or traditions as I delivered them unto you c. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night c. 1 Cor. 11. 1 2 23. If we or an Angel from heaven preach unto you other than that which we have preached c. let him be accursed Gal. 1. 8. Ye did run well who did hinder you or turn you back this perswasion cometh not of him who called you Gal. 5. 7 8. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness c. Ephes. 4. 14. Those things which ye have learned and received and heard and seen in me do Philip. 4. 9. Beware lest any man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world c. If ye be dead with Christ why as though living in the world are ye subject to ordinances touch not tast not handle not which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrine of men which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will-worship Col. 2. 8 20 21 22 23. We beseech you brethren and exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye
shall help in vain and to no purpose therefore have I cryed concerning this Their strength is to sit still c. For thus saith the Lord God the holy one of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would not c. Isa. 30. 7 15 16. Behold the Lord God will come c. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd c. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven c. Isa. 40. 10 11 12. I the Lord the first and with the last I am he c. Isa. 41. 4. Chap. 44. 6. When thou passest thorow the waters c. they shall not overflow thee c. For I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy Saviour c. And besides me there is no Saviour c. I will work and who shall let it c. Isa. 43. 2 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. Chap. 45. 21. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer and he who formed thee from the womb I the Lord who maketh all things who stretched forth the heavens c. who confirmeth the word of his servant and performeth the counsel of his messengers c. who saith to the deep be dry Isa. 44. 24 25 26 27. I am the Lord and there is none else I formed the light and create darkness c. O God of Israel the saviour c. Isa. 45. 6 7 15 21. My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure Isa. 46. 10. Is my hand shortned at all that I cannot redeem or have I no power to deliver Behold at my rebuke I dry up the sea c. Who is among you who feareth the Lord c. who sit in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Isa. 50. 2 3 10. Isa. 8. 17. chap. 59. 1. Fear not c. for thy maker is thy husband the Lord of hosts is his name and thy redeemer the holy one of Israel the God of the whole earth Isa. 54. 4 5. But he who putteth his trust in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain Isa. 57. 13. Behold the Lords hand is not shortned that it cannot save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear but your iniquities have separated Isa. 59. 1 2. chap. 50. 2. Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters c. O Lord the hope of Israel Jer. 17. 7 8 13. Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh is there any thing too hard for me Jer. 32. 27. I will surely deliver thee c. because thou hast put thy trust in me saith the Lord Jer. 39. 18. Leave thy fatherless c. and let the widows trust in me Jer. 49. 11. Their redeemer is strong the Lord of hosts the Lord of hosts is his name he shall throughly plead their cause c. Jer. 50. 34. I the Lord have spoken and will do Ezek. 22. 14. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us c. and he will deliver us Dan. 3. 17 28. Daniel was taken out of the den and no manner of hurt was found upon him because he believed in his God Dan. 6. 23. Blessed be God c. for wisdom and might are his he changeth the times c. removeth kings c. Dan. 2. 20 21 22 47. ch 4. 17 32. Thou shalt know no God but me for there is no saviour besides me c. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self but in me is thine help Hosea 13. 4 9. Ashur shall not save us c. for in thee the fatherless find mercy Hosea 14. 3. When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord Jonah 2. 7. Trust ye not in a friend c. for the son dishonoureth the father c. Therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation Micah 7. 5 6 7. The Lord is good a strong hold or strength in the day of trouble and he knoweth them who trust in him Nahum 1. 7. Although the figtree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vines the labour of the Olive shall fail and the field shall yield no meat c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation the Lord God is my strength Habbak 3. 17 18 19. Wo to her c. she trusted not in the Lord she drew not near to her God c. I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people and they shall trust in the name of the Lord Zephan 3. 1 2 12. Not by might not by power but by spirit saith the Lord of Hosts who thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel Zech. 4. 6 7. Take no thought for your life what you shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what you shall put on c. behold the fowls of the air c. yet your heavenly father feedeth them are ye not much better than they c. Consider the Lillies c. If God so clothe the grass c. shall he not much more clothe you O ye of little faith c. your heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of these things Matth. 6. 25 26 28 29 30 32. There is one God and there is none other but he Mark 1. 2 32. Blessed is she who believes for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her c. Luke 1. 45. Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me Joh. 14. 1. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Act. 15. 18. God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth c. he giveth to all life and breath and all things Acts 17. 24 25. Let God be true but every man a lyar Rom. 3. 4. If God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8. 31. The foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men 1 Cor. 1. 25 27. God c. the father of mercies and the God of all comfort c. We had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver 2 Cor. 1. 3 9 10. God who comforteth them who are cast down c. 2 Cor. 7. 6. Unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think c. Ephes. 3. 20. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer c. let your requests be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. The living and the true God 1 Thes. 1. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 23.
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. chap. 8. 14. 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 is a Spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 24. Amongst the chief Rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more then the praise of God John 12. 42 43. The Eunuch said Here is water what hinders me to be baptized And Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest Acts 8. 36 37. Barnabas exhorteth them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord Acts 11. 23. None of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto my self so that I might finish my course with joy and the Ministry c. Acts 20. 24. I was not disobedient unto the heavenly Vision but shewed c. Act. 26. 17 18 19. He is not a Jew who is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God Rom. 2. 28 29. Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine whereto ye were delivered Rom. 6. 17. Let love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is good c. Not slothful in business fervent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 9 11. For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power 1 Cor. 4. 20. Let us keep the feast c. with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth 1 Cor. 5. 8. Ye are bought with a price be ye not the servants of men c. let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God 1 Cor. 7. 33 34. So run that ye may obtain 1 Cor. 9. 24. Be ye followers of me even as I also am of Christ 1 Cor. 11. 1. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor c. and have not charity it profiteth me nothing 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity c. we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1. 12. 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 c. 2 Cor. 2. 17. We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in crastiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully 2 Cor. 4. 2. Let us cleanse our selves c. perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7. 1. If there be first a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath and not c. 2 Cor. 8. 12. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart c. God loveth a chearful giver 2 Cor. 9. 7. Be perfect c. 2 Cor. 13. 11. When it pleased God c. to reveal his Son in me c. immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood c. but I went c. Gal. 1. 15 16 17. Peter c. was to be blamed for before that certain came from James he did eat with the Gentiles but when they were come he withdrew and separated himself fearing them of the Circumcision and the other Jews dissembled likewise with him insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation But when I saw they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel I said unto Peter c. Gal. 2. 11 12 13 14. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good matter and not only when I am present with you Gal. 4. 18. Speaking the truth or being sincere in love may grow up in him Ephes. 4. 15. Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children c. We are members of his body c. for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh this is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and his Church Ephes. 5. 1 30 31. 32. Servants be obedient c. in singleness of your heart as unto Christ not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart with good will doing service as to the Lord not unto men Ephes. 6. 5 6 7. Col. 3. 22 23. This I pray c. that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ Phil. 1. 9 10. Do all things without murmuring or disputing c. that ye may be blameless and harmless or sincere and without rebuke c. All seek their own things few the things of Christ Phil. 2. 14 15 21. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained either were already perfect but I follow after if that I may apprehend c. This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth to those things which are before I press towards the mark c. Phil. 3. 11 12 13 14. Epaphras c. always labouring or striving fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God for I bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you Coloss. 4. 12. 13. They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved 2 Thes. 2. 10. I charge you before God c. that you observe these things without prejudice or preferring one before another doing nothing by partiality 1 Tim. 5. 21. No man who warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a Souldier 2 Tim. 2. 4. In all things shewing thy self c. in doctrine uncorruptness gravity sincerity c. who gave himself for us that he might c.
purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Titus 2. 7 14. All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 2. Let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works c. We desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end that ye be not slothsul but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises Heb. 6. 1 11 12. The wisdom which is from above is pure c. without partiality and without hypocrisie c. James 3. 17. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend unto the world is the enemy of God c. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you c. Purifie your hearts ye double-minded James 4. 4 8. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying c. unto unfeigned love of the brethren See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently 1 Pet. 1. 22. Wherefore laying aside c. all guile and hypocrisie c. Neither was guile found in Christs mouth 1 Pet. 2. 1 22. Whose adorning let it not be that outward c. but the hidden man of the heart 1 Pet. 3. 3 4. Give all diligence to add to your faith virtue c. wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall c. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Seeing that ye look for such things c. be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and blemish c. but grow in grace and in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus c. 2 Pet. 3. 14 18. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth 1 John 1. 6. Let us not love in word c. but in deed and in truth c. If our hearts condemn us God is greater c. 1 John 3. 18 19 20 21. I rejoyce greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth 2 John verse 4. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth Beloved thou dost faithfully whatsoever thou dost to the brethren and to strangers 3 John verse 4 5. But ye beloved building up your selves in your most holy faith c. Jude verse 20. Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Revel 2. 10. Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead be watchful and strengthen the things which remain I have not found thy work perfect before God c. Thou hast a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments c. I know thy work that thou art neither hot nor cold I would thou wert cold or hot so then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth Because thou sayest I am rich c. and knowest not that thou art wretched c. As many as I love I rebuke c. be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 1 2 4 15 16 17 19. These are they who were not defiled with Women for they are Virgins these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Revel 14. 4. Let every man prove his own work c. for every man shall bear his own burthen c. Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap c. Gal. 6. 3 4 5 6 7. See the spirits and practises of Hypocrites and the danger of Hypocrites Chap. 28. To stick fast to God and not to depart from him abide in the faith and practice of what we know of his Will and persevere to the end The reasons That the Saints shall be kept To persevere and abide with God in the faith and practise c. That thou keep this Commandment without spot unrebukable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 6. 14. Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him Gen. 5. 23 24. Jesurun waxed fat and kicked then he forsook God who made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation c. of the Rock which begat thee thou art unmindful and hath forgotten God who formed thee and when the Lord saw it he abhorred them Deut. 32. 15 16 17 18 19. Cleave unto the Lord your God as ye have done unto this day Josh. 23. 8. Chuse you whom ye will serve c. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord Josh. 24. 15. Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face continually 1 Chron. 16. 11. Thou Solomon c. know thou the God of thy fathers c. If thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever 1 Chron. 28. 9. Hear ye me Asa and all Judah c. the Lord is with you while ye be with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you 2 Chron. 15. 2. The righteous also shall hold on his way Job 17. 9. I have kept the ways of the Lord I have not wickedly departed from my God c. I did not put away his Statutes from me Psalm 18. 21. 22. Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee Psalm 37. 34. All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee c. Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way though thou hast sore broken us c. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to strange gods shall not God search this out Psal. 44. 17 18 19 20 21. He will speak peace to his people but let them not turn again to folly Psal. 85. 8. Then believed they his words they sang his praise they soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel c. they forgat God their Saviour who had done great things Psal. 106. 12 13 21. As for such who turn aside unto their crooked ways the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal. 125. 5. My son forget not my law Prov. 3. 1. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways Prov. 14. 14. My son give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways Prov. 23. 26. I have nourished and brought up children c. they have forsaken the Lordâ—… they have provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger they are gone away backward why should ye â—…e stricken any more ye will revolt more and more c. they who forsake the Lord shall be consumed Isa. 1. 2 4 5 28. There shall be desolation because thou hast forgotten the God of thy Salvation and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy
love Prov. 27. 5. He who rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he who flattereth with the tongue Prov. 28. 23. If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone c. If he will not hear thee then take one or two more c. Matth. 18. 15 16 17. Luke 17. 3 4. Ye also are full of goodness filled with all knowledg able to admonish one another Rom. 15. 4. Paul rebuked Peter for not walking uprightly Gal. 2 11 12 13 14. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly c. teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. Comfort or exhort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do c. Warn them who are unruly or disorderly comfort the feeble-minded 1 Thes. 5. 11 14. If any man obey not c. have no company with him c. but admonish him as a brother 2 Thes. 3. 14 15. Rebuke not an Elder but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren the elder women as mothers the younger as sisters c. Them that sin rebuke before all that others also may fear 1 Tim. 5. 1 2 20. Exhort one another daily c. lest any of you be hardned through the decitsulness of sin Heb. 3. 12 13. Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works not forsaking the assemblings of your selves c. but exhorting one another Heb. 10. 24 25. Brethren if any one of you do err from the truth and one convert him let him know that he c. shall save a soul from death and shall hide c. James 5. 19 20. Of some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh Jude verse 20. 22 23. See Discipline Chap. 27. To take rebuke admonition c. well from each other When David had rashly resolved to cut off all Nabals family and Abigail had met him and humbly and wisely admonished him David accepts of the advice and saith Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou who hast kept me this day from shedding of blood c. I have hearkned to thy voice 1 Sam. 25. 22 23 24 25 to the 35. When Nathan had told David his sin in the matter of Uriah David said I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12. 7 13. When Joab had told the King of his errour in mourning so for Absalom as to discourage his subjects who had fought for him David hearkned and arose and sate in the gate as Joab advised 2 Sam. 19. 5 6 7 8. Let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindness and let him reprove me it shall be as excellent oyl which shall not break my head Psal. 141. 5. A wise man will hear and will increase learning Prov. 1. 5. Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser c. Prov. 9. 8 9. He is in the way of life who keepeth instruction but he who refuseth reproof erreth or causeth to err Prov. 10. 17. Whosoever loveth instruction loveth knowledg but he who hateth reproof is brutish c. he who hearkneth unto counsel is wise Prov. 12. 1 15. A wise son heareth his fathers instruction but a scorner heareth not rebuke c. Poverty and shame to him who refuseth instruction but he who regardeth reproof shall be honoured Prov. 13. 1 18. A fool despiseth his fathers instruction but he who regardeth reproof is prudent c. He who hateth reproof shall die c. A scorner loveth not one who reproveth c. The ear which heareth reproof of life abideth among the wise He who refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul c. Prov. 15. 5 10 12 31 32. A reproof entreth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool Prov. 17. 10. As an ear-ring of gold c. so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear Prov. 25. 12. He who being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy c. The rod and reproof gives wisdom Prov. 29. 1 15. Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4. 16. Submit your selves one to another in the fear of God Ephes. 5. 21. Ye younger submit your selves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility 1 Pet. 5. 5. 7thly To confess sin to and pray each for other When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the Lord c. then they shall confess their sin which they have done and he shall recompence his trespass c. and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed Numb 5. 6 7. And many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds c. Acts 19. 18 19. Paul confesseth that beyond measure he persecuted the Church of God and wasted it c. Gal. 1. 13. 1 Tim. 1. 12 13. Confess your fault one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed Jam. 5. 16. If a man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them who sin not unto death 1 John 5. 16. 8thly To be of one mind Behold how good and how pleasant is it for brethren to dwell together in Unity like the precious ointment upon the head c. Psal. 133. 1 2. Christ prays that they may be kept that they may be one as we are c. Joh. 19. 11 12. And the multitude of them who believed were of one heart and of one soul c. Acts 4. 32. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another c. Be of the same mind one towards another Rom. 12. 5 16. Now the God c. grant you to be like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God even the father Rom. 15. 5 6. I beseech you brethren c. that ye all speak the same things and that there be no division but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment 1 Cor. 1. 10 12. Whereas there is among you c. divisions Are ye not carnal c One faith I am of Paul c. 1 Cor. 3. 3 4. When ye come together in the Church I hear there be divisions among you c. 1 Cor. 11. 18 23. Finally brethren c. be of one mind 2 Cor. 13. 11. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace c. one body and one spirit Ephes. 4. 3 4 5. That ye stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving
call the poor the maimed the lame the blind And thou shalt be blessed for they cannot recompence thee for thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Luke 14. 13 14. Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven Luke 18. 22. 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. Acts 4. 32 34. Cornelius a devout man c. who gave much alms to the people c. thy prayer and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God Acts 10. 1 2 4. Then the Disciples every man according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren who dwelt in Judea Acts 11. 29. I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 35. He who giveth let him do it with simplicity or liberality he who sheweth mercy with cheerfulness c. distributing to the necessity of the saints given to hospitality c. Rom. 12. 8 13. ch 16. 1 2. It hath pleased them of Macedonia c. to make a certain contribution for the poor Saints which are at Jerusalem Rom. 15. 26. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him 1 Cor. 16. 2. As ye abound in all things c. see that ye abound in this grace also I speak c. to prove the sincerity of your love for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich c. As there was a readiness to will so there may be a performance also out of that which you have for if there be first a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not 2 Cor. 8. 7 8 9 10 11 12. He who soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly and he who soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver And God is able to make all grace abound towards you that ye always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work 2 Cor. 9. 6 7 8 9. As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the houshold of faith Gal. 6. 10. Rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good ' that ye may have to give to him who needeth Eph. 4. 29. Paul commends the Philippians for their sending to his relief and said Not because I desire a gift but I desire fruit that may abound to your account c. My God shall supply all your needs c. Phil. 4. 14 15 16 17 12. This we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat c. We command c. that with quietness they work and eat their own bread 2 Thess. 3. 10 11 12. If any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to shew pity or kindness at home to requite their Parents for that is good and acceptable before God c. And if any provide not for his own and especially for those of his own house or kindred he hath denyed the faith and is worse than an infidel c. If any man or woman who believeth have widows let them relieve them and let not the Church be charged 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. Charge them who are rich in this world c. that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up in store a good foundation 1 Tim. 6. 17 18 19. The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me c. and in how many things he ministred unto me at Ephesus c. 2 Tim. 1. 16 17 18. God is not unrighteous to forget your works c. which ye have shewed towards his name in that ye have ministred unto the Saints and do minister Heb. 6. 10. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained Angels unawares c. To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Heb. 13. 2 16. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom c If a brother or sister be naked c. and one of you say to them depart in peace c. and ye give them not c. what doth it profit James 2. 5 15 16. Use hospitality one to another without grudging As every man hath received the gift so let him minister the same one to another as good stewards c. If any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God giveth that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus c. 1 Pet. 4. 9 10 11. Whosoever hath this worlds goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him My little children let us not love in word or in tongue but in deed and in truth 1 Joh. 3. 17. 18. See more of the relief of the poor of the Churches c. Chap. 27. See more of giving to enemies Chap. 22. See shewing mercy to all men Chap. 19. CHAP. XVIII The Duties of Saints Believers each towards other as they stand related one to another in the flesh 1st Husbands to Wives and Wives to Husbands Of Marriage c. AND the Lord said It is not good that the man should be alone I will make him a help meet for him c. Adam said This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh Gen. 2. 18 23 24. Jacob loved Rachel more then Leah c. and when the Lord saw that Leah was hated he opened her womb but Rachel was barren Gen. 29. 30 31. And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob Give me children or else I die And Jacobs anger was kindled against Rachel and he said Am I in Gods stead who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb Gen. 30. 1 2. Moses sanctified the people c. and he said unto them Be ready against the third day come not at your wives c. Exod. 19. 14 15. None of you shall approach unto any who is near of kin unto him or remainder of his flesh to uncover
in all things not answering again or gainsaying Not purloining but shewing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things Tit. 2. 9 10. Go to now ye rich men weep and howl for your misery c. Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud cryeth and the cries of them who have reaped are entred into the ears of the Lord James 5. 1 4. Servants be subject to your own masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward For this is thank-worthy if a man for conscience sake towards God endure grief suffering wrongfully For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God For even hereunto were ye called 1 Pet. 2. 18 19 20 21. 4thly Magistrates to subjects and subjects to magistrates See magistrates and magistracy at large Chap. 24. CHAP. XIX Saints Believers Duties towards all men those who are without Unbelievers Enemies 1st In general THou shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him for ye were strangers in the land Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless c. Exod. 22. 21 22. He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger c. love ye therefore the stranger for ye were strangers Deut. 10. 18 19. Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts saying Execute true judgment and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother and oppress not the widow nor the fatherless the stranger nor the poor and let none of you imagin evil against his brother in your heart Zech. 7. 9 10. ch 8. 16 17. Give not that which is holy unto dogs neither cast you your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rent you c. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so unto them for this is the law and the prophets Mat. 7. 6 12. Luk. 6. 31. Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves Mat. 10. 16. And herein do I exercise my self to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men Act. 24. 16. Recompence to no man evil c. provide things honest in the sight of all men Rom. 12. 17. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he who loveth another hath fulfilled the law c. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour Rom. 13. 7 8 9 10. Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles c. even as I please all men in all things not seeking mine own profit 1 Cor. 10. 32 33. Charity thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 5. Providing for honest things not only in the sight of the Lord but in the sight of men 2. Cor. 8. 21. Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others c. Do all things without murmuring or disputings that ye may be blameless and harmless or sincere the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ye shine or shine ye as lights in the world Phil. 2. 4 14 15. Let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand Phil. 4. 5. Walk in wisdom towards them who are without c. Let your speech be always with grace c. that ye may know how to answer every man Col. 4. 5 6. That ye study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your own hands c. That we may walk honestly towards them who are without and that ye may have lack of nothing or of no man 1 Thess. 4. 11 12. We exhort you brethren c. be patient towards all men See that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among your selves and to all men 1 Thess. 5. 14 15. In all things shew thy self a pattern of good works c. sound speech that cannot be condemned that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you Titus 2. 7 8. Put them in mind c. to be ready to every good work c. To be no brawler but gentle shewing all meekness unto all men for we c. Titus 3. 1 2 3. Wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and envies and evil speakings c. abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul having your conversation honest amongst the Gentiles that whereas they or wherein they speak against you as evil doers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of visitation c. for so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men c. Honour or esteem all men 1 Pet. 2. 1 11 12 15 17. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope which is in you with meekness and fear having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil-doers they may be ashamed who falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ c. 1 Pet. 3 14 15 16 17. 2dly In particular not to judg them or speak evil of them Thou givest thy mouth to evil c. thou sittest and speakest against thy brother c. thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self c. Psal. 50. 19 20 21. Judg not that ye be not judged for with what judgment ye judg ye shall be judged Matth. 7. 1 2. Judg nothing before the time until the Lord come 1 Cor. 4. 5. Charity c. thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 5. Put them in mind to speak evil of no man c. for we our selves were sometimes foolish disobedient Titus 3. 1 2 3. 3dly Be just righteous true and faithful to and with them in all things of trust and dealing Ye shall not c. deal falsly neither lye one to another c. Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour nor rob him c. Ye shall do no unrighteousness injudgment in meteyard in weight or in measure just ballances just weights a just Ephah and a just Hin shall ye have I the Lord your God Levit. 19. 11 13 34 35 36. If thou sell ought unto thy neighbour or buyest ought of thy neighbours hand ye shall not oppress one another Levit. 25. 14. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness Psal. 11. 7. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord but a just weight
Gentiles which is Christ Col. 1. 26 27. Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all things 2 Tim. 2. 7. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask it of God who giveth liberally unto all men and upbraideth not and it shall be given James 1. 5. We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him who is true 1 John 5. 20. See more in Knowledg and Understanding Chap. 37. To give Faith or enable to believe Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief Mark 9. 24. 25. Them who believe c. who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh c. but of God John 1. 12 13. All which the father giveth me shall come to me c. No man can come to me except the father who hath sent me draw him c. John 6. 37 44 65. Other sheep I have c. them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice John 10. 16. Christ condescended to help Thomas his faith by shewing himself to him John 20. 25 27. Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life c. They who were scattered abroad preached the Gospel and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed and were turned unto the Lord Acts 11. 18 19 20 21. When Paul preached c. a certain woman named Lydia heard whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken by Paul and when she was baptized c. Acts 16. 13 14 15. Every man c. not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith c. Let us prophesie according to the proportion of faith Rom. 12. 3 6. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost c. I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by word c. Rom. 15. 13 18. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 1. 30. My preaching was not with inticing words of mans wisdom c. that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God 1 Cor. 2. 4 5. I have planted c. but God gave the increase c. But God who giveth the increase 1 Cor. 3. 6 7. That ye may know c. what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead Ephes. 1. 18 19 20. Ye are saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Ephes. 2. 8. Unto you it is given on the behalf of Christ not only to believe on him c. Phil. 1. 29. Through the faith of the operation of God c. Col. 2. 12. We pray c. that our God would c. fulfil the work of faith with power 2 Thess. 1. 11. Looking unto Jesus the author or beginner and finisher of our faith Heb. 12. 2. Every good gift c. cometh down from the father of lights c. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth James 1. 17 18. To them who have obtained like precious faith with us 2 Pet. 1. 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God c. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is our victory which overcometh the world even our faith 1 John 5. 1 4. To make them fruitful or enable them to subdue sin profit in grace and activity for God Then rose up the chief of the fathers c. whose spirit God had raised to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem Ezra 1. 5. Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly c. he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water which bringeth forth fruit in his his season his leaf also shall not wither c. Psal. 1. 1 2 3. Thou wilt prepare their heart and thou wilt cause thine ear to hear Psal. 10. 17. Wait on the Lord c. and he shall strengthen thine heart Psal. 27. 14. I will go in the strength of the Lord God Psal. 71. 16. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee c. The Lord will give grace Psal. 84. 5 11. The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree he shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat or green and flourishing Psal. 92. 12 13 14. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power Psal. 110. 3. I will run the ways of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart c. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments c. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies Psal. 119. 32 35 36. The preparation of the heart and answer of the tongue is from the Lord Prov. 16. 1. Mans goings are of the Lord Prov. 20. 24. Draw me we will run after thee Cant. 1. 4. Awake O north-wind and come thou south blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out c. Cant. 4. 16. See the effect of Christs voice and drawings with the Spouse Cant. 5. Lord c. thou also hast wrought all our works in us or for us c. by thee only will we make mention of thy name Isa. 26. 12 13. A vineyard of red-wine c. I the Lord will water it every moment Isa. 27. 2 3. Your God will come c. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing Isa. 35. 4 6. The everlasting God the Lord c. He giveth power to the faint and to them who have no might he increaseth strength c. but they who wait upon the Lord shall renew strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint Isa. 40. 28 29 30 31. I will pour water upon him who is thirsty c. I will pour out my spirit c. and they shall spring up among the grass as willows by the water-courses Isa. 44. 3 4. I am the Lord thy God who teacheth thee to profit who leadeth thee by the way thou shouldst go Isa. 48. 17. Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and which spreadeth out her roots by the river and shall not see when heat cometh but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought or restraint
Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God c. casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 6 7. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tryed in the fire that thou mayst be rich and white rayment that thou mayst be clothed c. and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve that thou mayst see c. Behold I stand at the dore and knock If any man hear my voice and open the dore I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me Rev. 3. 18 20. I will give unto him who is a-thirst of the fountain of living-water freely Rev. 21. 6. Let him that is a-thirst come And whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely Rev. 22. 17. CHAP. XXI How doth God work and effect these things in the hearts and spirits of his Elect By his Spirit whom he promised to them 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. 33. Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them Nehem. 9. 20. Renew a right or constant spirit within me c. take not thy holy spirit from me c. uphold me with thy free spirit Psal. 51. 10 11 12. He who is least in Zion and he who remaineth in Jesusalem shall be called holy c. when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion c. by the spitit of judgment and by the spirit of burning Isa. 4. 3 4. I will pour my spirit upon thy seed c. and they shall spring up among the grass as willows by the water-side Isa. 44. 3 4. I will put a new spirit in you c. that they may walk in my statutes c. Ezek. 11. 19 20. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes c. Ezek. 36. 27. And ye shall know that I am the Lord when I have opened your graves c. and shall put my spirit in you Ezek. 37. 13 14. Neither will I hide my face any more from them for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel saith the Lord Ezek. 39. 29. 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 hand-maids in those days will I pour out my spirit Joel 2. 28 29. Acts 2. 16 17. 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 pierced c. Zeeh. 12. 10. 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. 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. Joh. 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 Joh. 7. 38 39. 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 Joh. 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. Joh. 15. 26. It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you 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 receive of mine and shew it unto you Joh. 16. 7 8 12 13 14. They were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which Stephen spake Act. 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 v. 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. 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 withall 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 they 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.
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 Act. 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. Act. 4. 8 31. The Holy-Ghost whom God hath given unto them who obey him Act. 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 Act. 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 Act. 8. 15 16 17. The Lord c. hath sent me that thou mightest c. be filled with the Holy-Ghost Act. 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. Act. 11. 24. Act. 13. 9 52. God who knoweth the hearts bear them witness giving them the holy Ghost as he did unto us Act. 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 them not Act. 16. 6 7. Paul came to Ephesus and finding certain Disciples he said unto them Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye believed and they said unto him We have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost c. and when Paul laid his hands upon them the holy Ghost came on them and they spake with tongues and prophesied Act. 19. 1 2 6. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost who is given unto us Rom. 5. 5. That ye abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost Rom. 15. 13. Ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of God dwelleth in you now if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 8. 9. Fervent in the spirit c. Rom. 12. 11. Ye are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3. 16. ch 6. 19. He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit 1 Cor. 6. 17. I think I have the spirit of God 1 Cor. 7. 40. Who hath also sealed us and given us the earnest of his spirit into our hearts 2 Cor. 1. 22. ch 5. 5. Ye are the Epistle of Christ c. written not with Ink but with the spirit of the living God c. 2 Cor. 3. 3. We have the same spirit of faith according as it is written c. 2 Cor. 4. 13. Christ hath redeemed us c. that ye might receive the promise of the spirit through faith Gal. 3. 14. And because ye are sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba father Gal. 4. 6. In whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance c. Eph. 1. 13 14. In whom you also are built together for an habitation for God through the spirit Eph. 2. 22. This shall turn to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ Phil. 1. 19. If any fellowship of the spirit c. Fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded Phil. 2. 1 2. God who hath also given unto us his holy spirit 1 Thess. 4. 8. Then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming 2 Thess. 2. 8. According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which he hath shed on us abundantly or richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour Tit. 3. 5 6. God also bearing them witness both with c. and gifts of the holy Ghost according to his own will Heb. 2. 4. The prophets have enquired c. what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when he spake before-hand c. unto whom it was revealed c. by them who have preached the Gospel unto you with the holy Ghost sent down from heaven 1 Pet. 1. 10 11 12. Christ c. being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the spirit 1 Pet. 3. 18. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you c. 1 Pet. 4. 14. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 21 Ye have an unction from the holy one and ye know all things c. but the anointing which ye have received abideth in you 1 John 2. 20 27. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath given us 1 Joh. 3. â—…9 24. We know that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his spirit 1 Joh. 4. 13. It is the spirit who beareth witness because the spirit is truth c. Three who beareth record in heaven the father the word and the holy Ghost and these three are one c. 1 Joh. 5. 6 7 8. These are they c. not having the spirit Jude v. 19. Grace unto you c. and from the seven spirits which are before his throne Rev. 1. 4. ch 3. 1. ch 4. 5. I beheld and lo c. a lamb having c. seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth Rev. 5. 6. And the spirit and bride say come Rev. 22. 17. 2dly The nature workings and fruits of the spirit And the Lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man Gen. 6. 3. Balaam who came with a purpose to curse Israel when the spirit of God came upon him he blessed them Numb 24. 1 2 to the 14. Is the spirit of the Lord straitned or shortned are these his doings Micah 2. 7. Handle me and see me for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me to have Luk. 24. 39. I saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove and it abode upon him Joh. 1. 32. He would have given thee living water c. water springing up into eternal life Joh. 4. 10 14. He who believeth c. out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters c. This spake he of the spirit c. Joh. 7. 38 39. They were not able to resist c. and the spirit by which he spake Act. 6. 10. The love of God is shed abroad in our
hearts by the holy Ghost Rom. 5. 5. The spirit it self beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God Rom. 8. 16. Fervent in the spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. No man speaking by the spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed c. that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost c. There are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. to one is given c. But all these worketh that one and the self-same spirit dividing c. 1 Cor. 12. 3 4 5 6 7 c. Who hath also sealed us and given us the earnest of his spirit 2 Cor. 1. 22. chap. 5. 5. Ye are our Epistle c. ye are manifestly declared the Epistle of Christ c. written not with ink but with the spirit of the living God not in tables of stone but in fleshie tables of the heart c. The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life c. If the ministration of death c. were glorious c. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious c Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty 2 Cor. 3. 2 3 6 7 8 17. God haeh sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba father Gal. 4. 6. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other c. The fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance Gal. 5. 17 22 23. Ye were sealed with the holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance until the purchased possession Eph. 1. 13 14. The holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption Eph. 4. 30. For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth Eph. 5. 9. God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power of love and of a sound mind 2 Tim. 1. 7. Having received the word in much affliction with joy of the holy Ghost 1 Thess. 1. 6. Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself c. Heb. 9. 14. Try the spirits whether they are of God c. Hereby know ye the spirit of God evey spirit that confesseth Jesus Christ to have been 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 c. Greater is he that is in you than he who is in the world 1 Joh. 4. 1 2 3 4. It is the spirit who beareth witness because the spirit is truth c. The father the word and the holy Ghost and these three are one 1 John 5. 6 7 8. The Spirit and the Bride say Come Revel 22. 17. 2dly Saints Duty towards the Spirit 1st In following after him and making use of him The manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. 7. The same anointing teacheth you of all things 1 John 2. 27. And the Lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man Gen. 6. 3. The true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 14 15. Fervent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. I will pray with the spirit c. I will sing with the spirit c. 1 Cor. 12. 18. Walk we not in the same spirit 2 Cor. 12. 18. Are ye so foolish having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh Gal. 3. 3. Walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh c. If ye be led by the spirit ye are not under the law c. If we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit Gal. 5. 16 17 18 25. He who soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting Gal. 6. 8. Be not drunk c. but be ye filled with the spirit Ephes. 5. 18. The sword of the spirit which is the word of God c. praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit Ephes. 6. 17 18. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. Build up your selves c. praying in the holy Ghost Jude verse 20. 2dly Not to sin against grieve or quench the Spirit But the blasphemy against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men c. Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaketh against the holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come Matth. 12. 31 32. Mark 3. 29 30. Annanias Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the holy Ghost c thou hast not lyed unto men but unto God c. How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord c. she fell down and died c. Acts 5. 2 3 5 8 9 10. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ye do always resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye c. Have not your fathers persecuted c. Act. 7. 51 52. Simon offered money for power to confer the holy Ghost Act. 8. 18 19. The Sadduces say that there is no resurrection neither Angel nor spirit Act. 23. 8. Keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace c. and grieve not the holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed Eph. 4. 3 30. Quench not the spirit 1 Thess. 5. 19. He who despised Moses law died without mercy c. Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who have trodden under foot the son of God c. and hath done despite unto the spirit of Grace Heb. 10. 28 29. The spirit of God and of glory resteth upon you on their parts he is evil spoken of c. 1 Pet. 4. 14. CHAP. XXII Of Afflictions Troubles and Persecutions To whom they belong or who may expect them 1st Common to all MAN is born unto trouble as the sparks flie upward Job 5. 7. Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble Job 14. 1. 2dly More especially the Saints Believers such as are born of the Spirit First The Holy Ghost affirms this I will be his father and he shall be my son If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men but my mercy shall not depart away from him c. 2 Sam. 7. 14 15. For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as the father the son in whom he delighteth Prov. 3. 12. Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and wonders in Israel Isa. 8. 18. He
fruit c. Isa. 10 5 6 7 12. Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say Who seeth us c Surely your turning of things up-side down shall be esteemed as the potters Clay Isa. 29. 15 16. Senacherib comes against Jerusalem and by Rabshakeh proclaims his proud design but God wonderfully disappointed him Isa. 36. ch 37. Behold they shall surely gather together but not by me whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake c. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper Isa. 54. 15 17. When the enemy shall come in like a floud the spirit of the Lord shall set up a standard against him or put him to flight Isa. 59. 19. I am with thee c. they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee for I am with thee faith the Lord to deliver thee Jer. 1. 17 18 19. ch 15. 20. Although I have scattered them among the countreys yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countreys where they shall come c. I will even gather you from the people c. Ezek. 11. 16. All that the envious presidents and princes could do and devise against Daniel could not out him but he prospered in the reign of Darius and of Cyrus and so the three Children Dan. 6. Dan. 3. They know not the thoughts of the Lord for he shall gather them as the sheaves in the floor Micah 4. 11 12 13. Herod designs the killing of the Child Jesus he sends to enquire after him gives order for the slaying of all the children of that age yet God suffered him not to effect his design Matth. 2. 1 2 3 to the 16. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your father But the very hairs of your head are all numbred fear ye not therefore ye are of more value than many sparrows Mat. 10. 29 30 31. There came certain of the Pharisees saying unto him Get thee out and depart hence for Herod will kill thee And he said unto them Go ye tell that fox Behold I cast out devils and I do cures to day to morrow and the third day I shall be perfected Nevertheless I must walk to day and to morrow and the day following c. Luke 13. 31 32 33. You shall be hated of all men for my names sake but there shall not a hair of your head perish In your patience possess ye your souls Luke 21. 17 18 19. Then said Pilate c. Knowest thou not that I have power to crucifie thee and have power to release thee Jesus answered Thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above Joh. 19. 10 11 Against thy holy Child Jesus c. to do what thy hand and counsel determined before to be done Act. 4. 27 28. They took counsel to slay the Apostles but Gamaliel said Refrain from these men and let them alone for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found fighting against God Acts 5. 33 34 35 38 39 40. When Saul was going in his fury to persecute God meets with him and stays the persecution Acts 9. 1 2 3 c. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Act. 15. 18. Speak hold not thy peace for I am with thee and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee for I have much people in this city Act. 18. 9 10. Many had conspired and bound themselves with an oath to kill Paul ere they did eat yet God disappointed them Act. 23. 12 13 thence to the end God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able 1 Cor. 10. 13. 4thly That God orders and determines of the measure manner time and continuance of afflictions and persecutions and that according to our need God said unto Abraham Know assuredly that thy feed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years c. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again Gen. 15. 13 14 15 16. And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years the self-same day it came to pass that all the host of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt Exod. 12. 40 41 51. God led Israel through the wilderness that they should not see war and be discouraged Exod. 13. 17. Their heart was not right with him c. but he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not yea many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath For he remembred that they were but flesh a wind which passeth away and cometh not again Psal. 78. 37 38 39. I know O Lord that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me Psal. 119. 75. It shall come to pass when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Sion and upon Jerusalem I will punish the fruit of the stout-heart c. O my people be not afraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod c. For yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease c. Isa. 10. 12 24 25. In measure when it shooteth forth thou wilt debate with it he stayeth his rough wind in the day of his east wind Isa. 27. 7 8. Thus saith the Lord That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good toward you in causing you to return c. Jer. 29. 10. Ezra 1. 1 2 3. I will not make a full end of thee but I will correct thee in measure and will not c. Jer. 30. 11. ch 46. 28. He doth not afflict willingly or from his heart nor grieve the children of men Lam. 3. 33. Against thy holy Child Jesus c. To do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Act. 4. 27 28. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear 1 Cor. 10. 13. He was sick nigh unto death but God had mercy on him c. but on me also left I should have sorrow upon sorrow Phil. 2. 27. Ye greatly rejoyce though now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations 1 Pet. 1. 6. The God of all grace c. after that ye have suffered a while make you perfect 1 Pet. 5. 10. Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison c. and ye shall have tribulation ten days Be thou faithful unto death and I will give c. Rev.
The Apostles Elders and Brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are c. It seems good to us being assembled with one accord to send chosen men unto you c. it seems good to the holy Ghost and to us c. They came to Antioch and when they had gathered the multitude together they delivered the Epistle Act. 15. 1 2 3 4 6 12 13 22 23 25 27 28 30. If then ye have judgment of things pertaining to this life set them to judg who are least esteemed in the Church 1 Cor. 6. 4. When I come whomsoever you shall aprrove by letters them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem 1 Cor. 16. 3. We have sent with him the brother c. who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace or gift c. Whether any do enquire c. of our brethren they are the messengers of the Churches 2 Cor. 8. 18 19 23. I suppose it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus c. your messenger and he who ministred to my wants Phil. 2. 25. When this epistle is read among you cause that it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans and that ye likewise read the estpile from Laodicea And say to Archippus take heed to the ministry which thou hast received of the Lord that thou fulfil it Col. 4. 16 17. I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren 1 Thess. 5. 27. Salute all them who have the rule over you and all the Saints Heb. 13. 24. Peter having written at large to the Saints speaks distinctly to the elders thus To the elders which are among you I exhort c. to feed the flock of God c. 1 Pet. 5. 1 2 3. I wrote to the Church but Diotrephes who loved to have the pre-eminence among them received us not wherefore if I come I will remember his deeds c. Not content herewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbiddeth them that would and casteth them out of the Church Beloved follow not that which is evil 3 Joh. vers 9 10 11. John wrote to the seven Churches in Asia distinctly though they were in one countrey and charges each Church with its own guilt and commends each Church by it self takes no notice of any power any had over other 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 more of Church-Acts in Discipline Of the ending of controversies 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 judg the world and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judg the smallest matters know ye not that we shall judg Angels how much more things which pertain to this life c Set them to judg 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 judg 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. 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 need Act. 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 Act. 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 Act. 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6. The Disciples every one according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren c. Act. 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 Act. 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 equality 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 grudingly 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 Thess. 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. 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 First Of Officers Power Duties c. I
he rent his cloaths 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. 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 self 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 Lords c. If any of them who believe not bid you c. whatsoever is before you eat asking no queston 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 mans 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. chap. 8. 7. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom c. 2 Cor. 1. 12. By manifestation of the truth commended our selves to every mans 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 shipwrack 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 hypocrisie having their conscience feared with a hot iron forbidding to marry c. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. I thank God whom I serve c. with 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 perfect 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 conscience 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 sacrifices 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 of 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. 13 19 20 21. CHAP. XXX Of the Devil of his subtilty wiles and ways by himself and in and by his instruments wicked men false-teachers deceivers and seducers The description of them and what concerns the Saints therein First Of Satan the Devil himself NOW the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman yea because or hath God said Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden the woman said c. We may eat c. but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden God hath said Ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it left ye die And the serpent said unto the woman Ye shall not surely die for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be open and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil and the woman saw that the tree was good Gen. 3. 1. 2 3 4 5 6. And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel 1 Chron. 21. 1. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan or the adversary came also among or in the midst of them c. The Lord said to Satan From whence comest thou then said he c. from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it c. He said Doth Job serve God for nought hast thou not made a hedg about him c put forth thine hand and touch that which he hath and he will curse thee to thy face c. then Satan having leave given him destroyed all he had Job 1. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 to the end chap. 2. 1 2 3. Hast thou considered my servant Job c still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movedst me against him to destroy him without a cause And Satan answered the Lord and said Skin for skin yea and all that a man hath will he give for his life but put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face and the Lord said He is in thine hand but or only save his life So went Satan c. and smote Job
Job 2. 3 4 5 6 7. And he shewed me Joshua the High-priest standing before the Angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him And the Lord said unto Satan The Lord rebuke thee O Satan even the Lord who hath chosen c. Zechar. 3. 1 2. Jesus c. in the wilderness to be tempted of the devil when he had fasted c. the tempter came to him he said If thou be the son of God command that these stones be made bread But he answered and said It is written c. Then the devil taketh him c. and setteth him on a pinacle of the temple and saith unto him If thou be the son of God cast thy self down for it is written He shall give his Angels charge c. Jesus said It is written again c. The devil c. shews him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and saith unto him All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me c. Get thee hence Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Matth. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. When Jesus was come on the other side c. there met him two possessed wâ—…h devils c. they cryed out saying What have we to do with thee Jesus thou son of God art thou come hither to torment us before our time c so the devils besought him saying If thou cast us out suffer us 〈◊〉 go away into the herd of swine and he said unto them Go c. The whole City came out and besought him that he would depart out of their coasts Matth. 8. 28 29 30 31 32 33 34. Matth. 5. 2 3 4. 5 c. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest and finding none then he saith I will return to my house from whence I came out and when he is come he findeth it empty swept and garnished then goeth he and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in and dwell there and the last state of that man is worse c. Matth. 12. 43 44 45. The tares are the children of the wicked one the Enemy who sowed them is the devil Matth. 13. 38 39. Jesus rebuked the devil and he departed out of him and the child was cured c. howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting Matth. 17. 18 21. Lord Even the devils are subject unto us through thy name and he said unto them I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven Luke 10. 17 18. And he was casting out a devil c. Some of them said He casteth out devils by Beelzebub the chief of the devils c. If Satan also be divided against himself how shall his kingdom stand c If I by Beelzebub cast out devils by whom do your children cast them out Luke 11. 14 15 17 18 19 20. Simon Simon behold Satan hath desired you that he may sift you as wheat but I have prayed for thee that â—…hy faith fail not Luke 22. 31 32. Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do he was a Murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh of a lye he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the father of it John 8. 44. After Jesus had given the sop to Judas Satan entred into him John 13. 2 26 27. Luke 22. 12. The Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me John 14. 30. When the Spirit is come c. he will reprove or convince the world of c. of judgment because the prince of this world is judged John 16. 8 9 11. I pray c. that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one John 17. 15. Peter said Ananias Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the holy Ghost Acts 5. 3. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly Rom. 16. 20. Confirm your love towards him c. lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices 2 Cor. 2. 7 8 9 10 11. If our Gospel be hid it is hid to them who are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel c. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. But I fear lest by any means as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty so your mind should be corrupted c. No marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light 2 Cor. 11. 3 14. There was given me a thorn in the flesh the messenger of Satan to buffet me 2 Cor. 12. 7. Ye walked c. according to the Prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes. 2. 2. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath neither give place to the Devil Ephes. 4. 26 27. Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickednesses or wicked spirits in high places wherefore take unto you the whole armour c. above all things the shield of faith whereby ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one Ephes. 6. 10 11 12 13 16. We would have come unto you even I Paul once and again but Satan hindered us 1 Thess. 2. 18. I sent to know your faith lest by some means the tempter have tempted you 1 Thess. 5. 3. That wicked c. whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders 2 Thess. 2. 8 9. In meekness instruct c. that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive or alive by him at his will 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. Through death he might destroy death and him who had the power of death even the devil Heb. 2. 14. Resist the devil and he will flee from you James 4. 7. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour whom resist stedfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished c. 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. I write unto you young men because ye have overcome the wicked one 1 John 2. 13 14. chap. 5. 18. He who committeth sin is of the Devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning for this purpose the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother 1 John 3. 8 12. The Archangel when contending with
c. These filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise dominions and speak evil of dignities yet Michael c. contending with the devil c. durst not bring against him a railing accusation c. These speak evil of those things which they know not c. Clouds they are without water c. These are murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouth speaketh great swelling-words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage c. These be they who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit Jude ver 3. 4 8 9 10 12 13 16 18 19. I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews and are not but are the Synagogue of Satan c. hold the doctrine of Balaam c. so the doctrine of the Nicolaitans c. Rev. 2. 9 14 15. chap. 3. 9. That the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed and causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell save he who had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name Rev. 13. 15 16 17. I heard another voice from heaven saying Come out of her my people that ye be not partaker of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues for her sins have reached unto heaven Rev. 18. 4. CHAP. XXXI Of Consideration Meditation pondering upon and serious weighing of the things of God his Word and Works our selves c. ISaac went out to meditate or pray in the field at the even-tide Gen. 24. 63. Know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the Lord he is God Deut. 4. 39. If thou shalt say in thine heart these Nations are more than I how can I dispossess them Thou c. shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharoah and unto all Egypt c. Deut. 7. 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 sittest 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. This book of the law shall not depart c. but thou shalt meditate therein day and night Josh. 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. 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 carried captive and repent c. 1 Kings 8. 47. Therefore am I troubled at his presence when I consider I am afraid of him Job 23. 15. 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. O Job stand still and consider the wondrous works of God Job 37. 14. 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. 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. My heart was hot within me while I was musing the fire burned then spake l c. Psal. 39. 3. Now consider this ye who forget God lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver Psal. 50. 22. 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. All men shall fear and declare the work of God for they shall wisely consider of his doing Psal. 64. 9. 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. 10 11 12. I will sing praise to my God c. my meditation of him shall be sweet Psal. 104. 33 34. 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 night c. I will consider thy testimonies c. 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 52 55 59 78 95 96 97 98 99 148. 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. 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. Keep thy foot 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
knowledg 1 Cor. 8. 1 2 4 7. I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud 1 Cor. 10. 1 2. To another the word of knowledg by the same spirit 1 Cor. 12. 8. Though I c. understand all mysteries and all knowledg c. and have no charity I am nothing c. Whether there be knowledg it shall vanish away for we know in part c. now we see through a glass darkly or in a riddle but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known 1 Cor. 13. 2 8 9 10 12. If a man be ignorant let him be ignorant 1 Cor. 14. 38. Some have not the knowledg of God I speak this to your shame 1 Cor. 15. 34. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices 2 Cor. 2. 11. But their minds were blinded for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old Testament c. When Moses is read the vail is upon their heart 2 Cor. 3. 14 15. If our Gospel be hid it is hid to them who are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel c. should shine into them c. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts the light of the knowledg of the glory of God in the c. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4 6. We know that if our earthly house c. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. Henceforth know we no man after the flesh yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth know we him no more 2 Cor. 5. 1 11 16. Therefore as ye abound in every thing c. in knowledg 2 Cor. 8. 7. Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods but now after that ye have known God or rather are known of God c. Gal. 4. 8 9. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will c. That God c. may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledg of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightned that ye may know what is the hope c. Ephes. 1. 9 17 18 19. The mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as it is that ye may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth c. and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledg Ephes. 3. 4 5 18 19. He gave some Apostles c. till we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledg of the Son of God c. Walk not as other Gentiles c. having the understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the blindness or hardness of their hearts Ephes. 4. 11 12 13 17 18. 1 Thess. 4. 5. Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord c. understanding what the will of the Lord is Ephes. 5. 10 17. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Jesus c. that I may know him and the power of his resurrection c. Phil. 3. 8 10. Since c. ye knew the grace of God in truth we desire that ye may be filled with the knowledg of his will in all wisdom and understanding c. increasing in the knowledg of God c. the Saints to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ c. Col. 1. 6 9 10 26 27. Unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God and of the father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg Col. 2. 2 3. The new man which is renewed in knowledg after the image of him who created c Col. 3. 10. Knowing brethren c. your election of God for our Gospel came not to you in word only but also in power c. 1 Thess. 1. 4 5. I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep 1 Thess. 4. 13. Taking vengeance upon them who know not God 2 Thess. 1. 8. Desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm but we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully c. but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief c. 1 Tim. 1. 6 7 8 9 13. Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledg of the truth 1 Tim. 2. 4. If any man teach otherwise c. he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions c. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4. They profess that they know God but in works they deny him Titus 1. 16. They do err in their hearts not having known my ways Heb. 3. 10. Every high-priest taken from among men c. who can have compassion on the ignorant Heb. 5. 1 2. If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledg of the truth c. Heb. 10. 26. 2 Pet. 2. 20 21. If any man lack wisdom let him ask it of God who giveth to all men liberally c. James 1. 5. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledg among you let him shew out of a good c. James 3. 13. To him who knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin James 4. 17. Not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance c. 1 Pet. 1. 14. With well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 15. Grace c. be multiplied unto you through the knowledg of God and of Jesus our Lord c. Add c. to vertue knowledg c. If these things be in you c. ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus c. but he who lacketh these c. is blind c. knowing this first that no Scripture is of private interpretation 2 Pet. 1. 2 3 5 8 9 20. But these c. speak evil of things they understand not c. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the World through the knowledg of the Lord c. it had been better c. not to have known c. 2 Pet. 2. 12 20 21. Jude verse 1. This they are willingly ignorant of c. Paul in all his Epistles c. in which are some things hard to be understood which they who are unlearned wrest c. seeing ye know c. 2 Pet. 3. 5 15 16 17 18. Hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments he that saith I know him
in or amongst you the hope of glory Col. 1. 27. Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come 1 Thes. 1. 10. God hath not appointed us unto wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who dyed for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him 1 Thes. 5. 9 10. 2 Tim. 1. 9. Chap. 2. 10 11. Believe on him to life everlasting 1 Tim. 1. 16. Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel 2 Tim. 1. 10. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he hath saved us c. Tit. 3. 5. He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them who obey him Heb. 5. 9. Ephes. 5. 23. By his own blood he entred in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us c. they who were called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance c. He shall appear c. unto salvation Heb. 9. 12. 15 28. Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls 1 Pet. 1. 9. The God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Jesus 1 Pet. 5. 10. And this is the promise which he hath promised us eternal life 1 Joh. 2. 25. 2 Tim. 1. 1. In this was manifest the love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him 1 Joh. 4. 9. This is the record that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his Son he who hath the Son hath life c. 1 John 5. 10 11 12. Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus unto eternal life Jude v. 21. See more in the next Chapter CHAP. XI How Men have the benefit of this Salvation or by what means it becomes theirs in particular By Faith THE just shall live by his faith Habak 2. 4. Abram believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness Gen. 15. 6. Rom. 4. 3. He who believeth and is baptised shall be saved Mark 16. 16. Blessed is she who believeth that there or for there shall be a performance of those thing which were told her from the Lord Luk. 1. 45. Jesus said to the woman thy sins are forgiven c. Thy faith saved thee go c. Luk. 7. 48 50. But to as many as received him to them he gave power or the right or priviledg to become the sons of God to them who believe on his name John 1. 12. The son of man must be lifted up That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life c. He who believeth on him is not condemned c. He who believeth on the son hath everlasting life John 3. 14 15 16 18 36. He who heareth my word and believeth on him who sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life c. Whom he hath sent him ye believe not c. And ye will not come to me that ye might have life John 5. 24 38 40. What shall we do that we may work the works of God Jesus answered and said unto them this is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent c. He who cometh to me shall never hunger and he who believeth on me shall never thirst c. This is the will of him who sent me that every one who seeth the son and believeth on him may have everlasting life c. He who believeth on me hath everlasting life c. I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever c. Whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life John 6. 28 29 35 40 47 51 54. He who believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never dye c. John 11. 25 26. Jesus said unto Thomas reach hither thy finger c. Be not faithless but believing c. Jesus said unto him because thou hast seen thou hast believed blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed c. These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name c. John 20. 27 29 31. Through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins Act. 10. 43. By him all who believe are justified from all things c. Act. 13. 39. We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved Act. 15. 11. Sirs what must I do to be saved And they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thine house Act. 16. 30 31. I kept back nothing which was profitable c. Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ Acts 20. 20 21. That they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me Act. 26. 18. The Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation unto every one who believeth c. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith Rom. 1. 16 17. Now the righteousness of God without the law is manifest c. Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them who believe c. Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood c. That he may be just and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus c. We conclude that a man is justified by faith without c. It is one God who shall justifie the Circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith Rom. 3. 21 22 25 26 28 30. To him who worketh not but believeth on him who justifieth the ungodly his faith is accounted for rightecusness c. We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness c. Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace c. It was imputed to him for righteousness c. For us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him who raised up Jesus our Lord c. Rom. 4. 5 9 16 22 23 24. Being justified by faith we have peace with God c. We have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand c. Rom. 5. 1 2. We are saved by hope c. Rom. 8. 24. The Gentiles c. have attained unto the righteousness which is of faith c. But Israel hath not attained c. because they sought it not by faith Rom. 9. 30 32. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to