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 God's 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 righteouness 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. ch 8. 3 4. 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 Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses to them He 〈◊〉 made him to be sin for us who knew no sin 〈◊〉 we might be made the righteousness of God in hâ—m 2 Cor. 5. 19 21. A man is not justified by the works of the law but â—y the faith of Jesus Christ Even we believe c. â—hat we may be justified by the faith of Christ aâ—d â—ot c. Gal. 2. 16. Paul to the Galatians doth argue this at large 〈…〉 〈◊〉 â—hrough the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith c. Gal. 5. 5. Hâ—â— gâ—â—ce wherein he hath made us accepted in the â—eloâ—â—d Ephes 1. 6. Christ gave himself c. that he might sanctifie and cleanse it c. that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish Ephes 5. 25 26 27. When Paul above any others had whereof to boast for his Exactness in keeping the Law he said But what things were gain to me them or those I counted loss for Christ c. that I may win Christ and be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through Faith in Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith Philip. 3. 4 5 6 7 8 9. And you c. hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight Colos 1. 21 22. And ye are compleat in him who is the head of all principalities c. Colos 2. 10. Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people Tit. 2. 14. After that the loving-kindness of God appeared c. not by the works of righteousness which we have done c. that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs c. Tit. 3. 4 5 7. Who c. when he had by himself purged our sins sate down c. Heb. 1. 3. If the blood of bulls c sanctified to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ who c. purge your consciences from dead works c. Heb. 9. 13 14. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all c. By one offering he hath for ever perfected them who are sanctified c. Heb. 10. 10 14 29. Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctifie the people with his own blood suffered without the gate c. Heb. 13. 12. Who his own self bare our sins c. by whose stripes we were healed 1 Pet. 2. 24. Isa 53. 5. Jesus c. who hath loved us and washed us with his own blood c. Rev. 1. 5. These were redeemed or bought from among men c. they were without fault before the throne of God Rev. 14. 4 5. IV. Eternal Life and Salvation THE just shall live by his faith Hab. 2. 4. Fear not little flock for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom Luke 12. 32. Christ said unto Zacheus This day is salvation come to this house c. for the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost Luke 19. 9 10. So must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have â—â—ernal life For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life c. He who believeth on the Son hath everlasting life c. John 3. 14 15 16 17 36. Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life John 5. 40. The bread of God is he who cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world c. I am the bread of life 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 and I will raise him up at the last day c. This is the bread which came down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world c. Whoso eateth my flesh c. hath eternal life c. As c. I live by the Father so he who eateth me even he shall live by me c. Lord to whom shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life John 6. 33 35 40 50 51 54 57 58 68. ch 5. 24. I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved c. I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly My sheep hear my voice 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. 9. 10 27 28. Because I live ye shall live also John 14. 19. As thou hast given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him John 17. 2. These things are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name John 20. 31. Why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of his disciples c. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they Acts 15. 10 11. I send thee said Christ to Paul to open their eyes c. that they might receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them who are sanctified through faith that is in me Acts 26. 17 18. Being justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him c. Much more being reconciled we shall be saved by
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 Acts 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 might 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 righteousness 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 it we believe on him who raised up Jesus our Lord c. Rom. 4 5 9 16 22 23 24. Gen. 15 6. Being 〈◊〉 by faith we have peace with God c. We have access by faith into the grace wherein we 〈◊〉 c. Rom. 5. â— 2. We are 〈◊〉 hope c. Rom. â— 24. The 〈◊〉 c. have attained unto thâ—s righteousness which is of â—ath c. But Israel hath not attained c. 〈◊〉 they sought it not by faith Rom. 9 30 32. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to 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 faith 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. They who are of faith the same are the children of Abraham And the scripture foreseeing that 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 7 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 the faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1. 5. Fight the good right of faith lay hold of eternal life 1 Tim. 6. 12. 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 Hebr. 6. 1 12. Unto them who look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation Hebr. 9. 28. 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 perâ—â—tioâ— but of them who believe to the saving of the soul Hebr. 10. 22 35 37 38 39. Colos 1. 23. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain 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 Hebr. 11. 4 5 6 7. Gen. 3. 3 4 5 c. For you 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 c. For you who do believe in God who raised him c. 1 Pet. 5 9 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. Isa 28. 16. 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 Jusus 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 then as before as relating to this Salvation Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience c. Without controversie great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the
faith towards our Lord Jesus Acts 20. 20 21. Believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets and have hope towards God which they themselves also allow that there c. Acts 24. 14 15. John 2. 22. That they may receive remission of sins c. through faith that is in me Acts 26. 18. Paul said Be of good cheer for there shall be no loss c. Be of good cheer for I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me Acts 27. 22 23 24 25. To him who worketh not but believeth on him who justifieth the ungodly his faith is accounted for righteousness c. Abraham against hope believed in hope c. And being not weak in faith considered not his own body now dead c. but was strong in the faith giving glory to God and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform and therefore it was imputed unto him for righteousness Rom. 4. 5 16 18 19 20 21 22. Now if we be dead with Crist we believe that we shall also live with him Rom. 6. 8. We are saved by hope But hope which is seen is not hope For what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for it But if we hope for what we see not then do we with patience wait for it c. I am persuaded that neither life c. Rom. 8. 24 25 38 39. The righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise Say not in thine heart Who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring Christ down from above Or Who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up Christ from the dead But what saith it The word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of saith which we preach That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness Rom. 10. 6 7 8 9 10. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ c. Rom. 13. 14. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Spirit of God I Cor. 12. 3. Our preaching is not with enticing words c. that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God I Cor. 2. 4 5. We also believe and therefore speak knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you c. while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. are eternal 2 Cor. 4. 13 14 18. We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God â—n house not made with hands eternal in the heavens c. We are confident I say and willing â—â—ther to be absent from the body and to be preâ—â—â— with the Lord c. Knowing therefore the 〈◊〉 of the Lord we persuade men c. 2 Cor. 〈◊〉 6 7 8 11. That we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted or hoped in Christ Ephes 1. 12. Buried with him in baptism wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead Col. 2. 12. We pray for you always that our God would c. fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power 2 Thess 1. 11. Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men especially of them who believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. Fight the good fight of faith lay hold of eternal life 1 Tim. 6. 12. When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee c. I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 2 Tim. 1. 5 12. James 1. 5 6. According to the faith of God's elect c. In hope of eternal life which God who cannot â—ye promised before the world began c. Rebuke them sharply that they may be found sound in the faith Titus 1. 1 2 13. ch 2. 2. And faith which thou hadst towards our Lord Jesus Philem. ver 5. Acts 20. 20 21. The word c. did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them who heard it c. We who have believed do enter into rest Heb. 4. 2 3. We c. who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 18. Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen c. For he who cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him c. By faith Abraham c. sojourned in the land of promise c. For he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God through faith Also Sarah her self received strength c. because she judged him faithful who had promised c. These all died in the faith not having received the promises but seeing them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed c. Abraham offered Isaac c. accounting that God was able to raise him up from the dead c. Moses had respect to the recompence of reward c. as seeing him who is invisible And some refused deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11. 1 6 8 9 10 11 13 17 19 26 35. ch 6. 18. Blessed be God c. who hath begotten us again to a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ c. whom having not seen ye love in whom though you see not yet believing c. who by him do believe in God c. that your faith and hope might be in God I Pet. 1. 3 8 21. To whom coming as unto a living stone c. ye also as living stones are built up c. 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. To them who have obtained like precious faith with us 2 Pet. 1. 1. Who is a lyar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ I John 2. 22. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 3. 2 3 23. ch 5. 13. We have seen and do testifie that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour c. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God And we have known and believed the love which God hath unto us c. 1 John 4. 14 15 16. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God c. Who is he who overcometh the world but he who believeth that Jesus is the
Son of God c. If we receive the testimony of men the testimony of God is greater c. We know we are of God We know that the Son of God is come c. His Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and eternal life I John 5. 1 5 9 19 20. But ye beloved build up your selves in your most holy faith Jude vers 20. See the Worker of Faith Chap. 20. II. In its Use Benefits and Advantages further Noah believed was moved with fear built the Ark was saved Heb. 11. 7. 2 Kings 22. 11 13. Pharâ—ioh's Servants who beheved God's Word secured their Cattel from the Hail Exod. 9. 18 19 20 21 24. I had fainted unless I had believed to see the the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living Psal 27. 13. Isa 7. 9. Submit thy works to the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established Prov. 16. 3. 2 Chron. 20. 20. 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. Daniel was taken out of the den and no manner of hurt c. because he believed in his God Dan. 6. 23. Jesus said unto the blind men 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 Matth. 9. 28 29 30. Luke 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 Matth. 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 Matth. 15. 26 27 28. Luke 18. 42. ch 7. 7. 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 you 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 Matth. 17. 19. 20. Mark 11. 23. Matth. 21. 21. The Faith 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 cried out 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. James 1. 5 6 7. Matth. 21. 22. He who believeth on me as the scripture saith out of his belly shall slow rivers of living water But this spake he of the spirit which they who believed on him should receive John 7. 38 39. ch 4. 14. I am come a light into the world that whosoever believeth in me should not abide in darkness John 12. 46. If thou wouldst believe thou shouldst 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 soundness in the presence of you all Acts 3. 16. What doth hinder me to be baptized And if thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest Acts 8. 36 37. Putting no difference between them and us purifying their hearts by faith Acts 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 whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord for we walk by faith and not by fight 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 Hely 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 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 breast-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 on 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 rest he also hath ceased from his own works Heb. 4. 2 3 10. 2 Chron. 20. 20. 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. chap. 12. 1 2 c. 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 men our faith 1 John 5. 4. III. In its Effects or the Fruits by which it is known to be true We should try our selves Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith 1 Cor. 13. 5. All men have not faith 2 Thes 3. 2. 'T is called the Faith of God's Elect sound and unfeigned faith 2 Tim. 1. 5. Tit. 1. 13. ch 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
unto you while I was yet with you c. Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the scriptures Luke 24. 44 45. That was the true light which lighteth every man who cometh into the world c. None hath seen God c. The only begotten Son c. he hath declared him John 1. 9 18. As it is written in the prophets and they shall be all taught of God Every man therefore who hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me John 6. 45. Isa 54. 13. If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self John 7. 17. Then spake Jesus again unto them saying 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 ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed and ye shall know the truth John 8. 12 32. Jesus said For judgment I am come into the world that they who see not might see and that they who see might be made blind John 9. 39. I am come a light c. that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness John 12. 46. I have called you friends for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you John 15. 15. This is life eternal That they may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent c. I have manifested thy Name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world John 17. 2 3 6. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. But when it pleased God c. to reveal his Son in me c. Gal. 1. 15 16. Having made known the mystery of his will unto us according unto his good pleasure c. Making mention of you in my prayers That the God of our Lord Jesus c. may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightned that ye may know what is the hope of his calling c. Ephes 1. 9 16 17 18 19. ch 3. 18 19. That ye may know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge c. Ephes 3. 14. 18. If in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you Phil. 3 15. The mystery which hath been hid c. but now is made manifest to his Saints to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ Col. 1. 26 27. Ephes 3. 4. 5. 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 understanding that we may know him who is true 1 John 5. 20. See more in Knowledge and Understanding Chap. 38. III. To give Faith or Enable to believe BLessed art thou c. for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father c. Matth. 16. 16 17. 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 enticing words of man's wisdom c. that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God 1 Cor. 2 4 3. 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. That he would grant c. that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith Ephes 3. 16 17. 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. IV. 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
this thy day the things which belong to thy peace c. Luke 19. 10 41 42. Mark 3. 5. And the word was made flesh c. full of grace and truth John 1. 14. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping c. 〈◊〉 groaned in the spirit and was troubled c. Jesus wept Then said the Jews Behold how he loved him John 11. 33 35 36. Luke 7. 12 13 14. 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. Matth. 14. 27. I have many things to say unto you but ye cannot hear them now howbeit c. John 16. 12 13. 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 Acts 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. ch 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 1. He is Mediator THere is one God one Mediator 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 Mediator of a better testament which was established upon better promises Heb. 8. 6. And for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament that c. Heb. 9. 15. And to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant or testament Heb. 12. 24. II. He took upon him the Nature of Man a Body of Flesh and humbled himself GOD said to the serpent c. I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel Gen. 3. 15. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his name Immanuel Isa 7. 14. And there shall come forth a Rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him c. Isa 11. 1 2. Acts 13. 22 23. His visage was so marred more than any man and his form more than the sons of men Isa 52. 14. He hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows c. We hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not Isa 53. 2 3. The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a woman shall compass a man Jer. 31. 22. They shall smite the Judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek Micah 5. 1. The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise c. Mary was sound with child of the Holy Ghost c. She had brought forth her first-born Son and he called his name Jesus Matth. 1. 18 20 23 25. Thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and shall call his name Jesus the holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luke 1. 31 35. He was tempted of the devil Matth. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. And Jesus said unto them The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Matth. 8. 20. Is not this the Carpenter's Son Is not his mother called Mary and his brethren James c. And they were offended in him Matth. 13. 55 56 57. He rode upon an Ass into the city of Jerusalem Matth. 21. 2 4 7. She brought forth her first-born Son and wrapped him in swadling-clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn c. He went down with them c. and was subject to them But his mother kept c. Luke 2. 7 51. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among 〈◊〉 John 1. 14. Jesus therefore being weary with his journey sate thus on the well John 4. 6. The bread which I give is my flesh which I give for the life of the world John 6. 51. The high priest prophesied that Jesus should die c. and gather the dispersed sons of God into one John 11. 49 50 c. David c. knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ c. Acts 2. 29 30. Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh Rom. 2. 3. 2 Tim. 2. 8. Reâ— 22. 16. God sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh Rom. 8. 3. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came Rom. 9. 5. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor c. 2 Cor. 8 â— Though he was cruâ—ified through weakness yet he lived 2 Cor. 13. 4. God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the law Gal. 4. 4. But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient c. Phil. 2. 7 8. Hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death c. Col. 1. 21 22. Great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh 1 Tim. 3. 16. Jesus who was made a little lower than the Angels for the suffering of death c. He who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren c. As the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death c. Verily he took not on him the nature of Angels but he
flesh c. 1 Tim. 3. 9 16. I. In its Nature and Objects Abram c. and he believed in the Lord and it was accounted c. Gen. 15. 6. 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 my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another c. Job 19. 25 26 27. Remember the word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope Psalm 119. 49 50. Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation stone c. He who believeth shall not make haste Isa 28. 16. 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. Matth. 8. 8 9 10 11 13. Believe ye that I am able to do this They said to him Yea Lord Matth. 9. 28 29. ch 5. 12. 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 Matth. 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 Matth. 16. 16 17. Mark 8. 29. Luke 9. 20. 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 18 29 34. Matth. 9. 18 21. Jesus said unto them Have faith in God c. And shall not doubt in his heart Mark 11. 22 23. Matth. 21. 21. O fools and slow of heart to believe all which the prophets have spoken Luke 24. 21 22 24. Isa 66. 2. His own received him not but as many as received him to them he gave to become c. those who believe in his name c. John seeing 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 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. The Disciples c. believed the Scripture and the words which Jesus had said John 2. 22 23. He who hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true John 3. 3. 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. This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent c. 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. 29 68 69. For if ye believe not that I am he ye shall die in your sins c. Abram saw my days c. John 8. 24 56. 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. 33 36 37 38. Jesus c. whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die 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. ch 6. 14. 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. Acts 26. 18. Ye believe in God believe also in me John 14. 1. The Father himself loved you because yâ— harâ— loved me and believe that I came out from God c. Now we are sure that thou knowest aâ— things c. By this we believe that that thou camest forth from God John â—6 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 didst send me John 17. 8 25. ch 11. 44. 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 Acts 9. 20 22. ch 17. 3. God gave them the like gifts c. Then hath God also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life Acts 11. 17 18. We believe that through the Grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved even as they Acts 15. 11. Testifying to the Jews c.
hope that is in you 1 Pet. 3. 15. Alimelech and Pharaoh's Servants believing Threatnings obeyed God Gen. 20. 7 8 c. Exod. 9 19 20. He who believeth will not make haste Isa 28. 16. ch 7. 9. Prov. 16. 3. 2. Chron. 20. 20. The People of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a â—ast and put on Sack-cloth c. Who can tell if God will turn and repent c. And God saw their works that they turned from their and way c. Jonah 3. 4 5 8 9 10. They tremble at the Word of God when it threatens for sin 2 Kings 22. 11 13 18 19. Ezra 9. 4. Isa 66. 2. The vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and shall not lye Though it carry wait for it c. Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him but the just shall live by faith Habak 2. 3 4. Why is it that ye are so fearful How is it that ye have no faith Mark 4. 40. Heb. 11. 23 27. 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. Mark 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. Abraham rejoyced to see my day be saw it and was glad John 8. 56. Luke 2. 28 29. We cannot but speak the things which 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. Psal 116. 10. 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 terrour of the Lord we persuade 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 Which is the author of the soul sure and stedfast entring into that within the veil c. Heb. 6. 18 19. We have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might inherit c. The just shall live by faith Heb. 10. 35 36 37 38. 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 tried offered up Isaac c. his only begotten Son of whom it it is said c. By faith Moses c. refused to be called the son of Pharoah's Daughter chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt for c. Rom. 11. 7 8 13 17 18 24 25 26. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith 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 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 who 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 rejoice 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 THE old world though informed of the flood by Noah yet because of unbelief fell in it Gen. 6. ch 7. 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. Exod. 9. 19 21 25. I will hide my face c. for they are c. children is whom is no faith Deut. 32. 20. How long will it be ere ye believe me not c. I will smite them Numb 14 11 12. The Lord in Samaria because he believed not the word of God concerning relief of provision then in the sore famine as God had spoken was threatned he should not eat of it and accordingly was trod to death and saw it but eat not 2 Kings 7. 1 2 17 18 19 20. A fire was kindled against Jacob and anger also came up against Israel because they believed not God nor trusted in his salvation Psalm 78. 21 22. Woe to thee c. for if the mighty works c. had been done in Tyre c. they would have repented c. Matth. 11. 21 23. He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief Matth. 13. 58. Peter began to sink through unbelief Jesus said unto them O thou of little faith wherefore didst thou doubt Matth. 14. 29 30 31. Luke 24. 21 22 23 24 25. He appeared unto the eleven and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believed not them who had seen him after he was risen
7. 1 2 3 4 5. Uriah said unto David The Ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents and my Lord Joab and the servants are encamped in the open field shall I then go into mine house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife c. I will not do this thing 2 Sam. 11. 11. I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God for all his judgments were before and as for his statutes I did not depart from them I was also upright before or to him I have also kept me from mine iniquity 2 Sam. 22. 22 23 24. And David's heart smote him after that he had numbred the people And David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly c. And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel for it c. And David said Lo I have sinned I have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done let thine hand be against me and against my father's house 2 Sam. 24. 10 15 17. 1 Sam. 24. 5. When Josiah heard the book of the law he rent his clothes c. was tender c. 2 Kings 22. 11 13 13 19. Ezra 9. 4. Esther when the Jews were in danger by Haman ventured her life and all for their security she said Go fast for me c. I also and my maidens will fast likewise and so will I go unto the King which is not according to the law and if I perish I perish Esther 4. 16. Job a man perfect and upright fearing God and departing from all evil Job 1. 1 8. chap. 31. 13 14 c. His delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water Psalm 1. 2 3. Psalm 92. 12 13 14. Joh. 23. 12. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place He who 〈◊〉 clean hands and a pure heart who hath not 〈◊〉 up soul unto vanâ—y nor sworn deceitfully c. This is the generation of them who seek him that seek thy face c. Psalm 24. 3 4 5 6. Psalm 15. 1 2. I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwefleth Psalm 26. ◠〈◊〉 ye my face my heart said unto thee Thy face Lord will I seek Psalm 27. 8. The righeous sheweth mercy and giveth c. is over 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 c. the 〈◊〉 of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment the law of his God is in his heart Psalm 37. 21 26 31 32. Psalm 112. 5. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long Psalm 71. 24. Psalm 119. 46. Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion c. for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof Psalm 102. 13 14. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord Psalm 112. 7. I have rejoyced in the ways of thy testimonies as in all riches c. I will delight my self in thy statutes c. Thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellor c. I am a companion to all who fear thee and keep thy statutes c. O how love I thy law it is my meditation all the day c. Better to me than thousands of gold c. How sweet are thy words c. Psalm 119. 14 16 20 24 63 72 97 103 172 174. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the house of the Lord Psalm 122. 1. If I forget thee O Jerusalem c. If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy Psalm 137. 5 6. Psalm 74. 1 2 3 4 c. I hate them who hate thee am not I grieved when men rise up against thee Psalm 139. 21 22. Psalm 119. 53 126 136 158. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works and shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and will declare thy greaness They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness c. Thy saints shall bless thee they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power to make known unto the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of thy kingdom Psalm 145 5 6 7 10 11 12. The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day Prov. 4. 18. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogancy and the evil way Prov. 8. 13. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast Prov. 12. 10. He who walks righteously and speaketh uprightly he who despiseth the gain of oppression who snaketh his hands from holding of bribes who stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing of evil he shall dwell on high c. Isa 33. 15 16. I remember c. the love of thine espousal when thou wentest after me in the wilderness c. Jer. 2. 2. When the King asked Daniel thus Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen and the interpretation thereof Daniel answered in the presence of the King and said The secret which the King hath commanded cannot the wise-men c. shew unto the King But there is a God in heaven who revealeth secrets and maketh known to the king c. Dan. 2. 26 27 28. Then they who feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard c. Mal. 3. 16. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the meek c. Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. John 16. 20. Prov. 27. 7. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me and he who taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me Matth. 10. 36 37 38. ch 16. 24. Luke 14. 33. He who is not with me is against me and he who gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Matth. 12. 30. The kingdom of heaven is like to a treasure hid in a field the which when a man hath found he hideth and for joy thereof he goeth and selleth all he hath and buyeth that field Matth. 13. 44. Luke 10. 39 42. Verily I say unto you
except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 3 4. Zecharia just and walked in all the commandments of the Lord unblameably Luke 1. 5 6. The Woman to whom much was forgiven loved Christ much Luke 7. 37 38 45 46 47. If I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation I restore him four-fold Luke 19. 8. When Andrew had found Christ himself he tells his Brother Simon and brings him to him Philip tells Nathaniel and leads him to Jesus John 1. 40 41 42 43 44 45. ch 4. 28 29. Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee Except a man be born again or from above he cannot see the kingdom of God c. Except a man be born 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 c. Every one who doeth evil hateth the light c. But he who doeth truth cometh unto the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3. 3 5 6 20 21. John was a Burning and a Shining Light c. Ye have not his word abiding in you for him whom he hath sent ye believe not John 5. 35 38. Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life John 6. 68. If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed c. If ye were Abraham's children you would do the works of Abraham c. If God were your Father ye would love me for I proceed forth and came from God c. He who is of God heareth God's words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God John 8. 31 39 42. 47. 1 John 2. 24. 2 John vers 9. The sheep hear his voice c. The sheep follow 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. 3 4 5 14 27. Jesus said If I wash thee not thou hast no communion with me Simon Peter faith 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. ch 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. Ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce and ye shall be sorrowful John 16. 20. Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice John 18. 37. ch 8. 37 47. They were pricked to the heart and said Men and brethren What shall us do Acts 2. 37 38. ch 16. 30. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled and took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard Acts. 4. 13 19. Saul when Christ came to him and converted him he said Lord What wilt thou have me to do Acts 9. 6. chap. 2. 37 38 c. chap. 16. 30 31 c. 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. ch 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 fifty thousand 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 die 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 consessâ—th 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. We 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 I do not but what I hate that do I c. I consent unto the law that it is good now then it is no â—ore 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 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 serves 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. Such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified c. 1 Cor. 6. 11. 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 prophecy and understood all mysteries and all knowledge 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 glory of the Lord c. are changed into the same image c. by the spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 13. Psal 26. 10. Acts 4. 20. In this we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed with our house from heaven c. that mortality might be swallowed up of life We are willing to be absent from the body that we may be present with the Lord wherefore we labour that whether present c. we may be accepted of him c. Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord we persuade men c. The love of Christ constraineth us c. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature Old things are passed away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5. 2 4 8 9 11 14 17. Philip. 1. 21 23. Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates c. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 2 Cor. 13. 5 8. When it pleased God c. to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him c. immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood Gal. 1. 15 16. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Gal. 2. 20. The works of the flesh are manifest which are adultery c. But the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance And they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections or passions and lusts Gal. 5. 19 20 21 22 23 24. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom or whereby the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world for in Jesus Christ circumcision availeth nothing c. but a new creature Gal. 6. 14 15. This I say therefore and testifie in the Lord That ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds c. But ye have not not so learned Christ If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus Ephes 4. 17 18 19 20 21. For ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord Walk as children c. for the the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness righteousness and truth Ephes 5. 8 9. Some preach Christ out of envy and strife c. What then Notwithstanding in every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and therein do I rejoyce yea and I will rejoyce Philip. 1. 15 16 17 18. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh c. What things were gain to me those I count loss for Christ yea doubtless and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord c. that I might know him and the power of his resurrection c. and be made conformable unto his death if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained or were already perfect but I follow after c. but this one thing forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press towards the mark c. Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded c. Our conversation is in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour c. Phillip 3. 3 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 20. I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need I can do all things through Christ who strengthnern me â—hllip 4. 11 12 13. And bringeth forth â—ruits as it doth also in you since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth Col. 1. 6. If ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above c. Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth c. seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him who created him Colos 3. 1 2 9 10. Remembring without ceasing your work
Calamities Chap. 23. In the Glory Believers shall have Chap. 37. In the next Chapter Of their Relation to Christ See perseverance that the Saints shall be kept Chap. 16. CHAP. XV. The Union and Relations between Christ and his Church and the mutual Love and Esteem each of other and the manifestation thereof I Will declare thy name unto my brethren c. Psalm 22. 22. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love is better than wine c. Thy name is as ointment poured forth therefore do the Virgins love thee Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thou feedest c. For why should I be as one who turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions If thou know not O thou fairest among women go c. A bundle of myrrh is my beloved unto me he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts c. Behold thou art fair my love c. Cant. 1. 2 3 7 8 13 15 16. As the lilly among thorns so is my love among the daughters As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood so my beloved among the sons I sate down or delighted and sate down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit sweet c. I am sick of love his left hand under my head and his right hand doth embrace me c. O my dove let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voice for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely Cant. 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 14. By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth I sought him but I found him not I will rise now and go about the City c. I will seek him whom my soul loveth c. Saw ye whom my soul loveth I found him c. I held him and would not let him go Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Thou art all fair my love there is no spot in a thee come with me c. Thou hast ravished or taken away my heart my sister spouse Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes c. How fair is thy love my sister spouse How much better is thy love than wine c. A garden inclosed is my sister c. Let my beloved come into his garden c. Cant. 4. 7 9 10 12 16. It is the voice of my beloved who knocketh saying Open to me my sister my love my dove my undefiled c. I opened to my beloved but my beloved had withdrawn himself was gone my soul failed when he spake I sought him but could not find I called him but he gave me no answer c. Tell him I am sick of love c. My beloved is c. he is altogether lovely Cant. 5. 2 6 10 16. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine c. Thou beautiful O my love c. my dove my undefiled c. Who is she who looketh forth as the morning fair as the moon clear as the sun Cant. 6. 3 4 9 10. ch 2. 16. I am my beloved's and his desire is towards me Cant. 7. 10. Prov. 8. 31. Set me as a seal upon thine heart as a seal upon thine arm for love is strong as death Cant. 8. 6. Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath given me Isa 8. 18. Heb. 2. 13. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me c. When saw we thee an hungry c. and did not minister c. Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me Matth. 25. 34 35 40 45. Mark 9. 41 42. Go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee and there shall they see me Matth. 28. 10. Mark 3. 35. Rom. 8. 29. He 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 your hearts be troubled c. I will come again and receive you to my self that where I am there ye may be also c. I will not leave you comfortless 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. I will love him and manifest my self to him c. Let not your hearts be troubled John 14. 1 3 18 19 20 21 23 27. 2 John 3. 24. 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 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 c. Ye are my friends c. John 15. 5 9 11 12 13 14. Luke 12. 4. These things have I spoken that I should not be offended c. I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce and your joy no man taketh from you c. The Father himself loveth you c. John 16. 1 22 27. 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 Food my sheep seed my lambe 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 Acts 9. 4 5. Ye are become dead unto the law 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 Christ's 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. 15 17. When ye sin so against the brethren ye sin against Christ c. 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 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
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 Hâ—sea 13. 4 9. Ashur shall not save us c. for in thee the fatherless find mercy Hosea 14. 3. When my soul fainteth 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 rejoice 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 Zeph. 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 ye shall eat or what ye shall drink nor 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 cloth 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 12. 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 John 14. 1. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Acts 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. 1 Sam. 17. 24 35 36 c. 〈◊〉 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. Luke 1. 37. 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. Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men specially of those who believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. Charge them who are rich c. that they trust not c. but in the living God who c. 1 Tim. 6. 17. In hope of eternal life which God who cannot lye promised before the world c. Titus 1. 2. Be content with such things as ye have for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee so we may boldly say The Lord is my helper and I will not fear Hebr. 13. 5 6. Every good gift and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights with whom is no variableness c. James 1. 17. Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 7. See Faith Chap. II. To look believingly unto hope in and patiently wait for God in all cases The Arguments thereto ABram's servant looked if God had made his journey prosperous or not Gen. 24. 21. Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will shew c. and the Lord shall fight for you c. Exod. 14. 13 14. Gen. 49. 18. The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth Exoa. 34. 6. When the people complained or were as it were Complainers it displeased the Lord c. Numb 11. 1. God is not man that he should lye neither the son of man that he should repent Hath he said and shall he not do or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Numb 23. 19. Hebr. 6. 18. Titus 1. 2. Rom. 3. 4. 1 Sam. 15. 29. The Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant Deut. 7. 9. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things the Lord your God spake c. Joshua 23. 14. ch 21. 45. 1 Kings 3. 56. The King of Israel said Behold this evil is of the Lord what should I wait for the Lord any longer 2 Kings 6. 33. We have no might c. neither know we what to do but our eyes are upon thee c. Ye shall not need to fight in this set your selves stand ye and see the salvation of the Lord with you 2 Chron. 20. 12 17. I would seek unto God and unto God would commit my cause who doth great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number Job 5. 8 9. In the morning will I direct my prayer to thee and will look up Psal 5. 3. Thou Lord hast not forsaken them who seek theâ— Psal 9. 10. They shall praise the Lord who seek him Psal 22. 26. Thou the God of my salvation on thee do I wait all the day c. mine eyes are ever towards the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net Psalm 25. 5 1â— 21. Wait on the Lord and be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart wait I say on the Lord Psalm 27. 14. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them c. who hope in his mercy to deliver their soul c. Our soul waiteth for the Lord he is our help Psalm 33. 18 19 20. Thy mercy O Lord in the heavens thy faithfulness reacheth to the clouds Psal 36. 5. Psal 57. 10. Commit thy way unto the Lord c. and he shall bring it to pass c. rest in the Lord and wait patiently
Exod. 3. 11. Moses c. said c. Thus saith the Lord c. How long wilt thou refuse to humble thy self before me Exod. 10. 3. I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them Exod. 18. 11. Hath the Lord spoken only by Moses hath he not spoken also by us And the Lord heard c. and the anger of the Lord was kindled against them Numb 12. 1 2 9. Korah Dathan and Abiram and others gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron and said unto them Ye take too much upon you or it is much for you seeing all the Congregation are holy every one of them and the Lord is among them Wherefore then lift you up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord c. Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram c. who said We will not come up c. God was angry and the earth opened and swallowed them up Numb 16. 1 2 3 12 21 31 32. Israel warned that when they should be full they should not be lifted up in heart Deut. 8. 10 11 12 13 14. Speak not thou in thine heart after that the Lord thy God hath cast them cut from before thee saying For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land c. Understand therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness for thou a stiff-necked people c. Deut. 9. 4 5 6. Saul hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands and Saul was very wrath and the saying displeased him and he said They have asscribed unto David ten thousands and to me they have ascribed one thousand and can he have more but the kingdom 1 Sam. 18. 7 8. I will yet be more vile than thus and will be base in my mine own sight 2 Sam. 6. 22. But thine eyes are upon the haughty that thou mayst bring them down 2 Sam. 22. 28. Obadiah vers 3 4. Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself c. because he humbleth himself before me I will not bring the evil in his days 1 Kings 21. 25 27 29. Naaman was wroth and went away and said Behold I thought he would surely have come out unto me c. Are not c. rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel c. So he went away in a rage c. 2 Kings 5. 10. 11 12 13 14. Because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy self before the Lord c. behold therefore c. thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring c. 2 Kings 22. 19 20. What am I what is my people that we should be able to offer c. of thine own have we given thee 1 Chron. 29. 14. When Uzziah was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction 2 Chron. 26. 16. But Hezekiah rendred not again according to the benefit done unto him for his heart was lifted up therefore there was wrath upon him c. Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart or lifting up of his heart so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah God left them c. that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32 25 26 31. Isai 39. Haman his Pride put him upon Revenge and Blood and that proved his ruine Hester 3. 5 6. ch 5. 5 9 10 c. ch 7. What is man that thou shouldst magnifie him and that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him Job 7. 17. Psalm 144. 3. Psalm 90. 5 6. For vain or empty man would be wise though man be born like a wild Asses colt Job 11. 11 12. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble for thou writest bitter things against me Job 13. 25 26. Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble he cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not and dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one Job 14. 1 2 3 4. Psal 144. 3. When men are cast down then thou shalt say There is lifting up and he shall save the humble person Job 22. 29. The stars are not pure in his sight how much less man a worm Job 25. 5 6. ch 35. 5 6 7 8. Elihu being young would not speak before the old men had spoken Job 32. 4 5 6. Job said Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth Once have I spoken c. but I will proceed no farther Job 40. 2 3 4. Ezra 9. 10 13. Now mine eye seeth thee wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 42. 5 6. When I consider the heavens c. what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him Psalm 8. 3 4. Hebr. 2. 6. Psal 144. 3 4. He forgetteth not the cry of the humble Psalm 9. 12. Psalm 10. 17. But I a worm and no man Psalm 22. 6. The Lord is nigh unto them who are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit Psalm 34. 18. Every man at his best estate is altogether vanity Psalm 39. 5 11. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Psalm 51. 17. Surely men of low degree are vanity men of high degree a lye to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity Psalm 62. 9. Psalm 146. 3 4. So foolish and ignorant was I as a beast before thee Psalm 73. 22. If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psalm 130. 3. Lord my heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty c. Psalm 131. 1 2. Though the Lord be high yet hath he respect unto the lowly but the proud he knoweth afar off Psalm 138. 6. Lord what is man that thou takest knowledge of him c. that thou makest account of him Man's like vanity Psalm 144. 3 4. Be not wise in thine own eyes c. Surely he scorneth the scorners but he giveth grace unto the lowly Prov. 3. 7 34. These things doth the Lord hate a proud look or haughty eyes Prov. 6. 16 17. Pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is wisdom Prov. 11. 2. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes Prov. 12. 15. Only by pride cometh contention Prov. 13. 10. Before honour is humility Prov. 15. 33. ch 18. 12. All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes c. every one who is proud in heart is an abomination unto the Lord c. Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty look before a fall better be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil
and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Go ye up upon her walls and destroy c. Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholden good things from you c. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land the prophets prophesie falâ—ly and the priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Jer. 5. 7 8 9 10 25 29 30 31. ch 9. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ezek 20. 15 16. Thus hath the Lord of hosts said c. Cast a mount against Jerusalem this is the city to be visited she is wholly oppression in the midst of her c. Be then instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee c. I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land saith the Lord for from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given unto covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priests every one dealeth falsly c. Hear O earth Behold I will bring evil upon this people c. Jer. 6. 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 18 19. ch 7. 8 9 c. They were not ashamed nor could they blush therefore shall they fall c. Jer. 8. 12 13 14 c. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Cursed be the man who obeyeth not the words of this covenant They are turned back unto the iniquity of their fathers who refuse to hear my words c. Therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to escape and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them c. Therefore pray not thou for this people for I will not hearken c. Jer 11. 3 10 11 12 14. ch 35 17. ch 14. 11 12. ch 18. 17. Their tongue is as an arrow c. Shall I not visit them for these things saith the Lord Jer. 9. 8 9. What wilt thou say when I shall punish thee c. Shall not sorrow take thee as a woman in travail c. For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered c. Wo c. Wilt thou not be made clean c. Jer. 13. 10 14 21 22 27. ch 14. 11 12. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be towards this people cast them out of my sight c. such as are for death to death c. Who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem who shall bemoan thee c. Thou hast forsaken me saith the Lord Jer. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 c. Ye have done worse than your fathers for behold ye walk every one after the imaginations of his own heart that ye may not hearken unto me therefore will I cast you out of this land c. Jer. 16. 9 11 12 13 c. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond is graven upon the tables of their heart c. Jer. 17. 1 23 27. Return ye c. And they said There is no hope but we will walk after our own doings c. Jer. 18. 11 12 15 16 c. The land is full of adulterers for because of swearing or cursing the land mourneth the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up Jer. 23. 10 39 40. As the evil figs c. so will I give the king and the princes and the residue of Jerusalem which remain in this land and them who dwell in the land of Egypt I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt to be a reproach c. And I will send the sword the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land Jer. 24. 8 9 10. ch 25 7 8 9 10 11. Thus saith the Lord If they will hearken and turn every man from his evil way that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do because of the evil of their doings c. If ye will not c. then will I make this house like Shilo and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth Jer. 26. 2 3 4 5 6. God threatned and punished many for Prophesying falsly and lyes to Israel Jer. 28. 15 16 17. ch 29. 21 31 32. Thus saith the Lord Thy bruise is incurable c. for the multitude of thine iniquity thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee Jer. 30. 12 13 14 15. Because of all the evil of the children of Israel c. this city c. shall be delivered into the hand c. Jer. 32. 32 c. Ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty every man unto his brother and every man to his neighbour Behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the Lord to the sword and to the pestilence c. Jer. 34. 1 17. This Jerusalem c. hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations c. Therefore thus saith the Lord I even I am against thee c. therefore the fathers shall eat the sons c. Ezek. 5. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. When God had shewed Ezekiel Judah's abominations he saith unto him Therefore will I also deal in fury mine eyes shall not spare neither will I have pity And though they cry c. will I not hear them Ezek. 8. 18. ch 9. 8 9 10. ch 7. 3 4 8 9. But as for them whose heart walketh c. I will recompence their way upon their own head The glory of the Lord left in the City Ezek. 11. 21 22 23. When the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously then will I stretch out my hand upon it and will break the staff of bread thereof and will send famine upon it and will cut off man and beast c. Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver but their own souls c. Ezek. 14. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Pride fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was Sodom's sins for which God took her away Ezek. 16. 49 50. Thus saith the Lord God Are ye come to enquire of me As I live saith the Lord God I will not be enquired of by you c. Ezek. 20. 1 2 3 4. God reckons up many sins of Jerusalem and then says Can thine heart endure Can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee I the Lord have spoken and will do it and will scatter thee c. Ezek. 22. 1 2 to the 15. When the righteous man turneth from his righteousness and committeth iniquity he shall even die thereby Ezek. 33. 12 13 18. The heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed against me therefore c. Ezek. 29. 23 24. The Kings of Babylon
and Herod for Pride slain Acts 5. 5 10. Acts 12. 21 22 23. Because when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful c. wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lye c. for this cause God gave them up to vile affections c. God gave them over to a reprobate mind Rom. 1. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 c. Think this O man c. who do such things that thou shalt escape the judgment of God Rom. 2. 2 3 c. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep c. 1 Cor. 11. 29 30 31. The Apostle reckons up some of the Sins and Punishments of Israel and concludes Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 10. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 21 22. Now the works of the flesh c. adultery c. they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 20 21. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Ephes 5. 5. If any shall worship the beast c. the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God c. Rev. 14. 9 10. He who is unjust let him be unjust still and he who filthy let him be filthy still c. Behold I come quickly c. Rev. 22. 11. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them who commit such things c. who will render to every man according to his deeds Rom. 2. 2 3 4 5 6. Gal. 6. 7 8. Ephes 5. 5 6. Colos 3. 5 6. Heb. 13. 4. The great Judgments denounced against Babylon for her great Sins and Persecutions Rev. 18. See more in the Duty of Obedience in this Chapter See more of Man's Sin and Corrupt Nature Chap. 5. The sad Effects of such a State See the same Chapter See more of God's punishing his own for Sin Chap. 13. See Pardon of Sin Chap. 10. To own and profess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ boldly before Men and to wait for Christ's second Coming I. To Own and Confess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ before Men. I Know my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth c. Job 19. 25. I will speak oh thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed c. I am a companion of all them who fear thee Psal 119. 46 63. Psal 16. 2 3. None call for justice nor any pleadeth for truth Isa 59. 4. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O king but if not be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods Dan. 3. 17 18. When Daniel knew that the Writing was signed he went into his house and his window being open in his Chamber towards Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees c. and prayed and gave thanks before his God Dan. 6. 10. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven but whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven Matth. 10. 32 33. Luke 12. 8 9. A damsel came unto Peter saying Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee but he denied before them all saying I know not what thou sayest c. And again he denied with an oath saying I do not know the man c. Then began he to curse and to swear saying I know not the man Matth. 26. 69 70 72 74. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh into the glory of his Father with the holy angels Mark 8. 38. The parents of the blind man durst not confess Christ but answered He is of age ask him these words spake his parents because they feared the Jews for the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ that he should be put out of the Synagogue therefore said his parents He is of age ask him c. But the son confessed him John 9. 19 20 21 22 23 30 31 32 c. Nevertheless among the chief Rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the Synngâ—gue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 42 43. Let the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 36. The God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus whom ye delivered up c. but ye denied the holy and just One c. and killed the Prince of life c. Acts 3. 13 14 15. Be it known unto all c. that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified c. even by him doth this man stand before you whole This is the stone that was set at nought by you builders c. We cannot but speak c. Acts 4. 10 11 20. Did not we straightly charge you that you should not teach in this name c. Then Peter and the other Apostles answered and said We ought to obey God rather than men The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew c. Him hath God exalted with his right hand c. Acts 5. 28 29 30. Be it known to you therefore men and brethren that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins Acts 13. 38. This I confess unto thee that after the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Acts 24. 14. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus c. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made to salvation Rom. 10. 9 10. As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup shew ye or ye do shew the Lord's death till he come 1 Cor. 11. 26. And many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear Phil. 1. 14. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him c. that at the name of Jesus c. and that every tongue should confess that Jesus is the Lord to the glory of God the Father Phil. 2. 11. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner c. I am not ashamed for I know whom I believe 2 Tim. 1. 8 12. If we suffer we shall also reign with him If we deny him he will also deny us 2 Tim. 2.
12. They profess they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient c. Titus 1. 16. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach Heb. 13. 13. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God 1 John 4. 15. I know thy works and where thou dwellest where Satan's seat is and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith Rev. 2. 13. See more of owning Christ in Times of Persecution Chap. 22. See more of Perseverance Chap. 16. To wait for Christ's Second Coming WAtch ye therefore for you know not what hour your Lord will come c. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh Mat. 24. 42 44. ch 25. 13. Rev. 16. 15. The wise and foolish virgins slumbered and slept while the bridegroom tarried Mat. 25. 5. Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning and ye your selves like unto men who wait for the Lord c. Blessed are those c. whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching c. Luke 12. 35 36 37. Take heed your hearts be not overcharged c. and so that day come upon you unawares Luke 21. 34. I will come again and receive you unto my self John 14. 3. See that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 1. 7. For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body c. Phil. 3. 20. 21. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Col. 3. 4. Ye turned to God c. and to wait for his Son from heaven 1 Thes 1. 10. To you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thes 1. 6 7. The Lord direct your hearts in the love of God and into the patient waiting for Christ 2 Thes 3. 5. A crown of righteousness which the Lord c. shall give me at that day c. but unto them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4. 8. Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Titus 2. 13. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them who look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation Heb. 9. 28. Ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise for yet a little while and he who shall come will come and will not tarry c. Heb. 10. 36 37. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord Behold the husband-man waiteth for the precious fruits be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth near James 5. 7 8. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace which is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 13. There shall come in the last day scoffers c. saying Where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were c. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise c. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night c. What manner of persons ought ye to be c. Looking for and hastening unto the day of God c. 2 Peter 3. 3 4 5 9 10 11 12. Abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed c. at his coming 1 John 2. 28. We know that when he appears we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2. Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life Jude verse 21. Surely I come quickly Amen even so come Lord Jesus Rev. 22. 7 12 22. See his coming to judge the world Chap. 36. To walk with God heartily uprightly sincerely and to follow him fully and zealously The reasons thereof ENoch walked with God Gen. 5. 22 24. Noah was a just man and perfect or upright in his generation Noah walked with God c. according unto all which God commanded him so did he c. Gen. 6. 9 22. The Lord said unto Abram Get thee out of thy country c. so Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him Gen. 12. 1 4. The Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto him I am the Almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect or upright Gen. 17. 1 2. Abimelech said In the integrity of my heart c. have I done this c. And God said c. I know c. Gen. 20. 5 6 7. God said unto Abraham Take thy son c. and offer him c. And Abraham rose up early in the morning to go about it c. Gen. 22. 1 2 3 4 c. The Lord said to Moses Go I will be with thy mouth c. and he said O my Lord Send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses Exod. 4. 12 13 14. Jerem. 1. 6 7. Bring me an offering of every man who giveth it willingly with his heart Exod. 25. 1. My servant Moses who is faithful in all mine house with him will I speak mouth to mouth Num. 12. 7 8. Heb. 3. 2 5. But my servant Caleb because he had another spirit with him and hath followed me fully him will I bring into the land Num. 14. 24. ch 32. 12. Josh 14. 8 14. Take heed to thy self and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget c. lest they depart from thine heart c. thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 4. 9 29. The Lord said They have well said all that they have spoken O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear c. Deut. 5. 28 29. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but c. to serve the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 10. 12. 1 Sam. 12. 20. Thou shalt be perfect or upright or sincere with the Lord thy God Deut. 18. 13. The Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 26. 16. Cleave unto the Lord your God as ye have done unto this day Josh 23. 8. Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth Josh 24. 14. 1 Sam. 12. 24. Because Israel did not destroy all the inhabitants of the land according to command God said I will not drive them out
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 would 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. Acts 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. That which I would do I cannot what I hate I do c. I consent to the Law c. with my mind I serve the Lord c. Rom. 7. 14 15 c. Let love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is good c. Not slothful in business servent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 9 11. Amos 5. 15. 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 servants of men c. let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God c. They who have wives be as tho they had none c. that you may attend on the Lord without distinction 1 Cor. 7. 23 24 29 30 31 c. So rua that ye may obtain 1 Cor. 9. 24. Hebr. 12. 1. Be ye followers of me even as I also am of Christ 1 Cor. 1â— 1. Though I bestow all my goods to seed the poor c. and have not charicy at profiteth me nothing 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of cur conscience that in simplicity and godly uncerity 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 craftiness 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 pleaseth 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. 2 Cor. 7. 1. 2 Thess 1. 3. Epaphras c. always labouring or striving servently 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 Coâ—oss 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. It behoveth us to attend the more to those things we have heard lest at any time we let them slip or they slide from us Hebr. 2. 1. All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 13. Luke 12. 1 2. Let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works c. We desire that everyone of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end that ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the
find more favour than he who flattereth with the tongue Prov. 28. 23. If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone c. If he will not hear thee then taken one or two more c. Matth. 18. 15 16 17. Luke 17. 3 4. Ye also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge able to admonish one another Rom. 15. 14. Paul rebuked Peter for not walking uprightly Gal. 2. 11 13 13 14. If a man be overtaken with a fault ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness Gal. 6. 1. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly c. teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. Comfort or exhort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do c. Warn them who are unruly or disorderly comfort the feeble-minded 1 Thes 5. 11 14. 1 Cor. 8. 1. If any man obey not c. have no company with him c. but admonish him as a brother 2 Thes 3. 14 15. Rebuke not an Elder but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren the elder women as mothers the younger as sisters c. Them that sin rebuke before all that others also may fear 1 Tim. 5. 1 2 20. Exhort one another daily c. lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. 12 13. Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works not forsaking the assemblings of your selves c. but exhorting one anoother Heb. 10. 24 25. Brethren if any one of you do err from the truth and one convert him let him know that he c. shall save a soul from death and shall hide c. James 5. 19 20. Of some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh Jude ver 20 22 23. See Discipline Chap. 27. To take Rebuke Admonition c. mell from each other WHen David had rashly resolved to cut off all Nabal's family and Abigail had met him and humbly and wisely admonished him David accepts of the advice and faith Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou who hast kept me this day from shedding of blood c. I have hearkned to thy voice 1 Sam. 25. 22 23 24 25 to v. 35. When Nathan had told David his sin in the matter of Uriah David said I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12. 7 13 When Joab had told the King of his errour in mourning so for Absalom as to discourage his subjects who had fought for him David hearkned and arose and sate in the gate as Joab advised 2 Sam. 19. 5 6 7 8 Let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindness and let him reprove me it shall be as excellent oyl which shall not break my head Psal 141. 5. A wise man will hear and will increase learning Prov. 1. 5. He who rebuketh a scorner getteth to himself shame and he who rebuketh a wicked man getteth a blot Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser c. Prov. 9. 7 8 9. chap. 19. 25. He is in the way of life who keepeth instruction but he who refuseth reproof erreth or causeth to err Prov. 10. 17. Whosoever loveth instruction loveth knowledge but he who hateth reproof is brutish c. He who hearkneth unto counsel is wife Prov. 12. 1 15. A wise son heareth his father's instruction but a scorner heareth not rebuke c. Poverty and shame to him who refuseth instruction but he who regardeth reproof shall be honoured Prov. 13. 1 18. A fool despiseth his fathers instruction but he who regardeth reproof is prudent c. He who hateth reproof shall die c. A scorner loveth not one who reproveth c. The ear which heareth reproof of life abideth among the wise He who refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul c. Prov. 15. 5 10 12 31 32. A reproof entreth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool Prov. 17. 10. As an ear-ring of gold c. so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear Prov. 25. 12. He who being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy c. The rod and reproof gives wisdom Prov. 29. 1 15. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than c. the song of fools Eccles 7. 5. Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4. 16. Submit your selves one to another in the fear of God Ephess 5. 21. Ye younger submit your selves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility 1 Pet. 5. 5. VII To Confess to and Pray each for other WHen a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the Lord c. then they shall confess their sin which they have done and he shall recompence his trespass c. and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed Numb 5. 6 7. And many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds c. Acts 19. 18 19. Paul confesseth that beyond measure he persecuted the Church of God and wasted it c. Gal. 1. 13. 1 Tim. 1. 12 13. Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed Jam. 5. 16. If a man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them who sinneth not unto death 1 John 5. 16. VIII To be of one mind BEhold how good and how pleasant is it for brethren to dwell together in Unity like the precious ointment upon the head c. Psal 133. 1 2. Christ prays that they may be kept that they may be one as we are c. John 17. 11 22. And the multitude of them who believed were of one heart and of one soul c. Acts 4. 32. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another c. Be of the same mind one towards another Rom. 12. 5 16. Now the God c. grant you to be like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God even the father Rom. 15. 5 6. I beseech you brethren c. that ye all speak the same things and that there be no division but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment 1 Cor. 1. 10 12. Whereas there is among you c. divisions Are ye not carnal c. One saith I am of Paul c. 1 Cor. 3. 3 4. When ye come together in the Church I hear there
when thou doest thine alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth Mat. 6. 1 2 3. Ask and it shall be given you Mat. 7. 7. Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a Disciple verily I say unto you He shall in no wise lose his reward Mat. 10. 42. Mark 9. 41. Christ shall say I was an hungry and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in Naked and ye clothed me c. when saw we thee an hungry c. Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me c. Mat. 25. 35 36 37 38 39 40 c. The poor widow threw in two mites c. Jesus said This poor widow hath cast more in than all they c. For all they did cast in of their abundance but she of her want did cast in all she had Mark 12. 42 43 44. Luke 21. 1 2 3 4. He who hath two Coats let him impart to him who hath none c. so of meat Luke 3. 11. When thou makest a feast 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 Discipies 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 hospitaliâ—y 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 know ye 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 sowesh 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 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. 3 John ver 5. 6. 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. 28. 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 19. 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. Philem ver 7. 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 John 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
He directs his epistles to the Angel of the Church but the matter he speaks to the whole Church and concludes Hear what the spirit saith unto the Churches Rev. 1. 4. ch 2. ch 3. See mere of Church-Acts in Discipline Ninthly Of the ending of Controverses arising between the Members of the Churches to avoid going to Law before others DAre any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the Saints do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the world and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters know ye not that we shall judge Angels how much more things which pertain to this life c. Set them to judge who are least esteemed in the Church I speak to your shame Is it so that there is not a wise man among you no not one who shall be able to judge between his brethren but brother goeth to law with brother and that before the unbelievers Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to law one with another why do ye not rather take wrong c. 1 Cor. 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Tenthly Of the Relief of the Poor of the Churches and their Contributions to the Necessity of other Churches and the Order of it AND the multitude of them who believed were of one heart c. Neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own but they had all things common c. Neither was there any among them that lacked for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prises c. and laid them down at the Apostles feet and distribution was made unto every man according as he had â—â—ed Acts 4. 32 34 35. The price of thy land While it remained was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power why hast thou c. Acts 5. 1 2 3 4. When the number of the disciples were multiplied there arose a murmuring against the Hebrews by the Grecians because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration Whereupon the Church chose Deacons to look to this matter Acts 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6. The Disciples every one according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren c. Acts 11. 28 29 30. These hands have administred to my necessities and to them who were with me I have shewed you all things how that ye so labouring ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 34 35. It hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem Rom. 15. 25 26. Now concerning the collection for the Saints as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia so do ye upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gathering when c. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. By the occasion of the forwardness of others and to prove the sincerity of your love for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich c. Not that other men be eased and you burdened but by an equalility c. 2 Cor. 8. 1 2 3 7 8 9 13 14. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver c. The administration of this Service not only supplieth the want of the Saints but it is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God c. They glorifie God for your professed subjection to Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 9. 7 12 13. If any would not work neither should he eat c. But ye brethren be not weary in well-doing c. 2 Thes 3. 10 11 12 13. If any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to shew pity at home and to requite their parents c. If any provide not for his own c. If any man or woman who believeth have widows let them relieve them and let not the Church be charged that it may relieve them who are widows indeed 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. See the Duty of Distributing to the Saints Necessity at large Chap. 17. Eleventhly Of the Officers of particular Churches their Power Duty and Recompence How they should be Qualified for the Office and of the Churches Duty to them as such I. Of the Officers Power Duties c. I Will give you Pastors according to mine heart who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding Jer. 3. 15. ch 23. 4. Thou shalt speak my word unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. Levit. 10. 11. I have made thee a watchman c. give them warning from me when I say c. and thou givest him not warning c. his blood will I require at thine hand yet if thou warn c. Ezek. 3. 17 18 19. They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and prophane and cause men to discern between the unclean and the clean c. and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies c. Ezek. 44. 23 24. Jer. 15. 19. Levit. 10. 8 9 10. Their widows are neglected in the daily ministration Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables c. look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of the holy Ghost and wisdom c. we will give our selves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word Acts 6. 1 2 3 4. Paul sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the Church c. he said unto them c. Take heed therefore to your selves and to all the flock over the which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers or Bishops to seed the Church of God c. I know this that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter c. therefore watch c. and I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 17 18 28 29 30 31 35. Let us wait on our ministring or he who teacheth on teaching or he who exhorteth on exhortation c. he who ruleth with diligence c. Rom. 12. 7 8. It is required in stewards that a man be sound faithful 1 Cor. 4 2. God hath set some in the Church first Apostles secondly Prophets thirdly Teachers c. helps governments 1 Cor. 12. 28. He gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the
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 13 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. John 1 26 31 33. Acts â— 5. 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. ch 22. 26. 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. chap. 22. 16. 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. Some who were baptized with John's baptism were baptized again Acts 19. 3 4 5. 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. IV. Breaking of Bread or the Lord's Supper THE Passover instituted and all the directions about it Exod. 12. The doubt whether one unclean might eat the passover resolved by God unto Moses Numb 9. 6 7 c. The people not prepared yet did eat Hezekiâ—h prayed for them 2 Câ—r 30. 18 1â— As they were eating Jesus took bread and blessed it and bâ—ake 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 stedâ—astly 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 communion 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 Lord's 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 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 the new Testament in my blood this do ye as often as ye drink it in remembrance of me for as often as ye eat thus bread and drink this cup ye do shew 〈…〉 ye the Lord's death till he come wherefore whosoever shall eat this breadâ— and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord c. he who eateth c. unworthily eateth and drinketh dâ—mnation to himself not discerâ—ing the Lord's body c. When ye come together to eat tarry one for another and if any man hunger
Deut. 7. 17 18. ch 24. 9. Matth. 16. 8 9. Thou shalt consider in thine heart that as a man chasteneth c. so the Lord c. remember c. Deut. 8. 5 17 18. Therefore shall ye lay up all these my words in your heart and in your soul c. ye shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou â—ittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way when thou lyest down and when thou risest c. Deut. 11. 18 19. O that they were wise c. that they would consider their latter end Deut. 32. 29. Lam. 1 9. Jer. 23. 20. ch 30. 24. This book of the law shall not depart c. but thou shalt meditate therein day and night Joshua 1 8. Fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he hath done for you 1 Sam. 12. 24. 1 Chron. 16. 12. David hastily resolved to cut off Nabals house but when by Abigails words he considered the matter he was staid and blessed the counsel c. 1 Sam. 25. If they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carryed captive and repent 1 Kings 8. 47 Then I consulted with my self and I rebuked the nobles Nehem. 5. 7. Therefore am I troubled at his presence when I consider I am afraid of him Job 23. 15. Psal 77. 3. He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others because they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways Job 34. 26 27. Psal 28. 5. O Job stand still and consider the wondrous works of God Job 37. 14. Psal 105. 5. Blessed is the man c. whose delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate both day and night Psal 1. 1 2. Sin not commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still Psal 4. 4. Psal 77. 6. Eccles 1. 16. When I consider the heavens the works of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained what is man that thou art mindful of him c Psal 8. 3 4. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord c. Psal 22. 27. My heart was hot within me while I was musing the fire burned then spake I c. Psal 39. â— Luke 3. 15. Hearken and consider and incline thine ears forget all thine own people c. 45. 10. Now consider this ye who forget God lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver Psal 50. 22. Deut. 32. 18. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth shall praise c. when I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night Psal 63. 5 6. Psal 42. 6. All men shall fear and declare the work of God for they shall wisely consider of his doing Psal 64. 9. I have considered the days of old c. I call to remembrance my song in the night I commend c. I will remember the years of the right-hand of the most high I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate also of all thy works and talk of thy doings Psal 77. 5 6 10 11 12. When he slew them c. they remembred that God was their rock Psal 78. 34 35. I will sing praise to my God c. my meditation on of him shall be sweet Psal 104. 33 34. They forgot God their strong Saviour who had done great things in Egypt c. Psal 106. 7 20 21 22. Who is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal 107. 43. The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them who have pleasure therein his works are honourable c. he hath made his wonderful works to be remembred Psal 111. 2 3 4. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed according to thy word c. I will meditate in thy precepts c. Princes did sit and speak against me but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes c. I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies c. I remembred thy judgments of old O Lord and have comforted my self c. I have remembred thy name O Lord in the â—ight c. I will consider thy testimonies â— Thy commandment is exceeding broad c. Thy law is my meditation all the day c. they are ever with me I have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation c. Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I may meditate in thy word Psal 119. 9 15 23 48 52 55 59 78 95 96 97 98 99 148. How precious also are thy thoughts to me O God how great the sum of them Psal 139. 17 18. I remember the days of old I meditate on all thy works I muse on the work of thine hand c. my soul thirsteth after thee c. Psal 143. 5 6. Ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established or all thy ways shall be ordered aright Prov. 4. 26. Eccles 2. 14. Go to the Ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise Prov. 6. 6. The simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his going Prov. 14. 15. The heart of the righteous studieth to answer but the mouth of the wicked poureth c. Prov. 15. 28. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth or maketh wise his mouth Prov. 16. 23. A wicked man hardneth his face but as for the upright he directeth or considereth his way Prov. 21 29. When thou sittest to eat c. consider what is before thee and put a knife to thy throat c. Prov. 23. 1 2. Keep thy â—oot when thou goest to the house of God and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools for they consider not that they do evil be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God for God is in heaven Eccles 5. 1 2. Consider the work of God for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked c. in the day of adversity consider Eccles 7. 13 14. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth Eccles 12. 1. The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his masters crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider Ah sinful nation Isa 1. 3 4. They regard not the work of the Lord neither consider the operation of his hand therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge Isa 5. 11 12 13. Psal 28. 5. That they may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this and the holy one of Israel hath created it Isa 41. 20. Remember ye not the former things neither consider the things of old Isa 43 18. God complaining
of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made even his eternal Power and Godhead so that they are without excuse because when they knew God they did not glorifie him as God c. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge God gave them up c. Rom. 1. 19 20 21 28. Psal 19. 1 2 c. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness c. not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance c. Thou art called a Jew c. and kâ—â—west his will c. Rom. 2. 4 18 19. The way of peace they have not known c. By the law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3. 17 20. ch 7. 7. We glory also in tribulation knowing that tribulation worketh patience c. Rom. 5. 3 4. They have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge for they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own c. have not submitted c. Rom. 10. 2 3. I would not brethren that ye should be ignorant in this mystery lest ye should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part is happened to Israel c. O the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counsellor Rom. 11. 25 33 34. That ye may prove what is that good and acceptable will of God Rom. 12. 2. I my self also am perswaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness and filled with all knowledge able also to admomsh one another Rom. 15. 14. The mystery which was kept secret since the world began but now is made manifest and by the Scriptures of the Prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God made known to all nations Rom. 16. 25 26. In every thing ye are enriched c. and in all knowledge c. The world by wisdom knew not God c. 1 Cor. 1. 5 21. I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified c. We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery c. which none of the Princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory c. God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit c. The things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God Now we have received the spirit which is of God that we might know the things which are freely given to us of God c. the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God c. neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned c. Who hath known the mind of the Lord c. but we have the mind of Christ 1 Cor. 2. 2 7 8. 10 11 12 14 16. Psal 92. 5 6. If any c. seemeth to be wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise 1 Cor. 3. 18. Do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the world c. Know ye not c. 1 Cor. 6. 2 3 15. We know that we all have knowledge knowledge pusseth up but charity edisieth and if any man thinketh he knoweth any thing he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know c. We know that an Idol is nothing c. howbeâ—t there is not in every man that knowledge 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 knowledge by the same spirit 1 Cor. 12. 8. Though I c. understand all mysteries and all knowledge c. and have no charity I am nothing c. Whether there be knowledge 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. Job 8 9. If any man be ignorant let him be ignorant 1 Cor. 14. 38. Some have not the knowledge 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 in them c. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts the light of the knowledge 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 knowledge 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 knowledge 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 c. that ye may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth c. and to know the love of Christ which surpasseth knowledge Ephes 3. 4 5 18 19. He gave some Apostles c. till we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge 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 Thes 4. 5. Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord 〈◊〉 understanding what the will of the Lord is 〈◊〉 5. 10 17. That your love may abound c. in knowledge and in all judgment c. Phil. 1. 9. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus c. that I may know him and the power of
Elah was drinking himself drunk in his house c. Zimri smote and killed him 1 Kings 16. 8 9 10. Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the Pavilion when Israel came and slew the Assyrians with a great slaughter c. 1 Kings 20. 16 17 18 19 20. And they gave drink in vessels of gold c. and royal wine in abundance and the drinking according to law none did compel for the king had appointed to all the officers of his house that they should do according unto every 〈◊〉 pleasure Hester 1. 7 8. They who sate in the gate spake against me I am the long of the drunkards or drinkers of drink Psalm 69. 12. Wine is a mocker strong drink is raging whosoever is deceived hereby is not wise Prov. 20. 1. Be not amongst wine bibbers nor amongst riotous eaters of flesh c. for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty Prov. 23. 2 20 21. It is not for kings to drink wine c. lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted Prov. 31. 4 5. Wo unto them who rise up early in the morn that they may follow strong drink who continue until night till wine inflame them c. Wo to the mighty to drink mine and men of strength to mingle strong drink Isa 5. 11 22. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard c. Isa 24. 20. They also have erred through wine and through strong drink are out of the way the Priest and the Prophet have erred through strong drink they are swallowed up of wine they are out of the way through strong drink they err in vision they stumble in judgment for all their tables are full of vomit and filthiness c. Isa 28. 7. 8. His watch-men are blind c. Come ye say they I will fetch wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Isa 56. 10. 11 12. Awake ye drunkards weep and house all ye drunkards of wine because of the new wine because it is cut off from your mouth Joel 1. 5. Wo to them who are at ease in Zion c. who drink wine in bowls c. Amos 6. 1 6. While they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured Nahum 1. 10. Wo unto him who giveth his neighbour drink who putteth thy bottle to him and makest drunken also that thou mayst look on their nakedness Habak 2. 15. But if that evil servant c. shall begin to smite his fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunken The Lord of that servant shall come c. Matth. 24. 48 49 50. Luke 12. 45. Others mocking said Those men are full of new wine But Peter c. said c. These are not drunken as ye suppose seeing it is but the third hour of the day c. Acts 2. 13 14 15. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness c. Rom. 13. 13. I have written to you not to keep company c. if any man who is called brother be c. a drunkard c. with such a one no not to eat 1 Cor. 5. 11. Be not deceived neither fornicators c. nor drunkards c. shall inherit the kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Ephes 5. 21. One is hungry another is drunken c. 1 Cor. 11. 21. Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit c. Ephes 5. 8. They who are drunk are drunken in the night but let us who are of the day be sober c. 1 Thes 5. 7 8. CHAP. LXIV Great Outward Privileges nor our own Righteousness alone will be our Security against Judgments here or Damnation for ever No Cause of Boasting in these only WHat nation so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God in all that we call upon him for And what Nation so great that hath Statutes c. so righteous as all this law Only take heed and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things thine eyes have seen c. left ye corrupt and make you a graven image c. leâ—t ye forget the covenant c. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire c. When c. ye shall do evil in the light of the Lord to provoke him to anger c. ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land c. be utterly destroyed c. Ask of the days past c. Did ever people I ear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live Or hath God essayed to go and take him a nation from the middest of a nation by tentations by signs c. Because he loved thy fathers he chose their feed after them and brought them out in his sight with his mighty power c. Thou shalt therefore keep his statutes Deut. 4. 7 8 9 10 16 23 24 25 26 27 33 34 36 37 40. Speak not thou in thine heart after the Lord hath cast them out from before thee saying for my righteousness the Lord hath brought me into possess this good land but for the wickedness of these nations c. not for thy righteousness nor for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to possess their land but for the wickedness c. the Lord thy God doth drive them out c. And that he may perform the word which the Lord swore unto thy rathers Abraham c. the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness for a stiff-necked people c. Deut. 9. 4 5 6 7 c. To the wicked God saith What hast thou to do to declare my statutes or that thou shouldest â—ake my Covenant into thy mouth seeing thou harest instruction and castest my words behind thee c. Psal 50. 16 17 18. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord I am full of the burâ—t-offerings c. who hath required this at your hands to tread my Courts c. bring no more vain oblations incense is an abomination to me the new moon and sabboths the calling of assemblies I cannot away with it c. they are a trouble to me I am weary to bear them when you make many prayers I won't hear c. your hands are full of blood wash you make you clean c. Isa 1. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. Jer. 6. 19 20. We are all an unclean thing and all our righteousness as filthy rags Isa 64. 6. He who killeth an ox is as if he slew a man he who sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck c. They have chosen their own ways c. Isa 66. 3. Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord c. If ye throughly amend your ways c.
eat ye that which is good Isa 55. 1 2. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Matth. 5. 6. They who are whole need not a physician but they who are sick I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Matth. 9. 12 13. Come unto me all ye who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Take my yoke upon you c. and ye shall find rest unto your souls c. Matth. 11. 28 29. Psal 34. 9 10. He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away Luke 1. 53. The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost Luke 19 1 to 11. He who cometh unto me shall never hunger and he who believeth on me shall never thirst John 6. 35. When they heard this they were pricked in the heart and said c. Men and brethren What shall we do c. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost c. Acts 2. 37 38. The Gaoler trembled c. and said Sirs What must I do to be saved And they said Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved and thine house Acts 16. 29 30 31. If any man lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him James 1. 5. I will give unto him who is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely Rev. 21. 6. And let him who is athirst come and whose ever will let him take of the water of life freely Rev. 22. 17. CHAP. LXVIII Of Man's Ignorance of the Men and Things of this World after his Departure hence THou destroyest the hope of man thou prevailest for ever against him and he passeth thou changest his countenance and sendest him away his sons come to honour and he knoweth it not and they are brought low and he perceiveth not of them Job 14. 19 20 21. The dead know not any thing c. they have no more a portion in any thing done under the sun Eccles 9. 5 6. Doubtless thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel knoweth us not Isa 63. 16. CHAP. LXIX Of Mary the Mother of our Lord according to the Flesh having Children by her Husband Joseph I Am become a stranger to my brethren an alien to my mother's children c. Psal 69. 7. Then Joseph c. took unto him his wife and knew her not till she had brought forth her first-born Son Matth. 1. 24 25. While he yet talked to the people his mother and his brethren stood without desiring to speak with him Then one said unto him Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without desiring to speak with thee Matth. 12. 47 48. Mark 3. 31 to 35. Is not this the Carpenter's Son Is not his mother called Mary And his brethren James and Joses and Simon and Judas And his sisters Are not they with us Whence then hath this man these things Matth. 13. 55 56. She brought forth her first-born Son c. When Jesus was twelve years old Joseph and his mother went to Jerusalem and returning back missed him c. They sought him amongst their kinsfolk and acquaintance c. Luke 2. 7 42 43 44. Matth. 1. 25. After this he went down to Capernaum he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples and he continued there c. John 2. 12. His brethren therefore said unto him Depart hence and go into Judea c. For neither did his brethren believe in him c. But when his brethren were gone up then went he also up unto the feast c. John 7. 3 4 5 8 9 10. These all continued with one accord c. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brethren Acts 1. 14. I went up c. to see Peter c. But other Apostles saw I none save James the Lord's brother Gal. 1. 18 19. AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE To the Whole Book A ABide in the Faith and Welldoing Chap. 16 Page 139 Accept Rebukes Admonitions c. c. 17 p. 150 Accord amongst Saints c. 17 p. 151 Acknowledge God in our Troubles c. 22 p. 197 Acknowledge Sin in general p. 16 c. 121 Acknowledge Sin in Affliction c. 22 p. 199 Acknowledge Sin to fellow Saints c. 17 p. 150 Acts of Churches as such c. 27 p. 227 Admire God and Christ c. 16 p. 83 Admouish one another c. 17 p. 149 Advocate Jesus c. 8 p. 41 Adultery c. 52 p. 304 Affiance See Trust in God   Afflictions in general c. 22 p. 178 Afflictions belong to Saints c. ibid. p. ibid. Afflictions have attended Saints c. ibid. p. 179 From God immediately c. ibid. p. ibid. From wicked Men c. ibid. p. 180 From formal Professors c. ibid. p. 181 Afflictions why sent c. ibid. p. 183 Afflicted's Comfort therein c. ibid. p. 186 There Duties therein c. ibid. p. 197 Almighty God Almightiness c. 2 p. 10 All-sufficient c. 2 p. 5 Altars before the Law c. 45 p. 286 Ambition See Humility See World   Amity See Love amongst Saints   Angels c. 41 p. 280 Anger in general c. 16 p. 117 Anger amongst Saints c. 17 p. 148 Anger not hasty toward Saints c. 17 p. 147 Anger prohibited towards all c. 19 p. 161 Anger prohibited towards Enemies c. 22 p. 204 Appearance of Evil to be avoided c. 16 p. 123 Apostacy See Perserverance   Apostacy to be watched against c. 16 p. 143 Apostacy total not in Saints c. 16 p. 142 c. 20. p. 170 Apostles Gall and Commission equal c. 16 p. 296 Arguings of God with Sinners c. 16 p. 125 Ascension of Christ c. 8 p. 41 Assault of Satan See Satan   Assemblies for Worshipping of God c. 27 p. 226 Associate not with the Wicked c. 19 p. 163 Attributes of God c. 2 p. 5 Avenge the Saints is Gods Perogative c. 22 p. 189 Avenge not upon Enemies c. 22 p. 204 Avoid Sin and the occasion of it c. 16 p. 123 Avoid trouble in Lawful ways c. 22 p. 205 Authority of Christ c. 7 p. 31 Authority of Magistrates See Magistrates   B BAbling See Peace amongst Saints   Backbiting See Peace among Saints   Baptisms c. 27 p. 234 Bear Afflictions patiently c. 22 p. 207 Bear Saints Burthens c. 17 p. 146 Belief See Faith   Belief what See Nature of Faith   Believers Characters c. 12 p. 60 Their failings c. 13 p. 67 Their Privileges in general c. 14 p. 71 Benefits of Faith c. 11 p. 53 57. Beware of Sin and Apostacy c. 16 p. 143 Bishops See Officers of Churches   Blasphemy c. 52 p. 291 Blessed God! See Praises   Blessedness of Afflicted ones c. 22 p. 189 Blindness See Ignorance