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Chap. 21 Page 176 In Duties Chap. 16 Chap. 17 Chap. 18 Chap. 19. In each Duty in Affliction Chap. 22 Page 192 In Duties to Magistrates Chap. 24 Page 215 Chap. XIII Saints Believers the Children of God themselves may be overtaken with Faults are not altogether free from Sinful Dispositions and Inclinations in this Life that they may be Corrected of God for them Page 67. 1. In general it is affirmed 67 2. Particular instances of the Saints failings Recorded ibid. 3. That God will Punish and Correct his for Sinning 70 See Gods Threatnings and Judgments against Sin and Sinners Chap. 16 Page 125 Chap. XIV Of the Priviledges of the Saints and their Excellency above others What God hath done doth do and will do for and be unto them more then others and what they can do with God c. Page 71. See more in the next Chap. of Union and Relation to Christ Page 77 See the Advantages of Faith Chap. 11 Page 57 See their Priviledges in Afflictions Chap. 22 Page 186 In times of Common Calamities Chap. 23 Page 209 See the Glory Believers shall have Chap. 37 Page 262 Chap. XV Of the Union and Relations between Christ and his Church and the mutual Love and Esteem of each other and the Manifestation thereof Page 77 Chap. XVI Of the Duties of Believers such as profess to be Saints First Towards God Page 19. 1. In general to live to God only not to self to be Holy Fruitful Walk in the Light in an Honest Heavenly and Spiritual Conversation worthy of our High-Calling To glorifie God and mind things above 79 2. In Particular To Love God and the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ 82 3. As Fruits of Love to God and Christ to delight themselves in God Long for Pant after him make their boast of Glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their Portion All and Rest And to obey and hearken to the Laws and Words of God and Christ 1. To Delight in Long for Pant after make their boast of Glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their Portion 83 2. To obey and hearken to the Laws and Word of God our Lord Jesus 85 See more of Disobedience Page 125 4. Worship God and Sanctifie him therein 88 See more in Chap. 27 Page 232. and of Idol Chap. 40 Page 276 5. To Believe Imbrace and be found in the Practice of nothing in the things of God and about his Worship but that which clearly according to Precepts Rules and Examples of Scripture appears to be Christs mind upon which we may in Faith expect Acceptance 90 6. To Pray to God Of Prayer at large 92 See more in Afflictions Chap. 22 Page 201 Common Calamities Chap. 23 Page 210 7. To take especial Notice of the Acts of Gods Goodness and Mercy keep Memorials thereof Celebrate his Praises Extol him stir up others so to do 97 8. To fear God and none else or other fear The Arguments thereto Page 101 1. Not to fear any else or other fear 101 2. Fear God 102 9. To Trust in God and in none else in all Cases the Arguments thereto 105 1. Not in any else 105 2. In God as suitable Object 106 See more of Faith Chap. 11 Page 53 10. To look believingly unto Hope in and Patiently wait for God his Salvation in all Cases The Arguments thereto 110 See more in the Nature and Use of Faith Chap. 11 Page 57 11. To walk humbly before God abasing self opposing all High Thoughts Avoid boasting of self The Reasons 113 See more of submitting in Affliction Chap. 22 Page 178 See Death Chap. 34 Page 256 Duties of Believers towards God Chap. 16. 12. To be Moderate Meek Patient and Quiet in all things The Encouragements thereto 117 See more Duties to Brethren Chap. 17 Page 145 Duties to all Men Chap. 19 Page 161 Duties to Persecutors Chap. 22 Page 204 See Words Chap. 16 Page 119 13. To take heed to our Lips That our Words be not rash but true well-ordered and Savory and Seasonable 119 14. To acknowledge Sin depart from it and watch against it the Arguments thereto Gods complaining of it Reasonings with Sinners about it Threatnings and Judgments against Sinners for it 1. What Sin is 121 2. To acknowledge Sin to God Mourn for it both our own and others ibid. See more in Affliction Chap. 22 Page 200 In Common Calamities Chap. 23 Page 210 In Prayer Chap. 16 Page 92 3. To depart from Sin and all appearance of it hate it and avoid the occasions of it the Reasons 123 See Duties in General Chap. 16 Page 79 4. Gods Reasonings with Complainings of and Threatnings and Judgments against Sinners for their several Sins Disobedience and Rebellions 125 See more of Sin in Man's Nature Chap. 5 Page 18 23. Of Gods Correcting his for Sin Chap. Chap. 13 Page 70 Pardon of Sin Chap. 10 Page 48 15. To own and profess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ and his before Men boldly To wait for Christs second coming 1. To Own and Confess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ before Men. 133 See more of owning him in time of Persecution Chap. 22 Page 199 Of Perseverance Chap. 16 Page 139 2. To wait for the Second coming of Christ 134 See more his coming to Judgment Chap. 36 Page 260. 16. To walk with God Heartily Uprightly Sincerely and to follow him fully and Zealously The Reasons of it ibid. See also Hypocrites c. Chap. 28. Page 237 17. To stick fast to God not to depart abide in the Faith and Practice of what we know of his Will to the end That the Saints shall be kept 1. To Persevere and Abide in Faith and Practice c. 139 See more of holding fast in time of Affliction Chap. 22 Page 200 2. That Saints shall be kept have power to stand 142 See more of God upholding in Afflictions Chap. 22 Page 190 18. To take heed to Observe and Watch diligently over our selves with a Holy Jealousie and Fear lest we should Apostatize and depart from God his Truths and Ways into any Error or Sin The Reasons our Danger 143 See more of Saints Aptness to fall Chap. 13 Page 67 Of the Tempers Methods Chap. 30 Page 244 Chap. XVII Second Duties of Saints Believers Brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that relation one to another Page 145. 1. To Love each other The kinds of it 145 2. To Sympathize with each other in Pity and Compassion Help and Comfort one another bear one anothers Burdens have mutual Care of each other 146 See also this Duty to Afflicted ones Chap. 22 Page 207. 3. To Honour and Respect each other and be kind and Affectionate 147 See more walking Humbly Chap. 16 Page 113. 4. Not Rashly and Unadvisedly to take up a Prejudice against any believe Reports take Offence or be Angry but tenderly Forgive cover Faults and restore Offenders in Love ibid. Secondly Duties of
3. Of the Churches Duties towards their Ministers and such others who labour amongst them 231 4. Of the Elections and Ordination of Officers in Churches ibid. 12. Of laying on of Hands upon the several Occasions and to the several ends in Scripture mentioned 232 13. Of the several Ordinances of Christ to be observed in and by the Churches of Christ and elsewhere Page 232. 1. Prayers 232 See more in Prayer at large Chap. 16. Page 92. See Praising at large Chap. 16. Page 92. 2. Reading Teaching Preaching of the Word of God Prophesying 232 See more of Ministers in general Chap. 26. Page 219. And of Gifts of Church-Members Page 226. 3. Baptisms 234 4. Breaking of Bread or the Lords Supper 235 5. Discipline Church-Censures or removing of Scandals c. 236 See more of Rebuking one another Chap. 17. Page 149. Chap. XXVIII Of Hypocrites and Hypocrisie The Spirits and Practices of such who are very format and earnest in and about the external Parts of Worship and Profession and in a shew for God yet high in their Opposition of Christ the Truth of the Gospel and Power of Godliness in others 237 See more of their persecuting Temper Chap. 22. Page 181. The Danger of Hypocrisie and of Formality and end of Hypocrites 242 Also see Sincerity Chap. 16. Page 134. Chap. XXIX Of the Conscience 243 Chap. XXX Of the Devil of his subtilty wiles and ways by himself and in and by his Instruments wicked Men false Teachers Deceivers and Seducers The Description of them and what concerns the Saints therein 244 1. Of Satan the Devil himself his subtilty c. 244 See more sinners Bondage Chap. 5. Pag. 18. 2. The Instruments of Satan Seducers Deceivers c. And the Saints Duties about it 246 Chap. XXXI Of Consideration Meditation pondering upon and serious weighing of the things of God his Word and Works our selves c. 249 Chap. XXXII Of the Thoughts Mind and Affections Page 251 Chap. XXXIII Of Repentance in the general wherein God cannot repent and wherein or how he is said to Repent Repentance in Man and of his turning to God from sin and in such who have backsâ—idden from following of God and otherwise Page 253 1. Wherein God cannot repent and wherein or how he is said to repent 253 2. Repentance in Man in general and of back-sliders returning c. ibid. Also see God's reasonings with Sinners Chap. 16. Page 125. Chap. XXXIV Of Death the laying down of these Tabernacles Page 256 Chap. XXXV Of the Resurrection from the Dead Page 259 Chap. XXXVI Of Christ's second Coming to the Judgment and rendring unto every Man according to his Deeds done in the Body whether good or bad Page 260 Also see Waiting for Christ's coming Chap. 16. Page 134. Chap. XXXVII Of the Glory prepared for the Saints and reserved to be given to them at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ Page 262 Also see the End of the Wicked Chap. 5. Page 23. Chap. XXXVIII Of Knowledge and Understanding in and about Divine things and of the want thereof Ignorance about such things and the evil thereof Page 264 See more of the sottish Nature of Man Chap. 5. Page 21. See also the Giver of Knowledge Chap. 20. Page 166. Chap. XXXIX Of this present World and the Titles Honours Pleasures and other things in this World The use of them the Snares and Temptations in them and of the Saints Duties in relation to them Page 270 Chap. XL. Of Idolatry setting up and Worshiâ—ping strange Gods graven Images c. Page 276 Also see Worshipping the true God Chap. 16. Page 88. Chap. XLI Of the Angels their appearing to Men what they are and do Page 280 Chap. XLII Of the Parable and Similitudes which Christ spake Page 282 Chap. XLIII Of the Miracles and wonderful Things which were done by Christ and his Apostles Page 283 Chap. XLIV Of the Kings of Israel and Judah how they came to their Power and Office Page 286 Also see Magistrates at large Chap. 24. Page 211. Chap. XLV Of Sacrifices and Altars and calling upon the Name of the Lord before the giving of the Law Page 286 Chap. XLVI Christianity a difficult thing or it 's hard to be a Christian indeed ibid. Chap. XLVII Of Time or Opportunity Page 287 Chap. XLVIII Of the Signs of the end of the World Page 289 Chap. XLIX Encouragements to wait for hope in and cry to God in a time when our Case seems desperate ibid. Chap. L. God takes notice of a little good in any Page 290 Chap. LI. Of Vowes and Promises to God ibid. Chap. LII Of Blasphemies Page 291 Chap. LIII Of Israel's Murmurings Page 292 Chap. LIV. Of Diligence in our Calling Page 294 Chap. LV. Of Voices Dreams and Visions by which God declared his mind of old Page 295 Chap. LVI Of the Call and Commission of the Apostles equal without Superiority Page 296 Chap. LVII Of Israel's return from the Countries into which they are scattered Page 297 Chep LVIII Of the Seventh Day and the Laws about it And the Change of the first day of the Week Page 299 Chap. LIX Of Usury Page 300 Chap. LX. Of Envy Hatred Emulation Discontent Strife Page 301 Chap. LXI Of Murder the taking away of the Life Man Page 302 Chap. LXII Of Adultery Page 303 Chap. LXIII Of Drunkenness Page 305 Chap. LXIV That great outward Privileges nor our own Righteousness will be security against Judgment here or Damnation hereafter no cause of boasting Page 306 Chap. LXV Of Words and Deeds neither true nor good yet spoke and done to effect things designed or prevent Dangers Page 307 Chap. LXVI Of Words and Sayings expressive of Choice only not binding Page 308 Chap. LXVII Of sensible sick lost Sinners hungry thirsty Souls longing ones such whom Christ came to seek heal satisfie and save Page 309 Chap. LXVIII Of departed Soul's ignorance of Men and Things here in this World Ibid. Chap. LXIX Of Mary the Mother of our Lord according to the Flesh her having of Children by Joseph her Husband Ibid. CHAP. I. Of the Scriptures Written Word of God the Word of Truth their Authority Use End and Excellency Heb. 1. 1. chap. 2. 3 4. Prov. 23. 23. WHAT nation so great that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day Deut. 4. 8. Psal 119. 138 172. Therefore shall ye lay up these words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes And you shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way when thou lyest down and when thou risest up And thou shalt write them upon the dore-post of thy house and upon thy gates that your days may be multiplied c. Deut. 11. 18 19 20. ch 6. 6 7 8. Thou shalt read the law before all Israel in their
hearing c. that they may hear that they may learn and fear the Lord your God and observe to do all the words of this law and that their children who have not known may hear and learn to fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. ch 17. 18 19 20. Jâ—sh 1. 3. When Josiah heard it read he rent his clothes 2 Kings 22. 11 c. Ezra 9. 4. I have esteemed hid or laid up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food or appointed portion Job 23. 12. The word of the Lord is tryed or refined Psal 18. 30. Psal 12. 6. The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure enlightning the eyes c. the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether more to be desired than fine gold sweeter also than the honey and the honey-combs c. Moreover by them is thy servant warned Psal 19. 7 8 9 10 11. Psal 93. 5. Psal 119. 105. 2 Sam. 22. 31. Lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me c. Psal 40. 7. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children that the generation to come might know the children who should be born should arise and declare to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments and might not be as their fathers c. Psal 78. 5 6 7 8. Because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High therefore he brought down their heart c. Psal 107. 11. 12. Luk. 7. 30. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his ways By taking heed according to thy word c. Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee c. Remember thy word unto thy servant upon which thou caused me to hope c. I will speak of thy testimonies before kings thy word hath quickned me c. Unless thy law had been my delight I had perished in my affliction c. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies c. I have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation I understand more than the ancients c. How sweet are thy words to my taste thy word is a lamp to my feet c. I hope in thy word the entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth understanding to the simple Psal 119. 9 11 46 49 50 92 96 98 99 103 105 114 130. Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name c. All the kings of the earth shall praise thee O Lord when they hear the words of thy mouth Psal 138. 2 4. He shewed his words to Jacob and his statutes and his judgments unto Israel he hath not dealt so with any nation And as for his judgments they have not known them Psal 147. 19 20. Deut. 4. 8. Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed but he who feareth the Commandments shall be rewarded or in peace Prov. 13. 13 Every word of God is pure c. Prov. 30. 5. To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light or morning in them Isa 8 20. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who bringeth good-tidings who publisheth peace who bringeth good-tidings of good who publisheth salvation who faith unto Zion Thy God reigneth Isa 52. 7. As the rain cometh c. so shall my word be which goeth out of my mouth it shall not return unto me void but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it Isa 55. 10 11. To this man will I look to him who is poor c. And trembleth at my word c. Hear the word of the Lord ye who tremble at his word c. he shall c. Isa 66. 2 5. Behold the word of the Lord is to them a reproach they have no delight in it Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord c. Jer. 6. 10 11. The wise men are ashamed c. Lo they have rejected the word of the Lord and what wisdom is in them Jer. 8. 9. Luke 7. 30 The prophet who hath a dream let him tell a dream and he who hath my word let him speak my word faithfully What is the chaff to the wheat faith the Lord Is not my word like as fire saith the Lord and like a hammer which breaketh the rock in pieces Jer. 23. 28 29. I will shew thee that which is noted in the scriptures of truth Dan. 10. 21. Because Ephraim hath made many altars c. I have written unto him the great things of my law but they were counted as a strange thing Hos 8. 11 12. Psal 119. 129. Behold c. I will send a famine c. not of bread c. but of hearing the word of the Lord and they shall wander from sea to sea c. to seek the word oâ— the Lord and shall not find Amos. 8. 11. 12. Do not my words do good to him who walketh uprightly Micah 2. 7. Christ when the Devil tempted him said to him It is written Man lives not by bread alone c. It is written again Thou shalt c. Matt. 4. 4 7 10. Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doth them I will liken him to a wise man who buildeth his house upon a rock c. Matt. 7. 24 25. When the Pharisees contended Christ said unto them Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungry c. Or have ye not read in the law how that on the Sabbath-day c. Matt. 12. 2 3 4 5. ch 21. 16. Have ye not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female c. What God hath joyned together let no man c. Matt. 19. 4 5 6. And he said It is written My house shall be called a house of prayer but ye have made it a den c. Did ye never read in the scriptures That the stone which the builders refused the same is become the head of the corner Matt. 21. 13 16 42. Luk. 20. 17. Have not you read that which was spoken unto you by God saying I am c. Matt. 22. 31 32. Luk. 20. 37 38. All ye shall be offended c. For it is written I will unite the shepherd and the stock shall be scatterd abroad c. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray c. But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be c. But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled Matt. 26. 31
any man preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received let him be accursed The gospel c. I neither received it of man c. but by the revelation of Jesus Gal. 1. 7 8 9 11 12. The scripture foreseeing that God would c. The scripture hath concluded all under sin Gal. 3. 8 22. Jam. 4. 5. Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace c. And take c. the sword of the spirit which is the word of God Ephes 6. 15 17. Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you Philip. 4. 9. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and c. Col. 3. 16. Ye received the word of God which ye heard of us ye received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth the word of God which effectually worketh also in you who believe 1 Thes 2. 13. As ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound c. Wherefore comfort or exhort one another with these words 1 Thess 4. 1 18. Hold the traditions ye have been taught whether by word or our epistle 2 Thes 2. 15. These things write I unto thee c. that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thy felt in the house of God c. 1 Tim. 3. 14 15. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus c. 1 Tim. 4. 6. I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect Angels that thou observe these things without preferring one before another c. 1 Tim. 5. 21. ch 6. 13 14. If any men teach otherwise and consent not to wholsom words the words of our Lord Jesus and to the doctrine which is according to godliness he is proud or a fool knowing nothing but doing about questions and strifes of words c. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4. 2 Tim. 2. 14 15 16 17. Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me c. 2 Tim. 1. 13. Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise to salvation c. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine c. That the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 3. 14 15 16 17. Preach the word c. For the time will come they will not endure sound doctrine c. 2. Tim. 4. 2 3 4. Therefore ought we to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let them slip for it the word spoken by Angels was stedfast c. how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord was confirmed unto us by them who heard God also bearing witness both with signs c. Heb. 2. 1 2 3 4. ch 12. 25. Wherefore as the holy Ghost saith To day if ye will hear his voice Heb. 3. 7. The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit c. Heb. 4. 12 13. Every one who useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness Heb. 5. 13. Begat he us with the word of truth c. Be swift to hear c. the engrafted word able to save c. Jam. 1. 18 19 21. Ephes 1. 13. chap. 5. 26. 2 Tim. 2. 15. If you fulfil the royal law according to the scripture Thou shalt love c. Jam. 2. 8. Being born again not of corruptible seed but c. by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever c. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you 1 Pet. 1. 23 25. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby 1 Pet. 2. 2. I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though ye know them and be established in the present truth c. Moreover I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance for we have c. We have also a more sure word of prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light which shineth in a dark place c. knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private or proper interpretation for the prophecy came not in old or any time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 12 13 15 16 19 20 21. This second Epistle I write unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken of before by the holy Prophets and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord 〈◊〉 Saviour c. Paul also according unto the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you as also in all his epistles c. In which are some things hard to be understood which they who are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also other scriptures to their own destruction 2 Pet. 3. 1 2 15 16. And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full 1 Joh. 1. 4. He who doth not abide in the doctrine of Christ hath not God c. If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God-speed for he who bids him God-speed c. 2 Joh. 9. 10 11. It was needful for me to write to you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints c. I will put you in remembrance though ye once knew c. Remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ That they told you there should c. Jud. vers 3 5 17 18. Christ sent and signified by his Angel unto his servant John the things which must shortly come to pass c. Blessed is he who readeth and they who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein c. Write the things which thou hast seen c. Rev. 1. 1 2 3 19. You shall not add unto the word which I command you neither diminish from it Deut. 4. 2. Matth. 15. 3 4 5 6. Every word of God is pure c. Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a lyar Prov. 30. 5 6. I testifie c. if any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto
him the plagues which are written in this book And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life c. Rev. 22. 18 19. Secret things belong to God revealed things to us and our children that we may do all the words of this law Deut. 29. 29. Pray for us that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified 2 Thes 3. 1. See that ye refuse not him who speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him who spake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him who speaketh from heaven Heb. 12. 25. The parable of the good seed sown in good and bad ground and the success thereof Matth. 13. 3 4 5 6 c. See Preaching of the Word Chap. 27. CHAP. II of GOD. I. His Names and Titles IN the beginning God created the heavens c. Gen. 1. 1. And the Lord God formed man c. Gen. 2. 7. ch 15. 7. ch 28. 13. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord Gen. 4. 26. And he was the Priest of the Most High God c. Gen. 14. 18 19 20. The Lord appeared unto Abraham and said I am the Almighty God c. Gen. 17. 1. ch 28. 3. Rev. 21. 22. The name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 21. 33. The Lord the God of heaven and the God of the earth Gen. 24. 3 7. And God said unto Moses I am that I am c. Thus shall you say c. I am hath sent me unto you c. The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath sent me c. This is my name for ever and this is my memorial unto all generations c. The Lord God of the Hebrews c. Exod. 3. 6 14 15. ch 9. 1 13. I appeared unto Abraham c. by the name of God Almighty but by my name Jehovah was not known unto them Exod. 6. 2 3. Isa 12. 2. chap. 26. 4. And the Lord c. proclaimed the name of the Lord c. The Lord God merciful and gracious c. The Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God c. Exod. 34. 5 6 14. ch 33. 19. The Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh Numb 27. 16. ch 16. 22. That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name The Lord thy God Deut. 28. 58. The Lord God of gods the Lord God of gods c. Josh 22. 22. To sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shilo c. 1 Sam. 1. 3 11. Jer. 46. 18. The Lord of hosts the God of the armies of Israel c. 1 Sam. 17. 45. Isa 28. 29. The God of Israel said the Rock of Israel spake to me c. 2 Sam. 23. 3. Extol him who rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah c. Psal 68. 4. That men may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah the Most High over all the earth c. Psal 83. 18. Let them praise thy great and terrible name Holy Psal 99. 3. Holy and Reverend is his name Psal 111. 9. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel Isa 1. 4. Ezek. 39. 7. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give unto another Isa 42. 8. Jer. 16. 21. As for our Redeemer the Lord of hosts is his name the Holy One of Israel Isa 47. 4. ch 54. 5. Jer. 32. 18. O the Hope of Israel the Saviour thereof c. Jer. 14. 8. I will sanctifie my great name c. And the Heathen shall know that I am the Lord Ezek. 36. 23. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel and the Heathen shall know that I am the Lord the Holy One of Israel Ezek. 39. 7. The Lord the God of hosts is his name Amos 4. 13. ch 5. 27. The Lord hath sworn by the Excellency of Jacob Amos 8. 7. Now the God of patience and consolation grant c. Rom. 15. 5. 33. Now the God of peace be with you all c. 1 Thes 5. 2 3. God is not the Author of confusion but of peace 1 Cor. 14. 33. Heb. 13. 20. God is Light and in him is no darkness 1 Joh. 1. 5. Jam. 1. 17. God is Love 1 Joh. 4. 8 16. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent c. Rev. 22. 6. II. He is a Spirit GOD is a Spirit Joh. 4. 24. III. His Excellency Majesty Greatness Perfection Glory and Sovereignty and Absoluteness HE created the world and all things in it Gen. 1. ch 2. Psal 100. 3. Psal 104. Psal 136. 5 6 c. Prov. 22. 2. And the fear of you c. shall be upon every beast c. Into your hands are they delivered c. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you c. I have given you all things c. Neither shall there be any more a flood to destroy the earth Gen. 9. 2 3 11. When men endeavoured to prevent their being scattered God scattered them by confounding their language Gen. 11. 4 5 c. And the Lord said to Abraham c. Lift up thine eyes c. For all the land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever c. Gen. 13. 14 15 16 17. Exod. 9. 29. Psal 24. 1. 1 Cor. 10 26 28. The Priest of the most high God c. The most high God Possessor of heaven and earth Gen. 14. 18 19 20 22. Psal 9. 2. Josh 3. 11. Who hath made man's mouth or who hath made the dumb or deaf or the seeing c. Have not I the Lord Exod. 4. 11. I am the Lord and I will bring you out from under the burthens of the Egyptians and I will rid you of their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgment c. Exod. 6. 6 7. That thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God c. I will sever c. To the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth Exod. 8. 10 22. ch 9. 14 16. ch 10. 2. Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious in power c. hath dashed in pieces the enemy and in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown c. With the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered c. Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods c. Glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders c. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever Exod. 15. 6 7 8 11 15 16 17 18. Psal 146. 10. Rev. 19. 6. I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing they dealt proudly he was above them Exod. 18. 11. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke because the Lord descended c. And the whole mount
who believeth not is condemned already c. he shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him John 3. 3 18 36. Ye are servants of sin and ye are of your father the devil John 8. 54. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men c. they are worthy of death Rom. 1. 18 32. Thinkest thou this c. that thou shalt escape the judgment of God c. Thou treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgments of God c. Indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who doth evil c. Rom. 2. 4 5 8 9. Destruction and misery are in their ways Rom. 3. 16. Sin entred and death by sin Rom. 5. 12. Whether of sin unto death c. what fruit had ye c. the end of those things is death c. the wages of 〈◊〉 is death Rom. 6. 16 21 23. James 1. 15. To be carnally minded is death So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God c. for if he live after the flesh ye shall die Rom. 8. 6 8 13. Vessels of wrath fitted to destruction Rom. 9. 22. The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God c. neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers c. shall inherit the kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. If any man love not the Lord Jesus let him be Anathema Maranatha 1 Cor. 16. 22. If our Gospel be hid it is hid unto them who are lost in whom the God of c. 2 Cor. 4. 3. The work of the flesh c. adultery fornication c. They who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 20 21. He who soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption Gal. 6. 8. Prov. 22. 8. You c. were dead in trâ—espasses and sins c. by nature the children of wrath as well as others Ye were without Christ being aliens of the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promises having no hope and without God in the world Ephes 2. 1 3 12. No whoremonger nor unclean person c. hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God c. Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience or unbelief Ephes 5. 5 6. â—owrdâ— 3. 5 6. Hebr. 13. 4. Many walk c. whose eâ—d is destruction Phil. 3. 18 19. When they say peace c. then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with-child and they shall not escape 1 Thes 5. 3. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven c. taking vengeance on them who know not God and who obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power When c. 2 Thes 1. 7 8 9. Heb. 10. 26 27. That they all might be damned who believe not c. 2 Thes 2. 12. To them who are unbelieving is nothing pure c. Titus 1. 15. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Hebr. 10. 31. Psalm 2. 12. Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge Hebr. 13. 4. Judgment must begin at the house of God and if first at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God c. Where shall the ungodly and sinners appear 1 Pet. 4. 17 18. The Lord knows c. to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished c. the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men 2 Pet. 2. 9. ch 3. 7. Jude vers 15. Ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 John 3. 15. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bond-man and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks c. and said to the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 15 16 17. Whosoever was not found in the book of Life was cast into the lake of fire Rev. 20. 15. The fearful and unbelieving and the abominable c. shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death c. There shall in no wise enter into the new Jerusalem any thing which defile or worketh abomination or a lye Rev. 21. 8 27. For without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers c. Rev. 22. 15. See more of God's Judgments against Sin and Sinners Chap. 16. See more of the Danger of Unbelief Chap. 11. CHAP. VI. The Case the Law concludes Men under I. Under Sin and Guilt IF thou Lord shouldest mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psalm 130. 3. Job 9. 1 2. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father there is one who accuseth you even Moses in whom ye trust John 5. 45. We have before proved or charged both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin as it is written There is none righteous c. Whatsoever the law saith it saith unto them who are under law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty or subject to the Judgment of God before God c. There is no difference for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3. 9 19 23. Where no law is is no transgression Rom. 4. 15. Until the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law c. The law entred that the offence might abound c. Rom. 5. 13 20. I had not known sin but by the law c. Without the law sin was dead I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived and I died c. That sin might appear sin c. and by the commandment might become exceeding sinful Rom. 7. 7 8 9 13. For God hath concluded them all or shut them up together in unbelief c. Rom. 11. 32. The strength of sin is the law 1 Cor. 15. 56. The scripture hath concluded all men under sin Gal. 3. 22. Rom. 5. 12. Psalm 143. 2. Whoso shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one is made guilty of all c. James 2. 10. II. Under the Curse thereof CUrsed be he who confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them and c. Deut. 27. 26. If thou wilt not c. to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee c. all these curses shall come upon thee Cursed thou c. Deut. 28. 15 16 17 18 c. Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel Cursed the man who obeyeth not c. Jer. 11. 3 4. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse for it is written Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them Gal. 3. 10. III. The Deeds of the Law or Sacrifices under it cannot justifie or purge from Sin but still leave Sinners under Guilt Condemnation and Wrath. HOW should man be just with God or before God if he will contend with him he cannot answer one of a thousand Job 9. 2 3. Sacrifices and offerings thou didst not desire Psalm 40. 6 7. Enter not into judgment c. for in thy sight shall no flesh living be justified Psalm 143. 2. Ye who kindle a fire and encompass your selves c. walk in the light of your fire c. ye shall lie down in sorrow Isa 50. 11. When ye have done all that is commanded you say We are unprofitable servants c. Luke 17. 10. The parable to such who trusted in themselves that they were righteous c. Two men went into the temple c. the Publican went away justified rather than the Pharisee who had much to boast of his doings I have observed all these things from my youth Christ said There is one thing c. Luke 18. 9 10 11 12 13 14 20 21 22 23. Mâ—tth 3. 9. There is one who accuseth you even Moses in whom ye trust John 5. 45. By him all who believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses Acts 13. 39. By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight Rom. 3. 20. For if they who are of the law be heirs faith is made void and the promise is made of none effect Because the law worketh wrath Rom. 4. 14 15. For when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died c. Rom. 5. 6 10. What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh c. Rom. 8. 3. Israel who followed after the law of righteousness hath not attained to the law of righteousness Wherefore because not by faith but as it were by the works of the law for they stumbled at that stumbling stone Rom. 9. 31 32. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one who believe Rom. 10. 3 4. I know nothing of my self yet am I not hereby justified but he that judgeth me is the Lord 1 Cor. 4. 4. The strength of sin is the law 1 Cor. 15. 56. A man is not justified by the works of the law c. For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified c. If righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain Gal. 2. 16 21. That no man is justified by the law in the sight of God it is evident for the just shall live by faith and the law is not of faith but the man who doth them shall live in them c. Wherefore then serveth the law it was added because of trangression till the seed should come c. If there had been a law given which could have given life verily righteousness should have been by the law c. Wherefore the law was our school-master unto Christ Gal. 3. 11 12 19 21 24. chap. 4. 1 2 3 4 5. Christ is become of none effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law ye are fallen from grace Gal. 5. 4. By grace ye are saved c. not of works lest any man should boast Ephes 2. 8 9. We are the Circumcision who worship God in the spirit c. and have no confidence in the flesh c. Paul was very zealous of the law and if any man had whereof to boast in that respect he more yet he accounted all but loss and dung for Christ and that he might be found in him not having his own righteousness which is of the law Phil. 3. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. The law is good if a man use it lawfully knowing that the law is not made for the righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient c. 1 Tim. 1. 8 9. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he hath saved us Titus 3. 5. If therefore perfection were by the Levitical Priesthood c. what further need was there that another Priest should rise c. For the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope Heb. 7. 11 19. ch 8. 5 6 8. In which were offered both gifts and sacrifices which could not make him who did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience Heb. 9. 9. For the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect For then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins but in those sacrifices a remembrance of sin again every year for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins c. Sacrifice and offerings thou wouldst not c. In burned offerings c. thou hadst no pleasure c. Sacrifices which can never take away sin Heb. 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 11. ch 13. 9 10. Psalm 40. 6 7. Micah 6. 6 7. Whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all For he who said c. James 2. 10. We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa 64. 6. When ye have done all these things which are commanded you say We are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do Luke 17. 5 6 7 8 9 10. If the ministration of death written and engraven in stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which was to be done away c. How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious For if the ministration of condemnation be glory much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory for even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect by reason of the glory which excelleth for if that which is done away was glorious much more that which remaineth is glorious 2 Cor. 3. 7 8 9 10 11. This only would I know of you Received ye the Spirit by the work of the law or by the hearing of faith Are ye so foolish having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh c. Gal. 3. 2 3 5. CHAP. VII Of Man's Salvation and Redemption How it came and by what Means From God only and no otherwise WHat is man that thou
took on him the seed of Abraham wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren Heb. 2. 9 11 14 16 17. Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers c. though he were a Son yet learned he obedience c. Heb. 5. 7 8. Sacrifice c. thou wouldest not but a body hast thou prepared me c. A new and living way which he hath consecrated or made for us through the vail that is to say his flesh Heb. 10. 5 20. Psal 40. 6 7. Every spirit who confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God and every spirit which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God 1 John 4. 2 3. Many deceivers are entred into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh 2 John Vers 7. III. He is made an High Priest AND I will raise me up a faithful Priest who shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind and I will build him a sure house and he shall walk before mine Anointed for ever 1 Sam. 2. 35. The Lord hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedeck Psal 110. 4. Heb. 5. 5 6. Thus saith the Lord David shall never want a man c. Neither shall the Priests the Levites want a man before me to offer c. Jer. 33. 17 18. The Man whose name is the Branch c. he shall be a Priest upon his throne and c. Zech. 6. 13. It behoveth him in all things to be made like his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for sins for in that he himself hath sufferred being tempted he is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2. 17 18. Luke 4 1 2 3 c. Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession Christ Jesus who was faithful to him who appointed him as also Moses was c. Heb. 3. 1 2. Seeing then that we have a great high-priest who is passed into the heavens Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast c. For we have not an high-priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin Hebr. 4. 14 15. ch 5. 2. For every high-priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining unto God that he may offer c. Who can have compassion on or can reasonably bear with the ignorant and them who are out of the way c. And no man taketh this honour to himself but he who is called of God as Aaron So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high-priest but he who said unto him Thou art my Son c. Thou a Priest c. Hebr. 5. 1 2 3 4 5. Hope which we have as an anchor of the soul sure and stedfast and which entereth within the vail whither the fore-runner is for us entered Jesus made an high-priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck Hebr. 6. 19 20. For this Melchisedeck king of Salem Priest of the most high God c. having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like unto the Son of God abideth a Priest continually c. After the similitude of Melchisedeck there ariseth another Priest who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment but after the power of an endless life for he testifieth thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck c. Not without an oath for those were made without an oath but this with an oath by him who said unto him The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a Priest c. And they truly were many Priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death but this man because he continueth for ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood or which passeth not from one another wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost or for evermore who come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them For such an high Priest became us who was holy c. who needeth not daily as those high Priests offer c. for this he did once whence he offered up himself For the law maketh men high Priests who have infirmities but the word of the oath which was since the law maketh the Son who is consecrated or perfected for evermore Hebr. 7. 1 3 15 16 17 21 23 24 25 26 27 28. But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle c. Hebr. 9. 11. Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum We have such an high-priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens A minister of the sanctuary or holy Things which the Lord pitched and not man for every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices wherefore it is of necessity that this man should have somewhat also to offer Hebr. 8. 1 2 3. IV. He offered himself as a Sacrifice to God suffered for the Sins of Mankind and so made Peace through the shedding of his own Blood by which he entred into the Holiest for us I A wâ—rm and no man a reproach of men and â—espâ—â—â— of the people All they who see me laugh me to scorn c. and shake the head saying He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him Let him deliver him seeing he trusted in him c. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me they pierced my hands and feet c. they part my garment amongst them and cast lots for my vesture Psal 22. 6 7 8 16 18. Matth. 27. 39 40 41 42 43. Psalm 109. 25. False witnesses are risen up against me and such as breath out cruelty Psal 27. 12. Mat. 26. 60 61. For thy sake I have born reproach shame hath covered my face I am become a stranger to my brethren an alien unto my mother's children for the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up and the reproaches of them who reproach thee are fallen upon me c. Reproach hath broken my heart and I am full of heaviness c. They gave me also gall for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink Psalm 69. 7 8 9 20 21. Matth. 27. 34. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the Son of man c. Psalm 80. 17. I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks 〈◊〉 to them who plucked off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Isa 50. 6. Matth. 26. 67 68. Job 16. 10. He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief c. Surely he hath born our grief and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him
the audience of the people and they said All that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient Exod. 24. 2 4 7. And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them according unto all that I shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof even so shall ye make c. Exod. 25. 8 9. In the tabernacle without the vail which is before the testimony Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening till morning before the Lord c. Exod. 27. 21. And these are the garments which they shall make a breast plate c. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy Brother and his sons that they may minister unto me in the Priest's office c. Exod. 28. 4 5 6 c. They made the holy garments for Aaron as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 39. 1. Thus did Moses according to all that the Lord commanded him so did he c. He spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle c. as the Lord commanded Moses c. And he lighted the lamps before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses c. When they came near unto the Altar they washed as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 40. 16 19 21 23 25 27 29. Levit. 8. 4 5 36. So did David in all he did as he received from God 1 Chron. 28. 12 13 19. 2 Chron. 29. 25. Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron c. offered strange fire which he commanded them not and there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord. And Moses said unto Aaron This is that the Lord spake I will be sanctified in them who come nigh me and before all the people c. Levit. 10. 1 2 3. After the doings of the land of Egypt c. and after the doings of the land of Canaan c. shall ye not do neither shall ye walk in their ordinances Ye shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances to walk therein I am the Lord your God Levit. 18. 3 4. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai according to all that the Lord commanded Moses so did the children of Israel c. They shall leave none of it c. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it Moses enquired of God in an unrevealed Case about the Passover Numb 9. 5 6 7 8 9 10 12. Levit. 19. 5 6. ch 22. 30 31 32. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you neither shall you c. Deut. 4. 2. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods c. ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God but unto the place the Lord your God shall chuse out of all your tribes to put his name there unto his habitation shall ye seek and thither shalt thou come and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings c. and ye shall not do c. every man what is right in his own eyes c. When you go over Jordan c. then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall chuse to cause his name to dwell there thither shall ye bring all that I command you your burnt-offerings c. Take heed to thy self that thou be not snared by following them c. And that thou enquire not after their gods saying How did these nations serve their gods Even so will I do likewise Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God c. Whatsoever thing I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereunto nor diminish from it Deut. 12. 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 11 13 14 30 31 32. Numb 15. 39 40. Secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may do all the words of this law Deut. 29. 29. Rebel not c. in building an altar besides the altar of the Lord our God Josh 22. 19 29. Jeroboam ordained a feast c. like unto the feast in Judah c. upon the month which he had devised in his own heart 1 Kings 12. 32 33. 2 Kings 17. 8. Israel sinned c. in walking in the Statutes of the Heathen c. and of the kings of Israel which they had made c. 2 Kings 17. 7 8 19. Be not righteous overmuch neither make thy self overwise Eccles 7. 16. To the law and to the testimony If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa 8. 20. Jer. 8. 9. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinances c. Isa 24. 5. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed c. Wherefore the Lord said Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me with their mouth c. and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvellous work c. The wisdom of the wise men shall perish c. Isa 29. 11 12 13 14. I have spread out my hand all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way that is not good after their own thoughts c. who sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick c. Isa 65. 2 3. Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest c. Jer. 6. 16. I spake not to your fathers nor commanded them c. concerning burnt-offerings c. Jer. 7. 22 23 31. The place of my throne c. shall the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their kings by their whoredom c. in their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their posts by my posts c. Ezek. 43. 7 8. Son of man mark well c. all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord and all the laws thereof c. And thou shalt say to the rebellious c. Ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers uncircumcised in heart c. to pollute it even my house when ye offer my bread c. And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things but ye have set keepers of my charge or ordinance in my sanctuary for your selves Ezek. 44. 5 6 7 8 9. If ye offer the blind c. offer it to your governor c. I am a great King c. Mal. 1. 6 8 13 14. Why do you transgress the commandments of God by your traditions For God commanded saying c. But ye say c. Thus have ye made the commandments of God of none effect by your traditions c. In
21. chap. 11. 18 19. A man may not disinherit his first-born son If any man have a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastned him will not hearken unto them then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him c. and all the men of his City shall stone him c. Deut. 21. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Cursed be he who lightly esteems his father or mother Deut. 27. 16. Gather c. men women and children c. that they may hear c. that they may learn and fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. Set your hearts unto all the words c. which ye shall command your children to observe to do all the words of this law Deut. 32. 46. When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come saying What mean these stones then ye shall let your children know saying Israel came over Jordan on dry land for the Lord your God dryed up c. Josh 4. 20 21 22 23. Deut. 4. 9 10 ch 6. 20 21. Ruths great love to her mother-in-law recorded Ruth 1. 15 16 17. Eli was old and heard all that his sons did unto Israel and how they lay with the women c. and he said unto them Why do you such things for I hear of your evil dealings c. nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear c. If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 24 25. I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken c. for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not or frowned not upon them 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. Bathsheba king Solomon's mother came to him he rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her caused a seat to be set for her on his right-hand 1 Kings 2. 19. David prays for Solomon his son and instructs him to keep the law 1 Chron. 22. 11 12 13. Job offered burnt-offerings for his sons continually for Job said It may be that my sons have sinned c. Job 1. 4 5. I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us we will not hide them from their children shewing the generations to come the praises of the Lord c. that the generation to come might know the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God c. Psal 78. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Lo children are an heritage of the Lord the fruit of the womb a reward happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them Psal 127. 3 4 5. Ps 128. 3. Gen. 4. 1 25. ch 15. 2 3. ch 25. 21. ch 30. 22. 23 24. 1 Sam. 1. 5 6 10 11. Luke 1. 24 25. My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother Prov. 1. 8. ch 4. 1 2 c. ch 6. 20. A wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother Prov. 10. 1. ch 17. 25. ch 18. 13. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens children c. He who spareth his rod hateth his son but he who loveth him chasteneth him tâ— times Prov. 13. 22 24. Chasten thy son while there is hope and let not thy soul spire for his crying Prov. 19. 18. Whoso curseth his father or mother his lampshall be put out in obscure darkness Prov. 20. 20. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it c. Foolishâ—â—ss is bound in the heart of a child the rod of correction shall drive it Prov. 22. 6 15. Withhold not correction from the child for if thou beat him with the rod he shall not die thou shalt beat him with a rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell Prov. 23. 13 14. Whoso robbeth his father or his mother and saith it is no transgression the same is a companion of a destroyer Prov. 28. 24. The rod and reproof give wisdom but a child left bringeth his mother to shame Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest c. Prov. 29. 15 17. The eye which mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the Ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Prov. 30. 17. The sons of Jonadab commended by God himself for their obedience to their fathers commands and rewarded Jer. 35. 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 19. Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive Jer. 49. 11. In thee they have set light by father and mother Ezek. 22. 7. A son honoureth his father Mal. 1. 6. He shall turn the heart of the father to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers Mal. 4. 6. I am come to set a man at variance against his father c. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me Mat. 10. 35 37. God commanded saying Honour thy father and thy mother and he who curseth father or mother let him dye the death But ye say c. Mat. 15. 4 5 6. Jesus went down with his parents c. and was subject unto them Luke 2. 51. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children 2 Cor. 12. 14. Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right honour thy father c. And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Eph. 6. 1 2 3 4. Children obey your parents in all things for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. Fathers provoke not your children lest they be discouraged Col. 3. 20 21. One who ruleth well in his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity 1 Tim. 3. 4. If a Widow have children c. let them learn to shew kindness at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before God c. If any provide not for his own house c. If any man or woman believeth not have widows let them relieve them c. 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. Perilous times shall come c. Men shall be disobedient to parents c. without natural affection 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3. Teach the young men c. to love their children Tit. 2. 4. III. Masters to their Servants and Servants to their Masters HAgar despised her mistress Sarah dealt hardly with her she fled from her face c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return to thy mistress and submit thy self under her hands Gen. 16. 4
me c. every day they wrest my words all their thoughts are against me for evil Psal 56. 1 2 5. The mighty are gathered against me not for my transgression nor my sin O Lord they run and prepare themselves without my fault c. Psal 59. 3 4 7. Ps 119. 86 161. The workers of iniquity who whet their tongues like a sword c. bitter words that they may shoot in secret at the perfect c. Psal 64. 2 3 4 5. They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head Psal 69. 4. Psal 109. 2 3 4. They who hate thee have lifted up the head they have taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones They have said Come and let us cut them off c. Psal 83. 2 3 4 5. Psal 31. 13. How long shall the wicked triumph shall they utter and speak hard things c. they break in pieces thy people O Lord and afflict thine heritage c Who frame mischief by a law they gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood Ps 94. 3 4 5 20 21. The proud have forged a lie against me Ps 119. 69 86. We are exceedingly filled with contempt our foul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those who are at ease with the contempt of the proud Psal 123. 3 4. The enemy hath persecuted c. my spirit overwhelmed c. my heart is desolate c. my spirit faileth c. Psal 143. 3 4 7. All that pass by the way clap their hands at thee they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem saying Is this the City c. we have swallowed up certainly this is the day we looked for We have found c. Lam. 2. 15 16. There are certain Jews whom thou hast set oâ—r the affairs of the provinces c. These men O king have not regarded thee they served not thy gods nor worship golden-images c. and they cast them into the fiery-furnace Dan. 3. 9 12 20 21. The wicked devoureth the man who is more righteous than he Habak 1. 13. The princes and the presidents sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom but they could find none c. Then said these men We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel except we find it against him in the law of his God c. They procure a law that none should ask of any god or man but the king c. watch Daniel accuse him and cast him into the lions den Dan. 6. 4 5 to v. 17. They afflict the just therefore the prudent shall keep silence c. for it 's an evil time Amos 5. 12 13. Herod had laid hold on John and bound him and put him in prison for Herodias sake c. for John said to him It is not lawful for thee to have her c. and he sent and beheaded John in the prison Mat. 14. 3 4 9 10. Herod and Pilate who were at enmity before persecute Christ and were made friends Luke 23. 11 12. Because you are not of the world c. therefore the world hateth you John 15. 19. They disputed with Stephen and they were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which he spake then they stirred up the people c. and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the council and set up false witnesses Acts 6. 9 to 14. Herod the king stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the church and he killed James the brother of John with the sword and because he saw it pleased the Jews he proceeded to take Peter and imprison him c. Acts 12. 1 2 3 4. They caught Paul and Silas and drew them into the market-place unto the rulers and brought 〈◊〉 to the magistrares saying These men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive neither to observe being Romans c. they beat them put them into prison Acts 16. 19 to v. 25. ch 19. 9. The Philosophers c. say unto Paul What will this babler or base fellow say Acts 17. 18. There arose no small stir about that way for a cèrtain man c. who made silver shrines for Diana c. complained against Paul made a great uproar laid hold of Paul's companions Acts 19. 23 to v. 30. We would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia 2 Cor. 1. 8 9. I suffer trouble unto bonds 2 Tim. 2. 9. Ye endured a great fight of afflictions partly whiles ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproches and afflictions c. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods c. Heb. 10. 32 33 34. Others were tortured c. Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonments c. of whom the world was not worthy Heb. 11. 35 36 37 38. Do not rich men oppress you by tyranny and draw you to the tribunals James 2. 6. Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you James 5. 6. They speak evil of you as of evil doers c. 1 Pet. 3. 16. ch 4. 4. The world hath not known you because they have not known him c. Marvel not my brebrethren if the world hate you 1 〈◊〉 3. 1 13. ch 3. 30. I John c. was in the isle that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Christ Jesus Rev. 1. 9. Secondly From hypocritical Professors of the true God Jews Men zealous of the Law and Traditions The Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering But unto Cain and his offering he had no respect c. Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him Gen. 4. 4 5 8. 1 John 3. 12. Gen. 27. 43. Esau cameâ—forth against Jacob with four hundred men Gen. 32. 6 7 8 c. Joseph's brethren hate him and could not speak peaceably unto him c. they conspired against to slay him c. they cast him into a pâ—t c. they sell him to the Ishmaelites c. Gen. 37. 4 10 11 18 20 24 27 28. ch 45. 4 5. Joshua envied Eldad and Medad for prophecying and would have Moses forbid them but Moses rebukes him Numb 11. 27 28 29. Saul eyed David that day and forward c. He said I will smite David c. he became his enemy continually often attempted to take away his life from him 1 Sam. 18 8 9 11 17 29. ch 19. 1 9 10 11. ch 22. ch 24. ch 26. Absalom conspired against his father David 2 Sam. 15. Shimei cursed David when he fled from Absolom 2 Sam. 16. 5 6 7 8 13. Ahab pursued Elijah in every nation c. he said to Elijah when he saw him Art thou he who troubleth Israel 1 Kings 18. 10 17. ch 21. 20. Jezebel threatens to take away Elijah his
who regardeth not persons nor taketh reward he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow Deut. 10. 17 18. Judges and officers c. and they shall judge the people with just judgment thou shalt not wrest judgment thou shalt not respect persons neither take a gift for a gift doth blind c. that which is altogether just shalt thou follow Deut. 16. 18 19 20. Thou shalt in any wise set a king over thee whom the Lord thy God shall chuse one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee thou mayest not set a stranger over thee who is not thy brother but he shall not multiply horses to himself c. And it shall be that when he shall sit upon the throne of the kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book c. and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God to keep all the words of this law c. that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the commandment Deut. 17. 15 to the end Joshua 1. 8. If there be any controversie between men and they shall come unto judgment that the Judges may judge them then they shall justifie the righteous and condemn the wicked Deut. 25. 1. Prov. 17. 15. Samuel his sons walked not in his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment 1 Sam. 8. 1 3. Prov. 17. 23. Samuel said Whose ox have I taken Whom have I oppressed c. 1 Sam. 12. 3 4. And David executed judgment and justice unto all his people 2 Sam. 8. 15. He who ruleth over men must be or be thou ruler over men just ruling in the fear of God 2 Sam. 23. 3. When the plague was upon Israel for David's sins he said Lo I have sinned and done wickedly but these sheep what have they done Let thine hand be against me and against my father's house c. 2 Sam. 24. 17. Solomon said Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and bad c. And the speech pleased the Lord 1 Kings 3. 7 8 9 10. They set up false witnesses against Naboth so against Steven sought such against Christ 1 Kings 21. 10 13. Mat. 26. 59. Acts 6. 11 13. Rehoboam took the counsel of the young men and rejected the old men's advice and answered the people roughly and said He would add to their burdens and not ease them whereupon many of the tribes revolt and chuse them a king 2 Chron. 10. chap. 14. 7 8 9 c. He was going to fight against Israel but God forbid him 2 Chron. 11. 1 4. Jehoshaphat c. sent to his Princes to Benhail and to Obadiah c. to reach in the Cities of Judah and with them Levites even Shemajah c. and they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them and went about throughout all the Cities of Judah and taught the people 2 Chron. 17. 7 8 9. Jehoshaphat said to the Judges Take heed what you do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgment wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts 2 Chron. 19. 6 7. Jehoshaphat in a time of danger stood in the congregation in the house of the Lord and prayed himself with them and for them there 2 Chron. 20. 2 to v. 13. 1 Sam. 12. 23. 2 Chron. 30. 18 19 20. Ezra 9. and ch 10. Hezekiah sent letters throughout Israel and Judah to invite them to return to the Lord 2 Chron. 30. 6 7 8 9. Nehemiah saith From the time that I was appointed to be their governour c. I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governour but the former governours c. were chargeable unto the people c. yea even their servants bear rule over their people but so did not I because of the fear of God c. Nehem. 5. 14 15 16 18. I gave my brother Hanani and Hanania c. charge over Jerusalem for he was a faithful man and feared God above many Nehem. 7. 2. Ahasuerus the king forbid any to compel another to drink but according to his pleasure Esthâ— 1. 8. I was a father to the poor and the cause which I knew not I searched out and I brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of his teeth Job 29. 16 17. Deut. 19. 18. The Almighty will not pervert judgment Job 34. 12. Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Psal 2. 10 11. The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men or the vilest of the sons of men are exalted Psal 12. 10. Man in honour and understandeth not is like the beast who perisheth Psal 49. 20. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked Selah Defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hands of the wicked Psal 82. 1 2 3 4. David said I will not know a wicked person whoso privily standereth his neighbour him will I cut off him who hath a high look and a proud heart him will I not suffer mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me he who walketh in a perfect way shall serve me c. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land c. Psal 101. 3 to the end Where no counsel is the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors is safety Prov. 11. 14. ch 24. 6. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness for the throne is established by righteousness righteous lips are the delight of kings and they love him who speaketh right Prov. 16. 12 13. ch 29. 12. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked to overthrow the righteous in judgment Prov. 18. 5. A king who sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes c. A wise king scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheel over them c. Mercy and truth preserve the king and his throne is upholden by mercy Prov. 20. 8 26 28. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice Prov. 21. 3. Isa 1. 17 18. It is the honour of a king to search out a matter c. Take away the wicked from before the king and his throne shall be established in righteousness Prov. 25. 2 5. As a roaring lion c. so is a wicked ruler over the poor
them Acts 6. 5 6. Peter and John prayed and laid their Hands on Disciples and they received the Holy Ghost Acts 8. 17. The Prophets and Teachers at Antiâ—ch by the Command of the Holy Ghost to separate Paul and Barnabas c. did pray and fast and lay their Hands upon them Acts 13. 1 2 3. Paul finding disciples c. And when Paul had 〈◊〉 his hands on them the Holy Ghost c. Acts 19. 1 6. Paul prayed and laid hands on Publius his father and healed him being sick Acts 28. 8. Neglect not the gift c. given theâ— c. with laying on of the hands of the presbytery 1 Tim. 4. 14. Lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker of other men's sins 1 Tim. 5. 22. Stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of hands 2 Tim. 1. 6. Not laying again the foundation of repentance c. of laying on of hands Heb. 6. 1 2. Thirteenthly Of the several Ordinances of Christ to be observed in and by the Churches of Christ and elsewhere THE earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinances c. Isa 24. 5. And they continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers c. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple Acts 2. 41 42 46. And now I praise you brethren that you c. keep the ordinances as they were delivered unto you 1 Cor. 11. 2. I. Prayers THese all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women c. Acts 1. 14. And they continued c. and in prayers Acts 2. 42. See Prayers at large Chap. 16. See Praising at large Ibid. II. Reading Teaching and Preaching of the Word of God Prophesying THou shalt set a king over thee c. He shall write him a copy of this law in a book c. he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord Deut. 17. 15 18 19. 20. 2 Kings 22. 11. When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall chuse thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing Gather the people together men and women and children and thy stranger that is within thy gates that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the Lord your God and observe to do all the words of this saw and their children who have not known may hear and learn to fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. Joshua read all the words of the law the blessings and curses according unto all which is written in the book of the law there was not a word of all which Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were conversant among them Josh 8. 34 35. Jehoshaphat sent to his Princes to Benhail c. to teach in the cities of Judah and with them Elishama c. Priests and they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them and went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people 2 Chron. 17. 7 8 9. And Ezra the Priest brought the law before the Congregation c. and he read therein c. from the morning until the mid-day c. Also Joshua and Bani c. and the Levites caused the people to understand the law and the people stood in their place so they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and gave the sense and caused them to understand the reading Nehem. 8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. ch 13. 1. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children c. that they might set their hope in God c. Psal 78. 5 6 7. Blessed is the man who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors for whose findeth me findeth life Prov. 8 34 35. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who bringeth good tydings who publisheth peace c. and publisheth salvation c. Isa 52. 7. Nâ—hâ—m 1. 15. The prophet who hath a dream let him tell a dream and he who hath my word let him speak my word faithfully what is the chaff to the wheat saith the Lord Jer. 23. 28 29. Thou shalt speak my words unto them whither they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. They shall wander from sea to sea c. to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it Amos 8. 12. And the Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the earth and then shall the end c. Matth. 24. 14. Go ye therefore and teach all nations c. teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you Matth. 28. 19 20. The parable of the sower opened by Christ to be the word preached Mark 4. 14 15 16 c. Luke 8. 11. Whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you when ye depart thence shake off the dust from under your feet for a testimony against them Mark 6. 11. Luke 10. 16. Matth. 10. 11 12 13. Jesus c. as his custom was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath-day and stood up to read and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaias and when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written The spirit of the Lord is upon me c. and he closed the book and gave it again to the minister and sat down c. and he began to say unto them This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears c. and all c. wondred at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth c. Luke 4. 16 17 18 19 20 31 32. Jesus went through every City c. preaching and shewing the glad tidings c. Luke 8. 1. Jesus said c. Ought not Christ to have suffered c And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself c. then opened he their understandings c. Luke 24. 26 27 45. I pray c. for them also who shall believe in me through their word John 17. 20. When the Apostles were commanded not to preach Christ they said whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye Acts 4. 18. 19. ch 5. 28. Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life and when c. And daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus Christ Acts 5. 20 42. The Eunuch reading the Prophet Isaias Philip came to him c. and opened his mouth and
began at the same Scripture and preached unto him Jesus he believed c. Acts 8. 27 28 to the 38. We are here all present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God while Peter was preaching Christ the holy Ghost fell on all them who heard Acts 10. 33 44. ch 2. 37 38 c. Call for Simon c. who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy houshold shall be 〈◊〉 Acts 11. 13 14. When Paul and his company came to Antioch he went into the Synagogue c. and after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the Synagogue sent unto them saying Ye men and brethren if ye have any word of exhortation for the people say on Then Paul stood up and preached c. Acts 13. 13 14 15 16 c. Then spake the Lord to Paul c. speak and hold not thy peace for I have much people in this City and he continued there c. teaching the word of God among them Acts 18. 9 10 11. Paul went into the Synagogue and spake boldly for the space of three months disputing and perswading the things concerning the kingdom of God but when divers were hardned and believed not c. he separated the disciples disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus and this continued by the space of two years so that all they who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Acts 19. 8 9 10 20. Now brethren I commend you to God and the word of his grace which is able c. Actâ— 20. 32. I have appeared unto thee c. to make thee a minister c. the Gentiles to when I now send thee to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God Acts 26. 16 17 18. And Paul dwelt two years in his own hired house and received all who came in unto 〈◊〉 preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ Acts 28. 2â— 30 31. ch 9. 22. ch 18. 28. ch 11. 2â— 21. I am ready to preach the Gospel c. for I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God to salvation c. Rom. 1. 15 16. 2 Thâ—ss 2. 14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe on him or whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent c. so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Rom 10. 14 15 17. Titus 1. 3. Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel c. for the preaching of the cross is to them who perish foolishness but unto us who are saved it is the power of God c. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them who believe c. 1 Cor. 1. 17 18 21 23 24. ch 15. 1 2 3 4. My preaching was not with the inticâ—ing words of mans wisdom c. but that which the holy Ghost c. 1 Cor. 2 4 5 13. In Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel 1 Cor. 4. 15. Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head 1 Cor. 11. 4. He who prophesyeth speaketh unto men to edification exhortation and comfort c. he edifieth the Church c. 1 Cor. 14. 3 4. Who hath made us able ministers of the new Testament c. if the ministration of death written and engraven in stones was glorious so c. how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious c 2 Cor. 3. 6 7 8 9 10. The ministry of reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ c. we are Ambassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled unto God 2 Cor. 5. 18 19 20. And he gave some Apostles c. for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry 〈◊〉 the edifying of the body until c. Ephes 4. 11. 12 13 14. The Apostle rejoyced that Christ was preached although some did it not uprightly Phil. 1. 15 16 18. When this Epistle is read amongst you cause it 〈◊〉 read also in the Church of the Laâ—dâ—ceans 〈◊〉 4. 16. We received the word of God which ye heard of 〈…〉 received it not as the word of men but as 〈…〉 the word of God c. 1 Thess 2. 13 〈…〉 〈…〉 propâ—â—â—yings 1 Thess 5. 20. Gâ—ve attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine 〈◊〉 13. I 〈◊〉 thee c. preach the word be instant in 〈◊〉 and out of season reprove c. 2. Tim. 4. 1 2 3. If the word spoken by Angels was stedfast c. how shall we escape it we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them who 〈◊〉 c. Heb. 2. 2. 3. For unto us was the Gospel preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them who heard or because they were not united by faith to it Heb. 4. 2. I beseech you brethren suffer the word of exhortation for I have written c. Heb. 13. 22. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth c. wherefore my beloved brethren let every man be swift to hear c. receive with meekness the ingrafted word which is able to save your souls but be ye doers of the word and not hearers only c. James 1. 18 19 21 22 23. Being born again not of corruptible feed but of incorruptible by the word of God c. and this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you 1 Pet. 1. 23 25. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby 1 Pet. 2. 2. If any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God 1 Pet. 4. 11. I will not be negligent to put you in remembrance always of these things though ye know them and be established in the present truth yea I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance 2 Pet. 1. 12 13. ch 3. 1 2. Jude ver 5. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the father and with his son Jesus Christ 1 John 1. 3. Blessed is he who readeth and they who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein Revel 1. 3. See Ministers of the Gospel in general Chap. 26. See gifts of the members of Churches before See of the word of God Chap. 1. III. Baptisms GOD said unto Abram Thou shalt keep my covenant c. Every man child among you shall be circumcised
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees which i◠hypocrisie c. He who knoweth his master's will and doth not according shall be beaten with many stripes Luke 12. 1 47. James 4. 17. They shall begin to say We have eat and drank in thy presence c. but he shall say I know you not whence you are depart from me all ye workers c. Ye shall see Abraham c. in the kingdom of God and you thrust out Luke 13. 25 26 27 28. Ye are they who justifie your selves but God knows your hearts for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. 15. Every branch which beareth not fruit in me he taketh away John 15. 2. Ananias and Saphira both smote with death for their hypocrisie Acts 5. 5 10. They are not all Israel who are of Isreal c. Rom. 9. 6 7. ch 2. 28. 1 Cor. 10. 1 to 6. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against c. men who hold the truth in unrighteousness Rom. 1. 18. If a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself Gal. 6. 3. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways James 1. 8. The Jews c. forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins always for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1 Thes 2. 16. See Sincerity Chap. 16. CHAP. XXIX Of the Conscience AND it came to pass afterwards that David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt and he said unto his men The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master the Lord 's anointed to stretch forth my hand against him c. 1 Sam. 24. 5 6. And David's heart smote him after that he had numbred the people and David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly in that I have done 2 Sam. 24. 10. ch 12. 13. When Josiah had heard the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes c. and he commanded c. Go and enquire of the Lord for me and for the people c. for great is the wrath of the Lord c. Tell the man that sent you to me c. I will bring evil upon this place c. But to the king c. because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy self c. thine eyes shall not see all the evil c. 2 Kings 22. 11 12 13 15 16 18 19 20. I will not remove mine integrity c. my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Job 27. 5 6. Throw the first stone at her c. they c. being convicted by their own conscience went out c. John 8. 7 9. Now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and said c. What shall we do Acts 2. 37. Paul said c. I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day Acts 23. 1. And herein do I exercise my 〈◊〉 to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man Acts 24. 16. Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing them witness or the Conscience witnessing with them and their thoughts the mean while or between themselves accusing or else excusing one another Rom. 2. 15 16. I say the truth in Christ I lye not my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost Rom. 9. 1. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but for conscience sake Rom. 13. 5. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles eat asking no question for conscience sake for the earth is the Lord's c. If any of them who believe not bid you c. Whatsoever is before you eat asking no question for conscience sake but if any man say unto thee This is offered to idols eat not for his sake c. and for conscience-sake c. Conscience I say not thine own but of the others for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience c. Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God 1 Cor. 10. 25 26 27 28 29 32. ch 8. 7. Our rejoicing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity nor with sleshly wisdom c. 2 Cor. 1. 12. By the manifestation of the truth commended our selves to every man's conscience in the sight of God 2 Cor. 4. 2. We are made manifest unto God and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences 2 Cor. 5. 11. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience c. holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck 1 Tim. 1. 5 19. Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3. 9. The Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith c. speaking lyes in hypocrine having their consciences seared with a hot iron forbidding to marry c. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. I thank God whom I serve c. with a pure conscience 2 Tim. 1. 3. Unto them who are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled Titus 1. 15. In which were offered both gifts and sacrifices which could not make him who did the service 〈◊〉 as pertaining to the conscience c. If the blood of bulls and goats sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ c. purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9. 9◠13 14. The law having a shadow of good things c. can never with those sacrifiees they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins but in those sacrifices there is a remembrance c. Let us draw near c. having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience c. Heb. 10. 1 2 3 22. We trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly Heb. 13. 18. This is thank-worthy if a man for conscience towards God endure grief suffering wrongfully 1 Pet. 2. 19. Having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you c. Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus 1 Pet. 3. 16 21. Let us not love in word c. Hereby we know c. For if our heart condemn us God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things Beloved if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God 1 John 3. 18 to 22. CHAP. XXX Of the Devil Of his Subtilty Wiles and Ways by himself and in
and seek not the honour which cometh from God only John 5. 44. Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that which endureth c. John 6. 27. He is of age ask him c. These words spake his parents because they feared the Jews for the Jews had agreed already That if any man did confess that he was Christ he should be put out of the Synagogue therefore said his parents c. John 9. 21 22 23. Judas displeased at the use of the ointment upon pretence of the poor but 't was because he bare the purse c. Among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 4 5 6 42 43. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the world John 16. 33. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil John 17. 15. Jesus answered My kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not c. John 18. 36. Pilate â—ought to release â—esus but the Jews cried out saying If thou let this man go thou art not Caesar's friend c. When Pilate therefore heard that saying he brought Jesus forth c. John 19. 12 13 15 16. Mark 15. 15. What house will ye build for me saith the Lord c. Hath not my hand made all these things c. Acts 7. 48 49 50. ch 14. 15 17. When Paul had cast out the evil Spirit out of the damsel and her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone they caught Paul and Silas c. and said That they did exceedingly trouble the City c. Acts 16. 18 to 22. God who made the world c. he is Lord of heaven and earth c. He giveth to all life c. and all things Acts 17. 24 25. So Demetrius a Silver-smith and others of the same trade who made silver Shrines for Diana c. complained against Paul for Preaching the Gospel cried up Diana because they were like to lose their gain if men esteemed not of Diana as a Goddess Acts 19. 24 to 28. Your selves know that these hands of mine have ministred to my necessities and them who were with me I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said If is more blessed to give than to receive Acts. 20. 33 34 35. The carnal mind is enmity against God It is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8. 7. Make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Rom. 13. 14. Ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wife c. that no flesh should glory c. 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 28 29. I will not be brought under the power of any meats for the belly c. but God shall destroy both c. 1 Cor. 6. 12 13. The time is short it remaineth that both they who have wives be as though they had none and they who weep as though they wept not and they who rejoice as if they rejoiced not and they who buy as though they possessed not and they who use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passeth away c. He who is married careth for the things which are of this world how he may please his wife 1 Cor. 7. 29 to 34. I keep under my body and bring it in subjection lest that by any means c. 1 Cor. 9. 27. The Devil is called the God of this world 2 Cor 4. 4. The sorrow of the world worketh death 2 Cor. 7. 10. You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 8. 9. God is able to make all grace abound towards you that ye always having all sufficiency c. 2 Cor. 9. 8. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God c. Gal. 1. 4. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the thing that ye would Gal. 5. 17. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom or whereby the world is crucified to me and I unto the world Gal. 6. 14. Covetousness let it not be once named among you as becometh Saints c. for this ye know that no whoremonger c. nor covetous man who is an idolâ—er hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God Ephes 5. 3 5. 2. Cor 6. 10. Whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 15. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication c. let your request be made known to God c. I have learned that in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and suffer need c. but my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Jesus Christ Psal 4. 6 12 19. Set your affections or mind on things above not things on the earth c. Mortifie therefore your members c. inordinate affections evil concupiscence and covetousness which is idolatry Col. 3. 2 5. Meats which God hath created to be received c. for every creature of God is good and nothing to c. 1 Tim. 4. 3 4. 1 Cor. 10. 25 26 27. She who liveth in pleasure or delicately is dead while she liveth 1 Tim. 5. 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into the world it is certain we can carry nothing out and having food and raiment let us be therewith content but them who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition for the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after have erred from the faith and pierced themselves thorow with many sorrows but thou O man flee these things c. Charge them who be rich in this world that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth all things richly to enjoy that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute c. laying