them that are such 19 The churches of Asia salute you Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord with the church that is in their house 20 All the brethren greet you * Rom 16.16 Greet ye one another with an holy kiss 21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand 22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be anathema Maran-atha 23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you 24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus Amen ¶ The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus and Timotheus ¶ The second epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the CORINTHIANS CHAP. I. 3 The apostle encourageth them against troubles by the comforts and deliverances which God had given him as in all his afflictions 8 so partroularly in his late danger in Asia 12 and calling both his own conscience and theirs to witness of his sincere manner of preaching the immutable truth of the gospel 15 he excuseth his not coming to them as proceeding not of liâ—btness but of his lenity towards them PAul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God and Timothy our brother unto the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints which are in all Achaia 2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ 3 * Eph. 2.3 1 Pet. 1.3 Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we our selves are comforted of God 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ 6 And whether we be afflicted it is for your consolation and salvation which ‖ Or is wrought is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted it is for your consolation and salvation 7 And our hope of you is stedfast knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings so shall ye be also of the consolation 8 For we would not brethren have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia that we were pressed out of measure above strength insomuch that we despaired even of life 9 But we had the ‖ Or answer sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the dead 10 Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us 11 You also * Rom. 15.30 helping together by prayer for us that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf 12 For our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly to you-wards 13 For we write none other things unto you then what you read or acknowledge and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end 14 As also you have acknowledged us in part that we are your rejoycing even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus 15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before that you might have a second ‖ Or. grote benefit 16 And to pass by you into Macedonia and to come again out of Macedonia unto you of you to be brought on my way toward Judea 17 When I therefore was thus minded did I use lightness or the things that I purpose do I purpose according to the flesh that with me there should be yea yea and nay nay 18 But as God is true our ‖ Or preaching word toward you was not yea and nay 19 For the Son of God Jesus Christ who was preached among you by us even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus was not yea and nay but in him was yea 20 For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him amen unto the glory of God by us 21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God 22 Who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts 23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth 24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith but are helpers of your joy for by faâ—th ye stand CHAP. II. 1 Having shewed the reason why he came not to them 6 he requireth them to forgive and to comfort that excommunicated person 10 even as himself also upon his true repentance had forgiven him 12 declaring withal why he departed from Troas to Macedonia 14 and the happy success which God gave to his preaching in all places BUt I determined this with myself that I would not come again to you in heaviness 2 For if I make you sorry who is he then that maketh me glad but the same which is made sorry by me 3 And I wrote this same unto you lest when I came I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoyce having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears not that you should be grieved but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you 5 But if any have caused grief he hath not grieved me but in part that I may not overcharge you all 6 Sufficient to such a man is this ‖ Or câ—nsure punishment which was inflicted of many 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love towards him 9 For to this end also did I write that I might know the proof of you whether ye be obedient in all things 10 To whom ye forgive any thing I forgive also for if I forgave any thing to whom I forgave it for your sakes forgave I it ‖ Or in the sight person of Christ 11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices 12 Furthermore when I came to Troas to preach Christs gospel and a door was opened unto me of the Lord 13 I had no rest in my spirit because I found not Titus my brother but taking my leave of them I went from thence into Macedonia 14 Now thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ in them that are saved and in
devil sinneth from the beginning For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God 10 In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 11 For this is the ‖ Or commandment message that ye heard from the beginning * Joh. 13.34 15.12 that we should love one another 12 Not as * Gen. 4.8 Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother And wherefore slew he him Because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous 13 Marvel not my brethren if the world hate you 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren he that loveth not his brother abideth in death 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren 17 But * Luk. 3.11 whoso hath this worlds good and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him 18 My little children let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall †Gr. persâ—â—â—e assure our hearts before him 20 For it our heart condemn us God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things 21 Beloved if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God 22 And * Mat. 21.22 Joh. 15.7 16.23 whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight 23 And * Joh. 6.29 and 17.3 this is his commandment that we should beleeve on the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave us commandment 24 And * Joh. 15. â—0 he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us CHAP. IV. 1 He warneth them not to beleeve all teachers who boast of the Spirit but to try them by the rules of the catholick faith 7 and by many reasons exhorteth to brotherly love BEloved beleeve not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world 2 Hereby know ye the spirit of God Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is that spirit of antichrist whereof you have heard that it should come and even now already is it in the world 4 Ye are of God little children and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you then he that is in the world 5 They are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them 6 We are of God * Joh. 8 47. he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us Hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the spirit of errour 7 Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love 9 * Joh. 3.16 In this was manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his onely begotten Son into the world that we might live through him 10 Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins 11 Beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another 12 * 1 Tim. 6.16 No man hath seen God at any time If we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his Spirit 14 And we have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God 16 And we have known and beleeved the love that God hath to us God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him 17 Herein is †Gr. love with us our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgement because as he is so are we in this world 18 There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment he that feareth is not made perfect in love 19 We love him because he first loved us 20 If a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 21 And * Joh. 13.34 15.12 this commandment have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also CHAP. V. He that loveth God loveth his children and keepeth his commandments 3 which to the faithful are light and not grievous 9 Jesus is the Son of God able to save us 14 and to bear our prayers which we make for our selves and for others WHosoever beleeveth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him 2 By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments 3 For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments and * Mat. 11.30 his commandments are not grievous 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith 5 Who is he that overcometh the world but he that beleeveth that Jesus is the Son of God 6 This is he that came by water and bloud even Jesus Christ not by water onely but by water and bloud and it is the Spirit that beareth witness because the Spirit is truth 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the holy Ghost and these three are one 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth the spirit and the water and the bloud and these three agree in one 9 If we receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son 10 He that beleeveth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself he that beleeveth
possible ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me 16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth 17 They zealously affect you but not well yea they would exclude ‖ Or us you that you might affect them 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing and not onely when I am present with you 19 My little children of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you 20 I desire to be present with you now and to change my voice for ‖ Or I am perplezed for you I stand in doubt of you 21 Tell me ye that desire to be under the law do ye not hear the law 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons the one by a bond-maid the other by a free-woman 23 But he who was of the bond-woman was born after the flesh but he of the free-woman was by promise 24 Which things are an allegory for these are the two ‖ Or testaments covenants the one from the mount Sinai which gendereth to bondage which is Agar 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia and ‖ Or is in the some rank with answereth to Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all 27 For it is written * Is 54.1 Rejoyce thou barren that bearest not break forth and cry thou that travailest not for the desolate hath many more children then she which hath an husband 28 Now we brethren as Isaac was are * Rom. 9.8 the children of promise 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now 30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture * Gen. 21.10 Cast out the bond-woman and her son for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman 31 So then brethren we are not children of the bond-woman but of the free CHAP. V. 1 He moveth them to stand in their liberty 3 and not to observe circumoision 13 but rather love which is the sum of the law 19 He reckoneth up the works of the flesh 22 and the fruits of the Spirit 25 and exhorteth to walk in the Spirit STand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage 2 Behold I Paul say unto you that * Act 15.2 if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing 3 For I testifie again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtour to do the whole law 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law ye are faln from grace 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love 7 Ye did run well ‖ Or who did drive you back who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth 8 This perswasion cometh not of him that calleth you 9 * 1 Cor. 5.6 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will be none otherwise minded but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgement whosoever he be 11 And I brethren if I yet preach circumcision why do I yet suffer persecution then is the offence of the cross ceased 12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you 13 For brethren ye have been called unto liberty onely use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word even in this * Lev. 19.18 Mat. 22.39 Rom. 13.9 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self 15 But if ye bite and devour one another take heed that ye be not consumed one of another 16 This I say then Walk in the Spirit and ‖ Or fulfil not ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that ye would 18 But if ye be led by the Spirit ye are not under the law 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these Adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness 20 Idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies 21 Envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is Love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith 23 Meekness temperance against such there is no law 24 And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the ‖ Or pasâ—ions affections and lusts 25 If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking one another envying one another CHAP. VI. 1 He moveth them to deal mildly with a brother that hath slipped 2 and to bear one anothers burden 6 to be liberal to their teachers 9 and not weary of welt doing 12 He sheweth what they intend that preach circumcision 14 He glorieth in nothing save in the cross of Christ BRethren ‖ Or although if a man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted 2 Bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ 3 For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself 4 But let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoycing in himself alone and not in another 5 For * 3 Co. 3.8 every man shall bear his own burden 6 * 1 Cor. 9.14 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things 7 Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap 8 For the that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting 9 And * 2 Thes 3.13 let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not 10 As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the houshold of faith 11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand 12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised onely lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ 13 For neither they themselves who are
circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh 14 But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ ‖ Or whereby by whom the world is crucified unto me I unto the world 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new creature 16 And as many as walk according to this rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God 17 From henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus 18 Brethren the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit Amen ¶ Unto the Galatians written from Rome ¶ The epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the EPHESIANS CHAP. I. 1 After the salutation 2 and thanksgiving for the Ephesians 4 he treateth of our election 6 and a doption by grace 11 which is the true and â—râ—per jountam of mans salvation 13 And because the height of this mystery cannot easily he attaâ—â—et unto 16 he prayeth that they may come 18 to the full knowledge and 20 possession thereof in Christ PAul an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God to the saints which are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus 2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ 3 * 1 Cor. 1.3 1 Pet. 1.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly ‖ Or things places in Christ 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy without blame before him in lover 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved 7 In whom we have redemption through his bloud the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence 9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he hath purpesed in himself 10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in †Gr. the evenâ— heaven and which are on earth even in him 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory who first ‖ Or hoped trusted in Christ 13 In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that ye beleeved ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory 15 Wherefore I also after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints 16 Cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation ‖ Or for the acknowledgement in the knowledge of him 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightned that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward who beleeve according to the working †Gr. of the might of his power of his mighty power 20 Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places 21 Far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not onely in this world but also in that which is to come 22 And * Ps 8.6 hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church 23 Which is his body the fulness of him that filleth all in all CHAP. II. 1 By comparing what we were by 3 nature with what we are 5 by grace 10 he declareth that we are made for good works and 13 being brought near by Christ should not live as 1â— Gentiles and 12 foreiners in time past but as 19 citizens with the saints and the family of God ANd * Col. 2.13 you hath be quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling †Gr. the wills the desires of the flesh and of the minde and were by nature the children of wrath even as others 4 But God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us 5 Even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us together with Christ by grace ye are saved 6 And hath raised as up together and made as sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God 9 Not of works lest any man should boast 10 For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ‖ Or prepared ordained that we should walk in them 11 Wherefore remember that ye being in time passed Gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands 12 That at that time ye were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the bloud of Christ 14 For he is our peace who hath made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the law of commandments contained in ordinances for to make in himself of twain one new man so making peace 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain the enmity ‖ Or in himself thereby 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off and to to them that were nigh 18 For * Rom. 5.2 through him we both have an access by one
place to the devil 28 Let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have ‖ Or to distribute to give to him that needeth 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good ‖ Or to edifie profitably to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you with all malice 32 And * 2 Cor. 2.10 Col. 3.12 13. be ye kinde one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you CHAP. V. 2 After general exhortations to love 3 to flee fornication 4 and all uncleanness 7 not to converse with the wicked 15 to walk warily and to be 18 filled with the Spirit 22 he descendeth to the particular duties how wives ought to obey their husbands 25 and husbands ought to love their wives 32 even as Christ doth his church BE ye therefore followers of God a dear children 2 And * Joh. 13.24 15.12 walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour 3 But * Col. 3.5 1 Thes 4.3 c. fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named amongst you as be cometh saints 4 Neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks 5 For this ye know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of ‖ Or unbelief disobedience 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them 8 For ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light 9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret 13 But all things that are ‖ Or discovered reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light 14 Wherefore he saith * Isa 60.1 Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light 15 * Col. 4.5 See then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise 16 Redeeming the time because the days are evil 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is 18 And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit 19 Speaking to your selves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ 21 Submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God 22 * Col. 3.18 Tit. 2.5 1 Pet. 3.1 Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. 23 For * 1 Cor. 11.3 the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the Saviour of the body 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing 25 * Col. 3.19 Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it 26 That he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies he that loveth his wife loveth himself 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the church 30 For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones 31 * Gen 2.24 Mat. 19.5 Mar. 10.7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they * 1 Cor. 6.16 two shall be one flesh 32 This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ the church 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband CHAP. VI. 1 The duty of children to ward their parents 5 of servants toward their masters 10 Our life is a warfare 12 not onely against flesh and bloud but also spiritual enemies 13 The complete armour of a Christian 18 and how it ought to be used 21 Tychicus is commended * Col. 3.10 CHildren obey your parents in the Lord for this is right 2 * Ex. 20.12 Deu. 5.16 Ecclus. 3.8 Mat. 15.4 Mar. 7.10 Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise 3 That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth 4 And * Col. 3.21 ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 5 * Col. 3.22 Tit. 2.9 1 Pet. 2.18 Servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembing in singleness of your heart as unto Christ 6 Not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart 7 With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men 8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth the same shall he receive of the Lord whether he be bond or free 9 And ye masters do the same things unto them ‖ Or moderating forbearing threatning knowing that ‖ Some read both your and their master your master also is in heaven * Wisd 6.7 Ecclus 35.12 Rom. 2.11 neither is there respect of persons with him 10 Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might 11 Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and bloud but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against ‖ Or wicked spirits spiritual wickedness in ‖ Or heavenly high places 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and ‖ Or having overcome all having done all to stand 14 Stand
therefore having your loyns girt about with truth and having on the breast-plate of righteousness 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace 16 Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints 19 * Col. 4.3 2 Thes 3.1 And for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel 20 For which I am an ambassadour ‖ Or in a chain in bonds that ‖ Or thereof therein I may speak boldly as I ought to speak 21 But that ye also may know my affairs and how I do Tychichus a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord shall make known to you all things 22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose that ye might know our affairs and that he might comfort your hearts 23 Peace be to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ ‖ Or with incorruption in sincerity Amen ¶ Written from Rome unto the Ephesians by Tychicus ¶ The epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the PHILIPPIANS CHAP. I. 3 He testifieth his thankfulness to God and his love toward them for the fruits of their faith and fellowship in his sufferings 9 daily praying to him for their increase in grace 12 He sheweth what good the faith of Christ hath received by his troubles at Rome 21 and how ready he is to glorifie Christ either by his life or death 27 exhorting them to unity 28 and to fortitude in persecution PAul and Timotheus the servants of Jesus Christ to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi with the bishops and deacons 2 Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ 3 I thank my God upon every ‖ Or mention remembrance of you 4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy 5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now 6 Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you ‖ Or â—â—ill finish it will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ 7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all because ‖ Or you have me in your heart I have you in my heart in as much as both in my bonds and in the defence confirmation of the gospel ye all are ‖ Or partakers with me of grace partakers of my grace 8 For God is my record how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ 9 And this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all ‖ Or sense judgement 10 That ye may ‖ Or trie approve things that ‖ Or differ are excellent that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God 12 But I would ye should understand brethren that the things which hapned unto me have faln out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel 13 So that my bonds ‖ Or for Christ in Christ are manifest in all ‖ Or Cesars court the palace and ‖ Or to all others in all other places 14 And many of the brethren in the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear 15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife and some also of good will 16 The one preach Christ of contention not sincerely supposing to add affliction to my bonds 17 But the other of love knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel 18 What then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and I therein do rejoyce yea and will rejoyce 19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ 20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed but that with all boldness as always so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death 21 For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain 22 But if I live in the flesh this is the fruit of my labour yet what I shall choose I wot not 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you 25 And having this confidence I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith 26 That your rejoycing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again 27 Onely * Eph. 4.1 Col. 1.10 .. 1 Thes â— 12 let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ that whether I come and see you or else be absent I may hear of your affairs that ye stand fast in one spirit with one minde striving together for the faith of the gospel 28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God 29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not onely to beleeve on him but also to suffer for his sake 30 Having the same conflict w e ye saw in me now hear to be in me CHAP. II. He exhorteth them to unity and to all humbleness of minde by the example of Christs humility and exaltation 12 to a careful proceeding in the way of salvation that they be as lights to the wicked world 16 and comforts to him their apostle who is now ready to be offered up to God 19 He hopeth to send Timothy to them whâ—m he greatly commendeth 25 as Epaphroditus also whom he presently sendeth to them IF there be therefore any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels and mercies 2 Fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one minde 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory but in lowliness of minde let each esteem other better then themselves 4 Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others 5 Let this minde be in you which was also in Christ Jesus 6 Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be
for a short time in presence not in heart endeavoured the more and abundantly to see your face with great desire 18 Wherefore we would have come unto you even I Paul once and again but Satan hindred as 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of ‖ Or glorying rejoycing are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming 20 For ye are our glory and joy CHAP. III. 1 S. Paul testifieth his great love to the Thessalonians partly by sending Timothy unto them to strengthen and comfort them partly by rejoycing in their well doing 10 and partly by praying for them and desiring a safe coming unto them WHerefore when we could no longer forbear we thought it good to be left at Athens alone 2 And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith 3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed thereunto 4 For verily when we were with you we told you before that we should suffer tribulation even as it came to pass and ye know 5 For this cause when I could no longer forbear I sent to know your faith lest by some means the tempter have tempted you and our labour be in vain 6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity and that ye have good remembrance of us always desiring greatly to see us as we also to see you 7 Therefore brethren we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith 8 For now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord. 9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God 10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith 11 Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ ‖ Or guide direct our way unto you 12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another and towards all men even as we do towards you 13 To the end he may * 1 Cor. 1.8 Ch. â— 23 stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God even our Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints CHAP. IV. He exhorteth them to go on forward in all manner of godliness 6 to live holily and justly 9 to love one another 11 and quâ—etly to follow their own business 13 and last of all to sorrow moâ—erately for the dead 17 And unto this last exhortation is annexed a brief description of the resurrection and second coming of Christ to judgement FUrthermore then we ‖ Or request exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more 2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus 3 For this is the will of God even your sanctification that ye should abstain from fornication 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence even as the Gentiles which know not God 6 That no man go beyond and ‖ Or oppress or over-reath defraud his brother ‖ Or in the matter in any matter because that the Lord is the avenger of all such as we also have forewarned you and testified 7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness 8 He therefore that ‖ Or rejecteth despiseth despiseth not man but God who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit 9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you for ye your selves are * Joh. 13.34 15.12 taught of God to love one another 10 And indeed ye do it towards all the brethren which are in all Macedonia but we beseech you brethren that ye increase more more 11 And that ye study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without and that ye may have lack ‖ Or of no man of nothing 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope 14 For if we beleeve that Jesus died and rose again even so * 1 Cor. 15.23 them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with * 1 Cor. 15.52 the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore ‖ Or exhort comfort one another with these words CHAP. V. 1 He proceedeth in the former description of Christs coming to judgement 16 and giveth divers precepts 23 and so concludeth the epistle BUt of the times and the seasons brethren ye have no need that I write unto you 2 For your selves know perfectly that * Mat. 24.43 44. 2 Pet. 3.10 Rev. 3.3 16.15 the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night 3 For when they shall say Peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with childe and they shall not escape 4 But ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief 5 Ye are all the children of light and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness 6 Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch be sober 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the night 8 But let us who are of the day be sober * Is 59.17 Eph. 6.16.17 putting on the breast-plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ 10 Who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him 11 Wherefore ‖ Or exhort comfort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do 12 And we beseech you brethren * Heb. 13 17. to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you 13 And to esteem them very highly in love
not God hath made him a liar because he beleeved not the record that God gave of his Son 11 And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his Son 12 He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life 13 These things have I written unto you that beleeve on the name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may beleeve on the name of the Son of God 14 And this is the confidence that we have ‖ Or concerning him in him that * Ch. 3.22 if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us 15 And if we know that he hear us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death * Mat. 12.31 Mar. 3.23 There is a sin unto death I do not say that he shall pray for it 17 All unrighteousness is sin and there is a sin not unto death 18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not 19 And we know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness 20 And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternal life 21 Little children keep your selves from idols Amen ¶ The second epistle of S. JOHN He exhorteth a certain honourable matron with her children to persevere in Christian love and belief 8 lest they lose the reward of their former profession 10 and to have nothing to do with those seducers that bring not the true doctrine of Christ Jesus THe elder unto the elect lady and her children whom I love in the truth and not I onely but also all they that have known the truth 2 For the truths sake which dwelleth in us and shall be with us for ever 3 Grace be with you mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in truth and love 4 I rejoyced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth as we have received a commandment from the Father 5 And now I beseech thee lady * 1 Joh. 1.7 not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee but that which we had from the beginning that we love one another 6 And this is love that we walk after his commandments This is the commandment that as ye have heard from the beginning ye should walk in it 7 For many deceivers are entred into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh This is a deceiver and an antichrist 8 Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have ‖ Or gained Some copies read which ye have gained but that ye receive c. wrought but that we receive a full reward 9 Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ he hath both the Father and the Son 10 If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds 12 Having many things to write unto you I would not write with paper and ink but I trust to come unto you and speak †Gr. mouth to mouth face to face that our joy may be full 13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee Amen ¶ The third epistle of S. JOHN He commendeth Gaius for his piety 5 and hospitality 7 to true preachers 9 complaining of the unkinde dealing of ambitious Diotrephes on the contrary side 11 whose evil example is not to be fâ—llowed 12 and giveth special testimony to the good report of Demetrius THe elder unto the welbeloved Gaius whom I love ‖ Or truly in the truth 2 Beloved I ‖ Or pray wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prospereth 3 For I rejoyced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee even as thou walkest in the truth 4 I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth 5 Beloved thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren and to strangers 6 Which have born witness of thy charity before the church whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort thou shalt do well 7 Because that for his names sake they went forth taking nothing of the Gentiles 8 We therefore ought to receive such that we might be fellow-helpers to the truth 9 I wrote unto the church but Diotrephes who loveth to have the preeminence among them receiveth us not 10 Wherefore if I come I will remember his deeds which he doeth prating against us with malicious words and not content therewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbiddeth them that would and casteth them out of the church 11 Beloved follow not that which is evil but that which is good He that doeth good is of God but he that doeth evil hath not seen God 12 Demetrius hath good report of all men and of the truth it self yea and we also bear record and ye know that our record is true 13 I had many things to write but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee 14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee and we shall speak †Gr. mouth to mouth face to face Peace be to thee Our friends salute thee Greet the friends by name ¶ The general epistle of S. JUDE He exhorteth them to be constant in the profession of the faith 14 False teachers are crept in to seduce them for whose damnable doctrine and manners horrible punishment is prepared 20 whereas the godly by the assistance of the holy Spirit and prayers to God may persevere and grow in grace and keep themselves and recover others out of the snares of those deceivers JUde the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called 2 Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied 3 Beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our God
observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God as he hath commanded us CHAP. VII 1 All communion with the nations is forbidden 4 for fear of idolatry 6 for the holiness of the people 9 for the nature of God in his mercy justice 17 for the assuredness of victory which God will give over them WHen the * Chap. 31.3 LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it and hath cast out many nations before thee the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites seven nations greatier and mightier then thou 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee thou shall smite them and utterly destroy them * Ex. 23.32 34.12 thou shalt make no covenant with them nor shew mercy unto them 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son 4 For they will turn away thy son from following me that they may serve other gods so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you and destroy thee suddenly 5 But thus shall ye deal with them ye shall destroy their altars and break down their †Heb. statues or pillars images and cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire 6 * Chap. 14.2 and 26.19 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God * Ex. 19.5 1 Pet. 2.9 the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you nor choose you because ye were mo in number then any people for ye were the fewest of all people 8 But because the LORD loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God he is God the faithful God which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face to destroy them he will not be slack to him that hateth him he will repay him to his face 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgements which I command thee this day to do them 12 ¶ wherefore it shall come to pass †Heb. because if ye hearken to these judgements and keep and do them that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers 13 And he will love thee and bless thee and multiply thee he will also bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy land thy corn and thy wine and thine oyl the increase of thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people * Exod. 23.26 c. there shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattel 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness and will put none of the * Ex. 9.14 15.26 evil diseases of Egypt which thou knowest upon thee but will lay them upon all them that hate thee 16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee thine eyes shall have no pity upon them neither shalt thou serve their gods for that will be * Exod. 23.33 a snare unto thee 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart These nations are mo then I how can I dispossess them 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh and unto all Egypt 19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the stretched out arm whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid 20 * Ex. 23.28 Jos 24.12 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them until they that are left and hide themselves from thee be destroyed 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them for the LORD thy God is among you a mighty God and terrible 22 And the LORD thy god will †Heb. pluck off put out those nations before thee by little and little thou mayest not consume them at once lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them †Heâ—â— before tâ—y face unto thee and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction until they be destroyed 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven there shall no man be able to stand before thee until thou have destroyed them 25 The graven images of their gods * Ch. 12. â— shall ye burn with fire thou * Jos 7.1 21 2 Mac. 12.40 shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee lest thou be snared therein for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house lest thou be a cursed thing like it but thou shalt utterly detest it and thou shalt utterly abhor it * Chap 13.17 for it is a cursed thing CHAP. VIII 1 An exhortation to obedience in regard of Gods dealing with them ALl the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do that ye may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these fourty years in the wilderness to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no. 3 And he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and sed thee with manna which thou knewest not neither did thy fathers know that he might make thee know that man doth * Mat. 4.4 Luk. 4.4 not live by bread onely but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live 4 * Neh. 9.21 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee neither did thy foot swell these fourty years 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart that as a man chasteneth his son so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God to walk in his ways and to fear him 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land a land of brooks of water of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills 8 A land
and he smote the javelin into the wall and David fled and escaped that night 11 Saul also sent messengers unto Davids house to watch him and to slay him in the morning and Michal Davids wife told him saying If thou save not thy life to night to morrow thou shalt be slain 12 ¶ So Michal let David down through a window and he went and fled and escaped 13 And Michal tooke an image and laid it in the bed and put a pillow of goats hair for his bolster and covered it with a cloth 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David she said He is sick 15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David saying Bring him up to me in the bed that I may slay him 16 And when the messengers were come in behold there was an image in the bed with a pillow of goats hair for his bolster 17 And Saul said unto Michal why hast thou deceived me so and sent away mine enemy that he is escaped And Michal answered Saul He said unto me Let me go why should I kill thee 18 ¶ So David fled and escaped and came to Samuel to Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him and he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth 19 And it was told Saul saying Behold David is at Naioth in Ramah 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying Samuel standing as appointed over them the spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul and they also prophesied 21 And when it was told Saul he sent other messengers and they prophesied likewise and Saul sent messengers again the third time and they prophesied also 22 Then went the also to Ramah and came to a great well that is in Sechu and he asked and said Where are Samuel and David And one said Behold they be at Naioth in Ramah 23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah and the spirit of God was upon him also and he went on and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah 24 And he stript off his clothes also and prophesied before Samuel in like manner and †Heb. fell lay down naked all that day and all that nigh Wherefore they say * Chap. 10.11 Is Saul also among the prophets CHAP. XX. 1 David consulteth with Jonathan for his safety 11 Jonathan and David renew their covenant by oath 18 Jonathans token to David 24 Saul missing David seeketh to kill Jonathan 35 Jonathan lovingly taketh his leave of David ANd David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan What have I done what is mine iniquity and what is my sin before thy father that he seeketh my life 2 And he said unto him God forbid thou shalt not die behold my father will do nothing either great or small but that he will †Heb. uncover mine ear shew it me and why should my father hide this thing from me it is not so 3 And David sware moreover and said Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes and he saith Let not Jonathan know this lest he be grieved but truly as the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth there is but a step between me and death 4 Then said Jonathan unto David ‖ Or Say what is thy minde and I will do c. Whatsoever thy soul †Heb. speaketh or thinketh desireth I will even do it for thee 5 And David said unto Jonathan Behold to morrow is the new-moon and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat but let me go that I may hide my self in the field unto the third day at even 6 If thy father at all miss me then say David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city for there is a yearly ‖ Or feast sacrifice there for all the family 7 If he say thus It is well thy servant shall have peace but if he be very wroth then be sure that evil is determined by him 8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant for * Chap. 18.3 23 18. thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee notwithstanding if there be in me iniquity slay me thy self for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father 9 And Jonathan said Far be it from thee for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee then would not I tell it thee 10 Then said David to Jonathan Who shall tell me or what if thy father answer thee roughly 11 ¶ And Jonathan said unto David Come and let us go out into the field And they went out both of them into the field 12 And Jonathan said unto David O LORD God of Israel when I have †Heb. searched sounded my father about to morrow any time or the third day and behold if there be good toward David and I then send not unto thee and †Heb. uncover thine ear shew it thee 13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan but if it please my father to do thee evil then I will shew it thee and send thee away that thou mayest go in peace and the LORD be with thee as he hath been with my father 14 And thou shalt not onely while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD that I die not 15 But alâ—o thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever no not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth 16 So Jonathan †Heb. out made a covenant with the house of David saying Let the LORD even require it at the hand of Davids enemies 17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again ‖ Or by his love towards him because he loved him for he loved him as he loved his own soul 18 Then Jonathan said to David To morrow is the new-moon and thou shalt be missed because thy seat will be †Heb. missed empty 19 And when thou hast stayed three days then thou shalt go down ‖ Or diligently †Heb. greatly quickly and come to the place where thou didst hide thy self †Heb. in the day of the business when the business was in hand and shalt remain by the stone ‖ Or that sheweth the way Ezel 20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof as though I shot at a mark 21 And behold I will send a lad saying Go finde out the arrows If I expresly say unto the lad Behold the arrows are on this side of thee take them then come thou for there is peace to thee and †Heb. not any thing no hurt as the LORD liveth 22 But if I say thus unto the young man Behold the arrows are beyond thee go thy way for the LORD hath sent thee away 23 And as touching the matter which
crown from off his head the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones and it was set on Davids head and he brought forth the spoil of the city †Heb. very great in great abundance 31 And he brought forth the people that were therein and put them under saws and under harrows of iron and under axes of iron and made them pass through the brick-kiln and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem CHAP. XIII 1 Amnon loving Tamar by Jonadabs counsel feigning himself sick ravisheth her 15 He hateth her and shamefully turneth her away 19 Absalom entertaineth her and concealeth his purpose 23 At a sheep-shearing among all the kings sons he killeth Amnon 30 David grieving at the news is comforted by Jonadab 37 Absalom fleeth to Telmai at Geshur ANd it came to pass after this that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister whose name was Tamar and Amnon the son of David loved her 2 And Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick for his sister Tamar for she was a virgin and †Heb. it was marvellous o◠hidden in the eyes of Amnon Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her 3 But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah Davids brother and Jonadab was a very subtil man 4 And he said unto him Why art thou being the kings son †Heb. thin lean †Heb. morning by morning from day to day wilt thou not tell me And Amnon said unto him I love Tamar my brother Absaloms sister 5 And Jonadab said unto him Lay thee down on thy bed and make thy self sick and when thy father cometh to see thee say unto him I pray thee let my sister Tamar come and give me meat and dress the meat in my sight that I may see it and eat it at her hand 6 ¶ So Amnon lay down and made himself sick and when the king was come to see him Amnon said unto the king I pray thee let Tamar my sister come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight that I may eat at her hand 7 Then David sent home to Tamar saying Go now to thy brother Amnons house and dress him meat 8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnons house and he was laid down and she took ‖ Or paste flour and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and did bake the cakes 9 And she took a pan and poured them out before him but he refused to eat And Amnon said Have out all men from me and they went out every man from him 10 And Amnon said unto Tamar Bring the meat into the chamber that I may eat of thine hand And Tamar took the cakes which she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother 11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat he took hold of her and said unto her Come lie with me my sister 12 And she answered him Nay my brother do not †Heb. humble me force me for * Lev. 18.9 †Heb. it ought not so to be done no such thing ought to be done in Israel do not thou this folly 13 And I whither shall I cause my shame to go and as for thee thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel now therefore I pray thee speak unto the king for he will not withhold me from thee 14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice but being stronger then she forced her and lay with her 15 ¶ Then Amnon hated her †Heb. with great hatred greatly exceedingly so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater then the love wherewith he had loved her and Amnon said unto her Arise be gone 16 And she said unto him There is no cause this evil in sending me away is greater then the other that thou didst unto me But he would not hearken unto her 17 Then he called his servant that ministred unto him and said Put now this woman out from me and bolt the door after her 18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her for with such robes were the kings daughters that were virgins apparelled Then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her 19 ¶ And Tamar put ashes on her head and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her and laid her hand upon her head and went on crying 20 And Absalom her brother said unto her Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee but hold now thy peace my sister he is thy brother †Heb. set not thine heart regard not this thing So Tamar remained †Heb. and desolate desolate in her brother Absaloms house 21 ¶ But when king David heard of all these things he was very wroth 22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad for Absalom hated Amnon because he had forced his sister Tamar 23 ¶ And it came to pass after two full years that Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor which is beside Ephraim and Absalom invited all the kings sons 24 And Absalom came to the king and said Behold now thy servant hath sheep-shearers let the king I beseech thee and his servants go with thy servant 25 And the king said to Absalom Nay my son let us not all now go lest we be chargeable unto thee And he pressed him howbeit he would not go but blessed him 26 Then said Absalom If not I pray thee let my brother Amnon go with us And the king said unto him Why should he go with thee 27 But Absalom pressed him that he let Amnon and all the kings sons go with him 28 ¶ Now Absalom had commanded his servants saying Mark ye now when Amnons heart is merry with wine and when I say unto you Smite Amnon then kill him fear not ‖ Or will you not since◠have commanded you have not I commanded you be couragious and be †Heb. sons of valour valiant 29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded then all the kings sons arose and every man †Heb. rode gat him up upon his mule and fled 30 ¶ And it came to pass while they were in the way that tidings came to David saying Absalom hath slain all the kings sons and there is not one of them left 31 Then the king arose and tare his garments and lay on the earth and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent 32 And Jonadab the son of Shimeah Davids brother answered and said Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the kings sons for Amnon onely is dead for by the †Heb. mouth appointment of Absalom this hath been ‖ Or settled determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar 33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing
a joyful mother of children Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXIV 1 An exhortation by the example of the dumb creatures to fear God in his church WHen * Ex. 16.3 Israel went out of Egypt the house of Jacob from a people of strange language 2 Judah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 * Ex. 14.21 The sea saw it and fled * Josh 3.13 Jordan was driven back 4 The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs 5 What ailed thee O thou sea that thou fleddest thou Jordan that thou wast driven back 6 Ye mountains that ye skipped like rams and ye little hills like lambs 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob. 8 * Ex. 17.6 Num. 20.11 Which turned the rock into a standing water the flint into a fountain of waters PSAL. CXV 1 Because God is truly gloricus 4 and idols are vanity 9 he exhorteth to confidence in God 12 God is to be blessed for his blessings NOt unto us O LORD not unto us but unto thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truths sake 2 Wherefore should the heathen say * Psal 41.10 79.10 Where is now their God 3 * Psal 135.6 But our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased 4 * Psal 135.15 Their idols are silver and gold the work of mens hands 5 They have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not 6 They have ears but they hear not noses have they but they sinell not 7 They have hands but they handle not feet have they but they walk not neither speak they through their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them 9 O Israel trust thou in the LORD he is their help and their shield 10 O house of Aaron trust in the LORD he is their help and their shield 11 Ye that fear the LORD trust in the LORD he is their help and their shield 12 The LORD hath been mindful of us he will bless us he will bless the house of Israel he will bless the house of Aaron 13 He will bless them that fear the LORD both small †Heb. with and great 14 The LORD shall increase you more more you your children 15 You are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth 16 The heaven even the heavens are the LORDs but the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not the LORD neither any that go down into silence 18 * Dan. 2 20. But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore Praise the LORD PSAL. CXVI 1 The psalmist professeth his love and ducy to God for his deliverance 12 He studieth to be thankful I Love the LORD because he hath heard my voice and my supplications 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me therefore will I call upon him †Heb. in my days as long as I live 3 * Psal 18.5 6. The sorrows of death compassed me and the pains of hell †Heb. found me gat hold upon me I found trouble and sorrow 4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD O LORD I beseech thee deliver my soul 5 Gracious is the LORD and righteous yea our God is merciful 6 The LORD preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me 7 Return unto thy rest O my soul for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living 10 * 2 Cor. 4.13 I beleeved therefore have I spoken I was greatly afflicted 11 I said in my haste * Rom. 3.4 All men are liars 12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits towards me 13 I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the LORD 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints 16 O LORD truly I am thy servant I am thy servant and the son of thy hand-maid thou hast loosed my bonds 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the LORD 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people 19 In the courts of the LORDs house in the midst of thee O Jerusalem Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXVII An exhortation to praise God for his mercy and truth O * Rom. 15.11 Praise the LORD all ye nations praise him all ye people 2 For his merciful kindness is great towards us and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXVIII 1 An exhortation to praise God for his mercy 5 The psalmist by his experience sheweth how good it is to trust in God 19Vnder the type of the psalmist the coming of Christ in his kingdom is expressed O * 1 Chr. 16.8 Ps 106.1 107.1 136.1 Give thanks unto the LORD for he is good because his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let Israel now say that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now say that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Let them now that fear the LORD say that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the LORD †Heb. out of distress in distress the LORD answered me and set me in a large place 6 * Ps 56.4 11. Heb. 13.6 The LORD is †Heb. for me on my side I will not fear what can man do unto me 7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me 8 It is better to trust in the LORD then to put confidence in man 9 * Ps 146.2 It is better to trust in the LORD then to put confidence in princes 10 All nations compassed me about but in the name of the LORD will I †Heb. out them off destroy them 11 They compassed me about yea they compassed me about but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them 12 They compassed me about like bees they are quenched as the fire of thorns for in the name of the LORD I will †Heb. out down destroy them 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the LORD helped me 14 * Ex. 15.2 Isa 12.2 The LORD is my strength and song and is become my salvation 15 The voice of rejoycing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly 16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly 17 I shall not die but live and declare the works of the LORD 18 The
strength but wisdom is profitable to direct 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment and †Heb. the master of the tongue a babbler is no better 12 * Pr. 10.32 12.13 The words of a wise mans mouth are †Heb. grace gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness and the end of †Heb. his mouth his talk is mischievous madness 14 * Pr. 15.2 A fool also †Heb. multiplieth words is full of words a man cannot tell what shall be and * Ch. 3.22 6.12 what shall be after him who can tell him 15 The labour of the foolish wearteth every one of them because he knoweth not how to go to the city 16 ¶ * Is 3.3 4. Wo to thee O land when thy king is a childe and thy princes eat in the morning 17 Blessed art thou O land when thy king is the son of nobles and thy princes eat in due season for strength not for drunkenness 18 ¶ By much flothfulness the building decayeth and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through 19 ¶ A feast is made for laughter and * Ps 104.15 wine †Heb. maketh glad the life maketh merry but money answereth all things 20 ¶ * Ex. 22.28 Curse not the king no not in thy ‖ Or conscience thought and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber for a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter CHAP. XI 1 Directions for charity 7 Death in life 9 and the day of judgement in the days of youth are to be thought on CAst thy bread †Heb. upon the face of the waters upon the waters for thou shalt finde it after * Deu. 15.10 Pr. 19.17 Mat. 10.42 many days 2 Give a portion to seven and also to eight for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth 3 If the clouds be full of rain they empty themselves upon the earth and if the tree fall toward the south or toward the north in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sowe and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with childe even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all 6 In the morning sowe thy seed and in the evening withhold not thine hand for thou knowest not whether †Heb. shall be right shall prosper either this or that or whether they both shall be alike good 7 ¶ Truly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun 8 But if a man live many years and rejoyce in them all yet let him remember the days of darkness for they shall be many All that cometh is vanity 9 ¶ Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement 10 Therefore remove ‖ Or anger sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh for childhood and youth are vanity CHAP. XII 1 The Creatour is to be remembred in due time 8 The preachers care to edifie 13 The fear of God is the chief antidote of vanity * Pr. 22.6 REmember now thy Creatour in the days of thy youth while the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them 2 While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkned not the clouds return after the rain 3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves and ‖ Or the grinders fail because they grinde little the grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the windows be darkned 4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of musick shall be brought sow 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and fears shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish and the grashopper shall be a burden and desire shall fail because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets 6 Or ever the â—ilver cord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern 7 * Gen. 3.19 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it 8 ¶ * Ch. 1.2 Vanity of vanities saith the preacher all is vanity 9 And ‖ Or the more wise the preacher was c. moreover because the preacher was wise he still taught the people knowledge yea he gave good heed and sought out and * 1 Kin. 4.32 set in order many proverbs 10 The preacher sought to finde out †Heb. words of delight acceptable words and that which was written was upright even words of truth 11 The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastned by the masters of assemblies which are given from one shepherd 12 And further by these my son be admonished of making many books there is no end and much ‖ Or reading study is a weariness of the flesh 13 ¶ ‖ Or The end of the matter even all that hath-been heard is Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man 14 For * Ro. 2.16 14.20 2 Cor. â— 10 God shall bring every work into judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil ¶ The SONG of SOLOMON CHAP. I. 1 The churches lovâ— unto Christ 5 She confesseth her deformity 7 and prayeth to be â—irested to his flock 8 Christ directeth her to the shepherds tents 9 and shewing his love to her 11 giveth her gracious promises 12 The church and Christ congratulate one another THe song of songs which is Solomons 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth * Ch. 4.10 for †Heb. thy loves thy love is better then wine 3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth therefore do the virgins love thee 4 * Joh. 6.44 Draw me we will run after thee the king hath brought me into his chambers we will be glad and rejoyce in thee we will remember thy love more then wine ‖ Or they love thee uprightly the upright love thee 5 I am
everlasting love therefore ‖ Or have 〈◊〉 extended loving kindness unto thee with loving kindness have I drawn thee 4 Again I will build thee and thou shalt be built O virgin of Israel thou shalt again be adorned with thy * Ex. 15.20 Judg. 11.34 ‖ Or timbrels tabrets and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria the planters shall plant and shall †Heb. profane them eat them as common things 6 For there shall be a day that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry Arise ye and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God 7 For thus saith the LORD Sing with gladness for Jacob and shout among the chief of the nations publish ye praise ye and say O LORD save thy people the remnant of Israel 8 Behold I will bring them from the north-countrey and gather them from the coasts of the earth and with them the blinde and the lame the woman with childe and her that travaileth with childe together a great company shall return thither 9 They shall come with weeping and with ‖ Or favours supplications will I lead them I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a strait way wherein they shall not stumble for I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my * Ex. 4.22 first-born 10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD O ye nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say He that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger then he 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD for wheat and for wine and for oyl and for the young of the flock and of the herd and their soul shall be as a * Is 58.11 watered garden and they shall not sorrow any more at all 13 Then shall the virgin rejoyce in the dance both young men and old together for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoyce from their sorrow 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness saith the LORD 15 ¶ Thus saith the LORD * Mat. 2.18 A voice was heard in Ramah lamentation end bitter weeping Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not 16 Thus saith the LORD Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears for thy work shall be rewarded saith the LORD and they shall come again from the land of the enemy 17 And there is hope in thine end saith the LORD that thy children shall come again to their own border 18 ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the LORD my God 19 Surely * Deu. 30. â— after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth 20 Is Ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant childe for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowel †Heb. sound are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the LORD 21 Set thee up way-marks make thee high heaps set thine heart toward the high way even the way which thou wentest turn again O virgin of Israel turn again to these thy cities 22 ¶ How long wilt thou go about O thou backsliding daughter for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth A woman shall compass a man 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof when I shall bring again their captivity The LORD bless thee O habitation of justice and mountain of holiness 24 And there shall dwell in Judah it self and in all the cities thereof together husbandmen and they that go forth with flocks 25 For I have satiated the weary soul and I have replenished every sorrowful soul 26 Upon this I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me 27 ¶ Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will sowe the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast 28 And it shall come to pass that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict so will I watch over them to build and to plant saith the LORD 29 * Ezek. â—8 â— In those days they shall say no more The fathers have eaten a sowre grape and the childrens teeth are set on edge 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity every man that eateth the sowre grape his teeth shall be set on edge 31 ¶ Behold the * Heb. 8. â— days come saith the LORD that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which my covenant they brake ‖ Or should I have continued an husband unto them although I was an husband unto them saith the LORD 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days saith the LORD I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts * Ch. 24.7 and 20.22 and will be their God and they shall be my people 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the LORD for * Is 54.13 Joh. 6.45 they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the LORD for * Ch. 33.8 Mic. 7.18 Act. 10.43 I will forgive their iniquity I will remember their sin no more 35 ¶ Thus saith the LORD * Gen. 1.16 which giveth the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night which divideth * Is 51.15 the sea when the waves thereof roar the LORD of hosts is his name 36 * Is 54. â— Ch. 33.20 If those ordinances depart from before me saith the LORD then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever 37 Thus saith the LORD If * Ch. 33 2â— heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath I will also cast
and it shall come to pass that ‖ Or inâ—â—â—d of that in the place where it was said unto them Ye are not my people there it shall be said unto them Ye are the sons of the living God 11 * Jer. 3.18 Ezek. 34. â—3 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head and they shall come up out of the land for great shall be the day of Jezreel CHAP. II. 1 The idolatry of the people 6 Gods judgements against them 14 His promises of reconciâ—ation with them SAy ye unto your brethren ‖ That is My people Ammi and to your sisters ‖ That is Having obtained mercâ— Ruhamah 2 Plead with your mother plead for * Isa 50.1 she is not my wise neither am I her husband let her therefore put away her * Ezek. 16.25 whoredoms out of her sight and her aduâ—teries from between her breasts 3 Lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was * Ezek. 16.4 born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with thirst 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children for they be the children of whoredoms 5 For their mother hath played the harlot she that conceived them hath done shamefully for she said I will go after my lovers that give me my bread and my water my wooll and my flax mine oyl and my †Heb. drinks drink 6 ¶ Therefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns and †Heb. wall a wall make a wall that she shall not finde her paths 7 And she shall follow after her lovers but she shall not overtake them and she shall seek them but shall not finde them then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me then now 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn and †Heb. new wine wine and oyl and multiplied her silver and gold ‖ Or wherewith they maâ—e Baal which they prepared for Baal 9 Therefore will I return and take away my corn in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof and will ‖ Or take away recover my wooll and my flax given to cover her nakedness 10 And now will I discover her †Heb. fâ—lâ—y or viâ—lany Jewdness in the sight of her lovers and none shall deliver her out of mine hand 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease her feast-days her new-moons and her sabbaths and all her solemn feasts 12 And I will †Heb. make desolate destroy her vines and her fig-trees whereof she hath said These are my rewards that my lovers have given me and I will make them a forest and the beasts of the field shall eat them 13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim wherein she burnt incense to them and she decked her self with her ear-rings and her jewels and she went after her lovers and forgat me saith the LORD 14 ¶ Therefore behold I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak ‖ Or frienâ—ly †Heb. to her hearâ— comfortably unto her 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence and the valley of Achor for a door of hope and she shall sing there as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt 16 And it shall be at that day saith the LORD that thou shalt call me ‖ That is My husband Ishi and shalt call me no more ‖ That is My loâ—â— Baali 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembred by their name 18 And in that day will I make a * Job 5.23 covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven and with the creeping things of the ground and I will break the bowe and the sword and the battel out of the earth and will make them to lie down safely 19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgement and in loving kindness and in mercies 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness and thou shalt know the LORD 21 And it shall come to pass in that day I will hear saith the LORD I will hear the heavens and they shall hear the earth 22 And the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oyl and they shall hear Jezreel 23 And I will sowe her unto me in the earth and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy and I * Rom. 9.26 1 Pet. 2.10 will say to them which were not my people Thou art my people and they shall say Thou art my God CHAP. III. 1 By the explation of an adulteress 4 iâ— shewed the desclation of Israel before their restauration THen said the LORD unto me Go yet love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adulteress according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel who look to other gods and love flagons †Heb. of crapes of wine 2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and for an homer of barley and an †Heb. letheâ—k half-homer of barley 3 And I said unto her Thou shalt * Deut. 27 13. abide for me many days thou shalt not play the harlot and thou shalt not be for another man so will I also be for thee 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a sacrifice and â—â—thout †Heb. a standing or â—tatue an image and without an ephod and without teraphim 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the LORD their God and * Jer. 30.9 Ezek. 34.22 David their king and shall fear the LORD and 〈◊〉 goodness in the * Isa â— 2 latter days CHAP. IV. 1 Gods judgements against the sins of the people 6 and of the priests 12 and against their idolatry 15 Judah is exhorted to take warning by Israels calamity HEar the word of the LORD ye children of Israel for the LORD hath a * Mic. 6. â— controversie with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land 2 By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out and †Heb. bloudâ— bloud toucheth bloud 3 Therefore shall the land mourn and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven yea the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away 4 Yet let no man strive nor reprove another for thy people are as they that strive with the priest 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the
unto us your minde concerning the writings Then began the first who had spoken of the strength of wine 18 And he said thus O ye men how exceeding strong is wine it causeth all men to err that drink it 19 It maketh the minde of the king and of the fatherless childe to be all one of the bond-man and of the freeman of the poor man and of the rich 20 It turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth so that a man remembreth neither sorrow nor debt 21 And it maketh every heart rich so that a man remembreth neither king nor governour and it maketh to speak all things by talents 22 And when they are in their cups they forget their love both to friends and brethren and a little after draw out swords 23 But when they are from the wine they remember not what they have done 24 O ye men is not wine the strongest that enforceth to do thus And when he had so spoken he held his peace CHAP. IV. 1 The second declareth the power of a king 14 The third the force of women 33 and of truth 41 The third is judged to be wisest 47 and obtaineth letters of the king to build Jerusalem 58 He praiseth God and sheweth his brethren what he had done THen the second that had spoken of the strength of the king began to say 2 O ye men do not men excel in strength that ‖ Or have the command bear rule over sea and land and all things in them 3 But yet the king is more mighty for he is lord of all these things and hath dominion over them and whatsoever he commandeth them they do 4 If he bid them make war the one against the other they do it if he send them out against the enemies they go and break down mountains walls and towers 5 They slay and are slain and transgress not the kings commandment if they get the victory they bring all to the king as well the spoil as all things else 6 Likewise for those that are no souldiers and have not to do with wars but use husbandry when they have reaped again that which they had sown they bring it to the king and compel one another to pay tribute unto the king 7 And yet he is but one man if he command to kill they kill if he command to spare they spare 8 If he command to smite they smite if he command to make desolate they make desolate if he command to build they build 9 If he command to cut down they cut down if he command to plant they plant 10 So all his people and his armies obey him furthermore he lieth down he eateth and drinketh and taketh his rest 11 And these keep watch round about him neither ‖ Or can may any one depart and do his own business neither disobey they him in any thing 12 O ye men how should not the king be mightiest when in such sort he is obeyed And he held his tongue 13 ¶ Then the third who had spoken of women and of the truth this was Zorobabel began to speak 14 O ye men it is not the great king nor the multitude of men neither is it wine that †Heb. is of force excelleth who is it then that ruleth them or hath the lordship over them are they not women 15 Women have born the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land 16 Even of them came they and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards from whence the wine cometh 17 These also make garments for men these bring glory unto men and without women cannot men be 18 Yea and if men have gathered together gold and silver or any other goodly thing do they not love a woman which is comely in favour and beauty 19 And letting all those things go do they not gape and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her and have not all men more desire unto her then unto silver or gold or any goodly thing whatsoever 20 A man leaveth his own father that brought him up and his own countrey and cleaveth unto his wife 21 He sticks not to spend his life with his wife and remembreth neither father nor mother nor countrey 22 By this also you must know that women have dominion over you do ye not labour and toil and give and bring all to the woman 23 Yea a man taketh his sword and goeth his way to rob and to steal to sail upon the sea and upon rivers 24 And looketh upon a lion and goeth in the darkness and when he hath stoln spoiled and robbed he bringeth it to his love 25 Wherefore a man loveth his wife better then father or mother 26 Yea many there be that have ‖ Or grown desperate run out of their wits for women and become servants for their sakes 27 Many also have perished have erred and sinned for women 28 And now do you not beleeve me is not the king great in his power do not all regions fear to touch him 29 Yet did I see him and Apame the kings concubine the daughter of the admirable ‖ Jos antiq l. 11. c. 4. Rabsaces Themasiu◠Bartacus sitting at the right hand of the king 30 And taking the crown from the kings head and setting it upon her own head she also stroke the king with her left hand 31 And yet ‖ Or hereat for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open month if she laughed upon him he laughed also but if she took any displeasure at him the king was fain to flatter that she might ‖ Or be friends with him be reconciled to him again 32 O ye men how can it be but women should be strong seeing they do thus 33 Then the king and the princes looked one upon another so he began to speak of the truth 34 O ye men are not women strong great is the earth high is the heaven swift is the sun in his course for he compasseth the heavens round about and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day 35 Is he not great that maketh these things therefore great is the truth and stronger then all things 36 All the earth ‖ Or praiseth the truth Athanasius calleth upon the truth and the heaven blesseth it all works shake and tremble at it and with it is no unrighteous thing 37 Wine is wicked the king is wicked women are wicked all the children of men are wicked and such are all their wicked works and there is no truth in them in their unrighteousness also they shall perish 38 As for the truth it endureth and is always strong it liveth and conquereth for evermore 39 With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards but she doeth the things that are just and refraineth from all unjust and wicked things and all men do well like of her works 40 Neither in her judgement is any
9 Unto you therefore O kings do I speak that ye may learn wisdom and not fall away 10 For they that keep holiness holily shall be ‖ Or justified judged holy and they that have learned such things shall finde ‖ Or a defence what to answer 11 Wherefore set your affection upon my words desire them and ye shall be instructed 12 Wisdom is glorious and never fadeth away yea she is easily seen of them that love her and found of such as seek her 13 She preventeth them that desire her in making her self first known unto them 14 Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travel for he shall finde her sitting at his doors 15 To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom and whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care 16 For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her sheweth her self favourably unto them in the ways and meeteth them in every thought 17 For the very true beginning of her is the desire of ‖ Or nurture discipline and the care of discipline is love 18 And love is the keeping of her laws and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption 19 And incorruption maketh us near unto God 20 Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom 21 If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres O ye kings of the people honour wisdom that ye may reign for evermore 22 As for wisdom what she is and how she came up I will tell you and will not hide mysteries from you but will seek her out from the beginning of her nativity and bring the knowledge of her into light and will not pass over the truth 23 Neither will I go with-consuming envy for such a man shall have no fellowship with wisdom 24 But the multitude of the wise is â—â—e welfare of the world and a wise king is the upholding of the peoâ—â—e 25 Receive therefore instruction through my words and it shall do you good CHAP. VII 1 All men have their beginning and end alike 8 He preferred wisdom before all things elso 15 God gave him all the knowledge which he had 22 The praise of wisdom I My self also am a mortal man like to all and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth 2 And in my mothers womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten moneths * Job 10.10 being compacted in bloud of the seed of man and the pleasure that came with sleep 3 And when I was born I drew in the common air and fell upon the earth which is of like nature and the first voice which I uttered was crying as all others do 4 I was nursed in swadling-clothes and that with cares 5 For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth 6 * Job 1.21 1 Tim. 6.7 For all men have one entrance into life and the like going out 7 Wherefore I prayed and understanding was given me I called upon God and the spirit of wisdom came to me 8 I preferred her before sceptres and thrones and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her 9 Neither compared I unto her any †Gr. stone of inestimable priâ—â— precious stone because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand and silver shall be counted as clay before her 10 I loved her above health and beauty and chose to have her in stead of light for the light that cometh from her never goeth out 11 * 1 Kings 3.13 Mat. 6 33. All good things together came to me with her and innumerable riches in her hands 12 And I rejoyced in them all because wisdom goeth before them and I knew not that she was the mother of them 13 I learned †Gr. without guile diligently and do communicate her †Gr. without envy liberally I do not hide her riches 14 For she is a treasure unto men that never faileth which they that use ‖ Or enter friendship with God become the friends of God being commended for the gifts that come from learning 15 ‖ Or God grant God hath granted me to speak as I would and to conceive as is meet for the things that ‖ Or are to be spoken of are given me because it is he that leadeth unto wisdom and directeth the wise 16 For in his hand are both we and our words all wisdom also and knowledge of workmanship 17 For he hath given me certain knowledge of the things that are namely to know how the world was made and the operation of the elements 18 The beginning ending and midst of the times the alterations of the turning of the sun and the change of seasons 19 The circuits of years and the positions of stars 20 The natures of living creatures and the furies of wilde beasts the violence of winds and the reasonings of men the diversities of plants and the vertues of roots 21 And all such things as are either secret or manifest them I know 22 For wisdom which is the worker of all things taught me for in her is an understanding spirit holy †Gr. onely begotten one onely manifold subtil lively clear undefiled plain not subject to hurt loving the thing that is good quick which cannot be letted ready to do good 23 Kinde to man stedfast sure free from care having all power overseeing all things and going through all understanding pure and most subtil spirits 24 For wisdom is more moving then any motion she passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness 25 For she is the ‖ Or vapour breath of the power of God and a pure ‖ Or strum influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty therefore can no defiled thing fall into her 26 For she is the * Heb. 1.3 brightness of the everlasting light the unspotted mirrour of the power of God and the image of his goodness 27 And being but one she can do all things and remaining in her self she ‖ Or â—â—uteth maketh all things new and in all ages entring into holy souls she maketh them friends of God and prophets 28 For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom 29 For she is more beautiful then the sun and above all the order of stars being compared with the sight she is found before it 30 For after this cometh night but vice shall not prevail against wisdom CHAP. VIII 2 He is in love with wisdom 4 for he that hath it hath every good thing 21 It cannot be bad but from God WIsdom reacheth from one end to another mightily and ‖ Or profitably sweetly doth she order all things 2 I loved her and sought her out from my youth I desired ‖ Or to marry her to my self to make her my spouse and I was a lover of her beauty 3 In that she is conversant with God she magnifieth her nobility yea the Lord of all things himself
foreshew this lest they should perish and not know why they were afflicted 20 Yea the tasting of death touched the righteous also and there was a destruction of the * Num. 16.46 multitude in the wilderness but the wrath endured not long 21 For then the blameless man made haste and stood forth to defend them and bringing the shield of his proper ministery even prayer and the propitiation of incense set himself against the wrath and so brought the calamity to an end declaring that he was thy servant 22 So he overcame the destroyer not with strength of body nor force of arms but with a word subdued he him that punished alledging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers 23 For when the dead were now fain down by heaps one upon another standing between he ‖ Or out off stayed the wrath and parted the way to the living 24 * Ex. 28.6 9.36 For in the long garment was the whole world and in the four rows of the stones was the glory of the fathers graven and thy Majesty upon the diadem of his head 25 Unto these the destroyer gave place and was afraid of them for it was enough that they onely tasted of the wrath CHAP. XIX 1 Why God showed no mercy to the Egyptians 5 and how wonderfully be dealt with his people 14 The Egyptians were worst then the Sodomites 18 The wonderful agreement of the creatures to serve Gods people AS for the ungodly wrath came upon them without mercy unto the end for he knew before what they would do 2 How that having given them leave to depart and sent them hastily away they would repent and pursue them 3 For whilest they were yet mourning and making lamentation at the graves of the dead they added another foolish device and pursued them as fugitives whom they had ‖ Or cast out by intreaty intreated to be gone 4 For the destiny whereof they were worthy drew them unto this end and made them forget the things that had already hapned that they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their torments 5 And that thy people might pass a wonderful way but they might finde a strange death 6 For the whole creature in his proper kinde was fashioned again anew serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them that thy children might be kept without hurt 7 As namely a cloud shadowing â—â—e camp and where water stood before dry land appeared and 〈◊〉 of the Red sea a way without impediment and out of the viâ—â—â—â—t stream a green field 8 Wherethrough all the people wâ—â—â— that were defended with thy hand seeing thy marvellous strange wonders 9 For they went at large like horses and leaped like lambs praising thee O Lord who hadst delivered them 10 For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while they sojourned in the strange land how the ground brought forth ‖ Or lice flies in stead of cattel and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs in stead of fishes 11 But afterwards they saw a new generation of fowls when being led with their appetite they asked delicate meats 12 For quails came up unto them from the sea for their ‖ Or comfort contentment 13 And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour towards strangers 14 For the Sodomites did not receive those whom they knew not when they came but these brought friends into bondage that had well deserved of them 15 And not onely so but peradventure some respect shall be had of those because they used strangers not friendly 16 But these very grievously afflicted them whom they had received with feastings and were already made partakers of the same laws with them 17 Therefore even with blindness were these stricken as those were at the doors of the righteous man when being compassed about with horrible great darkness every one sought the passage of his own doors 18 For the elements were changed †Or. by themselves in themselves by a kinde of harmony like as in a psaltery notes change the name of the tune and yet are always sounds which may well be perceived by the sight of the things that have been done 19 For earthly things were turned into watery and the things that before swam in the water now went upon the ground 20 The fire had power in the water forgetting his own vertue and the water forgat his own quenching nature 21 On the other side the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things though they walked therein neither melted they the icie kinde of heavenly meat that was of nature apt to melt 22 For in all things O Lord thou didst magnify thy people and glorify them neither didst thou lightly regard them but didst assist them in every time and place The Wisdom of JESVS the son of SIRACH or ECCLESIASTICUS A prologue made by an uncertain Author Some reser this prologue to Athanasius because it is found in his Synopsis THis Jesus was the son of Sirach and grandchilde to Jesus of the same name with him this man therefore lived in the latter times after the people had been led away captive and called home again and almost after all he prophets Now his grandfather Jesus as he himself witnesseth was a man of great diligence and wisdom among the Hebrews who did not onely gather the grave and short sentences of wise men that had been before him but himself also uttered some of his own full of much understanding and wisdom When as therefore the first Jesus died leaving this book almost ‖ Or collected perfected Sirach his son receiving it after him left it to his own son Jesus who having gotten it into his hands compiled it all orderly into one volume and called it Wisdom intituling it both by his own name his fathers name and his grandfathers alluring the hearer by the very name of Wisdom to have a greater love to the study of this book It containeth therefore wise sayings dark sentences and parables and certain particular ancient godly stories of men that pleased God also his prayer and song moreover what benefits God had vouchsafed his people and what plagues he had heaped upon their enemies This Jesus did imitate Solomon and was no less famous for wisdom and learning both being indeed a man of great learning so reputed also The prologue of the Wisdom of JESUS the son of SIRACH WHereas many and great things have been delivered unto us by the law and the prophets and by others that have followed their steps for the which things Israel ought to be commended for learning and wisdom and whereof not onely the readers must needs become skilful themselves but also they that desire to learn be able to profit them which are ‖ Or of
countenance CHAP. XIII 1 Keep not company with the proud or a michtier then thy self 15 Like will to like 21 The difference between the rich and the poor 25 A mans bea rt will change his countenance HE that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith and * Deu. 7.2 he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him 2. Burden not thyself abovethy power while thou livest and have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer then thy self For how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together †Gr. this shall smite against it and be broken for if the one besmitten against the other it shall be broken 3 The rich man hath done wrong and yet he threatneth withal the poor is wronged and he must intreat also 4 If thou be for his profit he will use thee but if thou have nothing he will forsake thee 5 If thou have any thing he will live with thee yea he will make thee bare and will not be sorry for it 6 If he have need of thee he will deceive thee and smile upon thee and put thee in hope he will speak thee fair and say What wantest thou 7 And he will shame thee by his meats until he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice and at the last he will laugh thee to scorn afterward when he seeth thee he will forsake thee and shake his head at thee 8 Beware that thou be not deceived and brought down †Or by thy sonplicity in thy jollity 9 If thou he invited of a mighty man withdraw thy self and so much the more will he invite thee 10 Press thou not upon him lest thou be put back stand not far off lest thou be forgotten 11 ‖ Or forbear not Affect not to be made equal unto him in talk ‖ Or but. and beleeve not his many words for with much communication will he tempt thee and smiling upon thee will get out thy secrets 12 But cruelly he will lay up thy words and will not spare to do thee hurt and to put thee in prison 13 Observe take good heed for thou walkest in peril of thy overthrowing when thou hearest these things awake in thy sleep 14 Love the Lord all thy life and call upon him for thy salvation 15 Every beast loveth his like and every man loveth his neighbour 16 All flesh consorteth according to kinde and a man will cleave to his like 17 What fellowship hath the wolf with the lamb so the sinner with the godly 18 What agreement is there between the hyena and a dog and what peace between the rich and the poor 19 As the wilde ass is the lions prey in the wilderness so the rich eat up the poor 20 As the proud hate humility so doth the rich abhor the poor 21 A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends but 〈◊〉 poor man being down is thrust also away by his friends 22 When a rich man is faln he hath many helpers he speaketh things not to bespoken and yet men justifie him the poor man slipt and yet they rebuked him too he spake wisely and could have no place 23 When a rich man speaketh every man holdeth his tongue and look what he saith they extoll it to the clouds but if the poor man speak they say What fellow is this and if he stumble they will help to overthrow him 24 Riches are good unto him that hath no sin and poverty is evil in the mouth of the ungodly 25 The heart of a man changeth his countenance whether it be for good or evil and a merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance 26 A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in prosperity and the finding out of parables is a wer isom labour of the minde CHAP. XIV 1 A good conscience maketh men happy 5 The niggard doeth good to none 13 But do thou good 20 Men are happy that draw near to wisdom * Ch. 19.16 25.8 Jam. 3.2 BLessed is the man that hath not slipt with his mouth and is not pricked with the ‖ Or sorrow multitude of sins 2 Blessed is he whose conscience hath not condemned him and who is not faln from his hope in the Lord. 3 Riches are not comely for a niggard and what should an envious man do with money 4 He that gathereth by defrauding his own soul gathereth for others that shall spend his goods riotously 5 He that is evil to himself to whom will he be good he shall not take pleasure in his goods 6 There is none worse then he that envieth himself and this is a recompence of his wickedness 7 And if he doeth good he doeth it unwillingly and at the last he will declare his wickedness 8 The envious man hath a wicked eye he turneth away his sace and despiseth men 9 A * Prov. 27. â—â— covetous mans eye is not satisfied with his portion and the iniquity of the wicked drieth up his soul 10 A wicked eye envieth his bread and he is a niggard at his table 11 My son according to thy ability do good to thy self and give the Lord his due offering 12 Remember that death will not be long in coming and that the covenant of the grave is not shewed unto thee 13 * Tob. 4.7 Luk. 14 1â— Do good unto thy friend before thou die and according to thy ability stretch out thy hand and give to him 14 Defraud not thy self of †Or the feast-day the good day and let not the part of a good desire overpass thee 15 Shalt thou not leave thy travels unto another and thy labour to be divided by lot 16 Give and take and sanctifie thy soul for there is no seeking of dainties in the grave 17 * Isa 40.6 Jam. 1.10.1 Pet. 1.24 All flesh waxeth old as a garment for the covenant from the beginning is Thou shalt die the death 18 As of the green leaves on a thick tree some fall and some grow so is the generation of flesh and bloud one cometh to an end and another is born 19 Every work rotteth and consumeth away and the worker thereof shall go withal 20 * Psal 1.2 Blessed is the man that doth meditate good things in wisdom and that reasoneth of holy things by his understanding 21 He that considereth her ways in his heart shall also have understanding in her secrets 22 Go after her as one that traceth and lie in wait in her ways 23 He that prieth in at her windows shall also hearken at her doors 24 He that doth lodge near her house shall also fasten a ‖ Or stake pin in her walls 25 He shall pitch his tent nigh unto her and shall lodge in a lodging where good things are 26 He shall set his children under her shelter and shall lodge under her branches 27 By her he shall be covered from heat and in her glory shall he dwell CHAP.
counted John that he was a prophet indeed 33 And they answered and said unto Jesus We cannot tell And Jesus answering saith unto them Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things CHAP. XII 1 In a parable of the vineyard let out to unthankful husbandmen Christ foretelleth the reprobation of the Jews and the calling of the Gentiles 13 He avoideth the snare of the Pharisees and Herodians about paying tribute to Cesar 18 convinceth the errour of the Sadducees who denied the resurrection 28 resolveth the seribe who questioned of the first commandment 35 resuteth the opinion that the scribes held of Christ 38 bidding the people to beware of their ambition and hâ—pocrisy 41 and commendeth the poor widow for her two mites above all ANd * Mat. 27.33 he began to speak unto them by parables 〈◊〉 certain man planted a vineyard and set an hedge about it and digged a place for the wine-fat and built a towre and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far countrey 2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard 3 And they caught him and beat him and sent him away empty 4 And again he sent unto them another servant and at him they cast stoney and wounded him in the head and sent him away shamefully handled 5 And again he sent another and him they killed and many others beating some and killing some 6 Having yet therefore one son his welbeloved he sent him also last unto them saying They will reverence my son 7 But those husbandmen said amongst themselves This is the heir come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours 8 And they took him and killed him and cast him out of the vineyard 9 What shall therefore the Lord of the vineyard do he will come and destroy the husbandmen and will give the vineyard unto others 10 And have ye not read this scripture * Psal 118.22 The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner 11 This was the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes 12 And they sought to lay hold on him but feared the people for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them and they lest him and went their way 13 ¶ * Mat. 22.25 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to catch him in his words 14 And when they were come they say unto him Master we know that thou art true and carest for no man for thou regardest not the person of men but teachest the way of God in truth Is it lawful to give tribute to Cesar or not 15 Shall we give or shall we not give But he knowing their hypocrisie said unto them Why tempt ye me bring me a ‖ Valuing of our money seven pence halspeny as Mat. 18.28 peny that I may see it 16 And they brought it and he saith unto them Whose is this image and superscription And they said unto him Cesars 17 And Jesus answering said unto them Render to Cesar the things that are Cesars and to God the things that are Gods And they marvelled at him 18 ¶ * Mat. 22.23 Then come unto him the Sadducees which say there is no resurrection and they asked him saying 19 Master Moses wrote unto us if a mans brother die and leave his wife behinde him and leave no children that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother 20 Now there were seven brethren and the first took a wife and dying lest no seed 21 And the second took her and died neither left he any seed and the third likewise 22 And the seven had her and left no seed last of all the woman died also 23 In the resurrection therefore when they shall rise whose wife shall she be of them for the seven had her to wife 24 And Jesus answering said unto them Do ye not therefore err because ye know not the scriptures neither the power of God 25 For when they shall rise from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels which are in heaven 26 And as touching the dead that they rise have ye not read in the book of Moses how in the bush God spake unto him saying I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob 27 He is not the God of the dead but the God of the living ye therefore do greatly err 28 ¶ * Mat. 22 3â— And one of the scribes came and having heard them reasoning together and perceiving that he had answered them well asked him Which is the first commandment of all 29 And Jesus answered him The first of all the commandments is Hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy minde and with all thy strength this is the first commandment 31 And the second is like namely this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself there is none other commandment greater then these 32 And the scribe said unto him Well Master thou hast said the truth for there is one God and there is none other but he 33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the soul and with all the strength to love his neighbour as himself is more then all whose burnt-offerings and sacrifices 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly he said unto him Thou art not far from the kingdom of God And no man after that durst ask him any question 35 ¶ * Mat. 22 4â— And Jesus answered and said while he taught in the temple How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David 36 For David himself said by the holy Ghost * Ps 110.1 The LORD said to my Lord Sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool 37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord and whence is he then his son And the common people heard him gladly 38 ¶ And he said unto them in his doctrine * Mat. 23.5 Beware of the scribes which love to go in long clothing love salutations in the market-places 39 And the chief seats in the synagogues and the uppermost rooms at feasts 40 * Mat. 23.14 Which devour widows houses and for a pretence make long prayers these shall receive greater damnation 41 ¶ * Luk. 21.1 And Jesus sat over against the treasury and beheld how the people cast ‖ A piece of brass money See Mat. 10.29 money into the treasury and many that were rich cast in much 42 And there came a certain poor widow and she threw in two ‖ It is the seventh part of one piece of that brass money mites which make a farthing 43 And he called unto
that gathereth not with me scattereth 24 * Mat. 12.43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest and finding none he saith I will return unto my house whence I came out 25 And when he cometh he findeth it swept and garnished 26 Then goeth he and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked then himself and they enter in and dwell there and the last state of that man is worse then the first 27 ¶ And it came to pass as he spake these things a certain woman of the company lift up her voice and said unto him Blessed is the womb that bare thee and the paps which thou hast sucked 28 But he said Yea rather blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it 29 ¶ * Mat. 12.38 And when the people were gathered thick together he began to say This is an evil generation they seek a signe and there shall no signe be given it but the signe of Jonas the prophet 30 For as Jonas was a signe unto the Ninevites so shall also the Son of man be to this generation 31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgement with the men of this generation and condemn them for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and behold a greater then Solomon is here 32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgement with this generation and shall condemn it for they repented at the preaching of Jonas and behold a greater then Jonas is here 33 * Mat. 5.15 No man when he hath lighted a candle putteth it in a secret place neither under a ‖ See Mat. 5.15 bushel but on a candlestick that they which come in may see the light 34 * Mat. 6 2â— The light of the body is the eye therefore when thine eye is single thy whole body also is full of light but when thine eye is evil thy body also is full of darkness 35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness 36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light having no part dark the whole shall be full of light as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light 37 ¶ And as he spake a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him and he went in and sat down to meat 38 And when the Pharisee saw it he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner 39 * Mat. 23.25 And the Lord said unto him Now do ye Pharisees make clean the out-side of the cup and the platter but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness 40 Ye fools did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also 41 But rather give alms ‖ Or as you are able of such things as you have and behold all things are clean unto you 42 But wo unto you Pharisees for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs and pass over judgement and the love of God these ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone 43 * Mat. 1â— 6 Wo unto you Pharisees for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets 44 Wo unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye are as graves which appear not and the men that walk over them are not aware of them 45 ¶ Then answered one of the lawyers and said unto him Master thus saying thou reproachest us also 46 * Mat. 23.4 And he said Wo unto you also ye lawyers for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be born and ye your selves touch not the burdens with one of your singers 47 * Mat. 23.29 Wo unto you for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and your fathers killed them 48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers for they indeed killed them and ye build their sepulchres 49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God I will send them prophets and apostles and some of them they shall slay and persecute 50 That the bloud of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation 51 * Gen. 4.8 From the bloud of Abel unto the bloud of Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple verily I say unto you It shall be required of this generation 52 * Mat. 23.13 Wo unto you sawyers for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye entred not in your selves and them that were entring in ye ‖ Or forbad hindred 53 And as he said these things unto them the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehentently and to provoke him to speak of many things 54 Laying wait for him and seeking to catch something out of his mouth that they might accuse him CHAP. XII 1 Christ preacheth to his disciples to avoid hypocrisie and fearfulness in publishing his doctrine 13 warneth the people to beware of covetousness by the parable of the rich man who set up greater barns 22 We must not be over careful of earthly things 31 but seek the kingdom of God 33 give alms 36 be ready at a knock to open to our Lord whensoever he cometh 41 Christs ministers are to set to their charge 49 and look for persecution 54 The people must take this time of grace 58 because it is a fearful thing to die without reconciliation IN * Mat. 1â— 6 the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people insomuch that they trode one upon another he began to say unto his disciples first of all Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrine 2 * Mat. 10.26 For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed neither hid that shall not be known 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops 4 * Mat. 10.28 And I say unto you my friends Be not afraid of them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do 5 But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear Fear him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell yea I say unto you Fear him 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two ‖ See Mat. 10. â—9 farthings and not one of them is forgotten before God 7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbred Fear not therefore ye are of more value then many sparrows 8 * Mat. 10.32 2 Tim. 2 12 Also I say unto you Whosoever shall confess me before men him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God 9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God 10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man it
beheld him he said Thou art Simon the son of Jona thou shalt be called Cephas which is by interpretation ‖ Or Peter a stone 43 ¶ The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee and findeth Philip and saith unto him Follow me 44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida the city of Andrew and Peter 45 Philip findeth Nathanael and saith unto him We have found him of whom * Gen. 4◠10 Deut. 18.18 Moses in the law and the * Isa ◠2 prophets did write Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph 46 And Nathanael said unto him Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth Philip saith unto him Come and see 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and saith of him Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile 48 Nathanael saith unto him Whence knowest thou me Jesus answered and said unto him Before that Philip called thee when thou wast under the fig-tree I saw thee 49 Nathanael answereth and saith unto him Rabbi thou art the Son of God thou art the king of Israel 50 Jesus answered and said unto him Because I said unto thee I saw thee under the fig-tree beleevest thou thou shalt see greater things then these 51 And he saith unto him Verily verily I say unto you Hereafter you shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man CHAP. II. 1 Christ turneth water into wine 12 departeth into Capernaum and to Jerusalem 14 where he purgeth the temple of buyers and sellers 19 He foretelleth his death and resurrection 23 Many beleeved because of his miracles but he would not trust himself with them ANd the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there 2 And both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage 3 And when they wanted wine the mother of Jesus saith unto him They have no wine 4 Jesus saith unto her Woman what have I to do with thee mine hour is not yet come 5 His mother saith unto the servants Whatsoever he saith unto you do it 6 And there were set there six water-pots of stone after the manner of the purifying of the Jews containing two or three firkins apiece 7 Jesus saith unto them Fill the water-pots with water And they filled them up to the brim 8 And he saith unto them Draw out now and bear unto the governour of the feast And they bare it 9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and knew not whence it was but the servants which drew the water knew the governour of the feast called the bridegroom 10 And saith unto him Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine and when men have well drunk then that which is worse but thou hast kept the good wine until now 11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth his glory and his disciples beleeved on him 12 ¶ After this he went down to Capernaum he and his mother and his brethren his disciples and they continued there not many days 13 ¶ And the Jews pass-over was at hand Jesus went up to Jerusalem 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money sitting 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers money and overthrew the tables 16 And said unto them that sold doves Take these things hence make not my Fathers house an house of merchandise 17 And his disciples remembred that it was written * Psal 69.9 The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up 18 ¶ Then answered the Jews and said unto him what signe shewest thou unto us seeing that thou doest these things 19 Jesus answered and said unto them * Mat. 26.61 Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up 20 Then said the Jews Fourty and six years was this temple in building and wilt thou rear it up in three days 21 But he spake of the temple of his body 22 When therefore he was risen from the dead his disciples remembred that he had said this unto them and they beleeved the scripture and the word which Jesus had said 23 ¶ Now when he was in Jerusalem at the pass-over in the feast day many beleeved in his name when they saw the miracles which he did 24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them because he knew all men 25 And needed not that any should testifie of man for he knew what was in man CHAP. III. 1 Christ teacheth Nicodemus the necessity of regeneration 14 of faith in his death 16 The great love of God towards the world 18 Contemnation for unbelief 23 The baptism witness and doctrine of John concerning Christ THere was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews 2 The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him Rabbi we know that thou art a teacher come from God for no man can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him 3 Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee Except a man be born ‖ Or from above again he cannot see the kingdom of God 4 Nicodemus saith unto him How can a man be born when he is old can he enter the second time into his mothers womb be born 5 Jesus answered Verily verily I say unto thee Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee Ye must be born ‖ Or from above again 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth so is every one that is born of the Spirit 9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him How can these things be 10 Jesus answered and said unto him Art thou a master of Israel and knowest not these things 11 Verily verily I say unto thee We speak that we do know and testifie that we have seen and ye receive not our witness 12 If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things 13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven even the Son of man which is in heaven 14 ¶ * Numb 21.9 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life 16 ¶ * 1 John 4.9 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life 17
we know not whither thou goest and how can we know the way 6 Jesus saith unto him I am the way and the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me 7 If ye had known me ye should have known my Father also and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him 8 Philip saith unto him Lord shew us the Father and it sufficeth us 9 Jesus saith unto him Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me Philip he that hath seen me hath seen the Father and how sayest thou then Shew us the Father 10 Beleevest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me the words that I speak unto you I speak not of my self but the Father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works 11 Beleeve me that I am in the Father and the Father in me or else beleeve me for the very works sake 12 Verily verily I say unto you He that beleeveth on me the works that I do shall he do also and greater works then these shall he do because I go unto my Father 13 * Mat. 7.7 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name I will do it 15 ¶ If ye love me keep my commandments 16 And I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever 17 Even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you 18 I will not leave you ‖ Or orphans comfortless I will come to you 19 Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but ye see me because I live ye shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you 21 He that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self to him 22 Judas saith unto him not Iscariot Lord how is it that thou wilt manifest thy self unto us and not unto the world 23 Jesus answered and said unto him If a man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings and the word which you hear is not mine but the Fathers which sent me 25 These things have I spoken unto you being yet present with you 26 But the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you 27 Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid 28 Ye have heard how I said unto you I go away and come again unto you If ye loved me ye would rejoyce because I said I go unto the Father for my Father is greater then I. 29 And now I have told you before it come to pass that when it is come to pass ye might beleeve 30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you for the prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father and as the Father gave me commandment even so I do Arise let us go hence CHAP. XV. 1 The consolation and mutual love between Christ and his members under the parable of the vine 18 A comfort in the batred and persecution of the world 26 The office of the holy Ghost and of the apostles I Am the true vine and my Father is the husbandman 2 * Mat. 15.13 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit 3 * Chap. 13.10 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you 4 Abide in me and I in you As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me 5 I am the vine ye are the branches He that abidâ—th in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for ‖ Or severed from me without me ye can do nothing 6 If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned 7 If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you 8 Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit so shall ye be my disciples 9 As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love 10 If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love 11 These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full 12 * Chap. 12.34 1 Thes 4.9 1 Joh. 3.11 This is my commandment That ye love one another as I have loved you 13 Greater love hath no man then this that a man lay down his life for his friends 14 Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you 15 Henceforth I call you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth but I have called you friends for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you 16 Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and * Mat. 28.29 ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name he may give it you 17 These things I command you that ye love one another 18 If the world hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you 19 If ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you 20 Remember the word that I said unto you * Mat. 10.14 Cha. 13.16 The servant is not greater then the lord If they have persecuted me they will also persecute you if they have kept my saying they will keep yours also 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my names sake because they know not him that sent me 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them they had not had sin but now they have no ‖ Or excuse cloke for their sin 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also 24 If I had not done
I am glorified in them 11 And now I am no more in the world but these are in the world and I come to thee Holy father keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me that they may be one as we are 12 While I was with them in the world I kept them in thy name those that thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost but the son of perdition * Psal 103 8. that the scripture might be fulfilled 13 And now come I to thee and these things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves 14 I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world even as I am not of the world 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil 16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world 17 Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth 18 As thou hast sent me into the world even so have I also sent them into the world 19 And for their sakes I sanctifie my self that they also might be ‖ Or truly sanctified sanctified through the truth 20 Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall beleeve on me through their word 21 That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us that the world may beleeve that thou hast sent me 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one 23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me 24 * Chap. 12.26 Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world 25 O righteous Father the world hath not known thee but I have known thee and these have known that thou hast sent me 26 And I have declared unto them thy name and will declare it that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them CHAP. XVIII 1 Judas betrayeth Jesus 6 The officers fall to the ground 10 Peter smiteth off Malchus ear 12 Jesus is taken and led unto Annas and Caiaphas 15 Peters denial 19 Jesus examined before Caiaphas 28 His arraignment before Pilate 36 His kingdom 40 The Jews ask Barabbas to be let loose WHen Jesus had spoken these words * Mat. 25.36 he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron where was a garden into the which he entred and his disciples 2 And Judas also which betrayed him knew the place for Jesus oft-times resorted thither with his disciples 3 * Mat. 26.47 Judas then having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons 4 Jesus therefore knowing all things that should come upon him went forth and faid unto them Whom seek ye 5 They answered him Jesus of Nazareth Jesus saith unto them I am be And Judas also which betrayed him stood with them 6 Assoon then as he had said unto them I am be they went backward and fell to the ground 7 Then asked he them again Whom seek ye and they said Jesus of Nazareth 8 Jesus answered I have told you that I am be If therefore ye seek me let these go their way 9 That the saying might be fulfilled which he spake * Chap. 17.12 Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none 10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it and smote the high priests servant cut off his right ear The servants name was Malchus 11 Then said Jesus unto Peter Put up thy sword into the sheath the cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it 12 Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus and bound him 13 And led him away to Annas first for he was father in law to Caiaphas which was the high priest that same year ‖ And Annu sent Christ bound unto Caiaphas the high prest ver 24. 14 * Chap. 11.30 Now Caiaphas was he which gave counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people 15 ¶ * Mat. 26.58 And Simon Peter followed Jesus and so did another disciple that disciple was known unto the high priest and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest 16 But Peter stood at the door without Then went out that other disciple which was known unto the high priest and spake unto her that kept the door and brought in Peter 17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter Art not thou also one of this mans disciples He saith I am not 18 And the servants and officers stood there who had made a fire of coals for it was cold and they warmed themselves and Peter stood with them and warmed himself 19 ¶ The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples of his doctrine 20 Jesus answered him I spake openly to the world I ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple whither the Jews always resort and in secret have I said nothing 21 Why askest thou me ask them which heard me what I have said unto them behold they know what I said 22 And when he had thus spoken one of the officers which stood by stroke Jesus ‖ Or with a rod. with the palm of his hand saying Answerest thou the high priest so 23 Jesus answered him If I have spoken evil bear witness of the evil but if well why smitest thou me 24 * Mat. 26.57 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas that high priest 25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself * Mat. 26.69 They said therefore unto him Art not thou also one of his disciples He denied it and said I am not 26 One of the servants of the high priest being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off saith Did not I see thee in the garden with him 27 Peter then denied again and immediately the cock crew 28 ¶ * Mat. 27.2 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto ‖ Or Pilates bouse the hall of judgement and it was early * Act. 10.28 and they themselves went not into the judgement-hall lest they should be defiled but that they might eat the pass over 29 Pilate then went out unto them and said What accusation bring you against this man 30 They answered and said unto him If he were not a malefactour we would not have delivered him up unto thee 31 Then said Pilate unto them Take ye him and judge him according to your
¶ * 1 Cor. 1.12 And a certain Jew named Apollos born at Alexandria an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures came to Ephesus 25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord and being fervent in the spirit he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing onely the baptism of John 26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue Whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly 27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia the brethren wrote exhorting the disciples to receive him who when he was come helped them much which had beleeved through grace 28 For he mightily convinced the Jews and that publickly shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ CHAP. XIX 6 The holy Ghost is given by Pauls hands 9 The Jews blaspheme his doctrine which is confirmed by miracles 13 The Jewish exorcists 16 are beaten by the devil 19 Conjuring books are burnt 24 Demetrius for love of gain raiseth an uproar against Paul 35 which is appeased by the town clerk ANd it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples 2 He said unto them Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye beleeved And they said unto him We have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost 3 And he said unto them Unto what then were ye baptized And they said Unto Johns baptism 4 Then said Paul * Matth. 3.11 John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people That they should beleeve on him which should come after him that is on Christ Jesus 5 When they heard this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus 6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them the holy Ghost came on them and they spake with tongues and prophesied 7 And all the men were about twelve 8 And he went into the synagogue and spake boldly for the space of three moneths disputing and perswading the things concerning the kingdom of God 9 But when divers were hardned and beleeved not but spake evil of that way before the multitude he departed from them and separated the disciples disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus 10 And this continued by the space of two years so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus both Jews and Greeks 11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul 12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons and the diseases departed from them and the evil spirits went out of them 13 ¶ Then certain of the vagabond Jews exorcists took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus saying We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth 14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva a Jew and chief of the priests which did so 15 And the evil spirit answered and said Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are ye 16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leapt on them and overcame them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded 17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus and fear fell on them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified 18 And many that beleeved came confessed shewed their deeds 19 Many also of them which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver 20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed 21 After these things were ended Paul purposed in the spirit when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to Jerusalem saying After I have been there I must also see Rome 22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministred unto him Timotheus and Erastus but he himself stayed in Asia for a season 23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way 24 For a certain man named Demetrius a silver-smith which made silver shrines for Diana brought no small gain unto the craftsmen 25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation and said Sirs ye know that by this craft we have our wealth 26 Moreover ye see and hear that not alone at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people saying that they be no gods which are made with hands 27 So that not onely this our craft is in danger to be set at nought but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all Asia and the world worshippeth 28 And when they heard these sayings they were full of wrath and cryed out saying Great is Diana of the Ephesians 29 And the whole city was filled with confusion and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus men of Macedonia Pauls companions in travel they rushed with one accord into the theatre 30 And when Paul would have entred in unto the people the disciples suffered him not 31 And certain of the chief of Asia which were his friends sent unto him desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre 32 Some therefore cried one thing and some other for the assembly was confused and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together 33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude the Jews putting him forward And Alexander beckned with the hand and would have made his defence unto the people 34 But when they knew that he was a Jew all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out Great is Diana of the Ephesians 35 And when the town-clerk had appeased the people he said Ye men of Ephesus what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is †Gr. the templekeeper a worshipper of the great goddess Diana and of the image which fell down from Jupiter 36 Seeing then that these things cannot bespoken against ye ought to be quiet and to do nothing rashly 37 For ye have brought hither these men which are neither robbers of churches nor yet blasphemers of your goddess 38 Wherefore if Demetrius and the craftsmen which are with him have a matter against any man ‖ Or tâ—â—â—urt-days are kept the law is open and there are deputies let them implead one another 39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters it shall be determined in a ‖ Or ordinary lawful assembly 40 For we are in danger to be called in question for this days uproar there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse 41 And when he had thus spoken he dismissed the assembly CHAP. XX. 1 Paul goeth to Macedonia 7 He celebrateth the Lords
the glory of God 8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirm the promises made unto the fathers 9 And that the Gentiles might glorifie God for his mercy as it is written * Psal 18.49 For this cause I will confess to thee among thee Gentiles and sing unto thy name 10 And again he saith * Deut. 32.43 Rejoyceye Gentiles with his people 11 And again * Psal 117.1 Praise the Lord all ye Gentiles and laud him all ye people 12 And again Esaias saith * Isa 11.10 There shall be a root of Jesse and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles in him shall the Gentiles trust 13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in beleeving that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost 14 And I my self also am perswaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge able also to admonish one another 15 Nevertheless brethren I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort as putting you in minde because of the grace that is given to me of God 16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles ministring the gospel of God that the ‖ Or sâ—â—rificing offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the holy Ghost 17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed 19 Through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ 20 Yea so have I strived to preach the gospel not where Christ was named left I should build upon another mans foundation 21 But as it is written * Isa 52.15 To whom he was not spoken of they shall see and they that have not heard shall understand 22 For which cause also I have been ‖ Or many ways or oftentimes much hindred from coming to you 23 But now having no more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come unto you 24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain I will come to you for I trust to see you in my journey and to be brought on my way thitherward by you if first I be somewhat filled †Gr. with you vers 32. with your company 25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints 26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem 27 It hath pleased them verily and their debters they are For * 1 Cor. 9.11 if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things 28 When therefore I have performed this and have sealed to them this fruit I will come by you into Spain 29 And I am sure that when I come unto you I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ 30 Now I beseech you brethren for the Lord Jesus Christ sake and for the love of the Spirit that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me 31 That I may be delivered from them that ‖ Or are disobedient do not beleeve in Judea and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints 32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God and may with you be refreshed 33 Now the God of peace be with you all Amen CHAP. XVI 3 Paul willeth the brethren to greet many 17 and adviseth them to take heed of those which cause dissension and offences 21 and after sundry salutations endeth with praise and thanks to God I Commend unto you Phebe our sister which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea 2 That ye receive her in the Lord as becometh saints and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you for she hath been a succourer of many and of my self also 3 Greet * Acts 18.2.26 Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus 4 Who have for my life said down their own necks unto whom not onely I give thanks but also all the churches of the Gentiles 5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house Salute my well-beloved Epenetus who is the first fruits of Achaia unto Christ 6 Greet Mary who bestowed much labour on us 7 Salute Andronicus and Junia my kinsmen and my fellow-prisoners who are of note among the apostles who also were in Christ before me 8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. 9 Salute Urbane our helper in Christ and Stachys my beloved 10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ Salute them which are of Arâ—stobulus ‖ Or friends houshold 11 Salute Herodion my kinsman Greet them that be of the ‖ Or friends houshold of Narcissus which are in the Lord. 12 Salute Tryphena Tryphosa who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis which laboured much in the Lord. 13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord and his mother and mine 14 Salute Asyncritus Phlegon Hermas Patrobas Hermes and the brethren which are with them 15 Salute Phisologus and Julia Nereus and his sister and Olympas and all the saints which are with them 16 * 1 Cor. 16.20 2 Cor. 13.12 1 Pet. 5.14 Salute one another with an holy kiss The churches of Christ salute you 17 Now I beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple 19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men I am glad therefore on your behalf but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and ‖ Or harmless simple concerning evil 20 And the God of peace shall ‖ Or tread bruise Satan under your seet shortly The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you Amen 21 * Acts 16.1 Timotheus my work-fellow and Locius and Jason and Sofipater my kinsmen salute you 22 I Tertius who wrote this epistle salute you in the Lord. 23 Gaius mine hoste and of the whole church saluteth you Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you and Quartus a brother 24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen 25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery * Eph. 3.9 Col. 1.26 which was kept
honest though we be as reprobates 8 For we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 9 For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong and this also we wish even your perfection 10 Therefore I write these things being absent lest being present I should use sharpness according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification and not to destruction 11 Finally brethren farewel Be perfect be of good comfort be of one minde live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you 12 * Rom. 16.16 Greet one another with an holy kiss 13 All the saints salute you 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the holy Ghost be with you all Amen ¶ The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi a city of Macedonia by Titus and Lucas ¶ The epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the GALATIANS CHAP. I. 6 He wondreth that they have so soon lest him and the gospel 8 and accurseth those that preath any other gospel then he did 11 He learned the gospel not of men but of God 13 and sheweth what he was before his calling 17 and what he did presently after it PAul an apostle not of men neither by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead 2 And all the brethren which are with me unto the churches of Galatia 3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ 4 Who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever Amen 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel 7 Which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ 8 But though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you then that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed 9 As we said before so say I now again If any man preach any other gospel unto you then that ye have received let him be accursed 10 For do I now perswade men or God or do I seek to please men for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ 11 But I certifie you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man 12 For I neither received it of man neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ 13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews religion how that * Act. 9.1 beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it 14 And profited in the Jews religion above many my †Gr. equals in years equals in mine own nation being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers 15 But when it pleased God who separated me from my mothers womb and called me by his grace 16 To reveal his Son in me that * Eph. 3 8. I might preach him among the heathen immediately I conferred not with flesh and bloud 17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus 18 Then after three years I ‖ Or returned went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days 19 But other of the apostles saw I none save James the Lords brother 20 Now the things which I write unto you behold before God I lie not 21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia 22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ 23 But they had heard onely That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed 24 And they glorified God in me CHAP. II. 1 He sheweth when he went up again to Jerusalem and for what pur-purpose and that Titus was not circumcised 11 and that he resisted Peter and told him the reason 14 why he and other being Jews do beleeve in Christ to be justified by faith and not by works 20 and that they live not in sin who are so justified THen fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas and took Titus with me alse 2 And I went up by revelation and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but ‖ Or severally privately to them which were of reputation lest by any means I should run or had run in vain 3 But neither Titus who was with me being a Greek was compelled to be circumcised 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in who came in privily to spie out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus that they might bring us into bondage 5 To whom we gave place by subjection no not for an hour that the truth of the gospel might continue with you 6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat whatsoever they were it maketh no matter to me * Rom 2.12 God accepteth no mans person for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me 7 But contrariwise when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter 8 For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision the same was mighty in me towards the Gentiles 9 And when James Cephas and John who seemed to be pillars perceived the grace that was given unto me they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship that we should go unto the heathen and they unto the circumcision 10 Onely they would that we should remember the poor the same which I also was forward to do 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed 12 For before that certain came from James he did eat with the Gentiles but when they were come he withdrew and separated himself fearing them which were of the circumcision 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel I said unto Peter before them all If thou being a Jew livest after the manner of Gentiles and not as do the Jews why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews 15 We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law for * Rom. 3.20 by the works of the law shall no flesh be
with me in the gospel with Clement also and with other my fellow-labourers whose names are in * Rev. 3.5 20.12 21.27 the book of life 4 Rejoyce in the Lord alway and again I say Rejoyce 5 Let your moderation be known unto all men The Lord is at hand 6 Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God 7 And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus 8 Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are ‖ Or venerable honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think on these things 9 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 10 But I rejoyced in the Lord greatly that now at the last your care of me ‖ Or iâ— revived hath flourished again wherein ye were also careful but ye lacked opportunity 11 Not that I speak in respect of want for I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content 12 I know both how to be aâ—ased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me 14 Notwithstanding ye have well done that ye did communicate with my affliction 15 Now ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from Macedonia no church communicated with me as concerning giving and reâ—eiving but ye onely 16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once again unto my necessity 17 Not because I desire a gift but I desire fruit that may abound to your account 18 But ‖ Or I have received all I have all and abound I am full having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you an odour of a sweet smell a sacrifice acceptable well-pleasing to God 19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus 20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever Amen 21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus The brethren which are with me greet you 22 All the saints salute you chiefly they that are of Cesars houshold 23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen ¶ It was written to the Philippians from Rome by Epaphroditus ¶ The epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the COLOSSIANS CHAP. I. 1 After salutation he thanketh God for their faith 7 confirmeth the â—â—ctâ—â—ne of Epaâ—â—â—as 9 prayeth further for their increase in â—â—ace 14 descriâ—eth the true Christ 21 encourageth them tâ— receive Jesus Christ and commendeth his own ministery PAul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God and Timotheus our brother 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which â—â—e at Câ—â—oâ—sâ— Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jâ—sâ—s Christ 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ praying always for you 4 Since wâ— heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which ye have to all the saints 5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel 6 Which is come unto you as it is in all the world and bringeth forth fruit as it doth also in you since the day ye heard of it and knew the grace of God in truth 7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow-servant who is for you a faithful minister of Christ 8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit 9 For this cause we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God 11 Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness 12 Giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet to be pâ—rtakers of the inhâ—ritance of the saints in light 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath tranâ—lated us into the kingdom of †Gr. the Son of his love his dear Son 14 In whom we have redemption through his â—loud even the forgiveness of sins 15 Who is * Heb. 1. â— the image of the invisible God the first-born of every creature 16 For * Joh. 1.3 by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him 17 * Joh. 1.3 1 Cor. 8. â— And he is before all things and by him all things consist 18 And he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning * 1 Cor. 15.20 Rev. 1.5 the first-born from the dead that ‖ Or among all in all things he might have the preeminence 19 For it preased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell 20 And ‖ Or making peace having made peace through the bloud of his cross by him to reconcile all things unto himself by him I say whether they be things in earth or things in heaven 21 And you that were sometime alienated and enemies ‖ Or by your minde in wicked workâ— in your minde by wicked works yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven whereof I Paul am made a minister 24 Who now rejoyce in my sufferings for you and fill up that which is behinde of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodies sake which is the Church 25 Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you ‖ Or fully to pâ—eath the word of God Rom. 15.19 to fulfil the word of God 26 Even * Rom. 16.25 Eph. 3.9 the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations but now is made manifest to his saints 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ ‖ Or amongst you in you the hope of glory 28 Whom we preach warning every man and teaching
them all prosperity MAster 's give unto your servants that which is just and equal knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven 2 * Luk. 18. â— 1 Thes 5.17 Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving 3 * Eph. 6.19 2 Thes 3.1 Withal praying also for us that God would open unto us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of Christ for which I am also in bonds 4 That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak 5 * Eph. 5 1â— Walk in wisdom toward them that are without redeeming the time 6 Let your speech be alway with grace seasoned with salt that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man 7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you who is a beloved brother and a faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord 8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose that he might know your estate and comfort your hearts 9 With Onesimus a faithful and beloved brother who is one of you They shall make known unto you all things which are done here 10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner saluteth you and Marcus sisters son to Barnabas touching whom ye received commandments if he come unto you receive him 11 And Jesus which is called Justus who are of the circumcision These onely are my fellow-workers unto the kingdom of God which have been a comfort unto me 12 Epaphras who is one of you a servant of Christ saluteth you always ‖ Or striving labouring fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect and ‖ Or filled complete in all the will of God 13 For I bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you and them that are in Laodicea and them in Hierapolis 14 Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you 15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea and Nymphas and the church which is in his house 16 And when this epistle is read amongst you cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea 17 And say to Archippus Take heed to the ministery which thou hast received in the Lord that thou fulfil it 18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul Remember my bonds Grace be with you Amen ¶ Written from Rome to the Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus The first epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the THESSALONIANS CHAP. I. 1 The Thessalonians are given to understand both how mindful of them S. Paul was at all times in thanksgiving and prayer 5 and also how well he was perswaded of the truth and sinâ—â—rity of their saith and conversion to God PAul and Silvanus and Timotheus unto the church of the Thessaâ—onians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 2 * Philem. 4 We give thanks to God always for you all making mention of you in our prayers 3 Remembring without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our Father 4 Knowing brethren ‖ Or beloved of God your election beloved your election of God 5 For our gospel came not unto you in word onely but also in power and in the holâ— Ghost and in much assurance as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake 6 And ye became followers of us and of the Lord having received the word in much affliction with joy of the holy Ghost 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that beleeve in Macedonia Achaia 8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not onely in Macedonia and Achaia but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad so that we need not to speak any thing 9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entring in we had unto you and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven whom he raised from the dead even Jesus which delievered us from the wrath to come CHAP. II. 1 In what manner the gospel was brought and preached to the Thessalonians and in what sort also they received it 18 A reason is rendred both why S. Paul was so long absent from them and also why he was so desirous to see them FOr your selves brethren know our entrance in unto you that it was not in vain 2 But even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated as ye know at * Act. 16.22 Philippi we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit nor of uncleanness nor in guile 4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel even so we speak not as pâ—â—asing men but God which trieth our hearts 5 For neither at any time used we flattering words as ye know nor a cloke of covetousness God is witness 6 Nor of men sought we glory neither of you nor yet of others when we might have ‖ Or used authority been burdensom as the apostles of Christ 7 But we were gentle among you even as a nurse cherisheth her children 8 So being affectionately desirous of you we were willing to have imparted unto you not the gospel of God onely but also our own souls because ye were dear unto us 9 For ye remember brethren our labour and travel for * Acts 20.34 1 Cor. 4.12 2 Thes 3.8 labouring night and day because we would not be chargeable unto any of you we preached unto you the gospel of God 10 Ye are witnesses and God also how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved our selves among you that beleeve 11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you as a father doth his children 12 * Eph. 4.1 Phil. 1.27 Col. 1.10 That ye would walk worthy of God who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory 13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing because when 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 that beleeve 14 For ye brethren became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrey men even as they have of the Jews 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets have ‖ Or chased us out persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins alway for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 17 But we brethren being taken from you
for their works sake And be at peace among your selves 14 Now we ‖ Or beseech exhort you brethren warn them that are ‖ Or disorderly unruly comfort the feeble minded support the weak be patient toward all men 15 * Pro. 17.13 20.22 Mat. 5.44 Rom. 12.17 1 Pet. 3.8 See that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among your selves and to all men 16 Rejoyce evermore 17 * Luk. 18.1 Col. 4. â— Pray without ceasing 18 In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you 19 Quench not the Spirit 20 Despise not prophesyings 21 Prove all things hold fast that which is good 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil 23 And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 24 Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it 25 Brethren pray for us 26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss 27 I ‖ Or adjurt charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren 28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you Amen ¶ The first epistle unto the Thessalonians was written from Athens ¶ The second epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the THESSALONIANS CHAP. I. 1 S Paul certifieth them of the good opinion which he had of their faith love and patience 11 and therewithal useth divers reasons for the comforting of them in persecution whereof the châ—efest is taken from the righteous judgement of God PAul and Silvanus and Timotheus unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 2 Grace unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 3 * â— Thes 3.2 3. We are bound to thank God always for you brethren as it is meet because that your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth 4 So that we our selves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience faith in all your persecutions tribulations that ye endure 5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgement of God that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which ye also suffer 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us when * 1 Th. 4. â—6 the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with †Gr. the angels of his power his mighty angels 8 In flaming fire ‖ Or yeelding taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all them that beleeve because our testimony among you was beleeved in that day 11 Wherefore also we pray always for you that our God would ‖ Or woâ—hsafâ— count you worthy of this calling and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power 12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and ye in him according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ CHAP. II. 1 He willeth them to continue stedfast in the truth received 3 sheweth that there shall â—e a departure from the faith 9 and a discovery of Antichrist before the day of the Lord come 15 and thereupon repeateth his former exhortation and praâ—eth for them NOw we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him 2 That ye be not soon shaken in minde or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us as that the day of Christ is at hand 3 Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God shewing himself that he is God 5 Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I told you these things 6 And now ye know what ‖ Or â—â—â—â—eth withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work onely he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way 8 And then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume * Isa 11.4 Hos 6.5 Rev. 2 16. with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming 9 Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should beleeve a lie 12 That they all might be damned who beleeved not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness 13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you brethren beloved of the Lord because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit belief of the truth 14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ 15 Therefore brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught whether by word or our epistle 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace 17 Comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word work CHAP. III. 1 He craveth their prayers for himself 3 testifieth what confidence he hath in them 5 maketh request to God in their beâ—asf 6 giveth them divers precepts especially to shun idleness and ill company 16 and last of all concludeth with prayer and salutation FInally brethren * Eph. 6.17 Col. 4.3 pray for us that the word of the Lord †Gr. may run may have free course and be glorified even as it is with you 2 And that we may be dâ—livered from †Gr. absurd unreasonable and wicked men for all men have not faith 3 But the Lord is faithful who shall stablish you and keep you from evil 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you that ye both do and will do the things which we command you 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into ‖ Or the patience of Christ the patient waiting for
ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand 7 I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith 8 Henceforth there is faid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me onely but unto all them also that love his appearing 9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me 10 For Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica Crescens to Galatia Titus unto Dalmatia 11 Onely Luke is with me Take Mark and bring him with thee for he is profitable to me for the ministery 12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus 13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus when thou comest bring with thee and the books but especially the parchments 14 Alexander the copper-smith did me much evil the Lord reward him according to his works 15 Of whom be thou ware also for he hath greatly withstood ‖ Or our preachingâ— our words 16 At my first answer no man stood with me but all men forsook me I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthned me that by me the preaching might be fully known and that all the Gentiles might hear and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion 18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen 19 Salute Prisca and Aquila and the houshold of Onesiphorus 20 Erastus abode at Corinth but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick 21 Do thy diligence to come before winter Eubulus greeteth thee and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit Grace be with you Amen ¶ The second epistle unto Timotheus ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians was written from Rome when Paul was brought before Nero the second time ¶ The epistle of PAVL to TITUS CHAP. 1. 1 For what end Titus was left in Crete 6 How they that are to be chosen ministers ought to be qualified 11 The mouths of evil teachers to be stopped 12 and what manner of men they be PAUL a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of Gods elect and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness 2 ‖ Or For. In hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie promised * 2 Tim. 1.9 2 Pet. 1 20. before the world began 3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour 4 To Titus mine own son after the common faith Grace mercy and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour 5 For this cause left I thee in Crete that thou shouldest set in order the things that are ‖ Or left undone wanting and ordain elders in every city as I had appointed thee 6 * 1 Tim. 3.2 c. If any be blameless the husband of one wife having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly 7 For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God not self-willed not soon angry not given to wine no striker not given to filthy lucre 8 But a lover of hospitality a lover of ‖ Or good things good men sober just holy temperate 9 Holding fast the faithful word ‖ Or in teaching as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gain-sayers 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers especially they of the circumcision 11 Whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucres sake 12 One of themselves even a prophet of their own said The Cretians are alway liars evil beasts slow bellies 13 This witness is true wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith 14 * 1 Tim. 1.4 Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth 15 * Rom. 14.20 Unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbeleeving is nothing pure but even their minde and conscience is defiled 16 They profess that they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work ‖ Or void of judgment reprobate CHAP. II. 1 Directions given unto Titus both for his doctrine and life 9 Of the duty of servants and in general of all christians BUt speak thou the things which become sound doctrine 2 That the aged men be ‖ Or vigilant sober grave temperate sound in faith in charity in patience 3 The aged women likewise that they be in behaviour as becometh ‖ Or holy women holiness not ‖ Or makâ—-bates false accusers not given to much wine teachers of good things 4 That they may teach the young women to be ‖ Or wise sober to love their husbands to love their children 5 To be discreet chaste keepers at home good * Eph. 5.23 obedient to their own husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed 6 Young men likewise exhort to be ‖ Or discreet sober-minded 7 In all things shewing thy self a pattern of good works in doctrine shewing uncorruptness gravity sincerity 8 Sound speech that cannot be condemned that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you 9 Exhort * Eph. 6.5 Col. 3.22 1 Pet. 2.18 servants to be obedient unto their own masters and to please them well in all things not ‖ Or gain-saying answering again 10 Not purloining but shewing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things 11 For the grace of God ‖ Or that bringeth salvation to all men hath appeared that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men 12 Teaching us that denying ungodliness and wordly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world 13 * 1 Cor. 1.7 Phil. 3.20 Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ 14 Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works 15 These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority Let no man despise thee CHAP. III. 1 Titus it yet further directed by Paul both concerning the things he should teach and not teach 10 He is willed also to reject obstinate hereticks 12 which done he appointeth him both time and place wherein he should come unto him and so concludeth PUt them in minde * Rom. 13.1 1 Pet. 2.13 to be subject to principalities and powers to obey
magistrates to be ready to every good work 2 To speak evil of no man to be no brawlers but gentle shewing all meekness unto all men 3 For * 1 Cor. 6.11 we our selves also were sometimes foolish disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another 4 But after that the kindness and ‖ Or pity love of God our Saviour toward man appeared 5 * 2 Tim. 1.9 Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost 6 Which he shed on us †Gr. richly abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour 7 That being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life 8 This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have beleeved in God might be careful to maintain good works these things are good and profitable unto men 9 But * 1 Tim. 1.4 2 Tim. 2 2◠avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable and vain 10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted and sinneth being condemned of himself 12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee or Tychicus be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis for I have determined there to winter 13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently that nothing be wanting unto them 14 And let ours also learn to ‖ Or profess honest trades maintain good works for necessary uses that they be not unfruitful 15 all that are with me salute thee Greet them that love us in the faith Grace be with you all Amen ¶ It was written to Titus ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians from Nicopolis of Macedonia ¶ The epistle of PAUL to PHILEMON 4 He rejoyceth to hear of the faith and love of Philemon 9 whom he desireth to forgive his servant Onesimus and lovingly to receive him again PAul a prisoner of Jesus Christ and Timothy our brother unto Philemon our dearly beloved and fellow-labourer 2 And to our beloved Apphia and Archippus our fellow-souldier and to the church in thy house 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 4 * 1 Thes 1.2 2 Thes 1.3 I thank my God making mention of thee always in my prayers 5 Hearing of thy love and faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus and toward all saints 6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus 7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee brother 8 Wherefore though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoyn thee that which is convenient 9 Yet for loves sake I rather beseech thee being such a one as Paul the aged and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ 10 I beseech thee for my son * Gol. 4.9 Onesimus whom I have begotten in my bonds 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable but now profitable to thee and to me 12 Whom I have sent again thou therefore receive him that is mine own bowels 13 Whom I would have retained with me that in thy stead he might have ministred unto me in the bonds of the gospel 14 But without thy minde would I do nothing that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity but willingly 15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou shouldest receive him for ever 16 Not now as a servant but above a servant a brother beloved speacially to me but how much more unto thee both in the flesh and in the Lord 17 If thou count me therefore a partner receive him as my self 18 If he hath wronged thee or oweth thee ought put that on mine account 19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand I will repay it albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides 20 Yea brother let me have joy of thee in the Lord refresh my bowels in the Lord. 21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee knowing that thou wilt also do more then I say 22 But withal prepare me also a lodging for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you 23 There salute thee Epaphras my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus 24 Marcus Aristarchus Demas Lucas my fellow-labourers 25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit Amen ¶ Written from Rome to Philemon by Onesimus a servant ¶ The epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the HEBREWS CHAP. I. 1 Christ in these last times coming to us from the Father 4 is preserved above the angels both in person and office GOd who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the prophets 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son whom he hath appointed heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds 3 * Wisd 7.26 Col. 1.15 Who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high 4 Being made so much better then the angels as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name then they 5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time * Psal 2.7 Acts 13.33 Chap. 5.5 Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee And again * 2 Sam. 7.14 1 Chr. 22.10 Psal 89.26 27. I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son 6 And again when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world he saith * Psa 97.7 And let all the angels of God worship him 7 And of the angels he saith * Ps 104.4 Who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire 8 But unto the Son he saith * Ps 45.6 7 Thy throne O God is for ever and ever a sceptre of †Gr. rightness or straitness righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom 9 Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy fellows 10 And * Psal 102 25 c. Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the works of thine hands 11 * Isa 34.4 They shall perish but thou remainest and they all shall wax old as doth a garment 12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy years shall not fail 13 But to which
not seen ye love in whom though now ye see him not yet beleeving ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 9 Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls 10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you 11 Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow 12 Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the holy Ghost sent down from heaven which things the angels desire to look into 13 Wherefore gird up the loyns of your minde be sober and hope †Gr. perfectly to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 14 As obedient children not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance 15 But as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation 16 Because it is written * Lev. 11.44 19.2 20.7 Be ye holy for I am holy 17 And if ye call on the Father * Deu. 10.17 Rom. 2.11 who without respect of persons judgeth according to every mans work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers 19 But with the precious bloud of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot 20 * Rom. 16.25 Col. 1.26 1 Tim. 1.10 Tit. 1.2 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you 21 Who by him do beleeve in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned * Rom. 12.10 Ch. 2.17 love of the brethren see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently 23 Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever 24 ‖ Or for that For * Isa 40.6 Jam. 2.10 all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass The grass withereth and the flower thereof salleth away 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you CHAP. II. He deborteth them from the breach of charity 4 shewing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built 11 He beseecheth them also to abstain from fleshly lusts 13 to be obedient to magistrates 18 and teacheth servants how to obey their masters 20 patiently suffering for well-doing after the example of Christ WHerefore laying aside all masice and all guile and hypocrifies and envies and all evil-speakings 2 As new born-babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby 3 It so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious 4 To whom coming as unto a living stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and precious 5 Ye also as lively stones ‖ Or be ye built are built up a spiritual house an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture * If. 28.16 Rom. 9 3â— Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner-stone elect precious and he that beleeveth on him shall not be confounded 7 Unto you therefore which beleeve he is ‖ Or an honour precious but unto them which be disobedient * Ps 118.22 Mat. 21.42 Act. 4 11. the stone which the builders disallowed the same is made the head of the corner 8 * If. 8.14 Rom. 9.33 And a stone of stumbling a rock of offence even to them which stumble at the word being disobedient whereunto also they were appointed 9 But ye are a chosen generation * Ex. 19.6 Rev. 1.6 c 5.10 a royal priesthood an holy nation ‖ Or a purchased people a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the ‖ Or vertues praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light 10 * Hos 2.23 Rom. 9.25 Which in time past were not a people but are now the people of God which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy 11 Dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims * Rom. 13.14 Gal. 5. â—6 abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul 12 * On. 2.16 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that ‖ Or wherein whereas they speak against you as evil-doers * Mat. 5.16 they may by your good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of vnitation 13 * Ro. 13.1 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the king as supreme 14 Or unto governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well 15 For so is the will of God that with wel-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 16 As free and not †Gr. having using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness but as the servants of God 17 ‖ Or esteem Honour all men Love the brother-hood Fear God Honour the king 18 * Eph. 6.5 Col. 3.22 Tit. 2.9 Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not onely to the good and gentle but also to the froward 19 For this is ‖ Or thank thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully 20 For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is ‖ Or think acceptable with God 21 For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered ‖ Some read for you for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps 22 * Is 13.9 Who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth 23 Who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but ‖ Or committed his cause committed himself to him that judgeth righteously 24 * Is 53.4 5 6. Mat. 8.17 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body ‖ Or to on the tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whole stripes ye were healed 25 For ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls CHAP. III. 1
and was manifested unto us 3 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 4 And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that * Joh. 8.12 God is light and in him is no darkness at all 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth 7 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and * Heb. 9.14 Rev. 1.5 the bloud of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin 8 * 1 Kin. 8.46 Pr. 20.9 Eccl. 7.20 If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 9 If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 10 If we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us CHAP. II. 1 He comforteth them against the sins of infirmity 3 Rightly to know God is to keep his commandments 9 to love our brethren 15 and not to love the world 18 We must beware of sâ—ducers 20 from whose deceits the godly are safe preserved by perseverance in faith and â—oliness of life MY little children these things write I unto you that ye sin not And if any man sin * Heb. 9. â—â— we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole world 3 And hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments 4 He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him 5 But whoso keepeth his word in him verily is the love of God perfected hereby know we that we are in him 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 7 Brethren * 2 Joh. â— I write no new commandment unto you but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning the old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning 8 Again a new commandment I write unto you which thing is true in him and in you because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth 9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now 10 * Ch. 3 1â— He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is none †Gr scandal occasion of stumbling in him 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes 12 I write unto you little children because your sins are forgiven you for his names sake 13 I write unto you fathers because ye have known him that is from the beginning I write unto you young men because you have overcome the wicked one I write unto you little children because ye have known the Father 14 I have written unto you fathers because ye have known him that is from the beginning I have written unto you young men because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye have over come the wicked one 15 Love not the world neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him 16 For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world 17 And the world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever 18 Little children it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time 19 They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us 20 But ye have an unction from the holy One and ye know all things 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth but because ye know it and that no lie is of the truth 22 Who is a har but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ He is Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son 23 Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not the Father but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also 24 Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us even eternal life 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you But as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in ‖ Or it him 28 And now little children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming 29 If ye know that he is righteous ‖ Or know ye ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him CHAP. III. 1 He declareth the singular love of God towards us in making us his sons 3 who therefore ought obediently to keep his commandments 11 as also brotherly to love one another BEhold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not 2 Beloved now are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law for sin is the transgression of the law 5 And ye know that he was manifested * Isa 53.6 c. to take away our sins and in him is no sin 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him 7 Little children let no man deceive you he that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous 8 * Joh. 8.44 He that committeth sin is of the devil for the