122 See Gods threatnings and judgment against sin and sinners Chap. 16. p. 218. Of the Priviledges of the Saints and their excellency above others What God hath done doth do and will do for and be unto them more than others and what they can do with God c. Chap. 14. p. 124. See more in the next Chap. of Union and relation to Christ. p. 135. See the advantages of Faith chap. 11. p. 100. See their Priviledges in Afflictions chap. 22. p. 325. In times of â—…on-Calamities chap. 23. p. 365. See the Glory Believers shall have chap. 37. p. 462. 4. Of the Union and relations between Christ and his Church and the mutual love and esteem of each other and the manifestation thereof Chap. 15. p. 135.  Of the Duties of Believers such as profess to be Saints Chap. 16. p. 138. First towards God Chap. 16. p. 138. 1. In general to live to God only not to self to be holy fruitful walk in the light in an honest heavenly and spiritual conversation worthy of our High-calling to glorifie God and mind things above p. 138 2. In particular To love God and the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. p. 142 3. As fruits of love to God Christ to delight themselves in God long for pant after him make their boast of glory rejoyce in God and Christ as their Portion All and Rest. And to obey and hearken to the laws and words of God and Christ. 1. To delight in long for pant after make their boast of glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their portion p. 144 2. To obey and hearken to the Laws and Word of God and our Lord Jesus p. 149 See more of Disobedience p. 218. 4. Worship God and sanctifie him therein p. 153 See more in ch 27. p. 407. and of Idol ch 40. p. 487. 5. To believe imbrace and be found in the practise of nothing in the things of God and about his worship but that which clearly according to Precepts Rules and Examples of Scripture appears to be Christs mind upon which we may in Faith expect acceptance p. 158 6. To pray to God Of Prayer at large p. 161 See more in Afflictions ch 22. p. 351. Common Calamities chap. 23. p. 366. 7. To take especial notice of the Acts of Gods goodness and mercy keep memorials thereof celebrate his praises extol him stir up others so to do p. 170 8. To fear God and none else or other fear The Arguments thereto p. 177 1. Not to fear any else or other fear p. 177 2. Fear God p. 179 9. To trust in God and in none else in all cases the Arguments thereto p. 184 1. Not in any else p. 184 2. In God as a suitable Object p. 186 See more of Faith ch 11. p. 93. 10. To look believingly unto hope in and patiently wait for God his salvation in all cases The Arguments thereto p. 193 See more in the nature use of Faith ch 11. p. 100. 11. To walk humbly before God abasing self opposing all high thoughts Avoid boasting of self The Reasons p. 198 See more of submitting in Affliction ch 22. p. 345. See Death ch 34. p. 450. 12. To be moderate meek patient and quiet in all things Yhe encouragements thereto p. 205 See more Duties to Brethren ch 17. p. 25. Duties to all men ch 19. p. 279. Duties to Persecutors ch 22. p. 356. See Words chap. 16. p. 207. 13. To take heed to our lips That our words be not rash but true well ordered and savoury and seasonable p. 207 14. To acknowledg sin depart from it and watch against it the Arguments thereto Gods complaining of it reasonings with sinners about it threatnings and judgments against sinners for it 1. What sin is p. 211 2. To acknowledg sin to God mourn for it both our own and others p. 211 See more in Affliction ch 22. p. 347. In Common Calamities ch 23. p. 366 In Prayer ch 16. p. 161. 3. To depart from sin and all appearance of it hate it and avoid the occasions of it the Reasons p. 213 See Duties in general ch 16. p. 138. 4. Gods reasonings with complainings of and threatnings and judgments against sinners for their several sins disobedience and rebellions p. 218 See more of sin in Mans nature chap. 5. p. 32 40. Of Gods correcting his for sin ch 13. p. 122. Pardon of sin ch 10. p. 84. 15. To own and profess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ and his before men boldly To wait for Christs second coming 1. To own and confess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ before men p. 229 See more of owning him in time of Persecution ch 22. p. 348. Of Perseverance ch 16. p. 241. 2. To wait for the second coming of Christ. p. 231 See more his coming to judgment ch 36 p. 457. 16. To walk with God heartily uprightly sincerely and to follow him fully and zealously the Reasons of it p. 232 See also Hypocrites c. ch 28. p. 417. 17. To stick fast to God not to depart abide in the faith and practice of what we know of his will to the end That the Saints shall be kept 1. To persevere and abide in Faith and Practice c. p. 241 See more of holding fast in time of Affliction ch 22. p. 348. 2. That Saints shall be kept have power to stand p. 246 See more of God upholding in Affliction ch 22. p. 332. 18. To take heed to observe and watch diligently over our selves with a holy jealousie and fear lest we should apostatize and depart from God his truths and ways into any error or sin the Reasons our danger p. 248 See more of Saints aptness to fall chap. 13. p. 117. Of the Tempters Methods chap. 30. p. 422. 2. Duties of Saints Believers brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that relation one to another Chap. 17. P 251. 1. To love each other the kinds of it p. 251 2. To sympathize with each other in pity and compassion help and comfort one another bear one anothers burthens have mutual care of each other p. 253 See also this Duty to Afflicted ones ch 22. p. 361 3. To honour and respect each other and be kind and affectionate p. 254 See more walking humbly ch 16. p. 198. 4. Not ' rashly and unadvisedly to take up a prejudice against any believe reports take offence or be angry but tenderly forgive cover faults and restore offenders in love p. 255 5. To live peaceably among themselves avoid whisperings tale-bearing and whatsoever tends to divide or disturb peace p. 257 6. To rebuke reprove exhort admonish and warn each other c. To take such rebuke c. well from each other 1. To rebuke exhort c. p. 259 2. To take such rebuke c. well p. 260 See more Church discipline ch 27. p. 413. 7. To confess sins to and pray each for other p. 261
3. 3. It pleased the father that in him all fulness should dwell c. Christ in or among you the hope of glory whom we preach warning every man c. That we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1. 19 27 28. In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily and ye are compleat in him who is the head c. Not holding the head from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment administred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God Col. 2. 9 10 19. Your life is hid with Christ in God when Christ who is our life c. Put on the new man c. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew c. But Christ is all in all c. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus c. Col. 3. 3 4 10 11 17. Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought light and immortality to light through the Gospel 2 Tim. 1. 9 10. In that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2. 18. By one offering he hath perfected for ever them who are sanctified c. Heb. 10. 14. Ye are built up c. To offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. Heb. 13. 15. The God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 5. 10. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tryed in the fire that thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou maist be clothed that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve that thou mayest see Rev. 3. 18. CHAP. IX Gods free choice of His in Christ to Eternal Life and calling them according to his Purpose and Grace AND ye shall be holy unto me for I the Lord am holy and have severed you from other people that ye should be mine Levit. 20. 26. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God 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 the Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because ye were more in number than any people for ye were the fewest of all people but because the Lord loved you c. Deut. 7. 6 7 8. ch 14. 2. Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as at this day Deut. 10. 15. The Lord will not forsake his people for his names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people 1 Sam. 12. 22. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people like Israel whom God went to redeem for a people to himself and to make him a name and to do for you great things c For thou hast confirmed to thy self thy people Israel a people unto thee for ever and thou Lord art become their God 2 Sam. 7. 23 24. Wo unto him who striveth with his maker let the Potsherd strive with the Potsherds of the earth Shall the clay say to him who fashioneth it what makest thou Woe unto him who saith unto his father what begettest thou c. Isa. 45. 9 10. The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit a Wife of youth when thou wast refused saith thy God Isa. 54. 5 6. I am found of them who sought me not I said behold me behold me unto a nation which was not called by my name Isa. 65. 1. Rom. 10. 20. ch 15. 21. The Lord said to Jeremy before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest out of the womb I sanctified thee I ordained thee a Prophet unto the nation Jer. 1. 5. I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee Jer. 31. 3. When God gives out the great promises of a new heart a new spirit c. He said not for your sakes do I this be it known unto you be ashamed c. Ezek. 36. 22 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32. ch 20. 43 44. It shall come to pass 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 Hosea 1. 10. I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy and will say to them which were not my people thou my people and they shall say thou my God Hosea 2. 23. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God c. and shall fear the Lord c. Hosea 3. 5. When Israel a child then I loved him c. I taught Ephraim also to go taking them by their arms but they knew not that I healed themâ—… I drew them with cords of a man with bands of love c. Hosea 11. 1 2 3 4. O Children of Israel c. You only have I known of all the families of the earth Hosea 3. 1 2. At that time Jesus answered and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight Matt. 11. 25 26. Luk. 10. 21. It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven but to them it is not given c. Therefore spake I to them in parables because they seeing see not c. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear Matt. 13. 11 13 16. Mark 11. 12 34. I will give unto this last even as unto thee Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own Is thine eye evil because I am good So the last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few chosen c. To sit on my right hand or my left is not mine to give but to them for whom it is prepared of my father Matt. 20. 14 15 16 21 23. Mark 10. 40. Jesus called Simon and Andrew and James and John to follow him and they did Mark 1. 16 17 18 19 20. Except that the Lord had shortned those days no flesh should be saved but for the elects sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortened the days Mark 13. 20. Thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shalt call his name John He shall be great in the sight of the Lord c. He shall be filled with the holy Ghost even from his mothers womb Luke 1. 13 15. Many Widows were in Israel in the days of Elias c. When great famine was throughout all the land but unto none of them was Elias sent save unto Sarepta c. And many leapers were in Israel in the time of Elizeus
Lord because he hath heard my voice Psal. 116. 1. Thy name is as ointment poured out therefore do the virgins love thee Cant. 1. 3. Thus faith the Lord I remember thee or for thy sake the kindness of thy youth the love of thine espousals when thou wentest after me in the wilderness Jer. 2. 2. Judah hath prophaned the holiness of the Lord whom he loved or ought to love Malachi 2. 11. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind This is the first and great commandment c. On these c. hang all the law and the prophets Matt. 22. 37 38 39 40. Iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold Matt. 24. 12. Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little Luk. 7. 47. He who loveth me shall be loved of my father and I will love him and will manifest my self to him c. VVe will come unto him and make our abode with him John 14. 21 23. Peter c. lovest thou me more than these he saith unto him yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee c. Again the second and third time John 21. 15 16 17. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghosts Rom. 5. 5. If any man love God the same is known of him 1 Cor. 8. 3. Though I speak with the tongue of men and angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling-cymbal and though I have the gift of prophesie and understand all mysteries c. I have all faith c. and have no charity I am nothing And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have no charity it profiteth me nothing c. Charity never faileth c. Now abideth faith hope charity but the greatest of these is charity 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3 8 13. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be anathema maranatha 1 Cor. 16. 22. Whether we are besides our selves it is to God c. for the love of Christ constraineth us 2 Cor. 5. 13 14. Circumcision availeth nothing c. but faith which worketh by love c. fruit of the spirit is love Gal. 5. 6 22. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God 2 Thes. 3. 5. Hearing of thy love c. which thou hast towards the Lord Jesus c. Phil. ver 5. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name Heb. 6. 10. Jesus Christ whom having not seen ye love 1 Pet. 1. 7 8. God is love and he who dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him c. there is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear c. He who feareth is not made perfect in love We love him because he first loved us If any man say I love God and hateth his brother is a lyar for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4. 16 17 18 19 20. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God c. 1 John 5. 2. I have something against thee because thou hast left thy first love remember therefore from whence thou art fallen c. Rev. 2. 4 5. As fruits of love to God and Christ. To delight themselves in him long for and pant after him make their boast of and glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their portion all and rest and to obey and hearken to him First To delight in long for pant after make their boast of glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their portion all and rest My presence shall go and I will give thee rest and he said unto him If thy presence go not carry us not up hence Exod. 33. 4 14 15. Their rock is not as our rock even our enemies themselves being Judges Deut. 32. 31. I rejoyce in thy salvation there is none holy as the Lord for there is none besides thee neither is there any rock like our God c. 1 Sam. 2. 1 2. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer the God of my rock c. my shield and the horn of my salvation my high tower and my refuge and my saviour who is God save the Lord and who a rock save our God 2 Sam. 22. 3 32. When he giveth quietness who can make trouble and when he hideth his face who then can behold him c. Job 34. 29. Thou O Lord a shield for or about me my glory and the lifter up of my head Psal. 3. 3. There be many who say who will shew us good Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us Thou hast put gladness into my heart more than in the time that their corn and their wine encreaseth Psal. 4. 6 7. I will be glad and rejoyce in thee I will sing praises to thy name c. Psal. 9. 2. Why standest thou afar off O Lord why hidest thou thy self in times of trouble Psal. 10. 1. How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me Psal. 13. 1. The Lord the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou maintainest my lot the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly heritage c. in thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore Psal. 16. 5 6 11. O Lord my strength and my redeemer Psal. 19. 14. We will rejoyce in thy salvation and in the name of our God we will set up our banners Psal. 20. 5. The king shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce Psal. 21. 1. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me why art thou so far from helping me c Be not far from me for trouble is near c. be not thou far from me O Lord O my strength c. Psal. 22. 1 11 19. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want c. thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me Psal. 23. 1 4. The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his temple c. My heart said Thy face Lord will I seek hide not thy face far from me put not thy servant away in anger thou hast been my help leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation c. Psal. 27. 1 4 8 9. Sing unto the
ways by taking heed thereto according to thy word Psal. 119. 9. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep the dore of my lips Psal. 141. 3. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it the issues of life Prov. 4. 23. A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself c. Prov. 27. 12. Happy is the man who feareth always but he who hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief Prov. 28. 14. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Jer. 17. 9. And my people are bent to backsliding from me Hosea 11. 7. Jesus said Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of c. Matt. 16. 6. Jesus said Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many Matt. 24. 4 5. Watch and pray that ye enter not into tentations Matt. 26. 41. Take ye heed Behold I have foretold you all things c. the day and hour knoweth no man c. take ye heed watch and pray for ye know not c. Mark 13. 23 32 33 35 36 37. Take heed and beware of covetousness c. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching Luk. 12. 15 36 37 38. Take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life c. watch ye therefore Luk. 21. 34 36. Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them who are weak for if any man see thee c. 1 Cor. 8. 8 9 10. These things happened unto them for ensamples and they were written for our admonition c. wherefore let him who thinketh he standeth takâ—… heâ—…d lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 11 12. Watch ye stand ye fast c. 1 Cor. 16. 13. See that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Ephes. 5. 15. Beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision Phil. 3. 2. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men c. not after Christ Col. 2. 8. Continue in praying and watch in the same Col. 4. 2. We are not of the night nor of darkness therefore let us not sleep as others but let us watch and be sober for they who sleep sleep in the night c. 1 Thes. 5. 5 6 7. Some shall depart from the faith c. some are already turned aside c. have erred concerning the faith 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 15. ch 6. 10 21. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God c. lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. 12 13. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entring into rest any of you should seem to come short of it c. lest any man fall c. Heb. 4. 1 11. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the Devil like a roaring Lyon walketh about seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. Seeing ye know before beware left ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness 2 Pet. 3. 17. Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have gained 2 John v. 8. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain c. If thou shalt not watch c. Rev. 3. 2 3. Behold I come as a thief blessed is he who watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walketh naked and they see his shame Rev. 16. 15. See the Saints aptness to fall into sin Chap. 13. See the Devil and Deceivers ways to draw aside Chap. 30. CHAP. XVII Of the Duties of Saints Believers Brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that relation one to another 1st To love one another the kinds of it THou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self I am the Lord Levit. 19. 18. My goodness extends not unto thee but to the saints who are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight Psal. 16. 2 3. I am a companion of all them who fear thee c. Psal. 119. 63. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is then a stalled ox where hatred is Prov. 15. 17. Love is as strong as death c many waters cannot quench love Cant. 8. 6 7. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self on these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets Matt. 22. 39 40. The love of many shall wax cold Matt. 24. 12. A new commandment I give unto you That ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye love one another John 13. 34 35. This is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you Joh. 15. 12 13 17. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another c. let love be without dissimulation c. be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love or in the love of the brethren Rom. 12. 5 9 10. 1 Cor. 12. 13 25 27. Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he who loveth another hath fulfilled the law c. it is briefly comprehended in this saying namely Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Love worketh no ill to his neighbour Rom. 13. 8 9 10. Gal. 5. 13 14. Though I speak with the tongue of men or angels c. have the gift of prophesie c. have all faith c. bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing charity suffereth long c. charity never faileth c. 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13. Follow after charity 1 Cor. 14. 1. Let all your things be done with charity 1 Cor. 16. 14. There is neither Jew nor Greek c. for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 3. 28. The sruit of the spirit is love c. Gal. 5. 22. Walk in love as Christ also hath loved us c. Ephes. 5. 2. I pray that your love may abound more and more in knowledg c. Phil. 1. 9. Having the same love c. look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others Phil. 2. 2 4. We give thanks c. since we heard c. of the love which ye have unto all saints Col. 1. 3 4. Ephes. 1. 15. That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love Col. 2. 1 2. Above all these things put on charity which is the bond of perfectness Col. 3. 14. The Lord make you to increase
and abound in love one towards another 1 Thes. 3. 12. As touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you for ye your selves are taught of God to love one another c. that ye increase more 1 Thes. 4. 9 10. We are bound to thank God c. because that your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth 2 Thes. 1. 3. Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart 1 Tim. 1. 5. Follow c. love 2 Tim. 2. 22. I thank my God c. hearing of thy love c. toward all saints Philem. v. 4 5. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name in that ye have ministred to the saints and do Heb. 6. 10. Let brotherly love continue Heb 13. 1. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self ye do well James 2. 8. If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not c. this wisdom descendeth not from above c. James 3. 14 15 16. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unseigned love of the brethren see that ye love one another with a pure heart servently 1 Pet. 1. 22. Love the brotherhood 1 Pet. 2. 17. Finally c. love as brethren or loving to brethren 1 Pet. 3. 8. And above all things have fervent charity among your selves 1 Pet. 4. 8. Add c. to brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity 2 Pet. 1. 7. He who saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now he who loveth his brother abideth in the light 1 John 2. 9 10 11. Is not of God neither he who loveth not his brother for this is the message that ye heard from the beginning that we should love one another c. We know that we are passed from death to life because we love the brethren c. we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth 1 John 3. 10 11 12 14 16 18 19. Let us love one another for love is of God and every one who loveth is born of God and knoweth God he who loveth not knoweth not God for God is love c. if God so loved us we ought also to love one another c. if any man say he loveth God and hateth his brother he is a lyar c. this commandment have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also 1 John 4. 7 8 11 12 20 21. 2 Epist. Joh. v. 5. 2dly From love to sympathize with each other in pity and compassion help and comfort one another and bear one anothers burthen have mutual care The children of Israel when they had in battel cut off the Benjamites they bemoan them lift up their voices and wept sore and said O Lord God of Israel Why is this come to pass in Israel that their should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel c and it repented them for Benjamin their brother and said There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day How shall we do for wives for them c Judges 21. 1 2 3 6 7 12 13 14 15 16. With the merciful thou wilt shew thy self merciful 2 Sam. 22. 26. Psal. 18. 25. Thus saith the Lord of Host c. shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother and oppress not the widow Zech. 7. 9 10. Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Mat. 5. 7. Come ye blessed c. I was hungry and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in naked and ye clothed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me c. Verily I say unto you Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me Mat. 25. 34 35 36 37 38 39 40. In the parable of the man who fell among the thieves one looked upon the wounded man and another did so but a certain Samaritan saw him had compassion on him bound up his wounds c. He who shewed mercy was his neighbour Go and do thou likewise Luke 10. 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37. I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not and when thou art converted strengthen thy brethren Luke 22. 32. Rejoyce with them who do rejoyce and weep with them who weep Be of the same mind one towards another Rom. 12. 15 16. We then who are strong ought to bear with the infirmities of the weak and not to please our selves Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification Rom. 15. 1 2. 1 Cor. 8. 1. To the weak became I as weak that I might gain the weak c. 1 Cor. 9. 22. Let no man seek his own but every man anothers wealth c. As I please all men 1 Cor. 10. 24 33. By one spirit are we all baptized into one body c. that the members should have the same care one of another and whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it or one member be honoured all the members rejoyce with it Now are ye the body of Christ and members in particular 1 Cor. 12. 12 13 18 25 26 27. Charity c. seeketh not her own 1 Cor. 13. 4 5. Blessed be God c. the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort who comforteth us c. that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we our selves are comforted of God 2 Cor. 1. 3 4. Who is weak and I am not weak who is offended and I burn not 2 Cor. 11. 29. Bear ye one anothers burthens and so fulfil the law of Christ Gal. 6. 1 2. We are members one of another c. Be ye kind one to another tender-hearted Eph. 4. 25 32. Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercy kindness c. Col. 3. 12. Comfort the feeble minded support the weak 1 Thes. 5. 14. Ye endured a great fight of afflictions c. by reproaches and afflictions and partly whilest ye became companions of them who were so used for ye had compassion on me in my bonds Heb. 10. 32 33 34. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained Angels c. Remember them who are in bonds as bound with them and them who suffer adversity as being your selves also in the body Heb. 13. 2 3. Pure religion c. is this to visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions James 1. 27. The Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy James 5. 11. Be ye all of one mind having compassion one of
8. To be of one mind p. 261 9. To walk wisely and charitably one towards another and in things indifferent to have respect to the weak and to avoid offences p. 262 10. To destribute and communicate to each others necessities Of giving to the poor in general p. 264 See more in shewing mercy to all ch 19. p. 280. Of giving to Enemies ch 22. p. 358. Of Church-collections for poor ch 27. p. 400. 3. Duties of Saints Believers each to others as they stand related one to another in the Flesh. Chap. 18. p. 268. 1. Husbands to Wives and Wives to Husbands Of Marriage women c. p. 268 2. Parents to their Children and Children to their Parents p. 271 3. Masters to their servants and servants to their Masters p. 274. 4. Magistrates to Subjects and Subjects to Magistrates See Magistrates at large ch 24. p. 375. 4. The Duties of Saints towards all men those who are without unbelievers Enemies Chap. 19. P. 276. 1. In the general p. 276 2. In particular not to speak evil of them or judg them p. 277 3. Be just righteous true and faithful to and with them in all things of trust and dealing p. 277 4. To live at peace with them every one doing their own works not intermedling with others p. 278 5. Not to be discontented angry or revengeful against them but to behave themselves meekly gently and patiently towards them bearing wrong p. 279 See more of Meekness ch 16. p. 205. 6. To pity them shew them mercy pray for them requite them good for evil love for hatred p. 280 See more of doing good to Persecutors ch 22. p. 358. See giving the poor ch 17. p 246. 7. To behave themselves humbly and courteously towards all giving them due respect p. 281 8. To avoid all unnecessary society and fellowship with wicked men p. 282 5. Of the Duties of Saints in times of Affliction and Persecution both towards God such as persecute and such as are persecuted and afflicted See Afflictions and Persecutions at large chap. 22. p. 356. 6. Their Duties in times of Common Calamities See Common Calamities at large Chap. 23. p. 366. 7. Their Duties towards the Spirit See it at large Chap. 21. p. 309. 8. Their Duties towards their Ministers or Pastours See Church-Affairs at large Chap. 27. p. 404. 9. Their Duties in case of Temptation by Satan and False-teachers Errors c. See Satan his Instruments False-teachers c. in general Chap. 30. p. 429. 10. Their Duties in relation to the things of this World See the things of this World in general Chap. 39. p. 476. How men come truly and spiritually to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent and the Mystery of Salvation by him and expressed in the Word To believe bring forth fruit and persevere through difficulties to eternal life Chap. 20. P. 284 1. A man of himself can do neither of these p. 284 2. God in Christ doth all freely hath promised so to do 1. In General p. 285 2. In Particular to give knowledg of himself c. p. 288 See more of Knowledg ch 38. p. 466 3. To give Faith or enable to believe p. 291 4. To enable them to subdue sin bring forth fruit profit c. p. 292 5. To give power to persevere in faith c. See more ch 16. p. 246. p. 295 6. God in Christ doth command encourage and invite by promises to come to kim for these and cast our care upon kim p. 297 How God doth work and effect these things in the hearts and spirits of his Elect. Chap. 21. P. 301. By his Spirit whom he promised p. 301 Of the spirit of God further his being given to dwelling in the saints working in them and others the nature and fruits thereof Saints duties towards the Spirit 1. Of the Spirit given to and in the Saints and what he did and doth p. 303 2. The nature working and fruits of the spirit p. 307 3. Saints Duties towards the spirit 1. To follow him and make use of him p. 309 2. Not to sin against grieve or quench the spirit p. 309 Of Afflictions Troubles and Persecutions Chap. 22. P. 311. 1 To whom they belong or who may expect them p. 311. 1. Common to all p. 311. 2 More especially to the Saints 1. The Holy Gost affirms it p. 311 2 That the Saints have been so exercised 1. From God more immediately p. 313 2. From men wicked ones heathens p. 314 3. From Professors men zealous of the Law and Traditions p. 317 2 For what ends God doth correct his Children and fuffer them to be persecuted p. 319. 1. To exercise and try their faith and obedience p. 319 2. To humble and purge them p. 320 3. To make them to remember God and things above look to own and close with them p. 321 4. For Gods own glory and the furtherance of the Gospel p. 322 5. For the effecting of great good and advantage to those who are exercised with trouble c. p. 323 3. The Considerations which should bear up stay comfort the spirits of the Saints in their afflictions and under porsecutions p. 325. 1. That God appoints them and that for such ends as before p. 325 2. That such who are so exercised are blessed and happy and so pronounced it 's a seal of son-ship of Gods choice love and of their salvation p. 325 3. That God well knows the design and ways of Satan and of all the Adversaries of Believers and that they can do no more or proceed further against the Saints than what God permits he turns about the purposes of Adversaries p. 326 4. That God orders and determines of the measure manner time and continuance of afflictions and persecutions and that according to our need p. 329 5. That God doth sometimes make Enemies and Persecutors themselves to acknowledg the Saints innocency when they suffer and will surely avenge them of their Adversaries p. 330 6. That God will comfort uphold and preserve his in all their troubles and not lay more upon them than they can bear p. 332 See Common Calamities ch 23. p. 364. 7. That the Saints are near and dear to God in Christ so that he takes notice of their afflictions and Persecutions and is said to be persecuted and afflicted in their persecutions c. p. 335 For more See Union and Relation between Christ and his Church ch 15. p. 135. 8. That the greater the Afflictions and distresses of the Saints have been the more wonderful have their deliverance been and then hath salvation been nearest when extremity hath been highest and danger greatest p. 337 9. That Affliction and Persecution shall be for the great good of Saints p. 339 More See the ends of God in afflicting before p. 319. 10. That God will not always chide nor suffer his to lye under Affliction and Persecutions they shall have an end he will bring deliverance and restore
2 Thes. 12. r. 2. p. 309 f. Joh. 4. 14 15. r. 4. 23 24 f. 1 Cor. 12. 18. r. 14. 15. p. 314 f. Ps. 3. 12. r. 3. 2. p. 315 f. Psalm 38. r. 83. p. 320 f. Rev. 3. 24. r. 3. 10. p. 321 f. Ezek. 40. r. 20. p. 334 f. Psalm 114. r. 124. p. 337 f. Acts 16. r. 26. p. 345 f. Heb. 17. 29. r. 11. 27. p. 349 f. Isa. 28. r. 8. p. 351 f. Acts 6. r. 16. p. 352 f. Job 34. 23. r. 34. 28. p. 360 f. Matth. 50. r. 5. p. 365 f. Psalm 5. r. Job 5. p. 375 f. Acts 41. r. 4. p. 406 f. Numb 17 r. 27. p. 418 f. Jer. 41. r. 42. p. 430 f. Matth. 5. r. Mark 5. p. 431 f. 1 Thess. 5. 3. r. 3. 5 p. 444 f. Psalm 95. r. 90. p. 451 f. Job 41. r. 14. p. 453 f. Hos. 13 4. r. 13. 14. p 462 f. Luke 21. 18. r. 21. 28. An Alphabetical Table of the most and principal things contained in this Book A ACts of Churches Chap. 27. p. 395 Admonition ch 17. p. 259 Afflictions ch 22. p. 311 Gods ends in it p. 319 Comforts therein p. 325 Duties then p. 344 Affections ch 32. p. 441 Altars before the Law ch 45. p. 507 Angels ch 41. p. 494 Anger among Saints ch 17. p. 155 Apostacy see Watchfulness Attributes see God B Belief see Faith Believers Character ch 12. p. 106 Blessings belonging to the Church God as such ch 27. p. 309 Baptism see Ordinances C Christ see Saviour salvation Calling see Election Calamities common ch 23. p. 364 Character of Believers see Believers Confess sin see sin Confess Christ chap. 16. p. 229 In Persecution ch 22. p. 348 Charitable walking see Offences Children ch 18. p. 271 Considerations comforting in Afflictions ch 22. p. 325 Church of God ch 27. p. 388 Coming of Christ ch 36. p 457 Conscience ch 29. p. 427 Consideration ch 31. p. 437 D Duties towards God ch 16. p. 138 Of Saints to each other ch 17. p. 251 Of relations in the flesh ch 18. p. 268 Of Saints to all men ch 19. p. 276 Towards the Spirit ch 21. p. 309 In times of affliction towards God and man ch 22. p. 344 In common calamities ch 23. p. 364 Of Subjects to Magistrates ch 24. p. 375 Of Churches to their Ministers ch 27. p. 404 In relation to the World ch 39. p. 481 Devil ch 30. p. 432 Deceivers ch 30. p. 432 Death ch 34. p. 450 Dignity of Christ see Excellency Dignity of the Church see Blessings Discipline in the Church ch 27. p. 413 E Election of God ch 9. p. 71 Election of Officers in Churches ch 27. p. 405 Eternal life ch 10. p. 91 Excellency of Christ ch 7. p. 54 Excellency of Saints see Priviledges F Faith ch 11. p. 93 its nature and objects p. 96 use and advantage p. 100 effects p. 102 who gives it ch 20. p. 291 Failings of Saints ch 13. p. 117 Fear of God ch 16. p. 177 Forgiveness in Saints one to another ch 17. p. 155 Forsake sin see Sin Fruits of love to God ch 16. p. 144 of love to Saints ch 17. p. 253 of the spirit in Saints ch 21. p. 307 Fruitfulness in Saints bow ch 20. p. 292 Free Grace ch 9 10. p. 71 84 G Giver of knowledg faith power c. who ch 20. p. 288 Glory to be given to the Saints at last ch 37. p. 462 God his name and attributes ch 2. p. 8. 9 c. Grace free ch 9 10. p. 71 84 H Heart see Sincerity Hands laying on ch 27. p. 406 Hope ch 16. p. 193 Humility ch 16. p. 198. ch 19 p. 281 Hypocrites Hypocrisie ch 28. p. 417 I Idolatry ch 4. p. 487. ch 5. p. 37 Jesus see Saviour Invitations and encouragements to come to Christ for all ch 20. p. 297 Justification ch 10. p. 88 The Judgment ch 36. p. 457 K Kindness of Saints to each other ch 17. p. 153 to all men ch 19. p. 180 Kings of Israel and Judah ch 44. p. 503 Knowledg of divine things ch 38. p. 466 The giver of it ch 20. p. 288 L The Law Sinners cast under it ch 6. p. 44 Life see Eternal Live to God ch 16. p. 138 Love to God ch 16. p. 142 to Saints ch 17. p. 251 to Christ and Christ to them see Relation Lords Supper ch 27. p. 412 M Man in his Fallen-state ch 5. p. 32 Man's salvation see Salvation Man's impotency ch 20. p. 284 Masters ch 18. p. 274 Magistrates Magistracy ch 24. p. 369 Meekness see Patience Mercy in saints to all ch 19. p. 280 Mediator see salvation How wrought Meditation see Consideration Mind see Thoughts Miracles ch 43. p. 501 Ministers see Preachers Officers Mourn see Sin N Nature of Man ch 5. p. 32 O Oaths of Testimony ch 25. p. 379 Obedience ch 16. p. 149 Offences amongst Saints avoid ch 17. p. 262 Officers of Churches ch 27. p. 491 Order in Churches ch 27. p. 395 Ordination see Election Ordinances of Christ ch 27. p. 407 P Pardon of sin ch 10. p. 84 Parents ch 18. p. 271 Parables ch 42. p. 499 Patient ch 16. p. 205 Peace with God see Reconciliation Saints with Saints ch 17. p. 257 with all men ch 19. p. 278 Perseverance ch 16. p. 241. ch 22. p. 248. ch 20. p. 295 Poor Relief ch 17. p. 264 Persecution ch 22. p. 211 Prayer ch 16. p. 161 Praises ch 16. p. 170 Preachers in general ch 26. p. 382 Preaching see Ordinances Priviledges of saints ch 14. p. 124. ch 16. p. 246 In afflictions ch 22. p. 325 In common calamities c. 23. p. 365 Punishment of sin see Sin Q Â R Reconciliation ch 10. p. 87 Redemption see salvation Repentance in God ch 33. p. 444 In man p. 445 Relation between Christ and his Church ch 15. p. 135 Resurrection ch 35. p. 455 Righteousness towards God see Justisication towards men ch 19. p. 277 S Sacrifices before the Law ch 45. p. 507 Satan see Devil Salvation ch 7. p. 47 The Saviour Jesus ch 7. p. 49 How he wrought salvation ch 8. p. 62 Saints Character ch 12. p. 106 Saints failings see Failings Their Priviledges see Priviledges Scriptures ch 1. p. 1 Signs of love to God see Fruits Society with the wicked ch 19. p. 282 Sin What ch 16. p. 211 confess mourn for it p. 211. ch 22. p. 347 forsake it p. 213 Threatning c. against it p. 218 Effects or Punishment ch 5. p. 40 ch 13. p. 122 Sinfulness of mans nature ch 5. p. 32 Sins Pardon ch 10. p. 84 Servants ch 18. p. 274 Sincerity in following God ch 16. p. 232 Similitudes see Parables Seducers see Deceivers Speeches see Words Spirit of God ch 21. p. 31 Submission to God in affliction ch 22. p. 345 Subjects see Duties T Trinity ch 3. p. 27 Thoughts ch 32 p. 441 Threatning against sin see Sin Trust in God only ch 16. p. 144
ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven Job 28. 23 24. His eyes are upon the ways of man and he seeth all his goings Job 34. 21. Psal. 11. 4 5. The righteous God tryeth the hearts and reins Psal. 7. 9. Jer. 11. 20. The Lord looketh from heaven and beholdeth all the sons of men Psal. 33. 13. Understand ye brutish c. He that planteth the ear shall he not hear He that formed the eye shall he not see c The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity Psal. 94. 8 9 11. Thou c. art acquainted with all my ways For not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether c. Such knowledg is too wonderful for me c. Whither shall I go from thy spirit Or whither shall I fly from thy presence If I ascend up into Heaven thou art there c. Psal. 139. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. Prov. 5. 21. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the good and the bad c. Hell and destruction are before the Lord how much more then the hearts of the children of men Prov. 15. 3 11. Shall the thing framed say of him who framed it he had no understanding Isa. 29. 16. Mine eyes are upon all their ways They are not hid from my face Neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes Jer. 16. 17. ch 32. 19. I the Lord search the heart I try the reins Jer. 17 10. ch 20. 12. I know the things which come into thy mind every one of them Ezek. 11. 5. He revealeth the deep and â—…ecret things He knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with him Dan. 2. 22 28. Thy father who seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly c. Your father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him Mat. 6. 4 6 8 18. But of that day and hour knoweth no man c. but the father Mark 13. 32. That should seek the Lord c. though he be not far from every one of us Act. 17. 27. O the depth of the riches c. Of the knowledg of God c. Rom. 11. 33 34. Pleasing c. God who tryeth our hearts c. 1 Thes. 2. 4. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight But all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 12 13. 8thly He is most Wise. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength c. Job 9. 4. The Lord of host wonderful in counsel Isa. 28. 29. The Lord is a God of judgment Isa. 30. 18. He hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion Jer. 10. 12. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledg of God Rom. 11. 33. To God only wise be glory c. Rom. 16. 27. 1 Tim. 1. 17. The foolishness of God is wiser than men 1 Cor. 1. 25. To the only wise God our saviour be glory c. Jude vers 25. 9thly He is most Holy Who like thee O Lord c. glorious in holiness c. Exod. 15. 11. I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity c. Exod. 20. 5. Nahum 1. 2. Ye shall be holy for I am holy c. Levit. 11. 44 45. chap. 19. 2. chap. 20. 26. I the Lord who sanctifieth you am holy Levit. 21. 8. For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you Deut. 6. 15. The Lord for he is an holy God he is a jealous God he will not forgive c. Josh. 24. 19. There is none holy as the Lord for there is none besides 1 Sam. 2. 2. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God 1 Sam. 6. 20. The holy one of Israel is our king Psal. 89. 18. Psal. 99. 9. The knowledg of the holy is understanding Prov. 9. 10. Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts Isa. 6. 3. Behold from the habitation of thy holiness c. The people of thy holiness hath possessed c. Isa. 63. 15 18. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel c. And the heathen shall know that I am the Lord the holy one in Israel Ezek. 39. 7. Isa. 43. 14 15. The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness c. Amos 4. 2. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look at iniquity Habak 1. 13. Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is c. Rev. 4. 8. Who shall not fear thee O Lord c. for thou only art holy c. Rev. 15. 4. 10thly He is most just A God of truth and without iniquity just and right is he Deut. 32. 4. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right c. Nehem. 9. 33. Surely God will not do wickedly neither will the Almighty pervert judgment c. Wilt thou condemn him who is most just Job 34. 12. 17. He is excellent c. and in plenty of justice Job 37. 23. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness c. Psal. 11. 7. Psal. 33. 5. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne Psal. 89. 14. No God besides me a just God c. Isa. 45. 21. I am the Lord who exercise c. judgment and righteousness in the earth c. Jer. 9. 24. The Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doth Dan. 9. 14. The just Lord is in the middest thereof he will not do iniquity every morning he doth bring his judgment to light Zephan 3. 5. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed c. Heb. 6. 10. Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways c. Rev. 15. 3. 11thly He is Compassionate Pitiful and Merciful The men laid hold upon his hand c. the Lord being merciful unto him Gen. 19. 16. The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious c. keeping mercy for thousands c. Exod. 34. 6 7. The Lord is c. Of great mercy Numb 14. 18. The Lord thy God is a merciful God he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee c. Deut. 4. 31. O give thanks unto the Lord c. For his mercy endures for ever 1 Chron. 16. 34. 2 Chron. 20. 21. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if ye return c. 2 Chron. 30. 9. Psal. 116. 5. Thou a God c. merciful slow to anger c. For thy great mercies sake thou didst not consume them c. For thou art a gracious and merciful God Nehem. 9. 17 31. Psal. 145. 8. Thou a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy c. Psal. 86. 15. Psal. 111. 4. Psal. 145. 8. Mercy c. shall go before thy face Psal.
him they worshipped him c. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given to me in heaven and earth go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy Ghost Matt. 28. 16 17 18 19 20. Why doth this man speak blasphemy Who can forgive sins but God only c. but that ye may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sin he saith unto the sick c. arise Mark 2. 7 9 10 11. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God c. The world was made by him c. And the word was made flesh c. John 1. 1 2 10 14. Jesus c. knew all men and needed not that any should testify of man For he knew what was in man John 2. 24 25. No man hath ascended c. but he who came down c. even the son of man who is in heaven John 3. 13. Jesus answered them my father worketh hitherto and I work c. The Jews sought the more to kill him c. Because c. He said God was his father making himself equal with God c. The son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the father do for whatsoever things he doth these also doth the son likewise c. As the father raised up the dead and quickened them even so the son quickeneth whom he will c. That all men should honour the son even as they honour the father he who honoureth not the son honoureth not the father who sent him John 5. 17 18 19 21 22 23. What and if ye shall see the son of man ascend up where he was before John 6. 62. Jesus said unto them verily verily I say unto you Before Abraham was I am John 8. 58. Dost thou believe on the son of God and Jesus said c. Thou hast both seen him and it is he who talketh with thee c. and he worshipped him John 9. 35 36 37 38. My father who gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my fathers hand I and my father are one c. Believe the work that ye may know and believe that the father is in me and I in him John 10. 29 30 38. Jesus knew Lazarus was dead John 11. 14. He who believeth on me believeth not on me but him who sent me And he who seeth me seeth him who sent me John 12. 44 45. Jesus knowing c. That he was come from God and went to God John 13. 3. If ye had known me ye should have known my father also and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him Philip saith unto him Lord shew us the father and it sufficeth us Jesus faith unto him have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me Philip He who hath seen me hath seen the father and how sayest thou shew us the father believest thou not that I am in the father and the father in me The words I speak unto you I speak not of my self but the father who dwelleth in me he doth the works Believe me that I am in the father and the father in me c. Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do c. I will pray the father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the spirit of truth c. I will come to you c. He who loveth me I will love him and manifest my self to him c. My father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him c. The comforter the holy Ghost whom my father will send in my name he shall teach you John 14. 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 16 17 18 21 23 26. When the spirit of truth is come c. He will shew you things to come he shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unto you All things which the father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you c. Whatsoever ye shall ask the father in my name he will give it you c. I came forth from the father and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the father c. John 16. 13 14 15 23 27 28 30. Now O Father glorify thou me c. With the glory which I had with thee before the world was c. And all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them c. That they may be one as thou father art in me and I in thee John 17. 5 10 21. Thomas answered and said unto him my Lord and my God John 20. 28. Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the holy Ghost c. Thou hast not lied unto men but to God c. How is it that ye are agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord Act. 5. 3 4 9. Stephen calling and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit Act. 7. 59. Peter said to Aeneas Jesus Christ maketh thee whole arise c. Act. 9. 34. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Act. 20. 28. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Rom. 9. 5. With all in every place who call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. The spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God For what man knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God 1 Cor. 2. 10 11. Know you not that ye are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you c. 1 Cor. 3. 16. He who is joyned unto the Lord is one spirit c. Know you not that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost who is in you which ye have of God c. 1 Cor. 6. 17 19. To us there is but one God the father of whom are all things and one Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 8. 6. Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty c. Even as by the spirit of the Lord or the Lord of the spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the Love of God and the Communion of the holy Ghost be with you all 2 Cor. 13. 14. God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into our hearts c. Gal. 4. 6. Through him we both have an access by one spirit unto the father c. In whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the spirit Ephes. 2. 18 22. By him were all things created c. By him and for him and he is before all
glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased 2 Pet. 1. 16 17. 1 Pet. 1. 21. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to him be glory both now and for ever 2 Pet. 3. 18. Jude vers 25. In him is no sin c. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us 1 John 3. 5 16. 1 Pet. 3. 18. His son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternal life 1 John 5. 20. Jesus Christ c. The Prince of the kings of the earth c. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty c. I am the first and the last I am he who liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the keys of hell and death Rev. 1. 5 6 8 17 18. I am he who searcheth the reins and hearts Rev. 2. 23. Those things saith he who hath the seven spirits of God c. Who is holy c. Who hath the key of David he who openeth and no man shutteth c. Rev. 3. 1 7. Worthy is the lamb which was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing c. Blessing honour and glory and power be unto him who sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb for ever c. The elders fell down and worshipped him who liveth for ever Rev. 5. 12 13 14. And the kings of the earth and the great men c. Said to the mountains c. Hide us from the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the lamb For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 15 16 17. The Lamb shall overcome them for he is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Rev. 17. 14. ch 19. 16. See more of the one God Father Son and Spirit or the Trinity Chap. 3. In his Nature He shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street A bruised reed shall he not break smoaking or daily burning flax shall he not quench Isa. 42. 2 3. Matt. 12. 18 19 20. I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them who plucked off hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Isa. 50. 6. Matt. 26. 67. He was oppressed c. He opened not his mouth he is brought as a Lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth c. He had done no violence neither was guile found in his mouth Isa. 53. 7 9. Mal. 2. 6. Thy king cometh unto thee he is just c. lowly and riding upon an Ass c. Zech. 9. 9. The son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings Mal. 4. 2. Jesus sate at meat c. Many publicans and sinners came c. The Pharisees said why eat your Master with Publicans and sinners c. Jesus said unto them they who are whole need not a Physician but they who are sick but go and learn what that meant I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance c. When he saw the multitude he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted or were tired and were scattered abroad as sheep having no sheepherd c. He healed their sick c. Would not send them away fasting c. Matt. 9. 10 11 12 13 36. chap. 14. 14. ch 15. 30 32. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart Matt. 11. 29. When Peter was sinking and cryed out Lord save me and immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto him c. wherefore didest c. Matt. 14. 30 31. O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou who killest the prophets c. how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not Matt. 23. 37. Christ excused his Disciples when they slept c. He said the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak Matt. 26. 41. When he came neer the City he wept over it saying if thou hadest known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy peace c. Luk. 19. 41 42. And the word was made flesh c. full of grace and truth John 1. 14. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping c. He groaned in the spirit and was troubled c. Jesus wept then said the Jews behold how he loved him John 11. 33 35 36. Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God c. Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you c. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid John 14. 1 27. When Mary sought Jesus weeping he appeared to her to comfort her c. He shewed himself also to his Disciples his hands and feet and the second time to Thomas when he would not believe the report of the rest John 20. 11 14 15 16 19 25 27. Christ gives charge three times to Peter that if he loved him he should feed his lambs and his sheep John 21. 15 16 17. Ye denied the holy and just one Act. 3. 14. I obtained mercy for this cause that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe on him 1 Tim. 1. 16. In that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2. 18. chap. 4. 15. Who is holy harmless undefiled c. Heb. 7. 26. Christ as of a Lamb without spot and blemish 1 Pet. 1. 19. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us c. 1 John 3. 16. Behold I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and sup with him and he with me Rev. 3. 20. CHAP. VIII How Christ wrought this Salvation for sinners and what he was made and is what he undertook and did in order to it First He is Mediatour THere is one God one Mediatour between God and man the man Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 2. 5. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament Heb. 7. 22. He is made the Mediatour of a better Testament which was established upon better promises Heb. 8. 6. And for this cause he is the mediatour of the New-testament that c. Heb. 9. 15. And to Jesus the Mediatour of the new Covenant or Testament Heb. 12. 24. 2dly He took upon him the nature of man and humbled himself God said to the serpent c. I will put enmity between thee and
the Prophet and none of them was cleansed saving Naaman c. Luke 4. 25 26 27. Christ called Zacheus to come down c. And he received him joyfully and Christ said to him this day is salvation come to thy house for so much as he also is the son of Abraham For the son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost Luke 19. 5 6 8 9 10. All which the father hath given me shall come to me and him who cometh to me I will in no wise cast out c. This is the fathers will c. That of all which be hath given me I should lose nothing c. There are some of you who believe not c. No man can come unto me except it were given him of my father John 6. 37 39 64 65. Jesus called the blind man whom he had healed and discovers himself to him John 9. 35 36 37 38 39. Other sheep I have which are not of this fold Them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold c. Ye believe not because ye are not of my sheep c. My sheep hear my voice John 10. 16 26 27. They believed not on him that the saying of Esaias the Prophet might be fulfilled c. Lord who hath believed c. Therefore they could not believe because Esaias had said again he hath blinded their eyes c. John 12. 37 38 39 40 41. I speak not of you all I know whom I have chosen John 13. 18. Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit c. I have chosen you out of the world c. John 15. 16 19. That he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him c. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world thine they were and thou gavest them me c. I pray c. but for them whom thou gavest me out of the world John 17. 2 6 9. The promise is made to you and your children and to all who are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call c. And the Lord added unto the Church daily such as should be saved Act. 2. 39 47. Phillip sent on purpose to meet the Eunuch and commanded to go neer his Chariot where he preached unto him and converted him Act. 8. 26 27 28 29 36 37. Paul was persecuting the Church c. And was converted in the middest of his rage c. And Christ said to Ananias go thy way for he is a chosen vessel to bear my name before the Gentiles c. And I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name Acts 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 15 16. Acts 22. 14. God in a special manner calls Cornelius to the faith Acts 10. 1 2 c. Which extraordinary call Peter after declares at large to those of the Circumcision Act. 11. 2 3 c. When the Gentiles heard c. as many as were ordained to eternal life believed Act. 13. 48. Paul and others were forbidden of the holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia c. They assayed to go into Bithynia but the spirit suffered them not c. When Paul preached at Philippi c. Lydia heard him and the Lord opened her heart that she attended unto the things which were spoken c. was baptized Act. 16. 6 7 14 15. Paul came to Corinth c. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision be not afraid but speak and hold not thy peace c. For I have much people in this City Acts 18. 1 9 10. We know that all things shall work together for good to them who love God to them who are called according to his purpose for whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son c. Whom he did predestinate them he called whom he called he justified c. Them he also glorified Rom. 8. 28 29 30. When Rebeckah also had conceived by one Isaac the children not yet born neither having done any good or bad that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works but of him who calleth it was said unto her the elder shall serve the younger as 't is written Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated c. Is there unrighteousness with God! God forbid for he saith to Moses I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion so then it is not of him who willeth nor of him who runneth but of God who sheweth mercy for the scripture saith unto Pharaoh c. Thou wilt say unto me why doth he yet find fault For who hath resisted his will Who art thou who replyest or answerest against or disputest with God Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it why hast thou thus made me c. Rom. 9. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 c. God hath not cast away his people whom he fore-knew c. I have reserved to my self Seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace If by grace then it is no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace c. The election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded or hardened as it is written c. As ye in times past have not believed God yet have now obtained mercy c. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledg of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his Counseller c. For of him and through him and to him are all things Rom. 11. 4 5 6 7 8 30 31 32 33. 1 Kings 19. 18. God is faithful by whom ye are called into the fellowship of his Son c. For you see your Calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty c. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world c. That no flesh should glory in his presence but of him are ye in Christ Jesus c. As it is written he who glorieth let him glory in the Lord 1 Cor. 1 9 26 27 28 29 30 31. I am c. not meet to be called an Apostle c. But by the grace of God I am what I am 1 Cor. 15. 9 10. He who hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God c. All things are of God who hath reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 5. 5 18. When it pleased God who separated me from my mothers womb and called me by his grace to reveal his Son in me that I
mighty works there because of their unbelief Mat. 13. 58. Peter began to sink through unbelief Jesus said unto them O thou of little faith wherefore didst thou doubt Mat. 14. 29 30 31. He appeared unto the eleven and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believed not them who had seen him after he was risen c. but he who believed not shall be damned Mark 16. 14 16. Thou shalt be dumb and not able to speak until the day that these things shall be performed because thou believest not my word which shall be c. Luke 1. 19 20. But those mine enemies who would not that I should reign over them bring hither and slay them before me Luke 19. 27. He who believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God c. He who believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him John 3. 18 36. Verily verily I say unto you Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you John 6. 53. I said therefore unto you That you shall dye in your sins for if ye believe not that I am he ye shall dye in your sins John 8. 24. Ye believe not because ye are not of my sheep as I said unto you My sheep hear my voice c. John 10. 26 27. If any man hear my words and believe not c. He who rejecteth me and receives not my words hath one who judgeth him the word which I have spoken the same shall judg him in the last day John 12. 47 48. 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 John 15. 6. He will reprove the world of sin c. of sin because they believe not on me John 16. 8 9. Beware therefore lest that come upon you c. Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I will work a work in your days a work which you shall in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you Acts 13. 40 41. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed Rom. 10. 14. Well because of unbelief they were broken off c. and thou standest by faith c. God spared not the natural branches c. Rom. 11. 20 21. He who doubteth is damned if he eat because not of faith for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14. 23. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven c. taking vengeance on them c. who obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction c. 2 Thes. 1. 8. Antichrist shall prevail upon such who shall perish because they received not the truth in the love thereof or the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they shall believe a lye that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thes. 2. 8 9 10 11 12. Holding faith c. which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander whom I have delivered unto Satan that being chastised they might learn not to blaspheme 1 Tim. 1. 19 20. Unto them who are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their minds and consciences are defiled Titus 1. 15. If the word spoken by Angels was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord c. Heb. 2. 2 3. I swear in my wrath they shall not or if they shall enter 〈◊〉 rest Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God c. And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest but to them who believed not So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief Heb. 3. 11 12 18 19. The word Preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith or because they were not united by faith to it in them who heard c. They to whom it was first preached or the Gospel was first Preached entered not in because of unbelief Heb. 4. 2 6. The just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him But we are not of those who draw back to perdition but of them who believe to the salvation of the soul Heb. 10. 38 39. Without faith it is impossible to please God For he c. Heb. 11. 6. See that ye refuse not him who speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him who spake on earth much more shall not we if turn away from him who speaketh from heaven Heb. 12. 25. Let him ask in faith c. For he that wavereth is like c. Let not that man think he shall receive c. James 1. 5 6 7. Unto you who believe he is precious but unto them who are disobedient the stone which the builders disallowed of the same is made the head of the corner and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence unto them who stumble at the word being disobedient whereunto also they were appointed 1 Pet. 2. 7 8. What shall the end be of them who obey not the Gospel of God 1 Pet. 4. 17 18. He who believeth not God hath made him a lyar because he believeth not the record which God gave of his Son and this is the record That God hath given unto us eternal life and this life is in his son c. He who hath not the son hath not life 1 John 5. 10 11 12. The fearful and unbelieving c. shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Rev. 21. 8. He who despised Moses law dyed without mercy c. Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who have trodden under foot the son of God c. Heb. 10. 28 29. See more of trusting in God chap. 16. CHAP. XII Characters of Saints Good men and Believers appearing in word and deed 1. That such may be known from others by their fruits THE tree is known by his fruit O generation of vipers how can ye being evil speak good things for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things Mat. 12. 33 34 35. John 3. 6. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon c. that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination c. Luke 16. 13 15. Some have not
glory of the Lord c. are changed into the same image c. by the spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 13. In this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house from heaven c. that mortallity might be swallowed up of life We are willing to be absent from the body that we may be present with the Lord wherefore we labour that whether present c. we may be accepted of him c. knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. The love of Christ constraineth us c. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are past away behold all things as become new 2 Cor. 5. 2 4 8 9 11 14 17. Jesus Christ is in you except you be reprobates c. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 2 Cor. 13. 5 8. When it pleased God c. to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him c. immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood Gal. 1. 15 16. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Gal. 2. 20. The works of the flesh are manifest which are adultery c. but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance and they who are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections or passions and lusts Gal. 5. 19 20 21 22 23 24. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom or whereby the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world for in Jesus Christ circumcision availeth nothing c. but a new creature Gal. 6. 14 15. This I say therefore and testifie in the Lord That ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds c. But ye have not so learned Christ. If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus Ephes. 4. 17 18 19 20 21. For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness righteousness and truth Eph. 5. 9. Some preach Christ out of envy and strife c. what then notwithstanding in every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and therein do I rejoyce yea and I will rejoyce Phil. 1. 15 16 17 18. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh c. What things were gain to me those I count loss for Christ yea doubtless and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord c. that I might know him and the power of his resurrection c. and be made conformable unto his death if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained or were already perfect but I follow after c. but this one thing forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press towards the mark c. let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded c. Our conversation is in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour c. Phil. 3. 3. 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 20. I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need I can do all things through Christ who strengthneth me Phil. 4. 11 12 13. And bringeth forth fruits as it doth also in you since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth Col. 1. 6. If ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above c. Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth c. seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledg after the image of him who created him Colos. 3. 1 2 9 10. Remembring without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love c. knowing beloved your election of God For our Gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power c. and ye became followers of us and of the Lord having received the word in much affliction c. ye turned to God c. to serve the living and true God and to wait for his Son 1 Thes. 1. 3 4 5 6 9 10. The word of God which effectually worketh also in you who believe 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 1. Thes. 2. 13 14. Ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief ye are the children of the light c. 1 Thes. 5. 4 5. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me c. who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy c. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the chief 1 Tim. 1. 12 13 15. Let every one who nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2. 19. He who is entred into his rest hath ceased from his own works Hebr. 4. 10. They who believe desire a better countrey that is an heavenly c. Moses c. chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt c. Heb. 11. 16 24 25 26. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. If any among you seem to be religious and bridle not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this mans religion is vain Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction to keep himself unspotted from the world James 1. 26 27. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have not works c. faith if it hath not works is dead c. I will shew thee my faith by my works c. Faith without works is dead also James 2. 14 18 26. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledg amongst you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envying c. this wisdom descendeth not from above c. but the wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated full of mercy and good fruits without
your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life Rom. 6. 14 22. There is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus c. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death c. As many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God for ye have not received the spirit of bondage c. but the spirit of adoption c. And if children then heirs heirsof God and joynt heirs with Christ c. We know that all things work together for good to them who love God c. If God be for us who can be against us he who spared not his own Son c. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect is it not God who justifies who is he that condemns c Who shall separate us from the love of Christ c We are more then Conquerors c. Rom. 8. 1 2 14 15 16 17 28 31 32 33 34 35 37. Gal. 4. 5 6 7. Whosoever believeth c. shall not be ashamed c. They that call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved Rom. 10. 11 12 13. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God c. Whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the World or Life or Death or things present or things to come all are â—…ours and ye are Christs and Christ is Gods 1 Cor. 3. 16 22 23. chap. 6. 19. Do ye not know that the Saints shall judg the world c We shall judg Angels how much more things which pertain unto this life 1 Cor. 6. 2 3. The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband else were your children unclean but now are they holy c. He who is called in the Lord being a servant he is the Lords free-man 1 Cor. 7. 14 22. If any man love God the same is known of him 1 Cor. 8. 3. To the glory of God by us 2 Cor. 1. 20. Ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people c. I will be a father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6. 16 18. Christ gave himself c. that he might deliver us from this present evil world Gal. 1. 4. Ye are all the children of God c. And if Christs then Abrahams seed and heirs according to the promise Gal. 3. 26 29. ch 4. 28. And because ye are sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba father c. And if a Son then an heir of God through Christ Gal. 4. 6 7. Brethren ye have been called unto liberty only use not liberty for an occasion unto the flesh Gal. 5. 13. Blessed be God who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things c. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children c. What is the riches of the glory of his Inheritance in the Saints c. The Church which is the body the fulness of him who filleth all in all Ephes. 1. 3 5 18 23. God who is rich in mercy and hath made us to sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus c. We are no more strangers c. but fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God c. Ye are built together for a habitation for God through the spirit Ephes. 2. 4 6 19 22. For me to live is Christ and to dye is gain Phil. 1. 21. The peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ c. The God of peace shall be with you Phil. 4. 7 9. Giving thanks to the father who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son c. The mystery which hath been hid from ages c. but now is made manifest unto his Saints to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery c. Col. 1. 12 13 26 27. Your life is hid with Christ in God c. The elect of God holy and beloved Col. 3. 3 12. That ye would walk worthy of God who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory 1 Thes. 2. 12. God hath not appointed us unto wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who dyed for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him 1 Thes. 5. 9 10. Brethren beloved of the Lord c. He called you by our Gospel to the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ c. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our father who hath loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace 2 Thes. 2. 13 14 16. Godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come c. We trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men especially of those who believe 1 Tim. 4. 8 10. Godliness with contentment is great gain 1 Tim. 6. 6. Unto the pure all things are pure Tit. 1. 15. Being justified c. we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life Tit. 3. 7. The angels c. are they not all ministring-spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation Heb. 1. 13 14. There remaineth therefore a rest or keeping of a fabbath unto the people of God c. Heb. 4. 9. chap. 6. 19. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name c. wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things wherein it was impossible for God to lye we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 10 17 18. The excellency of the new Covenant and the Saints priviledges under it Heb. 8. 7 8 9 10 11. chap. 10. 16 17 18 19. Others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings c. of whom the world was not worthy Heb. 11. 36 37 38. Ye are come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of angels to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are written or enrolled in heaven and to God the Judg of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus c. and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh c. Heb. 12. 22 23 24.
enemies of the cross of Christ c. who mind earthly things for our conversation is in heaven Phil. 3. 17 18 19 20. Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things honest whatsoever things just whatsoever things pure whatsoever things lovely whatsoever things of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do c. Phil. 4. 8 9. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work Col. 1. 10. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above c. Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth c. Mortifie therefore your members which are upon earth fornication c. Col. 3. 1 2 5. Walk in wisdom towards them who are without redeeming the time c. That ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God c. Col. 4. 5 12. That ye would walk worthy of God who hâ—…h called you unto his kingdom 1 Thes. 2. 12. We exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more c. For this is the will of God your sanctification c. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour c. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness 1 Thes. 4. 1 3 4 7. Now the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord 1 Thes. 5. 23. Exercise thy self to godliness c. Godliness is profitable to all things have promise of this c. 1 Tim. 4. 7 8. Thou O man of God c. Follow after righteousness godliness c. 1 Tim. 6. 6 11. Flee also youthful lusts but follow righteousness c. 2 Tim. 2. 22. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation c. teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Titus 2. 11 12. Put them in mind c. to be ready to every good work c. A faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works Titus 3. 1 8. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us c. Follow peace c. and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 1 14. Who is a wise man c Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom James 3. 13. As obedient children not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance but as he who hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy 1 Pet. 1. 14 15. Ye are a chosen generation c. that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you c. Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul having your conversation honest amongst the Gentiles that whereas or wherein they speak against you as evil doers they may by your good works which they behold glorifie God in the day of visitation c. We being dead unto sin should live unto righteousness Matt. 5. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 9 11 12 15 24. 1 Tim. 5. 14. Titus 2. 5 10. Let him eschew evil and do good c. Who is he who will harm you if you be followers of that which is good c Sanctifie the Lord in your hearts and he always ready to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers they may be ashamed who falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ 1 Pet. 3. 11 13 15 16. The time past of our life may â—…uffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles c. 1 Pet. 4. 2 3. Giving all dilligence add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledg and to knowledg temperance c. godliness c. Give dilligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 10. Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness c Wherefore beloved seeing ye loo for such things be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot or blemish 2 Pet. 3. 11 14. God is light c. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light c. 1 John 1. 5 6 7. He who saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 1 John 2. 6. Every man who hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure c. He who doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous 1 Joh. 3. 7. Beloved follow not that which is evil but that which is good he who doth good is of God but he who doth evil hath not seen God 3 John v. 11. In Particular 1st To love God and the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. I' the Lord thy God c. shewing mercy unto thousands of them who love me Exod. 20. 6. The Lord our God one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soul and with all thy might Deut. 6. 4 5. The Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love him Deut. 7. 9. And now Israel what doth God require of thee but c. to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul Deut. 10. 12. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God c. If you shall hearken c. to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart c. that I will c. Deut. 11. 1 13. The Lord your God proveth you to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul Deut. 13. 3. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 30. 6. Take diligent heed to do the commandment c. to love the Lord your God Joshua 22. 5. Take good heed therefore unto your selves or souls that ye love the Lord your God Joshua 23. 11. O love the Lord all ye his saints c. Psal. 31. 23. I love the
such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always that it might be well with them and their children for ever c. You shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left you shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you Deut. 5. 27 28 29 32 33. Levit. 18. 3 4 26. Hear therefore O Israel and observe to do that it may be well with thee Deut. 6. 3. The Lord thy God is a faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love and keep his commandments to a thousand generations Deut. 7. 9. Levit. 20. 22. 1 Kings 6. 12. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his commandments alway c. And it shall come to pass if you will hearken diligently unto my commandments c. then will I give you c. Deut. 11. 11 13 14. ch 10. 12 13. See I have set before you this day life and good and death and evil c. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore chuse life c. that thou maist love the Lord thy God that thou maist obey his voice and that thou maist cleave unto him for he is thy life c. Deut. 30. 15 16 19 20. ch 13. 4. Take diligent heed to do the commandments and laws c. to love the Lord your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep all his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart c. Joshua 22. 5. If ye will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord then shall both ye and the king who reigneth over you continue c. 1 Sam. 12. 14. Behold to obey is better than sacrifice to hearken then the fat of rams for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft c. 1 Sam. 15. 22. David charged Solomon to keep the charge of the Lord his statutes his commandements c. as it is written in the law of Moses 1 Kings 2. 1 2 3. ch 9. 4 5. Hear O my people and I will testifie unto thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me c. But my people would not hearken unto me and Israel would none of me so I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and they walked in their own counsels O that my people had hearkened unto me and Israel had walked in my ways I should soon have subdued their enemies c. Psal. 81. 8 11 12 13 14 16. 2 Kings 21. 8 9. Because they rebelled against the word of God and contemned the counsel of the most high therefore he brought down their heart with labour Psal. 107. 11 12. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently c. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandements c. I will run the ways of thy commandements when thou shalt enlarge my heart c. O how love I thy law c. I love thy testimonies c. It is time for thee O Lord to work they have made void thy law therefore I love thy commandments above gold c. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law c. My soul hath kept thy testimony and I love them exceedingly Psal. 119. 4 6 3â—… 97 119 126 127 136 158 167. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at nought my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh c. Prov. 1. 24 25 26 30 31. Blessed is the man who heareth me watching dayly at my gates waiting at the post of my doors Prov. 8. 34. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer c. O that thou hadst hearkned to my commandments then had thy peace been as the river c. Isa. 48. 17 18. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way that is not good after their own thoughts Isa. 65. 2. I will bring their fears upon them because when I called none did answer when I spake they did not hear but they did evil c. Isa. 66. 4. Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee Jer. 6. 8. I spake not unto your fathers c. But this thing commanded I them saying obey my voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my people and walk ye in all my ways which I have commanded you that it may be well unto you But they hearkned not nor inclined their ear but walked in the counsels and in the imaginations of their evil heart c. Jer. 7. 22 23 24. chap. 11. 7 8. The Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the Prophets rising early and Israel and the tabernacle or Israel shall be sanctified by my glory c. Exod 25. 22. ch 29. 42 43. Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see my face and live Exod. 33. 20. Thou shalt worship no other God for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God Exod. 34. 14. Deut. 6. 15. When the tabernacle was set up the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle Exod. 40. 33 34 35. When Aarons sons were consumed for offering strange fire Moses said unto Aaron This that the Lord spake saying I will be sanctified in them who come nigh me and before all the people I will be glorified Levit. 10. 1 2 3. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him c. thou shalt not go after other gods c. The Lord our God is one Lord c. Deut. 6. 4 13 14 And now Israel what doth the Lord require of thee but to fear the Lord c. and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul c. Behold the heavens and the heaven of heavens is the Lords thy God the earth with all that therein is c. For the Lord your God is God of Gods and Lord of Lords a great God a mighty and a terrible who regardeth not persons c. Deut. 10. 12 14 17 20. ch 11. 13. Thou may not sacrifice the passover within any of the gates c. But at the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse to place his name in there thou shalt sacrifice Deut. 16. 5 6. Serve ye the Lord and if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord c. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. And the people answered and said God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods c. He is a holy
Let him who speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret c. I will pray with the spirit and will pray with understanding also 1 Cor. 14. 13 14 15. You also helping together by prayer for us 2 Cor. 1. 11. For this cause I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart frâ—…m me and he said unto me My grace is sufficient c. 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9. Making mention of you in my prayers That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledg of him c. Ephes. 1. 16 17 18 19. For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus c. That he would grant unto you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith c. Ephes. 3. 14 15 16 17 18 19. Praying always with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints and for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may c. Ephes. 6. 18 19. Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request c. And thus I pray that your love may abound c. Phil. 1. 4 9 10 11. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God c. Phil. 4. 6. For this cause we also c. do not cease to pray for you and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledg of his will c. Col. 1. 9 10 11. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving withall praying also for us that God would open unto us a dore of utterance c. Labouring fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God Col. 4. 2 3 4 12. 1 Pet. 4. 7. Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way unto you and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love c. 1 Thes. 3. 10 11 12. Pray without ceasing c. And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly c. Brethren pray for us 1 Thes. 5. 17 23 25. We pray always for you that our God would c. fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith 2 Thes. 1. 11. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our father who hath loved us comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work ' 2 Thes. 2. 16 17. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course or may run and be glorified and that we may be delivered c. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God c. 2 Thes. 3. 1 2 5. Exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all who are in authority or eminent place that we may lead a quiet c. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour c. I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3 8. Every creature of God is good c. if it be received with thanksgiving c. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. She that is a widow indeed c. and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day 1 Tim. 5. 5. I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day 2 Tim. 1. 3. Philemon vers 4. Seeing then that we have a great high-priest that is passed into the heavens Jesus c. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4. 14 15 16. Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cries and tears unto him who was able to save Heb. 5. 7. Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest c. and having an High Priest over the house of God Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith c. Heb. 10. 19 20 21 22. Pray for us c. Now the God of peace c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing c. Heb. 13. 18 20 21. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth unto all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him but let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he who wavereth is like a wave of the Sea c. And let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord James 1. 5 6 7. Ye have not because ye ask not ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts or pleasures James 4. 2 3. Is any among you afflicted let him pray c. is any sick among you let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over him c. and the prayer of faith shall save the sicâ—… c. Pray one for another the effectual fervent prayer c. James 5. 13 14 15 16 17. And if ye call on the father who without respect of persons judgeth c. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Likewise ye husbands dwell with them c. that your prayers be not hindred â—… The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers 1 Pet. 3. 7 12. Be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight 1 John 3. 22. This is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according unto his will he heareth us and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desire of him If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death There is a sin unto death I do not say that ye shall pray for it 1 John 5. 14 15 16. Praying in the holy Ghost Jude vers 20. The Elders c. having every one of them harps and golden viols full of odours or incense which are the prayers of the saints Rev. 5. 8. Another Angel came and stood at the Altar having a golden Censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it or add it to with the prayers of
is able c. To the only wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty dominion c. Jude vers 24. 25. Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things c. Rev. 4. 11. And they sung a new song Thou art worthy c. for thou wast slain c. Worthy is the lamb which was slain to receive power and riches and wisdome and strength and honour and glory and blessing c. unto him that sits on the throne and unto the lamb for ever and ever Rev. 5. 9 11 12 13. chap. 7. 11 12. Fear God give glory unto him Rev. 14. 7. And they sung the song of Moses c. saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty c. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name for thou only art holy c. Rev. 15. 3 4. Salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgments c. And again c. Praise our God all ye his servants and ye who fear him both small and great Rev. 19. 1. 2 5 7. To fear God alone and none else the Arguments for it Not to fear any elsâ—… or other fear Fear not Abram I am thy shield thy exceeding great reward Gen. 15. 1. God appeared unto Isaac the same night and said I am the God of Abram thy father fear not for I am with thee c. Gen. 26. 24. If thou shalt say in thine heart These nations are more than I how can I dispossess them thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharoah c. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them for the Lord thy God is among you a mighty God and terrible c. Deut. 7. 17 18 21. Be strong and of a good courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the Lord thy God he who goeth with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee Deut. 31. 6 8. Joshua 1. 5 6 7 9. I will not be afraid of ten thousand of people that have set against me round about Psal. 3. 6. 2 Chron. 20. 15 16 17. I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Psal. 4. 8. Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou with me c. Psal. 23. 4. The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid c though an host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear c. Psal. 27. 1 3. God is our refuge c. therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried c. Psal. 46. 1 2. In God will I put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Psal. 56. 4 11. The righteous c. shall not be afraid of evil tidings c. Psal. 112. 6 7 8. Be not afraid of sudden fear neither of the defolation of the wicked when it cometh for the â—…rd shall be thy confidence c. Prov. 3. 25 26. The fear of man bringeth a snare Prov. 29. 25. Say ye not a confederacy c. neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid c. Isa. 8. 12. ch 7. 3 4 5 6. Say unto them who are of a fearful heart Be strong fear not behold your God will come Isa. 35. 4. Fear thou not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God c. fear not I will help thee c. Fear not thou worm Jacob Ye men of Israel I will help thee saith the Lord Isa. 41. 10 13 14. Thus saith the Lord who created thee O Jacob c. fear not for I have redeemed thee c. when thou passest through the waters I with thee Isa. 43. 1 2 5. Fear ye not neither be afraid have not I told thee c. is there a God besides me c. Isa. 44. 8. Hearken unto me ye who know righteousness c. Fear ye not the reproach of men neither be afraid of their revilings for the moth shall eat them c. I am he who comforteth you Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall dye and of the son of man who shall be made as grass and forgettest the Lord thy maker Isa. 51. 7 8 12 13. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee c. Jer. 1. 7 8 17 18 19. Learn not the ways of the heathen and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens for the heathen are dismayed at them for the customs of the people are vain Jer. 10. 2. Be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words c. nor be dismayed at their looks c. Ezek. 2. 6. chap. 3. 9. When Christ had told his disciples what persecutors would do to them he saith Fear them not c. And fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul Matt. 10. 26 28. Luke 12. 4. Why are ye so fearful how is it that ye have no saith Mark 4. 40. We being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear Luke 1. 74. Fear not little flock for it is your fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 32. Let not your hearts be troubled c. neither let it be afraid John 14. 1 27. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but c. Rom. 8. 15. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power 2 Tim. 1. 7. Moses parents feared not the kings edict nor did he the kings wrath Heb. 11. 25 27. We may boldly say The Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do unto me Heb. 13. 5 6. If ye suffer for righteousness sake happy and be not afraid of their terrour neither be troubled but sanctifie the Lord c. 1 Pet. 3. 14 15. There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment he who feareth is not made perfect in love 1 John 4. 18. Fear God Now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou hast not withheld thy son Gen. 22. 12. But the midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the men-children alive c. Therefore God dealt well with the Midwives c. Exod. 5. 17 20 21. I will at this time send all my plagues c. that thou maist know that there is none like me in all the earth c. He who feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants c. flee into the houses Exod. 9. 14 20. Israel saw that great work of drowning the Egyptians c. which the Lord did and the
23 24. Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord to provoke the eyes of his glory because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched-forth necks c. therefore the Lord will smite with a scab c. The Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments c. Isa. 3. 8. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. Judg I pray you betwixt me and my vineyard What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes brought it forth wild grapes I will take away the hedg thereof c. The Prophet pronounceth many woes against several sinners Isa. 5. 4 5 6 7 8 to the 26. God threatens Jacob and Israel for their pride and stoutness of heart because they turned not to him who smote them their leaders cause them to err that he will cut off c. and for all this his anger is not turned away Isa. 9. 8 9 10 11 12 to the 21. O Assyrian c. I will send him against an hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the spoil c. Isa. 10. 5 6. Gods great judgments threatned against Babylon Isa. 13. The Lord said Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth c. but have removed their hearts far from me and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men therefore c. the wisdom of the wise shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid Wo unto them who seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark Isa. 29. 13 14 15. God threatens Israel for leaning upon Egypt for help and not hearkning to stay on God Isa. 30. 1 2 to the 17. This people have I formed for my self c. but thou hast not called upon me O Jacob but thou hast been weary of me O Israel thou hast not brought me the small cattel c. but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities c. thy first fathers have sinned and thy teachers c. therefore I have prophaned the Princes of thy Sanctuary and have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches Isa. 43. 21 22 23 24 28. O that thou hadst hearkned to my Commandments then had thy peace been c. Isa. 48. 18. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear for your hands are defiled with blood c. none call for justice Isa. 59. 1 2 3 4 c. I have spread out my hands all the day long unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way which is not good c. I will not keep silence but will recompence even recompence into their bosoms c. Ye are they who forsake the Lord who forget my holy mountain c. therefore will I number you to the sword c. Isa. 65. 2 3 4 6 11 12. They have chosen their own ways and their soul delighteth in their abominations I also will chuse their delusions and will bring their fears upon them because when I called none did answer c. but they did evil before mine eyes c. Isa. 66. 3 4. What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone from me c Wherefore will I yet plead with you saith the Lord and with your children c. See if there be such a thing hath a nation changed their gods c but my people have changed their glory c. Be astonished O heavens c. They have sorsaken me the fountain c. Hast thou not procured this unto thy self c Thine own wickedness shall correct thee and thy backsliding reprove thee c. Have I been a barren wilderness c Can a maid forget her ornaments Jerem. 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 17 19 31 32. And I saw when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away c. Yet her treacherous Sister Judah feared not but went and played the harlot also c. Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart but feignedly Jer. 3. 7 8 9 10. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved how long shall vain thoughts lodg within thee c thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee this thy wickedness because it is bitter it reacheth unto thine heart Jer. 4. 13 14 17 18. How shall I pardon thee for this thy children have forsaken me and sworn by them who are no gods when I had fed them to the full they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots houses they were as fed horses in the morning every one neighing after his neighbours Wife and shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Go ye up upon her walls and destroy c. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land the Prophets prophefie falsly and the Priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Jer. 5 7. 8 9 10 29 30 31. Thus hath the Lord of hosts said c. Cast a mount against Jerusalem this is the City to be visited she is wholly oppression in the midst of her c. Be then instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee c. I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land saith the Lord for from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given unto covetousness and from the Prophet even unto the Priests every one dealeth falsly c. Hear O earth Behold I will bring evil upon this people c. Jer. 6. 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 18 19. chap. 7. 8 9 c. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Cursed be the man who obeyeth not the words of this Covenant they are turned back unto the iniquity of their fathers who refuse to hear my words c. Therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to escape and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them c. therefore pray not thou for this people for I will not hearken c. Jer. 11. 3 10 11 12 14. chap. 35. 17. What wilt thou say when I shall punish thee c Shall not sorrow take thee as a Woman in travel c. for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered c. Jer. 13. 21 22. chap. 14. 11 12. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be towards this people cast them out of my sight
answered He is of age ask him these words spake his parents because they feared the Jews for the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ that he should be put out of the Synagogue therefore said his parents he is of age ask him c. but the son confessed him John 9. 19 20 21 22 23 30 31 32 c. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should he put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 42 43. Let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 36. The God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus whom ye delivered up c. but ye denyed the holy and just one c. and killed the Prince of life c. Acts 3. 13 14 15. Be it known unto all c. that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified c. even by him doth this man stand here before you whole This is the stone which was set at nought by you builders c. We cannot but speak c. Acts 4. 10 11 20. Did not we straightly charge you that you should not teach in this name c Then Peter and the other Apostles answered and said We ought to obey God rather than men The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew c. him hath God exalted with his right hand c. Acts 5. 28 29 30. Be it known to you therefore men and brethren that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins Acts 13. 38. This I confess unto thee that after the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Acts 24. 14. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus c. for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made to salvation Rom. 10. 9 10. As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup shew ye or ye do shew the Lords death till he come 1 Cor. 11. 26. And many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear Phil. 1. 14. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him c. that at the name of Jesus c. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus is the Lord to the glory of God the Father Phil. 2. 11. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner c. I am not ashamed for I know whom I believe 2 Tim. 1. 8 12. If we fuffer we shall also reign with him If we deny him he also will deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. They profess they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient c. Titus 1. 16. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God 1 John 4. 15. I know thy works and where thou dwellest where Satans seat is and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denyed my faith Rev. 2. 13. See more of owning Christ in times of persecution Chap 22. See more perseverance Chap. 16. To wait for Christs second coming Watch therefore for you know not what hour your Lord will come c. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh Mat. 24. 42 44. The wise and foolish virgins slumbered and slept while the bridegroom tarried Mat. 25. 5. Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning and ye your selves like unto men who wait for their Lord c. Luke 12. 35 36. I will come again and receive you unto my self John 14. 3. See that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 1. 7. For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body c. Phil. 3. 20 21. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Col. 3. 4. Ye turned to God c. and to wait for his Son from heaven 1 Thes. 1. 10. To you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thes. 1. 6 7. The Lord direct your hearts in the love of God and into the patient waiting for Christ 2 Thes. 3. 5. A crown of righteonsness which the Lord c. shall give me at that day c. â—…ut unto them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4. 8. Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Titus 2. 13. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and uâ—…â—…hem who look for him shall he appear the second time withou sin unto salvation Heb. 9. 28. Ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise for yet a little while and he who shall come will come and will not tarry c. Heb. 10. 36 37. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord Behold the husband-man waiteth for the precious fruits be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth near James 5. 7 8. Wherefore girt up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace which is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 13. There shall come in the last day scoffers c. saying Where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were c. The Lord is not flack concerning his promise c. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night c. What manner of persons ought ye to be c. Looking for and hastening unto the day of God c. 2 Peter 3. 3 4 5 9 10 11 12. Abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed c. at his coming 1 John 20. 28. We know that when he appears we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2. Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life Jude verse 21. See his coming to judg the world Chap. 35. To walk with God heartily uprighty sincerely and to follow him fully and zealously The reasons thereof Enoch walked with God Gen. 5. 22 24. Noah was a just man and perfect or upright in his generation Noah walked with God c. according unto all which God commanded him so did he Gen. 6. 9 22. The Lord said unto Abram Get thee out of thy
away from them to do them good but I will put my fear into their hearts that they shall not depart from me Jer. 32. 40. The Son of man is come to save that which was lost how think ye if a man have an hundred sheep and one of them be gon astray doth he not leave the 99 and go c. and seek that which was lost c Even so it is not the will of your father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish Mat. 18. 11 12 13 14. There shall arise false Christs c. insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect Mat. 24. 24. Satan hath desired to winnow you c. But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not Luk. 22. 31 32. All which the father hath given unto me shall come to me and he who cometh I will in no wise cast out c. This is the fathers will c. that of all he hath given me I should lose nothing but raise it up at the last day Joh. 6. 37 38 39. My sheep c. they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand c. No man is able to pluck them out of my fathers hand I and my father are one Joh. 10. 27 28 29 30. Holy father keep them through thy name c. While I was with them in the world I kept them in thy name those whom thou gavest me I have kept none of them is lost but the son of perdition that the scripture c. Joh. 17. 11 12. O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of death I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7. 24 25. Whom he did predestinate them he called c. them he justified c. he glorified c. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ c I am perswaded that neither death c. nor any other creature shall be able to separate us Rom. 8. 29 30 31 35 37 38 39. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance Rom. 11. 29. Who art thou who judgeth another mans servant to his own master he standeth or falleth yea he shall be holden up for God is able to make him stand Rom. 14. 4. The God of peace shall bruise or tread Satan under your feet shortly c. Rom. 16. 20. Jesus Christ c. Who shall also confirm you to the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ God is faithful by whom ye c. 1 Cor. 1. 7 8 9. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able but will with the tentation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it 1 Cor. 10. 13. Now he who establisheth us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God 2 Cor. 1. 21. Being confident of this very thing that he who hath begun a good work in you will perform it or finish it until the day of Jesus Christ Phil. 1. 6. And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and your whole soul body and spirit be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ faithful is he who calleth you who also will do it 1 Thess. 5. 23 24. But the Lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you from evil or the evil one 2 Thess. 3. 3. Who concerning the truth have erred c. Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal the Lord knoweth them who are his 2 Tim. 2. 18 19. The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom 2 Tim. 4. 18. To an inheritance c. reserved in heaven for us who are kept by the power of God through saith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1. 4 5. 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 c. the anointing which ye have received c. Ye shall abide in him 1 Joh. 2. 18 19 26 27. He that is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot c. 1 Joh. 3. 9. Ye are of God c. and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 Joh. 4. 3 4. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world 1 Joh. 5. 4 18. The truth which dwelleth in us and shall be in us for ever 2 Joh. v. 2. Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to preserve you faultless before the presence of his glory c. to the only wise God c. Jude v. 24 25. Those whose names were not written in the book of life they worshipped and wondered at the beast Rev. 13. 8. ch 17. 8. See more of Gods upholding his in time of trouble and persecution Chap. 22. To take heed to observe and watch diligently over our selves with a holy jealousie and fear lest we should apostatize and depart from God his truth and wayes into any error or sin The reasoâ—…s our danger Take heed to thy self lest thou make a Covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee but ye shall destroy their altarâ—… c. lest c. they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice c. Exod. 34. 12 13 15 16. What nation so great who hath God so nigh unto them c Only take heed to thy self and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from thine heart all the days of thy life c. Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves c. lest ye corrupt your selves and make you a graven image c. Deut. 4. 7 8 9 15. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land c. when thou shalt have eaten and be full beware lest thou forget the Lord c. Deut. 6. 10 11 12. ch 8. 10 11 12 13 14. I will give rain c. that thou maist eat and be full take heed to your selves that your hearts be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods Deut. 11. 14 15 16. If thy brother c. intice thee secretly saying Come let us go and serve other gods c. thou shalt not consent to him nor hearken unto him c. Deut. 13. 6 7 8 9. There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan or the adversary among or in the midst of them Job 1. 6 7. chap. 2. 1 2. I said I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue c. Psal. 39. 1. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his
another c. Be pitiful c. 1 Pet. 3. 8. Whoso hath this worlds goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him 1 John 3. 17. He shall have judgment without mercy who hath shewed no mercy and mercy rejoyceth against judgment James 2. 13. See this duty in time of affliction or persecution Chap. 22. 3dly To honour and respect each other and be kind and affectionate Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle c he in whose eyes a vile person is contemned But he honoureth them who fear the Lord Psal. 15. 1 4. My goodness extendeth not unto thee but to the Saints who are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight Psal. 16. 2 3. When Christ had washed his Disciples feet he said If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet ye also ought to wash one anothers feet Joh. 13. 12 13 14 15. Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another Rom. 12. 10. Eph. 4. 32. 2 Pet. 1. 7. Charity suffereth long and is kind 1 Cor. 13. 4. As we have opportunity let us do good unto all men especially to them who are of the houshold of faith Gal. 6. 10. Submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God Eph. 5. 21. Salute every Saint in Christ Jesus c. all the Saints salute you Phil. 4. 21 22. Have not the faith of our Lord Jesus c. with respect of persons For c. James 2. 1. Use hospitality one to another without grudgings 1 Pet. 4. 9. We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren 1 John 3. 16. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves Phil. 2. 3. 4dly Not rashly easily and unadvisedly take up a prejudice against any believe reports take offence or be angry but tenderly to forgive cover faults restore such as have offended in meekness love and privacy Noah was uncovered Ham saw his fathers nakedness and told his two brethren without and Shem and Japhet took a garment and laid it upon their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father c. and they saw not their fathers nakedness c. Gen. 9. 21 22 23 24 25. When Joseph had told his dream his brethren envied him but his father observed the saying Gen. 37. 8 9 10 11. Thou shalt not raise or receive a false report Exod. 23. 1. When the children of Reuben the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh had built an Altar to a good end the rest of their brethren heard of it and presently concludes it to be a turning away from the Lord and they resolve rashly to go to war against them Joshua 22. 10 11 12 16 17 18 c. When Absolom designed his rebellion there went two hundred men out of Jerusalem with him and they went in their simplicity and they knew not any thing 2 Sam. 15. 10 11. Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle c he who backbiteth not c. nor taketh up or receiveth or endureth a reproach against his neighbour Psal. 15. 1 3. The Lord is merciful c. slow to anger Psal. 103. 8. Hatred stirreth up strife but love covereth all sins c. He who uttereth a slander is a fool Prov. 10. 12 18. The simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his goings c. He who is soon angry dealeth foolishly Prov. 14. 15 17. He who covereth a transgression seeketh love or procureth love Prov. 17. 9. The discretion of a man deferreth his anger and it is his glory to pass over a transgression Prov. 19. 11. All who watch for iniquity are cut off Who make a man an offender for a word Isa. 29. 21 22. Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment Mat. 5. 22. If ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you But if ye forgive not men their trespasses c. Mat. 6. 14 15. Judg not that ye be not judged c. Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye but considerest not the beam which is in thine own eye or how wâ—…t thou say to thy brother let me pull out c Mat. 7. 1 3 4. If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between him and thee alâ—…ne if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy brother c. Peter said Lâ—…rd hâ—…w ost shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him till sâ—…ven times Jesus said unto him I say not unto thee until seven times but â—…ntil seventy times-seven c. I forgave thee all that debt c. Shouldest thou not also have had compassion on thy fâ—…llow-servant even as I had pity on thee c. and his Lord was wrath c. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trâ—…spasses Mat. 18. 15 21 22 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35. If thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him If he trespass against thee seven times a day c. thou shalt forgive him Luke 17. 3 4. Judg not according to the appearance but judg righteous judgment Joh. 7. 24. The believers of the circumcision rashly judged of Peter and contended with him for eating with the Gentiles But when Peter gave them an account of the cause they held their peace c. Acts 11. 1 2 3 4 18. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour Rom. 13. 10. But with me it is a very small thing that I should he judged of you or of mans judgment or day c. Judg nothing before the time until the Lord come who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness c. 1 Cor. 4. 3 4 5. Charity suffereth long c. seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evil c. beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things 1 Cor. 13. 4 5 7. In malice be ye children 1 Cor. 14. 20. The fruit of the spirit is c. long-suffering gentleness c. meekness Gal. 5. 22 23. Brethren if or although a man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ Gal. 6. 1 2. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long-fuffering forbearing one another in love c. Be tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you Eph. 4. 1 2 32. But now you also put off all these anger wrath malice c. Put on therefore as the elect of
word of God be not blasphemed Tit. 2. 3 4 5. Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers c. Heb. 13. 4. Wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word c. Holy women c. being in subjection to their own husbands even as Sarah obeyed Abram calling him lord c. Likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to knowledg giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindred 1 Pet. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. 2dly Parents to their Children and Children to their Parents Noah being uncovered within his tent Ham saw it and told his brethren without who took a garment and laid it on their shoulders and went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father who afterwards blessed them and cursed their brother who told them Gen. 9. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. Abram shall surely become a great and mighty nation c. For I know him that he will command his children and his houshold after him that they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment Gen. 18. 19. Thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites amongst whom I dwell but thou shalt go unto my country and my kinred and take a wife to my son Isaac c. Gen. 24. 3 Isaac when he was old called his son Esau that he might bless him before he died Gen. 27. 1 2 3 4 5. When Esau saw the women and the children with Jacob he asked him Whose are these with thee and he said The children which God hath graciously given thy servant Gen. 33. 4 5. Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age c. therefore his brethren hated him and could not speak peaceably to him c. When Jacob supposed him to be dead he rent his cloaths and put sackcloth upon him c. refused to be comforted and he said For I will go down into the grave with my son mourning thus his father wept for him Gen. 37. 3 33 34 35. When Jacob was told that Joseph is yet alive his heart fainted for he believed them not c. after he revived and said I will go see him before I die Gen. 45. 26 27 28. Joseph met his father and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while and Israel said unto Joseph Now let me die since I have seen thy face Gen. 46. 29 30. When Joseph brought his sons unto his father Israel Joseph bowed himself to the earth Gen. 48. 9 10 11 12. The sons of Israel did unto him according as he commanded them for c. Gen. 50. 12 13. That thou mayst tell in the ears of thy son and of thy sons son what things I have wrought in Egypt and my signs c. that ye may know that I am the Lord Exod. 10. 1 2. When thy son shall ask What means the offering of the first born c thou shalt say unto him By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt c. and slew all the first-born Exod. 13. 12 13 14 15. chap. 12. 25. 26 27. Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and did obeisance and kissed-him and they asked each other of their welfare Exod. 18. 5 6 7. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land c. Exod. 20. 12. He who smiteth his father or mother shall be surely put to death c. He who curseth or revileth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death Exod. 21. 15 17. Levit. 20. 9. I will make them to hear my word c. and that they may teach their children c. Deut. 4. 10. These words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart and thou shalt teach them diligently or whet or sharpen unto thy children and shall talk of them c. Deut. 6. 6 7. chap. 11. 18 19. If any man have a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastned him will not hearken unto them then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him c. and all the men of his City shall stone him c. Deut. 21. 18 19 20 21. Gather c. men women and children c. that they may hear c. that they may learn and fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11. 12 13. Set your hearts unto all the words c. which ye shall command your children to observe to do all the words of this law Deut. 32. 46. When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come saying What mean these stones then ye shall let your children know saying Israel came over Jordan on dry land for the Lord your God dryed up c. Josh. 4. 20 21 22 23. Ruths great love to her mother-in-law recorded Ruth 1. 15 16 17. Eli was old and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel and how they lay with the women c. and he said unto them Why do you such things for I hear of your evil dealings c. nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear c. If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 24 25. I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken c. for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not or frowned not upon them 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. Bathsheba king Solomons mother came to him he rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her c. caused a seat to be set for her on his right-hand 1 Kings 2. 19. Job offered burnt offerings for his sons continually for Job said It may be that my sons have sinned c. Job 1. 4 5. I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us we will not hide them from their children shewing the generations to come the praises of the Lord c. that the generation to come might know the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God c. Psal. 7. 8 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Lo children are an heritage of the Lord the fruit of the womb a reward happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them Psal. 127. 3 4 5. Psal. 128. 3. My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother Prov. 1. 8. A wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother Prov. 10. 1. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens children c.
thou shalt surely help with him or wouldst cease to leave thy business for him thou shalt surely leave it to join with him Exod. 23. 4 5. Deut. 22. 4. David rewarded Saul good for evil which Saul acknowledgeth 1 Sam. 24. 17 18 19. With the merciful thou wilt shew thy self merciful Psal. 18. 25. The righteous is ever merciful Psal. 37. 25 26. The merciful man doth good unto his own soul but he who is cruel c. Prov. 11. 17. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel Prov. 12. 10. If thine enemy be hungry give him bread to eat and if he be thirsty give him water to drink for thou shalt heap up coles c. and the Lord shall reward thee Prov. 25. 21 22. Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive and pray unto the Lord for it for in the peace thereof ye shall have peace Jer. 29. 7. Blessed are the merciful c. love your enemies bless them who curse you do good to them who hate you and pray for them who despitefully use you c. that you may be the children of your heavenly father for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good c. for if ye love them who love you what reward have ye do not even the Publicans the same Matt. 5. 7 44 45 46. Luk. 6. 32 33 35 36. Christ had compassions on the multitude and did them good Matt. 9. 36. chap. 14. 14. ch 15. 32. Recompence to no man evil for evil c. avenge not your selves c. if thine enemy hunger feed him c. be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good Rom. 12. 17 19 20 21. As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men Gal. 6. 10. Put on bowels of mercy kindness c. Col. 3. 12. The Lord make you to increase in love c. towards all men 1 Thes. 3. 12. See that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among your selves and unto all men 1 Thes. 5. 15. Exhort c. that supplications and prayers c. be made for all men 1 Tim. 2. 1. Not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing but contrarywise blessing 1 Pet. 3. 9. See this Duty towards Persecutors Chap. 22. See giving to the Poor at large Chap. 17. 7thly To behave themselves humbly and courteously towards all giving them due respect The children of Heth said to Abraham Hear us my Lord thou art a mighty prince amongst us in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead c. And Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land c. Gen. 23. 5 6 7 11 12. Jacob bowed himself seven times to the ground until he came near his brother Esau c. let my Lord I pray thee pass over before his servant c. let me find grace in the sight of my Lord Gen. 33. 3 14 15. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honour the face of the old man and fear thy God I am the Lord Levit. 19. 32. Rom. 13. 7. If thou meet any man salute him not and if any salute thee answer him not again 2 Kings 4. 29. God threatned it as an evil that the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and the base against the honourable Isa. 3. 5. If ye salute your brethren only what do you more than others do not even the Publicans the same Be ye therefore perfect as your father which is in heaven is perfect Matt. 5. 47 48. When ye come into an house salute it Matt. 10. 12. When thou art bidden c. sit not down in the highest room leâ—…t a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him and he who bade thee and him come and say to thee Give this man place and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room c. sit in the lowest room c. then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them who sate at meat with thee Luk. 14. 8 9 10. I am not mad most noble Festus said Paul but speak forth the word c. Act. 26. 24 25. Honour or esteem all men 1 Pet. 2. 17. Finally c. be courteous 1 Pet. 3. 8. The Elder unto the elect Lady c. and now I beseech thee Lady 2 Joh. v. 1 5. 8thly To avoid all unnecessary Society and fellowship with wicked men They shall not dwell in the land lest they make thee sin against me Exod. 23. 31. 33. When Jehoshaphat had helped the wicked king of Israel Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to king Jehoshaphat shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them who hate the Lord therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord 2 Chron. 19. 1 2. Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of scorners Psal. 1. 1. Who shall abide in thy tabernacle c he in whose eyes a vile person is contemned Psal. 15. 1 4. I have not sate with vain persons neither will I go in with dissemblers I have hated the congregation of evil doers I will not set with the wicked Psal. 26. 4 5. I will not know a wicked person c. he who worketh deceit shall not dwell in my house he who telleth lyes shall not tarry in my sight Psal. 101. 4 6 7. Do not I hate them who hate thee O Lord am not I grieved with those who rise up against thee I hate them with a perfect hatred Psal. 139. 21 22. My son if sinners intice thee consent not c. walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their path Prov. 1. 10 15. He who walketh with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed Prov. 13. 20. Go from the presence of a foolish man when thou perceivest not the lips of knowledg Prov. 14. 7. Make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man thou shalt not go lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy â—…oul Prov. 22. 24 25. Be not thou envious against evil men neither desire to be with them Prov. 24. 1. I wrote to you in an Epistle not to keep company with fornicators yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world c. for then must ye needs go out of this world 1 Cor. 5. 9 10. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers c. What communion hath light with darkness and what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he who believeth with an infidel 2 Cor. 6. 14 15. Believers Duties in times of afflictions and persecutions towards God towards such as are afflicted and persecuted and towards Persecutors See Affliction and Persecution at large Chap. 22. Believers
Have we not power to eat and to drink c Who goeth to warfare at any time upon his own charge c so the Lord hath ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel c. but I have used none of these things c. wo is unto me if I preach not the Gospel c. though I be free from all men yet have I made my self servant unto all that I might gain the more and unto the Jews I became as a Jew c. I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some 1 Cor. 9. 4 7 14 19 20 21 22 23. I speak as to wise-men judg ye what I say the cup of blessing c. Even as I please all men in all things not seeking mine own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved 1 Cor. 10. 15 33. In the Church I had rather speak five words with my understanding that I might teach others also than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue 1 Cor. 14. 18 19. By the grace of God I am that I am c. I laboured c. yet not I but the grace of God which was with me 1 Cor. 15. 10. You also helping together by prayer for us c. not for that we have dominion over your faith but are helpers of your joy 2 Cor. 1. 11 24. If I make you sorry who is he then who maketh me glad but the same who is made sorry by me c out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears not that ye should be grieved but that c. we are not as many who corrupt the word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ 2 Cor. 2. 2 4 17. chap. 4. 1 2. Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God who also hath made us able ministers c. 2 Cor. 3. 5 6. Commending our selves to every mans conscience in the sight of God c. we preach not our selves but Christ Jesus the Lord and our selves your servants for Jesus sake c. We have the same spirit of faith c. we believe and therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 2 5 13. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. the love of Christ constrains us c. God hath given unto us the ministry of reconciliation c. We are embassadors for Christ as though God c. 2 Cor. 5. 11 14 18 19 20. Giving no offence in any thing that the ministry be not blamed but in all things approving our selves as the ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses c. by pureness by knowledg c. 2 Cor. 6. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. 10. We have wronged no man we have corrupted no man we have defrauded no man c. though I made you sorry I do not repent c. I do rejoyce not that you were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance c. that ye might receive damage by us in nothing 2 Cor. 7. 2 8 9 10. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God c. 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. Paul being forced to it for the Gospels sake justifies and commends himself 2 Cor. 11. ch 12. I will not be burdensome to you I seek not yours but you for the children c. and I will very gladly spend and be spent for you though c. we do all things for your edisying dearly beloved for I fear c. lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many who have sinned and have not repented 2 Cor. 12. 14 15 17 19 20 21. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth c. I should use sharpness according to the power which the Lord hath given me to your edification c. 2 Cor. 13. 8 9 10. Do seek to please men for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ Gal. 1. 10. Paul blamed Peter for dissembling openly Gal. 2. 11 12 13 14. Paul had a holy jealousie of the Galatians and after he had written largely to them about their turning back to the law he saith Ye observe days and months and years I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed labour in vain Gal. 3. ch 4. 10 11. When he ascended up on high c. he gave gifts unto men c. and he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastours and Teachers for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry c. Ephes. 4. 8 11 12 13. Praying c. for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly Ephes. 6. 18 19. 2 Thes. 3. 1 2. Col. 4. 3 4. God is my record how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus c. some preach Christ out of envy c. what then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and I therein rejoyce yea and will rejoyce Phil. 1. 8 15 16 17 18. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith I joy c. I have no man like-minded all seek their own things not the things which are Jesus Christs Phil. 2. 17 19 20 21. Not that I desire a gift but I desire fruit that may abound to your account Phil. 4. 16 17. Christ whom we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we might present every man perfect in Christ Jesus whereunto I also labour striving according to his working who c. Col. 1. 27 28 29. I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you and for they at Laodicea c. that their hearts might be comforted Col. 2. 1. Our exhortation was not of deceit c. but as we were allowed of God c. even so we spake not as pleasing men but God who tryeth our hearts for neither at any time used we flattering words as ye know nor a cloke of covetousness God is witness nor of men sought we glory c. but we were gentle among you even as a Nurse cherisheth her children so being affectionately desirous of you we were willing to have imparted unto you c. labouring night and day because we would not be chargeable to any of you we preached unto you ye are witnesses and God how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved our selves c. what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoycing are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming 1 Thes. 2. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 19. I could no longer forbear I sent to know your faith lest by some means the tempter c. for now we live if ye stand
love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Jer. 5. 30 31. From the Prophet unto the Priest every one dealeth falsly they have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace c. when c. Jer. 6. 13 14. chap. 8. 10 11. The Pastors are become brutish and have not sought the Lord therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered Jer. 10. 21. Many Pastors have destroyed my vinyard they have trodden my portion c. Jer. 12. 10 11. Wo unto the Pastors who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture saith the Lord therefore thus saith the Lord c. against the Pastors who feed my people Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not visited them Behold I will visit upon you the evil of your doings Jer. 23. 1 2. Her Priests have violated my law and have profaned mine holy things they have put no difference between the holy and profane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean Ezek. 22. 26. Wo to the shepherds of Israel who do feed themselves should not the shepherds feed the flock ye eat the fat and ye clothe your selves with the wool c. ye feed not the flock the diseased have ye not strengthned neither have ye healed that which was sick c. but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled Ezek. 34. 2 3 4 10. The Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof divine for money yet will they lean upon the Lord c. therefore shall Zion c. be plowed Micah 3. 11. Her Priests have done violence to the law polluted the Sanctuary Zephan 3. 4. Wo to the Idol-shepherd who leaveth the flock the sword shall be upon his c. Zechar. 11. 17. O Priests who despise my name c. ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar c. if ye offer the blind and the lame ye say It is not evil c. Malachi 1. 6 7 8. The Priests lips should keep knowledg c. but ye are departed out of the way ye have caused many to stumble at the law ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi c. therefore have I also made you contemptible c. before the people Malachi 2. 7 8 9. He who is an hireling c. seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and fleeth and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth the sheep c. John 10. 12 13. 3dly The Churches duty towards their Officers and such other who labour among them Provide neither gold nor silver c. for the workman is worthy of his meat Matth. 10. 9 10. They all weptfore c. sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more Acts 20. 37 38. If the Gentiles are made partakers of their spiritual things their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things Rom. 15. 27. Have we not power to eat and drink c. to sorbear working c who goeth to warfare at any time at his own charges c Say I these things as a man or saith not the law the same also Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox which treadeth out the corn c. Doth God take care for oxen or saith he it not altogether for our sakes for our sakes no doubt c. If we have sown unto you in spiritual things is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things c Nevertheless we have not used this power c. lest we should hinder the Gospel Do ye not know that they who minister about holy things live or feed of the things of the temple c even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Know the house of Stephanus c. that you submit your selves unto such and to every one who helpeth with us and laboureth 1 Cor 16. 15 16. Ye received me as an Angel c. am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4. 14 15 16. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him who teacheth in all good things Gal. 6. 6. Praying always c. and for me that utterance may be given unto me c. Ephes. 6. 18 19. 1 Thess. 5. 26. I suppose it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour c. but your messenger c. receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and hold such in reputation or honour such because for the work of Christ c. Phil. 2. 25 28 29 30. Ye sent once and again unto my necessity not because I desire a gift but I desire fruit that may abound to your account c. I received the things sent from you an odour of a sweet-smelling sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God Phil. 4. 15 16 17 18. We beseech you brethren to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and esteem them very highly in love for their work-sake 1 Thess. 5. 12 13. Let the Elders who rule well be counted worthy of double-honour especially they who labour in the word and doctrine for the Scripture saith Thou shalt not muzzle the oxe c. the labourer is worthy of his hire against an Elder receive not an accusation but before two or three witnesses 1 Tim. 5. 17 18 19. Obey them who have the rule over you or guide you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls c. pray for such c. salute all them who have the rule over you Heb. 13. 7 17 18 24. Is any sick among you let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over them James 5. 14 15. Likewise ye younger submit your selves to the elder 1 Pet. 5. 5. Of the Election and ordination of Officers in Churches And the Lord spake to Moses saying Take Aaron and his sons with him c. and gather thou all the congregation together c. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him c. and said unto the congregation This is the thing which the Lord commanded to be done And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them c. Levit. 8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together and thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord and the children of Israel shall put their hands c. Numb 8. 9 11. Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said the number about 120 c. Wherefore of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us c. must one be ordained to be a witness with us c.
the devil about the body of Moses durst not bring against him a railing accusation but said The Lord rebuke thee Jude verse 9. The devil shall cast some of you into prison c. Thou dwellest where Satans seat is Rev. 2. 10 13. Them of the Synagogue of Satan c. Rev. 3. 9. There was war in heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon c. and the great Dragon was cast out that old serpent called the Devil and Satan who deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his Angels c. with him c. The accuser of the brethren is cast down who accused them before our God day and night c. Wo unto the inhabiters of the earth c. for the devil is come down unto you having c. Rev. 12. 7 8 9 10 11 12. Satan laid hold on bound cast into the pit and sealed up from deceiving c. let loose again Rev. 20. 2dly The instruments of Satan Seducers Deceivers c. Saints Duty The Prophets prophesie lyes in my name I sent them not neither have I commanded them neither spake unto them they prophesie unto you a false vision and divination and a thing of nought and the deceit of their heart Jer. 14. 14 15. Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening wolves ye shall know them by their fruits c. Matth. 7. 15 16. Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name and say I am Christ and shall deceive many c. many false prophets shall arise and deceive many c. Then if any shall say unto you Lo here is Christ or there is Christ believe it not for there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect Behold I have told you before wherefore if they shall say unto you behold He is in the desert c. go not forth c. for as the lightning cometh out of the east c. so shall also the coming of the Son of man c. Matth. 24. 4 5 11 23 24 25 26 27. Ye receive me not if another shall come in his own name him ye will receive John 5. 43. Elymas c. seeking to turn away the Deputy from the faith c. Paul c. said O full of subtilty and all mischief thou child of the Devil thou enemy of all righteousness wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord c Acts 13. 7 8 9 10 11. After my departure shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse ' things to draw away disciples after them therefore watch Acts 20. 28 29 30 31. Mark them who cause divisions c. contrary to the doctrine c. and avoid them for they who 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 Rom. 16. 17 18. There must be also heresies among you that they who are approved might be made c. 1 Cor. 11. 19. How say some among you That there is no resurrection from the dead 1 Cor. 15. 12. Them who desire occasion c. for such are false Apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ c. Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed into the ministers of righteousness whose ends shall be according to their works c. Ye suffer fools gladly c. Ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man devour if a man take if a man exalt himself c. smite you on the face 2 Cor. 11. 12 13 14 15 19 20. There be some who trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Christ though we or an Angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that we have preached unto you let him be accursed as we have before so say I now again If any man preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received let him be accursed Gal. 1. 7 8 9. False brethren who came in privily to spy out our liberty c. that they might bring us into bondage to whom we gave place by subjection no not for an hour that the truth of the Gospel may continue with you but of these who seem to be c. Gal. 2. 3 4 5 6. They zealously affect you but not well yea they would exclude you that you might affect them Gal. 4. 17. As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ for neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh Gal. 6. 12 13. Be no more children tossed c. with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive Ephes. 4. 14. This I say lest any should beguile you with inticing words c. Beware lest any one spoil you through philosophy and vain deceits after the traditions of men after the rudiments of this world and not after Christ c. Let no man judg you in meat c or for eating c. intruding into those things which he hath not seen c. and not holding the head c. Why are ye subject to ordinances c touch not c. Col. 2. 4 8 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23. Let no man deceive you by any means c. that man of sin c. 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 c. then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them who perish because they received not the love of the truth c. for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lye that they all might be damned c. 2 Thess. 2. 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 12. Charge some that they teach no other doctrine neither give heed to Jewish fables c. some have swerved having turned aside to vain janglings desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm 1 Tim. 1. 3 4 6 7 8. Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter days some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils speaking lyes in hypocrisie having their
10. Return unto me and I will return unto you saith the Lord of hosts Mal. 3. 7. John Baptist preached c. saying Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is c. Matt. 3. 1 2 6. From that time Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the kingdom c. Matt. 4. 17. I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Matt. 9. 13. Mark 1. 15. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done because they repented not c. if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Tyre c. they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes Matt. 11. 20 21 22. The men of Niniveh c. because they repented at the preaching of Jonas Matt. 12. 41. Son go work c. but he said I will not but afterwards he repented and went c. ye when ye had seen repented not afterward that ye might believe him Matt. 21. 28 29 32. Judas repented himself and brought again the thirty pieces c. I have sinned Matt. 27. 3 4. Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luk. 13. 2 3 5. Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner who repenteth more than over ninety nine just persons who need no repentance c. there is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one sinner who repenteth c. the prodigal returned Luk. 15. 7 10 17 18 19 20 21. If one went from the dead to them they would repent c. If they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead Luk. 16. 30 31. If he trespass against thee seven times c. and he turn again to thee saying I repent Luk. 17. 3 4. It behoveth Christ to suffer c. that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations Luk. 24. 46 47. When they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and said c. men and brethren what shall we do Peter said unto them Repent and be baptized Act. 2. 37 38. Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out Act. 3. 19. Him hath God exalted c. for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness Act. 5. 31. Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life c. a great number believed and were turned unto the Lord Act. 11. 18 21. And the times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men every where to repent Act. 17. 30. I kept back nothing c. testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Act. 20. 20. 21. But shewed c. that they should repent and turn to God and do works meet for repentance c. Act. 26. 20. Not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance Rom. 2. 4. Though I made you sorry c. I do not repent c. ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner c. for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of 2 Cor. 7. 8 9 10. I shall bewail many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness c. which they have committed 2 Cor. 12. 21. How ye turned to God from Idols to serve the living and true God and to wait for his son from heaven c. 1 Thes. 1. 9 10. In meekness instructing them who oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. Let us go on to perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works c. for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened c. if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucify to themselves c. Heb. 6. 1 4 5 6. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you cleanse your hands ye sinners c. James 4. 8. Brethren if any of you do err from the truth and one convert him let him know that he who converteth a sinner from the errour of his way shall save a soul from death c. James 5. 19 20. The Lord is not slack c. but is long-suffering to us-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance 2 Pet. 3. 9. Thou hast left thy first love remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works or else I will come unto thee quickly c. thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam c. Repent or else I will come c. I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not behold I will cast her into a bed c. Rev. 2. 4 5 14 15 16 20 21 22. I have not found thy works perfect before God remember therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast and repent c. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and repent Rev. 3. 2 3 19. And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship Devils and idols of gold c. neither repented they of their murders c. Rev. 9. 20 21. And men were scorched or burned with great heat and blasphemed the name of God c. and they repented not to give him glory c. and repented not of their deeds Rev. 16. 8 9 10 11. CHAP. XXXIV Of Death the laying down of these Tabernacles AND the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground or dust of the ground Gen. 2. 7. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return Gen. 3. 19. God said unto Abraham Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace thou shalt be buried in a good old age Gen. 15. 15. chap. 25. 8. I have undertaken to speak unto the Lord who am but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 27. Sarah dyed c. and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her Gen. 23. 2. Abraham dyed c. and was gathered to his people c. Ishmael c. gave up the ghost and dyed and was gathered unto his people Gen. 25. 8 17. Isaac c. said Behold now I am old I know not the day of my death Gen. 27. 1 2. Jacob said c. The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years few and evil have the days of the years of my life been Gen. 47. 9. He mourned for Joseph refused to be comforted but said I will go down unto my grave mourning Gen. 37. 34 35. Joseph wept for his father Israel when he dyed
are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance of them who know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thess. 1. 6 7 8 9. We beseech you by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye be not soon shaken in mind c. as that the day of Christ is at hand c. except there come first a falling away and that man of sin be revealed c. 2 Thess. 2. 1 2 3. The Lord Jesus who shall judg the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom c. a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judg shall give me at that day c. unto them also who love his appearance 2 Tim. 4. 1 8. Looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Titus 2. 13. Not laying again the foundation c. of eternal judgment Heb. 6. 1 2. It is appointed for all men once to dye but after this the judgment so Christ c. unto them who look for him shall he appear the second time without sin Heb. 9. 27 28. A certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversary c. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. 27 31. Ye are come unto mount Zion c. and to God the Judg of all c. Heb. 12. 22 23. Be patient therefore brethren to the coming of the Lord c. for the coming of the Lord draweth near c. James 5. 7 8. That the tryal of our faith c. might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ c. the father who without respect of persons judgeth according unto every mans works 1 Pet. 1. 7 17. Who shall give account unto him who is ready to judg the quick and the dead c. the end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer c. The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God c. What shall the end be of them who obey not the Gospel of God and if the righteous scarcely be saved Where shall the ungodly and sinners appear 1 Pet. 4. 5 7 17 18. When the chief shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a crown c. 1 Pet. 5. 4. The Lord knoweth how c. to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished 2 Pet. 2. 9. There shall come in the last days scoffers c. and saying Where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning c. the heavens and the earth which now are by the same word are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men c. One day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day c. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise c. Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be c looking for and hasting unto the day of God 2 Pet. 3. 3 4 7 8 10 11 12. Psal. 102. 25 26. Abide in him that when he appears we may have confidence at his coming 1 John 2. 28. That we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we 1 John 4. 16 17. The Angels who kept not their first state c. hath he reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day c. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints to execute judgment upon all c. Jude ver 6 14 15. Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also who pierced him c. Rev. 1. 7. And the heavens departed as a scroul c. and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief Captains and the mighty men c. hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said unto the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 14 15 16 17. The nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and thou shouldst give unto thy servants a reward c. Rev. 11. 18. I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away c. and I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened c. and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works Rev. 20. 11 12 15. Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his works shall be c. And the Spirit and the Bride say Come c. He who testified these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Even so Come Lord Jesus Rev. 22. 12 17 20. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them who do such things Rom. 2. 2. Be not deceived c. for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he who soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap c. Gal. 6. 7 8. CHAP. XXXVII Of the glory prepared for the Saints and reserved to be given to them at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. IF in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable 1 Cor. 15. 19. After I awake c. yet in my flesh or out of my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another Job 19. 26 27. Death shall feed on them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning Psal. 49. 14. Many of them who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life c. and they who be wise or teachers shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they who turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever Dan. 12. 2 3. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Matth. 5. 8. Lay up for your selves treasure in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal c. Matth. 6. 20. Many shall come c. and shall sit down with Abraham c. in the kingdom of heaven Matth. 8. 11.
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of the father Matth. 13. 43. Jesus was transfigured c. his face did shine as the sun and his raiment white Matth. 17. 2 3. In the resurrection they shall neither marry c. but are as the Angels of God in heaven Matth. 22. 30. Then shall the king say c. inherit the kingdom prepared for you c. The righteous into life eternal Matth. 25. 34 46. Little flock it is your fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 32. And the resurrection c. neither can they dye any more for they are equal unto the Angels and are the children of God Luke 20. 36. Lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh Luke 21. 18. I appoint unto you a kingdom c. that ye may eat and drink at my table and in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel Luke 22. 29 30. To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise Luke 23. 43. I give to them eternal life and they shall never perish John 10. 28. Rom. 2. 7. Whither I go thou canst not follow me now but thou shalt follow me afterwards John 13. 36. I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also John 14. 3 19. I will see you c. and your hearts shall rejoyce and your joy shall no man take from you John 16. 22. The glory which thou gavest me I have given them c. 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 John 17. 22 24. Glory honour and peace to every one who worketh good Rom. 2 7 10. We stand and rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God Rom. 5. 2. The end everlasting life c. the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus c. Rom. 6. 22 23 31. Gal. 6. 8. 2 Tim. 1. 10. Heirs of God joynt heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may-be also glorified together c. The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us for the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God c. We our selves c. waiting for the adoption the redemption of our body Rom. 8. 17 18 19 23. They to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible 1. Cor. 9. 25. We know in part c. but when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away c. Now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known 1 Cor. 13. 10 12. As we have born the image of the earthly we shall also bear the image of the heavenly c. The dead shall be raised incorruptible c. this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality c. 1 Cor. 15. 19 49 52 53 54 55. 2 Cor. 5. 4. Our light affliction c. worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory c. the things which are not seen are eternal 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. We have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens 2 Cor. 5. 1. Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body Phil. 3. 20 21. For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven Col. 1. 5. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Col. 3. 4. Then we c. 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 wherefore comfort one c. 1 Thess. 4. 17 18. You who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed c. when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and admired in all them who believe 2 Thess. 1. 7 10 That they may obtain the salvation which is in Jesus Christ with eternal glory 2 Tim. 2. 10. There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord c. shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4. 8. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God Heb. 4. 9. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward Heb. 10. 34 35. Prov. 8. 21. Abram looked for a City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God c. they desire a better country that is an heavenly wherefore God c. for he hath prepared for them a City c. others are tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11. 10 16 35. chap. 13. 14. Ye are come to mount Sion unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general assembly c. unto God the Judg of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the mediatour c. Heb. 12. 22 23 24. Blessed be God c. who hath begotten us again unto a lively hope c. to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and which fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you c. The sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow c. Hope to the end for the grace which is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 3 4 9 11 13. chap. 5. 10. Ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing 1 Pet. 3. 9. When the chief shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a crown of glory which fadeth not away c. The God of all grace who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Jesus Christ c. 1 Pet. 5. 1 4 10. We c. look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. He who doth the will of God abideth for ever 1 John 2. 17. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2. They shall walk with me in white c. clothed in white c. will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out c. Will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set down c. Rev. 3. 4 5 11 12 21. chap. 2. 26 27 28. I beheld and lo a great multitude c. stood before the Throne c. clothed with white robes and palms in their hands c. These
will give you Pastors according to mine heart who shall feed you with knowledg and understanding Jer. 3. 15. chap. 23. 4. Thou shalt speak my word unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. I have made thee a watchman c. give them warning from me when I say c. and thou givest him not warning c. his blood will I require at thine hand yet if thou warn c. Ezek. 3. 17 18 19. They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane and cause men to discern between the unclean and the clean c. and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies c. Ezek. 44. 23 24. Jer. 15. 19. Their widows were neglected in the daily ministration Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables c. look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom c. we will give our selves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word Acts 6. 1 2 3 4. Paul sent to Ephesus and called the Elders of the Church c. he said unto them c. Take heed therefore to your selves and to all the flock over the which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God c. I know this that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter c. therefore watch c. and I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 17 18 28 29 30 31 35. Let us wait on our ministring or he who teacheth on teaching or he who exhorteth on exhortation c. he who ruleth with diligence c. Rom. 12. 7 8. It is required in stewards that a man be found faithful 1 Cor. 4. 2. God hath set some in the Church first Apostles secondarily Prophets thirdly Teachers c. helps governments 1 Cor. 12. 28. He gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come into the unity of the faith c. Ephes. 4. 11 12 13 14. To all the Saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi with the Bishops and Deacons Phil. 1. 1. Say to Archippus Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord that thou fulfil it Col. 4. 17. If a man desire the office of a Bishop he desireth a good work a Bishop then must be blameless the husband of one wife vigilant sober of good behaviour or modest given to hospitality apt to teach not given to wine no striker nor greedy of filthy lucre but patient not a brawler not covetous one who ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity for if a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the Church of God not a novice or one newly come to the faith lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil Likewise must the Deacons be grave not double-tongued not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience let these also first be proved then let them use the office c. husband of one wife ruling their children well and their own house 1 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. If thou put the brethren in mind of these things thou shalt be a good minister c. but refuse profane and old c. Be thou an example to believers in word in conversation in charity c. give attendance unto reading to exhortation to doctrine c. meditate on these things give thy self wholly unto them c. take heed to thy self and thy doctrine 1 Tim. 4. 6 7 11 12 13 15 16. Let the Elders who rule well c. especially they who labour in the word and doctrine 1 Tim. 5. 17. O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding profane and vain babling 1 Tim. 6. 20. The things thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also c. shun profane and vain bablings c. The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men apt to teach patient or forbearing in meekness instructing them who oppose themselves if God peradventure c. 2 Tim. 2. 2 16 23 24 25. Ordain Elders in every City c. If any be blameless c. not accused of riot or unruly for a Bishop must be blameless as the steward of God not self-willâ—…d not soon angry not given to wine no striker not given to filthy lucre but a lover of hospitality a lover of good men sober just holy temperate holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by found doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gain-sayers Titus 1. 5 6 7 8 9. Shewing thy self a pattern c. in doctrine uncorruptness gravity sincerity c. these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority Titus 2. 7 15. Them who have the rule c. watch for your souls as they who must give account Heb. 13. 17. Is any sick c. call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over them c. James 5. 14. The Elders who are among you I exhort c. feed the flock of God which is among you or as much as in you is taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind neither as being lords or over-ruling over Gods heritage but being examples of the flock 1 Pet. 5. 4 2 3 4. Diotrephes who loveth to have the preheminence received us not c. 3 John ver 9 10. See more in Gospel-Preachers in general Chap. 16. Complaints of and threatnings against evil Officers or Ministers of the Church His watchmen are blind they are all ignorant they are all dumb dogs they cannot bark sleeping lyâ—…ng down loving to slumber yea they are greedy dogs who can never have enough and they are shepherds who cannot understand they all look to their own way every one for his gain from his quarter come ye say they I will fetch wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as to day Isa. 56. 10 11 12. The Priests said not Where is the Lord and they who handled the law knew me not the Pastors also transgressed against me c. Wherefore I will yet plead c. Jer. 2. 8 9. The Prophets prophesie falsly and the Priests bear rule by their means and my people