any of you should seem to come short of it c. Lest any man fall c. Heb. 4. 1 11. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear c. 1 Pet. 1. 17. 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 Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5 8 9. Seeing ye know before beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness 2 Pet. 3. 17. 1 Thes 3 5. James 5. 19. Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have gained 2 John ver 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 1. 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 Psalm 16. 2 3. I am a companion of all them who fear thee c. Psalm 119. 63. Love covers all sins Prov. 10. 12. 1 Pet. 4. 8. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a sâ—alled ox where hatred is Prov. 15. 17. Open rebuke is better than secret love Prov. 27. 5. 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 Matth. 22. 39 40. The love of many shall wax cold Matth. 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 John 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. Malachi 2. 10. 1 Cor. 10. 17. 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 selâ— Love worketh no ill to his neighbour Rom. 13. 8 9 1. Gal. 5. 13 14. Love edifieth 1 Cor. 8. 1. 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 proficeth 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 fruit 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 knowledge 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 3 4. 1 Cor. 8. 1. Gal. 5. 13. 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. 1 Tim 6. 11. I thank my God c. hearing of thy love c. toward all saints Philem. ver 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. Gal. 5. 13 14 15. 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. 1 P. t. 2. 1. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently 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 servent charity among your selves for charity will cover a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. Add c. 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 brother for this is 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 This is his commandment c. that we love one another 1 John 3. 10 11 12 14 16 18 19 23. 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
rely on it or boast c. 6 p. ibld.  c. 64 p. 306 Laying on of Hands c. 27 p. 232 Lean on God See Trust   Letters written to and read in Churches c. 27 p. 227 Letters Commendatory c. 27 p. 225 Life Eternal c. 10 p. 51 c. 37 p. 262 Lips c. 16 p. 119 Living God c. 2 p. 15 Live to God c. 16 p. 79 Long for God's Presence c. 16 p. 83 Look to God in Hope always c. 16 p. 110 Look to God if there be but a Peradventure c. 49 p. 289 Look to God in Trouble as to him from whom it comes c. 22 p. 177 Look to God in Trouble as to him in whom only is Help Chap. 22 Page 203 Lord's Day c. 58 p. 299 Lord's Supper c. 27 p. 235 Love of God in giving Christ c. 7 p. 27 Love of Christ in giving himself to Death c. 8. p. 37 Love Mutual between Christ and his Church c. 15 p. 77 Love of God manifested in the Afflictions of his Saints c. 22 p. 186 Love God and the Father and the Lord Jesus c. 16 p. 82 Love the Saints c. 17 p. 145 Love Able Men c. 19 p. 162 Love in its Effects and Fruits   1. To God c. 16 p. 83 2. To Saints c. 17 p. 146 Lowliness of Christ c. 7 p. 34 Lowliness of Men c. 16 p. 113 M. MAgistrates Magistracy God's Ordinance Chap. 24 Page 211 Magistrates but Men in God's Sight c. 24 p. 212 Magistrates Duties c. ibid. p. ibid. Majesty of God c. 2 p. 5 Man Christ c. 8 p. 35 Man's Fall c. 5 p. 18 Man's Wickedness since c. ibid. p. ibid. Man's Ignorance c. ibid. p. 21 Man's Impotency in Spirituals c. 20 p. 164 Man's Bondage to Satan c. 5 p. 23 Man 's sad State hence c. ibid. p. ibid. Man's Salvation How c. 7 p. 27 Marriages See Husbands   Mary the Mother of our Lord had more Children c. 69 p. 109 Masters c. 18 p. 158 Maintenance of Ministers c. 27 p. 231 Mediator Christ c. 8 p. 35 Mediation See Intercession   Meditation c. 31 p. 249 Meekness of Christ c. 7 p. 34 Meekness in Man c. 16 p. 117 Meekness towards Saints c. 17 p. 147 Meekness towards all c. 19 p. 161 Mercy of God c. 2 p. 13 Mercy on Men to all c. 19 p. 162 Mind of Man in general c. 32 p. 251 Mind the same things among Saints c. 17 p. 151 Ministers of Christ in general c. 26 p. 219 Ministers of particular Churches their Qualifications c. 27 p. 222 Ministers Sins complained of c. ibid p. 230 Ministers Maintenance c. ibid. p. 231 Ministers of State See Magistrates   Miracles c. 43 p. 283 Moderation in all things c. 16 p. 117 Mâ—rtality See Death   Mourn for Sin c 16 p. 121 Mouth See Words   Murmurings of Israel Chap. 53 Page 292 Murther c. 61 p. 302 N. NAme of God Chap. 2 Page 5 Nature of God c. ibid. p. ibid. Nature of Christ c. 7 p. 34 Nature of the Spirit c. 21 p. 176 Nature of Man since the Fall desperately wicked c. 5 p. 18 Nature of Faith c. 11 p. 54 Nature of Love c. 17 p. 145 Note God's Kindnesses c. 16 p. 97 Notable Things done by Christ and his Apostles c. 43 p. 283 O. OAth for Testimony c. Chap. 25 Page 217 Obedience to God c. 16 p. 85 Obedience to Rulers Wherein c. 24 p. 215 Where not c. ibid. p. ibid. Obedience to Parents c. 18 p. 156 Obedience to Masters c. ibid. p. 158 Objects of Faith c 11 p. 54 Objects of Worship c. 16 p. 88 Objects of Love c. ibid. 82. c. 17. p. 145 Object of Fear c. 16 p. 102 Object of Trust c. ibid. p. 106 Object of Hope c. ibid. p. 110 Object of Delight c. ibid. p. 83 Occasions of Evil flee c. ibid. p. 123 Offences amongst Saints to be avoided c. 17. p. 151 Offences of Scandal to be removed c. 27 p. 236 Officers of Churches c. ibid. p. 229 How qualified c. ibid. p. ibid. How elected c. ibid. p. 231 Their Maintenance c. ibid. p. ibid. Their Errours complained of c. ibid. p. 230 Omniscience and Omnipresence of God c. 2 p. 11 Omnipotency of God c. ibid. p. 10 Only true God c. ibid. p. 15 Opportunity to be made use of c. 47 p. 287 Order in the Churches c. 27 p. 226 Ordinances of Publick Worship c. ibid. p. 232 Ordination of Oficers in the Churches c. ibid. p. 231 Ordinance of Magistracy See Magistrates   Outward Privileges no Security against Judgment c. 64 p. 3â—â— P. PAnt after God Chap. 16 Pagè 83 Parables c. 44 p. 2â—2 Parents c. 18 p. 150 Pardon of Sin c. 10 p. 48 Patience in general c. 16 p. 117 Patience in Saints each to ordâ—r c. 17 p. 1â—7 Patience in Saints to all Men Chap. 19 Page 161 To Enemies Persecutors c. 22 p. 204 Peace with God c. 10 p. 49 With Saints c. 17 p. 148 With all Men c. 19 p. 161 Persection of Saints in Christ c. 8 p. 44 Persecutions See Afflictions   Persecuted for Well-doing c. 22 P. 206 Persecuting Heathens c. ibid. p. 180 Persecuting Jews c. ibid. p. 181 Persecutions over-ruled by God c. ibid. p. 187 Persecuted ones Duties c. ibid. p. 197 Their Comforts c. ibid. p. 186 Persecutors Reward c. ibid. p. 189 Perseverance the Saints Duty c. 16 p. 139 Perseverance the Saints Privilege c. ibid. p. 142 Perseverance by the Grace of God c. 20 p. 170 Pity Saints in their Trouble c. 22 p. 207 Pity all Men c. 19 p. 162 Pleasures See World   Pondering of Good in the Heart c. 31 p. 249 Poor's Relief c. 17 p. 152 Prayers in general c. 16 p. 92 Prayer in Church-Assemblies c. 27 p. 232 In Time of Trouble c. 22 p. 201 In Time of Common Calamiâ—â—s c. 23 p. 210 One for another c. 17 p. 150 For Afflicted ones c. 22 p. 207 For Magistrates c. 24 p. 216 Pray when all Hope seems to be gone c. 49 p. 269 Praises in general c. 16 p. 87 Preachers in general c. 26 p. 219 Preaching in Church-Assemblies c. 27 p. 232 Presence of God Saints Desire c. 16 p. 83 Press after Heaven c. 46 p. 286 Pride See Humility   Priesthood of Christ c. 8 p. 36 Privileges of Saints in general c. 14 p. 71 In Times of Afflictions c. 22 p. 201 In Common Calamities c. 23 p. 209 Profess God and Christ boldly in the general c. 16 p. 133 In Trouble c. 22 p. 200 Professors unsound fierce Persecutors c. ibid. p. 181 Proofs of Faith c. 11 p. 58 Proofs of Saintship in general c. 12 p. 60 Proofs of Love to God c. 16 p. 83 Promises in general See Privileges of Saints   Promises for Grace in general c. 20 p. 164 In particular Of Knowledge c. ibid. p. 166 Of Faith c. ibid. p. 168 Of Fruitfulness c. ibid. p. ibid. Of Strength to persevere c. ibid. p.
Chap. 21 Page 176 In Duties Chap. 16 Chap. 17 Chap. 18 Chap. 19. In each Duty in Affliction Chap. 22 Page 192 In Duties to Magistrates Chap. 24 Page 215 Chap. XIII Saints Believers the Children of God themselves may be overtaken with Faults are not altogether free from Sinful Dispositions and Inclinations in this Life that they may be Corrected of God for them Page 67. 1. In general it is affirmed 67 2. Particular instances of the Saints failings Recorded ibid. 3. That God will Punish and Correct his for Sinning 70 See Gods Threatnings and Judgments against Sin and Sinners Chap. 16 Page 125 Chap. XIV Of the Priviledges of the Saints and their Excellency above others What God hath done doth do and will do for and be unto them more then others and what they can do with God c. Page 71. See more in the next Chap. of Union and Relation to Christ Page 77 See the Advantages of Faith Chap. 11 Page 57 See their Priviledges in Afflictions Chap. 22 Page 186 In times of Common Calamities Chap. 23 Page 209 See the Glory Believers shall have Chap. 37 Page 262 Chap. XV Of the Union and Relations between Christ and his Church and the mutual Love and Esteem of each other and the Manifestation thereof Page 77 Chap. XVI Of the Duties of Believers such as profess to be Saints First Towards God Page 19. 1. In general to live to God only not to self to be Holy Fruitful Walk in the Light in an Honest Heavenly and Spiritual Conversation worthy of our High-Calling To glorifie God and mind things above 79 2. In Particular To Love God and the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ 82 3. As Fruits of Love to God and Christ to delight themselves in God Long for Pant after him make their boast of Glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their Portion All and Rest And to obey and hearken to the Laws and Words of God and Christ 1. To Delight in Long for Pant after make their boast of Glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their Portion 83 2. To obey and hearken to the Laws and Word of God our Lord Jesus 85 See more of Disobedience Page 125 4. Worship God and Sanctifie him therein 88 See more in Chap. 27 Page 232. and of Idol Chap. 40 Page 276 5. To Believe Imbrace and be found in the Practice of nothing in the things of God and about his Worship but that which clearly according to Precepts Rules and Examples of Scripture appears to be Christs mind upon which we may in Faith expect Acceptance 90 6. To Pray to God Of Prayer at large 92 See more in Afflictions Chap. 22 Page 201 Common Calamities Chap. 23 Page 210 7. To take especial Notice of the Acts of Gods Goodness and Mercy keep Memorials thereof Celebrate his Praises Extol him stir up others so to do 97 8. To fear God and none else or other fear The Arguments thereto Page 101 1. Not to fear any else or other fear 101 2. Fear God 102 9. To Trust in God and in none else in all Cases the Arguments thereto 105 1. Not in any else 105 2. In God as suitable Object 106 See more of Faith Chap. 11 Page 53 10. To look believingly unto Hope in and Patiently wait for God his Salvation in all Cases The Arguments thereto 110 See more in the Nature and Use of Faith Chap. 11 Page 57 11. To walk humbly before God abasing self opposing all High Thoughts Avoid boasting of self The Reasons 113 See more of submitting in Affliction Chap. 22 Page 178 See Death Chap. 34 Page 256 Duties of Believers towards God Chap. 16. 12. To be Moderate Meek Patient and Quiet in all things The Encouragements thereto 117 See more Duties to Brethren Chap. 17 Page 145 Duties to all Men Chap. 19 Page 161 Duties to Persecutors Chap. 22 Page 204 See Words Chap. 16 Page 119 13. To take heed to our Lips That our Words be not rash but true well-ordered and Savory and Seasonable 119 14. To acknowledge Sin depart from it and watch against it the Arguments thereto Gods complaining of it Reasonings with Sinners about it Threatnings and Judgments against Sinners for it 1. What Sin is 121 2. To acknowledge Sin to God Mourn for it both our own and others ibid. See more in Affliction Chap. 22 Page 200 In Common Calamities Chap. 23 Page 210 In Prayer Chap. 16 Page 92 3. To depart from Sin and all appearance of it hate it and avoid the occasions of it the Reasons 123 See Duties in General Chap. 16 Page 79 4. Gods Reasonings with Complainings of and Threatnings and Judgments against Sinners for their several Sins Disobedience and Rebellions 125 See more of Sin in Man's Nature Chap. 5 Page 18 23. Of Gods Correcting his for Sin Chap. Chap. 13 Page 70 Pardon of Sin Chap. 10 Page 48 15. To own and profess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ and his before Men boldly To wait for Christs second coming 1. To Own and Confess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ before Men. 133 See more of owning him in time of Persecution Chap. 22 Page 199 Of Perseverance Chap. 16 Page 139 2. To wait for the Second coming of Christ 134 See more his coming to Judgment Chap. 36 Page 260. 16. To walk with God Heartily Uprightly Sincerely and to follow him fully and Zealously The Reasons of it ibid. See also Hypocrites c. Chap. 28. Page 237 17. To stick fast to God not to depart abide in the Faith and Practice of what we know of his Will to the end That the Saints shall be kept 1. To Persevere and Abide in Faith and Practice c. 139 See more of holding fast in time of Affliction Chap. 22 Page 200 2. That Saints shall be kept have power to stand 142 See more of God upholding in Afflictions Chap. 22 Page 190 18. To take heed to Observe and Watch diligently over our selves with a Holy Jealousie and Fear lest we should Apostatize and depart from God his Truths and Ways into any Error or Sin The Reasons our Danger 143 See more of Saints Aptness to fall Chap. 13 Page 67 Of the Tempers Methods Chap. 30 Page 244 Chap. XVII Second Duties of Saints Believers Brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that relation one to another Page 145. 1. To Love each other The kinds of it 145 2. To Sympathize with each other in Pity and Compassion Help and Comfort one another bear one anothers Burdens have mutual Care of each other 146 See also this Duty to Afflicted ones Chap. 22 Page 207. 3. To Honour and Respect each other and be kind and Affectionate 147 See more walking Humbly Chap. 16 Page 113. 4. Not Rashly and Unadvisedly to take up a Prejudice against any believe Reports take Offence or be Angry but tenderly Forgive cover Faults and restore Offenders in Love ibid. Secondly Duties of
mayest 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. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation Heb. 2. 3. CHAP. IX God's free Choice of his in Christ to Eternal Life and calling them according to his Purpose and Grace I Will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and I will be merciful to whom I will be merciful Exod. 33. 19. 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 chuse 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. Woe 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. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction c. for mine own sake will I do c. Isa 48. 10 11. Zech. 13. 9. 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. Isa 55. 5. 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. Hosea 14. 4. When God gives out the great promises of a new heart a new spirit c. he said Not for your sakes do I do this be it known unto you be ashamed c. Ezek. 36. 22 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32. ch 20. 43 44. When I c. saw thee polluted in thy blood I said unto thee in thy blood Live c. Ezekiel 16. 6 8. 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. Zechar. 2. 10 11. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God c. and shall fear the Lord c. Hosea 3. 5. ch 2. 19 20. Zechar. 13. 9. 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 them 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 Amos 3. 2. I have loved you faith the Lord c. Is not Esau Jacob's brother c. yet I loved Jacob and hated Esau Malachi 1. 2 3. 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 Matth. 11. 25 26. Luke 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 not c. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear Matth. 13. 11 13 16. Mark 4. 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 Matth. 20. 14 15 16 21 23. Mark 10. 10. 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 shortned 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 mother's 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 lepers were in Israel in the time of Elizeus 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 〈◊〉 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 wife cast out c. This is the Father's will c. That of all which he 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 â—9 64 65. Jesus called the blind man whom he had healed and discovers himself to him
Lord 1 Thes 5. 23. The end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart a good conscience and faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1. 5. Exercise thy self to godliness c. Godliness is profitable to all things having promise of this c. 1 Tim. 4. 7 8. ch 2. 2. ch 6. 6. 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. teacheth us that denying ungodliness and wordly 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 Hebr. 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 of manner 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 lust 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 gloruie God in the day of visitation c. So is the will of God that with well doing ye may c. We being dead unto sin should live unto righteousness 1 Pet. 2. 9 11 12 15 24. 1 Tim. 5. 14. Titus 2. 5 1. 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 be 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 suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles c. If any man minister c. that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 4. 2 3 6 11. Giving all diligence add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance c. godliness c. If these things be in you and abound it shall effect that you shall not be unfruitful c. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 1 Peter 1. 5 6 7 8 9 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 look 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 lie 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. These things write I unto you that ye sin not And if any man sin we have an advocate c. He who saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked 1 John 2. 1 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 John 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 John 3. 11. In Particular I. 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 that 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. 3 13 22. 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 shall 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. Oh love the Lord all ye saints c. Psal 31. 23. I love the 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 4. If ye find my Beloved c. tell him that I am sick of love Cant. 5. 8. Thus saith 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 Mal. 2. 11. He who loveth father or mother c. is not worthy of me c. Matth. 10. 37. Luke 14. 26. 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 Matth. 22. 37 38 39 40. Iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold Matth. 24. 12. Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much But to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little Luke 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. We 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 Ghost 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 prophecy and understand all mysteries c. I have all faith c. and have not charity I am nothing And though I bestow all my goods to seed 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. The 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. Philem. Vers 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 our 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 he 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 I. To delight in long for pant after make their Boast of glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their Portion All and Rest I Will not go up in the midst of thee c. When the people heard these evil tidings they mournned and c. 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. 3 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. All the house of Israel lamented after the Lord 1 Sam. 7. 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. Psal 71. 3. When he giveth quietness who can make trouble And when he hideth his face who 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 increaseth 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. Psal 88. 14. How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever How long wilt thou hide thy face from me Psal 13. 1. Psal 74. 9 10. 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 94. 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. Psal 88. 14 15. 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 Lord O ye saints of his c. in his favour is life c. Lord by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong thou hiddest thy face and I was troubled Psal 30. 4 5 7. Thou my hiding-place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt encompass me about with songs of deliverance c. Be glad in the Lord and rejoyce ye righteous and shout for joy all ye who are upright in heart Psal 32. 7 11. Our soul waiteth for the Lord he our help and our shield for our heart shall rejoyce in him Psal 33. 20 21. Psal 94. 17. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord c. Oh
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 John ver 5. Levit. 19. 17 18. I have this against thee that thou hast gone back from thy first love Rev. 2. 4. III. From Love to sympathize with each other in Pity and Compassion Help and Comfort one another and bear one another's Burthen Have mutual Care THE children of Israel when they had in battel cut off the Benjamites they bemoan â—hem 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. Prov. 17. 17. 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 Matth. 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 Matth. 25. 34 35 36 37 38 39 40. Whosoever shall give you a cup of cold water c. because ye belong to Christ c. he shall not lose c. Mark 9. 41. 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. Rejoice with them who do rejoice 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 another's wealth c. As I please all men 1 Cor. 10. 24 33. Phil. 2. 4. 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 rejoice with it Now are ye the body of Christ and members in particular 1 Cor. 12. 12 13 18 25 26 27. Rom. 12. 5. Charity c. seeking 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 Ephes 4. 25 32. Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercy kindness c. Col 3. 12. Remembring without ceasing c. your labour of love 1 Thes 1. 3. Comfort the feeble minded support the weak 1 Thes 5. 14. ch 4. 18. If â—he have washed the saints feet c. if she have relieved the afflicted c. 1 Tim. 5. 10. Ye endured a great fight of afflictions c. by reproaches and afflictions and partly whilst ye became conpanions 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 tender mercy James 5. 11. Be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another c. Be pitiful c. 1 Pet. 3. 8. We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren c. 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. 16 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. III. 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. Ye are all brethren c. he who is greatest of you shall be a servant Matth. 23. 8 10 11. 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 saith Gal. 6. 10. Submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God Eph. 5. 21. In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better then themselves Phil. 2. 3 4. Salute every Saint in Christ Jesus c. all the Saints salute you Phil. 4. 21 22. Have not the saith of our Lord Jesus c. with respect of persons For c. James 2. 1. Use hospitality one to another without
lyes vanity and things wherein is no profit Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods Jer. 16. 19 20. Then all the men who knew that their wives had burnt incense unto other gods and all the women who stood by c. answered Jeremiah saying c. We will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink-offerings unto her as we have done we and our fathers our kings and our princes in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem for then had we plenty c. So the Lord could no longer bear c. Jer. 44. 15 to 22. I am broken with their whorish heart which have departed from me and with their eyes which go a whoring after their idols c. Ezek. 6. 9. These men have set up their idols in their hearts and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their race Should I be enquired of at all by them c. I the Lord will answer him according to the multitude of his idols c. I the Lord will answer him by my self Ezek. 14. 1 4 5 6 7. Hosea 2. 2 3 4. The insatiable Idolatry of Jerusalem with all Nations Ezek. 16. 15 16 c. I will do these things unto thee because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen because thou art polluted with their idols Ezek. 23. 30. ch 16. 36 37 c. Such of the Levites who had offered before Idols God refused afterwards that they should offer any more unto him Ezek. 44. 10 to 15. The Image of Nebuchadnezar set up Dan. 3. Belshazzar and his Princes c. praised the Gods of Gold and of Silver c. Dan. 5. 3 4. My people ask counsel at their stock and their staff declareth unto them for the spirit of whoredems have caused them to err and they have gone a whoring from under their God they sacrifice upon the top of mountains and burn incense upon the hills under oaks c. Ephraim is joined to idols let him alone Hosea 4. 12 13 17. Of their silver and their gold have they made them idols that they may be cut off Thy calf O Samaria hath cast thee off mine anger is kindled c. The work man made it therefore it is not God but the calâ— of Samaria shall be broken in pieces for they have fown the wind Hosea 8. 4 5 6 7. According to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars according unto the goodness of his land they have made goodly images their heart is divided now they shall be found faulty he shall break down their altars he shall spoil their images Hosea 10. 1 2. And now they sin more and more and have made them molten-images of their silver and idols according to their own understanding all of it the work of the crafts-men They say of them Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves Therefore they shall be as the morning-cloud c. Hosea 13. 2 3. I will cut off them who worship the host of heaven c. swear by the Lord and swear by Malcham Zeph. 1. 4 5. Amos 8. 14. For their idols have spoken vanity and the Diviners have seen a lye and have told false dreams c. Zech. 10. 2. Nor will we say any more O our God to the works of our hands Hosea 14. 3. Judah hath prophaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved or ought to love and hath married the daughter of a strange god Mal. 2. 11. God c. gave them up to worship the host of heaven Acts 7. 42. The people said c. the gods are come down unto us in the likeness of men And they called Barnabas Jupiter and Paul Mercurius because he was the chief speaker Then the priest of Jupiter c. brought oxen and garlands unto the gates and would have done sacrifice with the people which when the Apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of they rent their clothes and ran in among the people crying out and saying Sirs What do ye in these things We are also men of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God who made heaven and earth c. Acts 14. 11 12 13 14 15 18. We write unto them that they stay from the pollutions of idols Acts 15. 20 29. Paul c. at Athens his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry or full of idols therefore disputed he in the Synagogue c. Ye men of Athens I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious for as I passed by and beheld your devotions or gods whom ye worship I found an altar with this Inscription To the unknown God Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship c. Forasmuch then as we are the off-spring of God we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone graven by art or man's device Acts 17. 16 17 22 23 29. Demetrius said This Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people saying that they be no gods which are made with hands So that not only this our craft is in danger c. but also that the temple of the great Goddess Diana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all Asia and the world worshippeth c. Great is Diana of the Ephesians c. The Image which fell down from Jupiter Acts 19. 26 27 28 34 35. When they knew God they glorified him not as God c. but became vain in their imaginations c. and changed the glory of the invisible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds c. who changed the truth of God into a lye and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator Rom. 1. 21 23 25. ch 2. 22. Psal 106. 19 20 21. Thou who abhorrest idols dost thou commit sacrilege Rom. 2. 22. We know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is none other God but one for though there be that are called gods whether in heaven or earth as there be gods many and lords many but to us there is but one God c. 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. Neither be ye idolaters as were some of them As it is written the people sate down to eat and drink and rose up to play c. My dearly beloved flee from idolatry c. What say I then that the idol is any thing or that which is offered in sacrifice is any thing But I say That the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifie to devils and not to God and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils 1 Cor. 10. 7 14 19 20. Ye know that ye were Gentiles carried away unto these dumb idols 1 Cor. 12. 2. Ye did service to them who by nature are not gods Gal. 4. 8. How ye turned to
of Natural Men.   Blind Zeal Persecutes c. 22 p. 181 Blood of Christ takes away Sin c. 10 p. 48 Blood of Beasts won't do c. 6 p. 25 Bondage to Satan c. 5 p. 23 Boasting no cause in Man c. 64 p. 306 Bounty of God c. 2 p. 13. Breaking of Bread c. 27 p. 235 Brethrens extraordinary Gifts c. 27. p. 226 Buckler is God to his See Trusting in God   C CAlamities Publick or Common Chap. 23 Page 208. From God  p. ibid. Saints Priviledges therein  p. 209 Saints Duties then  p. 210 Calling of the Apostles c. 56 p. 296 Calling See Election   Captain Jesus c. 8 p. 42 Care to be cast on God in general c. 16. p. 110 In times of Affliction c. 22 p. 203 Cause of Punishment is Sin c. 16. p. 109 Cause of Suffering see it be good c. 22. p. 207 Characters of Saints c. 12 p. 60 Charity in walking towards Saints c. 17 p. 151 Chearfulness under Sufferings c. 22. p. 201 Childrens Duties to Parents c. 18. p. 156 Children by Mary Mother of the Lord c. 69 p. 309 Christ the Jesus c. 7. p. 28 Christs Excellency c. 7 p. 31 Christ took Flesh upon him c. 8 p. 35 Christ Crucified c. 8. p. 37 Christs Resurrection c. 8. p. 40 Christs Ascension c. 8. p. 41 Christs Intercession c. 8 p. ibid. Christ the Head of his Church c. 8 p. 42 Christ the King c. 8 p. ibid. Christ the Prophet c. 8 p. 43 Christ the Saints All in all c. 8 p. 44 Christianity not an easy thing c. 46 p. 286 Church what c. 27 p. 222 Church Meetings c. 27 p. 226 Churches Duties to their Ministers c. 27 p. 231 Church Blessings c. 27 p. 223 Church Acts as such c. 27. p. 226 227 Church Officers c. 27 p. 229 Church Censures c. 27. p. 236 Cleave to God in general c. 16 p. 139 in Afflictions c. 22 p. 200 Comforts in Affliction c. 22 p. 186 Comfort others in trouble c. 22 p. 207 Coming of Christ to Judgment c. 36 p. 260 Coming of Christ Saints expectation c. 16 p. 134 Commendatory Letters c. 27 p. 227 Commission of the Apostles c. 56 p. 296 Commit all to God in trouble c. 22 p. 203 Common Priviledges See Danger of Hypocrisie Compassion of Christ c. 7 p. 34 Company of wicked avoid c. 19. p. 163 Complaints against Sin c. 16 p. 125 Compleat in Christ c. 8 p. 44 Confess Sin to God in general c. 16 p. 121 Confess Sin in time of Trouble c. 22 p. 199. Confess Sin one to another c. 17 p. 150 Confess Christ before Men in general c. 16 p. 133 In time of Persecution c. 22 p. 200 Confidence See Trust   Conscience in general c. 29 p. 243 Conscience good in Sufferings c. 22 p. 207 Consideration in general c. 31 p. 249 Considerations upholding in Afflictions c. 22 p. 186 Contention avoid c. 17 p. 148 Content with Governors c. 24 p. 217 Content with what we have See World   Continue in well-doing c. 16 p. 139 Controversies in Churches how ended c. 27 p. 228 Conversation of Saints in general c. 16 p. 79 Correction of Saints c. 13 p. 70 Corruption of Man's Nature c. 5 p. 18 Cover Faults by Love c. 17 p. 147 Coveteousness See World   Câ—â—â—â—ous to all c. 19 p. 162 Curse of the Law c. 6 p. 25 Curse bore by Christ c. 8 p. 39 D DAY of the Lord or last Judgment Chap. 36 Page 260 Death of Christ c. 8 p. 37 Death of Mankinds c. 34 p. â—56 Deacons See Officers of Churches   Dead Men know nothing here c. 68 p. 309 Deceivers c. 30 p. 246 〈◊〉 in God and 〈◊〉 c. 16 p. 83 Deliverance from Trouble when near c. 22 p. 193 When wonderfull  p. ibid. Depart not from God c. 16 p. 139 Depart from Sin c. 16 p. 123 Desire God See Delight in God   Desire not Enemies hurt c. 22 p. 205 Designs of God in Saints Trouble c. 22 p. 183 Devices of Satan See Satan the Devil   Devil in general c. 30 p. 244 Devil cannot hurt without leave c. 22 p. 187 Devil ruling in Sinners c. 5 p. 23 Difficulty in being a Christian indeed c. 46 p. 286 Dignity of Christ c. 7 p. 31 Dignity of Saints c. 14 p. 71 Dignity of the Church c. 27 p. 223 Dignities of Men are from God c. 24 p. 211 Diligence in business c. 54 p. 294 Discipline in Churches c. 27 p. 236 Discontent of Israel c. 53 p. 292 Discover Treason c. 24 p. 216 Disobedience in general See Obedience to God   Disobedience Threatned and Punished c. 16 p. 125 Distribute to the Poor c. 17 p. 152 Distrusting Israel when God was delivering c. 53 292 Dreams c. 55 p. 295 Drunkenness c. 〈◊〉 p. 305 Duties of Saints towards God c. 16 p. 79 Towards Saints c. 17 p. 145 Towards Relations in the Flesh c. 18 p. 154 Towards all Men c. 19 p. 159 Towards such as are in trouble c. 22 p. 207 Towardt Persecutors then c. 22 p. 204 Duties towards God under Troubles c. 22 p. 197 Duties in common Calamities c. 23 p. 210 Duties of Saints as Subjects c. 24 p. 215 Duties with respect to Worldly things See World   With Respect to Tentations See the Devil   With Respect to Error See Deceivers   With Respect to the Spirit c. 21 p. 177 Duties of the Churches towards their Ministers c. 27 p. 231 Duties of Magistrates c. 24 p. 212 Duties of the Ministers in General c. 26 p. 219 Duties of the Ministers of Christ c. 27 p. 229 E EFfects of Faith Chap. 11 Page 58 Effects of Gods Love to Saints c. 7 p. 27  c. 22 p. 186 Effects of Saints Love to God c. 16 p. 83 Of their Love to each other c. 17 p. 146 Effects of Sin c. 5. p. 23 c. 16 p. 125 Effects of the in dwelling of the Spirit c. 21 p. 174 176. Elders of Churches See Officers of Churches   Election of God according to purpose c. 9 p. 45 Election of Church Officers c. 27 p. 231 Enmity of blind Zealots against Truth c. 28 p. 231  c. 22 p. 181 Ends of God in the Saints Affliction c. 22 p. 183 Envy c. 69 p. Epicures See World   Equality of the Apostles c. 56 p. 296 Eternal God c. 2 p. 15 Eternal Life c. 10 p. 51 Excellency of God c. 2 p. 5 Excellency of Christ c. 7 p. 31 Excellency of Saints c. 14 p. 71 Excellency of the Scriptures c. 1 p. 1 Excommunication See Discipline   Exhort one another c. 17 p. 149 c. 27 p. 226 Exhortations in Publick Assemblies c. 27. p. 232 Extol God See Praises   Extraordinary Gifts c. 27 p. 226 F FAilings of Saints Chap. 13 Page 67 Faint not in time of Trouble c. 22 p. 201 Faith gives right to Salvation c. 11 p. 53
Saints Believers Brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that Relation one to another Chap. 17. Page 145. 5. To live peaceably among themselves avoid Whispering Tale-bearing and whatsoever tends to divide or disturb Peace Page 148 6. To rebuke reprove exhort admonish and warn each other c. To take such Rebuke c. well from each other 149 1. To rebuke exhort c. 149 2. To take such Rebuke c. well 150 See more of Church-Discipline Chap. 27 Page 236. 7. To confess Sins to and pray for each other 150 8. To be of one Mind 151 9. To walk wisely and charitably one towards another And in things indifferent to have respect to the Weak and to avoid Offences ibid. 10. To distribute and communicate to each others Necessities Of Giving to the Poor in general 152 See more in shewing Mercy to all Chap. 19. Page 162. Of Giving to Enemies Chap. 22. Page 205. Of Church-Collections for the Poor Chap. 27. Page 228 Cha. XVIII 3 Duties of Saints Believers each to other as they stand related to one another in the Flesh Page 154. 1. Husbands to Wives and Wives to Husbands Of Marriage Women c. 154 2. Parents to their Children and Children to their Parents 156 3. Masters to their Servants and Servants to their Masters 158 4. Magistrates to Subjects and Subjects to Magistrates 159 See Magistrates at large Chap. 24. Page 213. Chap. XIX 4. The Duties of Saints towards all Men those who are without Unbelievers Enemies Pag. 159. 1. In the General 159 2. In Particular not to speak Evil of them or judge them 160 3. Be just righteous true and faithful to and with them in all things of Trust and Dealing ibid. 4. To live at peace with them every one doing his own Work and not intermedling with others 161 5. Not to be discontented angry or revengeful against them but to behave themselves meekly gently and patiently towards them bearing Wrong ibid. See more of Meekness Chap. 16. Page 117. 6. To pity them shew them Mercy pray for them requite them Good for Evil Love for Hatred 162 See more of Doing Good to Persecutors Chap. 22. Page 205. Giving to the Poor Chap. 17. Page 142. 7. To behave themselves humbly and courteously towards all giving them due Respect ibid. 8. To avoid all unnecessary Society and Fellowship with wicked Men. 163 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 ibid. See Afflictions and Persecutions at large Chap. 22. Page 204. 6. Their Duties in Times of Common Calamities ibid. See Common Calamities at large Chap. 23. Page 210. 7. Their Duties towards the Spirit ibid. See Duties towards the Spirit at large Chap. 21. Page 177. 8. Their Duties towards their Ministers or Pastors ibid. See Church-Affairs at large Chap. 27. Page 231. 9. Their Duties in case of Temptation by Satan and False-Teachers Errours c. ibid. See Satan's Instruments False-Teachers c. in general Chap. 30. Page 244. 10. Their Duties in relation to the Things of this World ibid. See the Things of this World in general Chap. 39. Page 270. Chap. XX. 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 Page 164. 1. A Man of himself can do neither of these 164 2. God in Christ doth all freely hath promised so to do 1. In General ibid. 2. In Particular to give Knowledge of himself c. 166 See more of Knowledge Chap. 38. Page 264. 3. To give Faith or enable to believe 168 4. To enable them to subdue Sin bring forth Fruit profit c. ibid. 5. To give Power to persevere in Faith c. 170 See more of Perseverance Chap. 16. Page 142. 6. God in Christ doth command encourage and invite by Promises to come to him for these and cast our Care upon him 171 Chap. XXI How God doth work and effect these things in the Hearts and Spirits of his Elect Pag. 173. By his Spirit whom he promised Page 173 Of the Spirit of God further his being given to and dwelling in the Saints working in them and others The Nature and Fruits thereof Saints Duties towards the Spirit Page 174. 1. Of the Spirit given to and in the Saints and what he did and dâ—th 174 2. The Nature Working and Fruits of the Spirit 176 3. Saints Duties toward the Spirit Page 177. 1. To follow him and make use of him 177 2. Not to sin against grieve or quench the Spirit ibid. Chap. XXII Of Afflictions Troubles and Persecutions Pag. 178 1. To whom they belong or who may expect them Page 178. 1. Common to all 2. More especially to the Saints Pag. 178. 1. The Holy Ghost affirms it ibid. 2. That the Saints have been so exercised Pag. 179. 1. From God more immediately 179 2. From men Page 180. 1. Wicked Men Heathens 180 2. From Professors Men zealous of the Law and Traditions 181 2. For what Ends God doth correct his Children and suffer them to be persecuted Page 183. 1. To exercise and try their Faith and Obedience 183 2. To humble and purge them ibid. 3. To make them to remember God and the Things above look to own and close with them 184 4. For God's own Glory and the Furtherance of the Gospel ibid. 5. For the Effecting of great Good and Advantage to those who are exercised with Trouble c. 185 3. The Considerations which should bear up stay and comfort the Spirits of the Saints in their Afflictions and under Persecutions Page 186. 1. That God appoints them and that for such Ends as before 186 2. That such who are so exercised are blessed and happy and so pronounced 'T is a Seal of Sonship of God's choice Love and of their Salvation ibid. 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 nor proceed further against the Saints than what God permits He turns about the Purposes of Adversaries 187 4. That God orders and determines of the Measure Manner Time and Continuance of Afflictions and Persecutions and that according to our Need. 189 5. That God doth sometimes make Enemies and Persecutors themselves to acknowledge the Saints Innocency when they suffer and will surely avenge them of their Adversaries ibid. 6. That God will comfort uphold and preserve his in all their Troubles and not lay more upon them than they can bear 190 See Common Calamities Chap. 23. Page 209. 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. 192 For more See Union and Relation
Prov. 15. 3 11. 2 Chron. 16. 9. Woe unto them who seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and say Who seeth us who knoweth us Shall the thing framed say of him that framed it He had no understanding Isa 29. 15 16. Mine eyes are upon all their ways they are not hid from my face neither is their iniquity hâ—d from mine eyes Jer. 16. 17. ch 32. 19 27. I the Lord search the heart I try the reins Jer. 17. 10. ch 20. 12. Psal 44. 21 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him c. Do not I fill heaven and earth Jer. 23. 23 24. I know the things which come into thy mind every one of them Ezek. 11. 5. Amos 4. 13. He revealeth the deep and secret things He knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with him Dan. 2. 22 28. Job 12. 22. 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 Matt. 6. 4 6 8 18. Rom 8. 27. But of that day and hour knoweth no man c. but the Father Mark 13. 32. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Acts 15. 18. That should seek the Lord c. though he be not far from every one of us Acts 17. 27. O the depth of the riches c. of the knowledge of God c. Rom. 11. 33 34. Pleasing c. God who trieth 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. This is the message That God is light and that in him is no darkness 1 John 1. 5. VIII He is most Wise HE is wise in heart and mighty in strength c. Job 9. 4. ch 12. 13. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth them who are high Job 21. 22 23. The Lord of hosts 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. ch 51. 15. Prov. 3. 19 20. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments c. Who hath been his counsellor c. Rom. 11. 33 34 35. 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. That by the Church might be made known c. the manifold wisdom of God c. Ephes 3. 10. To the only wise God our Saviour be glory c. Jude vers 25. IX He is most Holy WHO like thee O Lord c. glorious in holiness c. Exod. 15. 11. 〈◊〉 Lord thy God 〈◊〉 a jealous God visiting the iniquiry c. Exod. 20. 5. 〈◊〉 1. 2. Ye shall be holy for I am holy c. Levit. 11. 44. 45. ch 19. 2. ch 20. 26. I the Lord who sanctifieth you am holy Lev. 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. Josh 5. 14 15. Shall mortal man c. be more pure than his Maker Job 4. 17. ch 15. 15 16. The Holy One of Israel is our King Psal 89. 18. Psal 99. 9. The knowledge of the holy is understanding Prov. 9. 10. Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts Isa 6. 3. Behold from the habitations of thy holiness c. The people of thy holiness have 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. God cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth he any man James 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. X. He is most Just SHall mortal man be more just than God Job 4. 17. 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. Nâ—hem 9. 33. Jer. 12. 1. Lam. 1. 18 20. Surely God will not do wickedly neither will the Almighty pervert judgment c. Wilt thou condemn him who is most just Job 34. 10 12 17 23. Psal 9. 8. Job 8. 3. He is excellent c. and in plenty of justice Job 37. 23. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness c Psal 11. 7. Psal 33. 5. Psal 7. 9. 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. Psal 145. 17. Psal 19. 9. The justice of God both towards the righteous and wicked argued at large Ezek 18. ch 33. 8 9 c. The Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doth Dan. 9. 14. The just Lord is in the midst thereof he will not do iniquity every morning he doth bring his judgment to light Zeph. 3. 5. Hos 14. 9. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed c. Heb. 6. 10. Ezek. 33. 11 12 c. to 17. Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways c. Rev. 15. 3. XI He is Compassionate Pitiful and Merciful THE men laid hold upon his hand c. the Lord being merciful to 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. Psal 108. 4. The Lord thy God is a merciful God he will not forsake thâ—e 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. Psal 118. 1 2 3 4. 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 mercy sake thou didst not consume them
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 glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unâ—o 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 glorifie 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 Acts 5. 3 4 9. Stephen calling and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit Acts 7. 59. Peter said to AEneas Jesus Christ maketh thee whole arise Acts 9. 34. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 23. 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. 2 Cor. 6. 17. To us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and one Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 8. 6. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed c. 1 Cor. 10. 9. 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 of the Lord 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 things and by him all things consist Col. 1. 16 17. Heb. 1. 2 3. The mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge c. for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily Col. 2. 2 3 9. Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way 1 Thes 3 11. Now our Lord Jesus himself and God even our Father c. comfort your hearts 2 Thes 2. 16 17. God our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ our hope grace mercy and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ c. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me c. â— Tim. 1. 1 2 12. Rom. 1. 7. 1 Tim. 2. 3. 2 Epis John ver 3. Great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angels c. received up into glory 1 Tim. 3. 16. According to the commandment of God our Saviour c. grace and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour Titus 1. 3 4. Looking for c. the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Titus 2. 10 13. ch 3. 4. Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself Heb. 9. 14. Let all the Angels of God worship him c. Unto the Son he saith Thy throne O God c. Heb. 1. 6 8. The Prophets c. searching what c. the Spirit of Christ which was in them 1 Pet. 1. 10 11. God and our Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. 1. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us 1 John 3. 16. Three who bare record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these thee are one c. His Son Jesus Christ this is the true God c. 1 John 5. 7 20. Denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus c. To the only wife God our Saviour c. Jude vers 4 25. All the Churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and hearts Rev. 2. 23. See more of Christ's Excellency Chap. 7. more of the Spirit Chap. 21. CHAP. IV. Of Man in his first Estate wherein he was Created and of his Fall Of his First State AND God said Let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over all the soul of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth So God created man in his own image in the image of God created him male and female created he them And God blessed them and God said unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea c. Gen. 1. 26 27 28 29. Psal 8. 5 6 7. Adam gave names to all the creatures which were brought to him Gen. 2. 19 20. God hath made man upright c. Eccles 7. 29. Of his Fall The Manner and Occasion of Man's Fall at 〈◊〉 Gen. 3. 2 Cor. 11. 3. 〈◊〉 made man upright but they have sought out any many inventions Eccles 7. 29. By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that or in whom all have sinned c. If through the the offence of one man many be dead
The doctrine of God our Saviour c. Titus 2. 10 13. His Son whom he hath appointed Heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds who being the Brightness of his Glory and the express Image of his Person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins fate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high being made so much better than the Angels c. As he hath a more excellent name c. Unto which of the Angels said he at any time Thou art my Son c. He saith And let all the Angels of God worship him c. Thy God O God hath anointed thee c. Heb. 1. 2 3 4 5 6 c. ch 8. 1. ch 10. 12. ch 12. 2. Col. 3. 1. We see Jesus c. crowned with glory and honour c. Heb. 2. 9. Having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like unto the Son of God c. Such an High Priest became us holy c. and made higher than the heavens Heb. 7. 3 26. Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever Heb. 13. 8. Our glorious Lord Jesus Christ or our Lord Jesus Christ of Glory c. That worthy name by which we are called James 2. 1 7. The precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without spot or blemish 1 Pet. 1. 19. 1 John 2. 1. A living stone c. chosen of God and precious c. who did no sin 1 Pet. 2. 4 22. Jesus Christ who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him 1 Pet. 3. 22. The power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ were eye-witnesses of his majesty for he received from God the Father honour and 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 said 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 faith 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 11 17 18. ch 2. 8. 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. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah the Rock of David c. Thou art worthy to take the book and open it c. 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. 5 9 12 13 14. ch 15. 3 4. And the kings of the earth and the great men c. said to the mountains c. Hide us from the face of him who fitteth 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 kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign Rev. 11. 15. The Lamb shâll overcome them for he is the Lord of lords and King of kings Rev. 17. 14. ch 19. 16. I am the Root c. of David and the bright and Morning-star Rev. 22. 16. See more of the One God Father Son and Spirit or the Trinity Chap. 3. In his Nature HE shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arms and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those who are with young or give suck Isa 40. 11. He shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street A bruised râ—ed shall he not break smoaking or daily burning flax shall he not quench Isa 42. 2 3. Matth. 12. 18 19 20. I gave my back to the imiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Isa 50. 6. Matth. 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 opened he 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 Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings Mal. 4. 4. Jesus fate at meat c. Many Publicans and sinners came c. The Pharisees said Why eateth your Master with Publicans and sinners c. Jesus said unto them They who are whole need not a Physician but they that 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 shepherd c. He healed their sick c. would not send them away fasting c. Matth. 9. 10 11 12 13 36. ch 14. 14. ch 15. 33 32. ch 20. 34. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart Matth. 11. 29. When Peter was sinking and cried out Lord save me c. Immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto him c. Wherefore didst c. Matth. 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 chicken under her wings but ye would not Mat. 23. 37. Christ excused his disciples when they siept c. He said The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak Matth. 26. 41. The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost c. When he came near the city he wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in
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 Acts 2. 39 47. Philip sent on purpose to meet the Eunuch and commanded to go â—ear his Chariot where he preached unto him and converted him Acts 8. 26 〈…〉 Paul was persecuting the Church c. and was converted in the midst 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 Acts 11. 2 3 c. When the Gentiles heard c. as many as were ordained to eternal life believed Acts 13. 48. How God at first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name Acts 15. 14 18. 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 Acts 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 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect Rom. 8. 28 29 30 33. 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 repliest 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. Malachi 1. 2. 3. Isa 4â— 9 10. God hath not cast away his people whom he foreknew 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. The gifts and callings of God are without repentance As ye in the times past have not believed God yet have now obtained mercy c. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counseller c. For of him and through him and to him are all things Rom. 11. 4 5 6 7 8 29 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. James 2. 5. 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 mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his Son in me that I might preach c. Gal. 1. 15 16. Blessed be God c. according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world c. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace c. Having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself c. Being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will Ephes 1. 4 5 6 7 9 11.
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. The Son of man when he comes shall he find faith on earth Luke 18. 8. But those mine enemies who would not that I should reign over them bring hither and stay them before me Luke 19. 27. John 5. 40 43. 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 die in your sins for if ye believe not that I am he ye shall die 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. ch 5. 38. 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 judge 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 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 haying 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 transgreision 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. Hebr. 2. 2 3. I swear in my wrath they shall not or if they shall enter into my 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 sware 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 Hebr. 3. 11 12 18 19. Numb 14. 21 22 23. Psalm 106. 24 25 26. 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 Hebr. 4. 2 6. If we sin c. there is no more sacrifice c. but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation c. 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 Hebr. 10. 26 27 28 29 38 29. 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 Hebr. 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 very 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 died without mercy c. Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God c. Hebr. 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. I. That such may be known from others by their Fruits We should try SEarch and try me O Lord and know my heart try me and know my thoughts Psalm 139. 23 24. Ye shall know them by their fruits Do men gather grapes of thorns c. Matth. 7. 16 17 18 c. 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 our of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure
c. So then with my mind I my self serve the the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin Rom. 7. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25. There is therefore no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit c. For they who are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh but they who are after the spirit the things of the spirit c. If any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his and if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of righteousness c. As many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father c. We our selves groan within our selves waiting for the adoption the redemption of our body c. Rom. 8. 1 5 9 10 14 15 23. I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart c. for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh c. Rom. 9. 2 3. ch 10. 1 The kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost For he who in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God and c. Rom. 14. 17 18. The preaching of the cross is to them who perish foolishness but unto us who are saved it is the power of God c. Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling-block c. but unto them who are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1. 18 24. Such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified c. 1 Cor. 6. 11. That no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 12. 3. Though I speak with the tongue of men and of angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal and though I have the gift of prophecy and understood all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not charity I am nothing And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth nothing to me 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. We beholding c. the glory of the Lord c. are changed into the same image c. by the spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 13. Psal 26. 10. Acts 4. 20. In this we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed with our house from heaven c. that mortality might be swallowed up of life We are willing to be absent from the body that we may be present with the Lord wherefore we labour that whether present c. we may be accepted of him c. Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord we persuade men c. The love of Christ constraineth us c. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature Old things are passed away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5. 2 4 8 9 11 14 17. Philip. 1. 21 23. Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates c. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 2 Cor. 13. 5 8. When it pleased God c. to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him c. immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood Gal. 1. 15 16. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Gal. 2. 20. The works of the flesh are manifest which are adultery c. But the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance And they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections or passions and lusts Gal. 5. 19 20 21 22 23 24. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom or whereby the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world for in Jesus Christ circumcision availeth nothing c. but a new creature Gal. 6. 14 15. This I say therefore and testifie in the Lord That ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds c. But ye have not not so learned Christ If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus Ephes 4. 17 18 19 20 21. For ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord Walk as children c. for the the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness righteousness and truth Ephes 5. 8 9. Some preach Christ out of envy and strife c. What then Notwithstanding in every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and therein do I rejoyce yea and I will rejoyce Philip. 1. 15 16 17 18. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh c. What things were gain to me those I count loss for Christ yea doubtless and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord c. that I might know him and the power of his resurrection c. and be made conformable unto his death if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained or were already perfect but I follow after c. but this one thing forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press towards the mark c. Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded c. Our conversation is in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour c. Phillip 3. 3 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 20. I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need I can do all things through Christ who strengthnern me â—hllip 4. 11 12 13. And bringeth forth â—ruits as it doth also in you since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth Col. 1. 6. If ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above c. Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth c. seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him who created him Colos 3. 1 2 9 10. Remembring without ceasing your work
God even to them who believe on his name who are born not of blood c. but of God John 1. 12 13. Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst c. John 4. 14. Jesus said I am the light of the world he who followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life c. If the Son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed c. He who keeps my sayings shall never see death c. John 8. 12. 36. 51. My sheep c. I know them c. and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand John 10. 27 28. 1 John 5. 12 13. If any man serve me let him follow me and where I am there also shall my servant be If any man serve me him will my Father honour John 12. 26. I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you c. Ye see me c. Because I live ye shall live also c. He who loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self unto him c. And my father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him c. Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you c. John 14. 18 19 21 23 27. ch 16. 27. ch 17. 23. Rev. 3. 20. Ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you c. Ye are my friends c. henceforth I call you not servants c. but I have called you friends for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you John 15. 7 14 15. 1 John 3. 22. John 9. 31. Rom. 10. 12 13. The Father himself loveth you because ye have loved me c. John 16. 27. Christ prays for them only not for the World John 17. 9 10. Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God John 20. 17. God is no respecter of persons but in every nation he who feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him Acts 10. 34 35. Being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ c. The love of God is shed abroad into our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us Rom. 5. 1 5. Sin shall not have dominion over you because ye are not under the law but under grace c. Now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have 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 heirs of God and joint-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 God's elect is it not God that justifies Who is he that condemns c. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ c. We are more than conquerors c. Rom. 8. 1 2 14 15 16 17 28 31 32 33 34 35 37. Gal. 4. 5 6 7. Psal 25. 10. 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. The God of peace shall tread Satan under your feet shortly Rom. 16. 20. 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 yours and ye are Christ's and Christ is God's 1 Cor. 3. 16 22 23. chap. 6. 19. Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world c. We shall judge 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 Lord's 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. 1 Cor. 6. 19. 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 Christ's then Abram's 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 c. If ye are led by the spirit ye are not under the law Gal. 5. 13 18. 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 his 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 an habitation for God through the spirit Ephes 2. 4 6 13 19 22. For me to live is Christ and to die is gain Philip. 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 Philip. 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.
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 and 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. 7 8 13 14. ch 10. 12 13. Levit. 26. 3 4 5 c. God commanded thee that thou do these statutes c. and that with all thy heart and from thy whole soul Deut. 26. 16. 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 mayest love the Lord thy God that thou mayest obey his voice and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life c. Deut. 30. 15 16 19 20. ch 13. 4. ch 32. 46 47. Prov. 19. 16. Isa 1. 19 20. 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. Josh 22. 5. Deut. 10. 12 13. 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 than 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 Commandments 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 Oh that my people had hearkned 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 commandments c. I will run the ways of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart c. Oh 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 restimonies and I love them exceedingly Psal 119. 4 6 32 97 119 120 127 136 158 167. 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. My son forget not my law but let thy heart keep my commandments Prov. 3. 1. Blessed is the man who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors Prov. 8. 32 33 34. He who turneth away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer shall be abomination Prov. 28. 9. Thus saith the Lord Thy Redeemer c. Oh 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. Jer. 35. 17. Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee c. Their ear is uncircumcised they cannot hearken Jer. 6. 8 10. I speak 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. 22 23 24. chap. 11. 4 7 8. Cursed the man who obeyeth not the words of this covenant Jer. 11. 3 4. The Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the Prophets rising early and sending but ye have not hearkned nor inclined your ear c. Jer. 25. 4. ch 44. 4 5. Will ye not receive instruction to hearken unto my words faith the Lord The words of Jonab the son of Rechab that he command his sons not to drink wine are performed for unto this day they drink none but obey their fathers commandment notwithstanding I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye hearkned not unto me Jer. 35. 13 14 15. As for the word thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord we will not hearken unto thee Jer. 44. 16. Thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. ch 3. 11 27. For they hear thy words but they do them not Ezek. 33. 32. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts saying Execute true judgment c. but they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear yea they made their hearts as an adamant-stone lest they should hear the law and the words which the Lord of Hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets c. Therefore it is come to pass as he cryed and they would not hear so they cried and I would not hear c. Zech. 7. 9 10 11 12 13. Not every one who saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into
came to pass as he was praying in a certain place when he ceased one of his disciples said unto him Lord teach us to pray c. Luke 11. 1 2. And the Apostles said unto Lord Encrease our faith Luke 17. 5. And he spake a parable unto them that men ought always to pray and not to faint saying There was in a city a Judge c. Shall not God avenge his elect who cry day and night unto him c. I tell you that he will Luke 18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. ch 11. 5 6 7 8. Beware of the scribes c. who for a pretence or a shew make long prayers Luke 20. 46 47. Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be counted worthy to escape all those things that shall come to pass c. Luke 21. 36. If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is c. thou wouldest have asked of him and he would c. John 4. 10. If any be a Worshiper of God and doth his will he heareth him c. John 9. 31. Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son If ye shall ask any thing in my name I will do it John 14. 13 14. If ye abide in me ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you John 15. 7. Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it unto you Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full John 16. 23 24 26. Christ's prayer for his at large John 17. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication Acts 1. 14. ch 2. 42. The Apostles and their company prayed with one accord and said Lord thou art God c. And now Lord behold their threatnings and grant unto thy servant that with all boldness they may speak thy word c. Acts 4. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. We will give our selves continually to prayer and c. Acts 6. 4. Pray God if perhaps the thoughts of thine heart may be forgiven thee for I receive c. Simon said Pray ye the Lord for me that none of these things which ye have spoken c. Acts 8. 22 24. Enquire for one called Saul of Tarsus for behold he prays c. Peter put them forth and kneeled down and prayed and turned him c. Acts 9. 11 14. Cornelius a devout man and one who c. and prayed unto God always c. Peter went up upon the house to pray about the sixth hour Acts 10. 1 2 4 9 30 31. Peter was in prison but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him Acts 12. 5. And on the sabbath-day we went out of the city by a river side where prayer was wont to be made c. And it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel c. Acts 16. 13 16. Paul when he had thus spoken he kneeled down and prayed with them all Acts 20. 36. And we kneeled down on the shore and prayed Acts 21. 5. Even while I prayed in the temple I was in a trance Acts 22. 17. I make mention of you always in my prayers making request c. I might have a prosperous journey Rom. 1. 9 10. The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered Rom. 8. 26. The same Lord over all is rich unto all who call upon him c. Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved c. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed Rom. 10. 12 13 14. Continuing instant in prayer Rom. 12. 12. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing c. I beseech you c. that ye will strive together with me in your prayers to God for me that I may be delivered c. Rom. 15. 13 30 31 32. With all who in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head but every woman who prayeth c. Judge you in your selves is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered 1 Cor. 11. 4 5 13. 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 from 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 knowledge 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 knowledge of his will c. Col. 1. 9 10 11. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving withal praying also for us that God would open unto us a door of utterance c. Labouring servently 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 fee 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 establish 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 fight of God our Saviour c. I will therefore that men pray every where listing 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 Hebr. 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. Hebr. 10. 19. 20 21 22. Ephes 3. 11 12. He who prays to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him Hebr. 11. 6. 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 sick 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 hindered c. 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 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 verse 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 with or add it to the prayers of all saints c. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the Angels hand Rev. 8. 3 4. See more of Prayer in Affliction Chap. 22. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. See more in Duty towards all Men Chap. 19. See Prayer for Magistrates Chap. 24. To take special notice of the Acts of God's Goodness and Mercy keep memorials thereof celebrate his Praises extol him and stir up others so to do THY glorious name c. is exalted above all blessing and praises Nehem. 9. 5. Abraham's Servant when God had heard his request he bowed down his head and worshipped the Lord. And he said Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth c. When he he heard their words he worshipped the Lord c. Gen. 24. 26 27 52. I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God that thou wast pleased with me Gen. 33. 10. Then Jacob said c. Let us arise and go to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went c. And he built there an altar and called the place El-Bethel because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother Gen. 35. 2 3 7 14 15 ch 28. 18 19 c. God commanded Israel to commemorate their deliverance from Egypt once in every year Exod. 13. 3 4 5 c. Moses and Israel solemnly celebrated his praise for their deliverance at the Red Sea in a Song of Praise Exod. 15. 2 3 to the 22. When Israel got victory over the Amalâ—kites he built an Altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi that is the Lord my banner Exod. 17. 13 14 15. And Moses told unto Jethro his Father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharoch and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake c. And Jethro rejoyced for all the goodness which the Lord had done unto Israel c. and said Blessed be the Lord that hath delivered you c. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods Exod. 18. 8 9 10 11. When thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee Deut. 8. 10.
c. Unto him that sits on the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever Rev. 5. 9 11 12 13. ch 7. 11 12. The four and twenty Elders c. worshipped God saying We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty c. Rev. 11. 16 17. 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 else 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 Abraham thy father fear not for I am with thee c. Gen. 26. 24. Moses said to Israel Fear not for God is come to prove you that his fear may be before you c. Exod. 20. 20. If thou shalt say in thine heart These nations are more than I how can I disposiess them Thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh 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. chap. 20. 1. 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. Josh 1. 5 6 7 9. Nekemiah feared not when the Enemy designed to make him afraid and sin c. Neâ—em 6. 10 11 12 c. I will not be afraid of ten thousand of people that have set against me round about Psal 3. 6 7. 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 we not fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried c. Psal 46. 1 2 3 c. 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. The Lord is on my side I will not fear what man can do Psal 118. 6 7. Be not afraid of sudden fear neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh for the Lord shall be thy confidence c. Prov. 3. 25 26. The righteous are as bold as a lion Prov. 28. 1. The fear of man bringeth a snare Prov. 29. 25. Take heed and be quiet fear not neither be faint-hearted for the two tails c. Isa 7. 4 5 6 c. 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 faith 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. 2 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 die 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 the king of Babylon c. for I am with you to save you c. Jer. 42. 11. Be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words c. nor be dismayed at their looks c. Ezek. 2. 6. ch 3. 9. When Christ had told his Disciples what Persecutors would do to them he faith Fear them not c. And Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul Matth. 10. 26 28 31. Luke 12. 4. Why are ye so fearful How is it that ye have no faith 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 Father's 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's Parents feared not the King's Edict nor did he the King's 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 GOD said unto Abraham Now I know that thou fearest God c. Gen. 22. 12. Now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou hast not with-held 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
12. They profess they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient c. Titus 1. 16. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach Heb. 13. 13. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God 1 John 4. 15. I know thy works and where thou dwellest where Satan's seat is and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith Rev. 2. 13. See more of owning Christ in Times of Persecution Chap. 22. See more of Perseverance Chap. 16. To wait for Christ's Second Coming WAtch ye therefore for you know not what hour your Lord will come c. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh Mat. 24. 42 44. ch 25. 13. Rev. 16. 15. The wise and foolish virgins slumbered and slept while the bridegroom tarried Mat. 25. 5. Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning and ye your selves like unto men who wait for the Lord c. Blessed are those c. whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching c. Luke 12. 35 36 37. Take heed your hearts be not overcharged c. and so that day come upon you unawares Luke 21. 34. I will come again and receive you unto my self John 14. 3. See that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 1. 7. For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body c. Phil. 3. 20. 21. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Col. 3. 4. Ye turned to God c. and to wait for his Son from heaven 1 Thes 1. 10. To you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thes 1. 6 7. The Lord direct your hearts in the love of God and into the patient waiting for Christ 2 Thes 3. 5. A crown of righteousness which the Lord c. shall give me at that day c. but unto them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4. 8. Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Titus 2. 13. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them who look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation Heb. 9. 28. Ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise for yet a little while and he who shall come will come and will not tarry c. Heb. 10. 36 37. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord Behold the husband-man waiteth for the precious fruits be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth near James 5. 7 8. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace which is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 13. There shall come in the last day scoffers c. saying Where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were c. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise c. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night c. What manner of persons ought ye to be c. Looking for and hastening unto the day of God c. 2 Peter 3. 3 4 5 9 10 11 12. Abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed c. at his coming 1 John 2. 28. We know that when he appears we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2. Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life Jude verse 21. Surely I come quickly Amen even so come Lord Jesus Rev. 22. 7 12 22. See his coming to judge the world Chap. 36. To walk with God heartily uprightly sincerely and to follow him fully and zealously The reasons thereof ENoch walked with God Gen. 5. 22 24. Noah was a just man and perfect or upright in his generation Noah walked with God c. according unto all which God commanded him so did he c. Gen. 6. 9 22. The Lord said unto Abram Get thee out of thy country c. so Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him Gen. 12. 1 4. The Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto him I am the Almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect or upright Gen. 17. 1 2. Abimelech said In the integrity of my heart c. have I done this c. And God said c. I know c. Gen. 20. 5 6 7. God said unto Abraham Take thy son c. and offer him c. And Abraham rose up early in the morning to go about it c. Gen. 22. 1 2 3 4 c. The Lord said to Moses Go I will be with thy mouth c. and he said O my Lord Send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses Exod. 4. 12 13 14. Jerem. 1. 6 7. Bring me an offering of every man who giveth it willingly with his heart Exod. 25. 1. My servant Moses who is faithful in all mine house with him will I speak mouth to mouth Num. 12. 7 8. Heb. 3. 2 5. But my servant Caleb because he had another spirit with him and hath followed me fully him will I bring into the land Num. 14. 24. ch 32. 12. Josh 14. 8 14. Take heed to thy self and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget c. lest they depart from thine heart c. thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 4. 9 29. The Lord said They have well said all that they have spoken O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear c. Deut. 5. 28 29. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but c. to serve the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 10. 12. 1 Sam. 12. 20. Thou shalt be perfect or upright or sincere with the Lord thy God Deut. 18. 13. The Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 26. 16. Cleave unto the Lord your God as ye have done unto this day Josh 23. 8. Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth Josh 24. 14. 1 Sam. 12. 24. Because Israel did not destroy all the inhabitants of the land according to command God said I will not drive them out
is a Spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 24. Amongst the chief Rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they would be put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more then the praise of God John 12. 42 43. The Eunuch said Here is water what hinders me to be baptized And Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest Acts 8. 36 37. Barnabas exhorteth them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord Acts 11. 23. None of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto my self so that I might finish my course with joy and the Ministry c. Acts 20. 24. I was not disobedient unto the heavenly Vision but shewed c. Acts 26. 17 18 19. He is not a Jew who is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God Rom. 2. 28 29. Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine whereto ye were delivered Rom. 6. 17. That which I would do I cannot what I hate I do c. I consent to the Law c. with my mind I serve the Lord c. Rom. 7. 14 15 c. Let love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is good c. Not slothful in business servent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 9 11. Amos 5. 15. For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power 1 Cor. 4. 20. Let us keep the Feast c. with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth 1 Cor. 5. 8. Ye are bought with a price be ye not servants of men c. let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God c. They who have wives be as tho they had none c. that you may attend on the Lord without distinction 1 Cor. 7. 23 24 29 30 31 c. So rua that ye may obtain 1 Cor. 9. 24. Hebr. 12. 1. Be ye followers of me even as I also am of Christ 1 Cor. 1â— 1. Though I bestow all my goods to seed the poor c. and have not charicy at profiteth me nothing 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of cur conscience that in simplicity and godly uncerity c. we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1. 12. We are not as many who corrupt the word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we c. 2 Cor. 2. 17. We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully 2 Cor. 4. 2. Let us cleanse our selves c. perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7. 1. If there be first a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath and not c. 2 Cor. 8. 12. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart c. God loveth a chearful giver 2 Cor. 9. 7. Be perfect c. 2 Cor. 13. 11. When it pleaseth God c. to reveal his Son in me c. immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood c. but I went c. Gal. 1. 15 16 17. Peter c. was to be blamed for before that certain came from James he did eat with the Gentiles but when they were come he withdrew and separated himself fearing them of the Circumcision and the other Jews dissembled likewise with him insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation But when I saw they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel I said unto Peter c. Gal. 2. 11 12 13 14. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good matter and not only when I am present with you Gal. 4. 18. Speaking the truth or being sincere in love may grow up in him Ephes 4. 15. Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children c. We are members of his body c. for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh this is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and his Church Ephes 5. 1 30 31 32. Servants be obedient c. in singleness of your heart as unto Christ not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart with good will doing service as to the Lord not unto men Ephes 6. 5 6 7. Col. 3. 22 23. This I pray c. that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ Phil. 1. 9 10. Do all things without murmuring or disputing c. that ye may be blameless and harmless or sincere and without rebuke c. All seek their own things few the things of Christ Phil. 2. 14 15 21. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained either were already perfect but I follow after if that I may apprehend c. This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth to those things which are before I press towards the mark c. Phil. 3. 11 12 13 14. 2 Cor. 7. 1. 2 Thess 1. 3. Epaphras c. always labouring or striving servently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God for I bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you Coâ—oss 4. 12 13. They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved 2 Thes 2. 10. I charge you before God c. that you observe these things without prejudice or preferring one before another doing nothing by partiality 1 Tim. 5. 21. No man who warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a Souldier 2 Tim. 2. 4. In all things shewing thy self c. in doctrine uncorruptness gravity sincerity c. who gave himself for us that he might c. purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Titus 2. 7 14. It behoveth us to attend the more to those things we have heard lest at any time we let them slip or they slide from us Hebr. 2. 1. All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 13. Luke 12. 1 2. Let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works c. We desire that everyone of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end that ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the
and hast not sainted c. Thou hast left thy first love remember therefore from whence thou art fallen To him who overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life c. Be faithful to the death and I will give thee a crown c. He shall not be hurt by the second death c. I will give to eat of the hidden Manna and will give him a white stone c. Hold fast till I come and he who overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end to him will I give power over the nations c. Hold fast c. Rev. 2. 3 4 5 7 10 11 17 25 26. He who overcometh shall be cloathed with white raiment c. Because thou hast kept the word c. I also will keep thee from the hour c. I will confess his name c. Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown c. I will make him a pillar c. I will grant him to sit on my throne c. Rev 3. 5 10 11 12 21. He shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son Rev. 21. 7. He who is righteous let him be righteous still and he who is holy let him be holy still Rev. 22. 11. When a man shall turn from his righteousness and do iniquity he shall die his righteousness shall not be remembred c. Ezek. 33. 13 18. See Holding fast to God in time of Affliction c. Chap. 22. See Repentance Chap. 33. That the Saints Believers shall be kept Have power given them to persevere and abide in the Faith c. Christ will uphold them HE will keep the feet of his saints 1 Sam. 29. 35. The steps of a good man are ordered or established by the Lord c. though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth with his hand c. Psal 37. 23 24. Micah 7. 8. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and afterwards receive me into glory Psal 73. 24. I will bring the blind by a way they know not I will lead them in paths they have not known I will make darkness light before them and crooked things streight These things will I do unto them and not forsake them Isaiah 42. 16. I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee Jer. 31. 3. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn 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 gone astray doth he not leave the ninety nine 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 Matth. 18. 11 12 13 14. There shall arise false Christs c. insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect Matth. 24. 24. Satan hath desired to winnow you c. But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not Luke 32. 31 32. The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life John 4. 14. 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 Father's will c. that of all he hath given me I should lose nothing but raise it up at the last day John 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 Father's hand I and my Father are one John 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. John 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 callings of God are without repentance Rom. 11. 29. Who art thou who judgeth another man's 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 he 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 Thes 5. 23 24. But the Lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you from evil or the eviâ— one 2 Thes 3. 3. I know whom I have believed and am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him 2 Tim. 1. 12. Who concerning the truth have erred c. Nevertheless the foundation 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 faith 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 if 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 John 2. 18 19 26 27. He that is
grudgings 1 Pet. 4. 9. We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren 1 John 9. 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. See Walking Humbly Chap. 16. IV. Not rashly easily and unadvisedly to judge or 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. Thou shalt not avenge or bear any grudge against the children of thy people Levit. 19. 18. 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. Eli thought Hannah was drunk when 〈◊〉 she was praying 1 Sam 1. 12 13 14 15 c. When Absalom desigued 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. David conceived evil of Mephibosheth without cause through Ziba's lye 2 Sam. 16. 3. 4. ch 19â— 24 25 c. 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. A wicked doer giveth heed to lying lips a lyar gives ear to a naughty tongue c. He who covereth a transgression seeketh love or procureth love Prov. 17. 4 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 Matth. 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. Judge 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 wilt thou say to thy brother let me pull out c. Mat. 7. 1 3 4. Gen. 38. 13 c. If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy brother c. Peter said Lord how oft shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him till seven times Jesus said unto him I say not unto thee until seven times but until seventy-times-seven c. I forgave thee all that debt c. Shouldest thou not also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant even as I had pity on thee c. and his Lord was wroth c. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you if ye from your hearts forgive 〈◊〉 every one his brother their trespasses Mat. 18. 15 21 22 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35. The disciples blamed the woman as wasting the oyntment but Christ justified her Matth. 26. 7 8 c. 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 for 〈◊〉 him Luke 17. 3 4. 〈◊〉 not according to the appearance but judge 〈◊〉 judgment Joh. 7. 24. Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple yet confessed not openly for fear John 19. 38 39. The believers of the circumcision rashly judged of Peter and contended with him for eating with the Gentiks 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 be judged of you or of mans judgment or day c. Judge 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 eaily 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. Titus 3. 2. Brethren if or although a man be overtaken in a fault ye who aâ—e 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-suffering 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 God c. bowels of mercies c. meekness long-suffering forbearing one another and forgiving one another If any man have a complaint or quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you so also do ye Col. 3. 8 12 13. Let every man be c. slow to wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God James 1. 19 20. Speak not evil one of another brethren for he who speaketh evil of his brother speaketh evil of the Law c. Who art thou who judgest another James 4. 11 12. Above all things have servent charity among your selves for Charity shall or will cover the multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. V. To live peaceably among themselves avoid whispering tale-bearing and whatsoever tends to provake divide or disturb the peace among them ABram said unto Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee c. for we be brethren c.
21. chap. 11. 18 19. A man may not disinherit his first-born son If any man have a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastned him will not hearken unto them then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him c. and all the men of his City shall stone him c. Deut. 21. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Cursed be he who lightly esteems his father or mother Deut. 27. 16. Gather c. men women and children c. that they may hear c. that they may learn and fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. Set your hearts unto all the words c. which ye shall command your children to observe to do all the words of this law Deut. 32. 46. When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come saying What mean these stones then ye shall let your children know saying Israel came over Jordan on dry land for the Lord your God dryed up c. Josh 4. 20 21 22 23. Deut. 4. 9 10 ch 6. 20 21. Ruths great love to her mother-in-law recorded Ruth 1. 15 16 17. Eli was old and heard all that his sons did unto Israel and how they lay with the women c. and he said unto them Why do you such things for I hear of your evil dealings c. nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear c. If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 24 25. I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken c. for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not or frowned not upon them 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. Bathsheba king Solomon's mother came to him he rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her caused a seat to be set for her on his right-hand 1 Kings 2. 19. David prays for Solomon his son and instructs him to keep the law 1 Chron. 22. 11 12 13. Job offered burnt-offerings for his sons continually for Job said It may be that my sons have sinned c. Job 1. 4 5. I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us we will not hide them from their children shewing the generations to come the praises of the Lord c. that the generation to come might know the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God c. Psal 78. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Lo children are an heritage of the Lord the fruit of the womb a reward happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them Psal 127. 3 4 5. Ps 128. 3. Gen. 4. 1 25. ch 15. 2 3. ch 25. 21. ch 30. 22. 23 24. 1 Sam. 1. 5 6 10 11. Luke 1. 24 25. My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother Prov. 1. 8. ch 4. 1 2 c. ch 6. 20. A wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother Prov. 10. 1. ch 17. 25. ch 18. 13. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens children c. He who spareth his rod hateth his son but he who loveth him chasteneth him tâ— times Prov. 13. 22 24. Chasten thy son while there is hope and let not thy soul spire for his crying Prov. 19. 18. Whoso curseth his father or mother his lampshall be put out in obscure darkness Prov. 20. 20. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it c. Foolishâ—â—ss is bound in the heart of a child the rod of correction shall drive it Prov. 22. 6 15. Withhold not correction from the child for if thou beat him with the rod he shall not die thou shalt beat him with a rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell Prov. 23. 13 14. Whoso robbeth his father or his mother and saith it is no transgression the same is a companion of a destroyer Prov. 28. 24. The rod and reproof give wisdom but a child left bringeth his mother to shame Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest c. Prov. 29. 15 17. The eye which mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the Ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Prov. 30. 17. The sons of Jonadab commended by God himself for their obedience to their fathers commands and rewarded Jer. 35. 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 19. Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive Jer. 49. 11. In thee they have set light by father and mother Ezek. 22. 7. A son honoureth his father Mal. 1. 6. He shall turn the heart of the father to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers Mal. 4. 6. I am come to set a man at variance against his father c. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me Mat. 10. 35 37. God commanded saying Honour thy father and thy mother and he who curseth father or mother let him dye the death But ye say c. Mat. 15. 4 5 6. Jesus went down with his parents c. and was subject unto them Luke 2. 51. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children 2 Cor. 12. 14. Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right honour thy father c. And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Eph. 6. 1 2 3 4. Children obey your parents in all things for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. Fathers provoke not your children lest they be discouraged Col. 3. 20 21. One who ruleth well in his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity 1 Tim. 3. 4. If a Widow have children c. let them learn to shew kindness at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before God c. If any provide not for his own house c. If any man or woman believeth not have widows let them relieve them c. 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. Perilous times shall come c. Men shall be disobedient to parents c. without natural affection 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3. Teach the young men c. to love their children Tit. 2. 4. III. Masters to their Servants and Servants to their Masters HAgar despised her mistress Sarah dealt hardly with her she fled from her face c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return to thy mistress and submit thy self under her hands Gen. 16. 4
the sight of men 2 Cor. 8. 21. Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others c. Do all things without murmuring or dispurings that ye may be blameless and harmless or sincere the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ye shine or shine ye as lights in the world Phil. 2. 4 14 15. Let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand Phil. 4. 5. Walk in wisdom towards them who are without c. Let your speech be always with grace c. that ye may know how to answer every man Col. 4. 5 6. The Lord 〈◊〉 you to increase c. abound in love c. towards all men 1 Thes 3. 12. Ephes 5. 2. That ye study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work 〈◊〉 your own hands c. That we may walk 〈◊〉 towards them who are without and that ye may have â—ack of nothing or of no men 1 Thes 4. 11 12. We exhort you brethren c. be patient towards all men See that noâ—e render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among your selves and to all men 1 Thes 5. 14 15. That ye be sober grave temperate sound in faith charity patience c. The aged women likewise c. In all things shew thy self a pattern of good works c. sound speech that cannot be condemned that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you Titus 2. 2 3 6 7 8. Put them in mind c. to be ready to every good work c. To be no brawler our gentle shewing all meekness unto all men for we c. Titus 3. 1 2 3. Wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and envies and evil speakings c. abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul having your conversation honest amongst the Gentiles that whereas they or wherein they speak against you as evil doers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of visitation c. For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men c. Honour or esteem all men 1 Pet. 2. 1 11 12 15 17. Job 17. 5. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope which is in you with meekness and fear having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil-doers they may be ashamed who falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ c. 1 Pet. 3. 14 15 16 17. II. In Particular Not to Judge them or speak Evil of them THou givest thy mouth to evil c. thou sittest and speakest against thy brother c. thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self c. Psalm 50. 19 20 21. Judge not that ye be not judged for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged Matth. 7. 1 2. Judge nothing before the time until the Lord come 1 Cor. 4. 5. Charity c. thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 5. Put them in mind to speak evil of no man c. for we our selves were sometimes foolish disobedieâ— Titus 3. 1 2 3. Speak not evil one of another c. who art thou who judgest another James 4. 11 12. Wherefore laying aside c. all evil speakings 1 Pet. 2. 1. III. Be Just Righteous True and Faithful to and with them in all things of Trust and Dealing THAT which is altogether just or Justice shalt thou follow that thou c. Deut. 10. 20. Ye shall not c. deal falsly neither lye one to â—o another c. Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour nor rob him c. ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment in meteyard in weight or in measure just ballances just weights a just Ephah and a just Hin shall ye have I the Lord your God Levit. 19. 11 13 34 35 36. Job 17. 5. Levit. 25. 17. If thou sell ought unto thy neighbour or buyest ought of thy neighbours hand ye shall not oppress one another Levit. 25. 14. Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures a great and a small c. Deut. 25. 14 15. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness Psalm 11. 7. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord but a just weight is his delight Prov. 11. 1. ch 16. 11. Micah 6. 10 11. Divers weights or a stone and a stone and divers measures or an Ephah and an Ephah are both alike abominations to the Lord Prov. 20. 10. Amos. 8. 5. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice c. It is the joy of the just to do judgment Prov. 21. 3 15. Micah 6. 6 7 8. Remove not the ancient land-marks or bound which thy father have set Enter not into the field of the fatherless for their redeemer is mighty he shall plead their cause with thee Prov. 22. 28. ch 23. 10 11. As as a mad man c. so is he who deceiveth his neighbour and saith Am I not in sport Prov. 26. 18 19. God complained against Israel None calleth for justice nor any pleadeth for truth Isa 59. 4. Wo to him who buildeth his house by unrighteousness and his chamber by wrong who useth his neighbours service without wages c. Jer. 22. 13. In thee they deal by oppression with the stranger Ezek. 22. 7 29. Daniel was faithful in his trust neither was there any error or fault found in him Dan. 6. 4 5. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly c. Micah 6. 8. The just Lord in the midst thereof he will not do iniquity Zeph. 4. 5. Have we not all one Father hath not one God created us Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother Malachi 2. 10. Jesus said unto the Publicans Exact no more than that which is appointed you c. And to the Soldiers he said Do no violence to any man c. be content with your wages c. Luke 3. 13 14. He who is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much c. Luke 16. 10 11 12. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute c. owe no man any thing but to love c. Rom. 13. 7 8. Nay you do wrong and defraud c. know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit c. 1 Cor. 6. 8 9. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter because the Lord is the avenger of such 1 Thes 4. 6. Follow righteousness 1 Tim. 6. 11. The hire of the labourers which ye kept back by fraud cryeth and the cries c. have entred c. James 5. 1 4. IV. Live at Peace with them every one doing their own
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. He who is glad at calamities shall not go unâ—â—â—ushed Prov. 17. 5. 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 coals c. and the Lord shall reward thee Prov. 25. 21 22. 2 Chron. 28. 11 15. Prov. 24. 11 12. 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 〈◊〉 you 〈◊〉 reward have ye Do not even the Publicans the same Matth. 5. 7 44 45 46. Luke 6. 32 33 35 36. Christ had compassions on the multitude and did them good Matth. 9. 36. ch 14. 14. ch 15. 32. The Samaritan's compassion and care of the wounded in the Parable commended Luke 10. 30 31 c. 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. Micah 6. 8. The Lord make you to encrease 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. The wisdom that is from above is c. full of mercy and good fruits c. James 3. 17. Not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing but contrariwise blessing 1 Pet. 3. 9. He shall have judgment without mercy who doth not shew mercy James 2. 13. See this Duty towards Persecutors Chap. 22. See giving to the Poor at large Chap. 17. VII 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. Let me not give flattering titles to any man c. my maker would soon take me away Job 32. 21 22. 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 is in heaven is perfect Matth. 5. 47 48. When ye come into an house salute it Matth. 10. 12. When thou art bidden c. sit not down in the highest room lest 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 fate at meat with thee Luke 14. 8 9 10. I am not mad most noble Festus said Paul but speak forth the word c. Acts 26. 24 25. I c. communicated that gospel c. but privately to them who were of reputation Gal. 2. 2. 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 John vers 1 5. VIII 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 32 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 sit 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 lies shall not tarry in my sight Psal 101. 4 6 7. Psal 119. 115. Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech c. with him who hateth peace I for peace c. they for war Psal 120. 5 6 7. Do not I hate them who hate thee O Lord c. 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 entice 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 〈◊〉 thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge Prov 14. 7. Make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man thou shalt not go left thou learn his ways and get a snare unto thy soul Prov. 22. 24 25. Be not thou envious against evil men neither desire to be with them Prov. 24. 1 2. 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 muâ—t 〈◊〉 needs go out of this world 1 Cor. 5. 9 10. Ephâ—s 5. 5 6
clothed me not sick and in prison and ye visited me not Then shall they answer him saying Lord when saw we thee an hungry then shall he answer them saying Verily I say unto you inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me Matth. 25. 34 35 36 37 40 41 42 43 44 45. Better a mill-stone were hanged about your neck c. than that ye offend one of these c. Luke 17. 1 2 3 c. And Saul yet breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord c. he heard a voice saying unto him Saul Saul why persecutest thou me and he said Who art thou Lord and the Lord said I am Jesus whom thou persecutest it is hard for thee to kick c. Acts 9. 1 2 3 4 5. ch 26. 14 15. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ affliction distress persecution c. nothing shall c. Rom. 8. 35 36 38. We are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones Ephes 5. 30. We have not an High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin Heb. 4. 15. ch 2. 18. ch 5. 2. See Union and Relation between Christ and his Church Chap. 15. Cons 8. That the greater the Afflictions and Distresses of the Saints have been the more wonderful have their Deliverances been and then hath Salvation been nearest when Extremity was highest and Danger nearest WHen Lot was taken prisoner and carryed away and all his goods God by Abrahaâ—â— wonderfully recovered all and brought him back again Gen. 14. 11 12 13 14 15 16. Josephs strange deliverance out of the prison and pit there Gen. 41. â—agar is in such distress for her child for want of water thâ—t she lays it down and leaves it that she might not see it die and sits far off weeping then Gods speaks to her by the Angel and God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water c. Gen. 21. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Jacobs salvation from Esau c. and his seeing Joseph when he reckoned Benjamin lost Gen. 32. ch 33. ch 43. 14. ch 45. 27 28. When the Egyptians oppressed most and made Israels burdens heaviest insomuch that they despaired then God came and made known himself and said to Moses Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh for with a strong hand shall he let them go c. I have also heard the groanings of the children of Israel c. I will bring ye out from under the burden of the Egyptians and I will rid you out of their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgment c. Exod. 5. ch 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. And God did so deliver them after he had shewed many wonders upon the Egyptians and smote their first-born Exod. 12. 29 30 31 32 c. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light c. Exod. 13. 21. When Pharaoh and his host pursued Israel so that they reckoned themselves lost and were in great distress then the Angel of God which went before the camp removed and went behind them c. between the camp of the Egyptians and them and the Lord divided the sea while Israel passed through and there drowned all the Egyptians Exod. 14. 10 11 12 16 17 18 c. When Israel wanted bread in the wilderness God rained Manna and flesh Exod. 16. The Lord shall judge his people and repent himself for his servants when he seeth that their power is gone and there is none shut up or left Deut. 32. 36. he often did so with Israel Judges throughout and 2 Kings 14. 26. David was in frequent danger from Saul yet God did wonderfully deliver him 1 Sam. 23. 26 27 28. ch 24. ch 26. When David was great in distress because Ziklag was burned his wives and the wives of his followers taken away and all their substance by the Amalekites and his men spake of killing him then God directs him to pursue the Amalekites and he recovered all again by a wonderful hand 1 Sam. 30. 1 2 3 to the 20. again 1 Sam. 23. 27. When king David was in great danger at hand by the counsel of Ahitophel in the time of Absoloms rebellion God overthrew his counsel by the counsel of Hushai and so marvellously preserved David 2 Sam. 17. 1 2 3 c. When Elijah fâ—ed â—rom Ahab in a time of famine God commanded the Ravens to feed him c. and the Ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morn c. when the brook dried up God sent him to a widow to nouâ—â—sh him when her meal was out God caused the barrel of meal not to waâ—te the cruse of oyl not to fail until the Lord sent rain 1 King 17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 to the 17. Gen. 45. 6 7. So again when he fled from Jezebel an had requested of God that he might die the angel comes to him and gives him bread and water twice and then enabled him to go in the strength thereof many days 1 Kings 19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. When the wife of one of the sons of the Prophets was in distress because of poverty and danger of creditors God by Elisha makes her pot of oyl to increase to the filling of many vessels to pay her debts with 2 Kings 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. When the Assyrians came to Dothan to take Elisha God marvelously delivered him from their hands When Samaria was besieged and in great distress by reason of the sad famine in it God on a sudden makes the Assyrians fly and leave plenty behind them in their camp and so relieved his people 2 Kings 6. ch 7. When Jerusalem was in sore distress God sent an Angel to the Assyrians 2 Kings 19. 25. When Judah was environed the battel before and behind them then God delivered them and overcame their enemies slew five hundred thousand of them 2 Chron. 13. 14 15 16 17 18. God delivered the afflicted Jews by Nehemiah in a wonderful manner Nehem. 1. 2 3 ch 2. When the Jews were by Hamans procurement appointed to slaughter and the decree just ready to be executed and they greatly distressed and helpless Then God appeared and delivered in a marvellous manner Esther 1. 19 20. chap. 3. chap. 6. chap. 7. Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress Psal 4. 1. When the Psalmist had reckoned up the sad state Gods people had been reduced to he saith Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep like a mighty man c. and he smote his enemies in the hinder part he put them to a perpetual reproach Psal 7â— 61 62 63 6â— 65 66. Thou turnest man to destruction
things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ Acts 2â— 30 31. I thank my God c. that your faith is spoken of c. Without ceasing I make ment on of you always in my prayers c. I 〈◊〉 to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end you may be established c. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation Rom. 1. 8 9 10 11 16. Col. 1. 9. Ephes 1. 15 16. I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient c. I beseech you brethren for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake c. that ye thive together with me in your prayer to 〈◊〉 me that I may be delivered from them who do not believe c. Rom. 15. 18 â—0 When I came to you I came not in the excellency of speech or of wisdom declaring unto you the testimony of God for I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him 〈◊〉 c. and my speech and my preaching was not with inticing or perswasible words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit c. which things also we speak not in the words man's wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual c. 1 Cor. 2. 1 2 3 4 13. ch 15. 1 2 3 4. And I brethren could not speak unto you as spiritual c. I have fed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able c. I have planted c. but God gave the increase so then neither is he who planteth any thing c. 1 Cor. 3. 1 2 6 7. Account of us as c. stewards of the mystery of God moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful c. Even to this present hour we hunger c. and labour working with our own hands 1 Cor. 4. 2 11 12. 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 t. 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 to 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 judge 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. The Gospel which I have preached to you c. which I received c. that Christ died forour sins according to the scripture c. 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. 1 2 3 4 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. ch 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. Ephes 3. 7. Commending our selves to every man's 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 ambassadors 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 and distresses c. by pureness by knowledge 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 rejoice 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 burdensom 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 edifying 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 c. Gal. 1. 10 c. 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 left I have bestowed labour in vain Gal. 3. ch â— 10 11. When he ascended up on high c. he gave gifts unto mem c. and he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastours and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints c. for the work of the ministry c.
ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come into the unity of the saith 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 to v. 13. 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. Rebuke not an elder but admonish him as a father and the younger men as brethren the elder women c. Let the elders who rule well c. especially they who labour in the word and doctrine 1 Tim. 5. 1 17. O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding prophane and vain babbling 1 Tim. 6. 20. I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee c. 2 Tim. 1. 6 7. 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. a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word c. shun profane and vain babbling 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 15 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-willed 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 sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers Titus 1. 5 6 7 8 9. Shewing thy self a pattern c. in doctrine uncoruptness gravity sincerity c. sound speech which cannot be condemned c. these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority Titus 2. 7 8 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. seed 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 God's heritage but being examples of the flock 1 Pet. 5. 1 2 3 4. Diotrephes who loveth to have the preheminence received us not 3 John v. 9 10. See more in Gospel-Preachers in general Chap. 26. II. 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 lying 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 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. ch 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 vineyard 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 c. The Prophets c. They strengthen the hands of evil-doers so that none do return from his wickedness Jer. 23. 1 2. The Priests and the Prophets advise to put Jeremiah to death because he told them what God spake Jer. 26. 10 11 16. 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 strengthened neither have ye healed that which was sick c. but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled Ezek. 34. 2 3 4 8 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 Zeph. 3. 4. Wo to the idol-shepherd who leaveth the flock the sword shall be upon his c. Zech. 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. Mal. 1. 6 7 8. The priests lips should keep knowledge 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 Mal. 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. III. The Church's Duty towards their Officers and such other who labour among them PRovide neither gold nor silver c. for the work-man is worthy of his meat Matth. 10. 9 10. They all wept sore 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 no power to eat and drink c. to forbear working c. Who goeth to warfare at any time at his own charges c. Say I these things as a man or faith 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 gosple 1 Cor. 9. 4 5 6 to 15. Know the house of Stephanus c. that you submit your selves unto such and to every one who hespeth with us and laboureth 1 Cor. 16. 15 16. Ye received me as an Angel c. Am I therefore become your enemy because I told 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 Thes 5. 25. 2 Thes 3. 1 2. 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. Philip. 2. 25 21 29 30. Ye sent once and again unto my necessity not because I desire a gift but I desire â—â—uit 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 Philip. 4. 15 to 19. 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 Thes 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 ox c. The labourer is worthy of his hire Against an elder receive not an acculation but before two or three witnesses 1 Tim. 5. 17 18 19. Remember them who have the rule over you who have spoken to you the word of God whose faith follow c. 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. IV. Of the Election and Ordination of Officers in Churches AND the Lord spake unto 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 son and washed them c. Levit. 8. â— 2 3 4 5 6 â— 8 9 c. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabâ—râ—â—cle of the congregation and thou shalt gather 〈◊〉 whole assembly of the children of Israel together and thou shalt bring the Levâ—tes before the 〈◊〉 and the children of 〈◊〉 shall put their hands Numb 8. 9 11. Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said the number about an hundred and twenty 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. And they appointed two c. And they prayed and said Lord who knowest the hearts of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen c. And they gave forth their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias and he was numbred with the eleven Acts 1. 15 21 27. Then the twelve called the multitude c. and said c. Brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report c. whom we may appoint over this business c. And the saying pleased the multitude and they chose Stephen c. Acts 6. 2 3 5 6. And when they had ordained them elders by suffrage in every Church and had prayed with fasting they commended them to the Lord Acts 14. 22 23. For this cause left I thee in Crete c. And ordain elders in every city as I had appointed Titus 1. 5. Twelfthly Of Laying on of Hands upon the several Occasions and to the several Ends in Scripture mentioned BRing forth him who hath cursed c. let all who heard him lay their hands on his head Levit. 24. 14. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord and the children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites Numb 8. 9 10. Moses set Joshua before the congregation and he laid his hands upon him and c. Numb 27. 18 19 22 23. Joshua c. was full of the spirit of wisdom for Moses had laid his hands upon him Deut. 34. 9. They chose Stephen c. whom they set before the aposties and when they had prayed they laid their hands upon
of the simple Rom. 16. 17 18. There must be also herenes 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. We are not as many who corrupt the word of God c. 2 Cor. 2. 17. 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 left they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ for neither they themselves that are circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh Gal. 6. 12 13. Philip. 3. 2. 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 enticing 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 judge you in meat 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 to 24. 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 one 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 Thes 2. 2 3 4 8 to 13. Rev. 13. 13 14. 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 consciences â—eared with a hot iron forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats c. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. If any man teach otherwise c. he is proud knowing nothing but doting or sick about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy c. perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gain is godliness from such withdraw thy self Some c. have erred 1 Tim. 6. 1 2 3 4 5 20 21. Strive not about words to no profit to the subverting of the hearers c. Shun prophane and vain babling for they will increase to more ungodliness and their word will eat as doth a canker or gangrene Of whom is Hymeneus c. Who concerning the truth have erred saying That the resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure c. 2 Tim. 2. 14 16 17 18 19. Perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those who are good traitors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away for of this sort are they who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers lusts ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobate or of no judgment concerning the faith c. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived but continue thou in the things c. 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13 14. The time will come when they will not endure found doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap up to themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from truth and shall be turned unto fables But watch thou c. 2 Tim. 4. 3 4 5. A bishop must be blameless c. holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught or in teaching that he may be able by found doctrine both to exhort and convince the gain-sayers for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers especially they of the circumcision whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre sake Rebuke them sharply c. not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth c. They profess that they know God but in works they deny him being c. Titus 1. 7 9 10 11 13 14 16. Be not carried about with divers and strange dectrines for it is a good thing that the heart c. Heb. 13. 9. But there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be
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 theâ—â—are of the Devil 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts c. Heb. 4. 7. ch 3. 15. Ps 95. 7 8. 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 crucifie 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 9 10. 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 worâ—s or the I will come unto 〈◊〉 quickly c. thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam c. 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 I will come c. I gave her space to 〈◊〉 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. See more of departing from Sin Chap. 16. See more of Invitations and incouragements to come to God and Christ for it Chap. 20. CHAP XXXIV Of Death the laying down of these Tabernacles AND the Lord formed man of the dust of the ground or dusâ— of the ground Gen. 2. 7. Job 4. 19. 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. ch 25. 8. I have undertaken to speak unto the Lord who am but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 27. Sarah died 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 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. ch 35 28 29. Rachel died in bearing Benjamiâ— by the way buryed there and a stone put upon her grave Gen. 35. 17 18 19 c. 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. Jacob ordered Joseph not to bury him in Egypt but to carry him to the burying place to his father Gen. 47. 29 30. Joseph wepâ— for his father Israel when he dyed and there was great mourning and lamentation for him 〈◊〉 50. â— 3 10 17. Aaron dyed in the mount c. all the house of Israel mourned for him thirty days Numb 20. 28 29. Deut. 34. 8. Balaam 〈◊〉 let me die the death of the righteous and let my laâ—t â—â—d be like his Numbers 2â— 10. And the Lord said unto Moses c. When thou hast seen it thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people as Aaron thy brother was gathered for ye 〈◊〉 c. Numb 27. 12 13 14. Deut. 34. 5. O that they were wise c. that they would consider their latter end Deut. 32. 29. Joshua said Behold this day I am going the way of all the earth c. Josh 23. 14. â— Kings 2. 2. Now Samuel was dead and all Israel lamented him c. and Samuel said unto Saul Why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up 1 Sam. 28. 3 15. David and the men with him mourned and wept and fasted until even for Saul and for Jonathan c. 2 Sam. 1. 11 12. When Davids child was sick he fasted and prayed he said who can tell if God will be gracious to me that the child may live but when it was dead he rose up and did eat and said I shall go to him he shall not return to me 2 Sam. 12. 16 17 20 22 23. David wept for Absolom his son and cryed O my son Absolom my son c. 2 Sam. 18. 33. ch 19 4. The child shall die and all Israel shall mourn c. for he only c. shall come to the grave 1 Kings 14. 12 13. Elijah stretched himself upon the dead child c. and said O Lord my God I pray thee let this childs soul come into him again or into his inward parts 1 Kings 17. 21 22. Acts 20. 10. We are all strangers c. our days on the earth are as a shadow and there is none abiding 1 Chron. 29. 15. Zech. 1. 5. Job said Why died I not in the womb c for now should I have lien still and been quiet I should have slept then had I been at rest with Kings c. there the wicked cease trroubling the weary are are at rest c. they hear not the voice c. Job 3. 11 13 14 17 18 19. ch 6. 8 9. ch 10 18 19 20 c. Naked came I out of my mothers womb c. the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken blessed c. Job 1. 21. Is there not an appointed time to man on earth are not his days also like the days of an hireling c. Swiâ—ter then a weavers shuttle c. thine eye upon me and I am not c. Job 7. 1 2 6 7 8 9 10. We are of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are a shadow Job 8. 9. My days are swifter then a post c. as the swist ships as the eagle c Job 9. 25 26. Man who
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 Thes 2. 1 2 3. Until the illustrious appearance of our Lord Jesus c. 1 Tim. 6. 14. The Lord Jesus who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom c. a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge 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. 2 Tim. 1. 10. Not laying again the foundation c. of eternal judgment Heb. 6. 1 2. It is appointed for aâ—l men once to die but after this the judgment so Christ c. unto them who look for him shall â—e appear the second time without sin Heb. 9. 27 2â— A certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indâ—gnation which shall devour the adversary c. It is a feartel thing so fall into the hands of the living God Heâ— 10. 27 31. Ye are câ—â—e unto mount Zâ—on c. and to God the Judge 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 uâ—to praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ c. the Father who without respect or persons Judgeth according unto every mans works 1 Pet. 1. 7 13 17. Psal 62. 12. Who shall give account unto him who is ready to judge the quick and the dead c. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and waten unto prayer c. The time is come that judgment must began at the house of God c. What shall the 〈◊〉 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. If God spared not the Angels who sinned but cast them down c. to be reserved unto judgment c. The Lord knoweth how c. to reserve the the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished 2 Pet. 2. 4 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 â—eginning c. the heavens and the earth which now are by the same word are kept in store reserved unto she 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 conndence at his coming 1 John 2. 28. That we may have â—oldness 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 thousand 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. I will give to every one of you according to to your works Rev. 2. 23. 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 mighâ—y 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 or him who sitteth upon the throne and from the wâ—ath 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. Mark 13. 31. The nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and thou shouldit give unto thy servants a reward c. Rev. 11. 18. ch 14. 7. 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 restified 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 Râ—â— 2. 2. Be not deceived c. for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he who soweth to the flesh shall or the flesh reap c. Gal. 6. 7 8. See the Duty of Waiting for Christ's Coming Chap. 16. CHAP. XXXVII Of the Glory prepared for the Saints and reserved to be given to them at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ MAN hath not heard nor perceived c. what he hath prepared for them who wait for him Isa 64. 4. 1 Cor. 2. 9 10. Verily there is a reward for the righteous Psal 58. 11. If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable 1 Câ—r 15. 19. 1 Tim. 4. 8. 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. In thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand pleasure for evermore Psalm 16. 11. Psalm 17. 15. 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. Luke 16. 22 25. 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 Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 32. James 2. 5. Thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. And the resurrection c. Neither can they die any more for they are equal unto the Angels and are the children of God Luke 20. 36. John 5. 29. Isa 25. 8. Lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh Luke 21. 28. 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. In my Father's house are many mansions if it were not c. I go to prepare a place for you c. I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also John 14. 2 3 19. ch 12. 26. 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 joint 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 c. Whom he justified them he also glorified Rom. 8. 17 18 19 23 30. Heb. 1. 14. ch 2. 10. 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 to 56. 2 Cor. 5. 4. Our light affliction c. worketh for us a â—ar more exceeding and eternal weight of glory c. The things which are not seen are eternal 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. Matth. 5. 11 12. 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 Philip. 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 Thes 14. 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 Thes 1. 7 10. He called you unto the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ 2 Thes 2. 14. 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. 31 35. Prov. 8. 21. Abraham 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 were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11. 10 16 35. ch 13. 14. Ye are come to mount Sion unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerasalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general assembly c. unto God the Judge of all and to she spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the mediator 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. ch 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 oy Jesus Christ c. 1 Pet. 5. 1 4 10. We
of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made even his eternal Power and Godhead so that they are without excuse because when they knew God they did not glorifie him as God c. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge God gave them up c. Rom. 1. 19 20 21 28. Psal 19. 1 2 c. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness c. not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance c. Thou art called a Jew c. and kâ—â—west his will c. Rom. 2. 4 18 19. The way of peace they have not known c. By the law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3. 17 20. ch 7. 7. We glory also in tribulation knowing that tribulation worketh patience c. Rom. 5. 3 4. They have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge for they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own c. have not submitted c. Rom. 10. 2 3. I would not brethren that ye should be ignorant in this mystery lest ye should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part is happened to Israel c. O the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counsellor Rom. 11. 25 33 34. That ye may prove what is that good and acceptable will of God Rom. 12. 2. I my self also am perswaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness and filled with all knowledge able also to admomsh one another Rom. 15. 14. The mystery which was kept secret since the world began but now is made manifest and by the Scriptures of the Prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God made known to all nations Rom. 16. 25 26. In every thing ye are enriched c. and in all knowledge c. The world by wisdom knew not God c. 1 Cor. 1. 5 21. I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified c. We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery c. which none of the Princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory c. God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit c. The things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God Now we have received the spirit which is of God that we might know the things which are freely given to us of God c. the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God c. neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned c. Who hath known the mind of the Lord c. but we have the mind of Christ 1 Cor. 2. 2 7 8. 10 11 12 14 16. Psal 92. 5 6. If any c. seemeth to be wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise 1 Cor. 3. 18. Do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the world c. Know ye not c. 1 Cor. 6. 2 3 15. We know that we all have knowledge knowledge pusseth up but charity edisieth and if any man thinketh he knoweth any thing he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know c. We know that an Idol is nothing c. howbeâ—t there is not in every man that knowledge 1 Cor. 8. 1 2 4 7. I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud 1 Cor. 10. 1 2. To another the word of knowledge by the same spirit 1 Cor. 12. 8. Though I c. understand all mysteries and all knowledge c. and have no charity I am nothing c. Whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away for we know in part c. now we see through a glass darkly or in a riddle but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known 1 Cor. 13. 2 8 9 10 12. Job 8 9. If any man be ignorant let him be ignorant 1 Cor. 14. 38. Some have not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame 1 Cor. 15. 34. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices 2 Cor. 2. 11. But their minds were blinded for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old Testament c. When Moses is read the vail is upon their heart 2 Cor. 3. 14 15. If our Gospel be hid it is hid to them who are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel c. should shine in them c. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the c. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4 6. We know that if our earthly house c. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. Henceforth know we no man after the flesh yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth know we him no more 2 Cor. 5. 1 11 16. Therefore as ye abound in every thing c. in knowledge 2 Cor. 8. 7. Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods but now after that ye have known God or rather are known of God c. Gal. 4. 8 9. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will c. That God c. may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightned that ye may know what is the hope c. Ephes 1. 9 17 18 19. The mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as c. that ye may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth c. and to know the love of Christ which surpasseth knowledge Ephes 3. 4 5 18 19. He gave some Apostles c. till we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God c. Walk not as other Gentiles c. having the understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the blindness or hardness of their hearts Ephes 4. 11 12 13 17 18. 1 Thes 4. 5. Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord 〈◊〉 understanding what the will of the Lord is 〈◊〉 5. 10 17. That your love may abound c. in knowledge and in all judgment c. Phil. 1. 9. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus c. that I may know him and the power of
now I will go unto the Lord peradventure I shall make an attonement for your sin Exod. 32. 30. The Lord shall epent himself for his servants when he seeth that power is gone c. Deut. 32. 36. Ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you and from off your gods and from off your land 1 Sam. 6. 5. And Jonathan said c. Come and let us go over unto the garison of these uncircumcised it may be that the Lord will work for us for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or few 1 Sam. 14. 6. While the child was yet alive I fasted and wept for I said Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the child may live 2 Sam. 12. 22. Let him alone and let him curse c. it may be the Lord will look on mine affliction and that the Lord will requite good for his curing this day 2 Sam. 16. 12. Why sit we hear until we die If we enter into the city then the famine is in the city and we shall die there c. Now therefore come let us sall into the host of the Assyrians if they save us we shall live if they kill us we shall but die c. 2 Kings 7. 3 4 c. This day is a day of trouble c. it may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh c. and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard Wherefore lift up prayers for the remnant which are left 2 Kings 19. 3 4. We have trespassed against our God and have taken strange wives c. yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives c. Ezra 10. 2 3. O my God I cry in the day time and thou hearest not c. be not far from me c. Psalm 22. 2 3 to the 12. It is good for a man that beareth his yoke in his youth c. He putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there be hope Lam. 3. 27 29. Israel said Our bones are dried and our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts c. Thus saith the Lord Behold O my people I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel Ezek. 37. 11 12 13. O King c. break off thy sins by righteousness c. if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility or healing of thine error Dan. 4. 27. Rent your hearts c. who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him c. Joel 2. 13 14. Hate the evil and love the good and establish judgment in the gates it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph Amos 5. 15. The ship was like to be broken c. Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship and he lay and was fast asleep and the Ship-master came to him and said to him c. Arise call upon thy God if so be that God will think upon us thaâ— we perish not Jonah 1. 4 5 6. Jonah when in the Fish's belly said I am cass out of thy fight yet will I look again unto thy holy temple c. when my soul sainted within me I remembred the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee into thine holy temple Jonah 2. 1 2 3 4 7. Let man and beast be covered with sack-cloth and cry mightily unto God yea let them turn every man from his evil way c. Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not Jonah 3. 8 9 10. Seek ye the Lord all ye meek c. It may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger Zeph. 2. 3. The Woman who had had the bloody Issue twelve years and had spent much upon Physicians to no purpose came and touched Christ and was healed Luke 8. 43 44 45 46 47 48. John 5. 5 6 7 8 9. The Woman of Canaan though Christ answered her roughly cried still and prevailed Mark 7. 26 27 c. Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee for I perceive thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity Acts 8. 22 23. In meekness instructing them who oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth and that they may recover them out of the snare of the Devil who are taken captive by him at his will 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. See Repentance Chap. 33. See Crying to God in time of Afflictions Chap. 22. See Salvations in such low Conditions Ibid. CHAP. L. God takes notice of a little Good and Humblings in any and requites it and commends it HE only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him there is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam 1 Kings 14. 12 13. Ahab c. rent his clothes and put sack-cloath upon his flesh c. and went softly c. Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me because he humbleth himself before me I will not bring the evil in his days 1 Kings 21. 27 28 29. Jehu commended and rewarded for his zeal in executing the Judgments of God upon Ahab's house 2 Kings 10. 30. Because thine heart was tender saith God to Josiah and thou hast humbled thy self before the Lord c. and hast rent thy clothes and hast wept before me I also have heard saith the Lord. Behold therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers c. in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place 2 Kings 22. 18 19 20. When the Lord saw that Rehoboam and the princes humbled themselves he said I will not destroy them but I will grant them some deliverance c. God would not destroy him altogether 2 Chron. 12. 6 7 12. Thus saith the Lord I remember the kindness of thy youth the love of thine Espousals when thou wentest after me in the wilderness in a land which was not sown Jer. 2. 2. Thus God did note and commend the good of the Churches in Asia Rev. 2. 2 3 9 13 19. ch 3. 4 8 10 11. CHAP. LI. Of Vowes and Promises to God JAcob vowed a vow saying If God will be with me and will keep me in this way and will give me bread to eat c. then shall the Lord be my God c. Gen. 28. 20 21 22. ch 31. 13. The Law for redemption of the things vowed Levit. 17. The Law about â—ows where it binds and is to be kept and where not Numb 30. When thou shalt vow to the Lord thy God
for they did unto thee evil c. And Joseph wept when he heard it c. Gen. 50. 15 16 17. When Pharaoh had charged the Midwives with breaking his Commands and saving the Men-children alive they said unto him Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women for they are lively and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them Therefore God dealt well with the midwives c. Exod. 1. 16 to 21. When Rahab had hid the Spies and the King had sent for them she said There came men unto me but I wist not whence c. when it was dark the men went out whither c. I wot not pursue after them quickly for ye shall overtake them But she had brought them up to the roof of the house and hid them c. Joshua 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6. When the Inhabitants of Gibeen came to Joshua they took old Sacks c. and said to Joshua We be come from a far country now therefore make ye a league with us c. from a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the Lord thy God for we have heard the same of him and all that he did in Egypt c. Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake unto us saying Take victuals c. This our bread we took hot on the day we came forth c. but now behold it is dry and it is mouldy c. by reason of the very long journey c. And Joshua made peace with them c. and smote them not because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them c. Josh 9. 3 4 5 c. When the Moabites oppressed Israel the Lord raised them up a Deliverer Ebud c. Who going to Eglon the King of Moab with a Present from Israel after he had presented it he said I have a secret errand unto thee O king Who said Keep silence And all c. went out And Ehud came unto him and he was sitting in a summerparlour c. and said unto him I have a message from God unto thee and he arose out of his seat And Ehud took the dagger c. and thrust it into his belly c. Judges 3. 14 to 22. Sampson said several times That if they did bind him c. he should be weak and be as another man But it was not so Judges 16. 6 7 c. When God said to Samuel that he would send him to anoâ—nt David Samuel said How can I go If Saul hear he will kill me And the Lord said Take a heifer with thee and say I am come to sacrifice to the Lord And call Jesse to the sacrifice c. Which Samuel did and said I am come to sacrifice to the Lord 1 Sam. 16. 1 to 7. When Saul had sent for David Michal his Wife put an Image in the Bed c. covered it with a Cloth after she had sent him away and she said He is sick c. When Saul had said unto her Why hast thou deceived me c. She said He said unto me Let me go Why should I kill thee 1 Sam 19. 11 to 19. When Saul had a Design to have killed David and had enquired of him Jonathan answered as David had directed him to do and said David earnestly asked of me to go to Bethlehem and he said Let me go I pray thee for our family hath a sacrifice in the city and my brother he hath commanded me and now if I have found favour in thine eyes let me get away I pray thee and see my brethren Therefore he cometh not to the king's table 1 Sam. 20. 6 27 28 29. David when he fled from Saul and came to Abimelech the Priest he asked him Why art thou alone David said c. The king hath commanded me a business and hath said unto me Let no man know any thing of the business c And I have appointed servants to such and such a place c. Is not under thine hand spear or sword for I have neither brought my sword c. because the king's business required haste c 1 Sam. 21. 1 2 3 8 15. When David and his men had invaded the country near him and slain all and Achish said to him Whither have ye made a Road to day And David said Against the south of Judah c. And Achish believed David saying He hath made his people Israel to abhor him c. 1 Sam. 27. 8 to 13. When Absalom designed to rebel he said unto the King I pray thee let me go and pey my now which I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron for thy servant vowed c. while I abode at Geshur in Syria saying If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem then I will serve the Lord 2 Sam. 15. 6 7 8 9 10 c. Jehu gathered all the People together and said unto them Ahab served Baal a little Jehu shall serve him much Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal all his servants and all his priests let none be wanting for I have a great sacrifice to Baal c. But Jehu did it in Subâ—â—ity to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal c. which afterwards he did 2 Kings 10. 18 to 26. CHAP. LXVI Of Words or Sayings expressive of Choice only not Binding ABraham said to the Angel Behold now my Lord turn in I pray you into your servant's house and tarry all night c. And they said Nay but we will abide in the street And he pressed upon them greatly and they turned in unto him and entred his house and he made them a feast c. Gen. 18. 1 to 5. When the Sons of the Prophets had said to Elisha c. There be with thy servants fifty strong men â—et them go we pray thee and seek thy master c. And he said Ye shall not send And when they urged him till he was ashamed he said Send And they sent c. 2 Kings 2. 14 15 16. When Jesus was about to wash Peter's Feet Peter said Thou shalt never wash my feet Jesus answered him saying Unless I wash thy feet thou shalt have no communion with me Then Peter said Lord not only my feet but also my hands and head John 13. 8 9. CHAP. LXVII Of Sensible Sick Lost Sinners Hungry Thirsty and Longing Souls such whom Christ came to seek heal satisfie and love HE satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness Psal 107. 9. The full soul loatheth the honey-comb but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet Prov 20. 24. When the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue fail for thirst I the Lord will hear them c. I will open rivers in high places c. Isa 41. 17 18. Ho every one who thirsteth come ye to the waters c. hearken ye diligently unto me and
eat ye that which is good Isa 55. 1 2. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Matth. 5. 6. They who are whole need not a physician but they who are sick I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Matth. 9. 12 13. Come unto me all ye who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Take my yoke upon you c. and ye shall find rest unto your souls c. Matth. 11. 28 29. Psal 34. 9 10. He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away Luke 1. 53. The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost Luke 19 1 to 11. He who cometh unto me shall never hunger and he who believeth on me shall never thirst John 6. 35. When they heard this they were pricked in the heart and said c. Men and brethren What shall we do c. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost c. Acts 2. 37 38. The Gaoler trembled c. and said Sirs What must I do to be saved And they said Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved and thine house Acts 16. 29 30 31. If any man lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him James 1. 5. I will give unto him who is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely Rev. 21. 6. And let him who is athirst come and whose ever will let him take of the water of life freely Rev. 22. 17. CHAP. LXVIII Of Man's Ignorance of the Men and Things of this World after his Departure hence THou destroyest the hope of man thou prevailest for ever against him and he passeth thou changest his countenance and sendest him away his sons come to honour and he knoweth it not and they are brought low and he perceiveth not of them Job 14. 19 20 21. The dead know not any thing c. they have no more a portion in any thing done under the sun Eccles 9. 5 6. Doubtless thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel knoweth us not Isa 63. 16. CHAP. LXIX Of Mary the Mother of our Lord according to the Flesh having Children by her Husband Joseph I Am become a stranger to my brethren an alien to my mother's children c. Psal 69. 7. Then Joseph c. took unto him his wife and knew her not till she had brought forth her first-born Son Matth. 1. 24 25. While he yet talked to the people his mother and his brethren stood without desiring to speak with him Then one said unto him Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without desiring to speak with thee Matth. 12. 47 48. Mark 3. 31 to 35. Is not this the Carpenter's Son Is not his mother called Mary And his brethren James and Joses and Simon and Judas And his sisters Are not they with us Whence then hath this man these things Matth. 13. 55 56. She brought forth her first-born Son c. When Jesus was twelve years old Joseph and his mother went to Jerusalem and returning back missed him c. They sought him amongst their kinsfolk and acquaintance c. Luke 2. 7 42 43 44. Matth. 1. 25. After this he went down to Capernaum he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples and he continued there c. John 2. 12. His brethren therefore said unto him Depart hence and go into Judea c. For neither did his brethren believe in him c. But when his brethren were gone up then went he also up unto the feast c. John 7. 3 4 5 8 9 10. These all continued with one accord c. with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brethren Acts 1. 14. I went up c. to see Peter c. But other Apostles saw I none save James the Lord's brother Gal. 1. 18 19. AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE To the Whole Book A ABide in the Faith and Welldoing Chap. 16 Page 139 Accept Rebukes Admonitions c. c. 17 p. 150 Accord amongst Saints c. 17 p. 151 Acknowledge God in our Troubles c. 22 p. 197 Acknowledge Sin in general p. 16 c. 121 Acknowledge Sin in Affliction c. 22 p. 199 Acknowledge Sin to fellow Saints c. 17 p. 150 Acts of Churches as such c. 27 p. 227 Admire God and Christ c. 16 p. 83 Admouish one another c. 17 p. 149 Advocate Jesus c. 8 p. 41 Adultery c. 52 p. 304 Affiance See Trust in God   Afflictions in general c. 22 p. 178 Afflictions belong to Saints c. ibid. p. ibid. Afflictions have attended Saints c. ibid. p. 179 From God immediately c. ibid. p. ibid. From wicked Men c. ibid. p. 180 From formal Professors c. ibid. p. 181 Afflictions why sent c. ibid. p. 183 Afflicted's Comfort therein c. ibid. p. 186 There Duties therein c. ibid. p. 197 Almighty God Almightiness c. 2 p. 10 All-sufficient c. 2 p. 5 Altars before the Law c. 45 p. 286 Ambition See Humility See World   Amity See Love amongst Saints   Angels c. 41 p. 280 Anger in general c. 16 p. 117 Anger amongst Saints c. 17 p. 148 Anger not hasty toward Saints c. 17 p. 147 Anger prohibited towards all c. 19 p. 161 Anger prohibited towards Enemies c. 22 p. 204 Appearance of Evil to be avoided c. 16 p. 123 Apostacy See Perserverance   Apostacy to be watched against c. 16 p. 143 Apostacy total not in Saints c. 16 p. 142 c. 20. p. 170 Apostles Gall and Commission equal c. 16 p. 296 Arguings of God with Sinners c. 16 p. 125 Ascension of Christ c. 8 p. 41 Assault of Satan See Satan   Assemblies for Worshipping of God c. 27 p. 226 Associate not with the Wicked c. 19 p. 163 Attributes of God c. 2 p. 5 Avenge the Saints is Gods Perogative c. 22 p. 189 Avenge not upon Enemies c. 22 p. 204 Avoid Sin and the occasion of it c. 16 p. 123 Avoid trouble in Lawful ways c. 22 p. 205 Authority of Christ c. 7 p. 31 Authority of Magistrates See Magistrates   B BAbling See Peace amongst Saints   Backbiting See Peace among Saints   Baptisms c. 27 p. 234 Bear Afflictions patiently c. 22 p. 207 Bear Saints Burthens c. 17 p. 146 Belief See Faith   Belief what See Nature of Faith   Believers Characters c. 12 p. 60 Their failings c. 13 p. 67 Their Privileges in general c. 14 p. 71 Benefits of Faith c. 11 p. 53 57. Beware of Sin and Apostacy c. 16 p. 143 Bishops See Officers of Churches   Blasphemy c. 52 p. 291 Blessed God! See Praises   Blessedness of Afflicted ones c. 22 p. 189 Blindness See Ignorance
Faiths Nature c. 11 p. 54 Its Objects c. 11 p. ibid. It 's further benefit c. 11 p. 57 It 's Fruit and Operation c. 11 p. 54 Faith is Gods Gift c. 20 p. 168 Falling away See Apostacy   False Teachers c. 30 p. 246 Fasting See Prayers   Fathers See Parents   Favour of God to Saints in general c. 14 p. 71 In time of Afflictions c. 22 p. 185 In common Calamities c. 23 p. 209 Fear not Man c. 16 p. 101 Fear God c. 16 p. 102 Fear lest we Sin or fall away See Watching   Fervency of Spirit See Sincerity   Flesh of Christ c. 8 p. 35 Follow God fully c. 16 p. 132 Follow after the Spirit c. 21 p. 177 Forgive one another c. 17 147 Forgive Enemies c. 19 p. 161 c. 22 p. 204 Forgiveness in God c. 10 p. 48 Forgiveness of Sin See Pardon   Formality See Hypocrisie   Formal Professors fierce Persecutors c. 22 p. 181 Forsake Sin c. 16 p. 123 Forsake not God or his ways c. 16 p. 139 Fortress is God to his See Trust in God   Free Grace c. 9 p. 45 c. 10 p. 48 Frowardness of Spirit See Meekness   Fruits of Gods Love to Men c. 7 p. 27 c. 22 186 Fruits of Faith c. 11 p. 58 Fruits of the Spirit c. 21 p. 174 176 Fruits of Man's Love to God c. 16 p. 83 Fruits of our Love to the Saints c. 17 P. 146  c. 22 p. 207 Fruitfulness in good Works c. 16 p. 79 Fruitfulness therein is Gods Gift c. 20 p. 168 G GEntle towards all Chap. 19 Page 161 Gifts Extraordinary c. 27 p. 226 Giver of Knowledge and all Grace who c. 20 p. 164 Glory for Saints at last c. 37 p. 262 Glory not in our selves See Humility   Glory in God and Christ alone c. 16 p. 83 God his Name and Attributes c. 2 p. 5 His Greatness Majesty Perfection and Absoluteness c. 2 p. ibid. God's Repentings c. 33 p. 253 God knows Satan and Wicked Men's Devices and Over-rules them c. 22 p. 187 God will uphold his Saints in Trouble and deliver them c. 22 p. 190 195 Goodness of God See Bounty   Good Men's Spirit and Behaviour c. 12 p. 60 Good to all c. 19 p. 162 Good though little commended and rewarded c. 50 p. Governors See Magistrates in general   Grace of God free in Election c. 9 p. 45 In Calling c. 9 p ibid. In Pardon of Sin c. 10 p. 48 In Justification c. 10 p. 50 In Reconciliation c. c. 10 p. 49 In giving Eternal Life and Salvation c. 10 p. 51 Graces of the Spirit freely given of God c. 20 p. 164 Grave See Death   Graven Images c. 40 p. 276 Greatness of God c. 2 p. 5 Greatness in the World See World   Greedy of Gain See World   Grieve not the Spirit of God c. 21 p. 177 Grieve not Saints in the time of their Trouble c. 22 p. 207 Ground of Comfort and Support in a time of Trouble c. 22 p. 186 H. HAppiness of the Saints See Glory   Hard thing to be a true Saint Chap. 46 Page 286 Harmless and honest towards all c. 19 p. 159 Hate Sin c. 16 p. 123 Hear Rebuke willingly c. 17 p. 150 Hearken to God c. 16 p. 85 Heart for God See Sincertiy   Heart upright See Sincerity   Help such as are afflicted c. 22 p. 107 Help Saints in general c. 17 p. 146 Help all Men c. 19 p. 162 Holiness should be in Saints c. 16 p. 79 Holiness of God c. 2 p. 12 Honesty towards all c 19 p. 159 160 Honour God c. 16 p. 79 Honour Saints c. 17 p. 147 Honour Magistrates c. 24 p. 216 Honour Parents See Parents   Honour all Men c. 19. p. 162 Honour of the Saints c. 14 p. 71 Honours amongst men See World   Honour is of God c. 24 p. 211 Hope in God in general c. 16 p. 100 In Time of Trouble c. 22 p. 203 When all Hope seems to be gone c. 49 p. 289 Humane Nature of Christ See Humility of Christ   Humiliation of Christ c. 1 p. 35 37 Humility in Man c. 16 p. 113 Humble Behaviour towards all c. 19 p. 162 Husbands c. 18 p. 154 Hypocrites Hypocrisie c. 28 p. 237 Hypocrites Reward c. 28 p. 242 I. IDleness Chap. 54 Page 294 Id lâ—â—ry c. 40 p. 276 Jesus the Christ c. 7 p. 28 Jews Murmurings c. 53 p. 292 Ignorance in general c. 38 p. 264 Ignorance of Man by Nature c. 3 p. 21 Ignorance of each other when â—ead c. 68 p. 309 â—â—â—mination See Knowledge   Images See Idolatry   Imagination See Thought   Imperfection of Saints c. 13 p. 67 Impotency of Man in Spirituaâ—â— c. 20 p. 164 Imposition of Hands c. 27 p. 232 Inâ—lination to Sin in Saints c. 13 p. 67 In â—â—ruptibleness of God c. 2 p. 11 Incouragement in Afflictions c. 22 p. 186 Incouragement to come to Chrest for all Grace c. 20 p. 171 To look to God when but a Possibility left c. 49 p. 289 Indifferent things c. 17 p. 151 Industry in our Callings c. 54 p. 294 Infiniteness of God c. 2 p. 14 Intercession of Christ Chap. 8 Page 41 Invisible God c. 2 p. 10 Invitations to come to Christ See Incouragements   Joining of Church-Members together c. 27 p. 225 Israel's Restoration c. 57 p. 297 Judge not Saints rashly c. 17 p. 147 Judge not others c. 19 p. 160 Judgments denounced against Sinners c. 16 p. 125 Judgment of the Great Day c. 26 p. 260 Judgment righteous See Magistrates   Just to all Men c. 19 p. 160 Justice of God c. 2 p. 12 Justification not by Works or Legal Sacrifices c. 6 p. 25 Justification free by the Grace of God through Christ c. 10 p. 50 Justifie God under our Troubles c. 22 p. 199 K. KIndness of God Chap. 2 Page 13 Kindness of Saints to Saints c. 17 p. 147 Kindness of Saints to Enemies c. 22 p. 205 Kindness of Saints to all c. 19 p. 162 Kinds of Love See Nature of Love   King Jesus c. 8 p. 42 Kings of Israel c. 44 p. 284 Knowledge of Divine Things in general c. 38 p. 264 Knowledge in such Things not in Natural Men c. 5 p. 18 c. 20 p. 164 Knowledge therein God's Gift c. 20 p. 166 Known unto God are all things c. 2 p. 11 L. LAbour for Heaven Chap. 46 Page 286 Labour in our Calling c. 54 p. 299 Labour for the best Things See Encouragement to come to Christ   Lament Sins See Mourning for Sin   Last Times c. 48 p. 289 Laws of God to be obeyed c. 16 p. 85 Law concludes all under Sin c. 6 p. 25 Law 's Curse c. 6 p. ibid. Law 's Works or Sacrifices under it justifie not Men have no Cause to