Preparation.

Amos 4.12. PRepare to meet thy God ô Israel.

1. Sam. 12.23. I will teach you the good and the right way:

24. Only feare the Lord, and serue him in truth with all your heart.

Mat. 6.33. Seeke yee first the kingdome of God, and his righteousnesse, and all things shall be added vnto you.

Psal. 37.4. Delight thy selfe also in the Lord, and he shall [Page 3] giue thee the desires of thine heart.

5.Pro. 3. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and leane not vnto thine owne vnderstanding.

6. In all thy wayes ac­knowledge him, and hee shall direct thy paths.

4.Psal. 91. He shall couer thee with his feathers, and vn­der his wing shalt thou trust, his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

8.34. O tast and see that the Lord is good, blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

5.146. Happy is he that hath the God of Iacob for his helpe, whose hope is in the [Page 4] Lord his God.

Psal. 27.14. Waite on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: Waite I say on the Lord.

125.1. They that trust in the Lord shall bee as Mount Sion, which cannot bee remoued, but abideth for euer.

2. As the mountaines are round about Ierusa­lem, so the Lord is round about his people; from henceforth euen for euer.

God.

8. HEare ô my people,Psal. 8 1. and I will testifie vnto thee; ô Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me:

9. There shall no strange God bee in thee, neither shalt thou worship any strange God.

3.Isa. 43. For I am the Lord thy God, the holy One of Is­rael, thy Sauiour.

10. Before mee there was no God formed, nei­ther shal there be after me.

11. I, euen I am the Lord; and besides me, there is no Sauiour.

[Page 6] 44.6. I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.

24. Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from [...] wombe; I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth foorth the heauens alone, that sprea­deth abroad the earth by my selfe.

48.12. Hearken vnto me O Iacob, and Israel my cal­led; I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.

Act. 7.49. Heauen is my Throne, and earth is my footestoole.

Isa. 45.22. Looke vnto me, and [Page 7] be ye saued all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

6.1. Cor. 8. To vs there is but one God, the Father of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Iesus Christ by whom are all things, and we by him.

6.Ephe. 4. There is one God & Father of all, who is aboue all, and through all, and in you all.

28. In him we liue,Act 17. and moue, and haue our being, for we are all his of spring.

29. Forasmuch then as wee are the of-spring of God, wee ought not to thinke that the Godhead [Page 8] is like vnto gold, or siluer, or stone grauen by [...], and mans deuice.

30. And the times of this ignorance God win­ked at; but now comman­deth all men euery where to repent.

31. Because he hath ap­pointed a day in the which he will iudge the world in righteousnesse, by that man whom he hath ordai­ned, whereof hee hath gi­uen assurance vnto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Reuel. 4.11. Thou art worthy O Lord to receiue glory, and honour, and power, for [Page 9] thou hast created all things, and for thy plea­sure they are and were cre­ated.

3. This is eternall life,Ioh. 17. that we might know thee the onely true God, and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

27.Psal 73. They that are farre from thee shal perish; thou hast destroyed all them that goe a whoring from thee.

4.16. Their sorrowes shall be multiplyed that hasten after another God.

5.96. All the Gods of the Nations are Idols, but the Lord made the heauens.

[Page 10]6. Honour and Maiesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his San­ctuary.

89.6. For who in the hea­uen can be compared vnto the Lord? who among the sonnes of the mightie can be likened vnto the Lord?

95.7. He is our God, and wee are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hands.

Iosh. 2 [...].16. God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serue other gods.

23. Put away the strange gods which are among you & incline your hearts vnto the Lord God of Is­rael.

[Page 11]24. The Lord our God will we serue, and his voice will we obey.

18.Isa. 30. The Lord is a God of iudgement, blessed are they that waite for him.

10.Psal. 34. They that seeke the Lord, shall not want any good thing.

13. For he is gracious,Ioel 2. and mercifull, slow to an­ger, and of great kindnesse.

50.Luke 1. And his mercy is on them that feare him from generation to generation.

12.Psal 33. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: and the people whom hee hath chosen for his owne inheritance.

[Page 12] Rom. 11.36. For of him, and through him, and to him are all things: To whom be glory for euer. Amen.

The holy Scriptures.

Mat. 22.29. YE doe erre, not knowing the Scrip­ture, nor the power of God.

Ier. 23.29. Is not my word like as a fire, saith the Lord? & like a hammer that brea­keth the rocke in peeces?

Ioh. 5.39. Search the Scrip­tures, for in them ye think yee haue eternall life; and they are they which testi­fie of me.

[Page 13] [...]. Receiue with meek­nesse the ingrafted word, which is able to saue your soules.

31. These are written,Ioh. 20. that ye might beleeue that Iesus is the Christ the Son of God: and that belee­uing, yee might haue life through his name.

4.Rom. 15. For whatsoeuer things were written aforetime, were written for our lear­ning, that we through pa­tience and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope.

3.1. Tim. 6. If any man teach o­therwise, and consent not to wholsome words, euen [Page 14] the words of our Lord Ie­sus Christ, and to the do­ctrine which is according to godlinesse.

4. He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions, and strifes of words, whereof commeth enuie, strife, raylings, euill surmises;

5. Peruerse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gaine is godlinesse; from such with­draw thy selfe.

Ioh. 8.31. If ye continue in my word, then are yee my dis­ciples indeed.

32. And ye shall know [Page 15] the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

8.Pro. 8. All the words of my mouth are in righteous­nesse: there is nothing fro­ward, or peruerse in them.

9. They are all plaine to him that vnderstandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

47. He that is of God,Ioh. 8. heareth Gods words.

9.2. Ioh. 1. Whosoeuer trans­gresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God: he that abi­deth in the doctrine of Christ, hee hath both the Father and the Sonne.

10. If there come any [Page 16] vnto you, and bring not this doctrine receiue him not into your house, nei­ther bid him God speed.

2 Chron. 17.9. The Leuites and the Priests sent by Iehosaphat, taught in Iuda, & had the booke of the Law of the Lord with them; and went about throughout all the Cities of Iuda, and taught the people.

34.31. Iosiah made a coue­nant before the Lord to walke after the Lord, and to keepe his commande­ments, & his testimonies, and his Statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soule, to performe the [Page 17] words of the couenant which are written in this booke.

32. And hee caused all that were present in Ierusa­lem & Beniamin to stand to it: And the Inhabitants of Ierusalem did accord­ing to the couenant of God, the God of their fathers.

35.Act. 15. Paul also and Barna­bas continued in Antioch teaching and preaching the word of the Lord with many others also.

11.17. The Iewes of Bere­a were more noble then those in Thessalonica, in that they receiued the [Page 18] word with all readinesse of minde, and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so.

12. Therefore many of them belieued; also of ho­nourable women which were Greekes, and of men not a fewe.

Acts. 17.1. When Paul and Si­las had passed throrough Amphipolis & Apolloni­a, they came to Thessalo­nica, where was a Syna­gogue of the Iewes.

2. And Paul as his man­ner was, went in vnto thē, and three Sabbath dayes reasoned with them out of the Scriptures.

[Page 19]17.Ephe. 6. Take the helmet of saluation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

12.Heb. 4. The word of the Lord is quick, and power­full, and sharper then any two edged sword, piercing euen to the deuiding asun­der of soule and spirit, and of the ioynts and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts, and intents of the heart.

2.1. Pet. 2. As new borne babes desire the sincere milke of the word, that yee may grow thereby.

15.1 The word of the Lord endureth for euer, [Page 20] and this is the word which by the Gospell is preached vnto you.

2. Tim. 3.16. All Scripture is gi­uen by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doc­trine, for reproofe, for cor­rection, for instruction in righteousnesse.

17. That the man of God may be perfect, tho­roughly furnished vnto all good works.

2. Pet. 1.20. No prophecie of the Scripture is of any pri­uate interpretation.

21. For the prophecie came not in old time by the will of man; But holy men of God spake as they [Page 21] were moued by the holy Ghost.

7.Psal. 19. The law of the Lord is perfect conuerting the soule, the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

6.12. The words of the Lord are pure words, as siluer tryed in a furnace of earth purified seuen times.

104.119. Through thy pre­cepts I get vnderstanding: Therfore I hate euery false way.

100. I vnderstand more then the ancients; because I keepe thy precepts.

118. Thou hast trodden downe all them that erre [Page 22] from thy statutes for their deceit is falshood.

Psal. 119.105. Thy word is a lampe vnto my feet and a light vnto my path.

165. Great peace haue they which loue thy law; And nothing shall offend them.

130. The entrance of thy words giueth light; it giueth vnderstanding to the simple.

Phil 3.16. Whereto we haue already attained, let vs walke by the same rule, let vs minde the same thing.

Gal. 6.16. As many as walke according to this rule, Peace be on them, and [Page 23] mercie, and vpon the Isra­el of God.

The Church.

23.Ephes. 5 CHrist is the head of the Church, and he is the Saviour of the bodie.

18.Col. 1. Hee is the head of the body the Church who is the beginning, the first borne from the dead, that in all things he might haue the preheminence.

24. I now reioyce in my sufferings for you, and fill vp that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies [Page 24] sake which is the Church.

1. Cor. 12.14. The bodie is not one member but many.

18. GOD hath set the members euery one of them in the body as it hath pleased him.

19. And if they were all one member, where were the bodie.

20. But now are they many members, yet but one body.

24. God hath tempe­red the bodie together, ha­uing giuē more abundant honour to that part which lacked.

25. That there should be no schisme in the body: [Page 25] but that the members should haue the same care one for another.

26. And whether one member suffer al the mem­bers suffer with it: or one member bee honoured all the members reioyce with it.

27 Now ye are the bo­dy of Christ, and members in particular.

25.Ephe. 5. Christ loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it.

26. That he might sanc­tifie, and cleanse it, with the washing of water, by the word.

27. That he might pre­sent [Page 26] it to himselfe a glori­ous Church, not hauing spotte, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should he holy and with­out blemish.

1. Tim. 3.15. The Church of God is the house of the li­uing God, the pillar, and ground of truth.

Acts 2.47. The Lord added to the Church dayly such as should be saued.

42. And they continued stedfast in the Apostles doctrine, and fellowship: and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

Ioh. 10.27. My sheepe heare my voyce, and I know [Page 27] them, and they follow me.

28. And I giue vnto them eternall life; and they shal neuer perish, nei­ther shall any man plucke them out of my hand.

5. A stranger will they not follow, but flie from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

37.Ioh. 18. Euery one that is of the trueth, heareth my voice.

19.Ephes. 2. Now therefore ye are no more strangers, and forreyners, but fellow Ci­tizens with the saints, and of the houshold of God.

20. And are built vpon the foundation of the A­postles [Page 28] and Prophets, Ie­sus Christ being the chiefe corner stone.

21. In whom all the building fitly framed toge­ther, groweth vnto an ho­ly temple in the Lord.

22. In whom you also are builded together, for an habitation of GOD, through the Spirit.

Traditions.

Col. 2.8. BEware lest any man spoile you through Philosohie, and vaine de­ceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

[Page 29]17.2. Pet. 2. These are wells without water; cloudes that are caried with a tem­pest, to whom the myst of darknesse is reserued for euer.

4. My speech,2. Cor. 2. & my prea­ching, was not with inti­cing words, of mans wise­dome but in demonstratiō of the spirit, and of power.

5. That your faith should not stand in the wisedome of Men, but in the power of God.

6. We speake wisdome among them that are per­fect; yet not the wisdome of this world, nor of the Princes of this world that [Page 30] come to nought.

7. But wee speake the wisdome of God in a mis­tery; euen the hidden wis­dome which God ordai­ned before the world, to our glory.

2. Cor. 3.19. For the wisdome of this world is foolishnesse with God: for it is written, he taketh the wise in their owne craftinesse.

Ier. 23.28. The Prophet that hath a dreame, let him tell a dreame; and he that hath my word, let him speake my word faithfully: what is the chaffe to the wheate saith the Lord.

Mat. 16.6. Take heed and be­ware [Page 31] of the leauen of the Pharises, and of the Sad­duces.

13.Isa. 29. Forasmuch as this people drawe neere mee with their mouth, and with their lipps doe honor me, but haue remoued their heart farre from mee, and their feare towards me is taught by the precepts of men.

14. The wisedome of their wise men shal perish, and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

7.Mar. 7. In vaine they do wor­ship me, teaching for doc­trines the commandemēts [Page 32] of men.

Isa. 8.20. To the law, and to the Testimony: If they speake not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

66.3. They haue chosen their owne waies, and their soule delighteth in their abhominations.

Ier. 6.10. Their eare is vncir­cumcised, and they cannot hearken; the word of the Lord is to them a reproch; they haue no delight in it.

Ier 2.13. They haue forsaken the fountaine of liuing wa­ters, and hewed them out cisternes, broken cisternes, that can hold no water.

[Page 33]8. But though we,Gal. 1. or an Angell from Heauen preach any other Gospell to you, then that which we haue preached vnto you, let him be accursed.

11. The Gospell which was preached of mee, was not after man.

12. For I neither recei­ued it of man, neither was I taught it but by the reue­lation of Iesus Christ.

17.2. Cor. 2. We are not as ma­ny, which corrupt the word of God; but as of sin­ceritie, but as of God, in the sight of God speake we in Christ.

2.4. Not walking in craf­tinesse, [Page 34] nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth; commending our selues vnto euery mans conscience in the sight of God.

3. But if our Gospell be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.

4. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of men which beleeue not, lest the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine vnto them.

Ezek 20.18. Walke not in the statutes of your Fathers, [Page 35] neither obserue their iudg­ments, nor defile your selues with their Idols.

19.Ezech 20. I am the Lord your God, walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements, and do them.

2.Deut. 4. Ye shall not adde vn­to the word which I com­mand you, neither shall you diminish ought from it; that yee may keepe the cammandements of the Lord your God, which I command you.

32.12. What thing soe­uer I command you, ob­serue to do it; Thou shalt not adde thereto, nor di­minish from it.

[Page 36] Deut. 5.32. Ye shall obserue to doe as the Lord your God hath cōmanded you, you shall not turne aside to the right hand, or to the left.

28.14. Thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to goe after other Gods to serue them.

16. Aske for the olde pathes,Ier. 6. where is the good way, and walke therein; and you shall finde rest for your soules.

Num. 15.39. Remember all the commandements of the Lord and doe, them; and [Page 37] seeke not after your owne heart, and your owne eyes, after which ye vse to goe a whoring.

17.Ier. 6. Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.

4.Mal. 4. Remember yee the Law of Moses my seruant, which I commanded to you in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes, and iudg­ments.

6.Pro. 30. Adde not thou vnto his words, least he reproue thee, and thou be found a lier.

15 Though it be but a mans couenant, yet,Gal. 3. if it be confirmed, no man dis­anulleth, or addeth therto.

[Page 38] Reuel. 22.18. I testifie vnto euery man that heareth the words of the Prophecie of this book; If any man shall adde vnto these things, God shall adde vnto him the plagues that are writ­ten in this booke.

19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the booke of this Prophecie; God shall take away his part out of the booke of life, and out of the holy citie, and from the things which are written in this booke.

Images.

21. LIttle children, keep your selues from I­dols.1. Ioh. 5.

1.Leuit. 26. Yee shall make you no Idols, nor grauen I­mage, neither reare you vp a standing Image, neither shall you set vp any Image of stone in your land to bow downe vnto it, for I am the Lord your God.

8.Deut. 5. Thou shalt not make thee any grauen Image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters be­neath the earth.

[Page 40]9. Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them.

Isa. 40.18. To whom will yee liken God? or what like­nesse will yee compare vnto him?

Deu. 4.15. Ye saw no simili­tude on the day that the Lord spake vnto you in Horeb out of the middest of the fire.

12. Ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude, onely ye heard a voice.

13. And hee declared vnto you his couenant which hee commanded you to performe, euen ten [Page 41] commandements; and he wrote them vpon two ta­bles of stone.

8. I am the Lord,Isa. 42. that is my name, and my glory will I not giue to another, neither my praise to gra­uen Images.

14.Ier. 10. Euery founder is confounded by the gra­uen Image: for his moul­ten Image is falshood, and there is no breath in them.

15. They are vanitie, and the worke of errours, in the time of their visitati­on they shall perish.

8. The stocke is a doc­trine of vanities.

29.Isa. 41. Their moulten I­mages [Page 42] are winde, and con­fusion.

Psal. 97.7. Confounded be all they that serue grauen I­mages, that boast them­selues of Idols.

Isa. 44.9. They that make a grauē Image are al of them vanitie, and their delecta­ble things shall not profit; and they are their owne witnesses, they see not, nor know, that they may be a­shamed.

45.16. They shall be asha­med, and also confounded all of them; they shall goe to confusion together that are makers of Idols.

Deut. 4.23. Take heede vnto [Page 43] your selues, least yee forget the couenant of the Lord your GOD which he made with you, and make you a grauen I­mage, or the likenesse of a­ny thing which the Lord thy GOD hath forbidden thee.

29.Acts 17. Wee ought not to thinke that the Godhead is like vnto gold, or siluer, or stone grauen by art, and mans deuice.

19.Habak. 2 [...] Woe vnto him that saith to the wood awake; to the dumbe stone arise, it shall teach; Behold it is laid ouer with gold, and siluer, and there is no [Page 44] breath at all in the middest of it.

Deut. 4.3. Your eyes haue seene what the Lord did because of Baal Peor; for all the men that followed Baal Peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from you.

Numb. 33.52. Yee shall driue out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their moul­ten Images, and quite pluck downe all their high places.

Deut. 7.5. Ye shall destroy their Altars, and breake downe their Images, and cut [Page 45] downe their groues, and burne their grauen Images with fire.

3.2 Cro. 34. Iosiah while he was yet young, began to seeke after the God of Dauid his father, and began to purge Iudah and Ierusalem from the high places, and the groues, and the carued I­mages, and the moulten I­mages.

4. And they brake downe the Altars of Baa­lim in his presence, and the Images that were on high aboue them be cut downe, and the groues, and the carued Images, and the moulten Images he brake [Page 46] in peeces, and made dust of them, and strowed it vp­on the graues of them that had sacrificed vnto them.

5. And hee burnt the bones of the Priests vpon their altars, and cleansed Iudah and Ierusalem.

1. Sam. 73. If ye doe returne vn­to the Lord with all your hearts; then put away the strange Gods, and Ash­taroth from among you, and prepare your hearts vnto the Lord, and serue him onely.

4. The children of Is­rael did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and serued the Lord onely.

[Page 47]10.Ier. 10. The Lord is the true God, he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King; at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be a­ble to abide his indigna­tion.

Inuocation.

13.Rom. 10. WHosoeuer shall call vpon the name of the Lord, shall be saued.

15.Psal. 50. Call vpon mee in the day of trouble, I will deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.

9.Zepha. 3 I will turne to the [Page 48] people a pure language, that they may all call vpon the name of the Lord, to serue him with one con­sent.

Act. 7.59 They stoned Ste­uen calling vpon God, and saying, Lord Iesus receiue my spirit.

Luk. 11.2. When ye pray, say; Our father which art in heauen; hallowed bee thy name: Thy kingdome come: thy will be done, as in heauen so in earth.

3. Giue vs day by day our dayly bread.

4. And forgiue vs our sinnes; for we also forgiue e­uery one that is indebted to [Page 49] vs. And lead vs not into temptation, but deliuer vs from euill.

23.Io. 16. Whatsoeuer yee shall aske the father in my name he will giue it you.

28.Mat. 11. Come vnto me all ye that labour, and are hea­uie laden, and I will giue you rest.

16.Heb. 4. Let vs come boldly vnto the throne of grace, that we may obtaine mer­cie, and find grace to helpe in time of need.

14.Psal. 50. Offer vnto GOD thanksgiuing, and pay thy vowes vnto the most high.

3.18. I will call vpon the Lord who is worthy to be [Page 50] praised, so shall I be saued from mine enemies.

6. In my distresse I cal­led vpon the Lord, and cryed vnto my God; Hee heard my voice out of his Temple, and my crie came before him, even into his eares.

5.3. My voice shalt thou heare in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer vnto thee, and will looke vp.

13.3. Consider, and heare me ô Lord my God; ligh­ten mine eyes, least I sleep the sleepe of death.

1. King. 8.39. Heare thou in hea­uen thy dwelling place, & [Page 51] forgiue, and doe, and giue to euery man according to his waies, whose heart thou knowest: for thou, euen thou onely knowest the hearts of all the children of men.

16.Isa. 63. Doubtlesse thou art our father, though A­braham be ignorant of vs, and Israell acknowledge vs not; thou ô Lord art our father, our redeemer, thy name is from euerlasting.

5.Eccle. 9. The liuing know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, nei­ther haue they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

[Page 52]6. Also their loue, and their hatred, and their enuy is now perished; neither haue they any more a por­tion for euer in any thing that is done vnder the Sunne.

Iob 14.21. His sonnes come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but hee perceiueth it not of them.

Psal. 99.6. Moses and Aaron among his Priests, and Samuel among them that call vpon his name, they called vpon the Lord, and he answered them.

7. He spake vnto them in the cloudy pillar: they [Page 53] kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gaue them.

12.Rom. 10. The same Lord o­uer all is rich to all that call vpon him.

Adoration.

18.Psal. 145. THe Lord is nigh vnto all them that call vpon him; to all that call vpon him in truth.

23.Io. 4. The true worship­pers shall worshippe the fa­ther in spirit and in truth: for the father seeketh such to worship him.

24. God is a spirit, and they that worshippe him, [Page 54] must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Psal. 51.17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart ô God thou wilt not de­spise.

1. Cor. 6.20. Ye are bought with a price, therefore glorifie God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods.

1. Pet. 2.5. Yee also, as liuely stones, are built vp a spiri­tuall house, an holy Priest­hood to offer vp spirituall Sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.

Philip. 3.3. We are the circum­cision which worship God [Page 55] in the spirit, and reioyce in Christ Iesus, and haue no confidence in the flesh.

20.Ier. 6. To what purpose commeth there to me In­cense from Sheba? and the sweete cane from a farre countrie? your burnt offe­rings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweete vnto me.

23.Amos. 5. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not heare the melody of thy viols.

24. But let iudgement run downe as waters, and righteousnesse as a mighty streame.

8.Micha. 6. What doth the Lord [Page 56] require of thee, but to do iustly, and to loue mercy, and to walke humbly with thy God?

Isa. 1.16. Wash ye, make ye cleane, put away the euill of your doings from be­fore mine eyes, cease to do euill;

17. Learne to doe well, seeke iudgement, releeue the oppressed, iudge the fatherlesse, pleade for the widdow.

Deut. 13.4. Ye shall walke after the Lord your God, and feare him, and keepe his commandements, & obey his voice, and ye shall serue him, and cleaue vnto him.

[Page 57]12.10. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to feare the Lord thy God, to walke in all his waies, and to loue him, and to serue the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule?

13. To keepe the com­mandements of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good.

30.Mar. 12. Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandement.

[Page 58] Iosh. 22.5. Take diligent heed to doe the commande­ment, and the law which Moses the seruant of the Lord charged you; to loue the Lord your God, and to walke in all his wayes, and to keepe his comman­dements, and to cleaue vnto him, and to serue him with all your heart, and with all your soule.

Col. 2.18. Let no man be­guile you of your reward in a voluntary humilitie, and worshipping of An­gels, intruding into those things which hee hath not seene, vainely puft vp by his fleshly minde.

[Page 59]8. When I had heard,Reuel. 22. and seene, I fell downe to worship before the feete of the Angel, which shew­ed me these things.

9. Then saith hee vnto me, see thou do it not; for I am thy fellow seruant, and of thy brethren the Pro­phets, and of them which keepe the sayings of this booke; worship God.

10.19. And I fell at his feet to worship him, and he said vnto me; see thou do it not; I am thy fellow seruant, and of thy bre­thren that haue the testi­monie of Iesus; Worship God.

[Page 60]2. The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high aboue all people.

5. Exalt yee the Lord our God, and worship at his footstoole, for hee is holy.

Iosh. 24.14. Feare the Lord, and serue him in sinceritie, and in truth, and put away the Gods which your fathers serued on the other side of the flood, and in Egipt, and serue ye the Lord.

Isa. 8.13. Sanctifie the Lord of hosts himselfe, and let him be your feare, and let him be your dread.

Reuel 14.7. Worship him that made heauen, and earth, [Page 61] and the sea, and the foun­taines of waters.

8.Luke 4. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy GOD, and him onely shalt thou serue.

Faith.

1.Heb. 11. FAith is the substance of things hoped for; the euidence of things not seene.

6. Hee that commeth to God, must beleeue that he is, and that hee is a re­warder of them that dili­gently seeke him.

46.Io. 12. I am come a light into the world, that who­soeuer [Page 62] beleeueth on mee should not abide in darke­nesse.

Iohn. 3.36. He that beleeueth on the sonne, hath euer­lasting life; and he that be­leeueth not the sonne shall not see life: but the wrath of God shall abide on him.

Galat. 3.26. Ye are the children of God by faith in Christ Iesus.

22. The Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne, that the promise by faith of Iesus Christ might bee giuen to them that be­leeue.

Act. 10.43. To him giue all the [Page 63] Prophets witnesse, that through his name, whoso­euer belieueth in him, shall receiue remission of sins.

22.Heb. 10. Let vs draw neare with a true heart, in full assurance of faith.

23. Let vs hold fast the profession of our faith without wauering, for hee is faithfull that promised.

9. If thou shalt con­fesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus,Rom. 10. and shalt be­leeue in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt bee saued.

10. For with the heart man beleeueth vnto righ­teousnesse: [Page 64] and with the mouth confession is made vnto saluation.

Gal. 3.9. They that be of faith are blessed, with faithfull Abraham.

1. Pet. 1.9. The end of your faith, the saluation of your soules.

Repentance.

Hos. 14.1. O Israel returne vn­to the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquitie.

Act. 3.19. Repent yee there­fore and bee conuerted, that your sinnes may bee blotted out.

[Page 65]23.Ezech. 18. Haue I any plea­sure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord God? and not that hee should returne from his wayes and liue.

30. Repent and turne your selues from all your transgressions, so iniquitie shall not be your [...].

31. Cast away from you all your transgressi­ons whereby you haue transgressed; and make you a new heart, and a new spirit.

11. Turne ye, turne ye,33. from your euill waies, for why will ye die, [...] ô house of Israel?

[Page 66] Isa. 1.18. Come now and let vs reason together, saith the Lord, though your sinnes bee as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they bee red like crimson, they shall bee as wooll.

Heb. 6.9. The Lord is long suffering to vs-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Isa. 55.7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the vnrighte­ous man his thoughts, and let him returne vnto the Lord, and hee will haue mercy vpon him; and to our GOD, for hee will [Page 67] abundantly pardon.

40. Let vs search,Lam. 3. and trie our wayes and turne againe to the Lord.

25. The Lord is good to them that waite for him, to the soule that see­keth him.

27.Iob. 33. If any say I haue sinned, and peruerted that which was right, and it pro­fited me not;

28. He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall fee the light

7.Psal. 130. Let Israell hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercie, and with him is plenteous re­demption.

[Page 68]8. And hee shall re­deeme Israell from all his iniquities.

Confession.

Pro. 28.13. HEe that couereth his sinnes shall not prosper, but who so con­fesseth, and forsaketh thē, shall haue mercy.

Luke 15.18. I will arise, and go to my father, and will say vnto him, father, I haue sinned against heauen, and before thee,

19. And am no more worthy to bee called thy sonne.

[Page 69]5.Psal. 32. I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee, and mine iniquitie haue I not hid, I said I will confesse my transgressions vnto the Lord, and thou forgauest the iniquitie of my sinne.

4.Dan. 9. I prayed vnto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said; O Lord the great and dreadfull God, keeping the couenant, and mercie to them that loue him, and to them that keepe his commandements;

5. Wee haue sinned and committed iniquitie, and haue done wickedly, and haue rebelled, euen [Page 70] by departing from thy precepts, and from thy iudgements.

Dan 9.6. Neither haue wee hearkened vnto thy ser­uants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the peo­ple of the land.

Nehem. 15. O Lord God of hea­uen, the great and terrible God, that keepeth coue­nant, and mercie for them that loue him, and obserue his commandements;

6. Let thine eare bee now attentiue, and thine eyes opē, that thou mayst heare the prayer of thy [Page 71] seruant which I pray be­fore thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy seruants; and confesse the sinnes of the children of Israel, which wee haue sinned against thee, both I, and my fa­thers house haue sinned.

7. We haue dealt very corruptly against thee, and haue not kept the com­mandements, nor the sta­tutes, nor the Iudgements, which thou commandedst thy seruant Moses.

10.2 Sam. 24. Dauid said vnto the Lord, I haue sinned great­ly in that I haue done; and now I beseech thee O [Page 72] Lord, take away the ini­quitie of thy seruant, for I haue done foolishly.

Luke 18.13. The publican stan­ding afarre off, would not lift vp so much as his eyes vnto heauē, but smote vp­on his brest, saying, God be merciful vnto me a sinner.

1. Iohn 1.9. If wee confesse our sinnes, hee is faithfull, and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes, and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse.

Rom. 14.11. As I liue, saith the Lord, euery knee shall bow to me, and euery tongue shall confesse to God.

12. So then euery one of vs shall giue account [Page 73] of himselfe vnto God.

4.Psal. 41. Lord be mercifull vn­to me heale my soule; for I haue sinned against thee.

Faith and works.

22.Iames 1. BE yee doers of the word, and not hea­rers onely, deceiuing your owne selues.

23. For if any be a hea­rer of the word, and not a doer, he is like vnto a man beholding his naturall face in a glasse:

24. For hee beholdeth himselfe, and goeth his way, and straight way for­getteth what manner of man he was.

[Page 74] Iam. 1.25. But who so looketh into the perfect law of li­bertie, & continueth ther­in, he being not a forget­full hearer, but a doer of the worke, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26. If any among you seeme to be religious, and bridle not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart; this mans religion is vaine.

27. Pure religion and vndefiled before God and the father is this; to visit the fatherlesse, and the widdowes in their afflicti­on, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted from the world.

Rom. 2.13. Not the hearers of [Page 75] the law are iust before God, but the doers of the law shall be iustified.

21.Mat. 7. Not euery one that saith vnto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king­dome of heauen; but hee that doth the will of my father which is in heauen.

24. Whosoeuer heareth these sayings of mine, and doth them, I will liken him vnto a wise man which built his house vpon a rock:

25. And the raine de­scended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beate vpon that house, and it fell not; for it was [Page 76] founded vpon a rocke.

Math. 7.26. And euery one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doth them not; shall be likened vnto a foolish man which built his house vpon the sand:

27. And the raine de­scended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat vpon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of that house.

5.16. Let your light so shine before mē, that they may see your good works and glorifie your father which is in heauen.

5. Peter 1.5. Adde to your faith vertue, & to vertue know­ledge,

[Page 77]6. And to knowledge temperance, and to tem­perance patience, and to patience godlinesse:

7. And to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse, and to brotherly kindnes cha­ritie:

8. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren, nor vnfruitfull in the know­ledge of our Lord Iesus Christ.

9. But he that lacketh these things is blind & can­not see farre off, and hath forgotten that he was pur­ged from his old sinnes.

[Page 78] 2. Pet. 1.10. Wherefore the ra­ther brethren, giue dili­gence to make your cal­ling, and election sure: for if ye do these things, yee shall neuer fall.

11. For so an entrance shall bee ministred vnto you abundantly into the euerlasting kingdome of our Lord and Sauiour Ie­sus Christ.

Tit. 3.8. This is a faithfull saying, and these things I will that thou affirme con­stantly, that they which haue beleeued in God might be carefull to main­taine good workes: these things are good and pro­fitable [Page 79] vnto men.

14.Iam. 2. What doth it pro­fit my brethren, though a man say, he hath faith, and haue not works, can faith saue him?

15. If a brother, or a sister be naked, and desti­tute of dayly foode;

16. And one of you say vnto them, depart in peace, bee you warmed, and filled; notwithstan­ding yee giue them not those things which are needfull for the body; what doth it profit?

17. Euen so faith, if it haue not works, is dead, being alone.

[Page 80] Iames 2.21. Was not Abraham our father iustified by works when hee had offe­red Isaac his sonne vpon the Altar?

22. Seest thou how faith wrought with his works? and by works was faith made perfect.

23. And the Scripture was fullfilled, which saith, Abraham beleeued God, and it was imputed to him for righteousnesse; and he was called the friend of GOD.

24. Yee see then how that by workes a man is iustified, and not by faith onely.

[Page 81]26. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Iustification.

19. NOw wee know,Rom. 3. that what things soeuer the law saith, it saith to them that are vnder the law; that euery mouth may bee stopped, and all the world may become guiltie before God.

20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shal no flesh bee iustified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sinne.

[Page 82] Rom. 3.21. But now the righ­teousnesse of God with­out the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law, and the Prophets.

22. Euen the righte­ousnesse, of God, which is by faith of Iesus Christ vn­to all, and vpon all them that beleeue; for there is no difference.

23. For all haue sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24. Being iustified free­ly by his grace, through the redemption that is in Iesus Christ.

28, Therefore we con­clude that a man is iusti­fied [Page 83] by faith without the deeds of the law.

31. Do wee then make voyde the law through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.

4 To him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.Rom. 4.

5. But to him that wor­keth not, but beleeueth on him that iustifieth the vn­godly; his faith is counted for righteousnesse.

13. The promise that he should be the heire of the world was not to Abra­ham, or his seed thorough the law, but thorough the righteousnesse of faith.

[Page 84] Rom. 4.14. For if they which are of the law be heires, faith is made voyd and the promise made of none effect.

Rom. 5.1. Being iustified by faith wee haue peace with God, through our Lord Iesus Christ:

2. By whom also wee haue accesse by faith into his grace, wherin we stand, and reioyce in hope of the glory of God.

18. As by the offence of one iudgement came vpon all men to condem­nation: euē so by the righ­teousnesse of one the free gift came vpon all men [Page 85] vnto iustification of life.

5.Titus 3. Not by workes of righteousnesse which wee haue done, but according to his mercy hee saued vs by the washing of regene­ration, and renewing of the holy Ghost:

6. Which he shed on vs abundantly, through Iesus Christ our sauiour.

7. That being iustified by his grace, we should be made heires according to the hope of eternall life.

8.Ephe. 2. By grace are yee sa­ued through faith, and that not of your selues, it is the gift of God:

9. Not of workes, least [Page 86] any man should boast.

Galat. 5.4. Christ is become of none effect vnto you, who­soeuer of you are iustified by the law; yee are fallen from grace.

5. For we through the spirit, waite for the hope of righteousnesse by faith.

6. For in Iesus Christ, neither circumcision auai­leth any thing, nor vncir­cumcision, but faith which worketh by loue.

Luk. 17.10. When ye shall haue done all those things, which are commanded you, say, wee are vnprofi­table seruants: wee haue done that which was our [Page 87] dutie to doe.

8.Phil. 3. I count all things but losse, for the excellen­cie of the knowledge of Christ Iesus my Lord; for whom I haue suffered the losse of all things, and doe count them but dung that I may winne Christ;

9. And bee found in him, not hauing mine owne righteousnes, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteous­nesse which is of God by faith.

11. Bee not slothfull,Heb. 6. but followers of them who through faith and [Page 88] patience inherit the pro­mise.

Gal. 3.2. This onely would I learne of you, receiued ye the spirit by the workes of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

3. Are yee so foolish, hauing begun in the spi­rit, are yee now made per­fect by the flesh?

11. That no man is iustified by the law in the sight of God, it is euident; for the iust shall liue by faith.

18. If the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gaue it to Abraham by promise.

[Page 89]21.Gal. 3. For if there had been a law giuen which could haue giuen life, verily righteousnes should haue beene by the law.

22. But the Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne; that the promise by faith of Iesus Christ might be giuen to them that be­leeue.

23. But before faith came, we were kept vnder the Law, shut vp vnto the faith which should after­wards be reuealed.

24. Wherefore the law was our Schoolemaster, to bring vs vnto Christ, that we might bee iustified by [Page 90] faith.

Gal. 3.25. But after that faith is come, we are no longer vnder a Schoolemaster.

26. For yee are all the children of God by faith in Christ Iesus.

Fasting.

Matth. 6.16. WHen ye fast, be not as the Hipocrites, of a sad coun­tenance; for they disfi­gure their faces that they may appeare vnto men to fast: verily I say vnto you, they haue their reward.

17. But thou when thou fastest, anoint thine head, [Page 91] and wash thy face:

18. That thou appeare not vnto men to fast, but vnto thy father which is in secret, & thy father which seeth in secret, shall re­ward thee openly.

5.Isa. 58. Is it such a fast that I haue chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soule? Is it to bowe downe his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackloth, and ashes vnder him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an ac­ceptable day to the Lord?

6. Is not this the fast that I haue chosen? to loose the bonds of wicked­nesse, to vndoe the heauie [Page 92] burthens, and to let the oppressed goe free, and that ye breake euery yoke?

7. Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poore that are cast out to thine house? when thou seest the naked, that thou couer him, and that thou hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh?

Zechar. 7.5. When ye fasted, and mourned in the fift and seauenth moneth, euen those seuentie yeares, did ye at all fast vnto me, euen to me.

9. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hostes, saying, [Page 93] execute true iudgement, and shew mercie and com­passion euerie man to his brother?

10. And oppresse not the widdow, nor the fa­therlesse, the stranger, nor the poore, and let not any of you imagine euill a­gainst his brother in your heart.

3.Dan. 9. I set my face vnto the Lord God to seeke by prayer, and supplication, with fasting, and sackcloth and ashes.

4.Nehem. 1. I sate downe and wept, and mourned cer­taine dayes, and fasted and prayed before the [Page 94] Lord of heauen.

1. Sam. 7.6. The Israelites fasted and said, We haue sinned a­gainst the Lord.

Luke. 2.37. Anna was a widdow of about fourescore and foure yeares, which de­parted not from the Temple; but serued God with fasting, and prayers day and night.

udg 20.26. All the children of Israel, and all the people went vp, and came vnto the House of God and wept, and sate there before the Lord and fasted that day vntill euen, and offe­red burnt offerings, and peace offerings before [Page 95] the Lord.

12.Ioel. 2. Turne ye euen to me saith the Lord, with all your heart, and with fa­sting and with weeping, and with mourning.

13. And rent your hearts and not your garments, and turne vnto the Lord your God, for he is gra­tious and mercifull, slow to anger, and of great kind­nesse, and repenteth him of the euill.

15. Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemme assembly:

16. Gather the people; sanctifie the Congrega­tion; assemble the Elders; [Page 96] gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegrome goe forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her clo­set.

Ioel 2.17. Let the Priests, the Ministers of the Lord weepe between the Porch and the Alter, and let them say, Spare thy people O Lord, and giue not thine heri­tage to reproch; that the heathen should rule ouer them.

Ionah 3.5. The people of Ni­neueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackloth, from the grea­test of them, to the least of [Page 97] them.

6. And the king of Ni­neueh arose from his throne, and hee layde his robe from him, and coue­red him with sackloth, and sate in ashes.

7. And he caused it to bee proclaimed, and pub­lished through Nineueh (by the decree of the king and his nobles) saying, let neither man nor beast, heard nor flocke taste any thing; let them not feede, nor drinke water.

8. But let man, and beast be couered with sak­cloth, and cry mightily vn­to God; yea let them turne [Page 98] euery one from his euill way, and from the vio­lēce that is in their hands.

Ionah 3.9. Who can tell if God will [...]ne, and repent, and turne away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

10. And God saw their workes, that they turned from their euill way: and God repented of the euill that hee had said, that hee would doe vnto them, and he did it not.

Meates.

Col. 2.16. LEt no man iudge you in meate or in drinke;

Rom. 14.17. For the kingdome [Page 99] of God is not meate, and drink, but righteousnesse, and peace, and ioy in the holy Ghost.

8.1. Cor. 8. Meate commendeth vs not to God, for neither if we eate, are wee the bet­ter; neither if we eate not, are we the worse.

25.10. Whatsoeuer is sold in the shambles, that eate, making no question for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lords, and the fullnesse thereof.

14.Rom. 14. There is nothing vncleane of it selfe, but to him that esteemeth any thing to bee vncleane, to him it is vncleane.

[Page 100] Tit. 1.15. Vnto the pure all things are pure, but vnto them that are defiled, and vnbeleeuing, is nothing pure, but euen their mind, and conscience is defiled.

Mat. 15.11. Not that which goeth into the mouth de­fileth a man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

18. Those things which proceede out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and they defile the man.

Mar. 7.15. There is nothing from without a man that entring into him can defile [Page 101] him; but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

21. For from within out of the heart of men pro­ceede euill thoughts, adul­teries, fornications, mur­ders.

22. Thefts, coueteous­nesse, wickednesse, de­ceit, lasciuiousnesse, an e­uill eye, blasphemie, pride, foolishnesse.

23. All these euill things come from within, and defile the man.

31.1. Cor. 10. Whether ye eate or drinke, or whatsoeuer yee do, doe all to the glorie of God.

[Page 102] 1. Tim. 4.4. For euerie creature of God is good, and no­thing to be refused, if it be receiued with thanksgi­uing.

5. For it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer.

1. Cor. 8.9. But take heede least by any meanes this libertie of yours become a stum­bling blocke to them that are weake.

Rom. 14.15. If thy brother bee grieued with thy meate, now walkest thou not cha­ritably; destroy not him with thy meate, for whom Christ died.

20. All things indeede [Page 103] are pure, but it is euill for that man who eateth with offence.

21. It is neither good to eate flesh, nor to drinke wine, nor any thing where­by thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weake.

13.1. Cor. 8. If meate make my brother offend, I will eate no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

2.Rom. 14. One beleeueth that he may eate all things, an­other, who is weake, eateth herbes.

3. Let not him that eateth despise him that [Page 104] eateth not; and let not him which eateth not, iudge him that eateth; for God hath receiued him.

Rom. 14.6. Hee that eateth, ea­teth to the Lord, for hee giueth God thankes: and hee that eateth not, to the Lord hee eateth not, and giueth God thanks.

23. Hee that doubteth is damned if hee eate, be­cause hee eateth not of faith: for whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne.

19. Let vs therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edifie another.

Loue and Charitie.

7. BEloued,1. Iohn. 4. let vs loue one another, for loue is of God; and euery one that loueth, is borne of God, and knoweth God.

8. Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God; for God is loue.

12. If we loue one ano­ther, God dwelleth in vs, and his loue is perfect in vs.

16. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

10.2. He that loueth his [Page 106] brother abideth in the light, and there is no oc­casiō of stumbling in him.

11. But hee that hateth his brother is in darknesse,1. Iohh 4. and walketh in darkenesse, and knoweth not whether hee goeth, because that darknesse hath blinded his eyes.

20. If a man say, I loue GOD, and hateth his bro­ther, hee is a lier: for hee that loueth not his brother whom he hath seene, how can he loue God whom he hath not seene?

21. And this comman­dement haue wee from him, that hee that loueth [Page 107] GOD, loue his brother also.

10.Rom. 13. Loue worketh no ill to his neighbour, there­fore loue is the fullfilling of the law.

14.Gal. 5. For all the law is fullfilled in one word, euen in this, thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.

15. But if yee bite, and deuoure one another, take heed ye be not consumed one of another.

9.1. Thes. 4. Yee your selues are taught of God to loue one another.

22.1. Pet. 1. See that ye loue one another with a pure heart feruently.

[Page 108] 1. Tim. 1.5. The end of the com­mandement is charitie out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith vnfained.

1. Iohn 3.18, Let vs not loue in word, neither in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

Deut. 15.7. Thou shalt not har­den thy heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother.

8. But thou shalt open thy hand wide vnto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his neede in that which hee wan­teth.

10. Thou shalt surely giue him, and thine heart [Page 109] shall not be grieued, when thou giuest vnto him, be­cause that for this thing, the Lord thy GOD shall blesse thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest [...]hine hand vnto.

27 He that giueth vnto the poore shall not lacke;Pro. 28. but he that hideth his eyes, shall haue many a curse.

17.19. He that hath pittie vpon the poore lendeth vnto the Lord; and that which he hath giuen, will he pay him againe.

1.Psal. 41. Blessed is he that con­sidereth the poore, & needy, the Lord will deliuer him in time of trouble.

[Page 110] Rom. 128. He that giueth, let him do it with simplicitie; he that sheweth mercie with cheerefulnesse.

1. Iohn 3.17. Who so hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother hath neede, and shutteth vp his bowells of compassion from him, how dwelleth the loue of God in him?

1. Peter 4.8. Aboue all things haue feruent charitie among your selues; for charitie shall couer the multitude of sinnes.

1. Cor. 16.14. Let all your things be done with charitie.

1. Thes. 3.12. And the Lord make you to increase and [Page 111] to abound in loue one towards another, and towards all men.

Prayer.

8.1. Tim. 2. I Will that men pray euery where, lifting vp holy hands without wrath, and doubting.

18.Ephe. 6. Praying alwayes with all prayer, and sup­plication in the spirit.

20.Iude Build vp your selues in your most holy faith praying in the holy Ghost.

24.Mark 11. What things soe­uer yee desire when yee pray; beleeue that ye re­ceiue [Page 112] them, and yee shall haue them.

25. And when ye stand praying, forgiue if ye haue ought against any, that your father also which is in heauen may forgiue you your trespasses.

26. But if you do not forgiue, neither will your father which is in heauen forgiue you your tres­passes.

Mat. 6.5. When thou prayest, thou shalt not bee as the Hipocrites are; for they loue to stand praying in Synagogues, and in the corners of the streete, that they may be seene of men: [Page 113] verily I say vnto you, they haue their reward.

6. But thou when thou prayest, enter into thy clo­set, and when thou hast shut thy doore, pray to thy father which is in secret, and thy father which seeth in secret, shall re­ward thee openly.

7. When you pray, vse not vaine repetitions as the heathen doe, for they thinke that they shall bee heard for their much spea­king.

41.Lam. 3. Let vs lift vp our heart with our hands vnto God in the heauens.

14.1. Cor. 14. If I pray in an vn­knowne [Page 114] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but mine vnder­standing is vnfruitfull.

15. I will pray with the spirit, and will pray with vnderstanding also.

19. In the Church I had rather speake fiue words with my vnderstanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, then ten thousand words in an vn­knowne tongue.

8. For if the trumpet giue an vncertaine sound, who shall prepare him­selfe to the battaile.

6. So likewise you, ex­cept yee vtter by the tongue words easie to bee [Page 115] vnderstood, how shall it bee knowne what is spo­ken? for ye speake into the ayre.

2. Continue in prayer,Col. 4. and watch in the same with thanksegiuing.

10.Dan. 6. Daniel kneeled vpon his knees three times 1 day and prayed, and gaue thankes before his God.

17. Euening,Psal. 55. and mor­ning, and at noone will I pray, and cry aloude; and he shall heare my voice.

16.Iames 5. Pray one for an­other, that ye may be hea­led; the effectuall feruent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

[Page 116]13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.

One Mediator.

1. Iohn 2.1. IF any man sinne, we haue an aduocate with the father IESVS CHRIST the righteous.

1. Tim. 2.5. There is one God, and one Mediator be­tweene God and men, the man Christ Iesus.

Rom. 8.34. Christ is euen at the right hand of God, who also maketh inter­cession for vs.

Hebr. 7.25. He is able also to saue them for euermore that come vnto God by [Page 117] him; seeing he euer liueth to make intercession for them.

24.9. Christ is not en­tred into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true [...], but into hea­uen it selfe, now to apeare in the presence of God for vs.

6. I am the way,Iohn 14. the truth, and the life, no man commeth vnto the father but by me.

1.10. He that entreth not in by the doore into the sheepfold, but climeth vp some other way, the same is a thiefe, and a robber.

[Page 118]9. I am the doore, by me if any man enter in, he shall be saued.

Math. 11.28. Come vnto me all ye that labour and are hea­uie laden, and I will giue you rest.

28.18. all power is giuen vnto me in heauen and in earth.

Our Propitiation, Purga­tory, and Satisfaction.

Rom. 3.25. GOd hath set forth Christ Iesus to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to de­clare his righteousnesse for the remission of sinnes that are past, through the for­bearance [Page 119] of God.

2.1. Iohn. 2. And he is the propi­tiation for our sinnes, and not for ours onely, but al­so for the sinnes of the whole world.

6.1. Tim. 2. Hee gaue himselfe a ransome for all to be testi­fied in due time.

4.Isay. 53. Surely he hath borne our griefes, and carried our sorrowes.

5. Hee was wounded for our transgressions, hee was bruised for our iniqui­ties, the chastisement of our peace was vpon him, and with his stripes are we healed.

25.Rom. 4. Hee was deliuered [Page 120] for our offences and was raised againe for our iusti­fication.

1. Pet. 2.24. His owne selfe bare our sinnes in his owne body on the tree, that wee being dead to sinne, should liue vnto righteousnesse; by whose stripes we were healed.

25. For yee were as sheepe going astray, but now are returned to the sheapheard and Bishop of your soules.

Rom. 5.11. We also ioy in God thorough our Lord Iesus Christ, by whom we haue now receiued the attone­ment.

[Page 121]10. When we were ene­mies, wee were reconciled vnto God, by the death of his sonne.

9.Heb. 5. Being made perfect hee became the author of eternall saluation vnto all that obey him.

3.1. When he had by himselfe purged our sins, he sate downe on the right hand of the maiestie on high.

12.9. By his owne blood he entred in once into the holy place, hauing obtai­ned eternall redemption for vs.

26. Once in the end of the world hath hee ap­peared [Page 122] to put away sinne by the Sacrifice of him­selfe.

Heb. 9.28. Christ was offered once, to beare the sinnes of many.

2. Cor. 5.18. All things are of God who hath reconciled vs vnto himselfe by Iesus Christ.

1. Iohn. 4.10. Herein is loue, not that wee loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his Sonne to be the propi­tiation for our sinnes.

Iohn. 8.36. If the Sonne shall make you free, ye shall be free indeede.

1. Iohn 1.7. If wee walke in the light, as he is in the light, [Page 123] wee haue fellowship one with another, and the bloud of Iesus Christ clenseth vs from all sinne.

9. If wee confesse our sinnes, he is faithfull, and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes, and to clense vs from all vnrighteousnesse.

18.1. Pet. 1. Ye were not redee­med with corruptible things, as siluer and gold, from your vaine conuer­sation receiued by tradi­tion from your fathers.

19. But with the preti­ous bloud of Christ as of a lambe without blemish, and without spot.

14.Heb. 10. For by one offering [Page 124] he hath perfected for euer them that are sanctified.

Rom. 4.7. Blessed are they whose iniquities are for­giuen, and whose sinnes are couered.

8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sinne.

Sinnes.

Pro. 20.9. WHo can say, I haue made my heart cleane? I am pure from my sinne?

1. Iohn. 3.4. Sinne is the trans­gression of the Law.

Gal. 3.10. As many as are of the workes of the Law, are [Page 125] vnder the curse: for it is written, cursed is euery one that continueth not in all things which are writ­ten in the booke of the Law to doe them.

10.Ia. 2. Whosoeuer shall keepe the whole Law, and yet offend in one point, he is guiltie of all.

36.Math. 12. Euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue an account therof in the day of iudge­ment.

22.5. Whosoeuer is an­grie with his brother, without a cause shall bee in danger of the iudge­ment, and whosoeuer shall [Page 126] say vnto his brother, Ra­cha, shall bee in danger of the Councell: But who­soeuer shal say thou foole, shall bee in danger of hell fire.

Rom. 6.23. The wages of sinne is death.

7.11. Sinne taking occa­sion by the commande­ment deceiued me, and by it slew me.

Ezech. 18.20. The soule that sin­neth shall die.

Rom. 5.12. As by one man sin entred into the world, and death by sinne: so death passed vpon all men, for that all haue sinned.

Ephe. 5.5. For this yee know, [Page 127] that no whoremonger, nor vncleane person, nor couetous man who is an Idolater, hath any inheri­tance in the kingdome of Christ, and of God.

6. Let no man deceiue you with vaine words; for because of these things cōmeth the wrath of God vpon the children of diso­bedience.

30.Ezech. 18 I will iudge you ô house of Israel, euery one according to his wayes saith the Lord God: repent and turne your selues from all your transgressi­ons, so iniquitie shall not be your ruine.

[Page 128] Gen. 1926. Lots wife looked backe from behind him, & she became a pillar of salt.

Num. 15.36. All the congrega­tion brought the man that gathered stickes vpon the Sabbath day without the campe, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Leuit. 24.13. The Lord spake vn­to Moses saying;

14. Bring foorth him that hath cursed, without the campe, and let all that heard him, lay their hands vpon his head, and let all the Congregation stone him.

[Page 129]6.2. Sam. 6. Vzzah put forth his hand to the Arke of God, and tooke hold of it, for the oxen shooke it.

7. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Vzzah, and God smote him there for his error, and there he died by the Arke of God.

19.1. Sam. 6. And hee smote the men of Beth-shemesh be­cause they had looked into the Arke of the Lord, euē hee smote of the people threescore thousand, and threescore, and ten men.

30.Math. 25. Cast ye the vnpro­fitable seruant into vtter darkenesse, there shall bee [Page 130] weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Iam. 3.2. In many things wee offend all.

1. Iohn. 1.7. And the bloud of Iesus Christ cleanseth vs from all sinne.

Will.

Gen. 6.5. GOd saw that the wickednes of man was great in the earth, and that euery imagination of the thoughts of his heart was onely euill continu­ally.

8.21. The imagination of mans heart is euill from his youth.

[Page 131]23.Ier. 10. O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himselfe, it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

18.31. Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullocke vnaccustomed to the yoake; turne thou me, and I shall be turned, thou art the Lord my God.

24.Pro. 20. Mans goings are of the Lord; how can a man then vnderstand his owne way.

1.16. The preparations of the heart of man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

5.Iohn 15. I am the vine ye are [Page 132] the branches; he that abi­deth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth foorth much fruit, for without me ye can do nothing.

Psal. 32.8. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way that thou shalt goe: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Hosea 13.9. O Israel thou hast de­stroyed thy selfe, but in me is thine helpe.

Iohn 6.44. No man can come to mee, except the father which hath sent me, draw him.

2. Cor. 3.5. We are not suffici­ent of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues: for our sufficiency is of [Page 133] God.

13.Philip. 2. It is God which worketh in you both to will, and to doe of his good pleasure.

17.Iames 1. Euery good gift, and euery perfect gift, is from aboue, and cōmeth downe from the father of lights; with whom is no variablenesse, neither sha­dow of turning.

18. Of his owne will begate hee vs, with the word of truth, that wee should bee a kinde of first fruits of his creatures.

15. Ye ought to say,Iames 4. if the Lord will, we shall liue, and doe this, or that.

[Page 134] Acts 18:21. I will returne againe vnto you, if God will.

1. Cor. 4.19. I will come vnto you shortly if the Lord will.

Heb. 6.3. This will wee doe if God permit.

Ezech. 36.26. A new heart will I giue you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will giue you an heart of flesh.

17. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walke in my statutes, and ye shall keepe my iudgements, and doe them.

[Page 135]45.Luke 24. Then opened hee their vnderstanding, that they might vnderstand the Scriptures.

12.Iohn. 1. As many as receiued him, to them gaue he power to become the sonnes of God, euen to them that beleeue on his name.

13. Which were borne not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man but of God.

Hipocrisie.

8.Iames 4. CLeanse your hands ye sinners; and pu­rifie your hearts ye double [Page 136] minded.

Luke 12.1. Beware ye of the lea­uen of the Pharises which is hypocrisie.

Pro. 30.12. There is a genera­tion that are pure in their owne eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthi­nesse.

Iob 36.13. The hypocrites in heart heape vp wrath.

Isay. 582. They seeke mee dayly, and delight to know my wayes, as a nation that did righteousnesse, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they aske of mee the ordinances of Iustice, they take delight in aproaching to God.

[Page 137]5.Mat. 23. But all their workes they doe, for to be seene of men.

23. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharises, Hy­pocrites; for yee pay tythe of mynt and annise, and cūmyne, and haue omitted the weightier matters of the law, iudgement, mercy, and faith: these ought yee to haue done, and not to leaue the other vndone.

27. Ye are like to whi­ted sepulchers, which in­deede appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and of vncleanenesse.

28. Euen so yee also [Page 138] outwardly appeare righte­ous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.

Luk. 11.39. Yee Pharisees doe make cleane the outside of the cup and platter, but your inward part is full of rauening, and wickednesse.

Mat. 23.26. Cleanse first that which is within the cup, and platter, that the out­side of them may bee cleane also.

Luk. 11.40. Ye fooles, did not he which made that which is without, make that which is within also?

41. Rather giue almes [Page 139] of such things as you haue; & behold all things are cleane vnto you.

Riches.

1.Eccles. 6. THere is an euill which I haue seene vnder the Sunne, and it is common among men.

2. A man to whom God hath giuen riches, wealth, and honour, so that hee wanteth nothing for his soule of all that hee desireth, yet God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanitie, [Page 140] and it is an euill disease.

1. Tim. 6.17. Charge them that bee rich in this world, that they bee not high minded, nor trust in vn­certaine riches, but in the liuing God, who giueth vs richly all things to en­ioy.

18. That they doe good, that they bee rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate.

19. Laying vp in store for themselues a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternall life.

Iames 5.1. Goe to now ye rich [Page 141] men, weepe and howle for your miseries that shal come vpon you.

2. Your riches are cor­rupted, and your garments moth-eaten.

3. Your gold and sil­uer is cankred, and the rust of them shall be a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh as it were fire; yee haue heaped vp trea­sure together for the last dayes.

24 Woe vnto you that are rich,Luke 6. for ye haue recei­ued your consolation.

19.Mar. 4. The cares of this world, and the deceitfull­nesse of riches, and the [Page 142] lusts of other things en­tring in, choake the word, and it becommeth vn­fruitfull.

Luk. 16.13. Yee cannot serue God and Mammon.

1 Tim 6.6. Godlinesse with con­tentment is great gaine.

Psal. 62.10. If riches increase, set not your heart vpon them.

1 Tim. 6.7. For we brought no­thing into this world, and it is certaine we can carrie nothing out.

8. And hauing foode and raiment, let vs be ther­with content.

9. But they that will be rich fall into temptation, [Page 143] and a snare, and into ma­ny foolish, and hurtfull lusts which drowne men in destruction, and perdition.

10. For the loue of mo­ney is the roote of all euill; which while some coue­ted after, they haue erred from the faith, and pierced themselues thorough with many sorrowes.

20. Thou foole, this night thy soule shall be re­quired of thee;Luk. 12. then whose shall those things bee which thou hast prouided.

21. So is he that layeth vp treasure for himselfe, and is not rich towards God.

[Page 144] Pro. 18.11. The rich mans wealth is his strong citie; and as an high wall in his owne conceit.

11.4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.

Zepha. 1.18. Neither their sil­uer, nor their gold shall be able to deliuer them in the day of the Lords wrath.

Luke 12.15. A mans life con­sisteth not in the abun­dance of things which hee possesseth.

31. Rather seeke ye the kingdome of God, and all these things shall bee ad­ded vnto you.

Patience.

14.1. Thes. 5. BE patient towards all men.

15, See that none ren­der euill for euill vnto any man, but euer follow that which is good, both a­mong your selues, and to all men.

19.Rom. 12. Auenge not your selues, but rather giue place vnto wrath; for it is written, vengeāce is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

3.Iames 1. The trying of your faith worketh patience.

4. But let patience haue [Page 146] her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect, and entire, wanting nothing.

Rom. 5.3. Tribulations worke patience.

4. And patience expe­rience, and experience hope.

Luk. 21.19. In your patience possesse ye your selues.

Phil. 4.5. Let your moderation be knowne vnto all men.

Iam. 1.19. Let euery man bee swift to heare, slow to speake, slow to wrath.

20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righ­teousnesse of God.

Pro. 16.32. Hee that is slow to anger, is better then the [Page 147] mightie, and hee that ru­leth his spirit, then he that taketh a citie.

29.14. Hee that is slow to wrath, is of great vnder­standing; but hee that is hastie of spirit, exalteth folly.

4. Wrath is cruell,27. and anger is outragious.

9.Eccles. 7. Bee not hastie in thy spirit to bee angry, for an­ger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

7.Iam. 5. Bee patient vnto the comming of the Lord; be­hold the husbandman wai­teth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, vntill he re­ceiue [Page 148] the early, and later raine.

8. Bee yee also patient, stablish your hearts: for the comming of the Lord draweth nigh.

10. Take the Prophets, who haue spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affli­ction, and of patience.

11. Behold wee count them happy which indure: yee haue heard of the pati­ence of Iob, and haue seene the end of the Lord; that the Lord is pittifull, and of tender mercy.

1. Pet. 5.10. The GOD of all grace, who hath called vs [Page 149] into his eternall glorie by Christ Iesus, after that yee haue suffered a while, make perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

11. To him bee glory and dominion for euer and euer. Amen.

Humilitie.

6.1. Pet. 5. HVmble your selues vnder the mightie hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.

5. Yea, all of you bee subiect one to another, and be clothed with humi­litie: for God resisteth the proud, and giueth grace to [Page 150] the humble.

[...]o. 16.19. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, then to deuide the spoile with the proud.

11.2. When pride com­meth, then commeth shame, but with the low­ly is wisedome.

Mat. 11.29. Learne of me, for I am lowly in heart.

[...]uk. 14.11. Whosoeuer exal­teth himselfe shall be aba­sed, and he that humbleth himselfe shall bee exalted.

[...]phes: 4.1. Walke worthy of the vocation wherein yee are called.

2. With all lowlinesse, and meekenesse, with long [Page 151] suffering, forbearing one another in loue.

3.Phil 2. Let nothing be done through strife, or vaine-glory, but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteeme o­ther better then them­selues.

5. Let this minde be in you which was also in Christ Iesus.

7. Who made himselfe of no reputation, and tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant, and was made in the likenesse of men.

8. Hee humbled him­selfe, and became obedi­ent vnto death, euen the death of the crosse.

[Page 152] Phil. 2.9. Wherefore God al­so hath highly exalted him, and giuen him a name which is aboue eue­ry name.

10. That at the name of Iesus euery knee should bow, of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth.

11. And that euery tongue should confesse, that Iesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father.

Psal. 138.6. Though the Lord be high, yet hee hath respect vnto the lowly, but the proude he knoweth afarre off.

[Page 153]9.25. The meeke will he guide in iudgement, and the meeke will hee teach his way.

34.Pro. 3. Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he gi­ueth grace vnto the lowly.

6.Psal. 147. The Lord lifteth vp the meeke: hee casteth the vngodly downe to the ground.

10.Luke 18. Two men went vp into the Temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican.

11. The Pharise stood & prayed thus with himselfe; God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, exortioners, vniust, adulte­rers, [Page 154] and euen as this Pub­lican.

Luke 18.12. I fast twise in the weeke, I giue tithes of all that I possesse.

13. And the Publican standing a farre off, would not lift vp so much as his eyes vnto heauen; but smote vpon his brest, say­ing, God be mercifull to me a sinner.

14. I tell you, this man went downe to his house iustified, rather then the o­ther: for euery one that exalteth himselfe shall be abased: and he that hum­bleth himself shall be exal­ted.

The holy Eucharist.

26. IEsus tooke bread,Mat. 26. and blessed it, and brake it, and gaue it to the Disciples, and said, take, eate, this is my body.

27. And he tooke the cup, and gaue thankes, and gaue it to them, saying; drinke ye all of it.

28. For this is my blood of the new Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sinnes.

22. Iesus tooke bread,Mark. 14. and blessed, and brake it, & gaue to them, and said; take, eate, this is my bod [...].

[Page 156]23. And hee tooke the cup, and when hee had giuen thankes, hee gaue it to them, and they all dranke of it.

24. And hee said vnto them, this is my blood of the new Testament, which is shed for many.

Luke 22.19. Hee tooke bread, and gaue thankes, and brake it, and gaue vnto them, saying, this is my bo­dy, which is giuen for you; this doe in remembrance of me.

20. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying; this cup is the new Testa­ment in my blood, which [Page 157] is shed for you.

16.1. Co. 10. The cup of blessing which wee blesse, is it not the Communion of the blood of CHRIST? The bread which we breake, is it not the Communion of the body of Christ?

17. For we being many, are one bread, and one body; for we are all parta­kers of that one bread.

23. The Lord Iesus the same night in which hee was betraied, tooke bread;

24. And when hee had giuen thankes, he brake it, and said; take, eate, this is my body which is broken for you; this doe in re­membrance [Page 158] of mee.

Cor. 11.25. After the same man­ner also hee tooke the cup when he had supped, say­ing; this cup is the new Testament in my blood: this doe, as oft as ye drinke it, in remembrance of me.

26. For as often as yee eate this bread, and drinke this cup, yee doe shew the Lords death till he come.

27. Wherefore who soeuer shall eate this bread, and drinke this cup of the Lord vnworthily, shall bee guiltie of the bo­dy and bloud of the Lord.

28. But let a man exa­mine himselfe, and so let [Page 159] him eate of that bread, and drinke of that cup.

29. For he that eateth, and drinketh vnworthily, eateth and drinketh dam­nation to himselfe, not discerning the Lords bo­dy.

3.Cor. 10. Our fathers did all eate the same spirituall meate.

4. And did all drinke the same spirituall drinke; for they dranke of that spi­rituall rocke that followed them, and that rocke was Christ.

35. Iesus said,Ioh. 6 I am the bread of life, he that commeth to mee, shall neuer [Page 159] hunger, and he that belee­ueth on me, shall neuer thirst.

51. I am the liuing bread which came downe from heauen: If any man eate of this bread, he shall liue for euer: and the bread that I will giue is my flesh, which I will giue for the life of the world.

56. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me and I in him.

58. Not as your fa­thers did eate Manna, and are dead; he that eateth of this bread, shall liue for euer.

[Page 161]63.Iohn 6. It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh pro­fiteth nothing: the words that I speake vnto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

28.16. I came forth from the father, and am come into the world: againe I leaue the world, and go to my father.

7. It is expedient for you, that I goe away; for if I goe not away, the comforter will not come vnto you: but if I depart, I will send him vnto you.

2.14. I goe to prepare a place for you.

3. And if I goe and [Page 162] prepare a place for you, I will come againe, and re­ceiue you vnto my selfe, that where I am, there yee may be also.

Mat. 26.29. I will not drinke henceforth of this fruite of the vine, vntill that day, when I drinke it new with you in my fathers king­dome.

Mar. 16.19. After the Lord had spoken to them, hee was receiued vp into heauen, and sate on the right hand of God.

Heb. 10.13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstoole.

14. For by one offering [Page 163] he hath perfected for euer them that are sanctified.

1.Col. 3. If yee bee risen with Christ, seeke those things which are aboue, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

20.Phil. 3. Our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Saui­our the Lord Iesus Christ.

21.Acts 3. Whom the heauen must receiue vntill the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began.

The happinesse of Gods seruants.

Psal. 37.37. MArke the perfect man and behold the vpright; for the end of that man is peace.

92.12. The righteous shall flourish like the Palme tree: he shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon.

Hosea 14.6. His branches shall spread, and his beautie shall be as the Oliue tree; and his smell as Lebanon.

Psal. 92.13. Those that be plan­ted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the Courts of our God.

[Page 165]14. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they shall bee fat, and flourishing.

23.37. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord; and he delighteth in his way.

24. Though he fall, he shall not vtterly bee cast downe: for the Lord vp­holdeth him with his hand.

12.25. What man is hee that feareth the Lord? him shall hee reach in the way that he shall choose.

13. His soule shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the earth.

[Page 166]14. The secret of the Lord is with them that feare him, and hee will shew them his couenant.

[...]sal. 103.17. The mercy of the Lord is from euerlasting, to euerlasting vpon them that feare him; and his righteousnesse vnto chil­drens children.

18. To such as keepe his couenant, and to those that remember his com­mandements to do them.

65.4. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach vnto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: he shall be sa­tisfied with the goodnesse [Page 167] of thy house, euen of thy holy Temple.

The vanitie of the world.

15. LOue not the world,1. Iohn 2. neither the things that are in the world; if any man loue the world, the loue of the father is not in him.

16. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh; the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

17. And the world pas­seth away, and the lust [Page 168] thereof: but hee that doth the will of God abideth for euer.

Eccles. 1.14. I haue seene all the workes that are done vnder the Sun, and behold all is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.

Col. 3.2. Set your affection on things aboue, not on things on the earth.

Iames 4.4. Whosoeuer will be a friend of the world, is the enemie of God.

Mat. 6.24. No man can serue two masters, for either hee will hate the one, and loue the other: or else he will hold to the one, and de­spise the other: ye cannot [Page 169] God and Mammon.

15.Luke 16. That which is high­ly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God.

14. What is your life?Iames. 4. It is euen a vapor that ap­peareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

4.Psal. 144. Man is like to vani­tie, his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away.

15.103. His dayes are as grasse, as a flower of the field; so he florisheth.

16. For the winde pas­seth ouer it, and it is gon: and the place thereof shall know it no more:

2.Iob 14. He cōmeth forth like [Page 170] a flower and is cut downe; he flieth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

1. Pet. 1.24. For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glorie of man as the flower of gras: the grasse withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

Psal. 62.9. Surely men of low degree are vanitie, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the bal­lance, they are altogether lighter then vanitie.

39.5. Verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie.

The end of the world.

3.Math. 24. AS Iesus sate vpon the Mount of O­liues, the disciples came vnto him priuately, saying, tell vs what shall bee the signe of thy comming? and of the end of the world?

4. And Iesus answered and said vnto them; Take heede that no man de­ceiue you.

5. For many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ, and shall deceiue many.

6. And yee shall heare of warres, and rumors of [Page 172] warres: See that yee bee not troubled; for all these things must come to passe, but the end is not yet.

Math 24.7. For nation shall rise against nation, and king­dome against kingdome, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earth­quakes in diuers places.

8. All these are but the beginning of sorrowes.

9. Then shall they deli­uer you vp to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and yee shall bee hated of all Na­tions for my names sake.

10. And they shall ma­ny be offended, and shall betray one another, and [Page 173] shall hate one another.

11. And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceiue many.

12. And because ini­quitie shall abound; the loue of many shall waxe cold.

13. But hee that shall endure vnto the end shall be saued.

14. And this Gospell of the Kingdome shall be preached in all the world for a witnesse vnto all Na­tions, and then shall the end come.

21. Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of [Page 174] the world to this time, no not euer shall bee.

Mat. 24.22. And except those dayes should bee shortned there should no flesh bee saued: but for the elects sake, those dayes shall bee shortned.

24. There shall arise false christs, and false pro­phets, and shal shew great signes, and wonders: in so much that if it were possi­ble, they shall deceiue the very elect.

2. Tim. 3.1. This know also that in the last dayes perilous times shall come.

2. For men shall bee louers of their owne selues [Page 175] couetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to Parents, vnthankefull, vnholy.

3. Without naturall affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good.

4. Traytors, heady, high minded, louers of pleasures more then lo­uers of God.

5. Hauing a forme of godlinesse, but denying the power thereof, from such turne away.

6. For of this sort are they which creepe into houses, and leade captiue [Page 176] silly women, ladē with sins, led away with diuers lusts.

7. Euer learning, and neuer able to come to the knowledge of the truth.2. Tim. 3.

8. Now as Iannes & Iam­bres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth; men of corrupt mindes, re­probate concerning faith.

9. But they shall proceede no further: for their folly shall bee manifested vnto all men; as theirs also was.

Luke 21.25. And there shall be signes in the Sunne, and in the Moone, and in the starres, and vpon the earth distresse of nations, with perplexitie, the sea, and the [Page 177] waters shall roare.

26. Mens heart fayling them for feare, and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth; for the powers of heauen shal be shaken.

27. And then shall they see the sonne of man com­ming in a cloude with power and great glory.

28. And when these things shall begin to come to passe, then looke vp, and lift vp your heads for your redemption draweth nigh.

13.Mar. 13. But of that day and houre knoweth no man, not the Angels in heauen, nor the son but the father.

[Page 178] Luke 21.36. Watch yee there­fore, and pray alwayes that ye may be accounted wor­thy to escape all these things, that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.

1. Thes. 4.15. For this we say, vn­to you by the word of the Lord; that wee which are aliue, and remaine vnto the comming of the Lord, shall not preuent them which are asleepe.

16. For the Lord him­selfe shall descend from heauen with a shoute, with the voice of the Arch­angel and with the trumpe of God: and the dead in [Page 179] Christ shall rise first.

17. Then we which are aliue, and remaine, shall bee caught vp together with them in the clouds, to meete the Lord in the aire; and so shall we euer be with the Lord.

The Iudgement.

27.Heb. 9. IT is appointed vn­to all men to die; but after this the Iudge­ment.

7.Eccles. 12. The dust shall re­turne to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall returne to God who gaue it.

1.2. Cor. 5. Wee know if our [Page 180] earthly house of this Ta­bernacle were dissolued; we haue a building of God, a house not made with hand, eternall in the heauens.

Rom. 8.10. The bodie is dead because of sinne, but the spirit is life because of righteousnesse.

Gal. 6.8. He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reape corruption; but hee that soweth to the spirit, shall of the spirit reape life euerlasting.

Iohn 5.24. He that heareth my Word and beleeueth on him that sent me, hath e­uerlasting life, and shall [Page 181] not come into condemna­tion, but is passed from death vnto life.

18.Psal. 37. The Lord knoweth the daies of the vpright; and their inheritance shall be for euer.

20. But the wicked shall perish, and the ene­mies of the Lord shall bee as the fat of lambes; they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

23.Rom. 6. The wages of sinne is death, but the gift of GOD is eternall life tho­rough Iesus Christ our Lord.

22. The begger died,Luke 16 and was carried by the [Page 182] Angels into Abrahams bosome, the rich man also died, and was buried.

23. And in hell hee lift vp his eyes being in tor­ments, and seeth Abraham afarre off, and Lazarus in his bosome:

24. And he cryed, and said; father Abraham haue mercie on me, and send Lazarus, that hee may dip the tip of his finger in wa­ter, and coole my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.

25. But Abraham said, sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy good things, [Page 183] and likewise Lazarus euill things; but now he is com­forted, and thou art tor­mented.

13. Wide is the gate,Mat. 7. and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which goe in thereat.

14. Straite is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth vnto life, and few there bee that finde it.

28.Iohn 15. The houre is com­ming in the which all that are in the graues, shall heare his voice.

29. And shall come forth; they that haue done [Page 184] good, vnto the resurrectiō of life; and they that haue done euill, vnto the resur­rection of damnation.

Mat: 25.46. These shall goe a­way into euerlasting pu­nishment: but the righte­ous into life eternall.

Dan. 12.2. Many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to euerlasting life, and some to shame and euer­lasting contempt.

Mat. 25.31. When the sonne of man shall come in his glory, and shall the holy An­gels with him, then shall hee sit vpon the throne of his glory.

[Page 185]32.Mat. 25. And before him shall bee gathered all nati­ons, and he shall separate them one from another, as a sheapheard diuideth his sheepe from the goates.

33. And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand, but the goates on the left.

34. Then shall the king say vnto them on his right hand, come yee blessed of my father, inherit the king­dome prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

41. Then shall hee say vnto them on the left hand, depart from me yee cursed, into euerlasting [Page 186] fire, prepared for the de­uill and his Angels.

Iude.24. Now vnto him that is able to keepe you from falling, and to present you faultlesse, before the presence of his glory with exceeding ioy.

25. To the only wise God our Sauiour, be glo­rie, and maiestie, domini­on, and power, now, and euer, Amen.

Reuel 22.14. Blessed are they that doe his commande­ments that they may haue right to the tree of life, & may enter in through the gates into the citie.

15. For without are [Page 187] dogges, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and mur­derers, and Idolaters, and whosoeuer lo­ueth, and ma­keth a lie.