Section I. Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence, do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable;⁽¹⁾ yet in order to reveal himself and a knowledge of his will more clearly, and the medium through which he is to be worshipped, it pleased the Lord at sundry times, in divers manners to reveal himself and to declare that his will unto his church;⁽²⁾ and afterwards for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing;⁽³⁾ which maketh the Holy Scripture to be most necessary,⁽⁴⁾ those former ways of God's revealing his will unto his people being now ceased.⁽⁵⁾

Section II. Under the name of holy scripture, or the word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testament, which are these:⁽⁶⁾

All of which are given by inspiration of God, to be the rule of faith and life.⁽⁷⁾

Section III: The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the scripture, and therefore are of no authority in the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings.⁽⁸⁾

Section IV: The authority of the holy scripture, for which it ought to be believed and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God, (who is truth itself,) the author thereof; and therefore it is to be received, because it is the word of God.⁽⁹⁾

Section V: We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church, to a high and reverend esteem for the Holy Scripture,^{(10) (11)} and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole, (which is to give all the glory to God,) the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation, the many other incomparable excellencies, and the entire perfection thereof, are arguments whereby it doth abundantly evidence itself to be the word of God; yet, notwithstanding, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority thereof is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit, bearing witness, by and with the word in our hearts.⁽¹²⁾

Section VI: The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from scripture, unto which nothing at any time is to be added whether by new revelations of the Spirit or traditions of men,⁽¹³⁾ nevertheless, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the word;⁽¹⁴⁾ and there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God and government of the church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the word, which are always to be observed.⁽¹⁵⁾

Section VII: All things in the scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all;⁽¹⁶⁾ yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.⁽¹⁷⁾

Section VIII: The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old,) and the New Testament in Greek, (which at the time of the writing it was most generally known to the nations,) being immediately inspired by God, and by his singular care and providence, kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentical;⁽¹⁸⁾ so as in all controversies of religion the church is finally to appeal unto them;⁽¹⁹⁾ but because these original tongues are not known to all the people of God, who have right unto and interest in the scriptures, and are commanded in the fear of God, to read and search them;⁽²⁰⁾ therefore they are to be translated into the vulgar language of every nation unto which they come,^{(21) (22)} that the word of God dwelling plentifully in all, they may worship him in an acceptable manner;⁽²³⁾ and through patience and comfort of the scriptures may have hope.⁽²⁴⁾

Section IX: The infallible rule of interpretation of scripture is the scripture itself; and, therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any scripture, (which is not manifold, but one,) it may be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.⁽²⁵⁾

Section X: The Supreme Judge, by whom all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all the decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the scripture.⁽²⁶⁾

Section I: There is but one only ⁽²⁷⁾ living and true God,⁽²⁸⁾ who is infinite in being and perfection,⁽²⁹⁾ a most pure spirit,⁽³⁰⁾ invisible,⁽³¹⁾ without body, parts,⁽³²⁾ or passions,⁽³³⁾ immutable,⁽³⁴⁾ immense,⁽³⁵⁾ eternal,^{(36) (37)} incomprehensible,⁽³⁸⁾ almighty,⁽³⁹⁾ most wise,⁽⁴⁰⁾ most holy,⁽⁴¹⁾ most free,⁽⁴²⁾ most absolute,⁽⁴³⁾ working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will,⁽⁴⁴⁾ for his own glory,⁽⁴⁵⁾ most loving,⁽⁴⁶⁾ gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;^{(47) (48)} the rewarder of them that diligently seek him;⁽⁴⁹⁾ and withal, most just and terrible in his judgments,⁽⁵⁰⁾ hating all sin,⁽⁵¹⁾ and who will by no means clear the guilty.⁽⁵²⁾

Section II: God hath all life,⁽⁵³⁾ glory,⁽⁵⁴⁾ goodness,⁽⁵⁵⁾ blessedness,⁽⁵⁶⁾ in and of himself; and is alone in and unto himself all sufficient, not standing in need of any creatures which he hath made,⁽⁵⁷⁾ nor deriving any glory from them,⁽⁵⁸⁾ but only manifesting his own glory in, by, unto, and upon them: he is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things;⁽⁵⁹⁾ and hath most sovereign dominion over them, to do by them, for them, and upon them, whatsoever himself pleaseth.⁽⁶⁰⁾ In his sight all things are open and manifest;⁽⁶¹⁾ his knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature;^{(62) (63)} so as nothing is to him uncertain.⁽⁶⁴⁾ He is most holy in all his counsels, in his works, and in all his commands.⁽⁶⁵⁾ To him is due from angels and men and every other creature, whatsoever worship, service or obedience, he is pleased to require of them.⁽⁶⁶⁾

Section III: In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons of one substance, power, and eternity; God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.⁽⁶⁷⁾

Section I: God did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, determine to act or bring to pass, what should be for his own glory.⁽⁶⁸⁾

Section II: God has not decreed any thing respecting his creature man, contrary to his revealed will or written word;⁽⁶⁹⁾ which declares his sovereignty over all his creatures,⁽⁷⁰⁾ the ample provision he hath made for their salvation,⁽⁷¹⁾ his determination to punish the finally impenitent with everlasting destruction,⁽⁷²⁾ and to save the true believer with an everlasting salvation. *

* We think it best under the head of the Decrees, to write what we know to be incontrovertible from the plain word of God, than to darken counsel with words without knowledge. We have elsewhere [See 3d edition of Buck's Theological Dictionary, letter P.] acknowledged the doctrine of predestination to be a high mystery. We are therefore free to acknowledge that in our judgment it is easier to fix the limits, which man should not transcend, on either hand, than to give an intelligent elucidation of the subject. We believe that both Calvinists and Arminians have egregiously erred on this point; the former by driving rational accountable man into the asylum of fate; the latter by putting too much stress on man's works; and leaving too much out of view the grace that bringeth salvation, and thereby cherish those legal principles that are in every human heart. We think the intermediate plan on this subject is nearest the WHOLE truth. For surely on the one hand, it must be acknowledged, that God's love, Christ's merits, and Holy Spirit's operations, are the moving, meritorious, and active causes of man's salvation; that God is a sovereign, having a right to work when, where, how, and on whom he pleases; that salvation in its device, in its plan, and in its application is of the Lord, and that without the unmerited agency and operation of the God's Spirit, not one of Adam's race would, or could ever come to the knowledge of the truth; for God is the author, as well as the finisher of our faith. Therefore God as a Sovereign may, if he please, elect a nation, as the Jews, to preserve his worship free from idolatry -- many nations for a time, as Christendom, to spread his gospel in -- Individuals, as Cyrus and others, to answer a particular purpose -- Paul and others for Apostles -- Luther and Calvin to promote the reformation. But as it respects the salvation of the soul, God as a Sovereign can only elect, or choose fallen man in Christ, who is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. But it appears to us incontestible from God's word, that God has reprobated none from eternity. That all mankind become legally reprobated, by transgression, is undeniable, and continue so until they embrace Christ. "Examine yourselves &c. Know ye not your ownselves how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates" -- II Corinthians 13:5. Now this cannot mean eternal reprobates, or all who have not Christ in them would be such; the absurdity of which will at once appear to every common capacity. Reprobation is not what some have supposed it to be, viz.: a sovereign determination of God to create millions of rational beings, and for his own glory, damn them eternally in hell, without regard to moral rectitude or sin in the creature. This would tarnish the divine glory, and render the greatest, best, and most lovely of all beings, most odious in the view of all intelligences. When man sinned, he was legally reprobated, but not damned; God offered, and does offer the law-condemned sinner mercy in the Gospel; he having from the foundation of the world so far chosen mankind in Christ to justify that saying in I Timothy 4:10 "Who is Savior of all men, especially of them that believe." This is a gracious act of God's sovereign electing love, as extensive as the legal condemnation, or reprobation in which all mankind are by nature. But, in a particular and saving sense, none can properly be called God's elect, till they be justified and united to Christ, the end of the law for righteousness, (none are justified from eternity,) as appears evident from the following passages of God's word, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? Who is he that condemneth?" -- Romans 8:33-34. Now it is certain the unbeliever is chargeable and condemned. Again, "if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect," -- Matthew 24:24. It is evident that a man must be enlightened in the knowledge of God, and his Son Jesus, which is eternal life, before he can have spiritual wisdom to discern and detect the deceiver. If then by perverting the gracious provision of the Gospel, in refusing to submit to the righteousness of God, the sinner finally grieves the Spirit of God to depart from him, he becomes doubly and eternally reprobated. Or like the chemist's mineral, which will not coin into pure metal, or the potter's clay, which marred upon the wheel. But if the creature falls into this deplorable situation, he was not bound by any revealed nor secret decree of God to do so; it is his own fault. For God declares in his word that Christ died for the whole world -- that he offers pardon to all -- that the Spirit operates on all -- confirming by an oath that he has no pleasure in the death of sinners. Every invitation of the gospel either promises or implies aid by the Divine Spirit. The plan of the Bible is grace and duty. God calls, (grace;) sinners hearken diligently, (duty;) God reproves, (grace;) sinners turn, (duty;) God pours out his Spirit, (grace;) sinners resist not the light, but improve it, (duty;) God makes known his word, or reveals the plan of salvation, (grace;) -- God invites, (grace;) Wicked man, forsake your ways, (duty;) your thoughts, (duty;) and turn to the Lord, (duty;) and God will have mercy on you, (grace;) and God will abundantly pardon, (grace.) 

Section I: It pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,⁽⁷³⁾ for the manifestation of the glory of his eternal power, wisdom, and goodness,⁽⁷⁴⁾ in the beginning, to create, or make of nothing, the world, and all things therein, whether visible or invisible, in the space of six days, and all very good.⁽⁷⁵⁾

Section II: After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female,⁽⁷⁶⁾ with reasonable and immortal souls,⁽⁷⁷⁾ endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, after his own image,⁽⁷⁸⁾ having the law of God written in their hearts,⁽⁷⁹⁾ and power to fulfill it,⁽⁸⁰⁾ and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject unto change.⁽⁸¹⁾ Besides this law written in their hearts, they received a command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; which while they kept they were happy in their communion with God,^{(82) (83)} and had dominion over the creatures.⁽⁸⁴⁾

Section I: God, the creator of all things, doth uphold,⁽⁸⁵⁾ and govern all creatures and things, from the greatest even to the least,⁽⁸⁶⁾ by his most wise and holy providence,^{(87) (88)} to the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy.⁽⁸⁹⁾

Section II: God, in his ordinary providence, maketh use of means,⁽⁹⁰⁾ yet is free to work with,⁽⁹¹⁾ and above⁽⁹²⁾ them, at his pleasure.⁽⁹³⁾

Section III: The most wise, righteous, and gracious God, doth often times leave for a season his own children to manifold temptations, and the corruption of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption, and deceitfulness of their hearts, that they may be humbled,^{(94) (95)} and to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support upon himself, and to make them more watchful against all future occasions to sin, and for sundry other just and holy ends.⁽⁹⁶⁾

Section IV: As for those wicked and ungodly men, whom God, as a righteous judge, for former sins, doth blind and harden,⁽⁹⁷⁾ from them he not only withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understandings, and wrought upon in their hearts,⁽⁹⁸⁾ but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts, which they had,⁽⁹⁹⁾ and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of satan;⁽¹⁰⁰⁾ whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means which God useth for softening of others.⁽¹⁰¹⁾

Section V: As the providence of God doth, in general, reach to all creatures, so, after a most special manner it taketh care of his church, and disposeth all things to the good thereof.⁽¹⁰²⁾

Section I: Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit.⁽¹⁰³⁾ This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to overrule, through Christ, for his own glory, and the good of all them that believe.⁽¹⁰⁴⁾

Section II: By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God,⁽¹⁰⁵⁾and so became dead in sin,⁽¹⁰⁶⁾ and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.⁽¹⁰⁷⁾

Section III: They being the root of all mankind, by their sin, all were made sinners,⁽¹⁰⁸⁾ and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation.⁽¹⁰⁹⁾

Section IV: From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,⁽¹¹⁰⁾ and wholly inclined to evil,⁽¹¹¹⁾ do proceed all actual transgressions.^{(112) (113)}

Section V: The remains of corrupt nature are felt by those that are regenerated;⁽¹¹⁴⁾ and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.⁽¹¹⁵⁾

Section VI: Every sin, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,⁽¹¹⁶⁾ doth in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,⁽¹¹⁷⁾ whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God,⁽¹¹⁸⁾ and curse of the law,⁽¹¹⁹⁾ and so made subject to death,⁽¹²⁰⁾ with all miseries, spiritual,⁽¹²¹⁾ temporal,⁽¹²²⁾ and eternal.^{(123) (124)}

Section I: The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him, as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.⁽¹²⁵⁾

Section II: The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works;⁽¹²⁶⁾ wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterity,⁽¹²⁷⁾ upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.⁽¹²⁸⁾

Section III: Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make the second,⁽¹²⁹⁾ commonly called the covenant of grace; wherein he freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him that they may be saved.⁽¹³⁰⁾

Section IV: This covenant of grace is frequently set forth in scripture by the name of a testament, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ, the testator, and to the everlasting inheritance; with all things belonging to it therein bequeathed.⁽¹³¹⁾

Section V: This covenant was differently administered in the time of the law, and in the time of the gospel;⁽¹³²⁾ under the law it was administered by promises, prophecies, sacrifices, circumcision, the paschal lamb, and other types and ordinances delivered to the people of the Jews, all fore-signifying Christ to come,⁽¹³³⁾ which were for that time sufficient and efficacious, through the operation of the Spirit, to instruct and build up the elect in faith in the promised Messiah,^{(134) (135)} by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal salvation; and is called the Old Testament.⁽¹³⁶⁾

Section VI: Under the gospel, when Christ, the substance,⁽¹³⁷⁾ was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is dispensed, are the preaching of the word, and administration of the sacraments of baptism and of the Lord's supper;⁽¹³⁸⁾ which, though fewer in number, and administered with more simplicity, and less outward glory, yet in them it is held forth in more fullness, evidence, and spiritual efficacy,⁽¹³⁹⁾ to all nations, both Jews and Gentiles;⁽¹⁴⁰⁾ and is called the New Testament.⁽¹⁴¹⁾ There are not, therefore, two covenants of grace differing in substance, but one and the same under various dispensations.⁽¹⁴²⁾

Section I: It has pleased God to choose the Lord Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son; who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, to be the Mediator between God and man,⁽¹⁴³⁾ the prophet,⁽¹⁴⁴⁾ priest,⁽¹⁴⁵⁾ and king;⁽¹⁴⁶⁾ the head and Savior of his church,⁽¹⁴⁷⁾ the heir of all things,⁽¹⁴⁸⁾ and judge of the world;⁽¹⁴⁹⁾ unto whom he promised a seed,⁽¹⁵⁰⁾ and to be by him in time redeemed, called by his word and Spirit, justified by his grace, sanctified, and glorified.⁽¹⁵¹⁾

Section II: The Son of God, the second person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance, and equal with the Father, did, when the fullness of time was come, take upon him man's nature,^{(152) (153)} with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin,⁽¹⁵⁴⁾ being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance.⁽¹⁵⁵⁾ So that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures, the Godhead and manhood, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion.⁽¹⁵⁶⁾ Which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and man.⁽¹⁵⁷⁾

Section III: The Lord Jesus, in his human nature thus united to the divine, was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit above measure;⁽¹⁵⁸⁾ having in him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,⁽¹⁵⁹⁾ in whom it pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell;⁽¹⁶⁰⁾ to the end that being holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of grace and truth,⁽¹⁶¹⁾ he might be thoroughly furnished to execute the office of a MEDIATOR and surety.⁽¹⁶²⁾

Which office he took not unto himself, but was called thereunto by his Father;^{(163) (164)} who put all power and judgment into his hand,⁽¹⁶⁵⁾ and gave him commandment to execute the same.

Section IV: This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake,⁽¹⁶⁶⁾ which, that he might discharge, he was made under the law,⁽¹⁶⁷⁾ and did perfectly fulfill it;⁽¹⁶⁸⁾ endured most grievous torments immediately in his soul,⁽¹⁶⁹⁾ and most painful sufferings in his body;⁽¹⁷⁰⁾ was crucified and died;⁽¹⁷¹⁾ was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet saw no corruption.⁽¹⁷²⁾ On the third day he arose from the dead⁽¹⁷³⁾ with the same body in which he suffered,⁽¹⁷⁴⁾ with which also he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father,⁽¹⁷⁵⁾ making intercession,⁽¹⁷⁶⁾ and shall return to judge men and angels, at the end of the world.⁽¹⁷⁷⁾

Section V: The Lord Jesus, by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God, hath fully satisfied the justice of his Father,^{(178) (179)} and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those who come to the Father by him.⁽¹⁸⁰⁾

Section VI: Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefits thereof, were communicated unto the believer, in all ages successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types and sacrifices, wherein he was revealed and signified to be the seed of the woman which should bruise the serpent's head, and the lamb slain from the beginning of the world, being yesterday and today the same, and forever.⁽¹⁸¹⁾

Section VII: Christ, in the work of mediation, acteth according to both natures; by each nature doing that which is proper to itself;⁽¹⁸²⁾ yet by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature, is sometimes in scripture attributed to the person denominated by the other nature.⁽¹⁸³⁾

Section VIII: As Jesus Christ by the grace of God, has tasted death for every man,⁽¹⁸⁴⁾ and now makes intercession for transgressors;⁽¹⁸⁵⁾ by virtue of which, the Holy Spirit is given to convince of sin, and enable the creature to believe and obey, governing the hearts of believers by his word and Spirit⁽¹⁸⁶⁾ overcoming all their enemies, by his almighty power and wisdom, in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation.⁽¹⁸⁷⁾

CHAPTER IX: Of Free Will

Section I: God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good or evil.⁽¹⁸⁸⁾

Section II: Man in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God;⁽¹⁸⁹⁾ but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.⁽¹⁹⁰⁾

Section III: Man by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation: ⁽¹⁹¹⁾ so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that which is good,⁽¹⁹²⁾ and dead in sin,⁽¹⁹³⁾ is not able by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto without divine aid.⁽¹⁹⁴⁾

Section IV: When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin,⁽¹⁹⁵⁾ and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good,⁽¹⁹⁶⁾ yet so as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly will and do that which is good.^{(197) (198)}

Section V: The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.⁽¹⁹⁹⁾

Section I: All those whom God calls, and who obey the call, and those only, he is pleased by his word and Spirit,⁽²⁰⁰⁾ to bring out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;⁽²⁰¹⁾ enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly; to understand the things of God;⁽²⁰²⁾ taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them an heart of flesh,⁽²⁰³⁾ renewing their wills, and by his almighty power, determining them to that which is good;⁽²⁰⁴⁾ and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ;⁽²⁰⁵⁾ yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace.⁽²⁰⁶⁾

Section II: This call is of God's free grace alone, not from any good at all foreseen in man,⁽²⁰⁷⁾ who is altogether dead in sin, until, being enlightened by the Holy Spirit,⁽²⁰⁸⁾ he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.^{(209) (210)}

Section III: All infants dying in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ, through the Spirit,⁽²¹¹⁾ who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth; so also are others who have never had the exercise of reason; and who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the word.⁽²¹²⁾

Section I: Those whom God calleth, (and who obey the call,) he also freely justifieth;⁽²¹³⁾ not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous: not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them,⁽²¹⁴⁾ they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith: which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.⁽²¹⁵⁾

Section II: Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification,⁽²¹⁶⁾ yet it is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.⁽²¹⁷⁾

Section III: Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to his Father's justice in their behalf.⁽²¹⁸⁾ Yet inasmuch as he was given by the Father for them,⁽²¹⁹⁾ and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead,⁽²²⁰⁾ and both freely, not for anything in them, their justification is only of free grace;⁽²²¹⁾ that both the exact justice, and rich grace of god, might be glorified in the justification of sinners.^{(222) (223)}

Section IV: God before the foundation of the world, determined to justify all true believers,⁽²²⁴⁾ and Christ did in the fullness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification,⁽²²⁵⁾ nevertheless they are not justified until the Holy Spirit doth in due time, actually apply Christ unto them.⁽²²⁶⁾

Section V: God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified;⁽²²⁷⁾ and although they will never fall from the state of justification,⁽²²⁸⁾ yet they may by their sins fall under God's fatherly displeasure, and not have the light of his countenance restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon and renew their faith and repentance.⁽²²⁹⁾

Section VI: The justification of believers under the Old Testament was in all these respects, one and the same with the justification of believers under the New Testament.

All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption:⁽²³⁰⁾ by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God;⁽²³¹⁾ have his name put upon them:⁽²³²⁾ receive the spirit of adoption;⁽²³³⁾ have access to the throne of grace with boldness;⁽²³⁴⁾ are enabled to cry Abba Father;⁽²³⁵⁾ are pitied,⁽²³⁶⁾ protected,⁽²³⁷⁾ provided for,⁽²³⁸⁾ and chastened by him as by a father,^{(239) (240)} yet never cast off,⁽²⁴¹⁾ but sealed to the day of redemption;⁽²⁴²⁾ and inherit the promises,⁽²⁴³⁾ as heirs of everlasting salvation.⁽²⁴⁴⁾

Section I: They who are effectually called and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them, are farther sanctified really and personally, through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection,⁽²⁴⁵⁾ by his word and Spirit dwelling in them;⁽²⁴⁶⁾ the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed,⁽²⁴⁷⁾ and the several lusts thereof are more and more weakened and mortified,⁽²⁴⁸⁾ and they more and more quickened and strengthened, in all saving graces,⁽²⁴⁹⁾ to the practice of true holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.⁽²⁵⁰⁾

Section II: This sanctification is throughout in the whole man,⁽²⁵¹⁾ yet imperfect in this life: there abideth still some remnants of corruption in every part,⁽²⁵²⁾ whence ariseth a continual and irreconcilable war, the flesh lusting against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.⁽²⁵³⁾

Section III: In which war, although the remaining corruption for a time may prevail,^{(254) (255)} yet through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate part doth overcome:⁽²⁵⁶⁾ and so the saints grow in grace,⁽²⁵⁷⁾ perfecting holiness in the fear of God.⁽²⁵⁸⁾

Section IV: Although the remains of depravity may continue to affect the true believer in this life, yet it is his duty and privilege, through grace, to keep a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.⁽²⁵⁹⁾

Section I: The grace of faith, whereby sinners are united to Christ, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts,⁽²⁶⁰⁾ and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the word;⁽²⁶¹⁾ by which also, and by the administration of the sacraments, and prayer, it is increased and strengthened.⁽²⁶²⁾

Section II: By this faith, the Christian believeth to be true, whatsoever is revealed in the word, for the authority of God himself speaketh therein;⁽²⁶³⁾ and acteth differently, upon that which each particular passage thereof containeth; yielding obedience to the commands,⁽²⁶⁴⁾ trembling at the threatenings,⁽²⁶⁵⁾ and embracing the promises of God for this life, and that which is to come.⁽²⁶⁶⁾ But the principal acts of saving faith are accepting, receiving, and resting upon Christ alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of grace.⁽²⁶⁷⁾

Section III: This faith is different in degrees, weak or strong;⁽²⁶⁸⁾ may be often and many ways assailed and weakened, but gets the victory,^{(269) (270)} growing up in the attainment of a full assurance through Christ,⁽²⁷¹⁾ who is both the author and finisher of our faith.⁽²⁷²⁾

Section I: Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace,⁽²⁷³⁾ the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of the gospel, as well as that of faith in Christ.⁽²⁷⁴⁾

Section II: By it a sinner, out of the sight and sense, not only of the danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to the holy nature and righteous law of God, and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, so grieves for and hates his sins, as to turn from them all unto God,⁽²⁷⁵⁾ purposing and endeavoring to walk with him in all the ways of his commandments.⁽²⁷⁶⁾

Section III: Although repentance be not to be rested in as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof,⁽²⁷⁷⁾ which is the act of God's free grace in Christ,⁽²⁷⁸⁾ yet is it of such necessity to all sinners, that none may expect pardon without it.⁽²⁷⁹⁾

Section IV: As there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation;⁽²⁸⁰⁾ so there is no sin so great, that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent.⁽²⁸¹⁾

Section V: Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man's duty to endeavor to repent of his particular sins, particularly.^{(282) (283)}

Section VI: As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof,⁽²⁸⁴⁾ upon which, and the forsaking of them, he shall find mercy;⁽²⁸⁵⁾ so he that scandalizeth his brother, or the Church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance to those that are offended;⁽²⁸⁶⁾ who are thereupon to be reconciled to him, and in love to receive him.⁽²⁸⁷⁾

Section I: Good works are only such as God hath commanded in his holy word,⁽²⁸⁸⁾ and not such as, without the warrant thereof, are devised by men out of blind zeal, or upon any pretence of good intention.⁽²⁸⁹⁾

Section II: These good works, done in obedience to God's commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith;⁽²⁹⁰⁾ and by them believers manifest their thankfulness,⁽²⁹¹⁾ strengthen their assurance,⁽²⁹²⁾ edify their brethren,⁽²⁹³⁾ adorn the profession of the gospel,⁽²⁹⁴⁾ stop the mouths of the adversaries,⁽²⁹⁵⁾ and glorify God,⁽²⁹⁶⁾ whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto,^{(297) (298)} that having their fruit unto holiness, they may have the end eternal life.⁽²⁹⁹⁾

Section III: Their ability to do good works is not at all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ.⁽³⁰⁰⁾ And that they may be enabled thereunto, besides the graces they have already received, there is required an actual influence of the same Holy Spirit to work in them to will and to do of his good pleasure;⁽³⁰¹⁾ yet are they not hereupon to grow negligent, as if they were not bound to perform any duty unless upon a special motion of the Spirit: but they ought to be diligent in stirring up the grace of God that is in them.⁽³⁰²⁾

Section IV: They, who in their obedience, attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so far from being able to supererogate and do more than God requires, that they fall short of much, which in duty they are bound to do.⁽³⁰³⁾

Section V: We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin, or eternal life, at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come, and the infinite distance that is between us and God, whom by them we can neither profit, nor satisfy for the debt of our former sins:⁽³⁰⁴⁾ but when we have done all we can, we have done but our duty and are unprofitable servants;⁽³⁰⁵⁾ and because, as they are good, they proceed from his Spirit;⁽³⁰⁶⁾ and, as they are wrought by us, they are defiled and mixed with so much weakness and imperfection, that they cannot endure the severity of God's judgment.⁽³⁰⁷⁾

Section VI: Yet notwithstanding, the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works are also accepted in him,^{(308) (309)} not as though they were in this life wholly unblamable and unreprovable in God's sight;⁽³¹⁰⁾ but that he looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections.⁽³¹¹⁾

Section VII: Works done by unregenerate man, although, for the matter of them, they may be things which God commands, and of good use both to themselves and others;⁽³¹²⁾ yet because they proceed not from an heart purified by faith,⁽³¹³⁾ nor are done in a right manner, according to the word;⁽³¹⁴⁾ nor to a right end, the glory of God;⁽³¹⁵⁾ they, therefore, cannot merit the favor of God; yet their neglect of them is displeasing unto God.⁽³¹⁶⁾

Section I: They whom God hath justified and sanctified, he will also glorify;⁽³¹⁷⁾ consequently the truly regenerate soul will never totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.⁽³¹⁸⁾

Section II: This perseverance depends on the unchangeable love and power of God,⁽³¹⁹⁾ the merits, advocacy,⁽³²⁰⁾ and intercession of Jesus Christ;⁽³²¹⁾ the abiding of the Spirit and seed of God within them;⁽³²²⁾ and the nature of the covenant of grace;⁽³²³⁾ from all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility thereof.⁽³²⁴⁾ *

* NOTE: This doctrine, although it is certainly supported by incontestible proof from God's word, as well as by the reason and nature of the union between Christ and his people, yet, like all other truths, it has been and may be perverted. The idea of eternal justification and consequent perseverance is unscriptural; the way perseverance is insisted upon by some preachers in connection with the preceding parts of their sermons, is certainly dangerous. Example: First preach a superficial experience, then make a great many more allowances for weakness and wickedness, stumbling, straying, &c. than God's word admits, then press perseverance, and you have the formalist, or hypocrite, confirmed.

On the other hand, press the doctrine of final apostasy, if the creature does not so and so, making the perseverance of the creature depend chiefly upon his doings; you raise in the mind of the unregenerate professor the fear of hell, as an high excitement to duty, confirm him in his legality, prepare his mind, indirectly at least, to say glory to I, [1829ff: to give glory to himself] for his perseverance, settles him down in a selfconfident and deplorable situation. What God's word hath joined together, let not his ministers put asunder. But first let them give aclear, definite description of the new birth, and then let them press the doctrine of heart and practicalholiness as the sure consequence, ("For by their fruit ye shall know them,") and daily evidences (not the cause) of that gracious state which will insure their final perseverance.

Then this true and comfortable doctrine will not be perverted, neither will it have a tendency to licentiousness in him, "whom the love of Christ constraineth," or the real Christian; no, he serves and desires to serve God, with more zeal, and from pure evangelical principles, still laying the foundation in his own mind, and cherishing the principle of ascribing all the glory to God for his conversion, his perseverance, and his final and complete redemption. 

Section III: Although there are examples in the Old Testament of good men having egregiously sinned, and some of them continuing for a time therein;⁽³²⁵⁾ yet now, since life and immortality are brought clearer to light by the gospel,^{(326) (327)} and especially since the effusion of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost;⁽³²⁸⁾ we may not expect the true Christian to fall into such gross sins.⁽³²⁹⁾ Nevertheless, they may through the temptations of Satan, the world, and the flesh, the neglect of the means of grace, fall into sin, and incur God's displeasure, and grieve his Holy Spirit;⁽³³⁰⁾ come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts, and have their consciences wounded; but the real Christian can never rest satisfied therein.

Section I: Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men, may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favor of God and estate of salvation;⁽³³¹⁾ which hope of theirs shall perish;⁽³³²⁾ yet such as truly believe the Lord Jesus, and love him in sincerity, endeavoring to walk in all good conscience before him, may in this life be certainly assured that they are in a state of grace,⁽³³³⁾ and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, which hope shall never make them ashamed.⁽³³⁴⁾

Section II: This certainly is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope;⁽³³⁵⁾ but an infallible assurance of faith, founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation,⁽³³⁶⁾ the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made,⁽³³⁷⁾ the testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God;⁽³³⁸⁾ which spirit is the earnest of our inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption.⁽³³⁹⁾

Section III: This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties before he be partaker in it;^{(340) (341)} yet, being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of ordinary means, attain thereunto.⁽³⁴²⁾ And therefore it is the duty of every one, to give all diligence to make his calling and election sure,⁽³⁴³⁾ that thereby his heart may be enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience, the proper fruits of its assurance;⁽³⁴⁴⁾ so far is it from inclining men to looseness.⁽³⁴⁵⁾

Section IV: True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished and intermitted: as, by negligence in persevering of it; by falling into some special sin, which woundeth the conscience, and grieveth the Spirit; by some sudden or vehement temptation; by God's withdrawing the light of his countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in darkness and to have no light;⁽³⁴⁶⁾ yet are they never utterly destitute of that seed of God, and life of faith, that love of Christ and the brethren, that sincerity of heart and conscience of duty, out of which by the operation of the Spirit, this assurance may in due time be revived,⁽³⁴⁷⁾ and by the which, in the mean time, they are supported from utter despair.⁽³⁴⁸⁾

Section I: God gave Adam a law, as a covenant of works; by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact and perpetual obedience; promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it; and endued him with power and ability to keep it.⁽³⁴⁹⁾

Section II: This law, after his fall, continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness; and, as such, was delivered by God upon mount Sinai in ten commandments; and written in two tables;⁽³⁵⁰⁾ the first four commandments containing our duty towards God, and the other six our duty to man.⁽³⁵¹⁾

Section III: Besides this law, commonly called the moral, God was pleased to give the people of Israel, as a church under age, ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits;⁽³⁵²⁾ and partly holding forth divers instructions of moral duties.⁽³⁵³⁾ All which ceremonial laws are now abrogated under the New Testament.⁽³⁵⁴⁾

Section IV: To them also, as a body politic, he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the state of that people, not obliging any other, now, further than the general equity thereof may require.⁽³⁵⁵⁾

Section V: The moral law doth forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof;⁽³⁵⁶⁾ and that not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the creator who gave it.⁽³⁵⁷⁾ Neither doth Christ, in the Gospel, any way dissolve, but much strengthen; this obligation.^{(358) (359)}

Section VI: Although true believers be not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned;⁽³⁶⁰⁾ yet it is of great use to them as well as to others; in that as a rule of life; informing them of the will of God and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accordingly;⁽³⁶¹⁾ discovering also the sinful pollutions of their nature, hearts and lives;⁽³⁶²⁾ so as, examining themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, humiliation for, and hatred against sin;⁽³⁶³⁾ together with a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ, and the perfection of his obedience.⁽³⁶⁴⁾ It is likewise of use to the regenerate, to restrain their corruptions; in that it forbids sin;⁽³⁶⁵⁾ and the threatenings of it serve to show what even their sins deserve, and what afflictions in this life they may expect for them, although freed from the curse thereof threatened in the law.⁽³⁶⁶⁾ The promises of it, in like manner, shew them God's approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof;⁽³⁶⁷⁾ although not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works;⁽³⁶⁸⁾ so as a man's doing good, and refraining from evil, because the law encourageth to the one, and deterreth from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law, and not under grace.^{(369) (370)}

Section VII: Neither are the aforementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the gospel, but do sweetly comply with it;⁽³⁷¹⁾ the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely and cheerfully, which the will of God, revealed in the law, requireth to be done.⁽³⁷²⁾

Section I: The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the moral law;⁽³⁷³⁾ and in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin,⁽³⁷⁴⁾ from the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation;⁽³⁷⁵⁾ as also their free access to God,⁽³⁷⁶⁾ and their yielding obedience unto him, not out of slavish fear,⁽³⁷⁷⁾ but a childlike love, and a willing mind. All which were common also to believers under the law;⁽³⁷⁸⁾ but under the New Testament, the liberty of Christians is further enlarged in their freedom from the yoke of the ceremonial law, to which the Jewish church was subjected,⁽³⁷⁹⁾ and in greater boldness of access to the throne of grace,⁽³⁸⁰⁾ and in fuller communications of the free spirit of God, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of.⁽³⁸¹⁾

Section II: God alone is Lord of the conscience,^{(382) (383)} and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are in any thing contrary to his word, or beside it, in matters of faith and worship.⁽³⁸⁴⁾ So that to believe such doctrines, or to obey such commandments out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of conscience;⁽³⁸⁵⁾ and the requiring of an implicit faith, and absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience and reason also.⁽³⁸⁶⁾

Section III: They who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, do practice any sin, or cherish any lust, do thereby destroy the end of Christian liberty; which is, that being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, we might serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.⁽³⁸⁷⁾

Section IV: And because the powers which God hath ordained, and the liberty which Christ hath purchased, are not intended by God to destroy, but mutually to uphold and preserve one another; they who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, shall oppose any lawful power, or the lawful exercise of it, whether it be civil or ecclesiastical, resist the ordinance of God.⁽³⁸⁸⁾ And for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation; or the power of godliness; or such erroneous opinions or practices, as either, in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the church;⁽³⁸⁹⁾ they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the censures of the church.⁽³⁹⁰⁾

Section I: The light of nature sheweth that there is a God, who hath lordship and sovereignty over all; is good, and doeth good unto all.⁽³⁹¹⁾ But the acceptable way of worshiping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshiped according to the imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scriptures.⁽³⁹²⁾

Section II: Religious worship is to be given to God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost; and to him alone;⁽³⁹³⁾ not to angels, saints, or any other creature;⁽³⁹⁴⁾ and since the fall not without a mediator; nor in the mediation of any other but of Christ alone.⁽³⁹⁵⁾

Section III: Prayer with thanksgiving, being one special part of religious worship,⁽³⁹⁶⁾ is by God required of all men;⁽³⁹⁷⁾ and, that it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of the Son,⁽³⁹⁸⁾ by the help of his Spirit,⁽³⁹⁹⁾ according to his will,^{(400) (401)} with understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love, and perseverance;⁽⁴⁰²⁾ and if vocal, in a known tongue.⁽⁴⁰³⁾

Section IV: Prayer is to be made for things lawful,⁽⁴⁰⁴⁾ and for all sorts of men living;⁽⁴⁰⁵⁾ but not for the dead,⁽⁴⁰⁶⁾ nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death.⁽⁴⁰⁷⁾

Section V: The reading of the Scriptures with godly fear;⁽⁴⁰⁸⁾ the sound preaching,⁽⁴⁰⁹⁾ and conscionable hearing of the word; in obedience unto God, with understanding, faith and reverence;⁽⁴¹⁰⁾ singing of psalms with grace in the heart;^{(411) (412)} as also the due administration and worthy receiving of the sacraments instituted by Christ; are all parts of the ordinary religious worship of God;⁽⁴¹³⁾ besides religious oaths,⁽⁴¹⁴⁾ and vows,⁽⁴¹⁵⁾ solemn fastings,⁽⁴¹⁶⁾ and thanksgiving upon special occasions;⁽⁴¹⁷⁾ which are in their several times and seasons, to be used in a holy and religious manner.⁽⁴¹⁸⁾

Section VI: Neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship, is now, under the gospel, either tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed:⁽⁴¹⁹⁾ but God is to be worshiped every where,⁽⁴²⁰⁾ in spirit and in truth;⁽⁴²¹⁾ as in private families,⁽⁴²²⁾ daily,⁽⁴²³⁾ and in secret each one by himself,⁽⁴²⁴⁾ so more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly or wilfully to be neglected or forsaken, when God, by his word or providence, calleth thereunto.⁽⁴²⁵⁾

Section VII: As it is of the law of nature, that in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in his word, by positive, moral and perpetual commandment, binding all men in all ages, he hath particularly appointed one day in seven for a sabbath, to be kept holy unto him;^{(426) (427)} which, from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, was the last day of the week; and, from the resurrection of Christ, was changed into the first day of the week,⁽⁴²⁸⁾ which in scripture is called the Lord's day,⁽⁴²⁹⁾ and is to be continued to the end of the world, as the Christian sabbath.⁽⁴³⁰⁾

Section VIII: This sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all the day from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments and recreations;⁽⁴³¹⁾ but also are taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.⁽⁴³²⁾

Section I: A lawful oath is a part of religious worship,⁽⁴³³⁾ wherein upon just occasion, the person swearing, solemnly calleth to God to witness what he asserteth or promiseth; and to judge him according to the truth or falsehood of what he sweareth.⁽⁴³⁴⁾

Section II: The name of God only is that by which men ought to swear, and therein it is to be used with all holy fear and reverence;⁽⁴³⁵⁾ therefore to swear vainly or rashly by that glorious and dreadful name, or to swear at all by any other thing is sinful, and to be abhorred.⁽⁴³⁶⁾ Yet as in matters of weight and moment, an oath is warranted by the word of God, under the New Testament, as well as under the Old,⁽⁴³⁷⁾ so a lawful oath being imposed by lawful authority, in such matters ought to be taken.⁽⁴³⁸⁾

Section III: Whosoever taketh an oath ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing but what he is fully persuaded is the truth.⁽⁴³⁹⁾ Neither may a man bind himself by oath to any thing but what is good and just, and what he believeth so to be, and what he is able and resolved to perform.⁽⁴⁴⁰⁾ Yet it is a sin to refuse an oath touching any thing that is good and just, being imposed by lawful authority.⁽⁴⁴¹⁾

Section IV: An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation.^{(442) (443)} It cannot oblige to sin; but in any thing not sinful, being taken, it binds to performance, although to a man's own hurt;⁽⁴⁴⁴⁾ nor is it to be violated, although made to heretics or infidels.⁽⁴⁴⁵⁾

Section V: A vow is of the like nature with a promissory oath, and ought to be made with the like religious care, and to be performed with the like faithfulness.⁽⁴⁴⁶⁾

Section VI: It is not to be made to any creature, but to God alone:⁽⁴⁴⁷⁾ and that it may be accepted it is to be made voluntarily, out of faith and conscience of duty, in way of thankfulness for mercy received, or for obtaining of what we want; whereby we more strictly bind ourselves to necessary duties, or to other things, so far and so long as they may fitly conduce thereunto.⁽⁴⁴⁸⁾

Section VII: No man may vow to do any thing forbidden in the word of God, or what would hinder any duty therein commanded, or which is not in his own power, and for the performance whereof he hath no promise or ability from God.⁽⁴⁴⁹⁾ In which respects popish monastical vows of perpetual single life, professed poverty, and regular obedience, are so far from being degrees of higher perfection, that they are superstitious and sinful snares, in which no Christian may entangle himself.⁽⁴⁵⁰⁾

Section I: God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him over the people, for his own glory and the public good; and to this end, hath armed them with the power of the sword, for the defence and encouragement of them that are good and for the punishment of evildoers.⁽⁴⁵¹⁾

Section II: It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a magistrate, when called thereunto;⁽⁴⁵²⁾ in the management whereof, as they ought especially to maintain piety, justice and peace, according to the wholesome laws of each commonwealth;⁽⁴⁵³⁾ so, for that end, they may lawfully, now under the New Testament, wage war upon just and necessary occasions.⁽⁴⁵⁴⁾

Section III: Civil magistrates may not assume to themselves the administration of the word and sacraments;⁽⁴⁵⁵⁾ of the powers of the keys of the kingdom of heaven;⁽⁴⁵⁶⁾ or, in the least, interfere in matters of faith.⁽⁴⁵⁷⁾ Yet as nursing fathers, it is the duty of civil magistrates to protect the church of our common Lord, without giving the preference to any denomination of Christians above the rest, in such a manner, that all ecclesiastical persons whatever shall enjoy the full, free, and unquestioned liberty of discharging every part of their sacred functions, without violence or danger.⁽⁴⁵⁸⁾ And, as Jesus Christ hath appointed a regular government and discipline in his church, no law of any commonwealth should interfere with, let, or hinder, the due exercise thereof among the voluntary members of any denomination of Christians, according to their own profession and belief.⁽⁴⁵⁹⁾ It is the duty of civil magistrates to protect the person and good name of all their people, in such an effectual manner, as that no person be suffered, either upon pretence of religion or of infidelity, to offer any indignity, violence, abuse or injury to any other person whatsoever; and to take order, that all religious and ecclesiastical assemblies be held without molestation or disturbance.^{(460) (461)}

Section IV: It is the duty of the people to pray for magistrates,⁽⁴⁶²⁾ to honor their persons,⁽⁴⁶³⁾ to pay them tribute and other duties;⁽⁴⁶⁴⁾ to obey their lawful commands, and to be subject to their authority, for conscience' sake.⁽⁴⁶⁵⁾ Infidelity, or difference in religion, doth not make void the magistrate's just and legal authority, nor free the people from their due obedience to him;⁽⁴⁶⁶⁾ from which ecclesiastical persons are not exempted;⁽⁴⁶⁷⁾ much less hath the pope any power or jurisdiction over them in their dominions, or over any of their people; and least of all to deprive them of their dominions or lives, if he shall judge them to be heretics, or upon any other pretence whatsover.⁽⁴⁶⁸⁾

Section I: Marriage is to be between one man and one woman; neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor any woman to have more than one husband, at the same time.⁽⁴⁶⁹⁾

Section II: Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife:⁽⁴⁷⁰⁾ for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, and of the church with an holy seed;⁽⁴⁷¹⁾ and for preventing of uncleanness.⁽⁴⁷²⁾

Section III: It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent,⁽⁴⁷³⁾ yet it is the duty of Christians to marry only in the Lord.⁽⁴⁷⁴⁾ And, therefore, such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, papists, or other idolaters; neither should such as are godly be unequally yoked by marrying with such as are notoriously wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresies.⁽⁴⁷⁵⁾

Section IV: Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden in the word;⁽⁴⁷⁶⁾ nor can such incestuous marriages be made lawful by any law of man, or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife.⁽⁴⁷⁷⁾ The man may not marry any of his wife's kindred nearer in blood than he may of his own, nor the woman of her husband's nearer in blood than of her own.^{(478) (479)}

Section V: Adultery or fornication, committed after a contract, being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract.⁽⁴⁸⁰⁾ In the case of adultery after marriage, it is lawful for the innocent party to sue out a divorce,⁽⁴⁸¹⁾ and after the divorce, to marry another, as if the offending party were dead.⁽⁴⁸²⁾

Section VI: Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage; yet nothing but adultery, or such willful desertion as can no way be remedied by the church or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage;⁽⁴⁸³⁾ wherein a public and orderly course of proceeding is to be observed; and the persons concerned in it not left to their own wills and discretion in their own case.⁽⁴⁸⁴⁾

Section I: The catholic or universal church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.⁽⁴⁸⁵⁾

Section II: The visible church, which is also catholic or universal under the gospel, (not confined to one nation as before under the law,) consists of all those throughout the world, that profess the true religion,⁽⁴⁸⁶⁾ together with their children;⁽⁴⁸⁷⁾ and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ,⁽⁴⁸⁸⁾ the house and family of God.⁽⁴⁸⁹⁾

Section III: Unto this catholic visible church, Christ hath given the ministry, oracles and ordinances of god, for the gathering and perfecting of the saints, in this life, to the end of the world; and doth by his own presence and Spirit, according to his promise, make them effectual thereunto.⁽⁴⁹⁰⁾

Section IV: This catholic church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less, visible.⁽⁴⁹¹⁾ And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them.⁽⁴⁹²⁾

Section V: The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error:⁽⁴⁹³⁾ and some have so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ; but synagogues of Satan.^{(494) (495)} Nevertheless, there shall be always a church on earth, to worship God according to his will.⁽⁴⁹⁶⁾

Section VI: There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ.⁽⁴⁹⁷⁾ Nor can the pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof, but is that anti-christ, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the church against Christ, and all that is called God.⁽⁴⁹⁸⁾

Section I: All saints are united to Christ Jesus their head, by his Spirit and by faith, have fellowship with him in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection and glory;⁽⁴⁹⁹⁾ and being united to one another in love, they have communion in each other's gifts and graces,⁽⁵⁰⁰⁾ and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public and private, as do conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.⁽⁵⁰¹⁾

Section II: Saints, by profession, are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification;⁽⁵⁰²⁾ as also in relieving each other in outward things, according to their several abilities and necessities. Which communion, as God offereth opportunity, is to be extended unto all those, who in every place call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.⁽⁵⁰³⁾

Section III: This communion which the saints have with Christ, doth not make them in any wise partakers of the substance of his Godhead, or to be equal with Christ in any respect: either of which to affirm is impious and blasphemous.⁽⁵⁰⁴⁾ Nor doth their communion one with another, as saints, take away or infringe the title or property which each man hath, in his goods or possessions.⁽⁵⁰⁵⁾

Section I: Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace,⁽⁵⁰⁶⁾ immediately instituted by God,⁽⁵⁰⁷⁾ to represent Christ and his benefits, and to confirm our interest in him;⁽⁵⁰⁸⁾ as also to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the church, and the rest of the world;⁽⁵⁰⁹⁾ and solemnly to engage them to the service of God in Christ, according to his word.⁽⁵¹⁰⁾

Section II: There is in every sacrament a spiritual relation, or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified; whence it comes to pass, that the names and the effects of the one, are attributed to the other.⁽⁵¹¹⁾

Section III: The grace which is exhibited in or by the sacraments, rightly used, is not conferred by any power in them; neither doth the efficacy of a sacrament depend upon the piety or intention of him that doth administer it,⁽⁵¹²⁾ but upon the work of the Spirit,⁽⁵¹³⁾ and the word of institution, which contains, together with a precept authorizing the use thereof, a promise of benefit to worthy receivers.⁽⁵¹⁴⁾

Section IV: There be only two sacraments ordained by Christ our Lord in the gospel, that is to say, baptism and the supper of the Lord: neither of which may be dispensed by any, but by a minister of the word, lawfully ordained.^{(515) (516)}

Section V: The sacraments of the Old Testament, in regard of the spiritual things thereby signified and exhibited, were, for substance, the same as those with the New.⁽⁵¹⁷⁾

Section I: Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ,⁽⁵¹⁸⁾ not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible church,⁽⁵¹⁹⁾ but also to be unto him a sign and a seal of the covenant of grace,⁽⁵²⁰⁾ of his ingrafting into Christ,⁽⁵²¹⁾ of regeneration,⁽⁵²²⁾ of remission of sins,⁽⁵²³⁾ and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life;⁽⁵²⁴⁾ which sacrament is by Christ's own appointment, to be continued in his church until the end of the world.⁽⁵²⁵⁾

Section II: The outward element to be used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, by a minister of the gospel, lawfully called thereunto.⁽⁵²⁶⁾

Section III: Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring, or sprinkling water, upon the person.^{(527) (528)}

Section IV: Not only those that do actually profess faith in, and obedience unto Christ,⁽⁵²⁹⁾ but also the infants, of one or both believing parents, are to be baptized.⁽⁵³⁰⁾

Section V: Although it be a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance,⁽⁵³¹⁾ yet grace and salvation are not so inseparably annexed unto it, as that no person can be regenerated or saved⁽⁵³²⁾ without it, or that all that are baptized are, undoubtedly, regenerated.⁽⁵³³⁾

Section VI: The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered;⁽⁵³⁴⁾ yet notwithstanding by the right use of this ordinance, the grace promised is not only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy Ghost.

Section VII: The sacrament of baptism is but once to be administered to any person; there being no example for the repetition of Christian baptism.⁽⁵³⁵⁾

Section I: Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein he was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood, called the Lord's Supper, to be observed in his church, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in his death, the sealing all benefits thereof unto true believers, their spiritual nourishment and growth in him, their further engagement in, and to all duties which they owe unto him, and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him, and with each other, as members of his mystical body.⁽⁵³⁶⁾

Section II: In this sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacrifice made at all for remission of sins of the quick⁽⁵³⁷⁾ or dead, but only a commemoration of that once offering up himself, by himself, upon the cross, once for all, and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for the same;⁽⁵³⁸⁾ so that the popish sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most abominably injurious to Christ's one only sacrifice, the alone propitiation of the sins of all the world.⁽⁵³⁹⁾

Section III: The Lord Jesus hath, in this ordinance, appointed his ministers to declare his word of institution to the people, to pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to an holy use; and to take and break the bread, to take the cup, and (they communicating also themselves,) to give both to the communicants;⁽⁵⁴⁰⁾ but to none who are not then present in the congregation.⁽⁵⁴¹⁾

Section IV: Private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest, or any other alone;⁽⁵⁴²⁾ as likewise the denial of the cup to the people;⁽⁵⁴³⁾ worshiping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about for adoration, and the reserving them for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the nature of this sacrament, and to the institution of Christ.⁽⁵⁴⁴⁾

Section V: The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly, yet sacramentally only, they are sometimes called by the name of the things they represent, to wit, the body and blood of Christ;^{(545) (546)} however, in substance and nature, they still remain truly, and only, bread and wine as they were before.⁽⁵⁴⁷⁾

Section VI: That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of Christ's body and blood (commonly called transubstantiation⁽⁵⁴⁸⁾ ) by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant, not to scripture alone, but even to common sense and reason; overthroweth the nature of the sacrament; and hath been, and is, the cause of manifold superstitions, yea, of gross idolatries.⁽⁵⁴⁹⁾

Section VII: Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament,⁽⁵⁵⁰⁾ do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death: the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in, with or under the bread and wine; yet as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance as the elements themselves are, to their outward senses.⁽⁵⁵¹⁾

Section VIII: Although ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in this sacrament, yet they receive not the thing signified thereby; but by their unworthy coming thereunto, are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, to their own damnation. Wherefore all ignorant and ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy communion with him, so are they unworthy of the Lord's table, and cannot, without great sin against Christ, while they remain such, partake of these holy mysteries,⁽⁵⁵²⁾ or be admitted thereunto.⁽⁵⁵³⁾

Section I: The Lord Jesus, as king and head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.⁽⁵⁵⁴⁾

Section II: To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed, by virtue whereof they have power respectively to retain and remit sins, to shut that kingdom against the impenitent, both by the word and censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners by the ministry of the gospel, and by absolution from censures, as occasion shall require.^{(555) (556)}

Section III: Church censures are necessary for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethren; for deterring of others from like offences; for purging out of that leaven which might infect the whole lump; for vindicating the honor of Christ, and the holy profession of the gospel; and for preventing the wrath of God, which might justly fall upon the church, if they should suffer this covenant, and the seals thereof, to be profaned by notorious and obstinate offenders.⁽⁵⁵⁷⁾

Section IV: For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the church are to proceed by admonition, suspension from the sacrament of the Lord's supper for a season, and by excommunication from the church, according to the nature of the crime, and demerit of the person.⁽⁵⁵⁸⁾

Section I: For the better government and further edification of the church, there ought to be such assemblies as are commonly called synods or councils;⁽⁵⁵⁹⁾ and it belongeth to the overseers and other rulers of the particular churches, by virtue of their office, and the power which Christ hath given them for edification, and not for destruction, to appoint such assemblies;⁽⁵⁶⁰⁾ and to convene together in them, as often as they shall judge it expedient for the good of the church.⁽⁵⁶¹⁾

Section II: It belongeth to synods and councils, ministerially, to determine controversies of faith, and cases of conscience; to set down rules and directions for the better ordering of the public worship of God, and government of his church; to receive complaints in cases of mal-administration, and authoritatively to determine the same, which decrees and determinations, if consonant to the word of God, are to be received with reverence and submission, not only for their agreement with the word, but also for the power whereby they are made, as being an ordinance of God appointed thereunto in his word.⁽⁵⁶²⁾

Section III: All synods or councils since the apostles' time, whether general or particular, may err, and many have erred; therefore, they are not to be made the rule of faith or practice, but to be used as a help in both.⁽⁵⁶³⁾

Section IV: Synods and councils are to handle or conclude nothing, but that which is ecclesiastical; and are not to intermeddle in civil affairs, which concern the commonwealth, unless by way of humble petition, in cases extraordinary; or by way of advice for satisfaction of conscience, if they be thereunto required by the civil magistrate.⁽⁵⁶⁴⁾

Section I: The bodies of men, after death, return to dust, and see corruption;⁽⁵⁶⁵⁾ but their souls, (which neither die nor sleep) having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them.⁽⁵⁶⁶⁾ The souls of the righteous, being then made perfect in holiness, are received into the highest heavens, where they behold the face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies.⁽⁵⁶⁷⁾ And the souls of the wicked are cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment of the great day.⁽⁵⁶⁸⁾ Besides these two places for souls separated from their bodies, the scripture acknowledgeth none.

Section II: At the last day such as are found alive shall not die, but be changed.⁽⁵⁶⁹⁾ And all the dead shall be raised up with the self-same bodies, and none other, although with different qualities, which shall be united again to their souls forever.⁽⁵⁷⁰⁾

Section III: The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be raised to dishonor; the bodies of the just, by his Spirit, unto honor, and be made comformable to his own glorious body.⁽⁵⁷¹⁾

Section I: God hath appointed a day, wherein he will judge the world in righteousness by Jesus Christ,⁽⁵⁷²⁾ to whom all power and judgment is given by the Father.⁽⁵⁷³⁾  In which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged,⁽⁵⁷⁴⁾ but likewise all persons that have lived upon earth, shall appear before the tribunal of Christ, to give an account of their thoughts, words and deeds, and to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or evil.⁽⁵⁷⁵⁾

Section II: The end of God's appointing this day is for the manifestation of the glory of his mercy, in the eternal salvation of the believer;⁽⁵⁷⁶⁾ and of his justice, in the damnation of the reprobate, who are wicked and disobedient.⁽⁵⁷⁷⁾ For then shall the righteous go into everlasting life, and receive that fullness of joy and refreshing, which shall come from the presence of the Lord.⁽⁵⁷⁸⁾ But the wicked, who know not God, and obey not the gospel of Jesus Christ, shall be cast into eternal torments, and be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.⁽⁵⁷⁹⁾

Section III: As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin, and for the greater consolation of the godly in their adversity;⁽⁵⁸⁰⁾ so will he have that day unknown to men, that they may shake off all carnal security, and be always watchful, because they know not at what hour the Lord will come; and may be ever prepared to say, Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.^{(581) (582)}
 

1. ^a Romans 2:14-15 -- For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves; which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing, or else excusing one another. Romans 1:19-20 -- Because that which may be know of God is manifest in them: for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. Psalm 19:1-3 -- The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. See Romans 1:32, with Romans 2:1.

2. ^b Hebrews 1:1 -- God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.

3. ^c Luke 1:3-4 -- It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of the things wherein thou has been instructed. Romans 15:4 -- For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning; that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. Isaiah 8:20 -- To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Revelation 22:18.

4. ^d II Timothy 3:15 -- And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. II Peter 1:19 -- We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.

5. ^e Hebrews 1:1-2 -- God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.

6. ^f There is no footnote f but the listing of the books of the Old and New Testament probably are probably intended.

7. ^g Ephesians 2:20 -- And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. Revelation 22:18-19 -- I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. II Timothy 3:16 -- All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

8. ^h Luke 24:27,44 -- And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. -- And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 2 Peter 1:21 -- For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

9. ⁱ 2 Timothy 3:16 -- All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 1 John 5:9 -- If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

10. ^j There is no footnote j.

11. ^k 1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

12. ^l 1 John 2:20,27 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. -- But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. John 16:13-14 -- Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. -- He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 1 Corinthians 2:10-12 -- But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. -- For what man knoweth the things of man save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

13. ^m 2 Timothy 3:16-17 -- All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Galatians 1:8 -- But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 2 Thessalonians 2:2 -- That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

14. ⁿ John 6:45 -- It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10,12 -- But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

15. ^o 1 Corinthians 11:13-14 -- Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 1 Corinthians 14:26,40 -- How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. Let all things be done decently and in order.

16. ^p 2 Peter 3:16 -- As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

17. ^q Psalm 119:105,130 -- Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

18. ^r Matthew 5:18 -- For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

19. ^s Isaiah 8:20 -- To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Acts 15:15 -- And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, John 5:46 -- For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

20. ^t John 5:39 -- Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

21. ^u There is no footnote u.

22. ^v 1 Corinthians 14:6,9,11-12,24,27-28 -- Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? -- So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all. If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

23. ^w Colossians 3:16 -- Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

24. ^x Romans 15:4 -- For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

25. ^y Acts 15:15 -- And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, John 5:46 -- For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

26. ^z Matthew 22:29,31 -- Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God. Ephesians 2:20 -- And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. Acts 28:25 -- And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers.

27. ^a Deuteronomy 6:4 -- Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. 1 Corinthians 8:4,6 -- As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

28. ^b 1 Thessalonians 1:9 -- For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God. Jeremiah 10:10 -- But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king.

29. ^c Job 11:7-9 -- Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea

30. ^d John 4:24 -- God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

31. ^e 1 Timothy 1:17 -- Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

32. ^f Deuteronomy 4:15-16 -- Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, (for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,) lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female. Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. John 4:24.

33. ^g Acts 14:11,15 -- And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein.

34. ^h James 1:17 -- The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

35. ⁱ 1 Kings 8:27 -- But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? Jeremiah 23:23-24* -- Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. *Reference is 23:23,27 in 1815, but 23:23-24 in 1829ff. and the Westminster Confession.

36. ^j There is no footnote j.

37. ^k Psalm 90:2 -- Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 1 Timothy 1:17 -- Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

38. ^l Psalm 145:3 -- His greatness is unsearchable.

39. ^m Genesis 17:1 -- I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Revelation 4:8 -- And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

40. ⁿ Romans 16:27 -- To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.

41. ^o Isaiah 6:3 -- And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. Revelation 4:8 -- And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

42. ^p Psalm 115:3 -- But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

43. ^q Exodus 3:14 -- And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

44. ^r Ephesians 1:11 -- In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.

45. ^s Proverbs 16:4 -- The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Romans 11:36 -- For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Revelation 4:11 -- Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

46. ^t 1 John 4:8 -- He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

47. ^u There is no footnote u.

48. ^v Exodus 34:6-7 -- And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty.

49. ^w Hebrews 11:6 -- For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

50. ^x Nehemiah 9:32-33 -- Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly.

51. ^y Psalm 5:5-6 -- The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

52. ^z Nahum 1:2-3 -- God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked. [See Exodus 24:7.] Bracketed reference found in 1829ff. and in Westminster Confession.

53. ^a John 5:26 -- For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.

54. ^b Acts 7:2 -- And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran.

55. ^c Psalm 119:68 -- Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

56. ^d I Timothy 6:15 -- Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords. Romans 9:5 -- Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

57. ^e Acts 17:24-25 -- God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.

58. ^f Job 22:2-3 -- Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

59. ^g Romans 11:36 -- For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

60. ^h Revelation 4:11 -- Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Daniel 4:25,35 -- The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. -- And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? See I Timothy 6:15, letter d.

61. ⁱ Hebrews 4:13 -- 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.

62. ^j There is no footnote j.

63. ^k Romans 11:33-34 -- 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 counsellor? Psalm 147:5 -- Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

64. ^l Acts 15:18 -- Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Ezekiel 11:5 -- And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

65. ^m Psalm 145:17 -- The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. Romans 7:12 -- Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

66. ⁿ Revelation 5:12-14 -- Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

67. ^o I John 5:7 -- For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. Matthew 3:16-17 -- And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matthew 28:19 -- Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. II Corinthians 13:14 -- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

68. ^a Ephesians 1:11 -- In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.

69. ^b Revelation 20:12 -- And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. Romans 2:15 -- Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another. Acts 20:27 -- For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Psalm 2:7 -- I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

70. ^c Daniel 4:34-35 -- And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? Psalm 135:6 -- Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places. Matthew 10:29-31 -- Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

71. ^d Hebrews 2:9 -- But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Matthew 22:4 -- Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. Isaiah 45:22 -- Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. II Timothy 2:4-6 -- Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Revelation 22:17 -- And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Isaiah 55:1 -- Ho, every on that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy and eat, yes, come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price. John 3:16 -- For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Romans 8:25 -- But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. I John 2:24-25,10 -- Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. -- He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

72. ^e I Thessalonians 5:9 -- For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. I Thessalonians 5:3 -- For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. Mark 16:16 -- He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

73. ^a Hebrews 1:2 -- Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. John 1:2-3 -- The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Job 26:13 and 33:4 -- By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand formed the crooked serpent. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

74. ^b Romans 1:20 -- For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. Psalm 104:24 -- O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom has thou made them all; the earth is full of thy riches.

75. ^c Genesis 1st chapter throughout. Colossians 1:16 -- For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.

76. ^d Genesis 1:27 -- So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

77. ^e Genesis 2:7 -- And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Luke 23:43 -- And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shall thou be with me in paradise. Ecclesiastes 12:7 -- Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. And, Matthew 10:28 -- And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

78. ^f Genesis 1:26 -- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

79. ^g Romans 2:14-15 -- For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another.

80. ^h Ecclesiastes 7:29 -- Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

81. ⁱ Genesis 3:6 -- And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Ecclesiastes 7:29 -- Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

82. ^j There is no footnote j.

83. ^k Genesis 2:17 -- But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. See Genesis 3:8.

84. ^l Genesis 1:28 -- And have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Psalm 8:6-8 -- Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet; all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsover passeth through the paths of the seas.

85. ^a Hebrews 1:3 -- Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power -- . [The numbering here of the notes for this chapter is that of the edition of 1829ff.]

86. ^b Matthew 10:29-31 -- Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. See also Matthew 6:26,30.

87. ^c There is no footnote c.

88. ^d Proverbs 15:3 -- The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

89. ^e Ephesians 3:10 -- To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God. Romans 9:17 -- For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Psalm 145:7 -- They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

90. ^f Acts 27:24,31 -- Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. -- Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. Isaiah 55:10-11 -- For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

91. ^g Hosea 1:7 -- But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

92. ^h Romans 4:19-20 -- And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

93. ⁱ II Kings 6:6 -- And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim. Daniel 3:27 -- And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

94. ^j There is no footnote j.

95. ^k II Chronicles 32:25-26,31 -- But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. -- Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

96. ^l II Corinthians 12:7-9 -- And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Psalm 73 throughout. Psalms 77:1-10,12 -- I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. And I said, This is my infirmity; But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. John 21:15-17 -- So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again a second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

97. ^m Romans 1:24,26,28, and 11:7-8 -- Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. -- What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

98. ⁿ Deuteronomy 29:4 -- Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

99. ^o Matthew 13:12 -- For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Matthew 25:29 -- For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

100. ^p Psalm 81:11-12 -- But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. II Thessalonians 2:10-12 -- And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

101. ^q Exodus 8:15,32 -- But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said. -- And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go. II Corinthians 2:15-16 -- For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. Exodus 5:3 -- And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. I Peter 2:7-8 -- Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient; whereunto also they were appointed. Isaiah 6:9-10 -- And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they sea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

102. ^r Amos 9:8-9 -- Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Romans 8:28 -- And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

103. ^a Genesis 3:13 -- And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. II Corinthians 11:3 -- But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

104. ^b Romans 11:32 -- For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

105. ^c Genesis 3:7-8 -- And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. Ecclesiastes 7:29 -- Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Romans 3:23 -- For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

106. ^d Ephesians 2:1 -- And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Romans 5:12 -- Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

107. ^e Genesis 6:5 -- And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Jeremiah 17:9 -- The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? See also Romans 3:10, to the 19th verse.

108. ^f Romans 5:12,15-19 -- Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses unto justification. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

109. ^g Psalm 51:5 -- Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Genesis 5:3 -- And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. Job 14:4, 15:14 -- Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

110. ^h Romans 5:6 -- For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 8:7 -- Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be. John 3:6 -- That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Romans 7:18 -- For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

111. ⁱ Genesis 8:21 -- The Lord said -- the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Romans 3:10-12 -- As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

112. ^j There is no footnote j.

113. ^k James 1:14-15 -- But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Matthew 15:19 -- For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

114. ^l Romans 7:14,17-18,23 -- For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. Proverbs 20:9 -- Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Ecclesiastes 7:20 -- For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

115. ^m Romans 7th Chapter  [Romans 7:5,7-8,25 -- For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.]  Bracketed verses are from 1829ff.

116. ⁿ I John 3:4 -- Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

117. ^o Romans 3:19 -- Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

118. ^p Ephesians 2:3 -- and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

119. ^q Galatians 3:10 -- For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

120. ^r Romans 6:23 -- For the wages of sin is death.

121. ^s Ephesians 4:18 -- Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

122. ^t Lamentations 3:39 -- Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

123. ^u There is no footnote u.

124. ^v Matthew 25:41 -- Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. II Thessalonians 1:9 -- For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

125. ^a Job 9:32-33 -- For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. Psalm 113:5 -- Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

126. ^b Galatians 3:12 -- And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Hosea 6:7 -- But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. Genesis 2:16-17 -- And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

127. ^c Romans 10:5 -- For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

128. ^d Genesis 2:17 -- But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Galatians 3:10 -- For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

129. ^e Galatians 3:21 -- For if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. Romans 8:3 -- For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. Isaiah 42:6 -- I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles. Genesis 3:15 -- And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

130. ^f Mark 16:15-16 -- And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. John 3:16 -- For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

131. ^g Hebrews 9:15-17 -- And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Luke 22:20 -- Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. I Corinthians 11:25 -- After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

132. ^h II Corinthians 3:6-9 -- Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

133. ⁱ Hebrews 8th, 9th, and 10th chapters. Romans 4:11 -- And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Colossians 2:11-12 -- In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him, through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. I Corinthians 5:7 -- Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. Colossians 2:17 -- Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

134. ^j There is no footnote j.

135. ^k I Corinthians 10:1-4 -- Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did eat the same spiritual meal and did all drink the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them; and that rock was Christ. Hebrews 11:13 -- These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. John 8:56 -- Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

136. ^l Galatians 3:7-9, 14 -- Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. -- That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

137. ^m Colossians 2:17 -- Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

138. ⁿ Matthew 28:19-20 -- Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. I Corinthians 11:23-25 -- For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. II Corinthians 3:7-11 -- But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

139. ^o Hebrews 12:22-28 -- . See also Jeremiah 31:33-34.

140. ^p See letter "n." Ephesians 2:15-19 -- Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

141. ^q Luke 22:20 -- Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. Hebrews 8:7-9.

142. ^r Galatians 3:14 -- That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Acts 15:11 -- But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. Romans 3:30 -- Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

143. ^a Isaiah 42:1 -- Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. I Peter 1:19-20 -- But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. I Timothy 2:5 -- For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. See also John 3:16.

144. ^b Acts 3:22 -- For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. Deuteronomy 18:15 -- The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.

145. ^c Hebrews 5:5-6 -- So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

146. ^d Psalm 2:6 -- Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. Luke 1:33 -- And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

147. ^e Ephesians 5:23 -- For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.

148. ^f Hebrews 1:2 -- Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things.

149. ^g Acts 17:31 -- Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

150. ^h Psalm 22:30 -- A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. Isaiah 53:10 -- Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

151. ⁱ I Timothy 2:6 -- Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Isaiah 55:4-5 -- Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. I Corinthians 1:30 -- But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

152. ^j There is no footnote j.

153. ^k John 1:1,14 -- In the beginning was the Word -- and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. I John 5:20 -- And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. Philippians 2:6 -- Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Galatians 4:4 -- But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

154. ^l Hebrews 2:17 -- Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Hebrews 4:15 -- For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

155. ^m Luke 1:27,31,35 -- To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Galatians 4:4 -- But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

156. ⁿ Luke 1:35 -- And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Romans 9:5 -- Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. I Timothy 3:16 -- And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.

157. ^o Romans 1:3-4 -- Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. I Timothy 2:5 -- For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

158. ^p Psalm 45:7 -- God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. John 3:34 -- For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

159. ^q Colossians 2:3 -- In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

160. ^r Colossians 1:19 -- For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.

161. ^s Hebrews 7:26 -- For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. John 1:14 -- And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

162. ^t Acts 10:38 -- How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. Hebrews 12:24 -- And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Hebrews 7:22 -- By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

163. ^u There is no footnote u.

164. ^v Hebrews 5:5 -- So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.

165. ^w John 5:22,27 -- For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Matthew 28:18 -- And Jesus came, and spake unto them saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

166. ^x Psalm 40:7-8 -- Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Philippians 2:8 -- And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

167. ^y Galatians 4:4 -- But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

168. ^z Matthew 3:15 -- For thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Matthew 5:17 -- I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

169. ^a Matthew 26:37-38 -- And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Luke 22:44 -- And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Matthew 27:46 -- And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

170. ^b Matthew 26th and 27th chapters.

171. ^c Philippians 2:8 -- He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

172. ^d Acts 2:24,27 -- Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Acts 13:37 -- But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

173. ^e I Corinthians 15:4 -- He was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

174. ^f John 20:25,27 -- But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.

175. ^g Mark 16:19 -- He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

176. ^h Romans 8:34 -- Who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Hebrews 7:25 -- Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

177. ⁱ Romans 14:9-10 -- For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Acts 1:11 and 10:42 -- Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. Matthew 13:40-42 -- As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Jude 6 -- And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains, under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. II Peter 2:4 -- For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.

178. ^j There is no footnote j.

179. ^k Romans 5:19 -- For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Hebrews 9:14 -- How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Romans 3:25-26 -- Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Hebrews 10:14 -- For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Ephesians 5:2 -- And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.

180. ^l Ephesians 1:11,14 -- In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. John 17:2 -- As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

181. ^m Galatians 4:4-5 -- But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Genesis 3:15 -- And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Revelation 13:8 -- And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Hebrews 13:8 -- Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

182. ⁿ I Peter 3:18 -- For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. Hebrews 9:14 -- How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

183. ^o Acts 20:28 -- Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. John 3:13 -- And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. I John 3:16 -- Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us.

184. ^p Hebrews 2:9 -- But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

185. ^q Hebrews 7:29 -- Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

186. ^r II Corinthians 4:13 -- 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. Romans 8:9,14 -- But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Romans 15:18,19 -- For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. John 17:17 -- Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

187. ^s Psalm 110:1 -- The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. I Corinthians 15:25-26 -- For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. Malachi 4:2-3 -- But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet, in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. Colossians 2:15 -- And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

188. ^a James 1:14 -- But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Deuteronomy 30:19 -- I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. See John 5:40.

189. ^b Ecclesiastes 7:29 -- Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Genesis 1:26 -- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

190. ^c Genesis 2:16-17 -- And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 3:6 -- And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

191. ^d Romans 5:6 -- For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 8:7 -- Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. John 15:5 -- For without me ye can do nothing.

192. ^e Romans 3:10,12 -- As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

193. ^f Ephesians 2:1,5 -- And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.) Colossians 2:13 -- And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.

194. ^g John 6:44,65 -- No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. I Corinthians 2:14 -- But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. See also Ephesians 2:2-5 and Titus 3:3-5.

195. ^h Colossians 1:13 -- Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. John 8:34,36 -- Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

196. ⁱ Philippians 2:13 -- For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Romans 6:18,22 -- Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

197. ^j There is no footnote j.

198. ^k Galatians 5:17 -- For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Romans 7:15 -- For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

199. ^l Ephesians 4:13 -- Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Jude 24 -- Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory, with exceeding joy.

200. ^a II Thessalonians 2:13-14 -- God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. II Corinthians 3:3,6 -- Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

201. ^b Romans 8:2 -- For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. II Timothy 1:9-10 -- Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Ezekiel 11:19 -- And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. Deuteronomy 30:6 -- And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

202. ^c Acts 26:18 -- To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. I Corinthians 2:10,12 -- But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

203. ^d Ezekiel 36:26 -- A new heart also will I give 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 give you an heart of flesh.

204. ^e Ezekiel 11:19 -- And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. Deuteronomy 30:6 -- And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. Ezekiel 36:27 -- And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

205. ^f John 6:44-45 -- No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

206. ^g Song of Solomon 1:4 -- Draw me, we will run after thee. II Timothy 1:9 -- Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, by according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. Titus 3:4-5 -- But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he save us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

207. ^h II Timothy 1:9 -- Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, by according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. Titus 3:4-5 -- But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he save us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

208. ⁱ I Corinthians 2:14 -- But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Romans 8:7 -- Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Ephesians 2:5 -- Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.)

209. ^j There is no footnote j.

210. ^k John 6:37 -- All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. Ezekiel 36:27 --And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. John 5:25 -- Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. John 7:37.

211. ^l Luke 18:15-16 -- And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Acts 2:38-39 -- Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

212. ^m John 3:8 -- The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

213. ^a Romans 8:30 -- Whom he called, them he also justified. Romans 3:24 -- Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

214. ^b Romans 4:5-8 -- But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. II Corinthians 5:19,21 -- To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Romans 3:22,24-25 -- Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. Jeremiah 23:6 -- In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Romans 5:17-19 -- For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousnss shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

215. ^c Philippians 3:9 -- And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. Acts 13:38-39 -- Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Ephesians 2:7-8 -- That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward you through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

216. ^d John 1:12 -- But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Romans 3:28 -- Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Romans 5:1 -- Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

217. ^e James 2:17,22,26 -- Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Galatians 5:6 -- For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

218. ^f Romans 5:8-10 -- But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. I Timothy 2:6 -- Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Hebrews 10:10,14 -- By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. See Isaiah 53:4-6,10-12.

219. ^g Romans 8:32 -- He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

220. ^h Romans 3:24 -- Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 1:7 -- In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.

221. ⁱ II Corinthians 5:21 -- For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Matthew 3:17 -- And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Ephesians 5:2 -- And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

222. ^j There is no footnote j.

223. ^k Romans 3:26 -- To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

224. ^l Galatians 3:8 -- And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. I Peter 1:2,19-20 -- Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. Romans 8:30 -- Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

225. ^m Galatians 4:4 -- But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. I Timothy 2:6 -- Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Romans 4:25 -- Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

226. ⁿ Colossians 1:21-22 -- And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight. Galatians 2:16 -- Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Titus 3:4-7 -- But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washhing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

227. ^o Matthew 6:12 -- And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. I John 1:9 -- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I John 2:1 -- My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

228. ^p Luke 22:32 -- But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. John 10:28 -- And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Hebrews 10:14 -- For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

229. ^q Psalm 89:31-33 -- If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

230. ^a Ephesians 1:5 -- Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. Galatians 4:4-5 -- But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

231. ^b Romans 8:17 -- And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. John 1:12 -- But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

232. ^c Jeremiah 14:9 -- Yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not. Revelation 3:12 -- Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

233. ^d Romans 8:15 -- 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.

234. ^e Ephesians 3:12 -- In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. Romans 5:2 -- By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

235. ^f Galatians 4:6 -- And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

236. ^g Psalm 103:13 -- Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

237. ^h Proverbs 14:26 -- In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

238. ⁱ Matthew 6:30,32 -- Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. I Peter 5:7 -- Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

239. ^j There is no footnote j.

240. ^k Hebrews 12:6 -- For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

241. ^l Lamentations 3:31 -- For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

242. ^m Ephesians 4:30 -- Whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

243. ⁿ Hebrews 6:12 -- That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

244. ^o I Peter 1:4 -- To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. Hebrews 1:14 -- Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

245. ^a I Corinthians 6:11 -- And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. Acts 20:32 -- And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. Philippians 3:10 -- That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death. Romans 6:5-6 -- For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

246. ^b Ephesians 5:26 -- That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. II Thessalonians 2:13 -- But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

247. ^c Romans 6:6,14 -- Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

248. ^d Galatians 5:24 -- And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Romans 8:13 -- For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

249. ^e Colossians 1:11 -- Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. Ephesians 3:16 -- That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.

250. ^f II Corinthians 7:1 -- Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Hebrews 12:14 -- Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

251. ^g I Thessalonians 5:23 -- And the very God of peace, sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

252. ^h I John 1:10 -- If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Philippians 3:12 -- Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Romans 7:18,23 -- For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

253. ⁱ Galatians 5:17 -- For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

254. ^j There is no footnote j.

255. ^k Romans 7:23 -- But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

256. ^l Romans 6:14 -- For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. I John 5:4 -- For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Ephesians 4:16 -- From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

257. ^m II Peter 3:18 -- But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. II Corinthians 3:18 -- But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

258. ⁿ II Corinthians 7:1 -- Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

259. ^o Acts 24:16 -- And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

260. ^a II Corinthians 4:13 -- 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. Ephesians 2:8 -- For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

261. ^b Romans 10:14,17 -- How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

262. ^c I Peter 2:2 -- As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. Luke 17:5 -- And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. Romans 1:16-17 -- For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

263. ^d I Thessalonians 2:13 -- For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. I John 5:10 -- He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. Acts 24:14 -- But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets.

264. ^e Romans 16:26 -- 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 for the obedience of faith.

265. ^f Isaiah 66:2 -- To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

266. ^g Hebrews 11:13 -- These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. I Timothy 4:8 -- For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

267. ^h John 1:12 -- But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Acts 16:31 -- And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Galatians 2:20 -- I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Acts 15:11 -- But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

268. ⁱ Hebrews 5:13-14 -- For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Romans 4:19-20 -- And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Matthew 6:30 -- Shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Matthew 8:10 -- When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

269. ^j There is no footnote j.

270. ^k Luke 22:31-32 -- And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. I John 5:4-5 -- For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

271. ^l Hebrews 6:11-12 -- And we desire that every one 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 promises. Hebrews 10:22 -- Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

272. ^m Hebrews 12:2 -- Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

273. ^a Acts 11:18 -- When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.

274. ^b Luke 24:47 -- And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. Mark 1:15 -- And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. Acts 20:21 -- Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

275. ^c Ezekiel 18:30-31 -- Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Ezekiel 36:31 -- Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Psalm 51:4 -- Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Jeremiah 31:18-19 -- I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. II Corinthians 7:11 -- For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. Joel 2:12-13 -- Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Amos 5:15 -- Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. Psalm 119:128 -- Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

276. ^d Psalm 119:6,56,106 -- Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. Luke 1:6 -- And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. II Kings 23:25 -- And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might according to all the law of Moses: neither after him arose there any like him.

277. ^e Ezekiel 36:31-32 -- Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. Ezekiel 16:63 -- That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

278. ^f Hosea 14:2,4 -- Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. Romans 3:24 -- Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

279. ^g Luke 13:3,5 -- I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Acts 17:30 -- And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.

280. ^h Romans 6:23 -- For the wages of sin is death. Matthew 12:36 -- But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

281. ⁱ Isaiah 55:7 -- Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Romans 8:1 -- There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Isaiah 1:18 -- Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

282. ^j There is no footnote j.

283. ^k Psalm 19:13 -- Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Luke 19:8 -- And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. I Timothy 1:13,15 -- Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

284. ^l Psalm 32:5-6 -- I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Psalm 51:4-5,7,9,14 -- Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

285. ^m Proverbs 28:13 -- He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. I John 1:9 -- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.

286. ⁿ James 5:16 -- Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Luke 17:3-4 -- Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. Joshua 7:19 -- And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

287. ^o II Corinthians 2:8 -- Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. Galatians 6:1-2 -- Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

288. ^a Micah 6:8 -- He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Romans 12:2 -- And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Hebrews 13:21 -- Make you perfect in every good work to do his will.

289. ^b Matthew 15:9 -- But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Isaiah 29:13 -- Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precepts of men. John 16:2 -- They shall put you out of the synagogues, yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doeth God service.

290. ^c James 2:18,22 -- Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

291. ^d Psalm 116:12-13 -- What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. I Peter 2:9 -- But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

292. ^e I John 2:3,5 -- And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. II Peter 1:5-10 -- And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

293. ^f II Corinthians 9:2 -- For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. Matthew 5:16 -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

294. ^g Titus 2:5 -- To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. I Timothy 6:1 -- Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. Titus 2:9-12 -- Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.

295. ^h I Peter 2:15 -- For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

296. ⁱ I Peter 2:12 -- Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Philippians 1:11 -- Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. John 15:8 -- Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit.

297. ^j There is no footnote j.

298. ^k Ephesians 2:10 -- For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

299. ^l Romans 6:22 -- But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

300. ^m John 15:5-6 -- I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 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.

301. ⁿ Philippians 2:13 -- For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Philippians 4:13 -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

302. ^o Philippians 2:12 -- Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Hebrews 6:11-12 -- And we desire that every one 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 promises. Isaiah 64:7 -- And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. II Peter 1:3,5,10-12 -- According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. II Timothy 1:6 -- Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. Acts 26:6-7 -- And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Jude 20-21 -- But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

303. ^p Luke 17:10 -- So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. Job 9:2-3 -- I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. Galatians 5:17 -- For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

304. ^q Romans 3:20 -- Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Romans 4:2,4,6 -- For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. Ephesians 2:8-9 -- For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Psalm 16:2 -- O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee. Titus 3:5-7 -- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Romans 8:18,22-23 -- For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Job 35:7-8 -- If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

305. ^r Luke 17:10 -- So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. Job 9:2-3 -- I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. Galatians 5:17 -- For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

306. ^s Galatians 5:22-23 -- But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance.

307. ^t Isaiah 64:6 -- But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Psalm 130:3 -- If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? See also Galatians 5:17 and Romans 7:15,18.

308. ^u There is no footnote u.

309. ^v Ephesians 1:6 -- To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. I Peter 2:5 -- Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Genesis 4:4 -- And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering. Hebrews 11:4 -- By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

310. ^w Job 9:20 -- If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. Psalm 143:2.

311. ^x II Corinthians 8:12 -- For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. Hebrews 6:10 -- For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. Matthew 25:21,23 -- His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

312. ^y II Kings 10:30-31 -- And the Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin. Philippians 1:15-16,18 -- Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds. What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice.

313. ^z Hebrews 11:4-6 -- By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Genesis 4:3-5 -- And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

314. ^a I Corinthians 13:3 -- 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 me nothing. Isaiah 1:12 -- When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

315. ^b Matthew 6:2,5,16 -- Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

316. ^c Haggai 2:14 -- So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. Titus 1:15 -- Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

317. ^a Romans 8:38-39 -- For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

318. ^b John 3:16 -- For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 10:28-29 -- And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. Philippians 1:6 -- Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

319. ^c II Timothy 2:19 -- Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. Jeremiah 31:3 -- The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. I Peter 1:5 -- Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

320. ^d I John 2:1 -- My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

321. ^e Hebrews 7:25 -- Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Hebrews 10:10,14 -- By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

322. ^f John 14:16-17 -- And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I John 3:9 -- Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

323. ^g Jeremiah 32:40 -- And 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 in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Hebrews 8:10 and 10:16-17.

324. ^h Job 17:9 -- The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. John 17:21-22 -- That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. I John 2:19 -- They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. II Thessalonians 3:3 -- But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. See also Zephaniah 3:17; Malachi 3:6; Numbers 23:19; Romans 5:10; II Corinthians 1:21-22; John 4:14; Psalm 94:14,12:5; John 17:12; and I Corinthians 1:8-9.

325. ⁱ II Samuel 12:9,13-14 -- Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

326. ^j There is no footnote j.

327. ^k II Timothy 1:10 -- But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

328. ^l Luke 24:49 -- And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. Acts 2:4 -- And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

329. ^m Acts 17:30-31 -- And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Matthew 11:11 -- Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

330. ⁿ Ephesians 4:30 -- And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Revelation 2:4 -- Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

331. ^a Job 8:14 -- Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. Deuteronomy 29:19 -- I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst. John 8:41 -- Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

332. ^b Matthew 7:22-23 -- Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Job 8:13 -- So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish.

333. ^c I John 2:3 -- And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. I John 5:13 -- These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. I John 3:14,18-19,21,24 -- We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

334. ^d Romans 5:2,5 -- By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

335. ^e Hebrews 6:11,19 -- And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.

336. ^f Hebrews 6:17-18 -- Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.

337. ^g II Peter 1:4-5,10-11 -- Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I John 3:14 -- We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. I John 2:3 -- And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. II Corinthians 1:12 -- For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

338. ^h Romans 8:15-16 -- 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. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

339. ⁱ Ephesians 1:13-14 -- In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. II Corinthians 1:21-22 -- Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

340. ^j There is no footnote j.

341. ^k Isaiah 50:10 -- Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. I John 5:13 -- These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. See Psalm 88 throughout and 77 to the 12th verse.

342. ^l I Corinthians 2:12 -- Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. I John 4:13 -- Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. Hebrews 6:11-12 -- And we desire that every one 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 promises. Ephesians 3:17-19.

343. ^m II Peter 1:10 -- Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

344. ⁿ Romans 5:1-2,5 -- Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Romans 14:17 -- For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans 15:13 -- Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Psalm 119:32 -- I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. Psalm 4:6-7 -- There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. Ephesians 1:3-4 -- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

345. ^o Romans 6:1-2 -- What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Titus 2:11-12,14 -- For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

346. ^p Song of Solomon 5:2-3,6 -- I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. Psalm 51:8,12,14 -- Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. Ephesians 4:30 -- And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Compare the above with Psalm 77 first ten verses, and Matthew 26:69-72; Psalm 31:22; Psalm 88 throughout; and Isaiah 50:10.

347. ^q I John 3:9 -- Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Luke 22:32 -- But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. Job 13:15 -- Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Psalm 73:15 and 51:8,12 with Isaiah 50:10.

348. ^r Micah 7:7-9 -- Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. Isaiah 54:7-8 -- For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.

349. ^a Genesis 1:26 -- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Genesis 2:17 -- But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Romans 2:14-15 -- For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another. Romans 10:5 -- For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. Romans 5:12,19 -- Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. See also Galatians 3:10,12; Ecclesiastes 7:29; and Job 28:28. Galatians 3:10,12 -- For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Ecclesiastes 7:29 -- Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Job 28:28 -- And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

350. ^b James 1:25 -- But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James 2:8,10-12 -- If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. Romans 3:19 -- Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law. Romans 13:8-9 -- Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Deuteronomy 5:32, 10:4 -- Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me. Exodus 34:1 -- And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

351. ^c Matthew 22:37-40 -- Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. [See also] Exodus 20:3-18.

352. ^d Hebrews 10:1 -- For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Galatians 4:1-3 -- Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. Colossians 2:17 -- Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Hebrews 9th chapter.

353. ^e I Corinthians 5:7 -- Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: II Corinthians 6:17 -- Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

354. ^f Colossians 2:14,16-17 -- Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Ephesians 2:15-16 -- Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.

355. ^g See Exodus 21st chapter; and 22nd chapter, 1st to 29th verse. Genesis 49:10 -- The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Matthew 5:38-39 -- Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil. II Corinthians 9:8-10 -- Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

356. ^h Romans 13:8-9 -- See above in letter "b." I John 2:3-4,7 -- And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. Romans 3:31 and 6:15 -- Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

357. ⁱ James 2:10-11 -- See above in letter b.

358. ^j There is no footnote j.

359. ^k Matthew 5:18-19 -- For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. James 2:8 -- If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well. Romans 3:31 -- Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

360. ^l Romans 6:14 -- For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Romans 8:1 -- There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Galatians 4:4-5 -- But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Acts 13:39 -- And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

361. ^m Romans 7:12,22,25 -- Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. Psalm 119:5 -- O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! I Corinthians 7:19 -- Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. Galatians 5:14,18-23 -- For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

362. ⁿ Romans 7:7 -- What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Romans 3:20 -- Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

363. ^o Romans 7:9,14,24 -- For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

364. ^p Galatians 3:24 -- Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Romans 8:3-4 -- For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 7:24-25 -- O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

365. ^q James 2:11 -- For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. Psalm 119:128 -- Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

366. ^r Ezra 9:13-14 -- And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? Psalm 89:30-34 -- If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

367. ^s Psalm 37:11 -- But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. Psalm 19:11 -- Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. [See also] Leviticus 26:1-14; Ephesians 6:2; Matthew 5:5.

368. ^t Galatians 2:16 -- Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

369. ^u There is no footnote u.

370. ^v Romans 6:12,14 -- Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Hebrews 12:28-29 -- Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire. I Peter 3:8-12 -- Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. Psalm 34:12-16 -- What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

371. ^w Galatians 3:21 -- Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. Titus 2:11-14 -- For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

372. ^x Ezekiel 36:27 -- And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. Hebrews 8:10 -- For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. Jeremiah 31:33 -- But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

373. ^a Titus 2:14 -- Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Galatians 3:13 -- Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed &c.

374. ^b Galatians 1:4 -- Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. Acts 26:18 -- To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Romans 6:14 -- For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

375. ^c Psalm 119:71 -- It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. I Corinthians 15:54-57 -- So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 8:1.

376. ^d Romans 5:2 -- By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.

377. ^e Romans 8:14-15 -- For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they 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. I John 4:18 -- There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

378. ^f Galatians 3:9-14 -- So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

379. ^g Galatians 5:1 -- Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Acts 15:10-11 -- Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. Galatians 4:1-3,6 -- Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

380. ^h Hebrews 4:14-16 -- Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 10:19-20 -- Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.

381. ⁱ John 7:38-39 -- He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) II Corinthians 3:13,17-18 -- And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

382. ^j There is no footnote j.

383. ^k Romans 14:4 -- Who art thou that judgest 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.

384. ^l Acts 4:19 -- But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. Acts 5:29 -- Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. I Corinthians 7:23 -- Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Matthew 23:8-10 -- But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. II Corinthians 1:24 -- Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. Matthew 15:9 -- But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

385. ^m Colossians 2:20,22-23 -- Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh. Galatians 1:10 -- For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Galatians 2:4 -- And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage. See Galatians 5:1.

386. ⁿ Isaiah 8:20 -- To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Acts 17:11 -- These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. John 4:22 -- Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. See also Hosea 5:11, with Revelation 13:12,16-17.

387. ^o Galatians 5:13 -- For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. I Peter 2:16 -- As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Luke 1:74-75 -- That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. II Peter 2:19 -- While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. John 8:34 -- Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

388. ^p I Peter 2:13-14,16 -- Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Hebrews 13:17 -- Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. See also Romans 13:1-8.

389. ^q Romans 1:32 -- Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. I Corinthians 5:1,5,11,13 -- It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

390. ^r II Thessalonians 3:14 -- And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Titus 3:10 -- A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition reject.

391. ^a Romans 1:20 -- For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.

392. ^b Deuteronomy 12:32 -- What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. Matthew 15:9 -- But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew 4:9-10 -- And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. See also Deuteronomy 15:1-20 and Exodus 20:4-6.

393. ^c John 5:23 -- That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. II Corinthians 13:14 -- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. Matthew 4:10 -- Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Revelation 5:11-13 -- And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

394. ^d Colossians 2:18 -- Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels. Revelation 19:10 -- And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God. Romans 1:25 -- Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

395. ^e John 14:6 -- Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. I Timothy 2:5 -- For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:18 -- For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

396. ^f Philippians 4:6 -- Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

397. ^g Psalm 65:2 -- O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

398. ^h John 14:13-14 -- And 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.

399. ⁱ Romans 8:26 -- Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

400. ^j There is no footnote j.

401. ^k I John 5:14 -- And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

402. ^l Psalm 47:7 -- For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. Hebrews 12:28 -- Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Genesis 18:27 -- And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. James 5:16 -- The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Ephesians 6:18 -- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. See also James 1:6-7; Mark 11:24; Matthew 6:12,14-15; Colossians 4:2.

403. ^m I Corinthians 14:14 -- For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

404. ⁿ I John 5:14 -- And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

405. ^o I Timothy 2:1-2 -- I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

406. ^p II Samuel 12:21-23 -- Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. And he said, 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? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. Luke 16:25-26 -- But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Revelation 14:13 -- And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

407. ^q I John 5:16 -- If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

408. ^r Acts 15:21 -- For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day. Revelation 1:3 -- Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

409. ^s II Timothy 4:2 -- Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

410. ^t James 1:22 -- But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Acts 10:33 -- Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God. Hebrews 4:2 -- For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. Matthew 13:19 -- When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

411. ^u There is no footnote u.

412. ^v Colossians 3:16 -- Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Ephesians 5:12 -- For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. James 5:13 -- Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

413. ^w Matthew 28:19 -- Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:42 -- And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. [See also] II Corinthians 11:23-29.

414. ^x Deuteronomy 6:13 -- Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

415. ^y Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 -- When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Acts 18:18 -- And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

416. ^z Joel 2:12 -- Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. Matthew 9:15 -- Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. I Corinthians 7:5 -- Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

417. ^a Psalm 107

418. ^b Hebrews 12:28 -- Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

419. ^c John 4:21 -- Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

420. ^d Malachi 1:11 -- For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts. I Timothy 2:8 -- I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

421. ^e John 4:23-24 -- But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

422. ^f Jeremiah 10:25 -- Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name. Job 1:5 -- And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. II Samuel 6:18,20 -- And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts. Then David returned to bless his household.

423. ^g Matthew 6:11 -- Give us this day our daily bread. Joshua 24:15 -- And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

424. ^h Matthew 6:6 -- But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Ephesians 6:18 -- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

425. ⁱ Isaiah 56:7 -- Mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. Hebrews 10:25 -- Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Proverbs 8:34 -- Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Acts 2:42 -- And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

426. ^j There is no footnote j.

427. ^k See the 4th commandment in Exodus 20:8-11. Isaiah 56:2,4,6 -- Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant. Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant.

428. ^l Genesis 2:3 -- And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. I Corinthians 16:1-2 -- Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Acts 20:7 -- And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

429. ^m Revelation 1:10 -- I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.

430. ⁿ Exodus 20:8,10 -- Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. Matthew 5:17-18 -- Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

431. ^o Exodus 16:23,25-26,29-30 -- And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day. Exodus 31:15-16 -- Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.  Isaiah 58:13; Nehemiah 13:15-19,21-22.

432. ^p Isaiah 58:13 -- If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words.  Matthew 12:1-13.

433. ^a Deuteronomy 10:20 -- Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

434. ^b Exodus 20:7 -- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Leviticus 19:12 -- And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. II Corinthians 1:23 -- Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth. II Chronicles 6:22-23 -- If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house; Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

435. ^c Deuteronomy 6:13 -- Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

436. ^d Jeremiah 5:7 -- How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. James 5:12 -- But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. Exodus 20:7 -- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

437. ^e Hebrews 6:16 -- For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Isaiah 65:16 -- That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

438. ^f I Kings 8:31 -- If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house. Ezra 10:5 -- Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.

439. ^g Jeremiah 4:2 -- And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. Exodus 20:7 -- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

440. ^h Genesis 24:2-3,9 -- And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

441. ⁱ Numbers 5:19,21 -- And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell. Nehemiah 5:12 -- Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

442. ^j There is no footnote j.

443. ^k Psalm 24:4 -- He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. Jeremiah 4:2 -- And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

444. ^l Psalm 15:4 -- In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. I Samuel 25:22, 32-34 -- So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand. For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

445. ^m Ezekiel 17:16,18 -- As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape. Joshua 9:18-19 -- And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. II Samuel 21:1-2 -- Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

446. ⁿ Isaiah 19:21 -- And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it. Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 -- When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Psalm 66:13-14 -- I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. Psalm 61:8 -- So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

447. ^o Psalm 76:11 -- Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. Jeremiah 44:25-26 -- Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows. Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord God liveth.

448. ^p Deuteronomy 23:21,23 -- When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. Psalm 50:14 -- Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High. Genesis 28:20-22 -- And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. Compare with the above I Samuel 1:11 and Psalm 132:2-5.

449. ^q Acts 23:12 -- And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Mark 6:26 -- And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. See also Numbers 30:5,8,12-13.

450. ^r I Corinthians 7:2,9,27 -- Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. -- Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

451. ^a Romans 13:1,3-4 -- Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. I Peter 2:13-14 -- Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

452. ^b Proverbs 8:15-16 -- By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. See letter "a."

453. ^c Psalm 82:3-4 -- Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. II Samuel 23:3 -- The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. See I Peter 2:13, letter "a."

454. ^d Luke 3:14 -- And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages. Matthew 8:9 -- For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. Acts 10:1-2 -- There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. Romans 13:4 -- For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

455. ^e II Chronicles 26:18 -- And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honor from the Lord God.

456. ^f Matthew 16:18-19 -- And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. I Corinthians 4:1-2 -- Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

457. ^g John 18:36 -- Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. Malachi 2:7 -- For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. Acts 5:29 -- Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

458. ^h Isaiah 49:23 -- And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers.

459. ⁱ Psalm 105:15 -- Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Acts 18:14-16 at large -- And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. And he drave them from the judgment seat.

460. ^j There is no footnote j.

461. ^k II Samuel 23:3 -- The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. I Timothy 2:1 at large -- I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men. Romans 13:4 at large -- For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

462. ^l I Timothy 2:1-2 -- I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. I Peter 2:17 -- Fear God. Honor the king.

463. ^m Romans 13:6-7 -- For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

464. ⁿ Romans 13:5 -- Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. Titus 3:1 -- Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work.

465. ^o I Peter 2:13-14,16 -- Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

466. ^p Romans 13:1 -- Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Acts 25:10-11 -- Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest. For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

467. ^q II Thessalonians 2:4 -- Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Revelation 13:15-18 -- And he had power to give life unto the image

468. ^r II Thessalonians 2:4 -- Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Revelation 13:15-18 -- And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

469. ^a I Corinthians 7:2 -- Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Mark 10:6-9 -- But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

470. ^b Genesis 2:18 -- And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

471. ^c Malachi 2:15 -- And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

472. ^d I Corinthians 7:2,9 -- Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

473. ^e I Timothy 4:3 -- Forbidding to marry. Genesis 24:57-58 -- And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth. And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

474. ^f I Corinthians 7:39 -- The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

475. ^g Genesis 34:14 -- And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us. Exodus 34:16 -- And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. II Corinthians 6:14 -- Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? I Kings 11:4 -- For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. Nehemiah 13:25-27 -- And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

476. ^h Leviticus 18th chapter. I Corinthians 5:1 -- It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

477. ⁱ Mark 6:18 -- For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. Leviticus 18:24-28 -- Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

478. ^j There is no footnote j.

479. ^k Leviticus 20:19-21 -- And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

480. ^l Matthew 1:18-20 -- Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

481. ^m Matthew 5:31-32 -- It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

482. ⁿ Matthew 19:9 -- And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. Romans 7:2-3 -- For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

483. ^o Matthew 19:8 -- He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. I Corinthians 7:15 -- But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. Matthew 19:6 -- Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

484. ^p Ezra 10:3 -- Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

485. ^a Ephesians 1:10,22-23 -- That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him. And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. Colossians 1:18 -- And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. Ephesians 5:23,27,32 -- For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

486. ^b I Corinthians 1:2 -- Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. I Corinthians 12:12-13 -- For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Psalm 2:8 -- Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Romans 15:9-12 -- And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him all ye people.

487. ^c I Corinthians 7:14 -- For 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. Acts 2:39 -- For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Genesis 17:7 -- And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Romans 11:16 -- For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. Galatians 3:7,9,14; Romans 4.

488. ^d Matthew 13:47 -- Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Isaiah 9:7.

489. ^e Ephesians 2:19 -- Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God. Ephesians 3:15 -- Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. Proverbs 29:18 -- Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

490. ^f Ephesians 4:11-13 -- And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Isaiah 59:21 -- As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. Matthew 28:19-20.

491. ^g Romans 11:3-4 -- Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Revelation 12:6,14 -- And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. Acts 9:31 -- Then had the churches rest throughout Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

492. ^h I Corinthians 5:6-7 -- Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. Revelation 2nd and 3rd chapters throughout.

493. ⁱ I Corinthians 13:12 -- For 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. Matthew 13:24-30,47 -- Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also, &c. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Revelation 2nd and 3rd chapters.

494. ^j There is no footnote j.

495. ^k Revelation 18:2 -- And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Romans 11:18-22 -- Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

496. ^l Matthew 16:18 -- And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Psalm 102:28 -- The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee. Matthew 28:19-20 -- Go yet therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

497. ^m Colossians 1:18 -- And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. Ephesians 1:22 -- And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church.

498. ⁿ Matthew 23:8-10 -- But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. II Thessalonians 2:3-4,&c. -- Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 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.

499. ^a I John 1:3 -- That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. Ephesians 3:16-17 -- That he would grant 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. John 1:16 -- And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. Philippians 3:10 -- That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.

500. ^b Ephesians 4:15-16 -- But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

501. ^c I Thessalonians 5:11,14 -- Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. Galatians 6:10 -- As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. I John 3:16-18 -- Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

502. ^d Hebrews 10:24-25 -- And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Acts 2:42,46 -- And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Isaiah 2:3 -- And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. I Corinthians 11:20 -- When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.

503. ^e I John 3:17 -- But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? Acts 11:29-30 -- Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. II Corinthians 8th and 9th chapters.

504. ^f Colossians 1:18-19 -- And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell. I Corinthians 8:6 -- But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. Psalm 45:7 -- Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. I Timothy 6:16 -- Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

505. ^g Acts 5:4 -- Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

506. ^a Romans 4:11 -- And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Genesis 17:7 -- And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

507. ^b Matthew 28:19 -- Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. I Corinthians 11:23 -- For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread.

508. ^c I Corinthians 10:16 -- The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? I Corinthians 11:25-26 -- After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. Galatians 3:27 -- For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

509. ^d Exodus 12:48 -- And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. I Corinthians 10:21 -- Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

510. ^e Romans 6:3-4 -- Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. I Corinthians 10:2,16 -- And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. -- The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

511. ^f Genesis 17:10 -- This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. Matthew 26:27-28 -- And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Titus 3:5 -- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

512. ^g Romans 2:28-29 -- For he is not a Jew, which 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. I Peter 3:21 -- The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

513. ^h Matthew 3:11 -- I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. I Corinthians 12:13 -- For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

514. ⁱ Matthew 26:27-28 -- And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matthew 28:19-20 -- Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen.

515. ^j There is no footnote j.

516. ^k Matthew 28:19 -- Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. I Corinthians 11:20,23 -- When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread. I Corinthians 4:1 -- Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Hebrews 5:4 -- And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

517. ^l I Corinthians 10:1-4 -- Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. I Corinthians 5:7-8 -- Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

518. ^a Matthew 28:19 -- Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Mark 16:16 -- He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

519. ^b I Corinthians 12:13 -- For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Galatians 3:27-28 -- For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

520. ^c Romans 4:11 -- And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Compared with Colossians 2:11-12 -- In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

521. ^d Galatians 3:27 -- For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Romans 6:5 -- For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

522. ^e Titus 3:5 -- He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

523. ^f Acts 2:38 -- Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. Mark 1:4 -- John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. Acts 22:16 -- And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

524. ^g Romans 6:3-4 -- Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

525. ^h Matthew 28:19-20 -- Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

526. ⁱ Acts 10:47 -- Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost? Acts 8:36,38 -- And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. Matthew 28:19 -- Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

527. ^j There is no footnote j.

528. ^k Acts 2:41 -- Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. Acts 16:33 -- And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. Mark 7:4 -- And when they come from the market, except they wash, (Greek, be baptized) they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing (Greek, baptizing) of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. Hebrews 9:10,19-21 -- Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

529. ^l Mark 16:15-16 -- And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Acts 8:37 -- And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

530. ^m Genesis 17:7,9 -- And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. Galatians 3:9,14 -- So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Colossians 2:11-12 -- In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. Romans 4:11-12 -- And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. Acts 2:38-39 -- Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Acts 16:15,33 -- And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. I Corinthians 7:14 -- For 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. Matthew 28:19 -- Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Mark 10:13-16 -- And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. Luke 18:15 -- And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

531. ⁿ Luke 7:30 -- But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. Exodus 4:24-26 -- And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

532. ^o Romans 4:11 -- And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Acts 10:2,4,22,31,45-46 -- A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee. And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.

533. ^p Acts 8:13,23 -- Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done. -- For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

534. ^q John 3:5,8 -- Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. -- The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

535.  No footnotes for this paragraph.

536. ^a I Corinthians 11:23-26 -- For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. I Corinthians 10:16-17,21 -- The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. I Corinthians 12:13 -- For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

537. ^b Hebrews 9:22,25-26,28 -- And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

538. ^c Matthew 26:26-27 -- And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; Luke 22:19-20 -- And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

539. ^d Hebrews 7:23-24,27 -- And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. Hebrews 10:11-12,14,18 -- And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

540. ^e See the institution. Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20; and I Corinthians 11:23-27.

541. ^f Acts 20:7 -- And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, (ready to depart on the morrow,) and continued his speech until midnight. I Corinthians 11:20 -- When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.

542. 543. ^{g, h} Because there is not the least appearance of a warrant for any one of these things, either in precept or example, in any part of the word of God. See all the places in which the ordinance is mentioned--the most important of which are cited above.

544. ⁱ Matthew 15:9 -- But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

545. ^j There is no footnote j.

546. ^k Matthew 26:26-28 -- And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

547. ^l I Corinthians 11:26-27 -- For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

548. ^* The Synod also rejects the doctrine of consubstantiation.

549. ^m Acts 3:21 -- Whom the heaven must receive until the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets, since the world began. I Corinthians 11:24-26 -- This do in remembrance of me. This do ye, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. Luke 24:6,39 -- He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee. Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

550. ⁿ I Corinthians 11:28 -- But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. I Corinthians 5:7-8 -- Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wicknedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

551. ^o I Corinthians 10:3-4,16 -- And did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

552. ^p I Corinthians 11:27,29 -- Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. II Corinthians 6:14-16 -- Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for 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. I Corinthians 10:21 -- Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

553. ^q I Corinthians 5:6-7,13 -- Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. II Thessalonians 3:6,14-15 -- Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. Matthew 7:6 -- Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

554. ^a Isaiah 9:6-7 -- For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. I Timothy 5:17 -- Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine. I Thessalonians 5:12 -- And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you. I Corinthians 12:28 -- And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Psalm 2:6-9 -- Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. John 18:36 -- Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

555. ^b Matthew 16:19 -- And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Matthew 18:17-18 -- And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. John 20:21-23 -- Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. II Corinthians 2:6-8 -- Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

556. By this article, we do not understand that the officers of the church have power to admit souls into the Kingdom of Glory, nor that they can pardon sins; -- such assertions would be absurd and blasphemous. In scripture language, the Kingdom of Heaven sometimes signifies the Kingdom of Glory. It also signifies the Gospel Dispensation; and in the passage from whence the above is derived, it signifies the visible church. All that is meant by the article, is, that the officers of the visible church have the power to admit members into its communion -- to expel the disorderly and to restore those who, in the judgment of charity, have repented of their sins. This power is exercised by the officers of every evangelical church upon earth, and all refer to the passages quoted in the notes attached to this article, for their authority.  This note is found in the editions of 1829ff. but not in that of 1815.

557. ^c I Corinthians 5th chapter. I Timothy 5:20 -- Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. Matthew 7:6 -- Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again andrend you. I Timothy 1:20 -- Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. Jude 23 -- And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. I Corinthians 11:27 -- Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

558. ^d I Thessalonians 5:12 -- And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you. II Thessalonians 3:6,14 -- Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that the may be ashamed. I Corinthians 5:4-5,13 -- In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. Matthew 18:17 -- And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Titus 3:10 -- A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject.

559. ^a Acts 15:2,4,6 -- When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them. And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

560. ^b Acts chapter 15.

561. ^c Acts 15:22-23,25 -- Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul.

562. ^d Acts 16:4 -- And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. Acts 15:15,19,24,27-31 -- And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment: We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. Matthew 18:17-20 -- And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

563. ^e Acts 17:11 -- These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. I Corinthians 2:5 -- That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. II Corinthians 1:24 -- Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. Ephesians 2:20 -- And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the cheif corner stone.

564. ^f Luke 12:13-14 -- And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? John 18:36 -- Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

565. ^a Genesis 3:19 -- 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. Acts 13:36 -- For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption.

566. ^b Luke 23:43 -- And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Ecclesiastes 12:7 -- Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

567. ^c Hebrews 12:23 -- To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. Philippians 1:23 -- For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. I John 3:2 -- Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. II Corinthians 5:1,6,8 -- It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

568. ^d Luke 16:23-24 -- And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. Jude verses 6-7.

569. ^e I Thessalonians 4:17 -- Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. I Corinthians 15:51-52 -- Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

570. ^f Job 19:26-27 -- And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. I Corinthians 15:42-44 -- So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

571. ^g Acts 24:15 -- And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. John 5:28-29 -- Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. Philippians 3:21 -- Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

572. ^a Acts 17:31 -- Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

573. ^b John 5:22,27 -- For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

574. ^c I Corinthians 6:3 -- Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? Jude verse 6 -- And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. II Peter 2:4 -- For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.

575. ^d II Corinthians 5:10 -- For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Ecclesiastes 12:14 -- For God shall bring every word into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Romans 2:16 -- In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. Romans 14:10,12 -- But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Matthew 12:36-37 -- But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

576. ^e Romans 9:23 -- And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Matthew 25:21 -- His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

577. ^f Romans 2:5-6 -- But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds. II Thessalonians 1:7-8 -- And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 9:22 -- For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

578. ^g Matthew 25:31-34 -- When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: Acts 3:19 -- Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. II Thessalonians 1:7 -- And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

579. ^h Matthew 25:41,46 -- Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: And these shall go away into everlasting punishment. II Thessalonians 1:9 -- Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. Isaiah 66:24 -- For their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched.

580. ⁱ II Peter 3:11,14 -- Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. II Corinthians 5:11 -- Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. II Thessalonians 1:5-7 -- Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. Luke 21:27-28 -- And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

581. ^j There is no footnote j.

582. ^k Mark 13:35-37 -- Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. Luke 12:35-36 -- Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Revelation 22:20 -- He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly: Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.