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           Title: A Body of Practical Divinity
      Creator(s): Gill, John (1697-1771)
   CCEL Subjects: All; Christian Life
      LC Call no: BT75.G3
     LC Subjects:

                  Doctrinal theology
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                          A Body of PRACTICAL Divinity

    BY

JOHN GILL, D.D.
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Book 1
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  Chapter 1

  OF THE WORSHIP OF GOD,

    or Practical Religion Of the Object of Worship

   Have, in the former part of this work, proved there is a God, from the
   light of nature and reason, from the works of creation, &c. and now my
   business is to show that this God is to be worshipped; I have treated
   of the nature, perfections, and attributes of God, which are the
   foundation of the worship of him; and now I shall treat of worship
   itself. I have considered the various works of God, the works of
   creation, providence, and grace; and these may be used as so many
   arguments to engage us to divine worship, or as so many reasons why we
   should glorify God with our bodies and spirits, which are his; or, in
   other words, worship him both internally and externally; and I shall
   begin with the object of worship, for which we have a plain direction,
   "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve"
   (Matthew 4:10). Two things are to be observed and considered (1) That
   the Lord God is the object of worship. (2) That he alone is the object
   of worship, to the exclusion of all others.

   1. The object of worship is the Lord God, God essentially and
   personally considered.

   1a. First, God essentially considered, or as considered in his nature
   and essence, which is the foundation of worship. Many are the
   directions and instructions given to "worship God", without specifying
   any of the persons in the Deity particularly to be worshipped; (see
   Rev. 14:7; 19:10; 22:9). The "Lord" is to be worshipped; the Lord, who
   is the one Jehovah, and whose name alone is Jehovah (Deut. 6:4; Ps.
   83:18). The word "Lord" in the New Testament answers to "Jehovah" in
   the Old, a name expressive of the existence or being of God, and of him
   as the fountain of being, and the author of being to all others; who is
   the everlasting "I am, which is, and which was, and which is to come";
   these words of John are a proper deciphering of the word "Jehovah", or
   the "I am that I am" in (Ex. 3:14). Now he whose essence is simple,
   uncompounded, immutable, infinite, eternal, &c. is to be worshipped,
   even the Lord "thy" God, thy Creator, thy Benefactor, thy Supporter,
   and Preserver. Thus the apostle describes the proper object of worship
   unknown to the Athenians, as he who made the world, and all things in
   it; and gives life, and breath, and all things to his creatures; and in
   whom they live, move, and have their being (Acts 17:23, 25, 28). Thus
   Jacob invoked God, which to do is a part of religious worship, who had
   "fed" him "all" his "life long to that day" (Gen. 48:15). David says,
   his prayer, which is a part of worship, should be to the "God of his
   life", who had given him life and upheld him in it (Ps. 42:8), he who
   is the "true God", the "living God", and the "everlasting King", is the
   object of worship; the true God, in distinction from nominal gods, from
   such who are falsely so called; the living God, in distinction from
   idols of gold and silver, the work of men's hands, lifeless statues, in
   whom there is no breath; but the true God, and who is to be worshipped,
   has life in and of himself, originally and underivatively, and is the
   fountain and giver of life to others, and from everlasting to
   everlasting he is God. He is by nature God; there are some who are not
   so, and therefore not to be served and worshipped (Gal. 4:8), but God
   is a spirit, is of a spiritual nature, and to be worshipped in spirit
   and in truth; his nature is most perfect, has all perfections in it,
   though there is no finding him out unto perfection; his nature is
   infinite and incomprehensible, beyond all conception and thought,
   beyond all words and expressions, exalted above all blessing and
   praise. The name of God, the very first name by which he is called in
   scripture, "Elohim" (Gen. 1:1), implies worship, and that he is to be
   worshipped who created the heavens and the earth, for it comes from a
   word (See the Body of Doctrinal Divinity, Book 1, Chapter 3) which
   signifies to worship. And to this the apostle seems to allude when he
   says that antichrist exalts himself "above that is called God", or
   "that is worshipped", intimating that the name of God signifies
   sebasma, the object of worship (2 Thess. 2:4).

   1b. Secondly, God personally considered, or God considered in the three
   persons, is the object of worship. "The Father, the Word, and the Holy
   Ghost, and these three are one", are one God, and so equally the object
   of divine worship.

   1b1. First, The Father, of whom Christ expressly says, that men shall
   "worship the Father" (John 4:21, 23), and of the propriety of this
   there can be no doubt, since his Deity is not denied by any, and was
   it, they would easily be confronted; he is expressly called "God the
   Father" (Phil. 2:11), and sometimes "God even the Father" (1 Cor.
   15:24; 2 Cor. 1:3), all the perfections of Deity are attributed to him,
   as immutability, eternity, &c. and the works of creation, providence,
   and grace; and he has undoubtedly a proper claim of worship from his
   creatures, and accordingly worship is given to him, and acts of it are
   exercised on him. Baptism, which is a solemn act of religious worship
   under the New Testament dispensation, is administered in his name; and
   his name stands first in the form of it, baptizing in the name of the
   Father", &c. which signifies not only its being done by his authority
   and command, but the persons, by submission to it, devote themselves to
   him, profess to be his, and lay themselves hereby under an obligation
   to serve him; and because to do this in the name of a creature would be
   idolatry and irreligion, the apostle Paul was thankful that he had
   baptized no more of the Corinthians than he had, when he found they
   were for setting him up as the head of a party among them, lest they
   should think they were baptized in his name. Prayer is another part of
   divine and religious worship, which is made to the Father, and indeed
   is generally made to him; the access and address are most frequently to
   him, not but that they may be equally made to the other two persons, as
   will be presently seen; but the reason why they are usually to him is
   because he bears no office, whereas the others do, and an office which
   is concerned in the business of prayer. Christ is the mediator through
   whom the access is, and in whose name the petition is put up; and the
   Spirit is the spirit of supplication, by whose aid and assistance
   prayer is made: the whole of this may be observed in one passage; for
   "through him", through Christ the mediator, "we both", Jews and
   Gentiles, "have an access" at the throne of grace "by one spirit", who
   helps and assists us in our supplications "unto the Father", the Father
   of Christ and of us (Eph. 2:18), see an instance of a large prayer of
   the apostles to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ in (Eph. 3:14-21),
   and it is easy to observe, that at the beginning of many of the
   epistles such a prayer or wish is made, as "Grace be to you, and peace
   from God our Father", as distinguished from the Lord Jesus Christ;
   which is a petition for grace, an increase of grace, and all necessary
   supplies of it, and for all spiritual prosperity and happiness.
   Thanksgiving, another act of religious worship, which is sometimes
   included in prayer, and sometimes performed as a distinct part of
   worship, is made to the Father. "Giving thanks always for all things"
   for all temporal and spiritual blessings, "unto God and the Father",
   the Father of Christ and of us in him, "in the name of our Lord Jesus
   Christ" (Eph. 5:20). Acts of faith, hope, and love, which are acts of
   worship, are exercised on him; "ye believe in God", that is, in God the
   Father (John 14:1), who raised Christ from the dead; that "the faith
   and hope" of saints "might be in God" the Father, who raised him from
   thence (1 Pet. 1:21), and where those graces are love is, and is
   exercised on the same object; and as the Father was the object of
   Christ's love as man and mediator, so he is the object of the love of
   those that believe in him (John 14:31).

   1b2. Secondly, the Word, or Son of God, is also the object of worship;
   "he is thy Lord, and worship thou him" (Ps. 45:11), yea, he is to be
   worshipped with the same sort of worship, and to be honored with the
   same degree of honour the Father is (John 5:23), for he is the Lord,
   the Jehovah, thy God, as Thomas said, "My Lord, and my God"; the mighty
   God, the great God, God over the true God and eternal life; who has the
   same perfections his Father has; and the same works his Father does are
   done by him (Col. 2:9; John 5:19), and therefore to be worshipped with
   the same worship, and so he is. Baptism is administered in his name
   equally as in the Father's "baptizing them in the name of the Father,
   and of the Son", &c. and sometimes his name only is mentioned (Acts
   10:48; 19:5). Prayer, which is an act of worship, is made to him; it is
   said, "prayer shall be made for him continually"; it may as well be
   rendered, as some think, "prayer shall be made to him continually" (Ps.
   72:15). Invocation of his name, which is a part of religious worship,
   is spoken of him; his disciples and followers are sometimes described
   by those that "called upon his name" (Acts 9:14; 1 Cor. 1:2) and it may
   be observed, that in the beginning of many epistles before referred to,
   the same prayer or wish for grace and peace to the saints, is made to
   Christ as to God the Father; Stephen, the proto-martyr, when expiring,
   called upon God, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" (Acts 7:59),
   to which may be added the doxologies or ascriptions of glory, which are
   high acts of worship, are sometimes made to Christ separately (2 Pet.
   3:18; Jude 1:25; Rev. 1:5, 6). Also the acts of faith, hope, and love,
   are exercised on him as on God the Father; "Ye believe in God" the
   Father, says Christ, "believe also in me" (John 14:1). Trust and
   confidence are not to be put in a creature, for "cursed be the man that
   trusteth in man" (Jer. 17:5). Christ is the object of the hope and love
   of his people, and as such is often represented (1 Tim. 1:1; 1 Pet.
   1:8), in whom they hope for happiness, and who have an affectionate
   devotion for him. And it is easy to give instances of adoration which
   have been made unto him; thus he was worshipped by Jacob, when he
   invoked him to bless the sons of Joseph, saying, "The angel which
   redeemed me from all evil bless the lads" (Gen. 48:16). By the angel
   cannot be meant God the Father, for he is never called an angel; nor
   any created angel, whom Jacob would never have invoked; but the
   uncreated angel, Christ, the Angel of the covenant, his Redeemer from
   all evil. He was also worshipped by Joshua, who appeared to him, and
   made himself known to him as "the captain of the host of the Lord, who
   is the leader and commander of the people, the captain of our
   salvation"; upon which notice, "Joshua fell on his face to the earth,
   and did worship", for which he was not reproved, nay, encouraged, yea
   was further ordered to "loose his shoe from off his foot", for it is
   said "the place whereon thou standest is holy, and Joshua did so";
   which was never ordered to be done, but where God himself was, whose
   presence gave a relative holiness to the place where he appeared
   (Joshua 5:13-15). Christ was also worshipped by the wise men who came
   from the east to seek him and see him; and so by others in the days of
   his flesh, and by his disciples when he parted from them and went up to
   heaven; yea he has been worshipped not only by men but by angels, and
   that by a divine order, "Let all the angels of God worship him" (Heb.
   1:6). The first begotten; the same with the only begotten Son of God,
   who is God; or otherwise it would be a piece of idolatry to worship
   him; and we have an instance of many angels with others paying their
   adoration to him (Rev. 5:12, 13).

   1b3. Thirdly, the Holy Spirit is also the object of worship equally
   with the Father and the Son. He is with them the one God. He is
   possessed of all divine perfections, such as eternity, omniscience,
   omnipresence, &c. he was concerned in creation, and is in the
   government of the world, and in the operations of grace (Ps. 33:6; Isa.
   40:13, 14; 1 Cor. 12:4-11), and so worthy of worship, and it is given
   unto him. Baptism is administered in his name, equally as in the name
   of the Father and of the Son (Matthew 28:19). Prayer is made unto him;
   not only is he the Spirit of grace and of supplication, and who helps
   the saints under their infirmities in prayer, but he is prayed unto;
   "the Lord", that is, the Lord the Spirit, "direct your hearts", &c.
   where all the three persons are mentioned as distinct (2 Thess. 3:5),
   so grace and peace, as they are wished and prayed for from God and
   Christ, so "from the Seven Spirits which are before the throne"; by
   which are meant the one Spirit of God so called, because of the fulness
   of divine perfections in him, and because of the perfection of his
   gifts and graces (Rev. 1:4, 5). Moreover his graces wrought in the
   saints, as they come from him, they are exercised on him, as faith,
   trust, and an holy confidence in him, that he who has begun the good
   work in them will finish it; and there is also the love of the Spirit,
   a cordial love of him, and a carefulness not to grieve him by whom they
   are sealed unto the day of redemption.

   2. God only is the object of worship, to the exclusion of all others.

   2a. First, all idols of whatsoever kind are excluded, not only images
   of things in heaven or in earth, or in the sea, and the idols of gold
   and silver, the work of men's hands, forbidden by the second command;
   but also the idols set up in a man's heart, to which such respect is
   paid as is due to God only; of such may be read in Ezekiel 14:4 and
   which God promises to cleanse his people from by his Spirit and grace
   (Ezek. 36:25), and which when converted they declare they will have no
   more to do with, in the manner they have, who before conversion served
   divers lusts and pleasures (Hosea 14:8; Titus 3:3), and these perhaps
   are the idols the apostle John warns the children of God to keep
   themselves from (1 John 5:21). The idol the worldling is enamoured
   with, and in which he places his trust and confidence, is gold and
   silver; hence covetousness is called idolatry, and such a man is said
   to be an idolater (Eph. 5:5; Col. 3:5), nor can the true God and this
   idol mammon be served and worshipped by the same (Matthew 6:24). The
   epicure, or voluptuous person, his god is his belly, which he serves,
   and in which he places all his happiness, and cannot be said to serve
   the Lord and worship him (Phil. 3:19; Rom. 16:18). The self-righteous
   man makes an idol of his righteousness, he sets it up and endeavors to
   make it stand, and to establish it, and then falls down to it and
   worships it, putting his trust and confidence in it (Luke 18:9).

   2b. Secondly, every creature in the heavens, or on the earth, are
   excluded from divine worship. As the sun, moon, and stars; these seem
   to be the first objects of worship among the idolatrous heathens; and
   indeed when men departed from the true God what could they think of to
   place in his room but those glorious creatures so visible to them, from
   whom they received light and heat, and many blessings? hence the
   Israelites were cautioned against lifting up their eyes unto them, and
   gazing on them, lest they should be ensnared into the worship of them
   (Deut. 4:19. The next objects of idolatrous worship were men, heroes
   and mighty kings, famous for their exploits; these are the gods many
   and the lords many, the Baalim often spoken of in scripture, as
   Baalpeor, Baalberith, &c. Neither good nor bad men are to be
   worshipped; when an attempt was made to sacrifice to the apostles, they
   rejected it with the greatest vehemence and abhorrence (Acts 14:1-28),
   and it is the height of iniquity and blasphemy in antichrist to suffer
   himself to be worshipped, yea, to command it; and a damnable sin in his
   followers to do it (Rev. 13:4, 8, 15; 14:9-11). Yea, angels are
   excluded from divine worship; this sort of idolatry was introduced in
   the times of the apostles, but condemned (Col. 2:18), and rejected by
   angels themselves (Rev. 19:10; 22:9). And much less are devils to be
   worshipped; and yet the worship of such has obtained among the blind
   and ignorant heathens, as in the East and West Indies; and even the
   sacrifices of the Jews to new gods their fathers knew not, and the
   sacrifices of the heathens are said to be offered to devils, and not to
   God; yea the worship of saints departed by the Papists, as the doctrine
   of it is called the doctrine of devils, so the practice is represented
   as if it was no other than worshipping of devils; it being contrary to
   the worship of the true God, who only is to be worshipped (Deut. 32:17;
   1 Cor. 10:20; 1 Tim. 4:1; Rev. 9:20).
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  Chapter 2

  OF INTERNAL WORSHIP; AND OF GODLINESS THE GROUNDWORK OF IT.

   Having considered the object of worship, worship itself is next to be
   treated of; and which is either internal or external: internal worship
   requires our first attention, it being of the greatest moment and
   importance; external worship profits little in comparison of that; if
   the heart is not engaged in worship, bodily exercise is of little
   advantage, that being only the form without the power of godliness; yea
   vain is such worship where the heart is far removed from God. God is a
   spirit, and must be worshipped with our spirits, the better and more
   noble part of man; if we serve his law, it should be with our mind, the
   inward man delighting in it; obedience to it should flow from a
   principle of love to God in the heart, and with a view to his glory;
   and if we serve him in the gospel of his Son, it should be with our
   spirits, with a fervent affection for it; if we pray to him it should
   be with the spirit and the understanding also; if we sing his praise,
   it should be with melody in our hearts to the Lord; herein lies
   powerful godliness; and godliness is the ground work of internal
   worship, and without which there can be no worshipping God aright, [1]
   and therefore it deserves our first consideration. Godliness is
   sometimes used for evangelic doctrine, the doctrine that is according
   to godliness, and productive of it; the whole mystery of godliness,
   respecting the person, office, and grace of Christ, and salvation by
   him, which the apostle exhorts Timothy to exercise himself in, in
   opposition to fables, and vain and trifling things, of no moment (1 Tim
   4:7). Sometimes it signifies a holy life and conversation, under the
   influence and power of the grace of God, as in (2 Pet. 3:11). "What
   manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and
   godliness?" Sometimes it intends some particular duty of religion, or
   rather some particular grace, "Add--to patience, godliness, to
   godliness, brotherly love", that is, exercise these (2 Pet. 1:5-7). But
   in the subject I am upon I consider it as an assemblage of graces, as
   containing the whole of grace in the heart, the exercise of which is
   necessary to serve and worship God with reverence and godly fear (Heb.
   12:28), and without this there can be no internal worship of God. This
   is no other than the inward devotion of the mind, a fervency of spirit
   in serving the Lord; it is a holy disposition of the soul towards God.
   This is theosebeia, the true worship of God (1 Tim. 2:10), the ground
   and foundation of it, without which there can be none. This is "life
   and godliness", or vital powerful godliness (2 Pet. 1:3), and "the
   things pertaining" to it are faith, hope, love, and every other grace,
   of which it consists, and in the exercise of which it lies, and in this
   is all internal religion and worship..

   1. First, such a gracious disposition Godward is not to be found in
   unregenerate men, only in such who are truly partakers of the grace of
   God. It is godliness which distinguishes between one who truly serves
   and worships God, and one that serves and worships him not. The one as
   he is denominated from it a godly man, so likewise theosebe, a true
   worshipper of God (John 9:31), the other, as from the want of it, he is
   called an ungodly man, so asebes, one that is without the worship of
   God (1 Pet. 4:18).

   1a. First, such a gracious disposition of the mind towards God, which
   is requisite to the service and worship of him, is not to be found in
   unregenerate men; their character is this, that they are "after the
   flesh", or are carnal men; and only "mind the things of the flesh",
   carnal things, fleshly lusts, &c. (Rom. 8:5), there is no disposition
   in their minds towards God and his worship; they savour not the things
   of God, but the things which be of men; and therefore having no inward
   disposition Godward, they are truly reckoned ungodly men, and destitute
   of the worship of him.

   1b. Secondly, such a gracious disposition towards God and his service,
   which is rightly called "godliness", is only to be found in such who
   are partakers of the grace of God in truth; for,

   1b1. Their character is, that they are "after the Spirit", or are
   spiritual men; they are born of the Spirit and his grace, and so are
   spirit or spiritual, in whom the Spirit of God dwells, and in whom
   grace is the governing principle; though they are not without flesh,
   and have much carnality in them, yet being renewed in their minds,
   their conversations are spiritual; they walk after and live in the
   Spirit. Hence,

   1b2. They mind "the things of the Spirit", they love spiritual
   doctrines, desire spiritual gifts, especially an increase of spiritual
   grace, and a clearer view of interest in all spiritual blessings; they
   savour the things of God, and of the Spirit of God; they have a gust
   for them, a relish of them, they are sweet unto them, their taste being
   changed. Wherefore,

   1b3. The disposition of their souls is Godward, and to his service;
   they have an understanding of him, and desire to know more of him, and
   follow on to know him the use of means; their thoughts are employed
   about him, they think on his name, his nature, and perfections, and
   lovingkindness, as displayed in Christ; their affections are set upon
   him, and they love him cordially and sincerely; their desires are after
   him, and to the remembrance of his name; they pant after more communion
   with him, and the manifestations of his love unto them; they have their
   spiritual senses exercised upon him; they see him with the eyes of
   their understandings opened, his beauty, his power, and his glory, in
   the sanctuary; they hear his gospel with pleasure, it is a joyful sound
   unto them, and they can distinguish his voice from that of a stranger;
   they taste that the Lord is gracious; his word and the doctrines of it,
   his fruit and the blessings of his grace are sweet to their taste,
   these are savory things which their souls love; they handle Christ the
   word of life, and feel the power of his gospel on them; that
   effectually working in them through the demonstration of the spirit.
   Now,

   1b4. These are truly godly persons, eusebeis (2 Pet. 2:9), persons well
   disposed to the worship of God, and who rightly perform it; these have
   their minds powerfully impressed with the doctrine that is according to
   godliness, under the influence of which they live soberly, righteously,
   and godly; these have all things given them pertaining to life and
   godliness, every grace, and every needful supply and increase of it; in
   the exercise of which lies internal worship, or inward, spiritual,
   experimental, and practical religion; which is called eusebeia, or
   "godliness", and stands opposed to bodily exercise, or external worship
   (1 Tim. 4:8).

   2. Secondly, godliness not in name and profession only, but godliness
   in the life and power of it, an inward fervent devotion of the mind, a
   gracious disposition of the heart towards God, as hits been explained,
   is the ground work of true religion; and without this there can be no
   internal worship, nor indeed any external worship rightly performed;
   for,

   2a. Without the knowledge of God there can be no true worship of him;
   the Samaritans worshipped they knew not what, and so their worship [2]
   was not right. Whom the Athenians ignorantly worshipped, him the
   apostle declared unto them; nor is a natural knowledge of God by the
   creatures sufficient to teach men the worship of God and engage them in
   it; the wise philosophers, who, by the light of nature, by the works of
   creation, knew there was a God, yet they glorified him not as God. True
   spiritual, experimental, and evangelical knowledge of God, is the
   knowledge of God in Christ; and as our worship of him is in and by
   Christ, there can be no true worship of him without such knowledge of
   him, even of him as our covenant God in Christ; and as this will direct
   us to the right object of worship, and the true manner of worship, so
   it will influence and engage unto it; "Whose I am, and whom I serve"
   (Acts 27:23).

   2b. Without faith in God, which is another branch of powerful
   godliness, there can be no true worship of God; for whatsoever is not
   of faith is sin; and without it, it is impossible to please God m any
   part of worship and service; all worship performed to God under the Old
   Testament dispensation which was agreeable to him, was by faith, as the
   instances of Abel and Jacob, of Moses and the children of Israel show
   (Heb. 11:4, 5, 21, 28). And under the gospel dispensation, whenever we
   draw nigh to God in any part of worship, it must be in faith; whoever
   comes to God, and is a worshipper of him, must believe that he is, and
   that he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him; and if we come
   to the throne of grace and there ask anything of God, it must be asked
   in faith; and if we attend upon him in the ministry of the word, it
   must be in the exercise of faith, for the word only profits as it is
   mixed with faith by them that hear it (Heb. 10:22; 4:12), now faith is
   one of the things pertaining to life and godliness, and is a part of
   it; and therefore without godliness, or a gracious disposition of the
   soul towards God, there can be no true worship of him.

   2c. Without the fear of God, another branch of vital godliness, there
   can be no worship of him. The fear of God is sometimes put for tile
   whole of worship, both internal and external, "God is greatly to be
   feared in the assembly of his saints", where his solemn worship is
   performed, "and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him";
   and fear and reverence are so necessary to the service and worship of
   God, that the Psalmist exhorts men to "serve the Lord with fear, and
   rejoice with trembling"; and as for himself, he says, "in thy fear will
   I worship toward thy holy temple"; (see Ps 89:7; 2:11; 5:7), where
   there is no fear of God before the eyes and upon the hearts of men,
   there is no worship of him; grace in the heart, and that in exercise,
   or inward powerful godliness, which is the same thing, is absolutely
   necessary to worship God in an acceptable manner (Heb. 12:28).

   2d. Spiritual internal worship cannot be performed without love to God,
   another branch of real godliness. Charity, or love, is the internal
   principle from whence obedience to God, and the worship of him, should
   spring; hence love to God with all the heart and soul, as well as fear,
   is premised unto it (Deut. 10:12), for such affectionate, cordial, and
   hearty service is only acceptable to him, and can never be where the
   heart is destitute of godliness.

   2e. And as they are spiritual worshippers that God seeks, and spiritual
   worship that is only acceptable to him, it being suitable to his nature
   who is a spirit; none but a spiritual man can perform it, or that is
   possessed of true grace, or vital godliness; they that are in the
   flesh, in a state of nature, carnal men, who have no disposition
   Godward, cannot please God, or do that which is acceptable in his sight
   (Rom. 8:8).

   2f. Nor can a man worship God sincerely, if he has only the form and
   not the power of godliness; if he only draws nigh to God with his
   mouth, and honours him with his lips, and his heart is removed far from
   him, and his fear towards him taught by the precept of men, his worship
   will be in vain and unacceptable to him (Isa. 29:13), from all which it
   appears how necessary godliness is to the worship of God, and that it
   may well be reckoned the groundwork and foundation of it.

   Now this gracious disposition of the mind Godward, which may therefore
   be truly called godliness, and which is so necessary to the worship of
   God, that it cannot be performed without it, is not of a man's self, it
   is not naturally in man; yea, as has been seen, the bias and
   disposition of the minds of men are naturally the reverse; wherefore
   this disposition must be owing to the grace of God, and must be a gift
   of his; it is he that gives godliness itself, and all things
   appertaining to it; and indeed as it is an assemblage of all the graces
   of the Spirit, and every grace is a gift, that must be such. Knowledge
   of God is a gift of his; faith is not of ourselves, it is the gift of
   God. Hope that is good, is a good hope through grace; love cannot be
   purchased at any rate; the fear of God is what is implanted in the
   heart by the grace of God, and so all others; and even all supplies of
   grace to maintain, encourage, increase, and support such a disposition,
   are freely given of God; and all grace, as it comes from God, it points
   to God again, and disposes the heart Godward.

   3. Thirdly, great is the profit, arid many the advantages, that accrue
   from godliness to the possessors of it.

   3a. First, that itself is said to be gain to the persons that have it;
   "Godliness with contentment is great gain" (1 Tim. 6:6), there were
   some indeed who "supposed that gain is godliness" (1 Tim.6:5), either
   who thought that godliness was to be gained with money, as Simon Magus
   thought the gifts of the Holy Ghost were; but as not they, so neither
   the graces of the Spirit are to be obtained in such a way: or they were
   such who took up a profession of godliness, and made an outward show of
   it, for the sake of present or future gain; to gain a name in a church
   of Christ, to get a reputation among godly neighbours and acquaintance,
   and for the sake of worldly interest in godly wealthy relations, or to
   obtain the favour of God now, and heaven hereafter; but after all, what
   will be the hope and gain of such a person when "God takes away his
   soul?" (Job 27:8), or they are such who think, or at least act as if
   they thought, that all religion lay in gain, in getting money; since
   their serving God and Christ, and all they do in a religious way, is
   for filthy lucre's sake, every one looking for his gain from his
   quarter. But real godliness is itself true gain; it may be said of it
   as it is of wisdom, "the merchandise of it is better than the
   merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof, than fine gold" (Prov.
   3:14). Such who, while in a state of ungodliness, were "wretched, and
   miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked", being possessed of
   godliness, come into good circumstances; who before were in debt, owed
   ten thousand talents, and had nothing to pay, and were liable to a
   prison, all their debts are freely forgiven them, and the whole score
   of them cleared; who before were in rags, and had nothing to cover
   their naked souls before God, are now clothed with change of raiment,
   with a robe of righteousness and garments of salvation; who before were
   starving, and would have been glad of husks which swine do eat, are now
   fed with the finest of the wheat, with angels' food, at Christ's table,
   as with marrow and fatness; these are come into very affluent
   circumstances, to great riches, durable and unsearchable; and to great
   honour also, being raised as beggars from the dunghill, to sit among
   princes, and to inherit the throne of glory; yea are made kings and
   priests unto God, have a kingdom of grace now, and are heirs of the
   kingdom of glory; they who lived without God in the world, and were
   aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, are now in a good family,
   fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God; and being
   children of God are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, possessed
   of the riches of grace, and entitled to the riches of glory; their gain
   is great indeed, and sufficient to give them full contentment.

   3b. Secondly, godliness is said to be "profitable unto all things" (1
   Tim. 4:8), whereas bodily exercise, or a presentation of the body only
   in an attendance of public worship, "profiteth little", or "for a
   little time;" [3] for sometimes such sort of religion and worship lasts
   but for a little while, as in temporary believers, and in the stony
   ground hearers, and where it continues, it profits not in matters of
   the greatest importance; it may be profitable to others, by way of
   example, as to children and servants in a man's family, and to a
   community with whom he attends for the secular support of it; and it
   may be profitable to himself, to keep him from being elsewhere, in bad
   company, which might lead into many snares and temptations, and hurtful
   lusts; but is of no profit to obtain eternal life, since a man may
   constantly hear the word, and attend on and submit unto all ordinances,
   and yet Christ may say to him at the last day, "Depart from me, I know
   you not"; for there may be such bodily exercise or external worship,
   where there is no true grace nor vital religion: but "godliness",
   powerful vital godliness, internal religion, is "profitable unto all
   things"; it is even profitable to the health of a man's body, for the
   fear of the Lord, which is the same thing, is "health to the navel",
   and "marrow to the bones"; whereas by an ungodly course of life men
   bring upon themselves diseases painful and incurable; but more
   especially godliness is profitable to promote the welfare of the soul;
   for by means of that, and in the exercise of it, the soul of a good
   man, as of Gaius, prospers and is in good health; he finds it always
   good for him to draw nigh unto God, where he has much communion with
   him, and receives much from him: and such a man is profitable to
   others, for godly men are made a blessing to all about them, they are
   the light of the world, and the salt of the earth; though indeed no man
   can be profitable to God by all his external and internal religion, as
   he that is wise and good may be profitable to himself and others; for
   when he has done all he can, or by the grace of God is assisted to do,
   he is but an unprofitable servant.

   3c. Thirdly, godliness has "the promise of the life that now is, and of
   that which is to come" (1 Tim. 4:8).

   3c1. Of the present life, both temporal and spiritual. A godly man has
   the promise of temporal life, of the blessings of it, of good things in
   it, yea that he shall want no good thing that is needful for him; and
   of a continuance of this life, when an ungodly man does not live out
   half his days; God satisfies the godly man with long life, and shows
   him his salvation (Ps. 34:9, 10; 37:3; 84:11; 91:16), and of the
   present spiritual life, of all things pertaining to it, of all needful
   supplies of grace to maintain and support it, and of the continuance of
   it, and of its springing up into and issuing in everlasting life.

   3c2. Of the future life of happiness and glory. It is most certain that
   there is a future life, and that there is a promise of eternal life in
   it, made by God who cannot lie; this promise is made to the godly man
   (Jam. 1:12), not to be enjoyed by him through any merit of his, for
   that is the gift of God through Christ; and a promise being made of it,
   and its being by promise, show that it is not of the works of men but
   of the grace of God; and when godliness is said to have the promise of
   it, it is a promise God has made to his own grace, and not to the
   merits of men. However, it is a plain case, that real godliness is of
   great avail to men, both with respect to time and eternity.

   Now as inward powerful godliness is, as has been seen, a disposition of
   the soul Godward, from whom all grace comes and to whom it tends, and
   as it is an assemblage of every grace, [4] in the exercise of which all
   internal worship and experimental religion lies, I therefore begin with
   it, and shall in the following chapters consider the branches of it in
   which it opens; as the knowledge of God, repentance towards God, fear
   of him, faith and trust in him, the hope of things from him, love to
   him, joy in him, humility, self-denial, patience, submission, and
   resignation to the will of God, thankfulness for every mercy, with
   every other grace necessary to the worship of God, and which belongs to
   experimental religion and godliness.
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   [1] osiostes kai eusebeia (therapeia) theon, Platonis Euthyphro, p. 9.

   [2] eusebes de o ten theian epistemen echon, Hierocles in Carmin,
   Pythag. p. 26. einai te ten eusebeian epistemen theon therapeias,
   Laert. l. 7. in Vita Zenonis.

   [3] pros to olinon.

   [4] eusebeia, frequently used in scripture, and rendered godliness, is
   in heathen writers said to be egemon arche kai meter, "the leader, the
   beginning and mother of all virtues"; kai sperma ton agathon apanton
   emin, "and the seed of all good things in us", Hierocles in Carmin.
   Pythagor. p. 10. 69. 126.
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  Chapter 3

    OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

   Since the knowledge of God and of divine things is a part and branch of
   true godliness, or of experimental religion, and a very essential one
   too, it is first to be considered; for without it there can be no good
   disposition in the mind towards God; for "ignoti nulla cupido", there
   are no affections for nor desires after an unknown object. And as we
   have seen there can be no true worship of God where there is no
   knowledge of God, as the cases of the Samaritans among the Jews, the
   Athenians among the Gentiles, and their wise philosophers show; there
   can be no cordial obedience to him by those who are ignorant of him;
   the language of such persons will be like that of Pharaoh (Ex. 5:2). It
   is a false maxim of the Papists, that "ignorance is the mother of
   devotion;'' it is so far from being true, that it is the parent of
   irreligion, will worship, superstition, and idolatry. Godliness, as has
   been observed, is an assemblage of the graces of the Spirit of God in
   the hearts of his people, in the exercise of which experimental
   religion or internal worship lies; now there can be no grace without
   knowledge, no faith without it; the object must be known, or it cannot
   be rightly believed in. The blind man's answer to Christ's question is
   a wise one (John 9:35, 36). The Gentiles, who are described as such who
   "know not God", are also said to be "without hope", without hope and
   without God in the world; without hope in God and of good things from
   him now, and without hope of the resurrection of the dead, a future
   state, and enjoyment of happiness in it (1 Thess. 4:5, 13), an unknown
   object cannot be the object of love; an unseen person may, "Whom having
   not seen, we love"; but an unknown person cannot be truly and cordially
   loved; God must be known, or he cannot be loved with all the heart and
   with all the soul. The wise man says (Prov. 19:2). "That the soul be
   without knowledge is not good", or rather it may be rendered, "without
   knowledge the soul is disposed to that which is not good; [5] it cannot
   be well disposed towards God, nor be fit for any good work, or for the
   right performance of any religious exercise, but is disposed to that
   which is evil; where ignorance reigns no good thing dwells. Now,

   1. First, let it be observed, that while men are in a natural,
   unregenerate, and unrenewed state, they are destitute of divine
   knowledge; the time before conversion is a time of ignorance; this was
   not only the case of the Gentile world in general, before the gospel
   came unto them, but is of every particular person, Jew or Gentile (Acts
   17:30; 1 Pet. 1:14), all the sons and daughters of Adam are in the same
   circumstances, for the illustration of which it may be noted,

   1a. First, that Adam was created a very knowing creature, being made
   after the image and in the likeness of God, which greatly lay in his
   understanding and knowledge of things; and while he continued in a
   state of innocence his knowledge was very great; it is not easy to say
   not to conceive how great it was; as he knew much of things natural and
   civil, so of things moral and divine; as he knew much of the creatures
   and their nature, so as to give suitable names to them, he knew much of
   God, of his nature, perfections, and persons, and of his mind and will,
   and of all necessary truths and duties of religion; for what by the
   light of nature and the works of it, and by the exercise of his own
   rational powers, which were in their full force and vigor, and by that
   nearness to God and communion with him he had, and by those revelations
   which were made to him by God, his knowledge must be very great. But,

   1b. Secondly, our first parents not being content with the knowledge
   they had, but listening to the temptation of Satan, who suggested to
   them that if they eat of the forbidden fruit they should be wise and
   knowing as God, they sinned and fell in with it, and fell by it, and so
   lost in a great measure that knowledge they had; for "man being in
   honour", as he was while in state of innocence, and "understandeth
   not", so he became by sinning, "is like the beasts that perish"; not
   only like to them, being through sin become mortal as they are, but
   because of want of understanding; yet "vain man would be wise", would
   be thought to be a wise and a very knowing creature, "though man be
   born like a wild ass's colt", which of all animals is the most dull and
   stupid; (see Ps. 49:12, 20; Job 11:12).

   1c. Thirdly, Adam being driven from the presence of God, and deprived
   of communion with him because of sin, by which his nature was
   corrupted, darkness seized his understanding and overspread it, and
   greatly dispelled that light which before shone so brightly in him; and
   this is the case of all his posterity (Eph. 4:18). The darkness of sin
   has blinded the eyes of their understanding, that they cannot see and
   understand divine things; it has left an ignorance of God in them, to
   which are owing their want of a disposition to God, an alienation from
   him, and an aversion to a life agreeable to him; and this is the state
   and case of all men, even of God's elect before conversion, who are not
   only dark but "darkness" itself, till they are made light in the Lord;
   and when the true light of grace shines, the darkness passes away (Eph.
   5:8; 1 John 2:8).

   1d. Fourthly, this darkness and ignorance are increased by a course of
   sinning. Naturally man "is in darkness", he is born in darkness and
   continues in it, "and walketh in darkness"; and by an habit and custom
   in sinning increases the darkness of his mind; for notwithstanding the
   fall there are some remains of the light of nature in man; some general
   notions of good and evil, according to which the natural conscience
   accuses or excuses; but sometimes through a course of sin conscience is
   cauterized, seared as with a red hot iron, so that it is become past
   feeling, and insensible to the distinction of good and evil (Isa.
   5:20).

   1e. Fifthly, there is in many an affected ignorance, which is very
   criminal; they are "willingly ignorant", as the apostle says of the
   scoffers who shall arise in the last time, or rather they are unwilling
   to understand what they might, "they know not, nor will they
   understand, they walk on in darkness"; they do not choose to make use
   of but shun the means of knowledge, and shut their eyes against all
   light and conviction; they do not care to come to the light, and love
   darkness rather than light; they do not desire to know God and his
   ways, but rather that he would depart from them; with such as these
   wisdom expostulates, saying, "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love
   simplicity?--and fools hate knowledge?" (Prov. 1:21; 2 Pet. 3:5; Ps.
   82:5; John 3:19; Job 21:14).

   1f. Sixthly, Some, because of their sinful lusts they indulge
   themselves in, and their contempt of the means of light and knowledge,
   and the stubborn choice they make of error and falsehood, are given up
   to judicial blindness and hardness of heart; as many among the
   heathens, who because they liked not to retain God in their knowledge,
   were given up to a reprobate mind, or to a mind void of judgment, and
   so imbibed notions and performed actions not convenient (Rom. 1:28),
   and the Jews, who rejected Jesus the Messiah against all light and
   evidence, had a spirit of slumber given them, eyes that they should not
   see, and ears that they should not hear, nor understand with their
   hearts (John 12:40; Rom. 11:8), and the followers of Antichrist, who
   received not the love of the truth, had a strong delusion sent them to
   believe a lie (2 Thess. 2:10,11), others have been left under the power
   of Satan, the same with the power of darkness, who is the god of this
   world, and who is suffered to blind the eyes of them who believe not,
   lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine unto them
   (2 Cor. 4:4).

   Now while men are in an unrenewed state, and in such a state of
   darkness and blindness, they are ignorant,

   1f1. Of God, of his nature and perfections; for though they may by the
   light of nature, and from the works of creation, know that there is a
   God, and some of his perfections, as his wisdom, power, and goodness,
   which manifestly appear in them; yet not so as to glorify him as God,
   nor so as to preserve them from the worship of other gods besides him:
   indeed their knowledge of him is so dim and obscure, that after all
   they are said by their wisdom not to know God, the true God, this was
   the case of the Gentiles; and as for the Jews who had a revelation, yet
   they were "ignorant of the righteousness of God", which was the ground
   of their capital mistake in going about to establish their own
   righteousness and reject the righteousness of Christ. And carnal men
   are very apt to think that God is such an one as themselves, and they
   measure him by themselves, and fancy that what is agreeable to the
   reasonings of their minds is approved of by him; or that he takes no
   notice of men and their actions, but leaves them to act as they please;
   that "the Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not" (Ezek.
   9:9), and thus they live without God, or as atheists in the world; or
   they think that God is a God of mercy, and will have mercy on them at
   last, but never think of his justice and holiness.

   1f2. They are ignorant of Christ, of his person and offices, and of the
   way of life and salvation by him; as they know neither the Father nor
   the Son, nor the distinction between them, so not the concern that each
   have in the salvation of men. "The way of peace they know not", how God
   was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, forming the plan and
   scheme of reconciliation, and how Christ has made peace by the blood of
   his cross.

   1f3. They are ignorant of the Spirit of God; "The world seeth him not,
   neither knoweth him" (John 14:17), neither his person nor his office,
   as a sanctifier and comforter; not the operations of his grace on the
   souls of men; Nicodemus, a master in Israel, could not conceive how it
   should be that a man should be born again of water and of the Spirit
   (John 3:8, 9). Nor can a natural man either receive or know the things
   of the Spirit of God, because they are spiritually discerned, and he
   has not a spiritual visive faculty to discern them (1 Cor. 2:14).

   1f4. They are ignorant of themselves, and of their state and condition
   by nature; they think themselves rich and increased with goods, when
   they are wretched, miserable, poor, and blind, and naked; they fancy
   themselves whole, sound and healthful, and need not a physician for
   their souls, when they are sadly diseased and distempered with sin;
   they reckon themselves alive without the law, in a good condition, and
   in a fair way for life, heaven, and happiness, till the law enters
   them, and cuts off all their hopes of salvation by the works of it.
   They are upon the brink of ruin, like a man on the top of the mast of a
   ship asleep, or in the midst of the sea, insensible of their danger;
   they rush into sin like the horse into the battle, and hasten like a
   bird to the snare, which knows not it is for its life.

   1f5. They are ignorant of sin and the sad effects of it; if they have
   any notion of the grosser sins of life, and the evil of them, they do
   not know that lust in the heart is sin; not the evil of indwelling sin
   and corrupt nature; nor consider that the wages of sin is death,
   eternal death; they are not sensible of their own insufficiency and
   inability to make atonement for their sins, nor to work out a
   righteousness that will justify them from their sins.

   1f6. They are ignorant of the sacred scriptures, and the truths
   contained in them; though they are plain to them that understand, and
   right to them that find knowledge (Prov. 8:9), yet they are like a
   sealed book to carnal men, whether learned or unlearned; the one cannot
   read them because sealed, and the other because he is not learned (Isa.
   29:11, 12). The mysteries of the kingdom are delivered to them in
   parables, and they are riddles, enigmas, and dark saying to them; the
   gospel, and the doctrines of it, are hid from the wise and prudent;
   they cannot understand them, they are foolishness to them, and they
   pronounce them such. But,

   2. Secondly, in every renewed person there is a knowledge of God and of
   divine things; the new creature or "new man is renewed in knowledge,
   after the image of him that created him" (Col. 3:10). Spiritual and
   divine knowledge is a part of the new man, which is no other than an
   assemblage of grace consisting of various members, of which this is
   one; it is a part of the image of God and Christ enstamped upon the
   soul in regeneration, and which gives it a disposition godward;
   concerning which may be observed,

   2a. First, the object of it, God; before conversion men know not God,
   but after that they know him, or rather are known of him (Gal. 4:8, 9),
   there is a threefold knowledge of God, or a knowledge of God that is
   come at in a threefold way.

   2a1. There is a knowledge of God by the light of nature through the
   works of creation, which show his eternal power and Godhead, declare
   his glory, and display his wisdom and goodness; and through the works
   of providence, by which he has not left himself without a witness of
   his Being and beneficence; and though these ways and works are past
   finding out, and a small portion of them is known by men, yet something
   of God is to be known by them, and that he is, as Jethro said, "greater
   than all gods"; but then such knowledge was always insufficient to
   teach men the true worship of God, and influence them to it;
   notwithstanding this, either they did not worship him at all, or
   ignorantly worshipped him; that is, not in a right way and manner; the
   wise philosophers of the heathens, though they in some sort knew God,
   yet they did not glorify him as God, nor serve him only, but worshipped
   and served the creature more and beside the Creator; nor was such
   knowledge effectual to make the hearts of men better, nor to mend their
   lives; those to whom God left not himself without a witness, by the
   works of creation and providence, still walked on in their own ways,
   and those very bad ones, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, drunkenness,
   revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries, even committing
   abominable lewdness in their religious services. What a character does
   the apostle give of them (Rom. 1:18-32), even of those who professed
   themselves to be wise, both as to their hearts and actions? their
   foolish heart was darkened and their imagination vain, and they were
   given up to the lusts of their hearts and to the uncleanness of them,
   to vile affections and a reprobate mind, being filled with all
   unrighteousness and wickedness; what a dreadful portrait does the
   apostle draw of them (Rom. 1:29-31). Nor was this light and knowledge
   sufficient to point out to them the true way, how incensed Deity may be
   appeased, or sinners be reconciled to God; or by what means atonement
   for sin could be made, and therefore put such questions as in Micah
   6:6, 7 not the least hint did it give of a sin bearing and sin atoning
   Saviour, and of the blood of Christ which makes peace with God, and
   cleanses from all sin; nor could it give men any good ground to hope
   for pardon of sin on any account whatever; though they might presume on
   the mercy of God, and conjecture that he would forgive their sins upon
   their repentance, this they could not be sure of; at most it was but an
   "who can tell" if God will repent and turn from his fierce anger, as
   said the Ninevites (Jonah 3:9). Nor was it sufficient to assure them of
   a future state of happiness, and describe what that is; as for the
   immortality of the soul, they had some faint views of it, and rather
   wished it to be true than believed it; of the resurrection of the dead
   they had no hope; and what that happiness of man hereafter they
   sometimes speak of, they had gross notions of, such as had any; and
   could not assure themselves by all their virtue that they should enjoy
   it. Life and immortality are only truly brought to light by the gospel.

   2a2. There is a knowledge of God by the law, the law of Moses, the
   moral law; though this came by Moses, it was of God, and shows what is
   his good and perfect will; it is a transcript of his nature, his
   justice and holiness; but then it only gives knowledge of him as a
   lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, and as an incensed God
   threatening wrath to the breakers of it, without any hope of mercy, not
   even on the foot of repentance; it accuses of sin, the breach of it;
   pronounces guilty for it, and is the ministration of condemnation and
   death; by it is the knowledge of sin, but not of a savior from it. The
   ceremonial law was indeed a shadow of good things to come by Christ;
   its sacrifices prefigured the sacrifice of Christ; it was the Jews
   schoolmaster that taught them Christ, and directed them to him.

   2a3. There is a knowledge of God which comes by the gospel, the
   doctrine of grace and truth, that is by Christ, who lay in the bosom of
   his Father, and has declared him, his person, his nature, his grace,
   his mind and will to men; God has spoken by his Son, and made the
   largest discovery of himself by him; and makes use of the ministers of
   the gospel to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in
   the face or person of Christ, who is the brightness of his Father's
   glory and the express image of his person: and it is of this kind of
   knowledge of God in Christ, that souls are made partakers, when they
   are renewed in the spirit of their minds; this is not a mere notional
   and speculative knowledge, such as the carnal Jews had, who had a form
   of knowledge in the law, and by breaking it dishonored God; and which
   some who call themselves Christians may have, who profess in words to
   know God, but in works deny him; who say, Lord, Lord, but do not the
   will of our Father in heaven: but this is a spiritual and experimental
   knowledge of God, such as a spiritual man has, and that from the Spirit
   of God as a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
   and which leads men to mind and savour spiritual things. This is a
   knowledge which is attended with faith in God as a covenant God in
   Christ; it is a fiducial knowledge, such as know his name put their
   trust in him, in whom is everlasting strength, and from whom they
   expect all supplies of grace; and having knowledge of him as their
   portion and exceeding great reward, they hope in him for what they want
   in time, and for happiness with him hereafter; and such knowledge
   always includes in it love to God, and the most cordial affection for
   him; "he who loveth not, knoweth not God" (1 John 4:8), for if he knew
   him he could not but love him, and say of him, "Whom have I in heaven
   but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee".
   Such knowledge is accompanied with a filial fear and reverence of God;
   where there is no knowledge of God there is no fear of God; but where
   there is knowledge of God, of his grace and goodness, and of his
   pardoning mercy in Christ, men fear the Lord and his goodness; for
   there is forgiveness with him that he may be feared; not with a slavish
   but a childlike fear; and where it is known he is so feared. And such a
   knowledge is practical, and it is known to be right by being so;
   "hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments" (1 John
   2:3), for such only may be said to be "filled with the knowledge of his
   will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding", in a true spiritual
   and evangelical manner, when the end for which they have it, and for
   which they desire it, is, to "walk worthy of the Lord unto all
   pleasing"; that is, to do the will of God in the most acceptable manner
   (Col. 1:9, 10), and a knowledge attended with such graces and fruits of
   righteousness may be called saving knowledge; that is, salvation is
   annexed unto it and follows upon it; for "this is life eternal", the
   beginning of it, and in which it issues (John 17:3). Now this knowledge
   of God may be considered as respecting the three divine persons in the
   Godhead distinctly, Father, Son, and Spirit; and that acquaintance and
   fellowship with each which such knowledge leads into. For there is a
   fellowship and communion which believers have with each divine person,
   which arises from their distinct knowledge of them (1 John 1:3; 2 Cor.
   13:14).

   2a3a. Every renewed soul has knowledge of God the Father. "I write unto
   you, little children", says the apostle John (1 John 2:13), "because ye
   have known the Father", the Father of Christ and their Father in
   Christ; for he that is Christ's Father is their Father, though they are
   not in the same class of sonship with him; "I ascend to my Father and
   your Father" (John 20:17), and this relation is made known to them, as
   children are taught to know their father; and this the saints know by
   the Spirit of adoption sent down into their hearts, crying, Abba,
   Father; and witnessing to their spirits that they are the children of
   God; and this leads into communion with him, and into the enjoyment of
   many privileges with pleasure. They have knowledge of the love of the
   Father which is bestowed on them, and is in them, and which appears in
   their election, in the gift of Christ to them, and in their adoption,
   and in other blessings of grace; and this is shed abroad in their
   hearts by the Spirit, and they are led by him into the heights and
   depths, and lengths and breadths of it; they are warmed by it, and
   comforted with it; it is a source of joy, peace and comfort to them;
   and the knowledge of it is what they glory in and should do, and in
   that only (Jer. 9:23, 24). They have also knowledge of God the Father
   as having chosen them in Christ, and blessed them with all spiritual
   blessings in him; for though their election is so early as before the
   foundation of the world, and so secret as it is in Christ, yet it may
   be known by them; "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God";
   how and by what means? by the powerful influence of the gospel upon
   their hearts, "for our gospel came not unto you in word only but also
   in power" (1 Thess. 1:4, 5), they have knowledge of him as their
   covenant God in Christ, who has blessed them with all covenant
   blessings, with the sure mercies of David; with justification by the
   righteousness of Christ, pardon of sin for his sake, reconciliation and
   atonement, adoption, and every other blessing; the knowledge of all
   which draws out their hearts in thankfulness to the Father of Christ,
   in love to him, and praise of him (Eph. 1:3, 4). They have knowledge of
   him as "in Christ reconciling the world unto himself", planning the
   scheme of their peace, reconciliation and atonement by Christ, "not
   imputing their trespasses" to them but to their Surety and Saviour;
   which scheme he has executed by him, and has "by him reconciled" them
   "to himself", of which they have knowledge, and hence reason in the
   strong and comfortable manner as the apostle does (Rom. 5:11). Moreover
   they have knowledge of God the Father as having proclaimed his name in
   Christ, a God "gracious and merciful, pardoning iniquity, transgression
   and sin"; as a God that does abundantly pardon, and which engages their
   souls to turn unto him, and fills them with wonder and amazement; so
   that they say, "Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity?"
   and this raises in them the highest gratitude and thankfulness to God;
   they call upon their souls, and all within them, to "bless his holy
   name, and not forget his benefits, who forgiveth all their iniquities"
   (Micah 7:18; Ps. 103:1-3). To observe no more; they know him as "the
   God of all grace, who has called them to his eternal glory by Christ
   Jesus" his Son; that is, that he is the author and giver of every grace
   unto them; that their faith is not of themselves, it is the gift of
   God; that their good hope through grace is of him, and therefore he is
   called the God of hope, because not only the object but the author and
   giver of it; for the same reason he is called the God of love, the God
   of patience, &c. and this knowledge of God the Father leads to deal
   with him for fresh supplies of grace, and that he would make all grace
   to abound towards them; this draws them to the throne of grace to seek
   grace and mercy of him to help them in their time of need.

   2a3b. Every renewed soul has knowledge of Christ the Son of God (John
   17:3), where the "only true God" designs God the Father, yet not to the
   exclusion of Christ the Son of God, for he is expressly called the
   "true God" (also 1 John 5:20) and "eternal life" is made to depend
   equally upon the knowledge of the one as upon the knowledge of the
   other; now would Christ ever have ranked himself in this manner with
   the only true God, if he was not equal with him? and such an
   interpretation of the passage as would exclude him from being the one
   only true God with the Father, would exclude the Father from being the
   one only Lord with the Son (1 Cor. 8:6). Now truly gracious souls have
   knowledge of the person of Christ, as being truly God and truly man; as
   being true God, and therefore they venture their souls on him, commit
   their all unto him, and look unto him for salvation, and trust in him
   for it, because he is God and there is none else; and as being truly
   man, partaker of the same flesh and blood with them, and in all things
   made like unto them, and so their near kinsman, and who cannot but have
   sympathy with them; and thus being both God and man, he is fit to be
   the mediator between both, and to take care of things belonging to God,
   and to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. They have
   knowledge of him in all his offices, and deal with him as such; with
   him as their prophet to teach and instruct them by his word, his
   ministers, and his Spirit; with him as their priest, who by his
   sacrifice has made atonement for their sins, and by his intercession
   pleads for every blessing for them; and with him as their king, to rule
   over them, protect and defend them; and they become willingly subject
   to his commands and ordinances, and esteem all his precepts concerning
   all things to be right; they know him as their living Redeemer, as Job
   did; and their souls rejoice in God their Saviour, as Mary the mother
   of our Lord did; they know him in the various relations he stands in to
   them, as their everlasting Father, who bears an everlasting love to
   them, takes an everlasting care of them, and makes everlasting
   provision for them; as their head of eminence over them, and influence
   to them; as their husband, who has betrothed them to himself in
   righteousness and lovingkindness; as their brother, and one that sticks
   closer than a brother; and as their friend that loves at all times, and
   of whom they say as the church did, "This is my beloved, and this is my
   friend". And this knowledge which such souls have of Christ is,

   2a3b1. Not merely notional and speculative, such a knowledge the devils
   have: they know Christ to be the Holy One of God, and that he is the
   Son of God, and the Messiah (Luke 4:34, 41), and men destitute of the
   grace of God may know and give their assent to those truths, that
   Christ is truly God, and existed as the Son of God from all eternity;
   that he assumed human nature in the fulness of time, that he lived a
   life of sorrow and trouble, died the death of the cross, was buried and
   rose again from the dead, ascended to heaven, and is set down at the
   right hand of God, and will come a second time to judge the world in
   righteousness; but this spiritual special knowledge gracious souls have
   is,

   2a3b2. An affectionate knowledge, or a knowledge joined with love and
   affection to Christ; he is in their esteem the chiefest among ten
   thousand, and altogether lovely; he is precious to them, and there is
   none in heaven nor in earth so desired by them as he is.

   2a3b3. Their knowledge is a knowledge of approbation, they approve of
   him above all other lovers, and above all other saviors; they reject
   all others, and say, "Ashur shall not save us"; we will have no regard
   to our works, duties and services, as saviors; but they say of him as
   Job did, "Though he slay me yet will I trust in him--he also shall be
   my salvation", I will have no other (Job 13:15,16).

   2a3b4. Their knowledge of him is fiducial; they know his name, his
   nature, his abilities, his fulness, and suitableness, and therefore
   they put their trust in him, give up themselves to him, rely and lean
   upon him, and trust him with all they have, and for all they want, for
   grace here and glory hereafter.

   2a3b5. Their knowledge of him is experimental, they have their
   spiritual senses exercised on him; they see the Son and believe on him,
   see the glories of his person, the riches of his grace, the fulness of
   his righteousness, the efficacy of his blood, and the virtue of his
   atoning sacrifice; they "hear" his voice with pleasure and delight, the
   voice of his gospel, so as to understand it, approve of it, and
   distinguish it from the voice of a stranger they "feel", they handle
   him the word of life by faith, lay hold on him and retain him; they
   "taste" that the Lord is gracious, and "savour" the things which be of
   Christ and not of men.

   2a3b6. Their knowledge of Christ is appropriating; it does not lie in
   generals but in particulars, they know him themselves and for
   themselves; they do not only say as the Samaritans did, "We know that
   this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the world" (John 4:42), but
   that he is their Saviour and Redeemer; and say with Thomas, "My Lord,
   and my God"; and with the apostle Paul, "Who loved me, and gave himself
   for me"; and with the church, "My beloved is mine, and I am his" (John
   20:28; Gal. 2:20; Song of Sol 2:16).

   2a3c. Every renewed soul has knowledge of the Spirit of God, the world
   does not know him, but truly gracious souls do; our Lord speaking of
   him says, "Whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not,
   neither knoweth him", neither his person, nor his office, nor his
   operations; "But ye know him", meaning his apostles and followers; and
   gives a very good reason for it, "for he dwelleth with you, and shall
   be in you"; and therefore they must have a feeling and experimental
   knowledge of him (John 14:17). Such as are renewed in the spirit of
   their minds, have a knowledge of him as a Spirit of conviction and
   illumination, he having convinced them of sin, the evil nature and sad
   consequences of it; of righteousness, of the insufficiency of their own
   righteousness to justify them before God, and of the fulness and
   suitableness of Christ's righteousness for that purpose; and having had
   the eyes of their understandings enlightened by him as a Spirit of
   wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ, as an able, willing,
   and complete Saviour; and having received him as the Spirit which is of
   God, whereby are made known to them the things that are freely given to
   them of God; the free grace gifts of righteousness, peace, pardon, and
   eternal life. They have knowledge of him as the Comforter, who comforts
   them by shedding abroad in their hearts the love of the Father and of
   the Son; by opening and applying the exceeding great and precious
   promises of the gospel, and by taking the things of Christ and showing
   them to them, and their interest in them; and these comforts they have
   a feeling experience of, for they delight their souls amidst the
   multitude of their thoughts within them; yea they walk in the comforts
   of the Holy Ghost, and are edified by them. They have knowledge of him
   also as the Spirit of adoption, who manifests to them their interest in
   this blessing; and not only from his witnessing do they know their
   relation to God as children, but also from their being led by him out
   of themselves to Christ, and into the truth as it is in Jesus, for such
   "are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14-16). Moreover they have knowledge of
   the Spirit as a "Spirit of grace and of supplication", who first works
   grace in the soul, and then draws it forth into act and exercise; and
   perhaps there is no season in the Christian life in which this grace is
   more drawn forth into exercise than when in prayer, public and private,
   under the influence of the Spirit of supplication; who helps saints
   under all their infirmities in prayer, and makes intercession in them
   according to the will of God, impresses a sense of their wants upon
   them, puts strength into them, and fills their mouths with arguments to
   plead with God in the exercise of grace: once more, such souls have
   knowledge of him as the Spirit of truth, that guides into all truth
   necessary to be known by them, and powerfully applies it to them; who
   teaches them all things they should know, and brings to their
   remembrance truths or promises, at proper seasons, for their relief and
   comfort; and who is the unction they have received from the Holy One,
   the anointing which teacheth all things, and from which they are
   denominated Christians; to say no more, they have knowledge of him as
   an inhabitant in them, for he dwells in them as in his temple; of whose
   indwelling they are sensible by the operations of his grace upon them;
   they find he is in them as the earnest of their inheritance, and as the
   sealer of them unto the day of redemption. Now in this distinct,
   special, and peculiar knowledge of Father, Son, and Spirit, and in that
   communion with them, which arises from hence, inward experimental
   religion greatly lies.

   To this head of the object of knowledge all divine things may be
   reduced that are knowable, that are to be known or should be known by
   the Christian; there are some things that are not to be known, and
   which will, ever be known, neither in this life nor in that to come;
   there are some things that angels know not, yea which the human soul of
   Christ knew not in his state of humiliation; this is not to be called
   ignorance, but nescience, or non-knowledge. "Secret things belong unto
   the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us
   and to our children for ever" (Deut. 29:29). The former we should not
   curiously search into, as not belonging to us, nor should we exercise
   ourselves in things too high for us, and which are out of our reach,
   nor should we seek to be wise above what is written; the latter we
   should study the knowledge of, and to improve therein, even the
   knowledge of each of the truths and doctrines of the gospel, so as to
   try and know the things that differ, and to approve the more excellent;
   and also of the will of God, or duties of religion, which are to be
   observed, that so we may walk worthy of God in all well pleasing. The
   next thing to be considered is,

   2b. Secondly, the causes of this knowledge, and from whence it springs.
   It is not to be attained to by the light of nature, or what light the
   works of nature give; for it may be said of this knowledge what Job
   says of wisdom and understanding, when he asks, "Where shall wisdom be
   found?" and "Where is the place of understanding?" to which he answers,
   it is not known by man, nor is it here nor there, nor can any
   estimation be made of it, only "God understandeth the way thereof, and
   he knoweth the place thereof"; what place it is to be found in, and in
   what way, and from whence it cometh (Job 28:12, 23). Nor is it to be
   found in the law of Moses; by that God may be known to be holy, just,
   and righteous, but not as a God gracious and merciful; by it is the
   knowledge of sin, but not the knowledge of Christ as a Saviour from
   sin; by it may be known what is the will of God with respect to what
   should be done and what should be avoided, but no knowledge does it
   give of the Spirit of God to help in the performance of duty, or in the
   exercise of grace. Nor is it to be acquired by carnal reason; the deep
   things of God, the mysteries of his grace, are what the carnal eye of
   man has not seen, nor his ear heard, nor has it entered into his heart
   to conceive of. When Peter made that excellent confession of the Deity,
   Sonship and Messiahship of Christ, our Lord said unto him, "Blessed art
   thou, Simon Barjona, flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee";
   not carnal reason, nor carnal men, "but my Father which is in heaven"
   (Matthew 16:17). This is not to be had from men; the knowledge the
   apostle Paul had of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of
   Christ, and of the glorious doctrines of the gospel, he had them not at
   the feet of Gamaliel, nor from his mouth, but by the revelation of
   Jesus Christ (Gal. 1:11, 12).

   2b1. The efficient cause of this knowledge is God; it is God that
   teacheth men knowledge, and none teaches like him; and this he teaches
   persons the most unlikely to learn, even such as "are weaned from the
   milk, and drawn from the breasts"; that is, just weaned, who were but
   the other day babes and sucklings; this knowledge is from God, Father,
   Son and Spirit. Such as have "heard and learned of the Father, come to
   Christ"; that is, believe on him (John 6:45). It is the Father who
   knows the Son, and reveals him, as he did to Peter, and who reveals the
   things he hides from the wise and prudent, even unto babes; and "no man
   knows the Father save the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him"
   (Matthew 11:27), he who lay in his bosom declares him, his mind and
   will, his love and grace; and he "gives an understanding" to "know"
   himself, who "is the true God and eternal life" (1 John 5:20), and the
   Spirit, he is the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
   God and Christ; he searches the deep things of God, arid reveals them
   to men; and by him they know the things that are freely given them of
   God (Eph. 1:17; 1 Cor. 2:10-12).

   2b2. The impulsive cause is the sovereign will and pleasure of God.
   "Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight" (Matthew 11:25,
   26), it being solely owing to his good will and pleasure to make known
   to whom he would make known the mysteries of his grace and gospel
   concerning himself, his Son and Spirit; (see Col. 1:27).

   2b3. The instrumental cause or means is the word of God. "Faith", which
   sometimes goes by the name of knowledge, "comes by hearing, and hearing
   by the word of God" (Rom. 10:17), that is, by the external ministration
   of the word, the Lord owning and blessing it. John the Baptist, the
   forerunner of Christ, was appointed, commissioned, and sent of God "to
   give knowledge of salvation to his people"; and the apostles and
   ministers of the gospel had the treasures of evangelical truths put
   into their earthen vessels, "to give the light of the knowledge of God
   in the face of Jesus Christ". The ministry of the word is appointed as
   a standing ordinance in the church, "till we all come in the unity of
   the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God" (Luke 1:17; 2 Cor.
   4:6; Eph. 4:13).

   2c. Thirdly, the nature and properties of this knowledge deserve
   notice: and,

   2c1. This knowledge is practical; the mere theory of any science,
   unless reduced to practice, is of little avail; men may have all
   knowledge that is notional and speculative, and yet be nothing; a
   profession to know God and Christ, and in works to deny them, is far
   from being saving knowledge; such who walk as other Gentiles do, have
   not truly learned Christ the gospel of the grace of God, when it comes
   with power, teaches men to deny ungodliness, and to live a sober,
   righteous, and godly conversation.

   2c2. It is of a soul humbling nature; as the instances of Job, Isaiah,
   and the apostle Paul show (Job 42:6; Isa. 6:5; Eph. 3:8), whereas other
   knowledge puffs up, makes men conceited, proud, haughty, and
   overbearing.

   2c3. It is pleasant, savory, and satisfying; "he that increaseth"
   natural "knowledge, increaseth sorrow" (Eccl. 1:18), for the more he
   knows, he finds he knows less than he thought he did; and this gives
   him pain, that his knowledge is so small; and his larger knowledge
   attracts the envy of others, and raises an opposition to him; but
   spiritual knowledge, and an increase of that, yield him joy, peace, and
   comfort: we read of the "savour of the knowledge" of Christ, and of the
   savour of his good ointment; and of his name being as ointment poured
   forth, which emits a most fragrant and delightful smell (2 Cor. 2:14;
   Song of Sol. 1:3).

   2c4. This knowledge is excellent, yea super excellent; the apostle
   "Paul counted all things but loss for the excellency" of it (Phil.
   3:8), it is to be preferred to gold and silver, to jewels and precious
   stones, and all desirable things (Prov. 3:13, 14; 8:10, 11), it far
   excels all other kind of knowledge. What if a man had knowledge of all
   the heavenly bodies, and of whatsoever is in the bowels of the earth,
   or dwells upon it, or grows out of it, so that he could with Solomon
   speak of trees and their nature, from the cedar in Lebanon to the
   hyssop that grows out of the wall; it would be nothing in comparison of
   the knowledge of Christ, and of God in Christ, since to know them is
   life eternal.

   2c5. This knowledge indeed is but imperfect in this life; those that
   know most only know in part, yet it is progressive; there is such a
   thing as growing in grace, and in the knowledge of Christ; the light of
   saints is an increasing one, the path of the just is as the shining
   light, which shines more and more unto the perfect day; they that know
   the Lord shall follow on to know him, and shall know more of him, for
   so the words in Hosea 6:3 should be rendered; "and we shall know, we
   shall follow on to know the Lord", the "if" ought to be left out, not
   being in the original.

   2c6. There are various means which should be made use of for the
   increase of this knowledge, such as reading the scriptures, which are
   profitable for doctrine, and for instruction in righteousness;
   constantly and diligently searching into them, since they testify of
   Christ, of his person, and office, and grace; likewise attendance upon
   the ministry of the word, waiting at wisdom's gates, and watching at
   the posts of her door, which is the way to find wisdom and get
   understanding; also frequent and fervent prayer, if "thou criest after
   knowledge", thou shalt "find the knowledge of God" (Prov. 2:3, 5),
   great is the encouragement given to make use of such a method; (see
   Jam. 1:5; Matthew 7:6). Conversation with wise and good men, and such
   as fear the Lord, who by conferring together find the advantage of it;
   they build up one another on their most holy faith, establish each
   other in it, and increase in knowledge; for "he that walketh with wise
   men shall be wise", grow wiser and wiser (Prov. 13:20).
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   [5] Vid. Vatablum in loc.
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  Chapter 4

    OF REPENTANCE TOWARDS GOD

   Repentance is another part of internal worship; it is a branch of
   godliness which lies in the disposition of the soul Godwards; for in
   the exercise of this the sensible sinner has much to do with God; he
   has a special respect to him against whom he has sinned, and therefore
   it is with great propriety called "Repentance towards God" (Acts
   20:21). Concerning which may be observed,

   1. Its name, and the words and phrases by which it is expressed, both
   in the Old and in the New Testament, and by Jews, Greeks, and Latins,
   which may give some light into the thing itself.

   1a. First, the Jews commonly express it by tsvvh a "turning", or
   "returning", and it is frequently signified in the Old Testament by a
   man's turning from his evil ways, and returning to the Lord; the term
   from which he turns is sin, the term to which he turns is the Lord,
   against whom he has sinned; and what most powerfully moves, encourages,
   and induces him to turn, is the pardoning grace and mercy of God
   through Christ (Isa. 55:7), and so in the New Testament, repentance and
   turning are mentioned together, and the latter as explanative of the
   former; (see Acts 3:19; 26:20).

   There is another word in Hebrew used for repentance, nchm (Hosea 11:8;
   13:14), which also signifies comfort; because such who sincerely repent
   of sin, and are truly humbled for it, should be comforted, lest, as the
   apostle says, they should be "swallowed up with overmuch sorrow" (2
   Cor. 2:7), and it is God's usual way to bring his people "into the
   wilderness", into a distressed state, to lead them into a sense of sin,
   and humiliation for it, and then to speak comfortably to them (Hosea
   2:14), and the Spirit of God is first a reprover for sin, and a
   convincer of it, and then a comforter; be first shows men the evil
   nature of sin, and the just desert of it, and gives them the grace of
   repentance for it, and then comforts them with the application of
   pardon through the blood of Jesus (John 16:7, 8, 14), and blessed are
   they that mourn for sin in an evangelical manner, for they shall be
   comforted (Matthew 5:4).

   1b. Secondly, the Greek word more frequently used in the New Testament
   for repentance is metanoia, which signifies an "after understanding",
   or "after knowledge"; as when a man takes into serious consideration a
   fact after it is committed, and thinks otherwise of it, and wishes he
   had not done it, is sorry for it, and resolves, through the grace of
   God, to forsake such practices; this is a proof of a man's wisdom and
   understanding; now he begins to be wise, and to show himself an
   understanding man; even an heathen [6] could say, "Repentance is the
   beginning of wisdom, and an avoiding of foolish works and words, and
   the first preparation to a life not to be repented of."

   It is a change of the mind for the better, and which produces change of
   action and conduct: this, as it is expressive of true repentance, flows
   from the understanding being enlightened by the Spirit of God, when the
   sinner beholds sin in another light it did, even as exceeding sinful;
   and loathes it, and abhors it and himself for it. There is another word
   the Greeks use for repentance, metameleia, and though the noun is not
   used in the New Testament, the verb is (Matthew 21:29, 32), and
   signifies a care and anxiety of mind after a fact is committed, a
   concern with sorrow that it should be done, and a care for the future
   not to do it again; hence the apostle, among the genuine fruits of
   godly sorrow for sin, mentions this in the first place, "What
   carefulness it wrought in you", not to offend more (2 Cor. 7:11). It
   also signifies a change of mind and conduct, as appears from (Matthew
   21:29), a penitent sinner has another notion of sin than he had; before
   it was a sweet morsel, now a bitter and evil thing; before his heart
   was bent upon it, now determined through divine grace to forsake it,
   and cleave to the Lord with full purpose of heart.

   1c. Thirdly, The Latins generally express repentance by "poenitentia",
   from "poena" punishment; hence our English word "penitence", and the
   popish "penance", which is a sort of corporal punishment for sin
   inflicted on the body by fastings, scourgings, pilgrimages, &c. but
   true penitence lies not in these things, but is rather an inward
   punishment of the mind, when a man is so displeased with himself for
   what he has done, and so severely reflects upon himself for it, that he
   takes as it were a kind of vengeance on himself within himself, which
   are the lashes of conscience; [7] so the apostle observes of godly
   sorrow, "What indignation, yea what revenge" it wrought in you, as in
   the above quoted place; and this inward revenge is sometimes expressed
   by outward gestures, as by smiting upon the thigh, and upon the breast
   (Jer. 31:19; Luke 18:13).

   There is another word which the Latins use for repentance,
   "resipiscentia", which signifies a man's being wise again, a coming to
   his wits, to his senses again. [8] Lactantius [9] explains it of the
   recovery of a man's mind from a state of insanity; a man, while he is
   in an unconverted and impenitent state, is not himself, he is not in
   his right mind; not only his foolish heart is darkened, and he is
   without understanding, and to do good has no knowledge, but "madness"
   is "in his heart while he lives" in such a state; every act of sin is
   not only folly but madness, as all acts of hostility committed against
   God, which sins are, must needs be; "the man that dwelt among the
   tombs" (Mark 5:1-20), is a fit emblem of such persons: now when an
   impenitent sinner becomes penitent, he may be said to "come to
   himself", as the prodigal did (Luke 15:17), so the apostle Paul before
   conversion was exceeding mad against the saints, and thought he ought
   to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus; but when he was
   converted he was recovered from his insanity, and appeared sober and in
   his right mind, and said, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" when a
   sinner is truly convinced of sin, and thoroughly humbled for it, and
   has repentance unto life given him, and a comfortable application of
   the blood and righteousness of Christ unto him for his pardon and
   justification, and his mind is become sedate, serene and quiet, the man
   who before was mad, is an emblem of him, when he was seen "sitting
   clothed and in his right mind" (Mark 5:15).

   1d. Fourthly, the word "contrition", or brokenness of mind, is
   sometimes used for repentance, and there is some foundation for it in
   the word of God; we often read of a contrite heart and spirit; David
   says he was "feeble and sore broken" (Ps. 38:8), which seems to be
   under a sense of sin: a man's heart is naturally hard, as hard as the
   nether millstone, and therefore called a "stony heart", and such an one
   is an impenitent one; hence hardness, and an impenitent heart, are put
   together, as designing the same thing (Rom. 2:5). The word of God is
   made use of to break it in pieces, "is not my word--like a hammer to
   break the rock in pieces?" that is, to make the heart contrite, which
   is like to a rock, and whereby it becomes soft and tender, as Josiah's
   was, like an heart of flesh, susceptible of serious impressions, and of
   a true sense of things; and though this contrition of heart seems to be
   a work of the law, by which is the knowledge of sin, and which works
   wrath in the conscience on account of it, smites and cuts and wounds
   it; yet hereby it is prepared to receive the benefit of the gospel, by
   which the Lord "heals the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds"
   (Ps. 147:3; Isa. 61:1). However, great notice is taken of men of
   contrite hearts and spirits; the sacrifices of such hearts are
   acceptable to God; he looks unto, is nigh unto, and dwells with those
   who are of such a spirit and saves them (Ps. 51:17; 34:18; Isa. 57:15;
   66:2), besides the heart may be broken, made soft and melted down as
   much or more under a sense of pardoning grace displayed in the gospel,
   than under a sense of wrath through the threatenings and terrors of the
   law.

   1e. Fifthly, repentance is expressed by sorrow for sin. "My sorrow is
   continually before me", says David, "I will be sorry for my sin" (Ps.
   38:17, 18), and which is signified not by outward gestures, not by
   rending garments, but by rending the heart (Joel 2:13), it is a felt
   pain and inward sorrow of the heart for sin, and what the apostle calls
   a sorrow "after a godly sort", kata theon, "after God", which is
   according to the mind and will of God; and because of sin committed
   against God, a God of love, grace, and mercy, and which springs from
   love to God and hatred of sin, and is attended with faith in God, as a
   God pardoning iniquity, transgression, and sin, for Christ's sake; but
   of this more hereafter.

   2. The nature and kinds of repentance. Not to take notice of the
   penance of the Papists, which lies in punishing their bodies, as before
   observed; and in men making themselves, or in others making them,
   public examples in such a way; which though it may be called repentance
   before men, it is not repentance towards God, nor does it answer the
   end vainly intended by it, making satisfaction for sin; nor is an
   external reformation of life and manners repentance in the sight of
   God. Men may be outwardly reformed, as the Pharisees were, and yet not
   repent of their sins, as they did not (Matthew 21:32; 23:28), and after
   such an external reformation men may return to their former sinful
   course of life, and their last end be worse than the beginning; besides
   there may be true repentance for sin where there is no time and
   opportunity for reformation, or showing forth a reformation of life and
   manners, as in the thief upon the cross and others, who are brought to
   repentance on their death beds; and reformation of life and manners,
   when it is best and most genuine, is the fruit and effect of
   repentance, and a bringing forth fruits meet for it, as evidences of
   it, and so distinct from that itself.

   2a. First, there is a natural repentance, or what is directed to by the
   light of nature, and the dictates of a natural conscience; for as there
   was in the heathens, and so is in every natural man, a knowledge of
   good and evil, of the difference in some respects between moral good
   and evil, and a conscience which, when it does its office, approves of
   what is well done, and accuses for that which is ill; so when
   conscience charges a man with doing an ill thing, and he is convinced
   of it, the light of nature and conscience direct him to wish he had not
   done it, and to repent of it, and to endeavour for the future to avoid
   it; as may be seen in the case of the Ninevites, who being threatened
   with the destruction of their city for their sins, proclaimed a fast,
   and issued out an order that everyone should turn from his evil ways,
   in hope that the wrath of God would be averted from them, though they
   could not be fully assured of it. The Gentiles laid great stress upon
   their repentance to conciliate the favour of God unto them; for they
   thought this made complete satisfaction for their sins, and wiped them
   clean, so that they imagined they were almost if not altogether pure
   and innocent: [10] there is a repentance which the goodness of God in
   providence might or should lead men unto, which yet it does not, but
   after their hardness and impenitent heart treasure up wrath against the
   day of wrath, and righteous judgment of God (Rom. 2:4, 5).

   2b. Secondly, There is a national repentance, such as the Jews in
   Babylon were called unto, to which temporal blessings were promised,
   and a deliverance from temporal calamities; as on the one hand, a
   living in their own land, and a comfortable enjoyment of good things in
   it; and on the other hand, captivity, and all the distresses of it
   threatened; "Repent, and turn yourselves from your transgressions, so
   iniquity shall not be your ruin" (Ezek. 18:30-32), and which has no
   connection with the special grace of God, and with spiritual and
   everlasting things. The same people were called to repent of their
   Pharisaism, of their disbelief of the Messiah, and other evil works;
   and were told that the men of Nineveh would rise up in judgment and
   condemn them, who repented at the preaching of Jonah, and yet a greater
   than Jonah, even Christ himself, called them to repentance (Matthew
   12:41). The same people were called upon by the apostles of Christ to
   repent of their rejection of Jesus as the Messiah, and to turn unto
   him, and to save themselves from temporal ruin, which for their
   impenitence and unbelief came upon their nation, city, and temple (Acts
   3:19).

   2c. Thirdly, there is an external repentance, or an outward humiliation
   for sin, such as was in Ahab, which, though nothing more, it was taken
   notice of by the Lord, "Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before
   me?" and though it lay only in rending his clothes, and putting on
   sackcloth, and in fasting, and in a mournful way, yet the Lord was
   pleased to promise that the evil threatened should not come in his days
   (1 Kings 21:29). And such is the repentance Tyre and Sidon would have
   exercised, had they had the advantages and privileges that some cities
   had, where Christ taught his doctrines, and wrought miracles; and of
   this kind was the repentance of the Ninevites which was regarded of God
   (Matthew 11:21; 12:41).

   2d. Fourthly, there is an hypocritical repentance, such as was in the
   people of Israel in the wilderness, who when the wrath of God broke out
   against them for their sins, "returned" unto him, or repented, but
   "their heart was not right with him" (Ps 78:34-37), so it is said of
   Judah, she "hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but
   feignedly, saith the Lord"; and of Ephraim, or the ten tribes, "they
   return, but not to the Most High, they are like a deceitful bow" (Hosea
   7:16), who turned aside and dealt unfaithfully.

   2e. Fifthly, there is a legal and there is an evangelical repentance.

   2e1. There is a legal one, which is a mere work of the law, and the
   effect of convictions of sin by it, which in time wear off and come to
   nothing; for,

   2e1a. There may be a sense of sin and an acknowledgment of it, and yet
   no true repentance for it, as in the cases of Pharaoh and of Judas, who
   both said, "I have sinned" (Ex. 9:27; Matthew 27:4), yet they had no
   true sense of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, nor godly sorrow for it.

   2e1b. There may be a kind of sorrow for it, not for the evil of fault
   that is in sin, but on account of the evil of punishment for it, as
   appears in some cases, and in Cain's (Gen. 4:13).

   2e1c. There may be a great deal of terror of mind because of sin, a
   great outcry about it, a fearful looking for of judgment for it,
   abundance of tears shed on the account of it, as were by Esau for the
   blessing, without success; the devils believe and tremble, but do not
   repent; [11] there are weeping and wailing in hell, but no repentance.

   2e1d. Such a repentance, if no more than a mere legal one, issues in
   despair, as in Cain, whose words may be rendered, "My sin is greater
   than that it may be forgiven"; it is a repentance that may be repented
   of and is not unto life, but ends in death, as it did in Judas; it is
   "the sorrow of the world which worketh death" (2 Cor. 7:10).

   2e2. There is an evangelical repentance, which lies,

   2e2a. In a true sight and sense of sits; in a sight of it, as in itself
   considered as exceeding sinful in its own nature, and not merely as in
   its effects and consequences ruinous and destructive; not only in a
   sight of it in the glass of the divine law, but as that is held in the
   hand, and seen in the light of the blessed Spirit; and in a sight of it
   as contrary to the pure and holy nature of God, as well as repugnant to
   his will, and a breach of his law; and in a view of it as it appears in
   the glass of pardoning love and grace.

   2e2b. In a hearty and unfeigned sorrow for it; this sorrow for it is
   the rather because it is against God, and that not only as a holy and
   righteous Being, but as good, and gracious, and merciful, of whose
   goodness, both in providence and grace, the sinner is sensible; the
   consideration of which increases his sorrow, and makes it the more
   intense and hearty.

   2e2c. It is attended with shame and confusion of face, as in Ezra 9:6,
   8, 10 and Luke 18:13 this shame increases the more, the more a sinner
   is sensible that God is "pacified towards him for all that he has done"
   (Ezek. 16:63).

   2e2d. Such a repentance is accompanied with a loathing, detestation,
   and abhorrence of sin as the worst of evils; to truly penitent sinners
   sin appears most odious and loathsome; nay they not only loath their
   sins but themselves for them, and the rather when most sensible of the
   goodness of God in bestowing both temporal and spiritual blessings on
   them, and especially the latter (Ezek. 20:40-44; 36:25-31), yea they
   abhor it as of all things the most detestable, when they are in the
   exercise of this grace; so it was with holy Job, when favored with a
   special sight of the greatness and goodness of God (Job 42:6; Isa.
   6:5).

   2e2e. Where this repentance is there is an ingenuous acknowledgment of
   sin, as may be seen in David (Ps. 32:5; 51:3 in Dan. 9:4, 5), and in
   the apostle Paul (1 Tim. 1:13-15), so the prodigal, as soon as he came
   to himself, and was made sensible of his sin, and repented of it, went
   to his father, and said to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven
   and in thy sight" (Luke 15:21), and to encourage such a sincere
   repentance and ingenuous confession, the apostle John says, "If we
   confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and
   to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).

   2e2f. It is followed with a resolution, through the grace of God, to
   forsake sin; this the sinner is encouraged unto, as before observed, by
   the abundance of pardon through the mercy of God in Christ (Isa. 55:7),
   and indeed it is only such who can expect to share in it; "Whoso
   confesseth (sins) and forsaketh them, shall have merry" (Prov. 28:13).
   Now such a repentance appears to be evangelical; inasmuch, as

   2e2f1. It is from the Spirit of God, who reproves for sin and convinces
   of it, enlightens the eyes of the understanding to see the exceeding
   sinfulness of sin; and as a Spirit of grace and supplication works this
   grace in the heart, and draws it forth into exercise, to mourn over sin
   in a gospel manner at the throne of grace (Zech. 12:10).

   2e2f2. Such repentance, in the exercise of it, follows upon real
   conversion and divine instruction, "Surely after that I was turned I
   repented, and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh" (Jer.
   31:19) upon such a turn as is made by powerful and efficacious grace,
   and upon such instruction as leads into the true nature of sin, the
   effect of which is blushing shame and confusion.

   2e2f3. Is what is encouraged and influenced by gospel promises, such as
   these in (Isa. 55:7; Jer. 3:12, 13), now when repentance proceeds not
   upon the terrors of the law, but upon such gracious promises as these,
   it may be called evangelical.

   2e2f4. It is that which is attended with faith and hope: repentance
   towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, go together as
   doctrines, and so they do as graces; which is first in exercise is not
   easy to say; our Lord says of the Pharisees, that they "repented not,
   that they might believe", which looks as if repentance was before and
   in order to believing (Matthew 21:32), and elsewhere faith is
   represented as first looking to Christ, and then repentance or mourning
   for sin; repentance, as some have expressed it, is a tear that drops
   from faith's eye (Zech. 12:10). However, that is truly evangelical
   repentance which has with it faith in the blood of Christ for the
   remission of sins; for repentance and remission of sins, as they go
   together as doctrines, so also as blessings of grace (Luke 24:47; Acts
   5:31), for where true repentance for sin is, there must be faith in
   Christ for the remission of it, at least hope of pardon by his blood,
   or else such repentance would issue in despair, and appear to be no
   other than the sorrow of the world which worketh death.

   2e2f5. It is such a repentance which flows not from dread of
   punishment, and from fear of the wrath of God, but from love to God,
   and of righteousness and holiness, and from an hatred of sin; they that
   love the Lord hate evil, and they love righteousness and hate evil
   because he does; and when tempted to sin reason after this manner, "How
   can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God", so holy just, and
   good, and who has shown such love and kindness to me? (Gen. 39:9), it
   was love to Christ, flowing from a sense of pardoning grace and mercy,
   that fetched such a flood of tears from the eyes of the penitent woman
   at Christ's feet, with which she washed them, and wiped them with the
   hairs of her head; and which caused Peter, under a sense of sin, to go
   out and weep bitterly (Luke 7:37, 38, 47; 22:61, 62).

   3. The object and subjects of repentance; the object is sin, the
   subjects are sinners.

   3a. First, the object of repentance is sin, hence called "repentance
   from dead works", which sins be; and from which the blood of Christ
   purges the conscience of a penitent sinner, and speaks peace and pardon
   to it (Heb. 6:2; 9:14). And,

   3a1. First, not only grosser sins, but sins of a lesser size, are to be
   repented of; there is a difference in sins, some are greater others
   lesser (John 19:11), both are to be repented of; sins against the first
   and second tables of the law, sins more immediately against God, and
   sins against men; and some against men are more heinous and enormous
   than others, as well as those against God; as not only worshipping of
   devils, and idols of gold and silver, &c. but murders, sorceries,
   fornications, and thefts, which ought to be repented of, but by some
   were not, though they had deliverances from plagues, which was an
   aggravation of their impenitence (Rev. 9:20, 21), and not only those,
   but also sins of a lesser kind are to be repented of; and even sinful
   thoughts, for the thought of foolishness is sin, and to be repented of;
   for the unrighteous man is to repent of and forsake his thoughts, as
   well as the wicked man his ways, and turn to the Lord; and not only
   unclean, proud, malicious, envious, and revengeful thoughts are to be
   repented of, but even thoughts of seeking for justification before God
   by a man's own righteousness, which may be intended in the text
   referred to (Isa. 55:7).

   3a2. Secondly, not only public but private sins are to be repented of.
   There are some sins which are committed in a very public manner, in the
   face of the sun, and are known to all; and there are others that are
   more secret; and a truly sensible sinner, as he desires to be "cleansed
   from secret faults", or to have those forgiven him, so he heartily
   repents of them, even of sins known to none but God and his own soul;
   and this is a proof of the genuineness of his repentance.

   3a3. Thirdly, there are sins both of omission and commission, which are
   to be repented of; when a man omits those duties of religion which
   ought to be done, or commits those sins which ought to be avoided by
   him; or omits the weightier matters of religion, and only attends to
   lesser ones, when he ought to have done the one, and not to have left
   the other undone; and as God forgives both (Isa. 43:22-25), so both
   sorts of sins are to be repented of; and a sense of pardoning grace
   will engage the sensible sinner to it.

   3a4. Fourthly, there are sins which are committed in the most solemn,
   serious, religious, and holy performances of God's people, which are to
   be repented of; for there is not a just man that does good and sinneth
   not in that good he does; there is not only an imperfection, but an
   impurity in the best righteousness of the saints of their own working
   out, and therefore called filthy rags; and as there was provision made
   under the law for the bearing and removing the sins of holy things, as
   by Aaron the high priest, so there is a provision made for the
   atonement of these as well as all other sins, by Christ our high
   priest; and therefore these are to be confessed and mourned over the
   head of him our antitypical scape goat.

   3a5. Fifthly, the daily sins of life are to be repented of; no man
   lives without sin, it is daily committed by the best of men, in many
   things we all offend, and even in all things; and as we have need to
   pray, and are directed to pray daily for the forgiveness of sin, so we
   are to repent of it daily; repentance is not only to be exercised upon
   the first conviction and conversion of a sinner, nor only on account of
   some grievous sin, or great backsliding he may after fall into, but it
   is continually to be exercised by believers, since they are continually
   sinning against God in thought, word, and deed.

   3a6. Sixthly, not only actual sins and transgressions in thought, word,
   and deed, are to be repented of, but original and indwelling sin. Thus
   David when he fell into some grievous sins, and was brought to a true
   sense of them, and a sincere repentance for them, he not only made a
   confession of them in the penitential psalm he wrote on that occasion,
   but he was led to take notice of, and acknowledge and mourn over the
   original corruption of his nature, from whence all his sinful actions
   flowed, saying, "Behold I was shapen in iniquity" (Ps. 51:5). So the
   apostle Paul, though he lived a life unstained, and in all good
   conscience, free from any public, external, notorious sin, yet owned
   and lamented the sin that dwelt in him, and the force, power, and
   prevalence of it, as that it hindered him from doing the good he would,
   and put him on doing the evil he would not (Rom. 7:18-24). Now when a
   sensible sinner confesses, laments, and mourns over the original
   corruption of his nature, and the sin that dwells in him, it is a clear
   case his repentance is genuine and sincere, since it is what he himself
   is only sensible of. Now all this is with respect to God; the sinner
   repents of sin with regard to God, and as it concerns him, and
   therefore is called "repentance towards God", and a sorrow for it
   "after a godly sort" (Acts 20:21; 2 Cor. 7:11), and he repents of sin
   because sin is committed against him.

   3a6a. All sin is against God in a sense, as it is against his will, yet
   there is distinction between sins against God and against men (1 Sam.
   2:25), now sin committed against God, and considered as such, is a
   cutting consideration to a sensible sinner, sensible of the greatness
   and goodness of God, and causes his sorrow and repentance for sin to
   rise higher, as it was to David, "Against thee, thee only have I
   sinned, and done this evil in thy sight" (Ps. 51:4).

   3a6b. Because sin is a breach of the law of God (1 John 3:4), of that
   law, which is itself, holy, just, and good; of that law of which God is
   the giver, and who is that lawgiver that is able to save and to
   destroy, and on whose legislative power and authority a contempt is
   cast by sin, and which therefore gives pain and distress of mind to the
   penitent sinner.

   3a6c. Because sin is contrary to the nature of God, as well as to his
   law; he is of purer eyes than to behold it with approbation; he is not
   a God that takes pleasure in it, but is displeased with it; it is the
   abominable thing his righteous soul hates, and therefore they that love
   the Lord must hate it, and it cannot but give them a concern, and cause
   sorrow when they commit it.

   3a6d. And the rather as by sinning a slight is cast on his goodness,
   grace, and love, and which occasions severe reflections on themselves,
   and much shame and blushing that they should sin against so much
   goodness, and against God, who has shown them so much favour, loved
   them so greatly, and bestowed such blessings of grace upon them.

   3a6e. It appears that the sinner in repentance has to do with God, by
   confessing his sin and his sorrow for it; and also others glorify God
   for granting repentance to him as the Christian Jews did on the behalf
   of the Gentiles (Acts 11:18), and even there is joy in heaven, and God
   is glorified by the angels there, on account even of one sinner that
   repents (Luke 15:7, 10).

   3b. Secondly, the subjects of repentance are sinners, and only such;
   Adam, in a state of innocence, was not a subject of repentance, for not
   having sinned he had no sin to repent of; and such who fancy themselves
   to be perfectly righteous, and without sin in their own apprehensions,
   stand in no need of repentance, and therefore Christ says, "I am not
   come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Matthew 9:13;
   Luke 15:7). Now,

   3b1. All men are sinners, all descending from Adam by ordinary
   generation; all his posterity being seminally in him, and represented
   by him when he sinned, sinned in him, and they both have his sin
   imputed to them, and a corrupt nature derived from him; and so are
   transgressors from the womb, and are all guilty of actual sins and
   transgressions; and so all stand in need of repentance, even such who
   trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others as less
   holy than themselves, and think they need no repentance: yet they do;
   and not only they, but such who are in the best sense righteous need
   daily repentance, since they are continually sinning in all they do.

   3b2. Men of all nations, Jews and Gentiles, are the subjects of
   repentance; for all are under sin, under the power of it, involved in
   the guilt of it, and liable to punishment for it, and God has commanded
   "all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30). During the time of John
   the Baptist, and of our Lord's being on earth, the doctrine of
   repentance was only preached to the Jews; but after the resurrection of
   Christ he gave his apostles an instruction and order "that repentance
   and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations,
   beginning at Jerusalem" (Luke 24:47), in consequence of which the
   apostles first exhorted the Jews and then the Gentiles to repent, and
   particularly the apostle Paul "testified both to the Jews, and also to
   the Greeks, repentance towards God", as well as "faith towards our Lord
   Jesus Christ" (Acts 20:21).

   3b3. Men are only subjects of repentance in the present life; when this
   life is ended, and the gospel dispensation is over, and Christ is come
   a second time, the door of repentance as well as of faith will be shut,
   and there will be no place found for it; no opportunity nor means of
   it; nor any subjects capable of it; as for the saints in heaven they
   need it not, being entirely without sin; and as for the wicked in hell,
   they are in utter despair, and not capable of repentance unto life, and
   unto salvation not to be repented of, and though there is weeping and
   wailing there, yet no repentance; hence the rich man in hell was so
   solicitous to have Lazarus sent to his brethren living, hoping, that by
   means of one that came to them from the dead to warn them of the place
   of torment, they would repent, as well knowing they never would if not
   in the present life, and before they came into the place where he was;
   and therefore repentance is not to be procrastinated.

   4. The Author, and cause, and means of repentance.

   4a. The Author and efficient cause of it is not man himself, but God;
   "then hath God also granted repentance to the Gentiles" (Acts 11:18),
   it is not in the power of man to repent of himself, for he is by nature
   blind, and has no sight and sense of sin; his understanding is darkened
   with respect unto it, and he is darkness itself till made light in the
   Lord; and until he has a sight and sense of sin he can never truly
   repent of it; his heart is hard and obdurate, his heart is an heart of
   stone, and he cannot really repent of sin until that stony heart is
   taken away, and an heart of flesh is given; and whenever he becomes
   sensible of his need of repentance, he prays to God for it, saying,
   "Turn thou me, and I shall be turned": nor do exhortations to
   repentance suppose it in the power of man to repent of himself; since
   these are only designed to bring him to a sense of his need of it, and
   of his obligation to it, and of his impotence to it of himself through
   the hardness of his heart, and to direct him to seek it of God, who
   only can give it; for,

   4b. Though God may give men space to repent, yet if he does not give
   the grace of repentance, they never will repent. Thus he gave space to
   the old world, threatened with a flood, which some think is meant by
   the one hundred and twenty years allowed them, when the longsuffering
   of God waited in the times of Noah, while the ark was preparing, but
   without effect; so Jezebel, or Antichrist, is said to have "space"
   given her "to repent of her fornication, and she repented not" (Rev.
   2:21), and this God sometimes gives to the children of men to show his
   sovereignty, that he will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and
   give repentance to whom he pleases; and for the sake of his elect, not
   willing that any of them should perish, but that they should all come
   to repentance, and therefore his longsuffering towards them is
   salvation; and this also he sometimes gives to show his forbearance of
   the vessels of wrath, and to leave them inexcusable. Nay,

   4c. Though some men have the means of repentance, yet grace not being
   given them of God they repent not; the word, unless attended with
   power, is ineffectual; the most severe judgments inflicted on men are
   insufficient, as the plagues on Pharaoh, whose heart was the worse and
   more hardened under them (Ex. 11:10), and though the children of Israel
   were smitten with famine, with the pestilence, and with the sword, yet
   they repented not, nor returned unto the Lord (Amos 4:6-11), so the
   fourth and fifth vials poured forth on men, which will scorch and fill
   them with pains and sores, instead of repenting of their deeds they
   will blaspheme the God of heaven and his name (Rev. 16:8-11). And on
   the other hand, the greatest instances of mercy and goodness to men,
   and singular deliverances wrought for them, which should, and one would
   think would, lead men to repentance, and yet they do not (Rom. 2:4, 5;
   Rev. 9:20, 21), yea the most powerful and awakening ministry that a man
   can sit under, has no influence on the minds of men to bring them to
   repentance, without the power and grace of God; such as was the
   ministry of John the Baptist, who was the voice of one crying in the
   wilderness, preaching in a loud, vehement, and powerful manner, the
   baptism of repentance; and yet though some publicans and harlots
   believed, the Pharisees repented not afterwards that they might believe
   (Matthew 21:32), our Lord spake as one having authority, yet few
   believed; and many cities where he preached, and mighty works were done
   by him, yet repented not; and if one was to rise from the dead, and
   describe all the happiness of the blissful state of the saints in
   heaven he was capable of, or paint all the horrors of the damned in
   hell, it would have no effect, neither to allure nor frighten to
   repentance, or bring men to it, without the exertion of powerful and
   efficacious grace (Luke 16:31).

   4d. The sole efficient cause and author of repentance is God, Father,
   Son, and Spirit. God the Father, "if God peradventure will give them
   repentance" (2 Tim. 2:25). Christ, the Son of God, as mediator, is
   exalted "to give repentance unto Israel, and forgiveness of sins" (Acts
   5:31), and the Spirit of God reproves for sin, convinces of it, and
   works repentance for it (John 16:8).

   4e. The moving cause of it is the free grace of God; it is a grant and
   favour from him, a gift of Christ, which he, as a prince and a savior
   bestows (Acts 11:18; 5:31), and an operation of the power and grace of
   the Spirit of God, and entirely flows from the sovereign will and mercy
   of God, "who hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he
   hardeneth" (Rom. 9:18), not giving grace to repent.

   4f. The usual means and instruments of repentance are the word, and the
   ministers of it; as faith, so repentance, comes by hearing the word;
   the three thousand were pricked to the heart, and were brought to
   repentance, through the ministry of the apostle Peter; and as all the
   apostles were ordered by Christ to preach repentance in his name among
   all nations, so they went forth everywhere, and God in and by their
   ministry commanded all men everywhere to repent; and when and where the
   command was attended with power it produced the effect; and so the
   apostle Paul declared to Jews and Gentiles, that "they should repent
   and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance"; and the hand of the
   Lord being with him, great numbers everywhere believed and turned to
   the Lord (Luke 24:47; Acts 17:30; 26:20).

   5. The effects and consequences of repentance; such effects as are
   evidences of it, and show it to be genuine; and such consequences which
   are salutary, and show the blessings of grace are connected with it.

   5a. First, the effects of it, which prove it to be genuine; such as the
   apostle mentions as fruits of godly sorrow (2 Cor. 7:11).

   5a1. "Carefulness" to exercise repentance in a proper way, and to bring
   forth fruits meet for it; carefulness not to sin any more in a like
   manner, or to live a sinful course of life, but to abstain from all
   appearance of evil; and carefulness not to offend God again, who had
   been so good and gracious to them.

   5a2. "Clearing of themselves"; not by denying the fact, as Gehazi, nor
   by extenuating and palliating it as Adam, but by an ingenuous
   confession of it, praying it might be forgiven, and that they might be
   cleansed from all sin by the blood of Jesus; so clearing themselves
   from the charges of hardness of heart, impenitence, and ingratitude,
   and of neglect of repentance when sin was discovered to them.

   5a3. "Indignation"; against sin, expressing their abhorrence of it, and
   of themselves for it, as Job did, saying, what have we to do with it
   for the future? being filled with a loathing of it, and with shame and
   confusion for it; (see Hosea 14:8).

   5a4. "Fear"; not of the punishment of sin, of the wrath of God, and of
   hell and damnation, which is the fruit of legal and not evangelical
   repentance; but a fear of offending God, and of his grace and goodness
   in forgiving their sins, and of him for his goodness sake (Hosea 3:5).

   5a5. "Vehement desire"; to be kept from sin, that they may not dishonor
   God, grieve their own souls, offend and stumble God's people, and bring
   reproach on his ways, doctrines, and ordinances; and that they might be
   indulged with nearness to God, communion with him, and fresh
   discoveries of his love to them.

   5a6. "Zeal"; for God and his glory, for his doctrines and ordinances,
   for the discipline of his house, and for the performance of all good
   works.

   5a7. "Revenge"; not on others but on themselves, and on their sinful
   lusts and corruptions, and on all disobedience, that their obedience
   might be fulfilled; striving against sin, acting the part of an
   antagonist to it, resisting even unto blood, not sparing but mortifying
   the deeds of the body, that they may live a holy life and conversation.
   But though these things are in a more peculiar manner applicable to the
   case of the Corinthians, yet they do more or less, and in a great
   measure appear in every repenting sinner.

   5b. Secondly, the consequences of repentance, even blessings of grace,
   which follow upon it, and are connected with it, being promised unto
   it, and what it issues in; by which it appears to be salutary, and
   answers some valuable ends, and is of the greatest importance; as,

   5b1. The pardon of sin; for though this is not procured by tears of
   repentance, by humiliation for sin, and confession of it, but by the
   blood of Christ only; yet to those who repent of sin sincerely, and are
   truly humbled for it, a manifestation and application of pardoning
   grace and mercy is made; and these two, repentance and remission of
   sins, are joined together in the ministry of the word, to encourage
   repenting sinners to hope in Christ for the forgiveness of their sin,
   who as he gives the one gives also the other (Luke 24:47; Acts 5:31),
   none that ever truly repented of sin and confessed it, but had his sins
   pardoned; such as forsake their sinful ways and turn to the Lord, he
   pardons and abundantly pardons; his justice to the blood and sacrifice
   of his Son, and his truth and faithfulness to his word and promises,
   leave no room to doubt of it (Isa. 55:7; 1 John 1:9).

   5b2. True evangelical repentance, which is God's gift, and a grant of
   his grace, is "repentance unto life" (Acts 11:18). It is not by
   repentance indeed by which men live spiritually, that is by faith in
   Christ; yet men begin to live spiritually when they are quickened by
   the Spirit of God, and have repentance from dead works given unto them;
   and though men by repentance do not procure eternal life, that is the
   free gift of God through Christ, yet true, special, spiritual, and
   evangelical repentance issues in eternal life, and is inseparably
   connected with it; though all impenitent sinners shall certainly
   perish, who by their hardness and impenitent hearts treasure up wrath
   against the day of wrath and righteous judgment of God; yet all that
   come to true repentance none of them shall ever perish, but shall have
   everlasting life.

   5b3. Evangelical repentance, the work of godly sorrow, is "repentance
   to salvation not to be repented of" (2 Cor. 7:10), it is not the cause
   of salvation; Christ is the captain, cause, and author of salvation;
   but the means through and by which God saves his people; as they are
   saved "through faith", so through repentance, and through both as "the
   gift of God", flowing from his sovereign grace (Eph. 2:8), as he "that
   believes" with the heart unto righteousness, so he that truly repents
   of sin "shall be saved" (Mark 16:16).
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   [6] e metanoia aute philosophias arche genetai, &c. Hierocles in
   Carmin, Pythagor. p. 166.

   [7] "Ultrices Curae", Virgil. Aeneid. 6.

   [8] "Caeteri autem resipiscere, id est, ad priorem mentis statum. vel
   ad meliorem mentem redire solent", Vallae Elegantiar. l. 5. c. 3.

   [9] Institut. l. 6. c. 24.

   [10] "Quem poenitet peccasse pene est innocens", Senecae Agamemnon; act
   2. v. 241. Another heathen calls repentance, "Omnium fortunatissimum
   factum", the most happy deed of all, Terent. Heautont. act 4. sc. 7. v.
   1.

   [11] Clemens of Alexandria, Stromat. l. 1. p. 310, had a notion that
   the devil being possessed of free will might be brought to repentance,
   which perhaps gave rise to the sentiment of Origen concerning the
   salvation of devils; but, according to Luther, free will is the
   greatest enemy to righteousness, and to the salvation of men; and if
   so, then certainly to the salvation of devils, and can be no friend nor
   of any service to them, Luther de serv. Arbitr. c. 211.
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  Chapter 5

    OF THE FEAR OF GOD

   The fear of God has so great a concern in divine worship, that it is
   sometimes put for the whole of it; and a worshipper of God is
   frequently described in scripture by one that fears him; and
   particularly internal worship, or experimental religion, as
   distinguished from an external observance of the divine commands, is
   expressed by it; for, according to the wise man, the whole of religion,
   experimental and practical religion, lies in these two things, to "fear
   God and keep his commandments" (Eccl. 12:13), and as worship itself is
   expressed by the fear of God, so the manner in which it is to be
   performed is directed to be in it and with it, for God is to be served
   "with reverence and godly fear"; (see Ps. 2:11; 5:7; 89:7; Heb. 12:28),
   concerning which may be observed,

   1. The object of fear, not the creature, but God the Creator. There is
   a fear due to men, "fear to whom fear"; that is, it should be rendered
   to whom it is due (Rom. 13:7 there is a fear and reverence due to
   parents from their children (Le 19:3; Heb. 12:9), which is shown by the
   honour and respect paid unto them, and the obedience yielded them (Eph.
   6:1, 2), and the argument from hence is strong to the fear and
   reverence of God the Father of spirits (Heb. 12:9; 1 Pet. 1:14, 17),
   there is a fear and reverence in the conjugal state, due from wives to
   their husbands (Eph. 5:33; 1 Pet. 3:5, 6), and this relation affords a
   reason and argument why the church should fear and serve the Lord her
   God, because he is her husband (Ps. 45:11), there is a fear and
   reverence which servants should show to their masters (Eph. 6:5), and
   if such masters are to be obeyed with fear, much more our Master which
   is in heaven; and this is the argument the Lord himself uses, "If I be
   a Master, where is my fear?" (Mal. 1:6), there is a fear and reverence
   which ministers of the word should be had in by those to whom they
   minister (1 Sam. 12:18), this is one part of that double honour they
   are worthy of, to be esteemed very highly for their work sake. Herod,
   though a wicked man, "feared John", that is, not dreaded him, but
   respected him, for he heard him gladly (Mark 6:20). There is a fear and
   reverence to be rendered to magistrates (Rom. 13:7), and especially to
   the king, the chief magistrate (Prov. 24:21), and if an earthly king is
   to be feared and reverenced, much more the King of kings and Lord of
   lords, "Who would not fear thee, O king of nations?"

   But then men are not so to be feared by the people of God, let them be
   in what character, relation, and station secret, as to be deterred by
   them from the service of God; "the fear of man too often brings a
   snare" in this respect. God is to be hearkened to, served, and obeyed
   rather than men of the highest class and rank; they are not to be
   afraid of losing their favour and esteem, and of gaining their ill will
   thereby, as the Pharisees, who, though convinced that Jesus was the
   Christ, confessed him not, lest they should be put out of the
   synagogue, loving the praise of men more than the praise of God: nor
   should they be afraid of the revilings and reproaches of men, and be
   intimidated by them from serving the Lord their God, but with Moses
   should esteem reproach for the Lord's sake greater riches than the
   treasures of Egypt; nor should they be frightened from a profession of
   religion, and from an attention to it, by the threats and menaces of
   men, and by all the persecution they may endure from them. They are not
   to be feared who can kill the body, but God is to be feared who can
   destroy both body and soul in hell; and such who fear men, so as to
   neglect the worship of God, are the "fearful" ones, who shall have
   their part in the lake of fire and brimstone (Matthew 10:28; Rev.
   21:8), if God is on the side of his people, as he most certainly is,
   they have no reason to fear what man can do unto them.

   God only is the object of fear, "Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and
   serve him"; that is, him only (Deut. 6:13; 10:20), this is the
   principal thing God requires of his people, and they are bound in duty
   to render to him; "Now, O Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of
   thee, but to fear the Lord thy God?" this is the first thing, others
   follow (Deut. 10:12 hence because he is so much the object of the fear
   of good men, he is called "fear" itself; so the "fear of Isaac" is used
   for the God of Isaac (Gen. 31:42), and by whom Jacob swore (Gen.
   31:53), who could be no other than the God of his father Isaac. In the
   Chaldee paraphrase [12] the word rchl' "fear", is sometimes put for the
   true God, as well as used of idols; and with some theos, the Greek word
   for "God", is by them derived from deos, "fear"; [13] and by the
   Lacedemonians "fear" was worshipped as a deity, and had a temple for
   it; [14] as Pavor and Pallor, fearfulness and paleness, were by Tullus
   Hostilius among the Romans; [15] but none but the true God is the
   object of fear. And,

   1a. First, He is to be feared because of his name and nature; "Holy and
   reverend is his name", particularly his name Jehovah, expressive of his
   essence and nature; "that thou mayest fear this fearful and glorious
   name, The Lord thy God" (Ps. 112:9; Deut. 28:58 a name peculiar to him;
   there is no name of God but is to be revered; and that by which he is
   commonly spoken of ought always to be used in a reverend manner, and
   not upon slight and trivial occasions, and with great irreverence, as
   it too often is, and when at every turn men are apt to say, O Lord! O
   God! good God! &c. especially men professing the fear of God should be
   careful of such language, for it is no other than taking the name of
   God in vain.

   1b. Secondly, God not only essentially but personally considered is to
   be feared, God, Father, Son, and Spirit; it is said of the Jews in the
   latter day, that they shall "seek the Lord their God, and David their
   king, and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days"
   (Hosea 3:5), where the Lord, who and his goodness will be feared by
   them, is Jehovah the Father, as distinguished from the Messiah the Son
   of God, and David their king, who will be sought for by them. So in
   (Mal. 4:2). "Unto you that fear my name", whose name is Jehovah, the
   Lord of hosts, "shall the Son of righteousness arise with healing in
   his wings"; even the Son of God, who is the brightness of his Father's
   glory, and the express image of his person, and so is distinguished
   from him whose name is feared. Jehovah the Son is also the object of
   divine fear and reverence, "Let him be your fear, and let him be your
   dread"; that is, the object of your fear and reverence; and what
   follows shows which of the divine persons is meant; and "he shall be
   for a sanctuary" to worship in, and a place of refuge for his people in
   times of distress; "but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of
   offence" (Isa. 8:13, 14), which phrases are applied to Christ, and can
   only be said of him (Rom. 9:32, 33; 1 Pet. 2:7, 8). Jehovah the Father,
   the lord of the vineyard, after sending many of his servants who had
   been ill used, says, "I will send my beloved Son", meaning Christ, the
   only begotten Son of the Father, it "may be, they will reverence him
   when they see him" (Luke 20:13), they ought to have done it: reverence
   should be given to him, the heir of the vineyard, his church, the son
   in his own house, whose house believers are, and therefore should
   reverence him. Jehovah the Spirit also is and should be the object of
   fear; the Israelites in the wilderness rebelled against him, and vexed
   him, and they smarted for it, for "he turned to be their enemy, and
   fought against them" (Isa. 63:10), lying to the Holy Ghost, which was a
   most irreverent treatment of him, was punished with death in Ananias
   and Sapphira; and saints should be careful that they "grieve" not the
   Holy Spirit by their unbecoming conduct toward him, from whom they
   receive many blessings and favors.

   1c. Thirdly, God, in his perfections and because of them, is the object
   of fear; as his majesty and greatness in general; God is clothed with
   majesty, and majesty and honour are before him, and "with him is
   terrible majesty", such as is sufficient to command an awe of him;
   particularly his omnipotence, for "he is excellent in power" (Job
   37:22, 23), as also his omniscience, for nothing can be hid from his
   sight; the most enormous actions committed in the dark are seen by him,
   with whom the darkness and the light are alike; and his omnipresence,
   from whence there is no fleeing, for he fills heaven and earth with it;
   to which may be added, the justice and holiness of God, which make his
   majesty the more terrible and to be revered, since he is not only
   excellent in power, but also "in judgment, and in plenty of justice"
   (Job 37:23; 2 Chron. 19:7), and a fearful thing it is to fall into the
   hands of a just and sin avenging God, the living God, the everlasting
   King, at whose wrath the nations tremble, and are not able to bear his
   indignation (Jer. 10:10).

   1d. Fourthly, The works of God make him appear to be a proper object of
   fear and reverence; his works of creation, the Psalmist on mention of
   them says (Ps. 33:5-8). "Let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the
   inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him"; who has made such a
   display of his greatness and goodness in them, as show him worthy of
   fear and reverence. The prophet instances in what may seem small, yet a
   most wonderful thing, and enough of itself to command an awe of the
   divine being; "Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? will ye not tremble at
   my presence? which hath placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a
   perpetual decree that it cannot pass it"; and at the same time the
   stupidity of the people is observed, who, notwithstanding the goodness
   of God in his works of providence towards them, yet were wanting in
   their fear and reverence of him: "Neither say they in their heart, Let
   us now fear the Lord our God that giveth rain, the former and latter
   rain in its season; he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the
   harvest" (Jer. 5:22, 24), which, though common providential blessings,
   yet are what should engage men to fear the Lord and his goodness; and
   especially God's works of grace should have such an effect upon the
   hearts of his people, as they have when they come with a divine power;
   particularly the pardoning grace and mercy of God; "There is
   forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared" (Ps. 130:4; Hosea
   3:5).

   1e. Fifthly, The judgments of God which he threatens, and sometimes
   inflicts, and the promises of grace he makes and always fulfils, render
   him an object of fear and reverence. The judgments of God on sinners
   are awful to the saints themselves, and strike their minds with fear of
   God; says David, "My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid
   of thy judgments" (Ps. 119:120), not as coming upon himself, but as
   terrible to behold on others; and these are dreadful and formidable to
   sinners, when they see them near approaching, who go into the holes and
   clefts of rocks, and into the caves "for fear of the Lord, and the
   glory of his majesty, when he ariseth lo shake terribly the earth"
   (Isa. 2:19, 21), and nothing has a greater influence on a filial and
   godly fear in the saints, and to stir them up to the exercise of it,
   than the free, absolute, and unconditional promises of grace in the
   covenant; thus after the apostle had observed such promises, strongly
   urges to "perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Cor. 6:16, 18;
   7:1).

   2. The nature and kind of fear.

   2a. There is a fear which is not good nor commendable, and it is of
   different sorts; there is an idolatrous and superstitious fear, which
   is called deisidaimonia, "a fear of demons", which the city of Athens
   was greatly addicted to, observed to them by the apostle when there, to
   their disgrace; "I perceive that in all things ye are too
   superstitious", or given to the fear and worship of false deities; such
   is all will worship, worship not founded in the word of God, which
   brings on a spirit of bondage unto fear; and all such false and vain
   imaginations which inject dread and terrors into the minds of men, and
   cause them to "fear where no fear is", or where there is no reason for
   it; such as the pains of purgatory after death, invented by the Papists
   to extort money from men; and the beating of the body in the grave, a
   figment of the Jews. There is an external fear of God, an outward show
   and profession of it, which is taught by the precept of men, as in the
   men of Samaria, who pretended to fear the Lord, as the priest
   instructed them, and yet served their own gods; and such an external
   fear of the true God Job's friends supposed was all that he had, and
   that even he had cast off that (Job 15:4). There is an hypocritical
   fear, when men draw nigh to God with their mouths and honour him with
   their lips, and their hearts are removed far from him; and when they
   fear and serve him for some sinister end and selfish view, which Satan
   insinuated was Job's case, "Doth Job fear God for nought?" and perhaps
   the same is suggested by Eliphaz, "Is not this thy fear?" (Job 1:9;
   4:6). And there is a servile fear, such as that of some servants, who
   serve their masters, not from love but from fear of punishment; and
   such a "spirit of bondage to fear", the Jews were much subject to under
   the legal dispensation; but now saints being "delivered out of the
   hands" of sin, Satan, and the law, they "serve" the Lord "without
   fear", without slavish fear and with a filial one (Rom. 8:15; Luke
   1:74, 75). And this sort of fear arises,

   2a1. From a sense of sin, and the guilt of it on the conscience,
   without a view of pardon; thus no sooner were Adam and Eve sensible of
   their sin and their nakedness by it, but they fled through fear from
   the presence of God, and hid themselves among the trees of the garden,
   as yet having no discovery of pardoning grace made to them; for said
   Adam to God calling for him, "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I
   was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself" (Gen. 3:10). Thus a
   wicked man, conscious of his guilt, flees when no man pursues, and is
   like Pashur, a Magormissabib, "fear round about", a terror to himself
   and others.

   2a2. From the law entering the conscience of a sinner, having broken it
   and working wrath in it; for the law, when it comes with powerful
   convictions of sin, and with menaces of punishment for it, "it worketh"
   present "wrath", or a sense of it in the conscience, and leaves a
   "fearful looking for of judgment" to come, and of "fiery indignation"
   which shall consume "the adversaries" of God; when persons in such a
   condition and circumstances would be glad of rocks and mountains to
   fall on them and hide them from the wrath of God, which appears to them
   intolerable.

   2a3. From the curse of the law, and the weight of it on the conscience.
   The voice of the law is terrible, it is a voice of words which they
   that heard entreated they might hear no more. It accuses of sin,
   pronounces guilty for it, is a ministration of condemnation and a
   killing letter; its language is, "Cursed is everyone that continueth
   not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them"
   (Gal. 3:10), which to hear is dreadful when the conscience of a sinner
   is awakened; but how much more terrible is it, when a sinner feels as
   it were in his own apprehension all the curses of the law upon him, as
   he does when "the anger of the Lord, and his jealousy/ smoke against"
   him, "and all the curses written in the lair lie upon him" (Deut.
   29:20), with what slavish fear must he be then filled?

   2a4. From a view of death as the demerit of sin; "The wages of sin is
   death", the just desert of it; sin is the sting of death, gives it its
   venom and fatal influence, and makes it that terrible thing it is; and
   some "through fear of death are all their life time subject to
   bondage", and are under a continual servile fear of it.

   2a5. From a dread of hell and everlasting damnation. This fear is of
   the same kind with that of devils, who believe there is one God and
   tremble; tremble at present wrath and future torment. So wicked men,
   who have a fearful apprehension of everlasting punishment, it appears
   to them greater than they can bear, as it did to Cain.

   2b. But there is a fear of God different from this and opposite to it,
   and may be called a filial fear, such as that of a son to a father; the
   scriptures call it eulabeia, and which is rendered "godly fear" (Heb.
   12:28), and the same word is used of the fear and reverence of Christ
   to his divine Father, who was "heard in that he feared", or "because of
   fear" (Heb. 5:7 his filial fear of his Father which lay in honoring
   him, in obedience to him, and in submission to his will, even when with
   supplications he deprecated death; and now a fear like this in the
   saints arises,

   2b1. From the spirit of adoption, who delivers the people of God from a
   servile fear, and gives them a filial one, by witnessing their sonship
   to them; "Ye have not received", says the apostle, "the spirit of
   bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption,
   whereby we cry, Abba, Father", and so are freed from a spirit of
   bondage which induces a servile fear (Rom. 8:17). They that fear the
   Lord are in the relation of children to him; wherefore their fear of
   him, which he takes notice of and regards, must be a childlike one,
   arising from their being put among the children, and their sense of it;
   and which seems to be implied in (Ps. 103:13). "Like as a father
   pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him", where
   they that fear the Lord in the latter clause answer to children in the
   former.

   2b2. From the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Spirit, which
   produces love to God again; "there is no fear", no slavish fear, "in
   love, but perfect love", a sense of the perfect, everlasting, and
   unchangeable love of God "casts out" such kind of fear; for the true
   fear of God is no other than a reverential affection for God flowing
   from a sense of his love; such do not dread his wrath, but desire his
   presence and communion with him, and say, "Whom have I in heaven but
   thee? and there is none on earth that I desire besides thee" (Ps.
   73:25).

   2b3. This filial fear is attended with faith and trust in God; it is a
   fiducial fear; hence they that fear the Lord and who trust in him, are
   characters put together, and which describe the same persons; and they
   that fear the Lord are exhorted and encouraged to trust in him (Ps.
   31:19; 115:11). Job was a man that feared God, and yet such was his
   faith and confidence in him, that he could say, "Though he slay me, yet
   will I trust in him"; and what a strong expression of his faith in
   Christ as his living Redeemer have we in (Job 19:25; 1:1; 13:15).

   2b4. It is a fear that is consistent with great joy in the Lord; "Serve
   the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling" (Ps. 2:11), and with
   the utmost courage and magnanimity of mind; it is a fearless fear; a
   man that fears the Lord has no reason to fear anything, or what any man
   or devil can do unto him; he may say as David did, "The Lord is my
   light and my salvation, whom shall I fear", &c. (Ps. 27:1, 3).

   2b5. Such a fear is opposed to pride and self-confidence; it is an
   humble fear, a diffidence of a man's self, placing his trust and hope
   alone in God; "Be not high minded, but fear" (Rom. 11:20), this is that
   "fear" and "trembling", or that modesty and humility with which the
   saints are exhorted to work about or employ themselves in things that
   accompany "salvation"; as knowing that "both to will and to do", the
   disposition and ability to perform any duty aright, are owing to the
   efficacious operation of the Spirit of God, and that it is by the grace
   of God they are what they are, and do what they do; they that fear the
   Lord are such who "rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in
   the flesh", declaring that when they have done all they can they are
   but unprofitable servants (Phil. 2:12, 13; 3:3).

   3. Wherein the fear of God appears, and by what it is manifested.

   3a. In an hatred of sin. "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil" (Prov.
   8:13), as nothing is more opposite to good than evil, nothing is more
   to be abhorred; it is to be hated with a Stygian hatred as hell itself,
   apostugountes> "abhor that which is evil" (Rom. 12:9), and a man
   that fears God, who has a reverential affection for him, will hate it
   as being contrary to him, "Ye that love the Lord, hate evil" (Ps.
   97:10), every thing that is evil is hated by such a man; as evil
   thoughts, which are only evil and that continually; the heart is full
   of evil thoughts, and out of it they daily proceed, and these are the
   object of a good man's hatred, "I hate vain thoughts", says David (Ps.
   119:113), and now as no one but a man himself is conscious of them and
   privy to them, to hate them shows that the fear of God is in his heart.
   Evil words are also hated by him; not only cursing, swearing,
   blasphemy, and all obscene and filthy language, but every vain and idle
   word, foolish and frothy expression, which comes out of his mouth when
   not on his guard, gives him uneasiness, as being displeasing to God,
   grieving to his Spirit, and what must be accounted for in the day of
   judgment; as "in many words" there are "divers vanities", the wise man
   opposes the "fear of" God unto them (Eccl. 5:7), and if evil thoughts
   and evil words are hated by such, then most certainly evil actions; and
   not only those of others, as the deeds of the Nicolaitans, the garment,
   the outward conversation garment spotted with the flesh, the filthy
   conversation of the wicked, but his own actions springing from corrupt
   nature, done by him contrary to the law of his mind; "What I would,
   that do I not, but what I hate, that I do" (Rom. 7:15), evil men and
   their company are abhorrent to those that fear the Lord, and are
   shunned and avoided by them; they choose not to have any fellowship
   with the unfruitful works of darkness, and the workers of them; society
   with them is a grief and burden to them, as it was to Lot, David,
   Isaiah, Jeremiah, and others, nay hateful to them: "Do not I hate them
   that hate thee? I hate them with perfect hatred" (Ps. 139:21, 22; Prov.
   4:14, 15). All evil and false ways, not only of immorality, but of
   superstition and will worship, are rejected with abhorrence by men that
   fear the Lord, and make his word the rule of their faith and practice.
   Wisdom herself, or Christ, has set an example, proving the truth of the
   assertion in (Prov. 8:13). "Pride and arrogancy, and the evil way, and
   the froward mouth, do I hate"; and wisdom is justified of her children;
   says David, who was one of them, "I hate every false way" (Ps.
   119:128), yea all evil doctrines, which reflect on the divine persons
   in the Godhead, on the free grace of God in man's salvation, on the
   person and offices of Christ, and the operations of the Spirit, are the
   object of the hatred and aversion of one that fears God; he cannot bear
   them that are evil, neither receive them into his house, nor wish them
   God speed. In short, everything that is evil in its nature, as sin is
   in every shape exceeding sinful, a breach of the law of God, contrary
   to his nature, that abominable thing his righteous soul hates, is also
   hateful to a good man, to a man that fears the Lord, and hereby the
   fear of the Lord is manifested by him.

   3b. It shows itself by departing from evil; "By the fear of the Lord
   men depart from evil" (Prov. 16:6; 3:7 not only from open and public
   sins, but from private and secret ones; Job was a man that feared God
   and eschewed evil, avoided and departed from it, as every wise man
   does; yea to depart from evil is understanding, this shows a man both
   to be a wise man and one that fears the Lord (Job 1:1; 28:28; Prov.
   14:16), yea such an one will abstain from all appearance of evil, from
   everything that looks like it or leads unto it; will shun every avenue,
   every bypath, that has a tendency to ensnare into it, taking the wise
   man's advice, "Enter not into the path of the wicked", &c. (Prov. 4:14,
   15).

   3c. The fear of God appears in men in not allowing themselves to do
   what others do, and what they themselves formerly did; so Nehemiah,
   speaking of some ill things done by former governors, says, "So did not
   I, because of the fear of God" (Neh. 5:15). Not that such who fear God
   are without sin; Job feared God, but was not free from sin; he was
   sensible of it, acknowledged it, and implored the pardon of it; but
   they cannot give themselves that liberty to sin that others do, and
   walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, and in a
   sinful course of life; they have not so learned Christ, and the grace
   of God teaches them other things.

   3d. The fear of God manifests itself by a carefulness not to offend God
   nor man; such study to exercise a conscience void of offence to both,
   and would willingly give no offence to Jew nor Gentile, nor to the
   church of God; and next to God they are careful that they offend not
   against the generation of his children, either by word or deed, and
   even to put no stumbling block before any, but fear the Lord their God,
   for to do otherwise would be contrary to it (Lev. 19:14). Nay, such are
   not only on their guard to avoid sin and give no offence by it, but
   they are in an opposition to it; the spiritual part in them lusteth
   against the carnal part; there are as it were a company of two armies
   in them fighting one against another; they strive against sin, acting
   the part of an antagonist to it, take to themselves the whole armor of
   God, and make use of it against it.

   3e. The fear of God in men is seen by a constant attendance on the
   worship of God, and by a strict regard to his will and the observation
   of it; the fear of God has so great a share and concern in divine
   worship, as has been observed, that it is sometimes put for the whole
   of it, both internal and external; such who fear the Lord cannot be
   easy in the neglect of the worship of God, but as they desire to be
   filled with the knowledge of his will, so to be found in the practice
   of it; and, like Zacharias and Elizabeth, to walk in all the ordinances
   and commands of the Lord blameless; and to fear God, and keep his
   commandments, is the whole required of man; and such who make a custom
   of it to forsake the assembling of themselves together to worship God,
   do interpretatively cast off the fear of God.

   3f. The fear of God is seen and known in men by their withholding
   nothing from God, though ever so dear unto them, whenever he requires
   of them; so Abraham, when he so readily offered up his son at the
   command of God, received this testimony from him, "Now know I", saith
   the Lord, "that thou fearest God" (Gen. 22:12); on the contrary, when
   men keep back a part from God of what he expects from them, as in the
   case of Ananias and Sapphira, it is a proof that the fear of God is not
   before their eyes and in their hearts.

   4. The springs and causes of the fear of God, or from whence it flows.

   4a. It is not from nature, nor is it in natural men; the want of it is
   a part of the description of corrupt nature, and of men in a natural
   state; "There is no fear of God before their eyes" (Rom. 3:18), it may
   be said of the heart of every natural man, what Abraham said of Gerar,
   "Surely the fear of God is not in this place" (Gen. 20:11), and which
   may be concluded from the wickedness that is in it, and that by what
   comes out of it; "The transgression of the wicked", discovered by his
   words and works, his life and actions, "saith within my heart",
   suggests this to my mind, speaks as plainly as well can be, it is au
   observation of David, "that there is no fear of God before his eyes"
   (Ps. 36:1).

   4b. It arises from the grace of God, it is a gift and grant of grace;
   "O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me", or
   "who will give such an heart?" (Deut. 5:29), none but God can give it,
   and he has promised it in covenant; it is a blessing of his grace,
   which he has provided in it; "I will give them one heart and one way,
   that they may fear me for ever. I will put my fear in their hearts,
   that they shall not depart from me" (Jer. 32:39, 40). In consequence of
   which promise and covenant,

   4c. It is implanted in the heart in regeneration; it is put there by
   the Spirit of God, where it was not before, and where it never could
   have been, had he not put it there, and it appears as soon in a
   regenerate man as any grace whatever; upon first conversion there is
   quickly found a tenderness of conscience with respect to sin, and a
   carefulness not to offend God; and indeed "the fear of the Lord is the
   beginning of wisdom" (Ps. 111:10; Prov. 9:10). No man is truly wise
   until he fears God, and as soon as he fears the Lord he begins to be
   wise, and not before; yea the fear of the Lord is wisdom itself; it is
   that wisdom and truth which God desires and puts into the inward and
   hidden parts of the heart (Job 28:28; Ps. 51:6).

   4d. The word and prayer are the means of attaining it; the fear of the
   Lord, as it is a duty, and expressive of worship, is to be learned;
   "Come ye children, hearken unto me", says David, "I will teach you the
   fear of the Lord" (Ps. 34:11). The law of God, and especially the whole
   of doctrine both legal and evangelical, is the means of learning it
   (Deut. 4:10; 17:19), and therefore is called the fear of the Lord (Ps.
   19:7, 9), but as a grace it is diligently sought after and earnestly
   importuned of God; the heart must not only be instructed but united to
   fear the Lord, and which is to be prayed for (Ps. 86:11; Prov. 2:3-5).

   4e. It is encouraged, promoted, and increased by fresh discoveries of
   the grace and goodness of God, "They shall fear the Lord and his
   goodness"; the goodness of God made known, bestowed, and applied,
   greatly influences the fear him (Hosea 3:5), especially an application
   of his pardoning grace and mercy, "There is forgiveness with thee that
   thou mayest be feared" (Ps. 130:4).

   5. The happiness of those that fear the Lord. There is scarcely anyone
   character by which the people of God are described, under which more
   promises of good things are made unto them, than this.

   5a. First, with respect to things temporal. Godliness in general, and
   this part of it, the fear of the Lord, in particular, has the promise
   of this life, as well as of that which is to come.

   5a1. It is promised they shall have no want, not of temporal good
   things, "O fear the Lord, ye his saints, for there is no want to them
   that fear him" (Ps. 34:9, 10), not of any good thing; that is, which is
   suitable and convenient for them, and God in his wisdom sees fit and
   proper for them; and rather than they shall want, he will do wonders
   for them, and open sources of relief they never thought of (Isa. 41:17,
   18; 43:19, 20).

   5a2. Though they may have but little of the good things of this world,
   yet "better is little with the fiat of the Lord, than great treasures
   and trouble therewith" (Prov. 15:16), this with the fear of God and
   with righteousness is better than great revenues without right, and
   better than the riches of many wicked (Prov. 16:8; Ps. 37:16).

   5a3. Yea wealth and riches are promised to be in the house of that man
   that fears the Lord, and that by humility and the fear of the Lord are
   riches, and honour, and life (Ps. 112:1, 3; Prov. 22:4), which can only
   be understood of some, not of all that fear the Lord; unless spiritual
   wealth, riches, honour, and life, are intended, since the fear of the
   Lord itself is the good man's treasure (Isa. 33:6), it is a treasure of
   itself.

   5a4. It is said that the man that fears the Lord shall eat of the
   labour of his hands, and he shall not only be happy, and it shall be
   well with him in his person, but in his family; his wife shall be as a
   fruitful vine by the sides of his house, and his children shall be as
   olive plants round about his table (Ps. 128:1-4).

   5a5. They that fear the Lord are in the utmost safety; in his fear is
   strong confidence, and they have no reason to be afraid of anything;
   they shall not be visited with evil, yea the angel of the Lord encamps
   round about them and protects, defends, and delivers them from all
   dangers and from all enemies (Prov. 14:26; 19:23; Ps. 34:7).

   5a6. The fear of the Lord prolongeth days, or adds unto them (Prov.
   10:27), which was always reckoned a great temporal blessing; the wise
   man says of a sinner, "though his days be prolonged", as they may be,
   and he not happy, "yet surely", says he, "I know that it shall be well
   with them that fear God, which fear before him" (Eccl. 8:12), be their
   days more or fewer.

   5b. Secondly, with respect to things spiritual, much is promised to
   them that fear the Lord, and they are spoken of as most happy persons.

   5b1. The Lord is said to take pleasure in them that fear him, as having
   the utmost complacency and delight in them, being his special and
   peculiar people, his Hephzibah in whom he delights, his Beulah to whom
   he is married (Ps. 147:11).

   5b2. They are accepted of him, and are acceptable to him; "Of a truth",
   says Peter, "I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in
   every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted
   with him" (Acts 10:34, 35), his person is accepted with him in Christ
   the beloved, and his sacrifices of prayer and praise are acceptable to
   him through Jesus Christ.

   5b3. The heart of God is towards them; he has a sympathy and fellow
   feeling with them in all their distresses, trials, and exercises; in
   all their afflictions he is afflicted, and he comforts and supports
   them; "like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them
   that fear him" (Ps. 103:13).

   5b4. The eye of the Lord is upon them for good; "the eye of the Lord is
   upon them that fear him" (Ps. 33:18), not only his eye of providence,
   which runs to and fro throughout the earth to show himself strong on
   their behalf, to protect and defend them, and to avenge himself on
   their enemies; but his eye of special love, grace, and mercy, is upon
   them, and is never withdrawn from them, but is ever delighting in them
   and caring for them (Ps. 103:11, 17; Luke 1:50).

   5b5. His hand is open and ready to communicate to them; he "gives meat
   to them that fear him", spiritual food, the blessings of his covenant,
   of which he is ever mindful; the comforts of his Spirit in which they
   walk who walk in the fear of the Lord; he gives them grace, fresh and
   rich supplies of it, and at last gives them glory; and in the meanwhile
   withholds no good thing from them, to support their faith, encourage
   their hope, and engage their trust in him and dependence on him.

   5b6. "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him"; the secrets
   of his heart's love to them, and of his gracious designs towards them,
   are disclosed unto them, by which he uses them as his most intimate and
   bosom friends; and he will show them his covenant, the blessings and
   promises of it, and their interest in them (Ps. 25:14), what is said of
   Christ the head of the covenant, is true of all the covenant ones in
   their measure (Mal. 2:5), to which may be added, that the Lord grants
   the requests and fulfils the desires of them that fear him, hears their
   cries and saves them (Ps. 145:19).

   5b7. They are remembered by him with the favour he bears to his own
   people, with his tender mercies and lovingkindness, which have been
   ever of old; he remembers them when in a low estate, and brings them
   out of it; he remembers his promises to them, and fulfils them; "a book
   of remembrance is" said to be "written before him, for them that feared
   the Lord" (Mal. 3:16).

   5b8. It is promised to them "that fear the name" of the Lord, that
   "unto" them "the Son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his
   wings" (Mal. 4:2). Christ the Saviour shall come and show himself with
   a discovery and application of pardoning grace and mercy; nay, one that
   "fears the Lord", though he "walks in darkness and hath no light", yet
   he is encouraged to "trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his
   God" (Isa. 50:10).

   5b9. "Salvation", a fresh view of interest in it, a renewed application
   of it, as well as the full enjoyment of it, "is nigh them that fear"
   the Lord (Ps. 85:9), for that is nearer to them than when they first
   believed, and had the fear of God first implanted in them, and were set
   a seeking after it, and had first hope of interest in it.

   5b10. Great and good things are laid up for such persons in the heart
   of God, in the covenant of grace, and in the hands of Christ, and in
   heaven; even a blessed hope, a crown of righteousness, and things which
   eye has not seen, nor ear heard of, nor has it entered into the heart
   of man to conceive of; "O how great is thy goodness, which thou hast
   laid up for them that fear thee!" (Ps. 31:19).
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   [12] Targum Jerus. in Deut. xxxii. 15. & Targ. Jon. in v. 18

   [13] "Dictum volunt qeon alii a nomine deoV, i.e. metus", Scapula.

   [14] Plutarch in Cleomone, p. 808. vol. 1.

   [15] Lactant. Institut. l. 1. c. 20.
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  Chapter 6

    OF FAITH IN GOD AND IN CHRIST

   Faith is another branch of inward experimental religion and godliness,
   for "with the heart man believeth unto righteousness"; and of internal
   worship, and without which external worship cannot be performed in a
   manner acceptable to God, for "without faith it is impossible to please
   him": there is no drawing nigh to God m any part of worship without it;
   if a man prays to God he must "ask in faith, nothing doubting"; for it
   is the "prayer of faith" that is availing and saving; if a man hears
   the gospel, unless the word is "mixed with faith" by them that hear it,
   it is not profitable; and both a profession of faith and the exercise
   of it, are necessary to a due subjection to the ordinances of the
   gospel. As to baptism, "if thou believest with all thy heart thou
   mayest", said Philip to the eunuch desiring baptism; and so for the
   ordinance of the supper, a previous examination whether a man has
   faith, and the exercise of it, are requisite to eating of it; and
   without this a man cannot discern the Lord's body, nor answer the ends
   and design of that ordinance; concerning which may be observed,

   1. The kind of faith to be treated of; for faith is a word of different
   use and signification, and there are divers kinds of faith.

   1a. It sometimes signifies the veracity and faithfulness of God; as
   when the apostle says, "Shall their unbelief make the faith of God
   without effect?" (Rom. 3:3, 4), yea faith sometimes signifies veracity
   and fidelity among men, and is no other than a virtue belonging to the
   moral law, and is one of the weightier matters of it (Matthew 23:23).

   1b. It is sometimes used for the doctrine of the gospel, the word of
   faith, which the apostle preached, though he once destroyed it as much
   as in him lay (Gal. 1:23), and is the faith once delivered to the
   saints, which they should earnestly contend for, and build up one
   another in (Jude 1:3, 20), so called, because it contains things to be
   believed upon the credit and testimony of God; and because it directs
   to the great object of faith in salvation, the Lord Jesus Christ; and
   because it is the means of ingenerating and increasing faith in men,
   for "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Rom.
   10:8, 17).

   1c. There is a divine and an human faith; a divine faith proceeds upon
   a divine testimony, upon the authority and veracity of God the
   testifier; an human faith proceeds upon the testimony of man, and upon
   the authenticity and truth of the witness bore by him; concerning both
   which the apostle John says, "If we receive the witness of men, the
   witness of God is greater", by how much the greater is his veracity and
   faithfulness; "for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified
   of his Son" (1 John 5:9), namely, that life and salvation are in him
   and by him; and to believe this witness, and to receive it within a
   man's self, is what is commonly called saving faith.

   1d. There is a faith of miracles which proceeds upon a revelation some
   way or other made by God to a man, which he believes; either that a
   miracle should be wrought by him, or should be wrought for him, for his
   benefit and advantage; of the former sort, and which is called "faith
   in God" (Mark 11:22, 23), the apostle is to be understood, when he
   says, "Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains" (1
   Cor. 13:2; Matthew 17:20; Luke 17:6), of the latter sort was the faith
   of the centurion, of the woman having an issue, of Jairus, and of the
   Canaanitish woman (Matthew 8:8, 10; 9:18, 20, 22; 15:28), and of the
   lame man at Lystra (Acts 14:9, 10). The one is called active, the other
   passive faith; and this faith of miracles, in the first times of the
   gospel, was common to good and bad men, to the true disciples of Christ
   (Matthew 10:1; Mark 16:17-20), and to Judas, and to false teachers
   (Matthew 10:1, 4; 7:22, 23).

   1e. There is what is called an historical faith, not because it is only
   giving credit to the historical part of the scripture, which is to be
   believed as well as other parts; nor because the scripture is read, and
   attention paid to it only as a common history or human testimony; for
   men, with this faith, believe it to be a divine testimony, and regard
   it as such; it may rather be called a theoretic faith, a speculative
   one, receiving all things in the theory but reducing nothing to
   practice; or a bare naked assent to the truth of what is contained in
   the word concerning God and Christ, and divine things; it is a faith
   common to good men and bad men; it must be and is where true faith is,
   and there can be no true faith without it; but if a man stops here and
   goes no further, it falls short of spiritual, special faith, or the
   faith of God's elect, and is no other than the faith of devils, and of
   bad men.

   1f. There is also a temporary faith, which continues only for a time,
   in some persons, as in the stony ground hearers, "Who for a while
   believe, and in time of temptation fall away" (Luke 8:13), this sort of
   faith differs from the former, in that it is not a mere assent to
   truth, but is attended with affection, joy, and gladness, as in Herod,
   who heard John gladly, and did many outward things (Mark 6:20 and in
   those the apostle speaks of, "who tasted the good word of God, and the
   powers of the world to come" (Heb. 6:5), all of a natural and
   superficial kind, arising from a principle of self-love, and from the
   novelty, harmony, and connection of truths, and from a false
   presumptuous hope of future happiness in consequence of their assent
   unto them; and so is different likewise from the faith of devils, who
   believe and tremble, but have no joy; and it differs also from true
   faith, because it is without the root of grace in the heart, and is
   loseable, is only for a time, for when trouble and persecution arise
   because of the word, such who have it, drop their profession of it;
   whereas where there is true faith, such do not "draw back", but
   continue "to believe" to "the saving of the soul" (Heb. 10:39).

   1g. There is a special faith, which is peculiar to God's elect, and is
   by some called saving faith, though strictly speaking salvation is not
   in faith, [16] nor in any other grace, nor in any duty, only in Christ;
   there is no other name but his under heaven whereby we must be saved;
   he only is the author of eternal salvation; and yet there are some
   things in scripture which seem to countenance such a phrase; as when
   Christ said to the woman who repented of her sins, and had the
   forgiveness of them, loved Christ, and believed in him, "Thy faith hath
   saved thee, go in peace" (Luke 7:50), unless the object of faith should
   be meant; and certain it is that salvation is promised to faith, and
   connected with it, "He that believes shall be saved", and is what faith
   issues in; true believers receive "the end of their faith, even the
   salvation of their souls" (Mark 16:16; 1 Pet. 1:9), and this is the
   faith that is to be treated of; and next will be considered,

   2. The objects of it, and acts of it on those objects. The objects of
   it are not bare axioms or propositions; for, as Dr. Ames [17] observes,
   the act of the believer does not terminate at an axiom but at the
   thing; for axioms are not formed, but that by them knowledge may be had
   of things; the principal term to which the act of a believer tends is
   the thing itself, which is chiefly regarded in the axiom; and so
   promises are not to be considered as objects unless in a tropical and
   metonymical sense, being put for the things promised; so the Old
   Testament saints, "not having received the promises", the things
   promised, "but having seen them afar off", that is, by faith, "were
   persuaded of them, and embraced them" (Heb. 11:12), nor even the
   benefits of Christ, or the blessings of his grace, no otherwise than as
   they are the "end" faith has in view in receiving him; he is viewed and
   dealt with as the object of faith in order to enjoy the good things
   which come by him: or they may be considered as motives encouraging to
   acts of faith on him, and are the fruits and effects of it received
   thereby from him. The proper and formal object of faith is twofold, God
   and Christ; God as the first primary and ultimate object of faith, and
   Christ as mediator is the mediate object of it, "Ye believe in God,
   believe also in me" (John 14:1).

   God is the principal object of faith (Mark 11:22; Titus 3:8; 1 Thess.
   1:8), which act of faith on him is not barely to believe there is a
   God, and but one; which is "credere Deum", and which the devils
   themselves believe; nor is it merely to believe whatever he delivers in
   his word, as prophecies, promises, doctrines, &c. this is "credere
   Deo", to give credit to God, believe what he says; but "credere in
   Deum," Medulla Theolog, l. 1. c. 3. f. 15. by believing to cleave to
   God, lean upon him, and acquiesce in him as our all sufficient life and
   salvation (Deut. 30:20), and so it is not merely to believe there are
   three persons in the Godhead, but to go forth in acts of faith and
   confidence on them, in things relative to our welfare and happiness
   here and hereafter. And,

   2a. First, on God the Father, "Ye believe in God", that is, in God the
   Father, the God of Israel, as distinct from Christ, for it follows, "in
   my Father's house are many mansions" (John 14:1, 2), and so our Lord
   further says, "He that believeth on me", that is, not on him only, nor
   does his faith stop and terminate there, "but on him that sent me",
   that is, on the Father of Christ (John 12:44 and it is also observed,
   that Christ was raised from the dead and had glory given him, that the
   "faith and hope" of his people "might be in God", in God his Father,
   who raised him (1 Pet. 1:21).

   2a1. On him as the creator, though not only on him as such; so runs the
   first article in the creed commonly called the apostles' creed, "I
   believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth"; to
   believe the creation of all things out of nothing by the word, even out
   of things which did not appear, is an act of that faith in God which is
   the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen
   (Heb. 11:1, 3), besides, a true believer in God fetches arguments to
   strengthen his faith in God, for relief, help, support, and supply from
   him with respect to things spiritual, as well as temporal, from his
   being the maker and creator of all things; "My help", says David,
   "cometh from the Lord, who made heaven and earth" (Ps. 121:1, 2), and
   it is a special act of faith believers are directed to under
   sufferings, to "commit the keeping of their souls to" God "in well
   doing, as unto a faithful creator" (1 Pet. 4:19 and so likewise on him
   as the preserver and savior of men, for he is "the Saviour of all men,
   especially of those that believe"; and therefore saints put their trust
   in him, the living God, as such (1 Tim. 4:10). But more especially,

   2a2. Faith is exercised on God the Father as the object of it, as
   having loved his people in Christ before the foundation of the world;
   that the Father, as distinct from Christ, has loved his people with a
   free, sovereign, unchangeable, and everlasting love, is certain; "Now
   God, even our Father, which hath loved us and given us everlasting
   consolation" (2 Thess. 2:16), of which they may be most comfortably
   assured, and may most firmly believe, by his appearing to them as he
   did to his church of old, saying, "I have loved thee with an
   everlasting love" (Jer. 31:3), by his spirit witnessing it to their
   spirits, and by shedding it abroad in their hearts, and giving them
   some feeling sensations of it, so as to comprehend with other saints,
   the height and depth, the length and breadth of it; by remembering to
   them his former lovingkindness, the favour he bears to his own people;
   and by acts of love done in eternity, as choosing them in Christ, &c.
   and by giving him for them in time, and by commending his love towards
   them through Christ's dying for them, while they were yet sinners; and
   by quickening them by his Spirit and grace when dead in trespasses and
   sins, and all because of the great love wherewith he hath loved them;
   and by drawing them with lovingkindness to himself, as well as by his
   word and oath, the two immutable things in which he cannot lie (Isa.
   54:9, 10). So that there is good and sufficient reason for the acting
   and exercise of faith, on the everlasting love of the Father; and what
   a strong act and expression of faith is that of the apostle with
   respect unto it; "I am persuaded", I firmly believe it, that nothing,
   "nor any creature" whatever, "shall be able to separate us from the
   love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord?" (Rom. 8:38, 39), this
   is to be "rooted and grounded in love" (Eph. 3:17).

   2a3. Faith is exercised on God the Father, as having chosen his people
   in Christ to grace and glory from the beginning, from everlasting,
   before the world began (Eph. 1:3,4; 2 Thess. 2:13, 14) this is the act
   of the Father of Christ, "Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God
   the Father" (1 Pet. 1:2), and this election of God is to be known by
   the gospel coming not in word only but in power, by being effectually
   called, for "whom he did predestinate, them he also called"; and by
   their having the faith of God's elect, for "as many as were ordained to
   eternal life believed" (Rom. 8:30; Acts 13:48), wherefore this may be
   most firmly believed, as it was by the apostle Paul, both with respect
   to himself and others, for which he blessed God, and gave thanks to him
   (Eph. 1:3, 4; 2 Thess. 2:13), and our Lord exhorts and encourages his
   disciples to "rejoice because their names were written in heaven" (Luke
   10:20), which supposes knowledge of it, and faith in it.

   2a4. God, as the covenant God of his people, is the object of their
   faith; the covenant runs thus, "I will be their God, and they shall be
   people"; and this is made to appear in effectual calling, when they who
   were not the people of God, not known to be so, are openly such; then
   it is God makes good his promise, "I will say, It is my people; and
   they shall say, The Lord is my God" (Zech. 13:9), as David did, "I
   trusted in thee, O Lord; I said, Thou art my God" (Ps. 31:14), and so
   may every believer say, and be assured, that this God is their God, and
   will be their God and guide unto death, for covenant interest always
   continues; it was a noble act of faith in the sweet singer of Israel a
   little before his death, "Although house be not so with God, yet he
   hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and
   sure" (2 Sam. 23:5).

   2a5. God, as he is the Father of Christ, so he is the Father of all
   that believe in him; "I ascend", says Christ, "to my Father and your
   Father" (John 20:17). So God, in the covenant of his grace, has
   declared himself, "and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my
   sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty" (2 Cor. 6:18), and as such
   faith is to be exercised on him with joy and wonder, saying, "Behold,
   what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be
   called the sons of God" (1 John 3:1), of the truth of which the
   leadings and witnessings of the Spirit are an evident proof, from
   whence he is called the Spirit of adoption; "for as many as are led by
   the Spirit of God", off of themselves to Christ, and by him to the
   Father, "they are the sons of God"; and who also "receive the Spirit of
   adoption, whereby they cry, Abba, Father; the Spirit itself beareth
   witness with their spirits, that they are the children of God" (Rom.
   8:14-16), so that their faith is grounded on good authority, on a
   divine testimony, true, sure and firm; this blessing of adoption is
   revealed to faith, the witness of it is received by it, and so
   believers become openly and manifestly "the children of God by faith in
   Christ Jesus"; for to "as many as receive him, to them gives he power",
   authority, right, privilege, "to become the sons of God, even to them
   that believe in his name" (Gal. 3:26; John 1:12), and henceforward it
   is enjoined them that in the exercise of faith they call God their
   father, and not "turn away from" him, by giving way to an evil heart of
   unbelief, but say to him, "Doubtless thou art our Father" (Isa. 63:16),
   and they are directed in all their addresses to God at the throne of
   grace to say, "Our Father, which art in heaven" (Matthew 6:9).

   2a6. God is the object of faith as a God forgiving iniquity,
   transgression and sin for Christ's sake; and in him he has proclaimed
   his name as such, and there is none like him on that account; he has
   promised pardon in covenant, saying, "I will be merciful to their
   unrighteousness, and their sins, and their iniquities will I remember
   no more" (Heb. 8:12). He has set forth Christ in his purposes to be a
   propitiation through faith in his blood for the remission of sin; and
   he has sent him to shed his blood to obtain it, and has exalted him as
   a Saviour to give it, and to him give all the prophets witness, that
   whosoever believes in him shall receive it; and he applies it to them,
   saying, Son or "daughter, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee;
   I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
   sake, and will not remember thy sins" (Matthew 9:2; Isa. 43:25). Hence
   upon such acts and declarations as these, the believer has sufficient
   ground to make God, as a forgiving God, the object, of his faith, and
   to call upon his soul and all within him to bless his holy name (Ps.
   103:1-3), such an act of faith David put forth on God as a forgiving
   God, when, having acknowledged his sin, and confessed it before the
   Lord, added, "And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin" (Ps. 32:5).

   2a7. Faith deals with God as a justifier; its language is, "Who shall
   lay anything to the charge of God's elect? it is God that justifieth"
   (Rom. 8:33; 3:30), and faith is exercised on him as he that "justifieth
   the ungodly"; and therefore not by works, nor on account of any good
   dispositions and qualifications in men; and they come to him not as
   workers, but as ungodly and sinners, and believe on him as justifying
   them without works, and that by imputing the righteousness of his Son
   unto them; "even as David, also describeth the blessedness of the man
   unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works" (Rom. 4:5, 6).
   Christ of God is made to them righteousness; and they are made the
   righteousness of God in him; that is, by his gracious imputation of
   Christ's righteousness to them: and thus God appears to be a just God
   and a Saviour: just, while he is "the justifier of him that believes in
   Jesus"; and as such he is the object of faith; what Christ the federal
   head of his people, in whom they are all justified, said, his believing
   members may say, "He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with
   me?" (Isa. 50:8).

   2a8. The God and Father of Christ is "the God of all grace"; it has
   pleased him, the Father, that all fulness of it should dwell in Christ
   as Mediator; he has made large provisions of it, and stored the
   covenant of grace with it; and is the author, giver, and implanter of
   all grace in the hearts of his people by his Spirit; and as he is able
   to make all grace to abound towards them, so he grants them a supply of
   it from time to time: now as such he is the object of faith; faith
   deals with him as such, and the believer applies to the throne of his
   grace, that he may obtain mercy, and find grace to help him in time of
   need.

   2a9. Lastly, God, as a promising God, is the object of faith, he has
   made many exceeding great and precious promises, and these are all yea
   and amen in Christ, and God is faithful who has promised, and is able
   also to perform; and though promises themselves are not, strictly
   speaking, the object, rather the things promised, yet especially a
   promising God is the object faith is concerned with (Heb. 10:23).

   2b. Secondly, God the Son is the object of faith; which faith lies not
   merely in believing that he is the Son of God, which is most certainly
   to be believed; it was not only the confession of the faith of Peter,
   "Thou art Christ the Son of the living God"; which faith, or rather the
   object of it, is the Rock on which the church of Christ is built, and
   against which the gates of hell shall never prevail; but it was the
   faith of all the disciples, and which they express with the strongest
   assurance; "We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son
   of the living God" (Matthew 16:16, 18; John 6:69 and it was with
   respect to this article that the eunuch expressed his faith in Christ
   previous to his baptism; "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
   God" (Acts 8:37), and all things relating to Christ, his doctrines, and
   his miracles, were written by the evangelists, "that men might believe
   that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God; and that believing, they might
   have life through his name" (John 20:31), but true faith is not barely
   a believing that Christ is the Son of God, but a believing in him as
   such; according to the question put by Christ to the blind man; "Dost
   thou believe on the Son of God?" (John 9:35). "And this is his
   commandment", the commandment of God, "that we should believe on the
   name of his Son Jesus Christ". And again, "He that believeth on the Son
   of God hath the witness in himself" (1 John 3:23; 5:10). Believing in
   him is a going forth in acts of faith and confidence, and is called
   "faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ" (Acts 20:28). Christ, as the Son
   of God, is the true God and eternal life; he is God equal with the
   Father, and as such is equally the primary object of faith; which is
   strongly expressed by Thomas; "My Lord and my God!" and therefore our
   Lord says, "Ye believe in God", in God the Father, "believe also in me"
   equally as in him, he being equal with him in nature, perfections,
   power, and glory. But Christ, as Mediator, Redeemer, and Saviour, is
   the mediate object of faith, or in and through whom men believe in God;
   thus the apostle Peter, speaking of Christ as Mediator, being
   foreordained before the foundation of the world; but made manifest in
   human nature in these last times for the sake of his people, described
   by him as such, "Who by him do believe in God" (1 Pet. 1:21). As Christ
   is the Mediator through whom all grace is communicated to his people,
   so it is through him that all grace is exercised on God, and
   particularly faith; "Such trust have we through Christ to Godward",
   says the apostle (2 Cor. 3:4). So believers reckon themselves "alive
   unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Rom. 6:11). Now faith in
   Christ as the Redeemer and Saviour includes in it the following things,
   and is expressed by a variety of acts, which show the nature of it.

   2b1. First, I shall consider the various parts of faith in Christ, or
   what is requisite to constitute it.

   2b1a. Knowledge of Christ is necessary to the exercise of faith on him,
   for "How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?" and if
   they have not so much as heard of him, they cannot know him, and
   consequently cannot exercise faith upon him; and "How shall they hear
   without a preacher" to make him known unto them? (Rom. 10:14). When our
   Lord put the question to the man who had been blind, "Dost thou believe
   on the Son of God? he answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might
   believe on him?" upon which Christ made himself known unto him, "Jesus
   said unto him, Thou hast seen him, and it is he that talketh with
   thee"; his eyes had been opened to see him, and his ears now heard him,
   and both being true in a spiritual sense he immediately expressed his
   faith in him, saying, "Lord, I believe", and as a proof and evidence of
   it, "worshipped him" (John 9:35-38). Previous to faith in Christ, as a
   Saviour, there must be knowledge of the want of him; as such a man must
   be made sensible of the sinfulness of his nature, and of the exceeding
   sinfulness of sin, and of the just demerit of it, and of the miserable
   state and condition it has brought him into, out of which none but
   Christ the Saviour can deliver him; and therefore he then applies to
   him as the apostles in distress did, saying, "Lord, save us, we
   perish!" (Matthew 8:25), he must be made acquainted with his impotency
   to save himself; that his own right hand, his works and services,
   cannot save him; that if ever he is saved it must be by the grace of
   God, through the blood and righteousness of Christ, and not by them; he
   must have knowledge of the fulness and abilities of Christ as a
   Saviour; he must have seen him full of grace and truth, as having all
   the fulness of the blessings of grace in him suitable to his wants,
   whose redemption is plenteous, his salvation complete, he being made
   everything to his people they want, and able to save to the uttermost
   all that come unto God by him; and he being just such a Saviour they
   need, and his salvation so suitable to them, they that know his name,
   Jesus the Saviour, put their trust in him; and the more ready they are
   to do this, as they are fully convinced there is no other Saviour; that
   salvation is in him, and in none else; that it is in vain to expect it
   from any other quarter from the works and services of the creature, and
   therefore determine upon it they shall not be their saviors; but say,
   with Job, "Though he slay me yet will I trust in him--he also shall be
   my salvation!" (Ps. 9:10; Job 13:15, 16). Hence knowledge being so
   requisite to faith, and included in it, faith is sometimes expressed by
   it (Isa. 53:11; John 17:3), both in spiritual knowledge and special
   faith, eternal life is begun, and with which it is connected; and so
   knowledge and faith are joined together as inseparable companions, and
   as expressive of the same thing; "And we have known and believed the
   love that God hath to us", are firmly persuaded of it (1 John 4:16),
   and some of the strongest acts of faith in the saints have been
   expressed by words of knowledge; "I know that my Redeemer liveth, &c. I
   know in whom I have believed", &c. (Job 19:25; 1 Tim. 1:12).

   2b1b. An assent unto Christ as a Saviour, enters into the true nature
   of faith; not a bare naked assent of the mind to the truth of the
   person and offices of Christ; that he is the Son of God, the Messiah,
   Prophet, Priest, and King, such as has been yielded to him by men
   destitute of true faith in him, as by Simon Magus and others, yea, by
   the devils themselves (Luke 4:34, 41).

   "Of all the poison, says Dr. Owen, [18] which at this day is diffused
   in the minds of men, corrupting them from the mystery of the gospel,
   there is no part that is more pernicious than this one perverse
   imagination, that to "believe in Christ" is nothing at all but to
   "believe the doctrine of the gospel!" which yet we grant is included
   therein.''

   Such a proposition, that Christ is the Saviour of the chief of sinners,
   or that salvation is alone by him, is not presented merely under the
   notion of its being "true", and assented to as such, but under the
   notion of its being "good", a suitable, acceptable, and preferable
   good, and to be chosen as the good part was by Mary; as being both a
   "faithful saying" to be believed as true, and as "worthy of all
   acceptation", to be received and embraced as the chiefest good. Faith
   is an assent to Christ as a Saviour, not upon an human, but a divine
   testimony, upon the record which God has given of his Son, and of
   eternal life in him. Some of the Samaritans believed on Christ because
   of the saying of the woman; but others because of his own word, having
   heard him themselves, and knew that he was indeed the Christ, the
   Saviour of the world: true faith, in sensible sinners, assents to
   Christ, and embraces him not merely as a Saviour of men in general; but
   as a special, suitable Saviour for them in particular: it proceeds upon
   Christ's being revealed "in" them, as well as "to" them, by the Spirit
   of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him as a Saviour that
   becomes them; it comes not merely through external teachings, by the
   hearing of the word from men; but having "heard and learned of the
   Father", such souls come to Christ, that is, believe in him (John
   6:45), not the doctrine of him only, but in him himself.

   2b1c. Knowledge of Christ as a Saviour, and an assent unto him as such,
   is attended with love and affection to him; faith works by love, love
   always accompanies faith, at least follows it; Christ is precious to
   them that believe; they love him, value him, prefer him, to all others
   as a Saviour; and every truth respecting Christ is not "barely assented
   to", but as they receive Christ, they receive the "love of the truth"
   with him.

   2b1d. True, spiritual, special faith in Christ includes in it a
   dependence on him, trust and confidence in him alone for everlasting
   life and salvation; it is a soul's venturing on Christ, resolving if it
   perishes it will perish at his feet; it is a resignation of itself to
   Christ, a committing its soul, and the important welfare and salvation
   of it into Christ's hands, trusting him with all, looking to him,
   relying on him, and acquiescing in him as the alone Saviour. All which
   will more fully appear by considering,

   2b2. Secondly, the various acts of faith on Christ, as described in the
   sacred Scriptures.

   2b2a. It is expressed by seeing the Son; this is one of the first and
   one of the lowest acts of faith, and yet eternal life is annexed unto
   it; "This is the will of him that sent me", says Christ, "that everyone
   which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life"
   (John 6:40), it is a sight of the glories and excellencies of Christ's
   person, of the fulness of his grace and righteousness, and of the
   completeness and suitableness of his salvation. It is a looking to
   Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, a view of him as altogether
   lovely, the chiefest among ten thousand. Faith is a light struck into
   the heart of a sinner whose understanding was darkened, yea darkness
   itself, till God commanded light to shine in darkness; by which, though
   first but glimmering, he sees himself a sinner, miserable and undone,
   without a Saviour, when Christ is held forth in the gospel to be looked
   at by him; that is a glass in which he is to be beheld, and where he is
   openly set forth crucified and slain for sinners; and so is the hope
   set before them, both to be looked at and to be laid hold on by them,
   who was typified by the brazen serpent set upon a pole by Moses, for
   the Israelites bitten by the serpents to look at and live (John 3:14,
   15). And not only sensible sinners are directed to behold the Lamb of
   God which taketh away the sin of the world, as John's hearers were by
   him; and are encouraged by the ministers of the word, who show unto men
   the way of salvation, to look to and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
   and be saved; but they are encouraged by Christ himself; who says,
   "Behold me, behold me", to a nation not called by his name, "look unto
   me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there
   is none else!" (Isa. 65:1; 45:22), which sight of him fills their souls
   with love to him, as the most lovely and amiable one, with eager
   desires after him, and an interest in him, signified by hungering and
   thirsting after his righteousness, and panting after his salvation. And
   this sight of Christ by faith is nigh, and not afar off; now, and not
   hereafter; and for a man's self, and not another; he looks to him not
   merely as a Saviour of others, but to him as a Saviour and Redeemer
   suitable for him.

   2b2b. Faith is a motion of the soul unto Christ; having looked and
   gazed at him with wonder and pleasure, it moves towards him; this is
   expressed by coming unto him; "He that cometh to me", says Christ,
   "shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me", which explains what
   is meant by coming, "shall never thirst" (John 6:35), which coming to
   Christ is upon an invitation given, encouraging to it; not only by
   others, by the Spirit and the bride, who say "come" (Rev. 22:17), and
   by the ministers of the word; "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to
   the waters; and he that hath no money, come!" and who, through the
   gospel trumpet being blown with power, and the sound of it attended
   with efficacious grace, they that are "ready to perish" come (Isa.
   55:1; 27:13), but also by Christ himself, who says, "Come unto me, all
   ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest!" (Matthew
   11:28), such souls come, being influenced and powerfully wrought upon
   by the grace of God; "All that the Father giveth me", says Christ,
   "shall come to me"; efficacious grace will cause them to come, will
   bring them to him, through all discouragements, difficulties, and
   objections, and which are all removed by what follows; "and him that
   cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37). This coming to
   Christ as a Saviour, or believing in him, is owing to the Father's
   teachings, instructions, and drawing; "No man can come to me", says
   Christ, that is, believe in him, "except the Father, which hath sent
   me, draw him", draw him with his lovingkindness, and through the power
   of his grace, and of his divine teachings; "every man therefore that
   hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me"; yea, this is a
   pure gift of his grace, "therefore said I unto you, that no man can
   come unto me except it were given unto him of my Father" (John 6:44,
   45, 65), and such souls come to Christ in a view of the blessings of
   grace, of righteousness, and strength, peace and pardon, salvation and
   eternal life; these are the goodness of the Lord, they flow unto him
   for with great eagerness, swiftness, and cheerfulness. For

   2b2c. This motion of faith towards Christ is expressed by fleeing to
   him; and such souls that believe in him are described as having "fled
   for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them" (Heb. 6:18), and by
   "turning to the stronghold as prisoners of hope", that is, to Christ,
   whose name is a "strong tower", whither the "righteous run" and are
   "safe" (Zech. 6:12; Prov. 18:10), fleeing supposes danger, and a sense
   of it; Christ is the city of refuge, the strong hold and tower, they
   are directed to; whither coming, they find shelter and safety from
   avenging justice and every enemy, a supply of wants, and ground of hope
   of eternal life and happiness; and thus being come to Christ various
   acts of faith are put forth upon him; such as the following,

   2b2c1. A venturing act of their souls, and of their whole salvation on
   him, like Esther, who ventured into the presence of king Ahasuerus,
   saying, "If I perish, I perish!" faith at first is such a venture of
   the soul on Christ, not knowing as yet how it will fare with it; yea, a
   "peradventure", perhaps there may be salvation in Christ for it; as
   Benhadad's servants said to him; "Peradventure he" (the king of
   Israel), "will save thy life"; reasoning in like manner as the four
   lepers did when ready to perish with famine; "Let us fall into the host
   of the Syrians; if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill
   us, we shall but die": so sensible sinners, seeing their perishing
   condition, resolve to venture themselves on Christ; if he saves them it
   is well, if not they can but die, as they must without him.

   2b2c2. A casting or throwing themselves into the arms of Christ, to be
   bore and carried by him as a nursing father bears and carries in his
   bosom a sucking child; so Christ carries the lambs in his arms (Isa.
   40:11), weak believers, who cast themselves and all their burdens, the
   whole care of their souls upon him; this sense h'mnhas (Num. 11:12),
   from whence comes a word which in many places signifies to believe (see
   Isa. 60:4 compared with Isa. 66:12). [19]

   2b2c3. A laying hold on Christ, who is "a tree of life to them that lay
   hold upon him" (Prov. 3:18), from which tree they may pluck and eat all
   the fruits of grace and life. Christ is the hope of Israel, and the
   Saviour of his people; and there is great encouragement for sensible
   sinners to hope in him, because there are mercy and plenteous
   redemption with him; and he is in the gospel set forth before them as
   the ground of hope "to lay hold upon" (Heb. 6:18), he is that Jew who
   sprung from the seed of David and from the tribe of Judah; and his
   righteousness "the skirt" ten men are said to "take hold of" (Zech.
   8:23), even the robe of his righteousness; which being revealed and
   brought near to faith, it lays hold upon and puts it on, as its
   justifying righteousness, seeing the insufficiency of its own, and the
   excellency of this. Socinus [20] treats such an apprehension of Christ
   by faith for justification as a mere human invention, and a most empty
   dream; but the true believer finds abundance of solid peace and comfort
   in it. As Adonijah and Joab fled and laid hold on the horns of the
   altar for safety, and under a consciousness of guilt; so a sinner,
   sensible of its sin and guilt, and of its own incapacity to make
   atonement for it, flees to Christ, and lays hold on his sacrifice, and
   brings this offering in the arms of his faith, and pleads with God that
   he would be propitious to him through it, and take away his sin from
   him. Faith lays hold on the covenant of grace, and upon Christ the
   Mediator of it, and upon the promises in it, which are yea and amen in
   Christ, and on the blessings of it, the sure mercies of David,
   redemption, justification, pardon, peace, reconciliation, and
   salvation, and claims interest in them. It lays hold on Christ for
   strength as well as righteousness; "Let him take hold of my strength",
   to enable him to exercise every grace, perform every duty, bear the
   cross of Christ, and persevere in faith and holiness to the end (Isa.
   27:5, 6).

   2b2c4. Faith is a retaining Christ, and an holding him fast; the soul
   being come to Christ, and having laid hold upon him, keeps its hold of
   him: it is said of Wisdom, or Christ, "happy is everyone that retaineth
   her" (Prov. 3:18), so the church having lost her beloved, and upon
   search found him, she "held him, and would not let him go", as Jacob
   the angel that wrestled with him until he blessed him (Song of Sol.
   3:4), which denotes not only an holding fast the profession of the
   faith of Christ, but a continuance of the exercise of the grace of
   faith on him; an holding to him, the Head, and deriving nourishment
   from him, a walking on in him as he has been received; a being strong
   in the grace that is in him, firmly believing its interest in him. It
   is expressive of strength of faith in Christ, and of great affection to
   him; for it is sometimes with difficulty it keeps its hold of him when
   things go contrary, and Christ has withdrawn himself and is out of
   sight.

   2b2c5. Faith is sometimes expressed by leaning on the Lord, and
   "staying" upon him, "the Holy One of Israel in truth"; and even those
   who walk in darkness and have no light, are directed and encouraged to
   "trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon their God" (Isa. 10:20;
   50:10), where trusting in the Lord, and staying on him, are manifestly
   the same; faith or trust in the Lord, is a staying or leaning on him
   for all supports and every supply; so the church is said to be "leaning
   on her beloved", while coming up out of the wilderness (Song of Sol.
   8:5), which shows consciousness of her own weakness, a dependence on
   his mighty arm, and an expectation of all supplies of grace and
   strength from him. But,

   2b2c6. The grand and principal act of faith, or that by which it is
   more frequently expressed is, receiving Christ; "as many as received
   him, even that believe on his name" (John 1:12), where receiving Christ
   is interpreted of believing on him. Christ is received, not into the
   head; for not all that say Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
   heaven; but into the heart; for it is with the heart man believes in
   the Son of God unto righteousness; and in it Christ dwells by faith. A
   soul made sensible of its need of Christ and his righteousness, and of
   salvation by him, comes down from self-exaltation and self-confidence,
   and "receives Christ joyfully", as Zacchaeus did.

   2b2d. Faith receives a whole Christ, not in part only, but in whole, he
   is "altogether", or "all of him lovely;" [21] the whole of him is,
   amiable in the sight of a believer, and acceptable to him. As the
   passover Lamb was to be eaten wholly by the Israelites, no part of it
   to be left, so faith feeds upon a whole Christ, Christ in his person,
   offices, grace, and righteousness. "Is Christ divided?" He is not, not
   in his person; he is but one, God manifest in the flesh; nor in his
   doctrines; nor from his ministers: nor from his ordinances; where
   Christ is received all are received.

   2b2d1. Christ in all his offices. Christ is received as the great
   Prophet in the church whom God promised to raise up, and has raised up,
   and sent to instruct his people; and by whom grace and truth, the
   doctrines of grace and truth, are come, and he is to be attended to;
   "hear ye him", not Moses, nor Elijah, but God's well beloved Son, by
   whom he has spoken his whole mind and will in these last days; and who
   himself says, "Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge
   rather than fine gold"; that is, his gospel published by him; and such
   who are spiritually enlightened in the knowledge of him by the Spirit
   of God, these receive the love of the truth; truth, with a cordial
   affection for it; receive the word gladly, with all readiness and
   meekness; they receive the ministers of Christ, and the doctrines
   preached and messages sent by them; which is interpretatively receiving
   Christ himself; "he that receiveth you, receiveth me; and he that
   receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me" (Matthew 10:40), And faith
   receives Christ also as a Priest, and the atonement which he has made;
   it views him as a merciful, faithful, and suitable one, who has made
   reconciliation for sin, put it away by the sacrifice of himself, and
   made full satisfaction for it, and by his one offering has perfected
   for ever them that are sanctified. Faith regards him and receives him
   as the advocate with the Father, as ever living to make intercession;
   as always at the golden altar, ready to offer up the prayers of all
   saints with his much incense; and by whom, as their great High Priest,
   saints offer their spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise, which
   become acceptable to God through him. And faith also receives him as
   King in Zion; "as ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord"
   (Col. 2:6), there seems to be an emphasis on that clause ton kurion,
   "the Lord"; one that receives Christ, a true believer in him,
   acknowledges Christ as his Lord and Head, and gives homage to him as
   such, saying, as the Church did, "the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is
   our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King, he will save us" (Isa. 33:22).
   Christ is received and owned by such, not only as a Priest, but as a
   Prince; not only as a Saviour, but as a Lawgiver; they take upon them
   his yoke, submit to his ordinances, and observe his commands; and walk
   as Zacharias and Elizabeth did, in all the commandments and ordinances
   of the Lord blameless.

   2b2d2. Christ, and all the blessings of grace along with him, are
   received by faith; such as adoption; as Christ gives a power to them
   that believe in him to become the children of God, they by faith
   receive this power, right, and privilege from him; and hence we read of
   "receiving the adoption of children", through the redemption that is by
   Christ (Gal. 4:5 and because faith receives it, believers in Christ
   become manifestatively the children of God. They likewise receive the
   blessing from the Lord, even a justifying righteousness from the God of
   their salvation. They receive abundance of grace, and the gift of
   righteousness, by and from Christ, by which they are justified from all
   things, and put it on as their robe of righteousness, and glory in it.
   By faith they receive the pardon of their sins; as Christ is exalted as
   a Prince and a Saviour to "give" repentance to Israel, and "forgiveness
   of sins", so whosoever believes in him shall "receive remission of
   sins" (Acts 5:31; 10:43), and that upon the foot of atonement made by
   him; hence they are said to "receive the atonement" (Rom. 5:11), by
   faith they "receive" out of the fulness of Christ "grace for grace",
   all supplies of grace needful for them; as they want more grace, and
   God has promised it to them, and provided it for them in Christ; so
   they apply to him for it, and receive it at his hands; and as he gives
   both grace and glory, they receive both; grace as a meetness for, and
   as the earnest of glory: not only do they "receive" the forgiveness of
   their sins, but also "an inheritance among them which are sanctified by
   faith" (Acts 26:18), they receive grace from God the Father to make
   them meet for it; and as the Spirit is given as an earnest of it, they
   receive him as the earnest of the inheritance until they are put into
   the full possession of it.

   2b2d3. Christ is received as a free gift; he is the gift of God; "if
   thou knewest the gift of God" (John 4:10), and an unspeakable gift of
   his love he is, a gift freely given and unmerited; "God so loved the
   world that he gave his only begotten Son" (John 3:16), and he is
   received and owned as such; "to us a Son is given" (Isa. 9:6), and all
   blessings of grace are given, and freely given, along with him, and
   received as such (Rom. 8:32).

   2b2d4. Faith receives Christ in preference to all others; it receives
   him, and him only, as the one Lord and Head, as the one Mediator
   between God and man, and as the one and only Saviour of sinners; it
   chooses Christ, the good part that shall never be taken away, above all
   others: faith works by love to Christ in a stronger manner than to any
   creature object whatever; than to the dearest and nearest relation and
   friend whatever; than to father, mother, brethren and sisters, houses
   and lands; yea, he that loves any of these more than Christ is not
   worthy of him. Nay, faith prefers the worst things belonging to Christ
   to the best in creatures; the believer is willing to do and suffer any
   thing and everything for Christ; none of these things, as afflictions,
   bonds, and imprisonment for Christ's sake, move the believer from
   Christ, and its faith and hope in him; he esteems reproach for Christ's
   sake greater riches than all the treasures in Egypt, and takes pleasure
   in persecutions and distresses endured on his account; and even reckons
   his own best things, his highest attainments in knowledge and
   righteousness, but loss and dung in comparison of the excellency of the
   knowledge of Christ Jesus his Lord, and of his righteousness, in which,
   and in which only, he desires to be found.

   2b3. Thirdly, God the Holy Spirit is also the object of faith; though
   we read and hear but little of faith in him, yet as he is God equal
   with the Father and the Son, he is equally the object of faith as they
   are; not only his being, perfections, deity, and personality, his
   offices as a sanctifier and comforter, and his operations of grace on
   the souls of men, are to be believed; but there are particular acts of
   faith, trust, and confidence, to be exercised upon him; as he is truly
   God, he is the object of religious worship, and this cannot be
   performed aright without faith. Baptism is administered in his name as
   in the name of the other two persons, and this is to be done and
   submitted to by faith in him; he is particularly to be prayed unto, and
   there is no praying to him nor in him without faith in him; yea a true
   believer trusts in him for his help and assistance in prayer, as indeed
   he does in the exercise of every religious duty, and of every grace;
   and besides all this there is a special act of faith put forth upon
   him, with respect to salvation, as upon the other two persons; for as
   we are to trust in God the Father to keep us by his power through faith
   unto salvation, and to trust in Christ for the salvation of our souls,
   so we are to trust in the Holy Spirit for carrying on and finishing the
   work of grace in us, who is equal to it; we are to trust the whole of
   it with him, and be "confident of this very thing", as we may, as of
   anyone thing in the world, "that he", the Spirit of God, "who hath
   begun a good work in us, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ"
   (Phil. 1:6).

   3. The subjects of the grace of faith, on whom this grace is bestowed,
   and in whom it is, in some more in others less, in all like precious
   faith.

   3a. First, the subjects of faith are not angels, neither good nor bad.
   Not the good angels; they live not by faith on God and Christ as
   believing men do, but by sight; they are possessed of the beatific
   vision of God, and are always beholding the face of our Father in
   heaven, and are continually in his presence, waiting upon him and
   worshipping him, and enjoy complete and inexpressible happiness in
   their access unto him, and communion with him, and in the service of
   him. They are ministering spirits to Christ, always attend him, ever
   behold the glories of his person and the fulness of his grace; one part
   of the great mystery, of godliness respecting Christ is, that he is
   "seen of angels", and being "received up into glory", is the object of
   their vision continually (1 Tim. 3:16), much less are the evil angels
   the subjects of this grace. There is a kind of faith that is ascribed
   to them, the belief of a God, and that there is but one; "thou
   believest there is one God, thou dost well, the devils also believe and
   tremble" (Jam. 2:19), but then they have no faith on or towards God; no
   trust in him and dependence on him; they have cast off allegiance to
   him, and have rebelled against him; and much less have they any faith
   in Christ; for though they know him, and cannot but assent to the truth
   of things concerning him, yet can have no faith in him as their
   Redeemer and Saviour: and therefore they themselves very justly
   observed, "What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?" they
   had nothing to do with him as Jesus a Saviour, and could wish they had
   nothing to do with him as the Son of God, to whom all judgment is
   committed, and theirs also, and therefore dread him; but faith in him
   as a Saviour they could not exercise, for he was not provided as such
   for them; he took not on him their nature; he was not sent, nor did he
   come, to seek and save them, nor to die for them; when they sinned God
   spared them not, made no provision of grace for them, nor promise of it
   to them, but cast them down from heaven to hell, and has reserved them
   in chains of darkness to the judgment of the great day, to everlasting
   wrath and damnation; so that there is not the least ground for faith
   and hope in Christ concerning their salvation.

   3b. Secondly, Men only are the subjects of the grace of faith; and, not
   all men; "for all men have not faith" (2 Thess. 3:2), that is, special
   faith in God and Christ; there are but few [22] who have it; there are
   many who never heard of Christ, of his gospel, and of the way of life
   and salvation by him; "and how shall they believe in him of whom they
   have not heard?" And of those that have heard of him, and of the good
   news of salvation by him, "they have not all obeyed the gospel; for
   Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?" (Rom. 10:14, 16).
   There are some who do not belong to Christ, are none of his; and which
   is a reason why they do not believe in him; and is a reason which
   Christ himself gives, and a better cannot be given; "Ye believe not,
   because ye are not of my sheep"; they that are the sheep of Christ hear
   his voice, by which faith comes; they know him spiritually and
   savingly; they follow him, and yield the obedience of faith unto him
   (John 10:26, 27). There are some of whom it is said, "they could not
   believe", because they were left of God to the blindness and hardness
   of their hearts; and whose minds, by permission, the god of this world
   blinds, lest the gospel should shine into them, and so they believe not
   (John 12:39, 40; 2 Cor. 4:4). In short, none but the elect of God
   become true believers in Christ, and all these do, in God's due time,
   and through the efficacy of his grace; so it has been, and so it ever
   will be, until they are all brought to believe in Christ; "as many as
   were ordained unto eternal life believed" (Acts 13:48), for, the
   "belief of the truth", of Christ, who is the truth, and of the gospel
   of truth, that comes by him, is the means through which God has chosen
   men to salvation; and which is as certain to them thereby as the thing
   itself; for faith is given in consequence of this choice, and is
   peculiar to the objects of it; hence called the "faith of God's elect"
   (2 Thess. 2:13; Titus 1:1), such only are the partakers and subjects of
   this grace, who are regenerated, called, and sanctified. Such that
   receive Christ and believe in him are described as "born of God"; yea,
   it is asserted, that "whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is
   born of God" (John 1:12, 13; 1 John 5:1), whomsoever God calls by his
   grace with an holy calling, he bestows faith upon them; whoever are
   converted and turned to the Lord, believe in him; "faith" is one of the
   "fruits" of the Spirit in sanctification (Gal. 5:22), none but such who
   are made spiritually alive believe in Christ; while men are dead in
   trespasses and sins they are "in unbelief", in a state of unbelief, as
   the apostle was before conversion, shut up in it till mercy is
   displayed in quickening and relieving them; there must be first
   spiritual life before there can be faith; hence says Christ, "whosoever
   liveth and believeth in me shall never die" (John 11:26). As well may a
   dead carcass fly, as a dead sinner believe in Christ, or have any will
   and desire to it. [23] Such only who are alive see and hear in a
   spiritual sense, and believe in Christ with a special faith, and shall
   never perish, but have everlasting life.

   3c. Thirdly, those who are the subjects of this grace of faith, it is
   different in them as to the degree and exercise of it, though it is in
   all "alike precious faith" as to its nature, objects, and acts; and in
   such is the "common faith", common to all true believers, of which they
   have a mutual experience; hence the apostle calls his faith, and the
   faith of the believing Romans, "the mutual faith both of you and me";
   yet as to the measure and degree of it, it is in some more, in others
   less; see (2 Pet. 1:1; Titus 1:4; Rom. 1:12).

   3c1. In some it is great faith; instances of which we have in the
   centurion, and in the woman of Canaan (Matthew 8:10; 15:28), and many
   great and heroic actions are ascribed unto it in (Heb. 11:1-40), though
   all its greatness, power, and efficacy, are to be ascribed to the
   Object of it.

   3c2. In some it is but small or "little faith"; in God, and in his
   providence, for the supply of their temporal wants; in Christ, as to
   his presence with and powerful preservation and salvation of them
   (Matthew 6:30; 8:26; 14:31).

   3c3. In others it is very little, "least of all"; it is like a grain of
   mustard seed, which is the least of all seeds (Matthew 17:20; 13:32),
   and as the apostle Paul calls himself less than the least of all
   saints, these are the least of all believers; the little ones, as
   Christ calls them, who believe in him; the lambs he carries in his
   arms; the smoking flax and bruised reed, the day of small things he
   does not despise.

   3c4. In these it seems to be next to none, and as if there was none at
   all; hence these words of Christ to his apostles, "How is it that you
   have no faith?" and again, "Where is your faith?" (Mark 4:40; Luke
   8:25), that is, in act and exercise; otherwise they had faith as a
   principle of grace in them, though so little exercised by them as
   scarcely to be discerned; yet little faith, even that which is the
   least, differs from no faith. Where there is no faith there is no
   desire after God, nor after Christ, nor after salvation by him, and
   communion with him; such neither desire him nor the knowledge of his
   ways; but where there is ever so small a degree of faith there is a
   panting after God, a desire to see Jesus, and to have fellowship with
   him, and a view of interest in him: where there is no faith there is no
   sense of the want of it, nor complaint of it, nor desire of it, and an
   increase; but where there is faith, though of the least degree, the
   soul is sensible of the deficiency of it, and complains of its
   unbelief, and prays for an increase of faith; as the poor man did,
   "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief" (Mark 9:24).

   3c5. In some faith is weak; in others strong: of Abraham it is said,
   that he was "strong in faith", and staggered not at the promise through
   unbelief; but "believed in hope against hope"; these circumstances
   showed the strength of his faith. But of others it is said, "him that
   is weak in the faith receive ye; but not to doubtful disputations"
   (Rom. 4:18, 20; 14:1). See an instance of strong faith in (Hab.
   3:17-19).

   3c6. Faith, as to its exercise, differs in the same individuals at
   different times; as in Abraham, the father of all them that believe,
   and who was so eminent for his faith; and yet what unbelief and
   distrust of the power and providence of God did he discover, as to the
   preservation of him in Egypt and in Gerar, which put him on undue
   methods for his security? and in David, who sometimes in the strongest
   manner expresses his faith of interest in God, and in his favour, and
   at other times was strangely disquieted in his soul, and ready to
   imagine that he was cut off from the sight of God: and in Peter, who
   not only strongly asserted his faith in Christ as the Son of God, but
   so confident was he, that though all men forsook him he would not; and
   yet, that night denied him thrice, intimidated by a servant maid and
   others!

   3c7. In some it arises to a plerophory (confidence), a full assurance
   of faith; as it is expressed in Hebrews 10:22 which signifies going
   with a full sail, in allusion to ships when they sail with a prosperous
   gale; so souls, when they are full of faith, as Stephen was, move on
   towards God and Christ in the exercise of it with great spirit and
   rigor, bearing all before them that stand in the way; being fully
   persuaded of the love of God to them, and that nothing can separate
   them from it, and of their interest in Christ, as having loved them and
   given himself for them; and therefore can say with Thomas, "My Lord and
   my God!" and with the church, "My beloved is mine and I am his"; but
   this is not to be found in all believers; and where it is, it is not
   always in the same plerophory, without any doubt, hesitation, and
   mixture of unbelief.

   3d. Fourthly, The seat of this grace, in the subjects of it, is the
   whole soul of man; it is "with the heart" man believes in Christ for
   righteousness, life, and salvation; says Philip to the eunuch, "If thou
   believest with all thine heart", &c. It has been a dispute among
   divines, whether faith has its seat in the understanding, or in the
   will, or in the affections; it seems to possess the whole soul, or the
   whole soul is in the possession of it, and according to its various
   actings faith has a concern in each faculty; as it lies in the
   knowledge of divine things, and presents truth to the mind, and is the
   evidence of things unseen, it has to do with the understanding; and the
   apostle says of it as such, "by faith we understand", &c. (Heb.
   11:1-40; 1:3), and sometimes the strongest acts of faith, even
   assurance of interest in Christ as the Redeemer and Saviour, is
   expressed by knowledge of him; "I know that my Redeemer liveth" (Job
   19:25), as it is an act of choice, preferring Christ, as a Saviour, to
   all others; and of affiance, trust, and dependence on him, it is an act
   of the will; "though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:--he also
   shall be salvation" (Job 13:15, 16), and neither of these acts can be
   without love to Christ, and a strong motion of the affections towards
   him, saying, "Whom have heaven but thee?" &c. Faith works by love.

   4. The causes of faith, from whence it springs, and how it comes to
   pass that any who are naturally in a state of unbelief, and shut up in
   it, should be possessed of this grace.

   4a. First, the efficient cause is God; hence it is called the "work of
   God" (John 6:29), which he works by his power and grace in the hearts
   of men; it is expressly said to be of "the operation of God" (Col.
   2:12), it is a very considerable part of the "good work" of grace,
   which is begun, carried on, and performed, by the Spirit of Christ; and
   from it the whole is denominated the "work of faith", which is wrought
   and finished with the "power" of God (2 Thess. 1:11), and it is also
   called "the gift of God", who deals forth to every man "the measure of
   faith" as he pleases (Eph. 2:8; Rom. 12:3). All the three divine
   Persons, Father, Son, and Spirit, are concerned in it.

   4a1. God the Father; as he is the "God of all grace", so of this: "No
   man", says Christ, "can come unto me", that is, believe on him, as it
   is explained (John 6:35), "except the Father, which hath sent me, draw
   him; and except it were given unto him of Father" (John 6:44, 45, 65;
   see Matthew 16:16, 17).

   4a2. The Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, has a concern in it, it is
   prayed and wished for, as from God the Father, so from the Lord Jesus
   Christ; and is obtained through the righteousness of God and our
   Saviour Jesus Christ; nay, Christ is expressly called, "the Author and
   Finisher of faith" (Eph. 6:23; 2 Pet. 1:1; Heb. 12:2).

   4a3. The Holy Spirit is, with the Father and the Son, the co-efficient
   cause of faith; not only faith is given by the Spirit, as it intends
   the faith of miracles, but the special grace of faith is reckoned among
   the fruits of the Spirit; and from hence he is called "the Spirit of
   faith", because it is his gift, and of his operation (1 Cor. 12:9; Gal.
   5:22; 2 Cor. 4:13).

   4b. Secondly, the moving cause of faith is, the free grace of God; it
   is not of men themselves, the produce of their free will, and power;
   but it is "the gift of God"; a gift of his pure grace, unmerited, and
   unmoved to it by anything in the creature; hence those that believe are
   said to have "believed through grace"; it is a fruit of electing grace,
   and flows from that; the same grace that moved God to ordain any of the
   sons of men to eternal life, bestows the grace of faith upon them in
   consequence of it (Acts 18:27; 13:48), and this is owing to sovereign
   and distinguishing grace, according to which it is bestowed on some and
   not on others, as it seems good in the sight of God (Matthew 11:25,
   26).

   4c. Thirdly, the word and ministers of it are the usual means and
   instruments of faith in the hand of God, and are used by him; the end
   of the word being written is, that men "might believe that Jesus is the
   Christ the Son of God" (John 20:31), and the word preached is, the word
   of faith; and so called, with other reasons, because faith comes by it
   (Rom. 10:8, 17), this has often been the effect and consequence of
   hearing the word preached (Acts 17:4; 18:8), and the ministers of it
   are the instruments by whom and through whose word, doctrine, and
   ministry, others believe (John 1:17, 20; 1 Cor. 3:5), but this is only
   when it is attended with the power and Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:4, 5).

   5. The effects of it, or the various things which are ascribed unto it
   in some sense or another, which show the usefulness and importance of
   this grace. As,

   5a. First, various blessings of grace are attributed to it; and with
   which it is, on some account or another, connected; by it access is had
   unto them, and an enjoyment of them, and comfort from them.

   5a1. Justification; hence we read of being "justified by faith" (Rom.
   3:30; 5:1; Gal. 2:16; 3:8), not by it, or through it, as a work of
   righteousness done by men, for then they would be justified and saved
   by works contrary to the Scriptures (Rom. 4:2, 6; Titus 3:5). Nor as a
   grace of the Spirit of God wrought in men; for that is a part and
   branch of sanctification; and would tend to confound justification and
   sanctification, which are two distinct things; the one an act of God's
   grace towards men, the other a work of his grace in them: nor as a
   cause of it; for it is "God", and not faith that "justifies" (Rom.
   8:33), for though men are said to be justified by faith, yet faith is
   never said to justify them: nor as a condition of justification; for
   God "justifies the ungodly" (Rom. 4:5), nor as a motive; for that is
   the free grace of God; "being justified freely by his grace" (Rom.
   3:24), nor as the matter of it; that is the righteousness of Christ:
   faith and righteousness are two different things, and are frequently
   distinguished; that by which men are justified are the obedience and
   blood of Christ (Rom. 5:9, 19), but faith is neither of them; faith is
   a man's own, but justifying righteousness is another's; "not having on
   mine own righteousness" (Phil. 3:9), faith is imperfect; but the
   righteousness by which men are justified is perfect, or it cannot be
   reckoned righteousness (Deut. 6:25), it is not the to, "credere", or
   act of faith, but the object who, or what, is believed in, that is
   imputed for righteousness; it is Christ and his righteousness, the
   object of faith, by which men are justified; faith objectively, or the
   object of faith, Christ, who is sometimes called faith (Gal. 3:23), he
   is made righteousness unto them; faith only relatively considered, as
   it relates to Christ, receives the blessing of his justifying
   righteousness from him, being revealed from faith to faith, and given
   to it, and put into its hands; which faith puts on as a robe of
   righteousness, and rejoices and glories in it.

   5a2. Adoption; faith, as before observed, receives the adoption of
   children from Christ, the power he gives to become the children of God;
   and therefore said to be, "the children of God by faith in Christ
   Jesus" (Gal. 3:26), that is, manifestatively; faith does not make them
   the children of God, but makes them appear to be such.

   5a3. The remission of sins; "God has set forth Christ to be a
   propitiation, through faith in his blood, for the remission of sins"
   (Rom. 3:25), not that faith has any virtue or merit in it to procure
   it: nor is it for the sake of faith that God forgives sins; but for his
   own name's sake, for Christ's sake, whose blood was shed for it; but
   faith receives the remission of sins, as flowing from the grace of God
   through the blood of Christ (Acts 10:43).

   5a4. Sanctification and purification are ascribed to faith. So it is
   said of such that receive the forgiveness of sins, that they also
   receive an inheritance "among them which are sanctified by faith that
   is in me", in Christ (Acts 26:18), and again, "purifying their hearts
   by faith" (Acts 15:9), not that faith has such virtue in it as to
   sanctify and purify from sin; but as it has to do with the blood of
   Christ which cleanses from all sin.

   5a5. Eternal life and salvation are connected with faith; yea, it is
   life eternal to know Christ, that is, to believe in him; nay, he that
   believes in him "has everlasting life" (John 17:3; 6:47), not that
   faith is the procuring and meritorious cause of it; for "eternal life
   is the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord", and faith looks unto
   the mercy of Christ for it (Rom. 6:23; Jude 1:21).

   5b. Secondly, by faith souls have communion with God, with Christ, and
   with his people, in his word and ordinances.

   5b1. They have access to God at the throne of grace, and can use
   freedom, boldness, and confidence with him, in asking of him what they
   stand in need of; "in whom", says the apostle, "we have boldness and
   access with confidence by the faith of him"; that is, by faith in
   Christ (Eph. 3:12). Christ is the way of access to God; there is no
   coming to him but by Christ the Mediator, and by faith in him; faith
   gives freedom and boldness to speak to God; faith presents Christ's
   righteousness, pleads his blood, and brings his sacrifice in its arms,
   and boldly enters into the holiest of all thereby; and goes to God,
   even up to his seat, and lays hold on him, and claims interest in him,
   and will not go without a blessing.

   5b2. The inhabitation of Christ in the hearts of his people is through
   faith; the apostle prayed for the Ephesians, that, says he, "Christ may
   dwell in your hearts by faith" (Eph. 3:17), not in their heads by fancy
   and notion; but in their hearts by faith: there is a mutual indwelling
   of Christ, and believers in each other; he dwells in them by faith, and
   they dwell in him by faith; "he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my
   blood, dwelleth in me and I in him" (John 6:56 that is, who feeds by
   faith upon him; Christ and believers are not only inhabitants in the
   same house, and dwell under the same roof, but they mutually dwell in
   each other by faith, which is expressive of great nearness, intimacy,
   and communion.

   5b3. Believers feed and live upon Christ by faith; "he", says Christ,
   "that eateth me", his flesh and blood by faith, "even he shall live by
   me", a life of grace, which will issue in eternal life; yea, such as
   thus feed on Christ "have eternal life" (John 6:54, 57), and a most
   comfortable life this is, which a believer lives by faith on Christ,
   and so a very desirable one; "the life which I now live in the flesh",
   says the apostle, "I live by the faith of the Son of God" (Gal. 2:20),
   nor did he desire any other; a better and a more comfortable life
   cannot be lived in this world; "the just shall live by faith"; not upon
   his faith; but by faith on Christ (Rom. 1:17).

   5b4. It is by faith that believers stand, and walk, and go on
   comfortably in their Christian race; "thou standest by faith", in a
   gospel church state, in a profession of Christ, and in the enjoyment of
   his word and ordinances: "by faith ye stand"; keep your ground; turn
   not back, nor are moved from the hope of the gospel (Rom. 11:20; 2 Cor.
   1:24). "We walk by faith, and not by sight"; so did the apostle, and so
   he directs others; "as ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the
   Lord, so walk ye in him" (2 Cor. 5:7; Col. 2:6), go on believing in him
   till ye receive the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

   5b5. Faith makes Christ precious to souls; "to them that believe he is
   precious" (1 Pet. 2:7). Faith beholds the glories of Christ's person;
   the riches of his grace; the treasures and wonders of his love; which
   render him altogether lovely and the chiefest among ten thousands.

   5b6. "Faith works by love" (Gal. 5:6), both by love to Christ and by
   love to his people; the clearer views a soul has of Christ by faith the
   more it loves him; and the more closely it cleaves unto him, leans upon
   him, and embraces him by faith, the more its affections are drawn out
   to him; and the more it feeds on him by faith, and the more tastes it
   has of him that he is gracious, the more are its desires to him, and to
   the remembrance of him; and it cannot but love all that bear his image,
   and partake of his grace; these precious sons of Zion are precious to
   whom Christ is precious, and are the excellent in the earth, in whom is
   the delight of such, even such who are Christ's Hephzibah and his
   jewels.

   5b7. It is faith which makes the word useful and the ordinances
   pleasant and delightful. Where faith is wanting the word is of no use:
   "the word preached did not profit them, not bring mixed with faith in
   them that heard it" (Heb. 4:2), the word is compared to food, which
   though notionally received, yet if not heartily digested by faith, does
   not nourish; it is only when Christ is held forth, and seen in the
   galleries, and shows himself through the lattices to faith, that the
   ordinances are amiable and lovely, or when he is fed upon by faith in
   them; as the Israelites by faith kept the passover, a type of Christ
   our passover, sacrificed for us; so believers keep the feast of the
   Lord's Supper in commemoration of that sacrifice, and when they do it
   in faith, it is with joy and comfort, and to great usefulness.

   5c. Thirdly, there are various other useful things ascribed to faith,
   as the effects of it: as,

   5c1. It makes not ashamed. It is said, "he that believeth shall not
   make haste" (Isa. 28:16), after another Saviour, or to lay another
   foundation, being satisfied with Christ. In some places in the New
   Testament the phrase is rendered, "shall not be ashamed" and "shall not
   be confounded" (Rom. 9:33; 10:11; 1 Pet. 2:6), such who believe shall
   not be ashamed of their faith and hope in Christ; or of their
   profession of him; nor of the reproaches, sufferings, and persecutions
   they endure for his sake; nor shall they be confounded by any of their
   enemies; nor meet with a disappointment in their expectations here or
   hereafter (Ps. 22:5).

   5c2. It fills the soul with joy on hearing the word, the good news of
   salvation by Christ; so the jailer, on hearing the word of salvation
   preached, "rejoiced, believing in God" (Acts 16:31-34), and indeed, a
   sight of Christ by faith will fill a soul "with joy unspeakable and
   full of glory" (1 Pet. 1:8), hence we read of the "joy of faith"; for
   as faith increases joy does; wherefore the apostle prays that the
   Romans might be filled "with all joy and peace in believing" (Phil.
   1:25; Rom. 15:13).

   5c3. It is by faith that saints get the victory over Satan, and the
   world, and every enemy; faith holds up Christ, the shield, whereby it
   keeps off every fiery dart of Satan, yea, quenches them; though he,
   like a roaring lion, goes about seeking whom he may devour; yet the
   true believer so resists him, being stedfast in faith, that he cannot
   get an advantage over him, but is obliged to flee from him (Eph. 6:16;
   1 Pet. 5:9), and though the world is a very powerful enemy, yet "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?" (1 John 5:4, 5).

   5c4. It is by faith that saints are kept unto salvation, and are saved
   by grace through it. "Salvation" is the "end of" their "faith", and
   what it issues in; and they are "kept by the power of God through
   faith"; the power of God supporting their faith that it fail not, until
   they are brought "unto salvation", to the full enjoyment of it (1 Pet.
   1:5, 9), nor does this at all detract from the grace of God; since
   faith itself is a gift of grace, and gives all the glory to it (Eph.
   2:8, 9).

   6. The properties or adjuncts of faith, which may lead more into the
   nature and excellency of it, and serve to confirm what has been said
   concerning it

   6a. It is the first and principal grace, it stands first in order, and
   takes the precedence of other graces; "now abideth faith, hope,
   charity", which last, though the greatest, yet not as to quality and
   use, but as to quantity or duration; faith is not only of the greatest
   importance in duty, service, and worship, without which it is
   impossible to please God; but it has the greatest influence on other
   graces, it sets them all at work, and as that is in exercise so are
   they more or less

   6b. It is a grace exceeding precious, even the least degree of it; as
   it is in the least believer, it is "like precious faith", as to its
   object, nature, and acts, with that in the greatest; it is more
   precious than gold that perisheth, for richness, brightness, splendor,
   and glory; it makes poor men rich, and is more bright and glorious than
   pearls and rubies, and all desirable things; it is more valuable than
   gold, because that perishes, but this does not; and it makes Christ
   precious, or shows him to be so, to them that believe (2 Pet. 1:1; 1
   Pet. 1:7; 2:7).

   6c. It is but "one"; as there is but one Lord to be believed in, and to
   be subject to, so but "one faith"; as but one doctrine of faith, that
   faith once delivered to the saints, so but one grace of faith; though
   there are different sorts of faith, there is but one that is special,
   spiritual, and saving, the faith of God's elect; though there are many
   subjects of it in whom it is, and many are the acts of it, and there
   are different degrees, as to the exercise of it, yet the grace itself
   is but one and alike in all (Eph. 4:5; 2 Pet. 1:1).

   6d. Though faith is called "common" faith, common to all God's elect,
   yet every man has his own faith; "the just shall live by his faith",
   and not another's (Hab 2:4). The faith of one man is of no service to
   another in the business of salvation; and no further useful to another
   than for imitation and encouragement to believe also; hence we read of
   "thy faith", and "my faith", as distinct from one another (Jam. 2:18).
   Christ said to Peter, "I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not"
   (Luke 22:32), meaning his particular, personal faith; not but that
   Christ has the same regard to all his people, and equally intercedes
   for them on the same account.

   6e. It is true, real, and unfeigned (1 Tim. 1:5; 2 Tim. 1:5). There is
   an hypocritical faith, which lies only in profession, in saying that a
   man believes, when he does not, as Simon Magus; and there is a
   believing with the heart, even with all the heart, as the eunuch did
   (Acts 8:13, 37; see Rom. 10:9, 10).

   6f. It is a grace that cannot be lost; it flows from, and is secured
   by, the firm and immutable decree and purpose of election; it is given
   in consequence of that, and remains sure by it; it is a gift of God,
   and one of those gifts of his which are without repentance, is
   irreversible and irrevocable; it is confirmed by the prevalent
   intercession of Christ, and which he himself is the Author and Finisher
   of.

   6g. It is indeed but imperfect; yet may be increased; as knowledge is
   imperfect; "We know but in part"; so faith is imperfect; it has its ta
   usteremata, "its deficiencies", or something "lacking" in it, to be
   perfected by prayer to God, saying, "Lord, increase our faith"; by the
   ministry of the word, and by a constant attendance on ordinances; and
   sometimes "faith grows exceedingly"; (1 Thess. 3:100; 2 Thess. 1:3).

   6h. According to the apostle's account of it, "it is the substance of
   things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Heb. 11:1), it
   realizes things, and gives them a subsistence, and makes them appear
   solid and substantial; it brings distant things near, and future things
   present; it makes difficult things plain and easy, and unseen things
   visible and gives a certainty to them all.
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   [16] "Salus nostra proprie non nititur fide nostra, sed eo uno potius
   quem apprehendimus per fidem nempe Jesu Christo", Bezae Confessio
   Fidei, c. 4. art. 20. p. 51.

   [17] Medulla Theolog. l. 2. c. 5. s. 24.

   [18] On the Person of Christ, chap. x. p. 79.

   [19] Vid. Coccei. Lexic. Col.. 43. Witsii Oecon. Foederam, l. 3. c. 7.
   s. 22.

   [20] Deut. Servatore par. 4. c. 11. p. 239.

   [21] klv mchmdym. Cant. v. 16.

   [22] "Quae (fides) donum Dei est singulare et rarum", Luther de Servo
   Arbitrio, c. 92. p. 142.

   [23] "Nec minus difficile nobis fuerit velle credere, quam difficile
   fuerit, cadaveri volare", Bezae Confessio Fidei, c. 4. p. 18.
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  Chapter 7

    OF TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN GOD

   Trust and confidence signify the same thing, whether with respect to
   God or men: to trust in men, is to confide or put confidence in them;
   and so to trust in God is to place confidence in him; and generally in
   all places where to trust in God is mentioned, the Latin versions are
   to confide in him; and this being so near akin to faith, if not a part,
   yet at least a fruit of it, deserves next to be considered. And,

   1. What confidence signifies, and the sense in which it is sometimes
   taken, and to be treated of here.

   1a. First, it is sometimes used for a profession of religion, taken up
   in the name and strength of Christ, and with an holy resolution to
   continue it, and an holding it fast with courage and intrepidity;
   which, if supported and maintained, will issue well; hence it is
   advised not to "cast it away" (Heb. 3:6, 14; 10:35), a profession of
   religion is not to be taken up hastily, without due consideration of
   the nature and importance of it, and of the difficulties that attend
   it, and of the expense a man must be at to support it; to which
   reference may be had (Luke 14:27-33), and it is to be taken up, not in
   a man's own strength, but in the strength of Christ, on whom there
   ought to be a constant trust and dependence for supplies of grace to
   maintain it; and it should be made openly before many witnesses,
   without shame and fear; without being ashamed of Christ and his gospel;
   and without fear of men: and when it is taken up, should be held fast
   with an holy courage and confidence; to which many things induce; as
   the consideration of Christ, the great high Priest of our profession;
   and the faithfulness of God in his promises (Heb. 4:14; 10:23).

   1b. Secondly, it sometimes signifies that alacrity in which men engage
   in any branch of religious service, and continue in it with boldness
   and intrepidity, exercising faith and hope in God, that he will be with
   them in it, and carry them through it; as particularly in preaching the
   gospel of Christ boldly, as it ought to be spoken; thus says the
   apostle, "Many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by rest
   bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear" (Phil. 1:14);
   boldness in the ministry of the word is a necessary qualification for a
   preacher of it; this the apostle Paul was so sensible of, that he
   desires the Ephesians to pray for him that he might have "utterance
   given", and that he might "open his mouth boldly to make known the
   mystery of the gospel"; and this he did wherever he went, at
   Thessalonica, and other places (Eph. 6:19; 1 Thess. 2:2). Peter and
   John, though unlearned men, were taken notice of for their boldness and
   courage; who, notwithstanding the threats of the rulers, spoke the
   words of life to the people; declaring, that they ought to obey God
   rather than men (Acts 4:13, 18-20; 5:20, 28, 29), and so private
   Christians, in every branch of religious service, should exercise an
   humble boldness, and an holy confidence, and a stedfastness in all the
   duties of religion, knowing that though they can do nothing of
   themselves, yet, through Christ strengthening them they can do all
   things; trusting and placing their confidence in the Lord Jehovah, in
   whom is everlasting strength, and not fearing a lion in the way or in
   the streets; nor solicitous what will be the issue and consequence of
   their persisting in the way of their duty; of which trust and
   confidence Daniel and his companions were examples.

   1c. Thirdly, sometimes confidence with respect to God in prayer is
   designed. "In whom", that is, in Christ, "we have boldness and access
   with confidence by the faith of him" (Eph. 3:12), through Christ the
   Mediator, and faith in him, souls may come to God with great freedom
   and liberty, teal him all their mind, pour out their souls before him;
   especially they can do that when they are under the influences, and
   have the assistance of his Spirit; for "where the Spirit of the Lord
   is, there is liberty"; otherwise there is a straitness of soul, and
   saints are shut up that they cannot come forth in the lively exercise
   of grace; but they may come with boldness and intrepidity to the throne
   of grace, and ask such things of God they stand in need of, may look up
   and lift up their face, and show their countenance, as they are
   allowed, and indeed desired to do; nay, they may have "this confidence"
   in God, that "if they ask anything according to his will he heareth
   them" (1 John 5:14), all which arise from faith in the person, blood,
   and righteousness of Christ: it is through the blood of Christ saints
   have boldness to enter into the holiest of all, and in his
   righteousness to stand before God with acceptance, and wait in faith
   for success; and which holy boldness and confidence is consistent with
   reverence of God and submission to his will.

   1d. Fourthly, trust or confidence in God may be considered, as it has a
   connection with the grace of faith; faith is sometimes expressed by it;
   "Such trust" or confidence "have we through Christ to Godward" (2 Cor.
   3:4), it is at least a fruit and effect of it, what follows upon it;
   for when the grace of faith is wrought in the soul, it shows itself in
   trust and confidence in God, even when it has not a full persuasion of
   interest in him; "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him": some
   make it to be the form of faith, and of the essence of it; and that
   faith in Christ consists of these three parts, knowledge of him as a
   Saviour, assent unto him as such, and trust in him, or a fiducial
   application and appropriation of him as a man's own Saviour; hence it
   is commonly said by some, "fides est fiducia"; faith is confidence; it
   seems to be faith greatly strengthened; a strong exercise of it; such
   as in (2 Tim. 1:12). "I know whom I have believed" or "trusted"; if not
   a plerophory, and full assurance of it; and such a trust or confidence,
   which is so near akin to faith, and as it should seem a strong act of
   it, is what is to be treated of; and since it is so much spoken of in
   scripture, and so much recommended, and such instances of it, and so
   many happy consequences and effects of it, it deserves a distinct
   consideration. Particularly,

   2. The objects of it.

   2a. First, negatively; what are not the objects of it, and are dehorted
   from in scripture.

   2a1. Idols; trust in which, and in things belonging to them, may be
   called idolatrous and superstitious confidence; to have other gods
   besides the Lord, as idols, to worship them, and yield religious
   service to them is contrary to the first and second commands; and to
   trust in them is the height of folly and vanity (Ps. 115:4-8; Isa.
   42:17). Such pray unto, serve and worship, and trust in what can
   neither see them, nor hear them, nor help, nor save them. And as vain
   and superstitious is the trust and confidence of such, who place it in
   religious buildings, in temples made with hands; as the Jews, in the
   temple at Jerusalem; who, because it was called by the name of the
   Lord, trusted in it, it being the place where they met and worshipped,
   and in which they confided for present safety and future happiness (Jer
   7:4, 14). So the Gentiles gloried in their temples; as in the temple of
   Diana, at Ephesus; and of other idols in other places. Likewise all
   superstitious rites and ceremonies, which, though they have been in
   use, now abrogated; yet, if exercised, and especially trusted in, are
   condemned, as trusting in the flesh; as circumcision, &c. among the
   Jews; as well as a multitude of carnal and worldly ordinances among the
   Gentiles, which had a show of wisdom in will worship.

   2a2. Men; trust in whom may be called human confidence; and which is
   not to be placed, no, not in the greatest of men (Ps. 118:8, 9), even
   not in whole nations, strong and mighty. This was the sin of the
   Israelites, that they "trusted in the shadow of Egypt" to shelter and
   screen them from their enemies, and which was vain and unprofitable
   unto them; therefore, says the Lord, "Trust in the shadow of Egypt
   shall be your confusion" (Isa. 30:2, 3), all outward means for safety
   in times of trouble and danger are of no avail, and are false things to
   be trusted in; "Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will
   remember the name of the Lord our God"; that is a strong tower, where
   is safety and security; horses and armies, castles and fortresses, are
   vain things for safety; nor are they to be trusted in (Ps. 20:7; 33:16,
   17; Prov. 21:31), and in some cases the most intimate friends are not
   to be confided in for secrecy; "Trust ye not in a friend; put ye not
   confidence in a guide" (Micah 7:5). Neither are men to be trusted in
   for the health of the body, any more than for the protection of lives
   and properties; physicians may be made use of, but not to be confided
   in; Asa's sin was, "that he sought not to the Lord" for the cure of his
   bodily disease, "but to the physicians"; only, in them he put his
   confidence, to the neglect of the great Physician of soul and body (2
   Chron 16:12).

   2a3. Self is another object not to be trusted in, on more accounts than
   one; and trust in which may be called self-confidence; as when men
   trust in their wealth, and make gold their hope, and say to the fine
   gold, Thou art my confidence; trust in uncertain riches, and not in the
   living God; have no regard to divine providence, and a dependence on
   that; but foolishly fancy they have goods laid up for many years, and
   promise themselves great ease and pleasure; when that very night their
   souls may be required of them; and so very true is that of the wise
   man; "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall" (Prov. 11:18; see Jer.
   9:23). Nor should a man trust in his wisdom; since the way of man is
   not in himself; not even in civil, as well as not in religious things:
   nor is it in man that walketh to direct his steps; good is the advice
   of Solomon, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not to
   thine own understanding" (Prov. 3:5). Nor should a man trust in his
   strength; not in his natural strength, as Samson; nor in his moral
   strength, to perform that which is morally good, to do which he wants
   both knowledge and strength of himself; nor even the good man should
   not trust in his spiritual strength; since without Christ he can do
   nothing: nor should a man trust in his own heart; since he that trusts
   in it "is a fool" (Prov. 28:26), that being so deceitful and
   desperately wicked, and out of which so much wickedness comes. Nor
   should men, trust in their own works of righteousness done in obedience
   to the law of Moses; this is trusting in Moses, and resting in the law,
   as the Jews did; by the deeds of which there is no justification and
   salvation; such trust in themselves that they are righteous; but such a
   man's trust is no other "than a spider's web" (Job 8:14, 15).

   2b. Secondly, positively, the true and proper objects of trust and
   confidence are Jehovah, Father, Son, and Spirit, the true God, the God
   of our salvation; who is, or ought to be, the "confidence", that is,
   the object of the confidence of "all the ends of the earth" (Ps. 65:5).

   2b1. First, Jehovah the Father; both as the God of nature and
   providence, and as the God of all grace: as the former, men are to
   trust in him to uphold them in their beings, to give them all the
   necessaries of life, to preserve them in life, and to protect them from
   all enemies and dangers, and to enable them to do the work of their
   generation according to his will. And as the latter, to supply them
   with his grace, to give them more grace to help them in every time of
   need, to be their God and guide in life even unto death, and through
   it, and bring them safe to his everlasting kingdom and glory; and being
   satisfied of their interest in him as their covenant God and Father in
   Christ, they may be confident;

   2b1a. Of his love to them, and of the continuance of it; as God has
   graciously appeared to them, and told them that he has loved them with
   an everlasting love, and assured them that his "lovingkindness shall
   not depart from them"; they may trust in a promising God, and be
   confident "that he will rest in his love towards them"; and be
   "persuaded", as the apostle Paul was, or have a strong confidence, as
   he had, that nothing shall be able to "separate them from the love of
   God"; since he has given his word and oath for it, that though he
   afflicts and chastises them for their transgressions, "nevertheless his
   lovingkindness he will not utterly take from them" (Isa. 54:10; Zeph.
   3:17; Rom. 8:38, 39; Ps. 89:33).

   2b1b. Of the faithfulness of God in the fulfillment of his promises; he
   is faithful that has promised, and will never suffer his faithfulness
   to fail; nor any of the good things to fail of performance which he has
   promised; and this they may be confident of, since they flow from his
   love and grace, are made in a covenant ordered in all things and sure,
   and which he will never break; and since they are all yea and amen in
   Christ, most certainly performed in and by him, and for his sake; and
   since the performance of them does not depend on the faith of men, but
   on the faithfulness of God; the unbelief of men does not make the
   faith, that is, the faithfulness of God, of none effect; for though
   they believe not, he abides faithful

   2b1c. Of the grace of God to supply all their wants; of which they may
   be confident; since he is the God of all grace, the author and giver of
   it, the fountain and source of it, and of every supply of it; and since
   he is able to cause all grace to abound towards them, and his grace is
   sufficient for them; and since he has promised more grace unto them as
   they need; and has set up a throne of grace to come unto for it; and
   since it has pleased him the Father of Christ, and our Father in him,
   that all fulness of grace should dwell in him, that from thence grace
   for grace might be received; and who is a sun and shield, and gives
   both grace and glory.

   2b1d. Of his power to keep and preserve them to eternal glory and
   happiness: and of this they may be confident, since be is able to keep
   them from falling; and his hand is not shortened that he cannot save;
   his strength is everlasting, and never is any decay of it; and since it
   is certain that regenerated persons are "kept by the power of God
   through faith unto salvation"; to which salvation, glory, and
   happiness, they are called, and therefore may be assured that they
   shall enjoy it; "faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it"
   (1 Pet. 1:5; 1 Thess. 5:23, 24).

   2b2. Secondly, Jehovah the Son is the object of the saints trust and
   confidence: it is said, "Kiss the Son", the Son of God, the begotten
   Son of God; to whom it is said in the context, "Thou art my Son, this
   day have I begotten thee"; to whom worship, honour, and homage are to
   be given by the kings and judges of the earth; and it is added,
   "Blessed are all they that put their trust in him", the Son of God, the
   object of the worship and adoration of angels and men; he gives "grace
   and glory to his people, and no good thing will he withhold from them
   that walk uprightly"; and then it follows, as before, "Blessed is the
   man that trusteth in thee" (Ps. 2:12; 84:11, 12), the Targums or
   Chaldee paraphrases of which places are, "Who trust in his Word, or in
   the Word of the Lord", his essential Word; so of (Ps. 34:8, 22; Jer.
   17:7; see Eph. 1:12). Now trust and confidence are to be exercised on
   Christ, not merely as the second and instrumental cause of happiness,
   as says Socinus, [24] but as the first and sole cause of it, which he
   denies: being the Author, Cause, and Captain of eternal salvation;
   trust is to be put,

   2b2a. In the salvation of Christ, or in him for salvation: it is said
   of the Israelites, that "they believed not in God, and trusted not in
   his salvation" (Ps. 78:22), but true believers in Christ trust in him
   as a Saviour, and in his salvation, he being an able and willing
   Saviour, and his salvation suitable, complete, and perfect; nor is
   there salvation in any other; and therefore they say, as Job did,
   "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:--he also shall be my
   salvation" (Job 13:15, 16).

   2b2b. In his righteousness: a strong act of trust and confidence in
   Christ and his righteousness is exercised by the church in these words;
   "Surely shall one say", verily, or only, "in the Lord have I
   righteousness and strength" (Isa. 45:24, 25). Christ is with great
   confidence and strength of faith called, "The Lord our righteousness"
   (Jer. 23:6), and the apostle Paul, disclaiming all confidence in the
   flesh, and trust in his own righteousness, desired to be "found in"
   Christ and in his righteousness; the "righteousness which is of God by
   faith; that is, the righteousness which Christ has wrought out, and
   which God imputes without works, and reveals from faith to faith"
   (Phil. 3:4-9).

   2b2c. In the grace of Christ, and the fulness of it in him, for the
   supply of all wants; all grace, and the fulness of it, dwell in him;
   out of which saints in all ages have received an abundance of grace;
   and yet there is an overflowing fulness of it in him; and they may be
   confident that their God will supply all their need from thence; and to
   exercise such confidence is to "be strong in the grace that is in
   Christ Jesus" (2 Tim. 2:1).

   2b2d. In the power, might, and strength of Christ. Believers in Christ
   are ready to acknowledge their own weakness; yea, even to glory in it,
   "That the power Christ may rest upon them", overshadow and protect
   them; for when they are "weak", as they are in themselves, and are
   sensible of it, then are they strong, that is, "in the Lord, and in the
   power of his might"; and trust in him that he will enable them to stand
   their ground, and to get the victory over all their enemies; they are
   encouraged, as they are directed, "to trust in the Lord for ever; for
   in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength"; to help them in the
   exercise of every grace, and in the performance of every duty; to bear
   the cross of Christ, to fight his "battles, and to persevere" in faith
   and holiness to the end (2 Cor. 12:8, 10; Eph. 6:10; Isa. 26:4).

   2b3. Thirdly, Jehovah the Spirit is also the object of the trust and
   confidence of believers; as he is the Spirit of grace and of
   supplication: as the Spirit of grace, they trust in him to communicate
   more grace to them, to increase what is in them, and to draw it forth
   into lively exercise: and as the Spirit of supplication, in whom they
   confide for his help and assistance in prayer, and for his prevalent
   intercession for them, according to the will of God: and as the Spirit
   of counsel and might, to direct and guide them, and to strengthen them
   with all might in the inward man: and faith and trust in the Spirit of
   God, for the carrying on and finishing his own work of grace in the
   hearts of his people, is expressed by confidence of it (Philemon 1:6).

   3. The encouragement there is to trust in the Lord, and that for all
   things and at all times.

   3a. First, there is encouragement to trust in God for all things.

   3a1. All things are of him; that is, all good things in nature,
   providence, and grace: all good things in nature; "He gives to all
   life, and breath, and all things" (Acts 17:25), and all things in
   providence are at his dispose; "for of him, and through him, and to him
   are all things" (Rom. 11:36). And all things in grace; all the
   blessings of grace; as reconciliation, peace, pardon, righteousness,
   life, and salvation; "All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to
   himself by Jesus Christ" (2 Cor. 5:18), and all the gifts of grace,
   even "every good gift, and every perfect gift, is above, and cometh
   down from the Father of lights"; as regeneration, which is instanced
   in, with all the graces of the Spirit included in it, and come with it;
   as faith, hope, love, &c. (Jam. 1:17,18).

   3a2. All good things are promised by God to his people; the covenant of
   grace is "ordered in all things", and is full of exceeding great and
   precious promises, suited to the cases and circumstances of good men;
   godliness and godly men have the "promise of the life that now is, and
   of that which is to come"; and not one of the good things which God has
   promised ever fail; they are always fulfilled; the promises are yea and
   amen in Christ; they, and the blessings in them, are the sure mercies
   of David.

   3a3. God keeps back no good thing he has promised, and which his people
   need, and which he knows is for their welfare; "No good thing will he
   withhold from them that walk uprightly"; therefore it follows, "O Lord
   of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee!" that is, for all
   good things (Ps. 84:11, 12), they are bid to ask, and it is promised it
   shall be given; God is "nigh" to all that "call" upon him, and will
   "fulfil the desire of them that fear him; he will hear their cry, and
   save them" (Ps. 145:16, 18, 19).

   3a4. God gives all things freely to his people; they cannot merit
   anything of him; "Who hath first given to him, and it shall be
   recompensed to him again?" No man can be beforehand with God: he has
   nothing but what he has received from him; nor are any "worthy of the
   least of all the mercies, and of all the truth shown" unto them;
   whatever they have, God gives them liberally, without any regard to any
   merit or desert of theirs; whether temporal or spiritual and especially
   the latter; since with Christ he "freely gives all things" (Rom. 8:32).

   3a5. God gives all things plenteously, even with a profusion of
   goodness; so that the saint, with Jacob, can say, "I have enough", or I
   have all things; for God, the; living God, "gives richly all things to
   enjoy"; that is, in a large and liberal manner; for he is "rich" or
   plenteous in his goodness, "unto all that call upon him" (1 Tim. 6:17;
   Rom. 10:12). So that there is abundant encouragement to trust in the
   Lord for all things.

   3a5a. First, for things temporal, the outward mercies of life.

   3a5a1. For food: the promise is, "Trust in the Lord, and do good--and
   verily thou shalt be fed" (Ps. 37:3), with food convenient, and
   sufficient; though not with delicacies, yet with necessaries; "Take no
   thought therefore", says our Lord, no anxious and perplexing thoughts,
   "for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink--is not the
   life more than meat?" And he that has given life, the greater favour,
   will give meat to support that life, to them who trust in him, and wait
   for it in a dependence on him (Matthew 6:25; Ps. 37:25).

   3a5a2. For raiment: and this and food are both from the Lord; and
   necessary for the support and comfort of life; Jacob vowed a vow and
   promised, that if God would "give him bread to eat, and raiment to put
   on--then", says he, "shall the Lord be my God" (Gen. 28:20, 21), and,
   indeed, having these, a saint has enough, and should be therewith
   content (1 Tim. 6:8), and for this God should be confided in; for if he
   so "clothe the grass of the field", in the manner he does, "shall he
   not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" (Matthew 6:30).

   3a5a3. For the preservation of life; from every accident, as usually so
   called; from every danger; and from every enemy: and because God not
   only gives life, but preserves it, he is peculiarly the Saviour and
   Preserver of them that believe, and put their trust in him; he is their
   keeper night and day; with the utmost confidence they may commit
   themselves to God, and trust in his protection from every evil (Ps.
   122:5, 8; 3:5; 4:8).

   3a5a4. For these things may believers pray to God with an holy
   confidence, believing they shall have the petitions they ask of him;
   who has raised, "When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none,
   and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them", their
   cries and prayers, and supply their wants; yea, if need be, will rather
   go out of the common course of nature and providence than that they
   shall want (Isa. 41:17, 18; 43:19, 20), and if earthly parents, "who
   are evil", know how to "give good gifts" to their children, who ask
   them of them, our Lord has taught believers in him to reason after this
   manner, "how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
   to them that ask him?" And if he will give to them the Spirit, and
   spiritual things, then much more may they expect earthly and temporal
   things from him they stand in need of (Luke 11:13).

   3a5a5. To trust and confidence in God with respect to those things,
   they may be encouraged by the experience of themselves and others. Good
   old Jacob in his dying moments expressed, in very strong language, his
   experience of the divine goodness throughout the whole of his life;
   "The God which fed me all my life long unto this day--the Angel which
   redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads" (Gen. 48:15, 16). David
   frequently takes notice of the goodness of God to him, in providence,
   to encourage his own faith in him, and that of others; "Thou art my
   hope, O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth!" and from what he
   had experienced in time past, even from the very dawn of life, he
   strongly thus concluded; "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all
   the days of my life" (Ps. 71:5, 6; 23:6), and every believer may look
   back on the past goodness of God unto him, and encourage himself in the
   Lord his God, in expectation and confidence of future favors; for their
   heavenly Father knows they have need of these things, and therefore
   will bestow them on them (Matthew 6:32, 33).

   3a5b. Secondly, there is great encouragement to trust in the Lord for
   spiritual things; that is, for after supplies of grace; for faith
   respects present blessings of grace enjoyed, but trust and confidence
   future ones; and which may be depended on; since God is the God of all
   grace, whose grace is sufficient for his people now and hereafter; who
   has promised to give more grace as they want it; and has set up a
   throne of grace, to which they are encouraged to come with boldness,
   that they may find grace and mercy to help them in time of need. The
   covenant of grace is filled with all spiritual blessings, and promises
   of them, which are sure to all the spiritual seed of Christ; Christ has
   them all in his hands for his people, and will give them things
   pertaining to life and godliness.

   3a5c. Thirdly, there is encouragement to trust in the Lord for eternal
   things; for,

   3a5c1. God has chosen his in Christ to the enjoyment of them; they are
   ordained unto eternal life; appointed unto salvation; chosen through
   sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth unto it; and the
   purpose of God, according to election, stands sure, not upon the ground
   of works, but upon the will of him that calls; his purposes can never
   be frustrated and disappointed; and therefore the chosen ones may be
   confident of eternal glory and happiness.

   3a5c2. God has made promises of eternal things to his people; to whom
   the promise of the life that is to come is made, as well as of that
   which now is; God, that cannot lie, has promised eternal life before
   the world began, which promise can never be made void by anything that
   comes to pass in time; wherefore the heirs of promise have reason to
   trust in God for the performance of the eternal good he has promised.

   3a5c3. God has prepared and provided everlasting happiness for his
   people; it is inconceivable what God has prepared for them that love
   him; it cannot be said how great is the goodness which he has laid up
   in covenant for them that fear him; a crown of glory, life, and
   immortality is laid up safe and secure in the hands of Christ, with
   whom their life is hid; an inheritance, eternal, incorruptible,
   undefiled, and that fades not away, is reserved in heaven for them, and
   therefore confidently to be depended on.

   3a5c4. God has called them to his kingdom and glory, even to eternal
   glory by Jesus Christ; and his calling is without repentance, whom he
   calls he glorifies; them he preserves safe to the coming of Christ; for
   "faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it" (1 Thess. 5:24).

   3a5c5. Eternal things are freely given of God; as grace is freely
   given, so is glory; eternal life is the free gift of God through
   Christ; and therefore there is encouragement to trust in him for it;
   since it is not owing to the merit of the saints, but it is their
   Father's good pleasure to give them the kingdom. Christ, as Mediator,
   has power to give eternal life, and he gives it to all his sheep; "This
   is the record, that God has given unto us eternal life; and this life
   is in his Son", safe and secure, and may be depended on (1 John 5:11).

   3b. Secondly, there is encouragement to trust in the Lord always;
   "Trust in him at all times, ye people" (Ps. 62:8).

   3b1. In times of darkness and desertion; it is said to a saint walking
   in darkness, and has no light, "Let him trust in the name of the Lord,
   and stay upon his God" (Isa. 50:10), and wait upon the Lord, who hides
   his face from the house of Jacob; since light is sown for the
   righteous, in the purposes and decrees, counsel and covenant of God,
   and gladness for the upright in heart, in the gospel, and doctrines of
   it; and sooner or later it will arise; hence the trust and confidence
   of the church; "When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto
   me" (Micah 7:8, 9).

   3b2. In times of temptation, saints may trust in the Lord, and be
   confident that his grace will be sufficient for them; and that his
   strength will be made perfect in their weakness; that he will bear them
   up, and not suffer them to sink under the weight of them; but will in
   due time make a way for their escape out of them, and deliver them from
   them; and as Christ has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help
   them that are tempted; and whereas he has a sympathy with them, being
   in all things tempted as they, so he prays for them that their faith
   fail not; and therefore they have great reason to trust in him.

   3b3. In times of adversity and affliction, God leaves in the midst of
   his church "an afflicted and poor people"; and it is said of them, "And
   they shall trust in the name of the Lord" (Zeph. 3:12), believing, that
   when they pass through the waters of adversity, and fiery trials, the
   Lord will be with them and preserve them, and carry them through them,
   and not suffer them to be overwhelmed by them; will make all things
   work together for their good, and deliver them out of all their
   afflictions.

   3b4. In the hour of death, they are encouraged to trust in the Lord,
   and believe, that when strength and heart fail, the Lord will be the
   strength of their heart and their portion for ever; that he will be,
   not only their God and Guide unto death, but through it; and that even
   when they walk through the valley of the shadow of death, they shall
   fear no ill; God will be with them, and his rod and staff shall comfort
   them (Ps. 73:26; 48:14; 23:4).

   3c. Thirdly, what that is in the Lord which gives encouragement to
   trust in him; and that is everything in God, and belonging to him; his
   nature, and the excellencies of it; all his perfections and attributes;
   the various names by which he has made himself known; his covenant and
   promises; his word and oath; his gospel, and the doctrines of it; the
   methods of his grace; and the dispensations of his providence: in
   particular.

   3c1. He is El-Shaddai, God all sufficient; and therefore to be trusted
   in for everything that is wanted for soul and body, for time and
   eternity. Creatures are insufficient, and therefore not to be depended
   on; friends oftentimes would help, assist, and supply, but cannot; but
   God is an help in every time of need, and is a never failing supply, an
   inexhaustible fountain of all goodness; he has a sufficiency in himself
   and for himself, and for all his creatures, who all wait on him, and
   whom he satisfies with his good things; and his grace is sufficient for
   his people at all times, in all places, and in all ages; and therefore
   they have always encouragement to trust in him.

   3c2. He is Jehovah, the rock of ages, the everlasting strength of those
   that put their trust in him; "Trust ye in the Lord for ever, for in the
   Lord Jehovah" (in Jah-Jehovah) "is everlasting strength" (Isa. 26:4),
   to support his people under all their trials and exercises; to carry
   them through all their difficulties and distresses; to bear them up
   under all their temptations and afflictions; to enable them to do and
   suffer what is his will and pleasure; to bring them on in their journey
   through the wilderness of this world, and out of it: he has promised,
   that as their day is, their strength shall be; and which is continually
   experienced by them; and therefore they have reason to trust in him.

   3c3. The lovingkindness, grace, mercy, and pity of God, give great
   encouragement to trust in him; "How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O
   God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of
   thy wings" (Ps. 36:7), the proclamation the Lord has made of himself,
   as gracious and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and
   truth (Ex 34:6), is sufficient to engage trust and confidence in him;
   says David, "I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever" (Ps. 52:8).

   3c4. His truth and faithfulness in his covenant and promises, strongly
   induce to trust in him; he will "not suffer his faithfulness to fail,
   nor break his covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of his
   lips"; to which he has added his oath for the confirmation thereof (Ps.
   89:33-35).

   3c5. The experience of the saints in all ages, and a man's own, animate
   him to put his trust in God; "our fathers trusted in thee, they
   trusted, and thou didst deliver them; they cried unto thee, and were
   delivered; they trusted in thee, and were not confounded!" (Ps. 22:4,
   5), and having such a cloud of witnesses before them; and such gracious
   experiences of their own in times past of the goodness of God unto
   them, they encourage themselves in the Lord their God.

   4. The happiness of those that trust in the Lord: it is often said,
   "Blessed are they that trust in the Lord!" (Ps. 2:12; 34:8; 84:12; Jer.
   17:7).

   4a. They are in great peace, and will be in greater still; "Thou wilt
   keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he
   trusteth in thee" (Isa. 26:3), they have peace with God through Christ;
   they peace in him, when in the world they have tribulation; a peace
   which the world cannot take away; great peace have they which love the
   Lord and trust in him; even perfect peace, at least hereafter; for the
   end of such a man is "peace", everlasting peace.

   4b. They are in great safety; "They that trust in the Lord shall be as
   mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever"; they are
   like mount Zion, well fortified with the towers, walls, and bulwarks of
   salvation; and are as immovable as that, fixed in the love of God,
   settled in the covenant of grace and peace, and secured in the hands of
   Christ, and can never be removed from either; but will abide in the
   state of grace until they come into the unalterable state of glory; the
   Lord is round about them, as the mountains about Jerusalem; a wall of
   fire about them, and they are kept by the power of God through faith
   unto salvation.

   4c. They need be in no fear of any enemy whatever: "Behold, God is my
   salvation", says the church, "I will trust and not be afraid" (Isa.
   12:2), not of men, the greatest, most powerful and numerous; nor of
   devils, Satan, and all other enemies, are conquered ones by Christ; he
   has destroyed him that had the power of death, the devil, and spoiled
   his principalities and powers; he has abolished death, and made an end
   of sin; he has ransomed his people from death and hell, so that they
   shall not be hurt of the second death, and has saved them from wrath to
   come; and therefore they have nothing to fear now nor hereafter; happy
   men that trust in the Lord.

   4d. They want no good thing, nor ever shall; "O taste, and see that the
   Lord is good", says the Psalmist; "Blessed is the man that trusteth in
   him! they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing" (Ps.
   34:8-10), no good thing is withheld now from them that trust in the
   Lord; and great goodness, inconceivable and unspeakable, is laid up for
   them to be enjoyed hereafter (Ps. 84:11, 12; 31:19).
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  Chapter 8

    OF THE GRACE OF GOD

   Having treated of Faith in God, and of trust or confidence in him, the
   next in course to be considered is the Grace of Hope; for it, this
   order they stand, "faith, hope:--Faith is the substance of things hoped
   for," and therefore go together; and the same word is rendered
   sometimes "trust," and sometimes "hope," so near akin are these graces:
   thus in (Eph. 1:12 what we translate, "Who first trusted in Christ," is
   in the Greek text, and so in the margin, "Who first hoped in Christ."
   Concerning which grace, the following things may be observed:

   1. The object, ground, and foundation of it, Jehovah, God, Father, Son,
   and Spirit. Not any creature whatever, angel or man; not the Virgin
   Mary, the mother of our Lord, as the papists impiously and
   blasphemously address her, "Salve regina, spes nostra; Save us, O
   queen, our hope!" Nor any creature enjoyment; "If I have made gold my
   hope," the object of it, says Job, meaning, he had not; though some
   have, placing their hope of future good in it, in this life, to the
   neglect of a dependence on divine providence (Job 31:24), and indeed,
   have carried it so far, as to hope and imagine, that they are the
   persons whom God will delight in to honour in the world to come with
   happiness and bliss, who have had so great a share of it in this;
   forgetting, or not knowing, that "not many noble are called." Nor
   creature merits; of which there are none: a creature cannot merit
   anything at the hand of God; he is not deserving of the least temporal
   mercy from him, having sinned against him; nor can he give him anything
   which may lay him under an obligation to him, or which God has not a
   prior right unto; much less can he merit eternal happiness of him, and
   so have any hope of it on that account; for that is "the free gift of
   God through Christ." Nor any creature righteousness, which is the hope
   of the moralist and legalist, who fancy they have kept all the precepts
   of the law from their youth, and that touching the righteousness of the
   law they are blameless, and are not as other men are; and therefore
   hope for eternal life and happiness; but such hope is like a "spider's
   web," spun out of their own bowels, and which has no strength,
   solidity, and substance in it; which, if they lean upon, "it shall not
   stand;" and if they attempt to hold it fast, "it shall not endure" (Job
   8:14, 15), nor any supposed privileges of birth and education, and of
   profession of religion; as being born of religious parents, educated in
   the Christian religion, and having some notions of the principles of
   Christianity; and going yet further, making a profession of faith in
   Christ, subjecting to the ordinances of Christ, baptism and the Lord's
   supper, and continuing in a round of religious exercises, and yet
   destitute of the grace of God in truth. "What is the hope of the
   hypocrite, though he hath gained" a place and a name in the church of
   God, "when God taketh away his soul?" (Job 27:8). But Jehovah, the
   creator and Lord of all, and the covenant God of his people, is the
   principal object of hope, and the only solid sufficient ground and
   foundation of it; as David said, "Thou art my hope, O Lord God; thou
   art my trust from my youth!" (Ps. 75:50). "Blessed is the man that
   trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is!" (Jer. 17:7; Ps.
   146:5).

   1a. First, God, essentially considered, is the object of hope; "Hope in
   God," says the Psalmist, "for I shall yet praise him" (Ps. 42:11). So
   the church speaks of him; "O the Hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in
   time of trouble!" (Jer. 14:8). The grounds of which hope in God are his
   grace, and mercy, and goodness; he has proclaimed his name, "The Lord
   God, merciful, gracious, abundant in goodness;" and it is the abundance
   of his mercy, grace, and goodness, which lays a solid foundation for
   hope in him, and encourages to it; "Let Israel hope in the Lord, for
   with the Lord there is mercy!" he is plenteous in it, rich in mercy,
   there is a multitude of tender mercies with him; he takes "pleasure" in
   those that "hope in his mercy," and his eye is upon them to do them
   good; and therefore there is great encouragement to make the Lord God
   the object of their hope (Ps. 130:7; 147:11; 33:18).

   1b. Secondly, God personality considered is the object of hope, God,
   Father, Son, and Spirit: God the Father, who is called, "The God of
   hope;" not only because he is the author and giver of that grace; but
   because he is the object of it (Rom. 15:13), by whom Christ is said to
   be raised from the dead, that "faith and hope might be in God;" that
   is, in God the Father (1 Pet. 1:21), and Christ the Son of God is
   called, "our hope," and "Christ in you the hope of glory;" that is, the
   object, and ground, and foundation of it; which are his blood,
   righteousness, and sacrifice (1 Tim. 1:1; Col. 1:27). The Spirit of God
   also is equally the object of hope, as of faith and confidence; that he
   will assist in the exercise of every grace, and the performance of
   every duty; and particularly, that he will carry on and finish the work
   of grace upon the soul.

   1c. Thirdly, the less principal objects of hope, connected with the
   divine persons, are the promises of God, and the things therein
   promised; hence the word of God, the word of promise, is represented as
   the object of hope; says the Psalmist, "In his word do I hope" (Ps.
   130:5), the ground and foundation of which hope is in the faithfulness
   and power of God. The faithfulness of God; "for he is faithful that has
   promised;" nor will he "suffer his faithfulness to fail;" and therefore
   the performance of his promises may be hoped for; besides, he is "able
   also to perform;" and upon this footing Abraham believed "in hope
   against hope:" the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot
   save; he is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or
   think; and therefore may hope, yea, believe, there will be a
   performance of whatsoever is spoken and promised by him.

   1c1. First, in general: things to be hoped for are represented,

   1c1a. As things unseen, of which faith is the evidence; and gives
   encouragement to the exercise of hope upon them; "Hope that is seen, is
   not hope; for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?" (Rom. 8:24,
   25), the glories of another world are things not seen, so as thoroughly
   to understand and comprehend, yet hope of enjoying them, upon the
   divine promise, is conversant with them, which enters into that within
   the veil (Heb. 6:19).

   1c1b. They are things future, yet to come, and therefore hoped for;
   hence saints are exhorted, "to hope to the end, for the grace that is
   to be brought unto them, at the revelation of Jesus Christ," when he
   shall be revealed from heaven, and appear a second time; and therefore
   are directed, "to look for that blessed hope," the hope laid up in
   heaven, the hope of happiness to be enjoyed, "at the glorious appearing
   of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 1:13; Titus
   2:13).

   1c1c. Things hoped for are difficult to come at and possess; many
   tribulations lie in the way to the kingdom, through which men must
   enter into it; the righteous, by reason of many afflictions, trials,
   and temptations, are "scarcely saved," though at last certainly saved;
   and since the "gate is straight and the way narrow," which lead to
   eternal life; hence there must be a laboring and striving to enter in;
   of which there is hope: and therefore,

   1c1d. Hope is of things possible, or otherwise it would turn to
   despair, as in Cain, and those who said, "there is no hope, but we will
   walk after our own devices" (Jer. 18:12), but "there is hope in Israel
   concerning this thing," eternal life and happiness, as well as
   concerning all things leading on to it; and which will certainly issue
   in it; and therefore "it is good that a man should both hope and
   quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord" (Ezra 10:2; Lam. 3:26), at
   least he has encouragement to "put his mouth in the dust, if so be
   there may be hope" (Lam. 3:29), or seeing hope of salvation is to be
   entertained.

   1c2. Secondly, the things, the objects of hope, or which are to be
   hoped for, are more particularly salvation by Christ, pardon of sin
   through him, all blessings of grace, and the supplies of it for the
   present life; and things after death, as the resurrection of the body
   and eternal life.

   1c2a. Salvation by Christ: as soon as ever a soul is made sensible of
   its lost state and condition by nature, its inquiry is, "What must I do
   to be saved?" and being shown the way of salvation by Christ, and
   directed to him for it, in whom it is complete, perfect, and every way
   suitable, it is encouraged to hope in him for it, and say, as David
   did, "Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation" (Ps. 119:116). Salvation,
   though wrought out, yet the full possession of it is to come; and the
   difficulties in the way of enjoying it many; and yet it is possible to
   be had, and therefore hope is conversant about it.

   1c2a1. It has been thought of, contrived, and fixed; the thoughts of
   God were employed about it in eternity; he resolved upon the salvation
   of some of the sons of men; he appointed them to salvation, and chose
   them to it through certain means; he contrived the scheme of it in the
   wisest manner, and settled and established it in the covenant of grace:
   all which serve to encourage hope of it.

   1c2a2. And as God appointed some to salvation, he appointed one to be
   the Saviour of them, and a great one, even his own Son, his equal and
   his fellow, every way and on all accounts capable of such a work; he
   promised him, he sent him, and he came to seek and save lost sinners;
   and he is become the author of eternal salvation, and his name is
   called Jesus, because he saves his people from their sins, and
   therefore have they reason to hope in him.

   1c2a3. Salvation is actually wrought out by Christ; it is entirely
   finished, the work is done, and completely done; it is a full
   salvation, nothing wanting to make it perfect; wherefore, "Let Israel
   hope in the Lord, for with him is plenteous redemption" (Ps. 130:7),
   which includes in it, and secures all the blessings of grace; as
   justification, forgiveness of sin, adoption, and eternal life.

   1c2a4. Salvation being wrought out by Christ, it is in him, and to be
   had by him, and by no other; so said the apostle Peter, "Neither is
   there salvation in any other" (Acts 4:12), but inasmuch as there is
   salvation in him, it may be hoped for from him; though there is no hope
   of it elsewhere; "Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills
   and from the multitude of mountains: Truly in the Lord our God is the
   salvation of Israel" (Jer. 3:23), and in him only; and therefore such
   who are acquainted herewith, hope in him only, and will have no other
   Saviour.

   1c2a5. Great encouragement is given by Christ to sensible sinners to
   hope for and expect salvation from him; "Look unto me," says he, "and
   be ye saved, all the ends of the earth," men in every quarter of it,
   and in the uttermost parts thereof, of whatsoever rank, quality, and
   character "For I am God, and there is none else;" and so able to save
   to the uttermost (Isa. 45:22), all "laboring and heavy laden sinners,"
   burdened with a sense of sin, and the guilt of it, he invites to come
   to him, and promises them to give them rest for their souls (Matthew
   11:28, 29), and assures them, that he will, "in no wise," upon any
   account, reject, and "cast them out," but receive them in the most kind
   and tender manner; and for their encouragement to come to him, and
   exercise faith and hope on him, it may be observed, "This man receiveth
   sinners, and eateth with them" (Luke 15:2).

   1c2a6. Salvation in and by Christ is to be had freely; it is wholly of
   free grace, and not of works; God saves and calls men according to his
   grace, and they are saved by grace, and not of works; not by works of
   righteousness done by them: but according to the abundant mercy and
   rich grace of God in Christ: were any conditions required on the part
   of sinners, qualifying them for, and entitling them unto salvation,
   they might despair of it; but since it is all of free grace they may be
   encouraged to hope for it.

   1c2a7. Salvation by Christ is for sinners, even for the chief of
   sinners; as Christ came to call sinners to repentance, so to die for
   them, and by dying to save them: in this lies the high commendation of
   the love of God to us; that "while we were yet sinners, Christ died for
   us" (Rom. 5:8), and this is no small encouragement to such who see
   themselves polluted, guilty sinners, to hope for salvation by a dying
   Saviour; and the rather, since he "came into the world to save sinners,
   even the chief" (1 Tim. 1:15).

   1c2a8. The gospel declaration gives great encouragement to sinners to
   hope in Christ for salvation; that he that believes shall be saved;
   that he that seeth the Son, and believeth on him, shall not perish, but
   have everlasting life: to a soul inquiring after salvation the gospel
   thus directs, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
   saved!" (Mark 16:16; John 6:40; Acts 16:31).

   1c2b. Pardon of sin through the blood of Christ: this is what is
   immediately sought after and prayed for by a soul convinced of sin,
   righteousness, and judgment; with David it says, "for thy name's sake,
   O Lord, pardon mine iniquity: for it is great!" (Ps. 25:11), so great
   that a sinner cannot bear the weight of its guilt; so great that none
   but God can forgive it; and if he should mark iniquity, and insist on
   satisfaction for it, there would be no standing before him; but "there
   is forgiveness with him," pardoning grace and mercy with him; and
   therefore there is encouragement to hope in him (Ps. 130:3, 4, 7), and
   to come before him, though in the manner the publican did; saying,
   "God, be merciful to me a sinner!" (Luke 18:13 or propitious; and there
   is ground and reason to hope for pardoning mercy, through the
   propitiatory sacrifice of Christ.

   1c2b1. Because God is a sin forgiving God; he can forgive sin, and none
   can do it but him; and he does "abundantly pardon!" pardons both
   abundance of sins and abundance of sinners; and all freely; sins of
   omission and commission, gross and grievous ones (Isa. 43:25), and
   there is none like him on this account (Micah 7:18). Jehovah has in
   covenant promised the forgiveness of sins: "I will forgive their
   iniquity; and I will remember their sin no more!" (Jer. 31:34 and he
   has proclaimed his name, merciful and gracious, "forgiving iniquity,
   and transgression, and sin," even sins of every sort and size (Ex
   34:7), wherefore the greatest sinners may hope in him for pardon.

   1c2b2. The blood of Christ has been shed on account of sin, and the
   pardon of it. God "set" him "forth" in his purposes and decrees, in his
   council and covenant, to be the "propitiation, through faith in his
   blood, for the remission of sins;" to make reconciliation and atonement
   for sin by his blood, that men believing in it might have the pardon of
   it; and God has sent him forth in the fulness of time to shed his blood
   for this purpose; "And his blood is shed for many, for the remission of
   sins;" and hence satisfaction for sin being made by it, "God is
   faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
   unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).

   1c2b3. Christ's blood being shed, and forgiveness of sin through it
   obtained, Christ is exalted as a "Prince and a Saviour, to give
   repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins" (Acts 5:31), and to
   whomsoever he gives the one he gives the other; so that penitent
   sinners have great reason to hope in him for pardon, and which they may
   expect to have of him freely; he gives, and he gives it freely; pardon
   of sin is according to the riches of grace, and is owing to the tender
   mercy of God, and the multitude of it.

   1c2b4. The declaration of it made in the gospel gives great
   encouragement to hope for it. Christ gave orders to his apostles,
   before his ascension to heaven, "that repentance and remission of sins
   should be preached in his name, among all nations;" to all sorts of men
   in them, "beginning at Jerusalem," where some of the chief and greatest
   of sinners lived; even such who had been lately concerned in the
   shedding of his blood (Luke 24:47), and according to this commission
   given them, wherever they came they made it known to men, that
   "through" Christ was "preached unto them the forgiveness of sins;" and
   in this both they and the prophets agreed and bore witness, "That
   through his name," the name of Christ, "whosoever believeth in him
   shall receive remission of sins" (Acts 13:38; 10:43).

   1c2b5. The instances of pardon recorded in scripture, and of some
   notorious sinners, serve much to encourage hope of pardon likewise; as
   a Manasseh, guilty of the grossest of crimes; a Mary Magdalene, out of
   whom Christ cast seven devils; the woman a sinner, who washed Christ's
   feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and
   loved much because much was forgiven her; Saul the blasphemer,
   persecutor, and injurious person, who obtained mercy; and many of the
   Corinthians, described as the worst of sinners, and yet were pardoned
   and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus.

   1c2c. The blessings of grace, and supplies of it in the present life,
   and through it, are the objects of hope, and about which that is
   conversant, and in the exercise of which there is much encouragement;
   for as long as there is a throne of grace standing, and the God of all
   grace sitting on it, inviting souls to come to it for grace and mercy
   to help them in every time of need, bidding them ask and it shall be
   given, there is good and sufficient ground and reason to hope in him
   for it; and so long as there is a fulness of grace in Christ, and the
   communication of it not cut off, as it never will be from his people,
   they may most comfortably hope, yea, be assured, that their God in
   Christ will "supply all their need, according to his riches in glory by
   Jesus Christ" (Phil. 4:19). And seeing there are such exceeding great
   and precious promises of grace and strength from the Lord, that their
   strength shall be renewed; that they shall go from strength to
   strength; and that as their day is, their strength shall be; there is
   abundant reason to hope in his word for the fulfillment of it.

   1c2d. There are blessings to be enjoyed after death, which are the
   objects of hope, not only of soul, of its being with Christ
   immediately, and in a state of happiness and bliss; but of the
   resurrection of the body also; and of eternal life in soul and body for
   evermore.

   1c2d1. The resurrection of the body is an object of hope, and is often
   so represented; "Of the hope and resurrection of the dead," that is, of
   the hope of it, "I am called in question," says the apostle; and again,
   "And have hope towards God, which they themselves also allow, that
   there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and of the
   unjust:" once more, "And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the
   promise made of God unto our fathers:--for which hope's sake, king
   Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews;" and then adds, "Why should it be
   thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?"
   (Acts 23:6; 24:15; 26:6-8), and the description of the object of hope
   entirely agrees with it, it being future, yet to come, what is unseen
   to carnal sense and reason, and difficult how it should be; and yet
   possible, considering the omniscience and omnipotence of God, and not
   to be reckoned incredible; it may be hoped for, and there is good
   ground and reason for it from scripture testimonies of it; from the
   resurrection of Christ, and from the union of his people to him; and
   they are represented as "waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
   redemption of the body" (Rom. 8:23), which they have reason to expect,
   and is worth waiting for, and the happiness that will follow upon it.

   1c2d2. Eternal life to be enjoyed both in soul and body, is a grand
   object of hope; and which is therefore called, the hope of eternal
   life, and hope of glory, the blessed hope, and hope laid up in heaven;
   all intending the happiness hoped for (Titus 1:2; 2:13; Rom. 5:2; Col.
   1:5), and for which there is good ground and reason,

   1c2d2a. From its being a free gift; not to be obtained by the merits of
   men, or the works of the creature; but is entirely owing to the free
   grace of God; "The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
   Lord" (Rom. 6:23), if it was to be acquired by doing, it might be
   despaired of; but since it is the good pleasure of our heavenly Father
   to give us the kingdom, it may be hoped for.

   1c2d2b. It is in the hands of Christ to give it; he has power to give
   it to as many as the Father has given him, and he does give it to all
   his sheep; he is a sun and shield, and gives both grace and glory; and
   therefore it may be hoped for from him; yea, he himself is the ground
   of it; and is therefore called, "our hope," and "Christ in us the hope
   of glory" (1 Tim. 1:1; Col. 1:27), whose righteousness entitles to it;
   and his grace makes meet for it.

   1c2d2c. From the promise of it in Christ, called, "The promise of life
   which is in Christ Jesus" (2 Tim. 1:1), and which was put into his
   hands as soon as made, where it is safe and secure, firm and stable;
   and which was very early made; "In hope of eternal life; which God,
   that cannot lie, promised before the world began;" who is faithful that
   has promised, and therefore it may be hoped for, expected, and depended
   on; and this is the declared will of God, that "whosoever seeth the
   Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life" (John 6:40),
   hence all such persons may steadily hope and wait for it.

   1c2d2d. From the preparations and prayers of Christ for it; he is gone
   to prepare heaven and happiness for his people, by his presence and
   mediation; and has promised to come again and take them to himself,
   that they may be with him, where he is; and for this he prays and makes
   intercession, and which is always prevalent, and he is always heard
   (John 14:2, 3; 17:24).

   1c2d2e. From the Spirit's work in the hearts of men, who works them for
   that self-same thing, eternal glory, whose grace is a well of living
   water, springing up unto eternal life; and between grace and glory is
   an inseparable connection, and to whom grace is given glory is also;
   whom God calls, justifies, and sanctifies, he also glorifies; therefore
   those who are partakers of the one may hope for the other.

   2. The subjects of the grace of hope, or who they are that are
   partakers of it.

   2a. Not angels, good or bad; not good angels, they are in the full
   enjoyment of God and of all felicity, they see God, and what is seen is
   not hope; they are in the present possession of happiness; and so that
   is not future; nor is there anything about them, or attends them, to
   make their happiness difficult or doubtful: nor evil angels, the
   devils; there is a kind of faith ascribed to them, the belief of a God,
   of one God, at whom they tremble; but have no hope; there is not the
   least ground and reason for them to hope for a recovery out of their
   apostate state, or of their being ever restored to the favour of God;
   for as soon as they fell they were cast out of heaven, and cast down to
   hell, and laid up in chains of darkness, reserved for the great and
   last judgment, when they will receive their final sentence and full
   punishment, which they expect, and have no hope of escaping; hence they
   said to Christ in the days of his flesh, "Art thou come hither to
   torment us before the time?" (Matthew 8:29), they have no foundation of
   hope of salvation by Christ; he took not on him the nature of angels,
   nor obeyed nor suffered for them, nor redeemed any of them by his
   blood; these were only men, out of every kindred, tongue, people, and
   nation: nor was the gospel, the good tidings of salvation by Christ,
   nor any messages of grace sent to them; nor any repentance given them;
   and so no remission of sins to be hoped for by them.

   2b. Only men, and these not all men; some are described as, "those
   without hope," and who live and die without it; and all men are
   "without hope" while in a state of nature and unregeneracy (1 Thess.
   4:13; Eph. 2:12), for however they may feed themselves with a vain
   hope, they have no solid, well grounded hope; and dying in such a
   state, they die without hope; and some, through the force of their own
   corruptions, and the power of Satan's temptations, give into despair,
   and abandon themselves to a vicious course of living, saying, "There is
   no hope" (Jer. 18:12).

   2c. Only regenerate men are subjects of the grace of hope. In
   regeneration every grace is implanted in the soul, and this with the
   rest; yea, to this, and the exercise of it, they are particularly
   regenerated; for, "according to the abundant mercy of God," souls are
   by him, "begotten again unto a lively hope" (1 Pet. 1:3), hence when
   first quickened by the Spirit and grace of God, and see themselves lost
   and undone, in a captive state, and as it were, prisoners to sin,
   Satan, and the law; they are yet "prisoners of hope," and are enabled
   to hope for deliverance; and are directed to "turn to the strong hold,"
   Christ, where they find salvation, safety, and comfort.

   2d. Believers in Christ are partakers of this grace, and they only;
   faith and hope always go together; they are implanted at the same time,
   and grow up and thrive together; though one may be in exercise before
   the other; and one may be more in exercise at one time than the other;
   yet they are always together, and assist each other; Abraham "believed
   in hope against hope;" and the "experience" of faith, works or
   exercises "hope;" hence we read of them together; "That your faith and
   hope might be in God: now abideth faith, hope, charity," or "love" (1
   Pet. 1:21; 1 Cor. 13:13), faith is the ground work of hope, lies at the
   bottom of it, and is its support; "Faith is the substance of things
   hoped for" (Heb. 11:1).

   2e. They are the Israel of the Lord, whose hope the Lord is; and who
   are encouraged to hope in him, and do, even the whole Israel of God;
   his spiritual Israel, Jews and Gentiles, sooner or later, hope in the
   Lord; the Israel whom God has chosen for his peculiar treasure, and
   whom he has redeemed from all iniquity, and effectually calls by his
   grace, and who appear in due time to be Israelites indeed; and even all
   sensible sinners, who are quickened and born again, come under this
   character, and are encouraged to hope in the Lord for mercy and
   salvation; "Let Israel hope in the Lord" (Ps. 130:7), hence he is
   called, "The hope of Israel" (Jer. 14:8).

   2f. The separate souls of saints, after death, in heaven, seem to be
   possessed of, and to be in the exercise of, the grace of hope,
   particularly with respect to the resurrection of their bodies; as "the
   flesh" of Christ, by a figure, is said to rest in hope of its
   resurrection, that is, his soul rested or waited in hope of the
   resurrection of his body, while in the grave, being confident of it
   (Ps. 16:9), so the souls of the saints, while in a separate state in
   heaven, and during the abode of their bodies in the grave, rest, wait,
   and hope for the resurrection of them; and this may be what Job has a
   reference to when he says, "If a man die shall he live again?" He
   shall, in the resurrection morn; "All the days of my appointed time" of
   lying in the grave, "will I wait till my change come," until Christ
   changes the vile bodies of his people, and makes them like his glorious
   one (Job 14:14), and something of this kind may be observed in the
   answer to the souls under the altar, crying, "How long, O Lord," &c. to
   whom it was said, that they should "rest yet for a little season," be
   still and quiet, hope and wait, "until their fellow servants and
   brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled"
   (Rev. 6:9-11).

   3. The causes of the grace of hope, or from whence it springs; and the
   rather this should be inquired into, because all men in a state of
   nature are without it.

   3a. The efficient cause of it is God; hence he is called, "the God of
   hope" (Rom. 15:13), not only because he is the object of it, but
   because he is the author of it; even God, Father, Son, and Spirit. It
   is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who begets men again to
   a lively hope of a glorious inheritance; and this is owing to the
   virtue of the resurrection of Christ from the dead (1 Pet. 1:3), and
   indeed it is the gift both of the Father and of Christ; "now our Lord
   Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who hath given us good
   hope through grace" (2 Thess. 2:16), and as it is "through the power of
   the Holy Ghost" that saints "abound in hope," in the exercise of the
   grace of hope; it may well be thought that it is by this same power
   that it is first produced in them (Rom. 15:13).

   3b. The moving cause of it is the grace and mercy of God; hence it is
   called, "good hope through grace:" it is not of nature; for it is not
   naturally in men; but is owing to the grace of God, it is not through
   the merits of men, nor any motives in them; but entirely through the
   grace of God, it is "given;" it is a gift of free grace, and is
   sometimes ascribed to the "abundant mercy" of God, as the spring of it
   (1 Pet. 1:3), it is owing to mercy, and to the aboundings of mercy.

   3c. The gospel is the means of it, by which it is wrought, encouraged,
   and confirmed, and therefore called, "the hope of the gospel" (Col.
   1:23), the doctrines of it greatly animate to it, the good news and
   glad tidings the gospel brings of free and complete salvation by
   Christ, of full pardon of sin by his blood, of peace, reconciliation,
   and atonement by his sacrifice, and of the fulness of grace that is in
   him, give great encouragement to hope in the Lord, as do the many
   exceeding great and precious promises in it; by means of which the
   "heirs of promise have strong consolation" (Heb. 6:18), these are that
   "on which God causes his people to hope," what are the ground and
   foundation of it, support it, and encourage to the exercise of it (Ps.
   119:49).

   3d. There are many things which serve to promote and increase it; the
   whole scripture has a tendency thereunto, which is written that men,
   "through patience and comfort of the scripture might have hope" (Rom.
   15:4), particularly the promises contained in it; and the goodness,
   power, and faithfulness of God displayed both in making and fulfilling
   them; and especially when opened and applied by the Holy Spirit of
   promise, serve greatly to cherish the grace of hope; the things said
   concerning the person, offices, and grace of Christ, his resurrection
   from the dead, ascension to heaven, session at the right hand of God,
   intercession for his people, and the glorification of him in heaven,
   are all subservient to this end, "that our faith and hope might be in
   God" (1 Pet. 1:21), the experience of the saints in all ages, of the
   grace, goodness, &c. of God, and particularly the saints own experience
   of the same in times past, greatly strengthen the grace of hope, and
   encourage to the exercise of it; "experience, hope;" that is, works it,
   exercises it, and tends to increase it (Rom. 5:4).

   4. The effects of hope; which are produced through it, and follow upon
   it.

   4a. It is said of it, that it "maketh not ashamed" (Rom. 5:5), the
   reason given of which is, because the love of God is shed abroad in the
   hearts of such who have it, which supports it and gives it life and
   vigor; so that a soul possessed of it is not ashamed to appear before
   God and men; is not ashamed in his present circumstances; nor will be
   ashamed at the coming of Christ: this grace makes not ashamed, because
   it does not disappoint those that have it, who will most certainly
   enjoy the things that are hoped for: and as this grace makes not
   ashamed, those who have it need not be ashamed of it; as David prays,
   "Let me not be ashamed of my hope" (Ps. 119:116), when hope is a good
   one, he that has it has no reason to be ashamed of it; nor will he.

   4b. It weans from the world, and the things of it, and makes a man
   esteem them lightly, when he knows that he has in heaven a better and a
   more enduring substance, and can rejoice in hope of the glory of God;
   when he seeks those things that are above, and has hope of enjoying
   them, his affections are drawn off of things on earth, and are set on
   things in heaven; and he longs to be unclothed, that he might be
   clothed upon with his house from heaven, and chooses rather to be
   absent from the body that he might be present with the Lord.

   4c. It carries cheerfully through all the difficulties of this life,
   and makes hard things sit easy; whereas, if "in this life only saints
   had hope," they would be "of all men the most miserable;" but hope of a
   future state of happiness beyond the grave bears them up under all the
   troubles of the present state, and carries them comfortably through
   them, so that they glory in tribulations (Rom. 5:3-5).

   4d. It yields support in death; for "the righteous hath hope in his
   death" (Prov. 14:32), not founded on his own righteousness, but on the
   righteousness of Christ; a hope of being with Christ for ever, and of
   enjoying eternal life and happiness with him; and which gives him peace
   and joy in his last moments, and causes him to exult in the view of
   death and the grave. There are many other fruits and effects of a good
   hope; some of which may be gathered from what follows under the next
   point.

   5. The properties and epithets of the grace of hope; which will more
   fully show the nature, excellency, and usefulness of it.

   5a. First, it is called a good hope; "and hath given us--good hope
   through grace" (2 Thess. 2:16).

   5a1. In distinction from, and in opposition to, a bad one. A bad one is
   that which is the hope of the moralist and legalist, which is founded
   on their own works of righteousness and deeds, done in obedience to the
   law; and is but a sandy foundation to build an hope of eternal
   salvation upon; and such is the hope of a carnal and external professor
   of religion, which is laid on birth privileges, education principles, a
   bare profession of religion, subjection to external ordinances, and a
   performance of a round of duties; and the hope of a profane sinner,
   formed upon the absolute mercy of God, without any regard to the
   merits, blood, and righteousness of Christ.

   5a2. A good hope is that which has God, his grace and promises, for its
   object, Christ and his righteousness for its foundation, the Spirit of
   grace for its author, and is a part of the good work of grace begun
   upon the soul, and is an hope of good things to come, of which Christ
   is the high priest: in this, hope differs from expectation; hope is an
   expectation of good things; and he that fears expects, but he does not
   expect good things, for fear is an expectation of evil things; but hope
   is of good things; wicked men expect things which have no substance and
   solidity in them, and their hope perishes. [25]

   5a3. A good hope is that which is of great use both in life and death;
   it is the Christian sailor's anchor, and the Christian soldier's
   helmet; it carries through all the troubles in life, as before
   observed, and supports in the hour of death; while the hope of the
   hypocrite is like the giving up of the ghost, and expires with him;
   this continues, and the man that has it is saved eternally; for "we are
   saved by hope" (Rom. 8:24).

   5b. Secondly, it is also a "lively" or "living" one (1 Pet. 1:3). So
   called,

   5b1. Because the subject of it is a living man, one spiritually alive:
   a man dead in trespasses and sins is without hope; but a man
   regenerated and quickened by the Spirit of God is begotten again to a
   lively hope.

   5b2. Because it has for its object eternal life: one that is justified
   by the grace of God, is made an "heir according to the hope of eternal
   life" (Titus 3:7).

   5b3. Has for its ground and foundation a living Christ, and not dead
   works; as faith lives upon a crucified Christ, hope receives its virtue
   and rigor from the resurrection of Christ; Christ, as risen, and at the
   right hand of God, greatly encourages to seek and hope for things
   above, where he is.

   5b4. It is of a cheering and enlivening nature; "hope deferred maketh
   the heart sick; but when the desire cometh it is a tree of life" (Prov.
   13:12), it causes gladness and joy; hence we read of the "rejoicing of
   the hope," and of "rejoicing in hope" (Heb. 3:6; Rom. 5:2; Prov.
   10:28).

   5b5. It is an abiding, ever living grace, and is always more or less in
   exercise; as water that is always flowing and running is called "living
   water;" this grace is lively or living when others seem to be ready to
   die; and though it is sometimes in a low state itself, and a man puts
   his mouth in the dust, "if so be there may be hope," yet still there is
   hope; and when he is in the worst case, a saint cannot give up his
   hope; nor will he part with it for all the world; it is one of the
   abiding graces (1 Cor. 13:13).

   5c. Thirdly, it is represented as of a purifying nature; "every man
   that hath this hope in him," of appearing with Christ, and being like
   him, and seeing him as he is, "purifieth himself even as he is pure" (1
   John 3:3), that is, as Christ is pure: all men are by nature and
   through sin impure: no man can purify himself by any thing that he can
   do; it is peculiar to the blood of Jesus to cleanse from sin. Neither
   faith, nor hope, nor any other grace, have such virtue in them as to
   make a man pure from his sin; no otherwise can they purify from it, but
   as they deal with the blood of Christ; and he that has hope in the
   blood and righteousness of Christ for justification and salvation, and
   expresses it, does thereby declare that he is righteous, as Christ is
   righteous (1 John 3:7), being made the righteousness of God in him.

   5d. Fourthly, hope is sometimes compared to an anchor, because of its
   great usefulness to the Christian in this life; "which hope we have as
   an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast" (Heb. 6:19), this world
   is a sea; the church, and so every believer, is like a ship sailing on
   it; Christ is the pilot that guides it; hope is the anchor of it; and a
   good hope is like an anchor cast on a good foundation, where remaining
   fixed, it is sure and steadfast; and as the ground on which an anchor
   is cast is out of sight; so Christ, on which hope is fixed, is unseen;
   as are also the glories of a future state, it is concerned with; and as
   an anchor is of no service without a cable; so not hope without faith;
   which is the substance and support of it: a ship when at anchor is kept
   steady by it; so a soul by hope: none of the things it meets with,
   afflictions, troubles, and temptations, can move it from the hope of
   the gospel, from the service and cause of Christ; but it remains
   steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. In
   some things hope and an anchor disagree; an anchor is not of so much
   use in storms and tempests at sea as when in a calm, or in danger near
   rocks and shores; but hope is of use when the soul is in a storm sadly
   ruffled, discomposed, disquieted, and tossed about with sin,
   temptation, and trouble; hence David, in such a spiritual storm, cast
   out the anchor of hope; "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art
   thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God!" (Ps. 42:11), and says the
   prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 17:17). "Thou art my hope in the day of evil." A
   cable may be cut or broke, and so the anchor useless; but faith, which
   is that to hope as the cable is to the anchor, will never fail, can
   never be destroyed; an anchor is cast on what is below, on ground
   underneath; but hope has for its objects things above where Jesus is;
   when a vessel is at anchor it continues where it is, it moves not
   forward; but a soul, when it abounds in the exercise of the grace of
   hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost, it is moving upwards,
   rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, and enters into that within the
   veil; and what gives it the preference is, that it is "the anchor of
   the soul," and its epithets, sure and steadfast, serve to recommend it;
   and which certainty and steadfastness of it arise from the author,
   object, ground, and foundation of it.

   5e. Fifthly, hope of salvation by Christ is compared to an helmet; "and
   for an helmet the hope of salvation" (1 Thess. 5:8), this is a piece of
   armor that is a defence of the head, a cover of it in the day of
   battle, and an erector of it: of such use is hope of salvation by
   Christ; it serves to defend the head from false doctrines; a man whose
   hope of salvation is fixed on Christ, cannot give into errors contrary
   to the proper Deity and eternal Sonship of Christ, to justification by
   his righteousness and atonement, and satisfaction by his sacrifice; for
   these take away the foundation of his hope; and therefore he whose hope
   is sure and steadfast cannot easily be carried away with various and
   strange doctrines, nor with every wind of doctrine. Hope of salvation
   by Christ is like an helmet which covers the head in the day of battle;
   it makes a man courageous to fight the Lord's battles, and fear no
   enemy; to engage even with principalities and powers, having on the
   whole armor of God, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and
   the sword of the Spirit, and particularly having such an helmet, an
   enemy cannot hurt his head, or give him a mortal wound on it. Hope,
   like an helmet, is an erector or lifter up of the head; in the midst of
   difficulties hope keeps the head above water, above the fear of danger;
   so that the hoping, believing soul, can even glory in tribulation (Rom.
   5:3).
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  Chapter 9

    OF THE GRACE OF LOVE

   After faith and hope follows love; for in this order they stand, "now
   abide faith, hope, charity," or love, "these three" (1 Cor. 13:13),
   "but the greatest of these is charity," or "love;" not that it is of
   greater use than the other; faith is of more use to the believer
   himself, and such things are ascribed to it as cannot be ascribed to
   love; but love is more diffusive of its benefits to others, and is of a
   longer duration. Love, in order of nature, follows faith and hope, as
   the effect its own cause, as Dr. Ames observes; for because by faith
   and hope we taste how good the Lord is, therefore we love him. Faith
   receives and embraces the promises of eternal life; and hope, on that,
   is entertained of enjoying it, and waits for it; hence flows love to
   God, who has promised it, and gives hope of it; faith spies it in the
   promise, and hope rejoices in it; and both attract the affections to
   God, the giver of it. Of which grace of love there are these three
   principal branches, and to be treated of, love to God, love to Christ,
   and love to the saints.

   1. Love to God, Jehovah, our God, the one Lord; "Hear, O Israel, the
   Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shall love the Lord thy God with all
   thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might:" this is
   what God requires of his people, and enjoins as a command to be obeyed;
   and it is but reasonable service; "What doth the Lord thou God require
   of thee--but to love him?" and says Moses in his name, "I command thee
   this day, to love the Lord thy God" (Deut. 6:4,5; 10:12; 30:16), and
   this is the chief and principal, the first and greatest command, and
   entirely agreeable to the law and light of nature and reason. In answer
   to the lawyer's question; "Master, which is the great commandment in
   the law?" Said our Lord, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
   heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind; this is the first and
   great commandment" (Matthew 22:36-38), hence the apostle says, "love is
   the fulfilling of the law" (Rom. 13:10). Concerning which love as a
   grace, for though it is a command to love, it is of grace to keep it,
   may be observed,

   1a. First, on what account God is to be loved, and is loved by his
   saints.

   1a1. For himself; because of his own nature, and the perfections of it,
   which render him amiable and lovely, and worthy of our strongest love
   and affection; as these are displayed in the works of creation and
   providence, and especially of grace, redemption, and salvation; to all
   which the Psalmist has respect when he says, "O Lord, our Lord, how
   excellent is thy name," nature, and perfections, "in all the earth!"
   (Ps. 8:1), as God is great in himself, and greatly to be praised!
   great, and greatly to be feared; so great, and greatly to be loved, for
   what he is in himself; and this is the purest and most perfect love of
   a creature towards God; for if we love him only for his goodness to us,
   it is loving ourselves rather than him; at least, a loving him for
   ourselves; and so a loving ourselves more than him: indeed, such is our
   weakness and imperfection, that we cannot come at a view of the divine
   perfections, but by these means, through which they, and particularly
   his goodness and kindness, are made known unto us, and with which we
   are first and chiefly affected; yet hereby we are led into a view of
   his nature and perfections, and to love him for the sake of himself;
   which love, though it is not first in order, it is chief and ultimate,
   and comes nearest to the love which the divine Persons bear to each
   other, and to that with which God loves his people; which arises, not
   from any goodness shown to him, or received by him.

   1a2. God is to be loved by his saints as their "summum bonum," their
   chief good; yea, their only good, their all in ALL; and so to be only
   loved: "there is none good but one, that is, God;" God, Father, Son,
   and Spirit, the one Lord God, the object of his people's love;
   concerning whom they say, "Whom have I in heaven but thee?" (Ps.
   73:25), and he may be loved by them as their portion now and hereafter,
   and as their shield and exceeding great reward; and yet their love to
   him not be mercenary.

   1a3. God is to be loved by his people for the blessings of his goodness
   communicated to them; he is the fountain of goodness to them; he is
   good, and does good, and therefore to be praised and loved, even for
   the bounties of his providence; he follows with his goodness, and daily
   loads with his benefits; but especially for the blessings of his grace,
   with which he blesses his chosen in Christ Jesus; as electing grace in
   him; predestination to the adoption of children by him; acceptance with
   God, in him, the beloved; redemption through his blood; forgiveness of
   sins, according to the riches of his grace; regenerating, quickening,
   calling, and sanctifying grace, and all things pertaining to life and
   godliness. Which benefits bestowed, though they are not in quality the
   chief motives to love God, as before observed; yet they are in order
   first, and chiefly strike the affections, and stir them up towards the
   Lord.

   1a4. The various relations God stands in to his people do and should
   engage their affections to him; for he is not only their faithful
   Creator and kind Benefactor in nature and providence; but in grace
   their covenant God and Father; and the direction to love him is
   usually, "Thou shall love the Lord THY God;" and David heaps up a
   variety of titles and characters, under which, and on account of which,
   he professed to love the Lord; "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength!"
   &c. (Ps. 18:1-3).

   1a5. What greatly influences the love of the Lord's people to him, and
   lays them under obligation to love him, is his great love to them (1
   John 4:19), which love appeared in choosing them in Christ to eternal
   happiness, of his own free favour and goodwill; in the provision of
   Christ to be the propitiation for their sins; in the mission of him
   into the world for that purpose; in the free and full forgiveness of
   all their sins, for his sake; in drawing them to himself, in effectual
   calling, with his lovingkindness, having, for the great love wherewith
   he loved them, quickened them when dead in trespasses and sins; and in
   openly espousing them to himself in conversion, called, the "love" of
   their "espousals;" with all after manifestations of his love unto them.

   1a6. The examples of the saints in all ages might be urged as motives
   to love the Lord; as of Enoch, Noah, and others before the flood; of
   the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph after it; with Joshua,
   Samuel, David, and others; but especially our Lord Jesus Christ, in
   human nature, who, in the exercise of this grace, as in others, is an
   example to us (John 14:31).

   1b. Secondly, the subjects of this grace of love, in whom it is, by
   whom the Lord is loved, and how they come by this grace.

   1b1. It is not of men, nor is it in men naturally; it is not in any
   natural man, who is in a state of nature and unregeneracy; such are
   "lovers of pleasures," sinful lusts and pleasures, "more than lovers of
   God;" yea, some of them are described as "haters of God;" and, indeed,
   the carnal mind, in every man, is enmity against God, not only an enemy
   to God, but enmity itself; which denotes how great and intense, and
   what a rooted and implacable enmity there is in a carnal man to God,
   and all that is good: nor is there any love in the people of God
   themselves before conversion; they are "without God," without any
   knowledge of God, and love to him; they are alienated from God, and
   from the life of God, and have no desire after him, nor of communion
   with him; but are "enemies in their minds," in the temper and
   disposition of them; and which is shown by their "wicked works;" and in
   this state they were when Christ died and shed his blood for them, to
   make peace and reconciliation for them, (Col. 1:20, 21; Rom. 5:10),
   which circumstance greatly illustrates the love of God in the gift of
   his Son to them (1 John 4:10).

   1b2. The grace of love is of God; he is the efficient cause and author
   of it, as he is of every grace; the apostle John expressly says, "love
   is of God," of God, Father, Son, and Spirit; it is of God the Father,
   who is the God of all grace, and so of this (1 John 4:7), and "love
   with faith," are wished for "from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus
   Christ" (Eph. 6:23), and it stands in the first place among the fruits
   of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22), it is wrought in the soul in regeneration,
   when other graces are, and is an evidence of it; for "every one that
   loveth is born of God" (1 John 4:7), and a man cannot love God until he
   is regenerated, and renewed in the Spirit of his mind, and is made a
   partaker of the spiritual circumcision of the heart, which is necessary
   to it, and which is promised (Deut. 30:6), this grace only appears with
   other graces, and when they do; there can be no love to God where there
   is no knowledge of him; according to that known phrase, "ignoti nulla
   cupido;" where there is knowledge of him, especially of him in Christ
   as gracious and merciful there will be love to him (1 John 4:7,8),
   where ignorance is there is no love; but it appears where knowledge is,
   and it accompanies faith: both spring from the same abundant grace (1
   Tim. 1:14), faith, hope, and love go together (1 Cor. 13:13), as the
   subject of love is a regenerate man, the seat of it is the heart, not
   the head, nor the tongue, but the heart; it lies not in word and in
   tongue, but in deed and in truth; and true love to God is a love of him
   with all the heart, soul, and strength.

   1c. Thirdly, how, in what way and manner, love to God manifests itself.

   1c1. In a desire to be like him; one that loves another endeavors to
   imitate him; and such that love the Lord are followers of him, as dear
   children, beloved ones, and walk in love, and are obedient ones, and
   desirous of being holy, as he is holy, in all manner of conversation;
   nor can they be thoroughly satisfied and contented until they awake in
   his likeness.

   1c2. In making his glory the supreme end of all their actions; as this
   is God's end in, all he does in providence, who makes all things for
   himself, his own glory; so in all things in grace, they are all
   directed to the glory of it; nor will he give, nor suffer to be given,
   his glory to another; wherefore, in imitation of him, they that love
   the Lord, do all they do, whether in a natural and civil sense, or of a
   religious and spiritual kind, whether praying, or reading, or hearing,
   or preaching, their end is, "that God in all things may be glorified
   through Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. 10:31; 1 Pet. 4:11).

   1c3. In desiring of, and delighting in, communion with God; longing to
   appear before God, and enjoy his presence in his courts; thirst for him
   as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is, that they may see his
   power and his glory in his sanctuary; this is the one thing uppermost
   in their minds, and which they seek most importunately for, that they
   may behold the beauty of the Lord in his temple; if God lifts but up
   the light of his countenance on them, this puts joy and gladness into
   their hearts, more than the affluence of all earthly things can; and if
   they are indulged with communion with him, they exalt and glory,
   saying, "Truly, our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son
   Jesus Christ" (1 John 1:3).

   1c4. In a carefulness not to offend him, by sinning against him; "ye
   that love the Lord, hate evil" (Ps. 97:10), and they will show their
   hatred of it, and endeavour to avoid it, and even to abstain from all
   appearance of it; and when opportunity offers, and they are solicited
   by temptations to sin, argue, as Joseph; "How can I do this great
   wickedness, and sin against God?" (Gen. 39:9), against God, who has
   loved me, and I am under such great obligations to love him again?

   1c5. In grief, when he has withdrawn himself, and in a diligent seeking
   after him until he is found; when he hides his face, and withdraws his
   gracious presence, a soul that loves God is troubled at it, and
   complains of it, as the church did; "Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken
   me, and my Lord hath forgotten me!" and therefore such a soul, with
   Job, expresses its concern to know where it could find him, and takes
   for it a course like his, goes forward and backward, to the right and
   left, where be used to work, and was wont to be seen (Job 23:2, 8, 9).

   1c6. In parting with and bearing all for his sake, leaving their own
   people and father's house, country, and kindred, as Abraham did, to go
   where he directs; saying as Ruth said to Naomi, "Whither thou goest I
   will go, where thou lodgest I will lodge, thy people shall be my
   people, and thou God shall be my God:" and such that love God are
   willing to endure all hardships for his sake, to suffer reproach,
   persecution, and distress of every kind, rather than forego their
   profession and enjoyment of him.

   1c7. In a regard to his house, worship, and ordinances; they that love
   the Lord love the habitation of his house, the place where his honour
   dwells; his tabernacles are amiable and lovely; a day in his house is
   better than a thousand elsewhere; it is no other, in their esteem, than
   the gate of heaven, and, like the disciples on the mount, think it good
   for them to be here, and are for making tabernacles to abide in.

   1c8. By a value for his word, his gospel, and the truths of it. They
   that love the Lord receive the love of the truth; not only the truth,
   but a love of it, an affection for it; it is more to be desired by them
   than gold, and is more to them than thousands of gold and silver; it is
   more esteemed of by them than their necessary food; they find it, and
   eat it, and it is the joy and rejoicing of their hearts; the feet of
   them that bring the good tidings of it are beautiful unto them.

   1c9. In love and affection to the people of God; who are, with those
   that love the Lord, the excellent in the earth, in whom is all their
   delight; as they love him that begets, they love those who are begotten
   of him, and bear his image; and they are taught of him to do this in
   their regeneration, and which is an evidence that they have passed from
   death to life, and are born again.

   1c10. By a disesteem of all things in comparison of God: to love the
   world, and the things of it, in an immoderate manner, is not consistent
   with the love of the Father, or with profession of love to him; for the
   friendship of the world is enmity with God; and a man cannot be a
   friend of the world and a lover of God; no man can serve two masters
   God and mammon; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or
   hold to the one and despise the other.

   1d. Fourthly, the nature and properties of the love of God; what it is,
   or should be.

   1d1. It is, or ought to be, universal; a love of all that is in God,
   and belongs unto him; of all his attributes and perfections, of one as
   another; not of his goodness, grace, and mercy, and of him for them
   only; but of his holiness, justice, and truth; and of all his
   commandments, which are all to be respected, attended unto, and obeyed,
   (Ps. 119:127, 128), and it is a love of all the truths and doctrines of
   the gospel, of whatsoever is contained in the Scripture; every word of
   God is pure to them that love the Lord; and all the words of his mouth
   are plain and right, and nothing froward or perverse in them. And this
   love extends to all the people of God, of whatsoever class, rank,
   degree, or denomination (Eph. 1:15).

   1d2. It is, or ought to be, superlative: what exceeds all other love,
   or love to all other persons and things; as there is none like the Lord
   for greatness and goodness, so there is none to be loved like him, none
   in heaven nor in earth, neither angels nor men; not the greatest
   personages, and those of the most amiable qualities and characters; nor
   those in the nearest relation, as father, mother, husband, wife, &c.

   1d3. It is, or ought to be, hearty and sincere; a love without
   dissimulation; not in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth; it
   is required to be with "all the heart," in the most cordial manner; and
   "with all the soul," the powers and faculties of it, the affections
   being wholly engrossed and swallowed up in love to God; and "with all
   the might," or "strength;" with all the strength of grace, or spiritual
   strength a man is possessed of.

   1d4. Should be constant; such is the love of God to his people, he
   rests in his love towards them; such is the love of Christ to them;
   who, "having loved his own which are in the world, he loves them to the
   end," immutably and invariably: the love of God's people falls short of
   this; it is variable and inconstant in its acts and exercises, though
   its principle remains.

   1d5. It is imperfect in the present state, as every grace is: knowledge
   is imperfect; "we know but in part;" and faith is imperfect, and hence
   an increase of it is desired; and so is love, it sometimes waxes cold,
   through the prevalence of corruption, the force of temptation, and the
   snares of the world; and lukewarmness and indifference takes place,
   until there is a reviving of it through a fresh stream of love from
   God.

   12d6. It may be increased, and sometimes is, the apostle prays for an
   increase of it, and he thanks God for it that it did abound (1 Thess.
   5:12; 2 Thess. 1:3), which though it refers to love to the saints, is
   equally true of love to God, which increases the one as the other.

   1d7. This grace of love, like others, can never be lost; though it may
   wax cold, it does not sink to nothing, and though it may be less, and
   abated, and grow weak, as to the ardency and fervency of it, it is not
   lost; yea, will abide when other graces have dropped their exercise,
   which is one reason why it is said to be the "greatest" (1 Cor. 13:13)
   it never fails (1 Cor. 13:8).

   1e. Fifthly, The happiness of such that love the Lord.

   1e1. They are loved by him; "I love them that love me;" not that their
   love is the cause of the love of God to them; his love is prior to
   theirs, and is the cause of that; but such that love the Lord, greater
   manifestations of his love are made to them, and more instances of it
   shown; the secrets of his heart's love are disclosed unto them, that is
   shed abroad in their hearts by the Spirit, and they are directed into
   it, and led more largely into a view of interest in it; which to enjoy
   is a great blessing; for "his lovingkindness is better than life" (Ps.
   63:3).

   1e2. They are known of God; "if any man love God, the same is known of
   him" (1 Cor. 8:3), is taken notice of by him, owned and acknowledged as
   his; and to whom he makes himself known, uses him familiarly, and
   favors him with communion with himself, and knows his soul in
   adversity, supports him in it, and delivers out of it; the knowledge he
   has of him is special, peculiar, and distinct, and is joined with love
   and affection to him; "the Lord knoweth them that are his" (2 Tim.
   2:19).

   1e3. They are preserved by him; "the Lord preserveth all them that love
   him" (Ps. 145:20), and the same is made use of as an argument to love
   him (Ps. 31:23), since the Lord takes them under his special care, and
   preserves them from every enemy, from hurts and dangers, from sin,
   Satan, and the world, and from a final and total falling away from him,
   by means of any of them; he preserves them in Christ, and preserves
   them safe to the coming of Christ, and to his kingdom and glory.

   1e4. They have many instances of mercy, kindness, and respect shown
   them; for "the Lord is a God showing mercy unto thousands of them that
   love him" (Ex 20:6), hence David thus prays for himself; "Look thou
   upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that
   love thy name" (Ps. 119:132).

   1e5. All things that occur unto them in the present life are for their
   good, and work together for it (Rom. 8:28), even all afflictions and
   adverse dispensations of providence, as well as more prosperous ones;
   either for their temporal good, as in the case of Jacob, who thought
   all things were going against him, when they were all working for him;
   or for spiritual good; for the trial and increase of grace, of faith,
   patience, &c. (Rom. 5:5; 1 Pet. 1:7; Jam. 1:2), and always for their
   eternal good (2 Cor. 4:17).

   1e6. Great things are laid up and reserved for them that love the Lord,
   to be enjoyed hereafter, even things inconceivable, and which are
   expressed by the highest enjoyments in this life, and which vastly
   exceed them; by a "crown" and "kingdom" they are now made "heirs" of (1
   Cor. 2:9; Jam. 1:12; 2:5).

   2. Love to Christ is another eminent branch of the grace of love; for
   he is not only a distinct divine Person in the Godhead, but stands in
   an office capacity, as Mediator, Redeemer, and Saviour of his people;
   and has given various surprising proofs and instances of his love to
   them; and therefore it is not to be wondered at that he should be
   represented in the Scriptures in so distinguished a manner as the
   object of their love; and he being so well known to be the object of
   the love of saints, and so deserving of it, the church only describes
   him by this periphrasis, "him whom my soul loveth;" without naming his
   name; supposing that everyone she conversed with knew who she meant
   (Cant. 3:1-3), and very frequently she calls him, "My beloved," without
   any other description of him (Cant. 1:13, 14; 2:16). Cant. the apostle
   Peter, after having made mention of the appearing, of Jesus Christ,
   adds, "Whom having not seen, ye love" (1 Pet. 1:8), and for himself, he
   could appeal to Christ, as the omniscient God, and say, "Lord thou
   knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee" (John 21:17).
   Concerning which love to Christ the following things may be considered,

   2a. First, on what accounts Christ is to be loved, and loved, by them
   that know him and believe in him: and there are many things in him and
   belonging to him which engage their love and affections to him. And he
   is to be loved,

   2a1. Because of the excellencies of his Person: as the Son of God, his
   glory is the glory of the only begotten of the Father; he is the
   brightness of his glory, and the express image of his Person; is equal
   to God, and in the glorious and lovely form of God; the whole fulness
   of the Godhead dwells in him; every perfection in Deity is to be found
   in him; and therefore has everything to attract the love of his people
   to him; hence one of the ancients said, "Est aliquid in Christo
   formosius salvatore;" there is something in Christ more amiable, more
   lovely, and more beautiful than the Saviour.

   2a2. Because he is the beloved of his Father, his dear Son, the Son of
   his love, the darling and delight of his soul, always by him, near to
   him, as one brought up with him, carried in his bosom, in which he lay,
   and was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; all which is
   expressive of his tender affection for him, and the inexpressible
   pleasure he took in him before the world began; and which he further
   declared by putting all things into his hands, and showing him all he
   did; which instances our Lord makes mention of himself, as proofs of
   his Father's love to him (John 3:35; 5:20), and when he was here on
   earth, in human nature, both at his baptism and at his transfiguration
   on the mount, he declared, by a voice from heaven, saying, "This is my
   beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17; 17:5), yea, he
   loved him because he laid down his life for his sheep (John 10:17), all
   which most strongly move and excite the saints to love him.

   2a3. Because of the fulness of grace in him for the supply of their
   wants; it is a very considerable branch of the glory of Christ, as
   Mediator, and which recommends him as such, that he is "full of grace
   and truth;" as the fulness of Deity in him renders him an object worthy
   of the highest love, as a divine Person; so the fulness of grace it
   pleased the Father should dwell in him, as Man and Mediator, cannot
   fail of recommending him as suitable to indigent sinners, and of
   raising in them an high esteem of him, as a most lovely Person, and of
   attracting their affections to him, (Ps. 45:2; Cant. 5:10).

   2a4. Because of his precious names and titles; his "name" in general,
   "is as ointment poured forth," which diffuses a most sweet savour,
   alluding to his name, Messiah, which signifies "anointed;" and from
   whom the saints receive the "anointing," the graces of the Spirit,
   which are his "ointments," good and savory, "and therefore do the
   virgins love him" (Cant. 1:3), who receive all their grace and beauty
   from him, which makes them amiable and lovely to him. His name Jesus, a
   Saviour, so called because he saves his people from their sins, is a
   delightful sound in their ears; as is also, "the Lord our
   Righteousness," by whose righteousness they are justified before God,
   and become perfectly comely in his sight (Matthew 1:21; Jer. 23:6), and
   every other name and title of his in (Isa. 9:6).

   2a5. Because of the offices he bears, so useful and beneficial to his
   people; he is the "Mediator" between God and men, the day's man between
   them both, who has brought them together, and reconciled them; the
   "Surety" of the better Testament, who engaged to be a ransom for them,
   to pay their debts, to bear their sins, and make satisfaction for them,
   and to bring them to God, and set them before him; their "Prophet," to
   teach and instruct them, and enlighten in the knowledge of saving
   truths; their "Priest," to make atonement for their sins, and to
   intercede for their persons; and their "King" to rule over them,
   protect and defend them; and who would not fear and love one so great
   and respectable!

   2a6. Because of the relations he stands in to them: he is their
   everlasting Father, who has the most affectionate concern for their
   welfare; he is the most tender "Husband," who nourishes the church as
   his own flesh, and for whom he gave himself a sacrifice; he is the most
   kind and loving Brother, was born for the adversity of his brethren,
   and to bring them out of it, and is not ashamed of his relation to
   them; he is a most faithful "Friend," a friend that loves at all times,
   that sticks closer than a brother; no wonder that the church, after she
   had described him at large, should break forth in such an exulting and
   affectionate strain; "This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend, O
   daughters of Jerusalem!" (Cant. 5:16).

   2a7. Because he has all blessings in his hands for them; peace, pardon,
   righteousness, and eternal life; and God has blessed his people in him
   with all spiritual blessings; has given them grace in him, even all the
   blessings of grace, before the world began; and has made him to them
   wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption; so that he is
   their ALL in ALL, and therefore it is not to be wondered at, that he
   should be the object of their highest love.

   2a8. Particularly, because he is their Saviour and Redeemer, who
   assumed their nature, in order to die in their room and stead, and
   became the author of eternal salvation to them, and who saved them, and
   gave himself for them, to redeem them from all iniquity, and out of the
   hand of every enemy, and has by his blood obtained eternal redemption
   for them, and who has loved them, and washed them from their sins in
   his blood, and has procured the remission of them, as well as cleansing
   from them; and on all accounts they have reason to love him, and sing
   his new song of redeeming grace, "Worthy is the Lamb!" &c. (Rev. 1:5;
   5:9).

   2a9. Nor does his love cease here, nor the obligations on his people to
   love him; for he appears in the presence of God for them, and ever
   lives to make intercession for them, and is their advocate with the
   Father, in consequence of which various blessings of grace descend upon
   them.

   2a10. He will appear a second time, without sin, to the salvation of
   them that look for him; and his appearance is to be looked for, it
   being a glorious one; and is itself to be loved; and much more the
   Person, who shall appear in so much glory, and so much to the advantage
   of those that love him; for a crown of righteousness is laid up, and
   will be given to them "that love his appearing" (2 Tim. 4:8).

   2b. Secondly, the spring's and causes of love to Christ.

   2b1. It does not arise from nature; men in a state of nature are
   without Christ, without any knowledge of him, and affection for him;
   they see no form, nor comeliness, nor beauty in him, wherefore he
   should be desired by them: and this is not only the case of openly
   profane and carnal sinners, but even of some who have some notion of
   religion and sacred things; and yet ask, "What is thy beloved more than
   another beloved?" what peculiar charms, excellencies, and beauty are
   there in him, which give him a preference to all others? But this
   betrays their ignorance of Christ, and want of true affection for him
   (Cant. 5:9).

   2b2. But it is owing to the abundant grace of God in regeneration; an
   unregenerate man is destitute of it; "If God was your Father," says
   Christ to the Jews, their Father by adoption, of which regeneration is
   the evidence, "ye would love me; for everyone that loveth him that
   begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him" (John 8:42; 1 John
   5:1). Whoever loves God, who has, of his own good will and abundant
   mercy, begotten him again to a lively hope of a glorious inheritance,
   loves Christ also, who is begotten of him, though in an higher sense,
   and who is the firstborn among many brethren. Faith in Christ, and love
   to him, commence together; and both flow from the same grace and favour
   (1 Tim. 1:14), none but true believers in Christ sincerely love him;
   "faith works by love; to them that believe he is precious" (Gal. 5:6; 1
   Pet. 2:7), and none but such who by an eye of faith have seen his
   glory, fulness, and suitableness, truly love him; for,

   2b3. Love to him is owing to a special revelation of him, in the
   effectual calling; when God calls a man by his grace, he reveals his
   Son in him, and to him, in the glories of his person, and the riches of
   his grace; when he sees the King in his beauty, and is enamoured with
   him, he appears to him white and ruddy, a perfection of beauty, the
   chiefest among a thousand thousand, none like him among all the men on
   earth, nor among all the angels in heaven; he is in his esteem,
   "altogether lovely," beyond all compare, beyond all expression; all
   things are reckoned loss in comparison of the knowledge of him.

   2b4. Love to Christ arises, not only from a view of his loveliness; but
   also from a sense of his love, which passes knowledge, from a feeling
   sensation of it, shed abroad in the heart, which causes love again.
   This was the case of the sinful woman mentioned in the gospel, who
   loved much because much love was shown her, in the forgiveness of her
   sins, through the blood of Jesus; and this is the experience of all the
   saints; "we love him because he first loved us," in taking the care and
   charge of us, in assuming our nature, and in dying in our room and
   stead.

   2b5. This love is more and more heightened and increased through
   knowledge of union to him, and through communion with him; the church,
   sitting under the shadow of Christ with great delight, and his fruit
   sweet to her taste, and being brought by him into his banqueting house,
   with his banner of love displayed over her, served much to draw forth
   her love to him, and make her even sick with it; and especially being
   brought "into his chamber" by him, filled her with joy and gladness,
   and caused her to remember his love more than wine; and she observed
   this as the effect of it, "the upright love thee" (Cant. 1:4; 2:3-5).
   Thus John, the beloved disciple, being indulged with leaning on the
   bosom of Jesus, not only had a greater manifestation of Christ's love,
   but more strongly expressed his love to Christ.

   2c. Thirdly, how, in what way and manner, or in what instances, love to
   Christ shows itself.

   2c1. In a regard to all that are his, and belong to him; "His mouth is
   most sweet" to such, and he is "altogether," or "all of him, lovely,"
   in his person, in his offices, and in his people; his promises are like
   apples of gold in pictures of silver; the words of his mouth, the
   doctrines of his grace, are sweeter than the honey or the honeycomb;
   the ministers of the gospel, who bring the glad tidings of salvation,
   are beautiful and lovely; his saints are the precious sons of Zion, and
   comparable to fine gold; his ways are ways of pleasantness, his
   tabernacles amiable, and his ordinances delightful.

   2c2. In keeping his commandments; "If ye love me," says Christ, "keep
   my commandments;" this is the strongest and clearest proof of love; he
   that, from a principle of love, "keepeth them, he it is," says Christ,
   "that loveth me;" others may talk of their love to Christ; but he is
   the man that truly loves him (John 14:15, 21).

   2c3. In a carefulness not to offend him, and cause him to depart from
   them; thus solicitous was the church, and therefore fearful lest any
   offence should be given, and occasion his removal from her (Cant. 2:7).

   2c4. In a jealousy of his love, lest he should not love them at all; or
   should not love them so much as another, or another more than they;
   "Jealousy is cruel as the grave," fearful, [26] distressing, and
   insatiable (Cant. 8:6).

   2c5. In a desire of, and delight in, his company; this delight is very
   great; "I sat down under his shadow," under the shadow of his
   ordinances, enjoying his presence in them, "with great delight" (Cant.
   2:3), and this desire is very vehement, strongly expressed with great
   ardor and fervency, and the presence of Christ is importunately sought
   after (Isa. 26:9).

   2c6. In grief and concern, when he has withdrawn his presence. "In his
   favor," in his gracious presence, and under the smiles of his
   countenance, "is life," a soul is alive and comfortable; but if he
   withdraws himself, and the manifestations of his favour, it is death,
   it kills, it is intolerable; "My soul failed," swooned away, "when he
   spake," or at the parting word (Cant. 5:8). Mary, at our Lord's
   sepulchre, not finding him there, with an heart full of grief, and
   ready to break, burst out in a passionate manner, with tears, "They
   have taken away my Lord!" (John 20:13).

   2c7. In a strict search and inquiry after him until found; so the
   church, when she had lost her beloved, sought him first on her bed, in
   her chamber, and private retirement; then in the city, the assembly of
   the saints, in the "streets" and "broad" places, in the public ministry
   of the word and ordinances; and then of the "watchmen," the ministers
   of the gospel personally; and throughout the whole of the search the
   inquiry was, "Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?" and in an after similar
   case; when, through her sleepiness, slothfulness, and ingratitude, he
   withdrew from her; which, when she perceived, she sought him, but could
   not find him; she called to him, but received no answer; she met with
   ill usage from the watchmen, but this did not deter her from going in
   quest of him; she lighted upon the daughters of Jerusalem, in her
   search of him, whom she charged, that if they found her beloved, that
   they would tell him, that she was sick of love for him (Cant. 3:1-3;
   5:6-8).

   2c8. In expressions of joy upon finding him; as the church in the above
   case; "It was but little," says she, "that I passed from them, but I
   found him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and would not let him go:"
   and in the other case how does she exult in the close of her account,
   upon finding him; "This is my beloved, and this is my friend!" (Cant.
   3:4; 5:16). Cant., after our Lord's absence by death, from his
   disciples, when he rose again, and showed himself to them, it is said,
   "Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord" (John 20:20), and
   so it is when Christ has withdrawn himself from his people, and they
   see him again by faith, they are filled "with a joy unspeakable and
   full of glory!" and there is great reason for such joy on finding him;
   for he that finds him, "finds life, and shall obtain favour of the
   Lord" (Prov. 8:35).

   2c9. In pushing through all difficulties to enjoy him, as the church
   did; who, in search of Christ, exposed herself to the insults, blows,
   wounds, and depredations of the watchmen: so souls at first conversion,
   when their first love, the Dove of their espousals to Christ, is warm
   and ardent, like Israel of old, go after him "in a wilderness, in a
   land not sown," in very discouraging circumstances, through much
   reproach, tribulation, and affliction, from the world, and others.

   2c10. In parting with and bearing all for Christ's sake; in leaving
   relations, friends, and former companions, houses, lands, and
   everything dear and valuable, standing in competition with him: in
   denying themselves in every view, sinful self, righteous self, and
   civil self; taking up the cross cheerfully, and following him; and even
   loving not their lives unto death for his sake; Christ is the pearl of
   great price in their esteem, and they are willing to part with all
   things, and suffer the loss of all, that they may enjoy him.

   2d. Fourthly, the nature of this love.

   2d1. Universal; all of Christ, as before observed; for he is all
   lovely; his person, his people, his word and ordinances, his precepts,
   and his promises.

   2d2. Superlative; "He that loves father or mother more than me," says
   Christ, "is not worthy of me," &c. (Matthew 10:37), and the same holds
   good of any other person or thing; there is none in heaven nor in earth
   to be loved like him; he is the chiefest among ten thousand.

   2d3. Hearty and sincere; such who truly love Christ, love him "in
   sincerity," or "in incorruption" (Eph. 6:24), with a love that cannot
   be corrupted, with a love unfeigned, and without dissimulation; such
   was Peter's love to Christ, who could appeal to him as omniscient for
   the truth of it.

   2d4. Warm and fervent; such as "many waters" of sin, "temptation, and
   affliction, cannot quench;" floods of the same, more forcible, "cannot
   drown;" and from which, "tribulation, distress, persecution, famine,
   nakedness, peril and sword, cannot separate" (Cant. 8:7; Rom. 8:35).

   2d5. It should be constant, as Christ's is to us, who loves at all
   times, and to the end: but, alas! other objects present, and other
   lovers are followed after for a time; yet true love is not totally and
   finally lost; first love, though left for a while, is revived and
   restored; and the first husband is returned unto and abode by.

   2d6. It is very grateful and well pleasing to Christ; "How fair is thy
   love," says he, "my sister, my spouse; how much better is thy love than
   wine!" (Cant. 4:10), he remembers the first love of his people, the
   love of their espousals, the kindness of their youth, when forgotten by
   them: what made him put the question so often to Peter, Lovest thou me?
   One reason, among others, might be, because it was pleasing to him to
   hear him say, and so strongly aver it, that he loved him.

   2e. Fifthly, the happiness of those that love Christ.

   2e1. They are loved by him: "I love them, that love me," says Wisdom,
   or Christ (Prov. 8:17), that is, he continues to love them, and makes
   greater manifestations of himself, and of his love to them; and so he
   himself explains it, when speaking of those that show their love to
   him, by keeping his commandments; he says, "I will love him, and
   manifest myself unto him;" and this he shows by his frequent love
   visits to them, and by his prayers and preparations for them, that they
   may be with him where he is, and behold his glory.

   2e2. They are blessed who love Christ; as a curse, an "anathema,
   maranatha," is wished to those who love him not; so "grace," the best
   of blessings, is desired for those who love him in sincerity (1 Cor.
   16:22; Eph. 6:24).

   2e3. It is expressed prayer-wise, that it might be, and it is a prayer
   of faith, that it shall be; "Let them that love him, be as the sun when
   it goeth forth in his might" (Judges 5:31) for light, splendor, and
   glory; as they are when clothed with the sun, and when the Sun of
   righteousness arises upon them with healing in his wings, and as they
   will be when they shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of their
   Father.

   2e4. Those that love Christ, he, as he has promised, "Will cause to
   inherit substance" (Prov. 8:21), even a better and a more enduring
   substance than is to be enjoyed in this world, riches of grace, and
   riches of glory, durable riches and righteousness.

   3. Another branch of the grace of love is, love to men.

   3a. First, the objects of it; men.

   3a1. Angels are indeed objects of love; not the evil angels, because of
   their wickedness and apostasy from God, and because of their
   mischievous nature, continually seeking to do hurt to the persons of
   men, their souls and bodies, their properties and estates, as much as
   in them lies, and as far as they have leave; but good angels, who are
   very amiable, because of the excellencies of their nature, their
   holiness, wisdom, and strength, in which they excel; they belong to the
   family in heaven, and are of great use to saints on earth; are
   ministering; spirits to the heirs of salvation; though they are not to
   be worshipped by good men, being their fellow servants; yet they are to
   be loved, being friendly to them, and wish their welfare, and rejoice
   at it: they expressed their joy at the good will of God to men, shown
   in the incarnation of Christ for them; and there is joy among them
   whenever a sinner is converted and repents; besides, the saints will be
   like them in the resurrection, and will join them in the worship of
   God, and in communion with him for ever. But,

   3a2. It is with men, the branch of love under consideration is
   concerned; and, indeed, all men are to be loved; for this is the second
   great commandment, "Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself;" and all
   mankind are neighbours; they are all the offspring of God, and near
   akin to one another, being all of one man's blood; nay, not only those
   that are kind and neighborly, are to be loved, but even our very
   enemies; so Christ has taught us by his precept; "I say unto you, love
   your enemies;" and by his example, in praying to his Father, "Forgive
   them, for they know not what they do!" (Matthew 22:39, 40; 5:44; Luke
   23:34), nay, we are directed to show kindness to them, and heap favors
   upon them, and thereby overcome their evil with good (Rom. 12:19-21).

   3a3. The peculiar objects of this branch of love now to be treated of
   are good men, the saints and people of God; who are,

   3a3a. Called brethren; not in a natural but spiritual relation, the
   brethren of Christ, and brethren one of another; who are brethren and
   partakers of the same heavenly calling, or are in the same church
   state, and are called the "brotherhood," and therefore should love as
   brethren (1 Pet. 2:17; 3:8). Hence this love has the name of
   Philadelphia, or brotherly love (Rom. 12:10; Heb. 13:1).

   3a3b. Disciples and followers of Christ; such who have learned Christ,
   and have learned to deny themselves, and to take up the cross and
   follow him; these, as they should love Christ, so likewise one another
   (John 13:35), and the least instance of love and kindness shown to such
   on account of what they are, is exceeding pleasing to Christ (Matthew
   10:42).

   3a3c. Believers in Christ, who are called the household of faith,
   partakers of the grace of faith, and embrace and profess the same
   doctrine of faith, these are to be loved, and special kindness shown
   unto them (Gal. 6:10; Titus 3:15), the little ones who believe in
   Christ he is so tender of, and has such a special regard unto, that he
   would have no offence given unto them; but signifies, it would fare ill
   with those who should give it (Matthew 18:6).

   3a3d. Children of God, who are such by adoption, to which they are
   predestinated, and which they receive through and from Christ, and of
   which regeneration is the evidence, and the Spirit of God the witness;
   and who become apparently so by faith in Christ Jesus, and being
   children of the same Father, ought to love one another (1 John 5:1, 2).

   3a3e. They are described as saints, who are the objects of this grace
   of love; who are called to be saints, and are called with an holy
   calling, or sanctified by the Spirit of God, and have principles of
   grace and holiness wrought in them, and live holy lives and
   conversations; and frequently does the apostle speak in commendation of
   the churches for their "love unto all the saints" (Eph. 1:15; Col.
   1:4).

   3b. Secondly, the nature of this grace of love, as exercised towards
   the saints.

   3b1. It is wrought in regeneration. Men in a state unregeneracy are
   destitute of it; "the world hates" those that are "chosen out of" it,
   and called; and that because they are so; yea, one part of the
   character of God's elect before conversion is, "hateful, and hating one
   another;" in regeneration, and not before, men are "taught of God to
   love one another;" and this is an evidence of their regeneration, (1
   Thess. 4:9; 1 John 3:14).

   3b2. This grace is very largely described (1 Cor. 13:1-13), for though
   our translators have rendered the word "charity" throughout, for what
   reason it does not appear, it should be "love;" for it is manifestly
   distinguished from alms deeds, or relieving the poor and distressed,
   which the apostle supposes may be, and yet this grace be wanting; by
   which he seems to understand love to the saints; without which, he
   suggests the greatest gifts of knowledge are nothing, and all
   pretensions to, and professions of, religion are in vain: those who are
   possessed of it, "suffer long," bear and forbear much, are "kind" to
   their fellow creatures and fellow Christians; "envy not" the superior
   gifts and graces of others; "vaunt not" over those supposed inferior to
   them; and are not "puffed up" with their own attainments; "do not
   behave unseemly," in a haughty, supercilious, and contemptuous manner
   to those in connection with them; "seek" not their "own" things,
   pleasures, profits, honours, and to exalt themselves above others; are
   not "easily provoked" to wrath against those that offend them; "think
   no evil" of others, give not way to groundless jealousies and surmises;
   "rejoice not in iniquity," in committing it themselves, nor in seeing
   it done by others; not in lies, nor in any false representations of
   things; but "rejoice in the truth," in hearing and telling truth of
   others; "bear all things," all reproaches, insults, and indignities,
   with patience and meekness; "believe all things" of good report in
   fellow Christians, not giving credit to evil spoken of them, without
   sufficient reason; "hope all things," the best concerning them, and
   that what is of ill report is not true of them; "endure all things,"
   the ill treatment and ill manners of others, with much mildness and
   gentleness.

   3b3. It should be universal; "Love to all saints;" for which some
   churches are commended, before observed; whether they be weak or strong
   believers, more or less knowing Christians, they are to be cordially
   "received" into the love and affections of the saints; and be they of
   whatsoever name and denomination in religion, they may, provided they
   appear to be Christ's, and bear his image; and let their worldly
   circumstances be what they will, no respect, as to affection, is to be
   had to persons; one in a Christian assembly with a gold ring, and in
   goodly apparel, is not to be preferred to a poor brother in mean
   raiment, as James directs (Jam. 2:1-3).

   3b4. It should be fervent (1 Pet. 1:22; 4:8), and every method should
   be taken and means used to blow up the flame of love, and to keep it
   alive; it is a sign of bad times, and of things going ill in religion,
   when "the love of many waxes cold" (Matthew 24:12).

   3b5. It should be, and where it is right it will be, unfeigned and
   sincere; so the apostle calls that love which springs from an heart
   purified under the influence of divine truths, by the Spirit,
   "unfeigned love of the brethren" (1 Pet. 1:22), it is love without
   dissimulation, real and cordial; not "in word" and "in tongue" only,
   but "in deed" and "in truth" (1 John 3:18).

   3b6. It is an active and laborious grace, by which the saints "serve
   one another," both in things temporal and spiritual (Gal. 5:13), hence
   we read of the "work and labour of love" (1 Thess. 1:3; Heb. 6:10), it
   not only works and is busy, and continually exercises itself in doing
   good, but it labours at it, and yet is not weary of well doing.

   3b7. The manner in which, or the exemplar according to which, it is to
   be exercised is, as Christ has loved his people; this is what he
   himself has enjoined, that is the argument and motive inducing to an
   observance of it (John 13:34; 15:12), yea, the apostle John, carries
   this pattern of love to such a degree, that as Christ has shown his
   love to his people in laying down his life for them; they are to show
   theirs in laying down their lives for the brethren (1 John 3:16).

   3b8. It is a very excellent grace; after the apostle had exhorted, to
   "covet earnestly the best gifts," he adds, "yet show I unto you a more
   excellent way" (1 Cor. 12:31), something more excellent than the best
   external gifts, both ordinary and extraordinary, he had before been
   speaking of; and by the connection of the words with the following
   chapter, it appears to be the grace of love, which,

   3b8a. Is the greatest of all the graces (1 Cor. 13:13), because it is
   more diffusive of goodness and kindness, and so more beneficial to
   others, though the other graces may be more useful to a man's self; and
   because of its long duration, even as to the exercise of it, which will
   be throughout an endless eternity; for "charity," or "love, never
   faileth" (1 Cor. 13:8).

   3b8b. It is an evidence of a man's being born again; "Every one that
   loveth is born of God" (1 John 4:7; 3:14), and this is the grand
   criterion of a true disciple of Christ (John 13:35). In Tertullian's
   time the heathens knew the Christians by their loving attitude toward
   one another in public, and would point unto them and say, "See how they
   love one another!" [27] such times are now to be wished for.

   3b8c. It is called the "bond of perfectness" (Col. 3:14), which
   perfectly knits and unites the saints together, and keeps the unity of
   the spirit in the bond of peace; it is the perfect bond of the church
   and its members; of the saints to one another, and of their several
   graces.

   3b8d. Without this, a profession of religion is an empty and useless
   thing; and the strongest expressions of regard unto it, speculative
   notions about it, and boastings of it, are insignificant (1 Cor.
   13:1-3). How super excellent therefore must this grace be! It is in
   vain to talk of love to God and love to Christ, where this is wanting
   (1 John 4:20).

   3b8e. It is the exercise of this grace which makes the communion of the
   saints with one another delightful; "Behold, how good and how pleasant
   it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity!" the Psalmist compares
   it, for its cheering and refreshing nature, to the precious ointment
   poured on Aaron's head, and to the dew of Hermon, and that which fell
   on the mountains of Zion (Ps. 133:1-3), and it also tends greatly to
   their edification in church fellowship; "Charity," or "love, edifieth;"
   the body, the church, being united to Christ the head, and the members
   of it fitly joined together, "maketh increase of the body, unto the
   edifying of itself in love" (1 Cor. 8:1; Eph. 4:16).

   3b8f. It is one part of the saints spiritual armor; "The breastplate of
   faith and love" is a good defence against the enemy, who cannot easily
   get an advantage where this piece of armor is carefully and constantly
   made use of; it makes the church of Christ as terrible as an army with
   banners; the love and union of saints to one another, is their great
   security against the common adversary; like the bundle of sticks in the
   fable, which, while bound together, could not be broken, but when
   separated were easily snapped asunder.

   3c. Thirdly, how, in what manner, and wherein this grace of love to one
   another manifests itself.

   3c1. By praying with and for one another; hence when our Lord

   taught his disciples to pray, he directed them to pray to God as their
   common Father; saying, "Our Father, which art in heaven;" thereby
   teaching them, that they were to pray for one another even for all
   saints, and that constantly and fervently (Eph. 6:18), which availeth
   much, and tends to godly edification.

   3c2. By bearing one another's burdens (Gal. 6:2), and this is done by
   assisting and relieving each other in distress, as much as in us lies,
   by sympathizing with each other in trouble, as the members of a natural
   body do, rejoicing with them that rejoice, and weeping with them that
   weep.

   3c3. By forbearing and forgiving one another; as God, for Christ's
   sake, and as Christ also has forgiven them (Col. 3:13; Eph. 4:31, 32;
   Luke 17:3,4).

   3c4. By rebuking and admonishing one another in love. Sin known, should
   not be suffered to lie upon a brother, without reproving for it; this
   is not kindness to him; "Open rebuke is better than secret love" (Prov.
   27:5, 6), but then such rebuke should be given in love, and with much
   tenderness; which is most likely to be kindly received and to succeed;
   "Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness," &c. (Ps. 141:5),
   when such who are overtaken in a fault are restored in the spirit of
   meekness, this shows tenderness and brotherly love.

   3c5. By endeavoring to establish one another in the doctrines of the
   gospel, and of increasing light and knowledge; which is called,
   "building up themselves in their most holy faith;" which is done by
   praying and conversing together, often speaking one to another about
   divine things; not disdaining to receive instruction even from
   inferiors; thus Aquila and Priscilla expounded in a private manner the
   way of God more perfectly to Apollos, a public teacher; which he
   attended to.

   3c6. By exhorting and stirring up one another to the several duties of
   religion, both public and private (Heb. 10:24, 25).

   3d. Fourthly, there are various arguments and motives which may be made
   use of to excite to the exercise of this grace of love.

   3d1. It is Christ's new commandment; so he says, "A new commandment I
   give unto you, That ye love one another;" which yet, as the apostle
   John says, it was both old and new (John 13:34; 1 John 2:7, 8), an old
   commandment, being founded upon the original law of God; a new
   commandment, being not only an excellent one, especially as now
   delivered out, since excellent things in scripture are often called new
   ones, as a new song, &c. but because of the new edition of it under the
   gospel dispensation, and being given forth anew by Christ the lawgiver,
   in his house, called therefore, "The law of Christ," which is the law
   of love; and having a new pattern and exemplar of it, and a new move
   and argument added to it, mentioned by Christ himself; "As I have loved
   you, that ye also love one another" (John 13:34; 15:12).

   3d2. The love of God and Christ should engage unto it; the love of God
   in the mission and gift of his Son to die for us, and become the
   propitiation for our sins; "Beloved," says the apostle, "if God so
   loved us, we ought also to love one another" (1 John 4:11), and the
   love of Christ in giving himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to
   God, to atone for our sins; "Walk in love, as Christ hath loved us,"
   &c. (Eph. 5:2).

   3d3. The relation the saints stand in one to another, is a reason why
   they should love one another; they are members of the same body, and
   should have an affection and sympathy for one another; as the members
   in a natural, so they in a spiritual way; they are children of the same
   Father, and belong to the same family, and are all brethren; this is
   the argument Moses used with the Israelites at variance (Acts 7:26).

   3d4. The comfort and joy of ministers should be an argument with saints
   to mutual love; it is with the greater pleasure they pursue their
   studies and labour in their ministrations, for the good of souls, when
   peace and love are cultivated among them; but when it is otherwise, it
   is greatly discouraging and distressing to them, and they go on heavily
   in their work; for where envying and strife are, there is confusion,
   and every evil work; which is very disagreeable, and makes
   uncomfortable; yea, the comfort of the saints themselves, and their
   edification are hereby greatly hurt; wherefore both with respect to
   ministers and people, the apostle exhorts to love and unity (Philemon
   2:1,2; 2 Cor. 13:11), and that "brotherly love continue;" for the love
   of God and Christ continues; nothing can separate from it; they love to
   the end: the relation of saints continues; being once the children of
   God, and brethren of Christ, and of one another, they always remain
   such, and in the family, in the house of God, where they abide, and
   from whence they are never removed; and if brotherly love continues
   not, churches cannot continue long; a house divided against itself
   cannot stand; the church at Ephesus was threatened with a removal of
   the candlestick, or church state, unless they repented, because they
   had left their first love.
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   [26] "Res est soliciti plena timoris amor." Ovid.

   [27] Apolog. c. 39.
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  Chapter 10

    OOF SPIRITUAL JOY

   Joy is a fruit of the Spirit, which follows love; "The fruit of the
   Spirit is love, joy" (Gal. 5:22), it attends faith and hope; and as
   these graces are in exercise, and increase, so does spiritual joy;
   hence we read of "the joy of faith," and "the rejoicing of hope" (Phil.
   1:25; Heb. 3:6), it enters very much into the Christian's character and
   experience, and is peculiar to saints and believers in Christ.
   Concerning which may be observed,

   1. The objects of it.

   1a. First, not a creature, nor creature enjoyment, nor outward
   privilege, nor duty; but Jehovah himself, the Lord and God of all;
   therefore called by David, "God, his exceeding joy;" that is, the
   object of his great joy and gladness (Ps. 43:4). To glory in riches,
   wisdom, and strength, and to boast of them, is not right; and to
   rejoice in such boastings, "All such rejoicing is evil" (Jam. 4:16), to
   rejoice in anything of this kind, is to "rejoice in a thing of nought,"
   in a nonentity, and in what is of no account (Amos 6:13), and so to
   rejoice in youthful pleasures and vanities, and indulge to them in the
   highest degree; such joy is not spiritual, or the fruit of the Spirit;
   but is carnal and sensual, and but for a season; and to glory, and
   boast of, and trust in fleshly descent, in birth privileges, and in the
   duties of religion, and in a man's own righteousness, and please
   himself with such things, is only the joy of an unregenerate man, and
   of an hypocrite, which is but for a moment, but the Lord himself is the
   proper object of joy; to rejoice in him is what is exhorted to, both in
   the Old and New Testaments (Ps. 33:1; Philemon 4:4). So the prophet
   Habakkuk did, and resolved to do, in the worst of times, when all
   creature mercies failed; "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will joy in
   the God of my salvation!" (Hab. 3:17,18), not in him merely as the
   Creator, from whom are had being, life, and breath, and all things,
   which yet is matter of joy (Ps. 149:2; Job 35:10), nor in him merely as
   the God of providence, and a kind benefactor, the preserver of men, and
   gives them all things richly to enjoy, so that they have reason to
   rejoice "in every good thing," which the Lord in his providence gives
   unto them; but more especially saints rejoice in him as their covenant
   God; "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord," says the church; "My soul
   shall be joyful in my God!" (Isa. 61:10), as her covenant God, which is
   the sum and substance of the covenant, and includes and secures every
   blessing of it, and always continues; who, as such, is the God of all
   grace, and blesses with all spiritual blessings, and gives both grace
   and glory, supplies all the wants of his people out of his riches in
   glory, by Christ; and causes all grace to abound towards them, and will
   never suffer them to want any good thing; he is their portion now, and
   will be for ever; and as such they rejoice in him; and particularly,

   1a1. In the attributes of God; which are all on the side of his people,
   and are exercised for their good, and they receive benefit and
   advantage from; and not only his power, wisdom, truth, and
   faithfulness, his goodness, grace, and mercy, are matter of joy; but
   even his justice and holiness, in which he is so glorious; "Rejoice in
   the Lord, ye righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of his
   holiness" (Ps. 97:12).

   1a2. The everlasting love of God is matter of joy to the saints; as the
   Lord rests in his love, and rejoices over them with joy, so they
   rejoice in his love to them; it is that river the streams whereof, the
   blessings which flow from it, make glad their hearts; (see Jer. 31:3),
   a view of interest in it puts more joy and gladness into the hearts of
   the Lord's people than the largest increase of worldly things; it makes
   what they do enjoy blessings indeed; for there is no curse in their
   blessings; a little, with the favour of God, is better than the riches
   of many wicked; mean fare, a dinner of herbs, where the love of God is
   enjoyed, is preferable to the most delicious dainties without it; and
   greater reason there is for a man to boast of, and rejoice in this,
   that he knows the Lord, as exercising lovingkindness in the earth, and
   delighting therein, than to rejoice and glory in the greatest outward
   attainments of body, mind, and estate; a sense of the love of God shed
   abroad in the heart by the Spirit, supports under all the trials and
   exercises of this life; and even causes to glory in tribulations, and
   to rejoice in hope of the glory of God; since neither tribulation,
   distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, nor sword, can
   separate from it; yea, the loving kindness of God is better than life
   itself, than which nothing is dearer to a man; yea, when men are
   influenced by this love, they love not their lives unto the death; it
   is death to them when they are without a sense of this love; but, "in
   the favour of God," and the enjoyment of it, is "life," it revives and
   comforts (Ps. 30:5), and what makes the love of God greater cause of
   joy is, that it is everlasting and unchangeable; though God may be
   displeased with his people, and chastise them because of their sins;
   yet he never takes away his lovingkindness from them; and though he
   hides his face from them for a moment, yet with everlasting kindness he
   has mercy on them; nor shall it ever depart from them; it is more
   immovable than hills and mountains, and is established both by the
   promise and oath of God; and there is nothing in heaven, earth, and
   hell that shall ever separate from it; every thought concerning it,
   meditation upon it, and discovery of it, fills with joy unspeakable; a
   thought of it is with the greatest pleasure and delight; meditation on
   it is sweet; and while musing upon it, the fire of divine love is
   inflamed, and burns within, and breaks forth in expressions of joy and
   gladness; and nothing can yield greater satisfaction than to be
   remembered with the favour God bears to his own people; and the love of
   God is to be remembered more, and is more exhilarating to the soul,
   than wine is to the animal spirits (Song of Sol. 1:2, 4; Zech. 10:7).

   1a3. The saints' election of God is matter of joy unto them; that
   "their names are written in heaven" (Luke 10:20), in the Lamb's book of
   life, in the book of divine predestination to the adoption of children,
   and to eternal life; and therefore it cannot be such a gloomy and
   melancholy thing, as some who are strangers to it, and ignorant of it,
   represent it; but is, as the XVII^th article of the church of England
   expresses it, "Full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to
   godly persons." So Calvin [28] observes, that "those who search into it
   rightly and in due order, as it is contained in the word, fetch choice
   consolation from it." And even Arminius himself says, [29] "It serves
   to comfort afflicted consciences."

   It is the foundation blessing of grace, and the standard according to
   which all others are dispensed; God blesses his people with all
   spiritual blessings in Christ, according as he hath chosen them in him
   before the foundation of the world; this stands at the head of them, it
   is the first link in the chain of salvation, to which the rest are
   fastened, and by it secured; "Whom he did predestinate them he also
   glorified;" it always "obtains;" or those who are chosen certainly
   enjoy every blessing of grace, life, righteousness, and salvation (Eph.
   1:3,4; Rom. 8:30; 11:7), from hence springs all the grace of the Spirit
   dispensed by him in regeneration and sanctification; sanctification of
   the Spirit is fixed and established in the decree of election, as a
   mean, and is as certain as the end, salvation; holiness of heart and
   life is what men are chosen to, and what certainly follows upon their
   election of God; and so belief of the truth, or faith in Christ; and as
   many as are ordained unto eternal life, believe; hence true faith is
   called, "the faith of God's elect:" eternal glory and happiness is
   secured by it; they that are chosen, are chosen to the obtaining of the
   glory of Christ; and which, in consequence, they most assuredly enjoy;
   they cannot finally and totally be deceived and come short, of that
   glory; no charge can be brought against them; and should any, it would
   not issue in their condemnation; they that are written in the Lamb's
   book of life enter into the new Jerusalem; and those who are
   predestinated are glorified. This is the foundation which stands sure;
   the seal of which is, "The Lord knows them that are his;" men are elect
   according to the foreknowledge of God, and that foreknowledge never
   fails; and therefore the purpose of God, according to election, stands
   sure; not upon the will and works of men, but upon the sovereign will,
   certain knowledge, and everlasting love of God; all which lay a solid
   foundation for joy and gladness.

   1a4. The covenant of grace God has made with his chosen in Christ, is
   another thing which yields abundance of joy to the believer, both in
   life and in death; in a view of which, with what joy and exultation
   does the sweet singer of Israel express himself among the last words he
   uttered (2 Sam. 23:5), what makes this covenant so desirable, pleasant,
   and joyful is, that it is "everlasting;" from everlasting to
   everlasting; from everlasting, for so early was Christ set up as the
   Mediator of it; blessings of grace were given, and grants of grace
   made, to the elect in Christ, before the foundation of the world; and
   eternal life was promised before the world began; nor will it ever be
   broken, made null and void; nor be antiquated, and succeeded by another
   covenant; but will always remain in full force; and so administer
   constant and perpetual joy to the covenant ones. It is also "ordered in
   all things," to secure the glory of the divine persons; and for the
   display of the divine perfections; and for the good and happiness of
   those who are interested in it; it is full of blessings of grace,
   mercy, and goodness, called, "The sure mercies of David," which are
   sure to all the seed; and of exceeding great and precious promises,
   which are all yea and amen in Christ, and suitable to the cases and
   circumstances of the Lord's people; which fitly spoken and applied, are
   as pleasant and delightful as apples of gold in pictures of silver, and
   give inexpressible joy and delight; "I rejoice at thy word," says
   David, a word of promise, "as one that findeth great spoil" (Ps.
   119:162), which suggests a great degree of joy. To which may be added,
   that this covenant is free, absolute, and unconditional: its promises
   do not depend on conditions to be performed by men; but run thus, I
   "will," and they "shall;" "I will be their God, and they shall be my
   people; I will put my fear into their hearts, and they shall not depart
   from me," &c. This covenant is also said to be "sure," its matter, its
   blessings, and its promises; it is "confirmed of God in Christ;" it is
   established by the oath of God, and ratified by the blood of Christ,
   the blood of the everlasting covenant; it is as immovable as hills and
   mountains, and more so; they may be removed, but the covenant of peace
   shall never be removed; it is what God has commanded for ever; so that
   there is no fear of its ever failing; and affords an deficient source
   of joy: "all," or the whole of "salvation" is contained in it, and
   secured by it, salvation spiritual and eternal; in it Christ is
   appointed and settled as the author of it; the blessings of salvation
   are provided, and the persons for whom they are designed, given to
   Christ in it, the Israel that shall be saved by him with an everlasting
   salvation. So that David had great reason to say, "This is all my
   desire;" as containing in it all that was desirable by him, delightful
   to him, and that could afford him joy and pleasure.

   1b. Secondly, Christ, and things relating to him, are the objects of
   the spiritual joy of saints; this enters into the very character of
   true Christians and believers in Christ, who are described as such who
   "rejoice in Christ Jesus, even with joy unspeakable and full of glory"
   (Philemon 3:3; 1 Pet. 1:8). The things relating to him, which are
   matter and ground of joy, are such as relate both to his person and to
   his work.

   1b1. First, that relate to his person, as the Word and Son of God,
   equally a divine person with his Father, the "brightness of his glory,
   and the express image of his person" (Heb. 1:3). As,

   1b1a. The greatness of his person; the great God, God over all blessed
   for ever, who thought it no robbery to be equal with God, having all
   the perfections of deity, the consideration of which yields joy to
   believers in him; hence they know and may conclude that all he did and
   suffered in human nature united to his person, answered the ends for
   which they were done and suffered; his righteousness is the
   righteousness of God, and so unto and upon all them that believe; his
   blood the blood of the Son of God, and as such has a virtue to cleanse
   from all sin; his sacrifice the sacrifice of himself, and so of a sweet
   smelling savour to God, and of efficacy to atone for sin; and his
   salvation a great salvation, plenteous and complete, he being the great
   God and our Saviour; hence also they are satisfied that they must be
   safe in his hands, out of which none can pluck them; that he is able to
   keep them from falling, and to save to the uttermost all that come unto
   God by him.

   1b1b. The fitness of his person; having taken the human nature into
   union wish his divine person, he is very proper to be the mediator
   between God and man, to be a days man to lay his hands on both, to take
   care of things pertaining to the law and justice of God, and the honour
   of them; and to make reconciliation for the sins of the people; a work
   which neither angels nor men were fit for and capable of; but God in
   his infinite wisdom found Christ to be a proper person to give himself
   a ransom for his people, and deliver them from destruction, which is
   great joy unto them.

   1b1c. The fulness of his person; both the fulness of the Godhead, which
   dwells substantially in him, and the fulness of grace which it has
   pleased the Father should dwell in him, for the supply of the wants of
   his people; in which grace they are strong, and out of which they
   receive grace for grace, and "with joy draw water out of the wells of
   salvation" in him (Isa. 12:5).

   1b1d. The beauty of his person; who is fairer than the children of men,
   white and ruddy, a complete beauty, the chiefest among ten thousand,
   and altogether lovely; to see him, the King, in his beauty, is a
   ravishing sight, and which fills with joy unspeakable and full of
   glory; "this," says the church after she had described him at large
   with an air of joy and pleasure, "this," this amiable lovely person,
   "is my beloved and my friend" (Song of Sol. 5:10-16). I take no notice
   of the offices of Christ, of prophet, and priest, and king; nor of the
   relations he stands in to his people of father, husband, brother,
   friend, though they are a fund of joy to true believers.

   1b2. Secondly, There are other things which relate to the work of
   Christ, which are matter of joy to gracious souls; as salvation by him
   in general, everlasting righteousness wrought out by him in particular,
   and atonement of sin by his sacrifice.

   1b2a. Salvation in general; this is the work Christ was appointed to,
   which was given him, and which was with him when he came into the
   world, and which he came to do, and is become the author of; the church
   is called upon to rejoice in a view of his being about to come to
   effect it; and it is prophetically said of those who should be upon the
   spot when he came about this work, that they should say, "We will be
   glad, and rejoice in his salvation" (Zech. 9:9; Isa. 25:9), and both
   Old and New Testament saints have rejoiced in it, in a view of its
   certain accomplishment, of its fulness and suitableness to them, and of
   the glory of God displayed in it; "We will rejoice in thy salvation,"
   says David (Ps. 20:7), and in such a frame of soul was Mary, the mother
   of our Lord, when she said, "My spirit hath rejoiced in God my
   Saviour;" and great reason there is for the exercise of spiritual joy
   on this account, since,

   1b2a1. It is a salvation of the souls of men, not of their bodies from
   temporal evils, but of their souls from everlasting destruction (1 Pet.
   1:8, 9), it is a salvation of the soul, the more noble part of man,
   which is of more worth than a world, the redemption of which is
   precious, requires a great price to ransom, and must have ceased for
   ever, without any hopes of attaining it, had not Christ undertook it.

   1b2a2. It is for sinners, for the chief of sinners, which makes it a
   joyful sound; and he has the name of Jesus for this reason, because he
   "saves his people from their sins," than which nothing can be matter of
   greater joy to sensible sinners (1 Tim. 1:15; Matthew 9:13; 1:21).

   1b2a3. It is a salvation of them from sin, even from all sin, original
   and actual; and from the guilt of it, and from punishment for it, and
   from all wrath to come it is deserving of; for Christ has delivered
   them from that, having sustained it in their room; and being justified
   by his blood they shall be saved from wrath through him; and indeed
   they are saved by him from every enemy, and from whatsoever they may
   fear any harm to come to them, sin, Satan, law, hell, and death.

   1b2a4. This salvation is entirely free; it is by grace and not of
   works; according to abundant mercy, and not by works of righteousness
   done by men. The blessings of salvation, signified by gold, fine linen,
   &c. are indeed to be bought, but without money and without price; that
   is, they are to be had freely; they are all of free grace; every part
   and branch of salvation is free; it is only looking to Christ and being
   saved; "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth" (Isa.
   45:22), and what joyful news is this!

   1b2a5. It is a great salvation, plenteous and complete; it is great,
   "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?" wrought out by
   a great Saviour, for great sinners; obtained at a great expense, the
   blood of Christ; and expressive of the greatest love; it is large and
   plenteous, it includes all the blessings of grace and glory; it is
   complete, it is from all sin and sorrow, and from every enemy; those
   that are saved, are saved to the "uttermost," and for ever; for,

   1b2a6. It is eternal; the Israel of God, all the chosen, redeemed, and
   called ones, are saved in the Lord with an "everlasting salvation;"
   Christ is the author of "eternal salvation" to his people; and he has,
   by his blood, obtained for them, "eternal redemption;" wherefore, "the
   ransomed of the Lord shall come to Zion with songs, and with
   everlasting joy upon their heads" (Heb. 5:9; 9:12; Isa. 45:17; 35:10).

   1b2a7. It is exceeding suitable to the case and circumstances of
   sinners, and makes for the glory of God; such a Saviour as Christ is,
   becomes men lost and done in themselves; and such a salvation be has
   wrought out, exactly answers their necessities, and therefore cannot
   but be joyful to them; and the rather do they rejoice at it because of
   the glory of God, of all the divine perfections which is great in it;
   if the angels rejoiced at the good will of God to men in it, and sung
   glory to God on account of it, how much more reason have men to do so,
   who have hope of interest in it?

   1b2b. A branch of Christ's work in particular, which he had to work,
   and has wrought out, is everlasting righteousness; this, as a surety of
   his people, he was under obligation to fulfil, even all righteousness;
   he was sent, and came into the world, and was made under the law, that
   the righteousness of it might be fulfilled by him; and he is become the
   fulfilling end of it to them that believe; and such who are made to see
   their need of his righteousness, and are enabled to look unto it, and
   lay hold on it, as their righteousness before God, rejoice in it as the
   church did (Isa. 61:10), and there are many things respecting this
   righteousness which are matter and ground of joy to a believing soul.

   1b2b1. It is "the righteousness of God" which is "revealed from faith
   to faith" in the gospel; a righteousness wrought out by one that is God
   as well as man; which is approved by God, and well pleasing to him; and
   which he imputes without works: and being the righteousness of God, and
   not a creature's, it is unto all and upon all them that believe; and
   has a sufficient virtue in it to justify all the Lord's people; "all
   the seed of Israel" (Isa. 45:25).

   1b2b2. It is satisfactory to the law and justice of God; it is
   commensurate to all the demands of the law; that "commandment is"
   indeed "exceeding broad;" it is very extensive, and reaches to every
   duty, respecting God and man; but the righteousness of Christ is as
   large and as broad as that, and exactly answers to it; and so secures
   from all condemnation by it; and being so complete, justice is well
   pleased and fully satisfied with it, spying no fault nor blemish in it;
   wherefore the Lord's people are presented by Christ in it to his
   Father, "unblameable and unreproveable in his sight" (Col. 1:22).

   1b2b3. It acquits and absolves from all sin; by it those who believe in
   Christ are "justified from all things," from all sins; from which there
   is no justification by the law of Moses, there being some sins for
   which no sacrifice was provided by that law; but when a soul is clothed
   with this "change of raiment," the robe of Christ's righteousness, all
   his "filthy garments" are taken from him, and all his iniquities caused
   to pass from him, and he stands "without fault before the throne,"
   before God, the Judge of all.

   1b2b4. It renders acceptable in the sight of God; such as have on the
   righteousness of Christ are "accepted in the beloved;" God is well
   pleased with him, and with them in him, and that for his righteousness
   sake; they are perfectly comely through his comeliness put upon them;
   they are all fair, and no spot in them; a perfection of beauty

   1b2b5. This righteousness of Christ is entirely free; it was freely
   wrought out by Christ, and is freely imputed to men; it is a free gift
   bestowed upon them, and as such is received by them; yea, faith, which
   receives it, is the gift of God; and therefore the justified ones are
   said to be, "justified freely by the grace of God" (Rom. 3:24).

   1b2b6. It affords much peace and comfort to those who see their
   interest in it; "This work of righteousness is peace:" the "kingdom of
   God," or reigning grace in the hearts of his people, lies in
   "righteousness and peace;" in the righteousness of Christ revealed unto
   them, and received by faith; the consequence of which is, peace of
   soul, and tranquillity of mind (Isa. 32:17; Rom. 14:17; 5:1).

   1b2b7. This righteousness is an "everlasting" one; it always continues
   to justify, and to be a constant ground of peace and joy; it can never
   be lost: the righteousness of Adam was lost, and so was that of the
   angels that sinned; but this will always remain, and be in sight before
   God, as the justifying righteousness of his people; "My righteousness,"
   says the Lord, "shall be for ever" (Dan. 9:24; Isa. 51:6, 8).

   1b2b8. It entitles to eternal life; without a righteousness none can
   "inherit the kingdom of God;" and it must be a better righteousness
   than a man's own, that can give a man entrance into the kingdom of
   heaven; but being justified by that, men are "made heirs according to
   the hope of eternal life;" hence justification by the righteousness of
   Christ is called, "The justification of life" (Titus 3:7; Rom. 5:18).

   1b2c. Another part of Christ's work, and a very principal one, was to
   make atonement for sin; this was the work appointed for him in council
   and covenant, and declared in prophecy; namely, "To make reconciliation
   for iniquity" (Dan. 9:24), and for this purpose he became man, "To make
   reconciliation for the sins of the people;" and in the end of the world
   appeared in human nature, "To put away sin by the sacrifice of himself"
   (Heb. 2:17; 9:26), and by that one sacrifice he has made perfect
   expiation of the sins of his people, and which is matter of exceeding
   great joy unto them; "We joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by
   whom we have now received the atonement," being reconciled to God by
   the death of his Son (Rom. 5:10, 11), and great reason there is for it,
   since full and complete pardon of sin proceeds upon it; God, for
   Christ's sake, and upon the foot of his atoning sacrifice, forgives all
   trespasses; an application of which forgiveness, causes joy and
   gladness, and makes the bones which were broken to rejoice; a sense of
   pardoning grace fills the soul with thankfulness to God, and yields
   abundance of spiritual consolation; and in this way God would have his
   people comforted by his ministers (Isa. 40:1, 2).

   1c. Thirdly, besides the person and work of Christ, there are other
   things either antecedent to it, or consequent on it; which are matter
   of joy to believers in him. As,

   1c1. His incarnation, in order to do his work; this is spoken of by the
   evangelic prophet, as if it was over in his days, it being so certain
   to him and other believers; "To us a child is born;" and this he
   represents as occasion of great joy, that men would rejoice on account
   of it "according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they
   divide the spoil" (Isa. 9:3, 6), times of as great rejoicing as can be
   well named; and when it actually came to pass, the angel who brought
   the tidings of it to the shepherds, said, "Behold, I bring you good
   tidings of great joy!" (Luke 2:10, 11), and the disciples who first had
   knowledge of the incarnate Saviour, how did they exult and rejoice,
   saying, "We have found the Messiah!" they describe their joy as such
   who had found a great spoil; as the prophet Isaiah foretold (John 1:41,
   45).

   1c2. The sufferings and death of Christ, by which he accomplished the
   work of redemption and salvation; for though they were painful to
   Christ, and in some respects occasion mourning to saints, whose sins
   were the cause of them; yet they make up a great part of the gospel of
   salvation; a crucified Christ is indeed the sum and substance of it;
   which, though foolishness to some, and stumbling to others, is to them
   that are saved the wisdom and power of God; this is the first and grand
   article of it, that Christ died for our sins, according to the
   scriptures; and makes it the good news it is, and the saying worthy of
   acceptation; it affords matter of exultation, and even of glorying and
   boasting (Gal. 6:14).

   1c3. The resurrection of Christ from the dead, after he had finished
   his work, is another source and spring of joy; as an angel brought the
   good news of the incarnation of Christ, so likewise of his resurrection
   from the dead; to the women who attended the sepulchre of Christ, the
   angel who rolled back the stone from it said, "He is not here; for he
   is risen;" the tidings of which they brought with joy to the disciples
   (Matthew 28:6, 8), and what joy did the disciples express on this
   account; "The Lord is risen indeed," say they, "and has appeared to
   Simon!" and still more when they saw him themselves; "Then were the
   disciples glad, when they saw the Lord" (Luke 24:34; John 20:20), and
   such and so many are the benefits arising from the resurrection of
   Christ, as well as from his sufferings and death, that believers can
   take courage and say, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's
   elect?" not only because Christ has died, but "rather" because "he is
   risen again," risen again for their justification (Rom. 8:33, 34;
   4:25).

   1c4. The ascension of Christ to heaven, and his exaltation there, give
   joy to his saints; it did to his disciples, who were present at his
   ascension; for when he was parted from them, and carried up into
   heaven; instead of sorrowing for it, "they worshipped him," and
   "returned to Jerusalem with great joy" (Luke 24:51, 52), and all true
   believers by faith "see Jesus crowned with glory and honour," sitting
   at the right hand of God, highly exalted above every name, angels,
   authorities, principalities, and powers being subject to him; and he
   having received gifts for men, which he bestows upon them, even
   unworthy and rebellious ones; all which affords them the greatest joy
   and pleasure; "The Lord reigns, Let the earth rejoice" (Ps. 97:1).

   1c5. The intercession of Christ; his appearing in the presence of God
   for his people, his advocacy with the Father, his ever living to make
   intercession for them, is matter of great joy, and from which they
   receive much benefit; this brings up the rear of those things which lay
   the foundation of the triumph of faith; "Who shall lay anything to the
   charge of God's elect?" this is supported not only by the death of
   Christ, and by his resurrection from the dead, and by his session at
   the right hand of God; but by his intercession there; "Who also maketh
   intercession for us," and answers to, and removes all charges brought
   against, them. And whereas to them that look for him, he will appear a
   second time without sin unto salvation, the forethoughts, and
   foreviews, and firm belief saints have of it, cause them to exult in
   their present state; "To look up, and lift up their heads, since their
   redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:28).

   1d. Fourthly, some things under the gospel dispensation, and respecting
   that are the objects of the joy of gracious souls. As,

   1d1. The ministration of the gospel; this is matter of joy to all
   sensible and awakened sinners; the three thousand pricked to the heart
   under Peter's sermon "gladly" received the word, preaching pardon and
   salvation by Christ; when Christ was preached in Samaria there was
   "great joy" in that city, in such who believed Philip preaching the
   things concerning the kingdom of God; when the jailor, who said to the
   apostles, "Sirs, What must I do to be saved?" had the word of the Lord
   spoken to him, and to them in his house, he "rejoiced, believing in
   God, with all his house:" and there is great reason for it; it is the
   gospel of salvation, which publishes the good tidings of it; and when
   accompanied with the Spirit of God, it is the power of God unto
   salvation; it is the voice of Christ, the bridegroom, and everyone that
   hears and knows that voice "rejoiceth" greatly because of it; it is a
   joyful sound of love, grace, and mercy, of peace, pardon,
   righteousness, and salvation; it is food to hungry souls; the sincere
   milk of the word, by which newly born babes are nourished and grow; and
   by those of riper age it is esteemed more than their necessary food;
   they find the word, and eat it, and it is "the joy and rejoicing of
   their hearts."

   1d2. The administration of ordinances, baptism and the Lord's supper;
   which give such views of Christ in his sufferings and death, burial,
   and resurrection from the dead, and of the benefits arising from them,
   as yield delight to believing souls; the eunuch, upon his baptism,
   "went on his way rejoicing;" the supper of the Lord is a "feast of fat
   things," a rich entertainment, where the flesh of Christ, as "meat
   indeed," and the blood of Christ, as "drink indeed," are presented to
   faith to feed upon; these ordinances are "breasts of consolation," at
   which saints may "suck and be satisfied," and "milk out," and be
   "delighted" with the abundance of the glory in them; these are the
   "lattices" through which Christ shows himself, and these the
   "galleries" in which he is beheld, to the great joy and satisfaction of
   those who are favored with a sight of him.

   1d3. The prosperity of the interest of Christ; whether it be through
   the numerous conversions of men, and additions of them to the church,
   gives joy, as when Paul and Barnabas, as they passed through Phoenicia
   and Samaria, in their way from Antioch to Jerusalem, declared the
   conversion of the Gentiles, "it caused great joy to the brethren" (Acts
   15:3), or whether through peace, love, and unity, prevailing and
   subsisting among the saints, which give pleasure to all the well
   wishers to Zion's prosperity; as it did to David, who prayed earnestly
   for it (Ps. 122:6-9).

   1d4. The reign of Christ, both spiritual and personal, will cause great
   joy in the saints. His spiritual reign, and the more glorious
   appearances of that, when the kingdoms of this world shall become his;
   upon which the four and twenty elders, the representatives of gospel
   churches, will, with the greatest solemnity and reverence, "give
   thanks" to him, because he has taken to himself his "great power and
   reigned" (Rev. 11:15-17), and when antichrist, and the antichristian
   states, shall be destroyed, the fullness of the Gentiles brought in,
   and the Jews converted, these voices shall be heard in heaven, the
   church, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him, for the
   marriage of the Lamb is come" (Rev. 19:1).

   1d5. And especially when Christ himself shall appear, and his
   tabernacle shall be with men: and an anticipation of all this by faith,
   gives to believers a joy and pleasure now; that things will not always
   be in the state they now are, but in a much more happy one, even on the
   earth.

   1e. Fifthly, The heavenly glory and happiness of a future state to all
   eternity, is the object of the saints present joy; when they shall
   actually possess it, they will then "enter into the joy of their Lord;"
   into the place of the celestial feast, [30] to partake of it, where
   will be fulness of joy; (see Matthew 25:10), and even now they can
   "rejoice in hope of the glory of God;" believing, that whereas they
   "suffer with" Christ, they shall be "glorified together;" and that when
   Christ, who is their life, shall appear, they shall "appear with him in
   glory!" and in the faith and hope of this they rejoice and are glad.

   2. The author and cause of this spiritual joy.

   2a. The efficient cause is God, he who is the object is the author of
   it, God, Father, Son, and Spirit; and which is therefore called, "The
   joy of the Lord" (Neh. 8:10; 12:43). It is "the God of hope," the
   object, author, and giver of that grace, who "fills with joy and peace
   in believing" in Christ (Rom. 15:13), who is God the Father: Christ
   himself is the author of this joy; and he calls it, "my joy;" as it is
   both objectively and efficiently; it is he that gives "beauty for
   ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the
   spirit of heaviness" (John 15:11; Isa. 61:3). And the Spirit of God is
   concerned in it; it is one of the fruits of the Spirit, and is ranked
   with the first of them (Gal. 5:22), and is called, "joy in the Holy
   Ghost;" because produced by him (Rom. 14:17).

   2b. The instruments or means of it are, the ministers of the gospel,
   through the ministration of the word, and the administration of
   ordinances; they are the bringers of good tidings of good, the
   publishers of peace and salvation, and the means of spreading much joy
   among the saints (Isa. 52:7), they do not pretend to have "dominion
   over the faith" of believers, but to be "helpers of their joy" (2 Cor.
   1:24).

   3. The nature and properties of this joy.

   3a. It should be constant: the exhortations to it are, "Rejoice
   evermore," and "rejoice in the Lord always!" (1 Thess. 5:16; Phil.
   4:4), and there is great encouragement from the Lord always to rejoice
   in him; and the character of the saints and people of God in this
   present state of things is, "as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing" (2
   Cor. 6:10), yea, the apostle James exhorts believers, to "count it all
   joy, when they fall into divers temptations," or afflictions, since
   these all work for good; are for the trial, brightening, and increasing
   the graces of the saints, and for the glory of God (Jam. 1:2,3). Yet,

   3b. It is imperfect in the present state, and often interrupted;
   sometimes, through the prevalence of indwelling sin, and the breakings
   forth of the corruptions of the heart; so that saints have no rest in
   "their bones," no joy in their hearts "because of their sin;" and cry
   out with the apostle, "O wretched" men that they are! this was
   sometimes the case of David, Isaiah, and the apostle Paul (Ps. 38:3;
   Isa. 6:5; Rom. 7:23, 24), sometimes through the temptations of Satan,
   who throws his fiery darts, which give pain, and sorely grieve; and
   when he has leave, sifts as wheat is sifted, which occasions great
   disquietude and distress; and beats and buffets, which causes great
   trouble and uneasiness; and he goes about like a roaring lion, to
   frighten and terrify when he cannot devour. And also through divine
   desertions, for when God hides his face from his people, they are
   troubled; nay, left in such darkness and distress, as even to be
   distracted with terrors, and ready to die; as was the case with David,
   Heman, and others. Yet,

   3b3. This joy may come again, be restored, and greatly increase: joy
   sometimes comes in the morning, after a night of darkness; and the joys
   of salvation have been restored after the bones have been broken,
   through backslidings and falls into fin; yea, there may be an increase
   and overflow of joy; and it is promised, "The meek shall increase their
   joy in the Lord" (Isa. 29:19), this is done by enlarged discoveries of
   the love of God, directions into it, and a fresh shedding abroad of it
   in the heart; by Christ, the Sun of righteousness, arising with healing
   in his wings; by some renewed sights of Christ, and appropriating views
   of him; and by an increase of faith in him; for as that grace grows,
   there is a furtherance of joy, called, "The furtherance and the joy of
   faith;" it is in a way of believing souls are filled with joy and
   peace, and through a sight by faith of an unseen Jesus. Meditation on
   the love of God, and person of Christ, contributes much unto it; and
   prayer is often a means of it; God makes his people joyful in the house
   of prayer: the preaching of the gospel is frequently blessed to this
   purpose; it has a tendency to promote spiritual joy; and, indeed, the
   end and design of it is, "that joy might be full" (Phil. 1:25; Isa.
   56:7; 1 John 1:4).

   3b4. It is a joy that is unknown to the men of the world; a "stranger,"
   one that is a stranger to God and godliness, to Christ and the things
   of Christ, to the Spirit and to the gospel, "intermeddles not" with it,
   has no experience of it, nor share in it (Prov. 14:10), it passes the
   understanding of a natural man; it is an enigma, not to be unriddled by
   him, that the saints should be "sorrowful," and "yet always rejoicing!"

   3b5. It is unspeakable; not to be fully expressed by those who
   experience it; it is better experienced than expressed; it is something
   like what the apostle Paul felt when caught up to the third heaven; and
   it is "full of glory," being concerned with eternal glory and
   happiness; it is a "rejoicing in hope of the glory of God" (1 Pet. 1:8;
   Rom. 5:2).

   3b6. It is a joy that cannot be utterly lost or taken away in the
   present life; the principle of it always remains, though it is not
   always in exercise; the ground work and foundation of it always
   continues, the unalterable love of God, and the person and grace of
   Christ; "your joy no man taketh from you;" and in the future state it
   will be "full" and complete (John 16:22, 24).
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   [28] Institut. l. 3. c. 24. s. 4.

   [29] Disput. Public. Thes. 15. s. 14.

   [30] "Verba dominica vix aliter grammatice, quam de diaeta seu
   coenaculo possunt intelligi, quod dominus charan, vel appellasset, vel
   inscripsisset," Pignorius de Servis, p. 489.
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  Chapter 11

    OF PEACE AND TRANQUILITY OF MIND

   Next to Love and Joy, in order, stands Peace; now to be treated of;
   "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace" (Gal. 5:22). "Charity,"
   or "love," and "peace," are sometimes mentioned together (2 Tim. 2:22),
   and where the one is there is the other; especially if joy is in
   company with love, peace must be an attendant. Concerning which may be
   considered,

   1. What peace is meant, and is designed to be treated of. Not an
   external peace; such as is sometimes enjoyed by whole bodies of men; as
   in nations, when free from wars and rumors of wars; and in churches,
   when at rest from persecution, and clear of animosities and contentions
   among themselves: and in good men, when at peace with their neighbours;
   which they are to follow after, and cultivate as much as in them lies;
   and when God sometimes makes their enemies to be at peace with them:
   and in individuals, when every man sits under his vine and fig tree,
   none making him afraid; and enjoying much prosperity and happiness. But
   it is an internal, spiritual peace of soul, which is to be inquired
   into; which is an ease of mind from distress through sin and a sense of
   wrath.

   1a. First, sin, upon conviction, is made exceeding sinful, and is very
   distressing; this is usually through the law; "By the law is the
   knowledge of sin;" not only of external acts of sin in life, but of the
   inward lusts of it in the heart; "I had not known lust," says the
   apostle; that is, that it was sin, "except the law had said, Thou shall
   not covet;" and when such knowledge is had of sin, it appears
   "exceeding sinful," very odious, and gives great uneasiness (Rom. 3:20;
   7:7, 13), when the guilt of sin lies heavy upon the conscience, it is a
   burden too heavy for a guilty sinner to bear; as it was to David (Ps.
   38:3, 4), and especially where there is not a glimpse of pardoning
   grace and mercy; as in Cain. There is a conscience in every man; and
   when it does its office, it causes great anxiety, grief, and trouble,
   more or less; when the mind is opened by conviction, under a work of
   the law, wrath is let into the conscience; "The law worketh wrath;"
   along with the knowledge of sin by the law, wrath from heaven is
   revealed in it against all unrighteousness and ungodliness; and it
   leaves a fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation against
   it; which wrath sometimes lies so hard and heavy as to cause terror,
   and even distraction; as in Heman (Ps. 88:7, 15, 16). So that sin
   convicted of, makes dreadful work in the heart of an awakened sinner;
   such are pricked and pained at their very hearts; and in their
   compunction cry out, "What shall we do to be saved?" they are wounded
   with a sense of sin, and the arrows of divine wrath stick fast in them;
   the hand of God presses them sore; their wounds are grievous and
   intolerable; for "a wounded spirit, who can bear?" This inward distress
   is sometimes expressed by outward gestures and words; as by smiting
   upon the breast, not daring to look up to heaven; as in the publican,
   crying out, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" and by smiting upon the
   thigh; as in Ephraim, saying, he was ashamed and confounded, because he
   bore the reproach of his youth (Luke 18:13; Jer. 31:19), such usually
   express themselves as the three thousand did, convinced under Peter's
   sermon, inquiring the way of salvation; "What shall we do?" or more
   explicitly, with the jailor "What shall we do to be saved?" lamenting
   their lost and undone state, in the words of Isaiah, "Woe is me, I am
   undone!" Now,

   1b. Secondly, spiritual peace is a deliverance and freedom from this
   distress; which in general is wrought by the Spirit of God, being the
   comforter of convinced sinners; for that is his particular and peculiar
   work; he first convinces men of sin, righteousness, and judgment; and
   then he comforts them, by taking of the things of Christ, and showing
   them to them: he does by them as God did with the people of Israel of
   old, allured them, and brought them into the wilderness, and then spake
   comfortably unto them; he causes them to see their sicknesses and their
   wounds, as he did Ephraim and Judah, and the inability of themselves
   and others to cure them, and then he heals and binds them up. And all
   this he does more particularly,

   1b1. By leading them to the blood of Christ, by which their wounds are
   healed; "With his stripes we are healed;" that is, with the blood
   flowing from them (Isa. 53:6), the blood of Christ is the balm in
   Gilead, the panacea that cures every wound, and he is the physician
   there; he is the "Sun of righteousness" that arises on distressed souls
   in beams of light, and joy, and love, and with "healing in his wings;"
   which healing is no other than pardon of sin, and the application of it
   (Ps. 103:3), the consequence of which must be, joy, peace, and
   tranquillity of soul; "Son, be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven
   thee!" (Matthew 9:2), for what can make a soul more cheerful, and give
   it more peace and pleasure, than a view of pardon by the blood of
   Jesus, and this given by Jesus himself? through an application of
   pardon, guilt is removed from the conscience, the burden is taken off.
   The blood of Christ applied, cleanses from all sin, takes away the
   guilt of every sin, and leaves none behind; the heart sprinkled by it
   from an evil conscience, is purged from dead works, which lay as an
   heavy encumbrance upon it; "Blessed therefore is he whose transgression
   is forgiven;" or is lifted up, as the word signifies; which is lifted
   up from the sinner, and taken off from his conscience, as a burden on
   it, and he is eased of it. It is in this way that peace is spoken to a
   guilty sinner; hence the blood of Jesus is said to "speak better things
   than that of Abel;" the blood of Abel called aloud for vengeance on the
   shedder of it; but the blood of Christ speaks pardon and peace to
   condemned criminals. Peace is made for enemies and rebels by the blood
   of Christ; and this blood, by the Spirit of God, applied to such
   consciences who have been awakened by him, produces peace and quietness
   there; let a soul be as it were in a storm and tempest, if pardon by
   the blood of Christ is pronounced, all is hush and quiet in a moment.

   1b2. By leading to the righteousness of Christ; a man's own
   righteousness will not yield him any solid peace; for there is no
   justification nor salvation by it; and it must at best be very
   variable, unstable, and inconstant; since man's righteousness is very
   imperfect, he sins in all, and in the best he does; and it is at most
   but while he is doing, or thinks he is doing, something good, that he
   has any peace; but when there is any interruption in doing, or he
   ceases from it, his peace is broken. But the righteousness of Christ,
   which is perfect, pure, and spotless, by which a man is justified from
   all his sins, lays a solid foundation for peace. "Every religion, says
   Beza, [31] which opposes anything to the wrath of God, than the alone
   innocence, righteousness, and satisfaction of Jesus Christ, apprehended
   by faith, robs God both of his perfect justice and mercy; and therefore
   is false, and formed to deceive men." This being revealed and applied
   to a sinner, and faith wrought in him to receive it, as his justifying
   righteousness before God; and the sentence of justification by it
   pronounced in his conscience by the Spirit of God, produce peace in it;
   hence righteousness and peace are mentioned together, the one as the
   fruit of the other (Rom. 5:1; 14:17; Isa. 32:17).

   1b3. By leading into the truths of the gospel; which is the Spirit's
   work, and in doing which he acts the part of a comforter; "When he, the
   Spirit of truth, is come," before spoken of as a comforter, "he will
   guide you into all truth" (John 16:13), it is not by the law that peace
   is had, that was delivered in a storm, in the midst of blackness,
   darkness, and tempest; and they that heard it, were terrified with it,
   and entreated it might not be spoken to them any more; and surely they
   that desire to be under it, do not hear it, so as to understand the
   voice of it; for it pronounces the whole world guilty before God; it
   curses in case of a breach of any of its commands; it is the killing
   letter, the ministration of condemnation and death. But it is by the
   gospel, and the truths of it, which the Spirit of God enlightens the
   minds of men into, and makes application of, that peace is enjoyed;
   that is called, "The gospel of peace," not only because it proclaims
   peace made by the blood of Christ, is the word preaching peace by Jesus
   Christ, and the ministers of it, the publishers of that peace; but
   because it speaks peace to the conscience of a sinner, when Christ
   comes by his Spirit, and preaches peace unto them, and makes the word
   effectual to such a purpose the various truths of the gospel have a
   tendency to speak comfort to them, and to free them from that spirit of
   bondage, the law has brought them into, and holds them in, for that
   genders to bondage, encourages and increases it; but they that "know
   the truth," the truth of the gospel, spiritually and experimentally,
   especially that great truth, free and full salvation by Christ for
   sinners, "the truth shall make them free," set them at liberty, and
   fill them with joy and peace (John 8:32).

   1b4. By leading them into the covenant of grace, its blessings and
   promises; which, as it is a covenant of life, so of peace; and is a
   covenant of peace which cannot be removed; and is so called, not only
   in relation to the article in it, concerning peace to be made by
   Christ, the Mediator of it; but because it lays a lasting foundation
   for peace and comfort; its blessings are the sure mercies of David,
   spiritual, solid, and substantial ones, and which last for ever, which
   are founded in the free sovereign grace and will of God, and come to
   men through Christ being made a curse for them. The promises of it are
   exceeding great and precious; great in themselves, their origin,
   matter, and use; and precious to them that believe, and see their
   interest in them; these, fitly and seasonably spoken, are like apples
   of gold in pictures of silver; and being opened and applied by the Holy
   Spirit of promise, afford strong consolation to the heirs of promise;
   what peace did a view of covenant interest in its blessings and
   promises yield to David, amidst his sinful infirmities, and the
   troubles of his family! (2 Sam. 23:5).

   1b5. By leading them into the love of God; for this is the Spirit's
   work; by whom not only the love of God is shed abroad into the hearts
   of his people, which occasions peace and joy, and even glorying in the
   midst of tribulations; but they are directed and guided by him into it;
   "The Lord," that is, the Lord the Spirit, as he stands distinguished
   from the other persons in the text, "direct your hearts into the love
   of God," kateuthunai, direct, as in and by a straight line, immediately
   into it, not in a round about way, in a long train and course of
   duties, and from thence to fetch the evidence of interest in the love
   of God; which, at best, makes it very precarious, and leaves great
   disquietude and uneasiness: but when the Spirit leads directly into a
   view of interest in it, and bears witness to it, and grants a
   delightful sensation of it, the effect of this is solid, permanent
   peace; "There is no fear in love;" the love of God the Spirit leads
   into; "But perfect love casteth out fear," slavish, distressing,
   tormenting fear; where that has a place, the other removes, and instead
   of it, or the effect of it, is tranquillity and peace of mind (1 John
   4:18).

   Now this peace is enjoyed through faith in Christ; the God of hope
   "fills with all joy and peace in believing;" in believing in the
   person, blood, and righteousness of Christ; they that trust in him are
   kept "in perfect peace;" as their faith is, so is their peace; if their
   faith is steadfast, their peace is permanent: and it is much enjoyed
   also in the use of gospel ordinances; gospel churches, under the power
   and influence of a gospel Spirit, are "peaceable habitations, and quiet
   resting places;" gospel ordinances are ways of pleasantness, and "paths
   of peace," these are the "still waters" or "waters of quietness," or
   rest, [32] beside which the saints are led; and the "green pastures,"
   where they are made to lie down and take their ease and rest. I go on
   to inquire,

   2. Who are the subjects of this peace; or who are possessed of it.

   2a. Not sinful men, or unregenerate sinners; "There is no peace, saith
   my God, to the wicked" (Isa. 57:21), whatever outward peace and
   prosperity they may enjoy, they have no inward spiritual peace; though
   "they are not in trouble," as other men, in outward trouble, as to body
   or estate; nor in soul trouble, or in a concern about their immortal
   souls, and the welfare of them; yet this ease is no other than
   stupidity, and a carnal dangerous security and indolence; and is owing
   to the ignorance of themselves, and of their state; "The way of peace
   they know not," the way to true peace with God, and peace of
   conscience; for while they cry, "Peace and safety, sudden destruction
   cometh upon them" (Rom. 3:17; 1 Thess. 5:3).

   2b. Nor self-righteous persons, who trust in themselves that they are
   righteous, and fetch their peace from thence; but their trust is a
   spider's web, and such webs shall not become garments; nor shall they
   cover themselves with their works; and so shall not have peace and
   comfort; and of them it is said, "the way of peace they know not" (Isa.
   59:6, 8), and to such self-righteous persons Jehovah says, "I will
   declare thy righteousness," what a vain, useless thing it is in the
   business of justification before God, and with respect to peace to a
   man's self, "and thy works, for they shall not profit thee," in the
   affair of salvation, and to give peace and comfort (Isa. 57:12, 13).

   2c. Only justified and pardoned sinners have true, solid peace in
   themselves; those who are justified by Christ's righteousness have
   peace with God through him, and whose sins are pardoned through his
   blood, they are blessed, and blessed with peace; for with such
   righteous and happy ones it will be well at death, and to all eternity;
   when they die they enter into peace, and rest in their beds; the end of
   the perfect and upright man is peace; he enjoys much now, and shall be
   perfectly possessed of it hereafter.

   2d. Believers in Christ, and who trust in the Lord, enjoy true peace of
   soul (Isa. 26:3), such whose hearts are fixed, trusting in the Lord,
   are "not afraid of evil tidings;" these do not disturb their peace, let
   them come from what quarter they will; from the suggestions of their
   own hearts, from the temptations of Satan, or from the world and wicked
   men in it; the falsehood of which they are soon able to detect; and
   their faith and trust in God fortifies them against them.

   2e. Spiritually minded persons have a large share of inward peace of
   soul; "To be spiritually minded is life and peace" (Rom. 8:6), they who
   mind carnal and earthly things, though they seek peace to themselves in
   this way, do not find it; for "a man's life" the peace, comfort, and
   happiness of it, "consisteth not in the abundance of the things which
   he possesseth;" for though he promises himself much peace, and that
   lasting, in the goods he has accumulated and laid up; yet these may be
   soon taken away from him, or he from them.

   2f. They that love the law of God, his doctrines, ordinances, ways, and
   worship, usually enjoy much peace of soul; this the Psalmist attests by
   his own knowledge and experience; "Great peace have they which love thy
   law, and nothing shall offend them" (Ps. 119:165), or thy doctrine,
   especially the doctrine of peace, pardon, and salvation by Christ; such
   who have drank into this doctrine experimentally, find peace in their
   souls; nor are they easily offended with what they meet with in
   themselves or from others: they are sons of peace, who receive the
   gospel of peace; and they enjoy much who walk in wisdom's paths, which
   are "paths of peace;" and such who worship God according to the rule of
   his word, peace is upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

   2g. They are the people and children of God who are the subjects of
   this peace; "The Lord will bless his people with peace" (Ps. 29:11),
   his covenant people, the people given to Christ, and saved by him, and
   who are effectually called by his Spirit and grace, and who are the
   children of God, the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty; "Great
   shall be the peace of thy children" (Isa. 54:13), the children of the
   church, the children of Christ, and the children of God; all to whom
   the Spirit of adoption is given, crying, "Abba, Father."

   Now the seat of this grace in these subjects, is the heart and mind;
   for it is an internal frame of mind, it rules in the heart, and keeps
   and guards the heart and mind (Col. 3:15; Phil. 4:7), it lies in the
   breast of a saint; and what protects, preserves, and keeps it there is,
   "the breastplate of faith and love," of faith in Christ and love to
   him.

   3. The author and causes of this peace.

   3a. The efficient cause is God; hence called "the peace of God,"
   because it comes from him; and he "the God of peace," because he is the
   author of it, even God, Father, Son, and Spirit. Sometimes the Father
   is meant; "The God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord
   Jesus;" that is, the Father of Christ, who raised him from the dead, to
   whom his resurrection is often ascribed (Heb. 13:20), and peace is
   often wished from him as in most of the Epistles; and also from Christ
   the Son of God, who is not only the peace maker, but the peace giver,
   in whom and from whom the saints have peace, when in the world
   tribulation; "My, peace I give unto you," &c. (John 16:33; 14:27), and
   peace is expressly called a fruit or grace of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22),
   and is prayed for from all the three persons together (Rev. 1:4, 5).

   3b. The moving cause of it is the grace and goodwill of God; grace is
   always wished for along with it, and is usually set before it, as being
   the spring of it; and the angels in their song sung, "Peace on earth,
   and goodwill towards men," signify that the peace men had on earth was
   owing to the goodwill of God towards them (Luke 2:14).

   3c. The instruments of it are the word, and the ministers of it; the
   gospel is the word not only preaching peace by Christ, but the means of
   administering peace to distressed minds; and the ministers of it, by
   publishing peace, are the instruments by whom the Lord speaks peace to
   wounded conscience.

   4. The nature and properties of it.

   4a. It is a gift of God, and which none can give but himself, and an
   excellent one it is, worth praying for and worth having; "Now the Lord
   of peace himself give you peace always by all means" (2 Thess. 3:16),
   it is a free gift, unmerited, and springs from grace, and is what the
   world cannot give (John 14:27).

   4b. It is a blessing; the Jews, when they wished happiness to any, it
   was usually in this form, "Peace be to you," that including all
   prosperity in it; and when the Lord blesses his people it is with peace
   (Ps. 29:11). And,

   4c. This is called "great" peace (Ps. 119:165), it is great in quality,
   and sometimes great in quantity, abundance of it, peace like a flowing
   river.

   4d. It is said to be "perfect" (Isa. 26:3), though sometimes saints
   "for peace" have "great bitterness," as Hezekiah had, yet the ground
   and foundation of their peace is perfect, solid, and substantial; as
   the love of God, which is unchangeable, the covenant of peace which can
   never be removed, the person, blood, and righteousness of Christ, which
   have always the same virtue and efficacy.

   4e. It is a peace which "passeth all understanding" (Phil. 4:7), of a
   natural and unregenerate man, who is a stranger to it, has no
   experience of it, intermeddles not with it, and can form no judgment
   about it.

   4f. It is what cannot be taken away; "When he (God) giveth quietness,
   who then can make trouble?" (Job 34:29), not at that time at least; and
   though it may be interrupted, it cannot be destroyed; not by the
   world's tribulations, nor by Satan's temptations, nor by a man's own
   corruptions.
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   [31] Confessio fidei, c. 3. art. 26. p. 16.

   [32] my mnchvt Psalm 23:2.
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  Chapter 12.

    OF CONTENTMENT OF MIND

   Contentment of mind naturally follows upon Joy and Peace; where joy
   abounds, and peace rules in the heart, contentment is; it is nowhere to
   be found but in a godly man; in Christians of the first rank and class:
   the heathens talked much of it, but were not found in the practice of
   it; and, indeed, few men are; it is "rara avis in terris;" an ungodly
   man is an utter stranger to it; the ungodly are like a troubled sea,
   never at rest. Contentment is a branch of true godliness, or rather a
   super addition to it; which makes it greatly ornamental and profitable;
   for "godliness, with contentment," is great gain (1 Tim. 6:6). And it
   will be proper to inquire,

   1. What it is; and it is no other than an entire acquiescence of a
   man's mind in his lot and portion, in his state and condition in the
   present life, be it what it may, prosperous or adverse. And,

   1a. First, as opposites serve to illustrate each other, this may be
   known by what is contrary to it, or by what it is contrary unto; as,

   1a1. Contentment and envy are contrary to one another; "envying and
   strife" go together, and where there is strife and contention there is
   no contentment, but "confusion and every evil work;" a man that envies
   the superior or equal happiness of another, neither of which he can
   bear, inwardly pines [33] and frets at it. Envying and fretting meet in
   the same persons, and are equally dehorted from; and are evils to be
   found in good men, when they observe the prosperity of the wicked, and
   dwell upon their own afflictions (Ps. 37:1, 7; 73:3), and are contrary
   to that "charity" which "envieth not;" to rest and acquiescence in the
   will of God, which becometh saints; and where the sin of envy is
   predominant, a man can have no true contentment of mind; "envy is
   rottenness of the bones," it gnaws upon a man, torments him, [34] eats
   out his very vitals; "Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth
   the silly one" (Prov. 14:30; Job 5:2).

   1a2. Contentment is opposite to avarice, and avarice to that; and
   therefore the one must be quitted in order to possess the other. "Let
   your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such
   things as ye have" (Heb. 13:5), a covetous man cannot be a truly
   contented man; he cannot be content with what he has, he always wants
   more. [35] The Greek word for "covetousness" is pleonexia, "a having"
   or a desire to "have more;" not but that there may be a lawful desire
   of having more in some cases and for some good ends and purposes, and
   in submission to the will of God; but it is an anxious, immoderate, and
   unbounded desire of more which is criminal; and especially to have it
   in an unlawful way, and when a person has much already; it is often
   usual with men to fix upon the pitch of wealth and riches they are
   desirous of attaining to, and think if they could attain to that they
   should be content; now such persons, until they arrive at such a pitch,
   must be all the while in a state of discontent; and should they arrive
   to it they are not sure of content; nay they seldom have it, but then
   enlarge their desires and extend their limits; in short they never have
   enough, but are like the horseleech, crying, "Give, give," more and
   more; and in other things persons of this complexion are like that
   creature, of which naturalists [36] observe it has no passage through,
   it takes in all it can but lets out nothing; as a covetous man grasps
   at all he can, but will part with nothing; and like the said creature,
   which breaks and bursts with its own fulness.

   1a3. Contentment is opposite to pride and ambition. A proud ambitious
   man cannot bear that any should be above him, or upon a footing with
   him; and when he observes this, it gives him uneasiness, and fills him
   with disquietude and discontent; yea let his pride and ambition be ever
   so much gratified, he is not content, he still wants more; for the
   proud man "enlarges his desires as hell," or the grave, and like that
   "cannot be satisfied," which, how full soever, never says, "It is
   enough" (Hab. 2:5; Prov. 30:16), for though the world is set in their
   hearts, and they have all that is in it, "the lust of the flesh, the
   lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," they are not content; as it
   is reported of Alexander, when he had conquered the whole world as he
   thought, sat down and cried because there was not another world to
   conquer; so boundless were his pride and ambition, and so little
   contentment had he in his acquisitions. [37]

   1a4. Anxiety of mind, or a distressing care about worldly things; as
   about food, drink, and raiment, is contrary to true contentment of
   mind; and therefore our Lord dissuades from it by a variety of
   arguments; which may be read in (Matthew 6:25-34). "Take no thought for
   your life," &c. to do this is to act below the creatures; they might
   learn better things from them: besides, such anxious care is needless,
   and of no avail, nothing is to be got by it; God will take care of his
   people; the grand point is, to seek the kingdom of God, and his
   righteousness, and leave all other things with him; which is the best
   way to have contentment and happiness.

   1a5. Murmurings and repinings under adverse dispensations of
   providence, are the reverse of contentment of mind; such as are
   frequently to be observed in the Israelites in the wilderness, who were
   a discontented people, often murmuring against Moses and Aaron, and
   repining at afflictive providences; and from which Christians are
   dehorted by their example; "Neither murmur ye, as some of them also
   murmured;" and murmurers and complainers are joined together, and both
   must be reckoned among discontented persons; for which murmurs and
   complaints there is no reason, not even under afflictive providences:
   not with the people of God; for their afflictions are fatherly
   chastisements; nor with wicked men, though they are punishments; for
   "wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his
   sins?" since it is less than he deserves (Lam. 3:39).

   1b. Secondly, what contentment of mind is, may be learned from the
   several phrases by which it is expressed in scripture. As,

   1b1. First, by being contented with what a man has; "Be content with
   such things as ye have" (Heb. 13:5), tios parousin, "with present
   things;" things future are not the object of contentment; a man is not
   to look to things to come for it; which he may never have; and if he
   should have them, cannot promise himself contentment in them, as before
   observed; but they are present things, things he is now in the
   possession of, he should be content with.

   1b1a. Be they more or less, whether a man has a larger or a lesser
   share of the things of this world, whether riches or poverty, a man
   should be content; it was a wise petition of Agur, "Give me neither
   riches nor poverty; feed me with food convenient for me," or that which
   is sufficient and enough (Prov. 30:8), but be it either, a man should
   be satisfied with what God gives; if God gives him riches, he should be
   thankful, knowing that these come of God; and if they increase, he
   should not set his heart upon them, considering they are uncertain
   things, fleeting ones, make themselves wings and fly away; and
   therefore should be prepared for the loss of them, and be content when
   so it is; and the way to be content with what a man has at present, is
   rather to magnify it in his own mind than to lessen it; and to think,
   that God has "given him all things richly to enjoy;" so said the
   apostle when he had but little (1 Tim. 6:17). It may be said, a man may
   very well be content with present riches; but how can he be content
   with present poverty? He may; for poverty is no disgrace to a man, when
   it does not come through negligence and sloth; many a good man and an
   honorable Christian have been poor; God hath "chosen the poor of this
   world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom;" Lazarus, now in
   Abraham's bosom, was once a beggar; and our Lord himself became poor,
   that we through his poverty might be made rich. The advice of the
   apostle James is, "Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is
   exalted;" exalted in Christ, and made a partaker of the riches of
   grace, and has a right to the riches of glory through him.

   1b1b. Men should be content, as with present advantages and growing
   profit, so with present losses, which might have been greater; as Job
   was with the loss of his substance, his children, and his health, and
   perhaps all in one day; saying, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken
   away, blessed be the name of the Lord!" (Job 1:21); for let the saint
   lose what he may, he cannot lose his God, his portion, and his all, his
   Redeemer and Saviour, his better and more enduring substance, his
   inheritance reserved in the heavens; and therefore takes joyfully the
   spoiling of his goods, and is content with the loss of earthly things.

   1b1c. With present reproaches, indignities, and ill usage from men, on
   account of religion; like Moses, esteeming reproach for Christ's sake
   greater riches than all the treasures in Egypt; yea, our Lord pleased
   not himself, but was content to bear all the reproaches of the people
   on him; and who for the encouragement of his followers, pronounces them
   blessed when reviled and reproached (Heb. 11:25; 2 Sam. 16:10-12; Rom.
   15:1-3; Matthew 5:11).

   1b1d. With present afflictions of whatsoever kind, whether from God or
   men; for in whatsoever way, they rise not out of the dust, nor come by
   chance; but according to the will and appointment of God; and though
   not joyous, but grievous, yet sanctified, yield good fruit, and work
   together for good; and are the means of making men more partakers of
   divine holiness; and those light present afflictions, which are but for
   a moment, work a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
   Particularly,

   1b1e. "Having food and raiment;" food for the present day, and raiment
   for present use, skepasmata, coverings from the inclemencies of
   weather, among which houses to dwell in are included; "Let us," says
   the apostle, "therewith be content;" this was all that Jacob desired to
   have; and which sometimes good men have been without, and yet contented
   (1 Tim. 6:8; Gen. 28:20; 1 Cor. 4:11). But are saints to be content
   with present grace, present knowledge, present experience? &c. They may
   desire more grace, an increase of faith, and every other grace, as the
   apostles did; they may earnestly covet the best gifts, and yet not envy
   nor repine at the superior gifts and graces of others; they may forget
   things behind, and press towards those before, and yet be thankful for
   past experiences, and for present ones; and bless God for the measure
   of spiritual light and knowledge they have, and yet humbly desire an
   increase, and make use of proper means for that purpose; though the
   apostle, in the text referred to, seems to have respect only to
   temporal things.

   1b2. Secondly, this contentment of mind is expressed by the apostle
   from his own experience; "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
   therewith to be content" (Phil. 4:11).

   1b2a. The apostle means not his state of unregeneracy; he says not, "in
   whatsoever state I have been;" but, "in whatsoever state I am;" an
   unregenerate man is content to be in such a state, like Moab of old, at
   ease from his youth, and settled on his lees, and has not been emptied
   from vessel to vessel, but remains quiet and undisturbed; repents not
   of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? is in no apprehension of
   any danger, but like a man asleep and secure in the midst of the sea,
   and on the top of a mast; and, indeed, it is the business and policy of
   Satan, the strong man armed, to keep the goods in peace: a state of
   unregeneracy is a state of ignorance of God, and of his righteous law,
   and a state of unbelief, in which state the apostle had been (1 Tim.
   1:13), and while in it, he thought he ought to do many things contrary
   to the name of Christ; and imagined himself to be in a good state and
   condition, and alive without the law: it was not only a sinful state;
   but a state of self-righteousness; when the apostle thought himself,
   touching the righteousness of the law, blameless, and so safe and
   secure, and greatly contented with it; but this is not here meant. But,

   1b2b. His state after conversion, his spiritual state, it may be;
   believing his covenant interest in God; "My God shall supply all your
   need," &c. and being persuaded of his interest in the love of God, and
   that nothing should separate him from it; knowing Christ in whom he had
   believed and being satisfied of his ability and faithfulness to keep
   what he had committed to him, and of his being found in him, not having
   on his own righteousness, but his; and in this the apostle was content;
   yea, with the worst part of his spiritual state, even when in
   temptation, when buffered by Satan; since he was assured, that "the
   grave of Christ was sufficient for him;" and since Christ is able to
   help them that are tempted, and prays for his tempted ones, that their
   faith fail not; knows how to deliver them that are tempted, and that in
   the best manner, and in the most seasonable time; therefore they are
   contented: as they are also even in times of desertion and darkness,
   when they are directed and encouraged to trust in the Lord, and stay
   themselves on the mighty God of Jacob, and to wait for him that hides
   his face from them, as the church was determined to do (Micah 7:7-9),
   and there is great reason for this contentment, faith, and expectation;
   since light is sown for the righteous, and to the upright it arises in
   darkness (Ps. 97:11; 92:4). But,

   1b2c. The apostle chiefly means his outward state after conversion;
   with which he was content: and which lay,

   1b2c1. In his afflictions, reproaches, and persecutions; these attended
   him wherever he came, and he expected them, and not only bore them
   patiently, but endured them with pleasure; "I take pleasure," says he,
   "in reproaches, in necessities," &c. yea, he gloried in them (2 Cor.
   12:9, 10).

   1b2c2. In his bonds and imprisonment; in such a state he was when he
   expressed his contentment in whatsoever state he was, and so in that;
   for he was in bonds, a prisoner at Rome, when he wrote his epistle to
   the Philippians; (see Phil. 1:13, 14), and he seems to show a sort of
   pride in his title and character as the Lord's prisoner, and a prisoner
   of Jesus Christ (Eph 3:1; 4:1), and reckoned himself so happy a man on
   all other accounts, that he wished king Agrippa, and all in court, were
   altogether as he was, excepting his bonds; and though he did not wish
   them to others, he was content with them himself.

   1b2c3. The phrase, "in whatsoever state," includes both prosperity and
   adversity; an abundance and a scarcity of the necessaries of life; a
   fulness, and want of them, as explained in the next verse; the wise man
   says (Eccl. 7:14), "In the day of prosperity be joyful;" that is no
   hard lesson to learn: "But in the day of adversity consider" from
   whence it comes, and for what end, and be content with your portion;
   this is not so easily learnt; the apostle had learned it: as also,

   1b2c4. To be content both to live and to die; since he was persuaded
   Christ would be "magnified in his body, whether by life or death;" and
   though he knew it would be much better for him to depart and be with
   Christ, which was desirable by him; yet it would be more to the
   advantage of the interest of Christ, and the good of the churches, to
   continue longer on earth; this put him into a strait; however, he left
   it with God, and was content to depart or stay, as he thought fit: some
   good men, in a fit of discontent, have wished to die, and have
   expressed an uneasiness at life, by reason of their troubles and
   afflictions; as Job, and the prophets Elijah and Jonah, which was their
   infirmity; but one that has learned the lesson of divine contentment,
   and is under the influence of that grace, he is content to live while
   God has anything to do by him, and he is content to die, when he thinks
   fit to dismiss him from service. Now such a disposition of mind, as to
   be content in every state of life, appears in a man's thankfulness for
   all he enjoys; when, as advised, "in everything," in every state, and
   for everything, be it what it may, he "gives thanks;" when he makes
   known his requests to God with thanksgivings, for what he has had, and
   asks for what he wants in submission to his will; thus Job blessed God
   for what he gave him; and when he took it away from him. This grace
   shows itself much in a quiet resignation of the will to the will of
   God, in what condition soever a man is, especially in adverse
   dispensations of providence; instances of which we have in Aaron, in
   Eli, in David, and others; as also in bearing cheerfully all things
   which are disagreeable to flesh and blood; as in the apostles, who
   departed from the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to
   suffer shame for Christ; and in the believing Hebrews, who took
   joyfully the spoiling of their goods; and in the apostle Paul, who took
   pleasure in reproaches and distress for Christ's sake.

   1b2d. The word used by the apostle in the place under consideration for
   content, autarkes, properly signifies "self-sufficient," or being
   sufficient of one's self; which, strictly speaking, and in the highest
   sense, is only true of God, who is "El Shaddai," God all-sufficient,
   who stands in need of nothing; nor does the goodness of any extend to
   him, nor is it of any avail unto him; he is blessed in himself, and can
   have no addition to his happiness from a creature; but in a lower sense
   is true of some men; who, though they have not an inderivative
   sufficiency of themselves, yet receive a sufficiency in themselves from
   God; a sufficiency of spiritual things; "his grace is sufficient for
   them," and they have a sufficiency of it to bear them up under
   temptations, trials, and exercises of life, and to carry them through
   them; the God of all grace, as he is able to make, so he does make all
   grace to abound towards them, that they always having all sufficiency
   of grace thus received from him, may abound in the performance of every
   good work; a sufficiency of strength is given, so that they can do all
   things required of them through Christ strengthening them; and which is
   the reason the apostle gives of his being able to conduct in every
   state of life as he did (Phil 4:13), and a sufficiency of temporal
   things is given to the Lord's people, at least so as to answer to their
   exigencies, and even to give them content; and especially when they
   have Agur's wish, neither riches nor poverty, but food convenient for
   them; or "which is sufficient," as some versions have it (Prov. 30:8).

   1b2e. This lesson of contentment is explained by what the apostle says
   in the following verse; "I know both how to be abased, and I know how
   to abound; both to be full and to be hungry;" that is, he knew by
   experience what these things meant, and how to behave in such
   circumstances. As,

   1b2e1. To be "abased," or humbled, treated with contempt by men, and to
   be in low and mean circumstances; as when he was obliged to work with
   his own hands, and these ministered to his own and to the necessities
   of others; and when in very distressed circumstances, in voyages and
   journeys, shipwrecked, and in perils on various accounts, in pain and
   weariness, hunger and thirst, cold and nakedness; and he had learned to
   bear all these things patiently, and with submission to the will of
   God, and to be content with them. Also,

   1b2e2. He knew how to "abound," or what it was to be high in the esteem
   of men, and to have an affluence of the things of life, an abundance, a
   fulness of them, at least, as he judged it; and he knew how to behave
   in the midst of plenty, as not to be elated with it, and carry it
   haughtily to others; he learned not to abuse it, but to make a good use
   of it, for the relief of the necessitous, and for the interest of
   religion.

   1b2e3. He knew what it was both to be "full" and to be "hungry," to
   have a full meal and to want one; to be at a good table, and to be
   almost starved and famished; and he was "instructed" of God, how to
   conduct in such different circumstances, as neither to abuse his
   fulness, nor repine at his wants; and for confirmation, and to show how
   deeply his mind was impressed with these things, he repeats them, "both
   to abound and to suffer need," to have an overflow of things, and to be
   entirely deprived of them; and yet in all to be content. To be stripped
   of everything, to have nothing, and yet be content, is wonderful! if a
   man has something, though but little, there is a reason for
   contentment; but for a man to have nothing and be content, this is
   extraordinary; and yet this was the case of the apostle and his
   brethren, who were sometimes hungry, and had nothing to eat; thirsty,
   and nothing to drink; naked, and no clothes to put on; and had no
   dwelling place to shelter them from inclemencies; and yet content: the
   truth of these words, and the riddle in them, the apostles knew, and
   knew how to solve; "as having nothing, and yet possessing all things;"
   and this made them contented.

   1b3. Thirdly, this contentment of mind is expressed by a man's having
   enough. Esau, who was a worldly man, and Jacob, who was a spiritual,
   upright, and plain hearted man, both said they had enough (Gen. 33:9,
   11), but in a different sense; and, indeed, they use different phrases;
   for though they are the same in our version, yet not in the original;
   Esau at first refused the present of his brother Jacob, saying, "I have
   enough;" ys ly rvg, which may be rendered, "I have much;" now a man may
   have much, and yet not have enough in his own account; he may have
   much, and yet may want more, and so not be content: [38] but Jacob
   urged his brother to take his present, saying also, "I have enough;" or
   rather, as it should be rendered ys ly klg "I have all things," or
   "every thing;" and a man that has everything, has enough indeed, and
   has reason to be content; and this is the case of every gracious man,
   and these the circumstances of every true believer in Christ, as will
   be seen hereafter; and therefore ought to be content.

   1b4. Fourthly, this contentment is expressed by a man's being satisfied
   with what he has: earthly riches are not satisfying things, especially
   to such who are greedy of them, or have an immoderate love for them;
   one that knew human nature full well says, "He that loveth silver shall
   not be satisfied with silver" (Eccl. 5:10), but riches of grace are
   satisfying; the unsearchable riches of Christ, all spiritual things,
   are of a satisfying nature to spiritual men; the Lord "satisfies their
   mouth with good things;" with the provisions, the goodness, and fatness
   of his house; the poor of Zion he satisfies with spiritual bread; he
   satiates the weary soul, and replenishes every sorrowful soul (Ps.
   103:5; 132:14; Jer. 31:25), especially the love of God is exceeding
   satisfying to a gracious soul; "O Naphtali, satisfied with favour,"
   with the love of God, "and full with the blessing of the Lord," even to
   contentment; such as are favored after this manner "are satisfied as
   with marrow and fatness" (Deut. 33:23; Ps. 63:5), and, indeed, a little
   of the good things of this life, and the love of God with them, are
   more satisfying, and give more contentment, than all the riches of the
   world can without it (Prov. 15:17). I proceed to inquire,

   2. How any come by true contentment of mind.

   2a. It is not natural to man; man is naturally a discontented creature,
   especially since the fall; nay, it was discontent which was the cause
   of that; our first parents not being content with the state of
   happiness in which they were, abode not in it, but fell from it; such
   was their ambition, prompted to it by the tempter, that they affected
   to be as God; or however, perceiving there was a class of creatures
   superior to them, more wise and knowing, they could not be content with
   their present case and circumstances; but wanted to be upon an equality
   with them; and being told, that by eating the forbidden fruit they
   would attain to it, took and eat of it, and thus by coveting an evil
   covetousness, lost the happiness which they had; hence it is most truly
   said of man, that he is, "at his best estate, altogether vanity" (Ps.
   39:5).

   2b. It is not to be found in a natural or unregenerate man; such a man
   is always uneasy and disquieted; as restless as the troubled sea, and
   the waves thereof; let him be in pursuit of what he may, he never
   arrives to it to satisfaction; is it wisdom and knowledge he seeks
   after, as his first parents did? he gets no content; but finds, that in
   much wisdom is much grief and vexation of spirit; and that, by an
   increase of knowledge sorrow is increased. Is it pleasure in the
   gratification of the senses? these are soon palled with it, and new
   pleasures are wanting; and these, when had, like the former, issue in
   bitter reflections and remorse of conscience. Is it worldly honour,
   fame, and applause of men? these are fickle, transitory things, not to
   be depended on, and seldom last long; and amidst them there is
   something that mars the pride and ambition of men; as Mordecai's not
   bowing to Haman made the latter uneasy and discontented,
   notwithstanding the profusion of honours conferred upon him. Or is it
   wealth and riches? these are very uncertain and unsatisfying things, as
   has been observed. There is nothing can satisfy the mind of man but God
   himself; and if a man lives without God in the world, let him have what
   he will, he lives a discontented life; none but a godly man is a
   contented man; there may be content with godliness, but without it
   there is none.

   2c. Contentment is a thing that is to be learned; but not in the school
   of nature, and by the help of carnal reason; the philosophers among the
   heathens talked of it, but did not enjoy it; they neither learnt it
   themselves, nor could they teach it others; by all their wisdom and
   knowledge they knew not God truly, and therefore could have no solid
   satisfaction in what they did know; and even by what they knew of God,
   they glorified him not as God, "neither were thankful;" and if not
   thankful, then not contented. The apostle Paul says, he "learnt" it;
   but he learnt this not at the feet of Gamaliel, where he was brought
   up; nor among the traditions of the elders, where it is not to be
   found; for though he was taught after the perfect manner of the fathers
   of tradition, he was left ignorant of God, and of his law, and of
   Christ and his righteousness, and of salvation by him; without which
   there can be no true contentment: but he learnt it, being taught it of
   God; he had it as he had the gospel; and, indeed, he learnt it by that;
   which he says, he "neither received of men; neither was taught it, but
   in the revelation of Jesus Christ; he was instructed in it by the
   Spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of Christ;" so that
   he learnt it of God, Father, Son, and Spirit.

   2d. This is learnt, not as a theory; but practically and
   experimentally; and by a train of experiences, and generally through a
   series of afflictive providences; so that it is learned in quite a
   different way than a carnal man can conceive of; for these very things
   which breed discontent in others, are the means of producing true
   contentment in gracious souls. The apostle Paul learned to be content,
   not only "in," but "by," the adverse providences which attended him; by
   his dangers at sea and by land; by his distresses, afflictions, and
   persecutions for Christ's sake; and so other saints have been
   instructed in some measure, in the same way, and have found it true,
   what the apostle says (Rom. 5:4), "Tribulation works patience," &c. in
   such afflicted and experienced souls; and from all this flows
   contentment.

   3. The arguments moving to such a disposition of mind, and exciting,
   under a divine influence, to the exercise of this grace, are,

   3a. First, the consideration of what we had when we came into the
   world; and what we shall have when we go out of it; which is just
   nothing at all: this is the argument the apostle uses to promote
   contentment in himself and others; "for we brought nothing into this
   world, and it is certain, we can carry nothing out;" and therefore upon
   it reasons thus; "and having food and raiment, let us be therewith
   content" (1 Tim. 6:7, 8), and that is enough for the present state, and
   is more than we shall carry with us, or shall hereafter have any need
   of; and this was what made Job contented with the loss of all he had;
   "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return
   thither;" and now, as if he should say, I am stripped of all, I am but
   as I was when I was born, and shall he again when I die; [39] and
   therefore I am content; the "Lord gave" all that I have had from my
   birth, "and the Lord has taken away," and he has taken only what he
   gave, and to which he had a right; "blessed be the name of the Lord"
   (Job 1:21), and the like argument the Wise Man makes use of to show how
   fruitless and unprofitable it is for a man to be anxious to get
   perishing riches, and which his son, begotten by him, may not enjoy;
   but come into the world naked, and go out in like manner (Eccl.
   5:14-16), and this is a reason urged by the Psalmist, why it should
   give no pain and uneasiness to persons at the increase of the riches of
   others; since, "when he dies he shall carry nothing away;" so that as
   it will be no longer his, it will remain to be enjoyed by others (Ps.
   49:16, 17).

   3b. Secondly, the unalterable will of God is an argument exciting
   contentment; who does according to his will, as in the armies of the
   heavens, so among the inhabitants of the earth; he gives to everyone
   their portion in this life as he thinks fit. What they have is not to
   be attributed to their wisdom and sagacity, and to their diligence and
   industry, however commendable these may be; but is to be ascribed to
   the sovereign will and pleasure of God, who does all things "after the
   counsel of his will," in the wisest and best manner; and therefore men
   should be content; and after all, they cannot make things otherwise
   than they are; for "who can make that straight which he hath made
   crooked" (Eccl. 9:11; 7:13), nor can any man, with all his care and
   thought, "add one cubit to his stature," or make any change in his
   condition and circumstances, than what is according to the will of God.

   3c. Thirdly, unworthiness to enjoy the least favour and mercy at the
   hand of God, should engage us to be content with what we have: we have
   reason to say, as Jacob did, "I am not worthy of the least of all thy
   mercies" (Gen. 32:10), not of the bread we eat, nor of the clothes we
   wear; yea, if God was to deal with us according to our deserts, we
   should be stripped of all; and, indeed, it is of the Lord's mercies we
   are not consumed; and therefore have great reason to be content; since
   we merit nothing, have forfeited all, and cannot claim anything as our
   due; what is enjoyed is pure favour (Ps. 145:9).

   3d. Fourthly, a consideration of the great things which God has done
   for us; a dwelling in our thoughts, and meditation on what may excite
   thankfulness in us; a recollection of the benefits of every kind which
   God has conferred upon us, may tend very much to make us contented with
   what we have, giving thanks unto his name; where there is a proper
   sense of favors there will be thankfulness; and where there is
   thankfulness there will be content.

   3e. Fifthly, the great promises God has made to his people of good
   things, here and hereafter, on the fulfillment of which they may
   depend, are sufficient to make them easy and contented; this is an
   argument used by the apostle to engage to contentment (Heb. 13:5),
   where he says, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee!" which
   promise itself, containing every favour and blessing, and securing
   everything that can be needful for comfort and happiness, is of itself
   enough to excite to contentment. But besides this, there are many other
   exceeding great and precious promises; as, they that fear the Lord
   shall lack no good thing; that God will supply all their need; that his
   grace will be sufficient for them; that as their day is, their strength
   shall be; yea, godliness has the promise of this life, and of that
   which is to come; and therefore that, with contentment, is great gain.

   3f. Sixthly, eternal glory and happiness; which is promised, prepared,
   and laid up for the saints, and which they will most certainly enjoy,
   may serve to make them content with present things, and even with some
   things that are not agreeable to the flesh; thus Moses having respect
   unto the recompence of reward, and a view of invisible things,
   cheerfully suffered affliction with the people of God, and esteemed
   reproach for Christ's sake greater riches than the treasures in Egypt;
   the sufferings of this present life are not to be compared with the
   glory of another; and though the saints now may have their evil things,
   they will hereafter have their good things, and shall be fully
   satisfied when they awake in the divine likeness; and therefore for the
   present should be content with their lot and portion.

   3g. Seventhly, the saints and people of God have all things in hand, or
   in promise, or in sure and certain hope; "all things are yours;" and
   therefore they may say, as Jacob did, "I have enough," or "I have all
   things;" I am content: God has given us all things richly to enjoy; all
   things pertaining to life and godliness, both grace and glory; and what
   more can be desired?

   3g1. God is theirs, Father, Son, and Spirit; all the perfections of God
   are on their side, and exercised for their good; and all the divine
   Persons are theirs, and they have an interest in them; and what can
   they have more?

   3g1a. God the Father is theirs; he is their covenant God; he says, "I
   will be their God, and they shall be my people!" and he not only
   avouches them to be his peculiar people; but they say, "The Lord is
   God!" and avouch him, profess him, and claim their interest in him as
   such: he is their Father, and has declared himself in covenant to be
   so; has predestinated them to the adoption of children; sent his Son to
   redeem them, that they might receive it; and his Spirit to witness it
   unto them. He is their shield and exceeding great reward, as he
   promised to Abraham; he is their portion now and for ever; and what,
   not content!

   3g1b. Christ the Son of God is theirs; the gift of his Father's love,
   an unspeakable one he is; given as an head unto them; as an head of
   government, to rule over them and protect them; and an head of
   influence, to supply them; he is their husband, to love, nourish, and
   cherish them, as his own flesh, and to all whose goods they have a
   common right; he is their Saviour and Redeemer from sin, Satan, the
   curse of the law, and wrath to come; he is their Mediator and
   Peacemaker, their Prophet, Priest, and King. All that belong to him are
   theirs; his righteousness is theirs, for justification; his blood is
   theirs, to cleanse and pardon them; his flesh is theirs, to feed upon
   by faith; his fulness theirs, to supply their wants; he is ALL in ALL
   unto them; and what, not content!

   3g1c. The Spirit of God is theirs; a gift which their heavenly Father
   has given them; and is given them to make known unto them the things
   which are freely given to them of God; he is the convincer of them of
   sin, righteousness, and judgment; the illuminator of them in the
   knowledge of divine things; their quickener and sanctifier, their
   comforter, and the spirit of adoption to them; the earnest and seal of
   their future glory; theirs to begin, to carry on, and perfect the work
   of grace in them; and what, not content!

   3g2. The covenant of grace is theirs; made with them, and made for
   them; all the stores of it theirs; the blessings of it, the sure
   mercies of David; the blessings of grace and of glory, provided and
   laid up in it; the promises of it, both respecting this life and that
   which is to come; and what, not content!

   3g3. The gospel, and the ordinances of it, and the ministers of it, are
   theirs! "all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas" (1
   Cor. 3:21, 22), the whole Scripture is written for their use, for their
   learning and instruction, for their comfort and edification; the gospel
   is ordained for their glory; and is sent into and published in the
   world for their good; and the ministers of it are their servants for
   Jesus' sake; they are gifts to the churches, to be their pastors and
   teachers; and have gifts given them to feed and instruct them; they are
   stewards of the mysteries of grace, and are appointed in the house of
   God, to give to everyone their portion of meat in due season; and which
   surely must add to divine contentment.

   3g4. Temporal things are theirs; "or the world, or life, or death, or
   things present, or things to come, all are yours" (1 Cor. 3:22); the
   "world," and the fulness of it, belongs to Christ, who is heir of all
   things; and saints being joint heirs with him, are as Abraham was,
   "heirs of the world;" and things in it are theirs, and work together,
   and contribute to their good; and they at last shall inhabit the new
   earth. "Life" is theirs in every sense, corporal, spiritual, and
   eternal. And "death" is theirs, a blessing to them whenever it comes;
   which will deliver them from the troubles of this life, and enter them
   into the glories of another. "Things present" are theirs; present
   mercies, no good thing is withheld from them needful for them, food to
   eat, and raiment to put on: and "things to come;" the unseen glories of
   a future state; an inheritance incorruptible, reserved in "heaven," a
   kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world. And surely all this
   is enough to give contentment!
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   [33] "Invidus alterius rebus macrescit opimis," Horat. Epist. l. 1. ep.
   2. v. 57.

   [34] "Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni majus tormentum." Horat. ib.
   v. 58, 59.

   [35] "Semper avarus eget," ib. v. 56.

   [36] Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 34.

   [37] "Unus Pellaeo juveni non sufficit orbis: aestuat infelix angusto
   limine mundi," Juvenal. Satyr. 10. v. 168, 169.

   [38] "Nunquam parum est; quod satis est, nunquam multum est, quod satis
   non est." Seneca, Ep. 119.

   [39] "Nemo tam pauper vivit quam natus est." Seneca de Providentia, c.
   6.
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  Chapter 13

    OF THANKFULNESS TO GOD

   Thankfulness follows contentment: a discontented man is not thankful
   for anything; but a contented man is thankful for everything.
   Thankfulness is a branch of godliness; none but a godly man is truly a
   thankful man: there are some things not to be named among saints, and
   are not becoming them; but this is; and rather becoming them than many
   other things (Eph. 5:3,4), an unthankful saint is a very odd sound, if
   not a contradiction; "unthankful, unholy," are characters joined
   together, and agree (2 Tim. 3:2), and so "unthankful" and "evil" (Luke
   6:36), and particularly none but an holy man can give thanks "at the
   remembrance of the holiness of God" (Ps. 97:12). Concerning this
   gracious disposition of mind, thankfulness, may be observed,

   1. The things for which thanks are to be given; and they are all
   things; the rule, and which is, according to the will of God, is
   "giving thanks always for all things;" and again, "In everything," or
   for everything, "give thanks" (Eph. 5:20; 1 Thess. 5:18), to which
   agrees what the apostle says (Phil. 4:6). And,

   1a. First, for temporal mercies; for God is the "Father of mercies,"
   even of all such mercies; the author and giver of them, and therefore
   thanks should be returned to him for them. As,

   1a1. For our beings; to be, is better than not to be; and none could
   give us existence but God, the fountain of being; "In him we live, and
   move, and have our being;" that is, we have it from him, as well as are
   supported in it by him; "It is he that hath made us, and not we
   ourselves:--be thankful unto him, and bless his name" (Acts 17:28; Ps.
   100:3,4), the wonderful formation of man, the structure of his body,
   the symmetry and perfection of its parts, as well as soundness of
   limbs, are matter of praise and thankfulness; as they were to the
   Psalmist David (Ps. 139:14-16).

   1a2. For our life, which is from God; he "giveth to all life, and
   breath, and all things" (Acts 17:25), some creatures have a being, and
   yet not life, as inanimate ones; some have life, yet only a vegetative
   one, as plants; and others only an animal one, as brutes; but God has
   given to man a soul, both living and rational; Adam's body was made out
   of the dust of the earth, and then God breathed into him the "breath of
   life, and man became a living soul;" and such a life every man has,
   which is a grant and favour from God (Job 10:12), and therefore thanks
   should be given to him for it, and for all the mercies of life, and for
   that more than for them; since "the life is more than meat," or drink,
   raiment, and everything by which life is nourished, supported, and made
   comfortable; and, indeed, is preferable to all a man has besides
   (Matthew 6:25; Job 2:4).

   1a3. For the preservation of our being and life be God; his visitation,
   which is every day, every morning, preserves our spirits; he upholds
   our souls in life; he is therefore truly called, the "preserver of
   men," and is worthy of praise and thanksgiving on that account; the
   reason given is, not only because he has made the heaven, earth, and
   seas, and all therein; but because he "preserveth them all" (Neh. 9:5,
   6).

   1a4. For our health, and for the continuance of it, and for restoration
   to it when it has been interrupted; health is a very valuable mercy,
   and without which the outward blessings of life cannot be comfortably
   enjoyed; and therefore is greatly to be desired, both by ourselves and
   for our friends; thus the apostle John wished for Gaius, that he might
   "prosper and be in health, even as his soul prospered" (3 John 1:2),
   and persons favored with such a mercy have reason to be thankful; as
   also when it has been lost and restored again; thus Hezekiah, when
   recovered from his sickness, said, "The living, the living, he shall
   praise thee, as I do this day" (Isa. 38:9, 19), and a contrary
   behavior, as it very unbecoming, is justly resented; as in the of the
   ten lepers (Luke 17:15-18).

   1a5. For every mercy enjoyed, be it what it may; not only for life and
   health, for food and raiment, which are the principal mercies; but for
   every other, the least that can be thought of (Gen. 32:10). "Every
   creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received
   with thanksgiving;" so that it seems the goodness of any creature mercy
   to a man depends upon his thankfulness for it; and this is the
   difference between a thankful and an unthankful man: an unthankful man,
   thinks nothing good; and a thankful man thinks everything good, and
   blesses God for it (2 Tim. 4:4), and this he does every day; mercies
   are returned every day, and are new every morning; and therefore men
   sensible of them will say, "Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us
   with benefits!" (Ps. 68:19).

   1b. Secondly, for spiritual mercies, whether of a lower or of an higher
   kind. As,

   1b1. First, for the means of grace, the gospel, and the ministry of it;
   and a great mercy it is to be under the sound of it; "Blessed is the
   man that heareth me," the voice of wisdom, the gospel of Christ, though
   only externally (Prov. 8:34). It is an happiness to be born in a land
   where the gospel is preached, and not among Pagans, Mahometans, and
   Papists, where there is a "famine;" not a famine for bread, nor a
   thirst for water, but of "hearing the word of the Lord" (Amos 8:11),
   and a dreadful judgment it is on a people when the Lord commands "the
   clouds," the ministers of the word, "that they rain no rain upon them,"
   that is, preach not the gospel to them. The gospel was first restrained
   to the Jewish people, and forbid to be preached to the Gentiles; but
   afterwards the apostles had a commission to preach it to all nations;
   the Gentiles embraced it gladly, glorified it, or were greatly thankful
   for it; and when this is blessed to the conversion of sinners, it is
   matter of thankfulness; not only to them, but to all true believers,
   and to the ministers of the word: when the Jewish Christians perceived
   that God had given repentance to the Gentiles also, they glorified God,
   or were thankful to him, and blessed his name; and when the apostles
   declared the conversion of the Gentiles by the ministry of the word, it
   caused great joy among the brethren; and when they were successful in
   all parts, in making conquests of souls to Christ, they could not but
   express their thankfulness to God, saying, "Now thanks be unto God,
   which always causeth us to triumph in Christ" (2 Cor. 2:14), and when
   it is food to believers, and is sweet to their taste, as the honey and
   the honeycomb, and they esteem it more than their necessary food, then
   are they truly thankful for it. It is in itself glad tidings, and a
   joyful sound; and when it is experimentally heard and known, it causes
   praise and thankfulness, even among personages of the highest class;
   "all the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear
   the words of thy mouth;" the doctrines of the gospel, so as to
   understand them, as they will in the latter day glory (Ps. 138:4), when
   the gospel ministry will be the means of enlarging the interest of
   Christ, the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the
   waters cover the sea; and when the kingdoms of this world shall become
   the Lord's and his Christ's, then the four and twenty elders, the
   representatives of gospel churches, will "worship God, saying, We give
   thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, because thou hast taken to thee thy
   great power, and hast reigned," by making the gospel ministry effectual
   to the enlargement of his kingdom and interest (Rev. 11:15-17). To
   which may be added, as means of grace, the ordinances of the gospel,
   called the goodness and fatness of the house of God, the provisions of
   Zion; which, when saints are blessed with, and especially when blessed
   unto them, and made useful and beneficial, they "shout aloud for joy,"
   or are exceeding thankful for them: and with these may be mentioned,
   the ministers of the gospel, who are the gifts of God to his churches;
   "And he gave some pastors and teachers;" gifts to qualify them for such
   offices; and he gives them themselves to his churches, to officiate as
   such among them; "And I will give you pastors" (Eph. 4:11; Jer. 3:15),
   these are reckoned among the blessings and privileges of churches, and
   of all true believers; "All things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos,
   or Cephas;" and therefore they have reason to be thankful for them; and
   especially when, though their "teachers have been removed into a
   corner," yet not so "any more," but their "eyes see their teachers,"
   and their ears hear the joyful sound from them.

   1b2. Secondly, thanks are to be given particularly for the blessings of
   grace themselves, the things which are freely given of God. And in
   order to thankfulness for these, in men there must be knowledge of
   them; which is had by the Spirit of wisdom and revelation; and there
   must be an application of them, a view of special interest in them; the
   Spirit of God must witness to their spirits that they belong unto them;
   he must take of the things of Christ, and show them unto them; which
   will cause exultation and thankfulness. As particularly,

   1b2a. For electing grace; this may be known without any special and
   extraordinary revelation; even from the grace in the effectual calling;
   "For whom he did predestinate, them he also called;" and the "vessels
   of mercy afore prepared unto glory," are explained of those "whom God
   has called" (Rom. 8:30; 9:23, 24), so that those who are called by
   grace may comfortably conclude, that they are predestinated unto life,
   or are in the Lamb's book of life, and are foreordained unto eternal
   glory; and this may be known, as the apostle observes, from the
   efficacy of the gospel on the hearts of men (1 Thess. 1:4,5), and such
   therefore will call upon themselves and others to praise and
   thankfulness, saying, "Praise the Lord, for the Lord hath chosen Jacob
   unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure" (Ps. 135:3, 4). And
   the rather this is matter of great thankfulness, because

   1b2a1. The choice God has made of men to everlasting life is of grace,
   and not of works; even of free, unmerited grace, and without any motive
   to it from them; hence called, "The election of grace" (Rom. 11:5, 6;
   9:11-13). Something similar to this was the national election of the
   people of Israel, which was not because of their quality or quantity;
   but because of the Lord's pure love unto them (Deut. 7:6-8).

   1b2a2. This choice is an act of distinguishing grace; it is not a
   choice of all, only of some; or it would be no choice; "I speak not of
   you all; I know whom I have chosen" (John 13:18), all Christ's
   disciples were chosen to office, but not all to grace and glory; such
   so chosen are "vessels of mercy," in distinction from others, called,
   "vessels of wrath;" it is a choice of "us," and not others: of us, who
   are in no wise better than others, as undeserving of the favour of God
   as others, being "children of wrath," even as others.

   1b2a3. It is a choice, which is the source, foundation, and security
   both of grace and glory. Sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of
   the truth, which include all grace, are fixed and secured in eternal
   election, and flow from it; men are chosen to faith and holiness before
   the foundation of the world, and these are in time bestowed upon them;
   "As many as were ordained unto eternal life believed;" hence true faith
   is called, "The faith of God's elect," being peculiar to them, in
   consequence of their election, and with which their eternal happiness
   is connected; "For whom he did predestinate--them he also glorified."
   Now if the apostle thought himself bound to give thanks for the
   election of others, then much more for his own; and so is every chosen
   vessel of salvation; see (2 Thess. 2:13).

   1b2b. Thanks are to be given for redeeming grace. This was one of the
   benefits and blessings of grace, which lay uppermost on the mind of the
   Psalmist, when he called upon his soul, and all within him, to bless
   the name of the Lord, and not forget his benefits; "Who," says he,
   "redeemeth thy life from destruction" (Ps. 103:1, 2, 4), having in
   view, no doubt, the redemption of it by Christ, from everlasting ruin;
   thus Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, began his prophecy,
   "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed
   his people," and raised up a mighty Saviour and Redeemer from David's
   family; this he said, when the "day spring from on high had visited
   them;" the Saviour was conceived, and become incarnate, though as yet
   not born, who was to be the Redeemer of his people (Luke 1:68, 69, 78),
   and great reason there is for praise and thankfulness on this account.

   1b2b1. Because this redemption is special and particular. They are a
   "peculiar people" whom Christ has redeemed from all iniquity; they are
   "redeemed from among men," and so not all men; they are "redeemed out
   of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;" and not every
   kindred, every tongue, all people, and each nation; and therefore have
   the greater reason to be thankful that they are redeemed.

   1b2b2. It is altogether free on their parts; though they are bought
   with a price, are redeemed from a vain conversation, with the precious
   blood of Christ, to which redemption is frequently ascribed; yet they
   are "redeemed without money," without any price or money of their own
   paid by them for it; it is wholly of free cost to them; they are "let
   go, not for price nor reward," which they have given; their redemption
   is indeed through the blood of Christ, and yet it is "according to the
   riches of the grace of God," who of his infinite wisdom and grace has
   found a ransom.

   1b2b3. It is a plenteous one; "With the Lord is plenteous redemption"
   (Ps. 130:7), a redemption from all iniquity, original and actual; from
   all sins of every kind, of heart, lip, and life, before and after
   conversion; from Satan, stronger than they, who held them captive; from
   all the curses of the law, to which they were subject by sin; and from
   hell and wrath, and from every enemy of their souls.

   1b2b4. It is an eternal one; "Having obtained eternal redemption for
   us" (Heb. 9:12), which will always continue; the redeemed will never
   more return to a captive state, or be brought into subjection to what
   they are redeemed from; but will always enjoy the benefits arising from
   this grace; and if therefore Moses and the children of Israel had
   reason to sing unto the Lord, who "in his mercy had redeemed them out
   of Egypt," which was but a temporal redemption; much more reason have
   we to praise the Lord, and give thanks to him for eternal redemption by
   Christ.

   1b2c. Thanks are to be given for pardoning grace and mercy. This is the
   first thing the Psalmist mentions after stirring up himself to bless
   and praise the Lord for all his benefits; "who forgiveth all thine
   iniquities" (Ps. 103:1-3), and indeed pardon of sin is a great
   blessing; and he is an happy man whose transgression is forgiven, and
   his sin covered, and to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity! and
   therefore should express his thankfulness for it. And,

   1b2c1. Because it is entirely free with respect to the persons who
   partake of it. It proceeds, indeed, upon a satisfaction made by
   another; for God, though he forgives sin, will by no means clear the
   guilty, without a full satisfaction to his justice; "Without shedding
   of blood there is no remission;" but though Christ's blood has been
   shed for the remission of sins, yet that is according to the riches of
   divine grace; it is free to men, though it cost Christ dear, his blood
   and life (Isa. 43:25), some, their debts are more, and others less
   numerous; one owes five hundred pence, and another fifty; but whereas
   neither the one nor the other "have anything to pay," God, the
   creditor, "frankly forgives them both" (Luke 7:41, 42).

   1b2c2. Pardon of sin, is not only free, but full and complete; and
   therefore sinful men should be thankful for it; God not only forgives
   all manner of sin, signified by iniquity, transgression, and sin;
   greater or lesser sins, such as are more or less aggravated; but all
   acts of sin committed by his people; God, for Christ's sake, forgives
   all; "Having forgiven all trespasses" (Col. 2:13), no one sin is left
   unforgiven; the Lord's name be praised!

   1b2d. Thanks are to be given for adopting grace; this is one of the
   spiritual blessings with which the Lord's people are blessed in Christ,
   "according to the good pleasure of his will" (Eph. 1:3, 5). There is
   such a display of grace in the blessing of adoption as ravished the
   apostle John, and caused him to break forth in a rapture, and say,
   "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we
   should be called the sons of God!" (1 John 3:1). Two things serve to
   excite thankfulness for this grace:

   1b2d1. That it is bestowed on persons very unworthy; such who are by
   nature children of wrath, as others; and yet by this grace, children of
   God; such of whom God himself says, "How shall I put them among the
   children?" and yet of his grace puts them there; such who are like the
   wretched infant, cast out into the open field, in the day it was born,
   to the loathing of its person, and yet taken into the family of God;
   who have nothing lovely in them to recommend them, as Moses to
   Pharaoh's daughter, and Esther to Mordecai had; but all the reverse.

   1b2d2. The various blessings annexed to this grace; such have the
   glorious liberty of the children of God; liberty of access to God, as
   children to a father; and a right to all privileges and immunities,
   which fellow citizens with the saints, and those of the household of
   God have; these are never more servants, but heirs, and have a right to
   the heavenly inheritance.

   1b2e. Thanks are to be given to God for regenerating grace (1 Pet. 1:3,
   4). This is wholly owing to the free grace and rich mercy of God; it is
   denied to be of blood, or of the will of men, or of the will of the
   flesh; but of God, of his sovereign grace and favour; who, "of his own
   will, begat us with the word of truth;" and the rather should we be
   thankful for this grace, since without it there can be no enjoyment of
   eternal life; "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
   God" (Jam. 1:18; John 1:13; 3:3).

   1b2f. Thanks are to be given as for a right to eternal life; which lies
   not in the righteousness of men, but in the righteousness of Christ; so
   for a meetness for it, which is all of grace (Col. 1:12).

   1b2g. Thanks are to be given for victory over all spiritual enemies;
   and so for persevering grace in faith and holiness to glory,
   notwithstanding them all; nothing more distressing than a body of sin
   and death, and nothing more desirable than a deliverance from it; and
   yet no hope of it but through Christ; and having hope of it in this
   way, such a soul may say with the apostle, "I thank God through Jesus
   Christ our Lord!" that is, that there will be a deliverance from it;
   and not from that only, but from every enemy, sin, law, and death; and
   therefore can say, "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory;"
   over death and the grave; over sin, the sting of death; and over the
   law, the strength of sin; so that nothing shall hinder an abundant
   entrance into the kingdom and glory of God (Rom. 7:23, 24; 1 Cor.
   15:57).

   1c. Thirdly, for Christ, the great blessing of grace and gift of God:
   "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift" (2 Cor. 9:15), the donor
   of this gift is God, of whom are all things; hence Christ is called the
   "gift of God," by way of eminence (John 4:10), who is a sovereign
   Being, and disposes of all his gifts, and so this, to whomsoever he
   pleases; it is his own he gives, and he may do with that what he will;
   and this is a gift like himself, suitable to the greatness of his
   Majesty, as King of kings; it is a royal gift, like that "Araunah, as a
   king, gave unto the king" (2 Sam. 24:23), the gift is the Son of God;
   "To us a Son is given;" the only begotten Son of God, his own Son, the
   dear Son of his love, his Son and Heir; him he has given to be for a
   covenant of the people, the Mediator and Surety of it, and with whom he
   has entrusted all the blessings and promises of it; and to be an head
   over all things to the church; and to be the Saviour of the body, the
   church; even to be God's salvation unto the ends of the earth; for
   which purpose he has not spared him, but has delivered him up into the
   hands of men, justice, and death; and for which those to and for whom
   he is given, have reason to be thankful; when, besides these things,
   the nature of the gift is observed. As,

   1c1. It is entirely a free gift; it is one of those things, and the
   chief of them, which are "freely given unto us of God" (1 Cor. 2:12),
   unmerited and undeserved; wholly of free grace, and flowing from the
   pure love of God, to persons of all the most unworthy (John 3:16).

   1c2. It is a suitable one; nothing could have been given us more
   suitable to our case and circumstances; "Such an High priest became
   us;" such a Prophet, such a King, such a Mediator between God and men,
   such a Redeemer and Saviour, such an Advocate and Intercessor, one so
   full of grace and truth, who is made unto us wisdom, righteousness,
   sanctification, and redemption, who is indeed ALL in ALL; all that we
   want, all that we can desire; for,

   1c3. It is a very large and comprehensive gift; "God, with Christ,
   freely gives us all things; and blesses, with all spiritual blessings
   in him," the blessings of grace and of glory (Rom. 8:32; Eph. 1:3),
   Christ being ours, all things are ours; and therefore we have reason to
   be thankful (1 Cor. 3:22, 23).

   1c4. It is an unchangeable and irreversible gift; it comes from the
   "Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of
   turning;" and not only the giver, but the gift itself is unchangeable;
   who is "Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and for ever;" and is one of
   the gifts of God which are "without repentance;" to which may be added,
   that it is "unspeakable;" none can say how great it is, what is
   contained in it, and what the benefits arising from it in time and to
   eternity.

   1d. Fourthly, For the Spirit of God, and his gifts and graces. The
   Spirit himself is the gift of God (Luke 11:13), and a great and
   glorious gift he is, for which we have reason to be thankful;
   especially when we consider to what ends and purposes he is given, as
   to be a Comforter of his people, "He shall give you another Comforter"
   (John 14:16), and to be a Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
   knowledge of Christ, and to strengthen the saints with all might in the
   inward man, and to be the earnest and pledge of their future glory and
   happiness (2 Cor. 5:5; Eph. 1:14, 17; 3:16). The various graces of the
   Spirit are gifts and free grace gifts, and very valuable ones; faith,
   which is of the operation of the Spirit, is "not of ourselves, it is
   the gift of God," which no man has nor can exercise unless it be given
   him of God; and all men have it not, and therefore it is distinguishing
   grace to those who have it, and should be thankful for it; a good hope
   is through grace, and is given both by God the Father and our Lord
   Jesus Christ (2 Thess. 2:16), and so love is from grace (1 Tim. 1:14).
   These are now the all things for which we should be thankful.

   2. When, in what cases and circumstances, and for whom thanks are to be
   given.

   2a. When; always, this is the rule, "giving thanks always for all
   things;" every day, night and day, constantly, continually, all the
   days of a man's life; for there are ever new mercies, they are
   returning every day and every morning: hence says the Psalmist, "Every
   day will I bless thee" (Ps. 145:2; 146:2).

   2b. In what cases and circumstances, in what state and condition, are
   we to be thankful? in everyone, "in everything," that is, in every
   state, "give thanks" (1 Thess. 5:18).

   2b1. Not in prosperity only, when we are to be joyful, cheerful, and
   thankful; and when we are not to attribute our prosperity to ourselves,
   nor to second causes, but to God, and be thankful; otherwise we shall
   only "sacrifice to" our own "net," and "burn incense" to our own "drag"
   (Hab. 1:16).

   2b2. But in adversity also; as Job blessed God, or was thankful, when
   he was stripped of all; and the people of God have reason to be
   thankful under afflictions, when the Lord puts underneath his
   everlasting arms, and supports them under them; when he strengthens
   them on a bed of languishing, and makes their bed in their sickness;
   when he chooses them in the furnace of affliction, and knows their
   souls in adversity; when he manifests his love and favour; when he is
   with them passing through the fire and water, so that the one shall not
   kindle upon them, nor the other overflow them; in short, since he makes
   all things work together for their good here and hereafter, they should
   be thankful. And also,

   2b3. In times of temptation; since the temptation might have been
   suffered to have been greater and heavier than it is; and since the
   grace of God is sufficient to support under it, and carry through it,
   and the faithfulness of God will not suffer his people to be tempted
   above what they are able to bear; and since Christ is able to help them
   that are tempted, and sympathizes with them, and prays for them that
   their faith fail not.

   2b4. When in very uncomfortable frames; at least better might be wished
   for, since these might have been worse and have issued in despair, or
   bordering on it; and in the midst of all it should be considered, that
   though frames are changeable things, Jehovah changes not, Christ is the
   same always, the covenant of grace is sure, and the gifts and calling
   of God without repentance; and the Lord knows them that are his, and
   they shall never perish.

   2b5, Amidst all the reproaches and persecutions of men; so the apostles
   were thankful that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the
   name of Christ; the apostle Peter says such are happy (1 Pet. 4:14),
   and such who are persecuted for righteousness sake are pronounced
   blessed by Christ, and are exhorted to rejoice, and be exceeding glad
   (Matthew 5:10-12).

   2c. For whom; for all men, for kings and all in authority (1 Tim. 2:1,
   2), since these are powers ordained of God, and are ministers for the
   good of men, are terrors to evildoers, and a praise to them that do
   well; if they are good kings and worthy magistrates, such are to be
   honored and obeyed, and thanks to be given for them, which is good and
   acceptable in the sight of God. We are to be thankful for our relations
   and friends, and for the continuance of them; children are the gifts of
   God to parents, and as such to be owned with gratitude, as they were by
   Jacob and Joseph (Gen. 33:5; 48:9 see Ps. 127:3-5), and likewise for
   the churches of Christ, and all the saints in them; for their
   prosperity, for their grace and the increase of it; for their faith,
   both as a doctrine and a grace, and for their love to one another;
   these are what the apostle expresses his thankfulness for in almost all
   his epistles; and so for the ministers of the gospel saints should be
   thankful, who are the gifts of God to the churches, and are promised as
   such (Jer. 3:15). These are the servants of the most high God which
   show unto men the way of salvation, and who are the churches' servants
   for Jesus' sake, faithful stewards in the house of God, to give to
   everyone their portion of meat in due season; and being thus useful,
   thanks should be given for them; and which likewise should be done for
   an increase of converts through the ministry of the word, when there
   are additions made to churches of such as shall be saved; when the
   gospel is succeeded for the gathering in of others to Christ and into
   his churches besides those who are already gathered (2 Cor. 2:14).

   3. To whom are thanks to be given on the above account? to God, of whom
   are all things, and to whom the glory of all belongs; he is the proper
   and primary object of thanksgiving; "I thank my God, through Jesus
   Christ, for you all" (Rom. 1:8), God, Father, Son, and Spirit.

   3a. Thanks are to be given to the Father "Giving thanks always for all
   things unto God and the Father" (Eph. 5:20), and hence the same apostle
   blesses or gives thanks unto him as the God and Father of our Lord
   Jesus Christ, for blessing the saints in him with all spiritual
   blessings (Eph. 1:3), and the apostle Peter blesses or gives thanks to
   him as such for regenerating grace particularly (1 Pet. 1:3), and he is
   to be considered in such an act of thanksgiving as Christ's God and our
   God, and as Christ's Father and our Father; for as we are directed to
   pray to him, saying, "Our Father, which art in heaven," so we should
   give thanks to him as such, saying, "Blessed be God, even the Father of
   our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Cor. 1:3).

   3b. Thanks are to be given to the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ;
   and these are sometimes given to him particularly and alone, "I thank
   Christ Jesus the Lord," says the apostle (1 Tim. 1:12), and if thanks
   are to be given him on such an account as there, then certainly for
   other favors received from him; as for his suretyship engagements, for
   his assumption of human nature, for suffering and dying in the room and
   stead of his people, and for many other acts of grace done by him, and
   blessings of grace received from him. Besides, it is in the name of
   Christ, and through him, we are directed to give thanks to God (Eph.
   5:20; Rom. 1:8), as it is proper we should, since all our mercies come
   to us through him; it is in him we are blessed with all spiritual
   blessings, and it is out of his fulness we receive, and grace for
   grace; and all the grace that is wrought in us in regeneration, and in
   carrying on the work of sanctification, is all "through Christ;" nor
   can we come to God in any other way with, our thanksgivings but by him;
   he is the only way to the Father, the way of access to him with
   boldness and confidence; and therefore "by him" we are to "offer the
   sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips,
   giving thanks unto his name" (Heb. 13:15). Nor are our spiritual
   sacrifices, either of prayer or praise, acceptable to God, but through
   Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom our persons are accepted, even in him
   the beloved.

   3c. Thanks are to be given to the blessed Spirit; for, as he is the
   object of prayer with the Father and the Son, so the object of praise
   and thanksgiving; and great reason there is, that as we should be
   careful not to vex and grieve the good Spirit of God with our
   ingratitude; so that we should be thankful to him for all that he has
   done for us; in quickening and regenerating us; in beginning and
   carrying on the good work of grace in us, and in sealing us up to the
   day of redemption. Besides many other acts of grace which might be
   mentioned.

   Now this work of thanksgiving, is to be performed towards God with a
   celebration of the divine perfections, which are displayed in his acts
   of kindness to us; as we are to give thanks at the remembrance of his
   holiness, so at the remembrance of every other attribute of his; it is
   in this way the living creatures are said to give glory, and honour,
   and thanks unto God (Rev. 4:8, 9). This is also to be done by a
   recollection of the benefits of God, bestowed upon us; which, though so
   many that we are not able to reckon them up in order before him; yet,
   as much as in us lies, we are to call upon our souls to call to mind,
   and not forget, if possible, any of his benefits; and to inquire, what
   shall we render to him for them; (see Isa. 63:7), and this is to be
   performed with all our hearts, with all that is within us, with all the
   powers and faculties of our souls, and to the utmost of our abilities;
   as we are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our
   strength; we are to give thanks to him in like manner, in the most
   intense way we are capable of; as we are to serve him with grace in our
   hearts in every branch of duty; so in this, even in the exercise of
   every grace.

   4. The reasons or arguments for giving thanks.

   4a. It is the will of God; and that is reason sufficient why it should
   be attended to (1 Thess. 5:18), it is that good, perfect, and
   acceptable will of God made known in his word, which he has commanded
   and directed to; "Offer unto God thanksgiving" (Ps. 50:14), this is a
   sacrifice acceptable to him, and well pleasing in his sight (Ps. 69:30,
   31), and the contrary is resented by him.

   4b. This is the will of God "in Christ Jesus," which is made known by
   him; who, lying in the bosom of the Father, has declared his whole mind
   and will to the sons of men; and this among the rest; and it is also to
   be given unto God in and through Christ, as before observed.

   4c. It is enforced by the example of Christ, who himself gave thanks to
   God, and that for the distinguishing blessings of his grace bestowed
   upon his people, according to his sovereign will and pleasure; "I thank
   thee, O Father," &c. (Matthew 11:25, 26). To which may be added,

   4d. The examples of saints in all ages, patriarchs, prophets, and
   apostles; the book of Psalms is full of instances.
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  Chapter 14

    OF HUMILITY

   After "love, joy, peace," mentioned as fruits of the Spirit, "long
   suffering, gentleness, and meekness," in which "humility" is included,
   are observed as fruits of the same Spirit also (Gal. 5:22, 23 and this
   naturally follows or accompanies "thankfulness," last treated of; an
   humble man is always a thankful man; whereas "proud boasters," are
   joined with the "unthankful, unholy" (2 Tim. 3:2). The proud
   philosophers would not allow of thankfulness to God for virtue and
   goodness: "That we live, is the gift of God, says Seneca [40] but that
   we live well, is owing to philosophy; and, adds he, by so much we owe
   the more to this than to God, by how much the greater a good life is
   than life itself." And says Cicero, [41] "No man refers virtue to God;
   if it was a gift of his, we should have no praise nor glorying: did
   ever any man give thanks to God that he was a good man!"

   How contrary to this is that of the humble apostle (1 Cor. 4:7).
   Humility, or a "meek and quiet spirit," is a branch of internal
   worship, or of experimental religion and godliness; it is called, "The
   hidden man of the heart," (1 Pet. 3:4) and is very necessary in the
   performance of every part of external worship and service; "Serving the
   Lord with all humility of mind" (Acts 20:19). In considering which I
   shall,

   1. First, show wherein it lies, and in what it appears and manifests
   itself.

   1a. In a man's thinking meanly and the worst of himself, and well and
   the best of others; observing that rule of the apostle's, "In lowliness
   of mind let each esteem other better than themselves," (Phil. 2:3) such
   an humble saint was the apostle himself, who reckoned himself, "less
   than the least of all saints, and the chief of sinners;" such an humble
   soul thinks no good man has such a sinful corrupt heart as he has; or
   has so much sin dwelling in it: one reason is, because his own sins and
   corruptions are more known to himself; while those of others lie more
   out of sight; he thinks every saint has more grace and holiness, more
   spiritual knowledge and experience than he has, and says with Agur,
   "that he has not the understanding of a man," that is, of a good man
   (Prov. 30:2), whereas, on the contrary, a proud Pharisee thanks God he
   is not as other men are, "such a great sinner" as others, and says,
   "Stand by thyself, I am holier than thou" (Luke 18:11; Isa. 65:5).

   1b. In not envying, but rejoicing at the gifts and graces of others.
   Humility is like charity, "it envieth not;" Moses was a very meek man,
   above all men which were upon the face of the earth, and he said to
   Joshua, "Enviest thou for my sake?" that is, the gifts bestowed on
   Eldad and Medad; "would God, that all the Lord's people were prophets"
   (Num. 11:29; 12:3). When David related his experiences of divine grace,
   his triumph of faith, and glorying in the Lord, he observes; "The
   humble shall hear thereof, and be glad," (Ps. 34:2) so John the
   Baptist, when he takes notice of the vastly superior gifts, grace,
   usefulness, and success of Christ, says he, in a very humble and modest
   manner, "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30, 31).

   1c. In ascribing all he is and has to the grace of God; confessing that
   he has nothing but what he has received; and therefore would not glory,
   as though he had received it not; but says, with the apostle, "By the
   grace of God l am what I am," (1 Cor. 4:7; 15:10) he frankly
   acknowledges, that it is of the free grace of God alone, that he is
   elected, redeemed, justified, pardoned, regenerated, and shall be
   saved; and not through any works of righteousness done by him; and
   therefore gives all the glory to it.

   1d. In disclaiming his own righteousness, and submitting to the
   righteousness of Christ; the Spirit of God having convinced him of his
   want of righteousness, of the insufficiency of his own to justify him
   before God, and that after having done all he can, he is but an
   unprofitable servant; and that through pride in himself, and ignorance
   of God's righteousness, he heretofore submitted not to the
   righteousness of Christ, yet now he desires to be found in it (Phil.
   3:9).

   1e. In a willingness to receive instruction from the meanest saint;
   "Give instruction to a wise man," if he is an humble man, and not a
   scorner, he will be thankful for it, "and will be wiser: teach a just
   man," not one that is righteous in his own eyes, and despises others,
   "and he will increase in learning," (Prov. 9:9) so Apollos, though an
   eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, did not disdain to receive
   instruction from Aquila and Priscilla, tentmakers, who took him and
   taught him the way of God more perfectly.

   1f. In kindly receiving admonitions given; and, indeed, it is only to
   such that they are of any advantage, and meet with success; a proud,
   haughty scorner rejects them with contempt (Prov. 9:8), an humble man
   will take the reproof well, and consider it as an instance of love to
   him, and will love the reprover more and better for it, as David says
   he should (Ps. 141:5).

   1g. In bearing patiently all injuries done to him, and putting up all
   affronts offered to him. Humility, like charity, is "not easily
   provoked," and "beareth all things:" humble saints will bear, "with all
   lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in
   love;" such who "put on kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
   longsuffering," will not only bear with and forbear one another, but
   will "forgive one another, even as Christ forgave them" (1 Cor. 13:5,
   7; Eph. 4:2; Col. 3:12, 13). When Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses,
   who is observed to be the meekest man on, earth; as an instance of it,
   he was so far from resenting the affront, that he prayed for Miriam
   that she might be healed of the leprosy with which she was stricken for
   it (Num. 12:1-3, 13).

   1h. In submitting quietly to the afflicting hand of God; humble souls
   are still under the rod, hearken to the voice of it, are obedient to
   it, patiently bear it without murmuring, humble themselves under the
   mighty hand of God, and resign their wills to his; as Aaron, Eli,
   David, and others have done (Lev. 10:3; 1 Sam. 3:18; Ps. 39:9).

   1i. In not seeking great things for a man's self, and after things too
   high for him. It is good advice given to Baruch; "Seekest thou great
   things for thyself? seek them not," (Jer. 45:5) an humble man will not:
   it is a sign of a proud, ambitious man so to do; to aspire after things
   out of a man's reach, and beyond his capacity; "Lord, says David, my
   heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself
   in great matters, or in things too high for me," (Ps. 131:1) especially
   it argues great pride and vanity, when a man seeks to be wise above
   what is written; an humble man will not pry into things secret, but
   will be content with what is revealed (Deut. 29:29). And therefore,

   1j. Humility appears in subjecting a man's reason to divine revelation;
   then is a man humble when every imagination, reasoning, and all high
   thoughts are cast down, and brought to the obedience of Christ in his
   word; when men have recourse to the law and to the testimony, to the
   sacred scriptures, and make them the standard of their faith; and, like
   the noble, diligent, and humble Beraeans, search into them, whether
   things be so or no; for "if any man teach otherwise, and consent not to
   wholesome words," the doctrines of Christ contained in the scriptures,
   he is proud, knowing nothing (1 Tim. 6:3). This pride in men is the
   chief cause of all controversies and quarrels about religious things.

   2. Secondly, Let us next consider from whence this grace of humility,
   or such a disposition of mind, arises.

   2a. Not from nature; but from the grace of God: man is naturally a
   proud creature, though he has nothing really to be proud of; not of his
   wisdom, which is but folly; nor of his wealth, which is uncertain and
   transitory; nor of his beauty, which is vain, and may be made to
   consume away like a moth; nor of his outward goodness and
   righteousness, which pass away like a morning cloud and early dew.
   Pride is one of those things which are within a man, in his heart, and
   proceeds from thence, and defiles him; but true humility is from God,
   from his Spirit and grace; and therefore meekness, or humility, is
   reckoned among the fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22, 23).

   2b. From a true sight and sense of sin, and the evil nature of it,
   under the illumination and conviction of the Spirit of God; when sin
   appears to be "exceeding sinful," and such a sight is humbling: while a
   man is insensible of the inward corruption of his nature, and of the
   sin that dwells in his heart, and is so inattentive to the sins of life
   that he thinks himself in a manner blameless; he will, like the proud
   and haughty Pharisee, thank God he is not as other men are: but when a
   man comes to see the vileness of his nature, the swarms of sin within
   him, as well as the iniquity of his life, like the humble publican, not
   daring to lift up his eyes to heaven, will smite upon his breast and
   say, "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" and very often so it is that a
   sin which a man has been guilty of, though the guilt of it is removed
   from him, yet he retains such a sense of it, as that it keeps him
   humble all his days; this was the case of the apostle Paul, who, having
   been a persecutor of the church of God, though he obtained mercy, and
   knew his sin was pardoned, yet a sense of that sin always abode with
   him, and was an humbling consideration to him (1 Cor. 15:9), and if a
   man has not any particular sin that thus affects him, yet the
   consideration of indwelling sin, and the daily infirmities of life, a
   sense of them will keep him humble continually.

   2c. From a view of the insufficiency of a man's own righteousness to
   justify him before God; while a man trusts in himself that he is
   righteous, he will be proud of himself, and despise others; while he
   fancies that, "touching the righteousness of the law, he is blameless,"
   he will be stout hearted, and not submit to the righteousness of
   Christ; while a Pharisee has a few husks to fill his belly, and some
   rags of outward righteousness to his back, he will be as proud as
   Lucifer: nor will any man be truly humble until he finds himself
   "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;" which, when
   it was the case of the apostle Paul, and not before, then he desired to
   be "found in Christ, and in his righteousness" (Phil. 3:9).

   2d. From a sight of the loveliness and glory of Christ; a sight of
   which will put a man out of conceit with himself, and make him look
   little and mean in his own eyes; as it did Isaiah, when he saw the
   glory of Christ in a very exalted and resplendent manner (Isa. 6:5).
   Christ is the Sun of righteousness; and, as with respect to the natural
   sun, it is in its own light we see it, and in a ray or beam of it
   behold innumerable motes, otherwise not discerned by us; so when
   Christ, the Sun of righteousness, shines forth in his light, we see his
   glories and excellencies in their luster and splendor; and our own
   sins, failings, and infirmities; all which tend to humiliation. When
   that supernatural light shone about Saul the Pharisee, he became at
   once as humble and submissive as may be, and said, "Lord, what wilt
   thou have me to do?" a sight of Christ, and of the glory of his person,
   though seen but through a glass, is transforming, and changes "into the
   same image;" one part of which image lies in meekness, or humility of
   mind.

   2e. From a view of the greatness and majesty of God, and of the frailty
   and vileness of man compared together: this was what humbled Job, and
   brought him to a right sense of things, and to a suitable behavior
   under the providence of God towards him; when, having contended with
   God, he is called upon by him out of the whirlwind to answer; and,
   being confounded with a sense of God's greatness and his own vileness,
   replied, "Behold, I am vile; What shall I answer thee?" and still more
   plainly and fully, having observed the omnipotence and omniscience of
   God, thus humbly expresses himself, "I have heard of thee, by the
   hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee; wherefore I abhor
   myself, and repent in dust and ashes!" (Job 40:4, 5; 42:5, 6).

   2f. From a spiritual knowledge of divine things; natural knowledge
   "puffeth up;" the wise philosophers among the heathens, with all their
   boasted morality, were as full of pride as men could well be; their
   characters are, "proud boasters," (Rom. 1:21, 30) a Pharisee, with all
   his knowledge of the law and of righteousness, is a vain empty man, and
   is proud of what he does not truly understand; and so he will remain,
   till he comes to know Christ and him crucified: and then he will "count
   all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
   his Lord," whom he only then will determine to know, and in whom he
   will glory; no man is truly humble till he learns that mortifying
   lesson, "If any among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him
   become a fool, that he may be wise" (1 Cor. 3:18).

   2g. From an experimental knowledge of the gospel scheme; the tendency
   of which is, to stain the pride of man, to abase the creature, and
   exalt the riches of divine grace; to prevent men from glorying in
   anything of themselves, and to exclude all boasting in them: it places
   salvation entirely on the grace of God, to the exclusion of works, as
   the cause of it; the Spirit of God, in the gospel, blows a blast upon
   all the goodliness of men; and such who are evangelized by it, or cast
   into a gospel mould, that form of doctrine into which they are
   experimentally delivered, are always humble, meek, and lowly minded. I
   say experimentally, because men may have notions of evangelical
   doctrine, and be proud of these notions, not having a true experience
   of them.

   3. Thirdly, the excellency and usefulness of this grace.

   3a. It is well pleasing to God; "A meek and quiet spirit is in the
   sight of God of great price," highly valued (1 Pet. 3:4), the Lord
   takes pleasure in such, and therefore beautifies them, and puts an
   honour upon them; he looks at him that is poor, of a contrite and
   humble spirit, with delight and complacency; and to such modest souls
   he says, "Let me see thy countenance--for thy countenance is comely;"
   when a proud look, and one proud in heart, are an abomination to him
   (Song of Sol. 2:14; Prov. 6:16, 17; 16:5).

   3b. It makes a man most like to Christ, who was prophesied of as lowly,
   meek, and humble; and who says of himself, and proposes himself for
   imitation, "Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly;" and the apostle
   beseeches the saints, "by the meekness of Christ;" and which appeared
   throughout his whole state of humiliation on earth; see (Zech. 9:9;
   Matthew 11:29; 2 Cor. 10:1).

   3c. It is the saints' clothing and ornament; pride is the devil's
   livery; but humility is the clothing of the servants of Christ, the
   badge by which they are known; so some observe the word signifies a
   servant's garment in (1 Pet. 5:5), "Be ye clothed with humility;" not
   that it is the saint's robe of righteousness, and garment of salvation,
   or his justifying righteousness before God; rather his inward garment
   of sanctification, at least a part of it, which makes all "glorious
   within;" and it makes a great show it, a man's outward conversation;
   both in his walk before God, with whom he is required to "walk humbly;"
   and in his conversation before men, humility makes him to shine, and
   greatly recommends him; it is very ornamental to him; the word
   translated "clothed," in the above text, has the signification of
   ornamental knots, as some think; and a meek spirit is called an
   "ornament;" it is thought there is an allusion to the ornaments of
   women, and to knots of ribbons wore by them in one part or another as
   on their breasts; and it is as if the apostle should, say, Let others
   adorn themselves with knots as they will, but let your breast knot be
   humility.

   3d. It is of great use in various duties and exercises of religion; it
   is of use in prayer, to behave before God with a proper awe and
   reverence of him; considering, that he is in heaven and they on earth;
   that he is the great God and an holy Being, and they "dust and ashes,"
   sinful dust and ashes, who take upon them to speak unto him: and such
   humble souls God regards; "he forgetteth not the cry of the humble"
   (Ps. 9:12), the prayer of the humble publican was heard, and he
   preferred to the proud Pharisee (Luke 18:14). It is of use in preaching
   the word; which should be done, not in an ostentatious way, to show a
   man's parts and abilities, and with great swelling words of vanity; but
   the Lord is to be served in the gospel of his Son, "with all humility
   of mind," and with a subjection to the word of God, as the rule. And it
   is of use in hearing and receiving the word; "Receive with meekness the
   engrafted word, which is able to save your souls" (Acts 20:19; Jam.
   1:21). And it is of use in giving a reason of hope, and making a
   confession of faith before men; "Be ready always to give an answer to
   every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with
   meekness and fear," (1 Pet. 3:15) which may have respect both to him
   that asks the reason, which should be asked, not in a haughty,
   insolent, and imperious manner, and with an intention to expose and
   deride, such deserve no answer; for pearls are not to be cast before
   swine, nor what is holy to be given to dogs; and with respect to him
   that gives the reason, which should be done with the fear of God, and
   with a view to his glory, and not to display a man's own gifts and
   knowledge. Likewise it is of use in restoring backsliders, who are to
   be used in a spirit of meekness, gently and tenderly (Gal. 6:1), and so
   in instructing such who oppose the gospel, and contradict themselves (2
   Tim. 2:24, 25). Also it may be made use of in a man's conversation to
   great advantage, and recommend him, and the religion he professes, unto
   others (Jam. 3:13), not in a way of pride and boasting, but with
   humility and lowliness of mind; see (1 Pet. 3:1-4).

   4. Fourthly, The arguments, reasons, and motives, encouraging to such a
   disposition of mind.

   4a. The displeasure of God at a contrary behavior and conduct; "Be
   clothed with humility; for God resisteth the proud," (1 Pet. 5:5) he
   sets himself against them, and it is a dreadful thing to have God an
   opponent; there is no standing against him and contending with him; of
   all men the proud are an abomination to him, these are a smoke in his
   nose; those who exalt themselves and despise others are sure to be
   abused; he scatters the proud in the imagination of their hearts,
   confounds their schemes, and brings them themselves to destruction.

   4b. God gives more grace to the humble; for that is the meaning of the
   phrase, "He giveth grace unto the lowly," (Prov. 3:34) which is
   referred to in (1 Pet. 5:5), and so explained in (Jam. 4:6), that is,
   more grace; for a man must first have grace ere he can be humble, or to
   make him humble; and then move grace is promised and given to him as
   such.

   4c. The Lord dwells with humble persons; they are a fit and proper
   habitation for God (Isa. 57:15; see Isa. 66:1, 2).

   4d. When such are disconsolate and sorrowful, the Lord comforts them,
   and fills them with joy and gladness; for this end the gospel is
   preached, and was preached by Christ himself, to be "good tidings to
   the meek;" and when these are cast down, through the prevalence of sin,
   the force of temptation, and divine desertions, whereby they are
   humbled, the Lord raises them up again; "the Lord lifteth up the meek,"
   (Ps. 147:6) and there is a gracious promise, that "the meek shall
   increase their joy in the Lord" (Isa. 29:19).

   4e. When they are hungry and in want of food the Lord feeds them to
   satisfaction; "the meek shall eat and be satisfied," (Ps. 22:26) yea,
   when they are in distress God will work miracles for them, rather than
   they shall want (Isa. 41:17-19).

   4f. When they want direction and instruction, he will guide and teach
   them; "the meek will he guide in judgment; the meek will he teach his
   way," (Ps. 25:9) guide them into all truth as it is in Jesus; and teach
   them the ways and methods of his grace towards them; and the ways of
   duty, in which he would have them to walk.

   4g. Humility is the way to preferment, to honour, grandeur, and
   happiness; "before honour is humility; yea, by humility and the fear of
   the Lord are riches, and honour, and life," (Prov. 16:18; 18:12; 22:4)
   and this is God's usual way, to abase those that exalt themselves, and
   to exalt them that are humble (Luke 18:14).

   4h. An inheritance is promised to the meek and humble; "the meek shall
   inherit the earth," (Ps. 37:11) the same is promised by Christ (Matthew
   5:5), not the present earth, and the things of it; though good men have
   the promise of the life that now is, and are heirs of the world, and
   the world is theirs; but the new earth, in which none but righteous men
   will dwell with Christ a thousand years (2 Pet. 3:13).

   4i. Such are and shall be saved; "and he (God) shall save the humble
   person," both temporally and eternally (Job 22:29), he saves such in
   time, in a time of temporal judgments on the earth, God then arises to
   save all the meek of the earth; and when Christ comes to judgment with
   righteousness, he will judge the poor, and reprove with equity, for the
   meek of the earth (Ps. 76:9; Isa. 11:4), and he will save them
   eternally; for they are the same with "the poor in spirit," whose is
   the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3).
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   [40] Ep. 90.

   [41] Deut. Natura Deorum, l. 3. prope finem.
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  Chapter 15

    OF SELF-DENIAL

   Self-denial accompanies humility; where the one is the other is; a
   self-denying man is an humble man, and an humble man is a self-denying
   man. "Proud, boasters, are lovers of their own selves," and cannot by
   any means deny themselves; but the meek and humble, the followers of
   the lowly Jesus, "deny themselves," and go after him; "If any man will
   come after me," says Christ, that is, be a disciple of his, "let him
   deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me" (Matthew 16:24),
   this is one of the hardest lessons to be learnt in the school of
   Christ, by his disciples; and no man can be a disciple of Christ
   without learning it.

   1. It will be proper to inquire what self-denial is, or what it is for
   a man to deny himself.

   1a. It is not to deny what a man is or has; what he truly is, and what
   he really has; for that would be a falsehood; in this sense "God cannot
   deny himself" (2 Tim. 2:13), not his nature, and the perfections of it;
   or do, or affirm anything contrary thereunto. So a man ought not to
   deny himself as a man, nor the rational powers which he is possessed
   of; one may indeed, speaking in the language of another, and as
   expressing the meanness and contempt in which he is held by such, say,
   "I am a worm, and no man," as David the type, and Christ his antitype,
   did; a man may also, in a comparative sense, with respect to others,
   and as exaggerating his own folly, ignorance, and stupidity, say, as
   Asaph did, "So foolish was I and ignorant, I was as a beast;" or was a
   very beast, "before thee," in thy sight, or could not be otherwise
   reckoned of by thee: and so Agur; "Surely, I am more brutish than any
   man, and have not the understanding of a man," in comparison of others,
   and having a very low share of it, in his own opinion (Ps. 73:22; Prov.
   30:2), in these senses such phrases may be admitted; otherwise it would
   not be true of a man, nor doing justice to himself, to say that he was
   no other than "a horse and a mule, which have no understanding." Nor
   should a man deny what he has of the external benefits and blessings of
   providence; if God bestows riches and honour upon a man, as he did on
   David, he should own them as coming to him from God, as David did, and
   bless God for such benefits, and make use of them for the glory of God,
   and the good of his interest; and if God has bestowed internal
   endowments on men, gifts and talents, qualifying for public service and
   usefulness, some way or another, they are to own them, and use them,
   and not wrap them up in a napkin, or hide them in the earth, which is
   interpretatively to deny that they have them. Nor should a truly good
   and gracious man deny what he is and has; but acknowledge it, and how
   by grace he came by it; and say with the apostle, "By the grace of God
   I am what I am;" if a man is a believer in Christ he should confess his
   faith in him (Rom. 10:10), there were some among the Jews, in the times
   of Christ, who believed he was the Messiah, and yet confessed him not;
   because they "loved the praise of men," were lovers of themselves, and
   could not deny themselves of praise from men; yet such non-confession
   of Christ is tacitly a denial of him, and is so interpreted by Christ
   (Matthew 10:31, 32), but especially when a man has true faith in
   Christ, has spiritual knowledge of him, and is a real disciple of his,
   to deny this is very criminal; this was the sin of Peter, when
   challenged with being acquainted with Jesus, and being a disciple of
   his, denied that he knew him, and that he was one of them that belonged
   to him. And so if a man has faith in Christ, and good hope through
   grace, and the grace of God has been exceeding abundant, with faith and
   love, which is in Christ, he ought to be very careful that he does not
   deny these things. There is in some weaker Christians, I do not know
   well what name to call it by, it is an over modesty, a thinking and
   speaking over meanly of themselves; and which they affect to do, and
   carry things to too great a length very much this way, as if they had
   no faith, nor love, and scarce any hope; and are ready to express
   themselves in such sort as seems to border, at least, upon a denial of
   the work of grace upon their souls; and is like a tearing up by the
   roots, as much as in them lies, the very principles of grace in them;
   which should never be encouraged, but discountenanced; the least
   measure of grace should be owned, and men should be thankful for it,
   and pray for an increase of it.

   1b. To deny a man's self is not to refuse favors conferred on him in a
   course of providence; nor to neglect a lawful use of them; nor to take
   no care of himself and of his affairs.

   1b1. Self-denial does not require that a man should refuse temporal
   honours and riches bestowed on him in a providential way; so Joseph,
   though a self-denying man, did not refuse the honours, and the tokens
   of them, Pharaoh gave him, when he made him ruler over the land of
   Egypt; nor David, when the tribes made him king over all Israel; nor
   Daniel, when he was advanced in Nebuchadnezzar's court, and was honored
   by Belshazzar, and prospered in the reigns of Darius and Cyrus; but
   these good men improved them all to the glory of God and the good of
   others.

   1b2. Nor are the creatures of God, and the use of them, to be rejected;
   "Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused" (1 Tim.
   4:4), nor ought a man to debar himself of the free and lawful use of
   them; we are told there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy the
   fruit of his labour, and that it is his portion, and the gift of God;
   and that to

   withhold it from himself is a sore evil under the sun, vanity, and an
   evil disease (Eccl. 2:24; 5:19; 6:1, 2), only care should be taken in
   using the world, and worldly things, that they are not abused (1 Cor.
   7:31), this is all with respect to worldly things that self-denial
   requires; even a non-gratification of the carnal and sensual appetite
   to excess; which branch of self-denial the wise man expresses by
   "putting a knife to the throat;" (see Prov. 23:2).

   1b3. Nor should a man be careless of his life, and health, and family,
   though he should not be anxiously careful for life, for food, and
   raiment to support and secure it; yet he may be lawfully careful for
   life, which is better than them; and so likewise for his health, to
   preserve it by proper means; as the apostle Paul advised the mariners
   with him, to take meat for their health's sake; and Timothy to the use
   of wine for his often infirmities (Acts 27:33, 34; 1 Tim. 5:23), and in
   like manner a man should be careful for his family; which should he
   not, it would be so far from being reckoned self-denial, in a good
   sense, that it might be justly treated as a denial of the faith (1 Tim.
   5:8).

   1b4. There is a self-love which is not criminal, nor contrary to the
   grace of self-denial; "For no man ever yet hated his own flesh" (Eph.
   5:29), himself, which he is not obliged to by, yea, would be contrary
   to, the law of nature, and the law of God; to take care of a man's
   self, and to preserve his life, is the first principle and law of
   nature; [42] and it is commanded by the law of God, that a man should
   love himself; for according to that, he is to "love his neighbour as
   himself," and therefore must first love himself to love his neighbour
   as himself; there is a philautia, an inordinate love of a man's self,
   which is the source of all sin, of covetousness, pride, blasphemy,
   disobedience to parents, ingratitude, &c. which is carefully to be
   avoided (2 Tim. 3:2-4).

   1b5. Nor is it self-denial, or any part of it, to abuse the body in any
   respect, and even on religious accounts, by cutting it with knives and
   lances, as Baal's priests; or by lashing it with whips and scourges, as
   the papists for penance; or by severe fastings and abstinence, "by
   neglecting it, not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh," as
   some ancient heretics in the apostle's days (Col. 2:23), nor should any
   thing be done that endangers life, and much less should any, under
   whatsoever pretence, lay violent hands on themselves, to which
   sometimes the temptations of Satan lead (Matthew 4:6). But,

   1c. Self-denial lies in a man's renouncing, foregoing, and postponing
   all his pleasures, profits, relations, interest, and whatever he
   enjoys, which may be in competition with Christ from love to him, and
   to be given up at his command; a self-denying man seeks first the
   kingdom of God and his righteousness, and leaves all other things with
   God, to bestow upon him as he thinks fit; and what he has given him he
   is ready to give back again when called for, preferring Christ to all
   things in heaven and earth; he is ready at command to bring all he has,
   and lay it at his feet; as the first Christians brought all they had
   and laid at the feet of the apostles. This is self-denial. The common
   distribution of it is not amiss, into natural or civil self, sinful
   self, and righteous self; all which a self-denying Christian is made
   willing to part with.

   1c1. First, with natural and civil self, with things relative both to
   soul and body, of which a man's self consists.

   1c1a. The soul, with its powers and faculties of understanding, will,
   and affections; and there are self-denying acts, which respect each of
   these.

   1c1a1. The understanding; and it is a self-denying act in a man, "to
   lean not to his own understanding," which is natural to him; but give
   it up to God, to be instructed, guided, and directed by him in all
   religious matters, according to his word, and the influenced of his
   grace and Spirit; thus Saul, when called by grace, "conferred not with
   flesh and blood," with the carnal reasonings of his mind, whether he
   should profess and preach Christ the Son of God, or not; but
   immediately set about it, following the divine light and supernatural
   instructions given him: and this is the case of all self denying
   Christians, when their reason is brought to stoop to divine revelation;
   and their carnal reasonings, and vain imaginations, and their high
   towering and exalted thoughts of themselves, and of their own
   understandings, are cast down, and brought into the obedience of
   Christ.

   1c1a2. The will; and then does a man deny himself, when his will
   becomes subject to the will of God; when, with good old Eli, he says,
   "It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good," though ever so
   disagreeable to himself, and the interests of his family; and so the
   friends of the apostle Paul, when they were so desirous of his
   continuance, and found that all entreaties prevailed not, said, "The
   will of the Lord be done!" and when in all cases, the will of a man is
   brought to this, then may he be said to deny himself, of which Christ
   is a pattern to him; "Not my will, but thine be done!" (see 1 Sam.
   3:18; Acts 21:14; Luke 22:42).

   1c1a3. The affections; these are sometimes called "inordinate
   affections" (Col. 3:5), as when they are out of due course and order;
   when the world, and the things of it, are loved with an immoderate
   love, in a manner inconsistent with the love of God, and when friends
   and relations are loved more than Christ; now self-denial checks and
   restrains the affections, and reduces them to proper order, and forbids
   such a love of the world, and the things of it; and will not suffer a
   man to love father or mother, son or daughter, more than Christ; but
   will declare such unworthy of him (1 John 2:15; Matthew 10:37).

   1c1b. The body, and its members, and things relative to that, and all
   external things: about these self-denial is exercised; as,

   1c1b1. When the members of the body are restrained from the service of
   sin; when "sin" is not "suffered to reign in the mortal body," and the
   "members" thereof are not "yielded as instruments of unrighteousness
   unto sin; but the deeds of it are mortified, and no provision is made
   for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof" (Rom. 6:12, 13; 8:13;
   13:14).

   1c1b2. When external honours from men are not sought for, only the
   honour which comes from God; when a man is content to suffer the loss
   of fame, name, and credit among men for Christ's sake; to be defamed,
   made the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things; to pass
   through honour and dishonor, good report and bad report, and suffer all
   indignities for the sake of religion. This is self-denial; an instance
   of this we have in Moses, who for forty years lived in the court of
   Pharaoh, and enjoyed the honours, pleasures, and riches of that court;
   yet denied himself of them all, chose to visit and rank himself among
   his brethren the Israelites, then in a low and despicable condition,
   and refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather
   to suffer affliction with the people of God, and reproach for Christ's
   sake, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin and the riches of Egypt (Acts
   7:23; Heb. 11:25, 26).

   1c1b3. When worldly profits and emoluments are left for the sake of
   Christ, and the interest of religion; this is self-denial: as when the
   disciples, one and another of them, left their fishing nets and boats,
   and worldly employments, and followed Christ; yea, Peter, in the name
   of them all, could say, "Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed
   thee" (Matthew 4:20, 22; 19:27). So Matthew, at the receipt of custom,
   which, perhaps, was a lucrative and profitable employment; yet, called
   by Christ, left it and followed him; (Matthew 9:9). And so many a
   gospel minister has given up himself to the ministry of the word, when
   worldly offers and views have directed him another way; and many
   private Christians have joyfully suffered the confiscation of goods,
   and even imprisonment of the body, for the sake of religion and a good
   conscience; this is self-denial. An instance to the contrary of all
   this we have in a young man, who could not part with his worldly
   substance and follow Christ, of whom he asked, what good thing he must
   do to have eternal life? and was answered, "Keep the commandments;"
   these he thought an easy task, and what he had been always used to, and
   seemed highly delighted with it; "All these things I have kept from my
   youth; what lack I yet?" a hard lesson is then set him to learn; "Sell
   that thou hast and give to the poor;" and though he was promised
   treasure in heaven, it did not countervail; "He went away sorrowful,
   for he had great possessions," which he could not part with and deny
   himself of (Matthew 19:16-22).

   1c1b4. The nearest and dearest friends and relations, which are a part
   of a man's self, these are to be left, when God calls for it; so
   Abraham was commanded to come out from his country and kindred, and his
   father's house, which, though a self-denying order, he was obedient to;
   and so the people of God, when called by grace, are directed to forsake
   their own people, and their father's house and when these attempt to
   obstruct them in the ways of God, they are not to be obeyed, but
   resisted; yea, even to be "hated," comparatively, that is, less love
   and respect are to be shown them than to Christ (Luke 14:26), a great
   instance of self-denial of this kind we have in Abraham, who was called
   to part with his son, his only son, his beloved son, the son of the
   promise, from whom the Messiah was to spring, to offer him upon a mount
   he should be shown; this was a great trial of faith, an hard lesson of
   self-denial to learn, and yet he withheld not his son from God; by
   which he gave evidence of a self-denying spirit, of his love to God,
   his fear of him, and obedience to his command.

   1c1b5. Health and hazard of life; as when men risk their health in the
   service of God and Christ, and true religion; so Epaphroditus, for the
   work of Christ was nigh unto death; and many, like the apostle Paul,
   have spent and been spent in the cause of God, by hard studies and
   frequent ministrations; so Paul and Barnabas hazarded their lives,
   through the rage of men, for the name of our Lord Jesus, preaching the
   gospel; and Aquila and Priscilla were ready to lay down their own necks
   for the apostle, that is, to risk their lives for his sake.

   1c1b6. Life itself is to be laid down when called for; the apostle Paul
   did not count his life dear to himself, but was ready to part with it
   for the sake of the gospel: and of others we read, that they loved not
   their lives unto death; and this is the great instance of self-denial
   Christ gives (Matthew 16:24, 25).

   1c2. Secondly, another branch of self-denial lies in denying sinful
   self; this lesson, not nature, but grace teaches, even to deny
   "ungodliness and worldly lusts," which include all kinds of sin;
   internal lusts and external actions of sin; sins of heart, lip, and
   life; everything that is contrary to God and his righteous law. This is
   a hard lesson to learn; to part with sinful self is not an easy task,
   sin is so natural to men, they are conceived and born in it, are
   transgressors from the womb, and have lived in sin from their youth
   upward; sin and the soul have been long companions, and are loath to
   part; sin is as natural to the sinner as blackness to the Ethiopian,
   and spots to the leopard; it is as grateful to him as cold water to a
   thirsty soul; and is like a sweet morsel in his mouth, and he hides and
   spares it, and cares not to forsake it; it promises him much pleasure,
   though short lived, vain, and fallacious; some sins are right hand and
   right eye sins, as dear as the right hand and right eye be; and to cut
   off and pluck out such and cast them away is a great piece of
   self-denial; and is hard work, until the Spirit of God thoroughly
   convinces a man of the exceeding sinfulness or sin, what an evil and
   bitter thing it is, and how pernicious in its effects and consequences;
   and then being called and required to forsake it, does, and says with
   Ephraim, "What have I to do any more with idols?" and this self-denial
   appears by loathing it and themselves for it; by detesting and
   abhorring it, and themselves on account of it; and by repenting of it
   in deep humiliation for it, by lamenting the indwelling and prevalence
   of it, and by praying against it; by abstaining from fleshly lusts
   which war against the soul, and from all appearance of sin; by making
   no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it; by opposing them,
   resisting unto blood, striving against sin; and by declaring to have no
   fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: so persons and things
   are said to be denied, when there is an aversion to them, a rejection
   of them, a disowning them as belonging to them, and as having any
   connection with them; so Moses was denied by the Israelites, and Christ
   by the Jews (Acts 3:14; 7:35). A branch of this part of self-denial
   lies in parting with sinful companions, which are a sort of second
   self; and especially sinful relations, whom to part with is difficult
   work, as to withstand their solicitations, earnest entreaties, enticing
   language, and fair promises of pleasure and profit; as also to bear
   their reproaches, revilings, and censures, on refusing to associate
   with them; for "he that departs from evil maketh himself a prey" (Isa.
   59:15), but being called by divine grace to come out from among them,
   and to be separate from them; and being convinced of the folly and
   danger of keeping company with them, and having better companions, and
   more preferable communion and fellowship, they are called into; and
   having had too long an abode with them to their great grief and loss,
   determine through the grace of God to leave them, and to have nothing
   more to do with them; which is self-denial.

   1c3. Thirdly, another branch of self-denial is to deny righteous self,
   which is not to refuse to do works of righteousness for necessary uses,
   to glorify God, to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour, and a
   profession of it; to show the genuineness and truth of faith, and to do
   good to others; this the grace of God teaches and obliges unto: but to
   deny righteous self, is to renounce all trust in and dependence on a
   man's own righteousness for justification before God, and acceptance
   with him; and to submit to the righteousness of Christ, and depend upon
   that for such purposes. Now this is a hard lesson to learn, for a man
   to quit all trust in himself that he is righteous, and to depend upon
   the righteousness of another; to live out of himself upon another; to
   be beholden entirely to the free grace of God, and to the righteousness
   of Christ, disclaiming all works done by himself for his justification
   and whole salvation, is disagreeable to self: it is against the grain;
   a man's righteousness is his own, and he does not care to part with it,
   he would fain hold it fast; it is the effect of great toil and labour,
   and which he has endeavoured to establish and settle fast, and to have
   it all pulled down at once he cannot bear it; it is matter of glorying
   and boasting, and to have this excluded, and to be stripped of all his
   feathers, is not pleasing to flesh and blood; it is his idol he has
   bowed unto, and to take this away from him is as cutting as it was to
   Micah, when his images were stolen from him, and he said, "Ye have
   taken away my Gods, and what have I more?" but when the Spirit of God
   convinces a man of the insufficiency of his own righteousness to
   justify him before God, and of the excellency of the righteousness of
   Christ for such a purpose, then he quits his own, and lays hold on
   that; an instance of this kind of self-denial we have in the apostle
   Paul, who was at first a self-righteous man, who thought that touching
   the righteousness of the law he was blameless; he counted it gain unto
   him, and trusted in it, and expected to be justified and saved by it;
   but when be came to see the imperfection of it, and was convinced of
   its unprofitableness to God, he counted it loss and dung, and rejected
   it as such, desiring to be "found in Christ," and in his righteousness,
   and not his own (Phil. 2:6-9).

   2. There are various arguments or motives, which may be made use of to
   excite truly gracious souls to the exercise of this grace of
   self-denial in the several branches of it.

   2a. It is required of them; it is an injunction of Christ on his
   disciples, even all of them, and therefore to be strictly regarded,
   complied with, and exercised; "If any man wilt come after me," is
   desirous of being a disciple and follower of Christ, "let him deny
   himself" (Matthew 16:24), nay, this is necessary to a man's being a
   disciple of Christ, he cannot be one without it; see (Luke 14:26, 21).

   2b. Christ has not only commanded it, but he has set an example of it
   himself; he denied himself for our sakes; came forth from his Father,
   and came down from heaven to serve us; though he was rich, for our
   sakes he became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be made rich;
   though he was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal
   with God, yet he so far humbled and denied himself as to be found in
   fashion as a man, and in the form of a servant, and became obedient
   unto death, the death of the cross; he pleased not himself, but
   patiently bore the reproaches of men, which could not but be very
   disagreeable to him; and he endured the contradiction of sinners
   against himself; anti in all which and more he was an example of
   self-denial (Phil. 2:5-8).

   2c. The examples of saints in all ages may serve to excite and
   encourage to it; as of Abraham, in leaving his country and father's
   house, and especially in offering up his son at the command of God; in
   Moses, refusing to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; in the Old
   Testament saints and martyrs, who suffered bonds, imprisonment, trial
   of cruel mockings, and death itself, in various shapes; and so in
   others since: in the apostles of Christ, who left all and followed him;
   an instance of denial of sinful self may be observed in Zacchaeus and
   others; and of righteous self in the apostle Paul.

   2d. If a man does not deny himself, as required of God, he sets up
   himself for god, makes a god of himself, and is guilty of idolatry;
   such live to themselves, and not unto God and Christ, which the love of
   Christ constrains unto; namely, that they who live, should not live to
   themselves, but to him who died for them and rose again; yea, that they
   should none of them neither live to themselves, nor die to themselves,
   but to the Lord; that both living and dying they may appear to be his,
   and not their own (2 Cor. 5:14, 15; Rom. 14:7, 8).

   2e. The loss and gain of not denying and of denying self should be
   considered. Such who think to save themselves by not denying
   themselves, lose themselves and their own souls; lose Christ and his
   righteousness, heaven and eternal life; when those who deny themselves
   for Christ's sake, find the life of their souls, gain Christ and his
   righteousness, have treasure in heaven, the recompence of reward, the
   more enduring substance (Matthew 16:25, 26; Phil. 3:7, 8; Heb. 11:26,
   27; 10:34).
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   [42] "Principio, generi animantium omni est a natura tributum, ut se,
   vitam corpusque tueatur, declinetque ea quae nocitura videantur."
   Cicero de Officiis, l. 1. c. 4.
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  Chapter 16

    OOF RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD

   Submission, or resignation of the will of man to the will of God, is a
   part of self-denial, as has been observed in the preceding chapter, and
   therefore properly next requires a distinct consideration. It is no
   other than an entire acquiescence in the will of God in all things, and
   especially in adverse dispensations of providence, which is a trial of
   it; as in Eli, when he was told of the distresses that should come upon
   his family, said, "It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good!"
   (1 Sam. 3:18), and in much the same temper and disposition of mind was
   David, when he ordered the ark to be carried back to Jerusalem, which
   he was obliged to leave (2 Sam. 15:25, 26). This is no other than for a
   man to have his will swallowed up in the will of God, and to have no
   will of his own, but what is the Lord's; or only to will what he wills,
   and is pleasing to him; this, in its highest perfection, was in Christ
   in the midst of his agonies; "Not my will, but thine be done!"
   Something of this kind may be expected from a follower of Christ; but
   that anything similar to it should drop from the lips of an heathen, is
   somewhat extraordinary; and yet Epictetus gives this advice, "Will
   nothing but what God wills;" [43] there is indeed a difference between
   giving advice and acting up to it, and between theory and practice; and
   yet this same heathen says, [44] "I yield my appetite to God; does he
   will that I should have a fever? I will it also. Does he will that I
   should attempt anything? I likewise will it. Would he have me desire
   anything? I also will it. Would he have me enjoy anything? the same is
   my will. Does he nill? I also nill. Would he have me die? I am willing
   to die." How far he said this with truth, and acted according to it, I
   will not say; but to have the will so resigned to the will of God,
   highly becomes a Christian. But,

   1. First, there must be much done to the will of man, and much
   management of it, under the power of divine grace, to bring the will of
   man to be subject to the will of God. For,

   1a1. The will of man is very stubborn and inflexible; we often read of
   the hardness of the heart, and of its being hardened through the
   deceitfulness of sin; and of the stony heart, a heart as hard as a
   stone, yea, as an adamant stone, on which no impressions can be made,
   nor becomes pliable and flexible by any methods made use of; and such
   is the obstinacy of the will of man.

   1a2. It is averse to all that is good; it hates the good and loves the
   evil; it hates the good law of God, and is not subject to it; nor can
   it be, without the power of divine grace; it hates good men, and all
   their good instructions; as men to do good have no knowledge, so
   neither will they understand; they have no will nor desire to
   understand what is good, and still less to practice it.

   1a3. The will of men is biased to, and bent upon that which is evil;
   their hearts are "fully set in them, to do evil" (Eccl. 8:11), their
   language is, "we will walk after our own devices," &c. (Jer. 18:12;
   44:16, 17).

   1a4. The will of man is opposite to the will of God in all things; yea,
   in things that are most for his good; even for his everlasting welfare
   and happiness. The will of God is, that men should be saved, or have
   everlasting life and salvation only by Christ; but the will of men is
   averse to this way of salvation; "Ye will not come to me, that ye might
   have life" (John 5:40), the will of God is, that men should be
   justified in his sight, not by the works of the law, but by the
   righteousness of Christ; but, on the contrary, so stouthearted, and far
   from this way of righteousness, are men, that they seek justification,
   not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law, and go about to
   establish their own righteousness, and will not submit to the
   righteousness of Christ. God has set up Christ as king over Zion, and
   requires obedience to his word and ordinances; but such is the
   perverseness of wills of men, that they declare, saying, "We will not
   have this Man to reign over us;" and therefore break the bands, and
   cast away the cords of his laws and ordinances from them: and if they
   are so averse to the methods of his grace and kingdom, then much more
   so to the dispensation of his providence.

   1a5. The carnal mind and will of man is "enmity" itself "against God,"
   his law and gospel, his purposes and providences; it is full of
   rebellion to him; it rebels against the light of nature, and against
   the law of God; the Israelites were always a rebellious people, though
   favored with the knowledge of the will of God above all people; and so
   the elect of God, while in a state of nature, are styled "rebellious"
   (Ps. 68:18).

   1a6. It is one of the characters of sinful men, that they are
   "self-willed" (2 Pet. 2:10), men naturally desire to have their own
   wills and ways; they do not care to be contradicted and gainsayed; even
   God's elect, before conversion, are studiously "fulfilling the desires
   of the flesh," or the wills of the flesh, their carnal wills, and
   choose to live to the lusts of the flesh, and not to the will of God.
   In such a bad and depraved state is the will of man naturally; so that
   much must be done with it to bring it into subjection to the will of
   God.

   1b. Now the various steps which God takes, and the various things he
   does to the will of man, in order to work it up, and bring it to a
   submission to his will, are these:

   1b1. He "breaks" the wills of men, he crosses them, by one afflictive
   providence after another, and brings them by degrees to give up their
   wills to his; he will not let them have their own wills and ways; but
   thwarts them, and denies them those things their wills are set upon;
   until at length they are content that his will should be done; as
   creatures not used to a yoke, at first are very reluctant, and wriggle
   and toss about, and will not easily submit, until some rough methods
   are taken, to break them. Graceless men are sons of Belial, children
   without a yoke; such are the people of God before conversion; but then
   they are called to take a yoke upon them, not only of Christ's commands
   and ordinances, but of afflictions and reproaches for Christ's sake;
   when they are, at first, like "a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke," and
   it sits uneasy upon them; but afterwards, when they are more used to
   it, they become more patient and quiet under it; hence it is said to be
   "good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth;" for thereby he is
   inured to it, and bears it more quietly and patiently (Lam. 3:27), it
   not being perceived so heavy as at first. [45]

   1b2. The Lord exerts his mighty power upon the wills of men, and of
   unwilling makes them willing; when the power of God is put forth upon
   them, then they are made willing, as to serve the Lord, and to be saved
   by him in his own way; so to part with everything he calls for, and to
   bear and suffer whatever is his will and pleasure; but such a willing
   disposition is not by "might and power" of men; a man cannot make
   himself willing, or work himself to such a submissive frame; but it is
   effected by the Spirit of God, and the power of his efficacious grace;
   and this is not done by force and compulsion: God does not force the
   will, but allures and attracts it; works upon it, as Austin says, with
   an omnipotent sweetness, and a sweet omnipotence.

   1b3. The Lord takes away the obduracy and hardness, the stubbornness
   and stiffness of the will, and makes it flexible to his will; he takes
   away the stony heart, and gives an heart of flesh, a soft heart,
   susceptible of impressions, by which it may be wrought upon to a
   compliance to the will of God; this he sometimes does by his word,
   which is as an hammer to break the rock in pieces; and sometimes by
   afflictive providences, by which God sometimes makes "the heart soft,"
   as he did Job's; though perhaps he may mean it in a somewhat different
   sense (Job 23:16), men, in a state of nature, their "neck is an iron
   sinew," or the sinew of their neck is like a bar of iron, which will
   not bend; but such a bar, when put into the fire, and made soft, it may
   be bent at pleasure; so men, called by grace, and put into the furnace
   of affliction, they become soft and pliable to the will of God.

   1b4. The will of man is made free by the power of divine grace in
   conversion, which before was a slave [46] to sin and Satan, and brought
   into bondage; and while it so continues it is not, and cannot be
   obedient to the will of God; while it is a servant to various lusts and
   pleasures, it cannot willingly submit to adverse dispensations of
   providence; but "if the Son makes it free, it is free" indeed, to take
   up the cross and follow him; when men are "made free from sin," from
   the dominion, bondage, and slavery of it, they become "the servants of
   righteousness, and servants to God," and submissive to his will, both
   to do and suffer whatever is his pleasure to call them to.

   1b5. God effectually works in his people, "both to will and to do of
   his good pleasure;" he does not create a new faculty of the will, but
   he frees it from what hinders its operations in a right way, and
   influences it by his grace to act according to his own will and
   pleasure; when to "will is present" with them, though sometimes they
   find want of power to perform as they would; the "spirit is willing,"
   both to do and suffer what is the will of God; "but the flesh is weak,"
   and has not strength to act, but throws clogs and difficulties in the
   way; however, the will is so powerfully wrought upon as to say, "Lord,
   what wilt thou have me to do?" I am willing to do anything, and bear
   anything, thou art pleased to call me to (Acts 9:6). So submissive is
   the will under a divine influence. I proceed to consider,

   2. Secondly, the various phrases by which submission to the will of
   God, especially under adverse dispensations of providence, is
   expressed.

   2a. To be "still," and quiet and easy; "Be still, and know that I am
   God" (Ps. 46:10), which is directed to amidst the commotions, stirs,
   and tumults, in the world, and the desolations made in the earth, as
   the context shows; and is to be understood.

   2a1. Not of insensibility and stupidity; that men should be as "still
   as a stone," or be like stocks and stones, senseless and unconcerned;
   they should be sensible of the hand of God in his providences, and own
   it as directed to in the exhortation, "Know that I am God;" own and
   acknowledge my hand in all these things; so Eli said, "It is the Lord,
   let him do what seemeth him good!" and so Job; "The Lord hath given,
   and the Lord hath taken away!" they should be sensible of the cause of
   these things; for, as David said, "Is there not a cause?" There and
   that is sin; "If his children forsake my law, &c. then will I visit
   their transgressions with a rod": and they should be sensible of the
   affliction itself; not only feel the rod, but bear it, take notice of
   it, and learn by it; indeed, sometimes so stupid are men, that "God
   speaketh once, yea twice," by an afflictive providence, one after
   another, "yet man perceiveth it not," takes no notice of it; it has no
   effect upon him; though he is "stricken" and "beaten," he "feels" it
   not: there are two extremes often in men under the afflicting hand of
   God; either they are apt to faint, and sink under an affliction, or to
   neglect it, overlook it, oligorei, make little or nothing of it; both
   which are guarded against in the exhortation in (Heb. 12:5). Nor,

   2a2. Of a stoical apathy is the phrase to be understood; as if a man
   should be quite unaffected with an afflictive providence; though the
   affections are to be checked, when they become inordinate, yet there
   may be a due use of them; they are not indeed to be set on earth, and
   earthly things, but upon things in heaven; and such a disposition of
   them will make a man more quiet and easy under the loss of things
   temporal; yet he is not wholly divested of his affections under such
   losses; when Job lost all his substance, as well as his children, and
   was all submission to the will of God, yet he gave manifest tokens of
   his affections being moved by the providence; as by rending his mantle,
   shaving his head, and falling down upon the ground: and though
   Christians are not to sorrow for the loss of relations and friends, as
   the heathens, without hope, and in that immoderate and barbarous manner
   they did, yet may with moderation; Abraham went to Hebron to mourn for
   Sarah, and to weep for her, when dead; and Joseph made a mourning for
   his father seven days; devout men carried Stephen to his grave, and
   made great lamentation over him; and Christ himself wept over the grave
   of Lazarus.

   2a3. Nor is the phrase expressive of inactivity. The strength of men in
   such cases is not to "sit still" and do nothing; there is much to be
   done under afflictive providences; as various graces to be exercised;
   when men are chastened by the Lord, they are called upon to be
   "zealous" and "repent;" and they have need of faith and confidence in
   the divine promises to support them, which should not be cast away, but
   exercised; and of patience, that when they have done the will of God by
   suffering afflictions, they may receive the promises. And there are
   duties to be performed, as both prayer and praise; "If any be
   afflicted, let him pray," for support under the affliction, and that it
   may be sanctified to him, and he may be delivered from it in due time:
   and praise too, so Job blessed the Lord when he was stripped of all he
   had; the cross is to be taken up, in which saints are active, and bear
   it patiently, and through many tribulations follow Christ, and enter
   into the kingdom. But,

   2a4. It is opposed to the fretting of the mind at the prosperity of
   others, and at their own adversity; which is dehorted from, "fret not
   thyself" (Ps. 37:1, 7, 8), and to all impatience, restlessness, and
   disquietude, under the hand of God; a good man should not act like a
   bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, and much less like a wild bull in a
   net; but the phrase signifies, composure of mind, sedateness, a quiet
   submission to the will of God, and patience under his mighty hand.

   2b. Submission to the will of God, is expressed by a man's holding his
   peace, and being dumb and silent; thus Aaron, when he lost his two sons
   in an awful manner, by fire from heaven; it is said, "And Aaron held
   his peace" (Lev. 10:2), said not one word against what was done, or as
   complaining of the providence: so David was dumb when under a sore
   affliction (Ps. 39:9), and of a good man under the yoke of affliction
   it is said, "He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence" (Lam. 3:28). Now,

   2b1. All this is to be understood, not as though there was nothing to
   be said under an afflictive providence; for it should be owned that it
   is of God, that it is of his appointing, in his secret purposes and
   decrees; "He performeth the thing that is appointed for me" (Job
   23:14). Job is there speaking chiefly of his afflictions, and has
   respect to them; and as they are appointed in God's purposes, they are
   brought on by his over ruling providence; there is "no evil," of such a
   kind, in a city, but the Lord has done it; he makes peace, and "creates
   evil;" adversity and prosperity are from him, and he sets the one
   against the other. It should also be acknowledged by the saints, that
   they are deserving of such afflictions; "Shall we receive good at the
   hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" it may be expected. Nor
   should the people of God be silent in prayer under such providences;
   God expects to hear from them then; "In their affliction they will seek
   me early," for, help, support, and deliverance. Nor should they be
   silent in praise to God, but bless his name; since it might have been
   worse with them than it is; especially when they are taught of God
   under their afflictions, and by them, and when they evidently see that
   they work together for their good; and they should not fail to speak to
   others of the goodness of God to them; of gracious experiences in their
   afflictions, how that everlasting arms are underneath them, their bed
   is made in their sickness, God is with them when they pass through the
   fire and through the waters, and he chooses them in the furnace of
   affliction. But,

   2b2. Such silence is opposed to murmuring against God, and complaining
   of his providence, as the Israelites in the wilderness did; and to
   charging his ways with inequality, as the Jews in the times of Ezekiel:
   but it denotes such behavior as Job's under such providences, who
   sinned not, nor charged God foolishly (Job 1:22).

   2c. Submission to the will of God is expressed by "hearing the rod, and
   him who has appointed it" (Micah 6:9), by the rod is meant the rod of
   correction, with which God, as a Father, scourges and chastises his
   children, called the "rod of God," because of his appointing, and which
   he makes use of in a fatherly way; and the rod of man, because it is no
   other than what is common to men, and is used in a kind and tender way,
   after the manner of men. In which rod there is the voice of the Lord,
   which cries unto men in a way of reproof for sin, and by commanding
   them to return from iniquity; which calls for humiliation, and
   instructs in the way of duty; and then it is heard and hearkened to,
   when men are obedient and submit to the will of God, signified by it;
   when their ears are opened to discipline, and they attend to it, and
   instruction is sealed unto them, and they are impressed by it.

   2d. The same is signified by men "humbling themselves under the mighty
   hand of God," according to the exhortation in (1 Pet. 5:6), by the hand
   of God is meant his correcting and chastising hand, which sometimes is
   heavy, and presses sore; and which Job felt, and therefore cried to his
   friends to have pity on him, because the hand of the Lord was upon him;
   and "strong is his hand, and high is his right hand;" and which, though
   it is laid on in mercy, yet sometimes is very heavy and distressing:
   and the end and use of it is to humble men; as all the Lord's dealings
   with the Israelites in the wilderness were to humble them, and to prove
   them; so are all the Lord's dispensations of providence towards his
   people, to hide pride from them, and to bring them to his feet, and to
   own his sovereignty over them; and this is the way to be exalted. In
   short, all these phrases are expressive of submission to the will of
   God; the language of them is, "The will of the Lord be done!" (Acts
   21:14), and, indeed, this should be submitted to in all things; and it
   should be the constant language of the saints, with respect to
   everything in which they are concerned; "If the Lord will, we shall
   live and do this and that" (Jam. 4:15; see 1Co 4:19). It is a phrase
   often used by Socrates, as may be seen in the writings of Plato, ean
   theos ethele, "If God will;" [47] and which well becomes the mouth of a
   Christian at all times, who ought to be all submission to God, and to
   be wholly absorbed in the will of God; for which,

   3. Thirdly, the following reasons may be given among many.

   3a. First, whatever is done in providence is done by the Lord; his will
   and his hand are in it; and this should reconcile the will of man to
   it, be it what it may; so said Eli, "It is the Lord," who has said it
   and will do it, "let him do what seemeth him good!" it was the
   consideration of this, that the Lord was concerned in all Job's losses,
   that it was he who gave and took away, which made them sit so easy on
   his mind; and even to say, "Blessed be the name of the Lord!" and this
   is what makes and keeps quiet and still, under the most afflictive
   providences, to know that it is the Lord who wills them. As,

   3a1. That he is a sovereign Being, who does according to his will in
   heaven and in earth, who has the disposal of the whole world, and of
   all creatures and things in it; he has a sovereign right to all, and
   may do what he will with his own; give and take away at pleasure; and
   therefore to be submitted to.

   3a2. That he is immutable, and his will is irresistible; his mind is
   invariable, and his purpose unalterable; "Who shall disannul it?" make
   it void and of none effect: "And his hand is stretched out" in
   providence, to execute his purpose, "and who shall turn it back?" as it
   would be impious, so in vain to attempt it; for "who hath resisted his
   will?" his counsel shall stand, and he will do all his pleasure; and
   therefore his will is to be submitted to (Job 23:13; Isa.. 14:27).

   3a3. He is not accountable to his creatures; nor is it fitting and
   reasonable that he should; they are accountable to him, but not he to
   them; therefore "he giveth no account of his matters" (Job 32:13), as
   none can "stay his hand" or stop the course of his providence; so none
   ought to "say to him, What doest thou?" but a silent submission should
   be yielded to him.

   3a4. That he is the wise, and the only wise God, and does all his works
   in wisdom; though he does all things according to his will, in a
   sovereign way, yet, "after the counsel of his own will;" in the best
   and wisest manner, as such things are usually done, when done with
   consultation; as all his works in nature and in grace are made in
   wisdom, so his works of providence, in which there is a "bathos," "a
   depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God." What is
   said of Christ with respect to his miracles, "He hath done all things
   well," is true of God in the dispensations of his providence, and
   therefore to be submitted to.

   3a5. That he is holy and righteous in all his ways and works, and there
   is no unrighteousness in him; he cannot be charged with an unjust
   action, and with any inequality in his ways, and therefore not to be
   complained of in any respect.

   3a6. That he is a faithful God, and it is in faithfulness he afflicts
   his people; and while they are under the affliction he will not suffer
   them to be tempted, or afflicted, above what they are able to bear; not
   will he take away his kindness from them, nor break his covenant with
   them; all which displays his faithfulness (Ps. 119:75; 89:33, 34; 1
   Cor. 10:13).

   3a7. That all his ways are mercy and love to his people; when he hides
   his face he loves, when he chides he loves, and when be chastises he
   loves; the rod is in a Father's hand, and should be submissively
   attended to.

   3b. Secondly, what is done by the Lord seems good to him; and what
   seems good to him must be good; "Let him do what seemeth him good": he
   is good originally and underivatively, the fountain of all goodness;
   there is nothing but goodness in him, and nothing else comes from him,
   or is done by him; "Thou art good, and doest good," says David (Ps.
   119:68), all he did in creation was "very good," and all he does in
   providence is very good, even in the adverse dispensations of it: when
   Isaiah, from the Lord, told Hezekiah what evil should befall his
   posterity, he replied, "Good is of the Lord, which thou hast spoken"
   (Isa. 39:6-8). What God does, it is his pleasure to do, and he will do
   all his pleasure; he sits in the heavens, and does whatsoever he
   pleases; and what pleases him should please us. [48] It is said of
   David, "Whatsoever the king did pleased all the people" (2 Sam. 3:36).
   What the King of kings does should please all his people, all his
   saints, of whom he is King. It was a flattering speech of a courtier to
   king Astyages, "All is pleasing that the king does," [49] even when he
   had treated him in a shocking and barbarous manner: but without any
   flattery, and with a laudable submission of will to the will of God,
   every saint may say, whatever the Lord does is pleasing, is all well
   done; being for his own glory and the good of his people.
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   [43] meden allo thele, e a o theos thele, Arrian. Epictet. l. 2. c. 17.

   [44] Ib. l. 3. c. 26.

   [45] "Magis urgent saeva inexpertos, grave est tenerae cervici jugum,"
   Seneca de Providentia, c. 4.

   [46] Luther wrote a book, "De servo arbitrio," of man's will a slave;
   in which he represents it as a beast of Satan, a captive to his will,
   which he rides on and guides as he pleases, c. 15. p. 65. c. 200. p.
   305.

   [47] Indeed this is often to be observed in the mouths of the vulgar;
   "What God wills must be: If it please God we shall do so and so."
   Everything is what pleases God should be. Hence Luther observes, there
   remains in vulgar minds no less knowledge of God's predestination and
   prescience than of Deity. De Servo Arbitrio, c. 20. p. 32.

   [48] "Placeat homini, quidquid Deo placuit," Senecae Epist. 74.

   [49] areston einai pan to an basileus erde, Herodot. Clio, Sive. l. 1.
   c. 119.
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  Chapter 17

    OF PATIENCE

   Without patience there can be no real self-denial, nor true submission
   to the will of God in adversity; nor contentment in every state; nor
   thankfulness for every mercy; it is what accompanies every grace, as
   faith, hope, and love; hence we read of "the work of faith, and labour
   of love, and patience of hope," as together in the same persons,
   remembered by the apostle (1 Thess. 1:3), and to the exercise of every
   grace this of patience is to be added (2 Pet. 1:5, 6), and this, with
   other graces, is to be eagerly pursued, closely followed after, and
   constantly exercised (1 Tim. 6:11), it is so necessary in the things of
   God, that one a stranger to this grace, as Tertullian [50] observes,
   cannot undertake to perform any command, nor do any work that is
   acceptable to the Lord. Concerning which may be inquired,

   1. First, in what it lies, or wherein is the exercise of it.

   1a. In patiently bearing afflictions, of whatsoever kind it pleases God
   to exercise with; hence the exhortation to "be patient in tribulation"
   (Rom. 12:12), afflictions are the lot of the children of God, who are
   described as a poor and afflicted people; these are what they are
   appointed unto, what Christ has given them reason to expect in this
   world, and of which all the children of God are partakers; for if
   without them, they are bastards, and not sons; and therefore should be
   patiently bore: every follower of Christ has a cross, his own peculiar
   cross; which he is to take up willingly and bear cheerfully;
   "Christianus est crucianus;" a Christian is a cross bearer, as Luther
   used to say; nor should we be impatient under it. Afflictions lie in
   the way to the heavenly glory, which is a "narrow way," tethlimmene
   odos, an afflicted way, strowed with afflictions; and through this
   rough way all Christian pilgrims and travelers pass, and enter the
   kingdom; so did Christ himself; and ere long they will come to the end
   of it, and out of great tribulations, and therefore should patiently
   endure them. They are no other than fatherly chastisements, given in
   love, and for good; and sooner or later apparently issue in good,
   either here or hereafter, and therefore to be yielded to with filial
   reverence and subjection; and though in themselves not joyous, but
   grievous; yet since peaceable fruits of righteousness follow them,
   those who are exercised with them, should be content to bear them. Now
   to the exercise of patience under afflictions, murmurings, and
   repinings at them, and complainings of them, are opposite. Nor should
   saints be in haste to be rid of them, but wait the Lord's time; nor
   make use of any unlawful methods to get out of them; but should be
   willing they should take their course, and should let patience have its
   perfect work.

   1b. The exercise of patience lies in bearing reproach and persecution
   for the sake of Christ and his gospel; they that will live godly in
   Christ must expect these things; they are not to be thought new and
   strange, as if they were never before known or heard of; nor should
   saints he impatient under them. Moses esteemed reproach for Christ's
   sake greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; and the apostles
   rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of
   Christ; yea more than this, the followers of Christ have been called
   unto in all ages, especially in the first ages of Christianity, under
   Rome pagan, and since under Rome papal, even to endure the most cruel
   persecutions and severe deaths; after an account of which this
   observation is made, "Here is the patience and faith of the saints;"
   that is, the trial of their patience and faith; and we are not yet out
   of antichristian times; the reign of antichrist is not yet at an end:
   and whatsoever saints are called to suffer for the sake of Christ, is
   cheerfully to be submitted to and patiently endured; nor should they
   desert their station, nor withdraw themselves from their duty, nor drop
   their profession, nor forsake the fellowship of the saints, and be like
   the stony ground hearer, who by and by is offended, withdraws himself,
   and is gone.

   1c. Patience is tried and exercised in and by the temptations of Satan;
   our Lord suffered much himself, being tempted; and with what patience
   did he endure his sufferings by them, repelling every temptation only
   by saying, "It is written" so and so; though at the last temptation,
   and which was the most insolent and audacious, he added, "Get thee
   hence, Satan." Saints have reason to bear them all patiently; since
   Christ their High Priest not only sympathizes with them, but helps them
   when tempted, and prays for them, that their faith fail not; and still
   the more, since he assures them his grace is sufficient for them, to
   bear them up under temptations, and carry through them, and that his
   strength shall be made perfect in their weakness, to deliver out of
   them.

   1d. Patience is exercised by divine desertions, and lies in quietly
   waiting for the Lord's gracious manifestations of himself unto his
   people again. Sometimes they are impatient on this account, and inquire
   the reason of it, and say, "Why hidest thou thyself?" and complain of
   the length of time, and ask, "How long wilt thou hide thy face from
   me?" (Ps. 10:1; 13:1), thinking the time of desertion so long as to be
   a sort of eternity; and, indeed, unbelief sometimes suggests, that God
   has cast off for ever, and will be favorable no more; but at other
   times we find the saints more patient, and in more quiet and waiting
   postures; as the prophet Isaiah (Isa. 8:17), and more especially the
   church, under the hidings of God's face (Micah 7:7-10).

   1e. Patience is exercised when answers of prayer are deferred, and it
   lies in a quiet waiting for them. Sometimes the Lord's people are very
   uneasy and impatient because they are not immediately answered, and
   imagine that God has covered himself with a cloud, that their prayer
   cannot pass through; or that he has turned a deaf ear to them, and will
   never regard them; though the vision is for an appointed time, and
   therefore should be waited for till that time comes, when it will not
   tarry; and so it has been found by experience; as by David (Ps. 40:1,
   2).

   1f. This grace appears and shows itself in a patient waiting for the
   heavenly glory; sometimes the saints are impatient, and want to depart,
   and be in the enjoyment of it before God's time, because of the
   afflictions, trials, and exercises they meet with in life; which does
   not become them; instances of which were Elijah, Job, Jonah, and
   others: but afflictions are to be endured patiently, in expectation of
   glory; since it is but a short time they will last; a little while and
   he that shall come will come, and will not tarry; and therefore they
   have need of, and should exercise patience in doing the will of God,
   that they may receive the promises; and should consider that their
   afflictions are but for a moment, as well as light, when compared with
   the eternal weight of glory that will shortly follow; and therefore
   should hope and quietly wait for it (Rom. 8:25). I shall next consider,

   2. Secondly, the causes of this grace, and from whence it comes.

   2a. The efficient cause is God, from whom every good and perfect gift
   comes; and as this is a gift, as every grace is, and a good one in its
   nature, use, and consequences; and is a perfect one, when it has its
   perfect work and effect, it must come from God; and hence he is called,
   "The God of patience," because he is the author of it, as well as
   requires it, and it is exercised towards him, by whom seems to be meant
   God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 15:5, 6). We read
   also of the "patience of Christ," and of being directed into it, as
   well as into the love of God (2 Thess. 3:5), and which may signify, not
   only the patience exercised by Christ in his human nature, amidst all
   his afflictions and sufferings; but what he works in the hearts of his
   people, and encourages them to exercise; for as he is the author and
   finisher of faith, so of patience; and the saints are companions of one
   another in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ: and even his
   patience as man is the exemplar and pattern of theirs; for he has left
   an example of it, that they may tread in his steps; and certain it is,
   that longsuffering, or patience, which is the same, is a fruit of the
   Spirit (Gal. 5:22), so that all the three Persons are concerned in it.

   2b. The instrumental causes of it are the scriptures, and word of God
   and Christ; which are written, "that we through patience and comfort of
   the scriptures might have hope;" which, as they are the means of
   instruction and consolation, so of patience. The word of God encourages
   to it, furnishes with arguments for the exercise of it, and gives
   instances and examples of it, exciting thereunto; hence Christ calls
   it, the word of his patience; "Because thou hast kept the word of my
   patience" (Rev. 3:10), and this word, accompanied with a divine power,
   and received into a good heart, made so by the Spirit of God, "brings
   forth fruit with patience," and patience is one of its fruits (Luke
   8:13).

   2c. Afflictions themselves are a means of increasing it, for
   afflictions try faith; and the "trying of faith works patience," and
   brings that into exercise, and inures unto it; yea, it is expressly
   said, that "tribulation works patience," that is, when sanctified;
   otherwise it produces impatience and murmurings (Jam. 1:3; Rom. 5:3). I
   proceed to observe,

   3. Thirdly, the usefulness of this grace, and the exercise of it. As,

   3a. It makes a man comfortable and happy in himself; without this a man
   cannot enjoy himself, his mercies and his friends; hence the advice of
   Christ to his disciples, "In your patience possess ye your souls" (Luke
   21:19), an impatient man can have no enjoyment of himself, nor of
   anything he has; he is always restless and uneasy, and has no peace in
   himself; whereas a man possessed of patience, and in the exercise of
   it, has a peace which the world can, neither give nor take away, a
   peace in the midst of tribulation.

   3b. It is of great use in running the Christian race; "Let us run with
   patience the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1), by the race is
   meant the Christian's course of life in this world, and what still
   remains of it to be run out; the prize run for is the prize of the high
   calling, the heavenly glory, the crown of life, glory, and
   righteousness, laid up in heaven; this race is "set before us," the way
   is marked out in which we are to run; the rubs, the troubles, the
   impediments to be met with in the way are appointed; the mark to direct
   and steer the course by, and which is always to be had in view, is
   Christ, who is the hope set before us in the gospel; the length of the
   course to be run is fixed, the whole time of life, every year, month,
   day, and moment: and it requires patience to run it; partly through the
   length of the race, which sometimes appears tedious; and partly because
   of the troubles, difficulties, and discouragements in the way; and
   likewise because of the prize saints long to be in the enjoyment of.

   3c. There is need of it, and of its exercise, in "doing the will of
   God," in order to receive the promise (Heb. 10:36), by doing the will
   of God is not so much meant obeying the preceptive will of God, as to
   submit to the will of God respecting afflictions and sufferings for his
   sake; for it is given, and it is the will of God, not only that men
   should believe in Christ, and follow him, but that they should "suffer
   for his sake;" and to do this requires patience, and a quiet submission
   to the will of God; which is the way to be quiet, patient, and humble
   under his mighty hand, while suffering according to his will (1 Pet.
   4:19), and so patience is necessary to receive the promise, the
   promised glory, after the will of God is done in a way of suffering;
   for the promise is made to him that endures patiently; "Blessed is the
   man that endureth temptation, afflictions with patience; he shall
   receive the crown of life; obtain the promise, as Abraham did, and
   through faith and patience inherit it" (Jam. 1:12; Heb. 6:12, 15).

   3d. Another use of the grace of patience is, that when it has its
   perfect work, saints become perfect also (Jam. 1:4 this grace is
   imperfect, as all others are, faith, hope, love, knowledge, &c. and
   even in the best, and in such who have been most eminent for it, as Job
   particularly; and yet what impatience was he guilty of at times? though
   it may be increased, as every other grace; for as there is such a thing
   as growing in grace in general, so in any grace in particular, and in
   this also: when it is said, that "tribulation works patience," the
   meaning is, that it is the means and occasion [51] of increasing it.
   And it may be said to be perfect, when it appears to be sincere and
   genuine, as it does by its being tried by afflictions; and it has its
   "perfect work" when it is constant in its exercise, and continues to
   the end; and then will the saints be perfect, which they are not now in
   themselves, only in Christ their head; but when this grace, and every
   other, shall be perfect, then will they be perfect in holiness and
   happiness, as they will be at the resurrection in soul and body, and be
   entire, complete, and want nothing.

   4. Fourthly, the motives or arguments exciting to the exercise of this
   grace, may next be considered,

   4a. It is what God calls his people to; as to suffer for well doing, so
   to take suffering for well doing patiently; "For even hereunto were ye
   called," that is, to take it patiently (1 Pet. 2:21), hence these
   frequent exhortations to it; "Be patient in tribulation; be patient
   towards all men; be patient, brethren;" and again, be ye also patient;
   and which is enforced and exemplified in the case of the husbandman,
   patiently waiting for the fruits of the earth, after much trouble,
   toil, and labour; see (Rom. 12:12; 1 Thess. 5:14; Jam. 5:7, 8).

   4b. The exercise of this grace is taken notice of, approved of, and
   commended by God (1 Pet. 2:20), hence Christ, in his epistles to the
   churches, frequently observes, with commendation, their patience among
   other things; "I know thy patience" (Rev. 2:2, 3, 19; 3:10).

   4c. It is commendable in the sight of good men; Solomon extols it
   (Eccl. 7:8), and the apostle Paul glories in the Thessalonians for it
   (1 Thess. 1:3; 2 Thess. 1:4), a meek and patient Christian is not only
   in the sight of God of great price, but is very amiable in the sight of
   good men.

   4d. The patience of God exercised towards his people may be improved
   into an argument exciting to it. The Lord is patient and longsuffering
   towards his people before conversion, while they are doing those things
   which might justly provoke the eyes of his glory; fulfilling the
   desires of the flesh and of the mind, being by nature children of
   wrath, as others; yet he is patient, and bears long with them, waiting
   to be gracious to them, and to have mercy, on them (Isa. 30:18), and
   after conversion, he bears with their many provocations, backslidings,
   and revoltings from him; and, indeed, his patience with a wicked world,
   in not destroying it sooner, is for the sake of his chosen ones,
   waiting until they are called and brought to repentance; the
   longsuffering of the Lord is salvation to them (2 Pet. 3:9, 15).

   4e. The example of Christ, and of his patience, is very strong and
   forcible, and engaging to it; "Christ also suffered for us, leaving us
   an example," not of sufferings only, but of patience in them, that we
   should follow his steps in the exercise of this grace, and learn
   patience of him, as well as meekness and lowliness of mind (1 Pet.
   2:22, 23), we should consider him who "endured the cross" with so much
   patience, and the "contradiction of sinners against himself" with so
   much mildness and meekness; lest we be "wearied, and faint in our
   minds," and grow impatient; this may animate to patience and long
   suffering.

   4f. The examples of the saints in all ages may serve to encourage to
   the exercise of patience; of the prophets of the Old Testament; of the
   apostles of Christ; and of the martyrs of Jesus; and of other saints;
   and particularly Job; "Ye have heard of the patience of Job," who was
   remarkable for it, when his afflictions came so thick, and fast, and
   heavy upon him; "and have seen the end of the Lord," in his
   afflictions, and how they issued (Jam. 5:10, 11), and those examples
   are on record to encourage the saints to be "followers of them" (Heb.
   6:12).

   4g. The near coming of Christ is made use of to stir up to patience; it
   is but a little while and he will come that shall come; and then there
   will be an end of all afflictions and sufferings; "Be patient
   therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord:--again, Be ye also
   patient, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh" (Jam. 5:7, 8),
   redemption draws near, suffering times will soon be over; the summer is
   at band, halcyon days will come; peace will be like a river, and the
   glory of the church like a flowing stream!
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   [50] De Patientia, c. 1.

   [51] "Calamitas virtutis occasio est," Seneca de Providentia, c. 4.
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  Chapter 18

    OF CHRISTIAN FORTITUDE

   Though saints are to be humble, self-denying, submissive to the will of
   God, and patient towards all men, and in all things; yet they are not
   to indulge to pusillanimity and to a meanness of spirit; but to show
   firmness of mind, resolution, an undaunted courage, and fortitude of
   soul, a manly spirit, which is not at all unbecoming the Christian;
   "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love,
   and of a sound mind" (2 Tim. 1:7), they should play the man, act the
   manly part, show themselves to be men, as of wisdom, so of courage;
   "Quit you like men, and be strong;" which respects not strength of
   body, but fortitude of mind (1 Cor. 16:13), and is the subject to be
   treated of. Concerning which may be observed,

   1. The nature and necessity of it. It is not a natural fortitude which
   is meant, and which may be in brutes as well as in men; as in the lion,
   "which is the strongest among beasts, and turneth not away from any"
   (Prov. 30:30), its courage is equal to its strength; but such natural
   animosity, or greatness of mind, found among men, is not properly
   virtue, much less grace, as Christian fortitude is; and which also does
   not lie in bold and daring enterprises, as when a man attempts things
   arduous and difficult, and encounters dangers; either of which he has
   no call unto, but rushes into them unnecessarily and unwarily, without
   any consultation and deliberation, and without having any good end in
   view to be answered. This is no other than audaciousness, or rather
   "temerity," [52] or rashness; and not true fortitude. Also true
   Christian fortitude is to be distinguished from civil fortitude, or
   what is exercised in war, in a military way; though the one may bear
   some resemblance to the other: and even civil fortitude is often but a
   false appearance; men will make a show of courage, through fear of
   disgrace, rebukes of their superiors, and military discipline, or of
   being taken prisoners, and becoming captives; or it may arise from
   their confidence in their bodily strength, and in the strength and
   safety of their armor, and in their military skill, and through
   ignorance of the strength of the enemy; and it is usually through hope
   of honour and the applause of men, and sometimes of the spoil; [53] and
   at most and best, it is exercised for their own good, and the good of
   their country, which is commendable: but Christian fortitude is
   concerned about things which are apparently the will of God, and is
   exercised in obedience to it; for the sake of a man's doing his duty,
   and with a pure view to the honour and glory of God; trusting in and
   depending upon his power, strength, and grace, to carry him through
   whatever he is called to do or suffer in the performance of it; and
   from which he is not to be deterred by any difficulties that occur, or
   dangers he may be exposed unto therein: this is fortitude becoming
   Christians.

   Now of such fortitude there is a necessity in the Christian life. When
   we consider the many duties of religion to be performed by us, and that
   with constancy and perseverance, both public and private, relative,
   social, and personal, in which we are to be steadfast and immovable;
   and when our own weakness is considered, that without Christ we can do
   nothing, but all things, through Christ strengthening us, it requires
   great boldness of faith, and confidence in Christ for grace and
   strength: and since the Christian has so many difficulties and dangers
   to encounter with; so many discouragements in the way; so many trials,
   temptations, tribulations, and afflictions, from various quarters, he
   must be a man of fortitude not to be moved with these things; bearing
   all with an invincible courage and constancy. To which may be added,
   the numerous enemies he has to grapple with; enemies mightier than he,
   who are lively and strong; some not flesh and blood, as he is, but
   above his match; even principalities and powers, and spiritual
   wickednesses in high places. Good men dwell in a sinful world, called,
   "This present evil world;" and to live soberly, righteously, and godly
   in it; to bear the vexation arising from the filthy conversation of the
   wicked, as was the case of Lot; and to bear a testimony against them,
   and to suffer their mockings, insults, and injuries, who are for war
   when they are for peace, requires great fortitude of mind; their souls
   are sometimes among lions, men comparable to them, as David's soul was;
   and they had need to be as "bold as lions," as the righteous man is.
   Now this being the case, and these the circumstances of the Christian,
   he has need of great fortitude of mind and of strength, and grace from
   above to support under them; he has need to be "strong in the Lord, and
   in the grace that is in Christ" Jesus; to be fortified with the love of
   God, with the promises of the gospel, and with fresh supplies of grace
   and strength from Christ. But these things will more largely appear in
   what will be farther suggested by considering,

   2. Wherein this fortitude of mind consists, and whereby it shows
   itself. And,

   2a. First, it appears in the performance of religious exercises, and
   especially in some. As,

   2a1. In family worship; which undoubtedly is incumbent on the people of
   God: but now for a man to distinguish himself in a neighborhood from
   all about him, and to say in his practice, with Joshua, "As for me, and
   my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15), let others do what
   they will; this shows religious fortitude of mind: and in particular
   when a man first sets up family prayer in his house; suppose the master
   of a family is the only one in it called by grace, and at a time when
   he has an irreligious yoke fellow, irreligious children and servants,
   he sees it his duty, at least once a day, to call them together, and to
   pray with them; now for this man to fall down on his knees, and pray to
   his God, and his wife, children, and servants sneering at him and
   laughing, at least secretly, to one another, requires a fortitude of
   mind: and if this is not the case, yet it may be he lives alone among
   wicked neighbours, and so contiguous to them that he cannot pray, nor
   read the scriptures, nor sing the praises of God, which is the usage of
   some Christians in their families, without being overheard by them, and
   exposed to their ridicule and contempt; to bear which constantly is an
   instance and evidence of fortitude.

   2a2. In a man's giving up himself to a church of Christ, to walk with
   it in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. For a man to
   attend public worship on Lord's days is no great trial of his
   fortitude, because it is what his neighbours in common do; but let him
   separate himself from the world, and stand out from among them, and
   give himself up to the Lord in a public manner, and to his people in a
   church state; and this will try it and show it; for this is practically
   saying, he is not of the world, and belongs to another company; and
   this will unavoidably draw the hatred of the world upon him; and he
   will be liable to be challenged in a reproachful way, "Thou art also
   one of them;" as Peter was by a man in the high priest's hall, and who
   had not then courage enough to own it, but denied it.

   2a3. Especially if such a man comes into a church in a regular manner,
   by previously submitting to the ordinance of baptism, and to that as it
   was first delivered and practiced; if he declares against the
   sprinkling of infants, as an innovation, and openly avows the true
   doctrine of baptism, as to be administered only to such who profess
   faith in Christ, and that by immersion; and if he will proceed
   accordingly, and follow Christ in this now despised ordinance of his,
   he must be content to be nicknamed, and to have reproach plentifully
   poured upon him; not only by the profane world, but by the generality
   of the professors of religion.

   But when a man is satisfied that what he is called to do is his duty;
   that it is a command of God, and ought to be obeyed, though attended
   with some things disagreeable to flesh and blood, he will take courage,
   and "be strong, and do it;" as David advised his son Solomon, with
   respect to building the temple: and when he is encouraged with the
   divine presence, as Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the Jews were to be "strong
   and work; for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts;" and as the
   apostles were, when ordered by Christ to preach his gospel, administer
   his ordinances, and teach men to observe all that he commanded; and
   added, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world!" this
   will inspire a good man with courage and resolution to do his duty; nor
   will he be deterred from it by the edicts of men, though urged with the
   severest menaces; as the three companions of Daniel bravely refused to
   worship Nebuchadnezzar's image, though threatened to be cast into a
   fiery furnace, as they were; and Daniel, when an edict was obtained
   from the king, that no man should pray to his God for such a time,
   under the penalty of being cast into the den of lions; he boldly went
   on in the performance of his duty; opened his windows, and prayed to
   the God of heaven, as he had been wont to do in times past: and as the
   apostles, when strictly charged by the rulers to preach no more in the
   name of Jesus, and were severely threatened if they did, with great
   firmness of mind and intrepidity answered, "We ought to obey God rather
   than man." Promises of grace and strength will animate saints to a
   cheerful obedience to the will of God, and to the discharge of their
   duty, amidst all discouragements and difficulties; if God says, as
   their day is their strength shall be; and that his strength shall be
   made perfect in their weakness, and his grace be sufficient for them;
   and bids them, "Fear not, I am with thee; I will strengthen thee!" &c.
   this will give them a fortitude of mind which will overcome all their
   fears; and they will say, with David, "The Lord is my light and my
   salvation, whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life, of
   whom shall I be afraid?" (Isa. 41:10; Ps. 27:1, 3, 4), this is now
   active fortitude, and shows itself in doing the duties of religion.

   2b. Secondly, Christian fortitude shows itself in bearing afflictions
   with constancy, and enduring sufferings with a firmness of mind,
   whether from the hands of God or men; and which may be called passive
   fortitude.

   2b1. From the hands of God, from whom Job was sensible he received his,
   even his loss of substance, children, and health, and bore it all with
   an invincible fortitude of mind: this appears when a man's spirits do
   not sink under the weight of an affliction; but has strength of mind, a
   fortitude of soul under adversity; "The spirit of a man," of a saint,
   animated with Christian courage, "will sustain his infirmity," his
   bodily infirmity, a tedious consumption, or racking pains; or go
   through any severe operation he may be called unto, with a becoming
   resolution and manliness (Prov. 24:10; 18:14).

   2b2. From the hands of men; and especially for the sake of the gospel,
   the truths and ordinances of it; as when saints are called to suffer
   shame and reproach for the sake of Christ, they, in imitation of him,
   despise the shame, and account it an honour to bear reproach for his
   sake; of suffering as a Christian, they are not ashamed, but rather
   glorify God on that behalf, the Spirit of glory and of God resting upon
   them; and when they endure cruel mockings, as some of the Old Testament
   saints did, bear them patiently, and with an invincible firmness of
   mind; as Christ did on the cross; and as the apostles, when made a
   spectacle to the world, to angels, and men; when made the filth of the
   world, and the offscouring of all things; when reviled, and persecuted,
   and defamed, they bore all with a temper of mind which showed them to
   be possessed of Christian fortitude. Others have suffered confiscation
   of substance, and took joyfully "the spoiling of their goods," as the
   believing Hebrews did; and as our forefathers in the last century: and
   others, "scourging, bonds, and imprisonment;" as did the apostles of
   Christ, as well as the Old Testament saints; and particularly the
   apostle Paul, who received of the Jews five times the scourging of
   forty stripes save one, and was thrice beaten with rods which perhaps
   left those marks on him which he calls, "the marks of the Lord Jesus"
   he bore "in his body;" and who was in prisons frequent; and who seems
   to take a pleasure, and even to glory, in his being a prisoner of
   Christ, and in chains for his sake; of such an heroic spirit, and with
   such fortitude was he endued, that none of these things moved him from
   the gospel of the grace of God. Death itself, in its most formidable
   shapes, has been endured by the saints with an invincible courage; as
   by the martyrs in the ten pagan persecutions, and by the witnesses of
   Jesus against the papal hierarchy; and particularly by our reformers in
   queen Mary's days, such as Latimer, Ridley, Bradford, and others; who,
   surrounded with faggots, and these in flames about them, expressed
   their undaunted courage, firmness, and fortitude of mind to the last.
   These, with multitudes of others, loved not their lives unto death.

   2c. Thirdly, Christian fortitude appears in the spiritual warfare of
   the saints. There is a warfare for men on earth, and especially for
   good men, who are soldiers, and must endure hardness, as good soldiers
   of Christ, and to which Christian fortitude is necessary; and therefore
   should be, as Joshua was exhorted to be, "strong and of a good
   courage," when he was called to fight the Lord's battles, and against
   the enemies of the people of Israel; and as Joab said to Abishai his
   brother; "Be of good courage, and let us play the man, for our people,
   and for the cities of our God" (2 Sam. 10:12). And Christian fortitude
   will show itself,

   2c1. In the defence of the cause of God and truth, in appearing for,
   and on the behalf of the church of God: "the bed which is Solomon's"
   which seems to design the church of Christ, "threescore valiant men"
   are said to be "about it, of the valiant of Israel" (Song of Sol. 3:7),
   who are valiant for the truth on earth, who are concerned for the
   welfare of the church, and for the protection of it from errors and
   heresies; and will not give way, no not for an hour, that the truth of
   the gospel may continue with the church, and its ordinances remain pure
   and incorrupt; and these are not only the ministers of the word, who
   are set for the defence of the gospel, and who war a good warfare, and
   fight the good fight of faith, and speak with the enemy in the gate,
   and are bold in their God to preach the gospel of Christ, as it ought
   to be spoken; but all professors of religion, and members of the church
   of Christ, should "stand fast in one Spirit, striving together for the
   faith of the gospel, and should contend earnestly, eve to an agony, for
   the faith once delivered to the saints;" and in so doing they show a
   fortitude of mind.

   2c2. This also appears in fighting against spiritual enemies; as sin,
   and the lusts of it, which war against the soul; the law in the members
   warring against the law of the mind; the flesh lusting against the
   spirit; which are, as it were, a company of two armies. Now one of
   Christian fortitude will strive against sin, be an antagonist to it,
   and act the manly part against it; and will wrestle against Satan, and
   his principalities and powers, and give no place to the devil; but by
   faith resist him, who, when resisted, will flee, for he is an arrant
   coward, and does not care to be handled with the armor of Christians;
   and those young men who are strong, possessed of Christian fortitude,
   and in whom the word of God dwells, overcome the wicked one: the world
   also with all its flattering lusts and frowning fury, is overcome by
   the saints in the exercise of faith (1 John 5:4, 5).

   2c3. The saints have great reason, in their militant state, to be of
   good courage; since more are they that are for them, than they that are
   against them; and if God be for them, as he is, who can be against
   them? and through God they shall do valiantly: the Christian has a good
   cause, in which he is engaged; he wars a good warfare, and fights the
   good fight of faith; he has a good Captain, under whose banner he
   fights, the great Captain of salvation: saints have good weapons, with
   which they are accoutered; the shield of faith, the helmet of
   salvation, and the sword of the Spirit; which weapons are not carnal,
   but spiritual and mighty, through God, and are such as are proved, and
   may, with confidence, be made use of; and they are sure of victory
   beforehand; for all their enemies are conquered, sin is made an end of,
   Satan, who had the power of death, is destroyed, the world is overcome
   by Christ, the warfare is accomplished, and believers are made more
   than conquerors, through him that has loved them; and therefore may be
   sure of the crown of life, righteousness and glory, laid up for all
   that love the appearing of Christ. All which may serve to fill them
   with an holy fortitude in their spiritual warfare.

   2d. Fourthly, Christian fortitude manifests itself in the hour of
   death. Death is very terrible to nature, and to natural men; the
   philosopher [54] calls it "the most terrible of all terribles;" and no
   wonder he should call it so, since he adds, according to his opinion,
   it is "the end of all things, and that to one that is dead there is
   neither good nor evil;" such a notion of death, as being an extinction,
   must be terrible; and the wise man, when he suggests what is most
   grieving, distressing, and intolerable, says, it is "more bitter than
   death;" as if besides there was nothing more grievous than that (Eccl.
   7:26). To Christless sinners death is the "king of terrors," and even
   some gracious persons have been all their lifetime through fear of
   death subject to bondage; but as formidable as it is, there are some
   things which fortify the Christian against the fears of it. As,

   2d1. That Christ has abolished death as a penal evil, so that it will
   never be inflicted on the believer by way of punishment. The sting of
   death is taken away by Christ, which is sin, and a very venomous sting
   it is, and death thus armed is to be feared; but when its sting is
   taken out of it, it is not to be dreaded. Any insect with a sting we
   are naturally afraid of, but if its sting is removed we have no fear of
   it, though it flies and buzzes about us; so in a view of death being
   unsung, the believer may sing and say, Death, "where is thy sting?" and
   be fearless of it.

   2d2. Death to believers is a privilege and blessing; it has a place in
   their inventory of goods that belong unto them, "death is yours;" it is
   an happiness to them, "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord;"
   since they are by it delivered from all evils, from all outward
   afflictions and inward troubles; from a body of sin and death, under
   which they now groan being burdened; from the world and its snares, and
   from Satan and his temptations; and therefore are more happy than
   living saints; besides they are with Christ, enjoying communion with
   him, and beholding his glory, which is much better than to be in the
   present state.

   2d3. Death, though it separates soul and body, and one friend from
   another, it does not separate from the love of God, but lets in to the
   more glorious discoveries and enjoyment of it. It is precious in the
   sight of the Lord, and therefore saints should not shrink at it
   themselves.

   2d4. It is but once, it is appointed for men once to die, and no more;
   and it will soon be over, and issue in an happy endless eternity; and
   when the body dies the soul does not, but immediately enters into a
   state of glory; death is the inlet into it, and the beginning of it;
   the birthday of an eternal world [55] of bliss: besides there will be a
   resurrection of the body, when it will be fashioned like to the
   glorious body of Christ, and will be raised in interruption, in power,
   in glory, and a spiritual body; so the saints will be no losers but
   gainers by, death, and therefore need not fear it: the resurrection of
   the body yields comfort in the view of death, and amidst present
   afflictions, as it did to Job (Job 19:25-27).

   2d5. Be it that death is an enemy, as it is contrary to nature, it is
   the last enemy that shall be destroyed; and when that is conquered, the
   victory will be complete over every enemy, sin, Satan, the world,
   death, and the grave.

   2d6. Besides these things which may serve to promote a fortitude of
   mind against the fear of death; it may be proper frequently to meditate
   upon it, to think of it as near at hand, and to make it familiar to us
   by saying as Job did (Job 17:14), by considering it as going to our God
   and Father, to our home, to our Father's house; by going to bed and
   resting in it; and by sleeping, and that in the arms of Jesus.

   3. From whence this fortitude flows, and what the causes of it, may be
   next considered. It is not from nature but from grace, it is a gift of
   God; it is he that gives strength and power to his people, not bodily
   strength only, but spiritual strength; it is he that girds them with
   strength, with an holy fortitude, and fills them with spiritual
   courage, and strengthens their hearts, and fortifies them against their
   spiritual enemies.

   3a. The efficient cause of Christian fortitude of mind is God, Father,
   Son, and Spirit. God the Father is prayed unto for it (Eph. 3:14, 16;
   Col. 1:11, 12), and he which "stablishes saints in Christ," gives them
   stability and firmness of mind, is God, that is, God the Father: and it
   is Christ who bids them "be of good cheer," to be strong and of good
   courage in the midst of tribulation, since he has overcome the world;
   and it is "through him" who "strengthens" them that they can do and
   suffer all things for his sake; and the Spirit of the Lord, as he rests
   as a "Spirit of counsel and might" on Christ the head, so on his
   members likewise; and it is a grant of God, a free grace gift of his,
   that his people be "strengthened with might his Spirit in the inner
   man" (Isa. 11:2; Eph. 3:16).

   3b. The word of God is the means of producing and increasing Christian
   fortitude; it is not only a part of the spiritual armor, called the
   "sword of the Spirit," but having a place and abiding in the heart,
   fortifies it against spiritual enemies, and by it victory is gained
   over them (1 John 2:14; Rev. 12:11), the precious promises contained in
   it, before hinted at, serve greatly to animate the saints, and to
   inspire them with fortitude amidst all surrounding evils.

   3c. Such a temper and disposition of mind is attainable by faith,
   prayer, and waiting upon God. By faith men so eminent for fortitude of
   mind performed those heroic exploits we read of in Hebrews 11:1-40, who
   by faith subdued kingdoms, stopped mouths of lions, quenched the
   violence of fire, endured with such greatness of mind the many evils
   they did; and through constant prayer saints obtain a spirit of
   boldness both with God and before men; and by waiting upon the Lord in
   religious exercises their spiritual strength or fortitude is renewed;
   hence the exhortation, "Wait on the Lord" (Ps. 27:14).

   3d. The patterns of courage, the examples of fortitude in the saints
   who have gone before us, of the prophets, apostles, primitive
   Christians, and martyrs in all ages, may be a means of promoting a like
   disposition, particularly that cloud of heroes before referred to; and
   above all Christ himself, the pattern of courage set before us, whom we
   are directed to look unto and consider, lest we be weary and faint in
   our minds (Heb. 12:1-3).

   3e. The love of God, and a sense of that, a persuasion of interest in
   it, and that nothing shall separate from it, casts out fear, [56] and
   inspires with fortitude against every enemy (Rom. 8:35, 38, 39; 1 John
   4:18).
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   [52] "Fortitudo, non est inconsulta temeritas, nec periculorum amor,
   nec formidabilium appetitio," Seneca, Ep. 85.

   [53] Which are observed by Aristot. Ethic. l. 3. c. 11.

   [54] ton phoberota ton o thanatos, Aristot. Ethic. l. 3. c. 9.

   [55] "Dies iste, quem tanquam extremum reformidas, aeterni natalis
   est," Seneca, Ep. 102.

   [56] "Non potest amor cum timore misceri," Seneca, Ep. 47.
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  Chapter 19

    OF ZEAL

   Zeal is an ardor of mind, a fervent affection for some person or thing;
   with an indignation against everything supposed to be pernicious and
   hurtful to it. As it is a divine grace, it is a vehement affection for
   God and his glory, an earnest study, by all proper means, to promote
   it; with a resentment of everything that tends to obscure, let, and
   hinder it; it is hot, burning, flaming love, which cannot be quenched
   by water, nor drowned by floods, nor abated, restrained, and stopped,
   by any difficulties in the way (Song of Sol. 8:6, 7). It is sometimes
   used for that strong affection God bears to his people, expressed by
   his earnest care of them, and indignation against their enemies,
   called, "The zeal of the Lord of hosts, and his great jealousy" (Isa.
   9:7; Zech. 1:14; 8:2). And sometimes for a gracious disposition in man,
   which has God for its object, and is called "zeal towards God," an
   eager desire after his glory; and of which God is the author, and is
   called, "A zeal of God," or "a godly jealousy" (2 Cor. 11:2). In
   treating of which I shall consider,

   1. The various sorts and kinds of zeal; that it may be the better known
   what is right and genuine. And,

   1a. First. there is a "zeal of God," which is "not according to
   knowledge," which the Jews had, as the apostle testifies (Rom. 10:2),
   and which lay in a zealous concern for the performance of legal duties,
   and in a studious attempt to set them up, and establish them as a
   justifying righteousness before God; to the entire neglect and
   rejection of the righteousness of Christ. Which zeal of theirs, in this
   attempt, arose,

   1a1. From ignorance of the perfection of God's righteousness, which is
   displayed in all his ways and works, who is the Judge of the whole
   earth, and will do right; and will not clear the guilty without full
   satisfaction to his justice, nor justify any without a perfect
   righteousness; and his "judgment of things is according to truth;" and
   he cannot reckon an imperfect righteousness a perfect one; nor account
   that for righteousness which is none: to secure his honor and glory in
   this point, he has set forth Christ to be the propitiatory sacrifice
   for sin, thereby making satisfaction for it; "to declare his
   righteousness:" but of this the legal zealot is ignorant, and therefore
   takes a wrong course.

   1a2. It arises from ignorance of the righteousness which God in the law
   requires; the law is holy, just, and good, and requires a perfect
   righteousness; both as to the matter of it, and the manner of its
   performance; all that the law has commanded must be done, and as it is
   commanded, or it is no righteousness (Deut. 6:25), and the law is
   spiritual, and reaches to, and is concerned with the heart, the spirit,
   and the soul of man; it forbids sinful thoughts, inward lusts, and
   irregular affections, as well as the outward and grosser sins of life;
   it allows of no peccaddillo's, or little sins, but condemns all; so
   extensive is the law, and such the spirituality of it; which the
   Pharisee being ignorant of, sets up his own righteousness as
   sufficient, and zealously endeavors to establish it; but it will be of
   no service (Matthew 5:19, 20).

   1a3. This ignorant zeal arises from a want of knowledge of the
   righteousness of God revealed in the gospel; which is no other than the
   righteousness of Christ, who is God as well as man: being ignorant of
   this, its excellency, fullness, and suitableness, men submit not unto
   it, but reject it, stumbling at the stumbling stone and rock of offence
   (Rom. 1:17; 3:21, 22).

   1a4. It arises from ignorance of their own righteousness; the Spirit of
   God not having convinced them of it, how imperfect and polluted it is;
   how it is not answerable to the law of God; and how short it comes of
   its demands and requirements; and how insufficient it is to justify
   them before God; and while this is the case they are warmly attached to
   it, and zealous to establish it: but when they come to be made sensible
   of the imperfection and unprofitableness of it, they desire to be found
   in Christ, and in his righteousness, and not their own (Phil. 3:9).

   1a5. It arises from want of faith in Christ; being destitute of that,
   the zealots follow eagerly after righteousness, but do not attain it;
   "Because they seek it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the
   law;" now, what is not of faith is sin, and therefore zeal without
   faith cannot be right; zeal without faith in Christ must be without
   knowledge, must be without the knowledge of Christ, and without the
   knowledge of God in Christ; and therefore cannot be well pleasing and
   acceptable to God; nor is such a righteousness they are following after
   and endeavoring to establish. Therefore,

   1a6. Such a zealot goes contrary to the will and way of God, in the
   justification of a sinner; and therefore his zeal must be a false one:
   the declared will of God is, that a man is not, and cannot be justified
   in the sight of God by the deeds of the law; but that a man is
   justified by faith in the righteousness of Christ without the deeds of
   the law; the way and method God takes to justify men is by grace,
   freely imputing righteousness, without works, unto them; by making and
   accounting them righteous, through the obedience and righteousness of
   his Son (Rom. 3:20, 28, 24; 4:6; 5:9). And therefore it must be a
   blind, ignorant zeal, which sets up a man's post by God's post, and
   advances his own righteousness above that of Christ's.

   1b. Secondly, there is a mistaken zeal of the glory of God; and for it.

   1b1. When that is opposed which is right, under a false not on of its
   being contrary to the glory of God; as when Joshua requested of Moses
   to forbid the young men prophesying in the camp; as being neither, as
   he thought, for the glory of God, nor to the honour of Moses; and when
   the priests and scribes were sore displeased at the children in the
   temple, crying "hosanna" to the Son of David; and when they exclaimed
   against the works of Christ done on the sabbath day, as if contrary to
   the honour of the sabbath, and the sanctification of it, and so to the
   glory of God in it; and such was the indiscreet zeal of Peter in
   chiding Christ for saying he must suffer many things, as if it was
   injurious to his honour and glory; when all these things were right.

   1b2. When that which is not for the glory of God, is wrongly thought to
   be so, and is zealously pursued as such: this is a mistaken zeal; as
   was the zeal of the idolatrous Gentiles for their idols, and idol
   worship; and of the Papists, for their worship of images, angels, and
   saints departed, and for many other things; and of the Jews, for the
   traditions of the elders, of which the apostle Paul was very zealous,
   before conversion; and of the believing Jews, who were zealous for
   continuing the ceremonies of the law, though abrogated (Gal. 1:14; Acts
   21:20).

   1b3. When ways and methods improper are taken to defend and promote the
   glory of God; as when the disciples, in their zeal for the honour of
   Christ, were for having fire come down from heaven upon those who had
   shown some disrespect to Christ; and when Peter, in his preposterous
   zeal, drew his sword in defence of his Master, and cut off the ear of
   the high priest's servant; for which both the one and the other were
   rebuked by Christ (Luke 9:55; Matthew 26:51).

   1c. Thirdly, there is a superstitious zeal, such as was in Baal's
   worshippers, who cut themselves with knives and lancets, while calling
   upon him; and in all idolaters using a multitude of superstitious
   rites, of which they are extremely zealous; particularly in the
   Athenians, who were wholly given to idolatry, and whose city was full
   of idols; of whom the apostle says, that he perceived that they "were
   in all things too superstitious;" and therefore, lest they should be at
   all defective in the objects of their worship, they erected an altar to
   an unknown God, that they might be sure to comprehend all; and in the
   Jews, who were zealous of the traditions of the fathers, and were
   superstitiously careful that they did not eat with unwashen hands, and
   of the washing of their cups and pots, &c.

   1d. Fourthly, there is a persecuting zeal, under a pretence of the
   glory of God; so Saul, before his conversion, says of himself;
   "Concerning zeal, persecuting the church;" that is, he showed his zeal,
   as he thought, for the glory of God, when he persecuted the church of
   Christ, and made havoc of it; and he seems to have respect to this when
   he tells the Jews that he was "zealous towards God, as ye all are this
   day;" so the "devout and honorable women," whom the Jews stirred up to
   persecute the apostles, were, no doubt, under the influence of such a
   false zeal; imagining, that what they did was for the glory of God, and
   the honour of religion (Phil. 3:6; Acts 22:3, 4; 26:9, 10; 13:50; see
   John 16:2).

   1e. Fifthly, there is an hypocritical zeal for God; as in Jehu, when he
   said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord;" when, at the same
   time, he took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord, nor did he depart
   from the sins of Jeroboam; for though he destroyed the images of Baal,
   he worshipped the calves at Dan and Bethel: and in the Scribes and
   Pharisees, who brought the woman taken in adultery to Christ, under a
   pretence of a great regard to the law; and yet were guilty of like sins
   and others: and in Judas, who pretended regard to the poor, when he
   only sought to gratify his covetousness: and in the Pharisees, who made
   a show of great zeal for piety, by their long prayers, when they only
   sought to devour widows' houses by that means (2 Kings 10:16, 29, 31;
   John 8:3, 9; 12:5, 6; Matthew 23:14).

   1f. Sixthly, there is a contentious zeal; which often gives great
   trouble to Christian communities: of men of such a spirit the apostle
   speaks when he says, "If any man seems to be contentious," about
   trivial matters, things indifferent, and of no moment, "we have no such
   custom, nor the churches of God;" nor should such be indulged: this
   sort of zeal is oftentimes no other than a mere logomachy, "a striving
   about words to no profits" it is a contention about "foolish and
   unlearned questions," which "gender strifes;" and at best about things
   curious and useless; whereas true zeal is always employed about the
   more solid and substantial doctrines of the gospel, and the ordinances
   of Christ.

   1g. Seventhly, sometimes it is only a temporary passion; a flash of
   zeal, and continues not; so Joash, while Jehoiada the priest lived, did
   what was right, and showed zeal in repairing the house of God; but
   after his death, left the house of the Lord God of his fathers, and
   served groves and idols. John the Baptist was a burning and shining
   light, and his hearers and disciples burned with zeal for him, his
   ministry, and baptism, and envied, on his account, the increasing
   interest of Christ; but it was but for a season they "rejoiced in his
   light:" so the Galatians were zealously afflicted towards the apostle
   Paul, to such a degree, that they would have been willing to have
   "plucked out their eyes" and given them to him; whom they first
   received as an angel of God, even as Jesus Christ, so acceptable was
   his ministry; and yet he became their enemy, because of his preaching
   the same truths.

   1h. Eighthly, true zeal is no other than a fervent ardent love to God
   and Christ, and a warm concern for their honour and glory; such who are
   truly zealous for the Lord of hosts, love him with all their heart,
   with all their soul, and with all their strength; they love the Lord
   Jesus Christ in sincerity, as well as one another fervently; it is
   accompanied with a saving knowledge of God and Christ; of God in
   Christ, and of Christ and him crucified; and such prefer the excellency
   of the knowledge of Christ above all things else, and prefer him to all
   created beings (Phil. 3:8; Ps. 73:25), they have faith in God, and also
   in Christ; a faith which works by love, and this love constrains them,
   inspires them with zeal to seek their honour and glory; whatever they
   do, whether in things civil or religious, they do all to the glory of
   God. To true zeal there must be spiritual knowledge, unfeigned faith,
   and undissembled love; and this stands opposed,

   1h1. To a neutral spirit in religion, to a halting between two
   opinions, condemned by Elijah in the Jews (1 Kings 18:21). There can be
   no true zeal to the truth of worship, doctrines, and ordinances, where
   there is no stability; but a continual wavering and inconstancy.

   1h2. To carelessness and indifference about religious matters; when
   men, like the Jews of old, regard their own paneled houses, and not the
   house of God; when they mind their secular affairs more than the
   interest of religion; when, as to the church of God, the truths of the
   gospel, and the ordinances of Christ, Gallio like, they care for none
   of these things.

   1h3. To lukewarmness, with respect to divine and spiritual things;
   which the Laodicean church is charged with, and resented by Christ
   (Rev. 3:15, 16). I proceed to consider,

   2. The objects of zeal.

   2a. First, The object of it is God; even a false zeal is called, "a
   zeal towards God;" and that which is not according to knowledge, is
   said to be "a zeal of God;" Jehu called his hypocritical zeal, a "zeal
   for the Lord;" true zeal most deservedly bears this name; so Phinehas
   had the covenant of an everlasting priesthood given him, because he was
   "zealous for his God" (Num. 25:13), which springs from a principle of
   love to God, and its end is his glory; and it has for its objects the
   worship of God, the word of God, and the truths contained in it.

   2a1. The worship of God; who must be known, or he cannot be worshipped
   aright: the Samaritans worshipped they knew not what; and the Athenians
   erected an altar to an unknown God; and therefore, though they were
   both zealous of worship, their zeal was not according to knowledge; but
   true believers worship God in "the Spirit," whom they know in a
   spiritual way; through faith in Christ, and with a zealous concern for
   his glory: and they worship him in truth, and keep close to the pattern
   of worship shown them; to which they are zealously attached, and will
   not depart from it. Wherefore,

   2a2. The word of God is the object of their zeal; to the law and to the
   testimony they appeal for the truth of all they say and do; they make
   that the standard of their faith and practice, and the rule of their
   worship; they earnestly contend for the perfection and integrity of it;
   and endeavour, with all their might and main, to preserve it pure and
   incorrupt (2 Cor. 2:17).

   2a3. The truths contained in the word; they who have a true zeal are
   valiant for the truth; and can do nothing against it, but everything
   for it, in defence of it, and for the continuance of it; they will buy
   the truth, give a great price for it, and highly value it; but will not
   sell it, nor part with it at any rate.

   2b. Secondly, the cause of Christ, is another object of zeal; and which
   is a good one, and the apostle says, "It is good to be zealously
   affected always in a good thing" (Gal. 4:18), and those who are
   possessed of this zealous affection, seek not their own things, but the
   things of Christ; they have a sort of a natural care, as Timothy had,
   for the state of the churches, and interest of Christ, and of true
   religion, and for the support of it; not only in that branch of it to
   which they more peculiarly belong, but in others; as the Corinthian
   church, who was not only zealously concerned for their own welfare, but
   for that of others; and the apostle testifies, that their zeal in their
   liberal ministration to the saints, had "provoked very many" (2 Cor.
   9:2). True zeal for the cause of Christ is concerned about the gospel
   of Christ, the ordinances of Christ, and the discipline of his house.

   2b1. The gospel of Christ: great reason there is to be zealous for
   that; since it is "the gospel of the grace of God," which displays the
   free grace of God in every part of our salvation; and therefore the
   apostle was so zealously concerned for it, as not to count his life
   dear to himself, so that he might finish his course with joy, by
   bearing a testimony to it: and because it is, "the gospel of
   salvation," which publishes salvation by Christ; and declares, that
   whosoever believes in him shall be saved: and because it is, "the
   gospel of peace," preaching peace by Jesus Christ, and by the blood of
   his cross; and because in it forgiveness of sin is preached in the name
   of Christ, and justification by his righteousness.

   2b2. The ordinances of Christ; which every true Christian should be
   zealous for, that they be kept as they were first delivered, without
   any innovation or corruption; that the mode of administration of both
   baptism and the Lord's Supper should be strictly adhered to; and that
   none be admitted to them but believers in Christ, or such who profess
   faith in him.

   2b3. The discipline of Christ's house should be the object of our zeal,
   as it was of his; who said, the "zeal of thine house hath eaten me up;"
   and this is shown when the rules of discipline are strictly observed,
   both with respect to private and public offences; when churches, and
   the members of them, like the church at Ephesus, cannot "bear them
   which are evil," to continue them in fellowship with them; whether men
   of immoral lives, or have imbibed false doctrines; but withdraw from
   them that walk disorderly, and reject such who are not sound in the
   faith. Hence,

   2c. Thirdly, everything that is evil is the object of zeal, or against
   which true zeal should be expressed. As,

   2c1. Against all false worship, particularly idolatry, or the having
   more and other gods than one; whether found among the heathens, or any
   that bear the Christian name; as was by Moses, when his anger, zeal,
   and indignation, waxed hot against the Israelites for their idolatrous
   worship of the calf, and he broke the tables of the law which were in
   his hands, and ordered the Levites to put their swords by their side,
   and slay every man his brother, companion, and neighbour: and so
   Elijah, who was jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because Israel had
   forsaken the covenant of the Lord, had thrown down his altar, and slain
   his prophets; and where there is true love for God, and zeal for his
   worship, there will be an hatred of every false way, be it in what
   shape it may.

   2c2. Against all errors in doctrine; especially such as affect the
   Persons in Deity, Father, Son, and Spirit; with all others, which are
   the fundamental doctrines of religion; such as deny them are to be
   rebuked "sharply," warmly, vehemently, with a becoming zeal, that they
   may be sound in the faith; such who bring not the doctrine of Christ,
   respecting his person, office, and grace, are not to be received into
   the houses of saints, nor to be bid God speed.

   2c3. Against all immorality in practice; true zeal will be as much
   leveled against a man's own sins as against the sins of others; he will
   be concerned to remove the beam out of his own eye, as well as the mote
   out of his brother's; he will be severe against right hand and right
   eye sins, such as are dear to the flesh as these be; and real godly
   sorrow for sin, and true repentance unto salvation, is always
   productive of zeal; "What zeal" it wrought in you? against a man's own
   sins more especially, as against others; and that which is against the
   sins of others, is tempered with commiseration and pity to the sinner
   (2 Cor. 7:11; 12:21).

   2d. Fourthly, true zeal is concerned in all the duties of religion, and
   shows itself in them; in the service of God in general, we should be
   "fervent in spirit," warm, hot, zealous; "serving the Lord," in such a
   manner, and not in a cold, indifferent way, and in the ministration of
   the gospel; it is said of Apollos, that being "fervent in spirit he
   spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord," the doctrines of
   the gospel, so far as he was then acquainted with them (Rom. 12:11;
   Acts 18:25). It is also very requisite in prayer to God; it is said of
   Epaphras, that he was always "laboring fervently in prayers" for the
   church at Colosse; and it is the effectual "fervent prayer" of the
   righteous man that availeth much (Col. 4:12; Jam. 5:16). And it should
   be shown in the love of the saints to one another (1 Pet. 1:22; 4:8).
   In short, believers in Christ ought to be "zealous of good works,"
   careful to maintain them, diligent in the performance of them,
   especially of those which are the greater and weightier duties of
   religion; though they are not to neglect and omit the lesser ones. To
   say no more, good men are the objects of true zeal; the apostle Paul
   was informed of the "fervent mind" or zeal of the Corinthians towards
   him, of the warm love and ardent affection they had for him; and he
   advises them to covet earnestly, to desire the best gifts, spiritual
   ones, fitting for public service, even prophecy, or preaching (2 Cor.
   7:7; 1 Cor. 12:31; 14:1, 12, 39).

   3. Motives or arguments exciting to the exercise of true zeal.

   3a. The example of Christ, whom David in prophetic language
   represented, saying, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up,"
   consumed his spirits, his strength, and life; so much did he exert
   himself in his public ministrations: he showed his zeal for the
   doctrines of the gospel, by his warm and constant preaching them, even
   with power and authority, as the Scribes and Pharisees did not; in the
   indefatigable pains he took, travelling from place to place to do it;
   running the risk of his life, and exposing himself to frequent dangers
   on that account: and for the worship of the house of God, as appears by
   inveighing so severely against the traditions of men; by asserting the
   purity of worship in spirit and in truth; by expressing his resentment
   at the profanation of the house of God, driving out the buyers and
   sellers from it; which brought the above passage to the mind of the
   disciples, who clearly discerned the fulfillment of it: the zeal of
   Christ against immorality was seen also in his sharp reproofs of the
   vices of the age, both in professors and profane; and in all he is a
   pattern worthy of our imitation.

   3b. True zeal answers a principal end of redemption by Christ (Titus
   2:14), and where there is no zeal for God, and for that which he
   requires an observance of, the claim to redemption seems very
   precarious. The love of Christ in redeeming his people will constrain
   them to show a zeal for his glory, both with respect to doctrine and
   practice.

   3c. It is "good," the apostle says, "to be zealously affected in," and
   for that which is good; and it is approved and commended by Christ; as
   the church at Ephesus was for it, because she could not bear them that
   were evil; and a contrary disposition, that of lukewarmness, is
   disapproved of and resented; as in the church of Laodicea, threatened
   to be unchurched for it; and therefore strongly exhorted to be "zealous
   and repent" (Rev. 3:15, 16, 19, 20).

   3d. A lukewarm temper, which is the opposite to zeal, seems not
   consistent with true religion, which has always life and heat in it; to
   be neither "cold nor hot" is condemned as having no religion at all.

   3e. The zeal of persons shown in a false way, should stimulate the
   professors of the true religion to show at least an equal zeal; for
   that "all people will walk everyone in the name of his God," and appear
   zealous for his worship, "we will walk in the name of the Lord our
   God," at least we ought to do so, and determine upon it. The Pharisees
   showed great zeal, and took great pains, compassing sea and land to
   make one proselyte, though made worse than he was, and worse than
   themselves; and should not we Christians exert ourselves to the
   uttermost for the interest of the Redeemer (Micah 4:5; Matthew 23:15),
   this must be a becoming zeal. And in order to keep up and promote such
   zeal, it will be proper frequently to meditate on the love of God and
   Christ, the blessings of the gospel of the grace of God, the excellency
   of the Christian religion, the benefits and privileges of the house of
   God, and to converse often with warm and lively Christians, and to sit
   under a savory and fervent ministry.
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  Chapter 20

    OF WISDOM OR PRUDENCE

   Zeal without wisdom or prudence, and unless tempered with it, will be
   either ignorant, and not according to knowledge, or be rash and
   precipitant. I say wisdom or prudence, because they are much the same
   thing, and go together; "I wisdom dwell with prudence;" hence wisdom
   and prudence, and the characters of wise and prudent, are often
   mentioned together. Prudence lies in wisely fixing upon a right end of
   all actions, and in wisely choosing the best means conducive to that
   end, and in using them at the best time and in the proper manner; "The
   wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way" (Prov. 14:8), in divine
   and spiritual things, to understand the way of salvation, and the way
   of his duty, and how to glorify God. Concerning which may be inquired,

   1. What spiritual wisdom is, as it is an internal grace, or inward
   disposition of the mind, respecting divine things; a man's duty, the
   salvation of his soul, and the glory of God. And,

   1a. First, it is in general, grace in the heart; which is called
   "wisdom in the hidden part" (Ps. 51:6), in the hidden man of the heart,
   where it lies hid, and is only seen in an hearty and sincere profession
   of religion; and in outward actions becoming such a profession; hence
   those who are truly wise, are said to be "wise in heart;" and these are
   the prudent ones; "The wise in heart shall be called prudent" (Prov.
   16:21), and such is a man, "when wisdom entereth into his heart;" for
   it is not originally there; it is not of himself, it comes elsewhere,
   from without, from above, from God, who gives it entrance, and puts it
   there. The heart of man is naturally foolish; as it is desperately
   wicked, it is extremely foolish; "Their foolish heart was darkened;"
   and yet this is said of some thought to be very wise; and man is such
   by nature, by birth; "Vain man would be wise," would be thought to be
   so, "though man be born like a wild ass's colt," as stupid as that
   creature is; "foolishness is bound in the heart of a child," in the
   heart of every child of Adam, and it is only the power of divine grace
   that can drive it far from him: this is the case of every man; "There
   is none that understandeth" divine and spiritual things, or things
   pertaining to salvation; not even so as to know God, and to glorify him
   as God, and to be thankful for mercies received from him: and this is
   not only true of a few illiterate men, or of such who have not the
   advantage of a good education; but even of the wisest philosophers that
   ever were in this world; for of them these things are said, who,
   "professing themselves to be wise, became fools" (Rom. 1:21, 22), yea,
   this is the case, and this the character of God's elect, while
   unregenerate, and until the grace of God takes place in their hearts;
   "We ourselves also were sometimes foolish," &c. There is enough of
   carnal wisdom, of that which is earthly, sensual, and devilish, of
   wicked subtlety, and too much, "men are wise to do evil; but to do good
   they have no knowledge;" but in that respect are foolish, sottish, and
   without understanding (Jer 4:22), they have a quick and fruitful
   invention as to evil things, and get the character of "inventors of
   evil things;" but cannot think a good thought: men have no true
   spiritual wisdom but what God gives them, and puts into them; it is he
   that makes them to know wisdom in the heart experimentally; it is a
   gift of his; "For the Lord giveth wisdom" (Prov. 2:6).

   1b. Secondly, spiritual wisdom in particular, is a right knowledge of a
   man's self; "nosce te ipsum," know thyself, was a maxim much talked of
   among the philosophers, but attained unto by none of them; witness the
   pride, the vanity, the self-conceit, they were swelled with; no man
   that is wise in his own eyes, and prudent in his own sight, knows
   himself; for one that was wiser than any of them says, there is "more
   hope of a fool" than of such; whoever in his own conceit is wise and
   good, holy and righteous in himself, does not know himself; or who
   fancies that "touching the righteousness of the law he is blameless,"
   as said the apostle before he knew himself: a man that rightly knows
   himself, and is possessed of true wisdom, has knowledge of the
   sinfulness of his nature; of internal lust, as sinful; of indwelling
   sin, and the exceeding sinfulness of it; of the plague of his own
   heart, and therefore will not "trust" in it, or to the goodness of it,
   which he that does "is a fool;" he knows his own inability to perform
   that which is good, and that without Christ and his grace he can do
   nothing, and therefore will not presume upon nor attempt any thing in
   his own strength; he knows the imperfection of his own righteousness,
   and therefore will not depend upon it, nor plead it as his justifying
   righteousness before God; he knows his soul sickness, his spiritual
   maladies and diseases, incurable by himself and others, excepting the
   great physician Christ, to whom he only applies for healing; he knows
   his own poverty, and therefore seeks for true riches in Christ; gold to
   make him rich, white raiment to be clothed with, and Christ himself,
   the Pearl of great price; for which he is willing to part with all,
   with sinful and righteous self; and, in a word, he knows his own folly,
   and is ready to acknowledge what a foolish and ignorant creature he is;
   and until a man has learned this lesson he does not know himself (1
   Cor. 3:18).

   1c. Thirdly, true spiritual wisdom is no other than "the light of the
   knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ," which God
   commands to shine in the hearts of men; while men are destitute of
   grace, or true spiritual wisdom, they are "without God," without the
   knowledge of him, his nature and perfections; they conceive of him as
   altogether like themselves, and fancy that he is pleased with what they
   are pleased with, and that he judges of things as they do; they are
   unacquainted with the purity and holiness of his nature, who cannot
   take pleasure in sin; they are ignorant of his righteousness, and
   therefore go about to establish their own; and are even stranger's to
   the grace and mercy of God, as channeled in Christ, and conveyed
   through him; and therefore depend upon the absolute mercy of God,
   without any consideration of the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ;
   whereas the true light of the saving knowledge of God is in Christ, and
   as he has displayed his mercy and grace in him, and proclaimed his name
   in him (Ex. 34:6, 7), all the divine perfections shine most
   illustriously in Christ, the brightness of his Father's glory, and the
   express image of his person; and in the great work of redemption and
   salvation by him; and true wisdom lies in the knowledge of this.

   1d. Fourthly, true spiritual wisdom is no other than the fear of the
   Lord; both David and Solomon say, that "the fear of the Lord is the
   beginning of wisdom" (Ps. 111:10; Prov. 9:10), there is no wisdom in a
   man before the fear of the Lord is put into him, and then he begins to
   be wise, and not before: but Job earlier than them both, says, "The
   fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is
   understanding" (Job 28:28), this includes the whole worship of God,
   internal and external, flowing from a principle of grace; it takes in
   the whole duty of man, which it is his wisdom to practice, internally
   and externally.

   1e. Fifthly, it is being wise unto salvation, or in things respecting
   that. The scriptures are said to be able to make a man wise unto
   salvation (2 Tim. 3:15), and he is a wise man indeed who is thus made
   wise; and he is one who sees himself lost and undone, and inquires the
   way of salvation, and says, as the jailor did, "What shall I do to be
   saved?" and being made acquainted that the way of salvation is by
   Christ, that there is salvation in him and in no other, applies unto
   him, says, as the disciples did, "Lord save us, we perish!" and, as
   ready to perish, such come to Christ, and venture upon him, and commit
   themselves to him, and say, as the leper did, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou
   canst make me clean," or save me! such build their souls, and the faith
   and hope of the salvation of them, on Christ, the good, the sure, and
   only foundation; and as he is a wise master builder who lays this
   foundation, such are wise unto salvation who build upon this Rock,
   where their house stands safe against every storm, and against which
   the gates of hell can never prevail; they give up themselves to him, to
   be saved alone by him; they prize and value him, and love him above all
   others; they rejoice in him as God their Saviour, and give him the
   glory of their salvation! I proceed to observe,

   2. Wherein this wisdom practically shows itself.

   2a. In doing good things in general; such who are wickedly wise, are
   wise to do evil; but such who are spiritually wise, are "wise unto that
   which is good," and "simple concerning evil" (Rom. 16:19), and these
   are capable of doing things both for their own good and for the good of
   others. They may do good for themselves; "He that is wise may be
   profitable to himself" (Job 22:2; see Prov. 9:12), he may be
   profitable, though not to God, yet to himself; for his present good,
   and the present peace and tranquillity of his mind; for though not
   "for," yet "in" keeping the commands of God there is great reward; and
   great peace of mind such have who love and observe the law of God,
   without trust in and dependence on the observation of it for eternal
   life: and such wise persons may, by what they do, be useful to others;
   and therefore believers in God are exhorted to maintain good works;
   because they are "good and profitable to men;" both because of example
   and because of real benefit to them. Besides, what a wise man does, and
   in doing which he shows his wisdom, may be for the honour of religion,
   to stop the mouths of gainsayers, and put such to the blush who speak
   ill of religion, and of the professors of it falsely; they may and do
   adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour, and recommend it to others, and
   by their works shining before men, be the means of glorifying God, and
   even of winning souls to God by their good conversation; and then do
   they show their spiritual wisdom, when what they do, they do from right
   principles, and to a right end; when what they do is from love to God,
   in the faith and strength of Christ, and with a view to the glory of
   God. And being thus done they are to be shown in "meekness of wisdom,"
   without trusting to them, or boasting of them; acknowledging, that when
   they have done all they can they are but unprofitable servants; and
   that it is by the grace of God they are what they are, and do what they
   do.

   2b. This spiritual wisdom shows itself in particular in a profession of
   religion. The kingdom of heaven, or the outward gospel church state, is
   compared to ten virgins; "Five of them were wise, and five were
   foolish;" the foolish virgins, or professors of religion, took the lamp
   of an outward profession, as the rest did, and were careful to trim it,
   and keep it bright and shining; but were not concerned for the oil of
   grace, that it might be a burning lamp; but the wise virgins not only
   took the lamp of profession, but they were concerned to have the oil of
   grace in the vessels of their hearts, with their lamps, and so
   continued burning till the bridegroom's coming; and in this they showed
   their wisdom: as also in holding fast their profession without
   wavering. Such are wise professors, who, as they take up their
   profession on principles of grace, and upon a mature consideration of
   the cost and charges, difficulties and discouragements, trials and
   tribulations, they must expect to meet with, so continue steadfast in
   it; having put their hand to the plough, neither turn back nor look
   back, but go on believing to the saving of their souls; and yet do not
   depend upon their profession, do not make it an house to lean upon, nor
   a plea for eternal life; as some at the last day will plead, that they
   have professed the name of Christ, embraced his gospel, and subjected
   themselves to his ordinances; to whom he will say, "Depart from me; I
   know you not!" (Matthew 7:22, 23; Luke 13:25, 26).

   2c. This spiritual wisdom shows itself in a becoming walk and
   conversation; in a conversation that is ordered aright, according to
   the rule of the word of God, and is becoming and ornamental to the
   gospel of Christ; it appears when a man walks "circumspectly," with his
   eyes about him, with his eyes in his head, as the wise man's are,
   looking well to his going, to his steps, as the prudent man does; his
   eyes looking right on, and his eyelids right before him, pondering the
   path of his feet, and neither turning to the right hand nor to the
   left; when he walks in wisdom towards them that are without, as well as
   in peace and love towards them that are within; and is careful to give
   no offence to Jew nor Gentile, nor to the church of God. This wisdom is
   seen when professors walk not "as fools," in a vain, careless, and
   sinful manner, but "as wise:" and this they do when they walk as the
   word of God directs them, and when they walk uprightly, according to
   the gospel; when they walk as they have Christ for an example, and when
   they walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit; and one special
   and particular instance of their walking wisely is, "redeeming the
   time, because the days are evil;" and which is done when they lose no
   opportunity of doing good to others, nor of receiving good for
   themselves. Considering the days they live in are evil, and subject
   them to many temptations; and the days of old age, called evil, are
   hastening on, when they will be incapable of doing or receiving good
   (Eph. 5:15, 16).

   2d. This wisdom shows itself in observing the providence of God in the
   world, and the dispensations of it; in making useful remarks upon it,
   and in learning useful lessons from it; "Whoso is wise, and will
   observe these things," things in providence, before related, "even they
   shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord" (Ps. 107:43), and it
   shows wisdom to understand both the ways of God in his providence, and
   the ways and methods of God in his grace, and the ways he has
   prescribed his people to walk in (Hosea 14:9).

   2e. This spiritual wisdom shows itself in a man's concern about his
   last end and future state, [57] how it will be with him at last, and
   how it will go with him in another world (Deut. 32:29), how near it
   is--what that may issue in;--that they be ready for death come when it
   will, and for an eternal world! The thing to be inquired into is,

   3. From whence this spiritual wisdom comes. It is a question put by
   Job; "Whence cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?"
   the answer to it is, "God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth
   the place thereof" (Job 28:20, 23), for it is with him originally, and
   in full perfection, yea, it is in him infinite and unsearchable; it is
   in his gift to bestow, and is to be asked of him, "that giveth to all
   men liberally," freely, richly, and bountifully, as they need, "and
   upbraideth not" with former folly, ingratitude, and mis-improvement of
   what they have received (Jam. 1:5).

   3a. God is the efficient cause of it; God, Father, Son, and Spirit; it
   is a good and perfect gift, which is from above, and comes from the
   Father of lights, from the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only
   wise God, the fountain of all wisdom, who makes men in common wiser
   than the fowls of the heaven, and his saints wiser in spiritual things
   than the rest of mankind. It comes from Christ, who is the only wise
   God and our Saviour; the wisdom of God, whose is counsel and sound
   wisdom, and who is made to us wisdom, on whom the spirit of wisdom
   rests, and in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; and
   it is by the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
   Christ.

   3b. The means of this wisdom, and of promoting and increasing it, are,
   the word of God, the ministers of it, and good men conversed with; the
   scriptures read and explained, when under a divine influence, and
   accompanied with a divine power, are "able to make wise unto
   salvation;" they are written for our learning; and the ministers of the
   gospel, who show unto men the way of salvation, and "win" souls to
   Christ, are "wise," and make wise; and conversation with wise and good
   men, is a means of increasing wisdom; "He that walketh with wise men,
   shall be wise" (Prov. 11:30; 13:20).

   4. The nature and properties of this wisdom; a full account of which is
   given (Jam. 3:17).

   4a. It is "from above;" from God, Father, Son, and Spirit, as before
   observed; it is conversant about heavenly things; it is celestial
   wisdom, and stands opposed to earthly wisdom in a preceding verse,
   wisdom about earthly things, the wisdom of this world, and the princes
   of it, that come to nought.

   4b. It is pure in itself, and in its effects; it is productive of
   purity of heart, life, and conversation; the effect of it is pure and
   undefiled religion, and the observance of it; those who have it, hold
   the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience, and are obedient to the
   divine precepts, out of a pure heart and faith unfeigned; it is opposed
   to that wisdom which is sensual, and employed in sensual
   gratifications, and to carnal wisdom, the "wisdom of the flesh," or
   carnal mind, said to be enmity against God (Rom. 8:7).

   4c. It is "peaceable;" it influences the professors of it to be at
   peace among themselves, and with one another; and to live peaceably, as
   much as possible, with all men; to cultivate peace in families, among
   neighbours, and even with enemies.

   4d. It is said to be "gentle;" it makes those who have it to be gentle
   towards all men, moderate, and humane, to bear and forbear, to bear the
   infirmities of the weak, to forbear and forgive one another injuries
   done; and for the sake of peace and love to recede from their just
   right, and not bear hard on others for their failings, but cover them
   with the mantle of love.

   4e. It is "easy to be entreated," or persuaded, to put up with
   affronts, to condescend to men of low estate, and not mind high things;
   for "with the lowly is wisdom;" to yield easily to the superior
   judgment and stronger reasonings of others; to be readily inclined and
   induced to hope and believe the best of all men; and to entertain a
   good opinion of good men and their conduct.

   4f. It is "full of mercy and good fruits;" it fills men with compassion
   on those in distress, and puts them upon acts of beneficence to the
   poor, according to their ability; to feed and clothe them, to visit the
   widow and fatherless in their affliction, and comfort them; and to do
   other duties and good works, as fruits of righteousness, of the grace
   of God, and of the Spirit.

   4g. It is "without partiality;" without partiality to themselves,
   esteeming each other better than themselves; and to others, showing no
   respect of persons, making no difference in Christian fellowship
   between rich and poor, and giving to the poor and needy without
   distinction, favour, or affection.

   4h. It is "without hypocrisy," to God and man; not making a show of
   what they have not, and intend not to do; as it is a grace, it has a
   close connection with faith unfeigned, with hope which is without
   hypocrisy, and with love which is without dissimulation. All which
   shows how useful and desirable such wisdom is, and how necessary
   throughout the conduct of a Christian life to do his duty, to avoid the
   snares and temptations he is liable to, to seek his own good, and the
   good of others; and, above all the glory of God.
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   [57] "Isthuc est sapere, non, quod ante pedes modo est, videre; sed
   etiam illa quae futura sunt prospicere." Terent. Adelp. act. 3. sc. 4.
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  Chapter 21

    OF GODLY SINCERITY

   Sincerity stands opposed to hypocrisy; than which nothing is more
   detestable to God; and nothing is more agreeable to him than
   uprightness and integrity: this is called "godly sincerity,"
   eilikrineia theou, "sincerity of God" (2 Cor. 1:12), which God
   requires, approves of, and is a grace he bestows upon his people. What
   is sincere is pure and unmixed, [58] and what retains its native colors
   especially white, as milk, pure and unmixed; hence we read of the
   "sincere milk of the word" (1 Pet. 2:2), and fine flour without any
   bran, or any leaven in it; hence the phrase of "unleavened bread of
   sincerity and truth" (1 Cor. 5:8 the Latin word "sincerus," from whence
   our English word "sincere," is composed of "sine et cera;" [59] and
   signifies "without wax;" as pure honey, which is not mixed with any
   wax. The Greek word eilikrineia, signifies properly, a judgment made of
   things by the light and splendor of the sun; as in business men hold up
   goods they are buying to the light of the sun, to see if they can
   discover any defect in them: some think there is an allusion in it to
   the eagle, who holds up her young as soon as fledged to the sun, and if
   they can bear the light of it without winking, she retains as her own;
   but if not, she rejects them as a spurious brood. Light makes
   everything manifest; and such who are truly gracious and sincere, their
   principles and practices will bear the test of light, for the day
   declares them what they are; nor do they shun it: but they whose
   doctrines and deeds are evil do not care to come to it, lest they
   should be discovered: and herein lies a principal difference between
   sincerity and insincerity; see (John 3:19-21).

   1. I shall consider this grace of sincerity as it is truth in the
   heart; as it regards the truth of particular graces there; as it is
   concerned in doctrine professed or preached; as it has to do with
   divine worship; and as it appears in the walk and conversation of the
   saints.

   1a. First, as it is truth in the heart; for that seems to be meant in
   (Ps. 51:6). "Thou desirest truth in the inward part," sincerity,
   integrity, and uprightness of soul: hence we read of a "true heart,"
   which is sincere and upright in all its concerns with God; which is the
   same with a "clean heart," and a "right spirit" renewed in a man; which
   David prays for (Ps. 51:10), and such who are possessed of this grace
   of sincerity in their hearts, are described as such who,

   1a1. Are "pure in heart." The apostle Peter wrote his second epistle to
   the saints, "to stir up their pure minds by way of remembrance" (2 Pet.
   3:1), it is in the Greek text, their "sincere mind;" [60] a sincere
   mind and a pure heart are the same; not that any man's heart is so pure
   as to be free from sinful thoughts, inclinations, desires, and
   affections; yet, though not perfect, may be sincere; and none are more
   ready than they, ingenuously to confess and lament the impurity of
   their hearts; nor any that more "love pureness of heart," and desire
   it, which shows their sincerity; and that there are such it is certain,
   since our Lord pronounces them blessed; "Blessed are the pure in
   heart;" who, though not perfect, are yet sincere and their hearts are
   right with God.

   1a2. They am said to be "sound in heart," in doctrine and practice;
   "sound in the faith," in the doctrine of faith; using "sound speech,"
   and embracing things which become "sound doctrine," such are the
   "wholesome words" of our Lord Jesus Christ: and sound in practice, who
   have a sincere regard to the ways and worship, ordinances and commands
   of God; have a cordial affection for them, and observe them in reality,
   and truth, and heartily, as to the Lord; for this David prays, "Let my
   heart be sound in thy statutes" (Ps. 119:80), that is, sincere in the
   observance of them; see (Prov. 14:30).

   1a3. The same are described as single hearted, having a single eye to
   the glory of God in all they do; and stand opposed to "a double minded
   man," who is "unstable in all his ways;" and to those who have "a
   double heart, a heart and a heart," as it were two hearts; or at least,
   whose hearts, words, and actions, do not agree; they are not sincere in
   what they say or do; speak one thing and mean another; so do not
   sincere persons (Jam. 1:8; Ps. 12:2).

   1a4. Sincere persons, who have truth in their hearts, are the same with
   "the upright in heart," who are hated and persecuted by wicked men; but
   "loved" by the Lord, and to whom he is good, and does good to them (Ps.
   11:2; 125:4), who have right spirits renewed in them, new hearts and
   new spirits given them; whose intentions, desires, and views are
   upright.

   1a5. Who like Jacob, are "plain men," or "plain hearted;" such a man as
   Job was (Job 1:1), where the same word [61] is used of him as of Jacob;
   and is the character of all true Israelites; as of Nathanael, said to
   be an "Israelite indeed," one of Jacob's genuine sons, "in whom was no
   guile" (Gen. 25:27; John 1:47).

   1a6. Such may be said to have truth or sincerity in the heart, the
   desires and affections of whose hearts are after God; as the church's
   (Isa. 26:9), and who, as David, pant after the Lord, after more
   communion with him, and conformity to him; and express their strong and
   hearty affections for God, as Asaph did (Ps. 42:1; 73:25).

   1a7. Who approve themselves unto God, and are desirous to be searched
   and tried by him, if sincere or not, as David did (Ps. 139:23, 24).

   1b. Secondly, sincerity may be considered as it regards the truth of
   particular graces in the heart, which it is connected with, and
   concerned about. "Sincere" is an adjective, and must have something put
   to it to explain it; there must be a sincere something, and that
   something may be bad as well as good, wrong as well as right. Saul was
   a sincere Pharisee, and really thought that touching the righteousness
   of the law he was blameless; yea, a sincere persecutor, for he thought
   verily he ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus; as
   many others, who thought they should do God good service in killing the
   disciples of Christ. So that sincerity is to be judged according to
   what it is applied; and it seems not to be a distinct grace of itself,
   but to go through, and be an ingredient in every grace; which proves
   the genuineness of it. As,

   1b1. Repentance; for there is a feigned repentance; as in Judah (Jer.
   3:10), such was the external humiliation of Ahab, which was not in
   reality, only in outward show and appearance; yea, many tears may be
   shed, and yet no true and sincere repentance; as in Esau (Heb. 12:17),
   and in others who pretend to repentance; their tears may be only what
   are called crocodile tears. But when repentance is from the heart, and
   sorrow is after a godly sort and sincere, it produces such like effects
   the apostle mentions in (2 Cor. 7:11).

   1b2. Faith is a grace also which is distinguished by its sincerity; for
   there is a faith that is feigned, as was that of Simon Magus, who
   professed to believe, but truly did not; that is a sincere faith which
   is "with the heart unto righteousness;" or is a believing "with all the
   heart," as was required of the eunuch, previous to his baptism; and is
   called "faith unfeigned" (1 Tim. 1:5; 2 Tim. 1:5).

   1b3. Hope, by the sincerity of it, is distinguished from the hope of
   the hypocrite, which is as the spider's web, and is of no avail at
   death; but a hope that is sincere is fixed on a good foundation; not on
   man's riches or righteousness; but upon the person, blood, and
   righteousness of Christ; and is lively, and he that has it purifies
   himself as he is pure.

   1b4. Love, both to God, if true and genuine, is "with all the heart,
   with all the soul, and with all the strength;" and love to Christ is
   from the heart, and "in sincerity" (Eph. 6:24). The church always
   describes Christ her beloved, even when she was in a disagreeable frame
   and posture; "Him whom my soul loveth!" And love to the saints, when
   right, is not in "word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth," that
   is, hearty and sincere (1 John 3:18), and is called "unfeigned love of
   the brethren" (1 Pet. 1:22).

   1c. Thirdly, sincerity may be considered as it regards doctrine
   professed or preached. "The sincere milk of the word," unmixed and
   unadulterated, as desired by truly newborn babes; and by all such who
   have "tasted that the Lord is gracious;" they desire, as it is promised
   them, to he fed "with the finest of the wheat," with the pure bread of
   the gospel, without the bran of human mixture, without the chaff of
   man's inventions; for "what is the chaff to the wheat?" they cannot
   live on husks, which swine do eat, but upon the kernel of divine
   truths, and cannot be satisfied, but "with honey out of the rock," pure
   and unmixed; hence the church's lips, expressive of her profession, are
   said to "drop as the honeycomb," pure virgin honey, sincere and without
   wax; and "honey and milk" are said to be "under her tongue," pure and
   sincere doctrine, received, retained, and spoken by her (Song of Sol.
   4:12), for with the same sincerity the mouth confesses as the heart
   believes; whereas, an insincere man will not openly profess Christ and
   his truth, loving the praise of men more than the praise of God; as the
   Pharisees did. So the faithful and sincere ministers of the word do not
   "corrupt the word of God," adulterate it, mix it with the doctrines of
   men; as hucksters mix their wine with water, or other liquors, to which
   the allusion is (2 Cor. 2:17). "Renouncing the hidden things of
   dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God
   deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth," in the most upright
   manner, "commending" themselves "to every man's conscience in the sight
   of God:" and then do they appear to be sincere, when their word, their
   doctrine, is not "yea and nay," contradictory, and inconstant, but
   uniform, and all of a piece; and when the gospel trumpet, as blown by
   them, does not give an "uncertain sound" (2 Cor. 4:2; 1:19; 1 Cor.
   14:8).

   1d. Fourthly, sincerity may be considered with respect to worship;
   which ought always to be performed in a sincere and upright manner, as
   Joshua said to the people of Israel; "Now therefore fear the Lord, and
   serve him in sincerity and in truth" (Joshua 24:14).

   1d1. Worship in general is sincere, when it is performed "in spirit and
   in truth;" in a spiritual manner, with the whole heart and spirit, and
   under the direction and influence, and by the assistance of the Spirit
   of God, and according to the truth of the divine word, and with truth
   in the heart; for "God is a Spirit," and must be worshipped in such a
   manner; and such worshippers, and such only, are agreeable to him; but
   as for those who draw nigh to him "with their mouth, and have removed
   their heart far from him," or are insincere worshippers of him, he
   despises and rejects (John 4:23, 24; Isa. 29:13).

   1d2. Prayer in particular is to be put up to God with a true heart;
   that is, with a sincere one, with which men should draw nigh to God;
   for he is nigh to them that "call upon him in truth;" that is, in
   sincerity; it is the prayer which comes, "not out of feigned lips,"
   that God hears; it is "the prayer of the upright," that is, the sincere
   man, that is "his delight:" when such who, as the hypocrites, pray in
   synagogues and in corners of the streets, to be seen of men, are
   treated with contempt and abhorrence.

   1d3. And then sincerity appears in the observance of ordinances; when
   men, like Zacharias and Elizabeth, walk in all the commandments and
   ordinances of the Lord blameless; and keep the ordinances, as they were
   delivered, without any innovation and corruption; and when they keep
   the feast, particularly that of the Lord's Supper, not "with the leaven
   of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity
   and truth" (1 Cor. 5:8).

   1e. Fifthly, sincerity may be considered with respect to the walk and
   conversation of the saints; "Blessed are the undefiled," or the perfect
   and sincere "in the way;" in the way of God's commandments, walking
   according to the rule of the divine word, and as becomes the gospel of
   Christ (Ps. 119:1), and it is with respect to such an external walk
   before men that the apostle says, that "in simplicity," in the
   singleness of his heart, "and godly sincerity," such as God requires
   and approves of, "we have had our conversation in the world" (2 Cor.
   1:12), and they act the sincere and upright part, who,

   1e1. Desire not so much to be seen by men, as to be approved of God.
   The Pharisees, hypocrites, did all they did to be seen of men; they
   gave alms, they prayed, and zealously observed the traditions of the
   elders; and all to get applause of men: but the sincere believer
   labours, that "whether present or absent he may be accepted of God,"
   and approved by him; for not he that commends himself, and seeks the
   praise of men, "is approved," but "whom the Lord commendeth" (2 Cor.
   5:9; 10:18).

   1e2. "Who have respect to all the commandments of God, and esteem all
   his precepts, concerning all things, to be right" (Ps. 119:6, 28), and
   are careful not to break the least of his commandments; who omit not
   the weightier matters of the law, or the more important duties of
   religion, and yet neglect not lighter and lesser ones.

   1e3. Who make conscience of committing lesser as well as greater sins;
   but abstain from all appearance of evil; who desire to be cleansed, and
   to be preserved from secret sins, as well as to be kept back from
   presumptuous ones; who are as severe upon their own sins as on those of
   others, and even spare not right eye and right hand sins, those they
   are the most inclined unto; and are as careful to remove the beam out
   of their own eyes, as to observe the mote in the eyes of others.

   1e4. Who do not seek to cover, palliate, and extenuate their sins; as
   Job says, "If I cover my transgressions as Adam," and sought excuses
   for them as he did, such do not act sincerely; "He that covereth his
   sins shall not prosper" (Job 31:33; Prov. 28:13).

   1e5. The man who walks according to the rule of the word, makes that
   the standard of his practice, and walks uprightly according to the
   gospel; and walks as he has Christ for an example, as in the exercise
   of every grace, so in the performance of every duty; and walks, not
   after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

   1e6. Who has the glory of God, and the good of others in his eye, in
   all that he is concerned; who does whatever he does in things civil and
   religious with a view to promote the glory of God, and the interest of
   true religion, and the good of immortal souls; who naturally cares for
   the spiritual and eternal state of men; and whose concern throughout
   the whole of his own conversation is, that others, beholding his good
   works, may receive some benefit to themselves by his example, and
   glorify his heavenly Father. I go on to observe,

   2. From whence this grace of sincerity springs.

   2a. Not from nature; it is not from descent and by birth; indeed, our
   first parents, previous to their fall, were in a state of simplicity,
   not as that signifies folly, but singleness of heart, integrity, and
   uprightness; such was the case of Eve, before she was beguiled, and
   corrupted from her simplicity by the serpent. "God made man upright,"
   innocent, holy, and harmless; but he sinned, and lost his integrity,
   "and sought out many inventions," and excuses, to palliate and cover
   his sin; what an insincere and disingenuous part did Adam act, when he
   would have thrown off the blame of eating the forbidden fruit from
   himself, and cast it upon his wife? and of the same disposition are all
   his sons and daughters naturally; there is none upright among men; the
   most upright are sharper than a thorn hedge; and this is true, not of
   some particular nation only, and of some particular persons in it, and
   in some certain age and period of time; but of all the descendants of
   Adam; who, be they good or bad in the event, are transgressors from the
   womb, and go astray from thence, speaking lies; there is no truth m
   their inward part; yea, "their inward part is very wickedness;" not
   only wicked, but wickedness; yea, very wickedness, extremely wicked;
   the same is meant when the heart is said to be "desperately wicked,"
   irrecoverably such, but by the grace of God; hence flow all that
   dissimulation, deceit, hypocrisy, and falsehood which are in the world.

   2b. But sincerity is from the grace of God; though it is not a distinct
   grace of itself, as before observed, yet belongs to, and is an
   ingredient in every grace; and is what distinguishes true grace from
   that which is counterfeit; it is "the grace of God in truth," in
   sincerity; it is every grace with that; and it is by the grace of God
   alone that men become sincere and upright; without this men are double
   hearted, double tongued, and deceitful: there may be a show, an
   appearance of sincerity and uprightness, where there is none in
   reality; as in the scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who appeared
   outwardly righteous to men, but within were full of hypocrisy and
   iniquity.

   2c. Wherever true sincerity it, it is of God; and is therefore called,
   "Godly sincerity," or "sincerity of God," that which has God for its
   author, who is the God of all grace; he that is the maker of the heart,
   the searcher of it, and sees what is in it, can only make it sincere
   and upright; who made a profane Esau, and a plain hearted Jacob to
   differ, but God by his Spirit and grace? and these fruits of the
   Spirit, grace, uprightness, and sincerity, are only found in regenerate
   persons, new creatures, who have "put on the new man, which is created
   in righteousness and true holiness, or holiness of truth," [62] that
   which is in sincerity and reality, and not dissembled and feigned (Eph.
   5:9; 4:24). Wherefore,

   2d. Since it is of God, and him only, it is to be asked of him; he
   desires truth in the inward parts; he requires it, saying, "Thou shall
   be perfect," or upright, or sincere, "with the Lord thy God," before
   him, in his sight (Deut. 18:13; see Gen. 17:1). It is he only that can
   give a new heart and a new spirit, and create it in the new man,
   therefore to be prayed to for it by all sensible of their need of it;
   hence these petitions of David; "Renew a right spirit within me, and
   let my heart be sound in thy statutes" (Ps. 51:10; 119:80). And so the
   apostle prays for the Philippians, that they might "be sincere and
   without offence till the day of Christ" (Phil. 1:10). And the rather,

   2e. This should be sought for, since it is so much approved of by God,
   who sees and searches the heart; "I know also my God," says David,
   "that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness" (1
   Chron. 29:17). "His countenance doth behold the upright" (Ps. 11:7), he
   smiles upon him, and takes delight in him. What an approbation of Job
   does he express? and what a testimony does he give to him, because of
   his sincerity and uprightness, and his perseverance therein? (Job 1:1,
   8; 2:3). Which will still more fully appear by considering,

   3. The happiness of such who are possessed of this grace.

   3a. The light of spiritual joy and gladness is provided for such
   persons; and is in this life, at least at times, bestowed upon them
   (Ps. 97:11; 112:4).

   3b. All the blessings of grace and goodness are not only wished for,
   but given unto them: "Grace," the blessings of grace, are described to
   be "with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity;" and
   both grace and glory are given to, and "no good thing will be withheld
   from them that walk uprightly," that is fit and proper for them (Eph.
   6:24; Ps. 84:11).

   3c. Such are protected and defended from all evil, and from every
   enemy: the Lord himself "is a buckler to them that walk uprightly; yea,
   his eyes run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself
   strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect," or sincere,
   "towards him" (Isa 33:15, 16; Prov. 2:7; 2 Chron. 16:12).

   3d. Such who "walk uprightly, walk surely," on good ground, in a good
   path, and by a good rule, and "shall be saved; the way of the Lord," in
   which they walk, "is strength unto the upright," they grow stronger and
   stronger (Prov. 10:9, 29; 28:18).

   3e. Those enjoy the presence of God now; "The upright shall dwell in
   thy presence" (Ps. 140:13). "The pure in heart shall see God," and be
   with him for ever; "The upright shall have the dominion" over the
   wicked, in the morning of the resurrection; and as for the sincere and
   perfect man, his "end is peace," everlasting peace and happiness
   (Matthew 5:8; Ps. 49:14; 37:37).
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   [58] to katharon kai amiges eterou, Suidas in voce eilikrines.

   [59] So Donatus apud Vallum; but Valla himself thinks it is rather of
   sun et cera; "quasi cum cera, mel quod integrum est et solidum et nulla
   sui parte fraudatur." Elegant l. 6. c. 31.

   [60] ten eilikrine dianoian.

   [61] Matthew.

   [62] osioteti tes aletheias.
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  Chapter 22

    OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS

   The contrast between a carnal man and a spiritual man, and between
   carnal mindedness and spiritual mindedness, is very strongly expressed
   by the apostle in Romans 8:5, 6. "They that are after the flesh,"
   carnal men, sinful, and corrupt, who are as they were born, having
   nothing but flesh, sin, and corruption in them, without the Spirit, and
   his grace, who walk after the flesh, and fulfil the desires of it;
   these "mind the things of the flesh," their minds are "fleshly minds,"
   they seek nothing but the gratification of the lusts of the flesh, and
   employ themselves in doing the works of it, which are called, The sins
   of the flesh, the consequence of which is death; "For to be carnally
   minded is death," eternal death, the just wages of sin; as it must
   needs be, since such carnality is sin and sinful, and enmity against
   God, as in the following verse: now the spiritual man, and spiritual
   mindedness, and the consequence of that, are the reverse of all this.
   As will appear by considering,

   1. Who are the men who mind spiritual things, and are spiritual men.
   They are described as "they that are after the Spirit." Not all that
   think they are spiritual men, and would be thought such, are so; "If
   any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual," as a man may, and
   yet be neither; and therefore every spirit, or everyone that professes
   himself to have the Spirit, and to be a spiritual man, is not to be
   believed; but "the spirits," or such who call themselves spiritual men,
   are to be "tried" by the word of God, whether they are such or not;
   they may seem so to others, and yet not be such; and if only outwardly
   righteous, or externally reformed in their lives, they may be at most
   but moral men, not spiritual men; yea, men may have a "form of
   godliness," a show of spirituality, yet not have the truth and power of
   it; they may look like virgins, and appear as spiritually wise, and yet
   be foolish. Nor are all truly spiritual men, who have "spiritual
   gifts," as they may be called, distinct from special grace; for the
   apostle, after having discoursed of spiritual gifts, speaks of a "more
   excellent way;" and observes, that men may have various gifts,
   extraordinary and ordinary, and yet be destitute of true grace (1 Cor.
   12:1, 31; 13:1-3). Nor are such only intended who have a greater degree
   of spiritual knowledge, and of real grace than others; for though these
   are most certainly spiritual men, and of the highest class (1 Cor. 3:1;
   Gal. 6:1) yet they are not the only ones; others, who have less
   knowledge, and a lesser degree of grace, are also entitled to this
   character. Much less such are meant who have no flesh or sin in them;
   for there are no such spiritual men on earth; none but the saints in
   heaven, the spirits of just men made perfect; and who, at the
   resurrection, will have spiritual bodies. But,

   1a. They are such who are regenerated, renewed, and quickened by the
   Spirit of God; they are such as our Lord describes, as "born of water
   and of the Spirit," or of the Spirit of God compared to water; and who
   and whatsoever is so born, is spirit, or spiritual (John 3:5,6), such
   are born of God, and made partakers of the divine nature; "not of
   blood," by carnal generation and descent, "not of corruptible, but of
   incorruptible seed;" begotten again of God to a lively hope of a
   glorious inheritance, according to his abundant mercy, and of his own
   sovereign will and pleasure; and are a "kind of first fruits of his
   creatures;" yea, they are new creatures; for the grace bestowed on them
   is, "the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost;"
   they are renewed in the spirit of their minds, and have new hearts and
   new spirits given them, and the Spirit of God put into them, by whom
   they are quickened, who before were dead in trespasses and sins; but
   now the Spirit of life from God enters into them; and like the slain
   witnesses, and Ezekiel's dry bones, stand on their feet and live: and
   being thus made alive, they breathe in a spiritual manner, after
   salvation, and the way of it, and the knowledge of it; and after
   Christ, when directed to him; after God, and communion with him; after
   a discovery and application of pardoning grace and mercy: all which,
   and more things of a spiritual nature, they vehemently desire, with
   their whole souls and spirits; and may be truly said to be spiritually
   minded.

   1b. They are such who have their spiritual senses, and that in
   exercise, to discern both good and evil, to choose and mind the one,
   and to refuse and shun the other; they have a spiritual "sight," a
   discerning of things, even of spiritual things, which are only
   "spiritually discerned;" and which spiritual discernment the natural
   man has not; but the spiritual man has, and can make a judgment of
   them; try things that differ, approve the more excellent, and prefer
   them; they have the seeing eye given them, the eyes of their
   understandings are enlightened by the Spirit of wisdom and revelation,
   in the knowledge of themselves and of Christ: this one thing they can
   say, "whereas they were blind, they now see;" see themselves lost and
   undone, and Jesus as their only Saviour; and they behold his glory,
   fulness, excellency, and suitableness as a Saviour: they now hear the
   gospel with pleasure; it is a "joyful sound" to them, good news and
   glad tidings of peace, pardon, righteousness, eternal life, and
   salvation by Christ; they hear the voice of Christ, and are charmed
   with it, and their affections are drawn out to him; they hear it so as
   to understand it, and be delighted with it, and to distinguish it from
   the voice of a stranger, and therefore follow him, and not a stranger:
   they "taste," and have a gust for spiritual things; they taste that the
   Lord is gracious, and invite others to come and taste, and see how good
   he is; the words of Christ, the doctrines of the gospel, are sweeter to
   their "taste" than the honey or honeycomb; the fruits that drop from
   Christ, while sitting under his shadow, the blessings of grace, which
   are from him, are also sweet and pleasant to their palate: they
   "savour" the things which be of God and Christ, and which are of a
   spiritual nature; because of the "savour of his good ointment," his
   rich graces, their love is drawn forth to him; they "smell a sweet
   savour" in his person, righteousness, and sacrifice; all his garments,
   his garment of salvation and robe of righteousness smell of myrrh,
   aloes, and cassia: they "handle" the word of life, lay hold on Christ,
   the tree of life, and pluck, and take, and eat of the fruit that grows
   upon it; and when they have lost sight of Christ, their beloved, and
   have found him again, they embrace him in their arms, hold him fast,
   and will not let him go. The gospel of Christ is the power of God unto
   them; they receive it cordially, and the love of it, and feel it
   powerfully working in them, and find themselves strongly influenced by
   it to love and serve him.

   1c. They are capable of spiritual acts and exercises, and do perform
   them; spiritual men, and they only, "worship God in the Spirit," in a
   spiritual manner, with their spirits, and under the influence of his
   Spirit; and such worship, as it becomes their character, is only
   acceptable to God; when the worship of carnal and formal professors is
   very disagreeable to him: they can talk and converse with each other
   about spiritual things; the Lord turns unto them, or bestows upon them
   a pure language, the language of Canaan, which they speak, and in which
   they speak one to another, so as to understand and be understood by
   each other; as they are favored with abundance of rich inward
   experience, out of the abundance of their hearts their mouths speak, in
   Christian conference with one another; and their speech in common
   conversation betrays them, and shows to what company they belong, and
   that they are not carnal, but spiritual men: and they are capable of
   walking, and they do walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit;
   which distinguishes them from carnal men, and entitles them to the
   character of spiritual men; yea, they walk in the Spirit, and live in
   the Spirit, and are led by him, out and off of themselves, to Christ,
   and the fulness of grace in him, and into all truth as it is in Jesus;
   and such who are under his leadings and teachings, as they are the sons
   of God, they must be spiritual men, and mind spiritual things.

   1d. They have much of the Spirit of God in them, the several graces of
   the Spirit of God; as faith, hope, love, and all other fruits of the
   Spirit. The good work of grace, of which he is the author, the work of
   faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope, is begun in them by
   him, and will be carried on, performed and perfected; he works in them
   both to will and to do of his good pleasure, and whatsoever is well
   pleasing in the sight of God, and strengthens them to do the will and
   work of God; under his influence they exercise every grace, and grace
   is the governing principle in their souls; they are not under the law,
   but under grace, and therefore sin has not the dominion over them; but
   grace reigns, through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ
   our Lord; yea, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ, frees them from
   the law of sin and death, from the tyrannical power of it; so that they
   appear to be spiritual men, and to be spiritually alive. And even the
   Spirit of God himself dwells in them, and is the criterion which
   distinguishes them from carnal men; "Ye are not in the flesh," that is,
   ye are not carnal men; "but in the Spirit," spiritual men, "if so be
   that the spirit of God dwell in you;" and therefore called the temple
   of God and of the Holy Ghost; the world, carnal men cannot receive him,
   nor know him; but the true disciples of Christ know him; for he dwells
   with them, and shall be in them (Rom. 8:9; John 14:17), though even in
   these spiritual men there is much carnal mindedness, carnal affections,
   and lusts, and desires; "The flesh lusteth against the spirit;" and
   they are ready to say, with the apostle, "I am carnal; with the flesh I
   serve the law of sin" (Rom. 7:14, 24, 25).

   2. What the spiritual things are, spiritual men mind; from which they
   are denominated spiritually minded men.

   2a. They mind their own souls, and the spiritual and eternal welfare of
   them; not only when they were first awakened to a sense of their sinful
   state and danger, and cried out, What shall we do to be saved? and when
   they first asked the way to Zion, with their faces thitherwards, and
   first gave up themselves to the Lord, and to a church of Christ, by the
   will of God; but afterwards, by making use of all opportunities, public
   and private, for their profit and edification, to promote the
   prosperity of their souls, which spiritual men are more mindful of than
   of their bodies.

   2b. The law of God is spiritual (Rom. 7:14), and this is minded by a
   spiritual man. This has great things in it worthy of consideration, and
   to be minded, respecting the good of men and the glory of God; and yet
   many are unmindful of it, yea, cast it away and despise it, "and count
   it as a strange thing" (Hosea 8:12), unworthy of any notice and regard;
   but the spiritual man, whose eyes are spiritually enlightened, and the
   vail taken off from them, beholds "wondrous things" out of it,
   especially as in the hand of Christ, and fulfilled by him; and they may
   be said to mind it, and to be spiritually minded towards it, when they
   meditate upon it, the author, nature, and usefulness of it. It is the
   character of a good and happy man, that "in his law" (the law of God)
   "doth he meditate day and night;" not in it as a terrifying, cursing,
   and condemning law; but as instructing, and informing into the nature
   of sin and duty, and as magnified and made honorable by Christ, who has
   fulfilled both the preceptive and penal part of it; and of which David
   says, "O how love I thy law, it is my meditation all the day!" (Ps.
   1:2; 119:97), yea, spiritual men not only love it, "and great peace
   have they which love thy law;" but they delight in it, as did that
   spiritual man the apostle Paul; "I delight in the law of God after the
   inner man;" see (Ps. 1:2; Rom. 7:22), and they are willingly subject to
   it, and serve it with pleasure. The "carnal mind," phronema tes sarkos,
   "the wisdom, of the flesh;" or the man who is under the influence of
   it, and is carnally minded, is "enmity against God; for it is not
   subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be;" but the wisdom of
   the Spirit, or he who is under the influence of that, and is
   spiritually minded, is subject to it, and with his mind serves the law
   of God.

   2c. The gospel, and the truths of it, which are spiritual things; "If,"
   says the apostle, "we have sown unto you spiritual things," the seed of
   the word, and the precious truths of the gospel, "is it a great thing,
   if we should reap your carnal things?" partake of somewhat of your
   worldly substance (1 Cor. 9:11), these are the things of the Spirit of
   God, or the spiritual things which the natural man receives not,
   because foolishness to him; as the doctrine of the cross, or the
   doctrine of salvation by a crucified Christ is; nor does he know it,
   value and esteem it, it being only spiritually discerned; which
   spiritual discernment he has not; but the spiritual man judges
   spiritual truths, and discerns the difference of them from others, and
   the true value of them; his taste discerns perverse things, and
   distinguishes good and bad; and he esteems the word of truth more than
   his necessary food, and counts them savory food, such as his soul
   loves; he finds the word of salvation by Christ, and he eats it, and it
   is the joy and rejoicing of his heart; it is like Ezekiel's roll, which
   was in his mouth "as honey for sweetness;" it is "the sincere milk of
   the word" which newborn babes desire; and is meat for strong men, to
   which spiritual men have their minds well inclined: and on divine and
   evangelical truths they dwell in their thoughts and meditations; as on
   the doctrines of everlasting love, of the covenant of grace, and the
   transactions of it; "We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in
   the midst of thy temple!" and on the doctrines relating to the person,
   offices, grace, and righteousness of Christ; to which may be applied
   the words of the Psalmist, "My meditation him shall be sweet!" (Ps.
   48:9; 104:34).

   2d. Spiritual blessings are minded by spiritual men; such as the elect
   of God are blessed with in heavenly places in Christ (Eph 1:3), as
   election in Christ, acceptance with God in him, redemption, pardon,
   justification, adoption, and eternal life; these are things spiritually
   minded men have their hearts set upon, and are often revolving in their
   minds; these are blessings indeed, which they are importunately
   desirous of; they seek first the "kingdom of God and righteousness,"
   and such like spiritual and heavenly things; believing, that all other
   things of a worldly kind shall be given unto them, needful for them,
   about which they are not anxiously solicitous, not minding them in
   comparison of others.

   2e. Being built up a "spiritual" house, and being a holy spiritual
   priesthood; they are concerned to offer up "spiritual sacrifices,
   acceptable to God by Jesus Christ," even the sacrifices of prayer and
   praise, which they offer up by their great High priest, and which
   become sweet odors, being perfumed with the incense of his mediation;
   and they themselves are made joyful in the house of prayer, their
   offerings being accepted with God upon his altar; which draw their
   spiritual minds hither, and make them intent upon such sacrifices.

   2f. Spiritually minded men employ themselves in spiritual services;
   they present their bodies a holy, living, and acceptable sacrifice,
   which is but their reasonable service; and concerned they are to serve
   the Lord in every religious duty acceptably, with reverence and godly
   fear, and in righteousness and holiness all the days of their lives.
   Moreover,

   2g. They exercise themselves in each of the graces of the Spirit of
   God; their minds are very intent upon, and very desirous of a growth in
   every grace, that their faith may be increased and grow exceedingly;
   that they may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost; and
   that their love also might abound yet more and more. To all which may
   be added,

   2h. That spiritually minded men have their hearts, affections, and
   conversations in heaven; their hearts are where their treasure is, and
   that is in heaven; their affections are set on things above, where
   Jesus is; and their conversation is in heaven, from whence they expect
   Jesus their Saviour.

   3. It may next be inquired, how any of the sons of men come to be
   spiritual men, and to be spiritually minded. They are not so naturally,
   or by their first birth; they are born of the flesh, and are flesh,
   carnal, sinful, and corrupt; their "minds are fleshly," or they are
   carnally minded; their minds and consciences are defiled with sin, and
   from thence nothing proceeds but what is sinful; their minds are vain
   and empty, and they walk in the vanity of their minds; they are without
   God, any true knowledge of him, love to him, and fear of him; they have
   not learned Christ, and think nothing about him; they are sensual, not
   having the Spirit, nor any of his graces: they mind earth, and earthly
   things, these engross all their thoughts, affections, and desires; all
   that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and
   the pride of life, are the principal entertainments of their minds, and
   what they are chiefly conversant with; their natural bias is to that
   which is evil; the imagination of the thought of their heart is evil,
   and that continually yea, their hearts are fully set in them to do
   evil; and such is the disposition of their minds, that they cannot
   think anything of themselves, especially that which is spiritually
   good. This being then the case of the minds of men naturally, there
   must be a renewing of the mind, or it must be cast into a different
   mould: ere a man can be spiritually minded, he must have a new heart
   and a new spirit put within him; the Spirit of God must "work" in him
   "to will," must give him an inclination and disposition to that which
   is spiritually good; he must enlighten his mind, and fill it with the
   knowledge of spiritual things; must put the laws of God into the minds
   of men, and write them in their hearts; he must influence and attract
   their affections to spiritual things, and make them in love with them,
   and thoroughly convince them of the evil of carnal mindedness, and the
   sad effect of it, death; and of the advantages of spiritual mindedness,
   next to be considered.

   4. The effects and consequences, and so the evidence of being
   spiritually minded.

   4a. First, life: "To be spiritually minded is life:" they must be alive
   who are spiritually minded, and they must be alive in a spiritual
   sense; their spiritual mindedness is an evidence of their spiritual
   life, and makes it plainly appear that they are in such sense alive.
   This is manifest,

   4a1. From the exercise of their senses, before observed; they have
   their spiritual senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and
   feeling; and therefore must have life, without which there can be no
   senses, and the exercise of them; as he who has his natural senses must
   be naturally alive, so he that has his spiritual senses must be
   spiritually alive.

   4a2. From acts of spiritual life performed by them; they breathe after
   spiritual things; prayer is the breath of every spiritually minded man;
   "Behold, he prays!" and this shows life; he discourses of spiritual
   things, which discovers the temper and disposition of his mind; his
   walk and conversation is spiritual, he walks and lives by faith on
   Christ, and walks on in him as he has received him.

   4a3. From the lively exercise of grace in him, and fervent discharge of
   duty. His faith is a living; and not a dead faith; his hope is lively,
   and his love is as strong as death, and cannot be destroyed by it: all
   which evidence his spiritual life; and the exercise of these graces
   evidences his spiritual mindedness; and hence follow a fervency of
   spirit in serving the Lord, and a running in his ways without
   weariness, and a walking without fainting.

   4a4. Such who are spiritually minded are not only alive themselves, but
   they are the means of enlivening others by their spiritual
   conversation; by their spiritual counsel and advice: by their spiritual
   consolation they administer, and by their spiritual exhortations
   stirring up to love and good works.

   4a5. Spiritual mindedness issues in everlasting life; which is the gift
   of God, and flows from his grace; which all that are spiritually minded
   partake of, and shall have it; this is certain from the promise, that
   whosoever seeth the Son, and believes in him, should not perish, but
   have everlasting life; and from the grace of God in them, which is a
   well of living water springing up unto everlasting life; and from the
   Spirit of God in them, the earnest of it, and who makes meet for
   eternal life, and introduces into it, because of the righteousness of
   Christ, which entitles to it.

   4b. Secondly, another effect and consequent of spiritual mindedness is
   peace; "To be spiritually minded is peace;" inward peace of soul, which
   is a fruit of the Spirit, and is had in a way of believing in Christ;
   it flows from the righteousness of Christ received by faith, and from
   his peace speaking blood in the conscience; and the spiritual things
   their minds are conversant with, are productive of internal peace, and
   serve to maintain and increase it. Spiritually minded persons are of
   peaceable dispositions; they are desirous to "lead a quiet and
   peaceable life," under whatsoever government they be; and "as much as
   lieth in them," they endeavour to "live peaceably with all men," in the
   neighborhoods in which they are; to promote peace in their families,
   and among their friends; and "study to keep the unity of the Spirit in
   the bond of peace," among the saints in a church state, in which they,
   are; to do otherwise would be to act the carnal part, and walk as men
   (1 Cor. 3:3). And to close all, spiritual mindedness issues in
   everlasting peace, the end of such a man is peace, he departs in peace,
   he enters into it; and this is his everlasting portion and happiness.
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  Chapter 23

    OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE

   The exercise of a good conscience is a branch of internal religion, and
   is concerned with the worship of God; God is to be "served with a pure
   conscience" (2 Tim. 1:3). And it has to do not only with things natural
   and legal, accusing or excusing, as the law of nature directs; and with
   things civil, with obedience to civil magistrates, to whom we are to be
   subject, "not only for wrath," or fear of punishment, "but also for
   conscience sake;" their office being of God, and an ordinance of his
   (Rom. 2:14,15; 13:5), but likewise with things religious, spiritual,
   and evangelical; things respecting both doctrine and practice; "The
   mystery of the faith," or the peculiar and sublime doctrines of the
   gospel, are to be held "in a pure conscience;" and the ministry of the
   word is to be exercised, "holding faith," the doctrine of faith, and a
   "good conscience" with it (1 Tim. 3:9; 1:19; see Heb. 13:18), yea,
   every good work, rightly performed, springs from hence (1 Tim. 1:5). A
   good conscience has God for its object, it respects his word, will, and
   worship; and therefore is called, "conscience towards God" (1 Pet.
   2:19), as repentance is repentance towards God, and faith is faith
   toward our Lord Jesus Christ; or suneidhsiV qeou, "conscience of God,"
   which is of God, has God for its author, being implanted in the mind of
   man by him; it is God's vicegerent, which acts for him, and under him,
   and is accountable to him. I shall consider,

   1. First, what conscience is, and its office.

   1a. First, what it is. It is a power or faculty of the rational soul of
   man; by which it knows its own actions, and judges of them according to
   the light it has: some take it to be an habit of the mind; others an
   act of the practical judgment, flowing from the faculty of the
   understanding by the force of some certain habit.

   1a1. It is a "science," or knowledge, as its name shows; a knowledge of
   the will of God, and of a man's actions, as being agreeable or
   disagreeable to it; it is a "common" science or knowledge, and
   therefore called "conscience," common with other men, and also with
   God; by which it knows what is true, just, and right with God, and so
   what is fit to be done or not done; it is that by which a man is
   conscious to himself of his secret thoughts, as well as of his actions;
   it is the spirit of a man, which only knows the things of a man within
   him, and knows those things which only God and himself knows.

   1a2. From this knowledge arises a judgment which conscience forms of
   itself and actions, and accordingly approves or disapproves of them,
   and excuses or accuses for them; to which judgment the apostle refers
   when he says, "If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged" (1
   Cor. 11:31), and this is made in the view of the judgment of God, and
   is submitted to that, and has that joined with it, it is a joint
   testimony; and even sometimes God himself appeals to the judgment of
   conscience, as well as conscience appeals to God; "Judge, I pray you,
   betwixt me and my vineyard" (Isa. 5:3; see Rom. 9:1).

   1a3. It is the will of God revealed, which is the rule of conscience,
   its knowledge and judgment; either revealed by the law and light of
   nature, which was the rule to the Gentiles, who had not the written law
   (Rom. 2:14, 15), or by the moral law written, which contains that good,
   perfect, and acceptable will of God, concerning things to be done or
   not done; or by the gospel, which instructs in the doctrines of grace,
   and enforces the duties of religion by them, and is a rule to walk by
   (Gal. 6:16).

   1a4. Hence nothing can bind the conscience but the law and will of God;
   it is God's vicegerent, acts for and under him, and receives its
   authority and instructions from him, and is accountable to him, and to
   no other; it is a debtor to him, and owes obedience to his will; it is
   constrained by it, laid under a necessity to observe it, and cannot do
   otherwise: let men say what they will to the contrary, or be clothed
   with what authority they may, parents, masters, magistrates, have no
   power over children, servants, and subjects to oblige them to what is
   contrary to the dictates of conscience, according to the will of God;
   no laws of men are binding on conscience, which are not according to,
   or are contrary to the law and will of God; "We ought to obey God,
   rather than men," is the determination of the apostles of Christ (Acts
   4:19, 20; 5:29).

   1b. Secondly, the office of conscience, what it does and ought to
   perform, when it does its duty.

   1b1. It is a light to enlighten men in the knowledge of the will of
   God; it is that light which lightens every man that comes into the
   world; which is had from Christ the Creator of men; and shows unto men
   what is their duty to God and man; it informs them both what they are
   to do, and what to avoid; "The spirit of man," which is his natural
   conscience, is "the candle of the Lord," which he lights up in the soul
   of man, "searching" the inmost recesses of the heart; especially if
   enlightened by the word and Spirit of God (John 1:9; Prov. 20:27).

   1b2. It takes cognizance of a man's actions; it keeps a good lookout,
   and watches over them; it has a sort of an omniscience belonging to it;
   it sees all his goings, yea, it sees his heart, and what passes through
   that, marks his ways and works, and numbers his steps.

   1b3. It takes an account of them, and registers them; it is a book in
   which all are written; and though it may be shut up for the present,
   and little looked into, there is a judgment to come, when the books
   will be opened, and the book of conscience among the rest; according to
   which men will be judged.

   1b4. It acts the part of a witness for or against men, as even in the
   heathens; "Their conscience bearing witness" to their actions, good or
   evil; and so their thoughts excused or accused one another. So the
   conscience of a good man bears witness for him, and is a co-witness
   with the Holy Ghost, to which he can appeal, as the apostle did (Rom.
   9:1), so the consciences of Joseph's brethren witnessed against them,
   when they said, "We are verily guilty concerning our brother" (Gen.
   42:21), hence the common saying, "Conscience is as a thousand
   witnesses;" it is so whether as good [63] or bad.

   1b5. Conscience is a judge, acquitting or condemning. So the conscience
   of Samuel acquitted him of all charges that could be brought against
   him, as did God and his people also (1 Sam. 12:5). Such a clear
   conscience had Job; "My heart," says he, that is, my conscience, "shall
   not reproach," or condemn "me, so long as I live" (Job 27:6). In this
   sense the apostle uses the phrase, and points at the office of
   conscience (1 John 3:20, 21).

   1b6. In wicked men it has the office of a punisher, or tormentor; and a
   greater punishment, and a more severe torment cannot well be endured
   than the stings and lashes of a man's own conscience; [64] this is what
   the scripture calls the worm that never dies; and the heathens meant by
   a vulture feeding on men's hearts or livers.

   2. Secondly, the various sorts of conscience; which may be reduced to
   these two, an evil conscience (Heb. 10:22), and a "good conscience" (1
   Tim. 1:19).

   2a. First, an evil conscience; the consequences of which are guilt,
   terror, distress, and sorrow, sooner or later, unless the heart is
   purged from it by the blood of Christ; of which there are different
   sorts.

   2a1. Which is blind and ignorant, arising from an understanding
   darkened and alienated from the life of God, through ignorance; when in
   some it comes to that pass, as to have lost the distinction between
   good and evil, and between darkness and light; and some do not care to
   come to the light, lest their deeds should be reproved; and others,
   like corrupt judges, are bribed with a gift, which blinds the eyes of
   the wise; and others are so sottishly superstitious, that they think
   they do God service when they take away the lives of his people; and
   such a conscience was Saul's, when he thought he ought to do many
   things contrary to the name of Jesus, and therefore made havoc of the
   church.

   2a2. A dull, heavy, stupid conscience, which is no more affected than a
   man that is asleep; and though in danger, as a man asleep in the midst
   of the sea, and on the top of the mast, yet careless, unconcerned, and
   secure; and though stricken and beaten feels it not, and is quite
   stupified; and like a man in a lethargy, unless a great noise is made,
   is not easily roused; as Pharaoh, whose conscience was alarmed with the
   thunder and lightnings, and then he owned he had sinned; but when these
   were over, he returned to his former hardness and stupidity: and even
   in good men conscience may be lulled asleep, and continue stupid for a
   considerable time; as in the case of David, till Nathan was sent to
   him, and charged his conscience, saying, "Thou art the man."

   2a3. A partial one, when it overlooks greater sins, and is very severe
   on lesser ones; as Saul bore hard on the Israelites for the breach of a
   ceremonial law, in eating flesh with the blood, when he made no scruple
   of slaying fourscore and five priests of the Lord at once: and as the
   chief priests, who pretended it was not lawful to put the money into
   the treasury wherewith Christ was betrayed, because it was the price of
   blood, and yet it was the same money these wicked men had given to
   Judas to betray him: and likewise it is partial, when it suffers a man
   to neglect duties and services of the greatest importance, and puts him
   upon lesser ones; as Saul in his conscience thought he did well when he
   killed the lean kine, and spared the best of the flock and herd: and so
   the Pharisees, who omitted the weightier matters of the law, and were
   strict to observe the traditions of the elders, which were no part of
   the law.

   2a4. A bribed one; as Herod's conscience was bribed with his oath, and
   pleaded that for the cutting off of the head of John the Baptist: and
   the Jews endeavoured to make their conscience easy, in pleading for the
   taking away the life of Christ, that they had a law, that he who made
   himself the Son of God should die.

   2a5. An impure one, as the conscience of every unregenerate man is;
   "unto them that are defiled and unbelieving, is nothing pure; but even
   their mind and conscience is defiled" (Titus 1:15), and so the
   conscience of a weak brother may be defiled through the imprudent use
   of a liberty, by a stronger on (1 Cor. 8:7).

   2a6. A seared one, one cauterized, seared, as it were, with a red hot
   iron (1 Tim. 4:2), and so becomes insensible of sin and danger, and
   past feeling any remorse for sin; it is without any consciousness of
   it, and repentance for it (Jer. 8:6).

   2a7. A desperate one, or one filled with despair; as Cain's was, when
   he said, "My punishment is greater than I can bear;" and Judas's, who
   said, "I have sinned, in that I have betrayed innocent blood!" and went
   and killed himself: and especially such will be the consciences of the
   damned in hell, whose worm dieth not, but they will be ever in black
   despair.

   2b. Secondly, a good conscience. There may be in unregenerate men, a
   conscience in its kind good; it may be naturally good, when it is not
   morally, spiritually, and evangelically good. Conscience, when it does
   its office according to its light, is a natural good conscience; as in
   the heathens, though they were guilty of sins their conscience did not
   charge them with; so the apostle Paul, before his conversion, "lived in
   all good conscience" (Acts 23:1), though a blasphemer and a persecutor.
   And there may be in good men a conscience not commendable, and which,
   in a sense, cannot be called good. As,

   2b1. There may be in them a mistaken and erring conscience; "Some with
   conscience of the idol," thinking it to be something, when it is
   nothing, "eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their conscience
   being weak is defiled" (1 Cor. 8:7).

   2b2. A doubting conscience. The apostle Paul had no doubt, but was
   firmly persuaded, "that there is nothing unclean of itself;" yet
   observes, "that he that doubteth" whether it is unclean or not, and to
   be eaten or not, "is damned," that is, is condemned by himself (Rom.
   14:14, 23).

   2b3. A weak conscience; which arises from weakness of faith about
   things lawful and pure (Rom. 14:1, 14; 1 Cor. 8:7), which is soon and
   easily disquieted, grieved, and troubled, at seeing others do that
   which it doth not approve of (Rom. 14:15), and which at once judges and
   condemns another man's liberty (Rom. 14:3; 1 Cor. 10:29), or which, by
   the example of others, is easily drawn to the doing of that by which it
   is defiled, wounded, and destroyed, as to its peace and comfort (1 Cor.
   8:7 ,9-12).

   2b4. A conscience smitten and wounded, which, though not sinful, may be
   said to be evil, and not good, because distressed; thus David's heart,
   or conscience, smote him when he had numbered the people, and made him
   very uneasy, disquieted and uncomfortable; and sometimes it is so
   smitten, pricked, and wounded, and so loaded with guilt, that it is
   intolerable; a "wounded spirit," or conscience, "who can bear?" (Prov.
   18:14).

   2b5. There is a conscience enlightened and awakened with a sense of sin
   and danger; which, though for the present distressing, issues well; as
   in the three thousand pricked in their hearts, who said to the
   apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" and in the jailor, who
   came trembling before Paul and Silas, and said, "Sirs, what must I do
   to be saved?" which, though attended with great agonies in both
   instances, issued well, in repentance unto life and salvation, not to
   be repented of; the immediate effects of a truly awakened conscience,
   are shame and confusion of face for sin; as in our first parents, who
   attempted to cover their nakedness, and hide themselves; see (Rom.
   6:22), dread of the divine Being, fear of punishment, and wrath to come
   (Rom. 4:15), an ingenuous confession of sin, and sorrow for it (1 Tim.
   1:13; 2 Cor. 7:10), from which shame, fear, and sorrow, it is relieved
   by a discovery and application of pardon through the blood of Christ,
   which, and which only, makes the conscience a good one. The epithets of
   a good conscience are,

   2b5a. A tender one; as in Josiah, trembled under a sense of sin,
   affected with a godly sorrow for it, one that cannot easily comply with
   a temptation to commit sin; as in Joseph, who said to his mistress,
   tempting him, "How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against
   God?" and having the fear of God before its eyes, and on its heart,
   cannot do what others do; as Nehemiah (2 Kings 22:19; Gen. 39:9; Neh.
   5:15).

   2b5b. A conscience void of offence; such as the apostle Paul was
   studiously concerned to exercise (Acts 24:16), careful not to offend,
   by sinning against God, and to give no offence to Jew nor Gentile, nor
   to the church of God; and this he studied to have "always;" not at one
   time only, but continually; and not in some things only, but in "all
   things" (Heb. 13:18).

   2b5c. A pure conscience (1 Tim. 3:9; 2 Tim. 1:3). Conscience is defiled
   with sin, as all the powers and faculties of the soul are: a pure or
   purified conscience, is a conscience purged from the dead works of sin
   by the blood of Christ; an heart sprinkled from an evil conscience by
   the same; that is the fountain to wash in for sin and for uncleanness,
   that only cleanses from all sin (Heb. 9:14; 10:22), such a conscience
   is only a good one.

   3. Thirdly, The effects of a good and pure conscience; which must make
   it very desirable and valuable.

   3a. Freedom from the guilt of sin. This the priests under the law could
   not remove with their sacrifices, and so could not "make the comers to
   them perfect;" could not make their consciences perfect, nor ease them
   of the burden of sin, and purge them from the guilt of it; then they
   would have "had no more conscience of sins," whereas there was an
   annual remembrance of them, notwithstanding these sacrifices. From
   whence it appears, that such who have a truly purged and purified
   conscience, by the precious blood and better sacrifice of Christ, "have
   no more conscience of sins" they are purged from: not but that they
   make conscience, and are careful to avoid committing sin; but the guilt
   of sins being removed by the blood of Christ, their consciences do not
   condemn them for sins that have been committed by them, and from which
   they are purged (Heb. 10:1,2).

   3b. Peace of soul and tranquillity of mind. The blood of Christ "speaks
   better things than that of Abel; the blood of Abel," in the conscience
   of his brother, the murderer, spoke terror, wrath, and damnation; but
   the blood of Christ, in the conscience of a sinner, purified by it,
   speaks peace, pardon, and salvation; one that is justified by faith in
   the blood and righteousness of Christ, has peace with God, and peace in
   himself; the effect of this is, "quietness and assurance for ever."

   3c. Joy, as well as peace, is another effect of a good and pure
   conscience; especially when atonement for sin by the sacrifice of
   Christ is applied and received into it (Rom. 5:11), yea, the testimony
   of conscience, with respect to integrity and uprightness in
   conversation, under the influence of divine grace, yields joy and
   pleasure to a good man (2 Cor. 1:12), as an evil conscience troubles
   and distresses, and gives sorrow; a good conscience exhilarates, and
   makes joyful and cheerful; [65] the wise man says, "a merry heart,"
   which some interpret of a good conscience, "makes a cheerful
   countenance, and hath a continual feast" (Prov. 15:13, 15).

   3d. Boldness, confidence, and glorying in the midst of calumnies,
   reproaches, and persecutions from the world, is another effect of it; a
   man of a good conscience can defy all his enemies, and put them on
   proof of making good their calumnies, and can easily refute them; as
   Samuel said (1 Sam. 12:3), and such a man, for "conscience towards God,
   can endure grief, suffering wrongfully;" not as an evil doer, but as a
   Christian; and therefore is not ashamed, but "glorifies God on this
   behalf" (1 Pet. 2:19; 4:15, 16), yea, if a man's heart and conscience
   does not condemn him, then has he "confidence towards God" (1 John
   3:21), as well as towards men. [66]

   3e. The effect of a good conscience, purified by the blood of Jesus, is
   a deliverance from the fears of death and judgment to come; such a man
   is not "afraid of evil tidings" now, of evil times approaching, and of
   judgments coming upon the earth; nor is he terrified at the alarms of
   death, but meets it with a composed mind, and has confidence that he
   shalt not be ashamed before the Judge of all at his coming. And these
   are so many arguments why, Such a conscience is to be "held," and held
   fast; a good man should exercise himself to have it, and to exercise
   it, and himself in it, and be careful to do nothing contrary to it; but
   make use of all means to preserve it, by frequently communing with his
   own heart, by taking heed to his ways, and by having respect to all the
   commandments of God; and especially should deal with the blood of
   Christ continually for the purifying of his heart by faith in it, and
   for cleansing him from all sin.
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   [63] "Bona conscientia turbam advocat; male etiam in solitudine anxi a
   atque solicita est----O te miserum si contemnis hunc testem," Seneca,
   Ep. 13.

   [64] "Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius," Plaut.
   Mostellar. act. 3. sc. 1. v. 13.

   [65] "Gaudium hoc non nascitur nisi ex virtutum conscientia; non potest
   gaudere nisi fortis, nisi justus, nisi temperans." --Seneca, Ep. 59.

   [66] "----hic murus aheneus esto, Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere
   culpa." ----Hor. Ep. l. 1. ep. 1. l. 60.
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  Chapter 24

    OF COMMUNION WITH GOD

   Communion with God is the top of the saints experience in this life, it
   is the height of experimental religion and powerful godliness. This, of
   all the enjoyments of God's people on earth, is the nearest to the
   heavenly bliss; and could entire "perfection" and "endless duration" be
   added to it, it would be that. I shall consider,

   1. First, communion with God in general, which appears chiefly in a
   large communication of grace, and the blessings of it from him conveyed
   through Christ, and applied by the blessed Spirit; and in a free
   exercise or grace upon him, under a divine influence: in all which is
   enjoyed much of the divine presence.

   1a. First, communion is founded in union, and arises from it. There is
   an union between God and his people; for the more open manifestation
   and evidence of which our Lord prays (John 17:21), "That they all may
   be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may
   be one in us!" This original union is a federal union between God and
   them, taking them into a covenant relation to himself; by virtue of
   which he becomes their God, and they become his people; it is a
   conjugal union between them, as between husband and wife; "thy Maker is
   thine Husband" (Isa. 54:5). The evidence of which union is the gift of
   the Spirit to them in regeneration and conversion; when there appears
   to be a vital union and a mutual inhabitation of God in them, and of
   them in God; "hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us,
   because he hath given us of his Spirit" (1 John 4:13). The bond of this
   union is the everlasting love of God to them. As it is the love of one
   friend to another which knits their souls together; as the soul of
   Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his
   own soul; and as the saints in a spiritual relation are "knit together
   in love," and by it; love is the cement which unites them: so it is the
   love of God in his heart towards his people which attracts them to him,
   and unites them with him; and which bond is indissoluble; for nothing
   shall be able to "separate from the love of God," nor to separate from
   him, who are interested in his love; and in the manifestation of this
   love unto them lies much of their sensible communion with God; as an
   effect and evidence of this his everlasting love to them, he with
   lovingkindness draws them to himself in the effectual calling, when
   large displays are made of it to them, and at times they have some
   plentiful effusions of it; the love of God is shed abroad in their
   hearts, by the Spirit that is given them, and their hearts are directed
   into the love of God; insomuch that they are "rooted and grounded" in
   it, and are persuaded of their interest in it; and comprehend, with all
   saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of it;
   they are made to drink largely of this river of pleasure, the river,
   the streams whereof make glad the city of God; in the participation of
   which they have much solace and refreshment, and enjoy much communion
   with God.

   1b. Secondly, the grand blessing of grace flowing from this union, is
   covenant interest in God; than which there cannot be a greater
   blessing; "happy is that people whose God is the Lord!" and this
   covenant interest always continues, it can never be destroyed; "This
   God is our God for ever and ever!" and this is the foundation blessing,
   from whence all others take their rise; "he that is our God, is the God
   of salvation!" of all the blessings of it (Ps. 144:15; 48:14; 68:20),
   of all the spiritual blessings saints are blessed with in Christ, and
   of all grace from him, and all the supplies of it; "My God," my
   covenant God, "shall supply all your need!" (Eph. 1:3; Phil. 4:19). Now
   in the perception and enjoyment of this grand blessing, covenant
   interest in God, communion with him greatly lies; God sometimes says to
   his people, even when they are fearing and doubting, "Be not dismayed,
   for I am thy God!" and they in the exercise of faith say, as David, "I
   trusted in thee, O Lord, I said unto thee, Thou art may God!" (Isa.
   41:10; Ps. 31:14), they avouch the Lord to be their God, and he
   avouches them to be his peculiar people; "I will say," says the Lord,
   "It is my people; and they shall say, The Lord is my God!" (Zech.
   13:9), and when this is the case, sensible communion with God must be
   enjoyed: the Lord is the portion of his people; and when he says to
   them as he did to Abraham, "I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great
   reward;" and they in return say, "The Lord is my portion, saith my
   soul, therefore will I hope in him" (Gen. 15:1; Lam. 3:24), their
   portion now in the land of the living, and their portion for evermore;
   under such a discovery, and in such a view of things, there must be
   communion with God: they have a mutual interest in each other; the
   Lord's people is his portion, and he himself is the portion of Jacob;
   and therefore with great propriety may they be said to be "heirs of
   God;" an amazing phrase! expressive of property, interest, and
   fellowship. Hence,

   1c. Thirdly, there is a mutual intercourse between God and his people;
   which is variously expressed in scripture.

   1c1. By their mutual indwelling in each other, and which follows upon
   covenant interest, and is an evidence of it; as was the Lord's dwelling
   among the people of Israel; "I will dwell," says Jehovah, "among the
   children of Israel, and will be their God," make it manifest to them
   thereby, as follows, "and they shall know that am the Lord their God;"
   hence he ordered a "sanctuary" to be made, that he might "dwell among
   them;" and in this sanctuary, or tabernacle, an ark was put, and over
   the ark a mercy seat, and on that the cherubim, between which Jehovah
   dwelt; and from whence he promised to commune with Moses concerning all
   things relative to the people of Israel: an emblem this of saints
   communion with God, through Christ, at the throne of grace (Ex. 29:45,
   46; 25:8, 22). And God not only dwells in particular congregated
   churches of Christ, who are built up an habitation for God, through the
   Spirit; such as were the churches at Corinth and at Ephesus (2 Cor.
   6:16; Eph. 2:22), but in particular persons, who love Christ, and keep
   his commandments; of whom he says, "We will come unto him, and make our
   abode with him!" a phrase expressive of constant and continued
   communion at least for a while (John 14:23), and on the other hand,
   such dwell in God, who has been "the dwelling place of his people in
   all generations," and is "their strong habitation, whereunto they may
   continually resort" (Ps. 90:1; 71:3), and such dwell in God, who live
   in the continual exercise of grace upon him; and particularly of the
   grace of love towards him, and towards his people; "He that dwelleth in
   love, dwelleth in God, and God in him" (1 John 4:16), this is
   communion.

   1c2. By a mutual walking together; which shows agreement, and is
   expressive of fellowship; "Can two walk together, except they be
   agreed?" (Amos 3:3). God and his people are agreed; reconciliation to
   God is made for them by the death of Christ, and reconciliation is made
   in them by the Spirit of Christ; and both are signified in (Rom. 5:10),
   and being thus agreed, they walk together; God walked with the children
   of Israel in a tent and in a tabernacle, which moved from place to
   place; and he walks in the midst of his golden candlesticks, particular
   churches, as he has promised; "I will dwell in them, and walk in them;"
   and so in individual believers (2 Cor. 6:16), and they walk with him;
   thus "Enoch walked with God;" as did Noah and others (Gen. 5:24; 6:9),
   as do all believers, they walk by faith on God as their covenant God,
   and walk humbly before him, and in all his commandments and ordinances
   blameless; in which they have much communion with him.

   1c3. By a mutual converse together; they talk together, God speaks to
   them, and they speak to him; such familiar fellowship had Abraham with
   God, about the affair of Sodom; which, when over, it is said, "he left
   communing with him" (Gen. 18:33), and such had Moses also, with whom
   God is said to "commune," to talk with him, and to "speak" to him "face
   to face" (Ex. 25:22; 31:18; 33:9, 11), and something similar to this,
   is the experience of all the saints, when the Lord appears unto them,
   and talks with them, and tells them that he has loved them with an
   everlasting love, and has drawn them to himself with the cords of it;
   when he visits them, and discloses the secrets of his heart unto them
   (Ps. 25:14), and they talk with him, and speak to him in prayer; they
   have access to him through Christ, and that with freedom and boldness,
   through his blood and righteousness, and come up even to his seat, and
   tell him all their mind, make known their requests unto him, and pour
   out their souls before him; much of communion with God lies in prayer,
   private, family, and public.

   1c4. By a mutual sitting down and feasting together; the table on which
   the shewbread, or bread of faces, was set, was typical of the saints
   communion with God, and the enjoyment of his presence, through the
   mediation of Christ; so was the meat offering, part of which was burnt
   for a savour, a memorial of it to the Lord, and the rest was eaten by
   Aaron and his sons. God has spread a table for his people, and made a
   feast of fat things for them, on his holy mountain; where they feast
   with hint, and he with them; more particularly in the ordinance of the
   Lord's Supper, in which much spiritual communion is enjoyed; of which
   more hereafter.

   2. Secondly, who the persons are who have communion with God.

   2a. First. not unregenerate men, such who are in a state of nature; for
   they are in a state of alienation from the life of God; they are at a
   distance from him, their sins separate between God and them. Adam, in
   his state of innocence, had nearness to and communion with God; God
   frequently conversed with him, made known his mind and will to him, and
   bestowed very special favors upon him; but that whisperer, sin, soon
   separated chief friends; and man falling into sin, was banished from
   the divine presence; "So he drove out the man" from the garden of Eden,
   as an emblem of the estrangement of him and his posterity from God;
   which is the case of them all.

   2b. Secondly, not any who are in the native darkness and blindness of
   their understandings, and walk therein; which is the condition all men
   are in by nature; everyone "walks in darkness:" and now "what communion
   hath light with darkness?" as persons enlightened by the Spirit and
   grace of God, can have no spiritual communion with such who are
   altogether in the dark about spiritual things; much less can there be
   any communion between God, who is light, and such who walk in darkness
   (1 John 2:11; 1:5, 6).

   2c. Thirdly, such who are dead in sin, as all men naturally are, can
   have no communion with God; for as "what agreement hath the temple of
   God" (the temple of the living God) "with idols?" lifeless creatures:
   so what agreement can there be between the living God and dead sinners?
   such must be quite strangers to a life of communion with God; when it
   is "a time of life," and so of open love, then, and not before, does
   God spread his skirt over such persons, as a token of their conjugal
   relation to him, and enters into covenant with them, or manifests to
   them their covenant interest in him; and so they openly become his, and
   are admitted to fellowship with him (Ezek. 16:8).

   2d. Fourthly, no unholy and unrighteous persons have communion with
   God; for "what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?" as
   not righteous men with unrighteous men in a church state; so not a
   pure, holy, and righteous God, with impure and unsanctified sinners;
   even with none but such who are created in righteousness and true
   holiness; who are washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the
   Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

   2e. Fifthly, not any in whom sin is the governing principle; in whom it
   reigns, and who commit it with as much boldness and impudence as if
   they had a law for it (Ps. 94:20), but God is of such unspotted purity
   and holiness, that he cannot take pleasure in sin, neither shall evil
   men dwell with him, not now nor hereafter; but shall be bid to depart
   from him as workers of iniquity. But,

   2e1. Such only have communion with God, or are admitted to fellowship
   with him, who are loved and chosen by him; such whom for the great love
   wherewith he has loved them, he has quickened them by his Spirit and
   grace, and with lovingkindness has drawn them to himself; those whom he
   has chosen to be holy, and without blame before him in love, he causes
   to approach to him now, and gives them nearness to him, and fellowship
   with him.

   2e2. Such who are redeemed and reconciled by Christ, through his
   sufferings and death; by which he has made satisfaction for sin, and so
   removed that which lay in the way of a sinner's communion with God:
   Christ suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, "that he might bring
   us to God," into a state of open communion with him; and such "who are
   sometimes afar off," with respect to communion, "are made nigh by the
   blood of Christ;" by which means obstructions in a way of fellowship
   are removed, and only such persons are admitted to it.

   2e3. Such chosen and redeemed ones, who are regenerated and sanctified
   by the Spirit of God; for his work is necessary to communion with God;
   "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord," enjoy him, and have
   fellowship with him, neither now nor hereafter. The gift of the Spirit,
   as a Spirit of sanctification, and the operations of his grace on the
   hearts of men, are the great evidence of union to God, from whence
   flows communion with him (1 John 3:24; 4:13). I go on to consider,

   3. Thirdly, the special fellowship which such persons have with Father,
   Son, and Spirit, distinctly; the apostle John says, it is "with the
   Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ" (1 John 1:3), to which may be
   added (Phil. 2:1). "If any fellowship of the Spirit:" and also (2 Cor.
   13:14). "The communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all." All which
   put together, show that the saints have a communion with each person in
   the Godhead.

   3a. First, with God the Father, as he is the Father of Christ; who, as
   such, has blessed them with all spiritual blessings in Christ, and as
   such, has chosen them in him to holiness and happiness, and as such,
   regenerates them, according to his abundant mercy; and is the Father of
   mercies, and the God of all grace and comfort to them; and as he is
   their covenant God and Father in Christ, through whom they have access
   to him as their Father, and address him as their Father in heaven, and
   call upon him for what they want, and under the witnessings of the
   Spirit of adoption, cry Abba, Father; and say, "doubtless, thou art our
   Father:" and then may they be said to have communion with him as such,
   when their faith and hope are exercised on him; and they are affected
   with his wondrous love in taking them into his family, and putting them
   among the children, and encouraging them to call him their Father, and
   not turn away from him; which obliges them to say, "What manner of love
   the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of
   God!" (1 John 3:1), and when they are sensible of the feelings of his
   heart for them, his sympathy with them, pity and compassion on them,
   under all their afflictions, temptations, trials, and exercises (Isa.
   63:9; Ps. 103:13), then have they fellowship with the Father.

   3b. Secondly, with Christ: fellowship with him is what the Lord's
   people in the effectual calling are particularly called unto (1 Cor.
   1:9), and what Christ himself invites them to (Song of Sol. 4:8), and
   which lies,

   3b1. On his part, in a communication of grace unto them, which they
   receive at his hands; he is full of grace, all fulness of it dwells in
   him, and out of his fulness they receive, and grace for grace, an
   abundance of it, especially at first conversion, when the grace of
   Christ is exceeding abundant, flows and overflows; and afterwards they
   have a sufficiency of it to help them in all their times of need, a
   constant supply of it as they want; Christ has been, in all ages, "the
   fountain of gardens, the well of living waters, and as streams from
   Lebanon" to all his churches and people; and with joy do they draw
   water out of the full wells of salvation in him, and become strong in
   the grace that is in him, to which they are allowed and encouraged to
   have recourse at all times.

   3b2. On their part this fellowship lies in the exercise of grace upon
   Christ; in the goings forth of their souls to him in acts of faith,
   hope, love, joy, &c.

   3b2a. Upon his Person, as the Son of God, beholding his glory as the
   glory of the only begotten of the Father, and the express image of his
   Person; when he appears to them altogether lovely, and the chiefest
   among ten thousands, and the only and all sufficient Saviour, able to
   save to the uttermost all that come to God by him; and when they are
   encouraged to look to him and be saved, and live by faith on him, the
   Son of God, who hath loved them and given himself for them; and when
   their love is attracted to him, the unseen Saviour, and the desires of
   their souls are to his name, and to the remembrance of him; and they
   have hope of eternal life, and an expectation of it, as the free gift
   of God through him, and rejoice in him, having no confidence in the
   flesh, then have they fellowship with him.

   3b2b. Upon him as considered in his offices of Prophet, Priest, and
   King. They have communion with him as their Prophet, who teaches them
   by his Spirit, word, and ordinances; and from whom they receive that
   anointing which teacheth all things; to him they hearken as the great
   Prophet of the church, embrace the doctrines of his gospel, and pay a
   regard to all the instructions of his lips, and in whose hearts the
   word of Christ dwells richly, and works effectually: they deal with
   Christ, and have fellowship with him in his priestly office; they have
   to do with his blood, for the remission of their sins, and the
   cleansing of their souls; and with his righteousness for their
   justification before God, and acceptance with him; and with his
   sacrifice, for the atonement and expiation of their iniquities; and on
   account of all this have much peace, joy, and comfort, in a way of
   believing. They consider him as the High Priest over the house of God,
   who transacts all affairs for them; they make use of him as their
   advocate and intercessor with the Father, and put their petitions into
   his hands, to be offered up by him, perfumed with the much incense of
   his mediation; they acknowledge him as their King, submit to his
   government, yield obedience to his commands, and esteem all his
   precepts concerning all things to be right. Saints have such communion
   and fellowship with Christ in his offices, that they have in some sense
   a share in them; that is, they are made by him prophets, priests, and
   kings; prophets to teach and instruct others, having received the
   anointing from him; and kings and priests unto God and his Father (1
   John 1:2, 7; Rev. 1:6).

   3b2c. Much of fellowship with Christ is enjoyed in the use of, and by
   the means of the ordinances of his house, especially the ordinance of
   the Supper. The church is a banqueting house, into which Christ brings
   his people, where they sit under his shadow, and in his presence, with
   delight, and his banner over them is his love displayed; here he has a
   table spread, and at it he himself sits, and welcomes his guests,
   saying, "Eat, O friends! drink abundantly, O beloved!" which encourages
   them, and causes their "spikenard to send forth the sweet smell"
   thereof, or their graces to go forth in exercise on him; so that the
   communion is mutual; he sups with them, and they with him. Now this
   communion with Christ greatly arises from the saints relation to him;
   he is the Husband of his church and people, and they are his spouse and
   bride; hence a communion both of name and goods; they have the same
   common name, "The Lord our Righteousness" (Jer. 23:6; 33:16), and all
   that Christ has is theirs, they being Christ's and he theirs; he is
   made to them "wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption" (1
   Cor. 1:30; 3:21-23). Christ is the head, to which his body, the church,
   is joined, and the saints are members of him, and one Spirit with him;
   from whom they receive life and nourishment, and increase with the
   increase of God: he is the vine, they the branches; and by virtue of
   union to him, a communication of the fruits of grace, holiness, and
   perseverance therein is made to them from him.

   3c. Thirdly, saints have also a special and particular communion with
   the Holy Ghost, in the gifts of his grace unto them, and which they
   exercise under his influence; as the grace of faith, which is of his
   operation, and from whence he is called, "the Spirit of faith;" and a
   "good hope through grace," in the exercise of which believers abound,
   "through the power of the Holy Ghost;" and love is a fruit of the
   Spirit, and which is under his cultivation. Moreover, this fellowship
   of the Spirit appears in the offices of grace, which he performs
   towards them; as the guide, teacher, and comforter of them; as a Spirit
   of grace and supplication, making intercession in them; as a Spirit of
   adoption, witnessing to their spirits, that they are the children of
   God; and as the earnest of the heavenly inheritance to them, and the
   sealer of them up unto the day of redemption; in whom he dwells, as in
   his temple, enabling them to exercise every grace and perform every
   duty, working them up for that self same thing, eternal glory and
   happiness.

   4. The properties of it; showing the excellency of this communion and
   fellowship.

   4a. It is a wonderful instance of condescension in God; that he who is
   the high and lofty One, who dwells in heaven, the high and holy place,
   and yet with such also who are of a contrite and humble spirit; that he
   whose throne the heaven is, and the earth his footstool, and yet
   condescends to dwell with men on earth; that Wisdom, or the Son of God,
   should build an house, furnish a table, and invite sinful unworthy
   creatures to partake of the entertainments of it; that Father, Son, and
   Spirit should come and make their abode with sinful men, and admit them
   to the greatest intimacy with them.

   4b. It is very honorable to the sons of men to be favored with such
   communion: if it was an honour to Mephibosheth to sit at the table of
   king David, as one of the king's sons; or for an Haman to be invited to
   a banquet with the king and queen; how infinitely more honorable is it
   to be admitted to sit with the King of kings at his table, and be
   entertained by him as royal guests!

   4c. This is a privilege very desirable, nothing more so; this is the
   one thing saints are desirous of in public worship, to behold the
   beauty of the Lord; to see his power and his glory in his sanctuary; to
   sit under his shadow, and taste his pleasant fruits. This is no other
   than the gate of heaven.

   4d. It is exceeding valuable; it is beyond all the enjoyments of life,
   preferable to everything that can be had on earth; the light of God's
   countenance, his gracious presence, communion with him, put more joy
   and gladness into the hearts of his people, than the greatest increase
   of worldly things; it is this which makes wisdom's ways of
   pleasantness, and her paths of peace; it is this which makes the
   tabernacles of God amiable and lovely, and a day in his house better
   than a thousand elsewhere; and because so valuable, hence the apostle
   John, in an exulting manner, says, "Truly, our fellowship is with the
   Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ!" (1 John 1:3).
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BOOK II

  On External Worship, As Public.
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  Chapter 1.

    OF THE NATURE OF A GOSPEL CHURCH, THE SEAT OF PUBLIC WORSHIP

   Having treated of the object of worship, and distinguished worship into
   internal and external; and having considered internal worship as it
   lies in the exercise of various graces; I now proceed to consider
   external worship, both public and private: and first public worship;
   and as public worship is carried on socially in a church state, I shall
   begin with considering the nature of a gospel church, the seat of it.
   The word "church" has various significations, which it may be proper to
   take notice of, in order to settle the true sense of it, as now to be
   discoursed of.

   1. First, some take it for a place of worship, and call such a place by
   that name; but wrongly, at least very improperly: it is a remarkable
   saying of one of the ancients, even of the second century, "Not the
   place, but the congregation of the elect, I call the church." [67]
   Indeed, any place of worship was formerly called an house of God; so
   the place where Jacob and his family worshipped, having built an altar
   for God, was called Bethel or the house of God (Gen. 35:1), so the
   tabernacle of Moses is called, the house of God in Shiloh (Judg.
   18:31), and the temple built by Solomon, the house of the Lord (1 King
   6:1, 2, 37). But neither of them are ever called a church. The papists,
   indeed, call an edifice built for religious worship, a church; and so
   do some Protestants; I might add, some dissenting Protestants too; who
   call going to a place of public worship, going to church; though with
   great impropriety. It must be owned, that some of the ancient fathers
   used the word in this metonymical and improper sense, for the place
   where the church met for worship: and some passages of scripture are
   pleaded for this use of it; which yet do not seem to be plain and
   sufficient: not Acts 19:37 for the word ierosulous, should not be
   rendered "robbers of churches," but "robbers of temples;" and design
   not edifices built for Christian worship; but the temples of the
   heathens, as that of Diana, at Ephesus: but what may seem more
   plausible and pertinent, are some passages in 1 Corinthians 11:18, 20,
   22. "When ye come together in the church I hear," &c. which is thought
   to be after explained; "When ye come together into one place:--have ye
   not houses to eat and drink in? or despise ye the church of God?" All
   this, indeed, supposes a place to meet in; though rather not the place,
   but the assembly that met in it, is called the church; and their coming
   together in the church may intend no other than some of the members
   coming and meeting together with the rest of the church; and epi to
   auto, which we render "into one place," may design, not the unity of
   the place, but the unanimity of the people in it: nor is the opposition
   between their own houses and the place of meeting; and this is only
   mentioned to show that it would have been much more suitable and decent
   in them to have eat and drank in their own houses, than in the presence
   of the assembly and church of God, which was to their scandal,
   reproach, and contempt; for not the place, but the people that met in
   it, were properly the object of contempt: however, it is certain, that
   there are numerous places of scripture which cannot be understood of
   any material edifice or building; whether of stone, brick, or wood [68]
   ; as when it is said, "tidings of these things came unto the ears of
   the church," (Acts 11:22) it would be absurd to understand it in such a
   sense; and so many others.

   2. Secondly, the word ekklesia, always used for "church," signifies an
   "assembly" called and met together [69] , and sometimes it is used for
   an assembly, whether lawfully or unlawfully convened; so the people who
   got together, upon the uproar made by the craftsmen at Ephesus, is
   called, "a confused assembly," and suggested to be an unlawful one;
   since the town clerk told them the matter should be determined in "a
   lawful assembly;" and when he had thus spoken, "dismissed the assembly"
   (Acts 19:32, 39, 41) in which passages the same word is used which
   commonly is for a "church;" and which may be considered either as a
   general, or as a particular assembly of persons.

   2a. First, as a general assembly, called, "The general assembly and
   church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven," (Heb. 12:23) and
   which include all the elect of God, that have been, are, or shall be in
   the world; and who will form the pure, holy, and undefiled Jerusalem
   church state, in which none will be but those who are written in the
   Lamb's book of life; and this consists of the redeemed of the Lamb, and
   is the "church" which Christ has "purchased" with his blood; and who
   make up his spouse, the "church" he has "loved," and given himself for,
   to wash, and cleanse, and present to himself a glorious church, without
   spot or wrinkle; this is the "body," the church, of which Christ is the
   "head;" and in which he is the sole officer, being Prophet, Priest, and
   King of it; it being, not the seat of human government, as a particular
   church is: and this church is but "one," though particular churches are
   many: to this may be applied the words of Christ; "My dove, my
   undefiled, is but one," (Song 6:9) and this is what sometimes is called
   by divines, the "invisible" church; not but that the whole number of
   God's elect is visible to him, and known by him; "The Lord knows them
   that are his;" and the election of particular persons may be known by
   themselves, by the grace be stowed upon them; and, in a judgment of
   charity, may be concluded of others, that they are the chosen of God,
   and written in the book of life: but all the particular persons, and
   the number of them, were never yet seen and known; John had a sight of
   them in a visionary way, and they will be all really and actually seen,
   when the new Jerusalem shall descend from God out of heaven, as a bride
   adorned for her husband; which will be at the second coming of Christ,
   and not before; till that time comes, this church will be invisible. It
   is sometimes distinguished into the church "triumphant and militant,"
   the whole family named of God in heaven and earth. The church
   triumphant consists of the saints in glory, whom Christ has taken to
   himself, to be with him where he is; and this is continually
   increasing. The church militant consists of persons in the present
   state, which is said to be, "as an army with banners," (Song 6:4) this
   is made up of such who become volunteers in the day of Christ's power;
   who put on the whole armour of God, and fight the good fight of faith;
   and in this state it will continue to the end of the world.

   There is another sense in which the church may be said to be
   "catholic," or "general," as it may consist of such in any age, and in
   each of the parts of the world, who have true faith in Christ, and hold
   to him the head, and are baptized by one Spirit into one body; have one
   Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of
   all, and are called in one hope of their calling: and this takes in,
   not only such who make a visible profession of Christ: but all such who
   are truly partakers of his grace; though they have not made an open
   profession of him in a formal manner; and this is the church which
   Polycarp called, "the whole catholic church throughout the world" [70]
   : and Irenaeus [71] , "The church scattered throughout the whole world
   to the ends of the earth:" and Origen [72] , "The church of God under
   heaven:" and this is the church built on Christ the rock, against which
   the gates of hell shall never prevail; such a church Christ has always
   had and will have; and which may be, when there is no visible
   congregated church, or a particular church gathered according to gospel
   order; and of this the apostle seems to speak, when he says, "Unto him
   be glory in the church, by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world
   without end" (Eph. 3:21). But,

   2b. Secondly, the church may be considered as a particular assembly of
   saints meeting together in one place for religious worship. Such was
   the first church at Jerusalem, which is called, the "whole church,"
   that met together in one place at the same time (Acts 1:14, 15, 2:1,
   4:32, 15:22), and the church at Antioch, convened by the apostles, to
   whom they rehearsed what God had done with them (Acts 14:27), and these
   churches, in after times, continued to meet in one place; the whole
   church of Jerusalem, at the destruction of the city, removed to Pella,
   a town beyond Jordan, which was sufficient to receive the Christians
   that belonged to it [73] ; and two hundred and fifty years after Christ
   the church at Antioch met in one house [74] . And so the church at
   Corinth (1 Cor. 14:23, 5:4), and the church of the disciples at Troas,
   who came together on the first day of the week to break bread (Acts
   20:7), of these there were many in one province; as the churches of
   Judea, besides that at Jerusalem, and the churches of Galatia (Gal.
   1:2, 23), and the seven churches of Asia (Rev. 1:4), and the churches
   of Macedonia (2 Cor. 8:1), the church at Cenchrea, a port of Corinth,
   and distinct from the church there, as were all these churches distinct
   from one another; so that he that was of one church, was not of
   another; as Epaphras is said to be "one of you," of the church at
   Colosse, a peculiar member and minister of that church, and not of
   another (Col. 4:12). And this is the church the nature of which is to
   be treated of; and may be considered "essentially," as to the matter
   and form of it; and "organically," as to its order and power or as a
   body corporate, having its proper officers.

   2b1. "Essentially" considered, as to its matter and form, of which it
   consists.

   2b1a. First, as to the matter of it, both as to quantity and quality.
   As to number, Tertullian [75] thought that three persons were
   sufficient to constitute a church; which may seem to be confirmed by
   Matthew 18:20 "Where two or three are gathered together in my name,"
   &c. who may be sufficient to meet and pray together, and edify one
   another; but a judicial process in a church way, in case of offence, as
   directed to in some preceding verses, seems to require more; seeing, it
   the offending and offended parties cannot compromise things among
   themselves, one or two more are to be taken, which if two make four; if
   reconciliation cannot be made, the matter must be brought before the
   church, which must consist of a greater number than the parties before
   concerned; and which it should seem cannot be less than six more, and
   in all ten; which was the number of a congregation with the Jews [76] :
   and a church organically considered, or as having proper officers,
   seems to require more; the church at Ephesus was begun with twelve men,
   or thereabout (Acts 19:7), yet a church should consist of no more than
   can meet together in one place, where all may hear, and all may be
   edified; and if it should be so increased that this cannot be, then it
   should be divided into lesser communities; as an hive of bees, when too
   many, swarms; and which seems to be the case of the church at
   Jerusalem; which, upon the departure of those who were converted at
   Pentecost, and on the scattering of the church by persecution, formed
   several churches in Judea, and accounts for the early mention of them.
   But not to dwell on this, the quality of the materials of a gospel
   church more especially deserves attention. In general, it may be
   observed, that all such who are of immoral lives and conversations, and
   of unsound principles, as to the doctrines of the gospel, are not
   proper persons to be members of a gospel church; no unclean persons,
   nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
   extortioners, have, or should have, any inheritance, part or portion in
   the kingdom of God, as that may signify, as it sometimes does, a gospel
   church state; and though there may be such secretly, who creep in
   unawares, yet when discovered are to be excluded; and such persons,
   therefore, who are to be put away from a church, as wicked men, and
   such as walk disorderly, are to be withdrawn from, and such as have
   imbibed false doctrines, are to be rejected; then most certainly such
   are not knowingly to be admitted into the original constitution of a
   church of Christ, or be at first received into the fellowship of one.
   The persons who are fit materials of a visible gospel church, are
   described,

   2b1a1. As regenerate persons; "Except a man be born again of water and
   of the Spirit," of the grace of the Spirit of God, "he cannot enter,"
   of right he ought not to enter, and, if known, ought not to be allowed
   to enter, "into the kingdom of God," into a gospel church state; none
   but such who are begotten again to a lively hope of the heavenly
   inheritance, and who, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the
   word and ordinances, that they may grow thereby, having tasted that the
   Lord is gracious; or, in other words, of whom it is "meet to think,"
   and, in a judgment of charity and discretion, to hope and conclude that
   God hath begun a "good work" in them; such were the members of the
   church at Philippi (Phil. 1:6, 7).

   2b1a2. As called ones; a church is a congregation of such who are
   called out from among others, by the grace of God; both the Hebrew and
   Greek words qhlh and ekklesia, signify an assembly of persons called
   and convened together; so the members of the church at Rome are styled,
   "the called of Jesus Christ," (Rom. 1:6) such who are called out of the
   world, and from fellowship with the men of it, "into the fellowship of
   Jesus Christ": such who are proper materials of a gospel church, are
   such who are called out of a state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the
   law, into the liberty of the gospel; and out of darkness into
   marvellous light; and are called with an holy calling, and called to be
   saints, not merely by the external ministry of the word, to outward
   holiness of life and conversation, who are never effectually called by
   the grace of God, nor have any appearance of it, and so unfit to be
   members of churches; for,

   2b1a3. Such are not only called to be saints, but in and by the
   effectual calling become really saints, at least are judged to be so,
   by a charitable discretion of them; so the members of the churches at
   Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, Philippi, and Colosse, are described as
   "saints," and "sanctified" persons, and as "holy temples," built for
   habitations of an holy God; hence they are called "churches of the
   saints," because they consist of such; and Christ, who is King and head
   of the church, is called "King of saints" (1 Cor. 14:33; Rev. 15:3).

   2b1a4. They are described as the "faithful in Christ Jesus," or
   believers in him: so in the article of the church of England a church
   is defined, "A congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of
   God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered." For only
   faithful men, or believers in Christ, can have fellowship with the
   saints in a church state; and none but such can have communion with
   Christ; for he dwells in the hearts of men by faith, and they live by
   faith upon him: and only such have a right to the ordinances of Christ,
   and can receive benefit by them; unless they believe with all the
   heart, they have no right to baptism; and unless they have faith in
   Christ, they cannot discern the Lord's body in the supper; nor is the
   gospel preached of any profit to them, not being mixed with faith; so
   that they are on all accounts unfit for church membership; and hence we
   read, that those who were joined to the first church at Jerusalem were
   believers (Acts 4:14, see Acts 2:41, 47). Hence,

   2b1a5. Those that were added to the church at Jerusalem are said to be,
   "such as should be saved;" as all those who believe and are baptized,
   shall be saved; according to Mark 16:16. And besides, these were added
   by the Lord himself, as well as to him, and therefore should be saved
   by him with an everlasting salvation: and such who are admitted to
   church fellowship, should be such, who, in a judgment of charity or in
   charitable discretion, may be hoped, that they are the chosen of God,
   the redeemed of Christ, are called, sanctified, and justified, and so
   shall be everlastingly saved.

   2b1a6. They should be persons of some competent knowledge of divine and
   spiritual things, and of judging of them; who have not only knowledge
   of themselves, and of their lost estate by nature, and of the way of
   salvation by Christ; but who have some degree of knowledge of God in
   his nature, perfections, and works; and of Christ, in his Person as the
   Son of God; of his proper Deity; of his incarnation; of his offices, as
   Prophet, Priest, and King; of justification by his righteousness;
   pardon by his blood; satisfaction by his sacrifice; and of his
   prevalent intercession: and also of the Spirit of God: his person,
   offices, and operations; and of the important truths of the gospel, and
   doctrines of grace; or how otherwise should the church be "the pillar
   and ground of truth?"

   2b1a7. The materials of a gospel church should be men of holy lives and
   conversations; holiness both of heart and life becomes the house of
   God, and those who are of it; none should have a place in it but such
   (see Ps. 15:1, 2, 24:3, 4).

   2b1a8. Such who are admitted into fellowship with a particular church
   of Christ, should be truly baptized in water, that is, by immersion,
   upon a profession of their faith; so the three thousand penitents,
   after they had gladly received the word, were baptized; and then, and
   not before, were added to the church: so the first church at Samaria
   consisted of men and women baptized by Philip, they believing what he
   said concerning the kingdom of God: and Lydia, and her household, and
   the jailor and his, being baptized upon their faith, laid the
   foundation of the church at Philippi: and the church at Corinth was
   begun with persons who, hearing the word, believed, and were baptized;
   and the church at Ephesus was first formed by some disciples baptized
   in the name of the Lord Jesus (Acts 2:41, 8:12, 16:15, 33, 18:8, 19:5),
   so the members of the churches at Rome, Galatia, and Colosse, were
   baptized persons (Rom. 6:3, 4; Gal. 3:27; Col. 2:12). But,

   2b1a9. Not their infants with them; who were neither baptized nor
   admitted to membership in the churches; no one instance of either can
   be produced in scripture: they are not members by birth [77] ; for
   "that which is born of the flesh, is flesh," carnal and corrupt, and
   unfit for church fellowship: nor do they become such by the faith of
   their parents; for even their faith does not make them themselves
   church members, without a profession of it, and giving up themselves to
   a church, and received by it into it: men must be believers before they
   are baptized; and they must be baptized before they become members; and
   they cannot be members till they make application to a church, and are
   admitted into it. Infants, as they are born, are not fit for
   membership, being unregenerate, unholy, and impure by their first
   birth, and must be born again ere they are fit for the kingdom of God,
   or a gospel church state; their federal holiness, talked of, is a mere
   chimera, and is unsupported by 1 Corinthians 7:14, they are not capable
   of understanding and of answering questions put unto them; nor of
   giving up themselves to a church; nor of consent and agreement to walk
   with it, the nature of which they are unacquainted with, and of what
   belongs to a member of it, either as to duty or privilege; nor are they
   capable of answering the ends of church communion, the mutual
   edification of members and the glory of God: and such who plead for
   their membership make a poor business of it; not treating them as
   members, neither by admitting them to the ordinance of the supper, nor
   by watching over them, reproving, admonishing, and laying them under
   censures, when grown up, and require them, were they members.

   2b1b. Secondly, a particular church may be considered as to the "form"
   of it; which lies in mutual consent and agreement, in their covenant
   and confederation with each other.

   2b1b1. There must be an union, a coalition of a certain number of
   persons to form a church state, one cannot make a church; and these
   must be united, as the similies of a tabernacle, temple, house, body,
   and a flock of sheep, to which a church is sometimes compared, show;
   the tabernacle was made with ten curtains, typical of the church of
   God; but one curtain did not make a tabernacle, nor all the ten singly
   and separately taken; but there were certain loops and taches, with
   which they were coupled together; and being thus joined, they composed
   the tabernacle. Song the temple of Solomon, which was another type of
   the gospel church: and which was made of great and costly stones; these
   stones, not as in the quarry, nor even when hewed and squared, lying
   singly by themselves, made the temple, until they were put and cemented
   together, and the headstone brought in and laid on: thus truly gracious
   souls, though they are by grace separated from the common quarry of
   mankind, and are hewn by the Spirit of God, and by the ministry of the
   word, and are fit materials for the church of God, yet do not
   constitute one, until "fitly framed together," and so grow unto an holy
   temple of the Lord. A church is called the house of God, a spiritual
   house, built up of lively stones, living saints; but these, be they
   ever so lively and living, they do not form a church, unless they are
   builded together, "for an habitation of God". A church of Christ is
   often compared to an human body; which is not one member, but many; and
   these not as separate, but members one of another; who are "fitly
   joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth":
   and sometimes it is called a flock, the flock of God; and though a
   little flock, yet one sheep does not make a flock, nor two or three
   straggling ones; but a number of them collected together, feeding in
   one pasture, under the care of a shepherd.

   2b1b2. This union of saints in a church state, is signified by their
   being "joined" and as it were glued together [78] (see Acts 5:13,
   9:26); it is an upon of spirits so close, as if they were but one
   spirit; so the members of the first Christian church were "of one heart
   and one soul," being "knit together in love;" and it becomes members to
   endeavour to "keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" (Acts
   4:32; Col. 2:2; Eph. 4:3).

   2b1b3. This union between them is made by voluntary consent and
   agreement; a Christian society, or a church of Christ, is like all
   civil societies, founded on agreement and by consent; thus it is with
   societies from the highest to the lowest; kingdoms and states were
   originally formed on this plan; everybody corporate, as a city, is
   founded on the same plan; in which there are privileges to be enjoyed,
   and duties to be performed; and no man has a right to the one, without
   consenting to the other: and in lower societies, no man can be admitted
   into them, nor receive any benefit from them, unless he assents to the
   rules and articles on which the society is founded. All civil
   relations, except the natural relation of parents and children, which
   arises from the law of nature, are by consent and covenant; as that of
   magistrates and subjects, and of masters and servants, and of husband
   and wife; which latter, as it is by compact and agreement, may serve to
   illustrate the relation between a church and its members added to it,
   and the manner in which they be, by consent (see Isa. 62:5).

   2b1b4. As the original constitution of churches is by consent and
   confederation, so the admission of new members to them, is upon the
   same footing: the primitive churches in the times of the apostles,
   "first gave their own selves to the Lord," as a body, agreeing and
   promising to walk in all his commandments and ordinances, and be
   obedient to his laws, as King of saints; "and to us," the apostles,
   pastors, guides, and governors, to be taught, fed, guided, and directed
   by them, according to the word of God; and to one another also, "by the
   will of God," engaging to do whatever in them lay, to promote each
   other's edification and the glory of God: and so all such who were
   added to them, it was done by mutual consent, as it always should be;
   as no man is to be forced into a church, or by any compulsory methods
   brought into it, so neither can he force himself into one; he has no
   right to come into a church, and depart from it when he pleases; both
   the one and the other, his coming into it and departure from it, must
   be with consent: a man may propose himself to be a member of a church,
   but it is at the option of the church whether they will receive him; so
   Saul assayed to join himself to the disciples, that is, he proposed to
   be a member with them, but they at first refused him, fearing he was
   not a true disciple, because of his former conduct; but when they had a
   testimony of him from Barnabas, and perceived that he was a partaker of
   the grace of God, and was sound in the faith of Christ, they admitted
   him, and he was with them going out and coming in: and it is but
   reasonable a church should be satisfied in these points, as to the
   persons received into their communion; not only by a testimony their
   becoming lives, but by giving an account of what God has done for their
   souls, and a reason of the hope that is in them; as well as by
   expressing their agreement with them in their articles of faith.

   2b1b5. Something of this kind may be observed in all religious
   societies, from the beginning, that they were by agreement and
   confederation; so the first religious societies in families, and under
   the patriarchal dispensation, it was by the agreement of families, and
   the common consent of them, that they met and joined together for
   public worship, to call on the name of the Lord (Gen. 4:26), so the
   Jewish church, though national in some sense, yet was constituted by
   confederation; God prescribed to them laws in the wilderness, and they
   covenanted and consented to obey them (Ex. 24:7), he avouched them to
   be his people, and they avouched him to be their God; and then, and not
   before, were they called a "church," (Acts 7:38) and so the gospel
   church was spoken of in prophecy, as what should be constituted and
   increased by agreement and covenant (Isa. 44:5, 56:6, 7; Jer. 50:5),
   all which agrees with New Testament language; from whence it appears to
   be fact, that it was by consent and agreement that the first churches
   were formed, as before observed, and not otherwise; and nothing else
   but mutual consent, can make a man a church member: not faith it, the
   heart for that cannot be known until a man declares and professes it;
   nor a bare profession of faith, which, though necessary to membership,
   does not declare a man a member of one church more than of another, nor
   entitle more to one than to another; unless he gives up himself to a
   church, and professes his desire to walk with it in a subjection to the
   gospel of Christ: nor baptism, though a prerequisite to church
   fellowship, does not make a man a member of a church, as it did not the
   eunuch: nor hearing the word; for men ignorant and unbelievers may come
   into an assembly and hear the word (1 Cor. 14:24), yea, persons may
   hear the word aright, have faith, and profess it, and be baptized, and
   yet not be church members; it is only mutual consent that makes them
   such: persons must propose themselves to a church, and give up
   themselves to it, to walk in it, in an observance of the ordinances of
   Christ, and duties of religion; and the church must voluntarily receive
   them in the Lord. And,

   2b1b6. Such a mutual agreement is but reasonable; for how should "two
   walk together except they be agreed?" (Amos 3:3) and unless persons
   voluntarily give up themselves to a church and its pastor, they can
   exercise no power over them, in a church way; they have nothing to do
   with them that are without, they have no concern with the watch and
   care of them; nor are they entitled thereunto, unless they "submit
   themselves to one another in the fear of God;" they have no power to
   reprove, admonish, and censure them in a church way; nor can the pastor
   exercise any pastoral authority over them, except by agreement they
   consent to yield to it; nor can they expect he should watch over their
   souls as he that must give an account, having no charge of them by any
   act of theirs. Now,

   2b1b7. It is this confederacy, consent, and agreement, that is the
   formal cause of a church; it is this which not only distinguishes a
   church from the world, and from all professors that walk at large, the
   one being within and the other without, but from all other particular
   churches; so the church at Cenchrea was not the same with the church at
   Corinth, though but at a little distance from it, because it consisted
   of persons who had given up themselves to it, and not to the church at
   Corinth; and so were members of the one and not of the other; "one of
   you," as Onesimus and Epaphras were of the church at Colosse, and not
   of another (Col. 4:9, 12). From all which it follows,

   2b1b8. That a church of Christ is not parochial, or men do not become
   church members by habitation in a parish; for Turks and Jews may dwell
   in the same parish: nor is it diocesan; for we never read of more
   churches under one bishop or pastor, though there may have been, where
   churches were large, more bishops or pastors in one church (Phil. 1:1),
   nor provincial, for we read of churches in one province; as of the
   churches of Judea, and of Galatia, and of Macedonia: nor national; nay,
   so far from it, that we not only read of more churches in a nation, but
   even of churches in houses (Rom. 16:5; 1 Cor. 16:19; Col. 4:15; Philem.
   1:2), nor presbyterian; for we never read of a church of presbyters or
   elders, though of elders ordained in churches; by which it appears
   there were churches before there were any presbyters or elders in them
   (Acts 14:23). But a particular visible gospel church is congregational;
   and even the church of England, which is national itself, defines a
   "visible church to be a congregation of faithful men; " and, indeed,
   the national church of the Jews was in some sense congregational; it is
   sometimes called the "congregation," (Lev. 4:13-15) they were a people
   separated from other nations, and peculiarly holy to the Lord; they met
   in one place, called, "the tabernacle of the congregation," and offered
   their sacrifices at one altar (Lev. 1:3, 4, 17:4, 5), and three times
   in the year all their males appeared together at Jerusalem; and
   besides, as Lightfoot [79] observes, there were stationary men at
   Jerusalem, who were representatives of the whole congregation, and were
   at the sacrifices for them: the synagogues also, though not of divine
   institution, were countenanced by the Lord, and bore a very great
   resemblance to congregational societies; and is the word which answers
   to "congregation" in the Septuagint version, and is used for a
   Christian assembly in the New Testament (James 2:2), to which may be
   added, that such congregations and assemblies as gospel churches be,
   are prophesied of as what should be in gospel times (see Eccl. 12:11;
   Isa. 4:5). A church of saints thus essentially constituted, as to
   matter and form, have a power in this state to admit and reject
   members, as all societies have; and also to choose their own officers;
   which, when done, they come a complete organized church, as to order
   power; of which more hereafter.
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   [67] ou ton topon, alla to athroisma ton eklektoe ekklesiae kalo,
   Clement. Alexandr. Stromat. l. 7. p. 715.

   [68] "Ecclesia est verum templum Dei, quod non in parietibus est, sed
   in corde et fide hominum qui credunt in eum et vocantur fideles,"
   Lactant. de vera sap, l. 4. c. 13.

   [69] "Ecclesia, ut omnes norunt, Graeca vox est, quae apud nos coetum,
   concionem, congregationem----que significat hujusmodi erant
   particulares dictae ecclesiae, ut Laodicaea," &c. Aonii Palearii
   Testimonium, c. 10. p. 321

   [70] Apud Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 4. c. 15.

   [71] Adv. Haeres. l. 1. c. 2, and 3.

   [72] Apud Euseb. l. 6. c. 25.

   [73] Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 3. c. 5.

   [74] Ib. l. 7. c. 30.

   [75] Deut. Baptismo, c. 6.

   [76] Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 1. s. 6.

   [77] "Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani," Tertullian. Apologet. c. 18.

   [78] kollasthai autois, "proprie notat glutine coadunare, &c.
   metaphorice designat arctiorem conjunctionem, &c. quia quae glutine
   coadunata sunt, arcte conjuncta sunt, tenaciterque adhaerent, ut non
   facile queant separari," Stockius in voce.

   [79] Temple-service, ch. 7. s. 3.
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  Chapter 2

  OF THE DUTIES OF THE MEMBER OF A CHURCH TO EACH OTHER

   A church thus confederated and united by consent and agreement, there
   are various duties incumbent on its members; which, both for their own
   comfort, credit, and edification, and for the glory of God, it is
   highly necessary to observe. As,

   1. First, and which is a principal one, to love one another; "Owe no
   man anything, but to love one another," is an apostolical advice, and
   good advice; this is a debt which every man owes to another, and should
   be always paying, especially Christians and members of churches (Rom.
   13:8, 12:10).

   1a. This is the great law of Christ, as King in his church, his royal
   commandment, which he enjoins on all his subjects, and frequently
   repeats (John 13:34, 15:12, 17).

   1b. The example of Christ should influence and engage unto it (John
   13:34, 15:12, 1 John 3:16).

   1c. The relations that members of churches stand in to each other
   oblige to love; being fellow citizens of the same family, are brethren
   to each other, and make one fraternity, or "brotherhood," which they
   should "love," (1 Peter 2:17, 3:8) and are members one of another (1
   Cor. 12:13, 25-27).

   1d. Mutual love is an evidence of being the disciples of Christ (John
   13:35).

   1e. It is this which makes communion in a church state delightful and
   comfortable, as well as honourable; "Behold, how good and how pleasant
   it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" it is as pleasing and
   refreshing as the fragrant oil poured on Aaron's head, and as the dew
   that fell on mount Hermon (Ps. 133:1-3), when, on the contrary, nothing
   is more uncomfortable and dishonourable, as well as nothing is more
   pernicious and ruinous to a church state, than want of love (Gal.
   5:15).

   This love of members one to another ought to be "fervent," and it
   should be "unfeigned," and without dissimulation (1 Peter 4:8, 1:22),
   and it should be universal, love to all the saints, weaker as well as
   stronger, poor as well as rich (Eph. 1:15). [80]

   2. Secondly, it is incumbent on church members, as much as in them
   lies, to endeavour to "keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of
   peace;" to press to which the apostle uses various arguments in
   Ephesians 4:3-6.

   2a. Care should be taken to promote and preserve unity, of affection;
   so as to be of "one heart, and of one soul, having the same love," as
   the apostle advises to (Phil. 2:9). But this falls in much with the
   first duty, before inculcated.

   2b. There should be, as much as may be, an unity of mind and judgment
   in the doctrines of the gospel; being, as the apostle in the above
   place directs, "of one accord and of one mind;" or as he elsewhere
   says, that "all speak the same thing;" and that they "be perfectly
   joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment," or
   otherwise there is danger of schism, divisions, and contentions (1 Cor.
   1:10, 11).

   2c. And which is much the same an "unity of faith;" for there is but
   one faith (Eph. 4:5, 13), one doctrine of faith, or scheme and system
   of divine truths to be believed; and church members should "stand fast
   in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the
   gospel" (Phil. 1:27.

   2d. There should be a zealous concern for unity of worship, and that
   nothing be introduced into it contrary to the pattern showed and
   directed to in the word of God; and that they "serve the Lord with one
   consent, and with one mind, and with one mouth glorify God," (Zeph.
   3:9; Rom. 15:6) and to prevent discord in affection, judgment, and
   worship, and to secure peace, all strife should be avoided, and even
   checked at the beginning of it; the advice of the wise man is good
   (Prov. 17:14), and equally good is the advice of the apostle, "Let
   nothing be done through strife or vain glory" (Phil. 2:3). Proud and
   contentious men, who seek to promote strife and division, are not to be
   encouraged in Christian communities (1 Cor. 11:16), the peace of a
   church is to be laboured after by its members, and by all means to be
   pursued; the comfort of saints in fellowship with each other is a
   strong argument for peace and unity (Phil. 2:1, 2), and above all, as
   saints would be desirous of having the price of God with them, they
   should be concerned to "be of one mind, and live in peace;" and then
   may they expect, and not otherwise, that "the God of love and peace
   shall be with them" (2 Cor. 13:11).

   3. Thirdly, it is the duty of members of churches to sympathize with
   each other in all conditions and circumstances they come into (Rom.
   12:15), and upon this their membership with one another cannot but have
   a considerable influence (1 Cor. 12:26), this sympathy should be with
   respect to things outward and temporal; any calamity, affliction, and
   distress, of whatsoever kind; they "that are in bonds," especially for
   the sake of religion, should be remembered as "bound with them," as if
   in the same circumstances, and should pity and relieve them as much as
   may be; and "them which suffer adversity" in body, family, or estate,
   "as being themselves in the body," and liable to the same adversities
   (Heb. 12:3), and therefore should visit, comfort, and assist them; so
   Job's three friends, when they heard of his afflictions in his person,
   family, and substance, though they lived at a distance from him, by
   appointment met together, "to come, to mourn with him, and to comfort
   him," (Job 2:11) and much more should members of churches act such a
   part to one another. Likewise when in inward trouble and distress of
   soul, through the hidings of God's face, the temptations of Satan, the
   weakness of grace, and the strength of corruptions; it becomes fellow
   members to "comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, and bear one
   another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ," which is the law
   of love and sympathy (1 Thess. 5:14; Gal. 6:2), and the sympathy of God
   with his people in their afflictions, and also of Christ, who is
   "touched with the feeling of the infirmities" of his people, should
   direct to such a temper and carriage (Isa. 63:9; Heb. 4:15).

   4. Fourthly, it is the duty of church members to communicate to each
   other in such circumstances.

   4a. In outward things, to such as are in want of them (Rom. 12:13; Gal.
   6:10), hence in the times of the apostles, the churches had orders to
   make collections on the first day of the week for the poor saints, that
   thereby they might be relieved who were in necessitous circumstances (1
   Cor. 16:1, 2), brotherly love demands such a conduct in church members
   to their brethren in distress; for, "how dwelleth the love of God in"
   such, who, having a portion of worldly things, shut up their bowels of
   compassion from their brethren in need? (1 John 3:17) besides, to
   communicate to such persons is well pleasing in the sight of God, and
   will be taken notice of in the great day of account when forgotten by
   the saints (Heb. 13:16; Matthew 25:40).

   4b. It is their duty to communicate in spiritual things, to mutual
   comfort and edification; to speak often one to another about divine
   things; to impart spiritual experiences, and to declare to each other
   what God has done for their souls; to communicate spiritual light and
   knowledge in the mysteries of grace; and according to the gift one has
   received, be it more or less, to minister it to one another, and to
   build up one another in their most holy faith, by Christian conference
   and praying together; and through the word dwelling richly in them, to
   teach and admonish one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs;
   and care should be taken that no communication proceeds out of the
   mouth but what is for edification, and ministers grace to the hearers.

   5. Fifthly, it is the duty of church members to watch over one another;
   that they do not indulge to sinful lusts and pleasures, and make
   provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof; and so bring a
   reproach on the good ways of God, and the doctrines of Christ; and to
   warn them that are unruly, or err from the rule of the word, and
   recover them from any evil way they seem to be going into; as also to
   watch over them, lest they receive any notion contrary to the gospel of
   Christ; for not only pastors of churches are to watch over them for
   this purpose, but members of churches are to look "diligently," or act
   the part of a bishop or overseer in some respect, [81] "lest any man
   fail of the grace of God," or fall from the doctrine of grace, (Heb.
   12:15) they should not suffer sin to lie upon a brother; but rebuke and
   admonish him for it, according to the gospel rule, first alone, and
   then, if such rebuke succeeds not, to do it with, and before others;
   and such rebukes and admonitions should be in love, and with much
   tenderness, as well as faithfulness; for such only are like to be
   kindly received, and to be successful; such that are fallen, whether
   into immorality or error, should be endeavoured to be restored by those
   who are spiritual, in the spirit of meekness (Lev. 19:17; Ps. 141:5;
   Gal. 6:1).

   6. Sixthly, it is incumbent on members of churches to bear with one
   another; the strong to bear the infirmities of the weak; and to bear
   one another's burdens, and to forbear with each other, and not bear
   hard on one another, considering the patience, forbearance, and
   longsuffering of God to them; and it becomes them to forgive one
   another, as Christ, and God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven them; and
   especially when repentance is declared and discovered, then forgiveness
   should be extended, not only to seven times, but to seventy times
   seven; for if we forgive not, neither will our heavenly Father forgive
   our trespasses (Rom. 15:1; Gal. 6:2; Col. 3:12; Matthew 18:21, 22; Mark
   11:26).

   7. Seventhly, it is the duty of members of churches to pray for one
   another; as they have all one common Father, who is attentive to their
   supplications, and is able and willing to help them in their times of
   need, they are directed to address him in this manner, saying, "Our
   Father, which art in heaven;" and are thereby instructed to pray for
   others as for themselves, to whom he stands in the same relation as to
   themselves, even for all saints, as the apostle intimates, (Eph. 6:18
   and especially for such who are in the same church state; and
   particularly when they are in any distress, inward or outward; and not
   for ministers of the gospel only; though members should never be
   forgetful of their own pastors, who are set over them in the Lord, that
   they may be fitted for their work, be assisted in it, and be made
   useful to their souls; but for each of the members of the church, that
   they may have their various wants supplied; that they may grow in grace
   and spiritual knowledge; be kept faithful, and preserved blameless, to
   the coming of Christ; it becomes them in general to pray for the peace
   of Jerusalem, and in particular for the hill of Zion, to which they
   belong, that peace may be within its walls, and prosperity in its
   dwellings.

   8. Eighthly, it becomes church members to separate themselves from the
   men of the world, and not touch persons and things which are defiling;
   they are in a church state, which is as a "garden inclosed;" they are a
   separate people, and should dwell alone, and not be reckoned among the
   nations or the people of a vain and carnal world; they are called out
   of the world, and therefore should not be unequally yoked with the men
   of it; with men unrighteous, ignorant, lawless, disobedient, dead, and
   profane sinners, with whom they can have no profitable communion; and,
   indeed, from all such in their own societies who walk disorderly they
   are directed to withdraw themselves.

   8a. In conversation they are to abstain from sinful men; not that they
   are to have no commerce nor correspondence with them in civil things,
   for then, as the apostle says, they "must needs go out of the world;"
   but that they are not to join with them in their sinful practices, but
   bear a testimony against them; they are not to walk, as other Gentiles
   do, in the vanity of their minds; nor to walk with them in the same
   paths of sin and folly; nor to keep up any intimate and familiar
   converse with them; knowing, that "evil communications corrupt good
   manners".

   8b. Nor should they keep company with erroneous persons, with men of
   unsound principles; for such, who cause divisions and offences,
   contrary to the gospel of Christ, are to be avoided, and their
   conversation shunned; and such who cavil at, and consent not unto the
   wholesome words of Christ, and the doctrine according to godliness, are
   to be withdrawn from; and such who have imbibed heretical notions,
   repugnant to the sacred Trinity, and to the person of Christ, and the
   grace of the Spirit, are to be rejected; and such who bring not the
   doctrine of Christ with them, are not to be bid Godspeed, nor received
   into the houses of God's people (Rom. 16:17; 1 Tim. 6:3-5; Titus 3:10;
   2 John 1:10, 11).

   9. Ninthly, church members should be constant in assembling together
   for religious worship; it is remarked of the members of the first
   Christian church, to their honour, that they "continued steadfastly in
   the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in
   prayer," (Acts 2:42) that is, they constantly attended on hearing the
   doctrines of the apostles, which they gladly received and persevered
   in; and kept up their communion with them and one another, and were not
   missing at the Lord's Supper, and at times of public prayer; though in
   after times, an evil manner, a bad custom prevailed among some of those
   Christian Hebrews; as to "forsake the assembling of themselves
   together," which the apostle takes notice of to their dishonour (Heb.
   10:25), a custom of bad consequence, both to communities and particular
   persons; for what one may do, every one may do, and in course public
   worship cease, and churches break up; and such a practice is very
   prejudicial and harmful to individuals; it is not known what may be
   lost by missing an opportunity or an ordinance; and what trouble and
   distress of soul may follow upon it, as the case of Thomas shows, who
   was not with the rest of the disciples when Christ first appeared to
   them; it is dangerous to indulge to an indifference to, and to any
   degree of neglect of the service of God in his house; the evil may
   grow, and at last issue in apostasy, as in the stony ground hearers.

   10. Tenthly, there should be no respect of persons among members of
   churches in their assemblies, and when met together on church affairs,
   with regard to rich or poor, greater or lesser gifts; there should be
   no overbearing, no browbeating, nor any supercilious airs used; no
   affectation of superiority one over another, they being on an equal
   footing, in the same relation to one another, abating the difference of
   offices (Matthew 20:26, 27) all the strife should be "in honour to
   prefer one another;" and such who are highest, with respect to
   spiritual gifts or worldly riches, should "condescend to men of low
   estates" (Rom. 12:10, 16).

   11. Eleventhly, it behooves them to strive together for the faith of
   the gospel, and earnestly to contend for it; and not part with any of
   the truths of Christ and doctrines of grace; and should be careful to
   keep the ordinances as they were delivered, and not suffer any
   innovation in them, neither as to the matter and substance of them, nor
   as to the manner in which they are to be observed; and they should walk
   in them all with great unanimity and constancy, and should stand fast
   in the liberty wherewith Christ has made them free, and not be
   entangled with any yoke of bondage, nor suffer any human inventions and
   unwarranted practices to be imposed upon them.

   12. Twelfthly, it becomes them to be examples to each other in a holy
   walk and conversation, and in an observance of all the duties of
   religion. Holiness becomes the house of God, and the members in it;
   their light should shine both in the church and in the world, that
   others beholding their good works, may imitate them, and glorify God:
   they that name the name of Christ, and profess to be his, should depart
   from all iniquity, doctrinal and practical; they should be concerned to
   walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, and show out of a good
   conversation their works with meekness of wisdom; they should endeavour
   to fill up in a becoming manner all stations and relations in life,
   civil or economical, in the world and family; as of magistrates and
   subjects, of husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and
   servants; as well as in the church, as pastors, deacons, and private
   members, and be careful to perform all duties relative to them; that so
   their fellow members may not be grieved nor stumbled; nor the good ways
   of God be evil spoken of; nor the name of God, and his doctrine, be
   blasphemed; nor any occasion given to the adversary to speak
   reproachfully; and by a strict attention to these several duties of
   religion, they will show that they behave themselves in the house of
   God as they ought to do.
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   [80] Of this see more in Book 1. ch. 9.

   [81] episkopounten
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  Chapter 3

    OF THE OFICERS OF A CHURCH, PARTICULARLY PASTORS

   Having treated of a church, as "essentially" considered, with respect
   to its matter and form, I shall now proceed to consider it,

   2. "Organically," or as an organized church, a corporate body, having
   its proper officers. In the first churches there were officers both
   extraordinary and ordinary; the extraordinary officers were apostles,
   prophets, and evangelists.

   2a. "Apostles," (1 Cor. 12:28). These had the "first" and chief place
   in the church, and the signs of the apostles were found with them: they
   had their call and mission from Christ, and were not of men, nor by
   men, but by Jesus Christ; and as they had their mission and commission
   immediately from Christ, so their doctrine; they neither received it
   from men, nor were taught it, but had it by the revelation of Christ;
   they were infallibly guided into all truth by the inspiration of the
   Spirit, and had the power of working miracles, in confirmation of all
   this; they went out by authority everywhere, preaching the gospel, to
   the conversion of multitudes; and were the first planters of churches,
   which others watered; they were not limited to any particular church,
   but had the care of, and presided in all the churches wherever they
   came. This office is now ceased, the apostles have no successors in it:
   not such who are called lord bishops; for as the apostles had not their
   pompous titles, nor their grandeur, nor their wealth, so neither have
   these lordly bishops their gifts, power, and authority; they have
   neither mission nor commission, nor work similar to theirs.

   2b. There were set in the churches, "secondarily, prophets," (1 Cor.
   12:28; Eph. 4:11) who had extraordinary gifts for explaining the word
   of God; for instruction and confirmation in the truths of it; and had
   the gift of tongues, to preach in them to all nations; such were in the
   church at Antioch, and such were Silas and Judas (Acts 13:1, 15:22),
   and who also had the gift of foretelling future events; as Agabus, and
   others, who were of great use to the churches in those times (Acts
   11:28, 21:10). This office is also no more; only the ordinary gift of
   interpreting the scriptures is sometimes called "prophesying," and
   those who have it "prophets".

   2c. "Evangelists". This name is sometimes given to the writers of the
   four gospels; two of which were apostles, Matthew and John; the other
   two, evangelists, Mark and Luke: evangelists were companions of the
   apostles in their travels, assistants to them in their work, and who
   were sent by them here and there, with messages from them to the
   churches, where they had been, and to finish what they had begun; for
   which purpose they were sometimes left in certain places; but not to
   reside and continue there. This office is now extinct; only that every
   truly gospel preacher may be called an evangelist, or evangelizer. The
   ordinary officers of the church are pastors and deacons, and these
   only; though antichrist has introduced a rabble of other officers, the
   scripture knows nothing of.

   1. Pastors: these are shepherds under Christ, the great Shepherd and
   Bishop of souls; who take the care of the flock, and feed it, as their
   name signifies; such were promised to be given under the gospel
   dispensation; and such Christ has given to his churches (Jer. 3:15;
   Eph. 4:11), and still gives; to whom he says, as he did to Peter, "Feed
   my lambs, feed my sheep," (John 21:15, 16). Who,

   1a. Are the same with "teachers," according to Ephesians 4:11 "Some
   pastors and teachers;" not "some pastors" and "some teachers," as if
   they were different; but "and teachers," the kai or and, being
   exegetical, explaining what is meant by pastors, even such who are
   teachers, to instruct in the knowledge of divine things; which is the
   pastor's work, to feed men with knowledge and understanding: and it may
   be observed, that in 1 Corinthians 12:28 where each of the officers of
   the church are enumerated, mention is made of "teachers," but "pastors"
   omitted, because they are the same; for they are not to be
   distinguished with respect to the place where they perform their work,
   as if the office of pastors was in the church, the flock they are to
   feed; but teachers or doctors in the school; whereas, it is certain,
   that a teacher is an officer in the church, as well as pastor (1 Cor.
   12:28), nor are they to be distinguished as two distinct officers in
   the church, because of the subject of their ministry; the one, the
   pastor attending to exhortation, to things practical, and the teacher
   to things doctrinal, asserting, explaining, and defending the doctrines
   of the gospel, and refuting errors; since both belong to one and the
   same: if these were distinct, it should seem rather that teachers
   design gifted brethren, called to minister the word, but not to office
   power; and are only assistants to pastors in preaching, but not in the
   administration of the ordinances; yet it is pretty plain, that those
   who have a commission to teach, have also a commission to baptize, and
   to attend to whatsoever Christ has commanded; yea, it may be observed,
   that even extraordinary officers are called "teachers;" as apostles and
   prophets (Acts 13:1; 1 Tim. 2:7).

   1b. These pastors and teachers are the same with "bishops," or
   overseers, whose business it is to feed the flock, they have the
   episcopacy or oversight of, which is the work pastors are to do; which
   office of a bishop is a good work; and is the only office in the church
   distinct from that of deacon,(1 Tim. 3:1, 8; Phil. 1:1).

   1c. And these bishops are the same with "elders;" [82] when the apostle
   Paul had called together at Miletus the elders of the church at
   Ephesus, he addressed them as "overseers," episkopous, "bishops," (Acts
   20:17, 28) and when he says, he left Titus in Crete, to ordain elders
   in every city, he proceeds to give the qualifications of an elder,
   under the name of a bishop; "A bishop must be blameless," &c. plainly
   suggesting, that an elder and a bishop are the same (Titus 1:5-7) and
   the apostle Peter exhorts the "elders," to "feed the flock of God,
   taking the oversight," episkopes, acting the part of a bishop, or
   performing the office of one (1 Peter 5:1, 2).

   1d. These pastors, teachers, bishops, and elders, are called rulers,
   guides, and governors. A pastor, or shepherd, is the governor and guide
   of his flock; a teacher, and a ruling elder are the same (1 Tim. 5:17).
   One qualification of a bishop is, that he know how to rule his own
   house; or how shall he take care of the church of God, to rule that
   well, which is a considerable branch of his office? (1 Tim. 3:1, 4, 5)
   these, indeed, are not to lord it over God's heritage, or rule
   according to their own wills, in an arbitrary manner; but according to
   the laws of Christ, as King of saints; and then they are to be
   respected and obeyed; "Remember them that have the rule over you, and
   obey them;" for they are over the churches in the Lord, and under him
   as the great Lawgiver in his house; and though they are described as
   such who have the rule over churches, and are guides to them (Heb.
   13:7, 17) yet they are the churches servants, for Jesus's sake (2 Cor.
   4:5).

   1e. These are sometimes called the angels of the churches; so the
   pastors, elders, bishops, or overseers of the seven churches of Asia,
   are called the angels of the seven churches; and the pastor, elder,
   bishop, or overseer of the church at Ephesus, the angel of the church
   at Ephesus (Rev. 1:20, 2:1), so called because of their office, being
   sent of God, and employed by him in carrying messages of grace to the
   churches, and publishing the good tidings of salvation.

   1f. They are said to be "ministers of Christ," or his "under rowers,"
   as the word uperetas signifies (1 Cor. 4:1), the church is the ship or
   boat, which they work; Christ is the pilot, who is at the helm, under
   whom, and by whose direction, they row; and the oars they row with are
   the word, ordinances, and discipline they administer. And in the same
   place,

   1g. They are called, "Stewards of the mysteries of God;" and sometimes,
   "Good stewards of the manifold Grace of God;" that is, of the more
   sublime truths of the gospel, and the various doctrines of divine grace
   (1 Peter 4:10) so a bishop or elder is called a "steward of God,"
   (Titus 1:7) a steward in his house or family, to give to everyone in it
   their portion of meat in due season: and which office requires wisdom
   and faithfulness, to execute it aright (Luke 12:42; 1 Cor. 4:2).
   Concerning these persons may be observed,

   2. The qualifications of them for their office; which, as it is a "good
   office," the necessary qualifications should be found in those who are
   put into it, and which the apostle directs to (1 Tim. 3:1; &c). Some of
   which,

   2a. Respect the internal and spiritual character and accomplishments of
   a bishop or elder. As,

   2a1. He must not be a novice; which does not mean a young man; for such
   an one was Timothy himself, to whom the apostle writes, who was more
   than an ordinary officer, even an evangelist; hence he says, "Let no
   man despise thy youth," (1 Tim. 4:12) but the word neophutos,
   translated "novice," signifies, "one newly planted," [83] that is, in
   the church of God; there must be time, after such a plant is planted,
   to observe whether it has taken good root, and how it grows and
   thrives, and, whether a plant of Christ's heavenly Father's planting. A
   bishop or elder should be first of some standing in the church, before
   he is called to such an office, that his gifts, grace, and conduct may
   be known, "lest being lifted up with pride," elated with the high
   station he is advanced to, and with the gifts he is supposed to have,
   "he fall into the condemnation of the devil;" fall by pride as he did,
   and under the same sentence, and be degraded from his office.

   2a2. He must have a competency of knowledge and understanding in divine
   things; for a pastor is to feed men with knowledge and understanding;
   and therefore must have a good share of it himself, that so he may be
   "able to teach others also," (2 Tim. 2:2) this is a principal part of
   his work, to teach and instruct men in the knowledge of evangelical
   truths; in which he should be assiduous; "He that teacheth, on
   teaching," (Rom. 12:7) and for this he must have a ministerial gift;
   which is not natural parts, nor human learning, nor grace in common
   with other Christians; which, though all needful and useful, yet
   neither of them separately, nor all together, will qualify a man to be
   a public teacher of the word. He must have a special and peculiar gift
   from Christ; such as he received at his ascension, and gives to men, to
   ordinary ministers of the word; and it was according to the measure of
   such a gift, though a large one, the apostle Paul himself was made a
   minister of the gospel, and to such a gift he ascribes his being one
   (Eph. 3:7, 8, 4:7, 8).

   2a3. He must not only be able to teach, but he must be "apt to teach;"
   which aptitude lies in a good degree of elocution, and a free utterance
   of speech; for it is of little avail what is a man's capacity, what the
   thoughts of his mind, and what stock of knowledge he has, unless he can
   clothe his ideas with proper words to convey the understanding of them
   to others; the royal preacher "sought to find out acceptable words;"
   such as were suitable to express his meaning, and to give delight and
   pleasure, as well as yield profit to them that heard him; and
   especially the taught words of the Holy Ghost are to be made use of.
   Apollos was an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, well versed
   in them, and which greatly improved his gift of elocution; a good
   textuary makes a good preacher; a free and ready utterance is
   necessary; such an one is like the scribe and householder (Matthew
   13:52). The apostle Paul himself desired the Ephesians to pray for him,
   "that utterance might be given him," (Eph. 6:19).

   2b. There are other qualifications of a bishop or pastor, which respect
   his domestic character. He must be "the husband of one wife": this does
   not oblige a bishop or elder to be a married man; nor restrain from a
   second marriage after the decease of his wife; only that he should have
   but one wife at a time. Polygamy having been much in use among Jews and
   Gentiles, the first Christians were not easily brought off of that
   practice; however, the apostle thought fit to enjoin that a bishop or
   pastor should not practise it, that he might not set an example of it,
   which might serve to countenance and continue it; there were some
   peculiar laws respecting the marriage of the high priest among the
   Jews, and by which it seems he was to have but one wife (Lev. 21:13,
   14), and much the same laws are directed to for priests or ministers of
   the word, under the gospel dispensation (Ezek. 44:22) also a bishop or
   elder must be "one that ruleth well his own house, having his children
   in subjection with all gravity," or reverence of him; obedient to his
   commands, and who behave respectably to him; and especially he should
   be careful to lay his commands upon them to keep the ways of the Lord,
   and to restrain them from vices, and severely reprove them for them; in
   which good old Eli was deficient, and therefore blamed and corrected
   for it: the apostle gives a good and strong reason why a bishop or
   elder should have this qualification; "For," says he, "if a man know
   not how to rule his own house," or family, "how shall he take care of
   the house of God?"

   2c. There are other qualifications, which respect his personal
   character, conduct, and behaviour. As,

   2c1. That he must be "blameless" in his conversation. Song the priest
   under the law were to have no blemish on them, nor any natural defect
   in them (Lev. 21:17-23), though they were men encompassed with moral
   infirmities. And this rule, respecting a bishop or pastor of a church,
   does not imply that he must be perfect and without sin, only that he
   should not be guilty of any scandalous sin, and especially should not
   live in any known sin; otherwise there is no man, not the best of men,
   without sin; no, not in the highest office; the prophets of the Old
   Testament, and the apostles of the New, were men of like passions with
   others.

   2c2. Such an one must be "of good behaviour, and must have a good
   report with them that are without;" he should have a good report of all
   men, as Demetrius had; not only of the church and its members, of those
   that are within, to whom he is to be "an example in word, in
   conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity," (1 Tim.
   4:12) but of those without the church, the men of the world; that the
   ministry be not blamed and had in contempt, the ways of God, and
   doctrines of Christ, evil spoken of, and the ministers usefulness to
   the souls of men hindered.

   2c3. He must not be given to any vice; "Not given to wine," that is, to
   excessive drinking of it; otherwise it is no more criminal to drink
   that than to drink water; and Timothy is advised by the apostle to
   refrain from drinking water, and to make use of wine for his health's
   sake (1 Tim. 5:23), or given to quarrels; he must be "no striker,"
   neither with his fist nor with his tongue; no calumniator, no
   "brawler," not litigious and contentious; but "patient," and bear all
   reproaches, indignities, and insults; "not greedy of, nor given to
   filthy lucre," should not enter on his work and take upon him such an
   office, with a lucrative view; nor be "covetous," but "given to
   hospitality;" not insatiably desirous of wealth and riches, and making
   use of any unlawful way to obtain them; but should, according to his
   abilities, be liberal in relieving the poor and necessitous; and in
   entertaining Christian strangers and travellers, when well recommended;
   and by all this set a good example to others; and for which he should
   be supplied by the church to whom he ministers.

   2c4. A bishop, elder, or pastor, should be "vigilant;" watch over
   himself and his flock, and take heed to both: to himself; to his
   doctrine, that it be sound, pure, and incorrupt, and according to the
   word of God; and to his conversation, that it be as becomes the gospel
   of Christ; to his flock, to feed them with wholesome food, to lead and
   direct them to good pastures, and to preserve them from wolves, from
   false teachers, that lie in wait to deceive; he is to watch for the
   souls of men, for their spiritual good and welfare, as one that must
   give an account with joy, and not with grief; and he should be "sober"
   and modest, wise and prudent, and "think soberly of himself," (Rom.
   12:3). I proceed to consider,

   3. How any come into such an office, and are instated into it.

   3a. First, there must be a call to the ministry of the word, both
   inward and outward, previous to this office; no man, under the law,
   "took to himself the honour" of the priest's office, but he that was
   "called of God, as was Aaron," (Heb. 5:4, 5) nor ought any man to take
   upon him the office of a prophet, or minister of the word, without a
   call; there were some in the times of Jeremiah complained of by the
   Lord, who were not sent nor spoken to by him; and yet "prophesied"
   (Jer. 23:21).

   3a1. An internal call; which lies in gifts bestowed, and in the
   furniture of a man's mind, and in the disposition of it to make use of
   them in the service of God; for God never calls a man to any service
   but he gives him abilities for it; which, when a man is sensible of,
   and is satisfied God has bestowed a gift upon him, he cannot be easy to
   wrap up his talent in a napkin, but is desirous of making use of it in
   a public manner; not by a mere impulse, through vanity of mind, and
   with ambitious views, and sordid ends; but from a principle of love to
   the souls of men, and to the glory of God; this is the internal call,
   of which a man's gifts are an evidence to himself and others.

   3a2. The outward call is not immediately by Christ, as the twelve
   disciples were called, and sent forth by him to preach the gospel; and
   particularly, as the apostle Paul was called to be an apostle; not of
   men, neither by men, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, but
   mediately by the church; it being by some means or another made known
   to the church, that such an one is thought to have a gift for public
   usefulness, the church calls him to exercise it before them, and submit
   it to their examination and trial; and having sufficiently tried it,
   and being satisfied of it, the church calls and sends him forth in the
   name of Christ, to preach the gospel, where he may be directed in
   providence to do it; and being thus called and sent forth, he is
   eligible to the office of a pastor of a church who shall think fit to
   choose him.

   3b. Secondly, the procedure of instating him into the office of a
   pastor, or the ordination of him, is in this manner.

   3b1. He must be a member of a church, to whom he is to be ordained as a
   pastor. Song an extraordinary officer, an apostle, was chosen and
   ordained to be one, in the room of Judas, from among the disciples who
   had accompanied Christ and his apostles from the baptism of John; and
   so inferior officers, deacons, were selected out of the church, and
   appointed to that office (Acts 1:21-23, 6:3, 5), so Epaphras, a
   faithful minister of Christ for the church at Colosse, is said to be
   "one of you," a member of that church (Col. 1:7, 4:12) one that is not
   a member of the church, cannot be a pastor of it.

   3b2. His qualifications, such as before observed, must be known by the
   members of a church, and must be proved and approved of by them; yea,
   they must be satisfied that be has gifts for "their" edification; for a
   man may have gifts for the edification of one church, which are not for
   the edification of another; and this should be known, previous to their
   choice and call of him.

   3b3. After sufficient trial and due consideration of his gifts, to
   satisfaction, and after seeking the Lord by prayer, for everything is
   sanctified by the word of God and prayer, the church proceeds to the
   choice and call of him to be their pastor; for every church has a right
   and power to choose its own officers, pastors, and deacons.

   3b4. This choice and call being signified to him, he taking proper
   time, anti seeking the Lord also, accepts thereof, and shows a
   readiness and willingness to take the "oversight" of them (1 Peter
   5:2), for there must be a mutual consent and agreement in this affair.

   3b5. To the public instating of him into his office, it is necessary
   there should be a recognition and repetition both of the church's
   choice and call of him, and of his acceptance of it, for the
   confirmation thereof, and for the satisfaction of ministers, and
   churches in communion; who meet to see their order, and to assist,
   especially the former, by prayer for them, and by giving a word of
   exhortation to them, if desired.

   3b6. As every civil society has a right to choose, appoint, and ordain
   their own officers; as all cities and towns corporate, their mayors or
   provosts, aldermen, burgesses, &c. so churches, which are religious
   societies, have a right to choose and ordain their own officers, and
   which are ordained, autois, "for them," and for them "only;" that is,
   for each particular church, and not another (Acts 14:23).

   3b7. The election and call of them, with their acceptance, is
   ordination. The essence of ordination lies in the voluntary choice and
   call of the people, and in the voluntary acceptance of that call by the
   person chosen and called; for this affair must be by mutual consent and
   agreement, which joins them together as pastor and people. And this is
   done among themselves; and public ordination, so called, is no other
   than a declaration of that. Election and ordination are spoken of as
   the same; the latter is expressed and explained by the former. It is
   said of Christ, that he "ordained twelve," (Mark 3:14) that is, he
   chose them to the office of apostleship, as he himself explains it
   (John 6:70; see Acts 1:2). Paul and Barnabas are said to "ordain elders
   in every church," (Acts 14:23) or to choose them; [84] that is, they
   gave orders and directions to every church, as to the choice of elders
   over them; for sometimes persons are said to do that which they give
   orders and directions for doing, as Moses and Solomon, with respect to
   building the tabernacle and temple, though done by others; and Moses
   particularly is said to choose the judges (Ex. 18:25), the choice being
   made under his direction and guidance. The word that is used in Acts
   14:23 is translated chosen, 2 Corinthians 8:19, where the apostle
   speaks of a brother, cheirotouetheis, "who was chosen of the churches
   to travel with us;" and is so rendered when ascribed to God (Acts
   10:41).

   3b8. This choice and ordination in primitive times, was made two ways;
   [85] by casting lots and by giving votes, signified by stretching out
   of hands. Matthias was chosen and ordained to be an apostle in the room
   of Judas, by casting lots; that being an extraordinary office, required
   an immediate interposition of the divine Being; a lot being nothing
   more nor less than an appeal to God for the, decision of an affair. But
   ordinary officers, as elders and pastors of churches, were chosen and
   ordained by the votes of the people, expressed by stretching out their
   hands; thus it is said of the apostles (Acts 14:23) "When they had
   ordained them elders in every church," cheirotonesantes, by taking the
   suffrages and votes of the members of the churches, shown by the
   stretching out of their hands, as the word signifies; [86] and which
   they directed them to, and upon it declared the elders duly elected and
   ordained. Song Clemens Romanus, who lived at the latter end of the
   apostolic age, says, [87] the apostles appointed proper persons to the
   office of the ministry, "with the consent or choice of the whole
   church;" and this practice continued to the third century; in which
   century Cyprian [88] was chosen bishop of Carthage, by the suffrage of
   the people; and so he says [89] was Cornelius, bishop of Rome, in the
   same age; as was Fabianus, before him: [90] the council of Nice, in the
   beginning of the fourth century, in their synodical epistle, [91] to
   the churches in Egypt, ordered, that when any were removed by death,
   their places should be filled up by others, provided they were worthy,
   and such as the people chose; the bishop of Alexandria agreeing to and
   confirming the choice: in the same century Martin was chosen bishop of
   Tours, by a vast concourse of the people: [92] indeed, the council at
   Laodicea, Can. XIII. in this century, ordered, that from thenceforward
   the people should not be allowed to choose their own ministers; which
   shows it had been practised before: yea, after, in the "fifth" century,
   Austin, in his old age, recommended to the people Eradius [93] , to be
   his successor; which they showed their approbation of by their loud and
   repeated acclamations. [94] But,

   3b9. Though there was cheirotonia, "a stretching out of the hands;" yet
   there was no cheirothesia, "imposition of hands," used at the
   ordination; neither of extraordinary officers, as apostles; nor of
   ordinary pastors or elders of churches, in the times of Christ and his
   apostles.

   3b9a. Christ ordained the twelve apostles himself; but we read not a
   word of his laying his hands upon them, when he ordained them; nor on
   the seventy disciples, when he appointed them, and sent them forth into
   every city. Matthias was chosen and ordained an apostle in the room of
   Judas, upon a lot being cast by the church, which fell upon him; and
   upon counting the lots he was numbered, sunkatepsephisthe, "chosen," or
   by the number of lots declared to be chosen, and so took his place, and
   was reckoned with the apostles; but no mention is made of any hands
   being laid on him (see Acts 1:22-26).

   3b9b. The apostles are said to "ordain elders in every church," not by
   laying their hands upon them, but by taking the votes of the people, on
   the stretching out of their hands; when they declared the elders duly
   elected and ordained, as before observed. The apostle Paul directed
   Titus (Titus 1:5), to "ordain elders in every city;" that is, in such
   sort and manner as he and Barnabas had done in the above instance; but
   gave him no orders and instructions to lay hands upon them; which he
   would not have omitted, had it been material, and so essential to
   ordination as some make it to be: and if he was to ordain elders by the
   laying on of his hands, then not by the hands of a presbytery, since he
   was a single person; and if this was to be done by him as a bishop,
   which some say he was, though the subscription of the epistle to him
   not being genuine, which asserts it, is no proof of it, it would
   justify ordination by a diocesan bishop.

   3b9c. No instance can be given of hands being laid on any ordinary
   minister, pastor or elder, at his ordination; nor, indeed, of hands
   being laid on any, upon whatsoever account, but by extraordinary
   persons; nor by them upon any ministers, but extraordinary ones; and
   even then not at and for the ordination of them. The instance in Acts
   13:1-3 is no proof of laying on of hands at the ordination of a pastor
   or elder of a church; Paul and Barnabas were extraordinary persons,
   apostolical men, and were never ordained pastors or elders to any
   particular church; nor is there the least hint given of any such
   ordination of them at that time; nor was this the first time of the
   separation of them to the sacred office of the ministry: they had been
   in it, and had exercised it long before, and in as public a manner as
   afterwards: and what they were now separated to was some peculiar and
   extraordinary work and service [95] the Holy Ghost had for them to do
   in foreign parts, whither they travelled; and the persons who were
   directed by him to separate them to it, were extraordinary ones also;
   and their, prayers for them, with the rite of imposition of hands, seem
   only to express their good wishes for a prosperous success in their
   work [96] : and it may be observed, that this rite was used, not "at,"
   but "after" the separation of them to the work and service into which
   they were appointed, and after fasting and prayer for them: this was
   the last act done, just when upon their departure; for so it is said,
   "And when they had fasted and prayed," kai epithentes tas cheiras
   autois, "then putting hands upon them, they sent them away," or
   dismissed them with this token, or sign of their good wishes for them.
   The apostle Paul, indeed, speaks of the hands of the presbytery being
   laid upon Timothy (1 Tim. 4:14), but it should be observed, that
   Timothy was an extraordinary officer in the church, an evangelist, and
   was not chosen or ordained a pastor of any particular church; nor did
   he reside in anyone place for any length of time; the subscription of
   the "second" epistle to him being not to be depended upon as genuine,
   no more than of that to Titus [97] ; and therefore he can be no
   instance of imposition of hands at the ordination of any ordinary,
   elder, or pastor of a church; and who the presbytery were who laid
   hands on him, be it upon what account it may, they must be
   extraordinary persons through whose hands an extraordinary gift was
   conveyed: we are sure the apostle Paul was one, since he expressly
   speaks of a gift which Timothy had "by the putting on of his hands;"
   and it can scarcely be thought that any other should join with herein
   but an apostolical man; very probably Silas (see Acts 16:1, 19).
   However, upon the whole, it appears to be an extraordinary affair
   transacted by extraordinary persons, on an extraordinary one, and by it
   an extraordinary gift was conveyed; which no man of modesty will assume
   to himself a power of conveying: And let it be observed, it was not an
   "office," but a "gift," which was conveyed this way (see 1 Tim. 4:14; 2
   Tim. 1:6).

   3b9d. The hands of ministers being now empty, and they having no gifts
   to convey through the use of this rite, of course it ought to cease,
   and should; it not appearing to have been used but by extraordinary
   persons on any account; upon which, at least for the most part, if not
   always, extraordinary things followed.

   3b9e. To say that this rite is now used at the ordination of a pastor
   to point him out to the assembly, is exceeding trifling: the church
   needs it not, having before chosen and called him, and he having
   accepted their call in a more private way: and it is needless to others
   met together publicly to observe the order of the procedure; since
   usually the members of the church are desired to recognize their choice
   and call of their pastor, and he is desired to renew his acceptance,
   and frequently he makes a confession of his faith; and after all this,
   to use this rite to point him out to the people, is such a piece of
   weakness for which no excuse can be made.

   Should it be urged, that imposition of hands was used at the ordination
   of deacons, and then why not at the ordination of elders or pastors of
   churches, which is an higher office? It may be answered, that the
   church, as directed, chose out from among them seven men, so and so
   qualified (Acts 6:1-7), in which choice the essence of ordination lay;
   whom they presented to the apostles, who, approving their choice,
   confirmed it, and "constituted" and settled them in their office, as
   they proposed (Acts 6:3), and the rite of imposition of hands was used
   after this, and even after prayer for them; for it is said, "When they
   had prayed," not while they were praying, as the custom is now, "they
   laid their hands on them;" which, done for what end soever, was done by
   extraordinary persons, the apostles, and it may be for extraordinary
   service; and so no rule to ordinary ministers in the ordination of
   persons to an ordinary office; and it may be, it was done by way of
   benediction, wishing them happiness and success in their office, for
   which this rite was used among the Jews, and for the confirmation of
   this office, it not being the immediate institution of Christ, but of
   the apostles: [98] and the use of it seems to be temporary, since we
   have no other instance of it on such an account; nor any injunction of
   it, nor any direction for it; nor is it made mention of by the apostle,
   when he treats of the office of deacons, their qualifications, the
   proving and instalment of them into their office, and their use of it
   (1 Tim. 3:10), nor does it appear that there was afterwards any
   ordination of deacons, by imposition of hands, until the fourth
   century, when church offices and church officers were both magnified
   and multiplied. Besides, if the seven persons spoken of in Acts 6:1-6
   were "extraordinarily" and "pro tempore" appointed to take care of the
   poor, and of the widows in the first church at Jerusalem, and
   particularly of the Grecian widows in it, to answer their present
   exigency; and were different from the ordinary deacons of the churches,
   afterwards spoken of in Paul's epistles, which is the sense of Vitringa
   [99] who observes, that these men are never called "deacons," only
   described by their number the "Seven," as in Acts 21:8 that their work
   was not similar to that of ordinary deacons, their "ministration" being
   not monthly, nor weekly, but daily, and of an extraordinary kind; for
   they succeeded the apostles in the care of the secular affairs of the
   church; they had all the estates, and the whole substance of the
   community, which was made one common stock in their hands, to dispose
   of to them as they needed; which was a very extraordinary and uncommon
   piece of service; though their destination was more peculiar to the
   care of the Grecian widows; and these seven men appear by their names
   to be all of them Greeks, or Jewish proselytes from the Greeks, as one
   of them most certainly was; and had it not been for the murmuring of
   the Greeks, no such appointment would have been made; nor does it
   appear that they continued in their office, but when this was over, it
   ceased; and some of them, at least, were afterwards employed in other
   ministerial services, and elsewhere: now if this was the case, which is
   not easy to be disproved, we have no scripture instance of the
   imposition of hands at the ordination of ordinary deacons; nor any
   instruction and direction for it. I go on to consider,

   4. The work of such persons, who are instated into the office of
   pastors of churches.

   4a. First, the chief and principal of their work is to feed the church
   of God committed to their care; they have the name of pastors, "a
   pascendo," from feeding; Christ the chief Shepherd and Bishop of souls,
   feeds his flock like a shepherd; and so it is the business of all under
   shepherds to feed their respective flocks (1 Peter 5:2).

   4a1. First, whom they are to feed.

   4a1a. Not dogs that worry the flock; but the flock itself. The
   "childrens' bread," that which is fit and suitable food for them, is
   not to be taken and "cast to dogs;" that which is holy is not to be
   given to them; the holy word of God, its precious truths and promises,
   do not belong to them; nor are the holy ordinances to be administered
   to them; "without are dogs," they are without the church, out of the
   flock, and so do not belong to the care and feeding of the pastors or
   shepherds.

   4a1b. Nor swine; such who for the impurity of their hearts and lives,
   wallowing in the filth of sin, are comparable to these creatures; and
   which are creatures that never look upwards, but downwards to the
   earth, and so fit emblems of those who mind earth and earthly things,
   and feed on them. The prodigal was sent by the citizen of the country,
   the legal preacher, to whom he joined himself, into his fields to feed
   swine; but pastors of churches are not swineherds, but shepherds.

   4a1c. Nor the world's goats; the Lord judges and distinguishes between
   cattle and cattle, the sheep and the goats; though these are sometimes
   folded together, he threatens to punish the goats, which will be done
   at the second coming of Christ, when he will divide the sheep from the
   goats, and set the one on his right hand and the other on his left;
   when the latter shall go into everlasting punishment, and the former
   into life eternal.

   4a1d. They are Christ's sheep and lambs, that pastors of churches are
   to feed, according to the directions given by Christ to Peter; "Feed my
   sheep, feed my lambs," (John 21:15-17) such whom Christ has an interest
   and property in, through the Father's gift of them to him, and through
   his laying down his life for them (John 10:15, 29), and which is an
   argument why pastors should be careful and diligent to feed them,
   because they are Christ's; "My lambs, my sheep;" both are to be fed;
   the tender lambs, otherwise newborn babes, little children, as well as
   the grown sheep, otherwise young men and fathers. Christ, the great
   Shepherd, has set an example of diligence and tenderness (Isa. 40:11).
   So that,

   4a1e. All the flock, the whole flock, is to be taken heed unto, and
   taken care of by pastors and shepherds, "over which the Holy Ghost has
   made them overseers, or bishops;" and for which reason they should be
   careful of them; and another follows, "to feed the church of God, which
   he has purchased with his own blood;" and therefore of great value and
   great care should be taken of it to feed it.

   4a2. Secondly, what they are to feed the church or flock of God with?

   4a2a. Not with chaff and husks, or what is comparable to them (Jer.
   23:28), chaff is light, has no substance in it, and yields no
   nourishment, and is not fit for food; as bread made of wheat is, and
   denotes the solid and substantial doctrines of the gospel, with which
   the souls of men are to be fed. Husks are food for swine, but not for
   sheep; the externals of religion satisfy some minds, but not truly
   gracious souls, they cannot live upon these.

   4a2b. Pastors of churches are to feed their flocks with such food as is
   suitable to lambs and sheep; milk is for tender lambs, for newborn
   babes, who desire the sincere milk of the word. Milk designs the more
   plain and easy truths of the gospel, which are suited to tender minds;
   strong meat, the more sublime doctrines of it, fitter for those of full
   age, more grown Christians, who have a better exercise of their
   spiritual senses, and can discern things that differ (1 Peter 2:2; 1
   Cor. 3:2; Heb. 5:14).

   4a2c. Sound doctrine, salutary truths, the wholesome words of our Lord
   Jesus, are what pastors are to teach and feed souls with; these are
   nourishing, when unsound doctrines, the unwholesome words of false
   teachers, eat as do a canker.

   4a2d. The word of God in general, and especially the gospel part of it,
   is food for souls, and is esteemed by them more than their necessary
   food; being that to their souls, what the richest and choicest food is
   to their bodies; they find it and eat it, and it is the joy and
   rejoicing of their hearts; it is sweeter to their taste than the honey
   or the honeycomb.

   4a2e. Pastors are promised and given to the churches, to feed them
   "with knowledge and understanding," (Jer. 3:15) which may denote both
   the matter they are to feed them with, and the manner in which they are
   to do it.

   4a2e1. The matter or things they are to feed souls with, are things
   worthy to be known; not trifling things, matters of curiosity, and of
   no importance, which are vain and unprofitable, and serve to gender
   strife, and tend not to godly edification: not philosophy and vain
   deceit, or science falsely so called; nor mere human knowledge, or
   knowledge of natural things; but divine knowledge, knowledge of divine
   things; which, though a minister cannot give; he may teach and
   instruct; for it is the Lord that gives understanding in all things; it
   is the Spirit of wisdom and revelation who leads men into the knowledge
   of Christ; and it is the Son of God himself who gives men an
   understanding to know him that is true; yet ministers are instruments
   of bringing men into an acquaintance with divine things, and of their
   improvement in the knowledge of them; the light of divine truths shines
   in their hearts, that they may be able to communicate, in a ministerial
   way, "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God," of the glory of
   his divine perfections, displayed "in the face or person," and in the
   work and office "of Jesus Christ". Their work is to preach Christ, and
   him crucified; and they determine to know, that is, to make known, none
   but him, as the Saviour of lost sinners; and they are the servants of
   the most high God, which show unto men the way of salvation by Christ;
   and direct souls to him, who inquire, What shall we do to be saved?
   yea, they may be said "to give knowledge of salvation," as John the
   Baptist is said to do, being instruments of conveying the knowledge of
   it to men; so likewise they feed men with the knowledge and
   understanding of gospel truths; as they have knowledge of the mysteries
   of Christ themselves, they impart it to others; as they have freely
   received, they freely give, and keep back nothing that may be
   profitable, but declare the whole counsel of God; and such knowledge is
   food to the mind as bread is to the body.

   4a2e2. This phrase, "With knowledge and understanding," may signify the
   manner in which pastors are to feed the souls of men, wisely and
   prudently; which they do when, as wise and faithful stewards, they give
   to everyone their portion of meat in due season, and feed them in
   proportion to their age and capacity; give milk to babes, and meat to
   strong men.

   4a3. Thirdly, by what means they are to feed and do feed the churches
   of Christ, over which they are set.

   4a3a. By the ministry of the word, or by the preaching of the gospel;
   which is the means appointed of God for the gathering in his elect
   ones, for the perfecting the number of them in conversion, and for the
   edification of the body, the church, and all its members; for their
   growth in grace, and in the knowledge of Christ, and of all divine
   things: an unpreaching pastor, bishop, or elder, is a contradiction in
   terms; and such are like those described by the prophet as blind and
   ignorant watchmen, dumb dogs that cannot bark, shepherds that cannot
   understand; who everyone look for their gain from their quarter, though
   they do not the duty of their office. But,

   4a3a1. Such feed the flock, who do their work aright; give themselves
   up to the ministry of the word, neglect all other services, at least as
   much as may be, that they may not be entangled with them, and be
   diverted by them, from their grand employment; to which they have
   devoted themselves, for the glory of God and the good of souls. Such
   give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine; and
   meditate on these things, and give themselves wholly to them, that
   their profiting may appear to all, and their usefulness to many.

   4a3a2. They addict themselves to the study of the sacred scriptures
   more particularly; and endeavour to bring forth from thence things new
   and old, which may be for the use of edifying; they study to show
   themselves approved of God, skilful workmen, who need not be ashamed of
   their ministrations, rightly dividing the word, which will not fail of
   feeding, more or less, the souls of men; as they have the word of God,
   the knowledge and experience of it, they are faithful to dispense it as
   stewards of the mysteries of God; of whom it is required, that they be
   both faithful and wise.

   4a3a3. They are assiduous and constant in this work; they, as the
   apostles of Christ, give themselves continually to prayer, and to the
   ministry of the word; do not preach a sermon only now and then, but
   preach the word constantly, and are instant in season and out of
   season; and take every opportunity of feeding and of doing good to the
   souls of men; they are constant and immoveable, always abounding in the
   work of the Lord; knowing that their labour is not in vain in the Lord.

   4a3a4. They not only give themselves up to this work, and are studious
   and constant in it, but labour therein; they are not loiterers, but
   labourers in the Lord's vineyard; and are labourers together with him,
   and are approved by him; and their labours are blessed and succeeded
   among men, and they receive honour from them, of which they are worthy
   (1 Tim. 5:17).

   4a3a5. They are careful to preach the pure and whole gospel of Christ;
   they study a consistence in their ministry, that it be not yea and nay,
   and contradict itself; they are not of them who corrupt the word with
   human doctrines and the inventions of men; but speak it with all
   sincerity, renouncing all arts of dishonesty, commending themselves to
   every man's conscience in the sight of God; keeping back no part of
   divine truths, but declaring the whole of what is revealed in the word
   of God, so far as they have knowledge of it; and such are more or less
   blessed for the feeding the flock and church of God.

   4a3b. Pastors of churches feed souls by the administration of
   ordinances; these are the goodness and fatness of the house of God,
   with which the saints are richly fed, and abundantly filled and
   satisfied; these are the provisions of Zion, which the Lord blesses;
   these are breasts of consolation, out of which gracious souls suck, and
   are delighted and refreshed; these are green pastures, into which the
   shepherds of Israel lead their flocks and feed them.

   4a3c. This act of feeding includes the whole work, and every part of
   the work of a shepherd or pastor to his flock, doing all good offices
   to them, and all the service they can for them; such as seeking the
   lost sheep, bringing again that which was driven away, binding up that
   which was broken, and strengthening the sick (Ezek. 34:16), preserving
   them from the lion and the bear, and from grievous wolves, false
   teachers, who will not spare the flock; watching over them even in the
   night seasons, when needful; watching for their souls, the good and
   welfare of them, as those who must give an account of them; being
   diligent to know the state of the flock, and ready to administer all
   relief to them in their power, by comforting the feeble minded, and
   supporting the weak.

   4a3d. A concern for the spiritual good of the flock the pastor has the
   care of, appears by his constant, fervent, and earnest prayers for it;
   for this is one part of the work they give themselves up unto, along
   with the ministry of the word, namely, prayer; particularly for those
   to whom they minister, that the word preached by them might be blessed
   unto them, and be food for their souls; thus we find the apostle Paul,
   in all his epistles, makes mention of his prayers for all the churches,
   and the members of them, he having the care of all the churches on him.

   4a3e. Pastors may feed the souls of men under their care, not only by
   their public ministrations, but by their private visits, counsels,
   instructions, and conversation; so the apostle Paul taught from house
   to house as well as publicly (Acts 20:20).

   4a3f. To all which, love to Christ and to his people is requisite; such
   only who have a true affection for both, will naturally care for the
   good of immortal souls, will be willing to spend and be spent for them,
   and to bear the reproach, and go through the fatigue and trouble which
   attend such service; hence said Christ to Peter, once, twice, and
   thrice, "Lovest thou me?" and at each answer given to the question,
   enjoined him to feed his lambs and his sheep; suggesting, that only
   such who loved him were proper persons to take the care of them.

   4b. Secondly, another part of the work of pastors, is to rule the
   church they take the oversight of; the same word in the Greek language
   which signifies to feed, signifies to rule also (see Matthew 2:6); and
   kings are sometimes called shepherds; as Cyrus and others; so
   Agamemnon, in Homer [100] , is called, poimen laon, "the shepherd of
   the people". The church of Christ is a kingdom; it is frequently called
   so in the New Testament; Christ is King of it, set as King of Zion by
   his divine Father, and is owned as King of saints by his church and
   people; and ministers of the word, and pastors of churches, are "over
   them in the Lord;" they are under Christ, and subject to him, but are
   over the churches by his appointment; hence they are represented as
   guides, governors, and rulers, as before observed; and obedience to
   them is required; "Obey them that have the rule over you," (Heb.
   13:17). And their pre-eminence in the church appears,

   4b1. In giving the lead in divine worship, they go before the
   congregation in acts of divine service, in public prayer and
   thanksgiving, and in the ministry of the word (Rev. 4:9, 10, 5:14), and
   this they do in an authoritative way; they are the mouth of the people
   to God, and present their prayers and thanksgivings as representing
   them; and they are the mouth of God to the people, and speak in his
   name, and are ambassadors in Christ's stead.

   4b2. In presiding at church meetings; where they have the conducting of
   all affairs with order and decency, directing in all acts of
   discipline, according to the word of God; putting up the votes of the
   church, giving admonitions, and passing censures, as they may be
   necessary, by the agreement and consent of the church.

   4b3. In receiving and rejecting members; the keys of the kingdom of
   heaven, the gospel church, as usually understood, are committed to
   them, to open and shut the doors of the church according to its
   direction; for though the power of admission and rejection of members
   is originally in the church, it is executively in the pastors, in the
   name of the church.

   4b4. In taking care of the whole discipline of the church of God, that
   it is observed, and that the rules respecting it are put into
   execution; which they are to explain, enforce, and see that they are
   attended to; they are to show to the house, the church of God, "the
   form of the house, and the fashion of it;" the nature of it, as to
   matter, form, power, and order; "and the goings out thereof, and the
   comings in thereof;" the rules respecting the reception of members, and
   the excommunication of them; "and all the ordinances, and all the laws
   thereof," even everything Christ has commanded and appointed to be
   observed (Ezek. 43:10, 11). Now the rule and government of pastors of
   churches is not to be exercised in an arbitrary way; they are not to
   rule with force and cruelty, as the shepherds of Israel are complained
   of; they are not to lord it over God's heritage; they have not dominion
   over their faith, nor the command of their practice at their wills;
   they cannot oblige them to receive a doctrine, nor to follow a
   practice, that is of their own or of human invention: but they are to
   govern according to the word of God, and the laws and rules which
   Christ, as King and Head of the church, has given: and when they rule
   according to these, they may be said to rule well, and should be
   respected and obeyed, and counted worthy of honour. And this ruling, as
   well as feeding, should be with knowledge and understanding, in a wise,
   prudent, and discreet manner; as David, who fed the people of Israel
   according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them with the
   skilfulness of his hands. I proceed to answer,

   5. Some queries relative to the office of pastors.

   5a. First, Whether a pastor of one church can officiate as such in
   another church; or whether he can administer the Lord's Supper, which
   is a pastoral act, in and to a church of which he is no pastor. I
   answer, he cannot; that is, it is not lawful for him to do it. As well
   may it be asked, Whether the lord mayor of London, whose power as such
   may be thought to be as extensive as any other mayor whatever, can
   exercise his power, in any branch of his office, in the jurisdiction of
   the mayor of York or of Bristol, or any other: no officer in a
   corporation can exercise his office in another corporation; this holds
   good of every officer in it, from the highest to the lowest. A church
   of Christ is a body corporate, in a spiritual sense; and its officers
   can only act as such within it, and within no other. For,

   5a1. A man can never act as a pastor, where he is not so much as a
   member; a man must be a member of a church before he can be a pastor of
   it, as we have seen. Epaphras, the minister and pastor of the church at
   Colosse, the apostle Paul, writing to them says, "Who is one of you,"
   that is, one of their society, a member of theirs (Col. 4:12). But
   where a man is not a member of such a society, he is not one of them;
   he cannot act as pastor among them, nay he cannot put forth any act or
   operation, or join in any act as a private member may, and much less
   act as a pastor; for membership is the foundation, not only of every
   office, but of every act and operation in a church. "All members," the
   apostle says, "have not the same office," (Rom. 12:4) but let the
   office be what it may, they must be members that have it, anti they
   only; they have not all the same function or ministry; as they were not
   all apostles who were in the primitive churches, so not all pastors,
   and all deacons, who were in them, and in succeeding churches; yet all
   who are pastors or deacons, must or should be members; and members have
   not all the same act or action, and operation, as the word may be
   rendered [101] , in an office way; though there are some acts indeed
   which are common to all members, yet they are such which only belong to
   members, and which pastors of other churches cannot act and exercise,
   as private members may and do: for instance, they have no vote or
   suffrage in other churches for the admission of a member, or for the
   exclusion of any; or in the choice and call of any officer, pastor or
   deacon: and if they cannot act, or cannot exercise an act, a private
   member can; then surely they can never act as a pastor, where they have
   not the power and privilege of a private member!

   5a2. As one that is not a member of a church cannot be an officer in
   it, as a pastor of another church cannot be; then he has no office
   relation to it, nor has he any office power in it, and therefore cannot
   exercise in it any act of office power; and, in consequence, cannot
   administer the Lord's Supper in it, which is an act of office power.

   5a3, As well may he exercise other branches of his pastoral office as
   this; as well may he be a ruling elder in other churches, and preside
   at their church meetings, and exercise every part of discipline, and
   the power of the keys, as by some called, and let in and shut out,
   receive and exclude members, give admonitions, lay on censures, and
   take them off, as a pastor, in the name of the church; and if he can
   act as a pastor in two churches, he may in ten, and twenty, and more,
   and so become a diocesan bishop; yea, an universal bishop or pastor, as
   the pope at Rome pretends to be; and popery stopped not until it came
   to that, to establish an universal pastor; and to which such an
   antichristian practice leads and paves the way: and it is an
   affectation in some to be thought of more moment and importance than
   they are; and to grasp at power and authority, and to appear in a
   character and figure which do not belong to them, if not something
   else; which tempts them to give into such an unwarrantable practice.
   For,

   5a4. Should it be asked, as it may be reasonably asked, by what
   authority they do this thing? who or what gives them this authority?
   What answer can be returned? will they say they have their authority
   from Christ? this must be had, either immediately from him, as the
   apostles had for what they did; and then they must be called upon to
   work miracles in confirmation of it, as they did: or from the word of
   God and Christ; and then it lies upon them to give proof of it from
   thence. Neither can a pastor derive his authority froth his own church,
   of which he is properly pastor; nor from the other, to whom, at their
   request, he administers the ordinance; neither the consent of the one,
   nor the desire of the other, can give him sufficient authority so to
   act: as for his own church, they invested him with office power over
   themselves, and not over others; further they could not and cannot go:
   and as for the other church, that has no power to call in the elder or
   pastor of another church so to act; and if they have no power to call
   him, he can have no authority to act, as not from his own church, so
   neither from that: nor will the communion of churches warrant it; for
   communion of churches does not enlarge the office power of a pastor,
   limited by the word of God to his own congregation only; this no more
   subjects the officers of one church to another, than it subjects the
   particular members of one church to another; in either of which cases
   there would be nothing but confusion and disorder; one church, by
   virtue of the communion of churches, might as well censure and cast out
   the members of another church; as the pastor of one church, by virtue
   of such communion, act as an officer in another church. Neither his
   grace nor his gifts can authorize him so to act; for then one that is
   no officer, only a private brother, might do it; nor will his being an
   ordained minister in one church give him authority so to act in another
   church; for elders are only ordained to particular churches, and not to
   others; the elders ordained by the apostles in every church where such
   ordinations were, were autois, "for them," and not others (Acts 14:23).
   Epaphras was a faithful minister "for you," for the church at Colosse;
   not for another church (Col. 1:7), the elders of Ephesus were ordered
   to feed all the flock over which the Holy Ghost made them overseers;
   but not all the flocks over which they were not overseers: so other
   elders are directed to feed the flock that was among them, not flocks
   (Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 5:2), the angel of the church at Ephesus was not
   angel of the church at Smyrna, and so vice versa: ordination fixes a
   man to a particular church or congregation: and does not make him an
   universal pastor, which he must be, if there was no boundary to his
   office. And therefore,

   5a5. Such who take upon them to act in such a manner may be truly
   called, "busybodies in other mens' matters," (1 Peter 4:15) the word
   there translated, "a busybody," is allotrioepiskopos [102] , a bishop,
   in another parish or diocese, which were originally the same, or a
   pastor in a church, which is not his own; and truly describes such a
   person we are speaking of, who meddles with a business he has nothing
   to do with.

   5a6. As well may a deacon of one church officiate as such in another,
   as a pastor of one church officiate in another; for they are both alike
   chosen by, and ordained to particular churches, and not to others.

   5a7. No instance can be given of such a practice in the word of God;
   there may be instances of members of one church communicating with
   another church occasionally; so Phoebe, a member of the church at
   Cenchrea, was to be admitted to communicate with the church at Rome;
   but then partaking of an ordinance is a privilege arising from the
   communion of churches; and is only a kind of spiritual hospitality,
   giving a meal to a traveller; and that by a pastor discharging his
   office in his own proper place, in his own church: but the
   administration of an ordinance is an act of office power, which one
   church cannot give to another, nor a pastor exercise it in another
   church (Rom. 16:1, 2; see Acts 20:4-7). The instance of the apostle
   Paul's breaking bread to the disciples at Troas, supposing it to be
   understood of the ordinance of the supper, is no, proof and example of
   such a practice; since he was an apostle, and had the care of all the
   churches upon him, and could administer all ordinances unto them; but
   to urge and follow his example, is to usurp what is peculiar to
   apostles, and to confound ordinary and extraordinary ministers together
   as one; whereas, "Are all apostles?" They are not. Upon the whole, it
   may justly create a scruple in the minds of such who receive the
   ordinance in a church where the administrator is not a pastor: either
   such an one is not clear in it, or he is, that it is his duty to
   receive it from such hands: if he is not clear in it, but doubts, he is
   self-condemned; and be it, he is clear in it, he is culpable, since
   hereby he approves and abets the pastor's unlawful power to administer
   it, and encourages him in it, and draws upon himself the guilt of his
   unlawful administration, and of a compliance with an authority assumed
   by him, but not legally given [103] .

   5b. Secondly, another question may be put upon the former, Whether a
   brother, or private member of a church, may be deputed by the church to
   administer the ordinance of the Lord's Supper? This may seem to carry
   in it a better face than the former; since, though he is a non-officer,
   he is upon a par with a pastor of another church, who is no more an
   officer in such a church the brother belongs to than he is; and
   besides, he is a member of the church, which the pastor of another
   church is not. But the ordinance of the supper cannot be administered
   authoritatively but by an officer, since it is an act of office power,
   and must be administered in the name of Christ, by one as a substitute
   of him; and if the church may delegate and substitute others for the
   discharge of all ordinances whatsoever, without elders or pastors, then
   it may "perfect the saints," and complete the "work of the ministry,"
   without them; which is contrary to (Eph. 4:11, 12) and, as Dr. Owen
   [104] further observes, it would render the ministry only convenient,
   and not absolutely "necessary" to the church, which is contrary to the
   institution of it; and such a practice would tend to make a church
   content without a pastor, and careless and negligent of seeking after
   one when without one.

   5c. Thirdly, another question is, Whether a pastor may move from one
   congregation to another? The answer is, if it is for worldly advantage,
   and he has a sufficient provision where he is, he ought not. There are
   some cases in which it may be lawful for him to move; as when it
   appears to be for the good of the interest of religion, and of the
   church of Christ in general; but this should not be without the consent
   of the church of which he is pastor; nor without the advice of other
   churches and ministers; and when a church, of which he is pastor,
   indulges immoralities, or has imbibed erroneous doctrines, from which
   they cannot be reclaimed; and if there are such divisions in the church
   as are not to be cured; and especially if the pastor has such a concern
   in them, that there is no probability of their being healed but by his
   removal; also when a competent provision is not made for him and his
   family, but they are not only exposed to want, but the gospel also to
   the reproach and contempt of the world.

   5d. Fourthly, it may be asked, Whether on account of bodily weakness,
   or a decay of intellectual abilities, a pastor may resign his office,
   or be desired to desist from his work? the answer is, he may
   voluntarily lay down his office, with the consent of the church; or he
   may be desired to drop it, provided, if his case requires it, a
   provision is made for his temporal subsistence.

   5e. Fifthly, if it is a question, whether a pastor of a church may be
   deposed from his office, and be cast out of the church for immorality
   or heresy, it may be answered in the affirmative; for he may be
   admonished and reproved for negligence in the discharge of his office,
   and be stirred up to it (Col. 4:17), a charge of sin may be brought
   against him, under proper witnesses, according to the rule (1 Tim.
   5:19), an elder or pastor is a brother, and to be dealt with as such,
   according to Matthew 18:15. Indeed, if the sole power of
   excommunication lies in the pastor, he cannot be dealt with in such a
   manner; but that is not the case; it lies in the church, as will be
   seen hereafter; to which power a pastor of a church is equally subject
   as a private member.
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   [82] Song Jerom, in his Comment. on 1 Tim. iii. 10. and on Titus. i. 5.

   [83] "Novam plantam," Grotius; "Nuper baptizatum et ascriptum in
   numerum christianorum," Vatablus.

   [84] cheirotonein, "hic simpliciter vertamus per eligere, decernere,
   designare, ordinare per electionem," Vitringa de Synagog. vet. l. 3.
   par. 1. c. 14. p. 821.

   [85] Of these two ways of choosing officers with the Jews, Philo,
   speaks, de Judice, p. 718. in initio.

   [86] cheirotonesantes, "per suffragia delegissent, creassent": so Beza,
   Erasmus, Vatablus, H. Stephanus. "ortum est hoc verbum ex Graeeorum
   consuetudine, qui porrectis manibus suffragia ferebant," Beza in Act.
   14, 23.

   [87] Ep. 1. ad Corinth. p. 100.

   [88] Pontii vita Cyprian. p. 2. & Cyprian. ep. 40. p. 75. & ep. 55. p.
   115, 116.

   [89] Ib. ep. 52. p. 97. & ep. 67. p. 163.

   [90] Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 6. c. 29.

   [91] Apud Theodoret. Eccl. Hist. l. 1. c. 9.

   [92] Vide Sulpicii Severi vit. Martin, p. 224.

   [93] "Inter opera ejus," tom. 2. ep. 110.

   [94] "Electionis formula de episcopis et praefectis ecclesiae per
   suffragia populi constituendis, ea semper mihi visa est optima, quam
   legimus apud Augustinum de creatione Eradii." Aonii Palearii
   Testimonium, c. 16. p. 367. This learned Italian was a glorious
   confessor and martyr of Jesus; who, for the noble witness he bore
   against popish innovations, and particularly against the popish
   inquisition; which he said was a sword drawn to cut the throats of
   learned men, (Vid. Lampe, Synops. Hist. Sacr. et Ecclesiastic. l. 2. c.
   13. s. 29. p. 453.) was taken up at Milan, bound, and sent to Rome,
   where he was condemned to the flames, and was burnt alive, after he had
   made a bold confession of his faith, about the year 1566, some say
   1570, under pope Pius V. The above Testimonium referred to was written
   by him, and designed to be sent to the emperor. The Christian kings and
   princes, and the presidents of a general council then deliberating, to
   be held at Trent; which, when written, was very worthy of their regard,
   and now to be read by every Protestant.

   [95] "Imponuntur quidem manus etiam Paulo et Barnaba in ecclesia
   Antiochena, Spiritu sancto jubente; sed opus illud videtur plane
   extraordinarium, seu in ministerium illic singulare designatio; nec
   alterutrius eorum in presbyteratus facultatem ordinatio," Selden de
   Synedriis, l. 2. c. 7. s. 7.

   [96] "Manus impositio; quid est enim aliud nisi oratio super hominem?"
   Augustin. contra Donatist. l. 3. c. 16.

   [97] See Lord Brook's Discourse of the Nature of Episcopacy, p. 76, 77.

   [98] "Meminisse autem diaconi debent, quoniam apostolos, id est,
   episcopos et praepositos dominus elegit: diaconos autem post ascensuna
   domini in coelos, apostoli sibi constituerunt episcopatus sui et
   ecclesiae ministros," Cyprian, ep. 65. p. 158.

   [99] Deut. Synagog. vet. l. 3. par 2. c. 5.

   [100] Iliad. 2. v. 243, 254.

   [101] ten auten praxin, "eundem actum, vel eandem actionem," Vatablus.

   [102] "Qui fines alieni officii invadit," Gerhardus apud Stockium in
   voce.

   [103] See more of this question in a little tract called "A Discussion
   of the Lawfulness of a Pastor's acting as an Officer in other Churches
   besides his own; "by Nathaniel Mather. London, printed 1698, which is
   sufficient to convince any of the unlawfulness of it, whose mind is
   open to conviction; and from whence I have borrowed many of the above
   hints.

   [104] True nature of a Gospel Church, ch. 5. p. 94.
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  Chapter 4

    OF THE DUTIES OF MEMBERS OF CHURCHES TO THEIR PASTORS

   As pastors of churches have a work to do, which is both honourable and
   useful; so there are duties incumbent on those who are under their
   care, with respect to them, for their work's sake. Though they are
   "nothing," with respect to God, to whom they owe all they have (1 Cor.
   3:7), and with respect to the churches, they are theirs, for their use
   and service; yet they are not to be reckoned as nothing by them, and to
   be treated with contempt; "Let a man so account of us, as of the
   ministers of Christ;" made such and put into the ministry by him, being
   furnished from him with gifts and graces for it, and as such, to be
   highly accounted of; and though they are not lords and masters in the
   family of God, yet they are stewards in it, the highest officers in the
   house of God; and therefore are to be accounted of as "stewards of the
   mysteries of God," having the secret and hidden things of God entrusted
   with them; the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, the sublime as well
   as plainer doctrines of the gospel, which they are to minister: and
   since it is given them of God to know them and make them known to
   others, they are worthy of respect on that account (1 Cor. 4:1). The
   various duties which members of churches are under obligation to
   perform to their respective ministers, pastors, and elders, will be
   considered farther as they lie in various passages of scripture.

   1. First, in 1 Thessalonians 5:12, 13, "We beseech you brethren to know
   them," &c.

   1a. First, it is the duty of church members to know their pastors;
   which is not to be understood of a bare knowledge of their persons; for
   it cannot be supposed, that there can be such a relation between
   pastors and members, and yet the members not know their pastors; the
   sheep know their shepherd and his voice.

   1a1. To know them is to be acquainted with them; to make themselves and
   their cases known unto them; for sometimes to "know" signifies to make
   known; as in 1 Corinthians 2:2. Members of churches should freely
   converse with their pastors, and make known the state and condition of
   their souls; and especially when they have any matter of difficulty and
   cases of conscience to be resolved, or are in any soul trouble and
   distress; they should open their minds to them, and declare their case,
   that they may speak a word in season to them; for though their cases
   may sometimes be hit upon and reached in the general ministry of the
   word, yet this is owing to an extraordinary direction of providence,
   and cannot in common be expected by all; at least it cannot be assured
   of, unless persons unbosom themselves to their ministers, and tell them
   their case.

   1a2. To know them is to acknowledge them as their ministers and
   pastors. Not to know is not to own and acknowledge; as in Luke 13:27.
   It is for members so to know their pastors, as to own them as such; as
   theirs in a peculiar sense, in which other ministers are not; as in a
   special relation to them, and under their particular care; and this
   acknowledgment of them should be testified by their submission to them
   in their ministerial services and pastoral acts; of which more
   hereafter.

   1a3. To know them is to take notice of them, to show respect to them,
   to "hold such in reputation," as the apostle advises (Phil. 2:29), to
   give them the honour that is due unto them; not to know Christ, his
   ministers, and his people, is to despise them, and to treat them in a
   disrespectful manner (1 John 3:1; Luke 10:16).

   1a4. To know them is to love them; for words of knowledge oftentimes
   connotate love and affection (2 Tim. 2:19), and so the apostle explains
   this of members knowing their pastors, by esteeming them "very highly
   in love," (2 Tim. 2:13) such as the Galatians expressed to the apostle
   Paul, though they afterwards became cool and indifferent to him; yea,
   the reverse of their former love.

   1a5. To know them is to show a concern for their comfort and welfare,
   their safety and protection (Ps. 142:4) people should be concerned for
   the safety of their minister in the discharge of his office; to protect
   him from the insolent attempts of wicked men, that he may he with them
   without fear, while he ministers to them; as the apostle exhorted the
   Corinthians, with respect to Timothy (1 Cor. 16:10), and they should be
   careful to preserve his credit and reputation, and defend his character
   from the false aspersions of men, and not surlier, even among
   themselves, anything to be whispered to his discredit, and to the hurt
   of his usefulness; nor any accusation to be brought in public against
   him, without sufficient evidence (1 Tim. 5:19).

   Now the arguments and reasons made use of to enforce this duty are,

   1a5a. Because such persons "laboured among them;" they were not
   non-residents, but were upon the spot where the people were, they had
   the care of; as the flock was among them they were to feed, so they
   were among the flock, resided in the midst of them, or near them; for
   where should pastors be, but with their flocks, to feed them they have
   the oversight of? (1 Peter 5:2) and faithful ministers are not only
   among their people, and continue with them, but they "labour" among
   them; they are not loiterers, slothful servants, who hide their talents
   in a napkin, and may be called idle shepherds, sleeping, lying down,
   loving to slumber, who serve not the Lord Jesus, nor the souls of men,
   but their own bellies: but faithful ministers are labourers, labour in
   the word and doctrine, and so are worthy of double honour.

   1a5b. Because they are "over" the churches to whom they minister; they
   are set in the first and most eminent place in the church, and have the
   rule over the members of it; and this superiority over them "is in the
   Lord," in things pertaining to his interest and glory; not in civil,
   but spiritual things; and though they are over the churches, yet under
   Christ the Lord, as Head of the church and King of saints; and they are
   governors in and by his appointment, and therefore are to be regarded.

   1a5c. They "admonish" the saints, with whom they are concerned, or "put
   them in mind," as the word signifies; [105] of their former
   experiences, which are delightful and refreshing, to them; and of the
   doctrines of the gospel they have been instructed in, and have
   received, and are food to their souls; and of the duties of religion,
   which are incumbent upon them, the observance of which makes for their
   peace and good, and for the glory of God: and they admonish, warn,
   rebuke, and reprove; they warn of approaching danger from their
   spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world; and rebuke and reprove
   for errors and immoralities they may fall into, for the recovery of
   them. On all which accounts they are deserving of respect.

   1b. Secondly, it is the duty of church members not only to know their
   pastors; but "to esteem them very highly in love for their work sake,"
   or "superabundantly", [106] as the word signifies; over and above
   common esteem and affection, and above common Christians, in honour
   preferring them to others; they are to think highly of them, and
   entertain a high opinion of them, of their grace, gifts, and abilities
   for their work; for if they think meanly, and entertain a contemptible
   opinion of them, their ministry is not likely to be of much use unto
   them: and they should speak very highly and very honourably of them;
   for if members of churches do not speak well of their own pastors, it
   can hardly be thought they should have much respect and esteem from
   others; and they should speak respectfully to them, with a becoming
   decency, considering the character they bear, and the high office they
   are in, in the church: and this esteem must be cordial and
   affectionate, it must be "in love;" not through fear, nor in
   dissimulation and hypocrisy, but in sincerity and truth; and that, "for
   their work sake," which is laborious, attended with weariness of body;
   and sometimes, through it, are "nigh unto" death, as Epaphroditus was
   (Phil. 2:30), and which also exposes to the reproach and contempt of
   the world. To which may be added, that it is, notwithstanding, a good
   work and honourable, and very beneficial to the souls of men; and
   therefore those employed in it, should be esteemed for the sake of it;
   for the work that they have done, in which they have been useful to men
   for conversion, or for comfort and edification; and forasmuch as they
   have continued in it, and may be more useful in their day and
   generation, both for the good of souls and the glory of God.

   2. Secondly, other branches of the duty of members to their pastors are
   expressed in Hebrews 13:7, 17, 18.

   2a. First, in Hebrews 13:7 "Remember them," &c.

   2a1. They should remember them, be mindful of them at the throne of
   grace, as is after exhorted to; should remember the doctrines preached
   by them, and treasure them up in their minds; which may be of after use
   to them; these they should carefully retain in their memories, and not
   let them slip from them; they should remember to give them the honour
   and respect that is due unto them, and to make a suitable provision for
   the outward supply of life. The reasons enforcing this exhortation are,
   because they "have the rule over them;" being appointed by Christ, the
   Head and King of the church, to govern them under him; not in a lordly
   manner, according to their own wills; but according to the laws and
   rules which Christ has given; and when they rule according to these,
   they rule well, and are worthy of double honour: the words may be
   rendered, who are "your guides or leaders". [107] Now such are the
   ministers of the gospel; they are the happy instruments of guiding men
   into the understanding of the scriptures; and of leading, under a
   divine direction and blessing, into the truths of the gospel; and of
   pointing out to them the way of life, peace, and salvation by Christ;
   and of directing them into the paths of faith and holiness, and are
   examples to them, and therefore deserve to be remembered by them. And
   moreover, they are said to "have spoken to them the word of God," the
   scriptures, given by inspiration of God, which contain his mind and
   will, and the doctrines which declare his grace and favour to the sons
   of men; these they explain truly and faithfully, according to the best
   light and knowledge they have; and deliver out the doctrines of them
   with great freedom, boldness, and fidelity: and their memory, on these
   accounts, is and should be blessed to truly gracious souls.

   2a2. Their "faith" is to be "followed," or imitated; either their
   faithfulness in the several parts of their ministrations; or the grace
   of faith, their strong exercise of it, and the fruits and effects of
   it; or their profession of faith they hold fast without wavering; or
   the doctrine of faith they preach, by embracing it, abiding by it,
   standing fast in it, and persevering therein to the end: the motive to
   it is, "considering the end of their conversation;" either the drift
   and scope of it, which, as in connection with the following verse, is
   Christ, his honour and glory, who is "the same yesterday, and today,
   and for ever;" or the whole of their conduct in the discharge of the
   various duties of their office, and the manner of it; or else the issue
   of it in death; or the good end which, through the grace of God, they
   make; and which is to be considered for imitation and encouragement.

   2b. Secondly, what is further observed in Hebrews 13:17 "Obey them that
   have the rule over you," &c. This respects duties to be performed to
   the same persons who are described as before, as their leaders, guides,
   and governors; to whom,

   2b1. Obedience is to be yielded; "Obey them": which obedience, in
   members of churches, to their pastors, lies,

   2b1a. In a due regard to the ministry of the word by them; which regard
   to it is seen in a diligent and constant attendance on it; for if their
   pastors are to be diligent and constant in their work, they are to be
   as diligent and constant in attending upon them in it; if ministers are
   to preach the word in season and out of season, or as often as they
   have opportunity for it, then members should as frequently assemble to
   hear it: they show their obedience to the word, and to ministers in
   dispensing it, by their receiving it in faith and love; which they do
   when they receive it, not as the word of man, but as of God and Christ
   when they mix it with faith as they hear it, and receive the love of
   it. Indeed, none are obliged to receive and obey their word or
   doctrine, than as it appears to be agreeable to the sacred scriptures,
   which are to be searched diligently, as our Lord directs, and as the
   noble Bereans did, to see whether these things be so or not; every
   spirit is not to be believed, but to be tried, whether of God or not;
   and, indeed, everything delivered by pastors of churches is not binding
   on churches; nor are they obliged to receive it, but as it accords with
   the word of God.

   2b1b. Obedience of members to their pastors lies in attendance on the
   ordinances of the gospel, as administered by them, and in joining with
   them constantly in the administration of them; not the ordinances of
   men; for they are not to be subject to ordinances of mens' invention,
   or which are after the commandments and doctrines of men; for then they
   would be the servants of men, auditor of Christ; but they are the
   ordinances of Christ, as they are faithfully administered by his
   servants, saints are to be subject to: the ministers of Christ are to
   teach all things Christ has commanded, and to urge the observance of
   them; and in this they are to be obeyed by those who are under their
   care, who, from a principle of love to Christ, should keep his
   commands, and constantly observe and attend his ordinances; but no
   farther are they obliged to follow their ministers, than as they are
   followers of Christ.

   2b1c. Obedience of members of churches to their guides and governors,
   lies in regarding their admonitions, reproofs, and rebukes, whether in
   case of error or immorality, and whether in private or in public; and
   as their business is to admonish when needful, their admonitions should
   be well taken; as they are to speak, exhort, and rebuke with all
   authority, their authority should not be despised, but be submitted to:
   likewise their counsels and advice should be observed, and taken, and
   acted up to; especially if it appears to be founded on the word of God,
   and is consonant to it.

   2b2. Another branch of the duty of church members to their pastors, is
   to "submit" themselves to them; that is, to the laws of Christ's house,
   as directed to and put into execution by them; and to their
   admonitions, reproofs, and censures, which are according to them; even
   though they may be not only public and before all, but sharp and
   severe, as the case may require. The reason given for such obedience
   and submission to them, is "because they watch for their souls;" not
   for the preservation of their bodies, and outward affairs; though if
   such who watch over these, to preserve them from hurt and damage in the
   night season, are to be regarded and valued, and obedience to be
   yielded to their alarms and directions, then much more those who watch
   for the good and welfare of immortal souls, which are of more worth
   than a world; their ministrations, in whatsoever way, are for comfort
   or edification, and are the instrumental means of saving souls: and
   what engages them to such watchfulness to preserve from error and
   heresy, from vice and immorality, is, that "they must give account;" to
   their own consciences, that they have discharged their work aright; to
   the church of God, to whom they are accountable if negligent; and
   especially to Christ, the Judge of all, to whom they must give an
   account of their ministry, and of the use of their talents, and of the
   souls put under their care, how they have discharged their duty towards
   them; and how such souls have behaved towards them under the ministry
   of the word and ordinances: and this they are desirous of doing "with
   joy, and not with grief;" either at the throne of grace, where they
   either rejoice or complain; or at the great day, when they will be
   witnesses either for or against those that have been committed to them;
   which latter would be "unprofitable" to them, and to the disadvantage
   of such who occasion grief and sorrow.

   2c. Thirdly, another branch of duty in church members to their pastors,
   is suggested in Hebrews 13:18 "Pray for us," for us ministers; this is
   often inculcated in the sacred writings, as being of great moment and
   importance (see Eph. 6:19; Col. 4:3; 2 Thess. 3:1); and members of
   churches should be solicitous at the throne of grace for their
   ministers.

   2c1. With respect to their private studies and preparation for their
   work; that they may be led to suitable subjects, and be furnished with
   suitable matter; that their understanding may be opened to understand
   the word; that they may be led into the depths and mysteries of the
   gospel; that their gifts may be increased; and that they may be
   diligent, industrious, and laborious in their work.

   2c2. With respect to their public ministrations; that they may come
   forth richly fraught with gospel truths; that they may have freedom and
   utterance in the delivery of them; that they may speak them boldly,
   faithfully, and fully, as they ought to be spoken; and that their
   labours may be blessed to saints and sinners: and unless members of
   churches are observant of this their duty, they cannot expect the word
   will be blessed to them.

   2c3. With respect to the world, and their conduct in it; that they may
   be kept from the evil of the world, that the ministry be not blamed;
   and from the temptations of Satan, who has a peculiar spite against
   them; and that they may be delivered from evil and unreasonable men,
   who, as much as can be, endeavour to discourage them, and hinder them
   in their work; and they should pray for them, that they may neither be
   intimidated by the frowns of the world, nor allured by the flatteries
   of it; and they should pray for their temporal good, for their bodily
   health, and for the sparing of their lives for farther usefulness, and
   for every thing needful for them. This part of duty is enforced with
   the following reason; "For we trust we have a good conscience,"
   exercised in an upright discharge of the ministerial work; "in all
   things, willing to live honestly;" not only as men, but as ministers,
   faithfully dispensing the word of truth; the temptations to the
   contrary being many, prayer is desired by them.

   3. Thirdly, the duty of church members to their pastors, is held forth
   in various passages, respecting their maintenance, or a provision for
   the subsistence of themselves and families; which is part of that
   double honour a ruling elder and a laborious minister is worthy of,
   since "the labourer is worthy of his reward," (1 Tim. 5:17, 18) and he
   that is taught in the word, and instructed by it to his comfort and
   edification, should "communicate to him that teacheth in all good
   things," temporal good things he stands in need of (Gal. 6:6). This
   duty the apostle urges and presses with a variety of arguments, in 1
   Corinthians 9:7-14 he argues from the law of nature and nations,
   exemplified in the cases of soldiers, planters of vineyards, and
   keepers of flocks, who, by virtue of their calling and service, have a
   right to a livelihood; between whom, and ministers of the gospel, there
   is a resemblance: also he argues from the law of Moses, particularly
   the law respecting the ox, not to be muzzled when it treads out the
   corn; which he interprets of ministers of the word, and applies it to
   them: he argues the right of the maintenance of the ministers of the
   gospel from the justice and equity of the thing; that since they
   minister spiritual things, it is but reasonable they should receive
   temporal ones: he makes this clear from the case of the priests and
   Levites under the legal dispensation, who ministering in holy things,
   had a provision made for them: and lastly, from the constitution and
   appointment of Christ himself, whose ordinance it is, that they that
   preach the gospel, should live of the gospel.

   4. Fourthly, it is the duty of members of churches to adhere to their
   pastors, and abide by them in every condition and state, and in all
   cases and circumstances they come into; to support them under all their
   difficulties; to encourage them under all their discouragements; to
   sympathize with them in all their trials and troubles; to assist them
   all they can in their arduous work, against gainsayers, false teachers,
   and such as may rise up among themselves, speaking perverse things, and
   doing evil ones; the apostle Paul complains that all men forsook him in
   his troubles, and commends particularly Onesiphorus for his attachment
   to him and concern for him.

   Now as there are duties belonging to the office of pastors, to be
   performed by them, and duties incumbent on members of churches towards
   them; on the performance of these mutual duties, the order, peace,
   good, and welfare of communities depend; and therefore should be
   strictly attended to, and religiously observed.
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   [105] nouthetountas

   [106] uper ek perissou

   [107] tmn egoumenon umon
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  Chapter 5

    OF THE OFFICE OF DEACONS

   The other officers in the gospel church are deacons; and the things to
   be treated of respecting this office, are the nature and original of
   it; the work to be performed by those who are appointed to it; their
   qualifications for it, and the encouragement to the diligent
   performance of it; with the duties of a church respecting them.

   1. First, the nature and original of it: It is not a political, but an
   ecclesiastic office; sometimes, indeed, the word is used in a political
   sense, for the civil magistrate; who is said to be theou diakonos, "the
   deacon of God;" we render it, the "minister of God," (Rom. 13:4) one
   appointed by him, and who serves under him, for the public good: but it
   is commonly used in an ecclesiastic sense; sometimes for extraordinary
   ministers, as apostles, whose ministry is called diakonia, a
   "deaconship," and is joined with apostleship (Acts 1:17, 25), and the
   apostle Paul calls himself and Apollos diakonoi, deacons or ministers,
   by whom ye believed (1 Cor. 3:6), and even our Lord Jesus Christ has
   this name and title, as the prophet of the church, and a preacher of
   the everlasting gospel; Now I say that Jesus Christ was a deacon or
   minister of the circumcision, or to the circumcised Jews (Rom. 15:8),
   not to take notice, that the ministry of angels is called diakonia, a
   deaconship (Heb. 1:14). To proceed, it is oftener given to ordinary
   preachers and ministers of the word; as to Tychicus, Epaphras, and
   others (Eph. 6:21; Col. 1:7, 4:7), but elsewhere a deacon is spoken of
   as a distinct officer from either ministers extraordinary or ordinary;
   so the apostle speaks of the office of an elder, bishop, or overseer,
   and of the office of a deacon, as two distinct offices; and after he
   had given the qualifications of the one, he gives the qualifications of
   the other (1 Tim. 3:8-13), and the officers of the church at Philippi
   are distinguished into bishops and deacons (Phil. 1:1).

   Now the original of the institution of this office we have an account
   of, as is commonly thought, in Acts 6:1-5 by which it seems to have
   been originally a branch of the ministerial office, as executed by the
   apostles; and, indeed, the whole of the ecclesiastic ministry was in
   their hands, the management of the secular, as well as of the spiritual
   affairs of the church: the first Christians, the members of the church
   at Jerusalem, sold their possessions, and had all things common, and
   parted them to all, as every man had need; and the apostles had the
   disposal and distribution of them; for they were brought and laid at
   their feet for that purpose (Acts 2:44, 45, 4:34-37, 5:2), this church
   becoming very numerous, which at first consisted of about an hundred
   and twenty, increased to some thousands; and their poor likewise
   increased; for the poor from the first had the gospel preached to them,
   and received it; and these were chosen, called, and brought into the
   church; and this being the case, there was a murmuring of the Grecians,
   of the Hellenistic Jews, who were born and lived in Greece; but coming
   to Jerusalem at the time of Pentecost, were converted, and joined
   themselves to the church at Jerusalem: now a complaint was lodged by
   these against the Hebrews, who were natives of Judea, and particularly
   of Jerusalem, that their poor widows were neglected in the daily
   ministration, suggesting, there was some partiality used; that the
   widows of the natives of Jerusalem were more favoured than the widows
   of such who had lived in foreign parts; this greatly affected the
   apostles, and embarrassed them in the spiritual part of their ministry,
   in which they were hindered by their attention and application to the
   secular affairs of the church; and therefore called the church
   together, and thus argued with them; "It is not reason, that we should
   leave the word of God and serve tables;" as it is not proper that any
   ordinary minister of the word should be "entangled with the affairs of
   this life," if possible; that he may "give attendance to reading, to
   exhortation, to doctrine and meditate upon them, and give himself
   wholly to them". Wherefore the apostles proposed to the church, thus
   called together, to look out and choose from among themselves seven
   men, of such qualifications they mentioned, to attend this service: and
   as for themselves, they would "give up themselves continually to
   prayer, and the ministry of the word;" and this proposal being
   acceptable to the people, they chose men so qualified, and presented
   them to the apostles for their approbation; and so they were installed
   into their office. [108] This seems to be the original of the
   institution of this office. By which it appears,

   1a. That those who are chosen to this office must be members of the
   church, or they are not eligible; and that they are to be chosen by the
   vote and suffrage of the church; and their destination is only to that
   church to which they belong; they cannot officiate in another; nor have
   they any concern with the poor of another church; the collections of
   that church to whose peculiar service they are appointed, are to be
   received by them, and to be distributed to the members of that church,
   and of that only. Extraordinary collections from other churches, we may
   observe, were sent to the elders, to be disposed of by them (Acts
   11:30). Wherefore,

   1b. The apostles, though they gave up themselves more especially to
   prayer, and the ministry of the word, yet they did not divest
   themselves wholly of this service; (see Acts 12:25) and deacons now
   have a connection and concern with elders and pastors of churches in
   the discharge of their office; they are to acquaint them with the state
   of the church, and the cases of the poor, and to take their advice in
   any matters of moment and importance, and to be assisting to them in
   the outward affairs of the church, and may be what the apostle calls
   "helps," in 1 Corinthians 12:28 being helpful to the minister, church,
   and poor.

   1c. This office was instituted when the church was numerous; wherefore
   the number of seven in the first church, is not a rule and example
   binding on all future churches; [109] but such a number are to chosen,
   and may be increased, as the exigency of churches requires; and some
   have thought, that where a church is very small, a pastor may perform
   the whole work, with a little assistance from the church; but I cannot
   but be of opinion, that one deacon at least, if not two, are necessary
   to form an organized church.

   1d. The objects of this office, are the poor of the church, which were
   in all churches in all ages; "The poor ye have always with you," (John
   12:8) and to be taken care of; so that the reason of its first
   institution continues, namely, to ease the ministers of the gospel from
   too much concern in the secular affairs of the church (Acts 6:2), and
   such officers were appointed not only in the first church at Jerusalem,
   though extraordinary ones, as some think, but in other churches of the
   Gentiles, at least ordinary ones; as at Philippi (Phil. 1:1), and the
   particular qualifications are given of these officers; which seem to be
   given as a direction to the churches in future ages for the choice of
   them (1 Tim. 3:8; &c).

   2. Secondly, the work and business to be performed by them who are
   appointed to this office.

   2a. Not to preach the gospel, and administer ordinances, as baptism and
   the Lord's Supper; and therefore ministerial qualifications are not
   required of them; Philip, indeed, one of the seven, did both preach and
   baptize (Acts 6:5, 8:5, 38), but then he did both by virtue of his
   office as an evangelist (Acts 21:8). In Tertullian's time deacons were
   allowed to baptize; he says, the first right belongs to the bishop,
   then to the presbyters, then to the deacons, [110] but not without the
   authority of the bishop; but this appears to be an intire innovation.

   2b. Nor is their work and business to rule in the church; we read of
   ruling elders, but never of ruling deacons; if they were, women might
   not be deaconesses, as Phebe was, for they are not to rule: deacons may
   and should be assisting to pastors or elders in the care of the church;
   as to watch over the walk and conversation of the members of the
   church, and to observe that they keep their places in it; and to
   exhort, admonish, and reprove, as they may find it necessary; and to
   visit the sick, and such that are in distress of any kind; and to
   report the state of the church to the elder or pastor; and to reconcile
   differences between one member and another, and to prepare matters to
   be laid before the church at church meetings, when needful.

   2c. But their principal business is to "serve tables," which the
   apostles relinquished and gave up to the seven, at the first
   institution of them (Acts 6:2). As,

   2c1. The Lord's table, as it is called (1 Cor. 10:21), that is, at the
   administration of the ordinance of the supper, their business is, to
   provide everything necessary for it; as the bread and the wine, and all
   kind of furniture needful on that occasion; and when the elements are
   blessed, and the bread broken, and wine poured out, and these given
   into their hands by the pastor or elder, they are to deliver out to the
   members; so in Justin Martyr's time, they that were called "deacons,"
   he says, gave to everyone that were present, that they might partake of
   the bread and the wine, for which thanks were given by the president.
   [111]

   2c2. The minister's table; to take care that a proper provision is made
   for the subsistence of himself and family; that whereas Christ has
   ordained, that those who preach the gospel, should live of it, and that
   he that is taught in the word, should communicate to him that teacheth
   in all good things; the business of deacons is to see to it, that every
   member contributes according to his ability; and that there be an
   equality, that some are not eased and others burdened: and it lies upon
   them to collect what the members give, for it is not proper the
   minister should collect for himself; this would be to prevent the
   design of the institution, which was, that those who are employed in
   the sacred office of the ministry of the word, should not be hindered
   in it. Besides, such a practice would not comport with the case and
   character of a minister, who would he obliged to receive what the
   people gave him, without making any remonstrance against it, as failing
   in their duty to him; and he might also be exposed to the charge of
   avarice; to which may be added, that a church would not be able to
   judge whether their pastor was sufficiently provided for or not.

   2c3. The poor's table; it was an apostolical order given to the
   churches, that they should make a collection for the poor saints, on
   the first day of the week; and it seems as if it was designed to be
   every first day; to which everyone was to give, having laid by him a
   store for it, as God had prospered him (1 Cor. 16:1, 2), which
   collections, and those made at the Lord's Supper, are to be received by
   the deacons, with whatsoever gifts may come into their hands, and be
   distributed to the necessities of the saints; and they are, both by
   their own example, and by their exhortations, to stir up the members of
   churches to contribute liberally to the relief of the poor: and what
   they receive they are to communicate,

   2c3a. Impartially, that is, as the apostle expresses it, "with
   simplicity," without partiality, and without favour and affection;
   showing no respect to persons, taking more notice of, and giving more
   liberally to one than to another, which was the original complaint in
   the first church, and made the office necessary; and therefore the
   deacon should be careful to avoid any cause of it: the principal rule
   he should go by is, to give as everyone needeth; to some more, and
   others less, as their case requires.

   2c2b. This should be done with "cheerfulness," (Rom. 12:8) without any
   frowns in the countenance, and without any hard and rough words, which
   the tender minds of the poor, broken with distress, cannot well bear;
   when what is given cheerfully and pleasantly, does them double good;
   nor should they be upbraided with misconduct in former life, which may
   have brought them into low circumstances. God loves a cheerful giver,
   and he himself gives liberally, and upbraids not.

   2c2c. This should be done with compassion and tenderness. The work of a
   deacon is expressed by his "showing mercy," (Rom. 12:8) and he should
   exercise it in a pitiful and merciful manner, as sympathizing with them
   in their poor and low circumstances; in imitation of the great High
   Priest of our profession, who is touched with the feeling of the
   infirmities of his people.

   2c2d. This office should be executed with great faithfulness; deacons
   are the church's stewards, and are intrusted with the church's stock;
   and it is required of stewards, that they distribute with fidelity what
   is put into their hands, and for the uses for which it is given. The
   next thing to be inquired into,

   3. Thirdly, are the qualifications of persons for such an office; some
   of which may be taken from Acts 6:3. As,

   3a. That they are to be of "honest report;" of whom a testimony can be
   given of their honesty, integrity, and good conversation; who have a
   good report of them that are without, of all men, of the men of the
   world, and of them that are within; and who are well reported of by the
   brethren, by the members of other churches, especially by the members
   of the church to which they belong.

   3b. "Full of the Holy Ghost," of his gifts and graces; though they may
   not be so eminently endowed with them as Stephen and Philip were, which
   is not to be expected; yet that they should appear to be partakers of
   the grace of the Spirit, and to have such gifts as to "comfort the
   feeble minded, support the weak," and speak a word in season to those
   who are in distress.

   3c. Men of "wisdom;" for as they are stewards, wisdom, as well as
   faithfulness, is required of them; to give to everyone of the poor a
   portion of the church's monies, as they need; and to distinguish eases
   and circumstances requires wisdom; besides, persons in such an office
   are sometimes called upon to make up differences between member and
   member; which is often a difficult task, and calls for all the prudence
   a man is possessed of; and to these, or such as these, the apostle
   refers, when he says, "Is it so, that there is not a wise man among
   you? no, not one, that shall be able to judge between his brethren,"
   without going to law before unbelievers (1 Cor. 6:5, 6).

   There are other qualifications of a deacon observed in 1 Timothy
   3:8-12.

   3d. As to his personal character; he must be "grave" in his speech and
   gesture, and not light, frothy, and vain; and not only modest, chaste,
   honest, and of good behaviour, but as the word, may signify also one
   that has some weight and influence, who is venerable [112] and
   respectable, and has some degree of reverence and esteem with the
   people: "Not double tongued;" so as to express pity to the poor, yet
   show no concern to relieve them; and to say one thing to them, and
   another to the church and minister; or to say one thing to one member,
   and another to another, which may tend to alienate the affections of
   one from another. "Not given to much wine;" which, though lawful to be
   used, yet not to excess; which would both destroy his character in the
   church and in the world, and render him unfit for the business of his
   office. "Not greedy of filthy lucre," or covetous; such may be tempted
   to make a wrong application of the church's money; and besides, persons
   in such an office should be liberal themselves, according to their
   abilities, and set a good example to others; or otherwise they cannot,
   with a good grace, stir up others to liberality; which is one part of
   their office.

   3e. Others concern his domestic character; he should be "the husband of
   one wife;" it is not necessary that he should be a married man; but if
   married, he should have but one wife, that is, at the same time;
   polygamy had been much in use among the Jews and Gentiles; and the
   first Christians were not soon and easily brought to the disuse of that
   practice; but the apostle, by divine inspiration, judged it necessary
   that no officer of a church, bishop or deacon, should have more wives
   than one; since it would serve to continue and encourage the practice,
   set an example of it, and expose to reproach and censure: the apostle
   adds, "Ruling their children and their own houses well;" both wife,
   children, and servants; such ought to keep a good decorum in their
   families; or how else can it be expected that the affairs of the house
   of God, so far as they are concerned therein, should be dispatched with
   honour, faithfulness, and diligence. The apostle has also thought fit
   to give the qualifications of their wives, who must be grave in their
   speech, gesture, and dress; as well as modest, chaste, and of good
   deportment: "not slanderers, or accusers;" false accusers, acting the
   part of the devil, as the word signifies; [113] for such may do a great
   deal of mischief in the church, through their influence on their
   husbands: they must be "sober," temperate, not given to excessive
   drinking, which would be scandalous; "faithful in all things,"
   respecting their husbands and family; and this is the rather mentioned,
   since otherwise they might have opportunities of embezzling the
   church's money, and which, in some cases, they might be intrusted with
   to dispose of to the poor, in the absence of their husbands.

   3f. With respect to the spiritual and evangelical character of deacons,
   they should be such who "hold the mystery of the faith in a pure
   conscience;" are sound in the gospel, and the doctrines of it; for by
   "faith" is meant the gospel, the faith once delivered to the saints;
   and by the "mystery" of it, the more sublime and mysterious doctrines
   of the gospel, especially the doctrine of the Trinity; which, with the
   Jews, was commonly called, "the mystery of the faith;" and is the same
   the apostle calls, "the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of
   Christ," (Col. 2:2) such doctrines which relate to the distinction of
   Persons in the God head; the divine Sonship, proper Deity, and distinct
   personality of Christ; the Deity, personality and operations of the
   Spirit; the incarnation of Christ, and the union of the two natures in
   him; the resurrection of the dead; with others: these things deacons
   are to hold, with a conscience purified by the blood of Christ, and
   with a holy, becoming life and conversation: this qualification is
   necessary in them, that they may be able to instruct and establish
   others in the faith, and to confute the erroneous; for should their
   principles be bad, their influence on others might be pernicious and
   fatal. Now these must first be proved, and "then let them use the
   office of a deacon, being found blameless;" not that they are to
   exercise any part of this office first, that it might be known how
   capable they are of it; but that it should appear that they are men of
   the above characters and qualifications; are of some standing in the
   church, and are well known and approved of for their soundness in the
   faith and purity of conversation. There is but one sort of deacons of
   this kind mentioned in scripture; unless it can be thought there were
   women deacons, or "deaconesses;" and, indeed, Phebe is called diakonos,
   a "deacon," or "deaconess," of the church of Cenchrea; we render the
   word "servant," (Rom. 16:1) and some render the "wives" of deacons,
   "their women," (1 Tim. 3:11) and by them understand "deaconesses;" and
   if the same with the "widows," as some think, their qualifications, as
   to age, character, and conduct, are described (1 Tim. 5:9, 10) and it
   seems certain there were such in the second century, whether virgins or
   widows; such seem to be the two servant maids Pliny [114] speaks of,
   whom he examined on the rack, concerning the Christians, and by whom he
   says they were called "ministrae," ministresses, or deaconesses; and
   Clemens of Alexandria, in the "second" century, makes mention expressly
   of women deacons, as spoken of by the apostle in his epistle to
   Timothy; [115] so Jerome, [116] in the fourth century, speaks of them
   as in the eastern churches: and, indeed, something of this kind seems
   not at all unnecessary, but of service and usefulness; as to attend at
   the baptism of women, and to visit the sisters of the church, when
   sick, and to assist them. In the third century an officer was
   introduced, called a "subdeacon," an under deacon, who seems to have
   been an assistant to the deacon, when the churches became large, and
   their poor numerous, and the deacons required assistance; though it
   would have been much more proper to have increased their number of
   deacons; but as for that "meteor," as Dr. Owen [117] calls him, an
   "archdeacon," he was not heard of until the fourth or fifth centuries;
   and then not as the creature which now exists under that name.

   4. Fourthly, the encouragement given to the diligent and faithful
   performance of the office of a deacon.

   4a. Such "purchase," or get, "to themselves a good decree". The
   conjecture of Dr. Owen's [118] is very trifling, which I should not
   have expected from so great a man, as that it signifies a place of some
   eminence, a seat more highly raised up to sit in, in church assemblies;
   something like the chief seats in a Jewish synagogue: nor by it is
   meant a higher degree in his own office; for there are no degrees of
   higher and lower in the office of a deacon; no subdeacon nor
   archdeacon, as before observed: nor is it preparatory to an higher
   order: as of presbytery or eldership; since the office of a deacon lies
   chiefly in the management of temporal things; and not in study and
   meditation of spiritual things. In after times, in the third century,
   such a practice began to take place, as to go through all
   ecclesiastical offices, to the office of a bishop, as Cyprian [119]
   says Cornelius bishop of Rome did; and it is said to be ordered by
   Caius, bishop of the same place, in the same century, that the degrees
   to a bishopric, through which men should pass to it, were a door
   keeper, a reader, an exorcist, an acolyte, a subdeacon, a deacon, a
   presbyter, and then a bishop; [120] but this is all of mere human and
   antichristian appointment: nor is a greater degree in glory meant,
   which it is questionable whether there will be any; but rather an
   increase of gifts and graces is designed; which, under a divine
   blessing, may be attained, through a deacon's more intimate
   conversation with the pastor and the members of the church, and even
   the poor of it: though it seems chiefly to intend a good degree of
   honour in the faithful discharge of his office, from both minister,
   church, and poor.

   4b. Such obtain "boldness in the faith;" in the exercise of faith at
   the throne of grace; and in asserting the doctrine of faith; and in
   vindicating their own character before men, as faithful men; and in
   reproving for immorality or error.

   5. Fifthly, the duties belonging to a church and its members, to
   persons in such an office.

   5a. To supply them with what is sufficient to relieve the wants of the
   poor; for they are not to supply them out of their own purses; but to
   distribute faithfully what is put into their hands by the church.

   5b. They should be applied unto for direction and counsel in any,
   private matters, and especially which relate unto the church; since
   they are supposed to be men of wisdom, and capable of judging of
   things, with respect to particular persons, and between one member and
   another.

   5c. They are to be esteemed highly for their work's sake; their office
   being a very useful one to the church, when diligently and faithfully
   performed.

   5d. To be prayed for; for if we are to pray for all civil magistrates
   and officers, then certainly for all ecclesiastical officers; not only
   pastors of churches, but deacons also; that they may be supported under
   all discouragements and difficulties; and that they may be able to
   discharge their office with reputation and usefulness.
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   [108] Of their ordination and instalment see chap. 3. book ii. p. 632,
   633. See on topic 1229.

   [109] Though the council at Neocaesarea ordered, that there should be
   seven deacons, according to the rule in Acts, Can. CIV. apud Magdeburg.
   cent. 4. col. 349. And in the Roman church there were seven, and no
   more; but in other churches the number was indifferent, or
   indeterminate, as the historian says, Sozomen. Eccl. Hist. l. 7. c. 19.

   [110] Deut. Baptismo, c. 17.

   [111] Apolog. 2. p. 97. vid. Cyprian. de Lapsis, p. 244.

   [112] semnous.

   [113] diabolous.

   [114] Ep. l 10. ep. 97. vid. Pignorium de Servis, p. 109.

   [115] Stromat l. 3. p. 448.

   [116] Comment. in 1 Tim. iii. 11.

   [117] True Nature of a Gospel Church, ch. 9. p. 184.

   [118] Ibid. p. 187.

   [119] Ep. 52. p. 96.

   [120] Platinae vit. Pontif. p 34.
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  Chapter 6

    OF THE DISCIPLINE OF A CHURCH OF CHRIST

   Though the light of nature, and the laws and rules of civil society,
   may be very assisting in the affair of church discipline; and may in
   many things serve to illustrate and confirm it; yet it does not stand
   upon human, but divine authority. By the light of nature it may be
   known, man being a sociable creature, that men may form themselves into
   societies for mutual good; that they have a right to make laws and
   rules binding on each other, which are not contrary to justice and
   truth; to admit such into their societies who have a right to dispose
   of themselves, and assent to the rules of the society, and to keep out
   or expel such who refuse to be subject to them; and to choose and
   appoint whom they think fit to preside over them, to see that their
   laws and rules are put into execution; with other things of like
   nature. But Christ is sole head, king, and lawgiver in his house and
   kingdom; and no man, nor set of men, have a power to set up a church
   society, but what is by direction and according to the rule of his
   word, and the pattern of his house; nor to make laws and rules, but
   what he has made; nor to appoint any other sort of officers in his
   house, but whom he has appointed and directed to, and described the
   qualifications of; to whom he gives gifts and abilities, office power
   and authority to rule under him in his church: nor are any to be
   admitted into it, nor excluded from it, but according to his directions
   and orders; hence Ezekiel, after he had described the gospel church in
   its purity, as it will be in the latter day, is ordered to "show the
   house to the house of Israel;" the form, fashion, laws, and ordinances
   of it, to be copied after, and observed by them (Ezek. 43:10, 11). Now
   whereas there are various passages of scripture, which are taken for
   rules of church discipline, which are misunderstood and misapplied, it
   will be proper to mark them, that none may be misled by them. As,

   1. First, the words of our Lord to Peter, after he had made such a
   noble confession of his faith in him, as the Son of God; and Christ had
   declared, that upon that rock he professed faith in, he would build his
   church, against which the gates of hell should not prevail; he adds,
   "And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven," &c. (Matthew
   16:19) which are usually understood of the admission of members into a
   church, and the exclusion of them; and of laying on of censures, and of
   taking them off. But they have respect, not at all to discipline, but
   to doctrine. The keys have made a great noise and rattling in the
   world, and many contests have been raised about them; what they are,
   and the power of them, in whose hands they are lodged, and who has the
   right to the use and exercise of them; when, after all, they relate not
   to church discipline, but to gospel doctrine. By "the kingdom of
   heaven" is not meant, neither the church in heaven, nor the gospel
   church state on earth; nor do the keys signify any lordly power and
   domination in it; which Christ never gave to Peter, nor to any of the
   apostles, and much less to ordinary ministers and elders of churches,
   who are not allowed to lord it over God's heritage; Christ keeps the
   key in his own hand, the key of the house of David: but the gospel
   itself is meant; hence we read of "the mysteries of the kingdom of
   heaven;" that is, of the doctrines of the gospel: this kingdom of
   heaven was "shut up against men" in the Jewish world, through the
   wickedness or ignorance of the scribes and Pharisees, who took away the
   "key of knowledge" from the people (Matthew 23:13; Luke 11:52), and in
   the Gentile world, through the blindness, and ignorance, and want of
   divine revelation, they were left unto (Acts 17:30). Now a mission and
   commission to preach the gospel, and gifts and abilities for the same,
   are the keys by which the treasures of grace are unlocked, the stores
   of it opened and displayed, the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven
   explained, and clearly held forth to the view of others; now though
   these were given, not to Peter alone, but to all the apostles at the
   same time, yet Peter was the first who had the use and exercise of
   them; and with these he opened the "door of faith," that is, the
   gospel; first to the Jews, on the day of Pentecost, which was the first
   sermon after the commission was given, and proved the conversion of
   three thousand souls: [121] and he was the first who preached the
   gospel to the Gentiles, to Cornelius and his family, to which first
   ministration of his to them, both he and James have a respect in the
   synod at Jerusalem (Acts 15:7, 14), and that these keys, and the use of
   them, belonged to all the apostles, as well as to Peter, appears from
   hence, that to whomsoever the keys, and the use of them, belonged, the
   same had the power of binding and loosing conferred upon them; and that
   all the apostles had the latter, is manifest from Matthew 18:18 which
   words are also misunderstood of, and misapplied to binding men with
   censures laid upon them, till they repent, and of loosing them from
   them when they do; but the words are spoken, not of persons, but of
   things; it is not said, "whomsoever ye bind;" but, "whatsoever ye
   bind," &c. and signify no other than declarations of what is unlawful
   or lawful; of what is forbidden or free of use; in which sense the
   words "binding" and "loosing" are used in thousands of instances in
   Jewish writings; and our Lord expresses himself in a manner which the
   Jews thoroughly understood, and his apostles must; and his meaning is,
   that whatsoever they bound, prohibited, declared as unlawful to be
   used, was so, though before lawful; and whatsoever they loosed,
   declared to be lawful, and free of use, was so; though before the death
   of Christ, and their commission, was unlawful: thus for instance, they
   "bound," prohibited circumcision, and declared it unlawful; though it
   was of the fathers, and was enjoined Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and
   their male seed, to the coming of the Messiah; but since his death, and
   their commission to preach the gospel, they declared it to be nothing
   at all, no more to be used and practised; yea, that it was pernicious
   and hurtful; that Christ profited them nothing who used it, and was of
   no effect to them (Gal. 5:1-4, 6, 6:15), they "bound," or forbid, the
   observance of days, and months, and times, and years, and declared them
   weak and beggarly elements, and that no man was to be judged or
   condemned for the disuse of them, though they had been, for ages past,
   used in the Jewish church; as the first day of the year, and of every
   month, the feasts of passover, pentecost, and tabernacles, the jubilee
   year, the sabbatical year, and the seventh day sabbath (Gal. 4:9-11;
   Col. 2:16, 17). On the other hand, they "loosed," or declared lawful
   and free of use, civil correspondence between Jews and Gentiles; which
   before had been unlawful, at least according to the traditions of the
   Jews; and Peter was the first who had light into it, by the vision of
   the four footed beasts, which was given him; for before he thought it
   was an unlawful thing for a man that was a Jew to come into or keep
   company with one of another nation; but by that vision God showed him
   that he was not to call any man common or unclean (see Acts 10:28,
   11:2, 3, 18); and so they all afterwards understood, that under the
   gospel dispensation there was neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor
   free, nor male nor female; but they were all one in Christ Jesus (Gal.
   3:28), likewise they "loosed," or declared lawful and free of use, the
   eating of any sort of food, of which there was a distinction under the
   old law, and was bid; but now they saw, from the words of Christ
   (Matthew 15:11), and Peter, by the above vision; and Paul, by Christ,
   that there was nothing common and unclean of itself; and that the
   kingdom of God did not lie in meat and drink, but that every creature
   of God was good, and nothing to be refused, if received with
   thanksgiving (Rom. 14:14, 17; 1 Tim. 4:4). And this power of binding
   and loosing reached not only to practices, but to doctrines; for as the
   apostles were infallibly guided into all truth; whatever they bound or
   forbid, and declared as false doctrine, was so; and whatever they
   "loosed," or declared to be truth, was so to be accounted; hence the
   anathema of the apostle Paul (Gal. 1:8). They had the whole counsel of
   God, the whole system of gospel truths made known to them; and which
   they have declared in their writings; and are to be observed as the
   rule of faith to the end of the world, being delivered under divine
   inspiration; of which our Lord's breathing upon them after his
   resurrection, and their commission from him, was an emblem, when the
   following words were delivered by him, "Whosoever sins ye remit, they
   are remitted to them; and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained,"
   (John 20:23) which respect not any discipline of the apostles in laying
   on, binding, and retaining censures on persons; and of loosing,
   remitting, and taking them off, according to their behaviour; but of
   the doctrine of remission of sins, preached by them: for this cannot be
   meant of remission of sins by them in an absolute and authoritative
   way; for none can forgive sins but God, and Christ, who is God; and who
   yet never gave any such power to his apostles; nor did they ever,
   assume this to themselves; this is the mark of who sits in the temple
   of God, and shows himself to be god, or to assume such a character, by
   taking upon him to dispense pardons and indulgences: but this is to be
   understood of the apostles, as ministerially and doctrinally preaching
   the forgiveness of sins; declaring, that such who repent of their sins,
   and believe in Christ, shall receive the remission of them; but that
   whoever do not repent of their sins, and do not believe in him, shall
   perish eternally, according to Mark 16:16 and by this doctrine of the
   apostles God and Christ will stand; and sooner or later will appear the
   validity, truth, and certainty of their declarations.

   2. Secondly, there are various passages of scripture, which are thought
   to respect excommunication, or exclusion from church communion; which
   seem to have nothing to do with it, and are not to be considered as
   rules to proceed by, with respect unto it. As,

   2a. First, the words in Matthew 18:17 "Let him, be unto thee as an
   heathen man, and a publican;" which was no form of excommunication,
   neither with Jews nor with Christians. Not with Jews, for that with
   them was expressed by casting out of the synagogue, especially in the
   times of Christ: nor with Christians, with whom it was after signified
   by putting away wicked men from among them; between an excommunicated
   person, and an heathen man and publican, there was no agreement; for an
   heathen man and a publican, however considered by the Jews, were very
   familiarly conversed with by Christ and his apostles; with whom they
   frequently eat and drank, and Christ is called a friend of such;
   whereas, with an excommunicate person it was not allowed to eat, nor
   indeed to have any familiar conversation with them, as little as
   possible. Moreover, the words are not a rule to the church, how that
   was to proceed towards a person who behaved in the manner described;
   for it is not said, "If he neglect to hear the church, let him be to
   the church as an heathen man and a publican;" but it is a rule to the
   offended person how he should behave to the offender, under such
   circumstances; "Let him be to thee," &c. and the design of the whole is
   to justify the offended party, that when he has taken all the steps
   directed to; as to reprove the offending party privately, and then with
   two or more, who would be witnesses of his obstinacy, and then lay the
   whole affair before the church or congregation, which, with the Jews,
   never consisted of less than ten persons; so that he would be
   abundantly vindicated in behaving towards such a man as chvr phchvt a
   worthless neighbour, as the Jews used to call such, and to look upon
   himself as freed from all brotherly and neighbourly offices towards
   him.

   2b. Secondly, nor is excommunication expressed by the "delivery" of a
   man "to Satan;" for though that sometimes accompanied excommunication,
   yet they are very different and distinct things; the delivery of the
   incestuous person to Satan was the apostle's own act and deed; "I
   verily," says the apostle, "as absent in body, but present in spirit,
   have judged," or determined within myself, "already, concerning him
   that hath done this deed," committed the incest before mentioned, "to
   deliver such an one unto Satan," (1 Cor. 5:3, 5) for the fourth verse
   is to be read in a parenthesis, and the third and fifth connected
   together; which shows it to be a pure act of the apostle; as the like
   is elsewhere asserted by him, concerning Hymeneus and Alexander;
   "Whom," says he, "I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not
   to blaspheme," (1 Tim. 1:20) whereas, excommunication is called a
   punishment, or censure inflicted by many, on the incestuous person;
   whom the church at Corinth were directed to purge themselves from, and
   to put away from among them, that wicked person; by which the
   excommunication of him from them as a church is expressed (1 Cor. 5:7,
   13; see 2 Cor. 2:6), as a distinct thing from the delivery of him to
   Satan; which was a miraculous action, as appears from 1 Corinthians 5:4
   included in a parenthesis; "in the name of our Lord Jesus;" a way of
   speaking when a miracle being performed (see Acts 3:6); "when ye are
   gathered together," not to perform this miraculous actions, but to be
   witnesses of it, and my spirit; for though in body he was absent from
   them, yet his spirit would be with them, to perform the miraculous
   operation; as the heart or spirit of Elisha was with Gehazi in a
   wonderful manner, when the man turned again to him from his chariot to
   meet him (2 King 5:26), the apostle adds, "with the power of our Lord
   Jesus Christ," to which all miraculous operations are to be ascribed,
   and so this; for it never was used, nor never ought to be, as a form of
   excommunication; it was not in the primitive churches; nay, it was
   cautioned against by the ancients, in one of their synods; nor never
   was, until excommunication was used as an engine of the church's, or
   rather of the priest's power to terrify and distress; this was only
   used in the apostles' time and then ceased; it was the apostolic rod,
   with which they sometimes smote wicked persons with death, as Ananias
   and Sapphira were smitten by Peter; and Elymas the sorcerer with
   blindness, by the apostle Paul; and others with diseases of body, and
   with violent agitations of it, and with terrors of mind; and it is
   remarkable that the words of the Lord concerning Job; "Behold, he is in
   thine hand," are rendered in the Septuagint version, "Behold, I deliver
   him unto thee;" that is, to smite him with boils (Job 2:6), and such a
   corporal punishment, or temporal chastisement, cannot be reckoned a
   severity, as inflicted on the incestuous person; for excommunication
   was too mild a punishment for him, who had been guilty of a crime not
   to be named among the Gentiles; as to have his father's wife! which was
   death, or cutting off by the hand of heaven, according to the law of
   Moses (Lev. 18:1-30), and so the blasphemy of Hymeneus and Alexander,
   by the same law, was deserving of death. It is commonly said, that this
   delivery of a man to Satan is only a redelivery of him into the kingdom
   of Satan, the world, out of which he was taken; and so is only a
   putting him "in statu quo;" but this is to allow the world to be the
   kingdom of Satan; whereas he has no true and proper right to it; it is
   only his by usurpation; the world is the Lord's: nor is it fact, that
   when a man is received into a church, he is received out of the world;
   for it is supposed by the church, that he is previously called by the
   grace of God out of it; and is by faith a partaker of Christ, and of
   the blessings of his grace, and is a member of the invisible church;
   and very often so it is, that when a person is dealt with by a church
   for sin; which, for the honour of Christ and his gospel, they are
   obliged to do, yet at the same time they cannot but hope, that he is
   not a man of the world, but a partaker of the grace of God; and
   therefore do not account him as an enemy, but admonish him as a
   brother.

   2c. Thirdly, the passage in Titus 3:10 "A man that is an heretic, after
   the first and second admonition, reject;" is usually thought, and so
   has been by myself, to be a rule for the ejection or casting out of
   church communion, a person so described; but not only the word used, is
   never used of excommunication, nor indeed any other word in the
   singular number; it is not said, "reject ye," but "reject thou;" [122]
   and so is no direction to a church, but to a single person: now let
   Titus be who he may, an extraordinary person, an evangelist, as he
   seems to be, or a bishop of Crete, as the subscription of the epistle
   suggests, which is not to be depended upon, or an ordinary pastor and
   elder of a church, which is not probable; but be he what he may, an
   extraordinary or ordinary minister, he had no power nor right of
   himself to reject or eject any person from church communion; this would
   be to act the part of Diotrephes, who cast out the brethren, condemned
   by the apostle John; and the apostle Paul would never have advised
   Titus to act a part so unjustifiable; besides, could such a sense of
   the text be established, it would prove what the papists, prelates, and
   presbyterians produce it for, namely, that the power of excommunication
   lies in the hands of a bishop, or prelate, or presbyter, elder or
   pastor of a church, and not in the church itself; and it would not be
   easy to rescue such a proof out of their hands; whereas, not single
   persons, but churches, are always addressed and exhorted to perform the
   act of excommunication on persons deserving of it (see Rom. 16:17; 1
   Cor. 5:7, 13; 2 Thess. 3:6, 14). Nor were admonitions ever directed to
   be given to persons deserving of excommunication; in cases of private
   offences, admonitions were to be given; and so long as an affair lies
   between a person and a church, respecting either doctrine or practice,
   and is not known to the world and other churches, admonitions may be
   given and repeated as long as there are any hopes of good being done by
   them; but in case of atrocious public crimes, and notorious heresies,
   subversive of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, no time should
   be lost, or trifled away with admonitions; but for the honour of
   Christ, the credit of religion, and for the removal of the odium
   brought on Christianity, such a person should be removed from communion
   at once; nay, even, as some think, though he may seem to have some
   sense of his evil, and repentance for it. We have but one instance of
   excommunication from a Christian church in the whole New Testament, and
   that is of the incestuous person; and we are sure he had no admonitions
   from the church before the apostle had heard of the affair; so far were
   they from it, that they were puffed up, when they should rather have
   mourned, that he that had done the deed might be taken away from them;
   and we are sure he had none afterwards, for the apostle immediately
   orders the excommunication of him. And though there are orders given to
   several of the churches, as before observed, for the excommunication of
   such and such persons, yet no directions given for the admonition of
   any of them, previous to their ejection: sometimes admonition is
   directed to be given after a person is withdrawn from, when it is not
   on account of any notorious crime, of a public and scandalous nature;
   but idleness, an unwillingness to work; and such an one cannot be
   looked upon as all enemy to Christ and his gospel, and may be
   admonished as one who had been a brother, and it may be hoped will be
   restored again (2 Thess. 3:14, 15). The case of Titus was a personal
   one, and respects a man he had been in connection with, or supposed to
   have been, and now fallen into heresy; when, having reproved him again
   and again, and endeavoured to convince him of his error, but to no
   purpose; he is then directed to have nothing more to say unto him or do
   with him, to have no society with him, nor admit him to a familiar
   conversation with him, lest he should be hardened in his error, and
   weak Christians should be stumbled. Much such advice is given by the
   apostle John to private Christians, not to receive such persons into
   their houses, nor wish them God speed (2 John 1:10).

   But though the above passages are not proper and pertinent to church
   discipline; yet there are rules and directions which do belong to it,
   and are to be observed with respect unto it: and as I have considered
   the materials, the form and fashion of the house or church of God, both
   as essential and as organized; I shall now proceed to consider the
   rules of admission into it, or the comings in thereof, and the laws and
   ordinances to be observed by those who are in it, and the rules
   concerning the goings out of it, whether by dismission or
   excommunication.

   2d. First, the rules concerning the comings in, or admission of members
   into a gospel church.

   2d1. The doors of it are not to be set wide open for anyone to come in
   at pleasure; porters were set at the gates of the house of the Lord,
   that no unclean person should enter in; and in Ezekiel's temple, a
   figure of the gospel church in the latter day, orders are given, that
   no stranger, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, should enter into the
   sanctuary of the Lord; no materials were admitted to be laid in
   Solomon's temple, but what were hewn and squared before brought
   thither.

   2d2. Persons should voluntarily propose themselves to the church for
   communion with it; for this should be a free act of their own, and not
   by the force or persuasion of others; or they should be proposed by the
   minister or elder, with whom a previous conversation should be had, and
   an inquiry made of their experience and knowledge of divine things; so
   Saul, when converted, "essayed to join himself to the disciples;" that
   is, he tried, he attempted, he proposed himself to them, to become a
   member of them, and to have communion with them, as one of them (Acts
   9:26).

   2d3. In order to admission to communion, satisfaction must be given as
   to a work of grace upon the soul; when. Saul desired communion with the
   church, "they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a
   disciple;" a real converted person, a true believer in Christ, because
   he had been so lately a persecutor of the saints; until it was declared
   to them, how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to
   him, and how boldly he had preached in his name; and then he was
   admitted, and was with them coming in and going out: and it is but fit
   and proper that such should give a reason of the hope that is in them,
   to the satisfaction of those with whom they desire to walk in
   fellowship; it was an early practice of the saints, to tell one another
   what God had done for their souls; the poor man whom Christ had
   dispossessed of a legion of devils, was bid to go home to his friends,
   and tell them how great things the Lord had done for him, and had had
   compassion on him; and this is best done by a man himself, than by the
   report of others; and better by a verbal declaration than by writing;
   for though the former may be made in a broken manner, yet it may best
   discover the true affection of the heart, and the savouriness of a
   man's spirit, and tend more to knit and unite the hearts of the Lord's
   people to him

   2d4. The way of entrance into a church is by a profession of faith in
   Christ; for as with the heart man believes unto righteousness, so with
   the mouth confession is made unto salvation; the church is the
   sheepfold, and Christ is the door into it; and whoever climbs up
   another way than by faith in him, and profession of it, is a thief and
   a robber. The three thousand converts first professed repentance of
   their sins, faith in Christ for the remission of them, and their joyful
   reception of the gospel, and then were baptized and added to the
   church.

   2d5. It is necessary that such who enter into a church state, should
   have knowledge of the truths of the gospel, and confess them, and not
   be ashamed of Christ, and his words, before men; their soundness in the
   doctrine of faith should be inquired into, and this be testified by
   their assent to the articles of faith held and maintained by the
   church; "Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the
   truth may enter in," (Isa. 26:1).

   2d6. Allowances should be made for weaknesses and infirmities of men,
   both in their gracious experiences, and in their gospel light and
   knowledge; the day of small things is not to be despised; the bruised
   reed is not to be broken, nor the smoking flax to be quenched; the
   tender lambs are gathered into Christ's arms, and carried in his bosom;
   the weak in faith are to be received, and not to doubtful disputations.

   2d7. Testimony should be given of their becoming life and conversation;
   when the disciples demurred upon receiving Saul, because of his former
   conduct and behaviour, Barnabas informed them of the change that was in
   him, and that of a violent persecutor, he was become a bold and zealous
   preacher of the gospel, they gladly received him.

   2d8. The reception of a member into church communion must be by mutual
   consent; the person received must give up him or herself to walk with
   the church in holy fellowship; and the church must readily receive such
   in the Lord; it must be a voluntary act on both sides; and if there is
   a pastor, the person must be received by him, in the name and with the
   consent of the church; and if not, by a brother appointed by the church
   for that purpose, the token of which is by giving the right hand of
   fellowship (Gal. 2:9). I proceed,

   2e. Secondly, to consider the ordinances, laws, and rules to be kept
   and observed by those who are admitted into the church.

   2e1. There are "ordinances" they are directed to the observation of.
   Show them "all the ordinances" of the house, that they may "do" them;
   so Christ ordered his disciples to teach those they baptized to observe
   all things whatsoever he commanded them. Besides the ordinance of
   baptism, which is preparatory to church communion, there are the
   ordinances of public prayer and praise, and the public ministry of the
   word, which are constantly to be attended on; and it is very unbecoming
   members of churches to forsake the assembling of themselves together
   for public worship: it is observed, to the honour of the primitive
   Christians, that "they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine,"
   in a constant attendance on the ministration of it; and in holy
   "fellowship" with one another; and "in prayer," in public prayers put
   up to God by the minister, as the mouth of the church; and particularly
   in "breaking of bread," or in the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, which
   is to be frequently administered; "As often as ye eat this bread," &c.
   which shows it is to be often done; and as often as it is, it should be
   attended on. But of these ordinances more hereafter, in their proper
   course.

   2e2. There are also "the laws of" the house, which are to be shown to
   members of churches, and to be observed by them; Christ is Lawgiver in
   it, and his commands are to be kept from a principle of love to him,
   even all that he has commanded. There is the moral law, which is still
   in force, and binding upon Christians; for Christ came not to destroy
   it, but to fulfil it; and his people are "under the law to him", and
   should be obedient to it: such who are regardless of morality are not
   fit to be members of churches, and are not to be continued in them.
   There is likewise the law of Christ, which is the law of love, the new
   commandment Christ has given to his disciples, by the observance of
   which it is known that they are his disciples. There are, moreover,
   various duties to be performed by members of churches, mutually towards
   each other; they are to submit themselves to one another in the fear of
   the Lord; to have the same love one for another, both with respect to
   things temporal and spiritual, and to watch over one another in the
   Lord; but these, with other incumbent duties, have been treated of in a
   preceding chapter.

   2e3. There are certain rules respecting private admonitions of church
   members, which deserve special regard; both such as are given by
   ministers and elders of churches, who have not only power of
   admonishing those they have the rule over, and of rebuking publicly and
   with authority; but also in a private manner, as they go from house to
   house, and as they see occasion for it; which private admonitions are
   not to be slighted; and also those given by members, who are to
   admonish and rebuke one another, in a private manner, as there may be a
   necessity for it. The rule in Matthew 18:15-17 "If thy brother shall
   trespass against thee," &c. is an excellent good one, and may be
   accommodated to all cases in difference between two persons; whether
   between one neighbour and another, or between one member of a church
   and another; the former seems to be the original foundation of this
   rule, for neighbour and brother are synonymous; the passage which the
   rule seems to have respect unto, and is the rise of it, is in Leviticus
   19:17 "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart; thou shalt in
   any wise rebuke thy neighbour;" where a brother is explained by a
   neighbour: and when there is a difference between one neighbour and
   another, this rule should be observed; the neighbour offended, against
   whom the trespass is committed, and to whom the injury is done, is to
   go privately to the offender, lay the evil before him, and reprove him
   for it, in a gentle manner; if he pays a proper regard to it, takes the
   reproof kindly, acknowledges the offence, and declares repentance for
   it, it is all very well; he is to be forgiven, no mention hereafter is
   to be made of the matter; but if not, if he denies the fact, or
   extenuates or defends it, and shows no repentance, then the offended
   party is to take "one or two" neighbours, and lay the case before him
   in their presence, who will be witnesses of the charge, and of the
   proof of it, and join in the admonition; but if he still remains
   incorrigible, then it must be told to "the church," te ekklesia, the
   same with dh "the congregation," which consisted at least of ten
   persons; [123] and when such a number were made acquainted with the
   whole affair, and the offender would make no acknowledgment, the
   offended person would be justified by all men, in treating him for the
   future as a worthless friend or neighbour, as the Jews used to call
   such an one, and take no more notice of him than of an heathen man and
   a publican. The rule also maybe accommodated to any difference between
   one member of a church and another; between a brother and a brother,
   who are in the same spiritual relation; and this rule must be observed
   in case of a private trespass only known to them, a secret fault which
   they are only privy to; and not a public sin, known to the whole church
   and to the world; for then another method must be taken: and it must be
   a "trespass," a sin, that the offender is guilty of; yet not a sin of
   infirmity, common to human nature, and which all are encompassed with;
   a man is not to be made an offender for a word, a small trifling thing;
   and yet it must not be a very atrocious and public one, which requires
   more than admonition, even excommunication at once; such as was the sin
   of the incestuous person; but a sin of a lesser nature, yet a fault,
   and which gives just cause of offence; and in such a case the offended
   brother must give the offending one private reproof, tell him his
   fault, between themselves alone; and if he can bring him to an
   acknowledgment of his fault, and he declares his sorrow for it, then
   the brother is gained, is restored from the error he has been guilty
   of; and it is to be buried in oblivion, and no more said of it to
   anyone; but if not, he must take another brother or two with him, and
   admonish him again; and if he pays no regard to it, as strengthened by
   the conjunction of the brethren with him, then the direction is, "tell
   the church": but what is meant by is not easy to say, whether the
   Jewish sanhedrin or Jewish synagogue; since at that time there was no
   congregational church in being, unless the twelve disciples may be so
   called; wherefore this can only at most respect a church in future
   time, when such a rule should take place; however, so far as it
   concerns a private admonition, it is clear and manifest, and deserves
   attention; for which reason only it is produced.

   3. Thirdly, the next thing to be inquired into is what concerns "the
   goings out of" the house or church of God, and what may be meant by
   them. There are but two ways of going out of a church; either by a
   dismission from it, or by an excommunication out of it. There are,
   indeed, letters of recommendation, which are wanting in some cases,
   though the apostle needed them not (2 Cor. 3:1), such as were given to
   Apollos (Acts 18:27) to Phebe (Rom. 16:1, 2), and to Marcus (Col.
   4:10). But these do not give membership; only transient communion; the
   person recommended still remains a member from whence he is
   recommended; the design of such letters is only to certify, that the
   person whose name is mentioned in them, is a member in full communion
   with the church which recommends him, and may be safely admitted to
   transient communion with the church to which he is recommended: but
   such letters ought not to continue long; for if a person takes up his
   residence in a place where he is in providence brought, he should send
   for his dismission, and be received upon it into full communion; a
   letter of dismission, when approved of, and the person dismissed is
   received, he is in all respects a member, and then his membership
   ceases in the church by which he is dismissed, and not before: there
   are cases in which a man may desire his dismission to another church;
   as distance of habitation, non-edification, and when a church is become
   corrupt in doctrine and practice, that he cannot conscientiously abide
   with them. The other way of going out of a church is excommunication,
   concerning which it will be necessary to consider various things.

   3a. What excommunication is.

   3a1. It is not a being reckoned as an heathen man and a publican; nor a
   delivery of one to Satan, as has been shown.

   3a2. Nor does it affect the temporal estate and civil affairs of a man;
   it does not subject him to fines, imprisonment, or death; it does not
   interfere with the business of the civil magistrate; nor does it break
   in upon the natural and civil relations between man and wife, parents
   and children, masters and servants; nor forbid attendance on the
   external ministry of the word.

   3a3. Nor does it admit of degrees; the Jews had three sorts of
   excommunication, which proceeded gradually; [124] but there is but one
   among Christians. Some talk indeed of a lesser and a greater
   excommunication, but without any foundation from the word of God. Some
   think a suspension from the Lord's table is in some cases necessary;
   when a case is dubious, and there is not time thoroughly to inquire
   into it, and yet offence and scandal arises upon it: a person, indeed,
   may be desired to abstain from the Lord's table, and a man that seeks
   the peace of the church will consent to it; but he cannot be obliged to
   abstain; if he is obstinate and refractory, there is no other way but
   to expel him; for a man is either in communion with a church or he is
   not; there is no middle state; to withdraw from a disorderly person, or
   to withdraw and separate him from communion, are the same thing.

   But though the above passages are not proper and pertinent to church
   discipline; yet there are rules and directions which do belong to it,
   and are to be observed with respect unto it: and as I have considered
   the materials, the form and fashion of the house or church of God, both
   as essential and as organized; I shall now proceed to consider the
   rules of admission into it, or the comings in thereof, and the laws and
   ordinances to be observed by those who are in it, and the rules
   concerning the goings out of it, whether by dismission or
   excommunication.

   2d. First, the rules concerning the comings in, or admission of members
   into a gospel church.

   2d1. The doors of it are not to be set wide open for anyone to come in
   at pleasure; porters were set at the gates of the house of the Lord,
   that no unclean person should enter in; and in Ezekiel's temple, a
   figure of the gospel church in the latter day, orders are given, that
   no stranger, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, should enter into the
   sanctuary of the Lord; no materials were admitted to be laid in
   Solomon's temple, but what were hewn and squared before brought
   thither.

   2d2. Persons should voluntarily propose themselves to the church for
   communion with it; for this should be a free act of their own, and not
   by the force or persuasion of others; or they should be proposed by the
   minister or elder, with whom a previous conversation should be had, and
   an inquiry made of their experience and knowledge of divine things; so
   Saul, when converted, "essayed to join himself to the disciples;" that
   is, he tried, he attempted, he proposed himself to them, to become a
   member of them, and to have communion with them, as one of them (Acts
   9:26).

   2d3. In order to admission to communion, satisfaction must be given as
   to a work of grace upon the soul; when. Saul desired communion with the
   church, "they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a
   disciple;" a real converted person, a true believer in Christ, because
   he had been so lately a persecutor of the saints; until it was declared
   to them, how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to
   him, and how boldly he had preached in his name; and then he was
   admitted, and was with them coming in and going out: and it is but fit
   and proper that such should give a reason of the hope that is in them,
   to the satisfaction of those with whom they desire to walk in
   fellowship; it was an early practice of the saints, to tell one another
   what God had done for their souls; the poor man whom Christ had
   dispossessed of a legion of devils, was bid to go home to his friends,
   and tell them how great things the Lord had done for him, and had had
   compassion on him; and this is best done by a man himself, than by the
   report of others; and better by a verbal declaration than by writing;
   for though the former may be made in a broken manner, yet it may best
   discover the true affection of the heart, and the savouriness of a
   man's spirit, and tend more to knit and unite the hearts of the Lord's
   people to him

   2d4. The way of entrance into a church is by a profession of faith in
   Christ; for as with the heart man believes unto righteousness, so with
   the mouth confession is made unto salvation; the church is the
   sheepfold, and Christ is the door into it; and whoever climbs up
   another way than by faith in him, and profession of it, is a thief and
   a robber. The three thousand converts first professed repentance of
   their sins, faith in Christ for the remission of them, and their joyful
   reception of the gospel, and then were baptized and added to the
   church.

   2d5. It is necessary that such who enter into a church state, should
   have knowledge of the truths of the gospel, and confess them, and not
   be ashamed of Christ, and his words, before men; their soundness in the
   doctrine of faith should be inquired into, and this be testified by
   their assent to the articles of faith held and maintained by the
   church; "Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the
   truth may enter in," (Isa. 26:1).

   2d6. Allowances should be made for weaknesses and infirmities of men,
   both in their gracious experiences, and in their gospel light and
   knowledge; the day of small things is not to be despised; the bruised
   reed is not to be broken, nor the smoking flax to be quenched; the
   tender lambs are gathered into Christ's arms, and carried in his bosom;
   the weak in faith are to be received, and not to doubtful disputations.

   2d7. Testimony should be given of their becoming life and conversation;
   when the disciples demurred upon receiving Saul, because of his former
   conduct and behaviour, Barnabas informed them of the change that was in
   him, and that of a violent persecutor, he was become a bold and zealous
   preacher of the gospel, they gladly received him.

   2d8. The reception of a member into church communion must be by mutual
   consent; the person received must give up him or herself to walk with
   the church in holy fellowship; and the church must readily receive such
   in the Lord; it must be a voluntary act on both sides; and if there is
   a pastor, the person must be received by him, in the name and with the
   consent of the church; and if not, by a brother appointed by the church
   for that purpose, the token of which is by giving the right hand of
   fellowship (Gal. 2:9). I proceed,

   2e. Secondly, to consider the ordinances, laws, and rules to be kept
   and observed by those who are admitted into the church.

   2e1. There are "ordinances" they are directed to the observation of.
   Show them "all the ordinances" of the house, that they may "do" them;
   so Christ ordered his disciples to teach those they baptized to observe
   all things whatsoever he commanded them. Besides the ordinance of
   baptism, which is preparatory to church communion, there are the
   ordinances of public prayer and praise, and the public ministry of the
   word, which are constantly to be attended on; and it is very unbecoming
   members of churches to forsake the assembling of themselves together
   for public worship: it is observed, to the honour of the primitive
   Christians, that "they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine,"
   in a constant attendance on the ministration of it; and in holy
   "fellowship" with one another; and "in prayer," in public prayers put
   up to God by the minister, as the mouth of the church; and particularly
   in "breaking of bread," or in the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, which
   is to be frequently administered; "As often as ye eat this bread," &c.
   which shows it is to be often done; and as often as it is, it should be
   attended on. But of these ordinances more hereafter, in their proper
   course.

   3a4. Excommunication is no other than a removal of a man from the
   communion of the church, and from all privileges dependent upon it; it
   is a disfranchising him from all the immunities of a fellow citizen
   with the saints, and taking from him a place and a name in the house of
   God; for a church can take no more from him than what it first gave
   him.

   3a5. This act is pressed by various phrases; as by avoiding familiar
   conversation with such; by not keeping company with them; and by not
   eating with them at the Lord's table; by purging out from them the old
   leaven; and by putting away the wicked from among them; by withdrawing
   from disorderly persons, and cutting them off from fellowship with
   them.

   3b. Who they are that are to be excommunicated.

   3b1. Such who are disturbers of the church's peace, who cause divisions
   and offences, who are litigious and quarrelsome (1 Cor. 11:16). Such
   who are troublers of God's Israel ought to be cut off from his people
   (Gal. 5:12).

   3b2. Who do not keep their places in the church, do not attend when the
   church assembles together for religious worship, but forsake the
   assembling of themselves together, and in a sense forsake the church;
   whose places are empty, as David's was at supper time, and who do in a
   sort cut off themselves from the communion of the church (Jude 1:19).

   3b3. All such who walk disorderly, as the above persons do, are
   irregular in their lives and conversations, guilty of immoralities,
   though it may be thought of a lesser kind, which they continue and
   indulge themselves in: as sloth and idleness, not working at all,
   busybodies, going from house to house, doing mischief, and living upon
   others; from such the apostle commands us to withdraw ourselves (2
   Thess. 3:6, 11, 14).

   3b4. All such who commit atrocious crimes, unrepented of, and continued
   in; as fornicators, covetous, idolaters, railers, drunkards,
   extortioners, &c. "with such" we are bid "not to eat," especially at
   the Lord's table; for such ought to have no inheritance in the kingdom
   of Christ and of God, that is, in the church of God (1 Cor. 5:11; Eph.
   5:5).

   3b5. All erroneous and heretical persons, who hold and propagate
   doctrines contrary to what has been learnt from the word of God, and in
   the churches of Christ; such are to be avoided and declined from (Rom.
   16:17), all such who bring in "damnable heresies," as the apostle calls
   them; denying the Trinity of Persons in the Godhead, the Deity of
   Christ, &c. (2 Peter 2:1), who bring not with them, but oppose the
   doctrine of Christ, concerning his person and grace; these, as they are
   not to have a place in the private houses of the saints, ought to have
   none in the church of God; which is commended for not bearing them that
   are evil, either unsound in principle, or immoral in life (2 John
   1:9-11; Rev. 2:2).

   3c. By whom excommunication is to be performed.

   3c1. Not by a member himself; no man has a right to cut off himself;
   such a man is a "felo de se;" as a man cannot come into a church
   without the consent of it; so neither can he go out of it, without its
   consent; for a man to depart of himself, is not standing fast in one
   spirit, but is a cowardly running away from a church; and to go without
   giving a reason, without asking leave, or desiring a dismission, to say
   the least of it, is a rude and unmannerly way of departure; and such
   churches who receive such persons, do not as they would be done by:
   yea, such men are covenant breakers with a church, which is a great
   evil, and breakers up of churches, as much as in them lies; for what
   one member may do, others may; yea, if a member may leave a church at
   pleasure, a pastor may do the same: in a word, notwithstanding such
   departure, such persons may be proceeded against by direct
   excommunication; or, which amounts to much the same, should be declared
   by a vote of the church, non-members, and no longer under its watch and
   care; which is by some called indirect excommunication.

   3c2. Nor is it to be performed by any single person of himself, whether
   an ordinary or an extraordinary minister; it never was done by an
   apostle, an evangelist, or any other one man; for it is a punishment
   inflicted by many.

   3c3. Nor is it to be done by the elders of a church separately; much
   less by the elders of other churches; but by the elders of churches,
   with the consent of the members of them; for they have a right to do
   this previous to their having elders, and they have none, as to receive
   members, so to expel them; the power of it originally lies in the
   church; the authority of executing it lies in the elders, with the
   consent and by the order of the church; as the directions to the
   churches concerning this matter testify.

   3d. What are the ends of excommunication.

   3d1. The glory of God, which is the ultimate end of it; for as his name
   is dishonoured by the evil practices or principles of church members,
   so this is the must open and most effectual way of removing that
   dishonour that is brought upon it; this ought to be always the chief
   aim and the sincere view in the administration of it; though sometimes
   this is only pretence, and under the cover of it, churches gratify
   sinful passions and resentments; as the Jews of old, in a similar case
   (Isa. 66:5).

   3d2. Another end is to purge the church, and preserve it from
   infection; a little leaven leavens the whole lump, and therefore the
   old leaven must be purged out, that a church may become a new lump;
   evil communications corrupt good manners, and therefore evil men must
   be put away from among the saints, (1 Cor. 5:7, 13) lepers were to be
   put out of the camp, that they might not infect others; and erroneous
   persons, whose words do eat as a canker, must be removed from the
   communion of churches.

   3d3. A church of Christ is like a garden or vineyard, which, if not
   taken care of, and this ordinance of excommunication not made use of,
   will be like the vineyard of the slothful, over run with thorns and
   nettles and other weeds; but by means of this it is cleared of the
   weeds of immoralities, and the bitter roots of false doctrines are
   plucked up and eradicated, and withered branches are gathered and cast
   out.

   3d4. The good of persons excommunicated is another end, and is
   sometimes effected by it, God blessing his own institution when rightly
   performed, which is for edification, and not destruction; for the
   saving of the souls of men; and who are hereby brought to shame and
   repentance for their sins, and an acknowledgment of them; when they are
   to be received again with all love and tenderness, and to be comforted,
   that they might not be swallowed up with over much sorrow (Jude 1:23; 2
   Thess. 3:14; 2 Cor. 2:7.)
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   [121] "Ipse clavem imbuit," Acts ii. 22. Tertullian. de Pudicitia, c.
   21.

   [122] paraitou.

   [123] Vid. Rhenferd. observ. select. ad loc. Heb.. Nov. Test. inter
   ejus opera. p. 729, &c.

   [124] Eliae Tisbi in voce ndvy.
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BOOK III

  OF THE PUBLIC ORDINANCES OF DIVINE WORSHIP
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  Chapter 1

  Of Baptism.

   As the first covenant, or testament, had ordinances of divine service,
   which are shaken, removed, and abolished; so the New Testament, or
   gospel dispensation, has ordinances of divine worship, which cannot be
   shaken, but will remain until the second coming of Christ: these, as
   Austin says, [125] are few; and easy to be observed, and of a very
   expressive signification. Among which, baptism must be reckoned one,
   and is proper to be treated of in the first place; for though it is not
   a church ordinance, it is an ordinance of God, and a part and branch of
   public worship. When I say it is not a church ordinance, I mean it is
   not an ordinance administered in the church, but out of it, and in
   order to admission into it, and communion with it; it is preparatory to
   it, and a qualification for it; it does not make a person a member of a
   church, or admit him into a visible church; persons must first be
   baptized, and then added to the church, as the three thousand converts
   were; a church has nothing to do with the baptism of any, but to be
   satisfied they are baptized before they are admitted into communion
   with it. Admission to baptism lies solely in the breast of the
   administrator, who is the only judge of qualifications for it, and has
   the sole power of receiving to it, and of rejecting from it; if nor
   satisfied, he may reject a person thought fit by a church, and admit a
   person to baptism not thought fit by a church; but a disagreement is
   not desirable nor advisable: the orderly, regular, scriptural rule of
   proceeding seems to be this: a person inclined to submit to baptism,
   and to join in communion with a church, should first apply to an
   administrator; and upon giving him satisfaction, be baptized by him;
   and then should propose to the church for communion; when he would be
   able to answer all proper questions: if asked, to give a reason of the
   hope that is in him, he is ready to do it; if a testimony of his life
   and conversation is required, if none present can give it, he can
   direct where it is to be had; and if the question is put to him,
   whether he is a baptized person or not, he can answer in the
   affirmative, and give proof of it, and so the way is clear for his
   admission into church fellowship. Song Saul, when converted, was
   immediately baptized by Ananias, without any previous knowledge and
   consent of the church; and, it was many days after this that he
   proposed to join himself to the disciples, and was received (Acts 9:18,
   19, 23, 26-28), and as it is water baptism which is meant, I shall,

   1. First, prove that this is peculiar to the gospel dispensation, is a
   standing ordinance in it, and will be continued to the second coming of
   Christ. This is opposed to the sentiments of such who say baptism was
   in use before the times of John, of Christ and his apostles; and of
   such who restrain water baptism to the interval between the beginning
   of John's ministry and the death of Christ, when they supposed this,
   with other external rites, ceased; and of such, as the Socinians, [126]
   who think that only the first converts to Christianity in a nation are
   to be baptized, and their children, but not their after posterity.
   There were indeed various washings, bathings, or baptisms, under the
   legal dispensation, for the purification of persons and things unclean,
   by the ceremonial law; which had a doctrine in them, called the
   doctrine of baptists, which taught the cleansing of sin by the blood of
   Christ; but there was nothing similar in them to the ordinance of water
   baptism, but immersion only. The Jews pretend, their ancestors were
   received into covenant by baptism, or dipping, as well as by
   circumcision and sacrifice; and that proselytes from heathenism were
   received the same way; and this is greedily grasped at by the advocates
   for infant baptism; who fancy that John, Christ, and his apostles, took
   up this custom as they found it, and continued it; and which they
   imagine accounts for the silence about it in the New Testament, and why
   there is neither precept for it, nor example of it; but surely if it
   was in such common use as pretended, though no new precept had been
   given, there would have been precedents enough of it; but no proof is
   to be given of any such practice obtaining in those times, neither from
   the Old nor New Testament; nor from the apocryphal books written by
   Jews between them; nor from Josephus and Philo the Jew, who wrote a
   little after the times of John and Christ; nor from the Jewish Misnah,
   or book of traditions: only from later writings of theirs, too late for
   the proof of it before those times. [127] John was the first
   administrator of the ordinance of baptism, and therefore is called "the
   Baptist," (Matthew 3:1) by way of emphasis; whereas, had it been in
   common use, there must have been many baptizers before him, who had a
   like claim to this title; and why should the people be so alarmed with
   it, as to come from all parts to see it administered, and to hear it
   preached, when, had it been in frequent use, they must have often seen
   it? and why should the Jewish sanhedrim send priests and Levites from
   Jerusalem to John, to know who he was, whether the Messiah, or his
   forerunner Elias, or that prophet spoken of and expected? and when he
   confessed, and denied that he was neither of them, they say to him,
   "Why baptizest thou then?" by which thing and which they expected it
   appears it was a new thing, and which they expected when the Messiah
   came, but not before; and that then it would be performed by some great
   personage, one or other of the before mentioned; whereas, had it been
   performed by an ordinary teacher, common Rabbi or doctor, priest or
   Levite, in ages immemorial, there could have been no room for such a
   question; and had this been the case, there would have been no
   difficulty with the Jews to answer the question of our Lord; "The
   baptism of John, whence was it, from heaven or of men?" they could have
   answered, It was a tradition of theirs, a custom in use among them time
   out of mind, had this been the known case; nor would they have been
   subject to any dilemma: but John's baptism was not a device of men; but
   the "counsel of God," according to his will and wise determination
   (Luke 7:30). John had a mission and commission from God, he was a man
   sent of God, and sent to baptize (John 1:6, 33), and his baptism was
   water baptism, this he affirms, and the places he made use of for that
   purpose show it, and none will deny it.

   Now his baptism, and that of Christ and his apostles, were the same.
   Christ was baptized by John, and his baptism was surely Christian
   baptism; of this no one can doubt (Matthew 3:13-17), and his disciples
   also were baptized by him; for by whom else could they be baptized? not
   by Christ himself, for he baptized none (John 4:2). And it is
   observable, that the baptism of John, and the baptism of Christ and his
   apostles, were at the same time; they were contemporary, and did not
   the one succeed the other: now it is not reasonable to suppose there
   should be two sorts of baptism administered at the same time; but one
   and the same by both (John 3:22, 23, 26, 4:1, 2).

   The baptism of John, and that which was practised by the apostles of
   Christ, even after his death and resurrection from the dead, agreed,

   1a. In the subjects thereof. Those whom John baptized were sensible
   penitent sinners, who were convinced of their sins, and made an
   ingenuous confession of them; and of whom he required "fruits meet for
   repentance," and which showed it to be genuine; and hence his baptism
   is called, "the baptism of repentance," because he required it previous
   to it (Matthew 3:6-8; Mark 1:4). Song the apostles of Christ exhorted
   men to repent, to profess their repentance, and give evidence of it,
   previous to their baptism (Acts 2:38). John said to the people that
   came to his baptism, "That they should believe on him which should come
   after him, that is, on Christ Jesus," upon which they were baptized in
   his name (Acts 19:4, 5), and faith in Christ was made a prerequisite to
   baptism by Christ and his apostles (Mark 16:16; Acts 8:36, 37).

   1b. In the way and manner of the administration of both. John's baptism
   was by immersion, as the places chosen by him for it show; and the
   baptism of Christ by him is a proof of it (Matthew 3:6, 16; John 3:23),
   and in like manner was baptism performed by the apostles, as of the
   eunuch by Philip (Acts 8:38, 39).

   1c. In the form of their administration. John was sent of God to
   baptize; and in whose name should he baptize, but in the name of the
   one true God, who sent him, even in the name of God, Father, Son, and
   Spirit? The doctrine of the Trinity was known to John, as it was to the
   Jews in common; it is said of John's hearers and disciples, that they
   were "baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 19:5). The same
   form is used of the baptism of those baptized by the apostles of Christ
   (Acts 8:16, 10:48), which is only a part of the form put for the whole,
   and is sufficiently expressive of Christian baptism, which is to be
   performed "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
   Ghost" (Matthew 28:19).

   1d. In the end and use of baptism, John's baptism, and so the apostles
   was, upon repentance for the remission of sins, (Mark 1:4; Acts 8:38)
   not that either repentance or baptism procure the pardon of sin; that
   is only obtained by the blood of Christ; but baptism is a means of
   leading to the blood of Christ; and repentance gives encouragement to
   hope for it, through it. Now since there is such an agreement between
   the baptism of John, as administered before the death of Christ; and
   between the baptism of the apostles, after the death, resurrection, and
   ascension of Christ; it is a plain case, it was not limited to the
   interval of time from the beginning of John's ministry to the death of
   Christ; but was afterwards continued; which further appears from the
   commission of Christ (Matthew 28:19), "Go ye therefore, and teach all
   nations, baptizing them;" and though water is not expressed, it is
   always implied, when the act of baptizing is ascribed to men; for it is
   peculiar to Christ to baptize with the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:11; Acts
   1:5), nor did he give to his apostles, nor to any man, or set of men, a
   commission and power to baptize with the Spirit: besides, an increase
   of the graces of the Spirit, and a large donation of his gifts, are
   promised to persons after baptism, and as distinct from it (Acts 2:38).
   The apostles, doubtless, understood the commission of their Lord and
   Master to baptize in water, since they practised it upon it; such was
   the baptism administered by Philip, who, having taught the eunuch the
   doctrine of it, when they came to a "certain water," he said to him,
   "See, here is water, what doth hinder me to be baptized?" that is, in
   water; and when Philip had observed unto him the grand requisite of it,
   even faith in Christ, which he at once professed; and the chariot in
   which they rode being ordered to stand, theft went down both into the
   water, and he baptized him; this was most certainly water baptism; and
   so was that which Peter ordered to be administered to Cornelius and his
   friends, upon their receiving of the Holy Ghost, and so a baptism
   different from that; "Can any man forbid water, that these should not
   be baptized?" (Acts 8:36, 38, 39, 10:47, 48). And this was designed to
   be continued unto the end of the world, to the second coming of Christ;
   as the ordinance of the supper is to be kept to that time, the
   ordinance of water baptism is to be continued as long; hence says
   Christ, to encourage his ministers to preach his gospel, and to baptize
   in his name; "Lo, I am with you always," in the ministry of the word,
   and in the administration of baptism, "even unto the end of the world"
   (Matthew 28:19, 20).

   2. Secondly, I shall next consider the author of it; and show, that it
   is not a device of men, but an ordinance of God; it is a solemn part of
   divine worship, being performed in the name of the Three divine Persons
   in Deity, Father, Son, and Spirit, and by their authority; in which the
   name of God is invoked, faith in him expressed, and a man gives up
   himself to God, obliges himself to yield obedience to him, expecting
   all good things from him. Now for an act of religious worship there
   must be a command of God. God is a jealous God, and will not suffer
   anything to be admitted into the worship of him, but what is according
   to his word and will; if not commanded by him, he may justly say, "Who
   hath required this at your hands?" and will resent it: a command from
   men is not sufficient; no man on earth is to be called master; one is
   our Master in heaven, and him only we are to obey: if the commandments
   of men are taught for doctrines, in vain is the Lord worshipped; what
   is done according to them is superstition and will worship. Indeed, as
   it is now commonly practised, it is a mere invention of men, the whole
   of it corrupted and changed; instead of rational spiritual men the
   subjects of it, infants, who have neither the use of reason, nor the
   exercise of grace, are admitted to it; and instead of immersion in
   water, and emersion out of it, a very expressive emblem of the
   sufferings of Christ, his death, burial, and resurrection from the
   dead; sprinkling a few drops of water on the face is introduced; with a
   number of foolish rites and ceremonies used by the papists, and some of
   their usages are retained by some Protestants; as sponsors, or sureties
   for infants, and the signing them with the sign of the cross. In short,
   the face of the ordinance is so altered, that if the apostles were to
   rise from the dead, and see it as now performed, they would neither
   know nor own it to be the ordinance commanded them by Christ, and
   practised by them. But as it is administered according to the pattern,
   and as first delivered, it appears to be of an heavenly original; the
   "counsel of God," a wise appointment of his, and in which all the Three
   Persons have a concern; they all appeared at the baptism of Christ, and
   gave a sanction to the ordinance by their presence; the Father by a
   voice from heaven, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
   pleased!" as in his person, so in this act of his, in submitting to the
   ordinance of baptism; the Son in human nature, yielding obedience to
   it; and the Spirit descending on him as a dove; and it is ordered to be
   administered in the name of all three, Father, Son, and Spirit. Which,
   among other things, is expressive of divine authority, under which it
   is performed. Christ received from God the Father honour and glory, as
   at his transfiguration, so at his baptism, by the voice from heaven,
   owning his relation to him, as his Son, and expressing his well
   pleasedness in him, as obedient to his will; the Son of God, in human
   nature, not only left an example of it, that we should tread in his
   steps; though he himself baptized none, yet he countenanced it in his
   disciples, and gave them orders to do it; which orders were repeated,
   and a fresh commission given for the same after his resurrection from
   the dead: and the Spirit of God showed his approbation of it, by his
   descent on Christ at his baptism; and his authority for it is to be
   seen in the administration of it in his name, as in the name of the
   other Two Persons; so that it is to be regarded, not as an institution
   of men, but as an ordinance of God; as a part of righteousness to be
   fulfilled, a branch of the righteous will of God, to be observed in
   obedience to it.

   3. Thirdly, the subjects of baptism are next to be inquired into; or
   who they are to whom it is to be administered, and according to the
   scripture instances and examples, they are such who,

   3a. Are enlightened by the Spirit of God to see their lost state by
   nature, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and Christ as the only Saviour
   of sinners; who look to him and are saved; and such only can see to the
   end of the ordinance, which is to represent the sufferings and death,
   burial and resurrection of Christ; hence baptism was by the ancients;
   called photismos, "illumination;" and baptized persons photizomenoi,
   "enlightened" ones; and the Syriac and. Ethiopic, versions of Hebrews
   6:4 translate the word "enlightened" by baptized; an emblem of this was
   the falling off from the eyes of Saul, as it had been scales;
   signifying his former blindness, and ignorance, and unbelief, now
   removed; upon which he arose and was baptized (Acts 9:18).

   3b. Penitent persons; such who having seen the evil nature of sin,
   repent of it, and acknowledge it; such were the first who were baptized
   by John that we read of; they were "baptized of him in Jordan,
   confessing their sins," (Matthew 3:6) being made sensible of them, they
   ingenuously confessed them; and such were the first who were baptized
   after Christ had renewed the commission to his disciples, upon his
   resurrection, to teach and: baptize; such as were pricked to the heart,
   were exhorted to profess repentance and give evidence of it, and then
   be baptized, as they were (Acts 2:37, 38, 41), and it is pity that
   these first examples of baptism were not strictly followed.

   3c. Faith in Christ is a prerequisite to baptism (Mark 16:16), this is
   clear from the case of the eunuch, desiring baptism, to whom Philip
   said, "If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest;" by which
   it seems, that if he did not believe, he had no right to the ordinance;
   but if he did, he had; upon which he professed his faith in Christ; and
   upon that profession was baptized (Acts 8:36), and the various
   instances of baptism recorded in scripture, confirm the same; as of the
   inhabitants of Samaria, who, upon believing in Christ, "were baptized,
   both men and women;" so the Corinthians, "hearing" the word preached by
   the apostle Paul, "believed" in Christ, whom he preached, "and were
   baptized," upon their faith in him (Acts 8:12; 18:8), and without faith
   it is impossible to please God in any ordinance or part of worship; and
   what is not of faith is sin; and without it no one can see to the end
   of the ordinance of baptism, as before observed.

   3d. Such who are taught and made disciples by teaching, are the proper
   subjects of baptism, agreeable both to the practice of Christ and his
   commission; it is said, "that Jesus made and baptized more disciples
   than John," (John 4:1) he first made them disciples, and then baptized
   them, that is, ordered his apostles to baptize them; and so runs his
   commission to them, "Go teach all nations, baptizing them," that is,
   those that are taught, and so made disciples; and they are the
   disciples of Christ, who have learnt to know him, and are taught to
   deny sinful, righteous, and civil self, for his sake, and to take up
   the cross and follow him.

   3e. Such who have received the Spirit of God, as a Spirit of
   illumination and conviction, of sanctification and faith, as the
   persons before described may well be thought to have, should be
   admitted to baptism (Acts 10:47; see Gal. 3:2), from all which it
   appears, that such who are ignorant of divine things, impenitent,
   unbelievers, not disciples and followers of Christ, and who are
   destitute of the Spirit, are not proper subjects of baptism, let their
   pretences to birthright be what they may; and so not the infants of
   any, be they born of whom they may; and to whom the above characters,
   descriptive of the subjects of baptism, do by no means belong: with
   respect to their first birth, though born of believing parents, they
   are carnal and corrupt, and children of wrath, as others; "That which
   is born of the flesh is flesh;" and they must be born again, or they
   cannot see, possess, and enjoy the kingdom of God, or have a right to
   be admitted into the church of God now, nor will they enter into the
   kingdom of God, into heaven hereafter, unless born again; their first
   and carnal birth neither entitles them to the kingdom of God on earth,
   nor to the kingdom of God in heaven, be it taken in either sense; for
   the baptism of such there is neither precept nor precedent in the word
   of God.

   3e1. First, there is no precept for it; not the words of Christ in
   Matthew 19:14 "But Jesus said, Suffer little children," &c. For,

   3e1a. Let the words be said to or of whom they may, they are not in the
   form of a precept, but of a permission or grant, and signify not what
   was enjoined as necessary, but what was allowed of, or which might be;
   "Suffer little children," &c.

   3e1b. These children do not appear to be newborn babes. The words used
   by the evangelists, neither paidia nor brephe, do not always signify
   such; but are sometimes used or such who are capable of going alone,
   and of being instructed, and of understanding the scriptures, and even
   of one of twelve years of age (Matthew 18:2; 2 Tim. 3:15; Mark 5:39,
   42). Nor is it probable that children just born should be had abroad;
   besides, these were such as Christ called unto him (Luke 18:16) and
   were capable of coming to him of themselves, as is supposed in the
   words themselves; nor is their being brought unto him, nor his taking
   them in his arms, any objection to this, since the same are said of
   such who could walk of themselves (Matthew 12:22, 17:16; Mark 9:36).

   3e1c. It cannot be said whose children these were; whether they
   belonged to those who brought them, or to others; and whether the
   children of believers, and of baptized persons, or not; and if of
   unbelievers, and of unbaptized persons, the Paedobaptists themselves
   will not allow such children to be baptized.

   3e1d. It is certain they were not brought to Christ to be baptized by
   him, but for other purposes; the evangelist Matthew, Matthew 19:13, 15
   says, they were brought to him that he "should put his hands upon them,
   and pray," as he did, that is, for a blessing on them; as it was usual
   with the Jews to do (Gen. 48:14, 15). The evangelists Mark and Luke
   say, they were brought to him, "that he would touch them," as he did
   when he healed persons of diseases; and probably these children were
   diseased, and were brought to him to be cured; however, they were not
   brought to be baptized by Christ; for Christ baptized none at all,
   adult or infants; had they that brought them this in view, they would
   have brought them to the disciples of Christ, and not to Christ, whom
   they might have seen administering the ordinance of baptism, but not
   Christ: however, it is certain they were not baptized by Christ, since
   he never baptized any.

   3e1e. This passage rather concludes against Paedobaptism than for it,
   and shows that this practice had not obtained among the Jews, and had
   not been used by John, by Christ, and his disciples; for then the
   apostles would scarcely have forbid the bringing of these children,
   since they might readily suppose they were brought to be baptized; but
   knowing of no such usage in the nation, whether of them that did or did
   not believe in Christ, they forbad them; and Christ's silence about
   this matter, when he had such an opportunity of speaking of it to his
   disciples, and enjoining it, had it been his will, does not look very
   favourably upon this practice.

   3e1f. The reason given for suffering little children to come to Christ,
   "for of such is the kingdom of heaven," is to be understood in a
   figurative and metaphorical sense; of such who are comparable to
   children for modesty, meekness, and humility, and for freedom from
   rancour, malice, ambition, and pride (see Matthew 18:2), and which
   sense is given into by Origen, [128] among the ancients, and by Calvin
   and Brugensis, among the moderns.

   Nor does the commission in Matthew 28:19 contain in it any precept for
   infant baptism; "Go, teach all nations, baptizing them," &c. For,

   3e1f1. The baptism of all nations is not here commanded; but the
   baptism only of such who are taught; for the antecedent to the relative
   "them," cannot be "all nations;" since the words panta ta ethne, "all
   nations," are of the neuter gender; whereas autous, "them," is of the
   masculine; but matheutas, disciples, is supposed and understood in the
   word matheteusate, "teach," or "make disciples;" now the command is,
   that such who are first taught or made disciples by teaching under the
   ministry of the word, by the Spirit of God succeeding it, should be
   baptized.

   3e1f2. If infants, as a part of all nations, and because they are such,
   are to be baptized, then the infants of Heathens, Turks, and Jews,
   ought to be baptized, since they are a part, and a large part, of all
   nations; as well as the children of Christians, or believers, which are
   but a small part; yea, every individual person in the world ought to be
   baptized, all adult persons, heathens as well as Christians; even the
   most profligate and abandoned of mankind, since they are a part of all
   nations.

   3e1f3. Disciples of Christ, and such who have learned to know Christ,
   and the way of salvation by him, and to know themselves, and their need
   of him, are characters that cannot agree with infants; and if disciples
   and learners are the same, as is said, they must be learners or they
   cannot be disciples; and they cannot be learners of Christ unless they
   have learnt something of him; and according to this notion of disciples
   and learners, they ought to learn something of him before they are
   baptized in his name; but what can an infant be taught to learn of
   Christ? to prove infants disciples that text is usually brought (Acts
   15:10), which falls greatly short of proving it; for infants are not
   designed in that place, nor included in the character; for though the
   Judaizing teachers would have had the Gentiles, and their infants too,
   circumcised; yet it was not circumcision, the thing itself, which is
   meant by the intolerable yoke; for that was what the Jewish fathers,
   and their children, were able to bear, and had bore in ages past; but
   it was the doctrine of the necessity of that, and other rites of Moses,
   to salvation; and obliged to the keeping of the whole law, and was in
   tolerable; and which doctrine could not be imposed upon infants, but
   upon adult persons only.

   3e1f4. These two acts, teaching, or making disciples, and baptizing,
   are not to be confounded, but are two distinct acts, and the one is
   previous and absolutely necessary to the other: Men must first be made
   disciples, and then baptized; so Jerom [129] long ago understood the
   commission; on which he observes, First they teach all nations, then
   dip those that are taught in water; for it cannot be that the body
   should receive the sacrament of baptism, unless the soul has before
   received the truth of faith." And so says Athanasius, [130] "Wherefore
   the Saviour does not simply command to baptize; but first says, teach,
   and then baptize thus, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and
   of the Holy Ghost;" that faith might come of teaching, and baptism be
   perfected."

   3e2. Secondly, there is no precedent for the baptism of infants in the
   word of God. Among the vast numbers who flocked to John's baptism from
   all parts, we read of no infants that were brought with them for that
   purpose, or that were baptized by him. And though more were baptized by
   Christ than by John, that is, the apostles of Christ, at his order, yet
   no mention of any infant baptized by them; and though three thousand
   persons were baptized at once, yet not an infant among them: and in all
   the accounts of baptism in the Acts of the Apostles in different parts
   of the world, not a single instance of infant baptism is given. There
   is, indeed, mention made of households, or families, baptized; and
   which the "paedobaptists" endeavour to avail themselves of; but they
   ought to be sure there were infants in these families, and that they
   were baptized, or else they must baptize them on a very precarious
   foundation; since there are families who have no infants in them, and
   how can they be sure there were any in these the scriptures speak of?
   and it lies upon them to prove there were infants in them, and that
   these infants were baptized; or the allegation of these instances is to
   no purpose. We are able to prove there are many things in the account
   of these families, which are inconsistent with infants, and which make
   it at least probable there were none in them, and which also make it
   certain that those who were baptized were adult persons and believers
   in Christ. There are but three families, if so many, who are usually
   instanced in: the first is that of Lydia and her household (Acts 16:14,
   15), but in what state of life she was is not certain, whether single
   or married, whether maid widow or wife; and if married, whether she
   then had any children, or ever had any; and if she had, and they
   living, whether they were infants or adult; and if infants, it does not
   seem probable that she should bring them along with her from her native
   place, Thyatira to Philippi, where she seems to have been upon
   business, and so had hired a house during her stay there; wherefore her
   household seems to have consisted of menial servants she brought along
   with her, to assist her in her business: and certain it is, that those
   the apostles found in her house, when they entered into it, after they
   came out of prison, were such as are called "brethren," and were
   capable of being "comforted" by them; which supposes them to have been
   in some distress and trouble, and needed comfort. The second instance
   is of the jailor and his household, which consisted of adult persons,
   and of such only; for the apostles spoke the word of the Lord to "all"
   that were in his house, which they were capable of hearing, and it
   seems of understanding; for not only he "rejoiced" at the good news of
   salvation by Christ, but "all" in his house hearing it, rejoiced
   likewise; which joy of theirs was the joy of faith; for he and they
   were believers in God, Father, Son, and Spirit; for it is expressly
   said, that he "rejoiced, believing in God with all his house;" so that
   they were not only hearers of the word, but rejoiced at it, and
   believed in it, and in God the Saviour, revealed in it to them (Acts
   16:32-34), all which shows them to be adult persons, and not infants.
   The third instance, if distinct from the household of the jailor, which
   some take to be the same, is that of Stephanus; but be it a different
   one, it is certain it consisted of adult persons, believers in Christ,
   and very useful in the service of religion; they were the first fruits
   of Achaia, the first converts in those parts, and who "addicted
   themselves to the ministry of the saints," (1 Cor. 16:15) which,
   whether understood of the ministry of the word to the saints, which
   they gave themselves up unto; or of the ministration of their substance
   to the poor, which they cheerfully communicated, they must be adult
   persons, and not infants. There being then neither precept nor
   precedent in the word of God for infant baptism, it may be justly
   condemned as unscriptural and unwarrantable.

   3e3. Thirdly, nor is infant baptism to be concluded from any things or
   passages recorded either in the Old or in the New Testament. Baptism
   being an ordinance peculiar to the New Testament, it cannot be expected
   there should be any directions about the observance of it in the Old
   Testament; and whatever may be gathered relative to it, from typical
   and figurative baptisms, under the former dispensation, there is
   nothing from thence in favour of infant baptism, and to countenance
   that; and yet we are often referred thereunto for the original and
   foundation of it, but to no purpose.

   3e3a. It is not fact, as has been asserted, [131] that the "infants of
   believers" have, with their parents, been taken into covenant with God
   in the former ages of the church, if by it is meant the covenant of
   grace; the first covenant made with man, was that of works, made with
   Adam, and which indeed included all his posterity, to whom he stood as
   a federal head, as no one ever since did to his natural offspring; in
   whom they all sinned, were condemned, and died; which surely cannot be
   pleaded in favour of the infants of believers! after the fall, the
   covenant of grace, and the way of life and salvation by Christ, were
   revealed to Adam and Eve, personally, as interested therein; but not to
   their natural seed and posterity, and as interested therein; for then
   all mankind must be taken into the covenant of grace, and so nothing
   peculiar to the infants of believers; of which not the least syllable
   is mentioned throughout the whole age of the church, reaching from Adam
   to Noah. The next covenant we read of, is that made with Noah, which
   was not made with him and his immediate offspring only; nor were any
   taken into it as infants of believers, nor had they any sacrament or
   rite as a token of it, and of God being their God in a peculiar
   relation. Surely this will not be said of Ham, one of the immediate
   sons of Noah. That covenant was made with Noah, and with all mankind to
   the end of the world, and even with every living creature, the beasts
   of the field, promising security from an universal deluge, as long as
   the world should stand; and so had nothing in it peculiar to the
   infants of believers. The next covenant is that made with Abraham and
   his seed, on which great stress is laid (Gen. 17:10-14), and this is
   said [132] to be "the grand turning point on which the issue of the
   controversy very much depends; and that if Abraham's covenant, which
   included his infant children, and gave them a right to circumcision,
   was not the covenant of grace; then it is confessed, that the "main
   ground" is taken away, on which "the right of infants to baptism" is
   asserted; and consequently the principal arguments in support of the
   doctrine are overturned." Now that this covenant was not the pure
   covenant of grace, in distinction from the covenant of works, but
   rather a covenant of works, will soon be proved; and if so, then the
   main ground of infant's baptism is taken away, and its principal
   arguments in support of it overturned: and that it is not the covenant
   of grace is clear,

   3e3a1. From its being never so called, nor by any name which shows it
   to be such; but "the covenant of circumcision" (Acts 7:8). Now nothing
   is more opposite to one another than circumcision and grace;
   circumcision is a work of the law, which they that sought to be
   justified by fell from grace (Gal. 5:2-4). Nor can this covenant be the
   same we are now under, which is a new covenant, or a new administration
   of the covenant of grace, since it is abolished, and no more in being
   and force.

   3e3a2. It appears to be a covenant of works, and not of grace; since it
   was to be kept by men, under a severe penalty. Abraham was to keep it,
   and his seed after him; something was to be done by them, their flesh
   to be circumcised, and a penalty was annexed, in case of disobedience
   or neglect; such a soul was to be cut off from his people: all which
   shows it to be, not a covenant of grace, but of works.

   3e3a3. It is plain, it was a covenant that might be broken; of the
   uncircumcised it is said, "He hath broken my covenant," (Gen. 17:14)
   whereas the covenant of grace cannot be broken; God will not break it,
   and men cannot; it is ordered in all things, and sure, and is more
   immoveable than hills and mountains (Ps. 89:34).

   3e3a4. It is certain it had things in it of a civil and temporal
   nature; as a multiplication of Abraham's natural seed, and a race of
   kings from him; a promise of his being the Father of many nations, and
   a possession of the land of Canaan by his seed: things that can have no
   place in the pure covenant of grace and have nothing to do with that,
   any more than the change of his name from Abram to Abraham.

   3e3a5. There were some persons included in it, who cannot be thought to
   belong to the covenant of grace; as Ishmael, not in the same covenant
   with Isaac, and a profane Esau: and on the other hand, there were some
   who were living when this covenant of circumcision was made, and yet
   were left out of it; who nevertheless, undoubtedly, were in the
   covenant of grace; as Shem, Arphaxad, Melchizedek, Lot, and thers;
   wherefore this can never be the pure covenant of grace.

   3e3a6. Nor is this covenant the same with what is referred to in
   Galatians 3:17 said to be "confirmed of God in Christ," which could not
   be disannulled by the law four hundred and thirty years after; the
   distance of time between them does not agree, but falls short of the
   apostle's date twenty four years; and therefore must not refer to the
   covenant of circumcision, but to some other covenant and time of making
   it; even to an exhibition and manifestation of the covenant of grace to
   Abraham, about the time of his call out of Chaldea (Gen. 12:3).

   3e3a7. The covenant of grace was made with Christ, as the federal head
   of the elect in him, and that from everlasting, and who is the only
   head of that covenant, and of the covenant ones: if the covenant of
   grace was made with Abraham, as the head of his natural and spiritual
   seed, Jews and Gentiles; there must be two heads of the covenant of
   grace, contrary to the nature of such a covenant, and the whole current
   of scripture; yea, the covenant of grace, as it concerns the spiritual
   seed of Abraham, and spiritual blessings for them; it, and the promises
   of it, were made to Christ (Gal. 3:16). No mere man is capable of
   covenanting with God; the covenant of grace is not made with any single
   man; and much less with him on the behalf of others: whenever we read
   of it as made with a particular person or persons, it is always to be
   understood of the manifestation and application of it, and of its
   blessings and promises to them.

   3e3a8. Allowing Abraham's covenant to be a peculiar one, and of a mixed
   kind, containing promises of temporal things to him, and his natural
   seed, and of spiritual things to his spiritual seed; or rather, that
   there was at the same time when the covenant of circumcision was given
   to Abraham and his natural seed, a fresh manifestation of the covenant
   of grace made with him and his spiritual seed in Christ. That the
   temporal blessings of it belonged to his natural seed, is no question;
   but that the spiritual blessings belong to all Abraham's seed, after
   the flesh, and to all the natural seed of believing Gentiles, must be
   denied: if the covenant of grace was made with all Abraham's seed
   according to the flesh, then it was made with his more immediate
   offspring, with a mocking, persecuting Ishmael, and with a profane
   Esau, and with all his remote posterity; with them who believed not,
   and whose carcases fell in the wilderness; with the ten tribes who
   revolted from the pure worship of God; with the Jews in Isaiah's time,
   a seed of evildoers, whose rulers are called the rulers of Sodom, and
   the people the people of Gomorrah; with the scribes and Pharisees, that
   wicked and adulterous generation in the times of Christ: but what
   serious, thoughtful man, who knows anything of the covenant of grace,
   can admit of this? (see Rom. 9:6, 7). It is only a remnant, according
   to the election of grace, who are in this covenant; and if all the
   natural seed of Abraham are not in this covenant, it can scarcely be
   thought that all the natural seed of believing Gentiles are; it is only
   some of the one and some of the other, who are in the covenant of
   grace; and this cannot be known until they believe, when they appear to
   be Abraham's spiritual seed; and it must be right to put off their
   claim to any supposed privilege arising from covenant interest, until
   it is plain they have one; if all the natural seed of Abraham, as such,
   and all the natural seed of believing Gentiles, as such, are in the
   covenant of grace; since all they that are in it, and none but they are
   in it, who are the chosen of God, the redeemed of the Lamb, and will be
   called by grace, and sanctified, and persevere in faith and holiness,
   and be eternally glorified; then the natural seed of Abraham, and of
   believing Gentiles, must be all chosen to grace and glory, and be
   redeemed by the blood of Christ from sin, law, hell, and death; they
   must all have new hearts and spirits given them, and the fear of God
   put into their hearts; must be effectually called, their sins forgiven
   them, their persons justified by the righteousness of Christ, and they
   persevere in grace to the end, and be for ever glorified (see Jer.
   31:33, 34, 32:40; Ezek. 36:25-27; Rom. 8:30). But who will venture to
   assert all this of the one, or of the other? And after all,

   3e3a9. If their covenant interest could be ascertained, that gives no
   right to an ordinance, without a positive order and direction from God.
   It gave no right to circumcision formerly; for on the one hand there
   were persons living when that ordinance was appointed, who had an
   undoubted interest in the covenant of grace; as Shem, Arphaxad, Lot,
   and others, on whom circumcision was not enjoined, and they had no
   right to use it: on the other hand, there have been many of whom it
   cannot be said they were in the covenant of grace, and yet were obliged
   to it. And so covenant interest gives no right to baptism; could it be
   proved, as it cannot, that all the infant seed of believers, as such,
   are in the covenant of grace, it would give them no right to baptism,
   without a command for it; the reason is, because a person may be in
   covenant, and as yet not have the prerequisite to an ordinance, even
   faith in Christ, and a profession of it, which are necessary both to
   baptism and the Lord's Supper; and if covenant interest gives a right
   to the one, it would to the other.

   3e3a10. Notwithstanding all this attention made about Abraham's
   covenant (Gen. 17:1-14), it was not made with him and his infant seed;
   but with him and his adult offspring; it was they in all after ages to
   the coming of Christ, whether believers or unbelievers, who were
   enjoined to circumcise their infant seed, and not all of them, only
   their males: it was not made with Abraham's infant seed, who could not
   circumcise themselves, but their parents were by this covenant obliged
   to circumcise them; yea, others, who were not Abraham's natural seed,
   were obliged to it; "He that is eight days old shalt be circumcised
   among you, which is NOT OF THY SEED" (Gen. 17:12). Which leads on to
   observe,

   3e3b. That nothing can be concluded from the circumcision of Jewish
   infants, to the baptism of the infants of believing Gentiles: had there
   been a like command for the baptism of the infants of believing
   Gentiles, under the New Testament, as there was for the circumcision of
   Jewish infants under the Old, the thing would not have admitted of any
   dispute; but nothing of this kind appears. For,

   3e3b1. It is not clear that even Jewish infants were admitted into
   covenant by the rite of circumcision; from whence it is pleaded, that
   the infants of believers are admitted into it by baptism; for Abraham's
   female seed were taken into the covenant made with him, as well as his
   male seed, but not by any "visible rite" or ceremony; nor were his male
   seed admitted by any such rite; not by circumcision, for they were not
   to be circumcised until the eighth day; to have circumcised them sooner
   would have been criminal; and that they were in covenant from their
   birth, I presume, will not be denied; as it was a national covenant, so
   early they were in it; the Israelites, with their infants at Horeb, had
   not been circumcised; nor were they when they entered into covenant
   with the Lord their God (Deut. 29:10-15).

   3e3b2. Circumcision was no seal of the covenant of grace under the
   former dispensation; nor is baptism a seal of it under the present: had
   circumcision been a seal of it, the covenant of grace must have been
   without one from Adam to Abraham: it is called a sign or token, but not
   a seal; it was a sign or mark in the flesh of Abraham's natural seed, a
   typical sign of the pollution of human nature, and of the inward
   circumcision of the heart; but no seal, confirming any spiritual
   blessing of the covenant of grace to those who had this mark or sign;
   it is indeed called, "a seal of the righteousness of faith," (Rom.
   4:11) but not a seal to Abraham's natural seed of their interest in
   that righteousness, but only to Abraham himself; it was a seal to him,
   a confirming sign, assuring him, that the righteousness of faith, which
   he had before he was circumcised, should come upon the uncircumcised
   believing Gentiles; and therefore it was continued on his natural
   offspring, until that righteousness was preached unto, received by, and
   imputed to believing Gentiles.

   3e3b3. Nor did baptism succeed circumcision; there is no agreement
   between the one and the other; not in the subjects, to whom they were
   administered; the use of the one and the other is not the same; and the
   manner of administering them different; baptism being administered to
   Jews and Gentiles, to male and female, and to adult persons only: not
   so circumcision; the use of circumcision was to distinguish the natural
   seed of Abraham from others; baptism is the badge of the spiritual seed
   of Christ, and the answer of a good conscience towards God; and
   represents the sufferings, burial, and resurrection of Christ; the one
   is by blood, the other by water; and ordinances so much differing in
   their subjects, use, and administration; the one can never be thought
   to come in the room and place of the other. Besides, baptism was in use
   and force before circumcision was abolished, which was not until the
   death of Christ; whereas, the doctrine of baptism was preached, and the
   ordinance itself administered, some years before that; now that which
   was in force before another is out of date, can never with any
   propriety be said to succeed, or come in the room of that other.
   Besides, if this was the case, as circumcision gave a right to the
   passover, so would baptism to the Lord's Supper; which yet is not
   admitted. Now as there is nothing to be gathered out of the Old
   Testament to countenance infant baptism, so neither are there any
   passages in the New, which can be supported in favour of it.

   3e3b3a. Not the text in Acts 2:39, "The promise is unto you and to your
   children," &c. It is pretended, that this refers to the covenant made
   with Abraham, and to a covenant promise made to him, giving his infant
   children a right to the ordinance of circumcision; and is urged as a
   reason with the Jews, why they and their children ought to be baptized;
   and with the Gentiles, why they and theirs should be also, when called
   into a church state. But,

   3e3b3a1. There is not the least mention made in the text of Abraham's
   covenant, or of any promise made to him, giving his infant seed a right
   to circumcision, and still less to baptism; nor is there the least
   syllable of infant baptism, nor any hint of it, from whence it can be
   concluded; nor by "children" are infants designed, but the posterity of
   the Jews, who are frequently so called in scripture, though grown up;
   and unless it be so understood in many places, strange interpretations
   must be given of them; wherefore the argument from hence for
   "paedobaptism" is given up by some learned men, as Dr. Hammond and
   others, as inconclusive.

   3e3b3a2. The promise here, be it what it may, is not observed as giving
   a right or claim to any ordinance; but as an encouraging motive to
   persons in distress, under a sense of sin, to repent of it, and declare
   their repentance, and yield a voluntary subjection to the ordinance of
   baptism; when they might hope that remission of sins would be applied
   to them, and they should receive a larger measure of the grace of the
   Spirit; wherefore repentance and baptism are urged in order to the
   enjoyment of the promise; and consequently must be understood of adult
   persons, who only are capable of repentance, and of a voluntary
   subjection to baptism.

   3e3b3a3. The promise is no other than the promise of life and salvation
   by Christ, and of remission of sins by his blood, and of an increase of
   grace from his Spirit; and whereas the persons addressed had imprecated
   the guilt of the blood of Christ, they had shed upon their posterity,
   as well as on themselves, which distressed them; they are told, for
   their relief, that the same promise would be made good to their
   posterity also, provided they did as they were directed to do; and even
   to all the Jews afar off, in distant countries and future ages, who
   should look on Christ and mourn, repent and believe, and be baptized:
   and seeing the Gentiles are sometimes described as those "afar of," the
   promise may be thought to reach to them who should be called by grace,
   repent, believe, and be baptized also; but no mention is made of their
   children; and had they been mentioned, the limiting clause, "Even as
   many as the Lord our God shall call," plainly points at and describes
   the persons intended, whether Jews or Gentiles, effectually called by
   grace, who are encouraged by the motive in the promise to profess
   repentance, and submit to baptism; which can only be understood of
   adult persons, and not of infants.

   3e3b3b. Nor Romans 11:16, &c. "If the first fruits be holy," &c. For,

   3e3b3b1. By the first fruits, and lump, and by the root and branches,
   are not meant Abraham and his posterity, or natural seed, as such; but
   the first among the Jews who believed in Christ, and laid the first
   foundation of a gospel church state, and were first incorporated into
   it; Who being holy, were a pledge of the future conversion and holiness
   of that people in the latter day.

   3e3b3b2. Nor by the good olive tree, after mentioned, is meant the
   Jewish church state; which was abolished by Christ, with all the
   peculiar ordinances of it; and the believing Gentiles were never
   ingrafted into it; the axe has been laid to the root of that old Jewish
   stock, and it is entirely cut down, and no engrafture is made upon it.
   But,

   3e3b3b3. By it is meant the gospel church state, in its first
   foundation, consisting of Jews that believed, out of which were left
   the Jews who believed not in Christ, and who are the branches broken
   off; into which church state the Gentiles were received and engrafted;
   which engrafture, or coalition, was first made at Antioch, when and
   hereafter the Gentiles partook of the root and fatness of the olive
   tree, enjoyed the same privileges, communicated in the same ordinances,
   and were satisfied with the goodness and fatness of the house of God;
   and this gospel church may be truly called, by the converted Jews in
   the latter day, their "own olive tree," into which they will be
   engrafted; since the first gospel church was set up at Jerusalem, and
   gathered out of the Jews; and so in other places, the first gospel
   churches consisted of Jews, the first fruits of those converted ones.
   From the whole it appears, that there is not the least syllable about
   baptism, much less of infant baptism, in the passage; nor can anything
   be concluded from hence in favour of it.

   3e3b3c. Nor from 1 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;" which
   is by some understood of a federal holiness, giving a claim to covenant
   privileges, and so to baptism. But,

   3e3b3c1. It should be told what these covenant privileges are; since,
   as we have seen, covenant interest gives no right to any ordinance,
   without divine direction; nor is baptism a seal of the covenant: it
   should be told what this covenant holiness is, whether imaginary or
   real; by some it is called "reputed," and is distinguished from
   internal holiness, which is rejected from being the sense of the text;
   but such holiness can never qualify persons for a New Testament
   ordinance; nor as the covenant of grace any such holiness belonging to
   it; that provides, by way of promise, real holiness, signified by
   putting the laws of God in the heart, by giving new hearts and new
   spirits, and by cleansing from all impurity, and designs real, internal
   holiness, shown in an holy conversation; and such who appear to have
   that, have an undoubted right to the ordinance of baptism, since they
   have received the Spirit as a Spirit of sanctification (Acts 10:47).
   But this cannot be meant in the text, seeing,

   3e3b3c2. It is such a holiness as heathens may have; unbelieving
   husbands and wives are said to have it, in virtue of their relation to
   believing wives and husbands, and which is prior to the holiness of
   their children, and on which theirs depends; but surely such will not
   be allowed to have federal holiness, and yet it must be of the same
   kind with their childrens; if the holiness of the children is a federal
   holiness, that of the unbelieving parent must be so too, from whence is
   the holiness of the children.

   3e3b3c3. If children, by virtue of this holiness, have claim to
   baptism, then much more their unbelieving parents, since they are
   sanctified before them, by their believing yoke fellows, and are as
   near to them as their children; and if the holiness of the one gives a
   right to baptism, why not the holiness of the other? and yet the one
   are baptized, and the other not, though sanctified, and whose holiness
   is the more near; for the holiness spoken of, be it what it may, is
   derived from both parents, believing and unbelieving; yea, the holiness
   of the children depends upon the sanctification of the unbelieving
   parent; for if the unbeliever is not sanctified, the children are
   unclean, and not holy. But,

   3e3b3c4. These words are to be understood of matrimonial holiness, even
   of the very act of marriage, which, in the language of the Jews, is
   frequently expressed by being sanctified; the word qds to "sanctify,"
   is used in innumerable places in the Jewish writings, [133] to
   "espouse;" and in the same sense the apostle uses the word agiazo here,
   and the words may be rendered, "the unbelieving husband is espoused,"
   or married, "to the wife;" or rather, "has been espoused," for it
   relates to the act of marriage past, as valid; "and the unbelieving
   wife has been espoused to the husband;" the preposition en, translated
   "by," should be rendered "to," as it is in the very next verse; "God
   hath called us en eirene, to peace;" the apostle's inference from it
   is, "else were your children unclean," illegitimate, if their parents
   were not lawfully espoused and married to each other; "but now are they
   holy," a holy and legitimate seed, as in Ezra 9:2 (see Mal. 2:15) and
   no other sense can be put upon the words, than of a legitimate marriage
   and offspring; nothing else will suit with the case proposed to the
   apostle, and with his answer to it, and reasoning about it; and which
   sense has been allowed by many learned interpreters, ancient and
   modern; as Jerome, Ambrose, Erasmus, Camerarius, Musculus, and others.

   There are some objections made to the practice of adult baptism, which
   are of little force, and to which an answer may easily be returned.

   3e3b3c4a. That though it may be allowed that adult persons, such as
   repent and believe, are the subjects of baptism, yet it is nowhere
   said, that they are the only ones: but if no others can be named as
   baptized, and the descriptive characters given in scripture of baptized
   persons are such as can "only" agree with adult, and not with infants;
   then it may be reasonably concluded, that the former "only" are the
   proper subjects of baptism.

   3e3b3c4b. It is objected to our practice of baptizing the adult
   offspring of Christians, that no scriptural instance of such a practice
   can be given; and it is demanded of us to give an instance agreeable to
   our practice; since the first persons baptized were such as were
   converted either from Judaism or from heathenism, and about the baptism
   of such adult, they say, there is no controversy. But our practice is
   not at all concerned with the parents of the persons baptized by us,
   whether they be Christians, Jews, Turks, or Pagans; but with the
   persons themselves, whether they are believers in Christ or not; if
   they are the adult offspring of Christians, yet unbaptized, it is no
   objection to us: and if they are not, it is no bar in the way of
   admitting them to baptism, if they themselves are believers; many, and
   it may be the greater part of such baptized by us are the adult
   offspring of those who, without breach of charity, cannot be considered
   as Christians. As for the first persons that were baptized, they were
   neither proselytes from Judaism nor from Heathenism; but the offspring
   of Christians, of such that believed in the Messiah; the saints before
   the coming of Christ, and at his coming, were as good Christians as any
   that have lived since; so that those good men who lived before Abraham,
   as far back as to the first man, and those that lived after him, even
   to the coming of Christ, Eusebius [134] observes, that if any should
   affirm them to be Christians, though not in name, yet in reality, he
   would not say amiss. Judaism, at the time of Christ's coming, was the
   same with Christianity, and not in opposition to it; so that there was
   no such thing as conversion from Judaism to Christianity. Zachariah and
   Elizabeth, whose offspring John the first baptizer was, and Mary, the
   mother of our Lord, who was baptized by John, when adult, were as good
   Christians, and as strong believers in Jesus, as the Messiah, as soon
   as born, and even when in the womb of the Virgin, as have been since;
   and these surely must be allowed to be the adult offspring of
   Christians; such were the apostles of Christ, and the first followers
   of him, who were the adult offspring of such who believed in the
   Messiah, and embraced him upon the first notice of him, and cannot be
   said to be converted from Judaism to Christianity; Judaism not existing
   until the opposition to Jesus being the Messiah became general and
   national; after that, indeed, those of the Jewish nation who believed
   in Christ, may be said to be proselytes from Judaism to Christianity,
   as the apostle Paul and others: and so converts made by the preaching
   of the gospel among the Gentiles, were proselytes from heathenism to
   Christianity; but then it is unreasonable to demand of us instances of
   the adult offspring of such being baptized, and added to the churches;
   since the scripture history of the first churches contained in the Acts
   of the Apostles, only gives an account of the first planting of these
   churches, and of the baptism of those of which they first consisted;
   but not of the additions of members to them in later times; wherefore
   to give instances of those who were born of them, and brought up by
   them, as baptized in adult years, cannot reasonably be required of us:
   but on the other hand, if infant children were admitted to baptism in
   these times, upon the faith and baptism of their parents, and their
   becoming Christians; it is strange, exceeding strange, that among the
   many thousands baptized in Jerusalem, Samaria, Corinth, and other
   places, that there should be no one instance of any of them bringing
   their children with them to be baptized, and claiming the privilege of
   baptism for them upon their own faith; nor of their doing this in any
   short time after. This is a case that required no length of time, and
   yet not a single instance can be produced.

   3e3b3c4c. It is objected, that no time can be assigned when infants
   were cast out of covenant, or cut off from the seal of it. If by the
   covenant is meant the covenant of grace, it should be first proved that
   they are in it, as the natural seed of believers, which cannot be done;
   and when that is, it is time enough to talk of their being cast out,
   when and how. If by it is meant Abraham's covenant, the covenant of
   circumcision, the answer is the cutting off was when circumcision
   ceased to be an ordinance of God, which was at the death of Christ: if
   by it is meant the national covenant of the Jews, the ejection of
   Jewish parents, with their children, was when God wrote a "Loammi" upon
   that people, as a body politic and ecclesiastic; when he broke his
   covenant with them, signified by breaking his two staffs, beauty and
   bands.

   3e3b3c4d. A clamorous outcry is made against us, as abridging the
   privileges of infants, by denying baptism to them; making them to be
   lesser under the gospel dispensation than under the law, and the gospel
   dispensation less glorious. But as to the gospel dispensation, it is
   the more glorious for infants being left out of its church state; that
   is, for its being not national and carnal, as before; but
   congregational and spiritual; consisting not of infants, without
   understanding, but of rational and spiritual men, believers in Christ;
   and these not of a single country, as Judea, but in all parts of the
   world: and as for infants, their privileges now are many and better,
   who are eased from the painful rite of circumcision; it is a rich
   mercy, and a glorious privilege of the gospel, that the believing Jews
   and their children are delivered from it; and that the Gentiles and
   theirs are not obliged to it; which would have bound them over to
   fulfill the whole law: to which may be added, that being born of
   Christian parents, and having a Christian education, and of having
   opportunities of hearing the gospel, as they grow up; and that not in
   one country only, but in many; are greater privileges than the Jewish
   children had under the former dispensation.

   3e3b3c4e. It is objected, that there are no more express commands in
   scripture for keeping the first day of the week as a sabbath; nor for
   womens partaking of the Lord's Supper, and other things, than for the
   baptism of infants. As for the first, though there is no express
   precept for the observance of it, yet there are precedents of its being
   observed for religious services (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2), and though
   we have no example of infant baptism, yet if there were scriptural
   precedents of it, we should think ourselves obliged to follow them. As
   for womens' right to partake of the Lord's Supper, we have sufficient
   proof of it; since these were baptized as well as men; and having a
   right to one ordinance, had to another, and were members of the first
   church, communicated with it, and women, as well as men, were added to
   it (Acts 8:12, 1:14, 5:1, 14) we have a precept for it: "Let a man,"
   anthropos, a word of the common gender, and signifies both man and
   woman, "examine him or herself, and so let him or her eat," (1 Cor.
   11:29; see Gal. 3:28); and we have also examples of it in Mary the
   mother of our Lord, and other women, who, with the disciples,
   constituted the gospel church at Jerusalem; and as they continued with
   one accord in the apostles' doctrine and in prayer, so in fellowship
   and in breaking of bread; let the same proof be given of the baptism of
   infants, and it will be admitted.

   3e3b3c4f. Antiquity is urged in favour of infant baptism; it is
   pretended that this is a tradition of the church received from the
   apostles; though of this no other proof is given, but the testimony of
   Origen, none before that; and this is taken, not from any of his
   genuine Greek writings, only from some Latin translations, confessedly
   interpolated, and so corrupted, that it is owned, one is at a loss to
   find Origen in Origen. No mention is made of this practice in the first
   two centuries, no instance given of it until the third, when Tertullian
   is the first who spoke of it, and at the same time spoke against it.
   [135] And could it be carried up higher, it would be of no force,
   unless it could be proved from the sacred scriptures, to which only we
   appeal, and by which the thing in debate is to be judged and
   determined. We know that innovations and corruptions very early
   obtained, and even in the times of the apostles; and what is pretended
   to be near those times, is the more to be suspected as the traditions
   of the false apostles; [136] the antiquity of a custom is no proof of
   the truth and genuineness of it; [137] "The customs the people are
   vain," (Jer. 10:3). I proceed to consider,

   4. Fourthly, the way and manner of baptizing; and to prove, that it is
   by immersion, plunging the body in water, and covering it with it.
   Custom, and the common use of writing in this controversy, have so far
   prevailed, that for the most part immersion is usually called the
   "mode" of baptism; whereas it is properly baptism itself; to say that
   immersion or dipping is the mode of baptism, is the same thing as to
   say, that dipping is the mode of dipping; for as Sir John Floyer [138]
   observes "Immersion is no circumstance, but "the very act of baptism,"
   used by our Saviour and his disciples, in the institution of baptism."
   And Calvin [139] expressly says, "The word "baptizing" signifies to
   plunge; and it is certain, that the rite of plunging was used by the
   ancient churches." And as for sprinkling, that cannot, with any
   propriety, be called a mode of baptism; it would be just such, good
   sense as to say, sprinkling is the mode of dipping, since baptism and
   dipping are the same; hence the learned Selden, [140] who in the former
   part of his life, might have seen infants dipped in fonts, but lived to
   see immersion much disused, had reason to say, "In England, of late
   years, I ever thought the parson "baptized his own fingers" rather than
   the child," because he dipped the one, and sprinkled the other. That
   baptism is immersion, or the dipping of a person in water, and covering
   him with it is to be proved,

   4a. From the proper and primary signification of the word baptizo,
   "baptize," which in its first and primary sense, signifies to "dip or
   plunge into;" and so it is rendered by our best lexicographers,
   "mergo," "immergo," "dip or plunge into." And in a secondary and
   consequential sense, "abluo, lavo," "wash," because what is dipped is
   washed, there being no proper washing but by dipping; but never
   "perfundo or aspergo," "pour or sprinkle;" so the lexicon published by
   Constantine, Budaeus, &c. and those of Hadrian Junius, Plantinus,
   Scapula, Stephens, Schrevelius, Stockius, and others; besides a great
   number of critics; as Beza, Casanbon, Witsius, &c. which might be
   produced. By whose united testimonies the thing is out of question. Had
   our translators, instead of adopting the Greek word baptize in all
   places where the ordinance of baptism is made mention of, truly
   translated it, and not have left it untranslated, as they have, the
   controversy about the manner of baptizing would have been at an end, or
   rather have been prevented; had they used the word dip, instead of
   baptize, as they should have done, there would have been no room for a
   question about it.

   4b. That baptism was performed by immersion, appears by the places
   chosen for the administration of it; as the river Jordan by John, where
   he baptized many, and where our Lord himself was baptized by him
   (Matthew 3:6, 13, 16), but why should he choose the river to baptize
   in, and baptize in it, if he did not administer the ordinance by
   immersion? had it been done any other way, there was no occasion for
   any confluence of water, much less a river; [141] a bason of water
   would have sufficed. John also, it is said, "was baptizing in Aenon,
   near Salim, because there was much water," (John 3:23) which was
   convenient for baptism, for which this reason is given; and not for
   convenience for drink for men and their cattle, which is not expressed
   nor implied; from whence we may gather, as Calvin on the text does,
   "That baptism was performed by John and Christ, by plunging the whole
   body under water;" and so Piscator, Aretius, Grotius, and others on the
   same passage.

   4c. That this was the way in which it was anciently administered, is
   clear from various instances of baptism recorded in scripture, and the
   circumstances attending them; as that of our Lord, of whom it is said,
   "That when he was baptized he went up straightway out of the water,"
   which supposes he had been in it; and so Piscator infers from his going
   up out of it, that therefore he went down into it, and was baptized in
   the river itself; of which going down there would have been no need,
   had the ordinance been administered to him in another way, as by
   sprinkling or pouring a little water on his head, he and John standing
   in the midst of the river, as the painter and engraver ridiculously
   describe it: and certain it is, he was then baptized in Jordan; the
   evangelist Mark says "into Jordan," (Mark 1:9) not at the banks of
   Jordan, but into the waters of it; for which reason he went into it,
   and when baptized, "came up out" of it, not "from" it, but "out" of it;
   apo and ex, signifying the same, as in Luke 4:35, 41. Song the
   preposition is used in the Septuagint version of Psalm 40:2 ex and apo
   are "aequipollent," as several lexicographers from Xenophon observe.
   The baptism of the eunuch is another instance of baptism by immersion;
   when he and Philip were "come unto a certain water," to the water side,
   which destroys a little piece of criticism, as if their going into the
   water, after expressed, was no other than going to the brink of the
   water, to the water side, whereas they were come to that before; and
   baptism being agreed upon, "they went down both into the water," both
   Philip and the eunuch, "and he baptized him; and when they were come up
   out of the water," &c. Now we do not reason merely from the
   circumstances of "going down into, and coming up out of the water;" we
   know that persons may go down into water, and come up out of it, and
   never be immersed in it; but when it is expressly said, upon these
   persons going down into the water, that Philip baptized, or dipped, the
   eunuch; and when this was done, that both came up out of it, these
   circumstances strongly corroborate, without the explanation of the word
   "baptized," that it was performed by immersion; for these circumstances
   cannot agree with any other way of administering it but that; for a man
   can hardly be thought to be in his senses who can imagine that Philip
   went down with the eunuch into the water to sprinkle or pour a little
   water on him, and then gravely come out of it; hence, as the above
   learned commentator, Calvin, on the text says, "Here we plainly see
   what was the manner of baptizing with the ancients, for they plunged
   the whole body into the water; now custom obtaining, that the minister
   only sprinkles the body or the head." Song Barnabas, [142] an apostolic
   writer of the first century, and who is mentioned in the Acts of the
   Apostles, as a companion of the apostle Paul, describes baptism by
   going down into and by coming up out of the water; "We descend, "says
   he, "into the water full of sin and filth; and we ascend, bringing
   forth fruit in the heart, having fear and hope in Jesus, through the
   Spirit."

   4d. The end of baptism, which is to represent the burial of Christ,
   cannot be answered in any other way than by immersion, or covering the
   body in water; that baptism is an emblem of the burial of Christ, is
   clear from Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12. It would be endless to quote
   the great number, even of "paedobaptist" writers, who ingenuously
   acknowledge that the allusion in these passages, is to the ancient rite
   of by immersion: as none but such who are dead are buried, so none but
   such who are dead to sin, and to the law by the body of Christ, or who
   profess to be so, are to be buried in and by baptism, or to be
   baptized; and as none can be properly said to be buried, unless under
   ground, and covered with earth; so none can be said to be baptized, but
   such who are put under water, and covered with it; and nothing short of
   this can be a representation of the burial of Christ, and of ours with
   him; not sprinkling, or pouring a little water on the face; for a
   corpse cannot be said to be buried when only a little earth or dust is
   sprinkled or poured on it.

   4e. This may be concluded from the various figurative and typical
   baptisms spoken of in scripture. As,

   4e1. From the waters of the flood, which Tertullian calls [143] the
   baptism of the world, and of which the apostle Peter makes baptism the
   antitype (1 Peter 3:20, 21). The ark in which Noah and his family were
   saved by water, was God's ordinance; it was made according to the
   pattern he gave to Noah, as baptism is; and as that was the object of
   the scorn of men, so is the ordinance of baptism, rightly administered;
   and as it represented a burial, when Noah and his family were shut up
   in it, so baptism; and when the fountains of the great deep were broken
   up below, and the windows of heaven were opened above, the ark, with
   those in it, were as it were covered with and immersed in water; and so
   was a figure of baptism by immersion: and as there were none but adult
   persons in the ark, who were saved by water in it, so none but adult
   persons are the proper subjects of water baptism; and though there were
   few who were in the ark, it was attended with a salutary effect to
   them, they were saved by water; so such who truly believe in Christ,
   and are baptized, shall be saved, and that "by the resurrection of
   Jesus Christ," which was typified by the coming of Noah and his family
   out of the ark; to which baptism, as the antitype, corresponds, being
   an emblem of the same (Rom. 6:4, 5; Col. 2:12).

   4e2. From the passage of the Israelites under the cloud and through the
   sea, when "they were said to be baptized unto Moses, in the cloud and
   in the sea" (1 Cor. 10:1, 2). There are various things in this account
   which agree with baptism; this was following Moses, who directed them
   into the sea, and went before them; so baptism is a following Christ,
   who has set an example to tread in his steps; and as the Israelites
   were baptized into Moses, so believers are baptized into Christ, and
   put him on; and this passage of theirs was after their coming out of
   Egypt, and at the beginning of their journey through the wilderness to
   Canaan; so baptism is administered to believers, at their first coming
   out of darkness and bondage worse than Egyptian, and when they first
   enter on their Christian pilgrimage; and as joy followed upon the
   former, "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel," &c. so it often
   follows upon the latter; the eunuch, after baptism, went on his way
   rejoicing: but chiefly this passage was a figure of baptism by
   immersion; as the Israelites were "under the cloud," and so under
   water, and covered with it, as persons baptized by immersion are; "and
   passed through the sea," that standing up as a wall on both sides them,
   with the cloud over them; thus surrounded they were as persons immersed
   in water, and so said to be baptized; and thus Grotius remarks upon the
   passage.

   4e3. From the various washings, bathings, or baptisms of the Jews;
   called "various," because of the different persons and things washed or
   dipped, as the same Grotius observes; and not because of different
   sorts of washing, for there is but one way of washing, and that is by
   dipping; what has a little water only sprinkled or poured on it, cannot
   be said to be washed; the Jews had their sprinklings, which were
   distinct from washings or bathings, which were always performed by
   immersion; it is a rule, with them, that "wherever in the law washing
   of the flesh, or of the clothes, is mentioned, it means nothing else
   than tvylt kl hgvphg "the dipping of the whole body" in a laver--for if
   any man dips himself all over except the tip of his little finger, he
   is still in his uncleanness," [144] according to them.

   4e4. From the sufferings of Christ being called a baptism; "I have a
   baptism to be baptized with," &c. (Luke 12:50) not water baptism, nor
   the baptism of the Spirit, with both which he had been baptized; but
   the baptism of his sufferings, yet to come, he was desirous of; these
   are called so in allusion to baptism, as it is an immersion; and is
   expressive of the abundance of them, sometimes signified by deep
   waters, and floods of waters; and Christ is represented as plunged into
   them, covered and overwhelmed with them (Ps. 62:7, 69:1, 2).

   4e5. From the extraordinary donation of the Holy Spirit, and his gifts
   unto, and his descent upon the apostles on the day of Pentecost, which
   is called "baptizing," (Acts 1:5, 2:1, 2) expressive of the very great
   abundance of them, in allusion to baptism or dipping, in a proper
   sense, as the learned Casaubon [145] observes; "Regard is had in this
   place to the proper signification of the word baptizein, to immerse or
   dip; and in this sense the apostles are truly said to be baptized, for
   the house in which this was done, was filled with the Holy Ghost; so
   that the apostles seemed to be plunged into it, as into some pool." All
   which typical and figurative baptisms, serve to strengthen the proper
   sense of the word, as it signifies an immersion and dipping the body
   into, and covering it in water, which only can support the figure used.
   Nor is this sense of the word to be set aside or weakened by the use of
   it in Mark 7:4; Luke 11:38, in the former, it is said, "Except they
   wash, baptizontai, baptize, or dip themselves, they eat not;" and in it
   mention is made of baptismon, "washings or dippings" of cups and pots,
   brazen vessels, and of tables or beds; and in the latter, the Pharisee
   is said to marvel at Christ, that he had not first ebaptisthe, "washed,
   or dipped, before dinner;" all which agrees with the superstitious
   traditions of the elders, here referred to, which enjoined dipping in
   all the cases and instances spoken of, and so serve but the more to
   confirm the sense of the word contended for; for the Pharisees, upon
   touching the common people or their clothes, as they returned from
   market, or from any court of judicature, were obliged to immerse
   themselves in water before they eat; and so the Samaritan Jews: [146]
   "If the Pharisees, says Maimonides, [147] touched but the garments of
   the common people, they were defiled all one as if they had touched a
   profluvious person, and needed immersion," or were obliged to it: and
   Scaliger, [148] from the Jews observes, "That the more superstitious
   part of them, everyday, before they sat down to meat, dipped the whole
   body; hence the Pharisees admiration at Christ" (Luke 11:38). And not
   only cups and pots, and brazen vessels were washed by dipping, or
   putting them into water, in which way unclean vessels were washed
   according to the law (Lev. 11:32), but even beds, pillows, and
   bolsters, unclean in a ceremonial sense, were washed in this way,
   according to the traditions of the elders referred to; for they say,
   [149] "A bed that is wholly defiled, if a man "dips" it part by part,
   it is pure." Again, [150] "If he "dips the bed" in it (a pool of water)
   though its feet are plunged into the thick clay (at the bottom of the
   pool) it is clean." And as for pillows and bolsters, thus they say,
   [151] "A pillow or a bolster of skin, when a man lifts up the mouth of
   them out of the water, the water which is in them will be drawn; what
   must be done? He must "dip" them, and lift them up by their fringes."
   Thus, according to these traditions, the various things mentioned were
   washed by immersion; and instead of weakening, strengthen the sense of
   the word pleaded for. The objections against baptism, as immersion,
   taken from some instances of baptism recorded in scripture, are of no
   force; as that of the three thousand, in Acts 2, not with respect to
   their number; it may be observed, that though these were added to the
   church in one and the same day, it does not follow, that they were
   baptized in one day; but be it that they were, there were twelve
   apostles to administer the ordinance, and it was but two hundred and
   fifty persons apiece; and besides, there were seventy disciples,
   administrators of it; and supposing them employed, it will reduce the
   number to six or seven and thirty persons each: and the difference
   between dipping and sprinkling is very inconsiderable, since the same
   form of words is used in the one way as in the other; and therefore it
   might be done in one day, and in a small part of it too. [152] Nor with
   respect to convenience for the administration of it; as water and
   places of it sufficient to baptize in: here can be no objection, when
   it is observed, what number of private baths were in Jerusalem for
   ceremonial uncleanness; the many pools in the city, and the various
   apartments and things in the temple fit for such a use; as the dipping
   room for the high priest, the molten sea for the common priests, and
   the ten brazen lavers, each of which held forty baths of water
   sufficient for the immersion of the whole body; all which they might be
   allowed the use of, as they were of the temple; they "having favour
   with all the people": not with respect to clothes, and change of
   garments; it was only everyone's providing and bringing change of
   raiment for himself. Another instance objected to is, that of the
   baptism of Saul (Acts 9:18), supposed to be done in the house where he
   was: but that does not necessarily follow, but rather the contrary;
   since he "arose" from the place where he was, in order to be baptized;
   and admitting it was done in the house, it is highly probable there was
   a bath in the house, in which it might be performed; since it was the
   house of a Jew, with whom it was usual to have baths to wash their
   whole bodies in on certain occasions; and had it been performed by
   sprinkling or pouring a little water on him, he needed not to have rose
   for that purpose. Besides, he was not only bid to arise and be
   baptized, which would sound very oddly if rendered, "be sprinkled" or
   "poured," (Acts 22:16) but he himself says, that he, with others, were
   "buried by" or "in baptism" (Rom. 6:4). Another instance is that of the
   jailer and his household (Acts 16:33), in which account there is
   nothing that makes it improbable that it was done by immersion; for it
   seems to be a clear case, that the jailer, upon his conversion, took
   the apostles out of prison into his own house, where they preached to
   him and his family (Acts 16:32), and after this they went out of his
   house, and he and his were baptized, very probably in the river without
   the city, where the oratory was (Acts 16:13), for it is certain, that
   after the baptism of him and his family, he brought the apostles into
   his house again, and set meat before them (Acts 16:33, 34). Upon the
   whole, these instances produced, fail of showing the improbability of
   baptism by immersion; which must appear clear and manifest to every
   attentive reader of his Bible, notwithstanding all that has been
   opposed unto it. The next thing to be considered is,

   5. Fifthly, the form in which this ordinance is to be administered;
   which is "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
   Ghost," (Matthew 28:19) which contains in it a proof of a Trinity of
   Persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the Deity of each
   Person, and of their equality to, and distinction from each other; and
   shows, that this ordinance is performed under the authority of all
   Three; in which a person submitting to it, expresses his faith in them,
   and invocation of them, and gives up himself to them; obliging himself
   to yield obedience to what they require of him, as well as putting
   himself under their care and protection. This form is sometimes a
   little varied and otherwise expressed; as sometimes only "in the name
   of the Lord Jesus," (Acts 8:16) which is a part of the form for the
   whole; and includes in it the substance of it, and of Christian
   baptism; and everything relating to the person and offices of Christ,
   and his relation to and connection with the other Two persons.
   Cornelius and his family were ordered to be baptized, "in the name of
   the Lord," (Acts 10:48) that is, in the name of Jehovah, Father, Son,
   and Spirit; for kurios, Lord, in the New Testament, answers to Jehovah
   in the Old. The form of baptism in Matthew 28:19 is in the name of "the
   Father," &c. which single name denotes the one Deity, power, and
   substance of Father, Son, and Spirit; the equal dignity, co-eternal
   kingdom, and government in the Three perfect Persons; as it is
   expressed in the synodical epistle of the general council at
   Constantinople. [153]

   6. Sixthly, the ends and uses for which baptism is appointed, and which
   are answered by it.

   6a. One end of it, and a principal one, as has been frequently hinted,
   is, to represent the sufferings, burial, and resurrection of Christ;
   which is plainly and fully suggested in Romans 6:4, 5; Colossians 2:12,
   his sufferings are represented by going into the water, and being
   overwhelmed in it, his burial by a short continuance under it, and
   being covered with it, and his resurrection by an emersion out of it.

   6b. It was practised both by John and by the apostles of Christ, for
   the remission of sins (Mark 1:4; Acts 2:38) not that that is the
   procuring and meritorious cause of it, which only is the blood of
   Christ; but they who submit unto it, may, by means of it, be led,
   directed, and encouraged to expect it from Christ. And so,

   6c. In like manner it is for the washing away of sin, and cleansing
   from it; "Arise, and be baptized, and wash thy sins," (Acts 22:16) this
   only is really done the blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin;
   baptism neither washes away original nor actual sin, it has no such
   virtue in it; [154] but it is a means of directing to Christ the Lamb
   of God, who, by his atoning blood and sacrifice, has purged and
   continues to take away the sins of men.

   6d. A salutary or saving use and effect is ascribed unto it; "The like
   figure whereunto, baptism, doth also now save us;" should it be asked
   how, and by what means? the answer follows, "By the resurrection of
   Jesus Christ," (1 Peter 3:21) that is, by leading the faith of the
   person baptized to Christ, as delivered for his offences, and as risen
   again for his justification.

   6e. In the same passage it is said to be of this use, and to serve this
   purpose, "The answer of a good conscience towards God;" a man who
   believes baptism to be an ordinance of God, and submits to it as such,
   discharges a good conscience, the consequence of which is joy and
   peace; for though "for" keeping the commands of God there is no reward,
   yet there is "in" keeping them; and this is their reward, the testimony
   of a good conscience: for great peace have they which love God and keep
   his commandments.

   6f. Yielding obedience to this ordinance of Christ, is an evidence of
   love to God and Christ (1 John 5:3), and such who from a principle of
   love to Christ keep his commandments, may expect, according to his
   promise, to have fresh manifestations of his and his Father's love, and
   to have communion with Father, Son, and Spirit (John 14:15, 21, 23).
   This is an end to be had in view, in obedience to it, and a very
   encouraging one.
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   [125] Deut. Doctrina Christiana, l. 3, c. 9.

   [126] Vid. Socin. Disp. de Baptismo, c. 15, 16, 17.

   [127] See the Dissertation concerning the Baptism of Jewish Proselytes,
   at the end of this work. See on topic 1300.

   [128] Comment. on Matt. p. 372, 375.

   [129] Comment. on Matt. xxviii. 19.

   [130] Contr. Arian. orat. 3. p. 209.

   [131] Baptism of infants a reasonable service, p. 14, 15.

   [132] Bostwick's Fair and Rational Vindication of Infant-baptism, p.
   19.

   [133] See, my Exposition of 1 Cor. vii. 14. See Gill on 1 Cor. 7:14.

   [134] Eccles. Hist. l. 1. c. 4.

   [135] See my Treatises, "The Argument from apostolic Tradition, in
   Favour of Infant Baptism, considered; "and "Antipaedo-Baptism, or
   Infant Baptism, an Innovation, "with others.

   [136] "Quod longinquitas temporis objicitur, eo major suspicio, inesse
   debet, emanasse illas traditiones a Pseudo apostolis; qui mirandum in
   modum conturbaverunt sanctos apostolos; quo magis cavendum est, viri
   Christiani". Aonii Palearii Testimonium, c. 2. p. 238.

   [137] "Consuetudo sine veritate vetustas erroris est," Cyprian. epist.
   74. p. 195.

   [138] Essay to Restore the Dipping of Infants in Baptism, p. 44.

   [139] Institut. l. 4. c. 15. s. 19.

   [140] Opera, vol. 6. col. 2008.

   [141] Some represent the river Jordan, from Sandys's account of it, as
   if it was a shallow river, and insufficient for immersion; but what
   Sandys says of it, is only that it was not navigably deep, not above
   eight fathoms broad, nor, except, by accident, heady. Travels, b. iii.
   p. 110. ed. 5. But Mark. Maundrel says, for its breadth, it might be
   about twenty yards over, and in depth it far exceeded his height.
   Journey from Aleppo, &c. p. 83. ed. 7. vid. Reland. de Palestina, l. 1.
   p. 278. and Adamnan. in ib. And therefore must be sufficient for
   immersion. And Strabo speaks of ships of burden sailing through Jordan,
   Geograph. l. 16. p. 519. And that it was a river to swim in, and
   navigable, according to the Jewish writers, see Gill on "Matthew 3:5".

   [142] Ep. c. 9. p. 235. ed. Voss.

   [143] Deut. Baptismo, c. 8.

   [144] Maimon. Hilchot Mikvaot, c. 1. s. 2.

   [145] In Act. i. 5.

   [146] Epiph. contra Haeres. l. 1. Haeres. 9.

   [147] In Misn. Chagigah, c. 2. s. 7.

   [148] Deut. Emend. Temp. l. 6. p. 771.

   [149] Maimon. Hilchot Celim. c. 26. s. 14.

   [150] Misn. Mikvaot, c. 7. s. 7.

   [151] lbid. s. 6.

   [152] Ten thousand were baptized in one day by Austin the monk, in the
   river Swale, if our historians are to be credited. Fox's Acts and
   Monuments, vol. i. p. 154. Ranulph. Polychron. l. 5. c. 10. The twelve
   sons of Wolodomir, Grand Prince of Russia, with twenty thousand
   Russians, in cent. 10. were baptized in one day, by a missionary of
   Photius the patriarch; and the ancient Russians would allow no person
   to be a Christian, unless he had been dipped quite under water.
   Strahlenberg. Histor. Geograph. Descript. of the Northern and Eastern
   Parts of Europe and Asia, ch. 8. p. 283, 286. Vid. Fabricii Lux
   Evangel. p. 475. No doubt assistance was had in both instances; but
   these show what numbers may be baptized in a day.

   [153] Apud. Theodorit. Eccl. Hist. l. 5. c. 9. This form was first
   changed and corrupted by Mark the heretic, and his followers, in the
   second century; who baptized into the name of the unknown Father of
   all; into truth the mother of all; into him who descended on Jesus;
   into union and redemption, and communion of powers: the same also first
   changed and corrupted the mode; taking a mixture of oil and water,
   poured it on the head, and then anointed with balsam. Vid, Irenaeum
   adv. Haeres. l. 1. c. 18.

   [154] "Non enim aqua lavat animam, sed ipsa prius lavatur a Spiritu,"
   Aonii Palearii Testimonium, c. 2. p. 24.
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  Chapter 2

    OF THE LORD'S SUPPER

   After the ordinance of baptism follows the ordinance of the Lord's
   Supper; the one is preparatory to the other; and he that has a right to
   the one has a right to the other; and none but such who have submitted
   to the former, ought to be admitted to the latter. Baptism is to be
   administered but once, when we first make a profession of Christ, and
   of faith in him; but the ordinance of the supper is to be frequently
   administered, and continued throughout the stage of life, it being our
   spiritual food, for the support and maintenance of our spiritual life.
   It goes by various names in scripture; it is called, "the body and
   blood of Christ," from the subject matter of it; and that by Christ
   himself, "This is my body, and this is my blood," (Matthew 26:26, 28)
   which in this ordinance are symbolically represented to the faith of
   the Lord's people: and sometimes it is called, "The communion of the
   body and blood of Christ," (1 Cor. 10:16) because the saints have in it
   communion with Christ, he sups with them and they with him; and
   particularly enjoy the fellowship of his sufferings, or partake of the
   blessings of grace which flow from the sufferings of Christ, from the
   offering up of his body, and the shedding of his blood. Sometimes it is
   called, "This bread, and this cup of the Lord," (1 Cor. 11:27) because
   the bread represents Christ himself, the bread of life, and the cup
   signifies the New Testament in his blood. Sometimes it is expressed by
   "breaking of bread," (Acts 2:42, 20:7) a part for the whole, so
   denominated from a particular action used in the administration of it.
   And it is called, "The Lord's table," (1 Cor. 10:21) by a metonymy, for
   the food and entertainment upon it; a table which the Lord has prepared
   and furnished, at which he himself sits and welcomes his guests: and
   with great propriety may it be called a feast, because of the richness
   and plenty of the provision in it; as it seems to be in 1 Corinthians
   5:8, "Let us keep the feast;" not the feast of the passover, now
   abolished, but the feast of the Lord's Supper, which exhibits Christ,
   the true passover, sacrificed for us. But its most significant and
   expressive name, and which is commonly in use, is "The Lord's Supper,"
   (1 Cor. 11:20) a "supper," being instituted after the passover, which
   was killed between the two evenings, and eaten in the night; and was
   first performed by Christ the evening in which he was betrayed; nor
   does this detract from the grandeur of the entertainment, since not
   only with the Romans their principal meal was a supper, but with the
   Jews also, especially their nuptial feasts were kept in the evening.
   And it is called the Lord's Supper because it is by his appointment; it
   is made by him and for him; he is the sum and substance of it, and when
   rightly performed, it is according to his will; he is the maker and
   master of the feast, and is the feast itself. There are various other
   names which are given to this ordinance by the ancients; to recite
   which is to little purpose; the chief and principal, and the most
   ancient is, that of the "eucharist," by which name it was called in the
   times of Justin Martyr, [155] and by Ignatius, [156] and Irenaeus [157]
   before him, from a part of it, "thanksgiving," and because the whole of
   it gives just occasion for thanksgiving, for the many blessings of
   grace it exhibits to the view of faith. In treating of it I shall
   consider,

   1. First, the author of it, and show it to be an ordinance of Christ
   peculiar to the gospel dispensation, a standing ordinance in it, and
   which is to continue until the second coming of Christ.

   1a. First, it was instituted by Christ himself; who not only has given
   an example to do as he has done, which has great force and authority in
   it; he not only practised and celebrated it himself, which was giving a
   sufficient sanction to it; but he has, by precept, enjoined it on his
   apostles and disciples, and all succeeding ministers, and on all his
   followers, to the end of the world; which is contained in these
   preceptive words of his used by him at the first institution of the
   ordinance; "Take, eat, this is my body; drink ye all of this, for this
   is my blood; this do in remembrance of me," (Matthew 26:26, 27; Luke
   22:19) and particularly the apostle Paul expressly declares, that what
   he delivered concerning this ordinance, he "received from the Lord," (1
   Cor. 11:23) so that it is not a device, and an invention of his, nor
   did he receive it of men, nor was taught it, but he had it by the
   revelation of Christ; and this being instituted by Christ, and
   celebrated by him, "the same night in which he was betrayed," shows the
   very great love of Christ to his church and people, and his
   affectionate concern for them, and care of them; that at a time his
   sufferings were coming upon him to an amazing degree, when his soul was
   exceeding sorrowful, even unto death, when he that was to betray him
   was at hand, when he was just about to be delivered into the hands of
   sinful men, who would put him to death, and when he was just ready to
   suffer and die for his people; that he should then, amidst all his
   sorrows, and in the near approach of his most dreadful sufferings,
   think of his people, and provide for them a divine repast, spiritual
   food for their entertainment to the end of the world.

   1b. Secondly, this ordinance is peculiar to the gospel dispensation. It
   was indeed typified by what Melchizedek did, who was himself a type of
   Christ, as king of righteousness and of peace, and as the priest of the
   most high God, who brought forth "bread and wine" to refresh Abraham
   and his weary troops, returning from the slaughter of the kings; so
   saints, who are in a warfare state, and are good soldiers of Christ,
   and are engaged in a war with potent and spiritual enemies, are regaled
   by Christ with bread and wine, and with what is signified by them; and
   what is better than these. This ordinance was also pointed at in
   prophecy, respecting gospel times, as what should be in use when those
   times came. So in Proverbs 9:1-18, there is a prophetic representation
   of the church of Christ in gospel times, and of the provisions in it,
   and of guests invited to partake of them by the ministers of the
   gospel, who in Christ's name are bid to say, "Come, eat of my bread,
   and drink of the wine which I have mingled". And in Isaiah 25:6 this
   feast is hinted at, which is a prophecy respecting gospel times; which,
   among other things, may include and have respect unto the ordinance of
   the supper; but that itself was not instituted nor practised till the
   night in which Christ was betrayed. And,

   1c. Thirdly, this is a standing ordinance in the church of Christ. It
   was not only kept the first night it was instituted and observed; but
   in after times, after the death and resurrection of Christ; it was
   observed by the first church at Jerusalem, the members of which are
   commended for continuing in fellowship, and in "breaking of bread,"
   meaning, the ordinance of the supper; the disciples at Troas met
   together on the first day of the week "to break bread," that is, to
   celebrate this ordinance of Christ; and though there were disorders in
   the church at Corinth, in the celebration of it, yet the thing itself
   was not denied nor neglected by them, though they were disorderly in
   their attendance on it. Justin Martyr gives us a very particular
   account of the celebration of it in his time, which was in the second
   century, and so it has been continued in the churches of Christ ever
   since to this day (Acts 2:42, 20:7; 1 Cor. 11:20, 21).

   1d. Fourthly, it is to continue to the end of the world; it is one of
   those ordinances that cannot be shaken and removed, but will remain; it
   is among those "all things," and a principal one of them, Christ
   ordered his apostles, and succeeding ministers, to teach his followers
   to observe; promising to be with them, so doing, "to the end of the
   world," (Matthew 28:20) and this is plainly suggested by the apostle
   Paul, when he says, "As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup,
   ye do show the Lord's death till he come," (1 Cor. 11:26) which cannot
   be understood of his coming by the effusion of his Spirit, as on the
   day of Pentecost; for in this sense he was come when this instruction
   was given; nor is it an objection of any force, that types, figures,
   shadows, and ceremonies are now ceased; for though the shadows of the
   ceremonial law, which were figures of good things to come, are ceased,
   Christ, the body and substance, being come; yet there may be and are
   figures and representations of him as come, and commemorative of him,
   and of the good things come by him; baptism is said to be a "figure,"
   that is, of the burial and resurrection of Christ (1 Peter 3:21), and
   so the Lord's Supper is a "figure" of his broken body and bloodshed, as
   will be seen hereafter. I proceed to consider,

   2. Secondly, The matter of the ordinance, or the outward elements of
   it, the bread and wine, which are the symbols of the body and blood of
   Christ.

   2a. First, bread; whether the bread was leavened or unleavened bread,
   has been a matter of warm dispute between the Greek and Latin churches;
   the latter insisting on the use of unleavened bread, since that was
   what was used by our Lord at the first institution of this ordinance,
   it being at the time of the passover, the feast of unleavened bread,
   when no other was to be had; and the apostle directs to keep the feast,
   not with the "leaven" of malice, but with the "unleavened" bread of
   sincerity and truth: that the bread of Christ used in this ordinance
   was unleavened bread, is not to be doubted; but that it was designed as
   a rule in after administrations, is a question; since Christ seems to
   have taken it without respect to its being leavened or unleavened, but
   as being at hand, and at that time in common use; nor does it seem so
   agreeable to retain and continue a Jewish ceremony at the passover, in
   a gospel ordinance; and though the apostle, in the exhortation referred
   to, alludes to the bread of the passover, yet by this figurative
   expression, he cannot be thought to design the use of unleavened bread
   in the Lord's Supper; but that every ordinance of God, and so this,
   should be observed with a sincere affection to Christ and one another.
   It seems to be quite an indifferent thing what bread is used in the
   ordinance, be it what it may, which is used in any country for common
   food; such was the bread the disciples used at Troas, when they met to
   break bread, which was several days after the Jewish feast of
   unleavened bread was over, and so that sort of bread was not then in
   use (Acts 20:6, 7). However, the round wafers of the papists cannot be
   allowed of, they being not properly bread, nor so made as to be broken
   and distributed in pieces, nor palatable, nor fit for nourishment; and
   so improper emblems of what is spiritually nutritive.

   Now the bread in the ordinance of the supper is a symbol of the body
   and flesh of Christ; "The bread," says Christ, "that I will give, is my
   flesh," (John 6:51, 55) which words, though not spoken of the Lord's
   Supper, which was not then instituted, yet might be said with respect
   to it, by way of anticipation, and, however, serve to illustrate and
   explain what our Lord said in it; "This is my body," that is, a symbol
   and sign of it, when he took the bread, blessed it, and brake it; and
   so says the apostle; "The bread which we break, is it not the communion
   of the body of Christ?" (1 Cor. 10:16) not his mystical body, the
   church, but his natural body, which was formed in the womb of the
   Virgin by the Holy Spirit, and which Christ took into union with his
   divine Person, and which he offered up upon the cross. And the bread in
   the supper is a symbol of this body, not as living either on earth or
   in heaven, but as dead, the life of it being laid down by Christ, and
   given for the life of his people; though now raised and alive, and
   lives for evermore: nor as glorified, the form of which was marred by
   his sufferings and death, but raised, has a glory given it, and is
   become a glorious body; but as such the bread broken in the ordinance
   is not a symbol of it; but as crucified, suffering, slain, and dead;
   for in it Christ is "evidently set forth" before the eye of faith, as
   crucified; and to him as such believers are directed to look, whom they
   have pierced, and mourn; and as he is to be beheld in the midst of the
   throne, so particularly in this ordinance; "A Lamb as it had been
   slain!" Christ's body broken by sufferings and death, is signified by
   the bread broken in it; for these words, "This is my body,"

   2a1. Are not to be understood in a proper sense, as if the bread was
   transubstantiated into the real body of Christ; this is contradicted by
   the testimony of the senses, of seeing, tasting, and smelling; [158] by
   all which the bread appears to be the same after its separation to the
   use of the ordinance it was before: it is contrary to reason, that
   accidents should be without a subject; that the qualities and
   properties of bread should remain, and not the bread itself; that a
   body should be in more places at one and the same time, and Christ have
   as many bodies as there are consecrated wafers; which is most absurd:
   it is contrary to the nature of Christ's body, which was like ours when
   on earth, and at the time of the institution; and after his
   resurrection was visible and palpable, and consisting of flesh and
   blood; and is now ascended to heaven, where it will be retained until
   the time of the restitution of all things; and is not everywhere, as it
   must be, if its real presence is in the ordinance in all places, and at
   all times, where and when it is administered: it is contrary to
   scripture, which declares the bread to be bread when blessed and
   broken; "The bread which we break;" and "this bread that ye eat;" and
   "this cup that ye drink;" and as the bread is still called bread, so
   the wine in the cup, "the fruit of the vine;" no real change is made in
   the one nor in the other: it is contrary to the very nature and design
   of the ordinance; it confounds the sign and the thing signified: if the
   bread is no more bread, it ceases to be a sign, and the body of Christ
   cannot be signified by it; the analogy between both is taken away; to
   say no more, it is impious and blasphemous for a priest to take upon
   him, by muttering over a few words, to make the body and blood of
   Christ, and then eat them! The folly, or rather madness of such, is
   reproved by Cicero the heathen, who thought no man could be so mad to
   believe what he eat to be a God. [159]

   2a2. The phrase, "This is my body," is to be understood in a figurative
   sense; the bread is a figure, symbol, and representation of the body of
   Christ; many scriptural phrases are so to be understood; as when Joseph
   said to Pharaoh, "The seven good kine are seven years, and the seven
   good ears are seven years;" so seven kine and ears signified, or were
   symbols of seven years of plenty; and the lean kine and thin ears, so
   many years of famine (Gen. 41:26, 27). Again, in the parable of the
   sower, the seed and tares, signified such and such persons, and were
   emblems of them. Also, "That rock was Christ," (1 Cor. 10:4) that is,
   was a figure and representation of him; so the bread is the body of
   Christ, a figure, [160] sign, and symbol of it. Christ compares himself
   to a kernal of wheat falling into the ground and dying, and reviving
   and bringing forth fruit, expressive of his sufferings and death, and
   of the blessed consequences thereof (John 12:24). Breadcorn is a figure
   of Christ, as prepared for food, which is beaten out, winnowed, ground,
   kneaded, and baked, ere it becomes proper food for men; so Christ, by
   his various sufferings, being bruised, broken, crucified, and
   sacrificed for us, becomes proper food for faith; and as such is he
   represented, viewed, and received in the ordinance of the supper. Bread
   is the main sustenance of men, and is called the staff of bread, being
   the staff of life; which is of a very strengthening and nourishing
   nature, and is the principal means of maintaining and preserving life;
   of all which use is a crucified Christ, as be is held forth to faith,
   both in the preaching of the gospel and in the administration of this
   ordinance.

   2b. Secondly, the wine is another part of this ordinance, and of the
   matter of it, and one of the outward elements of it, a symbol of the
   blood of Christ. It is a question, whether the wine used at the first
   institution of the ordinance was red or white; at the passover that
   which was the best, whether red or white, was ordered to be used; the
   red was generally so accounted (see Prov. 23:31; Isa. 27:2); it is
   reckoned by some a matter of indifference; and therefore some, to show
   their sense of it as such, and to assert their Christian liberty, have
   sometimes used the one, and sometimes the other: though it may not be
   essentially necessary, I cannot but be of opinion, that the red, called
   the blood of the grape, is most expressive of, and bears a greater
   resemblance to the blood of Christ, it is a symbol of Genesis 49:11;
   Isaiah 63:2. It is also a question, whether the wine used was mixed or
   pure; since it was usual with the Jews, whose wines were generous, to
   mix them (Prov. 9:2), but there is no need to dilute them in our
   climates; and as the quantity is so small drank at the ordinance, there
   is no danger of intoxication in those who are least used to it; though
   it is certain, mixing wine and water very early obtained, even in
   Justin's time; but that there should be a mystery in it, signifying,
   the blood and water which sprung from the side of Christ when pierced,
   and the union of the two natures in him, seems too fanciful. However,

   2b1. The wine is a symbol of the blood of Christ; for Christ says of
   it, "This is my blood," that is, a figure and representation of it; not
   that it was really changed into the blood of Christ rot it is called,
   "the fruit of the vine," as before observed; after it was poured into
   the cup and blessed (Matthew 26:28, 29), and the apostle Paul says,
   "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the
   blood of Christ?" (1 Cor. 4:6) and it is a symbol of it, not as in his
   veins, but as shed from the various parts of his body, particularly his
   hands, feet, and side, when pierced; and as wine is squeezed out of the
   grape in the winepress, so the blood of Christ was pressed from him,
   when it pleased the Lord to bruise him, and when he trod the winepress
   of divine wrath; and as wine cheers the heart of man, so the blood of
   Christ, applied by the Spirit, speaks peace and pardon to guilty minds,
   and puts joy and gladness into broken hearts and wounded spirits. The
   wine in the supper is called, "The blood of the New Testament;" and the
   cup, "The New Testament in Christ's blood;" by which is meant, the
   covenant of grace, sometimes called a testament or will, which became
   of force by the death of Christ, the testator, and which was ratified,
   its blessings and promises, by the blood of Christ; which is therefore
   called, "The blood of the everlasting covenant" (Heb. 13:20).

   2b2. The wine in the supper is a symbol of the love of Christ, shown in
   the shedding of his blood to obtain the remission of the sins of his
   people; which "love is better than wine," than the most ancient, the
   most generous, the most pure and refined; and therefore the church
   determines to remember it more than that; "We will remember thy love
   more than wine," and which is particularly done in the ordinance of the
   supper (Song 1:2, 4).

   Now the bread and the wine being two separate articles, may denote and
   show forth the death of Christ; the body or flesh being separated from
   the blood, and the blood from that, in which the life is, death
   follows; and these being distinctly attended to, is expressive of that
   separation; and yet both together make a feast, and afford nourishment,
   refreshment, and delight: with food there must be drink, and when with
   bread wine, both make a banquet; Christ's church is a banqueting house,
   and the banquet in it, like Esther's, is a banquet of wine; such is the
   ordinance of the supper, a feast of fat things, of wine on the lees
   well refined.

   3. Thirdly, the next to be considered are the significant and
   expressive actions used by the administrator and the receiver; both
   with respect to the bread and the wine.

   3a. First, with respect to the bread.

   3a1. By the administrator; Christ, in his own person, at the first
   institution of the ordinance and by his ministers, under his direction,
   and by his orders and example, in all succeeding ones.

   3a1a. Christ "took" the bread, an emblem of his body, which he took,
   being actually formed; and consisting of flesh and blood, he partook of
   it in the fulness at time; he took upon him, not the nature of angels,
   but the seed of Abraham; he took the human nature, consisting of soul
   and body, into union with his divine person; and he took this body
   which he assumed, and offered it without spot to God, an offering and a
   sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour; and of this body, his taking the
   bread in the supper was an emblem, and of his voluntary oblation of it.

   3a1b. He "blessed" it; or as another evangelist has it, he "gave
   thanks," (Matthew 26:26; Luke 22:19) such an action was sometimes used
   by him at other meals (Matthew 14:19, 15:36). This designs a separation
   of the bread from a common to a sacred use, as everything is sanctified
   by the word and prayer; by this action the bread was set apart from
   common use, and appropriated to this solemnity. This is what is
   sometimes called the consecration of it; but is no other than its
   destination to this peculiar service. Blessing it, was asking a
   blessing on it, as spiritual food, that it might be nourishing and
   refreshing to those who partook of it; and giving thanks, is expressing
   thankfulness for what is signified by it, for Christ, the true bread
   the Father gives; for him, the unspeakable gift of his love, and for
   all the blessings of grace that come by him.

   3a1c. He "brake" it. From this action the whole ordinance is
   denominated, "breaking of bread," (Acts 2:42, 20:7) and it was not only
   used by Christ at first, as an example to be followed; but by ministers
   in the churches, in all succeeding ages; in the first church at
   Jerusalem, and by the disciples at Troas, as the passages referred to
   show; and was practised by the apostle at Corinth, and in other places,
   "the bread which we break," &c. (1 Cor. 10:16). Song Clemens of
   Alexandria, [161] in the second century, says, "As some divide the
   eucharist, they suffer everyone of the people to take a part:" And
   Irenaeus, [162] before him, calls it, "the broken bread": and even
   Ignatius [163] speaks of the bishop and presbytery "breaking the one
   bread". And nothing is more common with the ancients than to speak of
   the parts and broken pieces in the supper; yea, to call the supper
   itself by these names: and this is a very expressive and significant
   action, and by no means to be omitted; and was used by Christ, not
   purely for the sake of dividing and distributing the bread; but for the
   sake of representing his death; it is an emblem of his sufferings, how
   his "body was broken" for us (1 Cor. 11:24), how it was torn by the
   scourges and lashes of the Roman soldiers, at the order of Pilate; how
   his head and temples were torn by the crown of thorns platted about
   them; how his hands and feet were pierced with nails, and his side with
   a spear; and how body and soul by death were torn and parted asunder;
   and he was brought to the dust of death, and liable to be crumbled into
   innumerable particles; but that his body was preserved from seeing
   corruption. Moreover, it is an emblem of the communion of the many
   partakers of the one bread and of the one body of Christ; "For we,
   being many, are one bread, for we are all partakers of that one bread"
   (1 Cor. 10:17).

   3a1d. He gave it to the disciples (Matthew 26:26). Song the minister
   now gives the bread to the deacons, and they distribute it to the
   people; and thus they did in the times of Justin Martyr: [164] that
   everyone may have his part and portion. Song at the extraordinary and
   miraculous meals of the loaves and fishes, Christ, after looking up to
   heaven, and having "blessed and broke, he gave the loaves (broken) to
   his disciples and the disciples to the multitude; and they did all eat
   and were filled" (Matthew 14:19, 20, 15:36).

   3a2. There are other significant and expressive actions respecting the
   bread used by the receiver, or communicant; as to "take and eat".

   3a2a. He is to "take" the bread, or receive it, according to our Lord's
   direction to his disciples, "take": at the Jewish passover everyone had
   a piece of the bread broken set before him, by him that broke it, and
   he "took" it in his hand [165] ; and, as before observed from Clemens,
   it was the usage of the church at Alexandria, for everyone of the
   people to "take" his part of the eucharist when divided; and so
   Dionysius, [166] bishop of the same place, speaks of one at the Lord's
   table, "stretching out his hand to receive" the sacred food; and Cyril
   of Jerusalem [167] says, it was received in the hollow of the right
   hand, the left hand being underneath it; for as yet it was not put into
   the mouth by the administrator, as now the wafer is, by a popish
   priest. This action of taking the bread, is an emblem of the saints
   receiving Christ by the hand of faith, and all the blessings of grace
   with him (John 1:12; Col. 2:6).

   3a2b. The receiver is to eat the bread, being taken; not as common
   bread, and as at a common meal; but in an ordinance way, being
   separated from common to holy use, and as a symbol of the body of
   Christ; and he eats it in such a way worthily, when he discerns the
   Lord's body in it, as represented by it, and can distinguish that from
   it, and by faith feed on it; for this is not to be understood of an
   oral manducation, or a corporal eating of the flesh and body of Christ,
   which the Capernaite Jews stumbled at, saying, "How can this man give
   us his flesh to eat?" but of a spiritual eating it by faith; Socinus
   [168] says, that nothing but bread and wine are received in the Lord's
   Supper, either by believers or unbelievers, neither corporally nor
   spiritually. It is by faith believers eat the flesh and drink the blood
   of Christ; it is by faith Christ dwells in their hearts; and it is by
   faith they live upon him, and by him; "He that eateth me, even he shall
   live by me," (John 6:57) it denotes a participation of Christ, and of
   the blessings of grace by him: to eat of this bread spiritually, is no
   other than "the communion of the body of Christ," or an having
   fellowship with him, while feeding on it, and an appropriation and
   enjoyment of spiritual blessings in him: as bread taken into the mouth
   and chewed, is received into the stomach, and digested there, and
   becomes incorporated into the very substance of a man, and by which he
   is nourished and refreshed; so Christ being received and fed upon by
   faith, believers are one body and spirit with him, have union to him
   and communion with him; there is a mutual indwelling of Christ and
   them, they are one bread. And having spiritual appetites, hungering and
   thirsting after Christ, they feed upon him, and grow up in him: the
   encouragement to eat this bread, as a symbol of Christ's body; and the
   argument enforcing it is, "This is my body which is given for you,"
   (Luke 22:19) a token of the body of Christ, given for them: as their
   daily bread is the gift of God, and prayed for as such, so Christ, the
   true bread from heaven, is the gift of his Father, a free grace gift,
   and may be freely fed upon; and his body, which is signified by the
   bread, is given by himself an offering and a sacrifice to God "for," in
   the room and stead of, his people; the phrase denotes the voluntary
   substitution of Christ in their stead, to make atonement for their
   sins, being delivered for their offences into the hands of justice and
   death, on account of them; and therefore they may be encouraged to lay
   hold upon him by faith, and take him to themselves, as their Saviour
   and Redeemer; it is thus expressed by the apostle Paul, in 1
   Corinthians 11:24, "This is my body which is broken for you;" a sign of
   Christ's broken body, and so fit food faith to feed upon; and by it is
   signified, that the sufferings Christ endured in his body, were in the
   room and stead of his people, to make satisfaction to divine Justice
   for their sins; and since he, the passover Lamb, is "sacrificed for
   them," they have great encouragement to keep the feast, to eat the
   broken bread, and to "do this," as they are directed, "in remembrance"
   of Christ's body being given a sacrifice for them; and of its being
   broken, by the hand of divine Justice, in their room and stead (Luke
   22:19; 1 Cor. 11:24).

   3b. Secondly, there are also very significant and expressive actions to
   be performed, both by the administrator and receiver, with respect to
   the wine.

   3b1. By the administrator; after the example of Christ, "who took the
   cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them," the disciples (Matthew
   26:27). He "took the cup," wine being first poured into it, which,
   though not expressed, is implied, and the thing signified by it, is the
   shedding or pouring out of the blood of Christ, after mentioned
   (Matthew 26:28), or the pouring out his soul unto death. Christ's
   taking it, shows his readiness and willingness to drink of it himself
   (John 18:11), and then he "gave thanks," for the blessings of grace,
   which came through his blood, of which this was the symbol; such as
   justification by his blood, remission of sins, for which it was shed,
   redemption through it, and peace by the blood of his cross: and having
   given thanks, "he gave it to them," his disciples, to drink of it; his
   immediate disciples drank of the cup of sufferings, as well as partook
   of the blessings of his grace; here not the former, but the latter is
   meant.

   3b2, Other actions were to be performed by the receiver; particularly
   one, everyone was to drink of the cup; "Drink ye all of it": this shows
   that the ordinance was to be administered under both species; as the
   bread was to be eaten, the wine was to be drank; which is confirmed by
   the apostle's account of it (1 Cor. 11:25-29), and all were to drink of
   it; the cup is not to be denied to the common people, and restrained to
   the minister, as by the papists; both clergy and laity partook of it,
   from the earliest ages, as appears by innumerable instances in the
   writings of the ancients, quite down to the council of Constance, in
   the fifteenth century, when it was ordered not to be given to the
   common people; "hoc non obstante," the institution of Christ, and the
   practice of the primitive church, as the edict of the council expresses
   it. [169] But according to the first institution of the ordinance, and
   the explanation of it by the apostle Paul, any and every man who
   examined himself aright, might drink of the cup, as well as eat of the
   bread: which drinking is to be understood in a spiritual sense, as
   eating before; and both are done by close meditation on the sufferings
   of Christ, and by a special application and appropriation of the
   blessings of grace by faith; the wine is not to be drank as common
   wine, but as a symbol of the blood of Christ; and the encouraging
   motive is, "This is my blood of the New Testament," a token of it, by
   which the New Testament, or the dispensation of the covenant of grace,
   under the gospel, is ratified and confirmed; "which is shed" freely and
   abundantly; as it was in the garden, in the hall, and especially on the
   cross; "for many," for as many as are ordained to eternal life; for as
   many as Christ has given himself a ransom for; for as many as are made
   righteous by Christ's obedience; and for the many sons the great
   Captain of salvation will bring to glory: and this is shed for them; it
   was shed for "the remission of sins;" by which it is procured in a way
   consistent with the holiness and justice of God; and in this ordinance
   the faith of the Lord's people is directed to the blood of Christ to
   look for it.

   4. Fourthly, the subjects of this ordinance, or who are the proper
   persons to be admitted to it, as communicants.

   4a. Not infants: in a literal and natural sense, bread and wine are not
   food for them, but milk; and in a spiritual sense, they are not capable
   of eating the body and drinking the blood of Christ by faith; nor of
   examining themselves, previous to such eating and drinking; nor of
   recollecting, remembering, and showing forth the death of Christ. In
   the third century infant communion was admitted of, on a mistaken sense
   of John 6:53. Indeed, infants have as good a right to this, as to the
   ordinance of baptism, which they were admitted to in the same century,
   on a like mistaken sense of John 3:5 and which practice of infant
   communion continued in the Latin church six hundred years after, and
   still does in the Greek church.

   4b. Adult persons, who have the use of reason, and know what they do,
   are the proper subjects of this ordinance; yet only regenerate persons,
   who are quickened by the Spirit of God; for such only have spiritual
   life in them, and are only capable of receiving spiritual food, for the
   maintenance of it; such only can discern spiritual things, and so the
   Lord's body, which they that discern not, eat unworthily; such only
   have their taste changed, and can relish divine things; such only
   hunger and thirst after Christ, and can be satisfied with feeding on
   him by faith, and be nourished thereby: to others it must be a dry
   breast, and of no use.

   4c. Ignorant persons are unfit for this ordinance. Such who partake of
   it, ought to know themselves, the sinfulness of their state by nature,
   and the guilt of sin; that they may see their need of, and be affected
   with the grace of God in the remission of their sins, through the
   sufferings, death, and bloodshed of Christ: they ought to have
   knowledge of Christ, of his person and offices, and especially of him
   as crucified, and as being the propitiatory sacrifice for sin: they
   ought to have knowledge of God as their covenant God, whose covenant,
   testament, and will, is ratified and confirmed by the blood of Christ:
   and they ought to be acquainted with the various doctrines of the
   gospel, which this ordinance has a connection with; as justification,
   pardon of sin, reconciliation, atonement, &c. so Justin, in his time
   says, [170] It is not lawful for any other to partake, but he that
   believes that what things are taught to them are true.

   4d. Persons scandalous in their lives and conversations, are by no
   means to be allowed subjects of this ordinance; "with such" we ought
   "not to eat," described 1 Corinthians 5:11 that is, at the Lord's
   table.

   4e. None but penitent sinners, and true believers, and those baptized,
   upon a profession of their repentance and faith, are to be allowed
   communicants at this ordinance; for such only can look to Christ whom
   they have pierced, and mourn, and exercise godly sorrow and evangelical
   repentance; such only can eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ
   in a spiritual sense by faith; to such only Christ's flesh is meat
   indeed, and his blood drink indeed; such only can by faith discern the
   Lord's body, and please him in this ordinance; for without faith it is
   impossible to please God; wherefore a man, before he eats, should
   examine himself, whether he has true repentance towards God, and faith
   in our Lord Jesus Christ; whether he is truly sensible of sin, and
   humbled for it, and believes in Christ for the remission of it (1 Cor.
   11:28; 2 Cor. 13:5).

   5. Fifthly, the ends of this ordinance; which are to be answered by it.

   5a. To show forth the death of Christ; to declare his death, that he
   did die for the sins of his people; to set forth the manner of his
   death, by crucifixion, by his being pierced, wounded, bruised, and
   broken; and to express the blessings and benefits of his death, and the
   faith of his people in them, and thankfulness for them; for in this
   ordinance Christ is evidently set forth as crucified and slain.

   5b. To commemorate the sacrifice of Christ; Christ was once offered,
   and needs not to be offered up again; he has by one offering made
   perfect atonement for sin; but because Christ the passover is
   sacrificed for us, we should keep this feast as a memorial of his
   sacrifice, and through it look to Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes
   away the sins of men.

   5c. To remember the love of Christ in dying for us, and in becoming a
   sacrifice for sin; hence he directed his disciples both to eat the
   bread and drink the wine in remembrance of him, of his body being
   broken and of his blood being shed for them; that is, to remember his
   love to them, which he expressed thereby (1 Cor. 11:24, 25).

   5d. To show our love to Christ, and thankfulness to him, for the
   blessings of his grace, by an attendance on this ordinance; we should
   call upon our souls, and all within us, to bless his name, and not
   forget his benefits, especially the great benefit of the redemption of
   our lives from destruction, by his blood, sufferings, and death.

   5e. Another end of it is to maintain love and unity with each other;
   for by joining together in holy fellowship in this ordinance, we keep
   the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. But by no means is this
   ordinance to be used to qualify persons to bear any office under any
   government, and in any city or corporation. This is a vile and
   scandalous prostitution of it, which is only intended for sacred uses.

   6. Sixthly, the adjuncts of this ordinance, the circumstances attending
   it, and the concomitants and consequences of it.

   6a. The time of administering it is to be considered; not the time of
   day, morning, noon, or evening, which latter was the time of the first
   celebration of it, and is most suitable to a supper; but what day of
   the week or year, which in ancient times was variously observed; some
   were for keeping it every day in the week, and considered it as daily
   food; others were for observing it four times in the week; and others
   every Lord's day, which Dr. Goodwin [171] thinks is the stated fixed
   time for it in scripture; and so others. The disciples at Troas met
   together on the first day to break bread; but whether they did so for
   that purpose every first day is not clear and certain. Some kept it
   once a month, as many churches do now; at length it came to be observed
   only three times in the year, at the three grand festivals; and even to
   once a year. But though the precise time seems not to be ascertained in
   scripture, yet it is plain that it ought to be often practised; as may
   be concluded from the apostle's words, "As oft as ye eat this bread and
   drink this cup," &c. And from the nature of the ordinance, it being in
   memory of Christ, which ought to be frequent; and a spiritual repast
   for souls, which ought to be often repeated.

   6b. The gesture of the body to be used at it, whether kneeling,
   standing, or sitting; the former of these looks too much like the
   adoration of the host, the Papists plead for; standing is more
   eligible, being the gesture of servants, ready to do the will of their
   masters; but sitting is to be preferred, being a table gesture, and
   conformable to the practice of Christ and his disciples, at the first
   institution of the ordinance.

   6c. The place where celebrated; not in private houses, unless when the
   churches were obliged to meet there in time of persecution; but in the
   public place of worship, where and when the church convened; so the
   disciples at Troas "came together" to break bread; and the church at
   Corinth came together in one place to eat the Lord's Supper (Acts 20:7;
   1 Cor. 11:18, 20, 33), for this being a church ordinance, is not to be
   administered privately to single persons; but to the church in a body,
   assembled for that purpose.

   6d. When the supper was ended, an hymn was sung by Christ and his
   apostles (Matthew 26:30), which fulfilled what was prophetically spoken
   of Christ, and by him (Ps. 22:22), and to this Pliny may be thought to
   have respect when he says, that Christians at their meetings sung an
   hymn together to Christ, as to a God; and by a sacrament, bound
   themselves not to commit such and such sins [172] .

   6e. A collection was made for the poor, and distributed to them; which,
   perhaps, the apostle may have some respect unto (1 Cor. 16:1, 2), and
   so Justin says [173] , When prayer and thanksgiving were finished, the
   richer sort, and as many as would, freely contributed what they thought
   fit; and what was collected was deposited with the president, out of
   which were relieved the fatherless and widows, the sick, and those in
   bonds, and strangers; and a very fit season this to make a collection
   for the poor, when the hearts of believers are regaled with the love of
   Christ, and enlarged by it.

   6f. The continuance of this ordinance is to the second coming of Christ
   (1 Cor. 11:26), and so, as it shows forth the end of his first coming
   to die for his people, it assures them of his second coming; and it is
   not to be made a question of, that this ordinance, and all other public
   ordinances of the present dispensation, and the ministers of them, will
   continue to the end of the world, to the second coming of Christ, and
   then all will cease (Matthew 28:20; Rev. 21:23, 21:5).
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   [155] Apolog. 2 p. 97.

   [156] Epist. ad Smyrn. p. 6. ad Philadelph. p. 40. ed. Voss.

   [157] Adv. Haeres. l. 5. c. 2.

   [158] "Exterius quidem panis, quod ante fuerat, forma praedentitur,
   color ostenditur, sapor accinitur--quid enim aliud in superficie quam
   substantia vini conspicitur? Gusta, vinum sapit: odora vinum redolet;
   inspice, vini color intuetur." Bertram. de Corp. Sang. Domini, in
   principio.

   [159] "Ecquam tam amentem esse putas, qui illud quo vescatur, deum
   credat esse?" Cicero de Natura Deorum, l. 3. c. 19.

   [160] "Acceptum panem et distributum discipulis, corpus illum suum
   fecit, hoc est corpus meum dicendo, id est, figura corporis mei,"
   Tertull. adv. Marcion. l. 4. c. 40.

   [161] Stromat, l. 1. p. 271.

   [162] Adv. Haeres. l. 5. c. 2.

   [163] Epist. ad Ephes. p. 29.

   [164] Apolog. 2. p. 97.

   [165] See my Exposition of Matt. 26:26. See Gill on "Matthew 26:26".

   [166] Apud Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 7. c. 9. Vid. Theodorit. Hist. Eccl.
   l. 5. c. 18.

   [167] Catech. Mystagog. l. 5. s. 18.

   [168] Deut. Coena Domini Tract. Brev. p. 754. inter opera ejus. Tom. 1.

   [169] "Quae haec est in ve bis Pharisaicis audacia? quae uno edicto
   antichristi impietas et truculentia?" Aonii Palearii Testimonium, c.
   14. p. 344.

   [170] Apolog. 2. p. 97, 98.

   [171] Government of Churches, b. 7. ch. 5. p. 328, &c.

   [172] Epist. l. 10. ep. 97.

   [173] Ut Supra.
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  Chapter 3

    OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY OF THE WORD

   Next to the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, is the Public
   Ministration of the Word; which is an ordinance of Christ under the
   gospel dispensation, to be continued in the church unto the end of the
   world: Christ, as the ascended Lord and King, having received gifts for
   men, gives them to men, qualifying them for the work of the ministry;
   which work is to be exercised by them until all the elect of God are
   gathered in, the members of Christ's body, the church, completed, and
   the number of the saints perfected, and all brought to a state of
   maturity in grace, and to everlasting glory and happiness; all which
   and more may be observed in Ephesians 4:11-13.

   1. The public ministry of the word is an ordinance of Christ in the New
   Testament, and to be continued till his second coming; it is not,
   indeed, confined to the New Testament, nor peculiar to it, though most
   eminent in it.

   1a. First, there was something similar to it from the beginning, during
   the Old Testament dispensation.

   1a1. In the patriarchal state; the gospel was first preached by the Son
   of God to Adam and Eve, in the garden of Eden; the great salvation
   first began to be spoken by him, who revealed himself as the "Seed of
   the woman," that should bruise the "head" of the serpent (Gen. 3:15),
   which was the grand text the patriarchs preached from; the truths and
   doctrines contained in which, as handed down to them, they opened and
   explained to their posterity, according to the revelation of the mind
   and will of God made to them. In the times of Enos, the grandson of
   Adam, social worship was set up, and men began to perform the public
   exercises of religion (Gen. 4:26). Enoch, the seventh from Adam,
   prophesied or preached of the second coming of Christ to judge the
   world; and no doubt, as he prophesied or preached of that, so of the
   first coming of Christ, to save men. Noah was the "eighth preacher of
   righteousness;" for so the words in 2 Peter 2:5 may be rendered; [174]
   though they will admit of another sense, "Even a preacher of the
   righteousness of faith," of which he was an heir (Heb. 11:7), and
   Christ, by his Spirit in him, preached to a disobedient multitude with
   much longsuffering and patience (1 Peter 3:19, 20). Enoch, the seventh
   from Adam, was one; who the other six preachers were is not said. The
   first Adam, no doubt, was one, whom God, as a learned divine [175]
   says, "made for this end, that he might be a witness, a "preacher," and
   a praiser of his virtues and works, and, as the common master of
   mankind, might admonish and instruct his children and grandchildren
   what they might hope for, or fear, in this life and after it." And
   righteous Abel was another, who not only preached while alive, "but
   being dead, yet speaketh": and perhaps it may not be very difficult to
   find out the other four. The distinction of the sons of God, professors
   of religion, and the sons of men, profane persons, obtained in the
   times of Noah, and before (Gen. 6:2). Maimonides [176] observes, that
   their wise men say of the prophets that went before them of the house
   of the judgment of Eber, and the school of Methuselah, that they were
   all prophets, and taught men as preachers, doctors, and preceptors do.
   As Abraham had the gospel preached to him, so he preached it to others,
   as he had opportunity; the "three hundred and eighteen servants born"
   in his house, were "trained" up, or "instructed" [177] by him in
   religious things, as the word used signifies (Gen. 14:14), and a
   testimony of this is bore of him by the Lord himself (Gen. 18:19). In
   the times of Job, who seems to have lived before the giving of the law,
   the sons of God, professors of religion, met together on a certain
   stated day, to present themselves, soul and body, to the Lord, in the
   performance of religious duties, which was but their reasonable
   service; and though then they had no written word to read or explain,
   yet they had a revelation of the mind and will of God to them, by one
   means or another; as in visions, by dreams, &c. which they kept not
   from, but made known to one another (Job 6:10; see Job 4:12-19).

   1a2. Under the Mosaic dispensation there was a tabernacle pitched,
   called, the "tabernacle of the congregation;" and by Onkelos, "the
   tabernacle of the house of doctrine;" where the people resorted and
   sought doctrine. Priests and Levites were appointed, among other
   things, to instruct the people of Israel; they were interpreters and
   expounders of the law of Moses to them; the tribe of Levi in general
   (Deut. 33:10), and the priests, the sons of Aaron particularly (Lev.
   10:11), hence we read of "a teaching priest," and that "the priest's
   lips should keep knowledge," and publish it (2 Chron. 15:3; Mal. 2:7).
   And the Levites also, who were dispersed among the tribes, were
   employed in this way; in the times of Jehoshaphat they taught the
   people the law of the Lord throughout all the cities of Judah; and in
   the times of Josiah they are described as those who "taught all Israel
   what was holy to the Lord," (2 Chron. 17:9, 35:3) and in the times of
   Ezra and Nehemiah they "read in the book of the law distinctly," in the
   hearing of all the people; "and gave the sense, and caused them to
   understand the reading" (Neh. 8:8).

   1a3. Under the first and second temples were prophets, who also were
   interpreters and expounders of the law and instructors of the people;
   some of which were trained up for that purpose; hence we read of
   companies, colleges or schools of the prophets, and of the sons or
   disciples of the prophets, at Naioth, Bethel, and Jericho: some were
   more immediately raised up and inspired by God. And these prophets had
   certain places and stated times, weekly and monthly, where and when the
   people resorted to them for counsel, direction, and instruction; as
   appears from 2 King 4:23 the note of Gersom on the place is; "It seems,
   that in those days, they used to come before great men, to hear their
   words; and they taught them in the way in which they should walk, and
   the work they should do" (see 2 King 4:38, 6:32). The prophesies of
   Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and others, were delivered as the word of
   the Lord, and published separately and singly, as sermons and
   discourses to the people; and particularly it is observed of Ezekiel,
   that the people came in a body and sat before him, and heard him, and
   seemingly with great attention, and with much pleasure and delight; but
   it is complained of them, that they only heard his words, but did them
   not (Ezek. 33:31, 32).

   1a4. Some time after the Babylonish captivity, synagogues were erected,
   and synagogue worship set up; one part of which lay in public reading
   and preaching the law in them every Sabbath day; and this was a
   practice which had obtained "of old time," long before the times of
   Christ and his apostles; as appears from Acts 15:21. In these
   synagogues our Lord himself taught, and it was a custom with him so to
   do, and which he was allowed; and we read of his going into the
   synagogue at Nazareth on a sabbath day, where he stood up to read, and
   had the book of the prophet Isaiah delivered to him, which he opened,
   and out of it read his text, and then explained and applied it (Luke
   4:15-21). And so the apostles of Christ preached the word of God in the
   synagogues of the Jews; and which they were not only allowed, but were
   called upon by the rulers of the synagogue at a certain place, to give
   a word of exhortation to the people, if they had any; by which it
   appears, that it was not only usual to read the law, but to preach or
   deliver out a discourse to the people; and accordingly, we have an
   account of a sermon the apostle Paul preached in the synagogue, at
   their invitation (Acts 13:5, 15, 16; &c) and this custom of the
   synagogue is confirmed by Philo the Jew [178] who says, that when "they
   came to the holy places, called synagogues, according to their age in
   order, the young men sit under the elders (at their feet), and with a
   decent composure attend to hearing; when one taking the book, reads;
   and another one of the most skilful, explains what is not known," or is
   more obscure.

   1b. Secondly, the public ministry of the word more clearly and
   generally obtained under the New Testament, or gospel dispensation,
   according to the prophecy of it (Isa. 2:3). The first public preacher
   of this kind, and under this dispensation, was John the Baptist; "The
   law and the prophets were until John," (Luke 16:16) he came first
   preaching in the wilderness of Judea, in a very loud and clamorous way;
   he was "the voice of one crying, boontos, of one bellowing like an ox,"
   as the word signifies. The doctrine he preached was the baptism of
   repentance for the remission of sins; which, though rejected by the
   Scribes and Pharisees, was received by publicans and harlots; and this
   was called, "his course," the course of his ministry, which he
   fulfilled in a very public manner, to all the people of Israel (Acts
   13:24, 25). Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose forerunner John was, was "the
   minister of the circumcision," the minister of the word to the
   circumcised Jews; he was sent of God to preach the gospel to them, and
   was anointed with the gifts and graces of the Spirit of God, without
   measure, for that purpose; at whose doctrine his audience was
   astonished; he spoke such words of grace and wisdom as never man spoke,
   to the amazement of those that heard him; and this he did in the most
   public manner, in the synagogues and in the temple. The apostles of
   Christ were called and sent forth by him to be public ministers of the
   word; they were called by him from their nets to be fishers of men;
   they were sent forth by him at first to preach the gospel to the lost
   sheep of the house of Israel; but after his resurrection he enlarged
   their commission, and sent them into all the world, to teach all
   nations, and preach the gospel to every creature; and since there has
   been a succession of ordinary ministers of the word, more or less, in
   all ages, whom Christ, by bestowing gifts upon them, has made pastors
   and teachers, able ministers of the New Testament, and faithful
   dispensers of the mysteries of grace. For,

   1c. Thirdly, the public ministry of the word is an ordinance of Christ;
   there are private teachings, which are not only commendable, but are
   obligatory on men; as on the heads of families, parents, and masters;
   parents are to teach their children, and bring them up in the nurture
   and admonition of the Lord; and masters are to instruct their servants,
   and command their household to keep the way of the Lord; and even
   women, particularly aged women, are to be "teachers of good things;"
   and every man who has received a gift, though only for private use,
   should minister it one to another in private conference and
   conversation; but it is the public ministry of the word which is the
   special ordinance of Christ for public good and for general usefulness.
   This is not a device of men for sinister ends, and with selfish and
   lucrative views; but is by the appointment of Christ, who ordered his
   disciples, that what they heard in the ear they should "preach upon the
   house tops;" that is, in the most public manner; and therefore sent
   them into all the world, to preach the gospel to every creature under
   heaven; and accordingly the apostle Paul, that eminent minister of the
   word, preached it publicly, as well as from house to house, and even
   from Jerusalem round about to Illyricum. It is Christ that appears to
   men, and calls them, and makes them able and faithful ministers of the
   New Testament; hence such are called "ministers of God," of his making,
   and not man's; and "good ministers of Jesus Christ;" educated, not at
   schools and academies, but "nourished up in the words of faith and of
   good doctrine". The gifts qualifying them for such service are from
   Christ; the apostle Paul himself was made a minister of the gospel,
   "according to the gift of the grace of God given unto him;" and it is
   he who gives gifts to ordinary ministers of the word, and makes them
   pastors and teachers in his churches; the apostles had their mission
   and commission from him (John 20:21), and so all ministers of the word
   in successive ages; for "how shall they preach, except they be sent?"
   (Rom. 10:15) and they have their doctrines from him, which they are to
   preach; the words of the wise are from "one Shepherd," who is Christ;
   and it is with words and doctrines from him they, as under shepherds,
   are to feed the flock, even the doctrines of the gospel; which are not
   of man, nor taught by man, but are by the revelation of Christ;
   particularly such as pardon by his blood, justification by his
   righteousness, and atonement by his sacrifice; which he has ordered to
   be published in his name, to all nations, and which accordingly has
   been (Luke 24:47; Acts 13:38, 39).

   1d. Fourthly, the public ministry of the word is a standing ordinance,
   to be continued to the second coming of Christ; there will be
   ministers, and so a ministry unto the end of the world (Matthew 28:20,
   24:3, 14), and this will not be until all the elect of God are gathered
   in; the world, and the continuance of it, is for their sakes: the
   reason why the coming of Christ to destroy the world is seemingly
   deferred, is, because God is not willing that any of his beloved ones
   should perish, but that all should come to repentance; and when they
   are all brought in, he will then come and burn the world: hence the
   work of the ministry, Christ has given gifts to men to qualify them
   for, will be continued,

   1d1. Until all the elect of God "come to the unity of the faith," until
   all and everyone of them believe in Christ; for as many as are ordained
   unto eternal life, do and shall believe in him; and as faith comes by
   hearing the word, the ministration of it will be continued until they
   all believe.

   1d2. Until they all and everyone come to "the knowledge of the Son of
   God," whom to know is life eternal; and this knowledge is by the Spirit
   of wisdom and revelation, and which Christ himself gives, and that by
   means of the word, called, the word of knowledge; which must be
   continued till all know him from the least to the greatest; and their
   knowledge, which is now in part, is perfect.

   1d3. Until they come "to a perfect man;" that is, until the church of
   Christ, which like a man consists of various members, is complete, and
   all the members joined into one body, and set in their proper place,
   and become as one man; and till every individual is perfect; not only
   as to parts, but as to degrees, and that in faith, in knowledge, in
   holiness, and in every grace. And,

   1d4. Until they come "unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of
   Christ;" that is, the mystical body of Christ, his church, which is his
   fulness, and will appear so; when all the elect are gathered in, and
   are filled with the graces of the Spirit, and these at their full
   growth, and they have arrived to their just proportion in the body, and
   to the measure of their stature in it they are appointed to; and till
   all this is accomplished, the gospel ministry will continue (see Eph.
   4:12, 13). I proceed to show,

   2. That the ministry of the word is a work; it is called "the work of
   the ministry," (Eph. 4:13) it is a ministering work, a service, and not
   a dominion; such who are employed in it have not the dominion, neither
   over the faith nor over the practice of men, no further than enjoined
   by the word of God: the ministry is a service, as the word imports, and
   not a "sinecure;" there is business to be done, and a great deal of it;
   enough to employ all the time and talents of ministers, and no room nor
   leisure to indulge to sleepiness, to laziness, and slothfulness: and it
   is a laborious work; the ministers of the gospel are not to be
   loiterers, but labourers in Christ's vineyard; they labour in the word
   and doctrine, which requires much reading of the scriptures, frequent
   prayer, and constant meditation and "study," in preparing for their
   work, which is a great "weariness to the flesh;" and much "zeal,"
   fervour, and affection in the performance of it, which is attended with
   much fatigue, and an expense of the physical spirits; to which the
   apostle may have some respect (2 Cor. 12:15), and the ministers of the
   gospel are not only fellow labourers with one another, but with the
   Lord himself in his church; the manuring, cultivation, planting, and
   watering his vineyard, and the building up of his people in a church
   state, are laborious services; so that if the Lord did not go forth
   working with them, it would be to no purpose; "Neither is he that
   planteth anything, neither he that watereth," which are both parts of
   the gospel ministry, but "God that giveth the increase," success to
   their ministrations; "And except the Lord build the house, they labour
   in vain that build it," (1 Cor. 3:7, 9; Ps. 127:1) but the presence of
   the Lord with them, and the operation of his hands seen in their
   ministry, are an encouragement to them: and besides, their work is a
   good work (1 Tim. 3:1). A work pleasantly, profitably, and honourably
   good; pleasant to a minister, whose heart is in it; profitable, to them
   that sit under it, when attended with a divine blessing; and honourable
   in itself; what more so than to be the servants of the most high God,
   and to be employed in such service, as to show unto men the way of
   salvation? than to be the ambassadors of Christ, and to stand in his
   stead? than to be stewards of the mysteries of Christ, and of the
   manifold grace of God? than to be the lights of the world, stars in
   Christ's right hand, the messengers or angels of the churches, and the
   glory of Christ? And it is a work worthy of honour from men; such who
   labour in it, are "worthy of double honour;" of an honourable
   maintenance, and of an honourable respect; they are to be received with
   gladness, to be had in reputation, to be known, owned, and acknowledged
   by those over whom they are, as their fathers, guides, and governors;
   and to be highly esteemed for their work's sake: and it is the "work of
   the Lord and of Christ," (1 Cor. 16:10; Phil. 2:30) to which they are
   called by Christ, qualified for it by him, and assisted in it; of which
   he is the sum and substance, and when rightly done, makes for his
   glory: and in this they should be constant, steadfast, and immoveable,
   always abounding in it, since their labour is not in vain in the Lord;
   though no man is sufficient for it of himself; his ability is of God,
   and his dependence must be upon him both for assistance and success. I
   go on to inquire,

   3. Who are fit and proper persons to be employed in this work.

   3a. They must be of a good moral character; an immoral man is not fit
   to be a member of a church, much less a minister of the word: among the
   qualifications of a bishop, overseer, or pastor of a church, several
   moral characters are observed; as, that such must be blameless, of good
   behaviour, and have a good report of them that are without; inoffensive
   in life and conversation, lest the ministry should be blamed, and lie
   under reproach: but then he must be more than a moral man, both in
   theory and practice; a mere moralist is not capable of doing the work
   of an evangelist, or of a gospel preacher.

   3b. They must be such who are partakers of the grace of God in truth,
   or otherwise they will not be able to speak of divine things feelingly
   and experimentally; of which they cannot say they have heard and seen,
   and felt them, and therefore cannot speak of them; in some cases they
   must be dumb, and not able to speak to them; nor can they have a fellow
   feeling with souls tempted and deserted; nor have compassion on the
   ignorant; nor speak a word in season to weary souls: but then, they
   must have more grace, have more than in common other Christians have;
   or else, as Moses wished, all the Lord's people would be fit to be
   prophets and ministers of the word.

   3c. They must be endowed by Christ with ministerial gifts, such as
   Christ received for men, and gives unto them, whereby they are made and
   fitted by him to be pastors and teachers; it is not grace, nor human
   learning, nor natural parts, which qualify for the ministry of
   themselves, though they are all meet and useful; but a gift from
   Christ; the apostle Paul had all the above things, but he ascribes his
   being a minister of the gospel to neither of them, but to a "gift" he
   had received, fitting and qualifying him for this important work (Eph.
   3:7, 8), and this gift is in some greater, in others less; but in all
   where it is, it more or less qualifies for the work of the ministry
   (Rom. 12:6).

   3d. They must be studious in the scriptures, and have a competent
   knowledge of things contained in them; whereby "the man of God," the
   minister of Christ, "may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good
   works," and particularly unto the work of the ministry (2 Tim. 3:16,
   17). They should make the Bible their chief study, and attend to the
   diligent and constant reading of it, and meditate upon the things in
   it; and give themselves up wholly to them, that their profiting in the
   knowledge of the mystery of Christ might be manifest; for as they are
   to feed the churches "with knowledge and understanding," it is
   necessary they themselves should have a good share of such knowledge;
   and such who are like Apollos, mighty in the scriptures, are as
   scribes, well "instructed unto the kingdom of God" (Matthew 13:52).

   3e. They must have a call both from God and men to this work; "No man
   takes this honour to himself, but he that is called of God;" which is
   the inward call, and is known by the kind of gifts bestowed upon a man,
   fitting for such service; and by the providence of God, inclining and
   directing the church to separate him to the work to which he has called
   him; and the outward call is by the church itself, upon trial of his
   gifts. And,

   3f. They must be sent forth, they must have a mission from Christ, and
   that by the church (Rom. 10:15), the apostles of Christ were sent forth
   by him, as he was by his Father (John 20:21), there were some in
   Jeremiah's time who ran, and were not sent; prophesied, though not
   spoken to; but these were not true prophets and ministers of God.

   3g. They must be such who are counted faithful, and "put into the
   ministry" by the Lord himself; as the apostle Paul was (1 Tim. 1:12),
   not who thrust themselves, who intrude into this office, and take it to
   themselves, without the leave of God or men.

   3h. They are only the proper persons to exercise this ministry, to whom
   it is given, and who have received it of the Lord, and have given
   themselves up to it: the apostle speaks of the ministry of the word as
   what he had "received of the Lord Jesus;" as a gift bestowed on him, a
   trust committed to him, and therefore was concerned to fulfil it; and
   directs to it as an argument to be used with Archippus, "to fulfil it,"
   (Acts 20:24; Col. 4:17) and therefore such should give themselves up
   wholly to it, and employ their time and talents in it; addict
   themselves to the ministration of the saints, as the house of Stephanas
   did; and as little as possible entangle themselves with the affairs of
   life, but give themselves to the ministry of the word and prayer, as
   the apostles chose (Acts 6:4).

   3i. They should be both "able" and "apt" to teach, have abilities from
   Christ for this work, who only makes men "able ministers of the New
   Testament;" and also have utterance of speech, a gift of elocution, so
   as to be able to clothe their ideas with proper words, conveying in an
   easy manner the sense of them to the understanding of others; and
   should seek to find out acceptable and suitable words, as the royal
   preacher is said to do (Eccl. 12:10), giving pleasure and profit to
   those that hear them (2 Tim. 2:2; 1 Tim. 3:2).

   3j. They must be such who "study to show themselves workmen that need
   not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth;" giving the true
   sense of it, searching into the deep things in it, and imparting to
   everyone their portion, agreeable to their age, of children, young men,
   and fathers; to children, the sincere milk of the word; to those more
   grown, strong meat: also should distinguish between saints and sinners,
   the precious and the vile, giving the children their bread, and not
   holy things to dogs.

   4. The subject matter of the work of the ministry, is next to be
   inquired into. This, in the whole compass of it, takes in the
   ministration of the word, the administration of ordinances, the
   exercise of church discipline, and the whole care of the flock; but
   that branch of it under consideration is, the ministration of the
   gospel; and what that is may be learnt,

   4a. From the names by which it is called.

   4a1. The "ministry of the word," in general, the apostles proposed to
   give themselves up to (Acts 6:4), which is not the word of men, but of
   God; and which is spoken by the ministers of it as such, and received
   by the hearers of it, in whom it works effectually (Heb. 13:7; 1 Thess.
   2:13), and is called the word of faith, the word of truth, the word of
   reconciliation, and the word of life and of salvation (Rom. 10:8; Eph.
   1:13; 2 Cor. 5:19; Phil. 2:16; Acts 13:26).

   4a2. The ministration of the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:8), so called, because it
   is to be spoken in words which the Holy Ghost teacheth; and it makes
   known the things of the Spirit of God, spiritual truths and doctrines,
   which the natural man receiveth not; and by means of it the Spirit of
   God, and his grace are communicated and received; hence a minister of
   the gospel is described as one that ministers the Spirit to men; that
   is, is the instrument of their receiving the grace and gifts of the
   Spirit (Gal. 3:2, 5).

   4a3. The ministration of righteousness (2 Cor. 3:9), which is the "word
   of righteousness;" so called, because therein is "revealed the
   righteousness of God from faith to faith," (Heb. 5:13; Rom. 1:17) the
   grand and principal doctrine of it, is justification by the
   righteousness of Christ (Acts 13:39).

   4a4. The ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18), called, the "word of
   reconciliation," (2 Cor. 5:19) which is no other than the gospel of
   peace; the word preaching peace by Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all
   (Eph. 6:15; Acts 10:36), which does not propose to men to make their
   peace with God; but declares that peace is made by the blood of Christ,
   and that reconciliation, atonement, and satisfaction for sin, are made
   by the sufferings, death, and sacrifice of Christ.

   4b. Secondly, what this ministry is may be learnt from what the
   ministers of Christ are directed to preach, and which they make the
   subject of their ministrations. As,

   4b1. The gospel: of the gospel they are ministers; their commission is
   to preach the gospel; it is the gospel of the blessed God, which is
   committed to their trust; and there is a woe upon them if they preach
   not the gospel. Which is called,

   4b1a. The gospel of the grace of God (Acts 20:24), it being a
   declaration of the grace and favour of God in Christ; that salvation is
   entirely of grace, and not of works, from first to last; that the first
   step to it, election, is the "election of grace;" that justification
   is, "freely by the grace of God;" that forgiveness of sins, is
   "according to the riches of grace;" that adoption is owing to the
   amazing love of God; and that eternal life is the "gift," the free
   grace gift of God through Christ: all which are the subjects of the
   gospel ministry.

   4b1b. It is often called the gospel of Christ, the word of Christ, and
   the doctrine of Christ; which treats of his person, as the Son of God;
   of his offices, as Mediator, Prophet, Priest, and King; and of the
   grace that is in him; and of the blessings of grace that come by him:
   and whoever brings not this doctrine, is not to be received and
   encouraged (2 John 5:9, 10).

   4b1c. The gospel of salvation, the word of salvation, and salvation
   itself; it is a publication of salvation by Christ; it is the faithful
   saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ came into the world
   to save the chief of sinners; it declares, that there is salvation in
   him, and in no other; and that whoever believes in him shall be saved:
   this is the gospel every faithful minister preaches, and every sensible
   sinner desires to hear.

   4b2. Christ and him crucified is the subject matter, the sum and
   substance of the gospel ministry; "We preach Christ crucified;" this is
   the preaching or the doctrine of the cross; the doctrine of salvation
   by a crucified Christ; of peace by the blood of his cross; of the
   reconciliation of God's elect in one body, by the cross; of the
   atonement and expiation of their sins by his sufferings and death upon
   it; this the apostle Paul determined to make the subject, and the alone
   subject, of his ministrations (1 Cor. 1:23, 2:2).

   4c. Thirdly, the ministry of the word takes in everything respecting
   doctrine; and in general it is required, that it be sound; the words of
   faith and sound doctrine, the form of sound words, sound speech, which
   cannot be condemned; and things which become sound doctrine, which are
   healthful and salutary, the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus; and
   which are opposed to unsound, unhealthful doctrines, false doctrines,
   which eat as do a canker: and sound doctrine is such as is according to
   the scriptures, which are "profitable for doctrine;" from whence every
   doctrine is to be fetched, and thereby proved and confirmed, according
   to which every minister of the word is to preach (Isa. 8:20), and it is
   by this rule every hearer is to judge of the soundness or unsoundness
   of it, as the Bereans did (Acts 17:11), the doctrine delivered in the
   ministry of the word should be the same that was preached by Christ and
   his apostles; the first Christians continued steadfastly "in the
   apostles' doctrine;" and, indeed, if any other doctrine is preached, it
   is not to be received (Gal. 1:8, 9), and this is the doctrine which is
   "according to godliness;" which teaches it, encourages, promotes, and
   enforces it; such as the doctrines of election, of free justification
   by Christ's righteousness, of full pardon of sin by his blood, and of
   the final perseverance of the saints; which are no licentious
   doctrines, though slanderously so charged; but constrain men to live to
   Christ, who died for them and rose again; and to which every minister
   of the gospel should take heed; this is the apostle's advice to
   Timothy, "Take heed to thyself, and to thy doctrine," (1 Tim. 4:16)
   that it be pure and incorrupt, agreeable to the scriptures, the same
   with the doctrine of Christ and his apostles, and which promotes
   holiness of life and conversation.

   4d. Fourthly, the ministry of the word takes in the several duties of
   religion, which are to be insisted on in their course; and saints are
   to be exhorted to the exercise of them upon evangelical principles and
   motives; they are to be taught to observe whatsoever Christ has
   commanded, every ordinance of his, and every duty both with respect to
   God and men; they are to be put in mind to be ready to every good work,
   and to be careful to maintain them for necessary uses; every duty,
   public and private, personal, relative, and domestic, as well as every
   doctrine, are to be inculcated throughout the course of the gospel
   ministry.

   5. The manner in which the work of the ministry is to be performed may
   be next observed. And,

   5a. It should be done diligently and constantly, with great sedulity
   and perseverance, "in season and out season," (2 Tim. 4:2) and the
   apostle having mentioned several important doctrines of the gospel,
   thus charges Titus: "These things I will, that thou affirm constantly,"
   publicly and privately, and from house to house, as he did (Titus 3:8;
   Acts 20:20).

   5b. With great plainness and perspicuity (2 Cor. 3:12, 4:2), delivering
   out truth in a clear and open manner, without disguise; not using
   ambiguous expressions, phrases of a doubtful or double meaning, and an
   unintelligible jargon of words; but language plain and easy to be
   understood by those of the meanest capacity; yet not base and sordid,
   but above contempt; should speak, not in words which man's wisdom
   teacheth, but in the words of the Holy Ghost, in scripture language, or
   what is agreeable to it.

   5c. Fully and completely; which is done when every truth is preached,
   and none concealed, and no duty omitted; when nothing that is
   profitable is kept back, and the whole counsel of God is declared; and
   when it is preached "fully," as it was by the apostle Paul; and "full
   proof of the ministry" is made, which he directs to; and the ministry
   received of the Lord Jesus is fulfilled in each of the parts and
   branches of it (Rom. 15:19; 2 Tim. 4:5; Col. 4:17).

   5d. Faithfully (Jer. 23:28), ministers are stewards of the mysteries of
   God, and of his grace; and "it is required of stewards, that a man be
   found faithful," as well as wise (1 Cor. 4:1, 2; Luke 12:42) more
   honourable character cannot well be had, than what is given of
   Tychicus, that he was a "beloved brother, and faithful minister in the
   Lord;" and noticing can be more desirable, or confer a greater degree
   of honour, than at last to hear from Christ, "Well done, good and
   faithful servant!" (Eph. 6:21; Matthew 25:21, 23).

   5e. Sincerely; delivering out "the sincere milk of the word;" not
   corrupting it; not using any artful methods to colour things, and put a
   false gloss upon them; but exposing truth to public view in its native
   simplicity, without any sinister ends and selfish views; without any
   strife and contention, but of good will, to the glory of Christ, and
   the welfare of immortal souls (2 Cor. 2:17, 4:2; Phil. 1:15, 16).

   5f. Fervently; it is said of Apollos, that "being fervent in the
   Spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord," (Acts
   18:25) and the apostle Paul served God "with his Spirit in the gospel
   of his Son;" that is, his whole heart and soul were engaged in the
   ministration of it (Rom. 1:9).

   5g. The gospel, and the truths of it, should be ministered with
   certainty, and not with doubtfulness; there is such a thing as "the
   full assurance of understanding" in private Christians (Col. 2:2), and
   much more should be in ministers of the word; who should not be afraid
   of being reckoned dogmatical; they should be so; that is, they ought to
   be at a point about, and be assured of the truths they deliver to
   others; "We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of
   the living God," said the apostles of Christ; and so with respect to
   every other truth; "We believe, and therefore speak," with certainty
   and confidence (2 Tim. 3:4; John 6:69; 2 Cor. 4:13).

   5h. And so they may, as they should, "speak boldly, as they ought to
   speak," without the fear of men, which brings a snare; and not seeking
   to please them; for then they would not be the servants of Christ: thus
   the apostles, not intimidated with the threats and menaces of men, the
   persecutions of wicked men, and the opposition of false teachers; "were
   bold in their God to speak the gospel of God with much contention"
   (Eph. 6:19, 20; 1 Thess. 2:2, 4).

   5i. The gospel should be preached consistently; it should be uniform,
   and all of a piece; no contradiction, no yea and nay in it; the
   "trumpet" should not give "an uncertain sound;" otherwise it will
   occasion great confusion in the minds of those that hear it, and throw
   them into the utmost perplexity, not knowing what to believe.

   5j. The word should be dispensed wisely; the ministers of it should be
   wise, as well as faithful, to give to everyone their portion, and that
   in due season; they should study to be skilful work men, rightly
   dividing the word of truth; it requires that they should have the
   tongue of the learned, to speak a word in season to him that is weary;
   "he that winneth souls is wise;" and being "crafty," the apostle says,
   he "caught the Corinthians with guile," not with a sinful, but a
   laudable and commendable one.

   6. The utility of the public ministry of the word may be next
   considered. And,

   6a. In general; its use is for the enlargement of the interest of
   Christ in the world; and it is by means of the gospel being preached to
   all nations in all the world, that the kingdom of Christ has been
   spread every where; not only in Judea, where the gospel was first
   preached, but throughout the Gentile world multitudes were converted,
   and churches were set up everywhere; Christianity triumphed, and
   heathenism every where abolished. Julian the apostate observing this,
   in imitation of the Christians, and thinking thereby to increase and
   establish heathenism, appointed lectures and expositions of heathenish
   dogmas, respecting both morality and things more abstruse, and public
   prayers, and singing at stated hours, in pagan temples. [179]

   6b. The ministry of the word is for the conversion of sinners; without
   which churches would not be increased nor supported, and must in course
   fail, and come to nothing; but the hand of the Lord being with his
   ministers, many in every age believe and turn to the Lord, and are
   added to the churches; by which means they are kept up and preserved:
   and hence it is necessary in the ministers of the word, to set forth
   the lost and miserable estate and condition of men by nature, the
   danger they are in, the necessity of regeneration and repentance, and
   of a better righteousness than their own, and of faith in Christ; which
   things are blessed for the turning of men from darkness to light, and
   from the power of Satan unto God.

   6c. Another use of it is, "For the perfecting of the saints;" for the
   completing of the number of the elect, in the effectual calling, even
   of those who are sanctified, or set apart by God the Father, by that
   eternal act of his, choosing them in Christ; or "for the jointing in of
   the saints," as it may be rendered; who were disjointed and scattered
   abroad by the fall of Adam; these are gathered in by the ministry of
   the word; so that none shall perish, but all come to repentance; and be
   inserted into the body of the church, and presented perfect in Christ
   Jesus: hence, after this, and previous to what follows, the phrase, for
   the work of the ministry, is placed; pointing out this twofold use of
   it; as for the perfecting the saints, so,

   6d. "For the edifying of the body of Christ," (Eph. 4:12) that is, his
   church; for it is by means of the word it maketh increase unto the
   edifying of itself in love (Eph. 4:16) and thus the churches in Judea,
   Samaria, and Galilee, having rest, and peace, and blessed, with the
   ministration of the gospel, were "edified," and built up in their most
   holy faith, as individuals are (Acts 9:31; 1 Cor. 14:3).

   6e. The principal end and use of it, to which all the others tend, is
   the glory of God, and which ought to be chiefly in view in the
   performance of it (1 Peter 4:11).
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   [174] Vid. Poli Synopsin in loc et alios criticos, Zegerum, Drusium,
   &c.

   [175] Witsii Aegyptiac. l. 2. c. 15. s. 5. p. 179.

   [176] Moreh Nevochim, par. 2. c. 39.

   [177] chnykyv "Catechumenos suos," Drusius.

   [178] Quod Omnis Probus, p. 877.

   [179] Nazianzen orat. 3. adv. Julian. p. 101, 102. Sozomen, Eccl. Hist.
   l. 5. c. 16.
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  Chapter 4

    OF PUBLIC HEARING THE WORD

   The public hearing of the word is another ordinance of divine service
   under the gospel dispensation. Public reading of the scriptures was a
   part of synagogue worship (Acts 13:15, 15:21; see Luke 4:16, 17), and
   reading the scriptures publicly obtained in the primitive times of
   Christianity; as appears from Justin Martyr [180] and Tertullian; [181]
   and in later times there was a particular officer appointed to this
   service, called the "lector," or reader. Public hearing is connected
   with the public ministry of the word; they go together, and support
   each other, and the one cannot be without the other: under the former
   dispensation there was a public hearing of the law, or word of the
   Lord, at certain stated times and seasons; at the end of every seven
   years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of
   tabernacles the law was to be read "before all Israel, in their
   hearing;" men, women, and children, were to be gathered together, that
   they might "hear and learn to fear" the Lord their God (Deut.
   31:10-13), at certain times, as at new moons and sabbaths, the people
   used to come and sit before the prophets, and hear the word of the Lord
   from their mouths; and even in the Babylonish captivity, it is said to
   Ezekiel, of the people of the Jews, "They come unto thee as the people
   cometh;" whence it appears it was a custom and usual so to do (see
   Deut. 8:1, 14:1; Ezek. 33:31); when that people were returned from
   their captivity, in the times of Ezra and Nehemiah, the book of the law
   was brought forth publicly and read, in the open street, from morning
   till noon, "before men and women, and those that could understand; and
   the ears of all the people were attentive to it" (Neh. 8:2, 3). In some
   periods of time, under the former dispensation, there was a great
   scarcity of hearing the word; in the times of Eli, and when Samuel was
   young, "the word of the Lord was precious;" that is, scarce and rare,
   as such usually be that are so; for "there was no open vision;" no
   public prophet, to whom the Lord spoke in vision, and to whom the
   people could have recourse, to hear and learn, and know the word and
   will of God. In the times of Asa the people of Israel had been for a
   long season "without a teaching priest;" and so without hearing the
   law, or word of the Lord, from his mouth; they had, as it was sometimes
   threatened, a famine, "not a famine of bread, nor of thirst for water,
   but of hearing the words of the Lord" (1 Sam. 3:1; 2 Chron. 15:3; Amos
   8:11). Under the gospel dispensation, opportunities of hearing the word
   have been more frequent, and of hearing it more clearly, plainly, and
   fully; of hearing what kings and prophets desired to hear, but heard
   not; and that by all sorts of people, and oftentimes in great numbers;
   "The law and the prophets were until John," read, explained, and heard
   publicly; "Since that time the kingdom of God is preached," the gospel
   of the kingdom, in a clearer manner, and "every man presseth into it,"
   to hear it (Luke 16:16), there were great flockings to hear John, when
   he came preaching in the wilderness of Judea; and multitudes attended
   the ministry of Christ and his apostles; in process of time the Jews
   indeed put away the word of God from them, and showed themselves
   unworthy of it, and even of everlasting life; when the apostles, as
   they were ordered, turned to the Gentiles, and they gladly received it
   (Acts 28:28), and it is both the duty and privilege of all, who have
   the opportunity of hearing it, to hear it; "For faith comes by hearing,
   and hearing by the word of God," (Rom. 10:17) and this is what is to be
   treated of; concerning which may be observed the following things,

   1. The object of hearing, or what is to be heard; this is a matter of
   moment, and about which men should be cautious; our Lord's advice is,
   "Take heed what you hear," (Mark 4:24) not the cunningly devised
   fables, and illusory dreams of men are to be attended to, and heard;
   but "the word of God;" between which there is as much difference as
   between chaff and wheat (Jer. 23:28), that word, which comes from God,
   relates his mind and will, especially concerning salvation by Christ,
   is to be hearkened unto; and whatsoever is delivered by the ministers
   of the gospel, agreeable to the word of God, which is fetched out of
   it, and confirmed by it, is to be heard and received, not as the word
   of man, but as it is in truth, the word of God: not lies, spoken in
   hypocrisy, as all false doctrines are; for no lie is of the truth; not
   these, but "the word of truth," is to be heard and embraced (Eph.
   1:13), which comes from the God of truth; the substance of which is
   Christ, the truth, and which the Spirit of truth leads into the
   knowledge of, and contains in it nothing but truth: not the law, as in
   the hands of Moses; that voice of words, which they that heard,
   intreated they might hear no more, they were so terrible; but the
   gospel of salvation, which brings the good news and glad tidings of
   salvation by Christ. When Moses and Elijah were with Christ on the
   mount, the voice there from the excellent glory directed to hear, not
   Moses and Elias, but the beloved Son of God, saying, "Hear ye him": the
   sheep of Christ will not hear the voice of a stranger, which they know
   not, but the voice of Christ, the great and good Shepherd, in the
   gospel and in his ministers; which is a voice of love, grace, and
   mercy; a voice of peace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation by
   Christ; a soul quickening voice, a very powerful one, a soul charming,
   a soul alluring voice; a comforting and rejoicing one, and therefore
   very desirable to be heard, and very useful and profitable to attend
   unto; blessed are the people that hear and know this joyful sound.

   2. The act of hearing, which is twofold, internal and external; there
   may be one, the latter, without the other, the former; sometimes they
   go together; and then hearing is not only a duty, but grace, benefit,
   and blessing.

   2a. First, there is an internal hearing of the word; when it is so
   heard as to be understood, and when men know it to be the word of the
   Lord, as the flock of Christ do, even the poor of the flock, and can
   distinguish the voice of Christ from the voice of a stranger; when it
   is heard so as to approve of it, like it, love it, and receive the love
   of the truth, and that from love to it; when men feel the power of it,
   enlightening their minds in the knowledge of divine things, attracting
   their affections to Christ, bowing their wills to him; it coming not in
   word only, but in power, works effectually in them; when they taste the
   sweetness of it, and eat it, and it is the joy and rejoicing of their
   hearts; and they esteem the words of Christ's mouth more than their
   necessary food; when they hear it so as to believe it, not with a bare
   temporary faith, but with a spiritual saving faith in God and Christ
   revealed in it (John 5:24), and when they hear so as to receive the
   word into their hearts, and it becomes the ingrafted word, and springs
   up, and brings forth fruit in heart and life.

   Should it be asked, how any come by such hearing of the word, since men
   are naturally and wilfully deaf unto it, are like the deaf adder, which
   stops her ear to the voice of the charmer, charming never so wisely;
   they refuse to hearken, pull away the shoulder, stop their ears, that
   they should not hear? the answer is, that it is not of themselves, but
   of the Lord; as the seeing eye, so the hearing ear, both in a natural
   and in a spiritual sense, is from the Lord (Prov. 20:12), it is he that
   gives them ears to hear, which he does not give to all, only to some;
   when he gives them hearts and new spirits, then he gives them new ears
   to hear, what they never heard before, at least in such a manner; he
   opens their ears and hearts, as he did Lydia's, to attend to the things
   spoken in the ministry of the word; he circumcises their uncircumcised
   hearts and ears, as to love him, so to hear his word with delight and
   pleasure; all which is done in regeneration: "He that is of God," who
   is born of God, "heareth God's words," internally and spiritually; "ye
   therefore," says Christ to the Jews, "hear them not, because ye are not
   of God," are unregenerate persons (John 8:47).

   2b. Secondly, there is an external hearing of the word, which is both a
   duty and a privilege, since it is the word of God that is heard, and
   oftentimes much profit arises from it; and it is therefore to be heard,

   2b1. Constantly, and with great assiduity (Prov. 8:34), the public
   places of worship, meant by wisdom's gates and doors, where the word is
   to be heard, are daily or frequently to be attended; if the word is to
   be preached in season and out of season, it is to be heard as often; or
   otherwise preaching is to no purpose: much may be lost by a
   non-attendance on and a neglect of public worship, as the case of
   Thomas shows; and much advantage may be got by a perseverant waiting on
   the means of grace, as the case of the man having an infirmity eight
   and thirty years, after long waiting at the pool, may encourage to hope
   for and expect.

   2b2. The word of God should be heard early and eagerly. It is said of
   Christ's hearers, "that all the people came early in the morning to him
   in the temple, for to hear him," (Luke 21:38) these were such who were
   swift to hear, and their earliness to hear showed eagerness to it: an
   instance of eagerness to hear we have in Cornelius and his family, who
   having sent to Joppa for Simon Peter, who was to tell him what he ought
   to do, prepared to receive him, and therefore when he came, thus
   addressed him; "Here we are all present before God, to hear all things
   that are commanded thee of God," (Acts 10:33) they were ready waiting
   for the preacher, to hear what he had in commission to say unto them;
   and not the preacher for them, as the custom now is; so the Gentiles at
   Antioch, having heard the word of the Lord, desired that the same words
   might be spoken to them the next sabbath, when almost the whole city
   came together to hear the word of God, so eager and intent were they
   upon it (Acts 13:42, 44).

   2b3. The word of God should be heard attentively; it is observed of
   Christ's auditory, "that all the people were very attentive to hear
   him," (Luke 19:48) or "hung on him," [182] as they were "hearing;" they
   pressed to him, got close about him, and hung as it were upon his lips,
   [183] to catch every word that dropped from him; as Benhadad's
   servants, when they waited upon the king of Israel, on account of their
   master, "diligently observed whether anything would come from him, and
   did hastily catch it," to improve it in their master's favour (1 King
   20:33). When our Lord entered into the synagogue at Nazareth, and had
   the book of Isaiah given him, out of which he read a passage, and
   explained it, "the eyes of all the synagogue were fastened on him,"
   looked wistly at him, they attentively heard him, and wondered at the
   gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth (Luke 4:20, 22), when
   "the eyes of a fool," while hearing the word, "are in the ends of the
   earth," roving and wandering here and there, and he inattentive to it.

   2b4. The word of God should be hear, I with reverence; all irreverent
   looks and gestures should be avoided in hearing it; men should consider
   in whose presence they are, and whose word they are hearing; not the
   word of man, but the word of God; "Where the word of a king is, there
   is power," and it commands awe and reverence; and much more the word of
   the King of kings: God is to be feared, and had in reverence, "in the
   assembly of the saints;" in every part of religious worship there
   performed, and particularly in hearing his word; we read of some that
   "tremble" at his word, which I understand not of a slavish fear, and
   legal terror at it, but of a reverential affection for it, and
   behaviour under it.

   2b5. The word of God is to be heard with faith, since without it it is
   unprofitable (Heb. 4:2), as food not being mixed with a liquid, an
   agreeable humour in the stomach, is not digested, and becomes
   unprofitable; so the word, not being mixed with faith, is not
   concocted, and yields no nourishment.

   2b6. The word of God heard, should be carefully retained, and not let
   slip [184] (Heb. 2:1) like leaking vessels, which let out the liquor
   put into them, or like strainers which immediately let through what is
   poured into them; such are the forgetful hearers of the word, which
   ought to be laid up in the mind and memory, as a jewel in a cabinet;
   and which, when heard, should be kept in an honest and good heart, not
   only for present use, but for future good (Ps. 119:11). I proceed to
   consider,

   3. The various hearers of the word; for all men do not hear alike, and
   to like profit and advantage. Some writers [185] distribute hearers
   into four sorts, whom they compare to the following things; some are
   like "sponges," which attract and suck in all, both good and bad; such
   are those hearers who receive and like all they hear; be it a sound,
   evangelical discourse, they will express their approbation of it; and
   be it the very reverse, they will commend it as a good discourse, not
   being able to distinguish between truth and error, sound and unsound
   doctrine; the best in those hearers is, they are not difficult, but are
   easily pleased. Others are compared to "hourglasses," in which the sand
   runs quick out of one glass into another; so some hearers, what they
   hear with one ear, they let out at the other, as is usually said. A
   third sort are compared to "strainers," cloth strainers, which let all
   the good liquor pass through, and retain the dregs and lees; so these
   let pass, and take no notice of what is valuable, which they hear; but
   if there is any thing in a discourse that is weak and impertinent,
   foolish and vain, that they are sure to observe. A fourth sort are
   compared to a sort of "sieves," which let pass everything that is good
   for nothing, and only retain the fine flour; these are the best of
   hearers, and who are fed with the finest of the wheat. But our Lord,
   with much greater propriety, has divided hearers of the word into four
   sorts also; one he compares to seed that falls on the wayside, which
   the fowls of the air pick up and devour: another sort, to seed that
   falls on stony ground, or on a rock, which springing up hastily, soon
   withers and comes to nothing: a third sort, to seed that falls among
   thorns, which growing up with it, choke it, and it becomes unfruitful:
   and a fourth sort, to seed that falls on good ground, and brings forth
   fruit of various degrees (Matthew 13:1-23).

   3a. First, one sort is comparable to seed that falls by the wayside; by
   which seem to be meant casual and accidental hearers, who passing by a
   place of worship stop and step in; not with an intention to hear, but
   to gratify some curiosity or another; and therefore hear in a very
   careless and indifferent manner, and forget what they hear as soon as
   they hear it: these are compared to a way by the side of grain fields,
   left for persons to walk on between them, and so a common path, a
   beaten road; to which their hearts are like, every sin, lust, and evil
   thought passing and repassing in them, and become desperately wicked;
   and as a path thus frequently trodden becomes hard and unsusceptible of
   seed that falls upon it; so the hearts of men become hard through the
   deceitfulness of sin, and incapable of receiving any impressions upon
   them by the word they hear; and as such a wayside must be ploughed,
   broken up, and opened, ere seed can be received into it; so such hearts
   of men must be opened, as Lydia's was, to attend to the things spoken
   in the ministry of the word. These hearers are such who hear, but
   "understand" not what they hear, as a natural man does not, and so it
   is lost unto them. Our Lord interprets, "the fowls of the air,"
   catching away what was sown, and devouring it, of the wicked one,
   Satan, the devil; and it being in the plural number in the parable
   "fowls of the air," may denote the wicked one with the spiritual
   wickednesses in high places, Satan and his principalities and powers,
   the devil and his angels, compared to fowls of the air, because of
   their habitation in it; Satan being the prince of the power or posse of
   devils that dwell in the air; and because of their voraciousness,
   seeking whom and what they may devour; and as where seed is sowing,
   birds flock about to pick up what they can; so where there is a
   ministration and hearing of the word, Satan is sure to be there, to
   hinder the benefit of it as much as in him lies; and who may be said to
   "catch away that which was sown in the heart;" not grace, which was not
   sown there, and which where it is cannot be taken away, but remains;
   but as Mark and Luke have it, "the word," that was sown in their
   hearts; not in their understandings, for such hearers understand it
   not; nor in their affections, these being distinguished from the stony
   ground hearers, who receive the word with joy; but in their memories,
   and that very slightly, the heart being put for the memory, as in Luke
   2:51 out of which it is suddenly and secretly catched, being made to
   forget it immediately, by diverting the mind to other objects, and
   fixing the attention elsewhere, so that the word to such an hearer is
   entirely useless.

   3b. Secondly, another sort is like to seed that falls on stony ground,
   or on a rock, as Luke has it; by which such hearers are meant, who are
   constant and attentive, understand what they hear in some sort, and
   assent to it, "believe" it, at least "for a while," and make a
   profession of it, yea, receive it "with joy," with a flash of natural
   affection, like Herod, and others of John's hearers (Mark 6:20; John
   5:35), yet but stony ground still; their hearts are as hard as a rock,
   unbroken by the word, without any true sense of sin, and repentance for
   it, and destitute of any spiritual life and motion, stubborn,
   inflexible, stout hearted, and far from righteousness. Now it is said
   of this seed, that it "withered away," for want of depth of earth; and
   as Luke has it, because it lacked moisture, and through the scorching
   heat of the sun, and because it had no root; so hearers, comparable to
   such ground, and the seed on it, "wither" in their profession; the
   leaves of profession drop from them like leaves from trees in autumn,
   and leave them bare and naked; and because of the trouble they meet
   with in their profession, they are "offended and stumble, and in a time
   of temptation," as a time of persecution is, they "fall away;" not from
   grace they never had, but from the doctrine of grace they professed:
   which is owing, partly to the word not being sown deeply in their
   hearts; for as the seed to which they are compared soon sprung up,
   because it had but little depth of earth to get through, for the same
   reason it soon withered away; and so in these hearers, there being only
   some slight convictions, and superficial knowledge, and a temporary
   historical faith; but no solid, substantial truth and wisdom in the
   inward parts, they soon decline in their profession: and partly to
   their not being watered continually with the rain of heavenly doctrine,
   and the dews of divine grace, and also to the sun of persecution
   beating upon them they cannot bear, and to their having no root,
   neither in the love of God, nor in Christ, nor in themselves; the root
   of the matter not being in them, in of time they come to nothing.

   3c. Thirdly, a third sort is like to seed that falls among thorns,
   which choke it; these design such who having heard the word, "go
   forth," as Luke says, not in acts of growth and fruitfulness, as in
   Malachi 4:2 rather in the course of an external profession, as the
   virgins, wise and foolish, took their lamps of profession, and went
   forth to meet the bridegroom; or it may be, those hearers may be said
   to go forth, not to hear the word, but from it; neglecting and
   forsaking it, as Demas forsook the apostle Paul, having loved the
   world; of which complexion these hearers seem to be, and so went forth
   to their worldly business; like those invited to the wedding, who made
   light of it, and went their way, one to his farm, another to his
   merchandise. Our Lord interprets the thorns which choked the seed, of
   worldly cares, deceitful riches, the lusts of other things, and the
   pleasures of this life, which all are of a surfeiting and suffocating
   nature. By the "care of the world," is not meant a laudable care of a
   man to provide for himself and family, and that he may have to give to
   them that need; but an anxious, immoderate one, which is, like thorns,
   distressing, afflictive, an, perplexing; and which is vain and
   fruitless, since by all a man's care and thought he cannot add a cubit
   to his stature; and yet so much engross his thoughts, as to hinder the
   usefulness of the word: riches are "deceitful" things, they do not give
   the satisfaction they promise, nor continue as long as may be expected;
   and are sometimes the means of leading out of the right way, and cause
   men to err from the faith, and drop the profession of it; or prevent
   their going into the right way, and following Christ, as the young man
   in the gospel: and like thorns, they are pricking, and pierce men
   through with many sorrows, who covet after them (1 Tim. 6:9, 10), and
   are injurious to others; the prince, the judge, and the great man, the
   best of them is as a brier, and the most upright is sharper than a
   thorn hedge, who oppress and crush the poor; and they are unprofitable,
   as to another world, cannot profit in the day of wrath, nor give to God
   a ransom for the soul: and "other lusts," worldly and fleshly ones, as
   they are contrary to the word, they war against the soul, and so are
   hurtful; and the "pleasures of life" are but for a season, and short
   lived, and though they are sweet and pleasant for a while, they are
   bitterness in the end, and are found to be vanity and vexation of
   spirit, and lead to destruction; such hearers, in whom these things
   prevail, are like the earth, described Hebrews 6:8. Now it is said of
   the thorns, that they "sprung up," that is, of themselves, as thorns
   do, and are not sown and planted; and the lusts signified by them, are
   the works of the flesh, and spring from corrupt nature; and these
   "enter" into the heart, and overspread the powers and faculties of the
   soul, and so "choke" the word, as the thorns the seed, by overtopping
   it, and it becomes unfruitful, brings forth no fruit, at least none to
   perfection.

   3d. Fourthly, a fourth sort of hearers is like to seed that falls on
   good ground, and brings forth fruit of various degrees; by whom are
   meant such who hear, and "understand" what they hear; not merely
   notionally, but experimentally; into whose hearts the word enters,
   accompanied with a divine power; the entrance of which give light into
   the knowledge of divine things; by which such know the worth of it, and
   prize it above thousands of gold and silver, and can discern things
   that differ, and approve what is excellent; can distinguish between
   truth and error, and receive the one and reflect the other; these are
   such hearers who hear the word, and "receive" it, as Mark has it; not
   into their heads only, but into their hearts, where it has a place, and
   dwells richly; who receive it not as the word of man, but as the word
   of God; as his witness and record which he bears of his Son, of his
   person, and divine Sonship, and of eternal life and salvation by him;
   and receive it gladly, as did the three thousand pricked to the heart;
   and with all readiness, like the noble Beraeans, having searched and
   examined what they heard; and also receive the ingrafted word with
   meekness, subjecting their reason to divine revelation; not exercising
   themselves in things too high for them, rejecting every vain
   imagination, carnal reasonings, and all high thoughts exalted against
   the knowledge of Christ: these are such hearers, as it is expressed in
   Luke, who, "in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep
   it;" where the good ground is explained of a good heart, made so by the
   Spirit and grace of God; otherwise the heart of man is wicked, yea,
   desperately wicked; nor is it in the power of man to make his heart
   good; it is God only that can create a clean and good heart in him;
   give him an heart of flesh, soft and tender, susceptible of the word,
   on which, through divine grace, it makes good impressions; and here it
   is laid up as a rich jewel in a cabinet, and kept and preserved for
   future use: here what is committed is kept and held fast, such will not
   part with it, nor depart from it, but keep it without wavering, being
   established in it, and with it; stand fast in it, in the profession of
   it: and these "bring forth fruit with patience;" which fruit they have
   from Christ, the green fir tree; and through an ingrafture into him,
   and abiding in him, as branches in the vine; and which is produced
   under the influence of the Spirit of God, and makes much for the glory
   of God; and which appears in the exercise of grace, and in the
   performance of good works: and this is brought forth "with patience"
   under sufferings and is increased thereby, and continues until it is
   brought to perfection; and is in some more, in others less, and in all
   good fruit, of the same quality, though not of the same quantity
   (Matthew 13:23; Mark 4:20; Luke 8:15). I go on to observe,

   4. What is requisite to the right hearing of the word, both before it,
   at it, and after it.

   4a. First; what is necessary previous to hearing the word, and in order
   to it.

   4a1. Prayer should go before it. Such who are desirous of hearing the
   word to profit and advantage, should pray for the minister, that he may
   be directed to what may be suitable to their cases, be assisted in his
   work, and be greatly blessed to their souls' good: and for themselves,
   that they might have their minds disposed to hear the word, and be kept
   from wanderings under it, and that they may understand what they hear,
   and receive it in the love of it; otherwise how can a blessing on
   Zion's provisions be expected, when it has not been asked? and how
   unreasonable is it to blame the preacher, when reflecting on their own
   conduct, should take the blame to themselves.

   4a2. There should be a previous consideration of the nature, use, and
   end of this service; that it is intended the good and edification of
   the souls of men, and glory of God; it should be considered of what
   importance it is to themselves, and how grateful to God when rightly
   performed (1 Sam. 15:22), men should consider into whose presence they
   are entering, whose word they are about to hear; what attention should
   be given to it, and what reverence of it! the advice of the wise man
   should be regarded (Eccl. 5:1), they should consider the advantages
   which may arise from hearing the word, which they should propose to
   themselves for their encouragement, and consider what need they stand
   in of instruction, and what to be instructed in; for if they are wise
   in their own conceits, and fancy themselves to be wiser than their
   teachers, there is no hope nor expectation of the word heard being of
   any advantage to them; it is the meek and humble God will teach his
   way, and instruct by his word.

   4a3. An appetite to the word is necessary to hearing it; the word is
   food, hearing and receiving it in faith is feeding on it; this cannot
   be comfortable done without a spiritual appetite; there must be a
   desire after the sincere milk of the word; the church "desired and sat
   down," as the words [186] may be rendered (Song 2:3), desired to sit
   down under the shadow of Christ, his word and ordinances, and did sit
   down with delight; and it follows, "His fruit was sweet to her taste;"
   she had a gust for it, a relish of it; "Blessed are they which do
   hunger and thirst after righteousness," the word of righteousness,
   "they shall be filled," satisfied with it, as with marrow and fatness:
   to hear the word without an appetite, is like a man sitting down at a
   table well furnished with provision, with delicious food, and well
   dressed and served up, but has no appetite to feed upon it.

   4b. Secondly, there are some things necessary while hearing the word.

   4b1. A man should try what he hears, and while hearing; for "the ear
   tries words;" not that persons should sit as critics upon the words,
   phrases, and expressions of the preacher, to judge of the justness of
   his style, the propriety of his diction, and the cadency of his words;
   hearing the word to profit requires no such critical art: but men
   should try the things that are said, the doctrines that are delivered,
   by their own experience, whether agreeable to it; and by the word of
   God, whether according to it; and this they are to do while hearing it,
   so far as their judgment will reach, and they can recollect the sense
   of the sacred scriptures.

   4b2. A man should take to himself what he hears, and while hearing it.
   Some hear not for themselves, but for others; when such and such
   expressions drop from the preacher, they presently conceive in their
   minds, that they are suitable to such a man, and hit such a man's case,
   and have no regard to themselves; whereas, in hearing, they should
   observe what is "for doctrine;" whether it is for the illumination of
   their minds in it, and for the establishment of them in the present
   truth; and if "for reproof" for sin, that it is for their own; and if
   "for correction" of conduct and conversation, that it is of their own;
   and if "for instruction in righteousness," in any branch of duty, that
   it concerns them; so when they hear of Christ as a Saviour, and of the
   great salvation by him, and of the blessings and promises of grace,
   they are to take these to themselves by faith, as belonging to them;
   "To you is the word of this salvation sent" (Acts 13:26).

   4b3. Faith is to be mixed with the word, while hearing it; men should
   make faith of what they hear, or believe it for themselves, digest it
   as food, and so will it be profitable unto them (Heb. 4:2).

   4c. Thirdly, after hearing the word some things are to be done, which
   may be of use and service.

   4c1. There should be a recollection of what has been heard, as much as
   may be; persons should retire privately, and meditate upon what they
   have heard; the beasts that were accounted clean under the law, were
   such as chewed the cud; hearers of the word should endeavour to fetch
   back and call over again what they have heard, when their meditation on
   it is often as sweet or sweeter than at the first hearing it.

   4c2. When two or more meet together after hearing the word, and
   converse together about what they have heard, this may tend to much
   profit and advantage, to refresh one another's memories; what one has
   forgotten, another may remember; or what has appeared difficult to one,
   may be explained by another; and thus by speaking to and conferring
   with one another, it is a means of building up each other in their most
   holy faith.

   4c3. It is proper to consider how it has been with them while hearing
   the word; if they have been careless and inattentive, wandering, cold,
   and indifferent under it; they will see reason for humiliation and
   lamentation that so it should be with them, while hearing such
   evangelic truths, and such excellent doctrines delivered to them; or if
   their souls have been enlarged, their hearts warmed, their affections
   raised, their judgments informed, their knowledge increased, and their
   souls established in the present truth, they will be led to praise and
   thankfulness: and upon the whole, there should be a concern that what
   they hear is put in practice, that they are "doers of the word, and not
   hearers only, deceiving their own souls," (James 1:22).

   5. The utility of hearing the word, or the advantages which under a
   divine blessing arise from it, are next to be considered; and which may
   be regarded as so many encouraging reasons and arguments to attend to
   this duty; and which will be only just enumerated; as,

   5a. Conviction of sin, and of a lost and undone state and condition by
   nature, oftentimes comes by hearing the word; as the three thousand
   under Peter's sermon (Acts 2:36), so sometimes an unbeliever comes into
   a congregation, where the word is preached, and he is "convinced of
   all," of all his sins and iniquities, and he is "judged of all,"
   condemned for them in his own conscience (1 Cor. 14:24, 25).

   5b. Conversion also is by means of it; the end of the word being
   preached and heard, is to turn men from the darkness of sin and error
   to the light of grace and truth; from the power, dominion, and slavery
   of Satan, to serve the living God; from the ways of sin and folly to
   the paths of righteousness and holiness; from a dependence on a man's
   own righteousness, to trust in the righteousness of Christ (see Acts
   26:18); hence one of the epithets of the law, or doctrine of the Lord,
   from its effect, is, "converting the soul," (Ps. 19:7).

   5c. In this way, or by hearing the word, the Spirit of God, his gifts
   and graces, are conveyed into the hearts of men (Gal. 3:2).

   5d. Particularly faith usually comes this way (Rom. 10:17).

   5e. The joy of faith, and an increase of that, and of every other
   grace, are by means of it (Phil. 1:25).

   5f. Comfort is had by it; he "that prophesieth," or preacheth,
   "speaketh to comfort," (1 Cor. 14:3) the end and use of the gospel
   ministry is to comfort those that mourn; the commission given by Christ
   to his ministers, is to speak comfortably to his people (Isa. 40:1, 2,
   61:2).

   5g. The knowledge of Christ, and an increase of it, are the fruits and
   effects of hearing the word, when blessed (2 Cor. 2:14).

   5h. Love to Christ is drawn forth, and glowing affection to him raised
   by means of it (Song 1:3; Luke 24:32).

   5i. Food and nourishment, in a spiritual sense, are by the word; it is
   found and eat, when heard, and souls are nourished with the words of
   faith and good doctrine, even with the wholesome words of our Lord
   Jesus Christ.

   5j. Hearing seasons are sometimes sealing ones (Eph. 1:13). Besides
   public hearing the word, there should be a private reading of the
   scriptures, which should be searched to see whether what is heard be
   true or not (John 5:39; Acts 17:11), and they should be read in
   families, for the instruction of them in righteousness; and hereby even
   children may come to know the scriptures early in life (2 Tim. 3:15,
   16; Eph. 6:4).
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   [180] Apolog. 2. p. 98.

   [181] Deut. Anima, c. 9.

   [182] exekremato "pendebat," Vatablus.

   [183] "Pendentque iterum narrantis ab ore," Virgil.

   [184] pararruomen, "perfluamus," Vatablus.

   [185] Vid. Amesium de Casibus Conscientiae, l. 4. c. 11. p. 187.

   [186] chmdty vysvtyg.
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  Chapter 5

    OF PUBLIC PRAYER

   Prayer is one part of the saints' spiritual armour, and a principal
   one, though mentioned last (Eph. 6:18), it has been often of use
   against temporal enemies, and for obtaining victory over them; as the
   prayers of Asa, Jehoshaphat, and others, show 2 Chronicles 14:11, 12,
   20:3-5, 22. It is reported of Mary, queen of Scots, that she dreaded
   the prayer of John Knox, an eminent minister, more than an army of
   twenty thousand men. And it is of use against the spiritual enemies of
   God's people, and for the vanquishing of them. Satan has often felt the
   force of this weapon; resist the devil, by faith in prayer, and he will
   flee from you. When the apostle Paul was buffeted and distressed by
   him, he had recourse to it; he besought the Lord thrice that the
   temptation might depart from him; and had for answer, "My grace is
   sufficient for thee!" and indeed, as this part of the Christian armour
   is managed, so it goes with the saint, for or against him. In the war
   between Israel and Amalek, when Moses held up his hands, an emblem of
   vigorous prayer, then Israel prevailed; but when he let down his hands,
   a token of remissness in prayer, Amalek prevailed. Prayer has great
   power and prevalence with God, for the removal or prevention of evil
   things, and for the obtaining of blessings. Jacob had the name of
   Israel given him, because, as a prince, he had power with God, and
   prevailed, that is, by prayer and supplication (Gen. 32:26, 28; see
   Hosea 12:3, 4). Elijah prayed earnestly, and his prayer was availing
   and effectual (James 5:16-18). Prayer is the breath of a regenerate
   soul; as soon as a child is born into the world it cries, as soon as a
   soul is born again it prays; it is observed of Saul upon his
   conversion, "Behold, he prayeth!" where there is life there is breath;
   where there is spiritual life, there are spiritual breathings; such
   souls breathe after God, pant after him as the hart panteth after the
   water brooks: Prayer is the speech of the soul to God; [187] a talking
   to him, a converse with him, in which much of its communion with God
   lies. Prayer is an address to God in the name of Christ, and through
   him as the Mediator, under the influence and by the assistance of the
   Spirit of God, in faith, and in the sincerity of our souls, for such
   things we stand in need of, and which are consistent with the will of
   God, and are for his glory to bestow, and therefore to be asked with
   submission. Now though it is public prayer, or prayer as a public
   ordinance in the church of God, I am in course to consider, yet I
   shall,

   1. Take notice of the various sorts of prayer, which will lead on to
   that; for there is a praying with all prayer, which denotes many sorts
   and kinds of prayer.

   1a. There is mental prayer, or prayer in the heart; and, indeed, here
   prayer should first begin; so David found in his heart to pray (2 Sam.
   7:27), and it is "the effectual fervent," or energoumene, "the
   inwrought prayer of the righteous man that availeth much;" which is
   wrought and formed in the heart by the Spirit of God (James 5:16). Such
   sort of prayer was that of Moses, at the Red Sea, when the Lord said to
   him, "Wherefore criest thou unto me?" and yet we read not of a word
   that was spoken by him; and of this kind was the prayer of Hannah; "She
   spake in her heart," (1 Sam. 1:13) and this may be performed even
   without the motion of the lips, and is what we call an ejaculatory
   prayer, from the suddenness and swiftness of its being put up to God,
   like a dart shot from a bow; and which may be done in the midst of
   business the most public, and in the midst of, public company, and not
   discerned; as was the prayer of Nehemiah in the presence of the king
   (Neh. 2:4, 5), and such prayer God takes notice of, and hears; and, as
   an ancient writer [188] observes, "Though we whisper, not opening our
   lips, but pray in silence, cry inwardly, God incessantly hears that
   inward discourse," or prayer to him, conceived in the mind.

   1b. There is prayer which is audible and vocal. Some prayer is audible,
   yet not articulate and intelligible, or it is expressed by inarticulate
   sounds; as, "with groanings which cannot be uttered;" but God knows and
   understands perfectly the language of a groan, and hears and answers.
   But there is vocal prayer, expressed by articulate words, in language
   to be heard and understood by men, as well as by the Lord; "I cried
   unto the Lord with my voice," &c. (Ps. 3:4, 5:2, 3) and to this kind of
   prayer the church is directed by the Lord himself (Hosea 14:2).

   1c. There is private prayer, in which a man is alone by himself; to
   which our Lord directs (Matthew 6:6), an instance and example of this
   we have in Christ (Matthew 14:23; see also an instance of this in
   Peter; Acts 10:9).

   1d. There is social prayer, in which few or more join together,
   concerning which, and to encourage it, our Lord says, "Where two or
   three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
   them," (Matthew 18:19, 20) an instance of this social prayer with men
   is in Acts 20:36 and it is this social prayer with fewer or more the
   apostle Jude has respect unto (Jude 1:20).

   1e. There is family prayer, performed by the head and master of the
   family in it, and with it. Joshua set a noble example of family worship
   (Josh. 24:15), and an instance we have in David (2 Sam. 6:20), and even
   Cornelius, the Roman centurion, before he was acquainted with
   Christianity, was in the practice of it (Acts 10:2, 30), and the
   contrary behaviour is resented, and the wrath and fury of God may be
   expected to fall upon the families that call not on his name (Jer.
   10:25), and it is but reasonable service, since family mercies are
   daily needed, and therefore should be prayed for; and family mercies
   are daily received, and therefore thanks should be every day returned
   for them.

   1f. There is public prayer, which is performed in bodies and
   communities of men, who meet in public, unite and join together in
   divine worship, and particularly in this branch of it; for prayer
   always was made a part of public worship.

   1f1. First, this part of divine worship was set up in the days of Enos,
   for "then began men to call upon the name of the Lord;" that is, to
   pray in the name of the Lord, as it is paraphrased in the Targum, [189]
   of Genesis 4:26 not but that good men before this time prayed
   personally, and in their families; but now families becoming more
   numerous and larger, they met and joined together, in carrying on
   public worship, and this part of it particularly; and so it continued
   during the patriarchal state.

   1f2. Secondly, under the Mosaic dispensation, while the tabernacle was
   standing, this practice was used: for the tabernacle was called, the
   "tabernacle of the congregation;" because, as Munster observes, there
   the congregation of Israel met to pray and to sacrifice (Ex. 27:21).
   Moreover, there was another tabernacle which Moses pitched without the
   camp, which seems to be a temporary one, and which he called by the
   same name (Ex. 33:7), and which, according to the Targum of Jonathan,
   was not only a place for instruction in doctrine, but where everyone
   who truly repented went and confessed his sins, and asked pardon for
   them, and had it.

   1f3. Thirdly, in the temple, both first and second, public prayer made
   a part of divine worship; here at the dedication of the first temple,
   Solomon prayed in public, all Israel present; and where the people, in
   after times, were to pray and make supplication; and here Jehoshaphat
   stood and prayed, and all the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem with
   him: and hence the temple was called "the house of prayer" (Isa. 56:7).
   Likewise in the second temple, prayer was wont to be made in it; we
   read of two men going up to the temple to pray, and what they prayed
   (Luke 18:10; see Acts 3:1). It was usual with the people to be employed
   in prayer at the time the incense was offered; so while Zechariah was
   burning incense in the temple, the people were praying without (see
   Luke 1:9,10); hence prayer is compared to incense, and the prayers of
   the saints are called odours, and said to be offered with much incense
   (Ps. 141:2; Rev. 8:3, 4), and Agatharcides, [190] an heathen writer,
   bears this testimony to the Jews, while the temple was standing, that
   they kept the seventh day as a rest from labour, and did no work in it,
   but continued in the temple, stretching out their hands in prayer unto
   the evening; and it should be observed, that there were a set of men at
   Jerusalem called "stationary men," who were the representatives of the
   people in the country, who, because they could not appear in the temple
   at the time of sacrifice, the residing of the law, and prayer, these
   attended for them and represented them. [191]

   1f4. Fourthly, public prayer was a part of synagogue worship, and which
   may be learned from what our Lord says of the hypocrites, who loved to
   "pray standing in the synagogues," where they might be seen and heard
   of men (Matthew 6:5), the Jews in general have a great notion of public
   prayer, as being always heard, and that therefore men should always
   join with the congregation, and not pray alone; but should always
   attend morning and evening in the synagogue; since no prayer is heard
   but what is put up in the synagogue; [192] and they say, in whatsoever
   place are ten Israelites, they are obliged to fit up a house where they
   meet for prayer, at every time of prayer, and this place is called a
   synagogue; [193] and which some take to be the same with, though others
   think they differ from, the "proseucha," oratory, or place where prayer
   was wont to be made, into which Paul and Silas went near Philippi, and
   spoke to those who resorted thither; and in one of these it is thought
   our Lord continued a whole night praying (Acts 16:13; Luke 6:12), in
   which the Jews met for instruction, as well as for prayer, especially
   on Sabbath days; as is observed by Philo [194] and Josephus, [195] and
   was an ancient custom.

   1f5. Fifthly, under the New Testament dispensation, prayer was always a
   part of public worship in the several churches; as in that at
   Jerusalem, the first Christian church. When the disciples returned
   thither after our Lord's ascension, they continued in "prayer and
   supplication," with the women and others, who constituted that first
   church; and it is observed, in commendation of those that were added to
   it, that they continued steadfastly "in prayer," in the public prayers
   of the church, whenever they met together; and where there was
   sometimes a remarkable appearance of the divine presence; and it was to
   this part of service, as well as to the ministry of the word, the
   apostles gave themselves continually (Acts 1:14, 2:42, 4:31, 6:4). Such
   was the prayer made by this church, without ceasing, for Peter, when in
   prison, and was remarkably heard (Acts 12:5), so in the church at
   Corinth, public prayer was a part of divine worship; for it is with
   respect to that the apostle gives directions to men and women praying,
   that is, attending that part of public service, the one with their
   heads uncovered, the other with their heads covered (1 Cor. 11:4, 5),
   and it is with respect to his own practice in public that he says, "I
   will pray with the spirit," &c. (1 Cor. 14:15, 16, 19). The several
   directions and exhortations to the churches to attend to the duty of
   prayer, does not regard them merely as individuals, but as bodies and
   communities, joining together in that service (Eph. 6:18; Phil. 4:6;
   Col. 4:2; 1 Thess. 5:17), and public prayer seems to be chiefly
   intended by the apostle (1 Tim. 2:1, 2, 8), and this was foretold of
   gospel times (Mal. 1:11). Now this practice obtained in the earliest
   times of Christianity, and is still continued in Christian assemblies;
   so Justin Martyr says, [196] that after reading the scriptures, and
   preaching, we all rise up in common, and send up prayers; and after the
   administration of the supper, he observes, the president or pastor of
   the church, according to his ability, pours out prayers and
   thanksgivings, and all the people aloud cry "Amen;" and so Tertullian,
   [197] "We come together in the congregation to God, and as it were with
   our hands by prayer compass him about; this force is grateful to God:
   we also pray for emperors, for their ministers, &c." And from Justin,
   as well as from Origen, Cyprian, and others, we learn, that the gesture
   of the ancients in public prayer was "standing;" nay, Tertullian [198]
   says, "We reckon it unlawful to fast on the Lord's day, or to worship
   on the knees;" and it was ordered by the council of Nice, "that whereas
   there were some who bent their knees, it seemed right to the synod that
   they should perform their prayers standing." Now though my subject is
   public prayer, yet as all prayer agrees in the object of it; and in the
   main as to the matter and manner of it, and in persons and things to be
   prayed for, I shall proceed to consider,

   2. The object of prayer; which is not a mere creature, animate or
   inanimate; it is the grossest absurdity to set up the wood of a graven
   image, and pray unto it, which cannot save; to pray to idols of gold
   and silver, the work of mens' hands, which cannot speak, see, nor hear;
   are unable to give any help, or bestow any favour upon their votaries:
   nor to saints departed; for the dead know not anything of the affairs
   of men in this world; nor can they assist them in them; their sons come
   to honour, and they know it not; they are brought low, but not
   perceived by them; Abraham is ignorant of his sons, and Israel
   acknowledges them not; it is in vain to turn to any of the saints, or
   direct prayers unto them: nor to angels, who have always refused
   worship from men, of which prayer is a considerable part; the angel
   invoked by Jacob was not a created, but the increated one (Gen. 48:16).
   God only is and ought to be the object of prayer; "My prayer," says
   David, "shall be unto the God of my life," who gives life and breath to
   all; he upholds their souls in life, and in him they live, move, and
   have their being; he is the Father of mercies, and the God of all
   grace, who only can supply with temporal mercies and spiritual
   blessings, and from whom every good and perfect gift comes; he only can
   hear the prayers of his people; he only knows men and their wants, and
   he only is able to help and relieve them; he is God all sufficient,
   needs nothing for himself, and has enough for all his creatures; he is
   a God at hand and afar off, and is nigh to all that call upon him, and
   is a present help in time of need; he is good to all, and his tender
   mercies are over all his works; he is gracious and merciful, abundant
   in goodness and truth. All which, as it makes him to be a proper object
   of prayer, and recommends him as such, so serves greatly to encourage
   men in their addresses to him.

   God in his Three Persons is the proper object of prayer; Father, Son,
   and Spirit; who are the one true God; and it is lawful to address
   either of them in prayer, though not one to the exclusion of the
   others. Sometimes the Father is prayed unto singly, and as distinct
   from the Son and Spirit; "If ye call upon the Father," (1 Peter 1:17)
   as he may be called upon as a distinct divine Person in the Godhead, of
   which we have instances in Ephesians 1:16, 17, 3:14-16, the second
   Person, the Son of God, is said to be invoked by all the saints in
   every place (Acts 9:14; 1 Cor. 1:2), he is sometimes singly prayed
   unto; as by Stephen at his death; "Lord Jesus receive my Spirit!" and
   by the apostle John, for his second coming; "Even so, come, Lord
   Jesus!" (Acts 7:59; Rev. 22:20) and sometimes conjunctly with the
   Father; as when "grace and peace" are prayed for, as in almost all the
   epistles, "From God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ," (Rom.
   1:7; &c.) and sometimes in prayer he is set before the Father; and
   sometimes the Father before him, to show their equality (1 Thess. 3:11;
   2 Thess. 2:16), the third Person, the Spirit of God, is also sometimes
   singly prayed to, and as distinct from the Father and Son (2 Thess.
   3:5), and the blessings of grace are prayed for from all three together
   (2 Cor. 13:14; Rev. 1:4, 5).

   The first person in the Godhead is usually addressed in prayer, under
   the character of a Father; so Christ taught his disciples to pray; "Our
   Father, which art in heaven," &c. as he is the Creator and the Father
   of spirits, and the author of their beings; so the church in the times
   of Isaiah (Isa. 64:8), and also as he is the Father of Christ, and our
   Father in Christ; as such is he frequently addressed (2 Cor. 1:3; Eph.
   1:3). Now the reason why the address in prayer is generally made to
   him, though it may be made equally to either of the other two persons,
   is, because of the priority of order he has, though not of nature, in
   the deity, and because he bears no office; whereas the other two
   persons do bear an office, and an office which is concerned in the
   business of prayer.

   Christ is the Mediator between God and men, by whom we approach to God,
   and offer up our prayers to him; there is no approaching to God in any
   other way; God is a consuming fire; the flaming sword of justice stands
   between God and sinners; there is no day's man between them to lay his
   hands on both, but Christ; none can come to the Father but by him; he
   has opened a way to him through the vail of his flesh, and through his
   precious blood, which gives boldness to enter into the holiest of all;
   through him there is an access by one Spirit unto the Father; he is the
   way of acceptance with God, as well as of access unto him; it is by him
   we offer up the sacrifice of prayer and praise, which becomes
   acceptable to God through the incense of his mediation. The
   encouragement to prayer is taken chiefly from him; and the pleas at the
   throne of grace for blessings of grace are founded on his person,
   blood, righteousness, sacrifice, and intercession; from his being an
   advocate with the Father for us, and the propitiation for our sins, and
   from our having such and so great an High Priest, that is passed into
   the heavens, and is over the house of God; we are encouraged to come
   boldly to the throne of grace, to draw near with true hearts, and even
   in full assurance of faith (1 John 2:1, 2; Heb. 4:14, 16, 10:21, 22),
   believing, that whatsoever we ask in his name the Father will give it
   to us; yea, that Christ himself "will do it;" which shows his equality
   with his Father, and that he has the same power of doing what he does
   (John 14:13, 14, 16:23, 24).

   The Spirit of God has also a great concern in prayer; he is the author
   and enditer of it; he is the "Spirit of grace and of supplication," who
   forms it in the heart; and therefore it is called "inwrought prayer;"
   he creates divine breathings, and holy desires after spiritual things
   in men; yea, puts words into their mouths, and bids them take them with
   them; he impresses their minds with a feeling sense of their wants, and
   fills their mouths with arguments, and puts strength into them to plead
   with God; he helps them under their infirmities, when they know not
   what to pray for, nor how; and makes intercession for them according to
   the will of God; he gives freedom to them when they are so shut up that
   they cannot come forth; where he is there is liberty; he is the Spirit
   of adoption, witnessing to their spirits that they are the children of
   God; enables them to go to God as their Father, and to cry Abba,
   Father; and as the Spirit of faith, encourages them to pray in faith
   and with fervency. Moses, when he prayed for Israel, when engaged in
   battle with Amalek, represented a praying saint in its conflict with
   spiritual enemies; a stone was put under him, on which he sat, while
   lifting up his hands, an emblem of Christ, the Eben Ezer, the stone of
   help in time of need; Aaron and Hur, the one on one side, and the other
   on the other, held up his hands, and stayed them; Aaron, who could
   speak well, was a type of Christ the advocate and spokesman, of his
   people, by whose mediation they are encouraged and supported in prayer;
   and Hur is a name which has the signification of liberty, and may point
   to the Spirit of God, who is a "free Spirit," and as such upholds and
   supports the saints in the exercise of grace and discharge of duty. The
   next to be considered are,

   3. The parts of prayer, of which it consists; the apostle, in
   Philippians 4:6 uses four words to express it by; and which are
   commonly thought to design distinct species or parts of prayer; which
   are comprehended under the general name of "requests," or petitions, as
   "prayer and supplication with thanksgiving": and he also uses four
   words for it, [199] with some little difference, in 1 Timothy 2:1
   "Supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks;" by which
   one and the same thing may be signified in different words, according
   to the different respects which it has; [200] but if these have
   different senses, and are different species or parts of prayer,
   Origen's [201] account of them seems as good as any; that
   "supplication" is for some good that we stand in need of; "prayer" for
   greater things, when in great danger, that is, deliverance from it;
   "intercession" is expressed with more freedom, familiarity, and faith,
   with greater confidence of having what is asked of God; and
   "thanksgiving" is an acknowledgment of good things obtained of God by
   prayer. But to proceed, and more particularly consider the parts of
   prayer, of what it consists; and I mean not to prescribe any form of
   prayer, but to direct to the matter and method. And,

   3a. In prayer there should be a celebration of the divine perfections;
   and it is proper to begin with this; we should declare the name of the
   Lord to whom we pray, and ascribe greatness to our God; we should begin
   with some one or other of his names and titles, expressive of his
   nature, and of the relation he stands in to us as creatures, and new
   creatures; and make mention of some one or more of his perfections,
   which may serve to command an awe and reverence of him; to engage our
   affections to him; to strengthen our faith and confidence in him, and
   raise our expectations of being heard and answered by him, as before
   observed; as of his purity, holiness, and righteousness; of his
   omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence; and of his immutability and
   faithfulness, love, grace, and mercy.

   3b. There should be an acknowledgment of our vileness and sinfulness,
   of our meanness and unworthiness in ourselves; we should come before a
   pure and holy God under a sense of the depravity and pollution of our
   nature, and of our unworthiness to be admitted into his presence, and
   to worship at his footstool; when we take upon us to speak unto the
   Lord, we should own, with Abraham, that we are but "dust and ashes;"
   not only frail and mortal creatures, but sinful and impure; and with
   Jacob, that we are not "worthy of the least of all the mercies" showed
   us, nor of receiving any favour from God; and therefore do not present
   our supplications to him "for our righteousnesses, but for his great
   mercies".

   3c. There should be a confession of sin; of the sin of our nature, of
   original sin, of indwelling sin; of the sins of our lives and actions;
   of our daily transgressions of the law of God in thought, word, and
   deed: this has been the practice of saints in all ages; of David,
   Daniel, and others (Ps. 32:5, 51:3-5) and which is encouraged (1 John
   1:9).

   3d. There should be a deprecation of all evil things, which our sins
   deserve; so our Lord taught his disciples to pray; "Deliver us from all
   evil;" and this seems to be the meaning of the saints oftentimes when
   they pray for the forgiveness of their own sins and those of others,
   [202] that God would deliver them out of present distress, of what kind
   soever, remove his afflicting hand, which lies heavy upon them, and
   avert those evils which seem to threaten them, and prevent their coming
   upon them; in which sense we are to understand many of the petitions of
   Moses, Job, Solomon, and others (Ex. 32:32; Num. 14:19, 20; Job 7:21; 1
   King 8:30, 34, 36, 39, 50).

   3e. Another part or branch of prayer is, a petition for good things,
   which are needed; for temporal mercies, such as regard the sustenance
   of our bodies, the comfort, support, and preservation of life; so our
   Lord has taught us to pray; "Give us this day our daily bread;" which
   includes all the necessaries of life. Agur's prayer with respect to
   this is a very wise one, and to be copied after (Prov. 30:7-9).
   Spiritual blessings are to be prayed for; which, though laid up in
   covenant, and are sure to all the covenant ones, what God has promised,
   and will be performed; and we may have this confidence in him, that
   whatsoever we ask, according to his will, we shall have; but then they
   must be asked for; seeing, for what he has promised, and will do, he
   will "yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for
   them" (Ezek. 36:37).

   3f. Prayer should always be accompanied with thanksgiving; this should
   always be a part of it; since, as we have always mercies to pray for,
   we have always mercies to be thankful for (Eph. 6:18; Phil. 4:6).

   3g. At the close of this work it is proper to make use of doxologies,
   or ascriptions of glory to God; of which we have many instances, either
   of which may be made use of (Matthew 6:13; Eph. 3:21; 1 Tim. 1:17; Jude
   1:24, 25; Rev. 1:5, 6), which serve to show forth the praises of God,
   to express our gratitude to him, and our dependence on him, and
   expectation of receiving from him what we have been praying for; and
   the whole may be concluded with the word "Amen," as expressing our
   assent to what has been prayed for, our wishes and desires for the
   accomplishment of it, and our full and firm persuasion and belief of
   our having what we have been asking for, according to the will of God.

   4. The persons to be prayed for may be next considered. Not devils; for
   as God has not spared them, nor provided a Saviour for them, nor is any
   mercy promised to them, so none can be asked for them. But men; yet
   only the living, not the dead; for after death is the judgment, when
   the final state of men is inevitably fixed; and there is no passing out
   of one state into another: nor those who have sinned the sin unto
   death, the unpardonable sin (1 John 5:16), yet those who are dead in
   sins, unconverted sinners, may be prayed for (Rom. 10:1), we may pray
   for unconverted friends and relations, for our children in a state of
   nature, as Abraham did for Ishmael; and especially we may pray in faith
   for the conversion of God's elect, as our Lord himself did (John
   17:20), and it is an incumbent duty, to pray "for all saints;" of every
   country, of whatsoever denomination they may be, and in whatsoever
   circumstances; and therefore we are to pray to God as "our Father" and
   theirs, as the Father of us all; and for all that are his children,
   that love the Lord Jesus, bear his image, are called by his name, and
   call on his name; particularly for the ministers of the gospel, that
   they may speak the word boldly and faithfully, as they ought to speak
   it; that the word of the Lord, ministered by them, might have a free
   course, and be glorified, and be blessed for conversion, comfort, and
   edification; and that the Lord would raise up and send forth other
   labourers into his vineyard: yea, we are to pray "for all men;" for all
   sorts of men, "for kings, and all in authority," for civil magistrates,
   that they may be terrors to evildoers, and a praise to them that do
   well; and that the time may hasten on when kings shall be nursing
   fathers and queens nursing mothers to the church and people of God: we
   are to pray for the peace and welfare of the inhabitants of any city or
   country in which we dwell, since in the peace thereof we have peace.
   Nay, we are to pray for our enemies, who despitefully use and persecute
   us; this is enjoined us by Christ, and of which he has set us an
   example (Matthew 5:44; Luke 23:44) and so Stephen prayed for those that
   stoned him (Acts 7:60).

   5. The manner in which prayer is to be performed is worthy of
   attention.

   5a. It must be done "with" or "in the Spirit;" "I will pray with the
   Spirit," says the apostle (1 Cor. 14:15), [203] by which he either
   means the extraordinary gift which he and other apostles had, of
   speaking with various tongues, which he determined to make use of, yet
   only when he could be understood by others; or the ordinary gift of the
   Spirit, his grace, influence, and assistance, which are necessary in
   prayer; and is the same which the apostle Jude calls, "praying in the
   Holy Ghost;" and the apostle Paul, "supplication in the Spirit" (Jude
   1:20; Eph. 6:18). The concern the Spirit of God has in prayer, and the
   need there is of his grace and assistance in it, and the use thereof,
   have been observed already; but it does not follow from hence that men
   ought not to pray but when they have the Spirit, and are under his
   influences: for prayer is a natural duty, and binding on all men, who
   are to pray as well as they can, though none but spiritual men can pray
   in a spiritual manner; and yet even such are not always under the
   gracious influences of the Spirit, and such, when destitute of them,
   should pray for them; for "our heavenly Father will give the Holy
   Spirit to them that ask him;" and when men are in darkness and
   distress, without the light of God's countenance, the communications of
   his grace, and the influences of his Spirit, they stand in the more
   need of prayer, and should be more constant at it (Ps. 130:1; Jon. 2:2,
   4, 7).

   5b. It should he performed "with the understanding also," as in the
   forementioned place; with an understanding of the object of prayer, God
   in Christ; or otherwise men will pray unto and worship they know not
   what, an unknown God; and with an understanding of the way of access
   unto him, Christ, the Mediator between God and man; and with a
   spiritual understanding of the things prayed for, having their
   understandings enlightened by the Spirit of God: by whom they are
   taught what to pray for, and how to pray as they ought, and know that
   what they ask according to the will of God, that they have the
   petitions they desire of him.

   5c. It must be done in faith, without which it is impossible to please
   God in this or in any other duty; what we ask we should "ask in faith,
   nothing wavering;" it is the "prayer of faith" that is effectual; for
   our Lord assures us, "all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer,
   believing, ye shall receive" (Matthew 21:22).

   5d. Fervency in spirit is requisite to prayer; we should be fervent in
   spirit, "serving the Lord" in every branch of duty, and so in this
   prayer; for it is "the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous man
   which availeth much" (James 5:16). Prayer, which is compared to
   incense, like that, burns sweetly, when kindled by the fire of the
   Spirit, and the flame of love; such earnest, fervent, and importunate
   prayer was made by the church for Peter incessantly; and we have an
   instance of earnest, intense, and fervent prayer in our Lord, whose
   prayers and supplications were with "strong crying" and tears; and
   being in an agony, prayed the more earnestly and fervently (Luke 22:44;
   Heb. 5:7).

   5e. Prayer should be put up to God in sincerity; it should go forth,
   "not out of feigned lips," but from the heart; men should draw nigh to
   God with true hearts, and call upon him in truth; that is, in the
   sincerity of their souls; for when they cry not to him with their
   hearts, it is reckoned no other than howling on their beds (Hosea
   7:14).

   5f. It should always be made with submission to the will of God, as our
   Lord's was when he prayed so earnestly: so when we want to have a
   favour conferred, or an affliction removed, it becomes us to say, "the
   will of the Lord be done" (Luke 22:42; Acts 21:14).

   5g. It should be performed with assiduity and watchfulness; there
   should be a "watching thereunto with all perseverance," (Eph. 6:18) for
   a fit opportunity of doing it, and for the proper and suitable time of
   need, and when the Lord is nigh to be found: and there should be a
   watching in the same "with thanksgiving," (Col. 4:2) for the aid and
   assistance of the Spirit; that the heart be lift up with the hands;
   that it does not wander in it, nor enter into temptation: and there
   should be a watching after it, for an answer to it, and a return of it;
   "In the morning," says David, "will I direct my prayer unto thee, and
   look up" for the blessing or mercy prayed for; and again, "I will hear
   what God the Lord will speak" (Ps. 5:3, 85:8).

   6. The time of prayer, with the continuance in it, and duration of it;
   it should be "always;" "Praying always with all prayer," (Eph. 6:18)
   hence these exhortations; "Continue in prayer; Pray without ceasing,"
   (Col. 4:2; 1 Thess. 5:17). Not that men are to be always on their
   knees, and ever formally, praying; [204] for there are many civil
   duties of a man's calling in life which are to be attended to; and
   other religious duties, besides prayer, which are not to be neglected;
   one duty is not to shut out another, whether on a civil or sacred
   account: but it is desirable to be always in praying frames, and the
   heart to be ready for it on all occasions; it should be daily, since
   there is daily need of it, daily cases call for it; we want daily bread
   for our bodies, and the inward man needs to be renewed day by day.
   Temptations are daily; our adversary, the devil, goes about continually
   like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; and therefore we
   should pray daily that we enter not into temptation. The above
   exhortations are opposed unto, and strike at such who either pray not
   at all, judging it to be vain and fruitless (Job 21:15), or who have
   prayed, but have left off praying, which Job was charged with, though
   wrongly (Job 15:4), or who discontinue it because they have not an
   immediate answer; our Lord spoke a parable to this end, "That men ought
   always to pray, and not to faint;" to continue praying, and not be
   discouraged, because their prayers seem not to be heard at once; and
   gives an instance of the success of the importunate widow with the
   unjust judge (Luke 18:1; &c.), or who pray only when in distress; it is
   right to pray at such a time (James 5:13; Ps. 50:15), but this is what
   graceless persons, who are in a state of distance and alienation from
   God, and what carnal professors and careless souls will do (Isa. 26:16;
   Hosea 5:15).

   The Jews had stated times in the day for prayer. Daniel prayed three
   times a day; and what these times were we learn from David; "Evening,
   and morning, and at noon" (Ps. 55:17). The prayer in the morning,
   according to Maimonides, [205] was from sunrising to the end of the
   fourth hour (or ten o'clock) which is the third part of the day (see
   Acts 2:15). The prayer at noon, was at the sixth hour (or twelve
   o'clock), at which time Peter went up to the housetop to pray (Acts
   10:9). The evening prayer was at the ninth hour (or three o'clock in
   the afternoon), about the time of the evening sacrifice; at which time,
   which was the hour of prayer, Peter and John went up to the temple to
   pray; at this time we find Cornelius at prayer (Acts 3:1, 10:3), and
   this practice obtained among Christians in early times. Jerome [206]
   speaks of it as a tradition of the church, that the third, sixth, and
   ninth hours are times for prayer; and it is a practice laudable enough,
   where there is leisure from other lawful exercises; and when no stress
   is laid on the punctual performance of it at these precise times; and
   is not made a term and condition of acceptance with God; which would
   bring us back to the covenant of works, ensnare our souls, and entangle
   us with a yoke of bondage. What Clemens of Alexandria [207] observes,
   is worthy of notice; some, says he, appoint stated hours for prayer,
   the third, sixth, and ninth hours; but "the Gnostic (who is endued with
   the true knowledge of God and divine things) prays throughout his whole
   life; his whole life is an holy convocation, a sacred festival:" yea it
   is said of Socrates, the heathen philosopher, to the shame of
   Christians, "the life of Socrates was full of prayer." From the whole
   of this we learn, that at least a day should not pass over without
   prayer. I proceed to observe,

   7. The encouragement to prayer, and the advantages arising from it.
   Saints may be encouraged to it.

   7a. From the concern which God, Father, Son, and Spirit have in it;
   which has been taken notice of already. God the Father, as the God of
   all grace, sits on the throne of grace, holding forth the sceptre of
   grace; inviting men to come thither, where they may find grace and
   mercy to help them in their time of need: Christ is the Mediator,
   through whom they have access to God, audience of him, and acceptance
   with him; Christ is their Advocate with the Father, who pleads their
   cause, and makes intercession for them; he introduces them into the
   presence of God, and as the Angel of his presence presents their
   prayers to God, perfumed with his much incense. And the Spirit of God
   is the Spirit of grace and of supplication, who supplies them with
   grace, and assists them in their supplications to God; and by whom,
   through Christ, they have access to God as their Father.

   7b. From the interest saints have in God, to whom they pray, they have
   encouragement to it; he is their Father by adopting grace, whose heart
   is full of love, pity, and compassion; his heart is towards them, his
   eyes are upon them, and his ears are open to their cries; he is their
   covenant God and Father, who has provided blessings in covenant for
   them, and is ready to distribute them, upon their application to him by
   prayer (Phil. 4:19).

   7c. From the call of God in providence, and by his Spirit, to it, and
   his delight in it, saints may take encouragement to be found in the
   performance of it (Ps. 27:8), he delights to see the face, and hear the
   prayers of his people (Prov. 15:8; Ps. 102:17).

   7d. Many promises are made to praying souls; as of deliverance from
   trouble, &c. (Ps. 50:15, 91:15). For their encouragement it is said,
   "Ask, and it shall be given," &c. (Matthew 7:7) yea, God has never
   "said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain" (Isa. 45:19).

   7e. The experience the people of God in all ages have had of answers of
   prayers, either to themselves or others, serve greatly to animate them
   to this duty: this was the experience of David, and he observed it in
   others (Ps. 40:1, 34:6), and this was not the case only of a single,
   and of a private person, but of good men in times past, in all ages
   (Ps. 22:4, 5).

   7f. It is "good for saints to draw nigh to God;" it is not only good,
   because it is their duty; but it is a pleasant good, when they have the
   presence of God in it, and their souls are drawn out towards him; and
   it is a profitable good to them, when God owns it as an ordinance, for
   the quickening the graces of his Spirit, subduing the corruptions of
   their hearts, and bringing them into nearer communion and fellowship
   with himself. Praying souls are profitable in families, in churches, in
   neighbourhoods, and commonwealths; when prayerless ones are useless,
   and obtain nothing, neither for themselves nor others. Of all the
   fruits which faith produces in Christians, says Beza, [208] prayer,
   that is, calling on the name of God, through Christ, is the principal
   one.
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   [187] omilia pros ton theon e euche Clem. Alex. Stromat. l. 7. p. 722,
   742.

   [188] Clemens Alex. ut supra.

   [189] In Reg. Hisp. Bibl.

   [190] Apud Joseph. contra Apion. l. 1. c. 22.

   [191] Maimon. Cele Hamikdash, c. 6. s. 1, 5. See Lightfoot's Temple
   Service, c. 7. s. 3. p. 924, 925.

   [192] Maimon. Hilchot Tephillah, c. 8. s. 1.

   [193] Ib. c. 11. s. 1.

   [194] Deut. Vita Mosis, l. 3. p. 685. et de Leg. ad Caium, p. 1014.

   [195] In Vita ejus, s. 54.

   [196] Apolog. 2. p. 93.

   [197] Apologet. c. 39.

   [198] Deut. Corona Mil. c. 3.

   [199] They seem to answer to four words used by the Jews, of prayer,
   vrkh vqsh tphlh tchnhg Vid. Vitringam de Synagog. vet. par. 2. l. 3. c.
   13. p. 1025. & c. 19. p. 1103.

   [200] Witsius de Orat. Domin. Exercit. 1. s. 2, 4.

   [201] peri euches, c. 44. Ed. Oxon.

   [202] Of Praying for the Pardon of Sin; see the Body of Doctrinal
   Divinity, vol. ii. b. 6. c. 7. p. 354. See on topic 1013.

   [203] See a Discourse of mine on this text. See Gill on "1 Cor. 14:15".

   [204] There were a sort of heretics in the fourth century, called
   Euchetae and Messalians; who, neglecting all business, pretended to
   pray continually, ascribing their whole salvation to it, Aug. de
   Haeres. c. 57. & Danaeus in ib.

   [205] Hilchot Tephillah, c. 3. s. 1.

   [206] Comment. in Dan. fol. 270. M.

   [207] Stromat. l. 7. p. 722, 728. Maximus Tyrius apud Witsium in Orat.
   Domin. Exercitat. 2. s. 19. p. 43.

   [208] Confessio Fidei, c. 4. art. 16. p. 34.
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  Chapter 6

    OF THE LORD'S PRAYER

   The whole Scripture directs to and furnishes with matter for prayer;
   but more particularly the prayer which is commonly called "The Lord's
   Prayer," may be considered as a directory to it; and so it seems to be
   designed by our Lord, when he says, "After this manner therefore pray
   ye," in such a brief and concise manner, in a few comprehensive
   expressions, in words to this purpose, or to the sense following; which
   he directed to in opposition to the many words, much speaking, and vain
   repetitions of the Scribes and Pharisees; indeed, the evangelist Luke
   has it, "He said unto them, when ye pray, say," the following words,
   that is, "after this manner," or to this sense, as it is explained in
   Matthew, where both the introduction to the prayer, and the prayer
   itself, are more fully expressed; for that it was not intended as a
   prescribed set form, in so many words, is clear; since then it would
   not have been varied, as it is by the two evangelists, by whom it is
   recorded; for though they both agree in the main, as to the sense, yet
   not in the express words: the "fourth" petition is in Matthew, "Give us
   this day our daily bread," which is a petition for present supply; in
   Luke it is, "Give us day by day our daily bread," which is a prayer for
   a continued supply, for the future as it may be needed, as well as for
   the present: the "fifth" petition is expressed in Matthew, "Forgive us
   our debts," and in Luke, "Forgive us our sins;" in Matthew it is, "as
   we forgive;" in Luke, "for we also forgive": and the doxology, which
   Matthew gives at large, is wholly left out in Luke; "For thine is the
   kingdom," &c. And that it was not understood by the disciples as a form
   of prayer to be used by them as such, seems evident; since we do not
   find that they ever so used it; but a most excellent summary of prayer
   it is, for its brevity, order, and matter, and a pattern of it worthy
   to be followed; and it is very lawful and laudable to make use of any
   single petition in it, either in the express words of it, or to the
   sense of it; and even the whole of it, provided a formal and
   superstitious observance of it is avoided, as used by the Papists. The
   matter of it is very full and comprehensive; by one of the ancients
   [209] it is said to be, "a breviary of the whole gospel;" and by
   another, [210] "a compendium of heavenly doctrine." It may justly be
   preferred to all other prayers, because of the author, order, and
   matter of it; though not to the slight and neglect of other petitions
   the scriptures furnish us with: there were a set of men in the twelfth
   century, called Bogomiles, who among other odd notions, had this, that
   only the Lord's prayer was to be reckoned prayer; and that all other
   was to be rejected as vain clamour: [211] the Socinians say, [212] this
   prayer is an addition to the first command of the law; and which with
   other things, add to the perfection of the law, which they suppose to
   be imperfect until Christ came, and as if such prayer was unknown to
   the Old Testament saints; but though this prayer is not formally, and
   in so many words, expressed in the Old Testament, yet it is materially,
   or the matter of it is to be found there; especially in the Psalms of
   David, of which this prayer may be said to be the "epitome," as the
   Psalms may be considered and made use of as a "commentary" on that; it
   is indeed, the summary of the prayers and petitions used by good men,
   in and before the times of Christ, [213] selected and put together, and
   inserted in this prayer by him in this manner, as a directory to his
   disciples; in which may be observed, a preface, petitions, and a
   conclusion, with a doxology.

   1.A preface, "Our Father which art in heaven;" in which the object of
   prayer is described, by his relation to us, "Our Father," and by the
   place of his habitation, "which art in heaven".

   1a. First, by the relation he stands in to us, "Our Father" which may
   be understood of God, essentially considered; of the Three Persons in
   the Godhead, who are the one God, the Creator, and so the Father of
   all; in which respect this term, "Father," is not peculiar to any one
   person in the Deity, but common to all three, being equally "Creators,"
   (Eccl. 12:1) as in the original; and so are addressed as the one God,
   Creator, and Father of all (Isa. 64:8; Mal. 2:10), and in this sense
   every man, good and bad, regenerate and unregenerate, may use this
   prayer, and say, "Our Father": or else this is to be understood of God
   personally, that is, of one Person in the Godhead, even of God the
   Father, the first Person, who stands in the relation of a Father in a
   special sense, the Father of our Lord Jesus, who, such, is the object
   of prayer (Eph. 3:14), and our Father in Christ; "I go to my Father and
   your Father," says Christ (John 20:17), my Father by nature, yours by
   grace; mine by natural filiation, yours by special adoption; our
   sonship is founded on our conjugal union and relation to Christ, the
   Son of God, and on our relation to him, as the firstborn among many
   brethren. God, as the Father of Christ, has not predestinated us to the
   adoption of children by him, and to be conformed to his image; but has
   actually put us among the children, and taken us into his family, by an
   act of special love and favour (1 John 3:1), of which adoption an
   evidence is given in regeneration; for such who have "power to become
   the sons of God," are those who are "born of God;" whom he, as the God
   and Father of Christ, has "begotten again of abundant mercy," of free
   grace and favour, of his own good will (John 1:12, 13; 1 Peter 1:3), so
   that the Father of Christ is our Father, both by adoption and
   regeneration; and as such may be addressed by us, as here directed;
   which shows the true order and manner of prayer, which is to be made to
   the Father, the first Person; not because of priority of nature, but of
   order in the Deity; and through the Son, who is the mediator; and by
   the Spirit, the Spirit of grace and adoption; and which are all laid
   together in one text (Eph. 2:18), no man can come to the Father but by
   Christ; and as no man can call Jesus Lord but by the Spirit, so no man
   can call God "Father," in this special relation, but under the
   testimony of the Spirit of adoption.

   Now the consideration of God as "our Father," in our addresses to him,
   is of great use:

   1a1. To command in us a reverence of God; a son honours and reverences
   a father, or ought to do; and if God is our Father, he expects honour
   and reverence; and when we approach him, it should be with "reverence
   and godly fear;" not with slavish fear, as a servant, but with filial
   fear, as a son.

   1a2. It tends to encourage us to use freedom with him, as children with
   a father; to pour out our souls before him, and tell him all our mind
   and all our wants; and "where the Spirit is," as a Spirit of adoption,
   crying, "Abba," Father, "there is liberty".

   1a3. It will serve to give us boldness at the throne of grace, and a
   fiducial confidence that we shall have what we ask of him (Luke 11:13).

   1a4. The idea of God as our Father, excites in us, and inspires us with
   sentiments of the tenderness of his heart, of his pity and compassion,
   and of the great love and affection he bears towards us, and therefore
   cannot deny us any good thing needful for us (Ps. 103:13; Isa. 63:15,
   16; Luke 15:20, 22; 2 Thess. 2:16).

   1a5. It cannot but fill us with gratitude for the many favours which
   he, as a kind indulgent Father, has bestowed on us; having nourished
   and brought us up, fed us all our lives long, clothed us, and provided
   everything for us, and protected us from all evils and enemies; and we
   may say, with David, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, our Father,
   for ever and ever!" (1 Chron. 29:10).

   1a6. This may teach us subjection to him, the Father of Spirits, and
   submission to his will, in all things we ask of him (Luke 22:42).

   1a7. Addressing him as "our Father," instructs us to pray for others as
   well as for ourselves, even for all saints; for all the children of
   God, to whom he stands in the same relation, being the Father of us all
   (Eph. 4:6).

   1b. Secondly, the object of prayer is described by the place of his
   habitation and residence; "which art in heaven" (see Ps. 123:1). Not
   that God is limited, included, and circumscribed in any place, for he
   is everywhere, and fills heaven and earth with his presence; but as
   such is the weakness of our minds that we cannot conceive of him but as
   somewhere, in condescension thereunto he is represented as in the
   highest place, in the height of heaven; for as he is the high and lofty
   One, he dwells in the high and lofty place; heaven is his throne, the
   habitation of his glory, where is his palace, where he keeps his court,
   and has his attendants; and so is expressive of the greatness of his
   Majesty, and therefore he ought to be approached with the highest
   reverence; and such a view of him will lead us to some of the divine
   perfections, which greatly encourage in the work of prayer; as the
   omniscience and omnipresence of God (Ps. 11:4, 115:3, 135:5, 6), and
   "since God is in heaven," and we "upon earth," our "words should be
   few," but full, and be expressed with great lowliness and humility,
   with great modesty and self-abasement, as being "but dust and ashes"
   who speak unto him (Eccl. 5:2; Gen. 18:27), and the consideration of
   his being in heaven, should draw off our minds from the earth, and all
   terrestial things, and from asking them, and teach us to look upwards,
   to God in heaven, and seek those things which are above, from whence
   comes every good and perfect gift; and since our Father is in heaven we
   are directed to pray unto, we should look upon heaven, and not this
   world, as our native place; if we are born again, we are born from
   above, are partakers of an heavenly birth, and of an heavenly calling,
   and should seek the better country, the heavenly one; our conversation
   should be in heaven, and our hearts be where our treasure is; our
   Father is in heaven, and our Father's house and mansions of bliss in it
   are there; there is our portion, patrimony, and inheritance. From the
   preface I pass to consider,

   2. The petitions in this prayer, which are six, some make them seven;
   the first three respect the glory of God: the other our good, temporal
   and spiritual.

   2a. The first petition is, "Hallowed be thy name;" which teaches to
   begin our prayers with the celebration of the name of God, and with a
   concern for his glory, and as the end for which he has made all things;
   nor will he give it, nor suffer it to be given to another; this we
   should have in view in all we do, and in whatsoever we ask of him; this
   should be uppermost in our minds, that his great name be glorified
   (Josh. 7:9). By his name may be meant God himself, as when saints are
   said to trust in his name, to fear his name, and to love his name, and
   the like: or his nature and perfections; as when it is said, "What is
   his name?" that is, his nature, "if thou canst tell;" and "how
   excellent is thy name in all the earth!" that is, what a glorious
   display is there of thy perfections in all the earth (Prov. 30:4; Ps.
   8:1), or any of the great names and titles of God, by which he has made
   himself known; as the Lord God Almighty, Jehovah, &c. (Ex. 6:3) and,
   indeed, everything by which he has manifested himself, particularly his
   word, his gospel, which is called his name, and which he has magnified
   above all and every of his names, and in which the greatest discovery
   is made of himself, his perfections and glory (John 17:6; Ps. 138:2).
   Now when we pray that his name may be "hallowed," or sanctified, for
   hallowed is an old English word, now in little use, and is the same as
   sanctified; the meaning is, not that God can be made holy, or be made
   more holy than he is; for he is originally, underivatively, immutably,
   and perfectly holy; there is none holy as the Lord: not the holy
   angels; "The heavens," that is, the inhabitants of the heavens, "are
   not clean in his sight," when compared with him: but the meaning is,
   that he be declared, owned, and acknowledged to be holy; as he is by
   the seraphs in Isaiah's vision, and by the four living creatures around
   the throne, who continually say, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!"
   and when the glory due to his holy name is given him, and particularly
   when thanks are given at the remembrance of his holiness: and he may be
   said to be hallowed, or sanctified, both by himself and by others, and
   both may be prayed for in this petition. He is sanctified by himself
   when he makes a display of his perfections, as he does in all his
   works; in the works of creation, of providence, and redemption, and
   particularly of his holiness and justice (Ps. 145:17), and when he
   shows his resentment against sin, takes vengeance on it, and inflicts
   punishment for it; thus he says of Zidon and of Gog, that he shall be
   known that he is the Lord when he "shall have executed his judgments"
   on them, "and shall be sanctified in them," (Ezek. 28:22, 38:16, 23) he
   may be said to sanctify his name, by giving his holy word and holy
   ordinances to men, which direct them in the paths of holiness and
   righteousness; and especially by making his people an holy people; he
   has not only chosen them to be holy, and called them with an holy
   calling, and unto holiness, but he implants principles of grace and
   holiness in them, and at last brings them to a state of perfect and
   unblemished holiness and purity: and his name may be sanctified by
   others; by civil magistrates, when they act for the punishment of
   evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well; and by ministers of
   the word, when they speak according to the oracles of God, that he in
   all things may be glorified; and by common saints, when they "sanctify
   the name of the Lord," (1 Peter 2:14, 4:10; Isa. 29:23) and this they
   do when they exercise the grace of faith, fear, and love; when they
   believe him, to sanctify his name, the not doing which was resented in
   Moses and Aaron; and they sanctify him when they make him their fear
   and dread, and love his name (Num. 20:12; Isa. 8:13; Ps. 5:11), and
   when they show a regard to his word, worship, and ordinances; "which is
   but our reasonable service," (Rom. 12:1) and when they study to promote
   holiness of life in themselves and others (2 Cor. 7:1; 1 Peter 1:15,
   16; Matthew 5:16), and are careful that the name of God may not be
   blasphemed through them, or on their account: and whereas nothing is
   more contrary to the sanctification of the name of God, than the
   profanation of it, by taking it in vain, by swearing falsely by it, and
   by the horrid oaths and cursings of wicked men; it is sanctified when
   magistrates punish for these things, ministers inveigh against them,
   and every good man discountenances and discourages them: and in the use
   of this petition we pray that the glory of God may be more and more
   displayed and advanced in the world, in the course of his providence,
   and the dispensations of it; that his word may run and be glorified, in
   the conversion and sanctification of sinners; and that there may be an
   increase of holiness in all his people; and that all profanation of the
   name of God among men, may be prevented and removed.

   2b. The second petition is, "Thy kingdom come;" the Jews have a saying,
   [214] that prayer, in, which is no mention of the kingdom, that is, of
   God, is no prayer. It may be inquired,

   2b1. First, whose kingdom this is; by the connection of the petition
   with the preface, it seems to be the Father's kingdom; "Our Father--thy
   kingdom come;" but as the Father and the Son are one in nature and
   power, their kingdom is the same; and so it appears to be on one
   account or another in every sense of it. There is the kingdom of
   providence, in which both are jointly concerned; "My Father worketh
   hitherto," in the government of the world, and the disposition of all
   things in it, and "I work" with him, says Christ (John 5:17) so that
   this "kingdom" is also "his": the mediatorial kingdom, which seems more
   peculiarly Christ's, is in some sense the Father's, since he is the
   Father's King, whom he has set over his church; and the kingdom he has
   is by his appointment, for which he is accountable to him, and at the
   end will deliver it up to the Father (Ps. 2:6; Luke 22:29). The kingdom
   of grace, set up in the hearts of the Lord's people, is the kingdom of
   God, which lies in righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost;
   this also is the kingdom of God's dear Son, into which men at
   conversion are translated. Both the spiritual and personal reign of
   Christ, the Father has and will have a concern in. When the kingdoms of
   this world are converted to Christ, they will become the "kingdoms of
   our Lord," of our Lord God the Father, "and of his Christ," the Son of
   God. Christ speaks of drinking wine in his "Father's kingdom," (Matthew
   26:29) meaning either in the personal reign, or in the ultimate glory,
   which is a kingdom prepared by the Father, and is in his gift; and yet
   is called, "the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
   Christ" (2 Peter 1:11).

   2b2. Secondly, It may be further inquired, which of these kingdoms it
   is, the coming of which is to be prayed for, as future. It seems not to
   be the kingdom of providence, since that took place from the beginning
   of the world; though it may be prayed for, that it might more fully
   appear, and that there may be a greater display of the power and
   providence of God in the government of the world; that men may know, as
   Nebuchadnezzar did, that the most High ruleth in it, to the terror of
   the wicked inhabitants of it, and to the joy of the righteous (Ps.
   97:1, 99:1). But rather the gospel dispensation, often called the
   kingdom of God, and of heaven, may be meant, which when this petition
   was directed to, was not yet come, though near. John and Christ began
   their ministry with saying, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand;" and
   which soon came, though not with observation, with pomp and splendour:
   upon our Lord's resurrection, and especially at his ascension to
   heaven, it appeared more manifest, when he was made and declared Lord
   and Christ, and multitudes in the land of Judea became obedient to the
   faith of him; it had a further advance when the gospel was carried into
   the Gentile world, and the apostles were caused to triumph every came
   with power, seen in the destruction of the Jews for their unbelief and
   rejection of him, those enemies of his who would not have him to reign
   over them (Matthew 16:28; Mark 9:1), and still more when paganism was
   abolished, and Christianity established in the Roman empire; on
   occasion of which it is said, "Now is come the kingdom of our God, and
   the power of his Christ," (Rev. 12:10) but this kingdom will come in
   glory, and which is yet to come, and so to be for, at the destruction
   of antichrist, and when the spiritual reign of Christ will take place;
   and this voice will be heard in heaven, "The Lord God omnipotent
   reigneth!" (Rev. 19:1-6) and still more gloriously, when Christ shall
   appear a second time in person, and take to himself his great power and
   reign, called, "his appearing and his kingdom," (2 Tim. 4:1) when he
   will come in person, and the dead in him shall rise first; which happy
   dead will be made kings and priests, and shall reign with Christ a
   thousand years, during which time Satan shall be bound, as to give them
   no disturbance. This is yet to come; no such of Satan, and reign of
   Christ with his saints (Rev. 20:1-10), have as yet been; [215] the
   personal coming of Christ, and reign with his saints, are still future,
   and to be prayed for; as by John (Rev. 22:20), and seems to be chiefly
   intended in this petition, since it is so closely connected with,

   2c. The third petition; "Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven;"
   which as yet has never been done in the full sense of it, by any man on
   earth, excepting our Lord Jesus Christ, but will be done by all the
   saints in the personal reign of Christ. The will of God is either
   secret or revealed; the secret will of God is the rule of his own
   actions, in creation, providence, and grace (Eph. 1:11; see Rev. 4:11;
   Dan. 4:35; Rom. 9:15). This is unknown to men, until it appears, either
   by prophecies of things future, or by facts and events that are come to
   pass; it is always fulfilled; "Who hath resisted his will?" it cannot
   be resisted, so as to be null and void. There is no counteracting the
   will of God; whatever schemes contrary to it, formed by men, are of no
   avail; "the counsel of the Lord shall stand, and he will do all his
   pleasure" (Isa. 46:10). The providential will of God, or what appears
   in the dispensation of his providence, are a guide to us in our
   actions; we should say, as James directs us, we will go here and there,
   do this or that, "if the Lord will," (James 4:14, 15) and even as this
   will of God appears in adverse dispensations, it should be acquiesced
   in and submitted to, without murmuring and repining; with respect to
   every event it should be said, "The will of the Lord be done," (Acts
   21:14) in imitation of Eli, Job, David, Hezekiah, and others, and even
   of our Lord himself (1 Sam. 3:18; Job 1:21; 2:10; 2 Sam. 15:25, 26; Ps.
   39:9; Isa. 39:8; Luke 22:42).

   The revealed will of God is either what is made known in the gospel,
   and which expresses the good will of God, his grace and favour,
   declared in the way and method of saving sinners by Christ, or what is
   signified in the law, which is the "good, acceptable, and perfect will
   of God;" the matter of it is "good," and when a right use is made of
   it, and when rightly and truly obeyed, is "acceptable to God," through
   Christ, and is a "perfect" rule of life, and conversation to men. To
   the doing of which will the knowledge of it is requisite (Col. 1:10).
   Faith in God; without which it is impossible to please him (Titus 3:8).
   The grace and spirit of Christ; without which nothing can be done to
   any purpose; this may be expected, since it is promised, and may in
   faith be prayed for (Ezek. 36:27) and when it is done aright, it is
   done with a view to the glory of God, and without any dependence on it;
   acknowledging, that when we have done all we can, we are unprofitable
   servants.

   The rule of doing the will of God, as expressed in this petition, is,
   "as it is done in heaven;" meaning not the starry airy heavens, though
   the inhabitants of them do the will of God, in their way, in a perfect
   manner; the sun knows, and punctually observes, its rising and setting,
   and the moon its appointed seasons of change and full, of increase and
   decrease; and the planetary orbs keep their stated courses; sun, and
   moon, and stars, praise the Lord, as they are called upon to do, and
   even the meteors in the air (Ps. 148:3, 8). But rather the third
   heavens are meant, the inhabitants of which are glorified saints, the
   spirits of just men made perfect, and are perfect in their obedience,
   and the holy angels, who may be chiefly designed; these readily,
   cheerfully, and voluntarily "do the commandments of God, hearkening to
   the voice of his word," at once to fulfil it; so in this petition it is
   desired, that saints do the will of God, "not by constraint, but
   willingly;" at least not by any other constraint but that of love;
   angels are thought by some to be called "seraphim" from their flaming
   love and burning zeal for the glory of God; saints are desirous of
   being fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, and that in sincerity, in
   singleness of heart; angels do the will of God speedily, and without
   delay, hence wings are ascribed unto them, and Gabriel is said to fly
   with the Lord's message to Daniel; so saints desire, with David, "to
   make haste, and not delay" to keep the commandments of God; and not
   some of them only, but all; not a part, but the whole will of God (Ps.
   119:60, 61, 128), angels do the will of God constantly, they always
   behold the face of our Father in heaven, and serve him incessantly, day
   and night; and saints would, as they should, be "stedfast, immoveable,
   always abounding in the work of the Lord;" and though they cannot, in
   the present state, do it perfectly, as the angels do, yet they are
   desirous of it, and reach towards perfection; and when the kingdom of
   Christ comes on earth at his appearing, then will this petition be
   fulfilled.

   2d. The fourth petition is, "Give us this day our daily bread;" by
   which is meant, either spiritual or corporal food: some understand it
   of spiritual food; as the word read, preached, and heard, which is that
   to the soul as bread is to the body, refreshing, nourishing, and
   strengthening; and the ordinances, called the goodness and fatness of
   the Lord's house, particularly the Lord's Supper, the bread of the
   eucharist; but that was not instituted when this directory was given;
   and when it was, was not to be administered daily; rather Christ, the
   bread of life, with respect to which the disciples made a request to
   Christ similar to this petition; "Lord, evermore give us this bread!"
   but it seems best of all to understand it of corporal food, which sense
   the order of the prayer directs to; and which, if not intended, would
   be imperfect; since then there would be no petition in it for temporal
   mercies, which yet is necessary. "Bread," with the Hebrews, includes
   all the necessaries and conveniences of life (see Gen. 3:19; 28:20);
   the epithets of it are, "our" bread and "daily" bread: ours, not by
   desert, for we are not worthy of the least mercy; not what we have a
   natural right to, and a claim upon; Adam had a grant of all good
   things, sinning, all were forfeited; men in common now enjoy them,
   through the indulgence of providence; only believers in Christ have a
   real and proper right unto them; which they have through interest in
   him, and by being coheirs with him: ours, what we have in a lawful way,
   by inheritance from our parents, by legacies from our friends, by our
   own labour and industry, and in a way of lawful trade and commerce:
   "ours," and not another's; not what is got from others, neither by
   fraud, and is the bread of deceit; nor by force and rapine, and is the
   bread of violence and oppression; nor by theft, and is the bread of
   wickedness; nor enjoyed in sloth, and is the bread of idleness; such
   bread is not ours, but another's; and, indeed, to live upon alms, is to
   live on another's bread; and though lawful, is not desirable, but to be
   deprecated; "Give me neither poverty," &c. and when we are directed to
   pray, give us our bread, we are taught to pray for others as well as
   for ourselves; that our fellow creatures and fellow Christians might
   have bread as well as ourselves; even "the congregation of the Lord's
   poor," (Ps. 74:19) the other epithet, "daily" bread, the word used, for
   it is only in this place, and differently rendered; in the Syriac
   version, "The bread of our necessity," or indigence, what is "necessary
   for the day," as the Persic version; and seems to be the same Job calls
   his "necessary food," what is necessary for the support of life, and
   what our heavenly Father knows we have need of; food that is fit to
   eat, such as a father will give to a son; not a stone, nor a scorpion,
   but proper food; as every creature of God, designed for that purpose,
   is good; so epiousios may signify, that which is fit for our nature,
   substance, and being, as a learned Lexicographer interprets [216] it;
   what is fit for the sustentation of our bodily substance, and the
   preservation of our life and being; and is what Agur calls food
   "convenient," suitable to our nature, condition, and circumstances; and
   as much of it as is "sufficient". The manna of the Israelites might
   with great propriety be called their daily bread; since it was rained
   about their tents every morning, and was gathered by them every day,
   and that by everyone, "according to his eating;" that is, as much as he
   could eat, or was proper for him to eat (Ex. 16:16-18).

   The petition is, "Give us" our daily bread; which shows it is to be
   prayed for, and to be expected as the gift of God, from whom every good
   gift comes; and it may be expected, because promised; "Bread shall be
   given him": and though it is our bread, gotten by our labour and
   industry, yet it is to be ascribed to the bounty and blessing of God,
   and acknowledged a gift of his; for it is "the blessing of the Lord
   upon the diligent hand that maketh rich," (Prov. 10:4, 22) and when we
   pray that this may be given, we pray for other things to be given with
   it, or it will be of no avail; as that God would give us health and
   appetite; for if our bones are chastened with strong pain, and our
   bodies filled with diseases, we shall be like the sick man, whose "life
   abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat;" and likewise that God would
   give nourishment with it; for this is not from food itself alone, nor
   at the option and will of men, but is of God; and therefore a blessing
   is to be asked upon our food, or otherwise how can we expect it should
   be nourishing unto us? (see Deut. 8:3; 1 Tim. 4:5) yea, a "power to
   eat" of what we have is to be asked of God; for some are so unnatural
   and cruel to themselves, as to withhold from themselves what is meet,
   as well as from others; for, for a man to eat of the fruit of his
   labours in a sober way, is the "gift of God," (Eccl. 5:18, 19; 6:2) and
   what we ask, and God gives us, is for our use, and not to be abused by
   us; which is neither for true pleasure, nor profit, nor honour; and
   since what we have is by gift, we should be content with such things as
   we have, and be thankful for them: and this petition teaches us, that
   we should be daily dependent on God, and his providence, and not trust
   in the gift, but in the Giver; and not think to set our "nest on high,"
   out of the reach of providence, and as if delivered "from the power of
   evil;" but remember, that he that gives can take away (1 Tim. 6:17;
   Hab. 2:9). The time when food is to be prayed for is, "this day;" which
   may teach us the brevity and uncertainty of life, since we cannot
   boast, promise, and assure ourselves, of a tomorrow; and may instruct
   us to depress all anxious and immoderate care of what we shall eat, and
   drink, and wear on the morrow, since we know not what a day may bring
   forth; and sufficient for the day is both the evil and good of it: and
   we may learn by it, that our wants may be expected to return on us
   daily; the food of yesterday will not suffice for this day, nor the
   food of this day for the morrow; it must be asked for every day: and
   from hence it appears, that we should pray daily, always, and without
   ceasing; as the word of God directs.

   2e. The fifth petition is, "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our
   debtors;" by debts are meant "sins," as appears from Luke 11:4 where
   the same petition is, "Forgive us our sins;" these are called "debts,"
   not as owing to God; it is obedience we owe to God, and in case of sin,
   satisfaction to his law; and in failure of obedience, and not making
   satisfaction, we owe a debt of punishment, and become liable to the
   curse of the law, to eternal death, which is the wages and demerit of
   sin; and these debts are numerous, we owe ten thousand talents or more,
   and cannot answer to one debt of a thousand: men are incapable of
   paying their debts themselves, nor can any creature pay them for them;
   and so are liable to a prison. Christ only is the surety of his people,
   he has undertook to pay their debts, and has blotted out the hand
   writing against them. And when we are directed to pray for the
   forgiveness of these debts, or sins, it supposes a sense of sin, and of
   the guilt of it, chargeable upon us; and likewise an acknowledgment of
   it, which God requires, and we are encouraged to give; since if we
   confess our sins, God is just and faithful to forgive them; also a
   sense of our inability to pay our debts, and of others paying them for
   us: and by application to God for the forgiveness of sins, it shows
   that we believe that God can forgive sin; and he only, as indeed none
   can but himself; and he forgives sin freely and fully; we not being
   able to pay, he frankly forgives, and even all trespasses, and that for
   Christ's sake, on account of his bloodshed, and satisfaction made: and
   therefore there is encouragement to pray for the forgiveness of sin, as
   David, Daniel, and other saints did, and as Christ's disciples and
   followers are directed to; that is, for the manifestation and
   application of pardoning grace; which is all that can be meant, and we
   want; it is not a request that Christ may be sent again to pay our
   debts for us, and his blood be shed again for the remission of sins, or
   a new act of pardon pass in the mind of God; but that we may have a
   fresh application of pardon, already procured and passed; and this we
   are to pray for daily, since we are daily sinning, in thought, word,
   and deed; and therefore forgiveness is to be prayed for, as frequently
   as we pray for our daily bread, with which petition this is joined.

   The reason or argument made use of to enforce this petition is, "as we
   forgive our debtors;" or, as Luke has it, "for we also forgive everyone
   that is indebted to us;" pecuniary debts are to be forgiven when the
   debtor is unable to pay; and criminal debts or sins, and injuries
   committed by one Christian against another, are to be forgiven, as
   Christ has forgiven them: not that our forgiveness of others is, the
   cause of God's forgiveness of us; for the moving cause of God's
   forgiveness is his free favour, grace, and mercy; it is according to
   the multitude of his tender mercies, and according to the riches of his
   grace; and not the deserts of men; the meritorious cause of it is the
   blood of Christ, shed for the remission of sins; and the satisfaction
   of Christ, for the sake of which they are forgiven. Nor is our
   forgiveness of fellow creatures the model of God's forgiveness of us;
   there is no perfect comparison between them, much less an equality. God
   forgives as Lord of all, and who has an absolute power so to do; but
   men forgive those who are their equals, and sinners like themselves;
   God forgives for Christ's sake, and upon a satisfaction made; but men
   without, and at most upon repentance; God forgives great sins, and,
   indeed, all manner of sin; but what man forgives are trivial offences,
   injuries to their persons or properties; but not sins committed against
   God. But this is an argument taken from God's own grace, in the hearts
   of his people, and as an evidence of it; that if he has given them such
   grace as to forgive their fellow creatures and Christians, then they
   may hope and expect, that he who is the God of all grace, and from whom
   they have received theirs, will forgive their sins, of his rich grace,
   and for Christ's sake; the reasoning is much the same with that in Luke
   11:13. Nor is it to be expected, that God should forgive us our sins
   without our forgiving the sins of others; nor can we put up such a
   petition without forgiving others,(see Matthew 6:14, 15; 18:28-35; Mark
   11:25, 26).

   2f. The sixth petition is, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
   from evil," which some make to be a "sixth" and "seventh;" but they
   seem to be two parts and branches of the same.

   2f1. First, "Lead us not into temptation". There are various sorts of
   temptation.

   2f1a. Some are of God, as, by enjoining things hard, difficult, and
   trying; so God tempted Abraham, by ordering him to take and offer up
   his son, on one of the mountains he should show him, whereby he tried
   his faith in him, his love and obedience to him, and his fear and
   reverence of him (Gen. 22:1-12), and sometimes by laying afflictions
   upon his people; which, though they cause heaviness, should be
   accounted joy; because they try and prove faith and patience, whereby
   they become more illustrious and precious (1 Peter 1:6, 7; James 1:2,
   3), but not by soliciting any to sin (James 1:13), yet there is a sense
   in which God may be said to lead into temptation, or there would be no
   occasion to deprecate it; and that either providentially, as Christ
   himself was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of
   the devil (Matthew 4:1) and as when things occur in providence, and
   objects are presented, which, though good and lawful in themselves, yet
   meeting with the corruptions of nature, are incentives to, and occasion
   of sin; as the Babylonish garment, the shekels of silver and wedge of
   gold spied and found by Achan, were to him; and as a train of
   circumstances, by meeting together in providence, which led on to
   David's sin with Bathsheba, (Josh. 7:21; 2 Sam. 11:2) or however
   permissively; so Satan was suffered to tempt and beguile Eve, and to
   move and provoke David to number the people, and to sift Peter, and put
   him on denying his Lord and Master, for which he desired to have him;
   and God may be said to lead into temptation, when he withdraws the
   influence of his grace, which only can keep from it; leaves men to the
   corruptions of their own hearts, as he did Hezekiah (2 Chron. 32:31).

   2f1b. Others are more immediately from Satan himself; hence he is
   called "the tempter," (Matthew 4:3; 1 Thess. 3:5) he solicits to sin,
   as he did our first parents, and does all men, both good and bad; he
   tempts by suggesting evil things into the mind, as he did into Judas,
   and Ananias and Sapphira; in the one to betray his Lord, and in the
   other to lie against the Holy Ghost; and by filling good men with
   doubts and fears, with unbelieving and desponding thoughts about their
   interest in the love, favour, and grace of God, and even with things
   blasphemous and atheistical, contrary to the dictates and sentiments of
   their own minds; all which are very distressing and afflictive, and
   therefore expressed by buffetings, siftings, and fiery darts; and his
   temptations with all sorts of persons are managed with great art and
   cunning, and are suited to the age, circumstances, conditions,
   constitutions, and tempers of men.

   2f1c. There are other temptations, which are from the world; some from
   the better things in it, as from riches, which are deceitful, and draw
   men to set their hearts upon them, and to trust in them, and to covet
   after them, and to seek to gain them in an illicit way; by which they
   fall into temptation and a snare, and into foolish and hurtful lusts,
   and pierce themselves through with many sorrows: and from the honours
   of it; seeking great things for themselves, honour from men, and not
   that honour which comes from God; and so are diverted from Christ, his
   gospel and interest, loving the praise of men more than the praise of
   God: and from the pleasures of it; the love of which detracts from the
   love of God; not only the pleasures of sin, to which few have the
   courage of Moses, to prefer afflictions with the people of God; but
   even lawful recreations men are tempted to carry to an excess; nay, the
   very necessaries of life, table mercies, prove a snare; the good things
   of life are abused in their using. Some temptations arise from what may
   be called the evil things of the world; as poverty, which may be a
   temptation to steal, or to do things unwarrantable, either to prevent
   it, or to relieve under it. And afflictions of various sorts, under
   which even good men may be tempted either to neglect, overlook, and
   slight them; or to faint under them, and to murmur and repine at the
   hand of God upon them. The customs of the world, which are usually vain
   and sinful, are very ensnaring; and therefore the apostolical advice
   is, "Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed;" and it is no
   wonder that worldly and fleshly lusts, or that the sinful things in the
   world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
   life, should be enticing and ensnaring, and which, by promising
   liberty, make men the servants of corruption. There are temptations to
   good men from the men of the world; by whom they are enticed to join
   them in things sinful, and whose conversation and evil communications
   corrupt good manners. Joseph, by being among Pharaoh's courtiers,
   learnt to swear by the life of Pharaoh. And the reproaches, menaces,
   and persecutions of the world, are temptations to men, either to make
   no profession of religion, or when made, to drop it; such a time is
   called, the "time of temptation" (Luke 8:13; Rev. 3:10).

   2f1d. There are temptations from the flesh, from indwelling sin, from
   the corruption of nature, which of all are the worst and most powerful;
   "Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
   enticed," (James 1:14) there is a deceitfulness in sin, in internal
   lust, which sadly entangles, ensnares, and captivates; "the flesh
   lusteth against the spirit". Now in this petition, "Lead us not into
   temptation," we pray to be kept from every occasion of sinning, and
   inclination to it, and appearance of it, and from every object which
   may allure to it; and that we might be kept from the sin which most
   easily besets us, or we are most inclined to; and that God would not
   leave us to Satan and our own corruptions, but hold us up by his power,
   when only we shall be safe; and that he would not suffer us neither to
   enter into, nor to fall by a temptation; and especially that we may not
   sink under it, and be overcome by it; but that we may be able to resist
   every temptation, and be victorious over all.

   2f2. Secondly, the other branch of the petition is, "but deliver us
   from evil;" either from the evil of afflictions, called "evil things,"
   because the effects of sin, and disagreeable to men (Luke 16:25), from
   these God has promised to deliver, and does deliver, and therefore may
   be prayed for in faith; or from the evil of sin, from committing it;
   this was the prayer of Jabez (1 Chron. 4:10) and from the guilt of it
   on the conscience, by the blood of Christ, the same with the
   forgiveness of it; and from the dominion of it, that it might not reign
   in us; such a prayer see in Psalms 19:13; 119:133, and from the being
   of it, and the sad effects of it (see Rom. 7:23, 24); or from evil men,
   unreasonable and cruel; from falling into their hands, and being ill
   used by them (2 Thess. 3:9), and especially from the "evil one," Satan,
   and from his temptations; and agrees with the former part of the
   petition.

   3. his prayer is concluded with a doxology, or ascription of glory to
   God; "For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, for ever"
   (see 1 Chron. 29:11); and these may be considered as so many reasons,
   pleas, and arguments, for obtaining the things requested, and to
   encourage faith therein; "For thine is the kingdom," of nature,
   providence, grace, and glory; and so all things appertaining thereunto,
   are at the dispose of God: "and the power;" to give daily bread, to
   forgive sin, to preserve from temptation, to support under it, and
   deliver out of it: "and the glory;" arising from all this, to whom
   alone it is due; and to be for ever given: "Amen," a note of
   asseveration of the truth herein contained; and used as an assent to
   the petitions made, and as a wish for the fulfilment of them; and as
   expressive of faith and confidence, that they would be answered.
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   [209] Tertullian. de Oratione, c. 1.

   [210] Cyprian. de Orat. Domin. p. 265.

   [211] Harmenopulus apud Witsii Exercitat. 6. de Orat. Domin. s. 28.

   [212] Cateches. Racov. Qu. xix. and xx.

   [213] Of the Agreement between them see Gill on "Matthew 6:9" and
   following, in which I have the happiness to agree with those celebrated
   writers, Witsius in Exercitat. 6. de Orat. Dominic. s 32. & Vitringa de
   Synagog. vet. l. 3. par. 2. c. 8. p. 962. et c. 18. p. 1099.

   [214] T. Bab. Beracot. fol. 40. 2.

   [215] "Quos mille annos ligati Satanae in ecclesiae historia non
   invenio; nunquam enim tamdiu ligatus fuisse videtur diabolus." Witsii
   Orat. Dominic. Exercitat. 9. s. 24. p. 151.

   [216] o epi te ousia emon armozon, Suidas in voce, epiousios.
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  Chapter 7

    OF SINGING PSALMS, AS A PART OF PUBLIC WORSHIP

   Next to prayer may be considered, singing the praises of God, as a
   religious duty: this may be done in a private manner, by a person
   singly and alone (James 5:13), and between two or more; so Paul and
   Silas sang aloud praises to God in the prison (Acts 16:25), and in the
   family, between a man and his wife, with his children and servants: of
   this private singing of psalms in the family Tertullian [217] speaks,
   and makes use of this as an argument with Christians to marry among
   themselves, that this duty may be the better and more harmoniously
   performed; but I shall treat of it as an ordinance of divine and public
   service; and endeavour,

   1. To show what singing is, according to the common idea we have of it,
   as a natural act of the voice; and as a religious duty distinct from
   other acts of religion. Singing may be considered either in a proper or
   in an improper sense. When used improperly, it is ascribed to inanimate
   creatures; the heavens, earth, mountains, hills, forests, trees of the
   wood, the pastures clothed with flocks, and the valleys covered with
   grain, are said to sing and shout for joy, or are exhorted to it (Isa.
   44:23, 49:13, Ps. 65:12, 13). Singing, taken in a strict and proper
   sense, and as a natural act, is an act of the tongue or voice; though
   not every action of the tongue, or sound of the voice, is to be called
   singing. Speech is an action of the tongue; but all kind of speaking is
   not singing; singing is speaking melodiously, musically, or with the
   modulation of the voice. These two sounds, speaking or saying, and
   singing, have not the same idea annexed to them; should we be told that
   such a man, as commonly expressed, said grace before and after a meal,
   we should at once understand what is meant, that he asked of God a
   blessing upon his food, before eating, and returned thanks after it,
   according to the common use of speech, in prayer to God, and in
   conversation with men: but if it should be said, he sung grace before
   and after a meal, we should not be able to form any other idea of it,
   but that he did it in a tonical, musical way, with a modulation of the
   voice. It is not any clamour of the tongue, or sound of the voice, that
   can be called singing; otherwise why should the tuneful voice and
   warbling notes of birds be called singing (Song 2:12), any more than
   the sound of the voice of other animals; as the roaring of the lion,
   the bellowing of the ox, the bleating of the sheep, the neighing of the
   horse, the braying of the ass, the barking of the dog, or the grunting
   of the hog? The clamorous noisy shouts of conquerors, and the querulous
   notes, shrieks, and cries of the conquered, are very different from the
   voice of singing: when Moses and Joshua came down from the mount, says
   Joshua, "There is a noise of war in the camp; and he (Moses) said, It
   is not the voice of them that shout for mastery; neither is it the
   voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that
   sing do I hear;" that sung and danced about the calf (Ex. 32:6, 17,
   18). And singing musically with the voice, as a religious action, is
   distinct from all other religious acts and exercises.

   1a. From prayer: James speaks of them as two distinct things in the
   place before quoted; and so the apostle Paul, when he says, "I will
   pray with the Spirit, and I will sing with the Spirit also;" or if he
   means the same, he must be guilty of a very great tautology (1 Cor.
   14:15). Paul and Silas in prison, both prayed and sung praises, which
   are evidently two distinct exercises (Acts 16:25).

   1b. It is distinct from giving thanks; Christ, in the institution of
   the Supper, gave thanks, this he did as his own act and deed, singly
   and alone; but after supper he and his disciples sung an hymn or psalm
   together; and the apostle having directed the church at Ephesus to sing
   psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, makes mention afterwards of
   "giving thanks" to God in the name of Christ, as a distinct duty
   incumbent on them (Matthew 26:26, 27, 30, Eph. 5:19, 20).

   1c. It is distinct from praising God; for though we do praise him in
   singing, yet all praising is not singing. Singing is only one way of
   praising God; there are others; as when we celebrate the adorable
   perfections of God, or speak well of them in preaching, or in common
   discourse; when we return thanks to him for temporal and spiritual
   mercies in prayer; when we show forth his praise, and glorify him by
   our lives and conversations; in neither of which senses can we be said
   to sing; if praising is singing, what then is singing of praise!

   1d. It is different from inward spiritual joy, which is wrought in the
   soul by the Spirit of God, and arises from views of interest in the
   love of God, in the covenant of grace, in the person, blood,
   righteousness, and sacrifice of Christ; and this indeed fits a person
   for singing the praises of God, but is distinct from it; "Is any
   merry?" euthumei tis, is any of a good mind, or in a good frame of
   soul? "let him sing psalms": but then the frame and the duty are
   different things; spiritual joy is not singing; but the cause and
   reason of it, and makes a man capable of performing it in the best
   manner.

   1e. Though there is such a thing as mental prayer, there is no such
   thing as mental singing, or singing in the heart, without the voice.
   Speaking or preaching without the tongue or voice, are not greater
   contradictions, or rather impossibilities, than singing without a voice
   or tongue is. Such an hypothesis is suited for no scheme but
   "quakerism;" and we may as well have our silent meetings, dumb
   preaching, and mute prayer, as silent singing: "singing and making
   melody in the heart," is no other than singing with or from the heart
   or heartily; or, as elsewhere expressed, "with grace in the heart,"
   [218] that is, in the exercise of it; it does not exclude the voice in
   singing, but hypocrisy in the heart, and requires sincerity in it, as a
   learned man [219] observes. I go on,

   2. To prove, that singing the praises of God has always been a branch
   of natural or revealed religion, in all ages and periods of time, and
   ever will be.

   2a. It was a part of the worship of God with the heathens; as prayer is
   a natural and moral duty, so is singing the praises of God: as men by
   the light of nature are directed to pray to God, when in distress, or
   for mercies they want (Jon. 1:6), so they are directed by the same to
   sing the praises of God for mercies received. A modern learned writer
   [220] observes, that "though religions the most different have obtained
   in various nations and ages, yet in this they all agree, that they
   should be solemnized in hymns and songs:" according to Plato the most
   ancient kind of poetry lay in those devotions to God which were called
   hymns [221] ; the credit and applause which Homer got [222] was owing
   to the hymns he composed for the deities; and among his works is still
   extant an hymn to Apollo; as Orpheus before him, composed hymns to the
   several deities, which are yet in being under his name. The whole
   science of music was employed by the ancient Greeks in the worship of
   their gods, as Plutarch [223] attests. One part of the religious
   worship of the Egyptians, consisted of hymns to their deities, suitable
   to the honour of them, and which they sung morning and evening, at
   noon, and sun setting, as Clemens of Alexandria and Porphyry relate;
   and the Indians also spent the greatest part of the day and night in
   prayers and hymns to the gods, as the last of these writers affirms.
   [224] Remarkable is the saying of Arrianus the Stoic philosopher; [225]
   he says, "If we are intelligent creatures, what else should we do, both
   in public and private, than to sing an hymn to the Deity?--If I was a
   nightingale, I would do as a nightingale, and if a swan, as a swan; but
   since I am a rational creature, I ought to praise God, and I exhort you
   to the selfsame song:-this is my work while I live, to sing an hymn to
   God, both by myself and before one or many." From these, and other
   instances which might be produced, we may conclude, that the Gentiles
   were by the light of nature directed, and by the law of nature obliged,
   to this part of worship; and consequently that it is a part of natural
   religion.

   2b. It was practised by the people of God before the giving of the law
   by Moses; the eighty eighth and eighty ninth psalms are thought by some
   [226] to be the oldest pieces of writing in the world; being long
   before the birth of Moses, composed by Heman and Ethan, two sons of
   Zerah, the son of Judah; the one in a mournful elegy deplores the
   miserable state of Israel in Egypt; the other joyfully sings
   prophetically their deliverance out of it. The ninetieth psalm was
   written by Moses himself, at what time it is not said; however, certain
   it is, that Moses and the children of Israel, sung a song at the Red
   Sea, after their passage through it, and the destruction of the
   Egyptians in it; which is still on record, and it seems will be sung
   again when the antichristian Pharaoh, and the antichristian powers, are
   destroyed by the Christian conquerors, standing on a sea of glass, with
   the harps of God in their hands (Ex. 15:1; Rev. 15:2, 3). Now this
   being before the law of Moses, when first sung, it was not done by
   virtue of that law; nor was it of ceremonious institution, nor a part
   of worship peculiar to the Levitical dispensation; nor was it by any
   positive law of God to the sons of men that we know of; but was sung by
   the Israelites according to the dictates of their consciences, and the
   examples of others before them, by which they were influenced, as to
   cry to the Lord when in distress, so to sing his praises when they were
   delivered.

   2c. It was not a part of divine service peculiar to Israel under the
   law; but when psalmody was in the most flourishing condition, under the
   direction and influence of David their king, he in many of his psalms,
   calls upon and exhorts the nations of the earth, to sing the praises of
   God; "Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands," or "all the earth;"
   let the people, even "all the people praise thee; let the nations be
   glad and sing for joy, sing unto the Lord all the earth!" &c. (Ps.
   66:1, 2, 67:3, 5, 96:1): Now if singing was not a part of moral
   worship, but of a ceremonious kind, the nations of the earth would have
   had no concern in it, nor would it have been obligatory upon them.

   2d. When the ceremonial law was in its greatest glory, and legal
   sacrifices in highest esteem, singing of psalms and spiritual songs was
   preferred unto them, as more acceptable to God than the offering of an
   "ox or bullock" (Ps. 69:30, 31). Now no other reason of this preference
   can be given, but that the sacrifice of an ox was of ceremonial
   institution, whereas singing the praises of God was a part of moral
   worship, which might be performed in a spiritual and evangelic manner.

   2e. When the ceremonial law, with all its rites, was abolished, this
   duty of singing the praises of God remained in full force; at the same
   time the apostle tells the churches, that the law of commandments was
   abolished, and they were no more to be judged with respect to meats,
   and drinks, and holy days, these shadows being gone; he exhorts them
   most strongly to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs (Eph. 2:14,
   15, 5:19; Col. 2:16, 17; 3:16). Now it is not reasonable to suppose
   that the apostle, in the same epistles, written to the same persons,
   should declare them disengaged from the one, and under obligation to
   regard the other, if they equally belonged to the same ceremonial law.

   2f. That the churches of Christ under the gospel dispensation were to
   sing, have sung, and ought to sing the praises of God vocally, appears

   2f1. From the prophesies of the Old Testament concerning it. In many of
   the psalms respecting the times of the Messiah, the churches of God in
   them are invited to sing the praises of God; as in Psalms forty
   seventh, sixty eighth, and ninety fifth, and in many of the prophesies
   of Isaiah it is declared, that not only the watchmen, the ministers of
   the word, "should lift up the voice, and with the voice together sing;"
   but that churches "should break forth into joy, and sing together,"
   (Isa. 52:7-9; see Isa. 26:1; 35:1, 2, 54:1) blessed be God these
   predictions are in a great measure fulfilled; gospel churches among the
   Gentiles, as well as in Judea, have lift up their voices and sung the
   praises of God, according to these prophesies.

   2f2. This also is evident from express precepts and directions given to
   gospel churches concerning it; it is not only prophesied of in the Old
   Testament, but is commanded in the New; particularly the churches at;
   Ephesus and Colosse, are expressly enjoined to sing "psalms, hymns, and
   spiritual songs," (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16) and directions are given them
   in what manner they are to sing them, which will be observed hereafter.

   2f3. This is clear from New Testament instances and examples. Christ
   and his disciples sung an hymn or psalm together at the celebration of
   the Lord's Supper; which they did as a church, in the midst of which
   Christ sung an hymn, and they with him (Matthew 26:30). [227] In
   Hebrews 2:12 the church at Corinth sung psalms in the times of the
   apostles; there were indeed disorders among them in the performance of
   this ordinance, as of others, which the apostle rectifies, and blames
   them, but not for that itself, provided they observed the rules he gave
   them (1 Cor. 14:26).

   2f4. This practice obtained in the earliest times of Christianity, and
   has continued to the present time. Pliny, [228] an heathen, in his
   letter to Trajan the emperor, written at the latter end of the first,
   or beginning of the second century, acquaints him, that the sum of the
   charge against the Christians was, that "they met together on a stated
   day, before it was light, and sung a song among themselves to Christ,
   as to God." And Tertullian, [229] in the beginning of the third
   century, speaks of reading the scriptures, singing psalms, preaching,
   and prayer, as parts of public worship. And Origen, a little later in
   the same century, observes, [230] the need of the Spirit of God to
   assist in singing psalms and hymns to the Father in Christ, euruthmos,
   emmelos, emmeros kai sumphonos, in good rhyme, melody, and metre, and
   in vocal concert. The proofs would be too numerous, and indeed endless,
   to give of its continuance and use in after ages; [231] it will be
   sufficient to observe, that the book of the Revelation is a
   representation of the service of the churches of Christ on earth, as
   well as of their state, condition, and sufferings, and their
   deliverance from them, in each of the periods of time until his second
   coming; in which we frequently have an account of their being concerned
   in this work of singing (Rev. 4:9-11, 5:9-13, 7:10-12), particularly at
   the time of the reformation from popery, and at the fall of Babylon, or
   antichrist (Rev. 14:1-8, 15:2, 3, 19:1-7), when the spiritual reign of
   Christ will take place; at which time, "from the uttermost parts of the
   earth will be heard songs, even glory to the righteous," (Isa. 24:16)
   and in the millennium, upon the first resurrection, when the personal
   reign of Christ will begin, the raised ones will sing, as they will be
   exhorted, and will have reason so to do; "Awake and sing, ye that dwell
   in the dust," (Isa. 26:19) in short, when all other ordinances will
   cease, this of singing the praises of God will be in its highest glory
   and perfection (Isa. 35:10). I shall next inquire,

   3. What that is which is to be sung, or the subject matter of singing;
   and the direction is to these three, "psalms, hymns, and spiritual
   songs" (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16).

   3a. By Psalms may be meant the Book of Psalms, composed by David,
   Asaph, and others; but chiefly by David; hence he is called "the sweet
   Psalmist of Israel," (2 Sam. 23:1) this is the only sense in which the
   word is used throughout the whole New Testament; nor is there any
   reason to believe the apostle Paul designs any other in the places
   referred to; nor the apostle James, in James 5:13. Those who are of a
   different mind ought to show in what other sense the word is used, and
   where; and what those Psalms are we are to sing, if not the "Psalms of
   David," &c. since it is certain there are psalms which are to be sung
   under the gospel dispensation.

   3b. By "hymns" are intended, not any mere human compositions; since I
   can hardly think the apostle would place such between psalms and
   spiritual songs, made by men inspired by the Holy Ghost, and put them
   upon a level with them, to be sung; but rather this is only another
   name for the Book of Psalms; the running title of which may as well be
   the "Book of Hymns," as it is rendered by Ainsworth. [232] The hundred
   and forty fifth psalm is called an hymn of David; and the psalm our
   Lord sung with his disciples after the Supper, is said to be an hymn;
   and so the psalms of David in general are called umnoi, "hymns," both
   by Josephus [233] and Philo the Jew. [234]

   3c. By "spiritual songs" may also be meant the same psalms of David,
   Asaph, &c. the titles of some of which are songs; as sometimes "a psalm
   and song, a song and psalm, a song of degrees," and the like; together
   with all other spiritual songs written by men inspired of God; called
   "spiritual," because of the author of them, the Spirit of God; the
   penmen of them, such as were moved by the same Spirit; and the matter
   of them spiritual, useful for spiritual edification; and are opposed to
   all loose, profane, and wanton songs. And as these three words,
   "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs," answer to thlym mzmrymg and syrym
   the titles of David's Psalms, and are by the "Septuagint" rendered by
   the Greek words used by the apostle, it may be reasonably concluded,
   that it was his intention that the churches he writes to should sing
   them; but inasmuch as the "word of God" and Christ in general furnishes
   out matter for singing his praises, I deny not, but that such hymns and
   spiritual songs, composed by good men, uninspired, may be made use of;
   provided care is taken that they be agreeable to the sacred writings,
   and to the analogy of faith, and are expressed as much as may be in
   scripture language; of such sort were those Tertullian [235] speaks of,
   used in his time, as were either out of the holy scripture, or "de
   proprio ingenio," of a man's own composure; and such seem to be the
   songs of the brethren, in praise of Christ, as the Word of God,
   ascribing divinity to him, condemned by some heretics. [236]

   4. The manner in which psalms, &c. are to be sung may be next
   considered.

   4a. Socially, and with united voices; so Moses and the children of
   Israel sung at the Red Sea; so Christ and his disciples sung after the
   Lord's Supper; so the watchmen will sing in the latter day, even with
   their voice together; so did Paul and Silas in prison; and thus the
   churches are directed in Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16.

   4b. With the heart along with the mouth, as heartily as well as
   vocally, which is making "melody in the heart," (Eph. 5:19) or
   performing the duty in sincerity and truth; and not as the Israelites,
   who flattered God with their lips, sung the praises of God, but soon
   forgot his works.

   4c. "With grace in the heart," (Col. 3:16) with the several graces; not
   one note, but a mixture of notes, makes melody; many voices, yet one
   sound, make a chorus: [237] so singing must be with various graces;
   with faith in God, without which it is impossible to please him; and
   with strong love and affection for him; and also "with reverence and
   godly fear;" for God is "fearful in praises" nvr' reverend in them, to
   be praised with great fear and reverence of his Majesty.

   4d. "With the Spirit," as the apostle Paul determined to do (1 Cor.
   14:15), with the Spirit of God, whose assistance is necessary in this
   as in prayer; and with our spirits, sincerely, fervently, and
   affectionately, and in a spiritual manner, suitable to the nature of
   God, who is a Spirit.

   4e. "With the understanding also;" with the understanding of what is
   sung; and in such a manner, and in such language, as may be understood
   by others; for one end of the duty is, not only to speak to ourselves
   in it, but to "teach" and "admonish" others; and perhaps the apostle
   may have some regard to one of the titles of David's psalms mskyl
   "Maschil," which signifies, a psalm giving instruction, and causing to
   understand. In a word, besides our mutual edification.

   4f. We should have in view the glory of God; for we are to "sing unto
   the Lord;" not to ourselves, merely to raise our natural affections, to
   gain applause from others, by the fineness of our voice, and by
   observing an exact conformity to the tune; but to the glory of Father,
   Son, and Spirit, the one God, who condescends to inhabit the praises of
   Israel. What remains now is only,

   5. To answer to some of the principal objections made to this duty;
   these are chiefly made against the matter and manner of singing, and
   the persons, at least some of them, who join in this service.

   5a. First, the matter and manner of singing, particularly David's
   psalms; to which are objected,

   5a1. That they were not written originally in metre; and therefore are
   not to be sung in such manner; nor to be translated into metre for such
   a purpose. The contrary to this is universally allowed by the Jews, and
   appears from the different accentuation of them from that of other
   books, and is asserted by such who are best skilled in the Hebrew
   language, both ancients and moderns. Josephus [238] says, David, in a
   time of peace, composed divine songs and hymns, of various metre, some
   trimetre, that is, of three feet; and others of pentametre, that is, of
   five feet. And Jerom, [239] who, of all the fathers best understood the
   Hebrew tongue, takes the psalms to be of the Lyric kind, and therefore
   compares David, to Pindar, Horace, and others; and for the metre of
   them appeals to Philo, Josephus, Origen, Eusebius, and others. Gomarus
   [240] has given hundreds of verses out of the psalms, which agree with
   Pindar and Sophocles; [241] and the word commonly used throughout that
   Book, in the judgment of learned men, signifies metre; [242] and since
   then the Psalms were originally written in metre, it is lawful to
   translate them into it, in order to be sung in the churches of Christ.

   5a2. It is doubted whether the Book of Psalms is suited to the gospel
   dispensation, and proper to be sung in gospel churches. Nothing more
   suitable to it, nor more proper to be sung in it; since it abounds with
   prophesies concerning the person and offices of the Messiah, his
   suffering and death, resurrection, ascension, and session at the right
   hand of God, now more clearly understood, and more capable of being
   sung in an evangelic manner; and also is full of precious promises; is
   a large fund of experience, a rich mine of gospel grace and truth, and
   so is greatly suited to every case and condition the church of Christ,
   or a particular believer may be in at any time; a little care and
   prudence in the choice of proper psalms on particular occasions, would
   fully discover the truth of this.

   5a3. It is objected, that cases are often met with in this book we
   cannot make our own; and to sing them, it is suggested, would be lying
   to God; and that some are quite shocking, as curses and imprecations on
   wicked men; and seem to show a want of that charity which is
   recommended in the gospel. To which it may be replied, that singing
   cases not our own, are no more lying to God than reading them is,
   singing being but a slower way of pronunciation, in a musical manner.
   Besides, when we sing the cases of others, we sing them as such, and
   not our own; which yet may be useful by way of example, advice,
   comfort, or instruction; and being sung in public, may be suitable to
   some in the community, though not to others; and so the end of singing
   be answered: and the same objection will lie equally against public
   prayer, and joining in that, since it cannot be thought that every
   petition is suitable to all: and as for curses and imprecations on
   wicked men, these may be avoided; we are not obliged to sing all that
   are in the psalms; besides, these may be considered only as prophetic
   hints of what may be expected will befall such persons, and may be sung
   to the glory of God, and with instruction to ourselves; since herein
   may be observed the justice and holiness of God, the vile nature of
   sin, the indignation of God against it, and abhorrence of it, and in
   which it is to be had with all good men.

   5a4. It is urged, that to sing David's Psalms, and others, is to sing
   by a form, and then why not pray by one? I answer, the case is
   different; the one may be done without a form, the other not; the
   Spirit is promised as a Spirit of supplication, but not as a Spirit of
   poetry; and if a man had an extraordinary gift of delivering out an
   extempore psalm or hymn, that would be a form to others who joined him;
   add to this, that we have a Book of Psalms, but not a book of prayers.
   David's Psalms were composed to be sung by form, and in the express
   words of them, and were so sung (see 1 Chron. 16:7; 2 Chron. 29:30);
   hence the people of God are bid, not to "make" a psalm, but to "take" a
   psalm, ready made to their hands (Ps. 81:1, 2).

   5a5. It is observed, that David's psalms were sung formerly with
   musical instruments, as the harp, timbrel, and cymbal, and organs; and
   why not with these now? if these are to be disused, why not singing not
   singing itself? I answer, these are not essential to singing, and so
   may be laid aside, and that continue; it was usual to burn incense at
   the time of prayer, typical of Christ's mediation, and of the
   acceptance of prayer through it; that is now disused; but prayer being
   a moral duty, still remains: the above instruments were used only when
   the church was in its infant state, and what is showy, gaudy, and
   pompous, are pleasing to children; and as an ancient writer [243]
   observes, "these were fit for babes, but in the churches (under the
   gospel dispensation, which is more manly) the use of these, fit for
   babes, is taken away, and bare or plain singing is left." As for
   organs, of which mention is made in Psalm 150:1-6, the word there used
   signifies another kind of instruments than those now in use, which are
   of a later device and use; and were first introduced by a pope of Rome,
   Vitalianus, and that in the seventh century, and not before. [244]

   5b. Secondly, there are other objections, which lie against some
   persons singing; as,

   5b1. Women, because they are ordered to "keep silence in the churches;"
   and are not "permitted to speak," (1 Cor. 14:34, 35) but this is to be
   understood only of speaking and teaching in public, in an authoritative
   way (1 Tim. 2:11, 12), otherwise it would not be lawful for them to
   give an account of the work of grace upon their hearts; nor to give
   evidence in any case, and the like: as for singing the praises of God,
   it is a moral duty, and equally binding as prayer on both sexes; and
   the God of nature and grace has given women faculties capable of
   performing it; and having a voice suited for it, to join in harmonious
   concert, ought to be exhorted to it, and encouraged, and not
   discouraged and discountenanced. Miriam, and the women with her, sung
   at the Red Sea; and Deborah sung with Barak; and it is a prophesy of
   gospel times, that "women" should come and "sing in the height of
   Zion," (Jer. 31:8-12) and, indeed, what else is the "woman's
   prophesying," but singing, allowed by the apostle, with her "head
   covered;" as is well judged by a learned writer; [245] since
   prophesying is explained by singing, as well as by praying and
   preaching, (1 Cor. 11:5, 14:15, 24, 26; see 1 Chron. 25:1-3) where
   prophesying is used in the same sense.

   5b2. The singing of unbelievers, and singing with them, are objected to
   by some; but then this supposes that it is the duty of believers, and
   is allowed of; or otherwise the objection is impertinent. Now let it be
   observed, that singing the praises of God, as well as prayer, is a
   moral duty, and so binding on all men, believers and unbelievers; and
   though none but the former can sing in a spiritual and evangelical
   manner; yet the latter are obliged to do it, in the best way they can;
   and it may be as well objected to their admission to public prayer, as
   to public singing; and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to know
   who are such in public assemblies; and supposing they ought not to
   sing, how can this affect believers? it is not their sin; nor should
   they neglect their duty on this account; but rather blush to see such
   so forward to it, to whom it is thought it does not belong, and they so
   backward to it. Besides, it has been the practice of the saints in all
   ages, to sing in mixed assemblies; there was a mixed multitude that
   came out of Egypt with the Israelites, in whose presence they sung at
   the Red Sea, and who very probably joined them in it, since they shared
   in the common deliverance. It was the resolution and practice of David,
   to sing the praises of God among the heathen (Ps. 18:49, 51:9), and,
   indeed, some ends of this ordinance cannot be otherwise answered; which
   are to declare the Lord's doings, his wonders, and his glory among them
   (Ps. 9:11, 96:3), and this has been an ordinance for conversion; it was
   of great use in forwarding the reformation from popery, as bishop
   Burnet, [246] in his history of it, relates; and it has been made very
   useful to souls under their first awakenings. Austin [247] speaks of it
   from his own experience: he says, "How much have I wept at thy hymns
   and songs, being exceedingly moved at the voices of thy church sweetly
   sounding. These voices pierced into my ears; thy truth melted into my
   heart, and from thence pious affections were raised, and the tears ran,
   and it was well with me."

   5b3. It is urged, that singing is not proper for persons in any
   distress, only when in good and comfortable frames; and which is very
   much grounded on James 5:13 the sense of which is, not that such are
   the only persons that are to sing psalms, or this the only time of
   doing it; any more than that afflicted persons are the only ones to
   pray, and the time of affliction the only time of prayer; but as
   affliction more especially calls for prayer, so a good and joyful frame
   on account of good things, for singing of psalms. What more distressed
   condition could a man well be in, than that in which Heman the Ezrahite
   was when he penned and sung Psalm 88:1-18? as the church sung in the
   wilderness in the days of her youth, when she came out of Egypt; so it
   is prophesied that she should hereafter sing there as then; and as the
   church is now in the wilderness, where she is nourished with the word
   and ordinances, for a time, and times; and half a time, she has reason
   to sing on that account (Hosea 2:14, 15; Rev. 12:14).
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   [217] Ad uxorem, l. 2. c. 6. p. 190. c. 8. p. 191.

   [218] "Necesse est hic in corde, ex corde intelligi, scilicet, ut non
   solum ore, sed etiam corde cantemus," Hieron. in Col. 3. 16.

   [219] Zanchius in Eph. v. 19.

   [220] Lowth. de Sacr. Poesi Heb.. Praelect. 1. p. 21.

   [221] Deut. Legibus, l. 3. p. 819. Ed. Ficin.

   [222] Herodotus de vita Homeri, c. 9. p. 558. Ed. Gronov.

   [223] Deut. Musica, p. 1140.

   [224] See my Discourse on Singing, p. 10, 11.

   [225] Arrian. Epictetus, l. 1. c. 16. & l. 3. c. 26.

   [226] Lightfoot, vol. 1. p. 699, 700.

   [227] See the old translation of this text exposed, which is pleaded
   for, and what was the hymn or psalm sung at this time, in a Discourse
   of mine on Singing, p. 34, 35, &c.

   [228] Ep. l. 10. ep. 97. vid. Tert. Apol. c. 2. & Euseb. Eccl.. Hist.
   l. 3. c. 33.

   [229] Deut. Anima, c. 9.

   [230] peri euches c. 6. p. 7. Ed. Oxon. 1686.

   [231] See my Discourse on Singing, p. 45, 46, &c.

   [232] "Vox umnoi, cum Hebraeo titulo thlym multo melius congruit."
   Lowth.

   [233] Antiq. l. 7. c. l2.

   [234] L. de mutat. nom. et l. de Somnis, et alibi.

   [235] Apolog. c. 39.

   [236] Euseb. Hist. Eccl. l. 5. c. 28. & l. 7. c. 30.

   [237] Seneca, Ep. 84.

   [238] Antiq. l. 7. c. 12.

   [239] Ep. ad Paulin. tom. 3. fol. 3. 2. praefat. in lib. Job fol. 8. 2.

   [240] Davidis Lyra inter opera ejus, t. 2. p. 317, &c.

   [241] See my Discourse on Singing, p. 23, 24.

   [242] mzmvr, "metrum, vel numeros, sive quam Graeci ruthmon, vocant,
   significat," Lowth. de Sacr. Poesi Heb.. Praelect. 3. p. 40. in marg. &
   Praelect. 4. p. 44. vid. Gejerum, & Michaelem, in Psalm iii. 1.

   [243] Autor. Qu. et. Respons. inter opera Justin. p. 462.

   [244] Platina de vitis Pontif. p. 86.

   [245] Works, vol. 2. p. 785, 1157. see Targum Jon. in 1 Sam. x. 5. and
   xix. 20, 23, 24.

   [246] Hist. of the Reformation, vol. 2. p. 94.

   [247] Confession. l. 9. c. 6.
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  Chapter 8

    OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP, AS TO PLACE AND TIME

   The circumstances of "place" and "time" of public worship deserve
   consideration; since for public worship there must be some certain
   "place" to meet and worship in, and some stated "time" to worship at.
   As to the first of these, it may soon be dispatched; since there does
   not appear to be any place appointed for it until the tabernacle was
   erected in the wilderness. It is probable that there was some certain
   place where our first parents worshipped, after their expulsion from
   the garden of Eden; whither Cain and Abel brought their sacrifices, and
   offered them; but where it was is not easy to say; perhaps the cherubim
   and flaming sword, at the east of the garden of Eden, were the symbols
   of the divine presence, since the Lord is frequently represented as
   dwelling between the cherubim; which may have respect, as to the
   cherubim in the tabernacle and temple, so to these; and there might be
   a stream of light, splendour, and glory, an emblem of the Shekinah, or
   divine Majesty, which had then appeared in the form of a flaming sword;
   and now near to this, or however in sight of it, might be the place of
   public worship; and hence when Cain was driven front these parts, he is
   said to be "hid from the face of God," and to go out "from the presence
   of the Lord," (Gen. 3:24, 4:3, 4, 14, 16). As for the patriarchs in
   succeeding times, before the flood, it does not appear that they had
   any other places to worship in but their own houses, where families
   might agree to meet, and worship in them in turn and course. And the
   patriarchs after the flood, as they were strangers, sojourners, and
   travellers in the earth; they built altars here and there for their
   convenience, and where they worshipped. Abraham in his travels came to
   a place near Bethel, as it was afterwards called, and built an altar,
   and worshipped; and on his return from Egypt he came to the same place
   again, and there worshipped as before (Gen. 12:8, 13:3, 4). Jacob, in
   his travels, came to a place called Luz, and where he remarkably
   enjoyed the divine presence, and thought it no other than the house of
   God, and therefore set up a stone for a pillar, and said it should be
   the house of God; and called the name of the place Bethel; and which
   God so honoured as to call himself by the name of the "God of Bethel;"
   and hither, with his family, he came many years after, and erected an
   altar unto God (Gen. 28:17-22, 31:13, 35:6, 7). There does not seem to
   be any settled place of worship until the tabernacle was built in the
   wilderness; and then every man was to bring his offering to the door of
   the tabernacle of the congregation, and there offer it, before the
   tabernacle of the Lord (Lev. 17:4, 5), and this tabernacle was moveable
   from place to place; not only while in the wilderness, but when the
   Israelites were come into the land of Canaan: it was first at Gilgal,
   then at Shiloh, after that at Nob and Gibeon; hence the Lord says, he
   had not dwelt in an house, in any fixed place, from the time the
   Israelites came out of Egypt; as if he had before; [248] but had walked
   in a tent, in a tabernacle (2 Sam. 7:6). It had been said by the Lord,
   that when the Israelites came into the land that was given them, there
   would be a place chosen of God to dwell in, and where all offerings
   were to be brought, and feasts kept (Deut. 12:10, 11), the name of the
   place was not mentioned, but it eventually appeared, that the city of
   Jerusalem, and the temple there, were meant; and the place where the
   temple was to be built was first discovered by David, and shown to
   Solomon; and which was confirmed to him by the Lord himself, to be the
   place he had chosen for an house of sacrifice (1 Chron. 22:1; 2 Chron.
   7:12), and this continued a place of worship until destroyed by
   Nebuchadnezzar; and after the Jews' return from the Babylonish
   captivity it was rebuilt, and remained to the times of Christ. Indeed,
   after the captivity, there were synagogues erected in various parts of
   the land of Judea, which were a sort of chapels of ease, where prayer
   was made, and Moses and the prophets read and expounded on Sabbath
   days; but no sacrifices were offered in them, nor any of the yearly
   feasts kept there: and whereas there had been, before the times of
   Christ, there still was a controversy between the Jews and Samaritans,
   whether the temple at Jerusalem or mount Gerizzim, were the place of
   worship; this was decided by our Lord, who declared that the time was
   coming, that neither at the one place nor at the other, should God be
   worshipped; but everywhere (John 4:20, 21), as the apostle also says (1
   Tim. 2:8), and, indeed, since, under the gospel dispensation, as was
   foretold, the name of the Lord should be great among the Gentiles, from
   the rising of the sun to the going down of it; and offerings of prayer
   and praise should be offered to him in every place (Mal. 1:11). No one
   place could be fixed on for all the nations of the earth to meet and
   worship in; and saints are now therefore at liberty to build places of
   worship for their convenience wherever they please, as the first
   Christians did, and continued to do.

   But the circumstance of "time," or a stated day of worship, requires
   more particular consideration; it having been a matter of controversy
   which has exercised the minds of good and learned men, for a century or
   two past, and not yet decided to the satisfaction of all parties; and
   in order to obtain what satisfaction we can, it will be proper to
   inquire,

   1. What day has been, or is observed, as a stated time of public
   worship; with the reasons thereof. And,

   1a. First, it has been thought and asserted, that the seventh day from
   the creation was enjoined Adam in a state of innocence, as a day of
   public and religious worship, and so to be observed by his posterity in
   after times; but if it was enjoined Adam in his state of innocence, it
   must be either by the law of nature, written on his heart, or by a
   positive law given him.

   1a1. First, it does not seem to be the law of nature written on his
   heart; for then,

   1a1a. He must be bound to keep a Sabbath before the institution of it;
   he was created on the sixth day, after the image of God; one part of
   which was the law of nature, written on his heart; but the institution
   of the Sabbath day was not until the seventh day, if it was then; for
   it is yet a matter of question.

   1a1b. There would have been some remains of it in his posterity after
   the fall; and even among the Gentiles, for these have the "law written
   in their hearts," (Rom. 2:14) but now it does not appear that they were
   ever directed by the law and light of nature to observe the seventh day
   of the week as an holy Sabbath; what has been alleged in favour of it
   will be considered hereafter.

   1a1c. Was this the case, it would have been reinscribed with other laws
   in more legible characters on the hearts of God's people in
   regeneration, according to the promise in the covenant of grace (Heb.
   8:10), and had the law of the seventh day Sabbath been one of them, it
   must easily have been discerned by them; and the observance of it would
   have been out of question. Nor,

   1a2. Secondly, does it seem to be enjoined Adam, by any positive law;
   and, indeed, if it had been written on his heart, as a branch of the
   law of nature, there would have been no need of any such law to have
   directed and instructed him; and to have a positive law given him, to
   keep a seventh day Sabbath, without any positive rules and directions
   what worship should be observed by him on that day, which do not
   appear, the law would have been useless; we have no account of any
   positive law given to Adam in a state of innocence, but that which
   forbad eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; which tree,
   and its fruit, we know nothing of; and did we, that law would not be
   binding upon us. The proof of such a law, with respect to the Sabbath,
   is founded,

   1a2a. On Genesis 2:2, 3, where it is said, that God having ended his
   work, "rested on the seventh day, and God blessed the seventh day and
   sanctified it". But,

   1a2a1. No mention is made of a Sabbath, and of the sanctification of
   that, as in the fourth command (Ex. 20:11), only of the seventh day,
   and not of that as a Sabbath.

   1a2a2. The words are a narrative of what God did himself; but do not
   contain a precept of what Adam should do; they only declare what God
   did, that he blessed and sanctified the seventh day; but do not enjoin
   Adam to keep it holy, as a Sabbath.

   1a2a3. At most they seem only to design a destination of that day to
   holy service hereafter; God "blessed" it, that is, pronounced it an
   happy day; all his works being finished, and man, an holy creature, the
   crown and glory of all, made after his image: [249] on a survey of
   which, God rested, and took delight, pleasure, and refreshment in them,
   on the seventh day; which he "sanctified," not by keeping it holy
   himself, nor by imparting any holiness to it, which a day is not
   capable of; but he separated, or set it apart for holy use in after
   time, which is a very common sense of this word: so Jeremiah was
   sanctified before he was born; that is, appointed and ordained to be a
   holy prophet; which purpose was not carried into execution until some
   time after; and so God might be said to sanctify or set apart in his
   mind and purpose the seventh day to be an holy Sabbath in future time;
   though it was not actually executed, as it should seem by what will be
   hereafter observed, until many hundred years after the creation.
   Besides,

   1a2a4. The words in Genesis 2:2, 3, are understood by many learned men
   proleptically, or by way of anticipation; as other things are in this
   same chapter; so some places are called by the names they bore in the
   times of Moses, which they had not from the beginning (see Gen.
   2:11-14); or the words may be considered as in a parenthesis; and the
   rather, since had they been read, or to be read, in common with the
   preceding, the word "God," and the phrase the "seventh day," would have
   been omitted; and have been read, "and he blessed and sanctified it;"
   and the reason for it, which follows, seems manifestly taken from the
   fourth command, as given on Mount Sinai (Ex. 20:11), and Moses writing
   his history of the creation, after this precept was given, took the
   opportunity of inserting this whole passage, to give the greater
   sanction to it with the Israelites.

   1a2a5. After all, be it that the text in Genesis enjoins the keeping
   the seventh day from the creation as a Sabbath; which seventh day now
   cannot be known by any people or persons whatever, it could never be
   the same with the Jewish seventh day Sabbath; for that was to be
   observed after six days labour of man; "Six days shalt thou labour,"
   &c. whereas this could be only after the six days labour of God, who
   rested from his work on the seventh; but it was Adam's first day, and
   could not with any propriety be called a rest from labour to him, when,
   as yet, he had not laboured at all: such a Sabbath was not suitable to
   him in a state of innocence, which supposes imperfection and sin; the
   creature would not have been in bondage had he not sinned, this was the
   effect of the fall; Adam, in innocence, had no manservant nor
   maidservant, nor any cattle in a state of bondage, groaning under
   burdens, to rest from their labours. This is a law merely calculated
   for sinful man.

   1a2b. The other remaining proof of such a law so early is taken from
   Hebrews 4:3, 4, where no mention is made of a seventh day Sabbath; and
   in which the apostle takes notice of the several rests which had been
   under the former dispensation, and shows, that neither of them was the
   rest promised, and had, under the gospel dispensation: not the seventh
   day rest from the creation, for that was God's rest: not the rest of
   the Israelites in the land of Canaan, which Joshua gave them; for then
   David, a long time after, would not have spoken of another day of rest,
   the gospel dispensation, into which believers now enter. Upon the
   whole, it must appear at least very dubious and uncertain, that there
   was any institution of a seventh day Sabbath from the creation; and
   especially when it is considered,

   1b. Secondly, that there is no proof of the patriarchs from Adam to the
   times of Moses observing such a day. For,

   1b1. We no where read of any law being given them for the observation
   of the seventh day Sabbath; Adam and Eve had a law which forbid the
   eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge; which Tertullian calls
   the primordial law; Abel was taught the law of sacrifices; Noah had the
   laws which forbid eating the blood with the flesh of a beast alive, and
   the shedding of human blood; and Abraham the law of circumcision; but
   neither of them had any law, as we know of, which enjoined them to
   observe the seventh day Sabbath. The Jews pretend that there were seven
   laws given to the sons of Noah; but this of keeping the seventh day
   Sabbath is not among them.

   1b2. Many of the religious actions of the patriarchs are taken notice
   of, and commended, both ceremonial and moral; as their offering of
   sacrifice, calling on the name of the Lord, prayer to God, and
   meditation on him and his works their piety, fear of God, and eschewing
   evil; but not a word of their observance of a seventh day Sabbath.

   1b3. The sins of men, both before and after the flood, are observed,
   but Sabbath breaking does not appear among them. The old world was full
   of violence, rapine, and oppression; and in the new world,
   intemperance, incest, idolatry, and other sins, men were chargeable
   with; but not with this: it does not appear among the sins of Sodom and
   Gomorrah; nor is it to be found among the abominations for which the
   old inhabitants of Canaan were cast out of it. But no sooner was the
   law of the Sabbath given to the Israelites in the wilderness, but we
   hear of the breach of it, and of a severe punishment of it.

   1b4. It was the general opinion of the ancient fathers of the Christian
   church, that the patriarchs did not observe a Sabbath, nor were obliged
   to it; but were righteous men, and saved without it: not Adam, nor
   Abel, nor Enock, nor Noah, nor Melchizedek, nor Lot, nor Abraham, nor
   Job, nor any before Moses; so say Justin Martyr, [250] Irenaeus, [251]
   Tertullian, [252] and Eusebius; [253] by whom are mentioned
   particularly all the above persons, as good men, and non-observers of a
   Sabbath. Some have fancied that they have found instances of a seventh
   day Sabbath observed in the time of the patriarchs; as at the offerings
   of Cain and Abel, which ate said to be "in process of time," or "at the
   end of days," (Gen. 4:3) but this phrase seems to design, not the end
   of a week, or seven days, no number being expressed, but rather the end
   of a year, days being sometimes put for a year; [254] and so refers to
   the harvest, at the end of the year, when the fruits of the earth were
   gathered in; and therefore Cain might think his sacrifice, at that
   time, would have been the more acceptable. And some conjecture a
   Sabbath was observed by Noah, in the ark (Gen. 8:10, 12), since he is
   said to send out the dove again after seven days; but this number seven
   has respect, not to the first day of the week, from whence the days
   were numbered; but the first sending out of the dove, be it on what day
   it may. And besides, Noah might have respect to the known course of the
   moon, which puts on another face every seven days; [255] and which, in
   its increase and wane, might have an influence upon the water, which he
   was careful to observe and make trial of this way. Moreover, it is
   observed, that in Job's time there was a day when the sons of God met
   together (Job 1:6, 2:1), but who these sons of God were, whether angels
   or men, is not certain; nor where, nor on what day they met; no mention
   is made of a seventh day, much less of a Sabbath; nor of a certain
   rotation of this day every week; nor of the distance between the first
   and second meeting. Arguments from this, and the above instances, must
   be very farfetched, and are very slight and slender grounds to build
   such an hypothesis upon, as the observation of a seventh day Sabbath.

   1c. Thirdly, there is no mention of a Sabbath before the descent of the
   manna in the wilderness of Sin: some of the Jewish writers [256] speak
   of it as given at Marah, a few weeks before, which they suppose is
   included in the word "statute," (Ex. 15:25) but this is said without
   any foundation; but the seventh day from the descent of the manna is
   expressly called a "Sabbath," (Ex. 16:23-26) and is the first we hear
   of, and which appears to be quite a new thing; for had the Israelites
   been used to a seventh day Sabbath, the rulers of the people might
   easily have conjectured, that the reason of twice as much bread being
   gathered on the sixth day, was on the account of the Sabbath being the
   day following, as a provision for that, had that been the case, without
   coming to tell Moses of it, who gave this as a reason of it to them;
   "Tomorrow is," or rather it should be supplied, "shall be, the rest of
   the holy Sabbath to the Lord;" for a "tomorrow" cannot be spoken of
   with propriety in the present tense, "is;" but as future, "shall be;"
   and therefore on the seventh day, when the manna ceased, which was a
   confirmation of it, he says to them, "see," take notice of it, as
   something new and wonderful, and a sufficient reason of the institution
   of the Sabbath, and why that day was given unto them for a Sabbath; and
   when the fourth command was given, a month after, it is introduced with
   a "memento," as the other commands are not; "Remember," what had been
   lately enjoined them; and that appears to be a new law; for when a man
   was found the breach of it, no penalty being as yet people brought him
   to Moses, and he was put into the ward, until the mind of God was known
   concerning it (Num. 15:31-36). Moreover, if there had been a Sabbath
   before the giving of the manna, the Sabbath preceding the seventh day
   from the descent of that, must have been the fifteenth of the month, on
   which day it is certain the Jews had a wearisome journey, by divine
   appointment, the cloud going before them (Ex. 16:1), and was concluded
   with gathering quails; so that it was not a day of rest to them, nor
   the rest of the holy Sabbath to the Lord.

   1d. Fourthly, the seventh day Sabbath, as it was declared on the
   descent of the manna, that it was peculiar to the Jews; "The Lord hath
   given you the Sabbath;--so the people rested the seventh day" (Ex.
   16:29, 30). Song it was when it received a further sanction from the
   fourth precept of the decalogue. For,

   1d1. The whole decalogue, or ten commands of the law of Moses, as such,
   were given to the Jews only; [257] as a covenant, it was made with the
   Israelites in the wilderness, and not even with their fathers, which
   were before them; and in which respect they had the preference to all
   other nations on earth, as Moses affirms (Deut. 5:2-21, 4:6-8), and as
   is affirmed by David (Ps. 147:19, 20) and by the apostle Paul, (Rom.
   9:4), and which appears from the preface to the decalogue; "I am the
   Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt;" which
   cannot be said of any other nation.

   1d2. The fourth command is particularly and expressly declared as
   peculiar to them; "My Sabbaths shall ye keep," saith the Lord; "for it
   is a sign between me and you," and not others (Ex. 31:13), that is, of
   the national covenant between them. The same is repeated (Ex. 31:16,
   17), where the children of Israel, as distinct from all other nations
   to whom it was no sign, are directed to keep the Sabbath. Song Nehemiah
   says, that when God spoke to the Israelites in the wilderness, he made
   "known to them his holy Sabbath;" which it seems had not been made
   known unto them before; but now was made known to them, and not to
   others; and is mentioned along with peculiar precepts, statutes, and
   laws commanded them (Neh. 9:14), and the prophet Ezekiel, from the
   Lord, tells the Jews, that the Lord had "given," to their fathers in
   the wilderness, his "Sabbaths, to be a sign between him and them;" it
   is not said he restored them, but "gave" them, denoting a new
   institution, and as peculiarly belonging to them: and this is the sense
   of the Jewish nation in general, [258] that the Sabbath only belongs to
   them, and that the Gentiles are not obliged to keep it; for though a
   Gentile proselyte or stranger within the gate, for the sake of national
   decorum, and to avoid offence and scandal, was to do no work on it for
   an Israelite, yet he might for himself, as the Jews interpret it; [259]
   but then this supposes, that a stranger not within the gate, was not
   obliged to observe it. Besides, some of the Jewish writers understand
   this stranger, or proselyte, of a proselyte of righteousness, who was
   under equal obligation to the commands of the law as a Jew.

   1d3. The time and place when and where this precept was given, with the
   reason of it, show that it was peculiar to the Jews; it was given them
   in the wilderness, after they were come out of Egypt; and their
   deliverance from thence is expressly observed, as the reason why it was
   commanded them (Deut. 5:15). The Lord's resting on the seventh day from
   his works of creation, is used as an argument to enforce the keeping of
   the seventh day Sabbath, now enjoined; but not as a reason of the
   institution of it.

   1d4. None but Jews were ever charged with the breach of the seventh day
   Sabbath; the children of Israel were charged with it in the wilderness,
   soon after it was enjoined them (Ezek. 20:20, 21, 23, 24), so in
   Nehemiah's time, though the Tyrians, who sold fish to the Jews on
   Sabbath days, were threatened, and shut out of the city, and forbid to
   come there with their goods; yet it was the Jews who bought them, who
   are charged with the profanation of the Sabbath (Neh. 13:15-20), and it
   was the sense of the Jews, that the Gentiles are not to be punished for
   the breach of it; yea, rather, that they are punishable for keeping it;
   [260] they having no other laws binding upon them: but the seven laws
   they speak of, as given to the sons of Noah.

   1d5. The law of observing the seventh day Sabbath is not of a moral
   nature; was it, it would be binding on all mankind, Jews and Gentiles;
   and could not have been dispensed with, nor abolished, as it is
   (Matthew 12:1-12; Col. 2:16, 17), and if such, as has been observed, it
   must have been written on the heart of Adam, when created; and would
   be, not only reinscribed on the hearts of regenerate men, but even the
   work of it would appear to be written on the hearts of Gentiles, as
   their consciences would bear witness; whereas it does not appear. Some,
   indeed, pretend to say, that the seventh day of the week was reckoned
   holy with the Gentiles; but of all the instances produced from Clemens
   and Eusebius, there is but one now extant among the poets, and that is
   in Hesiod; and the seventh day he speaks of as holy, is not the seventh
   day of the week, but the seventh day of the month, the birthday of
   Apollo, as the poet himself suggests, and the Scholiasts [261] on him;
   which was the seventh day of the month Thargelion, kept sacred at
   Athens on that account; hence Apollo was called Ebdomegena. [262] As
   for the Jews' seventh day Sabbath, the Heathen writers [263] speak of
   it as having its origin from Moses, and as peculiar to the Jews, [264]
   and the day itself was held by them in the utmost contempt ( see Lam.
   1:7); there is scarce a poet of theirs [265] but has a lash at it, and
   at the Jews on account of it; and represent them as a parcel of idle
   people, who keep that day to indulge themselves in sloth; the principal
   day of the week sacred with the Gentiles, was the first day of the
   week, dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday: so that if
   any argument can be drawn from the observation of the heathens, it is
   in favour of the Christian, and not of the Jewish Sabbath.

   1d6. It is impracticable and impossible, that a seventh day Sabbath
   should be kept by all people, in all nations of the world, at the same
   time exactly and precisely. It was and could only be observed by the
   Jews themselves, when they were together under a certain meridian; it
   cannot be kept now by them, as they are scattered about in distant
   parts of the world, with any precision, at the same time; such an
   hypothesis proceeds upon a false notion that the earth is plain, and
   has everywhere the same horizon, and is not globular, nor having
   horizons, and meridians, and degrees of longitude different in every
   place and country; which latter is most certainly true. If the earth is
   a globe, consisting of two hemispheres, when it is day on one side of
   the globe, it is night on the other; so that let the Sabbath begin at
   what time you please; if from sun setting, as the Jews begin theirs,
   and continue it to sun setting the next day; when it is sun setting
   with us, it is sunrising with those in the other hemisphere; and so
   "vice versa;" and if it is begun at midnight, and continued to
   midnight, as with us; when it is midnight on one side the globe, it
   will be midday, or noon, on the other: so in each case there must be
   half a day's difference in the exact time of the Sabbath; and according
   to the variations in horizons, meridians, and longitudes, will the day
   differ. If therefore the earth is a globe, as it is certain, it is; and
   as horizons, meridians, and longitudes differ, as they most certainly
   do, then it is impossible that the same exact precise time should be
   every where kept; and God has never commanded that which is impossible.
   Besides, it may be observed, that in Greenland, and other northern
   countries, for several months together, there is no sun rising nor sun
   setting, and so no days to be distinguished that way, the sun being at
   such a time always above the horizon; so that a Sabbath day, consisting
   of twenty four hours, or of a day and a night, cannot be observed in
   such parts of the world; nay, it has been made to appear, that one and
   the same day, at one and the same place, may be Friday, Saturday, and
   what is called Sunday. Supposing a Turk, whose Sabbath is Friday, and a
   Jew, whose Sabbath is Saturday, and a Christian, whose Sabbath is the
   first day of the week, dwell together; the Turk and the Christian set
   out on their travels at the same time, leaving the Jew where he was;
   the Turk by travelling westward loses a day, and the Christian
   travelling eastward gets one; so that both compassing the world, and
   meeting together again at the same place, the Jew continuing where he
   was, the same day will be Friday to the Turk, a Saturday to the Jew,
   and Sunday to the Christian; so Dr. Hevlin. [266] Those that travel
   round the world westward, it is observed by others, [267] as this makes
   their days longer, so they find fewer in compassing the globe, losing
   one day in tale, though they lose no time; so that if the Sabbath of
   their nation was the seventh, they would find it their sixth on their
   return: and those that travel eastward, as their days are shorter, are
   more in number, and gain one in tale; and on their return, would find
   their eighth, or first day of the week, to be the nation's Sabbath.
   Song there would be three Sabbaths kept in a nation, and all exactly
   observing time. It may be said, the same objection will lie against the
   first day as the seventh. It is granted; but then we observe that on
   another footing, as will be seen presently.

   1e. Fifthly, the first day of the week, or Lord's day, is now the day
   of worship observed by the generality of Christians; upon what account,
   and by what authority, must be our next inquiry. Not by virtue of any
   positive precept, or express command of Christ, for which there is
   none; wherefore some great and good men, as Calvin, [268] Beza, [269]
   Zanchius, [270] and others, have been of opinion that it was a matter
   of pure choice, in the first churches, and a branch of their Christian
   liberty; who were left free, as to choose a place where, so the time
   when to worship; and therefore fixed on this day, and substituted it in
   the room of the Jewish Sabbath, antiquated, as being most proper and
   suitable, and having the sanction of an apostolic practice; to which I
   have been inclined to agree; only cannot but be of opinion, that the
   practice and examples of the apostles of Christ, men respired by the
   Holy Spirit, who wrote, taught, and practised no other than agreeable
   to "the commandments of the Lord," (Matthew 28:20; 1 Cor. 14:37) carry
   in them the nature, force, and obligation of a precept. Song though
   there is no express command for infant baptism, yet had it been
   countenanced, as it has not been, by the like practice and examples of
   the apostles, we should have judged it our duty to have followed such a
   practice and such examples; it is upon this footing we observe the
   first day of the week, as being

   1e1. The most proper and suitable day for divine worship; as the change
   of the day of worship was necessary, there being a new dispensation,
   and new ordinances of divine service; and to testify to the world our
   faith of Christ's coming, death, and resurrection from the dead no day
   was so proper as the first day of the week, which immediately followed
   upon, and was the next remove from the seventh day Sabbath, now
   abrogated; so that the Christian church was never without a day of
   worship, pointed at so early by the practice of the apostles, who met
   that very first day of the week on which Christ rose from the dead; and
   which further shows the propriety and suitableness of this day as a day
   of rest; Christ had now finished the great work of our redemption and
   salvation; and so ceased from his work, as God did from his; and it may
   be further observed, that after our Lord's resurrection from the dead,
   we never read, throughout the whole New Testament, that ever the Jews'
   seventh day Sabbath was kept by any Christian assembly; only the first
   day of the week. Song that,

   1e2. The observation of this day is confirmed by the practice and
   examples of the disciples of Christ, and of the first churches; for,

   1e2a. On the very day Christ rose from the dead, which was the first
   day of the week, the disciples assembled together, and Christ appeared
   in the midst of them, and by his gracious presence and divine
   instructions, showed his approbation of their thus meeting together,
   and encouraged them to it; and on that day week they met again, and
   Christ again stood in the midst of them; now though there had been a
   seventh day preceding this, the disciples did not assemble on that day,
   but on this, and Christ with them (John 20:19, 29).

   1e2b. The apostles met together on the day, of Pentecost, which was the
   first day of the week, as has been proved by many learned writers. Just
   before our Lord's ascension, he ordered his disciples to wait at
   Jerusalem for the promise of the Spirit; and though there were two
   Jewish seventh day Sabbaths before Pentecost, from the time of his
   ascension, yet it does not appear that they met together on either of
   them; but on this day they did; and it looks as if they had an order
   from Christ to meet on it, and a promise from Christ that they should
   then have the Spirit descend upon them; and therefore it seems they
   were waiting for that day, in expectation of having the promise
   fulfilled on and hence it is said, "When the day of Pentecost was fully
   come, they were all with one accord in one place," (Acts 2:1) and this
   day was honoured and confirmed by the miraculous effusion of the
   Spirit, by preaching the gospel to men of all nations, and by the
   conversion and baptism of three thousand persons.

   1e2c. It was on the first day of the week that the disciples at Troas
   met together to break bread, when Paul preached unto them (Acts 20:7).
   Now he had been there seven days before, so that there must have been
   in that time a seventh day Sabbath of the Jews; but it does not appear
   that he and they assembled on that day; but only on the first, and that
   for religious worship, he, to break bread to celebrate the Supper of
   the Lord, and they, to hear him preach.

   1e2d. The apostle Paul gave orders to the church at Corinth, as he had
   to the churches of Galatia, to make a collection for the poor saints on
   the first day of the week, when met together (1 Cor. 16:1, 2) which
   shows that it was usual to meet on that day; yea, it implies an order,
   or the renewal and confirmation of an order, to meet on that day, or
   otherwise how should the collection be made on it; and what day so
   proper as when the saints meet for divine worship, and their hearts are
   warmed and refreshed with the word and ordinances. In an ancient copy,
   mentioned by Beza on the place, after "the first day of the week," it
   is added, by way of explanation, the "Lord's day;" and also in others;
   [271] and so Jerome [272] explains it.

   1e2e. This is the day John means by the "Lord's day," when he says, "I
   was in the Spirit on the Lord's day," (Rev. 1:10) he speaks of it as
   then a well known name of it; so called because Christ rose from the
   dead on it; in commemoration of which it was kept, and in which his
   gospel was preached and ordinances administered; for it was now upwards
   of sixty years from the resurrection of Christ to John's being an exile
   in Patmos, where he wrote his Revelation; and this day was observed as
   a day of religious worship in the earliest ages of Christianity.
   Ignatius, [273] who died but eight or ten years after the apostle John,
   says, "Let us keep the Lord's day, on which our Life arose." And Justin
   Martyr, [274] a few years after him, says, on the day commonly called
   Sunday (by the heathens, meaning the first day of the week) all met
   together in city and country for divine worship. Dionysius of Corinth,
   speaks of the Lord's day as an holy day, [275] and Clemens of
   Alexandria, [276] in the same century, observes, that he that truly
   keeps the Lord's day glorifies the resurrection of the Lord.
   Tertullian, [277] in the beginning of the third century, speaks of the
   acts of public worship, as "Lord's day solemnities". And in the same
   century Origen [278] and Cyprian [279] make mention of the first day as
   the "Lord's day," and the time of worship; and so it has been in all
   ages to the present time. Now upon the whole, since it does not appear
   that a seventh day Sabbath was enjoined Adam in innocence; nor that the
   patriarchs ever observed it; and that the first mention of it was at
   the giving of the manna; and that it was ordered to be observed by the
   Jews, and them only, by the fourth precept of the decalogue, since
   abrogated; and that the first day of the week, or Lord's day, is
   substituted in its room, as the day of worship, by the practice and
   example of the apostles; there surely can remain no scruple about the
   observance of the latter: but if, after all, the fourth command, with
   the morality of it, hangs upon the minds of any; be it that that
   command is still in force, though not granting it, which would bring us
   back to Judaism, and into a state of bondage; and allow it all the
   morality that can be ascribed to a day; according to the letter of it,
   it requires no more nor other than this, a rest on the seventh day,
   after six days labour; it does not direct to any epoch from whence it
   is to begin, as from the creation of the world, the seventh day from
   which the greatest mathematician in the world cannot assure us which it
   is, nor even the year of the creation; it only directs to, and regards
   the seventh day from whence a man begins to labour in whatsoever place
   or country he lives; nor does it direct to any set time or hour when to
   begin these seven days, or by what names to call the days of the week;
   the rule is only, "Six days shall thou labour and do all thy work," or
   thou mayest if thou wilt, "but the seventh day is the sabbath of the
   Lord thy God;" and such an account of time as is made in whatsoever
   place a man lives, is to be taken, and of which every man is capable;
   it does not require be should be a skilful mathematician a man that
   uses the spade, or follows the plough, is capable of counting six days,
   on which he has wrought, and when he comes to the seventh, he must know
   it is not his own, but the Lord's; and such an account a man may keep,
   let him live on what side of the globe he will; in Europe or in
   America, north or south; in Great Britain, or in the East and West
   Indies: nor is the observation of the first day any objection to this
   rule, since that is after six days labour; the very first day on which
   Christ rose, kept by his disciples, was after six days labour; for the
   Jews' sabbath being between that and the six days labour can be no
   objection, since that was a day of rest, and not of labour; so that for
   that time there were two successive days of rest, after the six days of
   labour; when, upon the next return of the first, which was immediately
   after, it proceeded regularly, as it does now. In short, the only safe
   rule to go by is, that of the apostles, be the day what it may; "He
   that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord," (Rom. 14:6) or he
   ought so to do. Which leads me to observe,

   2. In what manner the Lord's day is to be regarded or observed; not to
   ourselves, to our own profit and pleasure; but to the Lord, to his
   service and glory.

   2a. Not as a Jewish Sabbath; with such strictness and severity as not
   to kindle a fire, dress any manner of food, and travel no further than
   what is called a Sabbath day's journey; though perhaps these were not
   enjoined with the strictness some have imagined. But,

   2b. We are not to do our own work; that is, to follow any trade,
   business, or occupation employed in on other days; otherwise there are
   works of piety, mercy, and charity to be done; and also of necessity,
   for the preservation of life, the comfort and health of it, our own or
   others.

   2c. It is to be employed more especially in acts of public worship, in
   assembling together for that purpose, in preaching, and hearing the
   word preached, in prayer and staging praises.

   2d. In private acts of devotion, both before and after public worship;
   such as has been already observed, when the duty of public hearing the
   word was considered.

   2e. The whole of the day should be observed, from morning to evening;
   the early part should not be indulged in sleep, nor any part spent in
   doing a man's own business, in casting up his accounts, and setting
   right his shop books; nor in carnal pleasures and recreations, in games
   and sports; nor in walking in the fields; nor in taking needless
   journeys. But besides public worship, men should attend to reading the
   scriptures, prayer and meditation, and Christian conferences; and in
   such pious exercises should they spend the whole day.
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   [248] See my Note on 1 Chron. xvii. 5. See Gill on "1 Chron. 17:1".

   [249] Vid. Heidegger. Hist. Patriarch. Exercit. 3. s. 58. p. 109.

   [250] Dialog. cum Trypho. p. 236, 240, 241, 245, 261, 319.

   [251] Adv. Haeres. l. 4. c. 30.

   [252] Adv. Judaeos, c. 2, 3, 4.

   [253] Hist. Eccl. l. 1. c. 2, 4. Demonstr. Evangel. l. 1. c. 6. &
   Praepar. Evangel. l. 7. c. 6. p. 304.

   [254] Vid. Heidegger. Hist. Patriarch. Exercitat. 5. s. 18. p. 178.

   [255] Ibid. Exercitat. 18. s. 32. p. 562.

   [256] T. Sanhedrin, fol. 56. 2. Seder Olam Zuta, p. 101. Ed. Meyer.
   Yalkut, par. 1 fol. 73. 2, 3.

   [257] Vid. Zanchii. Oper. tom. 4. l. 1. c. 11. p. 222, 223.

   [258] Zohar in Exod. fol. 26. 4. T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 59. 1.
   Bartenora in Misn. Sabbat, c. 24. s. 1.

   [259] T. Bab. Ceritot, fol. 9. 1. Piske Tosephot Yebamot, art. 84.
   Maimon. Hilchot Sabbat, c. 20. s. 14.

   [260] T. Bab. Betza, fol. 16. 1. & Sanhedrin, fol. 58. 2. &. 59. 1.
   Bemigdbar Rabb. fol. 234. 4. Maimon. Hilchot, Melachim, c. 10. s. 9.

   [261] Proclus & Moschepulus in ibid.

   [262] Plutarch. Sympos. l. 8. c. 1.

   [263] Justin e Trogo, l. 36. c. 2. Tacit. Hist. l. 5. c. 4.

   [264] "Cultaque Judaeo septima Sacra viro," Ovid. de arte amandi, l. 1.

   [265] Juvenal. Satyr. 6. v. 158. Satyr. 14. v. 105, 106. Pers. Satyr.
   5. v. 184. Martial. l. 4. ep. 4. vid. Senecam apud Aug. de Civ. Dei, l.
   6. c. 11.

   [266] History of the Sabbath, par. 1. p. 48.

   [267] See Dr. Watts's Holiness of Times, &c. p. 55.

   [268] Institut. l. 2. c. 8. s. 34.

   [269] Confess. Fidei. c. 5. s. 41.

   [270] In Precept. 4. tom. 4. p. 670.

   [271] Vid. Mill. in loc.

   [272] Adv. Viglantium Oper. tom. 2. fol. 42.

   [273] Ad Magnes. p. 35.

   [274] Apolog. 2. p. 98, 99.

   [275] Apud Euseb. l. 4. c 23. Irenaeus, l. 5. c. 24.

   [276] Stromat. l. 7. p. 744.

   [277] Deut. Anima, c. 9.

   [278] Homil. 5. in Esaiam, fol. 104. 3. et alibi.

   [279] Ep. 33. p. 66. & Ep. 58. p. 138.
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BOOK IV. OF PRIVATE WORSHIP, OR VARIOUS DUTIES, DOMESTIC, CIVIL, AND MORAL
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  OF THE RESPECTIVE DUTIES OF HUSBAND AND WIFE

   1. Of the Respective Duties of Husband and Wife.

   Having considered Public Worship in all its branches, I now proceed to
   treat of Private Worship; by which I mean, not merely the private
   teachings and instructions of a master of a family, to those who are
   under his care; nor private conferences of the saints, by which they
   may edify one another; nor private reading of the scriptures, which are
   to be searched whether the things heard in the ministry of the word are
   true, and which are to be read in the family for instruction; nor
   private prayer, in the closet or in the family; nor private singing the
   praises of God, which may be performed in like manner: which are all
   branches of private worship, and have been touched on in the preceding
   Book. But what I mean by private worship, and intend to treat of, are
   the personal, relative, domestic, and civil duties incumbent on
   particular persons, in their different relations to one another; and so
   every other duty and good work: which all come under the name of
   "cultus", or "worship"; being all to be performed with a respect to
   God, under his authority, according to his will and command, and in
   obedience to it, and with a view to his glory. In this manner all
   relative and mutual duties are to be performed; the subjection of wives
   to their husbands is to be made as "unto the Lord", the Head of the
   man, and in obedience to him; and husbands are to love their wives, "as
   Christ loved the church", according to his pattern and example, and as
   influenced by his love (Eph. 5:21, 29). Children are to obey their
   parents "in the Lord", as being what he requires, and has encouraged by
   his promise; and parents, as an act of religion, are to bring up their
   children "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Eph. 6:1, 4).
   Servants are to be obedient to their masters, "as unto the Lord", as
   his servants, and "doing the will of God from the heart"; and "with
   good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, fearing God".
   And masters are to do their duty to their servants; "Knowing that they
   also have a master in heaven", to whom they are accountable, (Eph.
   6:5-9; Col. 3:22-24, 4:1) and subjects are to obey magistrates, as
   being the "powers ordained of God", and magistracy an ordinance of God;
   and magistrates are to protect their subjects, and to be "terrors, not
   to good works", but for the encouragement and praise of them, and for
   the discouragement and punishment of those that are evil (Rom. 13:1-4;
   1 Peter 2:13, 14). God has a concern in all these, and men have a
   concern with him in them. These I shall briefly treat of in their
   order; and begin with the respective duties of husband and wife, which
   are summed up in these two general comprehensive ones; "love" on the
   one part, and "reverence" on the other, (Eph. 5:33) and these arise
   from a conjugal union and marriage relation between the said parties;
   marriage is an union of male and female, of one man and of one woman in
   lawful wedlock, agreeable to the original creation of man, (Gen. 1:27;
   Mal. 2:15) and agreeable to the course of Providence, which has been
   kept to ever since in all ages and nations; there being continually
   nearly the same number of males and females born into the world, at
   most as thirteen to twelve, or fourteen to thirteen; the surplus on the
   side of the males, being a provision by the wise Orderer of all things
   for a supply for war, for the seas, &c. and by this conjugal union,
   male and female, become one, even one flesh, (Gen. 2:24; Matthew 19:6)
   which union is therefore very near and strict, and, indeed,
   indissoluble but by death, excepting in one case, unfaithfulness in the
   one to the other, by adultery or fornication, (Rom. 7:2; Matthew 5:32)
   and this state is to be entered into with mutual consent; indeed, with
   the consent of all parties who have a concern in it; with the consent
   of parents and guardians, under whose care single persons may be; and
   especially with their own consent, for none are to be forced into it
   against their wills; no, not by their superiors; it must be their own
   voluntary act and deed: and being thus entered into, it is a very
   honourable state; "Marriage is honourable in all", (Heb. 13:4) it being
   an institution of God, and that of God in paradise; by whom our first
   parents were directed to it, in a state of purity and innocence; God
   made the woman for an help meet, and brought her to the man, proposed
   her to him, whom he approved and accepted of, and she became his wife,
   (Gen. 2:18, 22-24) it was the Lord's act and deed, and to him Christ
   ascribes the act of marriage (Matthew 19:6). Christ honoured it by his
   presence, and at such a solemnity wrought his first miracle, and
   manifested forth the glory of his Deity, (John 2:1, 2, 11) and what
   makes this state yet more honourable is, that the marriage of Adam and
   Eve was a type and emblem of the conjugal union of Christ and the
   church, (Eph. 5:32) Adam was a figure or type of Christ, and, among
   other things, in his marriage; and Eve, the mother of all living, was a
   type of the church; Adam was first formed, and then Eve; Christ was
   before the church, and, indeed, before all things; Eve was formed from
   Adam, from a rib taken out of his side; the church has her original
   from Christ, and her subsistence by him; all her grace, blessings, and
   happiness, are from him; her justification and sanctification are from
   him, signified by the blood and water which sprung from his pierced
   side. Eve was brought by the Lord to Adam, not against her will, but
   with it, and by him presented as a proper match for him, which he
   approved and accepted of; and the church was brought to Christ, and
   given to him by his Father, to be his spouse and bride, whom he liked,
   accepted of, and betrothed to himself; and her consent is obtained by
   the drawings and influences of his Father's grace: and though this is
   no direct proof of, yet it has a favourable aspect upon, and may serve
   to illustrate the "supralapsarian" scheme; that Christ had an interest
   in his church, and she in him, and was espoused unto him before she
   fell in Adam; this marriage transaction between Adam and Eve being
   before the fall. Moreover, marriage is honourable with respect to the
   ends of it; which even before the fall, and supposing Adam had stood,
   hereby he would have had an help meet; and the first law of creation
   would have been carried into execution, increase and multiply; a godly
   seed, a legitimate offspring would have sprung from hence; families
   formed and built up, and the world peopled with inhabitants; and since
   the fall the ends and uses of it are to preserve chastity, to prevent
   incontinence, and to avoid fornication; as well as to answer the other
   ends: and particularly this state appears honourable: when the duties
   of it are observed by both parties; as,

   1. First, love on the part of the husband. "Husbands love your wives",
   Ephesians 5:25 instances of which are in Isaac, Jacob, Elkanah, and
   others (Gen. 24:67, 29:18, 20; 1 Sam. 1:5). The nature and manner of
   showing it, and the reasons of it, might be observed.

   1a. First, the nature of it.

   1a1. It is superior to any shown to any other creature whatever; as to
   the neighbour, who, though to be loved by a man as himself, yet a man's
   wife is himself, and loving her is loving himself, the other part of
   himself, (Eph. 5:28) parents are to be loved, but a wife before them;
   for a man is to leave father and mother, and to cleave to his wife,
   (Gen. 2:24) children are to be loved, but the wife before them; as well
   as the husband by the wife; "Am not I better to thee than ten sons?" (1
   Sam. 1:8) and Christ is to be loved before any relations (Matthew
   10:37; Luke 14:26).

   1a2. It should be a love of complacency and delight, taking pleasure
   and delight in her person, company, and conversation, (Prov. 5:18, 19;
   Eccl. 9:9) as is the love of Christ to the church, who is his
   Hephzibah, in whom is all his delight.

   1a3. Should be chaste and single, as the love of Christ is, (Song 6:9)
   and for this reason a man should not have more wives than one, whereby
   his love would be divided or alienated, and hate the one and love the
   other, as is commonly the case; and therefore the law provided for the
   firstborn, of whichsoever it might be (Deut. 21:15, 17; see 1 Cor.
   7:2).

   1a4. It should be mutual; the wife is to love the husband, as the
   husband the wife, (Titus 2:4) and generally her love is the most strong
   and affectionate, (2 Sam. 1:26) and the reason why the husband is more
   frequently exhorted to it, it may be, is because most wanting in the
   performance of it.

   1b. Secondly, the manner, or how, and in what way it is to be
   expressed; not in words only, but in deed and in truth; by real facts,
   which speak louder than words.

   1b1. In making all proper provision for her temporal good, signified by
   "nourishing" and "cherishing" her, (Eph. 5:29) which include food and
   raiment, and all the necessaries of life; he is to "provide things
   honest", decent, convenient, and suitable, to his rank, state,
   condition, circumstances, and abilities; and he that "provideth not for
   his own", especially for his own wife, his own children and family, "is
   worse than an infidel" (Rom. 12:17; 1 Tim. 5:3).

   1b2. In protecting her from all abuses and inquiries; as she is the
   weaker vessel, she is to be taken under his wing and shelter; he is to
   be a covering to her, as Abraham was to Sarah; which may be signified
   by the ceremony used at marriage, or by which that act is expressed, a
   man's spreading his skirt over the woman, (Gen. 20:16; Ruth 3:9) he is
   to expose himself to danger, and even risk his life in her defence, and
   for her rescue (1 Sam. 30:5, 18).

   1b3. In doing everything that may contribute to her pleasure, peace,
   comfort, and happiness; "he that is married" is to care "how he may
   please his wife"; nor does the apostle blame him for it; but rather
   commends him for it, or recommends it unto him (1 Cor. 7:33). "Hatred
   stirreth up strifes", contentions, quarrels, the consequence of which
   is confusion, and every evil work; "but love covereth all sins",
   conceals faults, and hides failings and infirmities (Prov. 10:12).

   1b4. In seeking her spiritual welfare; her conversion, if unconverted,
   and her spiritual peace, comfort, and edification, she being an heir
   with him of the grace of life; by joining with her in all religions
   exercises; in family worship, in reading, in prayer, in praise, in
   Christian conference and conversation; by instructing her in everything
   relating to doctrine, duty, and church discipline; in answer to
   questions she may and has a right to ask him at home (1 Cor. 14:35). To
   all which are opposed hatred and bitterness; "Husbands love your wives,
   and be not bitter against them"; not giving bitter language,
   threatening words, sour looks, and especially bitter blows; which is
   cruel, churlish, barbarous, and brutish, unbecoming the man and the
   Christian.

   1c. Thirdly, the reasons or arguments enforcing this duty of the love
   of a man to his wife, are such as follow.

   1c1. The nearness between them, she is his own flesh; and "no man ever
   yet hated his own flesh", which would be monstrously unnatural; she is
   "himself", the other part of himself, and to be loved as his own body,
   which to love is a principle [280] in nature (Eph. 5:28, 29, 33).

   1c2. The help, advantage, and profit he receives by her; she is
   provided as an help meet for him, and becomes such to him in the
   affairs of the family, (Gen. 2:18) she is his companion, and which is
   used as a reason why he should not deal treacherously with the wife of
   his youth, (Mal. 2:14) she is his companion in prosperity and
   adversity; shares with him in his cares and troubles, in his joys and
   sorrows; sympathizes with him in all conditions, weeps when he weeps,
   and rejoices when he rejoices; she is a partner with him in the
   blessings of grace now, and will be a partner with him in eternal
   glory.

   1c3. The glory and honour she is unto him; "The woman is the glory of
   the man", in whom are seen his power and authority, (1 Cor. 11:7) one
   who is loving and chaste to him, and is careful of her family affairs,
   does him honour, and is a credit and crown to him, and makes him
   respectable among men; his heart safely trusts in her, and through her
   conduct he is known and respected "in the gates" (Prov. 12:4, 31:10,
   11, 23).

   1c4. The strongest and most forcible argument of all to a good man, is
   the love of Christ to his church; which is the pattern and exemplar of
   a man's love to his wife and most strongly enforces it, (Eph. 5:25-28).

   2. Secondly, the duties on the part of the wife, are reverence,
   subjection, obedience, &c.

   2a. Reverence; and "let the wife see that she reverence her husband",
   (Eph. 5:33) which reverence is both internal and external; she ought to
   think well, and even highly of him, and not despise him in her heart,
   as Michael, Saul's daughter, did David her husband, (2 Sam. 6:16) and
   she should speak of him and to him in a respectable manner, as Sarah
   did to Abraham, calling him Lord (1 Peter 3:6; Gen. 18:12).

   2b. Subjection and submission to him; "Wives, submit yourselves unto
   your own husbands", not to others; "as unto the Lord", the Lord Christ,
   the head of every man, and so of the church; "and as the church is
   subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in
   everything"; that is, in things relating to family affairs; not in
   anything that is contrary to the laws of God and Christ; for God is to
   be obeyed rather than men, than any man, than husbands themselves,
   (Eph. 5:22, 24) and this subjection and submission is not a servile
   one; not like that of servants to their masters, or of handmaids to
   mistresses, and much less like that of slaves to tyrants, or who have
   taken them and hold them captives; but as the body, and members of it,
   are subject to the head, by which they are governed, guided, and
   directed to what is for their good; and that in a wise, tender, and
   gentle manner.

   2c. Obedience. the apostle directs, that wives be "obedient to their
   own husbands", (Titus 2:5) Sarah is an example of this; and an instance
   we have of her immediate and quick obedience to the orders of Abraham,
   (1 Peter 3:6; Gen. 18:6).

   2d. Assistance and help in family affairs, agreeable to the original
   end of her creation; guiding the house with discretion, keeping her
   children and servants in good order and decorum; abiding at home, and
   managing all domestic business with wisdom and prudence (1 Tim. 2:14;
   Titus 2:5).

   2e. Assuming no authority over her husband, as not in ecclesiastical,
   so not in domestic matters; seeking to please him in all things, doing
   nothing without his will and consent, and never contrary to it; not
   intermeddling with his worldly business and concerns, but leaving them
   to him (1 Tim. 5:11, 12; 1 Cor. 7:34).

   2f. Continuance with him in every state and circumstance of life; going
   with him wherever God in his providence, and his business in life call
   him; as Sarah with Abraham in the land of promise, in Egypt, and
   elsewhere; she should do as Ruth proposed to Naomi (Ruth 1:16). There
   are reasons why the wife should be found in the performance of these
   duties. Some,

   2f1. Taken from her creation, time, manner, and end of it; Adam was
   formed first, and then Eve; and therefore in point of time had the
   superiority; the man was made not of and for the woman; but the woman
   was made of and for the man, and to, be an help meet and assistant to
   him (1 Tim. 2:13; 1 Cor. 11:8, 9; Gen. 2:18).

   2f2. From the consideration of the fall, and her concern in it; "Adam
   was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, was in the
   transgression", at least first, and the means of drawing her husband
   into it; and therefore it is part of the sentence denounced upon her
   for her transgression, "Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he
   shall rule over thee" (1 Tim. 2:14; Gen. 3:16).

   2f3. From the man being the head of the woman; and therefore she should
   be in subjection to him as such (1 Cor. 11:3; Eph. 5:23).

   2f4. From her being the weaker vessel, and therefore standing in need
   of his shelter and protection.

   2f5. From her own credit and honour concerned herein; as it would be to
   her discredit and dishonour to behave irreverently, and to be
   disobedient; to submit to him, "as is fit the Lord", is decent and
   becoming, (Col. 3:18) and so to be is ornamental to women, and the best
   ornament they can deck themselves with; "Being in subjection to their
   own husbands" (1 Peter 3:3-5).

   2f6. The chief argument of all is taken from the subjection of the
   church to Christ, (Eph 5:22, 24). In short, both parties should consult
   each other's pleasure, peace, comfort, and happiness, and especially
   the glory of God; that his word, ways, and worship, may not be
   reproached and evil spoken of through any conduct of theirs (Titus
   2:5).
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   [280] "Fateor insitam nobis esse corporis nostri charitatem", Seneca,
   Ep. 14.
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  Chapter 2

    OF THE RESPECTIVE DUTIES OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN

   These duties arise from a relation founded in nature. There is a
   natural instinct [281] in all creatures, even in the brutal creation,
   and in the more brutish part of that, to love their young, take care of
   them, provide for them, supply them, protect and defend them; "Even the
   sea monsters give suck to their young ones", (Lam. 4:3) much more such
   an affection appears in human and rational beings; "Can a woman forget
   her sucking child?" &c. (Isa. 49:15) on the other hand, as they are
   among the most wicked and abandoned of mankind who are "disobedient to
   parents"; they are in the same description of them represented as
   "without natural affection", (Rom. 1:30, 31; 2 Tim. 3:2, 3) as such
   must be, as well as guilty of gross ingratitude, "who requite" not
   "their parents" with filial love and duty for all the care and trouble,
   pains and expenses, they have been at in bringing them forth, and
   bringing them up in the world. Their performance of these duties is one
   part of natural religion. The apostle calls it showing "piety," [282]
   or godliness, (1 Tim. 5:4). The heathens by the light of nature [283]
   taught these things; Solon, [284] Phocylides [285] Pythagoras, [286]
   Isocrates, [287] Plutarch, [288] and others, coupled and ranked them
   together, and exhorted first to "honour God", and then to "honour
   parents;" [289] and, indeed, parents in the exercise of their love,
   power, and care, greatly resemble the divine Being, as the Creator,
   Sustainer, Protector, and Governor of his creatures; since children
   receive their being from their parents, under God; who are the
   instruments of introducing them into the world, and of their
   sustentation, support, and protection in it; hence Philo [290]
   observes, that the "fifth command, concerning honouring parents, is
   placed between the two tables of the law; which seems to be done
   because the nature of parents is methorion, a middle border, or term
   between immortal and mortal; being mortal with respect to cognation to
   men, and other animals, and the corruptible body; immortal, as it
   resembles in generation God, the parent of all." And children are
   therefore under great obligation to various duties with respect unto
   them; with which I shall begin, and the rather, as they stand first in
   order, in the directions the apostle gives to both parents and
   children.

   1. First, the duties of children to their parents are included and
   comprehended in that general exhortation; "Children, obey your parents
   in the Lord, for this is right" (Eph. 6:1). The persons of whom this
   duty is required, are "children"; and the persons to whom it is to be
   performed, are "parents"; by the former are meant children of each sex,
   male and female, sons and daughters, being in an equal relation, and in
   equal obligation to obedience to parents; and of every age, from
   infancy to manhood; and though the power of parents over children is
   less when grown up, the duty of observance, gratitude, and filial
   reverence does not cease; yea, may be the more increased, since it may
   be then better known; and children of every class, state, and condition
   of life, though they may be superior to parents in worldly honour,
   wealth, and riches, are to obey them, as the cases of Joseph and
   Solomon show. And though such who are the true and genuine offspring of
   parents, or who are so in a proper sense, may be chiefly meant, yet in
   them are included spurious ones, and such who are children by adoption,
   as Moses and Esther; or by the law of marriage, sons and
   daughters-in-law, as Moses to Jethro, and Ruth to Naomi, who were all
   obsequious to those to whom they stood thus related. By "parents" are
   meant, though chiefly immediate ones, yet include all in the ascending
   line, as a father's father and mother, a mother's father and mother, or
   grandfathers and grandmothers, or if any higher are living they are
   entitled to obedience; and, indeed, all who stand in the room and stead
   of parents, as adoptive ones, step-fathers and step-mothers, tutors,
   guardians, governors, nurses, &c. while under their care, and in a
   state of minority, obedience is to be yielded to them; but particularly
   both parents are meant, father and mother, as it is explained in the
   next verse; "Honour thy father and mother"; father is put first, on
   account of order, of precedence and dignity; sometimes the order is
   inverted, to show the equal respect that should be had to both (Lev.
   19:3). The duty enjoined, is "obedience", which includes love, honour,
   reverence, gratitude, and subjection.

   1a. Love; from whence all true obedience to God, to Christ, and to
   creatures flow; disobedience is owing to a want of love; such who are
   disobedient to parents, are without natural affections, as before
   observed: parents are greatly to be loved, but not more than God and
   Christ; "He that loveth father or mother more than me", says Christ,
   "is not worthy of me", (Matthew 10:37).

   1b. Honour: obedience is explained by honour, (Eph. 6:1, 2; see Mal.
   1:6) which honour lies,

   1b1. In thought and estimation; children are to think highly, and to
   entertain an honourable esteem of their parents; to which is opposed, a
   "setting light" by them, (Deut. 27:16) a mean and contemptible opinion
   of them leads to disobedience to them (Prov. 30:17).

   1b2. Is expressed by words; by speaking honourably of them and to them;
   "I go Sir", was language which carried in it honour and respect, though
   it was not attended with obedience (Matthew 21:30). Cursing father or
   mother with the mouth and lips, is shocking, and was punishable with
   death by the Levitical law, and followed with the judgments of God
   (Lev. 20:9; Prov. 20:20; 30:17).

   1b3. In gesture and behaviour; as by rising up to them, and bowing
   before them; instances of which are in Joseph and Solomon (Gen. 46:29;
   48:12; 1 King 2:19)

   1c. Obedience to parents, includes fear, and reverence of them, (Lev.
   19:3) which is shown by a patient bearing their reproofs and by a
   submission to their corrections, (Heb. 12:2) by an acknowledgment of
   offences committed, and asking forgiveness of them, (Luke 15:18) by
   concealing their infirmities, natural and moral, whether through old
   age or otherwise, an instance of this we have in Shem and Japheth (Gen.
   9:21-23).

   1d. Gratitude; a requital of them for all their kindness; by taking
   care of them when in want and distress, and in old age; so Joseph
   nourished his father and his family in a time of famine: so Ruth
   gleaned for Naomi, though only her mother-in-law; and her son Obed was
   by prophecy to be a nourisher of her in her old age; and David, though
   in a state of exile himself, provided for his father and his mother, to
   be with the king of Moab, till he knew how it would be with him (Gen.
   47:12; Ruth 2:18; 4:15; 1 Sam. 22:3, 4). The Pharisees are charged with
   a breach of this duty, by a tradition of theirs, which wickedly excused
   persons from relieving their indigent parents (Matthew 15:4-6). The
   heathens teach better things: Solon [291] pronounces such ignoble and
   dishonourable, who neglect the care of their parents: in Aeneas [292]
   may be seen a specimen of filial piety to an aged parent, whom he
   carried on his back at the destruction of Troy. The storks in the
   heavens may teach men their duty, who are careful of their dams in old
   age, [293] which Aristophanes wittily calls an ancient law in the
   tables of the storks. [294]

   1e. Subjection and submission to their commands, advice, reproofs, and
   corrections. The rule is, "Children, obey your parents in all things",
   (Col. 3:20) not in things sinful, contrary to the laws of God, and
   ordinances of Christ; if parents command their children to worship
   another God, or a graven image; or to do anything forbidden in the
   first and second tables of the law; or enjoin them not to profess the
   name of Christ, nor submit to his ordinances; they are to be rejected,
   and, in a comparative sense, "hated", (Luke 14:26) for God is to be
   obeyed, and not man, not even parents, in such cases; but in things
   that are lawful and right, agreeable to the will of God, revealed in
   his word, and even in things indifferent, which are neither forbidden
   nor commanded, yet if enjoined by parents are to be observed; an
   instance of this we have in the Rechabites, and whose filial observance
   was approved of by the Lord, (Jer. 35:6-10, 18, 19) yea, also in things
   difficult and disagreeable to flesh and blood; as the cases of Isaac in
   submitting to be sacrificed by his father, and in Jephtha's daughter,
   to be done unto by him according to his vow, show, (Gen. 22:9; Judg.
   11:36).

   The manner in which this obedience is to be yielded is, "in the Lord",
   (Eph. 6:1) which may be considered as a limitation of the above rule;
   that it must be in things pertaining to the Lord, which are well
   pleasing in his sight, which make for his glory, and are done for his
   sake, according to his command and will, and in obedience to it; and
   also in imitation of the Lord Christ, who, in his human nature, was
   subject to his earthly parents and thereby left an example of filial
   obedience to tread in his steps (Luke 2:51). The reason enforcing such
   obedience is, "for it is right"; it is agreeable to the law and light
   of nature, as has been before observed; it is agreeable to reason, and
   to the law of equity; gratitude demands it, that children who have
   received so many favours from their parents, should make some suitable
   returns in a way of filial love, honour, reverence, and obedience: it
   is agreeable to the law of God; it stands among the precepts of the
   Decalogue, it is the "fifth" in order there; but, as the apostle says,
   it is "the first commandment with promise", with a promise of long
   life; which was always reckoned a great blessing, which disobedience to
   parents often deprives of, as in the case of Absalom.

   2. Secondly, there are duties incumbent on parents with respect to
   their children, which are,

   2a. First, negatively expressed; "Ye fathers, provoke not your children
   to wrath", (Eph. 6:4) which may be done,

   2a1. By words; by laying upon them unjust and unreasonable commands, by
   frequent, public, and severe chidings, by indiscreet and passionate
   expressions, and by contumelious and reproachful language; such as that
   of Saul to Jonathan (1 Sam. 20:30).

   2a2. By deeds; as by showing more love to one than to another; as Jacob
   did to Joseph, which so incensed his brethren that they hated Joseph,
   and could not speak peaceably to him, (Gen. 37:8) by not allowing them
   proper food, and a sufficiency of it, (Matthew 7:9, 10; 1 Tim. 5:8) by
   not indulging them with innocent recreation, which children should
   have, (Zech. 8:5) and when at a proper age for marriage, of them to
   persons not agreeable to their inclinations; [295] and by restraining
   them from those that would be, without any just reason; and by
   squandering away their substance in riotous living, when they should
   have preserved it, and laid it up for the present use, or future good
   of their children; and especially by any cruel and inhuman treatment;
   as that of Saul to Jonathan, when he made an attempt on his life (1
   Sam. 20:33, 34). Such provocation should be carefully avoided; since it
   renders all commands, counsel, and corrections ineffectual, alienating
   the affections of their children from them; the reason to dissuade from
   it, given by the apostle, is, "lest they be discouraged", (Col. 3:21)
   be overwhelmed with grief and sorrow, and thereby their spirits be
   broken, become pusillanimous, disheartened and dispirited; and
   despairing of pleasing their parents, and sharing in their affections,
   become careless of duty, and indolent to business. Parents, no doubts
   have a right to rebuke and reprove their children when they do amiss;
   it was Eli's fault that he was too soft and lenient, and his reproofs
   too easy, when he should have restrained his sons from acting the vile
   part; should have frowned upon them, put on stern looks, and laid his
   commands on them, and severely threatened them, and punished them if
   refractory (1 Sam. 2:23, 24; 3:13). And they may use the rod of
   correction, which they should do early, and while there is hope; but
   always with moderation, and in love; and should take some pains with
   their children to convince them that they do love them; and that it is
   in love to them, and for their good, that they chastise them. "Fathers"
   are particularly mentioned, because they are apt to be most severe, and
   mothers most indulgent.

   2b. Secondly, the duty of parents to children is expressed positively;
   "But bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord", (Eph.
   6:4) which may relate,

   2b1. To things civil, respecting them, that they should "bring them
   up"; that is, provide for their sustentation and support, food and
   raiment suitable and convenient for them, and what is honest in the
   sight of all men, (Rom. 12:17; 1 Tim. 5:8) take care of their
   education, suitable to their birth, to their capacity, and to what they
   are designed for in life; to put them to some trade and business at a
   proper time; the Jews [296] have a saying, "that he that does not teach
   his son, or cause him to be taught, some trade or business, it is all
   one as if he taught him to be a thief, to steal privately or rob
   publicly;" and when of age, to dispose of them in marriage, to take
   wives for their sons, and to give their daughters to husbands; and to
   give them portions, and part with some of their substance, to set them
   up in the world, according to their abilities; for all which purposes,
   to lay up for their children is their duty, as well as to leave
   something behind them for their future good.

   2b2. And this exhortation may have respect to the training of them up
   in a religious way; in the external ways of God, and paths of
   godliness, in which they should walk; from whence they will not easily
   [297] and ordinarily depart (Prov. 22:6). It becomes them to set good
   examples to them, of sobriety, temperance, prudence, &c. and to keep
   them from the company of such from whom they may learn what is evil;
   for evil communications corrupt good manners; and whereas the seeds of
   all sins are in children, which soon appear, they should check them
   early, and nip them in the bud, and expose the sinfulness of those
   vices they are most inclined unto; as using naughty words, and telling
   lies, &c. they should frequently pray with and for them, as Abraham for
   Ishmael; whereby they will be sensible, that they have not only their
   temporal good, but their spiritual and eternal welfare at heart; and
   they should bring them under the means of grace, the ministry of the
   word; and teach them to read the scriptures as soon as may be; and
   instruct them in the knowledge of divine things, as they are able to
   receive it; which seems to be meant by paideia, the nurture of the
   Lord. Though I cannot say I truly approve of the method of education
   used by some good people; as by teaching them the Creed, a form of
   belief, saying, I believe, so and so, before they have any knowledge of
   and faith in divine truths; and to babble over the Lord's Prayer, as it
   is commonly called, and other forms of prayer; which seems to have a
   tendency to direct them to rest in an outward form, and to trust in an
   outward show of righteousness; which they need not be taught to do, it
   is natural unto them; and whenever they receive the grace of God, all
   this must be untaught and undone again. It is proper to instruct them
   in the necessity of faith in God and in Christ, and of the use of
   prayer; and to lay before them the sinfulness of sin, and show them
   what an evil thing it is, and what are the sad effects of it; to teach
   them their miserable estate by nature, and the way of recovery and
   salvation by Christ; and to learn them from childhood to read and know
   the holy scriptures, according to their capacity; and by these to be
   "admonished" of sin, and of their duty, to fear God, and keep his
   commandments; which may be meant by the "admonition of the Lord"; and
   the proper opportunity should be taken to instil these things into
   their minds, when their minds begin to open, and they are inquisitive
   into the meaning of things; (see Deut. 6:20) and these several
   respective duties are to be carefully attended to; since the peace and
   order of families, the good of the commonwealth, and the prosperity of
   the church, and increase of the interest of Christ, greatly depend upon
   them.
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   [281] "Communi autem animantium omnium est conjunctionis appetitus
   procreandi causa, et cura quaedam eorum quae procreata sunt", Cicero de
   Officiis, l. 1. c. 4.

   [282] eusebein. Valerius Maximus has a chapter, de Pietate in Parentes,
   l. 5. c. 4.

   [283] "Diligere parentes prima naturae lex", ib. s. 7. et extern. s. 5.

   [284] Laert. vit. Solon. p. 46.

   [285] Poem. Admon. v. 6.

   [286] Aurea Carmin. v. 1, 2.

   [287] Paraenes. ad Demonic. Orat. 1.

   [288] peri philadelphias, p. 479. Vol. 2.

   [289] prota theon tima, metepeita te seio goneas, Phocyl. Pythag. &c.
   ut supra.

   [290] Deut. Decalogo, 759, 760.

   [291] Laert. vit. Solon. l. 1.

   [292] "Ergo age, chare pater, cervici imponere nostrae: Ipse subibo
   humeris, nec me labor iste gravabit". Virgil. Aeneid. l. 2. prope
   finem.

   [293] Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 16. c. 23. Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 6. c.
   13.

   [294] monos palaios, en tois ton pelargon kurbesin, Aves, p. 604.

   [295] "Hostis est uxor, invita quae ad virum nuptum datur", Plauti
   Stichus, Act. 1, sc. 2. v. 83.

   [296] T. Bab. Kiddushin. fol. 30. 2.

   [297] "Quo semel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem, testa diu", Horat.
   Epist. l. 1. ep. 2. v. 69.
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  Chapter 3

    OF THE RESPECTIVE DUTIES OF MASTERS AND SERVANTS.

   These duties arise not from a relation founded in nature, as those of
   parents and children; but from a relation founded in contract, compact,
   covenant, and agreement. Men are by nature, or as to their original
   make, alike and equal; there is no difference, of bond and free; [298]
   God has made of one blood all men, all spring from the same original,
   [299] whether that be traced up to Noah or to Adam; and, indeed, we
   hear nothing of a servant before the times of the former; and that
   threatened as a curse for sin, (Gen. 9:25) for as Austin says, [300] it
   is sin, and not nature, that deserves this name; it is from the lust of
   the flesh that wars come, and from these captivity, servitude, and
   bondage, which is through force, and not will; no man has a legal power
   to make another man his servant against his will, nor has he any right
   to his service without his consent: that servitude which arises from
   contract, compact, and covenant, which almost only obtains among
   Christians, is of all the most just, lawful, and defensible, because
   with it best consists the natural liberty of mankind; such as an
   apprenticeship, which a man enters into of his own will, or with the
   advice and consent of those under whose care he is; when, by an
   indenture or covenant, he agrees to serve a master for a certain term
   of years, on certain conditions, mutually agreed unto; or as when one
   is hired for certain service, by the year, or by the month, or by the
   day; [301] of which hired servants the prodigal in the parable speaks;
   "How many hired servants of my father", &c. and were as early as in the
   times of Job, (Job 7:1, 2) and it is of the duties of such towards
   their masters, and of the duties incumbent on masters towards them,
   that I shall now treat.

   1. First, of the duties of servants to their masters. These are more
   largely and frequently spoken of in the epistles of the apostles;
   because that Christian servants were impatient of the yoke of heathen
   masters, and had it insinuated into them, by some licentious persons
   and false teachers, that civil servitude was inconsistent with
   Christian liberty; from whence great scandal was like to arise to the
   name and doctrine of Christ, and the Christian religion, which were
   liable to be blasphemed, and spoken evil of on that account (1 Cor.
   7:21; 1 Tim. 6:1; Titus 2:10). And it may be proper to consider,

   1a. First, of whom duty is required, and to whom it is to be performed;
   "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters" (Eph. 6:5). By
   "servants" are meant such of this character, male and female, men
   servants and maid servants, whose relation to them that are over them,
   their duty to them, and obligation to it are the same; as also they
   share alike in privileges and benefits belonging to them, (Ex 20:10;
   Job 31:13, 15) and "masters" also include "mistresses", as well as
   masters, who are to be submitted to, one as another, (Gen. 16:8, 9) and
   those of whatsoever temper and disposition, whether good or ill
   natured, kind and gentle, or churlish, morose, and perverse, and
   froward, (1 Peter 2:18) and whether truly gracious and religious, or
   not; "Masters according to the flesh"; or though carnal, and in a state
   of nature, and in things belonging to the flesh, outward and temporal
   things, are to be submitted to, (Eph. 6:5) and especially such who have
   "believing masters" should not "despise" them, and disobey their
   commands, "because they are brethren", in the same spiritual relation,
   and of the same Christian community; but, on the contrary, should
   rather do them "service", with all constancy, cheerfulness, and
   readiness, "because they are faithful", true believers in Christ, and
   beloved of God, and of his people; "and partakers of the benefit", of
   the same grace, and of the same redemption and salvation by Christ, (1
   Tim. 6:2) and they are "their own masters" they are to be obedient to,
   and not others, who have no right to their service (Titus 2:9).

   1b. Secondly, the duties to be performed by servants to their masters;
   which are comprehended in these general terms of "subjection" to them,
   and "obedience" to their lawful commands, (Eph. 6:5; Col. 3:22; Titus
   2:9; 1 Peter 2:18) and which include "honour", that is to be given
   them; for they are to be counted "worthy of all honour", in mind and
   thought, and to be expressed by words and gesture. They are to be had
   in honour and esteem, and to be spoken honourably of, and respectably
   to (1 Tim. 6:1) "Fear", or reverence, which is to be given to all to
   whom it is due, to all superiors, and so to masters; "If I be a master,
   where is my fear" (Mal 1:6). Strict and close attention to orders
   given; the words of their mouth are to be hearkened to, and the motions
   of their hands, pointing and directing to business they are to do, are
   to be observed, (Ps. 123:2)and a ready and cheerful compliance to
   execute their commands; "I say to my servant, Do this; and he doth it"
   immediately, at once (Matthew 8:9) Seeking to please them in all
   things, that they may obtain their affection and good will (Titus 2:9)
   Showing all fidelity in what they are intrusted with; not misspending
   their time embezzling their master's goods, and wasting his substance
   (Titus 2:10). Acting the same faithful part as Jacob to Laban, and
   Joseph to Potiphar, and to the keeper of the prison.

   1c. Thirdly, the manner in which this duty of obedience, in its several
   branches, is to be performed; it must be universal; "in all things",
   (Col. 3:22; Titus 2:9) not in things sinful; but in all things lawful,
   which are not contrary to the law of God and gospel of Christ, and to
   the interest of true religion, and the dictates of conscience; over
   which masters have no power. Obedience should be yielded "with all
   fear", (1 Peter 2:18) with the fear of masters, of offending them, and
   incurring their just displeasure; with fear of their frowns, rebukes,
   and corrections, and especially as fearing God (Col. 3:22). Servants
   that fear the Lord will say and act as Nehemiah did; "So did not I,
   because of the fear of the Lord" (Neh. 5:15). In "singleness of heart";
   with simplicity and sincerity; not with duplicity of mind,
   dissimulation, fraud, deceit, and lying; as Gehazi behaved to his
   master, Elisha, (2 King 5:25, 26). Not "with eye service"; that is,
   doing his master's business only while under his eye, and in his
   presence; but in his absence, and while they imagine it will continue,
   do as the wicked servant in (Matthew 24:48, 49) their obedience should
   be cordial and hearty; what they do they should do it "heartily as to
   the Lord, and not to man"; not as pleasing men, but "as the servants of
   Christ doing the will of God from the heart, with good will doing
   service"; not grudgingly, nor murmuring, nor by force and constraint,
   but willingly, and of a ready mind (Eph. 6:5-7; Col. 3:23).

   1d. Fourthly, the arguments enforcing such obedience are,

   1d1. The authority and command of God; it is by the authority of God
   that the exhortations to obedience are given; and it is to be yielded
   in conformity to his will, as if done to him rather than to men.

   1d2. The honour and glory of God, and of Christ, and of his gospel, is
   concerned herein, that his name and doctrine be not blasphemed, by a
   contrary behaviour; but that the gospel, and a profession of it, be
   adorned by a suitable conduct (1 Tim. 6:1; Titus 2:10).

   1d3. The example of Christ must be of great weight with the true lovers
   of him; who, though equal with God, took on him the form of a servant,
   and condescended to do the duty of one, was faithful and righteous,
   always did the things that pleased God, delighted in doing his Father's
   will and work, and was constant and assiduous in it; in all which he
   set an example to tread in his steps.

   1d4. The benefit arising to servants from their obedience, in general,
   what good thing they do, the same they shall receive of the Lord; for
   God is not unrighteous, to forget their service; but will recompense it
   either now or hereafter, with a reward of grace, (Eph. 6:8) and
   particularly with the reward "of the inheritance", which they "know"
   they shall "receive of the Lord", (Col. 3:24) by which is meant, the
   heavenly glory, called an "inheritance", because their Father's bequest
   unto them; and a reward, not of works, but of grace; and so have the
   strongest motive and greatest encouragement to obedience that can be
   had.

   2. Secondly, there are duties incumbent on masters, with respect to
   their servants, "And ye masters, do the same things unto them", (Eph.
   6:9) not the same duties; but what belong to them, they should do in
   the same manner, in obedience to the will of God, in the fear of God,
   and with a view to his glory. And,

   2a. There are some thing, they are to do, with respect to the moral,
   spiritual, and eternal good of their servants.

   2a1. They are to set good examples to them, of temperance, sobriety,
   prudence, virtue, and religion; examples have great force in them; as a
   man is so will his servants be (Prov. 29:12). David determined to "walk
   within his house", before his children and servants, "with a perfect
   heart", with all integrity and uprightness, thereby setting an example
   to them (Ps. 101:2).

   2a2. They are to teach and instruct them in the knowledge of divine
   things; as Abraham taught his servants, who were trained up in his
   house, as in civil things, so in matters of religion (Gen. 14:14;
   18:19).

   2a3. They are to pray with them, and for them; for prayer is to be made
   for all men, as for superiors, for kings, and all in authority; so for
   inferiors, and for servants; which is a part of family worship (Jer.
   10:25; Josh. 24:15).

   2a4. Should allow time and leisure for religious services, to read and
   hear the word of God, to pray and praise, and to meditate, according to
   the provision made for rest and cessation from labour, in the fourth
   precept of the Decalogue; and they should be put upon as little service
   as may be on whatsoever day for worship is observed.

   2b. There are other duties, which relate to their temporal good. As,

   2b1. They are to teach them the business they are put apprentices to
   them for, and learn them the whole mystery of their art, so far as they
   are capable of receiving it; or otherwise they will not act the
   faithful part.

   2b2. To give them that which is "just and equal", according to the laws
   of God and men, of justice and equity, food convenient for them, what
   is fit to be eaten, and a sufficiency of it; so in the house of the
   prodigal's father there was bread enough and to spare for the hired
   servants: raiment also is to be provided for them, [302] if in the
   agreement, and what is suitable to their relation and circumstances;
   and when they are sick should take care of them, and be concerned for
   their health, and recovery of it; as the centurion was, who applied to
   Christ on the behalf of his servant (Matthew 8:5-10). A contrary
   behaviour in the Amalekite towards his servant, was barbarous and cruel
   (1 Sam. 30:13).

   2b3. They should pay them their just wages, and that in due time,
   according as agreed upon; the law of God directs to the payment of them
   immediately, and not let them abide all night, till the morning, (Lev.
   19:13; Deut. 24:15) if they are detained, and they cry unto the Lord,
   he will avenge them (James 5:4).

   2b4. Obedient servants are to be encouraged, and used kindly, and with
   respect: according to the law of God, enjoined the Jews, when a servant
   had served out his time, he was not only to be let go free, but he was
   not to be sent away empty; but to be liberally supplied from the flock,
   from the floor, and from the winepress (Deut. 15:12-14). Disobedient
   ones are to be corrected; and if they will not be corrected by words,
   then with stripes; yet to be given with moderation; [303] servants are
   not to be used in a cruel and inhuman manner, as if they were beasts,
   and not men. Seneca [304] complains of some masters in his time, who
   used them worse than beasts, and speaks of them as most proud, most
   cruel, and most contumelious; (see Prov. 29:19; Luke 12:48) the apostle
   advises, to "forbear threatening", (Eph. 6:9) that is, not to threaten
   too much and too often, and with too great severity; nor should they be
   forward to carry it into execution; and especially when they repent and
   amend, they should be forgiven.

   Now the argument to enforce these duties on masters, is taken from
   their having a "Master in heaven"; who is up other than Christ, who is
   a good Master, and where he is his servants shall be; he grants them
   his presence now, and will enter them into his joy hereafter, (Matthew
   23:8,10; 25:21; John 13:13, 15; 12:26) and who is the Master of
   masters, as well as of servants, and to whom they are accountable, and
   with him is no respect of persons, bond or free, (Eph. 6:8, 9; Col.
   3:9-5) and he is in heaven, from whence he looks down and beholds all
   that is done on earth, by masters as well as servants, and who is able
   to plead the cause of the injured, and to avenge them. Happy it is when
   love and harmony, freedom and familiarity, [305] subsist between
   masters and servants, so far as is consistent with the relation; an
   instance of which we have in Boaz, who went to his reapers in the
   field, and thus saluted them, "The Lord be with you!" To whom they
   replied, "The Lord bless thee!" (Ruth 2:4) a good master and good
   servants, mutually happy in each other.
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   [298] phusei d' outhen diapherein, aliqui apud Aristot. Politic. l. 1.
   c. 3.

   [299] "Vis tu cogitare istum, quem servum tuum vocas, ex iisdem
   seminibus ortum, eodem frui coelo, aeque spirare, aeque vivere, aeque
   mori?" Seneca, Ep. 47.

   [300] "Nomen istud culpa meruit, non natura", August. de Civitate Dei.
   l. 19. c. 15.

   [301] "Corpora obnoxia sunt et adscripta dominis; mens quidem sui
   juris", Seneca de Beneficiis, l. 3. c. 20.

   [302] "Est aliquid quod Dominus praestare servo debeat, ut cibaria,
   vestiarium", Seneca, ib. l. 3. c. 21. "necessaria ad victum", c. 22.

   [303] "Servis imperare moderate, laus est". Seneca de Clementia, l. 1.
   c. 18.

   [304] Epist. 47.

   [305] "Vive cum servo clementer, comiter quoque, et in sermonem
   admitte, et in consilium, et in convictum, ib".
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  Chapter 4

    OF THE RESPECTIVE DUTIES OF MAGISTRATES AND SUBJECTS

   The duties of subjection and obedience to magistrates, supreme and
   subordinate, are frequently inculcated in the sacred writings; and the
   reason why the apostles so often and so strongly urge them, is because
   of the scandal to the Christian religion, which was like to arise from
   a contrary behaviour, of which there was danger; since in the first
   churches were many Jews, who were impatient of the Roman yoke, and
   Christians in general were called Jews by the heathens; and it was
   enough to fix the charge of sedition on any to say they were Jews, who
   were troublers of the state, (Acts 16:20, 21) and of all the Jews the
   Galileans were reckoned the most turbulent, and factious, and the most
   averse to payment of taxes to the Roman governors, (Acts 5:37; Luke
   13:1) and Christ and his followers were commonly called Galileans, and
   so liable to the same imputation; besides, the first Christians might
   not be so willingly subject to heathen magistrates, because they were
   such, and many of them very wicked men, called, "spiritual wickednesses
   in high places"; and Nero, the then reigning emperor, when the apostle
   Paul wrote many of his epistles, was a monster of wickedness; and they
   might also imagine, that subjection to men was inconsistent with
   Christian liberty. To all which may be added, that there were many
   false teachers, men of bad principles and practices, who "despised
   dominion, and spoke evil of dignities"; wherefore the apostles thought
   it necessary to "put in mind" the saints they wrote to, of their duties
   of subjection and obedience to civil government, that the gospel, and
   the religion of Christ, might not be evil spoken of; and for the same
   reason we who are called Baptists, and by way of reproach Anabaptists,
   should be careful to observe these duties; since it seems there were
   some of the same name formerly, in foreign countries, who held, if not
   misrepresented by many writers, that it was not lawful for a Christian
   man to bear the office of a magistrate; and from thence inferred, that
   the laws of such were not to be obeyed: and nothing is more common with
   every puny writer against us, than to upbraid us with the riots and
   tumults at Munster in Germany; which, though begun by Paedobaptists,
   yet because some called Anabaptists joined them, men of bad principles
   and scandalous characters, the whole blame was laid upon them. But be
   these things as they may, what is all this to us here in England, who
   disavow and declare against all such principles and practices; as our
   general behaviour, our writings and public confessions of faith,
   printed at different times, manifestly show? and yet the calumny is
   continued; wherefore it becomes us to wipe off the foul aspersion, both
   by our declared abhorrence of it, and by our conduct and deportment
   towards our superiors; that those who falsely accuse our good
   conversation in things civil, may blush, and be ashamed.

   Now as the respective duties before treated of, arise from relations of
   a different nature; those of husbands and wives from a relation founded
   in marriage; and those of parents and children from a relation founded
   in nature; and those of masters and servants from a relation founded in
   contract and compact; so those of magistrates and subjects arise from a
   relation founded in consent, agreement, and covenant: a coalition of
   men, and bodies of men, in a political sense, whether it arose from
   "mutual fear", as Hobbes [306] says; or rather from a propensity in
   human nature to society, man being a sociable animal, as Aristotle,
   [307] and other politicians think; yet it most certainly was by
   agreement and consent; and men being thus united together, agreed to
   choose some from among themselves to preside over them, to keep the
   better decorum and order among them; with these they entered into
   covenant, on certain conditions and fundamental laws made; when they
   agreed, the one to govern according to those laws, and to defend the
   lives, liberties, and properties of men from lawless persons; and the
   other swore fidelity to them, and promised a cheerful subjection and
   obedience to their lawful commands, and to support their government:
   and this is the original of free and well regulated states; from whom
   certain respective duties, both of magistrates and subjects, arise; now
   to be treated of. And,

   1. First, it will be proper to consider, of whom the duties of
   subjection and obedience are required, and to whom they are to be
   yielded.

   1a. First, of whom they are required: of everyone that belongs to the
   commonwealth; "Let every soul be subject to the higher powers", (Rom.
   13:1) that is, every man; see (Rom. 2:9, 10) every man that has a soul,
   every rational man; and to be subject to and obey civil magistrates, is
   but his reasonable service; everyone of each sex, male and female, men
   and women; of every age, young and old; and of every state and
   condition, high and low, rich and poor, bond and free, ecclesiastics
   not excepted; the papists plead for an exemption of them, but without
   any reason.

   The priests under the law were subject to civil government; as Abiathar
   to Solomon, (1 King 2:26, 27) and so the ministers of Christ under the
   gospel; Christ and his apostles paid tribute to Caesar, and even Peter,
   whose successor the pope pretends to be, (Matthew 17:24-27) The apostle
   Paul appealed to Caesar, owned his authority, and claimed his
   protection (Acts 25:10, 11). The same doctrine was inculcated by the
   successors of the apostles in the age following, who professed their
   subjection to the civil magistrate, and taught it; says Polycarp, [308]
   we are commanded to honour magistrates, and the powers that are
   ordained of God; the same doctrine was taught by Ignatius, [309]
   Irenaeus, [310] and Justin; [311] and Pliny the heathen bears witness
   to the Christians of the second century, that they did all things in
   conformity to the civil laws. [312]

   1b. Secondly, to whom these duties are to be performed. These are the
   "higher powers"; called "powers" because they are invested with the
   power of government, and have a right to exercise it; higher powers,
   because they are set in high places, and have a supereminence over
   others, (Rom. 13:1) sometimes they are called "principalities and
   powers", (Titus 3:1) by whom are meant, not angels, to whom men are not
   put in subjection; on civil accounts; nor ecclesiastical officers, as
   elders and pastors of churches, whose government is not of a civil, but
   spiritual nature; they do not bear the temporal sword, nor are they to
   make any use of that; but civil magistrates, as the words are explained
   in the same verse, "Obey magistrates"; rulers or governors, and these
   include supreme and subordinate ones; "Kings, and all that are in
   authority" under them, and derive their authority from them, for whom
   prayer is to be made (1 Tim. 2:1, 2). Every ordinance of man, or every
   creature of man; that is, every magistrate, who is of man's creating,
   is to be submitted to; "Whether it be to the king, as supreme, or unto
   governors, as unto them that are sent" and appointed "by him", (1 Peter
   2:13, 14) and as heathen magistrates were to be submitted unto, for
   such were they designed in the above passages, then certainly Christian
   magistrates; for it is no ways inconsistent with the grace of God, nor
   for a good man, to be a magistrate; the better man, the better
   magistrate; such there were under the former dispensation; as Moses,
   the Judges in Israel, David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, Josiah,
   and others. And under the gospel dispensation, when the Roman empire
   became Christian, there was a Constantine, the first Christian emperor,
   thought to be a very good man; and there have been such in after times;
   though it must be owned they have been rare and few; but there are
   prophesies of more, and there may be an expectation of more in the
   latter day glory; when all kings shall fall down before Christ; when
   kings shall come to the brightness of Zion, or to the church's rising,
   and when her gates shall stand open continually for kings to enter in,
   and become church members; and when kings shall be nursing fathers, and
   queens nursing mothers: and these are most certainly to be submitted
   to, and their laws obeyed. I go on,

   2. Secondly, to consider the duties both of magistrates and subjects.
   And,

   2a. First, of magistrates; for though the duties of subjection and
   obedience are incompetent to them; yet there are duties incumbent on
   them, arising from their relation to their people, and covenant with
   them. And,

   2a1. They are to make and pass such laws as are for the good of their
   subjects. The government of the people of Israel was very peculiar; it
   was a Theocracy; God was their King in a civil sense, and made laws for
   them, which he delivered to them by the hands of Moses; and their kings
   had no power to make any new ones; nor did they, not the best and
   wisest of them, as David, Solomon, &c. but governed according to the
   laws made to their hands. Our kings have a concern in the making of
   laws; that is, they have a negative voice, and can put a check upon any
   laws, and refuse to sign them made by the other branches of the
   legislature; and it is their duty to refuse to sign such laws as are
   not salutary to their subjects, or are contrary to the laws of God, and
   to the fundamental laws of the state.

   2a2. They are to govern according to such righteous and salutary laws,
   and to execute judgment and justice, as David did, and other good kings
   do; and then magistrates do their duty, when the king reigns in
   righteousness, and princes decree judgment (Isa. 32:1).

   2a3. They are to discountenance and suppress impiety and irreligion;
   and to countenance and encourage religion and virtue; even Aristotle
   [313] observes in his book of Politics, that the first care of
   government should be the care of divine things, or what relate to
   religion. Civil magistrates are appointed for the punishment of
   evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well; they are to
   discourage vice, and vicious persons; a king, by his eye, the sternness
   of his looks, and the frowns of his countenance, should scatter away
   evil, and evil men; and these being removed from him, his throne will
   be established in righteousness, (Prov. 20:8; 25:5). Kings are the
   guardians of the laws of God and man; and Christian kings have a
   peculiar concern with the laws of the two tables, that they are
   observed, and the violaters of them punished; as sins against the first
   table, idolatry, worshipping of more gods than one, and of graven
   images, blaspheming the name of God, perjury, and false swearing, and
   profanation of the day of worship: and those against the second table;
   as disobedience to parents, murder, adultery, theft, bearing false
   witness, &c. most of which, under the former dispensation, were capital
   crimes, and punishable with death; and though the punishment of them,
   at least not all of them, may not be inflicted with that rigour now as
   then; yet they are punishable in some way or another; which it is the
   duty of magistrates to take care of.

   2a4. The principal care and concern of a king is the welfare and safety
   of his people, that they are secured in their lives, liberties, and
   property; that they live peaceable and quiet lives, unmolested by any;
   that they dwell safely, every man under his vine and fig tree, as
   Israel did in the times of Solomon; the maxim of the Roman orator is a
   very good one; "Salus populi suprema lex esto;" [314] Let the safety
   and welfare of the people be the supreme law of government; the safety
   of a king and his people is closely connected together, and the one is
   included in the other: it is an observation of an heathen moralist,
   that "he is mistaken, who thinks that a king is safe, where there is no
   safety from him; for, "adds he, "security is by compact and covenant,
   to be established and confirmed through mutual security." [315]
   Justice, prudence, and clemency, are virtues highly becoming kings.
   [316]

   2b. Secondly; there are duties to be performed by subjects to
   magistrates. As,

   2b1. To honour them, and show reverence to them (Rom. 13:7; 1 Peter
   2:17). Next to the fear of God, is the honour of the king; yea, the
   fear or reverence of God and the king is joined together (Prov. 24:21).
   There is a semblance of divine Majesty in a king, which makes him the
   object of fear and reverence. Kings are called gods, because they are
   in God's stead, his vicegerents, and represent him; "I said, ye are
   gods", (Ps. 82:1, 6).

   2b2. As subjects are to think honourably, they are to speak
   respectfully of rulers; "Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the
   ruler of thy people"; no, not in thought, nor in the bedchamber, in the
   most secret place, since, sooner or later, it may be discovered, and
   the person be brought to condign punishment, (Ex. 22:28; Eccl. 10:20)
   they are reckoned as the vilest and most abandoned among men, and as
   such described, who "despise government, and are not afraid to speak
   evil of dignities", (2 Peter 2:10; Jude 1:8) we should speak evil of no
   man, particularly of magistrates, and more especially of the king, as
   supreme; not of his person, nor of his administration; there are
   "arcana imperii", secrets of government, which we know nothing of, and
   it is not proper we should; were they to be known in common, the good
   designs of government would be defeated by the enemy. The springs of
   action in government we are not acquainted with, and only judge of them
   by the success of them; which is a fallacious way of judging. A thing
   may be well planned, and wisely concerted, at the time it was, all
   circumstances considered, noticing better; and yet by one unforeseen
   accident or another, the design of it is defeated; and because it met
   not with success, is condemned as a piece of bad policy.

   2b3. Subjects should speak to a king with great reverence and respect;
   "Is it fit to say to a king, thou art wicked?" (Job 34:18) it is not
   decent and becoming; no, not to a wicked king. But if a king does
   wickedly, must he not be told of it, and reproved for it? He may, but
   not by every impertinent and impudent fellow; only by persons of
   eminence, in things sacred and civil, and that in a respectable manner;
   and perhaps no instance can be given from the word of God, of a king
   being reproved by any but a prophet, or one sent of God. Herod, a
   wicked prince, was reproved by John the Baptist, and a reason given for
   it. David, a good prince, was reproved by Nathan the prophet, sent of
   God to him; which reproof he delivered in a decent manner, wrapped up
   in a parable, and he took the proper opportunity to apply it; which had
   the desired effect. But such language Shimei used to David, was not fit
   to be used to a king (2 Sam. 16:7).

   2b4. Civil magistrates, supreme and subordinate, are to be prayed for,
   (1 Tim. 2:1, 2) for their health, happiness, and prosperity, and the
   peace of their government, and the continuance of it; for in their
   peace is the peace of subjects (Jer. 29:10).

   2b5. They are to be submitted to and obeyed in all things, which are
   not contrary to the laws of God, and the fundamental laws of the
   kingdom; for otherwise God is to be obeyed, and not men (Acts 4:19;
   5:29).

   2b6. They are to be supported in their government, by a payment of all
   lawful tribute, tax, and custom; "Render to all their dues; tribute to
   whom tribute is due, custom, to whom custom" (Rom. 13:7). This is a
   doctrine taught not only by the apostle, but by Christ himself, and
   confirmed by his own example and practice (Matthew 22:21; 17:27).
   Government cannot be supported without such methods; and without
   government there is no safety of a man's life and property; but he must
   be exposed to a banditti of robbers, plunderers, and levellers, who
   would strip him at once of all he has: would not any wise man part with
   some of his substance to secure the rest? without government, as the
   Roman orator [317] says, "not a family, nor a city, nor a nation, nor
   all mankind, nor the whole nature of things, nor the world itself, can
   stand." And government cannot be maintained without defraying the
   expenses of it, which are many and large, by the payment of tribute and
   taxes, which ought to be done cheerfully; nor should any illicit
   methods be taken to defeat the payment of them, which is foolishly
   called, cheating the king, and that is said to be no sin; whereas men
   hereby cheat themselves, cheat the public, of which they are a part;
   some individuals may avail themselves by such unlawful practices, but
   the public suffers, and so does every honest man; and it is the very
   means of the multiplicity of taxes complained of; for if a duty is laid
   on one commodity, and it is defeated by such iniquitous practices,
   either it must be increased on that commodity, or laid upon another.

   3. Thirdly, there are various reasons to be given, why subjection and
   obedience should be yielded by subjects to magistrates.

   3a. Because that magistracy is by the ordination and appointment of
   God; "The powers that be, are ordained of God", (Rom. 13:1) it is he
   that sets up one and puts down another (Ps. 75:6, 7; Dan. 2:21). "By me
   kings reign", says Wisdom, "and princes decree justice", (Prov. 8:15)
   not that it may be that any particular form of government is of God;
   there are various forms; as "monarchy", which is the government of one
   man; "aristocracy", which is the government of the chief and principal
   persons in a nation; and "democracy", which lies in the people: which
   is the best sort of government I will not take upon me to say; but this
   I will venture to say, that the worst government is better than none at
   all; perhaps a mixed government may be best, made up of all three; as
   our's is: there is an appearance of monarchy in the "king", of
   aristocracy in the "nobles", and of democracy in the "commons", chosen
   by the suffrages of the people. Moreover, it is not this or that
   particular man in government, that is of God; he may assume that to
   himself which does not belong to him, and so is not of God, but of
   himself; or he may abuse the power he is possessed of, which, though by
   divine permission, and may be for a scourge to a people; yet not of God
   s approbation: it is not therefore this or that form of government, or
   this or that particular person, but government itself that is of God;
   for there is no power but of him; what Adam had over the creatures, the
   husband has over the wife, parents over their children, and masters
   over their servants, it is of God; and so is the power magistrates have
   over subjects, (John 19:11) and therefore are to be obeyed.

   3b. To resist them, is to resist the ordinance of God (Rom. 13:2). Not
   that magistrates are above the laws; but are to be subject to them, and
   are liable to the penalty of them, when broken by them; they are under
   the laws, but over men; so says Cicero; [318] "the laws preside over
   magistrates, and magistrates over the people; and, "adds he, "the
   magistrate is a speaking law, and the law a mute magistrate." So that
   these have a close connection with each other; the laws are binding on
   magistrates, and they are to govern according to them; and when they do
   that which is wrong, or attempt it, they may be resisted; as Saul, when
   he would have put his son to death, for the breach of an arbitrary law
   of his own, and which his son was ignorant of; but the people would not
   suffer him; and they were in the right: so Uzziah, when he went into
   the temple to offer incense, which to do was a breach of the law of
   God, then in being; Azariah, and fourscore priests more, followed him,
   and withstood him, and they had the approbation of God; for before the
   king could get out of the temple, he was smote with a leprosy. But a
   king, or a civil magistrate, is not to be resisted in the execution of
   lawful power and authority.

   3c. "Such who resist, shall receive to themselves damnation", or
   "judgment"; either temporal judgment from men or from God; as did
   Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; or eternal judgment; for those who despise
   dominion, and speak evil of dignities, the blackness of darkness is
   reserved for ever and ever (Jude 1:7, 8, 11, 13). There are other
   reasons to be gathered from (Rom. 13:1-14), enforcing obedience to
   civil magistrates; taken from their being the ministers of God for
   good, for civil good, the protection of men in their lives, liberties,
   and properties; and for moral good, for the restraint of vice; for if
   the fence of magistracy was plucked up, vice would issue in like an
   inundation, and carry all before it; (see Judg. 21:25) and from their
   being encouragers of good works, and the executors of the wrath of God
   on evil men; and by good men are to be obeyed, not for wrath's sake, or
   for fear of punishment, but for conscience sake; and a good conscience
   cannot be exercised without obedience to them.
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   [306] De Cive, c. 1. s. 2.

   [307] Politic. l. 1. c. 2.

   [308] Apud Euseb. l. 4. c. 15.

   [309] Ep. ad. Philadelph.

   [310] Adv. Haeres. l. 5. c. 24.

   [311] Apolog. 2, p. 64.

   [312] Apud Euseb. l. 3. c. 33.

   [313] proton, ten peri to theion epimeleian, en kalousin ierateian,
   Aristot Politic. l. 7. c. 8.

   [314] Cicero de Legibus, l. 3. c. 11.

   [315] "Errat enim siquis existimet tutum esse ibi regem, ubi nihil a
   rege tutum est. Securitas securitate mutua paciscenda est", Seneca de
   Clementia, l. 1. c. 19.

   [316] "Nullum tamen clementia ex omnibus magis quam regem aut principem
   decet", Seneca de Clementia, l. 1. c. 3.

   [317] Cicero de Legibus, l. 3. c. 9.

   [318] De Legibus, l. 3. c. 9.
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  Chapter 5

    OF GOOD WORKS IN GENERAL

   Good works, or actions, are of various sorts. There are "natural"
   actions, which respect the physical life; such as eating, drinking, &c.
   which, when done in moderation, and not to excess, are good, and are
   necessary for the preservation of health and life. And there are
   "civil" employments, trades, businesses, and occupations of life, men
   are called to; and it is good to attend them; and they are necessary
   for the support of a man and his family, and that he may do good to
   others, and are for the credit of religion. These, by some, are thought
   to be meant by good works, in Titus 3:14. There are "relative" duties,
   or good works to be performed by husbands and wives, parents and
   children, masters and servants, magistrates and subjects, before
   treated of. And there are acts of "beneficence" and charity to fellow
   creatures and Christians; which are called "doing good", and are
   acceptable and well pleasing to God (Heb. 13:16; Gal. 6:10). There are
   some good works to be done to men, as men, and are comprehended in that
   general rule of Christ's, (Matthew 7:12) and others to believers in
   Christ, who are "by love to serve one another". Some are of a
   "positive" kind, in obedience to a positive law of God, the effect of
   his sovereign will and pleasure; such were the institutions and
   ordinances of divine service observed under the former dispensation,
   and baptism and the Lord's Supper under the present. Others are of a
   "moral" nature, done in agreement to the moral law, and to the law and
   light of nature, binding upon all, in all ages. And of good works some
   are "materially", or as to the substance of them, and in appearance
   good, when they are not "circumstantially" good; or as to the
   circumstances of them; nor radically, and as to the principle of them:
   such were the virtues of the heathens Austin calls "splendida peccata",
   shining sins; and such the works done by Herod, on hearing John; and by
   the Pharisees, who were and did things outwardly righteous before men,
   but at heart wicked; hence it is sometimes said, [319] not "nouns", but
   "adverbs", make good works; it is not barely doing "bonum", a good
   thing; but doing that good thing "bene", well. The circumstances
   requisite to a good work, are,

   1a. That it be according to the command and will of God; as every evil
   work or sin is a transgression of the law of God, and a want of
   conformity to that; so every good work is in agreement with it, and a
   conformity to it. By this rule many works are cut off from being good
   works, done by the Pharisees of old, and by Papists now, though they
   may have a great show of religion and holiness, because they are done
   according to the precepts and traditions of men, and not according to
   the commands of God.

   1b. That it spring from love to God, and not influenced by any sinister
   and selfish motive; "The end of the commandment is charity", or love;
   love to God is the root and spring of obedience to it, and is the
   motive inducing to it (1 Tim. 1:5; John 14:15).

   1c. It must be done in faith, for what is "not of faith is sin", and so
   no good work; without faith it is impossible to please God; herein lay
   the difference between Abel's work and Cain's; the one was done in
   faith, the other not (Rom. 14:23; Heb. 11:4, 6).

   1d. It must be done to the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31). The Pharisees
   prayed, and fasted, and did alms; but all to be seen of men, and to get
   glory from them, but sought not the glory of God; and so were not good
   works; good works are "by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of
   God" (Phil. 1:11). Now concerning these may be observed,

   1. First, the springs and causes of them.

   1a. The efficient cause is God, who works in his people, "both to will
   and to do"; gives the inclination to a good work, and power to perform
   it. Every action, as an action, is of God, by whom we move; and a good
   work is not only of God, as an action, but as a good action, who is the
   fountain of all goodness; the beginning, progress, and perfection of a
   good work are of God, and so prayed for (Heb. 13:21).

   1b. The influential cause is the grace of God; it was by that the
   apostle Paul did works more abundantly than others, and to that he
   ascribes them; and through that had his conversation in the world, in
   simplicity and godly sincerity (1 Cor. 15:10; 2 Cor. 1:12). The grace
   of God, both as a principle and as a doctrine, teaches influentially to
   deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously,
   and godly (Titus 2:11, 12).

   1c. Good works, that are truly such, are owing to union to Christ; men
   are "created in Christ Jesus unto good works", (Eph. 2:10) they are
   first in Christ as branches in the vine, and then bring forth the fruit
   of good works; as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it is
   in and abides in the vine, so neither can any except they are in and
   abide in Christ, who is the green fir tree, from whom all their fruit
   is found (John 15:4; Hosea 14:8).

   1d. Faith in Christ is productive of them; the heart is purified by
   faith in the blood of Jesus, which purges the conscience from dead
   works, whereby men are better fitted to do good works, or to serve the
   living God; faith without works is dead; and works without faith are
   dead works: a living faith produces living works; not that the life of
   faith lies in works; but as Dr. Ames [320] observes, works are second
   acts, necessarily flowing from the life of faith. Faith, some call it
   [321] the internal, instrumental cause of works; the external
   instrumental cause of works is,

   1e. The word of God; as faith comes by hearing it, so the obedience of
   faith; the word, written and read, preached and heard, is a means of
   making the man of God, whether in a public or private character,
   "thoroughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Tim. 3:16; see Luke
   8:15).

   2. Secondly, the nature and properties of good works.

   2a. The best of works, which are done by the best of men, and in the
   best manner, are but imperfect; there is sin in them all; there are
   none found perfect in the sight of God, however they may appear before
   men, (Eccl. 7:20; Rev. 3:2) knowledge of the will of God, the rule of
   them, is imperfect; and so are faith and love from whence they spring;
   and there is indwelling sin, that hinders saints from doing the good
   they would, and in the manner they are desirous of, and which pollutes
   their best actions.

   2b. They are not meritorious of anything at the hand of God; the
   requisites of merit are wanting in them.

   2b1. To merit, they must be profitable to God; but such they are not;
   they are no gain to him: men, by their works, give him nothing, nor
   does he receive anything from them, and therefore he is under no
   obligation to them for them (Job 22:2; 35:7; Ps. 16:2).

   2b2. They are due to God; whereas they should not, if expected to merit
   by them; but in doing them men do but what is their duty; for the doing
   of which they are debtors, and under obligation to perform them. God
   has a prior right unto them; could these be given him first, a
   recompence might be expected; but this is not the case (Luke 17:10;
   Rom. 8:12; 11:35, 36).

   2b3. They must be done by men in their own strength, and not in the
   strength and by the assistance of God, of whom it is expected to merit;
   whereas without the grace and strength of Christ men can do nothing;
   but all things through him strengthening them: his strength is made
   perfect in their weakness, and by his grace they do what they do, and
   therefore can merit nothing.

   2b4. There is no proportion between the works of men, and any mercy and
   favour of God; they are not "worthy" of the "least" of the temporal
   mercies they enjoy, and still less of spiritual ones, and especially of
   eternal life and happiness; between which, and the best works of men,
   there is no manner of proportion; there is between sin, and the wages
   of it, death; but none between works of righteousness and eternal life;
   that is the free gift of God (Gen. 32:10; Rom. 6:23, 8:18).

   3. Thirdly, the subjects of them, in whom they are found, and by whom
   performed. Every man is not capable of performing good works; there is
   an inaptitude, and an impotence to that which is good; men are
   naturally to every good work reprobate or unfit; to do good they have
   no knowledge, and have no inclination nor disposition unto it; have
   neither will nor power; the bias of their minds is another way; they
   mind the things of the flesh, and their carnal minds are enmity to God,
   and to all that is good; and hence the truth of that observation,
   "There is none that doth good, no not one!" (Rom. 3:12). Such only are
   capable of doing good works who,

   3a. Are made good men; "Make the tree good, and its fruit will be
   good"; let a man be made a good man, and he will do good works; but it
   is God that must make him good, [322] none else can; he cannot make
   himself good; the good work of grace must first be begun in him by the
   Spirit and grace of God; and then, and not before, will he perform good
   works; he must be made a new creature in Christ, in order to do good
   works (Eph. 2:10).

   3b. They must first be purified and sanctified: Christ gave himself,
   his life and blood, for the redemption of his people; "That he might
   purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works", (Titus
   2:14 and a man must be sanctified by the Spirit and grace of God, that
   he may be "meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good
   work" (2 Tim. 2:21).

   3c. They must have the Spirit of Christ, and be strengthened by him,
   with all might in the inward man, in order to perform them; and for
   this end is he promised (Ezek. 36:27).

   3d. They must have faith in God, and strength from Christ; they that
   have "believed in God", in his Son, and in his promises, and in his
   covenant, ought to be "careful to maintain good works"; as they are the
   only persons capable of them, since faith is requisite to them; and
   such are under the greatest obligations to perform them: and strength
   from Christ is necessary; in whom are both "righteousness" to render
   them acceptable to God, and "strength" to perform duties incumbent on
   them (Titus 3:8; Isa. 45:24).

   3e. The apostle says; Let ours learn to "maintain good works" (Titus
   3:14). Such who are the chosen generation, a peculiar people, the
   redeemed of the Lord, and who have drank into the same Spirit, have
   obtained like precious faith, and are heirs together of the grace of
   life.

   4.Fourthly, the "necessary uses" for which good works are to be
   performed.

   4a. First, not to procure salvation, is whole or in part; not to make
   peace with God, which they cannot effect; nor to make atonement for
   sin, for which they cannot answer one of a thousand; nor to obtain the
   pardon of it, which is only by the blood of Christ; nor to justify in
   the sight of God, for by the deeds of the law no flesh living can be
   justified, (Rom. 3:20, 28) the best works being impure and imperfect.
   Salvation in general is denied to be of works; this is the current
   language of scripture (Eph. 2:8, 9; 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 3:5). They are
   not in any rank and class of causes respecting salvation; they are
   neither efficient, nor moving, nor meritorious, nor adjuvant causes of
   salvation; nor even conditions of it; they do not go before any part of
   salvation, but are fruits and effects of it; not of election, which was
   before the children had done either good or evil; nor of redemption, in
   consequence of which the redeemed are a peculiar people, zealous of
   good works; nor of calling, works before calling are not good works,
   and those that follow after are fruits and effects of calling grace;
   "Who hath saved us and called us, not according to our works", &c. (2
   Tim. 1:9) nor do they go before, to make and prepare the way to
   consummate happiness, but they "follow" after (Rev. 14:13). Yet,

   4b. Secondly, there are uses for which they are necessary. As,

   4b1. With respect to God, they being of his "ordination", that his
   people should walk in them, and according to his command and will, in
   obedience to which it is necessary to perform them, (Eph. 2:10) as well
   as to testify our gratitude for mercies temporal and spiritual we
   receive from him; and they are to be done with a view to his glory; for
   hereby is our heavenly Father glorified; and we not only glorify him
   ourselves, but are the means of others glorifying him also (John 15:8;
   Matthew 5:16; 1 Peter 2:12).

   4b2. With respect to ourselves; as for the ornament of ourselves, to
   adorn our profession, and the doctrine of God our Saviour, (1 Tim. 2:9,
   10; Titus 2:10) and to testify and show forth our faith to others, and
   to make our calling and election sure; not surer than they are in
   themselves, nor surer to ourselves, being certified to us by the Spirit
   and grace of God; but sure to others, by our good works and holy
   conversation, as fruits of them; which is all the evidence we are
   capable of giving to the world, or they are capable of receiving from
   us (James 2:18; 2 Peter 1:10).

   4b3. With respect to others, to whom they are good and profitable, and
   therefore to be done, (Titus 3:8) both by way of example, and by real
   benefit received through them, either in a temporal, or in a spiritual
   way; and because they serve to recommend religion to others; and may
   be, without the word, a means of winning them to a liking of it; or,
   however, may serve to stop the mouth of gainsayers, and make them
   ashamed who falsely accuse the good conversation of the saints; and so
   prevent any just offence being given to Jew or Gentile, or to the
   church of God.
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   [319] Maccov. Distinct. Theolog. c. 15. s. 10.

   [320] Medulla Theolog. l. 2. c. 7. s. 35.

   [321] Synops. Purior. Theolog. Disp. 34. s. 9.

   [322] "Bonus vir sine Deo nemo est", Seneca, Ep. 41. "Nulla sine Deo
   mens bona est", ibid. Ep. 73.
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  Chapter 6

    A COMPENDIUM OR SUMMARY OF THE DECALOGUE OR TEN COMMANDS

   The Commandments of the law are reduced by Christ to two capital ones;
   Love to God, and Love to the neighbour, (Matthew 22:36-40) and the
   apostle Paul says; "All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this,
   Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself", (Gal. 5:14) he means the
   commandments of the second table of the law; and, indeed, love, as it
   includes both branches of it, love to God and to men, briefly
   comprehends every other command; and therefore with propriety it is
   said by him, "Love is the fulfilling of the law", (Rom. 13:9, 10) and
   what may serve to epitomize the Decalogue, and to sum up the contents
   of each command, is a rule or two that may be observed; as, that the
   prohibition of any sin includes in it a command of the contrary virtue
   or duty; and so "vice versa"; and that the prohibition of any sin, and
   the command of any duty, include in them all sins and duties of the
   same kind or kindred, with all causes, means, and occasions thereof, as
   may be exemplified in our Lord's exposition of the "sixth" and
   "seventh" commands, (Matthew 5:21, 22, 27, 28) by which it appears,
   that the law is spiritual, and reaches not only to external actions,
   done in the body, but to inward thoughts, affections, and lusts of the
   mind.

   The preface to the Decalogue contains arguments or motives unto
   obedience to the commandments in it. As,

   1a. That it is "the Lord" Jehovah, the author of our beings, the God of
   our lives and mercies, the sovereign Lord and Governor of the world,
   who enjoins it; who has a right to command his creatures what he
   pleases, and it becomes them to obey him.

   2b. He that enjoins these precepts is the Lord thy God; not only thy
   Creator, thy Preserver, and Benefactor, but thy covenant God; as he was
   peculiarly to the Jews in a national sense, which laid them under great
   obligation to him; and if he is our God in a special sense, according
   to the tenor of the covenant of grace, the obligation is till the
   greater.

   3c. He is farther described, as he "which have brought thee out of the
   land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage", which was only literally
   true of the people of Israel; which shows that the Decalogue, as to the
   form of it, and as delivered through the hands and ministry of Moses,
   only concerned that people, and was calculated for their use; though,
   as to the matter of it, and so far as it is of a moral nature, and
   agrees with the law and light of nature, it is equally binding on
   Gentiles; and if the redemption mentioned is considered as typical of
   spiritual and eternal redemption by Christ, from the bondage of sin,
   Satan, and the law, the obligation to serve the Lord, and obey him, is
   still more strong and forcible (see Tit 2:14; 1 Cor. 6:20). The
   Decalogue itself follows.

   1. The "first" command is, "Thou shalt have no other gods" before me.
   The things required in this precept are,

   1a. That we should know, own, and acknowledge God, the one, only, true
   God, and none else, (Mark 12:29; Ps. 46:10; Hosea 13:4).

   1b. That we should worship him, and him only; not any creature with
   him; nor any more than he; nor, indeed, any besides him (Matthew 4:10;
   Rom. 1:25).

   1c. That we should exercise faith and trust in him, hope in him, and
   love him, (John 14:1; Jer. 17:5; Matthew 22:39). The things forbidden
   by it are,

   1d. Atheism; denying there is a God, or any of the perfections
   essential to Deity, as his omniscience, omnipotence, &c. and his
   providence in, and government of the world (Ps. 14:1; Ezek. 9:9).

   1e. Polytheism, or the worshipping of many gods, or more than one; as
   the sun, moon, and stars, the host of heaven, and a multitude of things
   on earth; either by Jews or Gentiles (Deut. 4:19; Jer. 2:28; 1 Cor.
   8:5, 6).

   1f. Whatever is trusted in, and loved as God, as wealth and riches,
   which to do is idolatry, (Job 31:24; Ps. 49:6; Eph. 5:5) or fleshly
   lusts, as the epicure, whose god is his belly, (Phil. 3:19) or any
   other lust or idol set up in a man's heart, as self-righteousness, or
   be it what it may (Ezek. 14:4; 36:25). The phrase "before me", is not
   to be overlooked; which may either point at the omniscience of God, in
   whose sight such idolatry must be very displeasing; or the placing of
   any object of worship by him, which is setting up man's post by his, as
   Manasseh placed a graven image in the temple itself, (2 King 21:7) or
   it may be rendered, "Besides me", and so excludes all other objects of
   worship, there being no God but him (Isa. 44:8; 45:21). I would just
   propose it, whether the words l phnyg may not be rendered, "Besides my
   persons", besides the Three persons in the Trinity, who are the one
   God; l frequently signifies "besides", (Gen. 31:50; Lev. 18:18; Deut.
   19:9) and phny may be interpreted, "my faces", or "persons"; see the
   Body of Doctrinal Divinity; Book 1, Chapter 27.

   2. The "second" command is, "Thou shall not make to thyself any graven
   image, or any likeness--thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor
   serve them", &c. which respects the mode of worship. And,

   2a. Requires, that it should be spiritual, suitable to the nature of
   God, without any carnal imaginations, and external representations of
   him, (John 4:23, 24; Phil. 3:3) and that the parts of divine worship;
   as prayer, praise, preaching, hearing the word, and administration of
   ordinances; be observed just as delivered, without any addition to
   them, corruption and alteration of them (Deut. 4:2; 1 Cor. 11:2).

   2b. It forbids all superstition and will worship, human traditions,
   precepts, and ordinances of men; and the introduction of any thing into
   the worship of God, which he has not commanded, (Isa. 29:13; Matthew
   15:8; Col. 2:20-23) and all images, figures, and representations of the
   divine Being, and of any of the persons in the Godhead; and, indeed,
   making the likeness of any creature, in heaven, earth, or sea, in order
   to be worshipped, and used for that purpose, (Deut. 4:15-18; Acts
   17:29; Rom. 1:23) and not only images of heathen deities, which were to
   be broken and burnt, but those of Christ, as a man crucified, of the
   Virgin Mary, of angels and saints departed, worshipped by Papists
   (Deut. 7:5; Rev. 19:20). Though all pictures, paintings, and
   sculptures, are not forbidden hereby, only such as are made for, and
   used in, divine worship; but not which are for ornament, or for the use
   of history; and to perpetuate to posterity the memory of men, and their
   actions; otherwise there were images of things, of lions, and oxen, and
   the cherubim, in the tabernacle and temple, by the express order of God
   (Ex. 25:18; 1 King 6:32, 7:29).

   2c. The motives inducing to obey this command, are taken from God's
   being a jealous God, who will not give his glory to another, nor his
   praise to graven images; and from his severe punishment of the breakers
   of it, and of their posterity, who tread in their steps; and from his
   mercy shown to those who, from a principle of love to him, observe it
   (Isa. 42:8; Deut. 32:21; 4:23, 24; 1 King 19:18).

   3. The "third" command is, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord
   thy God in vain". Which,

   3a. Requires an holy and reverend use of the name of God; of his
   titles, perfections, attributes, word, and works, even in common
   conversation, and especially in religious worship; expressed by walking
   in his name, invocation of his name, and giving thanks unto it (Ps.
   111:9, 89:7; Mic. 4:5; Rom. 10:12; Ps. 103:1).

   3b. It forbids a vain use of the name of God, and of any of his titles,
   in common conversation, using them in a light way and manner; all
   profane swearing and cursing by them, (Rom. 3:13; James 3:9, 10)
   perjury, or swearing falsely by his name; for though an oath may be
   taken lawfully, and always by the name of God, and not a creature; yet
   never to be taken falsely (Deut. 6:13; Heb. 6:16; Zech. 8:17). So
   likewise blaspheming the name of God is a breach of this precept, (Lev.
   24:14; Ps. 74:10).

   3c. The argument moving to the observation of it, is taken from the
   guilt incurred by it, and the punishment inflicted for it; "The Lord
   will not hold such guiltless" (Zech. 5:4; Mal. 3:5).

   4. The "fourth" command respects the time of worship; the keeping a day
   holy to the Lord; and requires that it should be after six days labour,
   (Ex. 20:9) that it should be observed in religious exercises, (Isa.
   58:13; Rom. 14:6) and as a rest from bodily labour, from all secular
   business and worldly employment, excepting works of necessity and
   mercy; the example urging to it is taken from God's resting from his
   works of creation (Ex. 35:2, 3; Neh. 10:31; Gen. 2:1, 2). But this has
   been treated of in a preceding chapter.

   5. The "fifth" command requires honour, reverence, and obedience to be
   given by inferiors to superiors; as by children to parents, so by
   scholars to tutors and preceptors, by servants to masters, and by
   subjects to magistrates; and forbids all disrespect, contempt,
   irreverence, and disobedience of them; which also has been treated of
   in some former chapters.

   6. The "sixth" command is, "Thou shalt not kill". Which,

   6a. Requires all due care in the use of proper means for the
   preservation of our lives, and the lives of others; life is and ought
   to be dear to a man; self-preservation is a first principle in nature;
   and every lawful method should be used to preserve life; as food,
   physic, sleep, &c. with all just and lawful defence of it; avoiding
   everything that tends to impair health and endanger life (Job 2:4; 1
   Tim. 5:23).

   6b. It forbids the taking away of life, or murder of every sort; as
   parricide, fratricide, homicide, and suicide; for this law is "against
   murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, and manslayers", and
   destroyers of themselves, (1 Tim. 1:1) no man has a right to take away
   his own life, nor the life of another; it is contrary to the authority
   of God, the sovereign disposer of life, (Deut. 32:39) to the law of
   nature, (Acts 16:28) to the goodness of God, who gives it, (Job 10:12;
   Acts 17:28) contrary to the love a man owes to himself, and his
   neighbour, and is a prejudice to the commonwealth, or public good,
   thereby deprived of a member, and the king of a subject. Not but that
   life may be taken away; as in lawful war, which is sometimes of God,
   who "makes peace and creates evil", the evil of war; and by the hands
   of the civil magistrate, who bears the sword of justice, and uses it
   for the punishment of capital crimes; and it is lawful in self-defence
   (1 Chron. 5:22; Isa. 45:7; Gen. 9:6; Rom. 13:4; Ex. 22:2).

   6c. All intemperance, immoderate eating and drinking, which tend to
   destroy life; all sinful anger, undue wrath, inordinate passions,
   quarrels, blows, contentions, dwellings, &c. which often issue in it,
   are breaches of this law (Prov. 23:1, 2; Matthew 5:21, 22).

   7. The "seventh" command is, "Thou shalt not commit adultery". Which,

   7a. Requires chastity, and a preservation of it in ourselves and
   others; in or out of a state of wedlock; and to abstain from all
   impurity of flesh and spirit; and to make use of all means to preserve
   it; as lawful marriage, conjugal love, and cohabitation: it requires to
   keep the body, and the members of it, in subjection; to mortify
   inordinate affection; and to avoid every thing that tends to
   unchastity; as intemperance, in the case of Lot; sloth and idleness, as
   in Sodom; immodest apparel and ornament, as in Jezebel; keeping ill
   company, and frequenting places of diversion, which are nurseries of
   vice; and also reading impure books.

   7b. It forbids all the species of uncleanness; not only adultery, but
   simple fornication, rape, incest, and all unnatural lusts (1 Cor. 6:18;
   1 Thess. 4:3; Lev. 18:6, 20).

   7c. All unchaste thoughts and desires, all adulterous looks, obscene
   words, and filthy actions, rioting and drunkenness, chambering and
   wantonness, are violations of this command (Matthew 5:27, 28; 2 Peter
   2:14; Eph. 5:4; Rom. 13:14).

   8. The "eighth" command is, "Thou shalt not steal". Which,

   8a. Requires that we should seek to get, preserve, and increase our own
   wealth, and that of others, in a lawful way; that we should be diligent
   in our callings, careful to provide for our families; and even things
   convenient, honest, and reputable in the sight of all; and that we may
   have somewhat to give to those in need; and that of our own, and not be
   tempted to steal from others; for God hates robbery for burnt offering
   (Prov. 22:29; 1 Tim. 5:8; Rom. 12:17; Eph. 4:28; Isa. 61:8).

   8b. It requires justice, truth, and faithfulness in all dealings with
   men to owe no man anything, but to give to all their dues; to have and
   use just weights and measures; to be true to all engagements, promises,
   and contracts; and to be faithful in whatsoever is committed to our
   care and trust (Rom. 13:7, 8; Lev. 19:35, 36; 6:2-5; Neh. 5:12).

   8c. It forbids all unjust ways of increasing our own, and hurting our
   neighbour's substance, by using false balances, weights, and measures;
   by over reaching and circumventing in trade and commerce; by taking
   away by force or fraud the goods, properties, and persons of men; by
   borrowing and not paying again; and by oppression, extortion, and
   unlawful usury; for not all usury is unlawful, only what is exorbitant,
   and oppressive of the poor; for it is but reasonable, that what one man
   gains by another man's money, that the other man should have a
   proportionate share in that gain. Nor was the Israelites borrowing of
   the Egyptians, without payment, any breach of this law, since it was by
   the order of God, whose all things are; and the words used may be
   rendered, the one asked [323] and the other gave; [324] and besides, it
   was but repaying them what was due to them for their past services
   (Amos 8:5, 6; 1 Thess. 4:6; Ps. 37:21; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10; Deut. 23:1, 20;
   Ex. 11:2, 12:35).

   9. The "ninth" command is, "Thou, shalt not bear false witness against
   thy neighbour". Which,

   9a. Requires to be careful of our own good name, and that of our
   neighbour, which is better than precious ointment and that we should
   speak every man truth to his neighbour, in private conversation, and
   especially in public judgment (Eccl. 7:1; Zech. 8:16; Eph. 4:25).

   9b. It forbids all lying, which is speaking contrary to a man's mind
   and conscience, and with a design to deceive; and so condemns all sorts
   of lies, whether jocose, officious, or more plainly pernicious, and all
   equivocations, and mental reservations, perjury, and every false oath,
   bearing a false witness, and subornation of false witnesses in a court
   of judicature, (Matthew 26:59, 60; Acts 6:11,12) against all which God
   will be a swift witness, (Mal. 3:5) it also forbids all slandering,
   tale bearing, raising, receiving, spreading and encouraging an ill
   report of others, which is contrary to charity (Ps. 50:19, 20; Lev.
   19:16; Jer. 20:10; 1 Cor. 13:7).

   10. The "tenth" command is, "Thou shalt not covet", &c. Which requires,

   10a. Contentment [325] in every state and condition of life; a lesson
   the apostle Paul had learnt, and every man should, (Phil. 4:11; Heb.
   13:5; 1 Tim. 6:6, 8) as also love, joy, pleasure, and delight in the
   happiness of others (Ps. 35:27).

   10b. It forbids all uneasiness and discontent in our present
   circumstances, and all fretting and envying at the prosperity of
   others, (Ps. 37:7, 73:3) and condemns covetousness as an evil thing,
   and which is idolatry, and unbecoming saints (Isa. 57:17; Col. 3:8;
   Eph. 5:3).

   10c. It mentions the particular objects not to be coveted; not a
   "neighbour's house", and take it away by force, as some did, (Mic. 2:2)
   nor a "neighbour's wife", as David coveted Bathsheba, (2 Sam. 11:3)
   "nor his man servant, nor his maid servant", which a king would do,
   take at his will, and put to his work, as Samuel suggested, (1 Sam.
   8:16) "nor his ox nor his ass", from which evil Samuel exculpated
   himself, and which was admitted, (1 Sam. 12:3) "nor anything that is
   thy neighbour's", his gold, silver, apparel, or any goods of his; of
   which sin the apostle Paul declares himself free (Acts 20:33).

   10d. It strikes at the root of all sin, evil concupiscence, internal
   lust, indwelling sin (James 1:13, 14). By this law lust is known to be
   sin, and is condemned by it as such (Rom. 7:7).

   From this view of the law, in all its precepts, it appears how large
   and extensive it is; that David might well say, "Thy commandment is
   exceeding broad!" (Ps. 119:96). So that it cannot be perfectly
   fulfilled by man in this his sinful and fallen state; and therefore he
   cannot be justified before God by the deeds of it; since it requires a
   perfect righteousness: and happy for man it is, that there is such a
   righteousness revealed in the gospel, manifested without the law,
   though witnessed to by law and prophets, even the righteousness of
   Christ, consisting of his active and passive obedience; who is the end,
   the fulfilling end, of the law for righteousness, to everyone that
   believes (Rom. 3:20-22; 10:4).
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   [323] vs'lv "Postulaverunt", Vatablus; "Petierunt", Drusius.

   [324] vys'lvm "et dederunt illis", Cartwright.

   [325] Of this see Book 1, Chap. 12.
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BOOK V

  A DISSERTATION CONCERNING THE BAPTISM OF JEWISH PROSELYTES.
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  Chapter 1

    A DISSERTATION CONCERNING THE BAPTISM OF JEWISH PROSELYTES OF THE VARIOUS
    SORTS OF PROSELYTES AMONG THE JEWS

   Intending to treat of the admission of proselytes into the Jewish
   church by baptism, or dipping; it may be proper to consider the
   different sorts of proselytes among the Jews, and which of them were
   thus admitted, as is said. The word "proselyte" is originally Greek,
   and is derived, as Philo [326] observes, apo tou proseleluthenai, "from
   coming to", that is, from one sect or religion to another, as from
   heathenism to the Jewish religion; and so Suidas [327] says, proselytes
   are they oi proselutoi, "who come from" the Gentiles, and live
   according to the laws of God; and such an one is called by the
   Septuagint interpreters of (Ex. 12:19; Isa. 14:1) and by the Greek
   writers following them, geioras, which is rightly interpreted by
   Hesychius, such of another nation who are called proselytes to Israel;
   and which word comes near to the Hebrew word gr and nearer still to the
   Chaldee word gyvr' used for a proselyte; and is, by Eusebius,
   interpreted epimiktous, [328] such as were mixed with Israelites.

   There were two sorts of proselytes with the Jews, some say three; a
   proselyte of the gate; a mercenary proselyte; and a proselyte of
   righteousness; the first and last are most usually observed.

   1. First, One sort was called gr sr "a proselyte of the gate"; and in
   scripture, "the stranger that is in thy gates", (Deut. 14:21; 24:14)
   being a sojourner, and permitted to dwell there; hence such an one had
   also the name of gr tsvv "a proselyte inhabitant"; (see Ex. 12:15; Lev.
   25:45, 47) one who was allowed to dwell among the Jews on certain
   conditions; and is generally distinguished from another sort, called a
   "proselyte of righteousness", of whom more hereafter. Though the Jews,
   not always consistent with themselves, and so not in this matter,
   sometimes interpret "the stranger in the gate", of a proselyte
   inhabitant, or a proselyte by inhabitation, and sometimes of a
   proselyte of righteousness. So Nachmanides, [329] having explained the
   stranger in the gate of a proselyte inhabitant, or one who obliged
   himself to keep the seven precepts of Noah, according to the usual
   interpretation of it, observes; "Our doctors interpret it differently,
   for they say, thy stranger within thy gate', simply denotes, a
   proselyte of righteousness'." So that according to them, such a
   stranger may be taken both for the one and for the other, in different
   respects; but commonly the proselyte inhabitant is only understood; who
   in general was obliged to promise, that he would not be guilty of
   idolatry, or worship any idol; [330] this he was to promise before
   three witnesses, for it is asked, "who is Ger Toshab; that is, a
   proselyte allowed to dwell in Israel? (the answer is) Whoever takes
   upon him, in the presence of three neighbours, that he will not commit
   idolatry." It follows, "R. Meir, and the wise men say, whoever takes
   upon him the seven precepts which the sons of Noah obliged themselves
   to observe." Others say, "these do not come into the general rule of
   such a proselyte. Who then is one? He is a proselyte who eats what dies
   of itself; (or) who takes upon him to keep all the commandments in the
   law, except that which forbids the eating of things which die of
   themselves;" [331] but the usual account of such a proselyte is, that
   he agrees to observe the seven precepts enjoined the sons of Noah;
   [332] six of which were given to Adam, the first man, and the seventh
   was added to them, and given to Noah, and are as follow: [333] a.
   Concerning idolatry; by this a son of Noah was forbid to worship the
   sun, moon, and stars, and images of any sort; nor might he erect a
   statue, nor plant a grove, nor make any image. b. Concerning
   blaspheming the name of God. Such an one might not blaspheme, neither
   the proper name of God, Jehovah; nor any of his surnames, titles, and
   epithets. c. Concerning shedding of blood, or murder, the breach of
   which command he was guilty of, if he slew one, though an embryo in his
   mother's womb; and one who pursued another, when he could have escaped
   from him with the loss of one of his members, &c. d. Concerning
   uncleanness, or impure copulations; of which there were six sorts
   forbidden a son of Noah; as, with an own mother, with a father's wife
   (or stepmother), with another man's wife, with his sister by the
   mother's side, with a male, or with mankind, and with a beast. e.
   Concerning rapine, or robbery and theft; of which such were guilty,
   whether they robbed a Gentile or an Israelite, or stole money, or men,
   or suppressed the wages of an hireling; and the like. f. Concerning the
   member of a living creature, taken from it while alive, and eating it:
   this is the command, it is said, which was to Noah, and his sons, and
   of which the Jews interpret Genesis 9:4. g. Concerning judgments or
   punishments to be inflicted on those who broke the above laws: this
   command obliged them to regard the directions, judgment, and sentence
   of the judges appointed to see the said laws put into execution, and to
   punish delinquents.

   Now such Gentiles, who laid themselves under obligation to observe
   these commands, had leave to dwell among the Israelites, though not in
   everyone of their cities; not in Jerusalem particularly; [334]
   wherefore those devout men and proselytes said to dwell in Jerusalem,
   (Acts 2:5, 10) were not proselytes of the gate, but proselytes of
   righteousness. Nor are such sort of proselytes now received, only while
   the Jews lived in their own land, and were not under the jurisdiction
   of another people; or as they express it, while jubilees were in use
   and observed. [335] This sort of proselytes, though they did not enjoy
   the privileges the proselytes of righteousness did, yet some they had;
   they might worship and pray in the court of the Gentiles, though not in
   the temple; they might offer burnt offerings, though not other
   sacrifices; their poor were fed with the poor of Israel, their sick
   were visited by Israelites, and their dead were buried with them. [336]
   Such proselytes as these, as they were not obliged to circumcision, nor
   to other commands peculiar to the Jews; none but those before observed;
   so neither were they baptized, or dipped, when made proselytes, which
   is said of others. Maimonides [337] affirms of such a proselyte, that
   he is neither circumcised nor dipped. Bishop Kidder [338] is therefore
   mistaken in saying, that proselytes of the gate were baptized, but not
   circumcised.

   2. Secondly, there was another sort of proselytes, which are taken
   notice of, at least, by some as such; who were called skrym "mercenary"
   ones, and are reckoned as between proselytes of the gate and Gentiles.
   In Exodus 12:44, 45, a mercenary, or "hired servant", is distinguished
   from a servant bought with money; he being hired only for a certain
   time, as for six years; and also from a foreigner, a stranger in the
   gate, a proselyte of the gate; and both of them are distinguished from
   the servant bought with money, who was circumcised, and might eat of
   the passover, when neither of the other might, being both
   uncircumcised; and therefore R. Levi Barzelonita [339] is thought to be
   mistaken when he says, "a mercenary is a proselyte, who is circumcised,
   but not dipped; for so the wise men explain it:" but if a stranger or
   proselyte of the gate was not circumcised, much less a mercenary, who
   was far below him; besides, if he was circumcised, he might eat of the
   passover; which is denied him: and so Ben Melech observes [340] of
   these two, the foreigner and the hired servant; they are Gentiles, and
   uncircumcised: and Abendana, in his notes upon him, from the Rabbins,
   says, the former is a proselyte inhabitant, or a proselyte of the gate,
   who takes upon him the seven precepts of the sons of Noah; the latter
   is a servant whose body is not possessed, that is, is not in the
   possession of his master, not being bought with his money, is only an
   hired servant, and so not circumcised. But perhaps Jarchi's note will
   reconcile this to what Barzelonita says; "Toshab, a foreigner, this is
   a proselyte inhabitant; and Shacir, or hired servant, this is a
   Gentile;" but what is the meaning? are they not uncircumcised? (that
   is, both of them) and it is said, "No uncircumcised person shall eat
   thereof": but they are as a circumcised Arabian, and a circumcised
   Gabnunite, or Gabonite, [341] though circumcised yet not by Israelites,
   but by Gentiles, which gave no right to the passover. Hottinger [342]
   thinks these mercenary proselytes, and with him Leusden [343] seems to
   agree, were mechanic strangers, who left their own country, and came
   among the Jews for the sake of learning some mechanic art; and who,
   conforming to certain laws and conditions, prescribed by the Jews, were
   permitted to sojourn with them until they had learnt the art. There are
   but few writers who speak of this sort of proselytes. However, it seems
   agreed on all hands, that whether circumcised or not, they were not
   baptized, or dipped.

   3. Thirdly, There was another sort of proselyte, called gr tsdq a
   "proselyte of righteousness" [344] (see Deut. 16:20) a stranger
   circumcised, and who is so called when he is circumcised; and sometimes
   gr vn vryt "a proselyte, the son of the covenant," [345] the same as an
   Israelite (see Acts 3:25). This sort of proselytes were the highest,
   and had in greatest esteem; who not only submitted to circumcision, but
   embraced all the laws, religion, and worship of the Jews; and were in
   all respects as they, and enjoyed equally all privileges and
   immunities, civil and religious, as they did; except being made a king,
   though one might if his mother was of Israel; [346] and being members
   of the great Sanhedrim, yet might be of the lesser, provided they were
   born of an Israelitish woman; [347] nay, even such have been in the
   great Sanhedrim, as Shemaiah and Abtalion, who were of the posterity of
   Sennacherib; [348] but their mothers being Israelites, it was lawful
   for them to judge, that is, in the great Sanhedrim; for one was the
   prince, and the other the father of that court. [349] So the Jews say,
   [350] the posterity of Jethro sat in Lishcat Gazith, that is, in the
   great Sanhedrim, which sat in that room; and for which they quote 1
   Chronicles 2:55) yet it has been a question, whether a proselyte should
   be made a public minister, or president of the congregation, called
   slych tsvvr; but the common opinion was, that he might be one: [351] of
   this sort of proselytes, of whom they boast, some were persons of note
   for learning, or wealth, or worldly grandeur; [352] but without
   sufficient ground. Some, they own, were not sincere who became
   proselytes, either through fear, or to gratify some sensual lust, or
   for some sinister end or another. Some were called "proselytes of
   lions," [353] who became so through fear; as the Samaritans, because of
   the lions sent among them, and that they might be freed from them,
   embraced the worship of God, though they retained also the worship of
   their idols. Others were called "proselytes of dreams"; who were
   directed and encouraged to become proselytes by such who pretended to
   skill in dreams, as being omens of good things to them. Though some, in
   the place referred to, instead of chlmvt "dreams", read "windows", and
   render the words "proselytes of windows", so Alting, [354] meaning the
   windows of their eyes, who, to gratify the lust of the eyes, became
   proselytes; as Shechem, being taken with the sight of Dinah, submitted
   to circumcision for the sake of her; and others were called "proselytes
   of Mordecai and Esther", who were like those who became Jews in their
   times, (Esther 8:17) through fear of the Jews, as there expressed.
   Others were true and sincere proselytes, who cordially embraced the
   Jewish religion, and from the heart submitted to the laws and rules of
   it; these were called vrym grvrym "drawn proselytes," [355] who were
   moved of themselves, and of their own good will, without any sinister
   bias, and out of real love and affection to the Jewish religion,
   embraced it. Compare the phrase with John 6:44. And such, they say,
   [356] all proselytes will be in the time to come, or in the days of the
   Messiah; and yet sometimes they say, that then none will be received:
   [357] and when persons propose to be proselytes, the Jews are very
   careful to ask many questions, in order to try whether they are sincere
   or not; and such as they take to be sincere they speak very highly of;
   they say, [358] "Greater are the proselytes at this time, than the
   Israelites when they stood on mount Sinai; because they saw the
   lightning, heard the thunder, and the sound of the trumpet; but these
   saw and heard none of these things, and yet have taken upon them the
   yoke of the kingdom, and are come under the wings of the Shechinah"
   though elsewhere, and in common, they speak but slightly of them, and
   say; "They are as grievous to Israel as a scab in the skin, or as a
   razor to it, [359] because they often turn back again, and seduce the
   Israelites, and carry them off with them; yea, they say they stop the
   coming of the Messiah." [360] However, they have a saying [361] which
   shows some regard to them; "A proselyte, even to the tenth generation,
   do not despise a Syrian, or an heathen before him, he being present, or
   to his face; because till that time their minds are supposed to incline
   towards their own people;" and so it is said, [362] the daughter of a
   proselyte may not be married to a priest, unless her mother is an
   Israelitess, even unto the tenth generation. And there is another
   saying [363] of theirs, Do not trust a proselyte until the twenty
   fourth generation, that is, never; not only priests, Levites, and
   Israelites, but even bastards, and the Nethinim, or Gibeonites, were
   preferred to proselytes. [364] Some of these sayings do not seem so
   well to agree with the words of Christ, (Matthew 23:15) to reconcile
   which, it is thought, [365] that while the temple was standing, the
   desire of making proselytes was stronger than after it was destroyed by
   the Romans; resenting that, they became indifferent about making
   proselytes, and were unconcerned about the salvation of the Gentiles,
   and contented themselves with receiving such only who freely came over
   to them. It never was deemed so honourable to be the descendants of
   proselytes, as of original Hebrews. Hence the apostle Paul gloried that
   he was an Hebrew of the Hebrews, both his parents being Hebrews. A
   Rabbi of note among the Jews, whose parents were both proselytes, or
   Gentiles, is called not by his proper name, Jochanan, but Ben Bag-Bag;
   that is, the son of a Gentile man, and the son of a Gentile woman; and
   for the same reason he is called in a following paragraph, Ben He-He,
   numerically He being the same with Bag; though it is said, these
   abbreviations were used from reverence to him, and a regard for him;
   [366] and, indeed, the Jews were not to reproach and upbraid proselytes
   with what they and their ancestors had been, or had done; they were not
   to say to a proselyte, Remember thy former works; nor were they to say
   to the sons of proselytes, Remember the works of your fathers; [367]
   for this is the affliction and oppression of them, as they understand
   it, they are cautioned against, (Ex. 22:21; Lev. 19:33) nay, they were
   to love them as themselves, because the Lord God loved the stranger,
   (Lev. 19:34; Deut. 10:18) for of proselytes of righteousness they
   interpret these passages. [368]

   Now it is of this sort of proselytes, proselytes of righteousness, that
   it is said, they were admitted into covenant, and into the Jewish
   church, as the Israelites were; the males by circumcision, by tvylt
   "baptism", or dipping, and by sacrifice; and the females by baptism, or
   dipping, and by sacrifice; and it is the baptism or dipping of these
   proselytes, that will be inquired into, and be the subject of the
   following Dissertation.
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   [326] Deut. Monarchia, l. 1. p. 818.

   [327] In voce proselutoi

   [328] Eccl. Hist. l. 1. c. 7.

   [329] Apud Frischmuth. Dissert. de 7. Noach. Praecept. s. 20, 21.

   [330] R. Nathan, Sepher Aruch, R. D. Kimchi, Sepher Shorash. & Elias
   Levita, Sepher Tishbi in voce gvr.

   [331] T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 64. 2.

   [332] Philip. Aquinat. Maaric in voce gvr.

   [333] Maimon. Hilchot Melacim, c. 9. s. 1. &c.

   [334] Maimon. Hilchot Beth Habechirah, c. 7. s. 14.

   [335] T. Bab. Eracin, fol. 29. 1. Maimon. Obede Cochabim, c. 10. s. 6.
   Milah, c. 1. s. 6.

   [336] Maimon. Melacim, c. 10. s. 12.

   [337] Isure Biab, c. 14. s. 7.

   [338] Demonstration of the Messiah, part 2. p. 176.

   [339] Chinnuch, p. 17.

   [340] Miclol Yophi in loc.

   [341] Vid. T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, c. 2. fol. 27. 1. & Edzard. not. in
   ib. p. 292.

   [342] Thesaur. Philolog. l. 1. p. 18.

   [343] Philolog. Heb. Mixt. Dissert. 21. vid. Carpzov. not. ad
   Schickard. Jus Regium, p. 323.

   [344] Zohar in Exod. fol. 36. 1. & in Num. fol. 69. 4.

   [345] R. Levi Ben Gersom, in Exod. xxii. 21. fol. 95. 2.

   [346] Maimon. Melacim. c. 1. s. 4.

   [347] Ibid. Sanhedrin, c. 2. s. 1. 9.

   [348] T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 96. 2.

   [349] Juchasin, fol. 17. 2. & 18. 1.

   [350] T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 104. 1. & 106. 1. & Sotah, fol. 11. 1.

   [351] Vid. Vitringam de Synagoga vet. par. 2. l. 3. c. 6. p. 943.

   [352] As Aristotle, Meor Enayim, c. 22. fol. 91. 2. Izates and Monbaz,
   the sons of queen Helena, both kings, ibid. c. 51. fol. 161. 2. & c.
   52. fol. 164. 2. 166, 167. Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 26. 1. & par. 2.
   fol. 15. 2. Nebuzaradan, the general of Nebuchadnezzar, T. Bab.
   Sanhedrin, fol. 96. 2. Antoninus Pius, the Roman emperor, T. Hieros.
   Megillah, fol. 72. 1. & 74. 1. Ketiah, a prince in Caesar's court,
   Avodah Zarah, fol. 10. 2. Juchasin, fol. 66. 2. Nero, a general of
   Caesar's army, from whom sprung R. Meir, T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 56. 1.
   Juchasin, fol. 41. 1. & 63. 2. Tzemach David, par. 2. fol. 16. 1, 2. Of
   the circumcision of these the Jews speak, but say nothing of their
   baptism.

   [353] R. Nehemiah in T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 24. 2.

   [354] Heptas Dissertat. par. 2. Diss. 7. de Proselytis, s. 20.

   [355] T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 3. 2.

   [356] Ibid. fol. 34. 1.

   [357] Zohar in Gen. fol. 33. 1. & 40. 2.

   [358] Medrash. apud Buxtorf. Lexic. Talmud. Col. 411.

   [359] T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 47. 2. & 109. 2. Kiddushin, fol. 70. 2.

   [360] Niddah, fol. 13. 2.

   [361] T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 94. 1. Jarchi in Exod. xviii. 9.

   [362] Misnah Biccurim, c. 1. s. 5.

   [363] Yalkut in Ruth, fol. 163. 4.

   [364] T. Hieros. Horaiot, fol. 48. 2.

   [365] Vid. Wagenseil. not. in Sotah, p. 754.

   [366] Pirke Abot, c. 5. s. 22, 23. Vid. Fagium & Leusden. in ibid.

   [367] Vid. R. David Kimchi, Sepher Shorash. rad. ynh.

   [368] R. Levi Ben. Gersom, in Lev. xiv. 33, 34. fol. 163. 3. Ez
   Hechayim M. S. apud Wagenseil, not. in Sotah, p. 205.
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  Chapter 2

    THE OCCASION OF THIS DISSERTATION

   Several learned men, and some of our own nation, whom I shall chiefly
   take notice of, have asserted, that it was a custom or rite used by the
   Jews before the times of John the Baptist, Christ, and his apostles, to
   receive proselytes into their church by baptism, or dipping, as well as
   by circumcision; and these both adult and infants; and that John and
   Christ took up the rite of baptizing from thence, and practised, and
   directed to the practice of it, as they found it; and which, they
   think, accounts for the silence about infant baptism in the New
   Testament, it being no new nor strange practice. The writers among us
   of most note, who make mention of it are, Broughton, Ainsworth, Selden,
   Hammond, and Lightfoot; men justly esteemed for their learning and
   knowledge in Jewish affairs. Mr. Hugh Broughton is the first of our
   nation I have met with who speaks of it. He says, [369] "The Babylonian
   Talmud, and Rambam (Maimonides) record, that in the days of David and
   Solomon, when many thousands of heathens became proselytes, they were
   admitted only by baptism, without circumcision. So now, when the New
   Testament was to be made for the many, that is, for all nations,
   baptism was not strange; neither is John an astonishment for that; but
   demanded whether he be Elijah or Christ, or that special prophet named
   in Deuteronomy." A little after he observes, that "Christ from baptism
   used of them (the Jews) without commandment, and of small authority',
   authorizes a seal of entering into the rest of Christ, using the Jews'
   weakness' as an allurement thither." Where, by the way, he makes this
   usage to be "without commandment", that is, of God, and to be but of
   "small authority", even from men, and a piece of "weakness" of the
   Jews, and yet authorized by Christ; which seems incredible. Mr. Henry
   Ainsworth is the next I shall mention, who takes notice of this custom.
   His words are, [370] "That we may the better know how they (the Jews)
   were wont to receive heathens into the church of Israel; I will note it
   from the Hebrew doctors:" and then gives a large quotation from
   Maimonides; the substance of which is, that as by three things Israel
   entered into the covenant, by circumcision, and baptism, and sacrifice;
   in like manner heathen proselytes were admitted; on which he makes this
   remark: "Whereupon baptism was nothing strange unto the Jews when John
   the Baptist began his ministry, (Matthew 3:5, 6) they made a question
   of his person that did it, but not of the thing itself, (John 1:25)."
   Dr. Hammond, another learned man, speaks of this same custom or rite
   with the Jews: he says, [371] that "proselytes born of heathen parents,
   and become proselytes of justice, were admitted by the Jews, not only
   by circumcision, (and while the temple stood) by sacrifice; but also
   with the ceremony or solemnity of washing, that is, ablution of the
   whole body, done solemnly in a river, or other such great place or
   receptacle of water." So he says, Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, was
   made a proselyte in this way; and that this ceremony of initiation
   belonged not only to those, which being of years, came over from
   heathenism to the Jews' religion, but also to their children infants,
   if their parents, or the consessus (the sanhedrim) under which they
   were, did in the behalf of their children desire it; and on condition
   that the children, when they came to age, should not renounce the
   Jewish religion; nay, he says, the native Jews themselves were thus
   baptized; for all which he refers to the Talmud, Tr. Repud. by which I
   suppose he means the tract Gittin, concerning divorces. But I have not
   met with anything relating thereunto in that treatise. For the same
   purposes it is quoted by Dr. Wall, who, I suppose, goes upon the
   authority of Dr. Hammond, since he acknowledges he was not so well
   acquainted with the books to be searched for such quotations. Now Dr.
   Hammond observes, that "having said thus much of the custom among the
   Jews, it is now most easy to apply it to the practice of John, and
   after of Christ, who certainly took this ceremony from them';" and
   further observes, that by this it appears, how little needful it will
   be to defend the baptism of Christian infants from the law of
   circumcising the infants among the Jews; "the foundation being far more
   fitly laid" in that other of Jewish baptism. Yea, in another of his
   works he suggests that this custom is the "true basis of infant
   baptism." [372] The very learned Mr. Selden is more large in his
   quotations in various parts of his works, [373] from both Talmuds and
   other Jewish writers, concerning this rite and custom; which
   authorities produced by him, and others, will be given and considered
   hereafter. At the close of which he makes these remarks; [374] that the
   Jewish baptism was as it were a "transition" into Christianity, or
   however, a shadow of a transition, not to be passed over in silence;
   and that it should be adverted to, that the rite or sacrament of
   baptism, used at the beginning of Christianity, and of the gospel by
   John, and by the apostles, was not introduced as a "new action", and as
   not before heard of, "even as a religious action", but as well known to
   the Hebrews, as a rite of initiation, from the use and discipline of
   their ancestors, and as joined with circumcision. Dr. Lightfoot, who
   must be allowed to be well versed in Jewish literature, has produced
   the same authorities Selden has, if not more, in support of the said
   rite or custom, as in early use with the Jews, and exults and triumphs
   abundantly over the Antipaedobaptists in favour of infant baptism, on
   account thereof: he asserts, that "baptism had been in long and common
   use' among them (the Jews) many generations before John the Baptist
   came; they using this for admission of proselytes into the church, and
   baptizing men, women, and children for that end:--hence a ready reason
   may be given why there is so little mention' (no mention at all) of
   baptizing infants in the New Testament; and that there is neither plain
   precept' nor example' for it, as some ordinarily plead; the reason is,
   because there needed none, baptizing infants having been as ordinarily
   used' in the church of the Jews, as ever it hath been in the Christian
   church:--that baptism was no strange thing when John came baptizing;
   but the rite was known so well by everyone, that nothing was better
   known what baptism was, and therefore there needed not such punctual
   and exact rules about the manner and object of it, as there had needed,
   if it had never been seen before:--that Christ took up baptism as it
   was in common and known use', and in ordinary and familiar practice'
   among that nation; and therefore gave no rules for the manner of
   baptizing, nor for the age and sex of persons to be baptized, which was
   well enough known already, and needed no rule' to be prescribed:
   --observing how very known and frequent the use of baptism was among
   the Jews, the reason appears very easy, why the Sanhedrim, by their
   messengers, inquired not of John, concerning the reason of baptism, but
   concerning the authority of the baptizer; not what baptism meant; but
   whence he had a licence so to baptize (John 1:25). Hence also the
   reason appears why the New Testament does not prescribe', by some more
   accurate rule', who the persons are to be baptized:--the whole nation
   knew well enough that little children used to be baptized; there was no
   need for a precept for that, which had ever by common use prevailed."
   [375] Dr. Wall, upon these authorities, has thought fit to premise an
   account of this Jewish baptism, to his history of infant baptism, as
   serving greatly the cause of it, and as throwing light upon the words
   of Christ and his apostles, concerning it, and the primitive practice
   of it; and, animated by such authorities, every puny writer, who does
   not know his right hand from his left in this matter, takes it up, and
   swaggers with it. And, indeed, scarce any will now venture in the
   defence of infant baptism without it. This is the last refuge and
   dernier resort of the Paedobaptists; and, indeed, a learned baronet
   [376] of our nation says, he knows not of any stronger argument in
   proof of infant baptism than this is.

   Now since so great a stress is laid upon it, and it is made a matter of
   such great importance, as to be a "transition" into Christianity, and
   to be "closely connected" with Christian baptism; that from whence it
   is taken, and is the "rule" to direct how to proceed, both with respect
   to the manner and objects of it; yea, is the "basis and foundation" of
   infant baptism, and the "strongest argument" in proof of it; and which
   makes other arguments, heretofore thought of great weight, now
   "unnecessary": it is highly proper to inquire what proof can be given
   of such a rite and custom being in use among the Jews, before the times
   of John Baptist, Christ, and his apostles; and if so, what force and
   influence such a custom can and ought to have on the faith and practice
   of Christians. The proof of which will next be considered.
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   [369] Works, p. 201, 203.

   [370] Annotat. on Gen. xvii. 12.

   [371] Annotat. in Matt. iii. 1.

   [372] Six Queries, p. 191, 195.

   [373] De Success. ad Leg. Ebr. c. 26. de Jure Natur. et Gent. l. 2. c.
   2.

   [374] De Synedriis, l. 1. c. 2. p. 27, 31.

   [375] Lightfoot's Works, vol. 1. Harmony and Chronicle of the New
   Testament, p. 9, 10, 17. Harmony of the Four Evangelists, part 1. p.
   465, 466. part 2. p. 526, 527. and part 3. p. 583, 584. Vol. 2. Hor.
   Heb. in Matt. iii. 6.

   [376] Sir Richard Ellys, Fortuita Sacra, p. 67.
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  Chapter 3

    THE PROOF OF THE BAPTISM OF JEWISH PROSELYTES INQUIRED INTO;
    WHETHER THERE IS ANY PROOF OF IT BEFORE, AT, OR QUICKLY AFTER THE TIMES OF
    JOHN AND CHRIST.

   The inquiry to be made is, whether there are writings or records before
   the times of John, Christ, and his apostles, or at or near those times,
   or in the third and fourth century from the birth of Christ, or before
   the Talmuds were written; which make any mention of, or refer to any
   such rite and custom in use among the Jews, as to admit proselytes to
   their religion by baptism, or dipping, along with other things. Now
   upon search it will be found,

   1. First, That nothing of this kind appears in the writings of the Old
   Testament, which chiefly concern the Jewish nation. We read of many who
   either were, or are supposed and said to be made proselytes; as the
   Shechemites in Jacob's time, the multitude that came out of Egypt with
   the Israelites, [377] Jethro, Moses's father in law, [378] Shuah, [379]
   Tamar, [380] Rahab, [381] and Ruth; [382] and many in the times of
   Mordecai and Esther, who became Jews, [383] (Esther 8:17) but not a
   word of their being admitted proselytes by baptism. Dr. Lightfoot
   indeed says, [384] that Jacob admitted the proselytes of Shechem and
   Syria into his religion by baptism, but offers no proof of it; the Jews
   [385] pretend, that Pharaoh's daughter was a proselytess, and the
   Babylonian Talmud, [386] quoting the passage in Exodus 2:5, "And the
   daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself"; R. Jochanan says, she
   came down to wash herself from the idols of her father's house, and the
   Gloss on the place is, "to dip on account of proselytism;" but then the
   Gloss is the work of Jarchi, a writer in the twelfth century; and was
   it so said in the Talmud itself, it would be no sufficient proof the
   fact. Dr. Hammond says, that Jethro was made a proselyte this way; but
   produces no scripture for it; but refers to the Talmud, Tr. Repud; but
   there it is not to be found, as before observed: and Schindler [387]
   asserts the same, as said by the Jews, and seems to refer to the same
   Tract in general, without directing to any particular place: and from
   him Hammond seems to have taken it upon trust, and some other writers
   also, without examination; since no such passage is to be found in that
   Tract. Pfeiffer, [388] in proof of it, refers to a book called
   Zennorenna, a commentary on the law, written in Hebrew-German, in the
   seventeenth century, by R. Jacob Ben Isaac, a German Jew. [389] Indeed,
   in the Talmud, [390] Jethro is said to become a proselyte, but no
   mention is made in what manner he was made one; and elsewhere [391]
   explaining these words, vychd "and Jethro rejoiced", says Rab, he made
   a sharp sword to pass over his flesh; that is, according to the Gloss,
   he circumcised himself, and became a proselyte; but not a word of his
   baptism, or dipping; and so the Targum on Exodus 18:6, 7 is, "And he
   said to Moses, I Jethro, thy father-in-law, am come unto thee to be
   made a proselyte';but if thou wilt not receive me for myself, receive
   me for the sake of thy wife, and her two children, who are with her;
   and Moses went out from under the clouds of glory to meet his
   father-in-law, and bowing himself, kissed him, and he made him a
   proselyte; but nothing is said of the manner of doing it." Mr.
   Broughton also, as before quoted, says, that the Babylonian Talmud, and
   Rambam record, that in the days of David and Solomon, many thousands of
   heathens were made proselytes, and admitted by baptism only; but this
   instance is not to be met with in the Babylonian Talmud; yea, that
   expressly denies it in two different places; [392] and in which it is
   asserted that they did not receive proselytes neither in the days of
   David, nor in the days of Solomon; Solomon's wife, Pharaoh's daughter,
   is indeed excepted; because the reason for which they say, proselytes
   were not then received; namely, because they might be desirous of being
   made proselytes, that they might be admitted to the king's table, could
   have no influence on her, since she was the daughter of a mighty king;
   and yet it is said [393] by some, that though it was Solomon's
   intention to make her a proselyte, yet he was not able to do it; and
   she became one of his troublers; and by what is said of her, in 2
   Chronicles 8:11 it looks as if she did not become a proselyte; Rambam,
   or Maimonides, indeed, to reconcile what later writers have said, with
   those words of the Talmudists, have contrived a distinction between the
   Sanhedrim and private persons; as if proselytes, though not received in
   those times by the former, were by the latter. He says, [394] there
   were many proselytes in those times who were made so before private
   persons, but not before the Sanhedrim; he owns the Sanhedrim did not
   receive them, and though they were dipped, yet not by their order, and
   with their consent; but he produces no passage of scripture to support
   this private dipping; nor do the scriptures any where speak of such
   numbers of proselytes in those days, and much less of their baptism;
   and the strangers, who in the Greek version are called proselytes, whom
   Solomon numbered and employed at the building of the temple, (2 Chron.
   2:17) at most could only be proselytes of the gate, not of
   righteousness, and so there can be no pretence for their admission by
   baptism, or dipping; nor is there anything of this kind with respect to
   any persons to be found in the writings of the Old Testament. There is
   a plain and express law for the admission of proselytes to the Jewish
   religion, and for what, as a qualification, to partake of the
   ordinances and privileges of it; particularly to eat of the passover;
   and that is the circumcision of them, with all their males; and on this
   condition, and on this only, they and theirs were admitted without any
   other rite annexed unto it, they were obliged unto; nor does it appear
   that ever any other was used; no, not this of baptism; there was but
   one law to the stranger or proselyte, and to the home born Israelite
   (see Ex 12:48, 49). There were proselytes in the times of Hezekiah, (2
   Chron. 30:25) who came out of the land of Israel, to eat the passover
   at Jerusalem, who therefore must be circumcised, according to the said
   law; but there is no reason to believe they were baptized. There was a
   law concerning the marriage of a captive woman taken in war, (Deut.
   21:10-14) previous to which she must become a proselytess; and the law
   enjoins various particular rites to be observed in order to it, as
   shaving her head, paring her nails, and putting off the raiment of her
   captivity; but not a word of her baptism; which one would think could
   never be omitted, had such a custom prevailed as early as the times of
   Moses and Jacob, as is pretended. There were various bathings,
   baptisms, or dippings incumbent on the Israelites, and so upon such
   proselytes who were upon an equal footing with them, and equally under
   obligation to obey the ceremonial law; which consisted of various
   washings, baptisms, or dippings, yet none of them for proselytism; but
   for purification from one uncleanness or another, in a ceremonial
   sense: these seem to be what a learned writer [395] calls
   "aquilustria", "lustrations by water"; which he thinks it is clear the
   captive Jews in Babylon observed, from having their solemn meetings by
   rivers, (Ezek. 3:15; Ezra 8:15, 21) but it is not so clear they had
   their abode in such places, whether for a longer or shorter time, on
   account of them; and it is still less clear what he further says, that
   these lustrations had a promise of grace annexed to them, were
   sacraments of the Old Testament, and a type of our baptism. However,
   though he supposes the returning Jews and proselytes were circumcised,
   he does not pretend they were baptized; nor does he attempt to prove
   proselyte baptism from hence. Among the ten families said [396] by the
   Jews to come out of Babylon, the proselytes are one sort; but they say
   nothing of their baptism (see Ezra 6:21). As for those scriptures of
   the Old Testament the Rabbins make use of to justify this custom of
   theirs, they will be considered hereafter.

   2. Secondly, whereas there are several books called Apocrypha, supposed
   to be written between the writing of the books of the Old Testament and
   those of the New, and are generally thought to be written by Jews, and
   to contain things which chiefly have respect to them; and though there
   is sometimes mention made in them of proselytes to the Jewish religion,
   yet not a syllable of any such rite or custom, as of baptism or dipping
   at the admission of them; particularly of Achior the Ammonite, in the
   times of Judith; upon her cutting off the head of Olophernes it is
   said, that "he, seeing all that the God of Israel did, strongly
   believed in God, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was
   added to the house of Israel unto this day;" that is, he and his
   posterity continued in the Jewish religion. Now here is mention made of
   his being circumcised, previous to his addition, or his being
   proselyted to the Jewish church; but not a word of baptism, or dipping,
   in order to it; see Judith 14:6 in the Apocrypha.

   3. Thirdly, mention is made of proselytes in the New Testament,
   (Matthew 23:15; Acts 2:10; 6:5, 13:43) but nothing is said concerning
   their admission, and the manner of it. Indeed, in the Ethiopic version
   of (Matthew 23:15) the words are rendered, "They baptize one
   proselyte"; which seems to have respect to the custom under
   consideration; but then this is but a translation, and not a just one.
   The Ethiopic version is not only reckoned not very good, but of no
   great antiquity. Ernestus Gerhard says [397] of the antiquity of it, he
   dare not affirm anything certain. And Ludolph, in his history of
   Ethiopia, relates, [398] that he could find nothing certain concerning
   the author and time of this version but thinks it probable it was made
   at the time of the conversion of the Habessines, or a little after, but
   not in the times of the apostles, as some have affirmed; and in the
   margin, a little after, he observes, that in an Ethiopic martyrology,
   St. Frumentius, called abbot of Salama, is said to be the author of it;
   who, according to another place in the said history, [399] seems to
   have lived in the fourth century, in the times of Athanasius, and is
   thought to be the first founder of the Christian religion in Ethiopia,
   and the first bishop in it. Scaliger takes the Ethiopic version to be a
   recent one; and De Dieu, [400] from what the author or authors of the
   version of the evangelist Matthew, add at the end of it, suspects that
   they were of the Maronites, who became subject to the pope of Rome A.
   D. 1182, and so this version is too late a testimony for the antiquity
   of such a custom; and the closing the translation of some of the
   epistles with desiring the prayers of Peter and others, shows what sort
   of persons they were who translated them, and in what times they lived.
   The title of the book of the Revelation in this version, is, "The
   vision of John, which John was bishop of the metropolis of
   Constantinople, when he suffered persecution;" by which it appears not
   to be ancient. Hence Dr. Owen [401] calls it a "novel" endeavour of an
   illiterate person; and the translation of the clause itself in (Matthew
   23:15) is censured by Ludolphus [402] as ridiculous; the word by which
   it is rendered being used in the Ethiopic language to convert a man to
   Christianity, or to make a man a Christian; which is by it absurdly
   attributed to the Scribes and Pharisees.

   4. Fourthly, as there are no traces of this custom in the writings
   before, at, or about the times of John, Christ, and his apostles; so
   neither are there any in those which were written in any short time
   after; as, not in Philo the Jew, who lived in the first century; who,
   though he is said by some to be ignorant of Jewish customs, yet one
   would think he could not be ignorant of such as were used at the
   admission of proselytes; since he lived at Alexandria, where it may be
   supposed many proselytes were, more than in Judea, and of the manner of
   their admission he could not but have knowledge, both then and in
   former times; and he makes mention of proselytes, and of them as
   equally partakers of the same privileges, and to be treated with the
   same honour and respect as home born citizens, [403] and as they were
   admitted by Moses; but is altogether silent about this custom of
   baptizing, or dipping them; nor is there the least trace or hint of
   this custom in any Rabbinical books, said by the Jews to be written a
   little before, or after; such as the books of Bahir, Zohar, the Targums
   of Onkelos on the Pentateuch, and of Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the
   prophets.

   5. Fifthly, Josephus, the Jewish historian, lived in the same age, a
   little after Philo, was well versed in the affairs of the Jews, even in
   their religious rites and ceremonies, having been a priest among them.
   He not only observes, that many of the Gentiles came over to their
   religion, [404] but even speaks of whole nations who became Jews, and
   that they were made so by circumcision; as of the Idumaeans, whom
   Hyrcanus conquered, and suffered to remain in their own land, on
   condition that they would be circumcised, and conform to the laws of
   the Jews; and who, out of love to their country, did comply with
   circumcision, and so became Jews, [405] and of the Ituraeans, whom
   Aristobulus fought against, and added part of their country to Judaea,
   and obliged the inhabitants, if they would remain in their country, to
   be circumcised, and live after the laws of the Jews; and quotes Strabo,
   who, upon the authority of Timogenes, says, that he enlarged the
   country of the Jews, and made part of the country of Ituraea theirs,
   joining them to them by the bond of circumcision. [406] By which
   accounts it appears, that both these people were made Jews, or were
   proselyted to them by circumcision; but not a word is said of their
   baptism, or dipping; which, according to this custom, as is said, must
   have been of men, women, and children, which, had it been practised,
   could not have been well omitted by the historian. He also speaks [407]
   of Helena, queen of Adiabene, and of her son Izates, embracing the
   Jewish religion; and relates how desirous Izates was of being
   circumcised, that he might be a perfect Jew, without which he could
   not; but for a time he was dissuaded from it by his mother, and a Jew
   merchant, who instructed them; but afterwards, being exhorted to
   perfect the work by one Eleazer, who was more skilful in Jewish
   affairs, he submitted to circumcision: but neither Josephus nor Eleazer
   say a word about his baptism, or dipping; which yet, according to the
   pretended custom as then prevailing, was necessary, as well as
   circumcision, to make him a complete proselyte. Nor is any mention made
   of the baptism or dipping of Helena; which, had it been at this time,
   would not have been omitted by the historian; since it was by that
   only, according to this notion, that females were then made proselytes.
   He also speaks [408] of another son of Helena, Monbaz, embracing the
   Jewish religion; but says nothing of his baptism.

   6. Sixthly, it may be inquired, whether or no any mention is made of
   this custom of receiving proselytes among the Jews by baptism, or
   dipping, in the Targums, or Chaldee paraphrases. The most ancient ones
   extant are those of Jonathan Ben Uzziel of the prophets, and of Onkelos
   of the Pentateuch; the one at the beginning, the other toward the end
   of the first century; in which nothing is met with concerning the
   admission of Jewish proselytes by dipping. The other paraphrases are by
   uncertain authors, and of an uncertain age. The Targum of the Megillot,
   or five books of Ruth, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, Lamentations, and
   Esther, is written by an unknown author; it is the latest of all the
   Targums. In that of Esther only the phrase became Jews, (Esther 8:17)
   is rendered, became proselytes; but nothing is said of their manner of
   becoming such. In that of (Ruth 1:16) the requisites of a proselyte are
   particularly observed; where Ruth is introduced, saying, that she
   desired to be made a proselyte; when Naomi informs her what commands
   the Jews were obliged to observe; as to keep the Sabbaths and
   festivals, and not to walk beyond two thousand cubits (on the Sabbath
   day); not to lodge with Gentiles; to observe the three hundred and
   thirteen commands; not to worship an idol, &c. to all which Ruth is
   made to agree; but not a syllable is said about baptism, or dipping;
   whereas, that, with a sacrifice along with it, before the building of
   the temple, and while the temple stood, and since, without it, is the
   only thing, according to this notion, by which females were admitted
   proselytes. In the Targum of Jonathan of Genesis 9:27 the sons of
   Japheth are said to be made and to dwell in the school of Shem. In the
   Jerusalem Targum, and in that of Pseudo-Jonathan, the souls that
   Abraham and Sarah got in Haran, (Gen. 12:5) are said to be the souls
   who were made proselytes by them; and in the same Targum of Genesis
   21:33 at Beersheba, where Abraham planted a grove, he is said to make
   proselytes, and teach them the way of the world, of the world to come;
   but nothing more is said of the way and manner in which they were made
   such. In the Targum of Pseudo-Jonathan of Genesis 38:2, Judah is said
   to make the daughter of a Canaanite a proselytess, and then married
   her; and in the same Targum of Numbers 11:4, the mixed multitude who
   came with the Israelites out of Egypt, are interpreted proselytes; and
   no doubt but many of them were such; and Jarchi thinks the son of the
   Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, was a proselyte, since
   he was among the children of Israel (Lev. 24:10). And Africanus
   affirms, [409] that the Jews genealogical tables, in which an account
   was kept of original Jews and of proselytes; as of Achior the Ammonite,
   and Ruth the Moabitess, and those who came out of Egypt mixed with the
   Israelites; and which continued to the times of Herod, who burnt them,
   that his family might not be known. But to return to the Targums; in
   the Pseudo-Jonathan's of Exodus 18:6, 7, Jethro is made to say to
   Moses, as before observed, that he was come to be made a proselyte; and
   Moses is said to make him one; but in what manner it is not said; and
   so the rest before mentioned; indeed, the same Targum of Exodus 12:44
   is, "And every stranger who is sold for a servant to an Israelite,
   bought with money, then thou shalt circumcise him, and thou shalt dip
   him', and so shall he eat of it," the passover. Now in this Targum of
   Exodus 26:9, not only mention is made of the Misnah, but it abounds
   with Talmudic fables and traditions, and so must be written after both
   the Misnah and Talmud; and in the Targum of Numbers 24:19 mention is
   made of the city of Constantinople, which shows it to be not ancient,
   and that it is not the work of the true Jonathan. And besides all this,
   the case of the servant refers not to a proselyte, who became so of
   choice, but to a bought servant, who, according to the original law in
   Genesis 17:12, 13 was obliged to be circumcised; and so, according to
   the Rabbinic custom, to be dipped; but then, according to these
   writers, baptism, or dipping for servitude, was a different thing from
   baptism, or dipping for proselytism; the one was on a civil, the other
   on a religious account; the one was repeated when a servant was made a
   free man, and the other never. [410] The same Pseudo-Jonathan in his
   Targum of Deuteronomy 21:13 to the conditions required of a beautiful
   captive, in order to be married to an Israelite, this is added, that
   she should dip herself, and become a proselytess in his house; but the
   text has nothing of it, nor the Targum of Onkelos; nor is this custom
   to be met with in the paraphrases of the true Jonathan; only in this,
   which was written after the Talmud, and does not come within the time
   under consideration.

   7. Seventhly, nor is there any mention of such a custom in the Jew's
   Misnah, or Book of Traditions; which is a collection of all the
   traditions among the Jews, which had been handed down from age to age,
   and were collected together from all parts, and written in a book of
   this name, in order to be preserved. This was written by R. Judah
   Hakkadosh, in the middle of the second century, A. D. 150 or as others
   in the beginning of the third century, reckoning the date of it one
   hundred and fifty years from the destruction of the temple; which
   brings it to the year 220 and here, if anywhere, one might expect to
   meet with this rite or custom; but no mention is made of it. Dr. Gale
   [411] seems to allow it upon what Dr. Wall has transcribed from Selden,
   which he granted without examination. The doctor says, [412] It is not
   only mentioned in the Gemara, but in the text of the Misnah itself;
   which, as he suggests, speaks of a child becoming a proselyte by
   baptism, or dipping; but the passage he has from Selden [413] says no
   such thing; which runs thus; [414] "A she stranger, a captive, and a
   maiden, who are redeemed and become proselytes, and are made free,
   being under' (or, as in the following section, above) three years and
   one day old, are allowed the matrimonial dowry;" that is, when they
   come to age, and are married; but not a word is here of their being
   made proselytes by baptism, or dipping; indeed, the tradition shows,
   that minors may be proselyted, and that a man's sons and daughters may
   become proselytes with him; but there is no need to have recourse to a
   tradition for this; the law is express, that a stranger who desires to
   be a proselyte to the Jewish religion, and to eat of the passover, must
   be circumcised, and all his males, and then he and all his children,
   males and females, may be admitted to eat of it, (Ex. 12:48, 49) only
   the circumcision of the males is required, but no baptism, or dipping
   of any. There is a passage in the Misnah, [415] which perhaps some may
   think countenances this custom; which is this, "A stranger who is made
   a proselyte, on the evening of the passover, the house of Shammai say,
   he dips' and eats his passover in the evening; but the house of Hillell
   say, he that separates from uncircumcision, is as he that separates
   from a grave." Now it should be observed,

   7a. That here is a division about this matter, be it what it may;
   Shammai, and his party, assert, that a proselyte newly made, might dip
   and eat his passover that evening; but Hillell, and his party, dissent,
   for a reason given; and the determination, in all cases, was generally
   according to Hillell, as it was in this; so we learn from Maimonides.
   [416]

   7b. This baptism, or dipping, was not on account of proselytism, but
   for ceremonial uncleanness; for it goes along with cases of that kind,
   instanced in before. The canon begins thus, "A mourner (who was unclean
   according to the ceremonial law) dips and eats his passover in the
   evening; but eats not of the holy things: he that hears tidings of the
   death of his (friend or relation), and who gathers to him bones, dips,
   and eats of the holy things:" and then it follows, "A stranger who is
   made a proselyte, &c."

   7c. This rule, according to Shammai, was concerning one already made a
   proselyte, and therefore the dipping, or baptism, he prescribes to him,
   in order to his eating the passover that evening, was not to make him a
   proselyte; but for some other reason. Wherefore,

   7d. This strongly makes against admission of proselytes by baptism, or
   dipping, at that time; for if he had been made a proselyte that way,
   there would have been no reason for a second dipping to qualify him for
   the passover.

   7e. The case of such an one, according to Hillell, is, that being just
   come out of heathenism, he was unclean, as one that touched a dead man,
   a bone, or a grave; and therefore could not eat of the passover that
   evening, but must wait seven days, until he was purified according to
   the law in Numbers 19:11-19.

   7f. After all, the view of Hillell, in putting such a person off from
   eating the passover the evening he became a proselyte for the reason
   given, was with respect to the next year, and by way of caution;
   fearing that should he be then in any uncleanness, which required
   purification, he would say, Last year I did not dip, or purify myself
   from any uncleanness, and yet I eat, and now I must dip and eat; not
   considering that the last year he was an heathen, and incapable of
   uncleanness, according to the law, but now he was an Israelite, and
   capable of it; and so it is explained in the Gemara [417] and Gloss on
   it, and by other interpreters. [418] Besides, this baptism, or dipping,
   was not on account of proselytism, but was common to, and obligatory
   upon, a circumcised Israelite, in order to eat of the passover; as is
   acknowledged by all. There were several in the times of the Misnic
   doctors, and before the Misnah was compiled, who were persons of
   eminence, and said to become proselytes; as Onkelos the Targumist, who,
   it is said, was made a proselyte in the days of Hillell and Shammai,
   [419] hence he is called Onkelos the proselyte; [420] some say [421] he
   was a sister's son of Titus the emperor, and by whom three Roman
   troops, sent one after another, to take him, were made proselytes also;
   [422] and Aquila, the author of the Greek version of the Bible, became,
   as is said, [423] a proselyte in the times of Adrian and so the emperor
   Antoninus Pius, and Ketiah, a nobleman in Caesar's court, as before
   observed: yea, the famous R. Akiba, a Misnic doctor, was a proselyte;
   [424] and so was R. Meir. [425] And of the circumcision of most of
   these we read; but nothing of their baptism; neither in the Misnah, nor
   in any other Jewish writings. Not to take notice of those very early
   masters of tradition Shemaia and Abtalion, before observed, who were
   proselytes of righteousness; [426] there were also women of note within
   this time, who became proselytes; as queen Helena, [427] with her two
   sons, of whom mention is made in the Misnah; [428] and Beluria, the
   proselytess, who had a discourse with R. Gamaliel; [429] and the wife
   of Turnus Rufus, whom R. Akiba married, after she was proselyted. [430]
   Now though female proselytes were admitted by baptism only, as is
   pretended, yet nothing is said of the baptism of these women. And as
   there is no mention of this custom in the Misnah, so neither have I
   observed any notice taken of it in the Rabbot, which are commentaries
   on the Pentateuch and five Megillot, before named; and which were
   written by R. Bar Nachmoni, about A. D. 300, according to Buxtorf [431]
   in one of which the text in Genesis 12:5 is commented on; "And the
   souls they had gotten in Haran"; which the Targums of Pseudo-Jonathan
   and Jerusalem, interpret of the souls they proselyted, before observed;
   and here it is said, [432] "These are the proselytes which they
   made:--R. Hona said, Abraham proselyted the men, and Sarah proselyted
   the women;" but not a word is said about the baptism or dipping of
   either. Yea, Abraham and Sarah are said to be proselytes [433]
   themselves; but it is not suggested that they were baptized. In these
   commentaries mention is made of the circumcision of proselytes,
   particularly of king Monbaz, and his brother, said to be the sons of
   king Ptolemy; [434] and of Aquila, the Greek translator; [435] but
   nothing is said of their baptism.

   8. Eighthly, nor is this rite or custom of receiving Jewish proselytes
   by baptism, or dipping, once spoken of by any of the Christian fathers
   of the first three or four centuries; which they could not be ignorant
   of, if from hence Christian baptism was taken, and especially such who
   were Jews, or had any connection with them, or were acquainted with
   them, and with their affairs, as some of them were. Barnabas was a Jew,
   and an apostolic man, contemporary with the apostles; there is an
   epistle of his still extant, in which he treats chiefly of Jewish
   rites, and of their being typical of evangelic things, and of their
   having their fulfilment in them; and yet says not a word of this
   initiating baptism, which he could not have failed making mention of
   had he known anything of it; yea, he sets himself to find out what was
   beforehand said concerning the ordinance of baptism; he says, [436]

   "Let us inquire whether the Lord has taken any care to make manifest
   beforehand anything concerning the water;" that is, concerning baptism:
   and then he adds, "Concerning the water, it is written to Israel, how
   the baptism that leads to the remission of sins, they would not; but
   appointed for themselves;" meaning their superstitious worship, our
   Lord inveighs against; but says not a word here, nor elsewhere, of the
   baptism of proselytes, for which he had a fair opportunity, had he
   known anything of it. Justin Martyr, who lived in the second century,
   was a Samaritan, and had knowledge of Jewish affairs; and had a dispute
   with Trypho the Jew, the same with Tarphon, a Jewish doctor, frequently
   mentioned in the Misnah; yet neither he nor Trypho say anything of this
   custom. In answer to a question put by Justin, what was necessary to be
   observed; Trypho replies, [437] "To keep the Sabbath; to be
   circumcised; to observe the new moons; to be baptized, or dipped,
   whoever touches any of these things forbidden by Moses;" meaning, that
   such should be baptized, or dipped, who touched a dead body, or bone,
   or grave, &c. but not a syllable is here of the baptism, or dipping of
   proselytes. And Justin himself makes mention of Jewish proselytes, and
   calls them circumcised proselytes, [438] but not baptized; by which it
   seems he knew nothing of any such custom, as to baptize them; yea, he
   does, in effect, deny there was any such custom of baptizing any, that
   universally obtained among the Jews, since he speaks of a certain sect,
   whom he will not allow to be truly Jews, called by him Baptists. [439]
   Whereas, if it was the practice of the whole nation to receive
   proselytes by baptism, or dipping, a particular sect among them, would
   not be stigmatized with such a name, since they must be all Baptists,
   both original Jews and proselytes, if they were all admitted into the
   Jewish church by baptism, as is affirmed. Origen, who lived in the
   beginning of the third century, in the city of Alexandria, where were
   great numbers of Jews, with whom he was acquainted, and must know their
   customs, says of Heracleon, an heretic, he opposes, [440] "That he was
   not able to show that ever any prophet baptized;" meaning, a common and
   ordinary one; and if none of these ever baptized, what foundation could
   there be for the baptism of proselytes before the times of Christ?
   Epiphanius, in the fourth century, was born in Palestine, lived some
   time in Egypt, had great knowledge of the Jews, and of their affairs;
   but seems to know nothing of this custom, as used neither in former nor
   in later times: he says, [441] neither had Abraham baptism, nor Isaac,
   nor Elias, nor Moses, not any before Noah and Enoch, nor the prophet
   Isaiah; nor those who were after him and he speaks of the Samaritans,
   that when they came over to the Jews, they were circumcised again; and
   gives an instance in Symmachus, who, when he became a proselyte, was
   circumcised again. So likewise be speaks of Theodotion being proselyted
   to Judaism, [442] and of his being circumcised; but not a word of the
   baptism, or dipping, of either of them. He also speaks of Antipater,
   [443] the father of Herod the king, that when he became procurator of
   Judaea, he was made a proselyte, and was circumcised, both he and Herod
   his son; but says nothing of their baptism, or dipping; so Herod is
   called by the Jews a proselyte; [444] and his reign, and that of his
   posterity, mlkvt hgrym "the reign of the proselytes," [445] who became
   so by circumcision, and that only, for ought appears. And of him, as a
   proselyte, but not of his baptism, speaks Jerome; [446] he lived in the
   same century, and great part of his time in Judaea, was acquainted with
   several Jews he had for his teachers, and with their traditions, of
   many of which he makes mention, but never of this of admitting
   proselytes by baptism, or dipping. He speaks of proselytes, and of
   their circumcision; and says [447] , that "if strangers received by the
   law of the Lord, and were circumcised, and were eunuchs, as was he of
   the queen of Candace, they are not foreign from the salvation of God;"
   but not a word of their baptism or dipping. The instances given by Dr.
   Wall, [448] from Tertullian, Cyprian, Gregory Nazianzen, and Basil,
   only respect either the figurative baptism of the Israelites at the Red
   Sea; or their baptisms and bathings by immersion, for their
   purification from ceremonial uncleanness; but not for proselytism. So
   when the same writer [449] quotes Arrianus, an heathen Stoic
   philosopher of the second century, as speaking of tou bebammenou, "a
   baptized Jew," [450] or one that was dipped; by whom the doctor thinks
   is meant one made a proselyte by baptism; no other may be designed than
   either a Jew who bathed his whole body, to purify himself from legal
   pollutions; or an Hemero-baptist, a sect of the Jews, who bathed
   themselves every day; or rather a Christian, as many learned men are of
   opinion; [451] since it was not unusual with heathen writers to call
   Christians, who were baptized, Jews; because the first Christians were
   Jews, and came from Judaea, into other parts of the world, and were
   reckoned by the heathens a sect of the Jews, [452] and were often
   confounded with them. Now since it appears there is no mention made of
   any such rite or custom of admitting Jewish proselytes by baptism, or
   dipping, to the Jewish religion in an writings and records before the
   times of John the Baptist, Christ, and his apostles; nor in any age
   after them, for the first three or four hundred years; or, however,
   before the writing of the Talmuds; it may he safely concluded there was
   no such custom, which had obtained in that interval of time. It remains
   therefore to be considered, what is the true ground and foundation of
   such a notion and from whence it sprung, which will be done in the
   following chapter.
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   [377] Targum Jon. in Numb. xi. 4.

   [378] Ibid. in Exod. xviii. 6, 7.

   [379] Ibid. in Gen. xxxviii. 2.

   [380] T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 10. 1.

   [381] Ibid. Megillah, fol. 14. 2.

   [382] Targum in Ruth i. 16.

   [383] Targum in Esther.

   [384] Chronicle, p. 18.

   [385] Targum in 1 Chron. iv. 18.

   [386] F. Megillah, fol. 23. 1. Sotah, fol. 12. 1.

   [387] Lexic. in voce tvl col. 686. vid. de Dieu, append. ad Matt.
   xxiii. 15.

   [388] Antiqu. Ebr. c. 1. s. 5.

   [389] Wolfii Bibliothec. Heb. p. 598.

   [390] Zebachim, fol. 16. 1. vid. Shemot Rabba, s. 27. fol. 30. 2, 3.

   [391] T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 94. 1.

   [392] T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 76. 1. Avodah Zara. fol. 3. 2.

   [393] Yalkut Chadasha tit. de David, n. 89. Apud Beckii, not. in Targ.
   2 Chron. viii. 11.

   [394] Issure Biah, c. 13. s. 15.

   [395] Eric. Phaletran. de ablatione Sceptr. Jud. c. 9. p. 431.

   [396] Misnah, Kiddushin, c. 4. s. 1.

   [397] pentan Positionum ex Ling. Heb. Chald. Syr. At. & Ethiopic Pos.
   5.

   [398] Hist. Ethiop. l. 3. c. 4.

   [399] Ibid. l. 3. c. 2.

   [400] In Append. ad Matt. p. 584.

   [401] Of the divine Original, &c. of the Scriptures, p. 343. vid.
   Theologoumen. l. 1. c. 1. p. 4.

   [402] Lexic. Ethiop. Col. 414.

   [403] De Vita Mosis, l. 1. p. 625. De Monarchia, l. 1. p. 818. De
   Legat. ad Caium, p. 1022.

   [404] Contra Apion. l. 2. s. 10.

   [405] Antiqu. l. 13. c. 9. s. 1. So Josippon Ben Gorion, Hist. Heb. l.
   2. c. 9. & l. 4. c. 4. & l. 5. c. 23. & l. 6. c. 13.

   [406] Antiqu. ib. c. 11. s. 3. so Josippon, ibid. l. 4. c. 9.

   [407] Antiqu. ibid. l. 20. c. 2. s. 1. 5.

   [408] Antiqu. c. 3. s. 1. These became proselytes in the times of
   Claudius Caesar, Ganz Tzemach David, par. 2. fol. 15. 2. & Juchasin,
   fol. 141. 1. Of king Izates, see Tacit. Annul. l. 12. c. 13, 14.

   [409] Apud Enseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 1. c. 7.

   [410] Vid. Maimon. Issure Biah, c. 13. s. 11, 12, & Schulchan Aruch,
   par. 2. c, 267. s. 9.

   [411] Reflections on Wall's History of Infant Baptism, p. 327.

   [412] History, Introduction, p. 49.

   [413] De Synedriis, l. 1. c. 3.

   [414] Misn. Cetubot. c. 1. s. 2. 4.

   [415] Ib. Pesachim, c. 8. s. 8. the same in Misn. Ediot, c. 5. s. 2.

   [416] Hilchot Korban Pesach, c. 6. s. 7.

   [417] T. Bab. Pesachim. fol. 92. 1.

   [418] Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. ut supra.

   [419] Meor Enayim, c. 45. Ganz Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 28. 2.

   [420] T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 99. 1. Megillah, fol. 3. 1. & Avodah
   Zarah, fol. 11. 1.

   [421] Juchasin, fol. 52. 2. T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 56. 2.

   [422] Avodah Zarah, ut supra.

   [423] Shemot Rabba, s. 30. fol. 131. 3.

   [424] Zohar in Gen. fol. 28. 4. Tzemach David, ut supra, fol. 28. 1.

   [425] Juchasin, fol. 41. 1. Ganz. fol. 29. 1.

   [426] Juchasin, fol. 18. 1.

   [427] Juchasin, fol. 141. 1.

   [428] Yoma, c. 3. s. 10.

   [429] Roshashanah, fol. 17. 2.

   [430] T. Bab. Nedarim, fol. 50. 2. & Gloss in ibid. Tzemach David, par.
   1. fol. 28. 1.

   [431] Biblioth. Rab. p. 326.

   [432] Bereshit Rabba, s. 39. fol. 35. 1.

   [433] Bemidbar Rabba, s. 8. fol. 190. 4.

   [434] Bereshit Rabba, s. 46. fol. 41. 3.

   [435] Shemot Rabba, ut supra.

   [436] Barnabae Epist. c. 9. Ed. Voss.

   [437] Dialog. cum Tryph. p. 264.

   [438] Dialog. ibid. p. 350, 351.

   [439] Ibid. p. 307.

   [440] Comment. in Joannem, p. 117.

   [441] Contr. Haeres. l. 3. Haer. 70.

   [442] De Mensur. et Ponder.

   [443] Contr. Haeres. l. 1. Haer. 20.

   [444] Juchasin, fol. 18. 1.

   [445] Seder Olam Zuta, p. 111. Ed. Meyer.

   [446] Comment. in Matt. xxii. fol. 30. I.

   [447] Comment. in Esaiam, e. 56. fol. 96. B.

   [448] History ut supra, p. 47.

   [449] Ibid. p. 45.

   [450] Epictet. l. 2. c. 9.

   [451] "Quem locum frustra quidam adducunt, ut probent Judaeos ritu
   baptismi uti solitos fuisse, cum apertissime de christianis loquatur
   philosophus", Oweni Theologoumen. l. 1. c. 9. p. 109. And with Dr. Owen
   agrees Dr. Jennings; "It is most likely, "says he, "that Arrian meant
   Christians, in the place alledged; because in his time many persons
   became proselytes to Christianity, but few or none to
   Judaism.--Besides, if he had spoke of proselytes to Judaism, it is
   highly probable he would have mentioned their circumcision, for which
   the heathens derided them, rather than their baptism, which was not so
   very foreign to some of the heathen rites of purification." Jewish
   Antiquities, vol. 1. c. 3. p. 138.

   [452] See Gale's Reflections on Wall's History, Letter 10. p. 355-362.
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  Chapter 4

    THE PROOF OF THIS CUSTOM ONLY FROM THE TALMUDS AND TALMUDICAL WRITERS

   Seeing the rite of receiving proselytes by baptism, or dipping among
   the Jews, is nowhere mentioned in any writings before the times of John
   and Christ, nor in any after, nearer than the third and fourth
   centuries; it is next to be inquired, when and where we first hear of
   it; and upon inquiry it will be found, that the first mention of it,
   for ought as yet appears, is in the Jewish Talmuds. The testimonies
   from thence concerning it, and the whole evidence, as there given of
   it, will now be laid before the reader. There are two Talmuds, the one
   called Jerusalem, the other Babylonian; the one written for the Jews at
   Jerusalem, and in Judaea, after the destruction of the city and temple,
   and in the Jerusalem dialect. The other for the use of the Jews in
   Babylon, and in those parts, and in their style. The former is the most
   ancient, and therefore I shall begin with it, being finished, as
   generally supposed, in the year 230; but if the Misnah was not compiled
   till the year 220, being one hundred and fifty from the destruction of
   Jerusalem, there must be a longer space of time than that of ten years
   between the one and the other. David Nieto, lately belonging to a
   Jewish synagogue here in London, says, [453] the Jerusalem Talmud was
   written near a hundred years after the Misnah; but other Jews make it
   later still, and make a difference of two hundred and thirty three
   years between the finishing of the one and the other; the one being
   finished in 189, and the other in 422 [454] , which is much more
   probable; and so this Talmud was not earlier than the beginning of the
   fifth century; nay, sometimes they place it in the year 469, the latter
   end of that century. [455] Scaliger places [456] it in the year 370.
   Mr. Whiston [457] in 369. And so Elias Levita [458] writes, that R.
   Jochanan compiled it three hundred years after the destruction of
   Jerusalem; but Morinus [459] will have it to be after the year 600,
   which is carrying it down too low. The passages I have met with in it
   any way relating to the case under consideration; for it will be
   allowed there are some; and therefore it will be owned, that Mr. Rees
   [460] was mistaken in saying it was not pretended to be found in it.
   The passages are as follow. In one place, [461] a certain Rabbi is
   represented as saying to another, "Wait, and we will dip' this
   proselytess tomorrow. R. Zera asked R. Isaac Bar Nachman, Wherefore?
   because of the glory of that old man, or because they do not dip a
   proselyte in the night. He replied to him, Why do not they dip a
   proselyte in the night? Abda came before R. Jose (and said), What is
   the meaning then of not dipping a proselyte in the night?" And a little
   after, in the same column, a saying of R. Hezekiah is reported; "A man
   finds an infant cast out (an exposed infant), and he dips it in the
   name of a servant;" or for a servant, on account of servitude; but then
   dipping for servitude, and dipping for proselytism, were two different
   things with the Jews, as before observed; and yet this is the only
   clause produced by Dr. Lightfoot out of this Talmud, for the above
   purpose; or by any other that I have seen. However, there are others
   which speak of the dipping of adult proselytes; which became a matter
   of controversy. In another treatise, in the same Talmud, [462] mention
   is made of a proselyte circumcised, but not dipped; (and it is added)
   all goes after circumcision; that is, that denominates a proselyte. "R.
   Joshua says, yea, dipping stays (or retards) it; and Bar Kaphra
   teaches, that he who is not dipped, this is right (a true proselyte);
   for there is no proselyte but dips for accidents;" that is, for
   accidental and nocturnal pollutions; and it seems such a dipping
   sufficed for proselytism. Of so little account did these Rabbins make
   of dipping for proselytism, who first mention it, not only make it
   insignificant, but as a delay of it, and what was an obstruction and
   hindrance of it: and further on it is said, [463] "A proselytess less
   than three years of age and one day, she has not knowledge for dipping
   (or when she is dipped); and afterwards returns and is dipped for the
   name of the Holy One of Israel; every one is a proselytess, and she is
   a proselytess." This looks like Anabaptism, or rebaptization for want
   of knowledge when first dipped. And a little further still, [464] "A
   stranger or a proselyte who has children, and says, I am circumcised,
   but I am not dipped; he is to be believed, and they dip him on the
   Sabbath." In another treatise, [465] a mention is made of a proselyte
   who dipped after the illumination of the East, that is, after
   sunrising. These are all the places I have met with in the Jerusalem
   Talmud any way relating to this custom. Dr. Wall [466] refers to two or
   three other passages in this Talmud, through mistake for the Babylonian
   Talmud; in which he may be excused, because, as he himself says, he was
   not well acquainted with these books; but he cannot be excused of
   inadvertency in transcribing from his authors, unless they have led him
   wrong.

   The Babylonian Talmud is next to be considered; from whence testimonies
   may be brought relating to the custom under consideration. This Talmud
   was finished, as is usually said, about A. D. 500; according to the
   account of the Jews it was finished three hundred and sixteen years
   after the Misnah, and eighty three after the Jerusalem Talmud. [467]
   Though Morinus thinks it did not appear until the seventh or eighth
   century. According to the Jewish doctors, as related in this Talmud,
   the Israelites, and the proselytes, were admitted into covenant in the
   same way and manner; and which they conclude from Numbers 15:15, "As ye
   are, so shall the stranger be, before the Lord": on which they thus
   descant: [468] "As your fathers entered not into covenant but by
   circumcision and dipping, and acceptance of blood or sacrifice; so they
   (the proselytes) enter not into covenant, but by circumcision, and
   dipping, and through acceptance of blood," or sprinkling of blood, as
   the Gloss is; or by sacrifice, as it is sometimes expressed, which is
   favourably accepted of God; and without both circumcision and dipping,
   none were reckoned proper proselytes; this is said two or three times
   in one leaf; [469] "A man is not a proselyte unless both circumcised
   and dipped." R. Chiyah Bar Abba went to Gabla, it is said, and he saw
   the daughters of Israel pregnant by proselytes, who were circumcised
   but not dipped; he went and told R. Jochanan, who declared their issue
   bastards, and not children of the law, or legitimate: about this a
   controversy was raised, related in the same place; "A stranger that is
   circumcised and not dipped, R. Eliezer says, lo, this is a proselyte;
   for so we find by our fathers, that they were circumcised, but not
   dipped; one that is dipped, and not circumcised, R. Joshua says, lo,
   this is a proselyte; for so we find by our mothers (not maids, or
   maidservants, as Dr. Lightfoot [470] translates it) that they were
   dipped and not circumcised." Had the account stopped here, the decision
   must have been against dipping: for it is a rule with the Jews, that
   when R. Eliezer and R. Joshua dissent, the decision is according to R.
   Eliezer, [471] whom they often call Eliezer the Great, [472] and say
   many extravagant things of him; particularly, that if all the wise men
   of Israel were put into one scale, and Eliezer the son of Hyrcanus,
   into the other, he would weigh them all down; [473] yet here the wise
   men interpose, and say, "He that is dipped and not circumcised,
   circumcised and not dipped, is no proselyte, until he is both
   circumcised and dipped; for R. Joshua may learn from the fathers, and
   R. Eliezer from the mothers." And so in this way they reconciled both;
   but R. Eliezer continued in the same sentiments, which he afterwards
   declared for, and affirms, that a proselyte that is circumcised, and
   not dipped, gr mly' hv' "he is an honourable proselyte;" [474] so that
   according to him, dipping was not necessary to one's being a proselyte;
   and R. Barzelonita [475] says, of a sort of proselytes which have been
   taken notice of, he is a proselyte who is circumcised and not dipped.
   So that the Jews are not agreed among themselves about this point. The
   manner of receiving a proselyte, and dipping him, when circumcised and
   healed of his wound, and of the dipping of women also, is related in
   the same treatise of the Babylonian Talmud; [476] "A stranger when he
   comes to be made proselyte, "at this time", they say unto him, What
   dost thou see, to become a proselyte? dost thou not know that the
   Israelites "at this time" are in distress, and in sorrowful
   circumstances, driven about and scattered, and are reproached, and
   chastisements come upon them? If he says, I know this, and I am not
   worthy (to be joined with them), they receive him immediately; and make
   known unto him some of the light, and some of the heavy commands (the
   particulars of which follow); if he receives them, they immediately
   circumcise him; and if there be anything remains, which hinders
   circumcision, they return and circumcise him a second time, and when he
   is healed, they dip him immediately, and two disciples of the wise men
   stand by him, and make known to him some of the light and some of the
   heavy commands; then he dips, and goes up, and he is an Israelite. If a
   woman, the women set her in water up to her neck, and two disciples of
   the wise men stand by her without, and make known some of the light and
   some of the heavy commands." Maimonides [477] adds, "After that she
   dips' herself before them, and they turn away their faces, and go out,
   so that they do not see her when she goes up out of the water'." Of a
   woman big with child when she is dipped they have this rule, [478] "A
   stranger pregnant, who is made a proselytess, her child has no need of
   dipping, that is, for proselytism, as the Gloss; is because sufficient
   for it is the dipping of its mother; and a woman that is dipped as
   unclean, according to the doctors, that is sufficient to make her a
   proselytess." Says R. Chiyah Bar Ame, "I will dip this heathen woman,
   in the name or on account of a woman;" that is, as the Gloss is, for
   the dipping of uncleanness, she being a menstruous woman, and not for
   the dipping of proselytism. Says R. Joseph, "I will make it right;"
   that is, pronounce that she is a perfect proselytess; for though she is
   not dipped for proselytism, yet being dipped for uncleanness, it serves
   for proselytism; for a stranger or a heathen is not dipped for
   uncleanness [479]

   There are various circumstances observed in the same treatise
   concerning the dipping of proselytes; as the place where they are
   dipped; "In a place it is said [480] where a menstruous woman dips,
   there a proselyte and a freed servant dip;" that is, as the Gloss is,
   in a quantity of forty seahs of water: the time of its being done is
   also signified; as that they do not dip in the night; and it is
   disputed whether it should be done on the Sabbath day: three witnesses
   also were required to be present; and where there are three, he (the
   proselyte) "dips" and goes up, and lo, he is as an Israelite [481] It
   is said, [482] "It happened in the house of R. Chiya Bar Rabbi, where
   were present R. Oschaia Bar Rabbi, and R. Oschaia Bar Chiya, that there
   came a proselyte before him who was circumcised, but not dipped; he
   said unto him, Wait here till tomorrow, and we will dip thee. Three
   things are to be learnt from hence. 1. That three persons are required
   (at the dipping of a proselyte). 2. That he is not a proselyte unless
   he is circumcised and dipped. 3. That they do not dip a proselyte in
   the night;" to which may be added, 4. That they must be three Rabbins
   who are promoted, that is, are famous and eminent ones, who are
   witnesses, as it seems these three were. There is but one instance in
   this Talmud, that I have met with, of the dipping of a child or a
   minor, made a proselyte; and a male is so called until he is thirteen
   years of age and one day; of such an one it is said, [483] "A
   proselyte, a little one (a minor), they dip him by the decree of the
   Sanhedrim;" that is, as the Gloss is, one that has no father, and his
   mother brings him to the Sanhedrim, to be made a proselyte, and there
   are three at his dipping; and they are a father to him, and by their
   means he is made a proselyte. And in the same place it is observed of a
   stranger, whose sons and daughters are made proselytes with him, and
   acquiesce in what their father has done, when they are grown up, they
   may make it void. There is another instance of the dipping of a minor;
   but not for proselytism, but for eating the Trumah, or the oblation of
   the fruits of the earth. So a certain one says, [484] "I remember when
   I was a child, and was carried on my father's shoulders, that they took
   me from school, and stripped me of my coat, and dipped me, that I might
   eat of the Trumah in the evening;" but this was not a proselyte, but an
   Israelite, the son of a priest, who, it seems, was not qualified to eat
   of the oblation without dipping. This was one of their various
   baptisms, or dippings.

   This now is the whole compass of the evidence from the Talmuds for the
   rite of admitting proselytes among the Jews by baptism, or dipping. I
   have not omitted anything relating to it in them that has fallen under
   my observation. As for the quotations usually made from Maimonides, who
   lived in the twelfth century, in proof of this custom; whatever may be
   said for him as an industrious and judicious compiler of things, out of
   the Talmud, which he has expressed in purer language, and digested in
   better order; he cannot be thought to be of greater and higher
   authority than those writings from whence he has derived them; for his
   work is only a stream from the Talmudic fountain. And as for later
   writers; as the authors of Lebush, Schulchan Aruch, and others, they
   derive from him. So that the Talmuds appear to be the spring and source
   of what is said of this custom, and from whence the proof and evidence
   of it is to be fetched; but whether the reasonings, decisions, and
   determinations therein concerning it, can be judged a sufficient proof
   of it, without better testimonies, especially from the scriptures,
   deserves consideration.

   It must not be concealed, that it is pretended there is proof of it
   from scripture; which I shall attend unto. The proof of the Jewish
   fathers entering into covenant by baptism, or dipping, is fetched from
   Exodus 19:10, where, two or three days before the giving of the law,
   the Israelites were ordered to "wash" their clothes; hence it is said
   in the Talmud, [485] to prove that dipping was used at the entrance of
   the Israelites into covenant, according to which the baptism, or
   dipping of proselytes, is said to be; "From whence is it (or a proof of
   it?) From what is written (Ex. 19:10) where there is an obligation to
   wash clothes, there is an obligation to dip." And again, (Ex. 24:8)
   "Moses took it (the blood) and sprinkled it on the people'; and there
   is no sprinkling without dipping." And in another place, [486]
   "Sprinkling of blood (or sacrifice, by which also the Israelites, it is
   said, were admitted into covenant) of it, it is written, And he sent
   young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings',&c.
   But dipping, from whence is it? From what is written; And Moses took
   half of the blood, and sprinkled it on the people'; and there is no
   sprinkling without dipping." This is the proof, which surely cannot be
   satisfactory to a judicious mind; dipping is inferred from sprinkling;
   but though the blood was sprinkled upon the people, they were not
   dipped into it surely; nor even into water, from what appears; and
   though dipping and sprinkling are sometimes used together, as in the
   cleansing of the leper, and in the purification of one unclean, by the
   touch of an unclean bone, &c. (Lev. 14:7; Num. 19:19) yet the one was
   not the other. From washing of clothes dipping is also inferred,
   without any reason; for these two, in the above places, and in others,
   are spoken of as two distinct acts, and are expressed by different
   words; and yet it is upon this single circumstance the proof depends.
   Now, as Dr. Owen [487] observes, "this washing of clothes served that
   single occasion only of showing reverence of the divine presence, at
   the peculiar giving of the law; nor did it belong to the stated worship
   of God; so that the necessity of the baptism of bodies, by a stated and
   solemn rite for ever, should arise from the single washing of garments,
   and that depending upon a reason, that would never more recur; of the
   observation of which no mention is made, nor any trace is extant in the
   whole Old Testament, and which is not confirmed by any divine command,
   institution, or direction, seems altogether improbable" And he
   elsewhere [488] says, "From this latter temporary occasional
   institution (ceremonial washing at Sinai) such as they (the Jews) had
   many granted to them, while they were in the wilderness, before the
   giving of the law, the Rabbins have framed a baptism for those who
   enter into their synagogue; a fancy too greedily embraced by some
   Christian writers, who would have the holy ordinance of the church's
   baptism to be derived from thence. But this "washing of their clothes",
   not of their bodies, was temporary, never repeated; neither is there
   anything of any such baptism or washing required in any proselytes,
   either men or women, where the laws of their admission are strictly set
   down." And it may be further observed, that the Talmudists give this
   only as a proof of the admission of Israelites into covenant; whereas,
   the solemn admission of them into it, even of the whole body of them,
   men, women, and children, and also of the proselytes who were in their
   camp, as all the Targums and the Greek version have it, when on the
   plains of Moab, at Horeb, before their entrance into the land of
   Canaan, (Deut. 29:10-12) was not by "any" of the "three" things they
   say the admission was, that is, by circumcision, baptism, and
   sacrifice; of the two latter not the least hint is given, and the
   former was not practised while the Israelites were in the wilderness,
   not till Joshua had introduced them into the land of Canaan. The Jews
   seem to be conscious themselves that the baptism or dipping of
   proselytes, is no command of God; since at the circumcision of them, in
   the form of blessing they then use, they take no notice of it, which
   runs thus. [489] "Blessed art thou, O Lord God, the King of the world,
   who has sanctified us by his precepts, and has commanded' us to
   circumcise proselytes', and to fetch out of them the blood of the
   covenant; for if it was not for the blood of the covenant the heaven
   and earth would not be established; as it is said, If my covenant with
   day and night', &c. Jeremiah 33:25."

   Dr. Lightfoot [490] carries this custom of admitting proselytes by
   baptism, or dipping, higher than the Jews themselves do. He ascribes
   the first institution and use of it to Jacob, when he was going to
   Bethel to worship, after the murder of the Sechemites by his sons;
   when, the doctor says, he chose into his family and church, some of the
   Shechemites and other heathens. But some learned men of the
   Paedobaptist persuasion, have thought the notion is indefensible, and
   judged it most prudent to leave it to himself to defend it, or
   whomsoever may choose to undertake it; [491] and he himself was in
   doubt about the first institution of this sort of baptism; for he
   afterwards says, "We acknowledge that circumcision was of divine
   institution; but by whom baptism, that was inseparable from it, was
   instituted, is doubtful." Certain it is, it has no foundation in what
   Jacob did, or ordered to be done, when he was about to go to Bethel,
   and worship there; previous to which he ordered his family to "put away
   the strange gods" that were among them, which they had brought with
   them from Shechem; and he likewise ordered them to be "clean", and
   "change their garments"; which cleanness, whether to be understood of
   abstaining from their wives, as some interpret it; or of washing of
   their bodies, as Aben Ezra, as a purification of them from the
   pollutions of the slain, as the Targum paraphrases it, and after that
   Jarchi: and which change of garments, whether understood of the
   garments of idolaters, which the sons of Jacob had taken and put on,
   when they stripped them; or of their own garments, defiled with the
   blood of the slain; or of their meaner or more sordid garments, for
   more pure and splendid ones. All that can be concluded from hence is,
   and is by the Jews concluded, that when men come before God, they
   should come with clean bodies, and with clean garments; as an emblem of
   the more inward purity of their minds, which is necessary to every
   religious service and act of devotion, such as Jacob and his family
   were now about to perform, and which the very heathens themselves had a
   notion of; "Casta placent superis, pura cum veste venito." [492] But
   not a word is here of any covenant Jacob and his family entered into,
   and much less of any proselytes from Shechem and Syria being brought
   into it with them, by baptism, or dipping, as is pretended.

   I have met with another learned man, [493] who carries up this custom
   higher still; and asserts, that Jacob did not feign out of his own
   brain this practice of washing the body, and of change of garments; but
   took it from the history of Adam, and from his example; and he supposes
   that Adam, at the solemn making the covenant with him, was washed in
   water, before he put on the garments given him of God; and that as he
   was the first who sacrificed, he was the first who was baptized by the
   command of God; and so baptism was the most ancient of all the sacred
   rites. But let the history of Adam be carefully read over by any man,
   and he will never find the least hint of this, nor observe the least
   shadow or appearance of it; but what is it that the imagination of man
   will not admit and receive, when once a loose is given to it? Pray, who
   baptized Adam, if he was baptized? Did God baptize him? Or did an angel
   baptize him? Or did Eve baptize him? Or did he baptize himself?

   Since then this rite or custom of admitting into covenant, whether
   Israelites or proselytes, by baptism or dipping, has no foundation but
   in the Talmuds; and the proof of it there so miserably supported from
   scripture, surely it can never be thought that Christian baptism was
   borrowed from thence; or that it is no other which is continued in the
   Christian church, being taken up as it was found by John the Baptist,
   Christ, and his apostles; the folly and falsehood of which will be
   evinced in the following chapter.
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   [453] Metteh Dan, sive Cosri, par. 2. fol. 18. 1.

   [454] Vid. Wolfii Praefat. ad Bibliothec. Heb. p. 28.

   [455] Fabricii Bibliograph. Antiquar. c. 1. s. 2. p. 3.

   [456] Deut. Emend. Temp. l. 7. p. 323.

   [457] Chronolog. Tables, Cent. 19.

   [458] Praefat. ad Methurgeman, fol. 2.

   [459] Deut. Sinceritate Heb. Text. l. 2. Exer. 2. c. 2.

   [460] Infant Baptism no Institution of Christ, p. 23.

   [461] T. Hieros. Yebamot, fol. 8. 4.

   [462] Kiddushin, fol. 64. 4.

   [463] Ibid. fol. 65. 2.

   [464] Ibid. fol. 66. 1.

   [465] Eruvin, fol. 22. 1.

   [466] History of Infant Baptism, Introduct. p. 44.

   [467] Vid. Wolfium, ut supra.

   [468] T. Bab. Ceritot, fol. 9. 1.

   [469] Yebamot, fol. 46. 1, 2. vid. Beracot, fol. 47. 2. Avodah Zarah,
   fol. 57. 2. & 59. 1.

   [470] Works, vol. 1. p. 526. vol. 2. p. 117.

   [471] Halicot Olam, p. 201.

   [472] T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 54. 1. Megillah, fol. 16. 2. Kiddushin, fol.
   39. 1.

   [473] Pirke Abot, c. 2. s. 8.

   [474] T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 71. 1.

   [475] Chinnuch, p. 17.

   [476] T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 46. 1, 2.

   [477] Issure Biah, c. 14. s. 6.

   [478] T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 78. 1.

   [479] Ibid. fol. 45. 2. & Gloss in ibid.

   [480] T. Bab. Yehamot, fol. 46. 2. & Gloss in ibid.

   [481] Ibid.

   [482] Ibid.

   [483] T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 11. 1.

   [484] Cetubot, fol. 26. 1.

   [485] T. Bab. Ceritot, fol. 9. 1.

   [486] T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 46. 2.

   [487] Theologoumen. l. 5. Digress. 1. p. 446.

   [488] On Heb. vol. 1. Exercitat. 19. p. 272.

   [489] Maimon. Hilchot Milah, c. 3. s. 4.

   [490] Chronicle of the Old Testament, p. 18. Harmony of the
   Evangelists, p. 465. Hor. Heb. in Matt. iii. 6.

   [491] Pfeiffer. Antiqu. Ebr. c. 1. s. 5. "et addit; uti et ejusdem
   collationem; quam inter hunc proselytorum baptismum et sacramentum
   initiationis christianorum instituit cum magno grano salis accipiendam
   putamus."

   [492] Tibullus, l. 2. eleg. 1.

   [493] Rhenferd. Orat. de Antiqu. Baptism, p. 954. ad Calcem Oper.
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  Chapter 5

    THE REASONS WHY CHRISTIAN BAPTISM IS NOT FOUNDED ON, AND TAKEN FROM,
    THE PRETENDED JEWISH BAPTISM OF ISRAELITES AND PROSELYTES

   Having traced the admission of the Jewish proselytes by baptism, or
   dipping, to the spring head of it, the Jewish Talmuds; I shall now
   proceed to give reasons, why Christian baptism cannot be thought to be
   taken from such a custom; nor that to be a rule according to which it
   is to be practised.

   1. First, the Talmuds are of too late a date to prove that such a
   custom obtained before the times of John and Christ, since they were
   written some centuries after those times, as has been shown; and
   besides, there is in them a plain chronological mark, or character,
   which shows that this custom took place among the Jews since they were
   driven out of their own land, and scattered among the nations, and
   suffered reproach and persecution; for among the interrogatories put to
   persons who came to them to be made proselytes, this question was
   asked, [494] "What dost thou see to become a proselyte? dost thou not
   know, or consider, that the Israelites are now' vzmn hzh at this time',
   in sorrowful circumstances, driven about and scattered, and loaded with
   reproaches and afflictions? If he says, I know this; and I am not
   worthy (that is, to be joined to them) they receive him immediately."

   Many are the surmises and conjectures of learned men concerning the
   original and rise of this custom. It is scarce worth while, to take
   notice of the notion of Grotius [495] that this custom was taken up on
   account of the flood, and in commemoration of the world's being
   purified by it: nor of Sir John Marsham's, [496] that it was taken up
   by the Israelites, in imitation of the Egyptian's manner of initiating
   persons into the mysteries of their goddess Isis, by washing them; for
   which he cites Apuleius. A goodly pattern of Christian baptism this! it
   is much it never entered into the thoughts of these learned men, or
   others, that the Jews took up this rite of dipping their proselytes, as
   they found it among the Medes and Persians, when they lived in their
   countries, and so brought it into Judaea, some hundreds of years before
   the coming of Christ, and his forerunner John the Baptist; since of the
   eighty rites the Persians used in the initiation of men into the
   mysteries of Mithras, their chief deity, the first and principal was
   baptism. They "dipped" them in a "bath", and "signed" them in their
   "foreheads", and had a sort of an "Eucharist", an oblation of bread, as
   Tertullian has it, and an image of the resurrection (that is, in their
   baptism); promising the expiation of sins by the laver; and also had an
   imitation of martyrdom. [497] Some say [498] this custom of the Jews
   was taken up by them out of hatred to the Samaritans, and was added to
   circumcision, to distinguish them from them: but if so, it is very much
   that Symmachus the Samaritan, when he came over to the Jews, was not
   only circumcised again, as he was, but also baptized, or dipped; of
   which Epiphanius, who gives an account of his becoming a proselyte to
   them, and of his being circumcised, but not of his being baptized, as
   before observed. Dr. Owen thinks [499] this custom was taken up by some
   Antemishnical Rabbins, in imitation of John the Baptist; which is not
   very probable, though more so than anything before advanced. To me it
   seems a clear case, that this custom was framed upon a general notion
   of the uncleanness of heathens, in their state of heathenism, before
   their embracing the Jewish religion; and therefore devised this
   baptism, or dipping, as a symbol of that purity, which was, or ought to
   be, in them, when they became Jews, of whom they might hope to gain
   some, they being now dispersed among the nations; and of some they
   boast, even of some of note: and this was first introduced when they
   digested the traditions of the elders into a body, or pandect of laws;
   and were finishing their decisions and determinations upon them, to be
   observed by their people in future time.

   Since I wrote the preceding chapters, I have met with a quotation; for
   I will not conceal anything that has occurred to me in reading,
   relative to this custom of dipping Jewish proselytes; I say, I have met
   with a quotation by Maimonides, [500] out of a book called Siphri, an
   ancient commentary on Numbers and Deuteronomy, which has these words:
   "As the Israelites did not enter into covenant but by three things, by
   circumcision, dipping, and acceptation of sacrifice; so neither
   proselytes likewise." Now if this is the ancient book of Siphri, from
   whence this passage is taken, as may seem, which is a book of an
   uncertain author and age; and is allowed to be written after the
   Misnah; [501] yet if it is the same that is referred to in the
   Babylonian Talmud [502] it must be written before that was published,
   though it might be while it was compiling, and it may be, by some
   concerned in it; since the rite referred to is expressed in the same
   words in the one as in the other; [503] and is founded upon and argued
   from the same passage of scripture, (Num. 15:15) and seems to be the
   language and reasoning of the same persons. However, "if" the passage
   quoted by Maimonides stands in that book, which is a book I never saw,
   though printed; "if", I say, these several things can be made plain; it
   is indeed the earliest testimony we have of this custom; especially if
   the book was written before the Jerusalem Talmud, which yet is not
   certain: but be it as it may, it is a testimony of the same sort of
   persons, and of no better authority than what has been before produced,
   and serves to confirm, that this custom is a pure device of the Jewish
   doctors, and is merely "Rabbinical"; and besides, at most, it can only
   carry up this custom into the "fifth" century, which is too late for
   John Baptist and Christ to take up the ordinance from it; and on
   account of these testimonies not being early enough for such a purpose,
   the late Dr. Jennings [504] has given up the argument from them, in
   favour of infant baptism, as insufficient. His words are, "After all,
   it remains to be proved, not only that Christian baptism was instituted
   in the room of proselyte baptism; but that the Jews had any such
   baptism in our Saviour's time: the earliest accounts we have of it, are
   in the Mishna (but in that we have none at all) and Gemara." And again
   he says, "here wants more evidence of its being as ancient as our
   Saviour's time, than I apprehend can be produced to ground an argument
   upon it, in relation to Christian baptism."

   2. Secondly, this custom, though observed as a religious action, yet
   has scarce any appearance of religion and devotion in it; but looks
   rather like a civil affair, it being in some cases under the cognizance
   and by the direction of the Sanhedrim, or court of judicature. There
   was no divine solemnity in the performance of it. It was not
   administered in the name of the God of Israel, whom the Jews professed;
   nor in the name of the Messiah to come, expected by them, as was the
   baptism of John; nor in the name of the Three divine Persons in the
   Trinity, which yet the ancient Jews believed. They dipped their
   proselytes indeed, according to their account, vsm "in the name" of a
   proselyte, or as one; and a servant, "in the name" of a servant, or on
   account of servitude; and a free man, "in the name" of a free man; but
   neither of them in the name of any divine Person, or with the
   invocation of the name of God; so that it had no appearance of a
   religious solemnity in it. To which may be added, that this custom gave
   a licence to things the most impure and abominable, things contrary to
   the light of nature, and not to be named among the Gentiles, and which
   must make it detestable to all serious persons. According to the Jews,
   it dissolved all the ties of natural relations, which before subsisted
   among men; for according to them,

   "As soon as a man is made a proselyte, a soul flies out of a
   (celestial) palace, and gets under the wings of the Shechinah, (or
   divine Majesty) which kisses it, because it is the fruit of the
   righteous, and sends it into the body of a proselyte, where it abides;
   and from that time he is called a proselyte of righteousness; [505] so
   that now he has a new soul, and is a new man, another man than he was
   before; " not a better man, but, to use our Lord's words, he is made
   "twofold more the child of hell". For, according to them, all his
   former connections with men are broken, and all obligations to natural
   relations are dissolved; and he may, without any imputation of crime,
   be guilty of the most shocking incest, as to marry his own mother or
   his own sister. But hear their own words, "When a Gentile is made a
   proselyte, and a servant made free, they are both as a newborn babe';
   and all the relations which they had when a Gentile or a servant, are
   no more relations to them; " or their kindred and relation by blood is
   no more; as brother, sister, father, mother, and children, these are no
   more to be so accounted; insomuch, that, "when one becomes a proselyte,
   he and they (his quondam kindred) are not guilty, by reason thereof, on
   account of incest, at all; so that it is according to law (the civil
   law of the Jews) that a Gentile may marry his own mother, or his
   sister, by his mother's side (his own sister), when they become
   proselytes." But though they allow it to be lawful, they have so much
   modesty and regard to decency, or rather to their own character, that
   it is added; "But the wise men forbid this, that they (the proselytes)
   may not say, we are come from a greater degree of holiness to a lesser
   one; and what is forbidden today is free tomorrow; and so a proselyte
   who lies with his mother or his sister, and they are in Gentilism, it
   is no other than if he lay with a stranger." [506] Now can any man,
   soberly thinking, judge that the New Testament ordinance of baptism was
   taken up by John and Christ from such a wretched custom, which gave
   licence to such shocking immorality and uncleanness; or that Christian
   baptism is built on such a basis as this?

   3. Thirdly, to suppose that John took up the practice of baptizing as
   he found it among the Jews, and from a tradition and custom of theirs,
   greatly detracts from the character of John, his divine mission, and
   the credit of baptism, as administered by him; and is contrary to what
   the scriptures say concerning him. They represent him as the first
   administrator of baptism, and, for a while, the sole administrator of
   it; for, for what other reason do they call him the Baptist, and
   distinguish him by this title, if it was then a common thing, and had
   been usual in time past, to baptize persons? The scriptures say he was
   a man sent of God, and sent by him "to baptize with water" (John 1:6,
   33). But what need was there of a mission and commission to what was in
   common use, and had been so time out of mind? The Jews hearing of
   John's baptizing persons, sent messengers to him, to know who he was
   that took upon him to baptize; who asked, "Why baptizest thou, if thou
   art not that Christ, nor Elijah, nor that prophet?" As if it was a new
   thing; and that it was expected he should be some extraordinary person
   who baptized. But why should such questions be put to him, if this was
   in common use, and if any ordinary person, however any common doctor or
   Rabbi, had then, and in former times, been used to baptize persons?
   [507] The scriptures speak of John's baptism as the "counsel of God":
   but according to this notion, it was a device and tradition of men; and
   had this been the case, the Jews would not have been at a loss, nor
   under any difficulty, to answer the question Christ put to them, nor
   indeed, would he ever have put such an one; "The baptism of John,
   whence was it? from heaven, or from men?" for his putting the question
   thus, supposes the contrary, that it was not from men, but from God:
   and if it was not of God, but a tradition of men, they could have
   readily said, "Of men"; without being confuted by him, or exposed to
   the people; but being thrown into a dilemma, they took the wisest way
   for themselves, and answered, "We cannot tell". Dr. Wall [508] says, If
   John had been baptizing proselytes, and not natural Jews, the Pharisees
   would not have wondered at it, it being so well known to them; and he
   suggests, that the wonder was, that natural Jews should be baptized:
   but why so! for according to this notion, the original natural Jews
   were received into covenant by baptism; they as the proselytes, and the
   proselytes as they; the case, according to them: was similar. But let
   us examine this affair, and see how the fact stands. When John first
   appeared baptizing, the Pharisees and Sadducees, who were natural Jews,
   came to his baptism, and were not admitted to it, but rejected from it,
   as unfit and improper persons; and others of the same nation and
   profession, in their turn, "rejected the counsel of God against
   themselves, not being baptized by John", (Matthew 3:7; Luke 7:30). On
   the other hand, publicans, the Roman tax gatherers, of whom some indeed
   were Jews, others heathens, both equally odious, and therefore joined
   together, these "justified God", being baptized with the baptism of
   John; and these "went into the kingdom of God", into the gospel state,
   before the Pharisees, and embraced its doctrines, and submitted to its
   ordinances, (Luke 7:29 3:12; Matthew 21:31) and even soldiers, Roman
   soldiers, for no other soldiers were then in Judea, were among the
   multitude who came to be baptized by him, to whom he gave good
   instructions, but did not refuse to baptize them, (Luke 3:7, 14) and
   our Lord Jesus Christ, whose forerunner John was in his ministry and
   baptism, gave orders to his disciples to baptize indiscriminately
   persons of all nations, Jews and Gentiles, who believed in him; and who
   accordingly did baptize them: so that baptism, in those early times of
   John, Christ, and his apostles, was not confined to natural Jews; the
   wonder and the question upon it, as above, were not about the persons
   baptized, whether Jews or Gentiles, but about baptism itself, and the
   administrator of it, as being altogether new. The account which
   Josephus, [509] the Jewish historian, who lived soon after the times of
   John, gives of him, and his baptism, agrees with the sacred scriptures;
   and which testimony stands not only in the common editions of that
   historian, but is preserved by Eusebius, [510] as a choice piece of
   history; in which, he not only says John was a religious and good man,
   but, with the scriptures, that he was surnamed the Baptist, to
   distinguish him from others; and that he ordered the Jews who lived
   righteous and godly lives to come to baptism, and such only did John
   admit of; and that baptizing was acceptable to God, when used not for
   removing some sins (by which his baptism is distinguished from Jewish
   baptisms, which were used to purge from sin in a ceremonial sense) but
   for the purity of the body, the soul being before purified by
   righteousness. Also he observes, with the scriptures, that multitudes
   flocked to him; and that Herod, fearing that by his means his subjects
   would be drawn into a revolt, put him to death. But why such flockings
   to him, if baptism had been a common thing? And what had Herod to fear
   from that? He might reasonably conclude, that if this was no other than
   what had been usually practised, the people would soon cease from
   following him. Nay, Josippon Ben Gorion [511] the Jew's Josephus, the
   historian whom they value and prefer to the true Josephus, says of that
   sh tvylh "he made", instituted, and performed baptism, as if it was a
   new thing, founded by him; and for which later Jews express their
   resentment at him. One of their virulent writers says [512] "Who
   commanded John to institute this baptism? in what law did he find it?
   neither in the old nor in the new." Now this would not be said by the
   Jews, if John had taken up his baptism from a custom of theirs; nor
   would they speak of the ordinance of baptism in such a scandalous and
   blasphemous manner as they do, and in language too shocking to
   transcribe [513]

   4. Fourthly, the Jews will not allow that any proof of baptism can be
   produced out of the writings of the Old Testament, nor out of their
   Talmuds. Such passages in the Old Testament which speak of washing, and
   in which men are exhorted to "wash" and be "clean", as Isaiah 1:16 it
   is said, are to be understood of men cleansing themselves from their
   sins, and not of plunging in water; "To plunge a man in water, is no
   where written; why therefore did Jesus command such baptism," or
   dipping? [514] and whereas the passage in Ezekiel 16:9, "Then washed I
   thee with water", is by some interpreted of baptism; the Jew observes
   [515] the words are not in the future tense; "I will wash thee": but in
   the past tense; "I have washed thee"; and so cannot refer to baptism.
   And whereas the promise in Ezekiel 36:25, "I will sprinkle clean water
   upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness", &c. is
   brought by some, I suppose he means some popish writers, as another
   proof of baptism the Jews replies [516] "What sin and uncleanness does
   baptism take away? and what sin and uncleanness are there in newborn
   babes? Besides, says he, you do not do so; you do not sprinkle, but you
   are plunged into water:" which, by the way, shows that sprinkling was
   not used in baptism when this Jew wrote, which was in the twelfth
   century, as Wagenseil, the editor of his work, supposes. The same
   Jewish writer [517] asks, "If the law of Jesus, and his coming, were
   known to the prophets, why did not they observe his law? and why did
   not they baptize themselves', according to the law of Jesus?" And he
   represents [518] David as praying (it must be supposed, under a
   prophetic spirit) for those who should, in this captivity of the Jews,
   be forced, against their wills, to baptism, and that they might be
   delivered from it (Ps. 69:1, 15; 144:7). Nor does this writer take any
   notice of receiving proselytes by baptism; though he makes mention of
   receiving men proselytes [519] yet by circumcision only; and also of
   women proselytes, but not a word of baptism of either; and had he
   thought the baptism their Talmud speaks of, had any affinity with our
   baptism, and was the ground of it, he would not have been so gravelled
   with an objection of the Christians, as he was; which is put thus,
   [520] "We baptize male and female, and hereby receive them into our
   religion; but you circumcise men only, and not women:" to which he
   appears to be at an entire loss to answer; whereas he might have
   readily answered, had the case been as suggested, that we baptize women
   as well as men, when they are received proselytes among us. But that
   the Jews had no notion that Christian baptism was founded upon any
   prior baptism of proselytes, or others, among them, as related in their
   Talmud, is manifest from a disputation had between Nachmanides, a
   famous Jew, and one brother Paul, a Christian, in the year 1263. [521]
   Brother Paul affirmed, that the Talmudists believed in Jesus, that he
   was the Messiah, and was both God and man: the Jew replied, after
   observing some other things, "How can brother Paul say so, that they
   believed in him; for they, and their disciples, died in our religion?
   and why were they not baptized', according to the command of Jesus, as
   brother Paul was? And I would be glad to hear, "says he, "'how' he
   learned baptism from them (the Talmudists) and in what place' (of the
   Talmud)? did not they teach us all our laws which we now observe? and
   the rites and customs they gathered together for us, as they were used
   when the temple was standing, from the mouths of the prophets, and from
   the mouth of Moses, our master, on whom be peace? and if they believed
   in Jesus, and in his law, they would have done as brother Paul has;
   does he understand their words better than they themselves?"

   5. Fifthly, to say, as Dr. Lightfoot does, that Christ took baptism
   into his hands as he found it, that is, as practised by the Jews, is
   greatly to derogate from the character and authority of Christ; it
   makes him, who came a Teacher from God, to teach for doctrines the
   commandments of men, which he himself condemns. It makes that "all
   power in heaven and in earth", said to be given him, in consequence of
   which he gave his apostles a commission to "teach all nations,
   baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
   Holy Ghost"; I say, it makes it to dwindle into this only, a power to
   establish a tradition, and commandment of men long in use before he
   came. Again, who can believe that Christ, who so severely inveighed
   against the traditions of the Jews, could ever establish any one of
   them, and make it an ordinance of his; and particularly, should inveigh
   against those, respecting the baptisms, or dippings of the Jews then in
   use among them; and especially without excepting that of their baptism
   of proselytes from the rest, and without declaring it his will that it
   should be continued and observed; neither of which he has done.

   6. Sixthly, such a notion as this highly reflects dishonour on the
   ordinance of baptism; that one of the principal ordinances of the New
   Testament, as that is, should be founded on an human tradition, an
   invention of men; it must greatly weaken the authority of it, as well
   as disparage the wisdom of the Lawgiver; and must have a tendency to
   bring both the author and the ordinance into contempt. Nothing can make
   an ordinance a Christian ordinance, but its being instituted by Christ.
   If baptism is an institution of men, and received and retained from
   men, and regulated according to their device, it is no Christian
   ordinance: and, as Witsius says, [522] "Whatever may be said of the
   antiquity of that rite (proselyte baptism, which yet with him was
   dubious and uncertain) there can be no divine institution of it (of
   baptism) before John, the forerunner of Christ, was sent of God to
   baptize; for to him that was expressly commanded; The word of God came
   unto John', Luke 3:2; John 1:33, &c."

   7. Seventhly, if it was the custom of the Jews before the times of John
   and Christ, to receive young children as proselytes by baptism, or
   dipping, and this was to be as a rule according to which Christian
   baptism was to be practised; then most surely we should have had some
   instances of children being baptized by John, or by the apostles of
   Christ, if "baptizing infants had been as ordinarily used' in the
   church of the Jews, as ever it hath been in the Christian church," as
   Dr. Lightfoot says; and yet we have not one instance of this kind; we
   no where read of any children being brought to John to be baptized, nor
   of any that were baptized by him; nor of any being brought to the
   apostles of Christ to be baptized, nor of their being baptized by them;
   from whence it may be concluded there was no such custom before their
   times; or if there was, it never was intended it should be observed by
   Christians in later times; or otherwise there would have been some
   precedents of it, directing to and encouraging such a practice: many
   things would follow on such a supposition, that Christian baptism is
   borrowed from and founded on proselyte baptism, and the latter the rule
   directing the practice of the former; for then,

   8. Eighthly, Self-baptizing, or persons baptizing themselves, without
   making use of an administrator, might be encouraged and established;
   which is what the Paedobaptists charge, though wrongly, some of the
   first reformers of the abuses of baptism with; since it is plain, from
   the quotations before made, that though it is sometimes said, "they",
   that is, the doctors or wise men, "baptize", or "dip", yet it is also
   said, both of men and women, that they "dipped themselves"; as of a man
   hv' tkl "he dipped himself", and went up from the water; and of a
   woman, being placed by women in the water, tkl "she dipped", that is,
   herself; and so Leo of Modena says, [523] of a Jew proselyte, that
   after he is circumcised, and well of his sore, "he is to wash himself
   all over in water", in the presence of three Rabbins, or other persons
   in authority, and from thenceforth he becomes as a natural Jew; and,
   indeed, all the Jewish baptisms, or bathings, commanded in the law,
   were done by persons themselves (see Lev. 14:8, 9; Num. 19:7, 8). And
   Dr. Lightfoot [524] thinks that John's baptism was so administered; he
   supposes, that men, women, and children came unto it; and that they
   standing in Jordan, were taught by John, that they were baptized into
   the name of the Messiah, ready to come, and into the profession of the
   gospel, about faith and repentance; and that "they plunged themselves
   into the river", and so came out.

   9. Ninthly, if this Jewish custom is to be regarded as a rule of
   Christian baptism, it will tend to establish the Socinian notion, that
   only the first converts to Christianity in a nation, they and their
   children are to be baptized, but not their posterity in after ages; for
   so both Lightfoot and Selden, with others, say, who were sticklers for
   Christian baptism being taken from the custom of baptizing, or dipping
   Jewish proselytes, and their children; that only the children of
   proselytes, born before their parents became such, were baptized, or
   dipped; but not those born afterwards: baptism was never repeated in
   their posterity; the sons of proselytes, in following generations, were
   circumcised, but not baptized; [525] and, as Dr. Jennings [526] rightly
   observes, "it was a maxim with the Rabbins, Natus baptizati, habetur
   pro baptizato'." This "restriction of baptism to children born before
   their parents' proselytism, rests on the same authority as the custom
   of baptizing any children of proselytes." So that if the one is to be
   admitted, the other is also; and so the children of Christian parents
   are not to be baptized, only the converts from another religion; and
   these the first, and their then posterity, but not afterwards.

   10. Tenthly, if this custom, said to be practised before the times of
   John and Christ, is the rule to direct us in Christian baptism, there
   were several circumstances attending that, which should be observed in
   Christian baptism, to make it regular; it must be done before three
   witnesses, and these men of eminence; but who, of such a number and
   character were present at the baptism of the apostle Paul? (Acts 22:16,
   9:18). Nor was it to be performed in the night; what then must be said
   of the baptism of the jailor, and his family? (Acts 16:33) nor on a
   Sabbath day; nor on a feast day; yet Lydia, and her household, were
   baptized on a Sabbath day, (Acts 16:13, 15) and the three thousand
   Christian converts were baptized on the day of Pentecost? and which was
   also the first day of the week, the Christian Sabbath, (Acts 2:1, 41).
   Wherefore, if this Jewish custom was the rule of baptism, and from
   whence it was taken, and by which it should proceed; (for if in one
   case, why not in others?) these instances of Christian baptism were not
   rightly performed.

   11. Eleventhly, if the Ethiopian eunuch Philip baptized, was a
   proselyte, as Grotius and others say, he must be either a proselyte of
   the gate, a proselyte inhabitant, or a proselyte of righteousness; not
   the former, for he was no inhabitant in any part of Judea; but most
   probably he was the latter, since he was a very devout and religious
   man, had an high opinion of the worship of God among the Jews, and had
   travelled from a far country to worship at Jerusalem; and so Dr.
   Jennings [527] justly observes, that "he seems to be rather a proselyte
   of the covenant, or completely a Jew; not only from his reading the
   scripture, but because he had taken so long a journey to worship at
   Jerusalem at the feast of Pentecost, one of the three grand festivals;
   when all the Jewish males, who were able, were, according to the law,
   to attend the worship of God at the national altar."

   He appears to have thoroughly embraced the religion of the Jews, even
   their whole law, and was conversant with their sacred writings; he was
   reading in one of their prophets when Philip joined his chariot, and
   was taken up into it by him: whereas a son of Noah, as the Jews called
   a proselyte of the gate, might not study in the law, according to their
   canons, [528] which they say he had nothing to do with; only with the
   seven precepts of Noah; and, indeed, no Gentile or uncircumcised
   person. [529] And if the eunuch was a proselyte of righteousness,
   according to the pretended custom of dipping such, he must have been
   baptized, or dipped, when he became a proselyte; and since, according
   to this notion, he must have been baptized with a baptism which John
   and Christ took up as they found it among the Jews, and which is the
   basis and foundation of Christian baptism, and the rule to direct in
   the performance of it, it is much he should desire baptism again! and
   that Philip, who is thought to be a proselyte also, (Acts 6:5) and must
   know the custom of making proselytes, should administer it to him: and
   if he had been baptized before, must he not then be an Anabaptist? And
   so the proselytes in (Acts 2:10) were, as Drusius and others think,
   proselytes of righteousness, who had embraced the Jewish religion, and
   were circumcised, and, according to this notion, baptized. Besides,
   none but proselytes of righteousness might dwell in Jerusalem; as has
   been observed, Chapter 1. And also proselytes of the gate were never
   called Jews, as these were; only proselytes of righteousness: and if
   any of these were among the three thousand converted and baptized by
   the apostles, which is not improbable, must not they be also
   Anabaptists? The Grecians, or Hellenists, whose widows were neglected
   in the daily ministration, are thought by Beza, and others, to be
   widows of Jewish proselytes, and therefore it is highly probable, that
   their husbands had been members of the Christian church at Jerusalem,
   and so must have been rebaptized; and most certain it is, that Nicholas
   of Antioch, who was one of the seven appointed to take care of these
   widows, was a proselyte, and as Grotius truly thinks, a proselyte of
   righteousness; and so, as he must have been baptized according to this
   notion, when he became a proselyte, he must have been rebaptized when
   he became a member of the Christian church at Jerusalem, of which he
   most certainly was, being chosen out of it, and appointed to an office
   in it, (Acts 6:1, 5).

   12. Twelfthly, it may be observed, in a quotation before made, that if
   a proselytess big with child was baptized, or dipped, her child needed
   not baptism, or dipping, the mother's baptism, or dipping, was
   sufficient for it: but this is not attended to by Paedobaptists; it
   seems, in the beginning of the fourth century, there were some of the
   same opinion with the Jews; but a canon in the council of Neocaesarea
   was made against it; which, as explained, declared that the child of
   such a person needed baptism, when it came to be capable of choosing
   for itself; [530] which canon should not have been made, if this Jewish
   custom is to be regarded as a rule.

   13. Lastly, As an argument "ad hominem", it may be observed, that if
   this custom is to be considered as a rule of Christian baptism, then
   sprinkling ought not to be used in it; for the baptism of Jewish
   proselytes, men, women, and children, was performed by dipping; as all
   the above quotations show. To which may be added, that one of their
   rules respecting proselyte baptism is, that a proselyte must dip in
   such a place (or confluence of water) as a menstruous woman dips
   herself in, [531] or which is sufficient for such an one; and that, as
   the Gloss is, was what held forty seahs of water; and to this agrees
   the account Maimonides [532] gives of such a confluence of water, that
   it must be "sufficient for the dipping of the whole body of a man at
   once; and such the wise men reckon to be a cubit square, and three
   cubits in depth; and this measure holds forty seahs of water." And he
   further says, [533] "that wherever washing of the flesh, and washing of
   clothes from uncleanness, are mentioned in the law, nothing else is
   meant but the dipping of the whole body in a confluence of water--and
   that if he dips his whole body, except the top of his little finger, he
   is still in his uncleanness:--and that all unclean persons, who are
   dipped in their clothes, their dipping is right, because the waters
   come into them (or penetrate through them) and do not divide," or
   separate; that is, the clothes do not divide, or separate between the
   water and their bodies, so as to hinder its coming to them; so the
   menstruous woman dipped herself in her clothes; and in like manner the
   proselyte. Let such observe this, who object to the baptism of persons
   with their clothes on.

   Again, as an argument of the same kind, if baptism was common in all
   ages, foregoing the times of John, Christ, and his apostles, as is
   said, then it could not succeed circumcision, since it must be
   contemporary with it. Upon the whole, what Dr. Lightfoot, [534] and
   others after him, have urged in favour of infant baptism from hence, is
   quite impertinent; that "there was need of a plain and open
   prohibition, that infants and little children should not be baptized,
   if our Saviour would not have had them baptized; for since it was most
   common in all ages foregoing, that little children should be baptized,
   if Christ had been minded to have had that custom abolished, he would
   have openly forbidden it; therefore his silence, and the silence of the
   scripture in this matter, confirms Paedobaptism, and continues it unto
   all ages"

   But first, it does not appear that any such custom was ever practised
   before the times of John, Christ, and his apostles, as to admit into
   the Jewish church by baptism, proselytes, whether adult or minors. No
   testimony has been, and I believe none can be given of it. And, as some
   very learned men have truly observed, [535] and as Dr. Owen [536]
   affirms, there are not the least footsteps of any such usage among the
   Jews, until after the days of John the Baptist, in imitation of whom,
   he thinks, it was taken up by some Ante-Mishnical Rabbins; and, as he
   elsewhere says, [537] "The institution of the rite of baptism is no
   where mentioned in the Old Testament; no example is extant; nor during
   the Jewish church, was it ever used in the admission of proselytes; no
   mention of it is to be met with in Philo, Josephus, nor in Jesus the
   son of Syrach; nor in the evangelic history."

   What testimony has been given of this custom, falls greatly short of
   proving it; wherefore Christ could have no concern about abolishing a
   custom which had not obtained in his time; nor was there any room nor
   reason for it, since it had never been practised, for ought appears:
   his silence about what never existed, can give no existence to it, nor
   to that which is founded on it, Paedobaptism; and which is neither
   warranted and confirmed by any such custom, nor by the word of God, in
   which there is an high silence about both. This custom of baptizing
   little children was so far from being common in all ages foregoing the
   times of John, Christ, and his apostles, that not a single instance can
   be given of anyone that ever was baptized; if there can, let it be
   produced; if not, what comes of all this bluster and harangue? With
   much more propriety and strength of reasoning might it be retorted;
   that since it is plain the children of the Jews, both male and female,
   did eat of the passover, which was not an human custom and tradition;
   but an ordinance of God, common in all ages foregoing the times of
   John, &c. and since, according to the hypothesis of the Paedobaptists,
   the Lord's supper came in the room of the passover; for which there is
   much more reason in analogy, than for baptism coming in the room of
   circumcision; it should seem, if our Saviour would not have had
   children eat of the Lord's supper, as they did of the passover, he
   would have openly forbidden it. A plain and open prohibition of this
   was more needful than a prohibition of the baptism of infants, if not
   his will, had there been such a custom before prevailing, as there was
   not; since that could only be a custom and tradition of men; and it was
   enough that Christ inveighed against those of the Jews in general,
   which obtained before, and in his time; and against their baptisms and
   dippings in particular. And after all, it is amazing that Christian
   baptism should be founded upon a tradition, of which there is no
   evidence but from the Rabbins, and that very intricate, perplexed, and
   contradictory, and not as in being in the times referred to; upon a
   tradition of a set of men blinded and besotted, and enemies to
   Christianity, its doctrines and ordinances; and who, at other times,
   reckoned by these very men, who so warmly urge this custom of theirs,
   the most stupid, sottish, and despicable, of all men upon the face of
   the earth! If this is the basis of infant baptism, it is built upon the
   sand, and will, ere long, fall, and be no more.

   I conclude this Dissertation in the words of Dr. Owen, [538] "That the
   opinion of some learned men concerning transferring the rite of Jewish
   baptism, by the Lord Jesus, which, indeed, did not then exist, for the
   use of his disciples, is destitute of all probability." And after all,
   perhaps, the Paedobaptists will find their account better in consulting
   the baptism of the ancient heathens, and its rites, than that of the
   Jews; said [539] to be in use before the times of Moses, and in ages
   since, and that among all nations; and being more ancient than
   Christian baptism, a learned writer referred to, says, it is as a sort
   of preamble to it. And from whom the Paedobaptists may be supplied with
   materials for their purpose.
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   [494] T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 47. 1.

   [495] Annot. in Matt. iii. 6.

   [496] Chronic. secul. 9. p. 200.

   [497] Witsii Aegyptiaca, l. 2. c. 16. s. 10. vid. Tertullian. de
   Praescript. Haer. c. 40.

   [498] Schickard. & Mayerus, apud Pfeiffer. Antiqu. Ebr. c. 1. s. 5.
   vid. Selden. de Syned. l. 1. c. 3.

   [499] Ut Supra & Theologoumen. p. 447.

   [500] Praefat. ad Seder Kodashim.

   [501] Mabo. Hagemara ad Calcem Halicot Olam, p. 223.

   [502] T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 49. 2. Beracot, fol. 47. 2.

   [503] T. Bab. Ceritot, fol. 9. 1.

   [504] Jewish Antiqu. vol. 1. p. 136, 138.

   [505] Zohar in Numb. fol. 69. 4. Ed. Sultzbach.

   [506] Maimon. lssure Biah, c. 14. s. 11, 12. Schulchan Aruch, par. 2.
   Yore Dea. Hilchot Gerim, Art. 269. s. 1.

   [507] "Annon plane innuunt (verba Joan. i. 25) nullum fuisse baptismi
   usum, et receptam fuisse opinionem inter ipsos (Judaeos), nullum debere
   esse, usquedum veniret Christus, vel Elias, vel propheta ille?"
   Knatchbul in 1 Pet. iii. 21.

   [508] Introduction to his History, p. 64. Ed. 2. 4to.

   [509] Antiqu. l. 18. c. 6. s. 2.

   [510] Eccl. Hist. l. 1. c. 11.

   [511] Ibid. Heb. l. 5. c. 45.

   [512] Vet. Nizzachon, p. 195. Ed. Wagenseil.

   [513] Vet. Nizzachon, p. 62, 64, 70, 74, 77, 150, 191, &c, vid. Maji
   Synops. Theolog. Jud. loc. 18. s. 2. p. 266. Edzardi not. in Avodah
   Zarah, c. 2. p. 266. Wagenseil. in Sotah, p. 959.

   [514] Nizzachon, p. 53.

   [515] Ibid, p. 74.

   [516] Nizzachon, p. 192.

   [517] Ibid. p. 99.

   [518] Ibid. p. 193.

   [519] Ibid. p. 242, 243.

   [520] Ibid. p. 251.

   [521] Apud Wagenseil. Tela Ignea, vol. 2. p. 25, 26.

   [522] Oeconom. Foeder. l. 4. c. 16. s. 8. p. 875. Ed. 3.

   [523] History of the Customs of the Jews, par. 5. c. 2.

   [524] Hor. Heb. in Matt. iii. 6. vol. 2. p. 122.

   [525] See Wall's History of Infant Baptism, Introduct. p. 50, 55.

   [526] Jewish Antiquities, ut supra, p. 135. Marg.

   [527] Jewish Antiq. p. 159, 160.

   [528] Maimon. Melacim. c. 10. s. 9.

   [529] T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 59. 1. Shaare Orah, fol. 18. 2.

   [530] See Stennet against Russen, p. 103, 104.

   [531] T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 47. 2.

   [532] Hilchot Mikvaot, c. 4. s. 1. T. Bab. Eruvim, fol. 14. 2.

   [533] Mikvaot, c. 1. s. 2. 7.

   [534] Hor. Heb. in Matt. iii. 6. vol. 2. p. 119.

   [535] "Proselytorum baptismum ante Johannem extitisse nullo testimonio
   certe constat", Fabricii Bibliograph. Antiqu. c. 11. p. 392. ita
   Deylingius in ibid. p. 386.

   [536] On Heb. vol. 1. Exercitat. 19. p. 272.

   [537] Theologoumen. l. 5. Digress. 1. p. 447.

   [538] "Omni ideo probabilitate caret sententia ista doctorum quorundam
   virorum de translatione ritus baptismatis Judaici, qui revera eo
   tempore nullus erat, in usum discipulorum suorum per Dominum Jesum
   facienda", Theologoum. ibid.

   [539] Sperlingius de baptismo veterum Ethnicorum, p. 116, 117, 120,
   129, 210.
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Index of Scripture References

   Genesis

   [1]1:1   [2]1:27   [3]2:1-2   [4]2:2-3   [5]2:2-3   [6]2:11-14
   [7]2:18   [8]2:18   [9]2:18   [10]2:22-24   [11]2:24   [12]2:24
   [13]3:10   [14]3:15   [15]3:16   [16]3:19   [17]3:24   [18]4:3
   [19]4:3   [20]4:4   [21]4:13   [22]4:14   [23]4:16   [24]4:26
   [25]4:26   [26]4:26   [27]5:24   [28]6:2   [29]6:9   [30]8:10
   [31]8:12   [32]9:4   [33]9:6   [34]9:21-23   [35]9:25   [36]9:27
   [37]12:3   [38]12:5   [39]12:5   [40]12:8   [41]13:3-4   [42]14:14
   [43]14:14   [44]15:1   [45]16:8-9   [46]17:1   [47]17:1-14
   [48]17:10-14   [49]17:12   [50]17:12   [51]17:12-13   [52]17:14
   [53]18:6   [54]18:12   [55]18:19   [56]18:19   [57]18:27   [58]18:33
   [59]20:11   [60]20:16   [61]21:33   [62]22:1-12   [63]22:9
   [64]22:12   [65]24:67   [66]25:27   [67]28:17-22   [68]28:20
   [69]28:20   [70]28:20-21   [71]29:18   [72]29:20   [73]31:13
   [74]31:42   [75]31:50   [76]31:53   [77]32:10   [78]32:10   [79]32:10
   [80]32:26   [81]32:28   [82]33:5   [83]33:9   [84]33:11   [85]35:1
   [86]35:6-7   [87]37:8   [88]38:2   [89]38:2   [90]39:9   [91]39:9
   [92]39:9   [93]41:26-27   [94]42:21   [95]46:29   [96]47:12
   [97]48:9   [98]48:12   [99]48:14-15   [100]48:15   [101]48:15-16
   [102]48:16   [103]48:16   [104]49:11

   Exodus

   [105]2:5   [106]3:14   [107]5:2   [108]6:3   [109]9:27   [110]11:2
   [111]11:10   [112]12:15   [113]12:19   [114]12:35   [115]12:44
   [116]12:44-45   [117]12:48-49   [118]12:48-49   [119]15:1
   [120]15:25   [121]16:1   [122]16:16-18   [123]16:23-26
   [124]16:29-30   [125]18:6-7   [126]18:6-7   [127]18:6-7   [128]18:9
   [129]18:25   [130]19:10   [131]19:10   [132]20:6   [133]20:9
   [134]20:10   [135]20:11   [136]20:11   [137]22:2   [138]22:21
   [139]22:21   [140]22:28   [141]24:7   [142]24:8   [143]25:8
   [144]25:18   [145]25:22   [146]25:22   [147]26:9   [148]27:21
   [149]29:45-46   [150]31:13   [151]31:16-17   [152]31:18   [153]32:6
   [154]32:17   [155]32:18   [156]32:32   [157]33:7   [158]33:9
   [159]33:11   [160]34:6   [161]34:6-7   [162]34:7   [163]35:2-3

   Leviticus

   [164]1:3-4   [165]4:13-15   [166]6:2-5   [167]10:2   [168]10:3
   [169]10:11   [170]11:32   [171]14:7   [172]14:8-9   [173]14:33-34
   [174]17:4-5   [175]17:4-5   [176]18:1-30   [177]18:6   [178]18:18
   [179]18:20   [180]19:3   [181]19:3   [182]19:3   [183]19:13
   [184]19:14   [185]19:16   [186]19:17   [187]19:17   [188]19:33
   [189]19:34   [190]19:35-36   [191]20:9   [192]21:13-14
   [193]21:17-23   [194]24:10   [195]24:14   [196]25:45   [197]25:47

   Numbers

   [198]11:4   [199]11:4   [200]11:12   [201]11:29   [202]12:1-3
   [203]12:3   [204]12:13   [205]14:19-20   [206]15:15   [207]15:15
   [208]15:31-36   [209]19:7-8   [210]19:11-19   [211]19:19   [212]20:12
   [213]24:19   [214]25:13

   Deuteronomy

   [215]4:2   [216]4:6-8   [217]4:10   [218]4:15-18   [219]4:19
   [220]4:19   [221]4:23-24   [222]5:2-21   [223]5:15   [224]5:29
   [225]6:4   [226]6:4-5   [227]6:13   [228]6:13   [229]6:20   [230]6:25
   [231]6:25   [232]7:5   [233]7:6-8   [234]8:1   [235]8:3   [236]10:12
   [237]10:12   [238]10:12   [239]10:18   [240]10:20   [241]12:10-11
   [242]14:1   [243]14:21   [244]15:12-14   [245]16:20   [246]17:19
   [247]18:13   [248]19:9   [249]21:10-14   [250]21:13   [251]21:15
   [252]21:17   [253]23:1   [254]23:20   [255]24:14   [256]24:15
   [257]27:16   [258]28:58   [259]29:10-12   [260]29:10-15   [261]29:20
   [262]29:29   [263]29:29   [264]30:6   [265]30:16   [266]30:20
   [267]31:10-13   [268]32:15   [269]32:17   [270]32:21   [271]32:29
   [272]32:39   [273]33:10   [274]33:23

   Joshua

   [275]5:13-15   [276]7:9   [277]7:21   [278]24:14   [279]24:15
   [280]24:15   [281]24:15

   Judges

   [282]5:31   [283]9   [284]11:36   [285]18:31   [286]21:25

   Ruth

   [287]1:16   [288]1:16   [289]1:16   [290]2:4   [291]2:18   [292]3:9
   [293]4:15

   1 Samuel

   [294]1:5   [295]1:8   [296]1:13   [297]2:23-24   [298]2:25   [299]3:1
   [300]3:13   [301]3:18   [302]3:18   [303]3:18   [304]3:18   [305]8:16
   [306]10:5   [307]12:3   [308]12:3   [309]12:5   [310]12:18
   [311]15:22   [312]19:20   [313]19:23   [314]19:24   [315]20:30
   [316]20:33-34   [317]22:3-4   [318]30:5   [319]30:13   [320]30:18

   2 Samuel

   [321]1:26   [322]3:36   [323]6:16   [324]6:20   [325]7:6   [326]7:27
   [327]10:12   [328]11:2   [329]11:3   [330]15:25-26   [331]15:25-26
   [332]16:7   [333]16:10-12   [334]23:1   [335]23:5   [336]23:5
   [337]23:5   [338]24:23

   1 Kings

   [339]2:19   [340]2:26-27   [341]6:1   [342]6:2   [343]6:32
   [344]6:37   [345]7:29   [346]8:30   [347]8:34   [348]8:36   [349]8:39
   [350]8:50   [351]18:21   [352]19:18   [353]20:33   [354]21:29

   2 Kings

   [355]4:23   [356]4:38   [357]5:25-26   [358]5:26   [359]6:32
   [360]10:16   [361]10:29   [362]10:31   [363]21:7   [364]22:19

   1 Chronicles

   [365]2:55   [366]4:10   [367]4:18   [368]5:22   [369]16:7   [370]17:1
   [371]17:5   [372]22:1   [373]25:1-3   [374]29:10   [375]29:11
   [376]29:17

   2 Chronicles

   [377]2:17   [378]7:12   [379]8:11   [380]8:11   [381]14:11-12
   [382]15:3   [383]15:3   [384]16:12   [385]16:12   [386]17:9
   [387]19:7   [388]20:3-5   [389]20:22   [390]29:30   [391]30:25
   [392]32:31   [393]35:3

   Ezra

   [394]6:21   [395]8:15   [396]8:21   [397]9:2   [398]9:6   [399]9:8
   [400]9:10   [401]10:2

   Nehemiah

   [402]2:4-5   [403]5:12   [404]5:15   [405]5:15   [406]5:15
   [407]8:2-3   [408]8:8   [409]8:10   [410]9:5-6   [411]9:14
   [412]10:31   [413]12:43   [414]13:15-20

   Esther

   [415]8:17   [416]8:17   [417]8:17

   Job

   [418]1:1   [419]1:1   [420]1:1   [421]1:1   [422]1:6   [423]1:8
   [424]1:9   [425]1:21   [426]1:21   [427]1:21   [428]1:22   [429]2:1
   [430]2:3   [431]2:4   [432]2:4   [433]2:6   [434]2:10   [435]2:11
   [436]4:6   [437]4:12-19   [438]5:2   [439]6:10   [440]7:1-2
   [441]7:21   [442]8:14-15   [443]8:14-15   [444]10:12   [445]10:12
   [446]11:12   [447]13:15   [448]13:15-16   [449]13:15-16
   [450]13:15-16   [451]13:15-16   [452]14:14   [453]15:4   [454]15:4
   [455]17:14   [456]19:25   [457]19:25   [458]19:25   [459]19:25-27
   [460]21:14   [461]21:15   [462]22:2   [463]22:2   [464]22:29
   [465]23:2   [466]23:8   [467]23:9   [468]23:13   [469]23:14
   [470]23:16   [471]27:6   [472]27:8   [473]27:8   [474]28:12
   [475]28:20   [476]28:23   [477]28:23   [478]28:28   [479]28:28
   [480]28:28   [481]31:13   [482]31:15   [483]31:24   [484]31:24
   [485]31:33   [486]32:13   [487]34:18   [488]34:29   [489]35:7
   [490]35:10   [491]37:22-23   [492]37:23   [493]40:4-5   [494]42:5-6
   [495]42:6   [496]42:6

   Psalms

   [497]1:2   [498]1:2   [499]2:6   [500]2:11   [501]2:11   [502]2:11
   [503]2:12   [504]2:12   [505]3:1   [506]3:4   [507]3:5   [508]4:8
   [509]5:2   [510]5:3   [511]5:7   [512]5:7   [513]5:11   [514]8:1
   [515]8:1   [516]9:10   [517]9:11   [518]9:12   [519]10:1   [520]11:2
   [521]11:4   [522]11:7   [523]12:2   [524]13:1   [525]14:1
   [526]15:1-2   [527]16:2   [528]16:9   [529]18:1-3   [530]18:49
   [531]19:7   [532]19:7   [533]19:9   [534]19:13   [535]20:7
   [536]20:7   [537]22:4-5   [538]22:4-5   [539]22:5   [540]22:22
   [541]22:26   [542]23:2   [543]23:4   [544]23:6   [545]24:3-4
   [546]25:9   [547]25:11   [548]25:14   [549]25:14   [550]27:1
   [551]27:1   [552]27:3   [553]27:3   [554]27:4   [555]27:8
   [556]27:14   [557]29:11   [558]29:11   [559]30:5   [560]31:14
   [561]31:14   [562]31:19   [563]31:19   [564]31:19   [565]31:23
   [566]32:5   [567]32:5   [568]32:5   [569]33:1   [570]33:5-8
   [571]33:6   [572]33:16-17   [573]33:18   [574]33:18   [575]34:2
   [576]34:6   [577]34:7   [578]34:8   [579]34:8   [580]34:8-10
   [581]34:9-10   [582]34:9-10   [583]34:11   [584]34:18   [585]34:22
   [586]35:27   [587]36:1   [588]36:7   [589]37:1   [590]37:1
   [591]37:3   [592]37:3   [593]37:7   [594]37:7   [595]37:7   [596]37:8
   [597]37:11   [598]37:16   [599]37:21   [600]37:25   [601]37:37
   [602]38:3   [603]38:3-4   [604]38:8   [605]38:17-18   [606]39:5
   [607]39:9   [608]39:9   [609]39:9   [610]40:1   [611]40:1-2
   [612]40:2   [613]42:1   [614]42:8   [615]42:11   [616]42:11
   [617]43:4   [618]45:2   [619]45:11   [620]45:11   [621]46:10
   [622]46:10   [623]48:9   [624]48:14   [625]48:14   [626]49:6
   [627]49:12   [628]49:14   [629]49:16-17   [630]49:20   [631]50:14
   [632]50:15   [633]50:15   [634]50:19-20   [635]51:3   [636]51:3-5
   [637]51:4   [638]51:5   [639]51:6   [640]51:6   [641]51:6   [642]51:9
   [643]51:10   [644]51:10   [645]51:17   [646]52:8   [647]55:17
   [648]62:7   [649]62:8   [650]63:3   [651]63:5   [652]65:5
   [653]65:12-13   [654]66:1-2   [655]66:2   [656]67:3   [657]67:5
   [658]68:18   [659]68:19   [660]68:20   [661]69:1   [662]69:1-2
   [663]69:15   [664]69:30-31   [665]69:30-31   [666]71:3   [667]71:5-6
   [668]72:15   [669]73:3   [670]73:3   [671]73:22   [672]73:25
   [673]73:25   [674]73:25   [675]73:25   [676]73:26   [677]74:10
   [678]74:19   [679]75:6-7   [680]75:50   [681]76:9   [682]78:22
   [683]78:34-37   [684]81:1-2   [685]82:1   [686]82:5   [687]82:6
   [688]83:18   [689]84:11   [690]84:11   [691]84:11-12   [692]84:11-12
   [693]84:11-12   [694]84:12   [695]85:8   [696]85:9   [697]86:11
   [698]88:1-18   [699]88:7   [700]88:15   [701]88:16   [702]89:7
   [703]89:7   [704]89:7   [705]89:33   [706]89:33-34   [707]89:33-35
   [708]89:34   [709]90:1   [710]91:15   [711]91:16   [712]92:4
   [713]94:20   [714]96:1   [715]96:3   [716]97:1   [717]97:1
   [718]97:10   [719]97:10   [720]97:11   [721]97:11   [722]97:12
   [723]97:12   [724]99:1   [725]100:3-4   [726]101:2   [727]102:17
   [728]103:1   [729]103:1   [730]103:1-3   [731]103:1-3   [732]103:1-3
   [733]103:2   [734]103:3   [735]103:4   [736]103:5   [737]103:11
   [738]103:13   [739]103:13   [740]103:13   [741]103:13   [742]103:17
   [743]104:34   [744]107:43   [745]111:9   [746]111:10   [747]111:10
   [748]112:1   [749]112:3   [750]112:4   [751]112:9   [752]115:3
   [753]115:4-8   [754]115:11   [755]118:8-9   [756]119:1   [757]119:6
   [758]119:11   [759]119:28   [760]119:49   [761]119:60   [762]119:61
   [763]119:68   [764]119:75   [765]119:80   [766]119:80   [767]119:96
   [768]119:97   [769]119:113   [770]119:116   [771]119:116
   [772]119:120   [773]119:127-128   [774]119:128   [775]119:128
   [776]119:132   [777]119:133   [778]119:162   [779]119:165
   [780]119:165   [781]121:1-2   [782]122:5   [783]122:6-9   [784]122:8
   [785]123:1   [786]123:2   [787]125:4   [788]127:1   [789]127:3-5
   [790]128:1-4   [791]130:1   [792]130:3   [793]130:4   [794]130:4
   [795]130:4   [796]130:5   [797]130:7   [798]130:7   [799]130:7
   [800]130:7   [801]130:7   [802]131:1   [803]132:14   [804]133:1-3
   [805]133:1-3   [806]135:3-4   [807]135:5-6   [808]138:2   [809]138:4
   [810]139:14-16   [811]139:21-22   [812]139:23-24   [813]140:13
   [814]141:2   [815]141:5   [816]141:5   [817]141:5   [818]142:4
   [819]144:7   [820]144:15   [821]145:2   [822]145:9   [823]145:16
   [824]145:17   [825]145:18   [826]145:19   [827]145:19   [828]145:20
   [829]146:2   [830]146:5   [831]147:1   [832]147:3   [833]147:6
   [834]147:11   [835]147:19-20   [836]148:3   [837]148:8   [838]149:2
   [839]150:1-6

   Proverbs

   [840]1:21   [841]2:3   [842]2:3-5   [843]2:5   [844]2:6   [845]2:7
   [846]3:5   [847]3:7   [848]3:13-14   [849]3:14   [850]3:18
   [851]3:18   [852]3:34   [853]4:14-15   [854]4:14-15   [855]5:18-19
   [856]6:16-17   [857]8:9   [858]8:10-11   [859]8:13   [860]8:13
   [861]8:15   [862]8:17   [863]8:21   [864]8:34   [865]8:34   [866]8:35
   [867]9:1-18   [868]9:2   [869]9:8   [870]9:9   [871]9:10   [872]9:10
   [873]9:12   [874]10:4   [875]10:9   [876]10:12   [877]10:22
   [878]10:27   [879]10:28   [880]10:29   [881]11:18   [882]11:30
   [883]12:4   [884]13:12   [885]13:20   [886]13:20   [887]14:8
   [888]14:10   [889]14:16   [890]14:26   [891]14:30   [892]14:30
   [893]14:32   [894]15:8   [895]15:13   [896]15:15   [897]15:16
   [898]15:17   [899]16:5   [900]16:6   [901]16:8   [902]16:18
   [903]16:21   [904]17:14   [905]18:10   [906]18:12   [907]18:14
   [908]18:14   [909]19:2   [910]19:23   [911]20:8   [912]20:12
   [913]20:20   [914]20:27   [915]21:31   [916]22:4   [917]22:4
   [918]22:6   [919]22:29   [920]23:1-2   [921]23:2   [922]23:31
   [923]24:10   [924]24:21   [925]24:21   [926]25:5   [927]27:5-6
   [928]28:13   [929]28:13   [930]28:18   [931]28:26   [932]29:12
   [933]29:19   [934]30:2   [935]30:2   [936]30:4   [937]30:7-9
   [938]30:8   [939]30:8   [940]30:16   [941]30:17   [942]30:17
   [943]30:30   [944]51:10-11   [945]51:23

   Ecclesiastes

   [946]1:18   [947]2:24   [948]5:1   [949]5:2   [950]5:7   [951]5:10
   [952]5:14-16   [953]5:18-19   [954]5:19   [955]6:1-2   [956]6:2
   [957]7:1   [958]7:8   [959]7:13   [960]7:14   [961]7:20   [962]7:26
   [963]8:11   [964]8:12   [965]9:9   [966]9:11   [967]10:20   [968]12:1
   [969]12:10   [970]12:11   [971]12:13   [972]50:1   [973]50:5
   [974]50:5

   Song of Solomon

   [975]1:2   [976]1:2   [977]1:3   [978]1:3   [979]1:3   [980]1:4
   [981]1:4   [982]1:4   [983]1:13-14   [984]2:3   [985]2:3   [986]2:3-5
   [987]2:7   [988]2:12   [989]2:14   [990]2:16   [991]2:16   [992]3:1-3
   [993]3:1-3   [994]3:4   [995]3:4   [996]3:7   [997]4:8   [998]4:10
   [999]4:12   [1000]5:6-8   [1001]5:8   [1002]5:9   [1003]5:10
   [1004]5:10-16   [1005]5:16   [1006]5:16   [1007]5:16   [1008]6:4
   [1009]6:9   [1010]6:9   [1011]8:5   [1012]8:6   [1013]8:6-7   [1014]8:7

   Isaiah

   [1015]1:16   [1016]2:3   [1017]2:19   [1018]2:21   [1019]4:5
   [1020]5:3   [1021]5:20   [1022]6:5   [1023]6:5   [1024]6:5
   [1025]6:5   [1026]8:13   [1027]8:13-14   [1028]8:17   [1029]8:20
   [1030]9:3   [1031]9:6   [1032]9:6   [1033]9:6   [1034]9:7
   [1035]10:20   [1036]11:2   [1037]11:4   [1038]12:2   [1039]12:5
   [1040]14:1   [1041]14:27   [1042]24:16   [1043]25:6   [1044]25:9
   [1045]26:1   [1046]26:1   [1047]26:1   [1048]26:3   [1049]26:3
   [1050]26:3   [1051]26:4   [1052]26:4   [1053]26:9   [1054]26:9
   [1055]26:16   [1056]26:19   [1057]27:2   [1058]27:5-6   [1059]27:13
   [1060]28:16   [1061]29:11-12   [1062]29:13   [1063]29:13
   [1064]29:13   [1065]29:19   [1066]29:19   [1067]29:23   [1068]30:2-3
   [1069]30:18   [1070]32:1   [1071]32:17   [1072]32:17   [1073]33:6
   [1074]33:15-16   [1075]33:22   [1076]35:1-2   [1077]35:10
   [1078]35:10   [1079]38:9   [1080]38:19   [1081]39:6-8   [1082]39:8
   [1083]40:1-2   [1084]40:1-2   [1085]40:11   [1086]40:11
   [1087]40:13-14   [1088]41:10   [1089]41:10   [1090]41:17-18
   [1091]41:17-18   [1092]41:17-19   [1093]42:8   [1094]42:17
   [1095]43:19-20   [1096]43:19-20   [1097]43:22-25   [1098]43:25
   [1099]43:25   [1100]43:25   [1101]44:5   [1102]44:8   [1103]44:23
   [1104]45:7   [1105]45:17   [1106]45:19   [1107]45:21   [1108]45:22
   [1109]45:22   [1110]45:22   [1111]45:24   [1112]45:24-25
   [1113]45:25   [1114]46:10   [1115]49:13   [1116]49:15   [1117]50:8
   [1118]50:10   [1119]50:10   [1120]50:10   [1121]51:6   [1122]51:8
   [1123]52:7   [1124]52:7-9   [1125]53:6   [1126]53:11   [1127]54:1
   [1128]54:5   [1129]54:9-10   [1130]54:10   [1131]54:13   [1132]55:1
   [1133]55:7   [1134]55:7   [1135]55:7   [1136]55:7   [1137]55:7
   [1138]56:6-7   [1139]56:7   [1140]56:7   [1141]57:12-13   [1142]57:15
   [1143]57:15   [1144]57:17   [1145]57:21   [1146]58:13   [1147]59:6
   [1148]59:8   [1149]59:15   [1150]60:4   [1151]61:1   [1152]61:2
   [1153]61:3   [1154]61:8   [1155]61:10   [1156]61:10   [1157]62:5
   [1158]63:2   [1159]63:7   [1160]63:9   [1161]63:9   [1162]63:10
   [1163]63:15-16   [1164]63:16   [1165]64:8   [1166]64:8   [1167]65:1
   [1168]65:5   [1169]66:1-2   [1170]66:5   [1171]66:12

   Jeremiah

   [1172]2:28   [1173]3:10   [1174]3:12-13   [1175]3:15   [1176]3:15
   [1177]3:15   [1178]3:15   [1179]3:23   [1180]4:22   [1181]5:22
   [1182]5:24   [1183]7:4   [1184]7:14   [1185]8:6   [1186]9:23
   [1187]9:23-24   [1188]10:3   [1189]10:10   [1190]10:25   [1191]10:25
   [1192]14:8   [1193]14:8   [1194]17:5   [1195]17:5   [1196]17:7
   [1197]17:7   [1198]17:7   [1199]17:17   [1200]18:12   [1201]18:12
   [1202]18:12   [1203]20:10   [1204]23:6   [1205]23:6   [1206]23:6
   [1207]23:21   [1208]23:28   [1209]23:28   [1210]23:28   [1211]29:10
   [1212]31:3   [1213]31:3   [1214]31:8-12   [1215]31:19   [1216]31:19
   [1217]31:19   [1218]31:25   [1219]31:33-34   [1220]31:34
   [1221]32:39-40   [1222]32:40   [1223]33:16   [1224]33:25
   [1225]35:6-10   [1226]35:18   [1227]35:19   [1228]44:16-17
   [1229]45:5   [1230]50:5

   Lamentations

   [1231]1:7   [1232]3:24   [1233]3:26   [1234]3:27   [1235]3:28
   [1236]3:29   [1237]3:39   [1238]4:3

   Ezekiel

   [1239]3:15   [1240]9:9   [1241]9:9   [1242]14:4   [1243]14:4
   [1244]16:8   [1245]16:9   [1246]16:63   [1247]18:30-32
   [1248]20:20-21   [1249]20:23   [1250]20:24   [1251]20:40-44
   [1252]28:22   [1253]33:31   [1254]33:31-32   [1255]34:16
   [1256]36:25   [1257]36:25   [1258]36:25   [1259]36:25-27
   [1260]36:25-31   [1261]36:27   [1262]36:27   [1263]36:37
   [1264]38:16   [1265]38:23   [1266]43:10-11   [1267]43:10-11
   [1268]44:22

   Daniel

   [1269]2:21   [1270]4:35   [1271]9:4-5   [1272]9:24   [1273]9:24

   Hosea

   [1274]2:14   [1275]2:14-15   [1276]3:5   [1277]3:5   [1278]3:5
   [1279]3:5   [1280]5:15   [1281]6:3   [1282]7:14   [1283]7:16
   [1284]8:12   [1285]11:8   [1286]12:3-4   [1287]13:4   [1288]13:14
   [1289]14:2   [1290]14:8   [1291]14:8   [1292]14:8   [1293]14:9

   Joel

   [1294]2:13

   Amos

   [1295]3:3   [1296]3:3   [1297]4:6-11   [1298]6:13   [1299]8:5-6
   [1300]8:11   [1301]8:11

   Jonah

   [1302]1:6   [1303]2:2   [1304]2:4   [1305]2:7   [1306]3:9

   Micah

   [1307]2:2   [1308]4:5   [1309]4:5   [1310]6:6-7   [1311]6:9
   [1312]7:5   [1313]7:7-9   [1314]7:7-10   [1315]7:8-9   [1316]7:18
   [1317]7:18

   Habakkuk

   [1318]1:16   [1319]2:4   [1320]2:5   [1321]2:9   [1322]3:17-18
   [1323]3:17-19

   Zephaniah

   [1324]3:9   [1325]3:12   [1326]3:17

   Zechariah

   [1327]1:14   [1328]5:4   [1329]6:12   [1330]8:2   [1331]8:5
   [1332]8:16   [1333]8:17   [1334]8:23   [1335]9:9   [1336]9:9
   [1337]10:7   [1338]12:10   [1339]12:10   [1340]13:9   [1341]13:9

   Malachi

   [1342]1:6   [1343]1:6   [1344]1:6   [1345]1:11   [1346]1:11
   [1347]2:5   [1348]2:7   [1349]2:10   [1350]2:14   [1351]2:15
   [1352]2:15   [1353]3:5   [1354]3:5   [1355]3:16   [1356]4:2
   [1357]4:2   [1358]4:2

   Matthew

   [1359]1:21   [1360]1:21   [1361]2:6   [1362]3:1   [1363]3:1
   [1364]3:5   [1365]3:5-6   [1366]3:6   [1367]3:6   [1368]3:6
   [1369]3:6   [1370]3:6   [1371]3:6   [1372]3:6   [1373]3:6
   [1374]3:6-8   [1375]3:7   [1376]3:11   [1377]3:13   [1378]3:13-17
   [1379]3:16   [1380]3:16   [1381]3:17   [1382]4:1   [1383]4:3
   [1384]4:6   [1385]4:10   [1386]4:10   [1387]4:20   [1388]4:22
   [1389]5:3   [1390]5:4   [1391]5:5   [1392]5:8   [1393]5:10-12
   [1394]5:11   [1395]5:16   [1396]5:16   [1397]5:19-20   [1398]5:21
   [1399]5:21-22   [1400]5:22   [1401]5:27   [1402]5:27-28   [1403]5:28
   [1404]5:32   [1405]5:44   [1406]5:44   [1407]6:5   [1408]6:6
   [1409]6:9   [1410]6:9   [1411]6:13   [1412]6:14-15   [1413]6:24
   [1414]6:25   [1415]6:25   [1416]6:25-34   [1417]6:30   [1418]6:30
   [1419]6:32-33   [1420]7:6   [1421]7:7   [1422]7:9-10   [1423]7:12
   [1424]7:22-23   [1425]7:22-23   [1426]8:5-10   [1427]8:8   [1428]8:9
   [1429]8:10   [1430]8:10   [1431]8:25   [1432]8:26   [1433]8:29
   [1434]9:2   [1435]9:2   [1436]9:9   [1437]9:13   [1438]9:13
   [1439]9:18   [1440]9:20   [1441]9:22   [1442]10:1   [1443]10:1
   [1444]10:4   [1445]10:28   [1446]10:31-32   [1447]10:37   [1448]10:37
   [1449]10:37   [1450]10:37   [1451]10:40   [1452]10:42   [1453]11:21
   [1454]11:25-26   [1455]11:25-26   [1456]11:25-26   [1457]11:27
   [1458]11:28   [1459]11:28-29   [1460]11:29   [1461]12:1-12
   [1462]12:22   [1463]12:41   [1464]12:41   [1465]13:1-23   [1466]13:23
   [1467]13:32   [1468]13:52   [1469]13:52   [1470]14:19
   [1471]14:19-20   [1472]14:23   [1473]14:31   [1474]15:4-6
   [1475]15:8   [1476]15:11   [1477]15:28   [1478]15:28   [1479]15:36
   [1480]15:36   [1481]16:16   [1482]16:16-17   [1483]16:17
   [1484]16:18   [1485]16:19   [1486]16:24   [1487]16:24
   [1488]16:24-25   [1489]16:25-26   [1490]16:28   [1491]17:5
   [1492]17:16   [1493]17:20   [1494]17:20   [1495]17:24-27
   [1496]17:27   [1497]18:2   [1498]18:2   [1499]18:6   [1500]18:15
   [1501]18:15-17   [1502]18:17   [1503]18:18   [1504]18:19-20
   [1505]18:20   [1506]18:21-22   [1507]18:28-35   [1508]19:6
   [1509]19:6   [1510]19:13   [1511]19:14   [1512]19:15   [1513]19:16-22
   [1514]19:27   [1515]20:26-27   [1516]21:22   [1517]21:29
   [1518]21:29   [1519]21:30   [1520]21:31   [1521]21:32   [1522]21:32
   [1523]21:32   [1524]21:32   [1525]22   [1526]22:21   [1527]22:36-38
   [1528]22:36-40   [1529]22:39   [1530]22:39-40   [1531]23:8
   [1532]23:10   [1533]23:13   [1534]23:14   [1535]23:15   [1536]23:15
   [1537]23:15   [1538]23:15   [1539]23:15   [1540]23:15   [1541]23:23
   [1542]23:28   [1543]24:3   [1544]24:12   [1545]24:14   [1546]24:48-49
   [1547]25:10   [1548]25:21   [1549]25:21   [1550]25:23   [1551]25:40
   [1552]26:26   [1553]26:26   [1554]26:26   [1555]26:26   [1556]26:26
   [1557]26:26-27   [1558]26:26-27   [1559]26:27   [1560]26:28
   [1561]26:28   [1562]26:28-29   [1563]26:29   [1564]26:30
   [1565]26:30   [1566]26:30   [1567]26:51   [1568]26:59-60   [1569]27:4
   [1570]28:6   [1571]28:8   [1572]28:19   [1573]28:19   [1574]28:19
   [1575]28:19   [1576]28:19   [1577]28:19   [1578]28:19
   [1579]28:19-20   [1580]28:20   [1581]28:20   [1582]28:20   [1583]28:20

   Mark

   [1584]1:4   [1585]1:4   [1586]1:4   [1587]1:9   [1588]3:14
   [1589]4:20   [1590]4:24   [1591]4:40   [1592]5:1-20   [1593]5:15
   [1594]5:39   [1595]5:42   [1596]6:20   [1597]6:20   [1598]6:20
   [1599]7:4   [1600]9:1   [1601]9:24   [1602]9:36   [1603]11:22
   [1604]11:22-23   [1605]11:25-26   [1606]11:26   [1607]12:29
   [1608]16:16   [1609]16:16   [1610]16:16   [1611]16:16   [1612]16:16
   [1613]16:16   [1614]16:16   [1615]16:17-20

   Luke

   [1616]1:9-10   [1617]1:17   [1618]1:50   [1619]1:68   [1620]1:69
   [1621]1:74-75   [1622]1:78   [1623]2:10-11   [1624]2:14   [1625]2:51
   [1626]2:51   [1627]3:2   [1628]3:7   [1629]3:12   [1630]3:14
   [1631]4:15-21   [1632]4:16-17   [1633]4:20   [1634]4:22   [1635]4:34
   [1636]4:34   [1637]4:35   [1638]4:41   [1639]4:41   [1640]4:41
   [1641]6:12   [1642]6:36   [1643]7:29   [1644]7:30   [1645]7:30
   [1646]7:37   [1647]7:38   [1648]7:41-42   [1649]7:47   [1650]7:50
   [1651]8:13   [1652]8:13   [1653]8:13   [1654]8:15   [1655]8:15
   [1656]8:25   [1657]9:55   [1658]10:16   [1659]10:20   [1660]10:20
   [1661]11:4   [1662]11:13   [1663]11:13   [1664]11:13   [1665]11:13
   [1666]11:38   [1667]11:38   [1668]11:52   [1669]12:42   [1670]12:42
   [1671]12:48   [1672]12:50   [1673]13:1   [1674]13:25-26   [1675]13:27
   [1676]14:21   [1677]14:26   [1678]14:26   [1679]14:26   [1680]14:26
   [1681]14:27-33   [1682]15:2   [1683]15:7   [1684]15:7   [1685]15:10
   [1686]15:17   [1687]15:18   [1688]15:20   [1689]15:21   [1690]15:22
   [1691]16:16   [1692]16:16   [1693]16:25   [1694]16:31   [1695]17:3-4
   [1696]17:6   [1697]17:10   [1698]17:15-18   [1699]18:1   [1700]18:9
   [1701]18:10   [1702]18:11   [1703]18:13   [1704]18:13   [1705]18:13
   [1706]18:13   [1707]18:14   [1708]18:14   [1709]18:16   [1710]19:48
   [1711]20:13   [1712]21:19   [1713]21:28   [1714]21:38   [1715]22:19
   [1716]22:19   [1717]22:19   [1718]22:19   [1719]22:29   [1720]22:32
   [1721]22:42   [1722]22:42   [1723]22:42   [1724]22:42   [1725]22:44
   [1726]22:61-62   [1727]23:34   [1728]23:44   [1729]24:32
   [1730]24:34   [1731]24:47   [1732]24:47   [1733]24:47   [1734]24:47
   [1735]24:47   [1736]24:47   [1737]24:51-52

   John

   [1738]1:6   [1739]1:6   [1740]1:9   [1741]1:12   [1742]1:12
   [1743]1:12   [1744]1:12-13   [1745]1:12-13   [1746]1:13   [1747]1:17
   [1748]1:20   [1749]1:25   [1750]1:25   [1751]1:33   [1752]1:33
   [1753]1:33   [1754]1:41   [1755]1:45   [1756]1:47   [1757]2:1-2
   [1758]2:11   [1759]3:3   [1760]3:5   [1761]3:5-6   [1762]3:8-9
   [1763]3:14-15   [1764]3:16   [1765]3:16   [1766]3:19   [1767]3:19-21
   [1768]3:22   [1769]3:23   [1770]3:23   [1771]3:23   [1772]3:26
   [1773]3:30-31   [1774]3:35   [1775]4:1   [1776]4:1-2   [1777]4:2
   [1778]4:10   [1779]4:10   [1780]4:20-21   [1781]4:21   [1782]4:23
   [1783]4:23-24   [1784]4:23-24   [1785]4:42   [1786]5:17   [1787]5:19
   [1788]5:20   [1789]5:23   [1790]5:24   [1791]5:35   [1792]5:39
   [1793]5:40   [1794]6:29   [1795]6:35   [1796]6:35   [1797]6:37
   [1798]6:40   [1799]6:40   [1800]6:40   [1801]6:44   [1802]6:44
   [1803]6:44   [1804]6:45   [1805]6:45   [1806]6:45   [1807]6:45
   [1808]6:47   [1809]6:51   [1810]6:53   [1811]6:54   [1812]6:55
   [1813]6:56   [1814]6:57   [1815]6:57   [1816]6:65   [1817]6:65
   [1818]6:69   [1819]6:69   [1820]6:70   [1821]8:3   [1822]8:9
   [1823]8:32   [1824]8:42   [1825]8:47   [1826]9:31   [1827]9:35
   [1828]9:35-36   [1829]9:35-38   [1830]10:15   [1831]10:17
   [1832]10:26-27   [1833]10:29   [1834]11:26   [1835]12:5-6
   [1836]12:8   [1837]12:24   [1838]12:26   [1839]12:39-40   [1840]12:40
   [1841]12:44   [1842]13:13   [1843]13:15   [1844]13:18   [1845]13:34
   [1846]13:34   [1847]13:34   [1848]13:34   [1849]13:34   [1850]13:35
   [1851]13:35   [1852]13:35   [1853]14:1   [1854]14:1   [1855]14:1
   [1856]14:1   [1857]14:1-2   [1858]14:2-3   [1859]14:13-14
   [1860]14:15   [1861]14:15   [1862]14:15   [1863]14:16   [1864]14:17
   [1865]14:17   [1866]14:17   [1867]14:21   [1868]14:21   [1869]14:23
   [1870]14:23   [1871]14:27   [1872]14:27   [1873]14:31   [1874]14:31
   [1875]15:4   [1876]15:8   [1877]15:11   [1878]15:12   [1879]15:12
   [1880]15:12   [1881]15:12   [1882]15:17   [1883]16:2   [1884]16:7
   [1885]16:8   [1886]16:8   [1887]16:13   [1888]16:14   [1889]16:22
   [1890]16:23-24   [1891]16:24   [1892]16:33   [1893]17:3   [1894]17:3
   [1895]17:3   [1896]17:3   [1897]17:6   [1898]17:20   [1899]17:21
   [1900]17:24   [1901]18:11   [1902]19:11   [1903]19:11   [1904]20:13
   [1905]20:17   [1906]20:17   [1907]20:17   [1908]20:19   [1909]20:20
   [1910]20:20   [1911]20:21   [1912]20:21   [1913]20:23   [1914]20:28
   [1915]20:29   [1916]20:31   [1917]20:31   [1918]21:15-16
   [1919]21:15-17   [1920]21:17

   Acts

   [1921]1   [1922]1:2   [1923]1:5   [1924]1:5   [1925]1:5   [1926]1:14
   [1927]1:14   [1928]1:14-15   [1929]1:17   [1930]1:21-23
   [1931]1:22-26   [1932]1:25   [1933]2:1   [1934]2:1   [1935]2:1
   [1936]2:1-2   [1937]2:1-47   [1938]2:5   [1939]2:10   [1940]2:10
   [1941]2:10   [1942]2:15   [1943]2:22   [1944]2:36   [1945]2:37
   [1946]2:38   [1947]2:38   [1948]2:38   [1949]2:38   [1950]2:39
   [1951]2:41   [1952]2:41   [1953]2:41   [1954]2:41   [1955]2:42
   [1956]2:42   [1957]2:42   [1958]2:42   [1959]2:42   [1960]2:44-45
   [1961]2:47   [1962]3:1   [1963]3:1   [1964]3:6   [1965]3:14
   [1966]3:19   [1967]3:19   [1968]3:25   [1969]4:12   [1970]4:13
   [1971]4:14   [1972]4:18-20   [1973]4:19   [1974]4:19-20   [1975]4:31
   [1976]4:32   [1977]4:32   [1978]4:34-37   [1979]5:1   [1980]5:2
   [1981]5:13   [1982]5:14   [1983]5:20   [1984]5:28   [1985]5:29
   [1986]5:29   [1987]5:29   [1988]5:31   [1989]5:31   [1990]5:31
   [1991]5:31   [1992]5:31   [1993]5:31   [1994]5:37   [1995]6:1
   [1996]6:1-5   [1997]6:1-6   [1998]6:1-7   [1999]6:2   [2000]6:2
   [2001]6:3   [2002]6:3   [2003]6:3   [2004]6:4   [2005]6:4   [2006]6:4
   [2007]6:5   [2008]6:5   [2009]6:5   [2010]6:5   [2011]6:5
   [2012]6:11-12   [2013]7:8   [2014]7:23   [2015]7:26   [2016]7:35
   [2017]7:38   [2018]7:59   [2019]7:59   [2020]7:60   [2021]8:5
   [2022]8:12   [2023]8:12   [2024]8:12   [2025]8:13   [2026]8:16
   [2027]8:16   [2028]8:36   [2029]8:36   [2030]8:36-37   [2031]8:37
   [2032]8:37   [2033]8:38   [2034]8:38   [2035]8:38   [2036]8:38-39
   [2037]8:39   [2038]9:6   [2039]9:14   [2040]9:14   [2041]9:18
   [2042]9:18   [2043]9:18   [2044]9:18-19   [2045]9:23   [2046]9:26
   [2047]9:26   [2048]9:26   [2049]9:26-28   [2050]9:31   [2051]10:2
   [2052]10:3   [2053]10:9   [2054]10:9   [2055]10:28   [2056]10:30
   [2057]10:33   [2058]10:34-35   [2059]10:36   [2060]10:41
   [2061]10:43   [2062]10:43   [2063]10:43   [2064]10:47   [2065]10:47
   [2066]10:47-48   [2067]10:48   [2068]10:48   [2069]10:48   [2070]11:2
   [2071]11:3   [2072]11:18   [2073]11:18   [2074]11:18   [2075]11:18
   [2076]11:18   [2077]11:22   [2078]11:28   [2079]11:30   [2080]12:5
   [2081]12:25   [2082]13:1   [2083]13:1   [2084]13:1-3   [2085]13:5
   [2086]13:15   [2087]13:15   [2088]13:16   [2089]13:24-25
   [2090]13:26   [2091]13:26   [2092]13:38   [2093]13:38-39
   [2094]13:39   [2095]13:42   [2096]13:43   [2097]13:44   [2098]13:48
   [2099]13:48   [2100]13:48   [2101]13:50   [2102]14   [2103]14:1-28
   [2104]14:9-10   [2105]14:23   [2106]14:23   [2107]14:23   [2108]14:23
   [2109]14:23   [2110]14:23   [2111]14:27   [2112]15:3   [2113]15:7
   [2114]15:9   [2115]15:10   [2116]15:14   [2117]15:21   [2118]15:21
   [2119]15:22   [2120]15:22   [2121]16:1   [2122]16:13   [2123]16:13
   [2124]16:13   [2125]16:14-15   [2126]16:15   [2127]16:15
   [2128]16:19   [2129]16:20-21   [2130]16:25   [2131]16:25
   [2132]16:28   [2133]16:31   [2134]16:31-34   [2135]16:32
   [2136]16:32-34   [2137]16:33   [2138]16:33   [2139]16:33
   [2140]16:33-34   [2141]17:4   [2142]17:11   [2143]17:11   [2144]17:23
   [2145]17:25   [2146]17:25   [2147]17:25   [2148]17:28   [2149]17:28
   [2150]17:28   [2151]17:29   [2152]17:30   [2153]17:30   [2154]17:30
   [2155]17:30   [2156]18:8   [2157]18:8   [2158]18:8   [2159]18:25
   [2160]18:25   [2161]18:27   [2162]18:27   [2163]19:4-5   [2164]19:5
   [2165]19:5   [2166]19:5   [2167]19:7   [2168]19:32   [2169]19:37
   [2170]19:39   [2171]19:41   [2172]20:4-7   [2173]20:6-7   [2174]20:7
   [2175]20:7   [2176]20:7   [2177]20:7   [2178]20:7   [2179]20:7
   [2180]20:7   [2181]20:17   [2182]20:19   [2183]20:19   [2184]20:20
   [2185]20:20   [2186]20:21   [2187]20:21   [2188]20:21   [2189]20:24
   [2190]20:24   [2191]20:28   [2192]20:28   [2193]20:28   [2194]20:33
   [2195]20:36   [2196]21:8   [2197]21:8   [2198]21:10   [2199]21:14
   [2200]21:14   [2201]21:14   [2202]21:14   [2203]21:20   [2204]22:3-4
   [2205]22:16   [2206]22:16   [2207]22:16   [2208]23   [2209]23:1
   [2210]23:6   [2211]24:15   [2212]24:16   [2213]25:10-11
   [2214]26:6-8   [2215]26:9-10   [2216]26:18   [2217]26:18
   [2218]26:18   [2219]26:20   [2220]26:20   [2221]27:23
   [2222]27:33-34   [2223]28:28

   Romans

   [2224]1:6   [2225]1:7   [2226]1:8   [2227]1:8   [2228]1:9
   [2229]1:12   [2230]1:17   [2231]1:17   [2232]1:17   [2233]1:18-32
   [2234]1:21   [2235]1:21-22   [2236]1:23   [2237]1:25   [2238]1:28
   [2239]1:29-31   [2240]1:30   [2241]1:30-31   [2242]2:4-5
   [2243]2:4-5   [2244]2:5   [2245]2:9-10   [2246]2:14   [2247]2:14-15
   [2248]2:14-15   [2249]3:3-4   [2250]3:12   [2251]3:13   [2252]3:17
   [2253]3:18   [2254]3:20   [2255]3:20   [2256]3:20   [2257]3:20-22
   [2258]3:21-22   [2259]3:24   [2260]3:24   [2261]3:24   [2262]3:25
   [2263]3:28   [2264]3:28   [2265]3:30   [2266]3:30   [2267]4:2
   [2268]4:5   [2269]4:5-6   [2270]4:6   [2271]4:6   [2272]4:11
   [2273]4:15   [2274]4:18   [2275]4:20   [2276]4:25   [2277]5:1
   [2278]5:1   [2279]5:1   [2280]5:2   [2281]5:2   [2282]5:2   [2283]5:3
   [2284]5:3   [2285]5:3-5   [2286]5:4   [2287]5:4   [2288]5:5
   [2289]5:5   [2290]5:8   [2291]5:9   [2292]5:9   [2293]5:10
   [2294]5:10   [2295]5:10-11   [2296]5:11   [2297]5:11   [2298]5:11
   [2299]5:18   [2300]5:19   [2301]6:3-4   [2302]6:4   [2303]6:4
   [2304]6:4-5   [2305]6:4-5   [2306]6:11   [2307]6:12-13   [2308]6:22
   [2309]6:23   [2310]6:23   [2311]6:23   [2312]7:2   [2313]7:7
   [2314]7:7   [2315]7:13   [2316]7:14   [2317]7:14   [2318]7:15
   [2319]7:18-24   [2320]7:22   [2321]7:23-24   [2322]7:23-24
   [2323]7:23-24   [2324]7:24   [2325]7:25   [2326]8:5   [2327]8:5-6
   [2328]8:6   [2329]8:7   [2330]8:8   [2331]8:9   [2332]8:12
   [2333]8:13   [2334]8:14-16   [2335]8:14-16   [2336]8:15   [2337]8:17
   [2338]8:18   [2339]8:23   [2340]8:24   [2341]8:24-25   [2342]8:25
   [2343]8:28   [2344]8:30   [2345]8:30   [2346]8:30   [2347]8:30
   [2348]8:32   [2349]8:32   [2350]8:32   [2351]8:33   [2352]8:33
   [2353]8:33-34   [2354]8:35   [2355]8:35   [2356]8:38   [2357]8:38-39
   [2358]8:38-39   [2359]8:39   [2360]9:1   [2361]9:1   [2362]9:4
   [2363]9:6-7   [2364]9:11-13   [2365]9:15   [2366]9:18   [2367]9:23-24
   [2368]9:32-33   [2369]9:33   [2370]10:1   [2371]10:2   [2372]10:4
   [2373]10:8   [2374]10:8   [2375]10:8   [2376]10:9-10   [2377]10:10
   [2378]10:11   [2379]10:12   [2380]10:12   [2381]10:14   [2382]10:14
   [2383]10:15   [2384]10:15   [2385]10:16   [2386]10:17   [2387]10:17
   [2388]10:17   [2389]10:17   [2390]10:17   [2391]11:5-6   [2392]11:7
   [2393]11:8   [2394]11:16   [2395]11:20   [2396]11:20   [2397]11:35-36
   [2398]11:36   [2399]12:1   [2400]12:3   [2401]12:3   [2402]12:4
   [2403]12:6   [2404]12:7   [2405]12:8   [2406]12:8   [2407]12:9
   [2408]12:10   [2409]12:10   [2410]12:10   [2411]12:11   [2412]12:12
   [2413]12:12   [2414]12:13   [2415]12:15   [2416]12:16   [2417]12:17
   [2418]12:17   [2419]12:17   [2420]12:19-21   [2421]13:1   [2422]13:1
   [2423]13:1   [2424]13:1-4   [2425]13:1-14   [2426]13:2   [2427]13:4
   [2428]13:4   [2429]13:5   [2430]13:7   [2431]13:7   [2432]13:7
   [2433]13:7   [2434]13:7-8   [2435]13:8   [2436]13:9-10   [2437]13:10
   [2438]13:14   [2439]13:14   [2440]14:1   [2441]14:1   [2442]14:3
   [2443]14:6   [2444]14:6   [2445]14:7-8   [2446]14:14   [2447]14:14
   [2448]14:14   [2449]14:15   [2450]14:17   [2451]14:17   [2452]14:17
   [2453]14:17   [2454]14:23   [2455]14:23   [2456]15:1   [2457]15:1-3
   [2458]15:4   [2459]15:5-6   [2460]15:6   [2461]15:8   [2462]15:13
   [2463]15:13   [2464]15:13   [2465]15:13   [2466]15:13   [2467]15:19
   [2468]16:1   [2469]16:1-2   [2470]16:1-2   [2471]16:5   [2472]16:17
   [2473]16:17   [2474]16:17   [2475]16:18   [2476]16:19

   1 Corinthians

   [2477]1:2   [2478]1:2   [2479]1:9   [2480]1:10-11   [2481]1:23
   [2482]1:30   [2483]2:2   [2484]2:2   [2485]2:4-5   [2486]2:9
   [2487]2:10-12   [2488]2:12   [2489]2:14   [2490]3:1   [2491]3:2
   [2492]3:3   [2493]3:5   [2494]3:6   [2495]3:7   [2496]3:7   [2497]3:9
   [2498]3:18   [2499]3:18   [2500]3:21-22   [2501]3:21-23   [2502]3:22
   [2503]3:22-23   [2504]4:1   [2505]4:1   [2506]4:1-2   [2507]4:2
   [2508]4:6   [2509]4:7   [2510]4:7   [2511]4:11   [2512]4:19
   [2513]5:3   [2514]5:4   [2515]5:4   [2516]5:5   [2517]5:7   [2518]5:7
   [2519]5:7   [2520]5:8   [2521]5:8   [2522]5:8   [2523]5:11
   [2524]5:11   [2525]5:13   [2526]5:13   [2527]5:13   [2528]6:5-6
   [2529]6:9-10   [2530]6:18   [2531]6:20   [2532]7:2   [2533]7:14
   [2534]7:14   [2535]7:14   [2536]7:14   [2537]7:21   [2538]7:31
   [2539]7:33   [2540]7:34   [2541]8:1   [2542]8:3   [2543]8:5-6
   [2544]8:6   [2545]8:7   [2546]8:7   [2547]8:7   [2548]8:7
   [2549]8:9-12   [2550]9:7-14   [2551]9:11   [2552]10:1-2   [2553]10:4
   [2554]10:13   [2555]10:16   [2556]10:16   [2557]10:16   [2558]10:17
   [2559]10:20   [2560]10:21   [2561]10:21   [2562]10:29   [2563]10:31
   [2564]10:31   [2565]11:2   [2566]11:3   [2567]11:4-5   [2568]11:5
   [2569]11:7   [2570]11:8-9   [2571]11:16   [2572]11:16   [2573]11:18
   [2574]11:18   [2575]11:20   [2576]11:20   [2577]11:20
   [2578]11:20-21   [2579]11:22   [2580]11:23   [2581]11:24
   [2582]11:24   [2583]11:24   [2584]11:24-25   [2585]11:25-29
   [2586]11:26   [2587]11:26   [2588]11:27   [2589]11:28   [2590]11:29
   [2591]11:31   [2592]11:33   [2593]12:1   [2594]12:4-11   [2595]12:9
   [2596]12:13   [2597]12:25-27   [2598]12:26   [2599]12:28
   [2600]12:28   [2601]12:28   [2602]12:28   [2603]12:28   [2604]12:31
   [2605]12:31   [2606]12:31   [2607]13:1-3   [2608]13:1-3
   [2609]13:1-13   [2610]13:2   [2611]13:5   [2612]13:7   [2613]13:7
   [2614]13:8   [2615]13:8   [2616]13:13   [2617]13:13   [2618]13:13
   [2619]13:13   [2620]13:13   [2621]13:13   [2622]14:1   [2623]14:3
   [2624]14:3   [2625]14:8   [2626]14:12   [2627]14:15   [2628]14:15
   [2629]14:15   [2630]14:15   [2631]14:15   [2632]14:15   [2633]14:16
   [2634]14:19   [2635]14:23   [2636]14:24   [2637]14:24
   [2638]14:24-25   [2639]14:26   [2640]14:26   [2641]14:33
   [2642]14:34-35   [2643]14:35   [2644]14:37   [2645]14:39   [2646]15:9
   [2647]15:10   [2648]15:10   [2649]15:24   [2650]15:57   [2651]16:1-2
   [2652]16:1-2   [2653]16:1-2   [2654]16:1-2   [2655]16:1-2
   [2656]16:10   [2657]16:10   [2658]16:13   [2659]16:15   [2660]16:19
   [2661]16:22

   2 Corinthians

   [2662]1:3   [2663]1:3   [2664]1:3   [2665]1:12   [2666]1:12
   [2667]1:12   [2668]1:12   [2669]1:19   [2670]1:24   [2671]1:24
   [2672]2:6   [2673]2:7   [2674]2:7   [2675]2:14   [2676]2:14
   [2677]2:14   [2678]2:14   [2679]2:17   [2680]2:17   [2681]2:17
   [2682]3:1   [2683]3:4   [2684]3:4   [2685]3:8   [2686]3:9
   [2687]3:12   [2688]4:2   [2689]4:2   [2690]4:2   [2691]4:4
   [2692]4:4   [2693]4:5   [2694]4:6   [2695]4:13   [2696]4:13
   [2697]4:17   [2698]5:5   [2699]5:7   [2700]5:9   [2701]5:14-15
   [2702]5:18   [2703]5:18   [2704]5:19   [2705]5:19   [2706]6:10
   [2707]6:16   [2708]6:16   [2709]6:16   [2710]6:18   [2711]6:18
   [2712]7:1   [2713]7:1   [2714]7:7   [2715]7:10   [2716]7:10
   [2717]7:10   [2718]7:11   [2719]7:11   [2720]7:11   [2721]7:11
   [2722]7:11   [2723]8:1   [2724]8:19   [2725]9:2   [2726]9:15
   [2727]10:1   [2728]10:18   [2729]11:2   [2730]12:8   [2731]12:9-10
   [2732]12:10   [2733]12:15   [2734]12:21   [2735]13:5   [2736]13:11
   [2737]13:14   [2738]13:14   [2739]13:14

   Galatians

   [2740]1:2   [2741]1:8   [2742]1:8-9   [2743]1:11-12   [2744]1:14
   [2745]1:23   [2746]1:23   [2747]2:9   [2748]2:9   [2749]2:16
   [2750]2:20   [2751]2:20   [2752]3:2   [2753]3:2   [2754]3:2
   [2755]3:5   [2756]3:8   [2757]3:10   [2758]3:16   [2759]3:17
   [2760]3:23   [2761]3:26   [2762]3:26   [2763]3:27   [2764]3:28
   [2765]3:28   [2766]4:5   [2767]4:8   [2768]4:8-9   [2769]4:9-11
   [2770]4:18   [2771]5:1-4   [2772]5:2-4   [2773]5:6   [2774]5:6
   [2775]5:6   [2776]5:12   [2777]5:13   [2778]5:14   [2779]5:15
   [2780]5:22   [2781]5:22   [2782]5:22   [2783]5:22   [2784]5:22
   [2785]5:22   [2786]5:22   [2787]5:22   [2788]5:22-23   [2789]5:22-23
   [2790]6:1   [2791]6:1   [2792]6:1   [2793]6:2   [2794]6:2   [2795]6:2
   [2796]6:6   [2797]6:10   [2798]6:10   [2799]6:10   [2800]6:14
   [2801]6:15   [2802]6:16

   Ephesians

   [2803]1:3   [2804]1:3   [2805]1:3   [2806]1:3   [2807]1:3   [2808]1:3
   [2809]1:3-4   [2810]1:3-4   [2811]1:3-4   [2812]1:3-4   [2813]1:5
   [2814]1:11   [2815]1:12   [2816]1:12   [2817]1:13   [2818]1:13
   [2819]1:13   [2820]1:14   [2821]1:15   [2822]1:15   [2823]1:15
   [2824]1:16-17   [2825]1:17   [2826]1:17   [2827]2:8   [2828]2:8
   [2829]2:8-9   [2830]2:8-9   [2831]2:10   [2832]2:10   [2833]2:10
   [2834]2:12   [2835]2:14-15   [2836]2:18   [2837]2:18   [2838]2:22
   [2839]3:1   [2840]3:7-8   [2841]3:7-8   [2842]3:8   [2843]3:12
   [2844]3:12   [2845]3:14   [2846]3:14   [2847]3:14-16   [2848]3:14-21
   [2849]3:16   [2850]3:16   [2851]3:16   [2852]3:17   [2853]3:17
   [2854]3:21   [2855]3:21   [2856]4:1   [2857]4:2   [2858]4:3
   [2859]4:3-6   [2860]4:5   [2861]4:5   [2862]4:6   [2863]4:7-8
   [2864]4:11   [2865]4:11   [2866]4:11   [2867]4:11   [2868]4:11-12
   [2869]4:11-13   [2870]4:12   [2871]4:12-13   [2872]4:13   [2873]4:13
   [2874]4:13   [2875]4:16   [2876]4:16   [2877]4:18   [2878]4:24
   [2879]4:25   [2880]4:28   [2881]4:31-32   [2882]5:2   [2883]5:3
   [2884]5:3-4   [2885]5:4   [2886]5:5   [2887]5:5   [2888]5:5
   [2889]5:8   [2890]5:9   [2891]5:15-16   [2892]5:19   [2893]5:19
   [2894]5:19   [2895]5:19   [2896]5:19   [2897]5:19   [2898]5:19-20
   [2899]5:20   [2900]5:20   [2901]5:20   [2902]5:20   [2903]5:21
   [2904]5:22   [2905]5:22   [2906]5:23   [2907]5:24   [2908]5:24
   [2909]5:25   [2910]5:25-28   [2911]5:28   [2912]5:28   [2913]5:29
   [2914]5:29   [2915]5:29   [2916]5:29   [2917]5:32   [2918]5:33
   [2919]5:33   [2920]5:33   [2921]5:33   [2922]6:1   [2923]6:1
   [2924]6:1   [2925]6:1-2   [2926]6:1-2   [2927]6:4   [2928]6:4
   [2929]6:4   [2930]6:4   [2931]6:5   [2932]6:5   [2933]6:5   [2934]6:5
   [2935]6:5-7   [2936]6:5-9   [2937]6:8   [2938]6:8-9   [2939]6:9
   [2940]6:9   [2941]6:10   [2942]6:15   [2943]6:16   [2944]6:18
   [2945]6:18   [2946]6:18   [2947]6:18   [2948]6:18   [2949]6:18
   [2950]6:18   [2951]6:18   [2952]6:19   [2953]6:19   [2954]6:19
   [2955]6:19-20   [2956]6:21   [2957]6:21   [2958]6:23   [2959]6:23
   [2960]6:24   [2961]6:24   [2962]6:24   [2963]6:24

   Philippians

   [2964]1:1   [2965]1:1   [2966]1:1   [2967]1:1   [2968]1:6
   [2969]1:6-7   [2970]1:10   [2971]1:11   [2972]1:13-14   [2973]1:14
   [2974]1:15-16   [2975]1:25   [2976]1:25   [2977]1:25   [2978]1:25
   [2979]1:27   [2980]2:1   [2981]2:1-2   [2982]2:3   [2983]2:3
   [2984]2:5-8   [2985]2:6-9   [2986]2:9   [2987]2:11   [2988]2:12-13
   [2989]2:16   [2990]2:29   [2991]2:30   [2992]2:30   [2993]3:3
   [2994]3:3   [2995]3:4-9   [2996]3:6   [2997]3:7-8   [2998]3:8
   [2999]3:8   [3000]3:9   [3001]3:9   [3002]3:9   [3003]3:9
   [3004]3:19   [3005]3:19   [3006]4:4   [3007]4:6   [3008]4:6
   [3009]4:6   [3010]4:6   [3011]4:7   [3012]4:7   [3013]4:11
   [3014]4:11   [3015]4:13   [3016]4:19   [3017]4:19   [3018]4:19

   Colossians

   [3019]1:4   [3020]1:5   [3021]1:7   [3022]1:7   [3023]1:7
   [3024]1:9-10   [3025]1:10   [3026]1:11-12   [3027]1:12
   [3028]1:20-21   [3029]1:22   [3030]1:23   [3031]1:27   [3032]1:27
   [3033]1:27   [3034]2:2   [3035]2:2   [3036]2:2   [3037]2:6
   [3038]2:6   [3039]2:6   [3040]2:9   [3041]2:12   [3042]2:12
   [3043]2:12   [3044]2:12   [3045]2:12   [3046]2:13   [3047]2:16-17
   [3048]2:16-17   [3049]2:16-17   [3050]2:18   [3051]2:20-23
   [3052]2:23   [3053]3:5   [3054]3:5   [3055]3:8   [3056]3:9-5
   [3057]3:10   [3058]3:12   [3059]3:12-13   [3060]3:13   [3061]3:14
   [3062]3:15   [3063]3:16   [3064]3:16   [3065]3:16   [3066]3:16
   [3067]3:16   [3068]3:16   [3069]3:18   [3070]3:20   [3071]3:21
   [3072]3:22   [3073]3:22   [3074]3:22   [3075]3:22-24   [3076]3:23
   [3077]3:24   [3078]4:1   [3079]4:2   [3080]4:2   [3081]4:2
   [3082]4:3   [3083]4:7   [3084]4:9   [3085]4:10   [3086]4:12
   [3087]4:12   [3088]4:12   [3089]4:12   [3090]4:12   [3091]4:15
   [3092]4:17   [3093]4:17   [3094]4:17   [3095]43   [3096]411   [3097]414

   1 Thessalonians

   [3098]1:3   [3099]1:3   [3100]1:3   [3101]1:4-5   [3102]1:4-5
   [3103]1:8   [3104]2:2   [3105]2:2   [3106]2:4   [3107]2:13
   [3108]3:5   [3109]3:11   [3110]3:100   [3111]4:3   [3112]4:5
   [3113]4:6   [3114]4:9   [3115]4:13   [3116]4:13   [3117]5:3
   [3118]5:8   [3119]5:12   [3120]5:12-13   [3121]5:14   [3122]5:14
   [3123]5:16   [3124]5:17   [3125]5:17   [3126]5:18   [3127]5:18
   [3128]5:18   [3129]5:23-24   [3130]5:24

   2 Thessalonians

   [3131]1:3   [3132]1:3   [3133]1:4   [3134]1:11   [3135]2:4
   [3136]2:10-11   [3137]2:13   [3138]2:13   [3139]2:13   [3140]2:13-14
   [3141]2:16   [3142]2:16   [3143]2:16   [3144]2:16   [3145]2:16
   [3146]2:16   [3147]3:1   [3148]3:2   [3149]3:5   [3150]3:5
   [3151]3:5   [3152]3:6   [3153]3:6   [3154]3:9   [3155]3:11
   [3156]3:14   [3157]3:14   [3158]3:14   [3159]3:14-15   [3160]3:16

   1 Timothy

   [3161]1:1   [3162]1:1   [3163]1:1   [3164]1:1   [3165]1:5   [3166]1:5
   [3167]1:5   [3168]1:5   [3169]1:12   [3170]1:12   [3171]1:12
   [3172]1:13   [3173]1:13   [3174]1:13-15   [3175]1:14   [3176]1:14
   [3177]1:14   [3178]1:15   [3179]1:15   [3180]1:17   [3181]1:19
   [3182]1:19   [3183]1:20   [3184]2:1   [3185]2:1   [3186]2:1-2
   [3187]2:1-2   [3188]2:1-2   [3189]2:2   [3190]2:7   [3191]2:8
   [3192]2:8   [3193]2:9-10   [3194]2:10   [3195]2:11-12   [3196]2:13
   [3197]2:14   [3198]2:14   [3199]3:1   [3200]3:1   [3201]3:1
   [3202]3:1   [3203]3:2   [3204]3:4   [3205]3:5   [3206]3:8   [3207]3:8
   [3208]3:8-12   [3209]3:8-13   [3210]3:9   [3211]3:9   [3212]3:10
   [3213]3:10   [3214]3:11   [3215]3:11   [3216]3:16   [3217]4:1
   [3218]4:2   [3219]4:4   [3220]4:4   [3221]4:5   [3222]4:7   [3223]4:8
   [3224]4:8   [3225]4:8   [3226]4:10   [3227]4:12   [3228]4:12
   [3229]4:14   [3230]4:14   [3231]4:16   [3232]5:3   [3233]5:4
   [3234]5:8   [3235]5:8   [3236]5:8   [3237]5:8   [3238]5:9-10
   [3239]5:11-12   [3240]5:17   [3241]5:17   [3242]5:17-18   [3243]5:19
   [3244]5:19   [3245]5:23   [3246]5:23   [3247]5:23   [3248]6:1
   [3249]6:1   [3250]6:1   [3251]6:2   [3252]6:3   [3253]6:3-5
   [3254]6:5   [3255]6:6   [3256]6:6   [3257]6:6   [3258]6:7-8
   [3259]6:8   [3260]6:8   [3261]6:8   [3262]6:9-10   [3263]6:11
   [3264]6:17   [3265]6:17   [3266]6:17

   2 Timothy

   [3267]1:1   [3268]1:3   [3269]1:3   [3270]1:5   [3271]1:5   [3272]1:6
   [3273]1:7   [3274]1:9   [3275]1:9   [3276]1:12   [3277]2:1
   [3278]2:2   [3279]2:2   [3280]2:13   [3281]2:13   [3282]2:19
   [3283]2:19   [3284]2:21   [3285]2:22   [3286]2:24-25   [3287]2:25
   [3288]3:2   [3289]3:2   [3290]3:2-3   [3291]3:2-4   [3292]3:4
   [3293]3:15   [3294]3:15   [3295]3:15-16   [3296]3:16   [3297]3:16-17
   [3298]4:1   [3299]4:2   [3300]4:4   [3301]4:5   [3302]4:8

   Titus

   [3303]1:1   [3304]1:2   [3305]1:4   [3306]1:5   [3307]1:5
   [3308]1:5-7   [3309]1:7   [3310]1:15   [3311]2:4   [3312]2:5
   [3313]2:5   [3314]2:5   [3315]2:9   [3316]2:9   [3317]2:9   [3318]2:9
   [3319]2:10   [3320]2:10   [3321]2:10   [3322]2:10   [3323]2:11-12
   [3324]2:13   [3325]2:13   [3326]2:14   [3327]2:14   [3328]2:14
   [3329]3:1   [3330]3:3   [3331]3:5   [3332]3:5   [3333]3:7   [3334]3:7
   [3335]3:8   [3336]3:8   [3337]3:8   [3338]3:8   [3339]3:8
   [3340]3:10   [3341]3:10   [3342]3:14   [3343]3:14   [3344]3:15

   Philemon

   [3345]1:2   [3346]1:6   [3347]2:1-2   [3348]3:3   [3349]4:4

   Hebrews

   [3350]1:3   [3351]1:3   [3352]1:6   [3353]1:14   [3354]2:1
   [3355]2:12   [3356]2:17   [3357]3:6   [3358]3:6   [3359]3:6
   [3360]3:14   [3361]4:2   [3362]4:2   [3363]4:2   [3364]4:3-4
   [3365]4:12   [3366]4:14   [3367]4:14   [3368]4:15   [3369]4:16
   [3370]5:4-5   [3371]5:7   [3372]5:7   [3373]5:9   [3374]5:13
   [3375]5:14   [3376]6:2   [3377]6:4   [3378]6:5   [3379]6:8
   [3380]6:10   [3381]6:12   [3382]6:12   [3383]6:15   [3384]6:16
   [3385]6:18   [3386]6:18   [3387]6:18   [3388]6:19   [3389]6:19
   [3390]8:10   [3391]8:12   [3392]9:12   [3393]9:12   [3394]9:14
   [3395]9:14   [3396]9:26   [3397]10:1-2   [3398]10:21   [3399]10:22
   [3400]10:22   [3401]10:22   [3402]10:22   [3403]10:23   [3404]10:23
   [3405]10:24-25   [3406]10:25   [3407]10:34   [3408]10:35
   [3409]10:36   [3410]10:39   [3411]11:1   [3412]11:1   [3413]11:1
   [3414]11:1-40   [3415]11:1-40   [3416]11:1-40   [3417]11:3
   [3418]11:4   [3419]11:4   [3420]11:5   [3421]11:6   [3422]11:7
   [3423]11:12   [3424]11:21   [3425]11:25   [3426]11:25-26
   [3427]11:26-27   [3428]11:28   [3429]12:1   [3430]12:1-3   [3431]12:2
   [3432]12:2   [3433]12:3   [3434]12:5   [3435]12:9   [3436]12:9
   [3437]12:15   [3438]12:17   [3439]12:23   [3440]12:28   [3441]12:28
   [3442]12:28   [3443]12:28   [3444]13:1   [3445]13:4   [3446]13:5
   [3447]13:5   [3448]13:5   [3449]13:5   [3450]13:7   [3451]13:7
   [3452]13:7   [3453]13:7   [3454]13:15   [3455]13:16   [3456]13:16
   [3457]13:17   [3458]13:17   [3459]13:17   [3460]13:17   [3461]13:18
   [3462]13:18   [3463]13:18   [3464]13:18   [3465]13:20   [3466]13:20
   [3467]13:21   [3468]22   [3469]50:2   [3470]50:5

   James

   [3471]1:2   [3472]1:2-3   [3473]1:2-3   [3474]1:3   [3475]1:4
   [3476]1:5   [3477]1:5   [3478]1:8   [3479]1:12   [3480]1:12
   [3481]1:12   [3482]1:13   [3483]1:13-14   [3484]1:14   [3485]1:17-18
   [3486]1:18   [3487]1:21   [3488]1:22   [3489]2:1-3   [3490]2:2
   [3491]2:5   [3492]2:18   [3493]2:18   [3494]2:19   [3495]3:9-10
   [3496]3:13   [3497]3:17   [3498]4:6   [3499]4:14-15   [3500]4:15
   [3501]4:16   [3502]5:4   [3503]5:7-8   [3504]5:7-8   [3505]5:10-11
   [3506]5:13   [3507]5:13   [3508]5:13   [3509]5:13   [3510]5:16
   [3511]5:16   [3512]5:16   [3513]5:16-18

   1 Peter

   [3514]1:2   [3515]1:3   [3516]1:3   [3517]1:3   [3518]1:3   [3519]1:3
   [3520]1:3   [3521]1:3-4   [3522]1:5   [3523]1:5   [3524]1:6-7
   [3525]1:7   [3526]1:7   [3527]1:8   [3528]1:8   [3529]1:8   [3530]1:8
   [3531]1:8   [3532]1:8-9   [3533]1:9   [3534]1:9   [3535]1:13
   [3536]1:14   [3537]1:14   [3538]1:15-16   [3539]1:17   [3540]1:17
   [3541]1:21   [3542]1:21   [3543]1:21   [3544]1:21   [3545]1:21
   [3546]1:21   [3547]1:22   [3548]1:22   [3549]1:22   [3550]1:22
   [3551]1:22   [3552]2:2   [3553]2:2   [3554]2:6   [3555]2:7
   [3556]2:7   [3557]2:7   [3558]2:7-8   [3559]2:12   [3560]2:13-14
   [3561]2:13-14   [3562]2:14   [3563]2:17   [3564]2:17   [3565]2:17
   [3566]2:18   [3567]2:18   [3568]2:18   [3569]2:19   [3570]2:19
   [3571]2:20   [3572]2:21   [3573]2:22-23   [3574]3:1-4   [3575]3:3-5
   [3576]3:4   [3577]3:4   [3578]3:5-6   [3579]3:6   [3580]3:6
   [3581]3:8   [3582]3:8   [3583]3:15   [3584]3:19-20   [3585]3:20-21
   [3586]3:21   [3587]3:21   [3588]3:21   [3589]4:8   [3590]4:8
   [3591]4:8   [3592]4:10   [3593]4:10   [3594]4:11   [3595]4:11
   [3596]4:14   [3597]4:15   [3598]4:15-16   [3599]4:18   [3600]4:19
   [3601]4:19   [3602]5:1-2   [3603]5:2   [3604]5:2   [3605]5:2
   [3606]5:2   [3607]5:5   [3608]5:5   [3609]5:5   [3610]5:6   [3611]5:9

   2 Peter

   [3612]1:1   [3613]1:1   [3614]1:1   [3615]1:1   [3616]1:3
   [3617]1:5-6   [3618]1:5-7   [3619]1:10   [3620]1:11   [3621]2:1
   [3622]2:5   [3623]2:9   [3624]2:10   [3625]2:10   [3626]2:14
   [3627]3:1   [3628]3:5   [3629]3:9   [3630]3:11   [3631]3:13
   [3632]3:15   [3633]3:18

   1 John

   [3634]1:2   [3635]1:3   [3636]1:3   [3637]1:3   [3638]1:3   [3639]1:4
   [3640]1:5-6   [3641]1:7   [3642]1:9   [3643]1:9   [3644]1:9
   [3645]1:9   [3646]2:1-2   [3647]2:3   [3648]2:7-8   [3649]2:8
   [3650]2:11   [3651]2:13   [3652]2:14   [3653]2:15   [3654]3:1
   [3655]3:1   [3656]3:1   [3657]3:1   [3658]3:1   [3659]3:3   [3660]3:4
   [3661]3:7   [3662]3:14   [3663]3:14   [3664]3:16   [3665]3:16
   [3666]3:17   [3667]3:18   [3668]3:18   [3669]3:20-21   [3670]3:21
   [3671]3:23   [3672]3:24   [3673]4:7   [3674]4:7   [3675]4:7
   [3676]4:7-8   [3677]4:8   [3678]4:10   [3679]4:11   [3680]4:13
   [3681]4:13   [3682]4:16   [3683]4:16   [3684]4:18   [3685]4:18
   [3686]4:19   [3687]4:20   [3688]5:1   [3689]5:1   [3690]5:1-2
   [3691]5:3   [3692]5:4-5   [3693]5:4-5   [3694]5:9   [3695]5:10
   [3696]5:11   [3697]5:14   [3698]5:16   [3699]5:20   [3700]5:20
   [3701]5:21

   2 John

   [3702]1:9-11   [3703]1:10   [3704]1:10-11   [3705]5:9-10

   3 John

   [3706]1:2

   Jude

   [3707]1:3   [3708]1:7   [3709]1:8   [3710]1:8   [3711]1:11
   [3712]1:13   [3713]1:19   [3714]1:20   [3715]1:20   [3716]1:20
   [3717]1:21   [3718]1:23   [3719]1:24-25   [3720]1:25

   Revelation

   [3721]1:4   [3722]1:4-5   [3723]1:4-5   [3724]1:4-5   [3725]1:5
   [3726]1:5-6   [3727]1:5-6   [3728]1:6   [3729]1:10   [3730]1:20
   [3731]2:1   [3732]2:2   [3733]2:2   [3734]2:3   [3735]2:19
   [3736]2:21   [3737]3:2   [3738]3:10   [3739]3:10   [3740]3:10
   [3741]3:15   [3742]3:15-16   [3743]3:16   [3744]3:19   [3745]3:20
   [3746]4:8-9   [3747]4:9-10   [3748]4:9-11   [3749]4:11   [3750]5:9
   [3751]5:9-13   [3752]5:12-13   [3753]5:14   [3754]6:9-11
   [3755]7:10-12   [3756]8:3-4   [3757]9:20   [3758]9:20-21
   [3759]9:20-21   [3760]11:15-17   [3761]11:15-17   [3762]12:10
   [3763]12:11   [3764]12:14   [3765]13:4   [3766]13:8   [3767]13:15
   [3768]14:1-8   [3769]14:7   [3770]14:9-11   [3771]14:13
   [3772]15:2-3   [3773]15:2-3   [3774]15:3   [3775]16:8-11   [3776]19:1
   [3777]19:1-6   [3778]19:1-7   [3779]19:10   [3780]19:10   [3781]19:20
   [3782]20:1-10   [3783]21:5   [3784]21:8   [3785]21:23   [3786]22:9
   [3787]22:9   [3788]22:17   [3789]22:20   [3790]22:20

   Judith

   [3791]14:6
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Index of Greek Words and Phrases

     * agiazo: [3792]1
     * allotrioepiskopos: [3793]1
     * anthropos: [3794]1
     * apo: [3795]1 [3796]2
     * apo tou proseleluthenai: [3797]1
     * apostugountes>: [3798]1
     * asebes: [3799]1
     * autarkes: [3800]1
     * autois: [3801]1 [3802]2
     * autous: [3803]1
     * baptizein: [3804]1
     * baptizo: [3805]1
     * baptizontai: [3806]1
     * baptismon: [3807]1
     * boontos: [3808]1
     * brephe: [3809]1
     * geioras: [3810]1
     * deisidaimonia: [3811]1
     * deos: [3812]1
     * diabolous: [3813]1
     * diakonia: [3814]1 [3815]2
     * diakonoi: [3816]1
     * diakonos: [3817]1
     * ean theos ethele: [3818]1
     * ebaptisthe: [3819]1
     * eilikrineia: [3820]1
     * eilikrineia theou: [3821]1
     * eilikrines: [3822]1
     * einai te ten eusebeian epistemen theon therapeias: [3823]1
     * ekklesia: [3824]1 [3825]2
     * en: [3826]1
     * en eirene: [3827]1
     * energoumene: [3828]1
     * ex: [3829]1 [3830]2
     * exekremato: [3831]1
     * epi to auto: [3832]1
     * epimiktous: [3833]1
     * epiousios: [3834]1 [3835]2
     * episkopes: [3836]1
     * episkopounten: [3837]1
     * episkopous: [3838]1
     * euthumei tis: [3839]1
     * eulabeia: [3840]1
     * euruthmos, emmelos, emmeros kai sumphonos: [3841]1
     * eusebeia: [3842]1 [3843]2
     * eusebein: [3844]1
     * eusebeis: [3845]1
     * eusebes de o ten theian epistemen echon: [3846]1
     * e metanoia aute philosophias arche genetai: [3847]1
     * egemon arche kai meter: [3848]1
     * theos: [3849]1
     * theosebeia: [3850]1
     * theosebe: [3851]1
     * theou diakonos: [3852]1
     * ierosulous: [3853]1
     * kai: [3854]1
     * kai epithentes tas cheiras autois: [3855]1
     * kai sperma ton agathon apanton emin: [3856]1
     * kata theon: [3857]1
     * kateuthunai: [3858]1
     * kollasthai autois: [3859]1
     * kurios: [3860]1
     * matheutas: [3861]1
     * matheteusate: [3862]1
     * methorion: [3863]1
     * metameleia: [3864]1
     * metanoia: [3865]1
     * meden allo thele, e a o theos thele: [3866]1
     * monos palaios, en tois ton pelargon kurbesin: [3867]1
     * neophutos: [3868]1
     * nouthetountas: [3869]1
     * o epi te ousia emon armozon: [3870]1
     * oi proselutoi: [3871]1
     * oligorei: [3872]1
     * omilia pros ton theon e euche: [3873]1
     * osiostes kai eusebeia (therapeia) theon: [3874]1
     * osioteti tes aletheias: [3875]1
     * ou ton topon, alla to athroisma ton eklektoe ekklesiae kalo:
       [3876]1
     * paideia: [3877]1
     * paidia: [3878]1
     * panta ta ethne: [3879]1
     * paraitou: [3880]1
     * pararruomen: [3881]1
     * pentan: [3882]1
     * peri euches: [3883]1 [3884]2
     * peri philadelphias: [3885]1
     * pleonexia: [3886]1
     * poimen laon: [3887]1
     * pros to olinon: [3888]1
     * proselutoi: [3889]1
     * prota theon tima, metepeita te seio goneas: [3890]1
     * proton, ten peri to theion epimeleian, en kalousin ierateian:
       [3891]1
     * ruthmon: [3892]1
     * sebasma: [3893]1
     * semnous: [3894]1
     * skepasmata: [3895]1
     * sunkatepsephisthe: [3896]1
     * sun : [3897]1
     * te ekklesia: [3898]1
     * ten auten praxin: [3899]1
     * ten eilikrine dianoian: [3900]1
     * tios parousin: [3901]1
     * tmn egoumenon umon: [3902]1
     * to: [3903]1
     * to katharon kai amiges eterou: [3904]1
     * ton kurion: [3905]1
     * tou bebammenou: [3906]1
     * ton phoberota ton o thanatos: [3907]1
     * umnoi: [3908]1 [3909]2
     * uper ek perissou: [3910]1
     * uperetas: [3911]1
     * philautia: [3912]1
     * phronema tes sarkos: [3913]1
     * phusei d' outhen diapherein: [3914]1
     * photizomenoi: [3915]1
     * photismos: [3916]1
     * charan: [3917]1
     * cheirothesia: [3918]1
     * cheirotonein: [3919]1
     * cheirotonesantes: [3920]1 [3921]2
     * cheirotonia: [3922]1
     * cheirotouetheis: [3923]1
     __________________________________________________________________

Index of Hebrew Words and Phrases

     * vzmn hzh: [3924]1
     * vrym grvrym: [3925]1
     * vrkh vqsh tphlh tchnh: [3926]1
     * vsm: [3927]1
     * gvr: [3928]1 [3929]2
     * gyvr': [3930]1
     * gr: [3931]1
     * gr vn vryt: [3932]1
     * gr mly' hv': [3933]1
     * gr tsdq: [3934]1
     * gr sr: [3935]1
     * gr tsvv: [3936]1
     * h'mn: [3937]1
     * hv' tkl: [3938]1
     * vychd: [3939]1
     * vys'lvm: [3940]1
     * vs'lv: [3941]1
     * chvr phchvt: [3942]1
     * chlmvt: [3943]1
     * chmdty vysvty: [3944]1
     * chnykyv: [3945]1
     * tvylt: [3946]1
     * tvylt kl hgvph: [3947]1
     * tvl: [3948]1
     * tkl: [3949]1
     * ynh: [3950]1
     * ys ly kl: [3951]1
     * ys ly rv: [3952]1
     * klv mchmdym: [3953]1
     * mzmvr: [3954]1
     * my mnchvt : [3955]1
     * mlkvt hgrym: [3956]1
     * mskyl: [3957]1
     * ndvy: [3958]1
     * nvr': [3959]1
     * nchm: [3960]1
     * dh: [3961]1
     * l: [3962]1
     * l phny: [3963]1
     * sh tvylh: [3964]1
     * phny: [3965]1
     * qds: [3966]1
     * qhlh: [3967]1
     * rchl': [3968]1
     * syrym: [3969]1
     * skrym: [3970]1
     * slych tsvvr: [3971]1
     * thlym: [3972]1
     * thlym mzmrym: [3973]1
     * tsvvh: [3974]1
     __________________________________________________________________

Index of Latin Words and Phrases

     * "Salus nostra proprie non nititur fide nostra, sed eo uno potius
       quem apprehendimus per fidem nempe Jesu Christo: [3975]1
     * Acceptum panem et distributum discipulis, corpus illum suum fecit,
       hoc est corpus meum dicendo, id est, figura corporis mei: [3976]1
     * Annon plane innuunt (verba Joan. i. 25) nullum fuisse baptismi
       usum, et receptam fuisse opinionem inter ipsos (Judaeos), nullum
       debere esse, usquedum veniret Christus, vel Elias, vel propheta
       ille?: [3977]1
     * Bona conscientia turbam advocat; male etiam in solitudine anxi a
       atque solicita est----O te miserum si contemnis hunc testem:
       [3978]1
     * Bonus vir sine Deo nemo est: [3979]1
     * Caeteri autem resipiscere, id est, ad priorem mentis statum. vel ad
       meliorem mentem redire solent: [3980]1
     * Calamitas virtutis occasio est: [3981]1
     * Casta placent superis, pura cum veste venito.: [3982]1
     * Christianus est crucianus: [3983]1
     * Communi autem animantium omnium est conjunctionis appetitus
       procreandi causa, et cura quaedam eorum quae procreata sunt:
       [3984]1
     * Consuetudo sine veritate vetustas erroris est: [3985]1
     * Corpora obnoxia sunt et adscripta dominis; mens quidem sui juris:
       [3986]1
     * Dictum volunt qeon: [3987]1
     * Dies iste, quem tanquam extremum reformidas, aeterni natalis est:
       [3988]1
     * Diligere parentes prima naturae lex: [3989]1
     * Ecclesia est verum templum Dei, quod non in parietibus est, sed in
       corde et fide hominum qui credunt in eum et vocantur fideles:
       [3990]1
     * Ecclesia, ut omnes norunt, Graeca vox est, quae apud nos coetum,
       concionem, congregationem----que significat hujusmodi erant
       particulares dictae ecclesiae, ut Laodicaea: [3991]1
     * Ecquam tam amentem esse putas, qui illud quo vescatur, deum credat
       esse?: [3992]1
     * Electionis formula de episcopis et praefectis ecclesiae per
       suffragia populi constituendis, ea semper mihi visa est optima,
       quam legimus apud Augustinum de creatione Eradii.: [3993]1
     * Ergo age, chare pater, cervici imponere nostrae: Ipse subibo
       humeris, nec me labor iste gravabit: [3994]1
     * Errat enim siquis existimet tutum esse ibi regem, ubi nihil a rege
       tutum est. Securitas securitate mutua paciscenda est: [3995]1
     * Est aliquid in Christo formosius salvatore: [3996]1
     * Est aliquid quod Dominus praestare servo debeat, ut cibaria,
       vestiarium: [3997]1
     * Exterius quidem panis, quod ante fuerat, forma praedentitur, color
       ostenditur, sapor accinitur--quid enim aliud in superficie quam
       substantia vini conspicitur? Gusta, vinum sapit: odora vinum
       redolet; inspice, vini color intuetur.: [3998]1
     * Fortitudo, non est inconsulta temeritas, nec periculorum amor, nec
       formidabilium appetitio: [3999]1
     * Gaudium hoc non nascitur nisi ex virtutum conscientia; non potest
       gaudere nisi fortis, nisi justus, nisi temperans.: [4000]1
     * Hostis est uxor, invita quae ad virum nuptum datur: [4001]1
     * Imponuntur quidem manus etiam Paulo et Barnaba in ecclesia
       Antiochena, Spiritu sancto jubente; sed opus illud videtur plane
       extraordinarium, seu in ministerium illic singulare designatio; nec
       alterutrius eorum in presbyteratus facultatem ordinatio: [4002]1
     * Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni majus tormentum.: [4003]1
     * Invidus alterius rebus macrescit opimis: [4004]1
     * Ipse clavem imbuit: [4005]1
     * Isthuc est sapere, non, quod ante pedes modo est, videre; sed etiam
       illa quae futura sunt prospicere.: [4006]1
     * Magis urgent saeva inexpertos, grave est tenerae cervici jugum:
       [4007]1
     * Manus impositio; quid est enim aliud nisi oratio super hominem?:
       [4008]1
     * Meminisse autem diaconi debent, quoniam apostolos, id est,
       episcopos et praepositos dominus elegit: diaconos autem post
       ascensuna domini in coelos, apostoli sibi constituerunt episcopatus
       sui et ecclesiae ministros,: [4009]1
     * Natus baptizati, habetur pro baptizato: [4010]1
     * Nec minus difficile nobis fuerit velle credere, quam difficile
       fuerit, cadaveri volare: [4011]1
     * Necesse est hic in corde, ex corde intelligi, scilicet, ut non
       solum ore, sed etiam corde cantemus: [4012]1
     * Nemo tam pauper vivit quam natus est.: [4013]1
     * Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius,: [4014]1
     * Nomen istud culpa meruit, non natura: [4015]1
     * Non enim aqua lavat animam, sed ipsa prius lavatur a Spiritu:
       [4016]1
     * Non potest amor cum timore misceri: [4017]1
     * Novam plantam: [4018]1
     * Nulla sine Deo mens bona est: [4019]1
     * Nullum tamen clementia ex omnibus magis quam regem aut principem
       decet: [4020]1
     * Nunquam parum est; quod satis est, nunquam multum est, quod satis
       non est.: [4021]1
     * Nuper baptizatum et ascriptum in numerum christianorum: [4022]1
     * Omni ideo probabilitate caret sententia ista doctorum quorundam
       virorum de translatione ritus baptismatis Judaici, qui revera eo
       tempore nullus erat, in usum discipulorum suorum per Dominum Jesum
       facienda: [4023]1
     * Omnium fortunatissimum factum: [4024]1
     * Pallor: [4025]1
     * Pavor: [4026]1
     * Pendentque iterum narrantis ab ore: [4027]1
     * Placeat homini, quidquid Deo placuit: [4028]1
     * Principio, generi animantium omni est a natura tributum, ut se,
       vitam corpusque tueatur, declinetque ea quae nocitura videantur.:
       [4029]1
     * Proselytorum baptismum ante Johannem extitisse nullo testimonio
       certe constat: [4030]1
     * Quae (fides) donum Dei est singulare et rarum: [4031]1
     * Quae haec est in ve bis Pharisaicis audacia? quae uno edicto
       antichristi impietas et truculentia?: [4032]1
     * Quem locum frustra quidam adducunt, ut probent Judaeos ritu
       baptismi uti solitos fuisse, cum apertissime de christianis
       loquatur philosophus: [4033]1
     * Quem poenitet peccasse pene est innocens: [4034]1
     * Qui fines alieni officii invadit: [4035]1
     * Quo semel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem, testa diu: [4036]1
     * Quod longinquitas temporis objicitur, eo major suspicio, inesse
       debet, emanasse illas traditiones a Pseudo apostolis; qui mirandum
       in modum conturbaverunt sanctos apostolos; quo magis cavendum est,
       viri Christiani: [4037]1
     * Quos mille annos ligati Satanae in ecclesiae historia non invenio;
       nunquam enim tamdiu ligatus fuisse videtur diabolus.: [4038]1
     * Res est soliciti plena timoris amor.: [4039]1
     * Salus populi suprema lex esto: [4040]1
     * Semper avarus eget: [4041]1
     * Servis imperare moderate, laus est: [4042]1
     * Unus Pellaeo juveni non sufficit orbis: aestuat infelix angusto
       limine mundi: [4043]1
     * Verba dominica vix aliter grammatice, quam de diaeta seu coenaculo
       possunt intelligi, quod dominus charan: [4044]1
     * Vis tu cogitare istum, quem servum tuum vocas, ex iisdem seminibus
       ortum, eodem frui coelo, aeque spirare, aeque vivere, aeque mori?:
       [4045]1
     * Vive cum servo clementer, comiter quoque, et in sermonem admitte,
       et in consilium, et in convictum: [4046]1
     * Vox umnoi: [4047]1
     * a pascendo: [4048]1
     * abluo, lavo: [4049]1
     * ad hominem: [4050]1
     * aquilustria: [4051]1
     * arcana imperii: [4052]1
     * aspergo: [4053]1
     * bene: [4054]1
     * bonum: [4055]1
     * consessus: [4056]1
     * credere: [4057]1
     * credere Deo: [4058]1
     * credere Deum: [4059]1
     * de proprio ingenio: [4060]1
     * et addit; uti et ejusdem collationem; quam inter hunc proselytorum
       baptismum et sacramentum initiationis christianorum instituit cum
       magno grano salis accipiendam putamus.: [4061]1
     * et cera: [4062]1
     * et dederunt illis: [4063]1
     * eundem actum, vel eandem actionem,: [4064]1
     * felo de se: [4065]1
     * fides est fiducia: [4066]1
     * hic murus aheneus esto, Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa:
       [4067]1
     * hic simpliciter vertamus per eligere, decernere, designare,
       ordinare per electionem: [4068]1
     * ignoti nulla cupido: [4069]1 [4070]2
     * immergo: [4071]1
     * in statu quo: [4072]1
     * mergo: [4073]1
     * metrum, vel numeros, sive quam Graeci ruthmon: [4074]1
     * ministrae: [4075]1
     * necessaria ad victum: [4076]1
     * nosce te ipsum: [4077]1
     * ortum est hoc verbum ex Graeeorum consuetudine, qui porrectis
       manibus suffragia ferebant: [4078]1
     * pendebat: [4079]1
     * per suffragia delegissent, creassent: [4080]1
     * perfluamus: [4081]1
     * perfundo: [4082]1
     * poena: [4083]1
     * poenitentia: [4084]1
     * pro tempore: [4085]1
     * proprie notat glutine coadunare, &c. metaphorice designat arctiorem
       conjunctionem, &c. quia quae glutine coadunata sunt, arcte
       conjuncta sunt, tenaciterque adhaerent, ut non facile queant
       separari: [4086]1
     * quasi cum cera, mel quod integrum est et solidum et nulla sui parte
       fraudatur.: [4087]1
     * quondam: [4088]1
     * rara avis in terris: [4089]1
     * resipiscentia: [4090]1
     * sincerus: [4091]1
     * sine et cera: [4092]1
     * summum bonum: [4093]1
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