lity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Mat. 5. 16.-Be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. Phi. 2. 15. 11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, If through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. Ro. 5. 15.-That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Jno. 1. 9.-God our Saviour will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. 1 Ti. 2. 3_6. 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Ro. 6. 1, 2.-Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. 2 Ti. 1. 9. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Eph. 1. 4.-For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 1 Th. 4. 7.-That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 1 Pe. 4. 2.-For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 Jno. 2. 16. 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; We look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Phi. 3. 20.Waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Co. 1. 7. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God. 2 Pe. 3. 12.-The hope which is laid up for you in heaven. Col. 1.5. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. He. 9. 28.-When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Col. 3. 4. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 Th. 4. 16, 17. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 1 Jno. 3. 2. The Lord Jesus Christ,... shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. 2 Ti. 4. 1.-The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Th. 1. 7, 8. The Son of man shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels. Lu. 9. 26. 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world. Ga. 1.4; Eph. 5. 2.-Who gave himself a ransom for all. 1 Ti. 2. 6.-He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 2 Ço. 5. 15.-The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Ga. 2. 20. Such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. He. 7.26.-Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Ps. 130. 7, 8. We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Eph. 2. 10.-Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. 1 Pe. 2. 9.-If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. Ex. 19. 5. 15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 2 Ti. 4. 2. Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Ti. 4. 12.-He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. Lu. 10. 16. PUT CHAPTER III. OUT them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Ro. 13. 1.-Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 1 Pe. 2. 13, 14. As we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Ga. 6. 10. 2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. Put on, ... as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering. Col. 3. 12.-Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. Eph. 4. 31. 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the king. dom of God? And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Co. 6. 9, 11.-You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. We all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Eph. 2. 1, 3.-Ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. Eph. 5. 8.-For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revel lings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. 1 Pe. 4. 3. 4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. Tit. 2. 11.-In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the gies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. propitiation for our sins. 1 Jno. 4. 9, 10.-There is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Is. 45. 21, 22. 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. 2. 8, 9.-Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. 2 Ti. 1. 9.-Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Ga. 2. 16.-Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Ro. 3. 20. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Jno. 3. 3, 5. Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Ro. 12. 2.-Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Eph. 4. 22, 23. 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given: because that Jesus was not yet glorified. Jno. 7. 37-39.-Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. Ac. 2. 33. 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Ro. 3. 24.-Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Ro. 5. 1. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Whom he justified, them he also glorified. Ro. 8. 16, 17, 30.-This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 1 Jno. 5. 11, 12.-In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Tit. 1. 2. 8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Co. 15. 58.-Faith, if it hath not works, is 'dead, being alone. Ja. 2. 17. Tit. 2. 14. 9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealo Let no man... judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. If ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (touch not; taste not; handle not; which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doe trines of men? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. Col. 2. 16, 17, 20_23. 10 A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject; 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. 1 Ti. 1. 19, 20. — If he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican. Mat. 18. 17.- Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. Ro. 16. 17.- Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 2 Th. 3. 6, 14.—Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2 Ti. 3. 5.-If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. 2 Jno. 10, 11. 12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter. Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus. 2 Ti. 4. 12.-Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord. Eph. 6. 21. 13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. A certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. Ac. 18. 24; 1 Co. 1. 12. 14 And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. 15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. So labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. Ac. 20. 35.-Let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Eph. 4. 28.-Ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 1 Th. 2. 9.-Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. Phi. 4. 17.-Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their jour ney after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth. 3 Jno. 5-8. It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO PHILEMON. AUL, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. Eph. 4. 1. To make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in bonds. Eph. 6. 19, 20. Phile. 9. 2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: Say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. Col. 4. 17. 3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 1 Pe. 5. 5.-The God of peace. He. 13. 20. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 1 Co. 16. 23. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Jno. 14. 27. 4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, Phi. 1. 3, 4-God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers. Ro. 1. 9. 5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; Faith which worketh by love. Ga. 5. 6.-Your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints. Eph. 1. 15. 6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. 7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Mat. 5. 16.-Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. 1 Pe. 2. 12.-By the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men. 2 Co. 9. 13. 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. 2 Co. 10. 1. Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. Col. 4. 9. Though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 1 Co. 4. 15. 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: Phile. 10. 13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel : 14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Co. 9.7. 15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; 16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? 17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. Partakers of the heavenly calling. He. 3. 1. 18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account; 23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus; Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ. Col. 1. 7.-Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Col. 4. 12. 24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers. 25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. Col. 4. 14.-Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. 2 Ti. 4. 10, 11.— Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. Ac. 12. 25.-Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel. Ac. 19. 29. Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE HEBREWS. If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. Nu. 12. 6. Thou spakest in vision to thy holy one. Ps. 89. 19; Ac. 2. 30, 31.-Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 Pe. 1. 21. 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Jno. 1. 17.-The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Jno. 14. 10.-How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him? He. 2. 3. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Ps. 2. 8.-The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. Jno. 3. 35.-All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Mat. 28. 18.-One in a certain place testified, saying,... Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. He. 2. 6, 8.- If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. Ro. 8. 17. To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 1 Co. 8. 6.-All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Jno. 1. 3.-For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him. Col. 1. 16. Pr. 8. 22_31. 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Jno. 1. 14.-They saw his glory. Lu. 9. 32.-He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. Jno. 14. 9.-Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. Col. 1. 15; 2 Co. 4. 4.- In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Col. 2, 9. By him all things consist. Col. 1. 17. 521 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. He. 9. 12.-This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God. He. 10. 12.-Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. 1 Pe. 2. 24.-We have such a High priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. He. 8. 1.-The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Ps. 110. 1.-He raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places. Eph. 1. 20. 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest. That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Lu. 1. 32, 35.-The name of the only begotten Son of God. Jno. 3. 18.-Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. Eph. 1. 21.God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. Phi. 2. 9, 10.-His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Is. 9. 6. 5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? He hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ac. 13. 33; Ps. 2. 7. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. 2 Sa. 7. 14.-He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. Ps. 89. 26, 27. 6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Re. 19. 10. Worship him, all ye gods. Ps. 97. 7.-When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. Mat. 25. 31.-When he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. Mar. 8. 38.-Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. 1 Pe. 3. 22. The angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will [67] |