crets; all Profaneness, Hatred of God; Self love, Self-feeking, and all other inordinate and immoderate Setting of our Mind, Will, or Affetions upon other Things, and taking them off from him in Whole or in Part vain Credulity, Unbelief, Herefy, Misbeliefs, Distrust, Despair ; Incorrigibleness and Infenfibleness under Judg Deut. 29. 29. The fecret things belong unto the Lord our God: but thole things which are revealed be long unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. 211 Y Tit. 1. 16. They profefs that they know God, but in works they deny him, being abominable, and difobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Heb. 12. 16. Left there be any fornicator, or profane perfon, as Efau, who for one more fel of meat, fold his birth-right. your felves fat with the chiefeft of 1 John 4. 1. Beloved, believe not every fpirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many falfe prophets are gone out into the world. e Rom. 1. 30. Backbiters, hab Heb. 3. 12. Take heed, bre ters of God, defpightful, proud, thren, left there be in any of you boafters, an evil heart of unbelief, in departs ing from the living God 32 Tim, 3, 2. For men fhall be lovers of their own felyes, covetous, boafters, proud, blafphemers, dif obedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, iw, Phil. 2. 21. For all feek their own, not the things which are Jer fus Chrifts, 1 John 2.15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. v. 16. For all that is in the world, the luft of the flesh, and the luft of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. I Sam. 2. 29. Where fore kick ye at my facrifice, and at mine offering which I have commanded in my habitation, and honoureft thy fons above me, to make Gal. 5.20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, ftrife, feditions, herefies, Titus 3.10. A man that is an heretick, after the first and fecond admonition, reject. 8 Acts 26. 9. I verily thought with my felf, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jefus of Nazareth. h. Pfalm 78, 22. Because they be lieved not in God, and trufted not in his falvation. oo ob dog iGen. 4. 13. And Cain faid unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear, k Fer. s.3, O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou haft ftricken them, but they have not grieved; thou haft confumed them, but ments, Hardness of Heart", Pride", Prefumption, carnal Security P, tempting of God, ufing unlawful Means', and trufting in lawful Means, carnal Delights and Joys, corrupt, blind, and indifcreet Zeal, Lukewarmness ". and Deadness in the Things of God, eftranging our felves, and apoevil, that good may come? whose damnation is juft. but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock, they have refufed to return. Ifa. 42. 25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the ftrength of battle; Jer. 17.5. Thus faith the Lord, Curfed be the man that trufteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whofe heart departeth from the Lord. and it hath fet him on fire round 2 Tim. 3. 4. Traitors, heady, about, yet he knew not; and it high-minded, lovers of pleasure burned him, yet he laid it not to more than lovers of God. heart. Rom. 2. 5. But after thy hardnefs and impenitent heart, treafureft up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. Jer. 13. 15. Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken. • Pfalm 19. 13. Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins, let them not have dominion over me then fhall I be upright, and fhall be innocent from the great tranfgreffion, P Zephan. 1. 12. And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will fearch Jerufalem with candles, and punish the men that are fettled on their lees, that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil. 4 Mat. 4. 7. Jefus faid unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Rom. 3.8. And not rather, as we be flanderously reported, and as fome affirm that we fay, Let us do f Gal. 4. 17. They zealously affe&t you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. John 16. 2. They fhall put you out of the fynagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whofoever killeth you, will think that he doth God fervice. Rom. 10. 2. For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Luke 9. 54. And when his difciples James and John faw this, they faid, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and confume them, even as Elias did? v. 55. But he turned, and rebuked them, and faid, Ye know not what manner of fpirit ye are of. w Rev. 3. 16. So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will fpue thee out of my mouth. * Rev. 3. 1. And unto the angel in the church in Sardis, write, These things faith he that hath the seven fpirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hafta name apoftatizing from God, Praying, or Giving any Religious Worship to Saints, Angels, or any other Creatures, all Compacts, and confulting with the Devil, and hearkning to his Suggestions, making Men name that thou liveft, and art dead. • Ezek. 14. s. That I may take the house of Ifrael in their own heart, because they are all eftranged from me through their idols. Ifa. 1. 4. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a feed of evildoers, children that are corrupters, they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the holy One of Ifrael unto anger, they are gone away backward. v. 5. Why fhould ye be ftricken any more ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is fick, and the whole heart faint. Rom. 10. 13. For whofoever hall call upon the name of the Lord, fhall be faved. v. 14. How then fhall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how fhall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how fhall they hear without a preacher? Hof. 4.12. My people ask counsel at their ftocks, and their ftaff declareth unto them for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. Acts 10. 25. And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. v. 26. But Peter took him up, faying, Stand up; I my felf also am a man. Rev, 19. 10. And I fell at his feet to worship him: and he faid unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-fervant, and of thy brethren that have the reftimony of Jefus; worship God: for the teftimony of Jefus is the Spirit of prophecy. Mat. 4. 10. Then faith Jefus unto him, Get thee hence,Satan: for it is written, Thou fhalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve. Col. z. 18. Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humility, and worshipping of angels, intruding into thofe things which he hath not feen, vainly puft up by his fleshly mind. Rom. 1. 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped, and served the creature more than the Creator,who is bleffed for ever. Amen. Lev. 20. 6. And the foul that turneth after fuch as have familiar fpirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even fet my face againft that foul, and will cut him off from among his people. I Sam. 28. 7. Then faid Saul unto his fervants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his fervants faid to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar fpirit at Endor. v. 11. Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? and he said, Bring me up Samuel. Compared with 1 Chron. 10. 13. So Saul died for his tranfgreffion which he committed againft the Lord, even against the word of the Lord which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; v. 14. And enquired not of the Lord: therefore he flew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the fon of Jesse. Alts 5. 3. But Peter faid, Ananias, I Men the Lords of our Faith and Confciences, flighting and defpifing God, and his Commands, -Difconrefifting and grieving of his Spirit, tent and Impatience at his Difpenfations, charg ing him foolishly for the Evils he inflicts on us ; and afcribing the Praife of any Good we either are, have, or can do, to Fortune 8, Idols h nias, why hath Satan filled thine Pfalm 73. 2. But as for me, my heart to lie to the holy Ghoft, feet were almoft gone; my steps and to keep back part of the price had well-nigh flipt. v. 3. For I of the land? was envious at the foolifh; when I faw the prosperity of the C 2 .81 Cor. 1. 24. Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but v. 13. Verily I have anfed are helpers of your joy for by faith ye ftand. Mar. 23. 9. And call no man your father upon earth: for one is your Father which is in heaven. heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. v. 14. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chaftned every morning. v. 15. If fay, I will fpeak thus behold, d Deut. 32.15. But Jefhurun waxed I fhould offend against the generafat, and kicked: thou art waxen tion of thy children. V2 22. So fat, thou art grown thick, thou foolish was I, and ignorant; I was art covered with fatnefs; then he as a beaft before thee. Fob 1. 22. forfook God which made him, and In all this Job finned not, nor lightly esteemed the rock of his charged God foolishly. Sam. 6. 7. Now therefore falvation. 2 Sam. 12. 9. Wherefore haft thou defpifed the com- make a new cart, and take two mandment of the Lord, to do evil milch-kine, on which there hath in his fight thou haft killed Uriah come no no yoke, and tie the kine to the Hittite with the fword, and the cart cart, and bring their calves haft taken his wife to be thy wife, 'home from them: v. 8. And take and haft flain him with the fword the ark of the Lord, and lay it upof the children of Ammon. Prov. on the cart, and put the jewels of 13. 13. Whofo defpifeth the word, gold which ye return him for a fhall be deftroyed but he that trefpafs-offering, in a coffer by feareth the commandment, fhall be the fide thereof, and fend it arewarded. way, that it may go. v. 9. And • Alts 7. ST. Yeftiff-necked, and fee, if it goeth up by the way of uncircumcifed in heart and ears, ye his own coaft to Beth-fhemesh, do always refift the holy Ghoft: then he hath done us this great your fathers did, fo do ye. Eph. evil: but if not, then we shall know 4. 30. And grieve not the holy Spirit that it is not his hand that fmote of God, whereby ye are fealed un- us; it was a chance that happened to the day of redemption. 2 to us. dols our felves or any other Creature *. 106. Queft. What are we especially taught by thefe Words Before me in the First Commandment? Anfo. Thele Words, Before me, or before my Face, in the First Commandment teach us, that God who feeth all Things, takes fpecial Notice of and is much difpleafed with the Sin of having any other God that fo it may be an Argument to dif fwade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent Provocation '; as alfo to perfwade us to do as in his Sight, whatever we do in his Service m Dan. s. 23. But haft lifted up thy self against the Lord of heaven, and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines have drunk wine in them, and thou haft praised the gods of filver and gold, of brafs, iron, wood, and ftone, which fee not, nor hear nor know: and the God in whofe hand thy breath is, and whofe are all thy ways, haft thou not glorified. i Deut. 8. 17. And thou fay in thine heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth. Dan. 4. 30. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the houfe of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? * Hab. 1.16. Therefore they facrifice unto their net, and burn in cenfe unto their drag; because by them their portion & fat, and their meat plenteous. 166. Ezek, 8.5. Then faid he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way towards the 107. Quest. north: fo I lift up mine eyes the way towards the north, and behold, north-ward, at the gate of the altar, this image of jealousy in the entry. v. 6. He faid furthermore unto me, Son of man, feeft thou what they do even the great abominations that the houfe of Ifrael committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thoufhalt fee greater abominations, &c. [to the end of the chapter.] Pfalm 44. 20. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or ftretched out our hands to a ftrange God: v. 21, fhall not God fearch this out? for he knoweth the fecrets of the heart. in 1 Chron. 28.9. And thou,Solo mon my fon, know thou the God of thy father, and ferve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind: for the Lord fearcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts if thou feek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forfake him, he will caft thee off for ever. 107. * Exod. |