long unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

x Rom. iii. 5. But if our unrigh. teousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.) Ver. 7. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? Rom. vi. 1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.

y Eccl. viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Eccl. ix. 3. This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead Psal. xxxix. throughout. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue :

z Mat. v. 21. to the end. [See Quest. 99. letter o.]

a Ezek. xiii. 22. Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life.

b 2 Pet. iii. 16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Mat. xxii. 24. to Verse 31. Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. Ver. 25.

Now there were with us seven brethren; and the first-Ver. 28. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. Ver. 29. Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. Ver. 30. For in the resurrection

c Isa. xxii. 13. And, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine; let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. Jer. xxiii. 34. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house. Ver. 36. And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God. Ver. 38. But since ye say, The burden of the Lord; therefore thus saith the Lord, Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord.

d 1 Tim. i. 4. Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. Ver. 6. From which (faith) some hav ing swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling; Ver. 7. Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. 1 Tim. vi. 4. He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Ver. 5. Perverse dispu tings of men of corrupt minds, and 'destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. Ver. 20. O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust,

avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. 2 Tim. ii. 14. Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord, that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Tit. iii. 9. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

e Deut. xviii. 10,-14. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Ver. 11. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Ver. 12. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord, &c. Acts xix. 13. Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

ƒ 2 Tim. iv. 3. For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. Ver. 4. And they shall turn away their ears from the ruth, and shall be turned unto fables. Rom. xiii. 13. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drun. kenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying: Ver. 14. But put ye on the Lord Je sus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. 1 Kings xxi. 9, And she wrote in the Jetters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Nabothon high among the people: Ver. 10. And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king: and then carry

him out, and stone him that he may die. Jude, Ver. 4. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

g Acts xiii. 45. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. 1 John iii. 12. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother: and wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

b Psal. i. 1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 Pet. iii. 3. Knewing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.

i 1 Pet. iv. 4. Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.

k Acts xiii. 45. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Ver. 46. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. Ver. 50. But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. Acts in 18. And they called them, and com

manded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. Acts xix. 9. But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. 1 Thess. ii. 16. Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up their sius alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. Heb. x. 29. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

7 2 Tim. iii. 5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away. Mat. xxiii. 14. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites? for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Matt. vi. 1. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Ver. 2. Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. Ver. 5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the sy. nagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. Ver. 16. Moreover, when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

m Mark viii. 38. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels

n Psal. Ixxiii. 14. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. Ver. 15. If I say, I will speak thus, behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

o 1 Cor. vi. 5. I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? Ver. 6. But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Eph. v. 15. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Ver. 16. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ver. 17. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

p Isa. v. 4. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 2 Pet. i. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruit ful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ver. 9. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

q Rom ii. 23. Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? Ver. 24. For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

r Gal. iii. 1. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among

Eli were sons of Belial, they knew not the Lord. Ver. 17. Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord. Ver., 22. Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernaale of the congregation. Ver. 24. Nay, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear; ye make the Lord's people to transgress. Compared with 1 Sam. iii. 13. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

115 x Exod. xx. 8-11.

116. y Deut. v. 12. Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Ver. 13. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: Ver. 14. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. Gen. ii. 2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Ver. 3. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because

that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 1 Cor. xvi. 1. Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Ver. 2. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Acts xx. 7. And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight. Matt. v. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Ver. 18. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. İsa. lvi. 2. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it: that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Ver. 4. For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant Ver. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant: Ver 7. Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in