Matth. 10. 22. He that endureth to the end fhall be faved. 24. Promifes to believers in fickness and at death.

1 Cor. 11.32. But when we are judged, we are chaftened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Heb. 12. 6,7,8,11. For whom the Lord loveth,he chafteneth, and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth: If ye endure chaftening, God dealeth with you as with Sons---Shall we not be in fubjection to the father of spirits, and live.-- But he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness; No chaftening for the prefent feemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable frait of righteousness to them which are exercifed thereby.

James 5. 14. Is any fick, let them fend for the Elders of the Church--- The prayer of faith shall fave the fick, and the Lord thall raife him up, and if he have committed fins, they fhall be forgiven him.

John 11. 3. He whom thou loveft is fick-.

Pfal. 41. 1, 2, 3. Bleffed is the man that confidereth the poor: the Lord fhall deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord fhall preferve him and keep him alive--The Lord will frengthen him upon the bed of languishing: Thou wilt make all his bed in his fickness.

2 Cor. 5. 1, &c. For we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diffolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. For in this we groan carneftly, defusing to be clothed upon, with our houfe which is from Heaven---For we that are in us tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought this for the felf fame thing is God; who alfo hath given to us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are alwaies confident, knowing that whilft we are at home in the body, we are abfent from the Lord. (For we walk by faith, not by fight) we are confident Ifay, and willing rather to be abfent from the body, and to be prefent with the Lord.

Phil. 1. 20, 21, 23, Now alfo Chrift shall be magnified in, my body, whether it be by life or by death. For to me to dthM

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live is Chrift, and to die is gain--infrait betwixt two, having a defire to depart, and to be with Chrift, which is far better.

Luke 23.43. To day (halt thou be with me in Paradise.

Rev. 14. 13. I heard a voice from Heaven, faying to me, write, Bleffed are the dead, which die in the Lord, from henceforth; yea, faith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.

Heb. 2. 14. Forifmuch as the children are partakers of Aleth and blood, he also himself likewife took part of the fame, that through death, he might deftroy him that had the power of death, that is, the Devil; and deliver them who through fear. of death, were all their life time fubject to bondage..

Pfal. 68. 20. He that is our God, is the God of falvation, and to God the Lord belong the iffues from death.

2 Tim. 1.10. Who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel.:

1 Cor. 15. 54. O death! where is thy fting? O grave! where is thy victory? The fting of death is fin; and the ftrength of fin is the Law: but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jefus Chrift,

25. Promises to perfevering Believers, of the Refurre&ion into Life, and of Justification in Judgement, and of Glorification.

1 Cor. 15. throughout. John 5. 22, 24,28,29. He that heareth my Word, and believeth on him that fent me, hath everJafting life, and fhall not come into condemnation, but is paffed from death to life---The hour is coming in the which all toat are in the graves, fhall hear his voice, and fhall come forth; they that have done good, to the refurrection of life, and they that have done evil, to the refurre&tion of damnation.

Jobs 14. 19. Becaufe I live, ye fhall live also.

Col. 3. 1, 3,4. If ye be rifen with Chrift, feek thofe things which are above, where Chrift fitteth at the right hand of God. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth For ye are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Chrift who is our life thall appear, then shall ye alfo appear with himin glory.

2 Thef. 1. 10. He fhall come to be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all them that believe...

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Matth. 10 224 48. Come ye bleffed, &c. The righteous in le eternal.

Job 12. 26. If any man ferve me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall also my fervant be. If any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

Jobm 14. 1, 2, 3. Let not your heart be troubled---In my Fathers houfe are many mantions I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to my felf, that where I am, there ye yc may be allo.

John 17. 24. Father, I will that they alfo whom thou haft given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold the glory which thou haft given me.

John 2. 17. GO TO MY BRETHREN, and SAT UNTO THEM, I ASCEND TO MY FATHER, and YOUR FATHER, TO MY GOD, and 70 YOUR GOD.

1 Cor. 6. 2, 3. Know ye not that the Saints fhall judge the world? Know ye not that we fhall judge Angels?

Als 3. 19. Repent and be converted, that your fins may be blotted out, when the time of refreshing fhall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall fend Jefus Christ--

Luke 14. 14. Thou shalt be recompenfed at the refurrection of the juft.

Let the Reader bere take notice of that most important obfervation of Dr. Hammond, that drásaris, the Refurrection, dotb often fignifie, in general [our living in the next world, or our next ftate of life in the Scriptures; and not the last Resurrection onty, unless it be called, The Refurrection of the flesh, or of the body for diftinction; or the context have before explained it otherwife. By which 1 Cor. 15. and Chrifts answer to the Sadducees, may be the better understood.

26. Promifes to the godly for their children, fuppofing them to be faithful in dedicating them to God, and educating them in bir boly waies.

Exod.20. Commandment 2d. Shewing mercy to thousands in them that love me, and keep my Commandments.

Ads 2.39. For the promife is made to you, and to your' children, and to all that are afar off, &c.

Pfal. 37.26. His feed is bleffcd.

I Cor. 7. 14. Elfe were your children unclean, but now are they holy.

Matth. 23. 37. O Jerufalem, Jerufalem, how oft would I have gathered thy children together, even as a Hen gathereth hee chickens under her wings, and ye would not.

Rom. 11. 11. Through their fall falvation is come to the Gentiles, 16, 17, 18, &c. fhew, that they were broken off by unbelief, and we are graffed in, and are holy as they were.

Matth. 28. 19, 20. Go and Difciple all Nations, baptizing them, &c.

Kom. 4 16. That the promife might be fure to all the feed, And 9.8. The children of the Promife are counted for the feed.

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Matth. 19. 13, 14. Jefus faid, suffer little children, and forbid them not to come unto me, for of fuch is the Kingdom of Heaven.

27. Promifes to the Church, of its increase, and prefervation, and perfection.

Rev. 11. 15. The Kingdoms of the world are become the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Chrift.

Luke 1.33. He fhall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his Kingdom there thall be no end.

Matth. 13. 31,33. The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a gran of Muftard-feed, which a man took, and fowed in his field: which is indeed the leaft of all feeds; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree. fo that the birds of the air lodge in the branches of it---The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto leven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was levened.

Jobn 12. 32. And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men un

to me.

Dan. 2. 44. In the daies of thefe Kings, fhall the God of Heaven fet up a Kingdom which fhall never be deftroyed, and the Kingdom (hall not be left to other people, but it thall break in pieces, and confume all thefe Kingdoms, and it (hall find for ever.

Matth. 16. 18. Upon this Rock will I build my Church, and the gates of Hell thall not prevail against it.

Ephef. 4. 12, 16. For the perfecting of the Saints; for the

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work of the Ministry; for the edifying of the body of Chrift; till we all come in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfe& min; unto the measure of the ftature of the fulness of Chrift: that henceforth we may be no more children toffed to and fro, and carryed about with every wind of Doctrine, by the fleight of men, and cunning craftinels, whereby they lye in wait to deceive; but fpeaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Chrift: from whom the whole body filly joyned together and compacted, by that which every joynt fupplicth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increafe of the body to the edifying of it felf in 'Love.

Ephef. 5. 25, 26, 27. Chrift loved the Church, and gave himfelffor it, that he might fan&ific and cleanse it, with the wathing of water by the Word; that he might prefent it to himself a glorious Church, not having fpot or wrinckle, or any fuch thing; but that it should be holy, and without blemish. Read Rev. 21, & 22.

Matth. 28. 20. Lo, I am with you to the end of the

world.

Matth. 24. 14. And this Gofpel of the Kingdom fhall be preached in all the world for a witness to all Nations; and then shall the end come.

Matth. 21. 44. Whofoever fhall fall on this ftone, fhall be broken; but on whomfoever it fhall fall, it will grind him to powder.

The obfcure Prophetick paffages Ipafs by.

So much for living by Faith on the Promises of God.

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