TEACHERS.

CXXXVII. They deceive the people with flatteries and false doctrine. Isa. ix. 14-16. The Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail. The prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. For the leaders of this people cause them to err. Ch. iii. 12.

Jer. v. 30, 31. A wonderful thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so.

xiv. 14. The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. (Ch. xxvii. 9, 10, &c.) Ch. vi. 14. They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Ch. viii. 11. Ezek. xiii. 10. 18. Mic. iii. 5. xii. 10. Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard. Ver. 11.

men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.

xv. 9. In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. xxiii. 16. Woe unto you, ye blind guides. Ch. xv. 14.

xxiv. 11. Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.-Ver. 24. If it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Mark xiii. 22.

Luke xi. 52. They have taken away the key of knowledge, &c.

Acts xx. 30. Of your ownselves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Ch. xv. 1. 24. Gal. i. 7.

Rom. xvi. 17, 18. Mark them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them. By good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.

2 Cor. xi. 13. Such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Ver. 14, 15. 20.

ed, I have dreamed.-Ver. 27, 28. Ch. xxviii. 9. 15. xxix. 8, 9. 31, 32.-1. 6. Zech. x. 2. Lam. ii. 14. Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee, and have not discovered thy iniquity.

Ezek. xiii. 10. Ye have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there was no peace: one built the wall, and another daubed it with untempered mortar. (Ch. xxii. 28 to 31.) Ver. 14. Thus saith the Lord, I will break down the wall which ye have daubed with untempered mortar; it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof. Ver. 15. xiii. 18. Woe unto them that sew pillows to all arm-holes. See to ver. 23. Ch. xxii. 28. xxii. 26. They have put no difference between the holy and profane, between the unclean and the clean.

xxxiv. 4. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost: but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

xliv. 10. 12. The Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray; because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity. Ch. xiv. 9, 10.

Col. ii. 8. Beware lest any man spoil you, through philosophy and vain deceit; after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.-Ver. 18. Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humility, and worshipping of angels.Ver. 22. After the commandments and doctrines of men.

2 Thess. ii. 3. Let no man deceive you by any means.-Ver. 4. The man of sin exalteth himself. Ver. 9, 10. Whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs, and lying wonders; and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness.

1 Tim. iv. 1-3. Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats.

vi. 3. They consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ver. 4.

2 Tim. ii. 18. Who concerning the truth have erred, and overthrow the faith of some.

Ver. 13. Evil men and seducers wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Phil. iii. 17.

xi. 1. Be ye followers of me, even as I am of Christ.

xvi. 16. Submit yourselves to such as have addicted themselves to the ministry, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth. Heb. xiii. 7. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you

2 Pet. ii. 1, 2. There were false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. Many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. Jude 4 to 20. 1 John ii. 18, 19. Even now are there many antichrists. They went out from us, but they were not of us.-Ver. 26. These things I have written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

iv. 1. Many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 John 7, 8. Many deceivers are entered into the world; look to yourselves. 3 John 10. Rev. ii. 2. Thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars.-Ver. 9. I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not. xviii. 23. By thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Ch. xix. 20.-xx. 10. Gal. vi. 13.

DUTIES TOWARDS THE MINISTRY.

CXXXVIII. To receive their instructions. Deut. xvii. 9-11. Thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and inquire; and thou shalt do according to the sentence which they shall shew thee. According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand nor to the left. 1 Sam. ix. 9.

2 Chron. xx. 20. Believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. Ch. xxx. 22.

Mal. ii. 7. The priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

dering the end of their conversation.-Ver. 17. Obey them which have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account; that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you.

CXXXIX. To esteem and love them. 1 Cor. iv. 1. Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

xvi. 11. Let no man despise him, [Timothy,] but conduct him forth in peace.

2 Cor. viii. 7. Ye abound in love to us.Ver. 24. Shew the proof of your love. Gal. iv. 14. Ye received me as an angel of God. Phil. ii. 2. Fulfil ye my joy.

1 Thess. v. 12, 13. Know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you. Esteem them highly in love for their work's sake. Phil. ii. 29.

1 Tim. v. 17. Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Tit. iii. 15. Greet them who love us in the faith.

CXL. To pray for them. Acts xii. 5. Prayer was made without ceasing, of the church unto God, for Peter in the prison, and he was delivered. Ver. 7.

Matt. ix. 38. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into the harvest.

Rom. xv. 30. I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me. Ver. 31, 32.

2 Cor. i. 10, 11. God delivered us from death; you helping together by prayer for us. Phil. i. 19. Philem. 22.

1 Thess. v. 25. Brethren, pray for us. Heb.

me.

Luke x. 16. He that heareth you heareth Matt. x. 40. John xiii. 20.

1 Cor. iv. 6. Be not puffed up for one

2 Thess. iii. 1, 2. Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified; and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men.

Eph. vi. 19, 20. Pray for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of

9.

2 Chron. xxxi. 4. Hezekiah commanded the people to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord. See Neh. xiii. 10, 11.

Ezek. xliv. 30. Mal. iii. 10.

Matt. x. 10. Jesus said, The workman is worthy of his meat.

1 Cor. ix. 11. Paul said, If we have sown

unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things?-Ver. 13, 14. Do ye not know, that they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? Even so hath God ordained, that they which preach the gospel, should live of the gospel. See ver. 4. to 9. Deut. xxv. 4.

Gal. vi. 6. Let him that is taught in the word, communicate to him that teacheth, in all good things.

Phil. iv. 16, 17. Paul said, Ye sent once and again to my necessity. Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound

to your account. Ver. 18. Heb. x. 34.

CXLII. Despising them, and not hearkening to their instructions: Threats.-Deut. xvii. 12. The man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken to the priest that standeth to minister before the Lord, even that man shall die.

2 Chron. xxxvi. 15, 16. The Lord sent by his messengers the prophets; but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, and there was no remedy. Jer. vii. 25.-xxv. 3, 4.xxvi. 5.-xxix. 19.-xxxv. 15.

Isa. xxx. 9, 10. This is a rebellious people, which will not hear the law of the Lord: which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things. 1 Kings xxii. 2 Chron. xxxvi. 15, 16. Jer. xi. 21.

8.

Mic. ii. 6.

priests, they favoured not the elders.

hearken unto thee, for they will not hearken Ezek. iii. 7. The house of Israel will not unto me, saith the Lord.

talking against thee by the walls, and in the xxxiii. 30. The children of thy people are

doors of the houses.

strive with the priest. Hos. iv. 4. Thy people are as they that

and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped Zech. vii. 11, 12. They refused to hearken, their ears, that they should not hear the words which the Lord hath sent in his Spirit by the prophets; therefore came wrath from the Lord of hosts.

Matt. xviii. 17. If one neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican.

x. 11. 14. Into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, shake the dust off your feet.-Ver. 15. It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judg ment than for that city.-Luke x. 16. He that despiseth you despiseth me.

John i. 11. Christ came to his own, and his own received him not.

iii. 11. Jesus said, Ye receive not our witness.

v. 43. Jesus said, I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another come in his own name, him ye will receive,

xii. 48. Jesus said, He that rejecteth me,

Jer. ii. 25. Thou saidst, I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

v. 31. Prophets prophesy falsely, and the people love to have it so.

vi. 10. The word of the Lord is unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it.

Ver. 17. I set watchmen over them, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.

xviii. 18. They said, Come, let us smite

judgeth him; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last day.

Eph. iv. 14. Be no more children, tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.

1 Thess. iv. 8. He that despiseth, despiseth not men, but God, who hath given unto us his Holy Spirit. See Matt. xxiii. 37. Luke xiii. 34. 2 Tim. i. 15. Paul said, all that are in Asia be turned away from me.

iv. 3, 4. 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. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Prov. vi. 17. The Lord doth hate hands that shed innocent blood.

xxviii. 17. A man that doth violence to the blood of any person, shall flee to the pit, let

xiii. 10. 12.

SIXTH COMMANDMENT.

CXLIV. Of murder. Exod. xx. 13. Thou shalt not kill. Matt. xix. 18. 1 Tim. i. 9.

Death the punishment of murderers. Gen. ix. 6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man

shall his blood be shed. Ver. 5.

Exod. xxi. 12. He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall surely be put to death. Ver.

13, 14. Lev. xxiv. 17.

Numb. xxxv. 16. The murderer shall surely be put to death. Ver. 17, 18. 21. 30.

Ver. 31. Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer; he shall surely be put to death.-Ver. 33. Blood defileth the land;

and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Deut. xix. 11. 13. If a man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and smite him mortally that he die; thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of in

nocent blood.

CXLV. Cases excepted, wherein the killing of a man was not to be punished with death. Exod. xxi. 20. If a man smite his ser

vant with a rod; and he die under his hand, he shall be surely punished.

xxii. 2, 3. If a thief be found breaking up, and he be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. But if the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him.

Deut. xix. 4. 6. Whosoever killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not, he is not worthy of death. Numb. xxxv. 15. 22.

CXLVI. Threatenings against murderers. Ps. v. 6. The Lord will abhor the bloody man. See Ps. li. 14. Jonah i. 14.

Iv. 23. Bloody men shall not live half their days.

cvi. 38. The land was polluted with blood.

-Ver. 40. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled

cix. 31. The Lord shall stand at the right nand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

Isa. lix. 3. 10. Your hands are defiled with blood. (Ver. 7.) We are as dead men,

Jer. ii. 34. Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents.

vii. 9. 15. Will ye steal, murder, commit adultery, &c.? I will cast you out of my sight.-Ver. 16. Pray not for this people.

xix. 3, 4. I will bring evil upon this place. They have filled it with the blood of innocents. Lam. iv. 14. 16.

Ezek. xxiv. 6. Woe to the bloody city. Ver. 9. Nah. iii. 1.

xxxv. 6. As I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; since thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

Hab. ii. 10, 11. Thou hast consulted shame hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone to thy house by cutting off many people, and shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of

the timber shall answer it.

John viii. 44. The devil was a murderer

from the beginning.

Gal. v. 21. The works of the flesh are, murders, &c. James iv. 1.

1 John iii. 15. No murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

Rev. xxi. 8. Murderers shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brim

stone, which is the second death.

xxii. 15. Without [the heavenly Jerusalem] are murderers, &c. See Hos. iv. 2, 3. Matt. xxiii. 35.

CXLVII. Instances of the punishment of murder. Upon Cain, Gen. iv. 11, 12.-Upon Simeon and Levi, Gen. xlix. 5, 6, 7.—xxxiv. 25, 26.-Upon David, 2 Sam. 11th and 12th chapters.-Upon Ahab, 1 Kings xxii. 38.Upon Manasseh, 2 Kings xxiv. 3, 4.

CXLVIII. Striking, wounding, maiming; how to be punished. Exod. xxi. 18 to 25. Lev. xxiv. 19. Deut. xxvii. 24.

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. CXLIX. Adultery and fornication. Exod. xx. 14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Mark x. 19. James ii. 11.

Deut. xxiii. 17. There shall be no whore of

the daughters of Israel. Lev. xix, 29,

CL. Threatenings; or the evil consequences of adultery, fornication, &c. Gen. xii. 17. The Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife, who was taken into Pharaoh's house. Ver. 15

xx. 2, 3. Abimelech took Sarah, Abraham's wife. God said to him, Thou art a dead man, for she is a man's wife.-Ver. 7. If thou restore her not, thou shalt surely die.-Ver. 9. Abimelech said to Abraham, Thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin. Ch. xxvi. 7. 10, 11

XXXV. 22. Reuben lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine. Ch. xlix. 4. Jacob said, Thou shalt not excel, because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile it.

Exod. xxii. 16, 17. If a man entice a maid, that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. If her father refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Lev. xviii. 20. Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. Ver. 28. That the land spue you not out. xx. 10. The man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. See to ver. 22.

2 Sam. xii. 4. David's sin with the wife of Uriah.-Ver. 11. See the punishment thereof. Job xxiv. 15. The eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me.-Ver. 17, 18. The morning is to them as the shadow of death. Their portion is cursed on the earth.

xxxi. 9-12. If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her. For it is a heinous crime; it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. It is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

Numb. v. 12, 13. 19. If a man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and there be no witness against her; the priest shall charge her with an oath of cursing.-Ver. 27. And if she be defiled, her belly shall swell and her thigh shall rot.

Deut. xxii. 22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, they shall both of them die.

Ver. 23, 24. If a damsel that is a virgin, be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her, ye shall stone them both with stones that they die; the damsel because she cried not, being in the city; and the man because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife.-Ver. 25. But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and lie with her, then the man only shall die. Ver. 28, 29. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; then the man shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all her days.

xxiii. 2. A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, even to his tenth generation.

Ver. 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow.

thy labours be in the house of a stranger; and thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed.

Ver. 20, 21. Why wilt thou be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

vi. 24. Keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Ver. 25, 26. Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread; and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Ver. 27-29. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and not be burnt? Can he go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt? So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Ver. 32-35. Whoso committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh understanding; he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. For jealousy is the rage of a man: he will not regard any

ransom.

vii. 5 to 26. See the description of a whorish woman, and the fool taken by her snares.-Ver. 27. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

ix. 17, 18. She saith, Stolen waters are sweet. But know that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.