of sin. Jer. vi. 15. When they had committed abomination they were not ashamed, neither could they blush. Ch. viii. 12. Zeph. iii. 5. The unjust knoweth no shame. Phil. iii. 19. The wicked glory in their shame. Jude 13. Foaming out their own shame. XXX. Abhorring and loathing one's self for sin. Job xlii. 6. Job said, I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Ezek. vi. 9. They shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed, in all their abominations. Ch. xx. 43.—xxxvi. 31. XXXI. Confession and acknowledgment of sin required of penitents. XXXII. Promises to confessing and acknowledging sin. Lev. xxvi. 40-42. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers; if their uncircumcised hearts be humbled; then will I remember my covenant. 1 Kings viii. 33. 35. Ps. xxxii. 5. I said, I will confess my transgressions; thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Prov. xxviii. 13. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them, shall have mercy. Job xxxi. 33. 1 John i. 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. XXXIII. Exhortations to confession. Josh. vii. 19. Give glory to God, and make confession. Jer. iii. 13. Acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God. Ezra x. 11. Hos. v. 15. Rom. xiv. 11. Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God. XXXIV. Instances. Matt. iii. 6. They were baptized, confessing their sins. Acts xix. 18. Many that believed, confessed and shewed their deeds. XXXV. Confessions made in Scripture expressions. Ezra ix. 6. O my God, I am ashamed, and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our heads, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. Ver. 7. 13. 15. Ps. xxxviii. 4. -xl. 12. Jer. xiv. 20. Neh. i. 6, 7. Both I and my father's house have sinned. (Ps. cvi. 6.) We have dealt very corruptly against thee. ix. 16. They dealt proudly and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments. Ver. 26. They were disobedient and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs. Ver. 35. They have not served thee in thy great goodness, neither turned they from their wicked works. Job xiii. 23. How many are my iniquities and my sins: make me to know my transgression and my sin. xiv. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? xv. 14. What is man that he should be clean and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 1 Kings viii. 46. saints, and the heavens are not clean in his Ver. 15. Behold he putteth no trust in his sight. xl. 4. Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Ps. xxxviii. 18. I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. Ps. xxxii. 5. hi. 3. I acknowledge my transgressions; my sin is ever before me. and in sin did my mother conceive me. Ver. 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity, Ixix. 5. O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from thee. Ps. cxxx. 3. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Prov. xx. 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? 1 John 1.8. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Eccl. vii. 20. There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not. Isa. lix. 12. Our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us. Ixiv. 6. We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. Jer. xiv. 7. Our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. Ver. 20. Luke xv. 21. Dan. ix. 5. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly and have rebelled; even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judgments.-Ver. 8. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers; because we have sinned against thee. Rom. vii. 18. In my flesh dwelleth no good thing.-Ver. 21. I find a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.-Ver. 23. I see a law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members. XXXVI. Amendment. Deut. x. 16. Circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. Jer. iv. 4. Job xxxiv. 32. If I have done iniquity, I will do no more. Isa. i. 16, 17. Cease to do evil, learn to do well. Jer. vii. 3. Amend your ways and your doings. Ver. 5. Ch. xxvi. 13.-xxxv. 15. Matt. iii. 8. Bring forth fruits meet for repentance. Luke iii. 8. Ver. 17. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit. Ch. xiii. 23. Mark, xii. 2. John xv. 2. Every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth, that it may bring forth more fruit. Matt. xiii. 12. Ver. 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: John v. 14. Sin no more. Ch. viii. 11. Ps. he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same iv. 4. Stand in awe, and sin not. bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye Rom. vi. 1. Shall we continue in sin, &c. can do nothing. God forbid. Eph. v. 14. Awake, thou that sleepest, arise from the dead. See Dead works. James iv. 8. Cleanse your hands, purify your hearts. FRUITFULNESS. XXXVII. Fruitfulness in religion. Ps. i. 3. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. xcii. 14. They shall bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing. See ver. 12, 13. Ps. lxxxiv. 7. Prov. iv. 18. The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth, &c. Isa. v. 4. What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it, to make it fruitful? Jer. xxxi. 12. Their soul shall be as a watered garden. Mal. iv. 2. Hos. xiv. 5. I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.-Ver. 8. I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found. Matt. vii. 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Ver. 20. Ch. xii. 33. Ver. 8. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. Ver. 16. I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit. Rom. vi. 22. Being made free from sin, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. Ch. vii. 4. Eph. iv. 15, Grow up unto Christ in all things. v. 9. The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. Phil. i. 11. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Col. i. 10. Walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work. Ch. ii. 6, 7. James iii. 17. The wisdom from above is full of good fruits. I Pet. ii. 2. Desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. 2 Pet. i. 8. If these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. iii. 18. Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Jude 20. Building yourselves up in your most holy faith. CHAPTER XIX. OF DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION. the prey. I. THE shortness of human life. Gen. | swift ships, and as the eagle that hasteth to xlvii. 9. Jacob said, Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Job xiv. 1. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days. 1 Sam. xx. 3. There is but a step between me and death. 1 Chron. xxix. 15. Our days on earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. Job viii. 9. Ps. cii. 11.-cxliv. 4. Zech. i. 5. Job vii. 6. Our days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. ix. 25, 26. Our days are swifter than a post, they fly away. They are passed away as the xvi. 22. When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. xvii. 1. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Ps. xxxix. 4, 5. Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best estate is altogether sanity.-Ver. 13. O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go hence and be no shall come up no more. He shall return no more. Ps. xc. 3. 5, 6. 10. 12. more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. For the and the Isa. xl. ciii. 15, 16. Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. wind passeth over it, and it is gone; place thereof shall know it no more. 6, 7, 8. James i. 10. 1 Pet. i. 24. James iv. 14. Our life is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Heb. xiii. 14. Here we have no continuing city. 1 Chron. xxix. 15. There is none abiding. II. Of the term or boundary of human life. Job vii. 1. Is there not an appointed time for man upon earth? Are not his days like the days of a hireling? xiv. 5. Man's days are determined; the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. -Ver. 14. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. ix. 22. God destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. xiv. 2. Man cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down.-Ver. 10. Man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?-Ver. 12. Man lieth down, and riseth not till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of sleep. Ver. 19, 20. Thou destroyest the hope of man. and he passeth; thou changest his countenance, Thou prevailest for ever against him, and sendest him away. xvii. 13, 14. If I wait, the grave is my Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou house. (Ver. 1.) I have said to corruption, art my mother and sister.-Ver. 15. And where is now my hope? xxi. 23-26. One dieth in his full strength, are full of milk, and his bones moistened with marrow. Another dieth in the bitterness of Ps. xc. 10. The days of our years are three-being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts score and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away. Eccl. iii. 2. A time to be born, and a time to die. Matt. vi. 27. Which of you can add one cubit to his stature? [or age.] Acts xvii. 26. God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth; and hath determined the times, before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. III. The time of life is in God's hand. Job v. 18. The Lord maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 1 Sarn. ii. 6. The Lord killeth, and he maketh alive; he bringeth down to the grave, and he raiseth up. Deut. xxxii. 39. Ps. Ixviii. 20. Unto God the Lord belong the issues from death. Ps. ix. 13.-ciii. 4. Dan. v. 23. God, in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways. Acts xvii. 28. In him we live, and move, and have our being. Rev. i. 18. I have the keys of hell and of death, saith Christ. IV. Death prevailing over all mankind, of every character, rank and station. Josh. xxiii. 14. Joshua said, I am going the way of all the earth. 1 Kings ii. 2. his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. xxiv. 24. The mighty are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. Eccl. viii. 8. Neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. xxx. 23. I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Eccl. viii. 8. There is no discharge in that war. xxxiv. 14. If he set his heart upon man, and if he gather unto him his spirit and his breath; all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust. Ps. xlix. 6, 7. 9, 10. They that trust in their wealth, none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him; that he should live for ever, and not see corruption. Wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Ver. 11 to 14. lxxxii. 6, 7. I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you children of the Most High. But ye shall die like men. Ps. cxlvi. 4. lxxxix. 48. What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Job iv. 19-21. Mortal men dwell in houses xc. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction.of clay; their foundation is in the dust, they Ver. 5, 6. Thou carriest them away as with are crushed before the moth. They are de-a flood: they are as a sleep: in the mornstroyed from morning to evening; they perish for ever, without any regarding it. Doth not their excellency that is in them go away? they die without wisdom. ing they are like grass that groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth. Eccl. i. 4. One generation cometh, and an vii. 9, 10. He that goeth down to the grave other goeth. ii. 16. How dieth the wise man? as the fool. viii. 8. No man hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war. xii. 5. Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Ver. 7. The dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. V. Preparative duties for death. Deut. xxxii. 29. O that they were wise; that they would consider their latter end. Ps. xc. 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. Ps. xxxix. 4. John ix. 4. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work. 1 Cor. iii. 22, 23. Whether life or death, all are yours; and ye are Christ's. 2 Cor. v. 6. While we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.-Ver. 8. We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Phil. i. 21. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.-Ver. 23. I have a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. 1 Thess. v. 10. Christ died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Rom. xiv. 8, 9. of just men made perfect. Heb. xii. 23. The righteous go to the spirits Rev. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. VIII. Death of the wicked. Job xxvii. 20, 21. Terrors take hold on him as waters; a 1 Pet. i. 17. Pass the time of your sojourn- tempest stealeth him away in the night. The ing here in fear, Matt. x. 28. VI. No preparative duties are to be performed after death. Isa. xxxviii. 18, 19. The grave cannot praise thee; death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down to the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. See Ps. vi. 5.-xxx. 9.-lxxxviii. 10, 11, 12.—cxv. 17. VII. The death of the righteous happy Ps. xxxi. 5. Into thy hand I commit my spirit, O Lord. Acts vii. 59. xxxvii. 37. Mark the perfect man, and be hold the upright; for the end of that man is peace. cxvi. 15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Prov. xiv. 32. The righteous hath hope in his death. Numb. xxiii. 10. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his. Eccl. vii. 1. The day of his death is better than the day of his birth. Isa. lvii. 1, 2. The righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace. 2 Kings xxii. 19, 20. Job iii. 17, 18. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. Ps. lxxiii. 24. Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Ps. lxxxiv. 11. The Lord will give grace and glory. Luke xvi. 22. Lazarus died, and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom. Ver. 25. Now he is comforted. east wind carrieth him away and he departeth, and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.Ver. 22, 23. For God shall cast upon him, and shall not spare. Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. Jer. xxiii. 19. xxxvi. 6. God preserveth not the life of the wicked. Ps. xxxvii. 34. When the wicked are cut off thou shalt see it.-Ver. 38. The end of wicked men shall be cut off. Prov. xi. 7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation perisheth.-Ver. 10. When the wicked perish there is shouting. not. xii. 7. The wicked are overthrown and are Ch. x. 27. xiv. 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness. Eccl. viii. 10. I saw the wicked buried; they were forgotten. Isa. xiv. 9. Hell from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming. xiv. 15. Thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Ezek. xviii. 18. He shall die in his iniquity. Ch. xxxiii. 8, 9. Luke xvi. 23. The rich man died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment. Ps. ix. 17. IX. The dead leave all their possessions behind them. Ps. xlix. 10. They leave their wealth to others. Job i. 21. Eccl. ii. 18. Ver. 14. Their beauty shall consume in the grave.-Ver. 17. When he dieth he shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not descend after him. Eccl. v. 15, 16. As he came, naked shall he xxiii. 43. Jesus said, This day shalt thou be return, and shall take nothing of his labour, with me in paradise. which he may carry away in his hand. In all points as he came, so shall he go. Ch. ii. 19. | raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. ix. 5, 6. The memory of them is forgotten. Also, their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. Job xiv. 21. His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not. 1 Tim. vi. 7. We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. OF THE RESURRECTION FROM X. That there shall be a resurrection of the dead. (See Christ shall raise the dead.) Job xix. 25-27. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. Ps. xlix. 15. Ps. xvi. 9. My flesh shall rest in hope. Ver. 10. Ps. lxviii. 20. Acts ii. 26, 27, 28. 31. Ver. 19. The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.-Ver. 21. Because the creature shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.-Ver. 23. We ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 1 Cor. vi. 14. God both raised up the Lord Jesus, and will also raise up us, by his own power. xv. 12-14. How say some of you, that there is no resurrection of the dead? (2 Tim. ii. 17, 18.) If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.-Ver. 20. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. Ver. 21-23. Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his order: Christ the first fruits, and afterward they that are Christ's, at his coming. Col. i. 18. Ver. 35. Some man will say, How are the dead raised? and with what bodies do they come ?-Ver. 38. God giveth a body as it pleaseth him.-Ver. 42. So also is the resur Dan. xii. 2. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting shame and contempt. Ps. xvii. 15. Matt. xxii. 30. In the resurrection they nei-rection of the dead: it is sown in corruption, ther marry nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels in heaven.-Ver. 31, 32. As touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob! God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Luke xx. 35, 36. Luke xiv. 14. Thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. Acts iv. 2. The apostles taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Heb. vi. 1, 2. xxiii. 6. Paul said, Of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. Ch. xxiv. 21. xxiv. 15. Paul said, I have hope toward God, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. xxvi. 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? Rom. iv. 17. God quickeneth the dead. 2 Cor. i. 9. God raiseth the dead. viii. 11. If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that it is raised in incorruption.-Ver. 43. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.-Ver. 44. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Ver. 52-54. The dead shall be raised incorruptible. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Isa. xxv. 7, 8.—xxvi. 19. Hos. xiii. 14. 2 Cor. iv. 14. He that raised up the Lord Jesus, shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. If so be that v. 1-3. We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. being clothed, we shall not be found naked.Ver. 4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. |