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xxxi. 13. Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep; for it is a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Gen. ii. 2, 3. Deut. v. 12-15. Ezek. xx. 12.-xliv. 24.

CCIII: The Sabbath a day of rest from servile work. Exod. xx. 10. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy

gates. Ver. 11.

xvii. 2, 3. Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbaths reasoned alleging that Christ must needs have suffered. with them out of the Scriptures; opening and Ch. xviii. 4. Paul reasoned in the synagogue Sabbath. every

CCV. Works of charity and mercy to be done on the Sabbath-day. Instances. Matt. xii. 1. Jesus went on the Sabbath-day through the corn; and his disciples, being an hungered, began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. Mark ii. 23.

xii. 2, 3. The Pharisees said, Thy disciples do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath. Jesus said, Have ye not read what David did? -Ver. 5. Have ye not read in the law, &c.? xvi. 23. The Lord said, To-morrow is the-Ver. 7. I will have mercy and not sacrifice. rest of the holy Sabbath.-Ver. 29. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day, to gather manna.

xxiii. 12. Six days shalt thou do thy work, in the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed. Ch. xxxiv. 21.-xxxv. 2, 3. Deut. v. 14, 15. Jer. xvii. 21, 22. Thus saith the Lord, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burthen on the Sabbath-day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. Neither carry forth a burthen out of your houses on the Sabbath-day, neither do ye any work. Luke xxiii. 56. Heb. iv. 9.

CCIV. The duties of the Sabbath; worshipping God, reading, hearing his word, &c. Lev. xix. 30. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. Ch. xxvi. 2.

Ezek. xlvi. 3. The people shall worship before the Lord in the Sabbaths.

Ver. 12. It is lawful to do well on the Sab

bath-days.-Ver. 13. He healed the withered

hand. Mark iii. 2. 4. Luke vi. 9.

Mark ii. 27. The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Luke xiii. 15, 16. The Lord said, Doth not each of you loose his ox or his ass on the Sabbath-day? (Ch. xiv. 3. 5.) And ought not this woman to be loosed from her bond on the Sabbath-day? See John v. 8, 9, 10. 18.vii. 22.-ix. 14.

CCVI. Promises to them that keep the Sabbath. Isa. lvi. 2. Blessed is the man that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it.

Ver. 4, 5. Thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house, and within my walls, a place and a name, better than of sons and of daughters, &c.

Mark vi. 2. When the Sabbath-day was Ver. 6. 7. Also the sons of the stranger that come, Jesus began to teach in the synagogue. join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and Luke iv. 16. Jesus, as his custom was, went to love the name of the Lord, to be his serinto the synagogue on the Sabbath-day, and vants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath stood up for to read.-Ver. 31. He came to from polluting it, and taketh hold of my coveCapernaum and taught them on the Sabbath-nant; even them will I bring to my holy days. Ch. xiii. 10. mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer.

Acts xiii. 14-16. The disciples went into the synagogue on the Sabbath-day. After the reading of the law and the prophets, Paul stood up and said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.

lviii. 13, 14. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt Ver. 27. The prophets are read every Sab-honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor bath-day.

Ver. 42. The Gentiles besought that these words might be preached unto them the next Sabbath.-Ver. 44. The next Sabbath-day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

xv. 21. Moses hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath-day.

finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob.

CCVII. The care of God's people to sanctify the Sabbath themselves, and to prevent the profaning of it by others. Neh. x. 29.

They entered into an oath and into a curse, to walk in God's law.-Ver. 31. And if the people of the land bring ware, or any victuals, on the Sabbath-day to sell, not to buy it of them on the Sabbath.

xiii. 15. In those days I saw in Judah, some treading wine-presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burthens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath-day; and I testified against them, in the day wherein they sold victuals.

Ver. 16-18. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the Sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath-day? Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sab

bath.

Ver. 19-21. And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and not be opened till after the Sabbath; and some of my servants I set at the gates, that there should no burthen be brought in on the Sabbath-day. So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware, lodged without Jerusalem once or twice. Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.

Ver. 22. And I commanded the Levites, that

they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath.

CCVIII. Threatenings against Sabbathbreakers. Exod. xxxi. 14. Ye shall keep the Sabbath: every one that defileth it, shall surely be put death.-Ver. 15. Whosoever doeth any work on the Sabbath-day, he shall surely be put to death. Ch. xxxv. 2.

Numb. xv. 32-36. While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks on the Sabbath-day, and they brought him to Moses and Aaron, and they put him in ward. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died as the Lord commanded Moses.

Jer. xvii. 27. If ye will not hearken unto me, to hallow the Sabbath, &c.

Ezek. xx. 15, 16. I would not bring them into the land which I bad given them; because they walked not in my statutes, but polluted my Sabbaths.

Ver. 23, 24. I lifted up mine hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; because they had despised my statutes and polluted my Sabbaths.

xxii. 8. Thou hast profaned my Sabbaths. Ver. 14. Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with thee?

Ver. 26. Her priests have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.-Ver. 31. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them, I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; their own ways have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord.

xxiii. 38. They have defiled my sanctuary, and have profaned my Sabbaths.-Thus saith the Lord God, I will give them to be removed and spoiled.-Ver. 46.

CCIX. Sabbath privileges withdrawn. Lam. ii. 6. The Lord hath caused the Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.

Hos. ii. 11. I will cause her Sabbaths to cease.

Lam. i. 7. The adversaries did mock at her Sabbaths. See Isa. i. 13. Amos viii. 11.

CCX. The change of the Sabbath from the God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, seventh to the first day of the week. Ĝen. ii. 3. because that in it God rested from all his works. Exod. xx. 11.

Col. ii. 16, 17. Let no man judge you, in meat or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath-days: which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. Rom. xiv. 6.

Luke xxiv. 1. 6. Christ rose from the dead on the first day.

Acts xx. 7. Upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them. John xx. 19.

1 Cor. xvi. 2. On the first day of the week let every one lay by him, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

Rev. i. 9, 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day.

CHAP. XVI.

LOVE TO MANKIND.

CHAPTER XVI.

DUTIES TOWARDS MANKIND.

xiii. 1. Let brotherly love continue. 1 Pet. iii. 8. Love as brethren.

1 Pet. i. 22. See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.

I. LOVE. Lev. xix. 18. Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.-Ver. 34. The stranger that dwelleth with you shall be as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thy-hood. self.

Matt. v. 44, 45. Love your enemies; bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Ver. 46, 47. For if you love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even And if you salute the publicans the same? your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even the publicans the same? -Ver. 48. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

xxii. 37, 38. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.-Ver. 39, 40. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Rom. xiii. 9. James ii. 8.

John xiii. 34. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another: as I have loved you, that ye love one another. (Ch. xv. 12.) Ver. 35. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Rom. xii. 9. Let love be without dissimulation.

xiii. 8. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the law.-Ver. 10. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Gal. v. 14. All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ver. 15.

Eph. v. 2. Walk in love, as Christ hath loved us, and hath given himself for us.

Phil. i. 9. I pray that your love may abound more and more.

Heb. x. 24. Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and to good works.

ii. 17. Honour all men; love the brother

1 John ii. 10. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

iii. 11. This is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, That we should love one another.

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Ver. 14. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.-Ver. 18. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Ver. 23. This is God's commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ; and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

iv. 10. God loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.-Ver. 11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Ver. 20, 21. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? and this commandment have we from God, That he who loveth God, love his brother also.

2 John 5. This commandment we have from the beginning, That we love one another.

II. Of the cause of love, and how it is produced. Prov. xvii. 9. He that covereth a transgression seeketh love.

xviii. 24. A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Heb. x. 24. Let us provoke one another to love and to good works.

Gal. v. 6. Faith worketh by love.-Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, &c.

1 Thess. iv. 9. Ye are taught of God to love one another.

1 John iv. 7, 8. Let us love one another; for love is of God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.

Ver. 12. If we love one another, God dwell

eth in us.-Ver. 16. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

v. 2. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

III. Prayers and thanks to God for Christian love, as being his gift. 1Thess. iii. 12. The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you. Col. ii. 2.

Eph. i. 15, 16. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.

IV. The influence and effects of love upon the temper and behaviour of Christians one toward another; or how love is evidenced. Rom. xii. 10. Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love.

xiii. 10. Love worketh no ill to his neigh

bour.

Gal. v. 13. By love serve one another. Eph. iv. 2. Forbearing one another in love. -Ver. 15. Speaking the truth in love.-Ver. 16. Edifying in love.

Phil. ii. 2. Be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Philem. 9. For love's sake, I beseech thee. 1 John iii. 18. Let us not love in word, nor

in tongue, but in deed, &c. See duties of husbands and wives, ministers and people, Commandment Fifth.

CHARITY.

V. Charity, with other graces, enjoined. 1 Cor. viii. 1. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

xiii. 1-3. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Ver. 4-7. Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not, charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.- Ver. 8. Charity never faileth.

Ver. 13. Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. xiv. 1. Follow after charity; and desire spiritual gifts.

xvi. 14. Let all your things be done with charity.

Col. iii. 14. Above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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1 Tim. i. 5. The end of the commandment

charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.

ii. 15. The woman shall be saved in child

bearing, if they continue in faith and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.

iv. 12. Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts; but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Tit. ii. 1, 2. Speak the things that become sound doctrine; that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

1 Pet. iv. 8. Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall

cover the multitude of sins. Prov. x. 12.

v. 14. Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity.

2 Pet. i. 5-7. Add to your faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly-kindness, charity.

Jude 12. Feasts of charity.

VI. Approved examples of charity, and other graces. 2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet; because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth. 1 Thess.

iii. 6.

2 Tim. iii. 10. Thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, persecutions, afflic tions, &c.

Rev. ii. 18, 19. To the angel of the church of Thyatira write, These things saith the Son of God: I know thy works and charity, and service, and faith, and patience. See ver. 3. 2 John 6.

See instances of charitable conduct toward others, 1 Cor. viii. 9. 12, 13.

HATRED.

VII. Hatred; threatenings against it. Lev. xix. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart.

Ps. xxxiv. 21. Evil shall slay the wicked and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Prov. xxix. 10. The bloodthirsty hate the upright.

Ezek. xxxv. 5, 6. Because thou [mount Seir] hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel; therefore, as I live, saith the Lord, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee. Amos v. 10. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate; they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. Mic. iii. 2. Who hate the good, and love the evil.

Matt. x. 22. Jesus said, Ye shall be hated of all men, for my name's sake. Ch. xxiv. 9. xxiv. 10. They shall betray one another, an shall hate one another.

John vii. 7. The world hateth me, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. xv. 18, 19. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Ver. 20. xvii. 14. Jesus said [of his disciples,] The world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Job viii. 22. They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame.

Ps. xviii. 17. God hath delivered me from them that hated me.

xxxiv. 21. They that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

xliv. 7. Thou hast put them to shame that hated us.

lxxxix. 23. I will plague them that hate him.

cvi. 10. He saved his people from the hand of him that hated them.

exviii. 7. The Lord taketh my part, therefore I shall see my desire on them that hate me. Isa. Ixvi. 5. Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word, Your brethren that hated you, and cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

Luke vi. 22, 23. Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for behold your reward is great in heaven. See Gen. xxiv. 60. Deut. vii. 15.-xxx. 7. Tit. iii. 3. We ourselves were sometimes-xxxiii. 11. The righteous hate only the foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers haters of God. 2 Chron. xix. 2. Ps. xxvi. 5. lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,-xxxi. 6.—lxviii. 1.—cxxxix. 21, 22.—xv. 4. hateful and hating one another.

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VIII. The duty of the righteous toward those that hate them. Exod. xxiii. 5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burthen, thou shalt surely help with him. Matt. v. 44. Do good to them that hate you. Rom. xii. 21. Overcome evil with good.

IX. Prayers and complaints to God, against the hatred of the wicked. Ps. ix. 13. O Lord, consider my trouble, which I suffer of them that hate me.

lxix. 14. Let me be delivered from them that hate me. See also Ps. xxv. 19.-xxxv. 19.-xxxviii. 19.—xli. 7.—lv. 3.-lxxxvi. 17.

X. Promises to those that are unjustly hated, and threatenings against their haters.

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1 Pet. ii. 1, 2. Laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings; as new born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow Compare Job thereby. See Ps. lxxiii. 3. xxi. 7. Jer. xii. 1. Hab. i. 3. Prov. iii. 31. Isa. xi. 13.

XII. The wicked, their envy hurtful to themselves. Job v. 2. Envy slayeth the silly

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