God, Rom. ix. 5. 1 Tim. iii. 16. 2 Pet, Power of God. 1 Cor. i. 14. i. 1. 1 John v. 20. Governor of Israel, Matt. ii. 9. Head of the church, Col. i. 10. of the corner, Matt. xxi. 42. Heir of all things, Heb. i. 2. of Israel, Acts xxviii. 20. Horn of salvation, Luke i. 69. Ps. xviii. 2. of the Jews, Matt. ii. 2. of kings, Rev. xvii. 14. 5. Lamb of God, John i. 29. Rev. xiii. 8. Lion of the tribe of Judah, Rev. v. 5. of lords, Rev. xvii. 14. Man, Acts xvii. 31. 1 Tim, ii, 5. Purifier, Mal. iii. 3. Matt. iii. 12. Redeemer, Isa. lix. 20. Job xix. 25. Righteous servant, Isa, liii. 1. Rock, 1 Cor. x. 4. Deut. xxxii. 15. Shiloh, Gen. xlix. 10. of the Most High, Luke i. 32, of man, John iii. 13. Matt. xxv. 31. Second man, 1 Cor. xv. 47. Shepherd, John x. 11. 14. (Great) Heb. xiii. 20. of souls, 1 Pet. ii. 25. Stone refused, Matt. xxi. 42. Ps. cxviii. 22. Acts iv. 11. Sun of righteousness, Mal, iv. 2. Vine, John xv. 1. Wonderful, Isa. ix. 6. Wisdom of God, 1 Cor. i. 14. -, (Our) 1 Cor. i. 30. Word of God, John i. 1. Rev. xix. 13. CHAPTER VII. CHRIST'S WORKS. I. He created all things. John i. 3. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made. Rev. viii. 29, 30. Ver. 10. The world was made by him. 1 Cor. viii, 6. By whom are all things. Eph. iii. 9. God created all things by Jesus Christ. + Col. i. 16. By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, principalities or powers, all things were created by him and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. Heb. i. 2. By him God made the worlds.-Ver. 10. Thou, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands. Ver. 11. Ch. iii. 3, 4. II. Christ shall raise the dead. John x. 18. Jesus said, I have power to lay down my life and to take it again. Ch. ii. 19. 21. v. 21. As the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. Ver. 25. The hour is coming, and now is, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.Ver. 28, 29. All that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. Dan. xii. 2. vi. 40. This is the will of him that sent me, that every one that seeth the Son and believeth on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Ver. 39, 40. Ch. xi. 25, 26. 2 Tim. i. 10. III. Christ will change the bodies of mankind. Phil. iii. 21. Christ shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working of his mighty power, whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself. See 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. IV. Christ shall judge the world. Isa. xi. 3. He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes. Matt. xxiv. 30, 31. They shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. He shall send his angels, with the sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Dan. vii. 13, 14. Mark xiii. 24 to 28. Rev. i. 7.-xiv. 14.-xxii. 20. xxv. 31-33. The Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all his holy angels with him, and then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. (Matt. xix, 28. Luke ix. 26.) Before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats. He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. John v. 22. The Father hath com. mitted all judgment to the Son.-Ver. 27. He hath given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man. Acts x. 42. The apostles said, Jesus commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify, that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of the quick and dead, xvii. 31. God hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained (viz. Jesus Christ.) Rom. ii. 16. God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. xiv. 10. We must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 2 Tim. iv. 1. The Lord Jesus shall judge the quick and the dead, at his appearing and his kingdom. V. Christ will dispense suitable rewards and punishments to all mankind. Matt. xvi. 27. The Son of man shall come, and then shall he reward every one according to his works. Rom. iv. 10. 2 Cor. v. 10. Gal. vi. 7, 8. Rev. xxii. 12. See, God will render to men according to their works, in Chap. upon Good Works. VI. Rewards from Christ to the righteous. Matt. xxv. 34-36. To them on his right hand, he will say, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger and ye took me in; naked and ye clothed me; I was sick and ye visited me; I was in prison and ye came unto me.-Ver. 40. Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Ver. 46. The righteous shall go into life eternal. Ver 36 to 40. xiii. 43. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. Dan. xii. 3. As the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever. Ver. 29. Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life. Luke xviii. 29, 30. Luke xxii. 29, 30. I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table, &c. Col. iii. 4. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 1 Thess. iv. 17. We shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. John ver. 26. 2 Thess. i. 10. Christ shall come, to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe. Rev. ii. 10. I will give thee a crown of life. 2 Tim. iv. 8. A crown of righteousness. 1 Cor. ix. 25. An incorruptible crown. 1 Pet. i. 4. An inheritance incorruptible. vii. 17. The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. See, Being glad, rejoicing in the Lord. xi. 18. Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou shouldst give a reward unto thy servants the prophets, and unto the saints, and unto them that fear thy name small and great. VII. Punishments inflicted on the wicked by Christ. Matt. vii. 22. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works. Luke xiii. 26. We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.-Ver. 23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity. xiii. 40-42. As the tares are gathered, and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of the world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Ver. 49, 50. xxv. 32, 33. Before the Son of man shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.-Ver. 41-43. Then shall he say to them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger and ye took me not in; naked and ye clothed me not; sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.-Ver. 45. I say unto you, In as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.-Ver. 46. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment. Mark ix. 44. The worm dieth not, &c. Isa. lxvi. 44. John iii. 36. The wrath of God abideth on them. x. 11. 14, 15. Jesus sent forth his disciples, and said unto them, Into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, if they shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. Mark viii. 38. Whosoever 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. See threats against Chorazin and Bethsaida, Matt. xi. 20. 22. Against Capernaum, Matt. xi. 23, 24. Against the impenitent hearers of Christ, Matt. xii. 41, 42. Luke iii. 43. He will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. John xii. 48. He that rejecteth me, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last day. 1 Thess. v. 2, 3. The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, and they shall not escape. 2 Thess. i. 7-9. The Lord Jesus Rev. vi. 14-17. The heavens departChrist shall be revealed from heaven, ed as a scroll. And the kings of the with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, earth, and the great men, and the rich taking vengeance on them that know men, and the chief captains, and the not God, and obey not the gospel of mighty men, and every bondman, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Who shall be every freeman, hid themselves in the punished with everlasting destruction, dens, and in the rocks of the mountains. from the presence of the Lord, and from And said to the mountains and rocks, the glory of his power. Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand? ii. 8. The wicked one, (or man of sin) the Lord will consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. Rev. xvii. 8. 2 Pet. ii. 4. God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment. Ver. 6. 14, 15. xi. 18. Thy wrath is come, and the time that thou shouldst destroy them that destroy the earth. xx. 14. Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Ver. 9, 10. The Lord knoweth how xx. 15. And whosoever was not to deliver the godly out of temptation, found written in the book of life, was and to reserve the unjust unto the day cast into the lake of fire. Ch. xix. 20. of judgment, to be punished. But chiefly xxi. 8. The wicked shall have their them that walk after the lusts of unclean-portion in the lake which burneth with ness, and despise government. fire and brimstone. CHAPTER VIII. WORSHIP OFFERED TO CHRIST. I. ACTS of worship offered to Christ jointly with the Father. Matt. xxviii. 19. Go ye and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. and God even our Father, comfort your hearts, and stablish you. Rev. v. 13. Every creature which is in heaven, and in earth, heard I, saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. John v. 23. All men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. Rom. i. 7. Grace to you, and peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Je- vii. 9. I beheld and lo, a great numsus Christ. 1 Cor. i. 3. 2 Cor. i. 2. Gal. [ber, which no man could number, of all i. 3. Eph. i. 2.-vi. 23. Phil. i. 2. Col. nations, and kindreds, and people, and i. 2. 1 Thess. i. 1. 2 Thess. i. 2. Phi-tongues, stood before the throne, and lem. 3. 2 Cor. xii. 19. We speak before God in Christ. 1 Tim. i. 2. Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord. 2 Tim. i. 2. Tit. i. 4. 2 John 3. Rev. i. 4, 5. before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.-Ver. 10. And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb. II. Acts of worship offered to Christ alone by the church in heaven, and upon Phil. ii. 11. Every tongue shall con-earth. Ps. ii. 12. Kiss the Son lest he fess, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the be angry, and ye perish. glory of God the Father. 2 Thess. ii. 16. Our Lord Jesus Christ, lxxii. 17. All nations shall call him blessed. Ps. cxviii. 26. Blessed be he that Ver. 19. I trust in the Lord Jesus cometh in the name of the Lord. Matt. Christ. Ch. xxiv. xxi. 9. Luke xiii. 35. Col. ii. 18. Let no man beguile you in Matt. ii. 2. The wise men said, We a voluntary humility, and worshipping are come to worship him. of angels, not holding the head, which is Christ. xviii. 20. Where two or three are gathered together in my name, &c. Luke xxiii. 42. The malefactor said, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. xxiv. 52. The disciples worshipped him. Acts vii. 59. They stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus receive my spirit. iii. 16. In the name of Jesus Christ, rise and walk. ix. 14. Here he hath authority to bind all that call on thy name.-Ver. 21. Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name. xxii. 16. Be baptized and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord. Rom. x. 12. The same Lord is rich unto all that call upon him.-Ver. 13. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts ii. 21. Joel ii. 32. xvi. 20. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Ver. 24. 1 Cor. xvi. 23. Phil. iv. 23. 1 Thess. v. 28. 2 Thess. iii. 18. Gal. vi. 18. Philem. 25. 1 Cor. i. 2. With all that in every place, call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. 2 Cor. xiii. 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Rev. i. 5. -xxii. 21. Gal. i. 5. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Phil. ii. 9. At the name of Jesus every knee should bow. 1 Thess. iii. 11. Our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way unto you. 1 Tim. i. 12. I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me. ii. 7. I speak the truth in Christ. v. 21. I charge thee before the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. i. 4. 2 Tim. ii. 9. Let every one that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity. iv. 22. The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. 2 Pet. iii. 18. Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: to whom be glory both now and for ever. Amen. Heb. i. 6. When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, Let all the angels of God worship him. Rev. xv. 6. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. v. 11, 12. I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the four beasts, and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. CHAPTER IX. PERFECTIONS OF CHRIST; HIS KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, &c. I. CHRIST'S knowledge. Isa. xi. 2. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Matt. ix. 4. Jesus, knowing their thoughts. Ch. xii. 25. Luke ix. 47. xi. 27. Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whom |