2, 3. Deut. v. 12. 15. Ezek. xx. 12.- that preach him, being read in the synaxliv. 24. 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. Mark vi. 2. When the Sabbath-day was come, Jesus began to teach in the synagogue. Luke iv. 16. Jesus, as his custom was, went into the synagogue on the Sabbath-day, and stood up for to read.— Ver. 31. He came to Capernaum and taught them on the Sabbath-day. Ch. xiii. 10. 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. Ver. 27. The prophets are read every Sabbath-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 gogues every Sabbath-day. xvii. 2, 3. Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbaths reasoned with them out of the scripmust needs have suffered. Ch. xviii. 4. tures; opening and alleging that Christ Paul reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath. 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.?-Ver. 7. I will have mercy and not sacrifice Ver. 12. It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath-day.-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, his ass on the Sabbath day? (Ch. xiv. Doth not each of you loose his ox or loosed from her bond on the Sabbath3.,5.) And ought not this woman to be 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. Ver. 6. Also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. 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 honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasures, 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 leading 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 Sabbath. 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 1 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 to 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 in ward. And the Lord said unto him to Moses and Aaron, and they put Moses, The man shall be surely put to him with stones without the camp. And death; all the congregation shall stone all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died as the Lord com manded 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; because they walked not in my them into the land which I had given 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 nations; because they had despised my statutes and polluted my Sabbaths. xxii. 8. Thou hast profaned my Sabbaths.--Ver. 14. Can thine heart en dure, or can thine 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 profore have I poured out mine indignation faned among them.-Ver. 31. Therethe fire of my wrath; their own ways upon them, I have consumed them with 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. 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. the seventh to the first day of the week. CCX. The change of the Sabbath from Gen. ii. 2. God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, 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. xix. 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 togeth er 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. CHAPTER XVI. DUTIES TOWARDS MANKIND. I. LOVE. Lev. xix. 18. Thou shalt xiii. 8. Owe no man any thing, but not avenge nor bear any grudge against to love one another: he that loveth the children of thy people, but thou another, hath fulfilled the law.-Ver. shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.-10. Love worketh no ill to his neighVer. 34. The stranger that dwelleth bour: therefore love is the fulfilling of with you shall be as one born among the law. you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. 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 the publicans the same. And if you salute your brethen 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. 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. xiii. 1. Let brotherly love continue. 1 Pet. iii. 8. Love as brethren. 1 Pet. i. 2. See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. ii. 17. Honour all men; love the brotherhood. 1 John ii. 10. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 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 iii. 11. This is the message that ye is the first and great commandment.- have heard from the beginning, That Ver. 39, 40. And the second is like unto | we should love one another. it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyVer. 14. We know that we have pasself. On these two commandments hang sed from death unto life, because we all the law and the prophets. Rom. xiii. love the brethren.-Ver. 18. My little 9. James ii. 8. children, let us not love in word, neither John xiii. 34, 35. A new command-in tongue, but in deed and in truth. ment 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. iii. 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.— Rom. xii. 9. Let love be without dis- Ver. 11. Beloved, if God so loved us, simulation. we ought also to love one another. 1 John iv. 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 had 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. 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. And 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. Heb. x. 20. Let us provoke one an- and understand all mysteries, and all though I have the gift of prophecy, other to love and to good works. Gal. v. 6. Faith worketh by love.-knowledge; and though I have all faith, Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, have not charity, I am nothing. And so that I could remove mountains, and joy, peace, &c. 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. 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 dwelleth 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. 1 Thess. 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. Ch. iii. 1 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 te mper 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 neighbour. 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. 12. Be like minded, having Ver. 4-7. Charity suffereth long and vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; is kind; charity envieth not, charity 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 things put on charity, which is the bond of perfect ness. 1 Tim. i. 5. The end of the commandment is 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. 22. 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 the faith, in charity, in patience. 1 Pet. iv. 8. Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall cover a multitude of sins. Prov. x. 12. v. 14. kiss of charity. Greet ye one another with a 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, long-suffering, charity, patience, persecutions, afflictions, &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 thine heart. Ps. xxxiv. 21. Evil shall slay the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. Prov. xxix. 10. The blood-thirsty 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 ano. ther, and shall hate one another. K k 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 you 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. Tit. iii. 3. We ourselves were sometimes foolish, diobedient, deceived, sermalice and envy, hateful and hating one ving divers lusts and pleasures, living in another. 1 John ii. 9. He that hateth his bro ther is in darkness. Ver. 11. iii. 13. Marvel not, brethren, if the world hate you. Ver. 14, 15. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother, is a murderer; and Ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he iv. 20. If a man say, I love God, and who loveth not his brother whom he he hath not seen? hath seen, how can he love God whom 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. hate you. Do good to them that |