1 Thessalonians 5

Resp. This peace has the whole Trinity for its author. 1. God the Father is the God of peace (1 Thessalonians 5:23). 2. God the Son is the Prince of peace (Isaiah 9:6).

This is the partaking of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). God's Spirit is a Spirit of consecration; though it sanctifies us but in part, yet in every part (1 Thessalonians 5:23). This is such a mercy that God cannot give in anger; if we are sanctified, then we are elected (2 The…

God's Spirit is a spirit of bondage before it be a spirit of adoption. This blessed work of regeneration spreads over the whole soul; it irradiates the mind, it consecrates the heart, and reforms the life: though regeneration be but in part, it is in every part (1 Thessalonians…

The dew wets the leaf, the sap is hid in the root; the religion of some consists only in externals, but Sanctification is deeply rooted in the soul (Psalm 51:6): In the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom. 3. Sanctification is an extensive thing; it spreads into the whol…

These spiritual fathers are to be honored for their work's sake, and this honor is to be shown three ways. 1. By giving them respect (1 Thessalonians 5:12): Know them which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.…

Quest. How shall we know our souls are pure? Resp. 1. If our souls are pure, then we fly from the appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22). We will not do that which looks like sin.

Let us cry to God for help against the Tempter, as Samson cried to Heaven for help (Judges 16:28), O Lord God, remember me, and strengthen me I pray you, that I may be avenged of the Philistines: and, verse 30, The house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people. Prayer is st…

4. That he answered the Law and the penalty of it (Romans 8:3): "God sent forth his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us" (Galatians 3:13): "Christ has redeemed us from the curse…

(6) To abide with, and stand by them, in their sufferings for the Gospel, and service of Christ among them. (1) 1 Thessalonians 5:12, 13; 1 Timothy 5:17. (2) Hebrews 13:17; 1 Corinthians 16:16.

For the words expressly assign two sorts of Elders, whereof some, only attend to rule; others moreover labor in the word and doctrine. Neither does that word, as some would have it, labor in the Word, intend any other labor but what is incumbent on all the Pastors and Teachers o…

Quest. 42. To whom is the power and administration of this Discipline committed by Jesus Christ? Answ. As to the authority to be exerted in it in the things wherein the whole Church is concerned, to the Elders; as to trial, judgment and consent in, and to its exercise to the who…

(4) In exhorting, comforting, and restoring to the enjoyment and exercise of Church privileges such as are recovered from the error of their ways; all according to the laws, rules, and directions of the Gospel. (1) (Matthew 18:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 1 Corinthians 4:14; Titus…

Q. What are the parts of prayer? A. Petition and thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:17, 11). Q. What is petition?

Do you need peace of conscience being filled with terrors? He is 'the God of peace' (1 Thessalonians 5:23). 'Yes, but I have a heart empty of grace and holiness and full of corruptions.'

No better helps of our faith can there be, than often and seriously to consider of the mercy and power of him that made them: if he be willing, and able, what can let the performance of them? Let us therefore often say with holy Paul, Faithful is he who has promised, who will al…

Rex pacificus and Rex pacis do both denote him that is the maker and author of peace. So God on that account is called the God of Peace (Romans 15:13; Chapter 16:20; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Hebrews 13:20). Therefore as we ought to acquiesce in the authority o…

The whole was corrupted, and the whole must be renewed. The image of God was originally in and upon the whole, and on the loss of it the whole was depraved; see 1 Thessalonians 5:23. 2. To take away the necessity and efficacy of renewing, changing, sanctifying grace, consisting…

So it is made use of by our blessed Savior (Luke 21:34, 35, 36). And so by our Apostle (1 Thessalonians 5:5, 6, 7, 8). And this also is expressed in the type of it, or the Flood in the days of Noah, nothing in it was more terrible to men than that they were surprised in the mids…

The great use, benefit and advantage which believers have by this grace, is the supporting of their souls under the troubles and difficulties which they meet withal upon the account of the profession of what they do believe (Romans 5:4, 5; 1 Corinthians 15:19; 1 Thessalonians 1:…

Hereby it is rendered unmeet for the discharge of its office in any particular duties. With respect hereunto conscience is here used synecdochically for the whole soul, and all the faculties of it, yes, our whole spirit, souls and bodies, which are all to be cleansed and sanctif…

2. What is it to hold fast this profession? The words we so render, are [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], and sometimes [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], singly, as (1 Thessalonians 5:23). [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] and [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], are indefinitely used to this end (ch.…

First, real and internal in regeneration and effectual sanctification. The washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost (Titus 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:23). But this is not that which is here intended.

There was sleeping in the bed of uncleanness and drunkenness among the Heathens. But our Apostle who well enough knew their course, affirms of them, that they who sleep, sleep in the night, and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night (1 Thessalonians 5:7). They did their…

How incomparably useful are the Graces! Faith and Fear go hand in hand; Faith keeps the heart cheerful, Fear keeps the heart serious; Faith keeps the heart from sinking in despair, Fear keeps it from floating in presumption; all the Graces display themselves in their beauty: Hop…

And the reason why the Lord would have him stand on these two parts is this: Some creatures made before him were only bodily; as beasts, fishes, fowls: some spiritual, as Angels: now man is both; spiritual in regard of his soul, corporeal and sensible in regard of his body; that…

Question 4: What is the time appointed for prayer? Answer: Pray continually (1 Thessalonians 5:17), that is, upon all occasions: or when a man begins any business, whether it be in word or deed (Colossians 3:17): or as Daniel, who prayed three times every day (Daniel 6:11): or a…

The faculties are not new, but the qualities; as the strings of a viol are the same, but the tune is altered. Righteousness is extensive in the subject, it has a spreading virtue (1 Thessalonians 5:23). The God of peace sanctify you wholly.

The pattern of that sanctification which is wrought in the heart is God's nature or image (2 Peter 1:4; Ephesians 4:24), and the pattern of that sanctification which is wrought in the life is God's law or revealed will (1 Thessalonians 4:3); the one is our habitual holiness, and…

That they walk according to rule (Galatians 6:16): "As many as walk according to this rule, peace be to them, and mercy." That they have a respect to all God's commands, and hate every false way (Psalm 119:128), and consequently that they make conscience of every, yes the least…

I am sorry he sought no better, else he had found more. Subjection and obedience is commanded, as due, not only to Civil, but to Spiritual Governors, to those that are over us in the Lord (1 Thessalonians 5:12). So (1 Timothy 5:17), Let the Elders that rule well, be counted wort…

We use to say (when we speak of our conversion) since my soul was wrought on. And though the body is said to be sanctified (1 Thessalonians 5:23), yet the immediate subject is the soul; and that primitively, originally: the body by derivation from the soul. And hence it is, the…

And Peter had in his eye Christ's example, and pointed them thereunto, who at his death committed his separate soul or spirit into the hands of God (Luke 23:46) and the word commit is one and the same in both these places: only there is this difference, that whereas Christ says,…

Now this is the work of prayer, namely, to seek and obtain such supplies of mortifying, sanctifying grace, as whereby the power of sin may be broken, its strength abated, its root withered, its life destroyed, and so the whole Old Man crucified. That which was the Apostle's requ…

If he shall say, you have nothing to do to pass sentence or censure upon me, I am none of your Church, but of another Church; suppose in Holland, in France, &c. and I am only here now for merchandise sake, or upon some other occasion: what shall they say to stop his mouth, if th…

For example, every Christian is bound in charity to admonish and reprove his brother that offends; first, privately, then before witnesses; and if he hear not, to tell it to the Church (Leviticus 19:17; Matthew 18:15, 16, 17). This a ruling Elder ought to do by virtue of his cal…

4. It makes the last part of the speech, in the word and doctrine, to be superfluous: for they hold that all the difference here is in the measure or manner of labor, and no difference in re subjecta. 5. All who have any charge in the ministry are called [in non-Latin alphabet]…

Now there are good reasons why this popular government or exercise by jurisdiction by all can not be admitted into a Congregation. First, in every Christian Congregation, there are some Rulers, some ruled, some Governors, some governed, some that command, some that obey, as is m…

Quest. 4. What is the time appointed for prayer? Pray continually (1 Thessalonians 5:17), that is, upon all occasions, or when a man begins any business, whether it be in word, or deed (Colossians 3:17), or as Daniel, who prayed three times every day (Daniel 6:11), or as David,…

That one Spirit, whom He commanded the faithful to seek with all their prayers from the Father (Luke 11:13), He willed to be all in all throughout the whole of evangelical worship. See (Luke 12:10; John 3:5, 6, 8, 4:24; Romans 7:6, 8:1, 2, 9, 18, 26, 15:30; 1 Corinthians 2:4, 12…

To this is contrary, a stay, or going backward (Galatians 5). Watchfulness is a continual care with ourselves, that we be readily prepared as we ought, to practice good, and resist evil, which is set forth (Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 Corinthians 16:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; Mark 13:35)…

3 Of the vse of them to the glorie of God. To use these things to the glory of God, is so to use them, as we neither be drunk or asleep in them, as the Apostle says, which are the works of the night and darkness: not of the day (1 Thessalonians 5:6-8). To be drunk, it is to be o…

BY a thing indifferent in vse, is meant that which is not only free to be used, but also convenient in that time & place, before those persons where we are presently to use the same as if the thing be made by the law unlawful, & withal to have no good report, praise, or virtue i…

Matthew 26. And when they had sung a Psalm, they went out into the mount Olivet. 1 Thessalonians 5:20. Quench not the Spirit: Set not light by preaching: Try all things: Hold fast that which is good.] For obedience of life, it behooveth them to teach them, call on them, and see…

We are commanded to put away all other things out of our mind, and all superfluity, or malice, or filthiness whatever, and be ready and swift to hear, yes and to receive the word of the Lord by his minister, his husbandman is ready to ingraft in our souls (James 1:18; Luke 8:18)…

1. You would not take up our meaning in it so, as if we made every common work that lively means may have on the hearers of the Gospel, to be conversion; the preaching of the Word will sometimes make folks tremble, as we see in Felix, and will waken convictions and terrors in th…

But as peace is opposed to pain, and sense of wrath and punishment, for the guilt of our sins, so he wanted physical peace, and was now under penal disturbance and disquietness of soul. So we see some have peace, but not pardon; as the secure sinners (1 Thessalonians 5:3). Secon…

So as Christ died not, but on a poor hopeless venture, and a forlorn contingency, that might as soon fill Hell, with the damned souls of all the world, as grace Paradise with redeemed ones. 6. His coming in the world has no such Arminian end, that we read of, as a possible savin…

When the Prophet had lain upon the child, and had done so seven times, at length the breath of the child began to wax warm, a sign that life was a restoring, and thereby the Prophet discerned that life began to return into the body of the child, because warmth returned; and so i…

Just as Paul complains of the Jews (Acts 13:46), since you have put it away from you, lo, we turn to the Gentiles, we purge and cast out the motions of God's spirit, and cannot endure that any Ordinance should bring us nearer to Christ. (Acts 7:51) You have always resisted the H…

2. Civil worship is when we give men and angels due reverence, and 1. With respect to their stations and relations, whatever their qualifications be, as to magistrates, ministers, parents, great men; we are to reverence and honor them according to their degree and quality; accor…