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4. Does [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], divine worship belong to the first person in the Trinity? So it does to Christ (John 5:23; Hebrews 1:6): Let all the angels of God worship him. 5. Is creation proper to the Deity?

Who hate God and his people, (as the vine and laurel) have an antipathy, who do all they can to disparage holiness — are these redeemed who are unreconciled? Christ has purchased a reprieve for these, but a sinner may have a reprieve and yet go to hell (John 5:6). 2. Such as are…

In his resurrection he was exalted above the grave, in his ascension he was exalted above the airy and starry heaven, in his sitting at God's right hand: he is exalted above the highest heavens far (Ephesians 4:10): Far above all heavens. 5. God has exalted Christ in constitutin…

Seventh Fruit: Absolution at the Day of Judgment. Christ shall judge the world (John 5:22). God has committed all judgment to the Son.

Branch 2. If Christ be King, it informs us that all matters of fact must one day be brought before him. Christ has Ius vitae & necis, the power of life and death in his hand (John 5:22): the Father has committed all judgment to the Son. He who once hung upon the cross shall sit…

1. Concerning God's providences towards his Church: We are ready to quarrel with providence if every thing does not jump with our desire: Remember God's work goes on, and nothing falls out but what he has decreed from eternity. 2. God has decreed troubles for the Church's good;…

I may pray, says a Christian, but I shall be never the better, I question whether God does hear, or whether he will grant. This is to dishonor God, and take his name in vain; this is to make God either an idol, that he has ears and hears not, or a liar, who promises mercy to the…

Quest. 3. Who shall be Judge? Resp. The Lord Jesus Christ (John 5:22). The Father has committed all judgment to the Son.

John 5:28. Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good to the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation. Question. What benefits shal…

The letter of Scripture has been preserved without any corruption in the original tongue. The Scriptures were not corrupted before Christ's time, for then Christ would never have sent the Jews to the Scriptures; but he sends them to the Scriptures (John 5:39): Search the Scriptu…

He seemed not to be so much troubled at the fear of losing his own life and kingdom, as that God should lose his glory. 12. We hallow and sanctify God's name, when we give the same honor to God the Son, as we give to God the Father (John 5:23): That all men should honor the Son…

Christianity teaches compassion. (4.) Masters must endeavor the spiritual good of their servants; they must be Seraphims to kindle their love to religion: They must be monitors to put them in mind of their souls: They must bring them to the pool of the Sanctuary, waiting till th…

2. If we would have the word written effectual to our souls, let us peruse it with intenseness of mind. (John 5:39) Search the Scriptures. The Greek word [in non-Latin alphabet] signifies to search as for a vein of silver.

God's works of Providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions. The work of God's Providence (John 5:17): My Father works until now, and I work. The great God has rested from the works of creation, he does not cr…

There is not more or less in the Trinity, the Father is not more God than the Son and Holy Ghost. There is an order in the Godhead, but no degrees; one person has not a majority or supereminency above another, therefore we must give equal worship to all the persons (John 5:23).…

To instance in those more common and inferior works of the Spirit on the hearts of men not as yet savingly regenerated: the Spirit enlightening them, together with impressions of joy and a taste of sweetness in the promises of the gospel and of salvation revealed therein, which…

This point is carefully to be marked, as declaring the great power of true saving faith; for, if faith can overcome created and sanctified nature, then undoubtedly the power thereof, will enable man to overcome the corruptions of his nature, and the temptations of the world: for…

He is omnipresent, Where two or three are gathered together in my name, [illegible] am I in the midst among them (Matthew 18:20). Lastly he is omnipotent, Whatever things the Father does, the same does the Son also (John 5:17). 4. The works of creation and preservation are as we…

4. He is undervalued when folk think not themselves happy enough in him, nor sure enough in bargaining with him, and when he does not satisfy and fully content them, as if he were yes and no, and as if all the promises were not yes and amen in him. When he is not credited entire…

4. It may be confirmed from the many sad complaints that the Lord has for not receiving Him, and not believing His Word, and from the dreadful designations by which He holds out the sin of unbelief; all which, will make out this, that God lays Christ at sinners' door in His Word…

It is said that this Word was not only with God, but was God; and then follows in several verses together his works — the works of creation: all things were made by him, etc. The works of providence are attributed to him (John 5:17): My Father works until now, and I work. And th…

4. It will be clear, if we consider, that the great disobedience that He quarrels for is when there is not believing, when sinners will not come to Him. This is His quarrel (John 5:40): You will not come to me that you may have life — and here, Who has believed our report? So (M…

Oh, let Him have His errand among you! The offer comes, as I just now said, to every one of your doors, and your answer will be, and must be, either yes, or no — either that you are content to be His children, that His grace may be glorified in you, or that you are not content,…

2. It is called pleasing to the Lord, in respect of the end, and as it is a means to the glorifying of His grace, and the performance of His Promise to the Mediator; for by this, His grace comes to be glorified, and He has access, to perform what He has promised to the Mediator.…

But also, thirdly, it is so in these two respects further: sinners coming to Him, resting on Him, and getting good of Him is His delight. First, in respect of the honor that is done to Him: when a sinner believes on Him, He counts it the putting of the crown on His head, as it i…

Therefore, 1. You must know God, that justifies you, before you can be justified; as it is (John 17:3), "This is life eternal, to know you the only true God, and him whom you have sent, Jesus Christ." If ever you be absolved, before such a judicatory, you must know your Judge; t…

That unbelief though there were no other sin, is exceeding sinful, and is first. The great ground that makes God expostulate with the hearers of the Gospel, and that makes them come under the complaint, (John 5:40) "You will not come to me that you may have life," and (Matthew 2…

It cannot be more free than without money, it cannot be more seriously pressed than with a "Ho" and cries to come. Sometimes He complains, as (John 5:40), "You will not come to me that you might have life," and sometimes weeps and mourns because sinners will not be gathered, as…

This is some other difference than the rain can make between the just and the unjust. And 1 John 5:8: "And there are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and these three agree in one." And that we may know that the Spirit is in us, is evide…

No man whatever mettle he be of, the finest of men can come, or has power to come to me, and to believe on the only begotten Son of God, except the Father who sent me draw him. We know Christ was much to extol his Father, his Father was ever in his esteem an eminent one, as (Mat…

Your faith toward God (1 Peter 1:21; Deuteronomy 1:32; John 3:12; Genesis 15:6; Daniel 6:23; Romans 4:3; Galatians 2:16; 2 Timothy 1:12). The word, promises, and Prophets and Apostles, are all creatures, and but media fidei, the means of saving faith: they are objectum quo (John…

5. All within the visible Church, have means sufficient in their kind, in genere mediorum externorum, to save them. 6. As none can be saved by the light of nature, nor ever any used, or could use it so far forth, as to improve it for their sufficient preparation, to receive the…

So Proverbs 20:8 says, 'A king that sits on the throne of judgment scatters the wicked with his eyes' — and so does Christ his and our enemies. See what Christ says in John 5:21–22: 'The Son of man raises up whom he will, for the Father judges no man but has committed all judgme…

But God having placed Christ on his throne, bids him ask even to the whole of his kingdom, for God has made him a King, sitting on his throne with him, not to share halves, but to have all power in heaven and earth; he has committed all judgment to the Son, to save and condemn w…

So if Christians have a knowledge of God, but no zeal, there is no saving life in that knowledge, it is not the knowledge of God's people. Notable is that speech of our Savior (John 5:35, speaking of John): He was a burning and a shining light, not only a shining light to give c…

Felix would be spared in his Delilah, but if you would be spared, in any sin excused for, nor parting with any iniquity, then you have not Christ for your Savior; Remember what our Savior said to the man (John 5:6): Would you be made whole? He said, Indeed Lord, and he was heale…

An Angel brought Elijah his food under the Juniper Tree (1 Kings 19:5). An Angel stirred the waters at the Pool of Siloam (John 5:4). An Angel was the guide of the way to Abraham's servant (Genesis 24:7), He will send his angel before you, and you shalt take a wife to my son fro…

And this voice which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the holy mount. 2. Their consent in doctrine, which is obvious in all their writings, the Apostles related nothing concerning Christ, but what Moses and the prophets had foretold, and what was history in th…

Eternally begotten (Proverbs 8:22-23), I was set up from everlasting, the Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old. A Son coequal with his Father (John 5:18), the Jews sought to kill him because he said, God was his Father, making himself equal with…

1. Do you seriously come to him that you may have pardon, and life. When Christ had proved that he was the Son of God, the great Prophet of the Church, by the testimony of John, the testimony of his works, the testimony of his Father, and the testimony of the Scriptures (John 5:…

So says Christ also (Matthew 6:2), that hypocrites do all things to be praised of men. And in (John 5:44) he sharply reproves such: "How can you believe (says he) which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes of God alone?" These things which Paul has hit…

Hosea says, The righteousness of the Israelites, was like the morning dew, which the rising of the sun consumes (Hosea 6:4). John was a burning light, and the Jews rejoiced in this light: that is well; but mark what is added: for an hour or moment (John 5:35). They which cried H…

Thirdly, we must be as spies, in searching of the Scriptures. Ioh. 5. 39. that we may vnderstand the words of the lawe of God, and find comfort to our soules. The third and last degree of vrging, is, that the false brethren seeke to bring the Apostles in bondage, that is, to bin…

Again, there is hardness of heart, whereby the will of man is unpliable to that which is good, unless it be renewed. In the body there are more diseases, than the Physicians' books can express: and as many diseases as there be in us, so many fruits of sin there are (John 5:14).…

Rom 8:27. 1. Ioh. 5. 14. Thirdly, they are divine and spirituall, touching things which concerne the kingdome of God.

There is no religion in that heart, that is wholly bent to seeke the praise of men. Ioh. 5. 44. And the man that desires to be talked of, and admired by others, dos thereby in effect give notice to all the world, that his heart is not sound in the sight of God.

These men must remēber, that in bearing coales, that is, in suffering, and forbearing, they heape vp coales of fire upon their heads, (as Paul speaks, Rom 12:20.) as also that God does beare with them in greater matters, euen when they wound him with their oathes, Leuit. 24. 11…

Having spoken before then of light and darkness, and having promised light to such as gave ear to the voice of the Lord; he now says, that the Jews rejected this light, to kindle one of their own: and in conclusion affirms; that they shall be consumed as with a fire, by their ow…

As the name, Son of God, belonged to the divine essence of Christ from the beginning, so now it is applied unitedly to both natures, because the secret and heavenly manner of generation has separated him from the ordinary rank of men. In other passages, indeed, with the view of…

It is when he infuses into his word a secret power, so that it enters into dead souls, as he himself declares, The hour comes, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they who hear shall live, (John 5:25.) 16. And fear seized all.