verfities of tongues. v. 29. Are all apofties are all prophets? are all teachers are all workers of miracles? Eph. iv. 11. And he gave fome, apoftles: and fome prophets: and fome, evangelifts and fome, pallors, and teachers; v. 12. For the perfecting of the faints, for the work of the ministry, for the edify ing of the body of Christ. 1 Cor. iv. 1. Let a man fo account of us, as of the minifters of Chrift, and ftewards of the myfteries of God. V. 2. Moreover, it is required in ftewards, that a man be found faithful. Rom. x. 15. And how fhall they preach, except they be fent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gofpel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! Heb. v. 4. And no man taketh this honour unto him felf, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron,

f If. xlix. 23. And kings fhall be thy nurfing-fathers, and their queens thy nurfing - mothers : they fhall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the duft of thy feet, and thou fhalt know that I am the Lord: for they fhall not be ashamed that wait for me. Pfal. cxxii. 9. Because of the houfe of the Lord our God, I will feek thy good. Ezra vii. 23. What foever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done, for the houfe of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his fons? 25. And thou, Ezra, after the

wifdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, fet magiftrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all fuch as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not. v. 26. And whofoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed fpeedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confifcrtion of goods, or to imprifonment. v. 27. Bleffed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put fuch a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the houfe of the Lord which is in Jerufalem: v. 28. And hath extended mercy unto me, before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes: and I was ftrengthned, as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Ifrael, chief men to go up with me. Lev. xxiv, 16. And he that blafphemeth the name of the Lord, he thall furely be put to death, and all the congregation fhall certainly tone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blafphemeth the name of the Lord, fhall be put to death. Deut. xiii. 5. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams fhall be put to death, (because he hath fpoken to turn you away from the Lord your God,which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the houfe of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk, in) fo

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fhalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. v. 6. If thy brother, the fon of thy mother, or thy fon, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bofom, or thy friend, which is as thine own foul, entice thee fecretly, faying, Let us go and ferve other gods, which thou haft not known, thou, nor thy fathers. v. 12. If thou fhalt hear fay in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, faying, 2 Kings xviii. 4. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen ferpent that Mofes had made for unto those days the children of Ifrael did burn incenfe to it, and he called it Nehufhtan. (1 Chron. xiii. I. to the 9th verfe. 2 Kings xxiii. 1. to the 26th, verfe.) 2 Chron. xxxiv. 33. And Jofiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Ifrael, and made all that were present in Ifrael to ferve, even to ferve the Lord their God. And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers. 2 Chron. xv. 12. And they entered into a covenant, to seek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their foul; v. 13. That whofoever would not feek the Lord God of Ifrael, fhould be put to death, whether fmall or great, whether man or woman.

g 2 Chron. xix. 8. Moreover, in Jerufalem did Jehoshaphat fet of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Ifrael, for the judgment of the Lord, and

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for controverfies, when they returned to Jerufalem. v. 9. And he charged them, faying, Thus fhall ye do in the fear of the Lord, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. V. 10. And what caufe foever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, ftatutes and judgments, ye fhall even warn them that they trefpafs not against the Lord, and fo wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye fhall not trefpafs. v. II. And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you, in all matters of the Lord; and Zebadiah the fon of Ifhmael, the ruler of the houfe of Judah, for all the king's matters: alfo the Levites fhall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the Lord fhall be with the good. (2 Chron. xxixth and xxxth chapters.) Matth. ii. 4. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and fcribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Chrift fhould be born. v. 5. And they faid unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet.

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IV. 1 Tim. ii. 1. I exhort therefore, that first of all, fupplications, prayers, interceffions, and giving of thanks be made for all men: For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

i 1 Pet. ii. 17. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

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k Rom. xiii. 6. For, for this caufe pay your tribute alfo: for they are God's minifters, attending continually upon this very thing. v. 7. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due, cuftom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour.

/ Rom. xiii. 5. Wherefore ye muft needs be fubject, not only for wrath, but also for confcience fake. Tit. iii. 1. Put them in mind to be fubject to principalities and powers, to obey magiftrates, to be ready to every good work.

m 1 Pet. ii. 13. Submit yourfelves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's fake: whether it be to the king, as fupreme: v. 14. Or unto governors, as unto them that are fent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well. v. 16. As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of malicioufnefs, but as the fervants of God.

» Rom. xiii. 1. Let every foul be fubject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God; the powers that be,are ordained of God. 1 Kings ii. 35. And the king put Benaiah the fon of Jehoiadah in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar. Acts xxv. 9. But Feftus, willing to do the Jews a pleafure, anfwered Paul, and faid, Wilt

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thou go up to Jerufalem, and there be judged of these things before me? v. 10. Then faid Paul, I ftand at Cefar's judgment - feat, where I ought to be judged; to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knoweft. V. 11. For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die but if there be none of thefe things, whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cefar. 2 Pet. ii. 1. But there were falfe prophets also among the people, even as there fhall be falfe teachers among you, who privily fhäll bring in damnable herefies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themfelves fwift deftruction. v. 10. But chiefly them that walk after the flesh, in the luft of uncleannefs, and defpife government: prefumptuous are they, felf-willed, they are not afraid to fpeak evil of dignities: V. II. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accufation against them before the Lord. Jude 8. Likewife alfo thefe filthy dreamers defile the flesh, defpife dominion, and speak evil of dignities. v. 9. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he difputed about the body of Mofes, durft not bring against him a railing accufation, but faid, The Lord rebuke thee. v. io.

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But these speak evil of thofe things which they know not but what they know naturally, as brute-beats; in thofe things they corrupt themfelves. V. II. Wo unto them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gain-faying of Core.

• 2 Theff. ii. 4. Who oppofeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; fo that he as God fitteth in the temple of God, fhewing himself that he is God. Rev. xiii. 15. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beaft, that the image of the beast should both fpeak, and caufe that as many as would not worship the image of the beaft fhould be killed. v. 16. And he caufeth all, both fmall and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: v. 17. And that no man might buy or fell, fave he that had the mark, or the name of the beaft, or the number of his name.

I. a Gen. ii. 24. Therefore fhall a man leave his father and his mother, and fhall cleave unto his

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wife: and they hall be one flesh, Matth. xix. 5. And faid, For this caufe fhall a man leave father and mother, and fhall cleave to his wife; and they twain fhall be one flesh. v. 6. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put afunder. Prov. ii. 17. Which forfaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

II. b Gen. ii. 18. And the Lord God faid, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an help meet for him.

c Mal. ii. 15. And did not he make one yet had he the refidue of the Spirit: and wherefore one? that he might feek a godly feed: therefore take heed to your fpirit,. and let none deal treacheroully against the wife of his youth.

dI Cor. vii. 2. Nevertheless, to avoid forn cation, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own hofband. v. 9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn..

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III. e Heb. xiii. 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 1 Tim. iv. 3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving, of them which believe and know the truth. 1 Cor. vii. 36. But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely towards his virgin, if the pafs the flower of her age, and need fo require, let him do what he will, he finneth not: let them marry. v. 37. Nevertheless, he that standeth stedfaft in his heart, having no neceffity, but hath power over his own will, and hath fo decreed in his heart,that he will keep his virgin, doth well. V. 38. So then, he that giveth her in marriage, doth well: but he that giveth her not in marriage, doth better. Gen. xxiv. 57. And they faid, We will call the damfel, and enquire at her mouth. v. 58. And they called Rebekah, and faid unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? and fhe faid, I will go.

f 1 Cor. vii. 39. The wife is bound by the law as long as her hufband liveth: but if her husband be dead, fhe is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. g Gen. xxxiv. 14. And they faid unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our fifter to one that is uncircumcifed for that were a reproach unto us. Exod. xxxiv. 16. And thou take of their daughters

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unto thy fons, and their daughters go a-whoring after their gods, and make thy fons go a-whoring after their gods. Deut. vii. 3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his fon, nor his daughter fhalt thou take unto thy fon. For they will turn away thy fon from following me, that they may ferve other gods: fo will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and deftroy thee fuddenly. 1 Kings xi. 4. For it came to pafs when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. Neh. xiii. 25. And I contended with them, and curfed them, and fmote certain of them, and pluckt off their hair, and made them fwear by God, faying, Ye fhall not give your daughters unto their fons, nor take their daughters unto your fons, or for yourfelves. v. 26. Did not Solomon king of Ifrael fin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Ifrael: nevertheless, even him did outlandish women caufe to fin. v. 27. Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to tranfgrefs against our God, in marrying ftrange wives? Mal. ii. 1. Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Ifrael, and in JerufaS

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