1 Cor. ix. 27. Paul faid, I keep under my Body and bring it into Subjection, left by any means when I have preached to others, I myself fhould be a Caft-away. Matt. 7. 22. 2 Cor. vi. 3. Giving none Offence that the Ministry be not blamed. Ver. 4. In all Things approving ourselves as the Minifters of God in much Patience, &c. Ver. 6. By Purenefs, by Knowledge, by Long-fuffering, by the Holy Ghost, by Love unfeigned. Ver. 7. By the Word of Truth, by the Power of God, by the Armour of Righteousness on the right Hand, and on the left: viii. 20. Avoiding this, that no Man fhould blame us. xi. 12. I cut off Occafion from them that feek Occafion. Phil. iii. 17. Ye have us for an Example. iv. 9. Thefe Things which thou haft heard and feen in me do, &c. I Theff. ii. 10. Ye are Witneffes, and God alfo, how holy and justly, and unblameably we behaved ourfelves among you. 2 Theff. iii. 7. We behaved not ourfelves diforderly among you. 1 Tim. iii. 1. If a Man defire the Office of a Bifhop he defireth a good Work. Ver. 2. A Bishop must be blameless, vigilant, fober, of good Behaviour, given to Hofpitality. Ver. 3. Not given to Wine, no Striker, not greedy of filthy Lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not covetous ; Ver. 4. One that ruleth well his own House. Ver. 6. Not a Novice, left being lifted up with Pride he fall into the Condemnation of the Devil. Ver. 7. He must have a good Report of them that are without, left he fall into Reproach. Tit. 1.7, 8, 9. A Bishop must be blameless as the Steward of God, not felf-willed, not foon angry, not given to Wine, no Striker, not given to filthy Lucre; but a Lover of Hofpitality, a Lover of good Men, fober, juft, holy, temperate; holding faft the faithful Word, that he may be able, by found Doctrine, both to exhort and to convince Gainfayers. Ver. 8. Likewise must the Deacons be grave, &c. See to Ver. 14. 1 Tim. iv 12. Let no Man defpife thy Youth, but be thou an Example of the Believers, in Word, in Converfation, in Charity, in Spi rit, in Faith, in Purity. Tit. 2. 15. Ver. 13. Give Attendance to Reading, &c. Ver. 14. Neglect not the Gift that is in thee. Ver. 15. Meditate on thefe Things, give thyfelf wholly to them, that thy Profiting may appear to all. Ver. 16. Take heed unto thy felf and to thy Doctrine, continue in them, for in doing this, thou shalt both fave thyself, and them that hear thee. v. 22. Keep thyself pure. vi. 11. Thou Ó Man of God, follow after Righteoufnefs, Godlinefs, Faith, Love, Patience, Meeknefs. Ver. 12. Fight the good Fight of Faith. Ver. 14. Keep this Commandment without Spot unrebukeable. 2 Tim. 1. 14. 2 Tim. i. 13. Hold faft the Form of found Words in Faith and Love which is in Christ Jefus. Fff 2 Tim. 2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful Lufts, but follow Righteousness, Faith, Charity, Peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure Heart. Ver. 24. The Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all Men, apt to teach, patient. Ver. 25. In Meeknefs inftructing thofe that oppofe themselves. 2 Tim. iii. 10. Thou haft fully known my Doctrine, Manner of Life, Purpose, Faith, Long-fuffering, Patience. Ver. 14. Continue in the Things which thou haft learned and hast been affured of. Tit. ii. 7. In all Things fhewing thyfelf a Pattern of good Works. 1 Pet. v. 3. Being Enfamples to the Flock. See Inftances Acts 6. 3. The feven Deacons, Ch. 16. 2. Timotheus, Ch. 22. 12. Ananias, Heb. 11. 2. The Elders.-3 John Ver. 12. Demetrius. 124. Their Humility, Self-denial and Condefcenfion for the good of Mankind in their Office. Rom. i. 11. I long for you that I may impart some spiritual Gift unto you. xi. 13. I magnify mine Office. 1 Cor. ix. 12. We suffer all Things left we should hinder the Gospel. Ver. 19. I made myself Servant of all that I might gain the more. Ver. 22. I am made all Things to all Men that I might by all means fave fome. Ver. 23. This I do for the Gofpel's Sake. x. 33. I please all Men in all things, not seeking mine own Profit, but the Profit of many, that they might be faved. 2 Cor. i. 24. We are Helpers of your Joy, Acts 16. 40. ii. 4. The Love I have for you all. v. 20. We pray you be ye reconciled to God. vi. 1. We befeech you, that ye receive not the Grace of God in vain. Ver. 13. I fpeak as to my Children. vii. 4. Great is my glorying in you, I am comforted. 2 Theff. 1. 4. Ver. 13. We were comforted in your Comfort. xi. 2. I am jealous over you with a godly Jealoufy. Acts 11. 23. Ver. 3. I fear left your Minds fhould be corrupted from the Simplicity that is in Chrift, See Ver. 23. to 29. Ver. 11. Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 2 Cor. xii. 15. I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more I love you the lefs I be loved. Ver. 19. We do all Things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. Ver. 29. Who is weak and I am not weak? who is offended and I burn not? Gal. iv. 11. I am afraid left I have beftowed Labour on you in vain. Ver. 19. My little Children of whom I travel in Birth till Chrift be formed in you. Phil. i. 8. God is my Record how greatly I long after you in the Bowels of Jefus Chrift. ii. 17. If I am offered upon the Sacrifice and Service of your Faith, I Joy and Rejoice with you all. Ver. 20. Timotheus will naturally care for your State. iv. 1. Dearly beloved and longed for, my Joy and Crown, ftand faft in the Lord, my dearly beloved, Col. i, 24. I rejoice in my Sufferings for you, I fill up that which is behind of the Afflictions of Chrift in my Flesh for his Body's fake, which is the Church. Col. ii. 1. I would that ye knew what great Conflict I have for you, and for them of Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my Face in the Flesh: Ver. 2. That their Hearts might be knit together in Love, and unto all Riches of the full Affurance of Underftanding, &c. ii. 5. Though I be abfent in the Flesh, yet am I with you in the Spirit, joying and beholding your Order and the Stedfaftnefs of your Faith in Christ. iv. 8. I fent Timotheus to comfort your Hearts. 1 Theff. 3. 2. I Cor. 4. 7. 1 Theff. ii. 7. We were gentle among you, even as a Nurse cherisheth her Children. Ver. 8. Being affectionately defirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own Souls, because ye were dear unto us. Ver. 9. Labouring Night and Day we preached the Gofpel unto you. Ver. 11. We exhorted and comforted and cherished every one of you as a Father doth his Children. Ver. 19. For what is our Hope, or Joy, or Crown of Rejoicing? are not even ye in the Prefence of our Lord Jefus Christ? iii. 7. Brethren, we were comforted over you in all our Afflictions and Dittress by your Faith. Ver. 8. For now we live, if ye ftand fast in the Lord. Ver. 9. What Thanks can we render to God for you, for all the Joy wherewith we joy for your Sakes before our God? Ver. 10. 11. 2 Tim. ii. 10. I endure all Things for the Elects Sake, that they may obtain the Salvation which is in Chrift Jefus with eternal Glory. 3 John Ver. 4. I have no greater Joy than to hear that my Children walk in the Truth. 2 John Ver. 4. 125. They feek not Applaufe from Men, they flatter not Men in their Vices and Prejudices. Theff. ii. 4. We fpeak not as pleafing Men, but God which trieth our Hearts. Ver. 5. Neither ufed we flattering Words. Ver. 6. Neither of Men fought we Glory. Gal. i. 10. If I yet pleased Men I fhould not be the Servant of Chrift. 126. They seek not Riches from Men, are not covetous. 2 Cor. xii. 14. Paul faid I feek not yours but you. 1 Tim. iii. 3. A Bishop must not be greedy of filthy Lucre. Ver. 8. Tit. 1.7. 1 Pet. v. 2. Feed the Flock of God, taking the Overfight, not for filthy Lucre's fake. See Luke 9 62. 2 Tim. 2. 4. See Inftances, Sa muel, 1 Sam. 12. 1, 2, 3. Paul, 12. 13. 17. 18. 1 Theff. 2. 5. 127. Their Duty and Encouragement to speak boldly the Truths of Religion without Fear. Ifa. 1. 4. The Lord God hath given me the Tongue of the Learned, that I should know how to speak a Word in Season to him that is weary. I Cor. 9. 14. 2 Cor. 7. 2.-9. 11. Phil. 4. 11. 12. Jer. i. 7. The Lord faid to me, fay not I am a Child, for thou fhalt go to all that I fend thee, and whatsoever I fhall command thee, that thou shalt fpeak. Jer. i. 8. Be not afraid of their Faces for I am with thee to deliver thee, faith the Lord. Ver. 5.9. Ver. 17. Be not afraid of their Faces left I confound thee before them. Ch. 6. 27.-15. 20. 21.-20.11. Ezek. 2. 6. 7. Ezek. iii. 8. I have made thy Face ftrong against their Faces. Ver. 9. Matt. x. 28. Fear not them which kill the Body. Ver. 26. 31. Acts iv. 29. Lord grant unto thy Servants, that with all Boldness they may speak thy Word xviii. 9. Then fpake the Lord to Paul in the Night by a Vision, be not afraid but speak and hold not thy Peace. Ver. 10. For I am with thee, and no Man fhall fet on thee to hurt thee, for I have much People in this City. Ver. 11. xxviii. 31. Paul taught thofe Things that concern the Lord Jefus with all Confidence. Eph. vi. 19. Paul faid, pray for me that Utterance may be given me, that I may open my Mouth boldly to make known the Mystery of the Gospel. Eph. vi. 20. That I may speak boldly as I ought to speak. Prov. xx. 25 The Fear of Man bringeth a Snare. Rev. xxi. 8. The Fearful and Unbelieving, fhall have their Portion in the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimftone, which is the fecond Death. See Mofes's Excufe, and God's Reply to him. Exod. 4. 10. to 13. 128. Infiances of becoming Boldness in reproving Sinners and declaring the Truths of Religion. 1 Sam. xiii. 13. Samuel faid to Saul, thou haft done foolishly, thou haft not kept the Commandment of the Lord thy God. 2 Chron. 16. 7. 9. 2 Sam. xii. 7. Nathan faid to David, thou art the Man that hast done wickedly. Ver. 9. Wherefore haft thou despised the Lord to do Evil in his Sight? 1 Kings xxi. 20. Elijah faid to Ahab, thou haft fold thy_Life to work Evil in the Sight of the Lord. See more Inftances in a Prophet. 2 Chron. 25. 16. Daniel, Dan. 4. 27.-5. 22. 23. John Baptist, Matt. 14. 4. Peter and John, Acts 14. 13. 18, 19, 20. Paul, Acts 9. 29.-19.8. 2 Cor. 10. 1. 2.—11. 21. Rom. 15 15. 1 Theff. 2. 2. Barnabas and Paul, Acts 13. 46.-14. 3. Apollos, Acts 18. 25. 26. Many Brethren, Phil. 1. 14. 129. The Sufferings of the Apoftles, &c. for Religion. Acts v. 41. The Apoftles departed from the Prefence of the Counsel rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer Shame, for the Name of Christ. ix. 16. The Lord faid of Paul, I will fhew him how great Things he muft fuffer for my Name's Sake. xx. 23. Paul faid, the Holy Ghoft witneffeth in every City, faying, that Bonds and Afflictions abide me. Ver. 24. But none of thefe Things move me, neither count I my Life dear unto myfelf, fo that I might finish my Courfe with Joy, and the Miniftry which I have received of the Lord Jefus, to teftify the Gofpel of the Grace of God. I Cor. ii. 3. I was with you in Weakness and in Fear, &c. iv. 9. God hath fet forth us the Apoftles laft, as it were appointed to Death, for we are made a Spectacle unto the World, to Angels and to Men. Ver. 10. We are Fools, we are weak, we are dishonourable, we are despised. Ch. 27. 28. Ver. 11. We hunger and thirst, are naked, buffeted, and have no certain Dwelling-place. Ver. 12. Being reviled we blefs, being perfecuted we suffer it. Ver. 13. Being defamed we intreat, we are made as the Filth of the World, and are the Offscouring of all Things unto this Day. 2 Cor. i 5. The Sufferings of Chrift abound in us. Ver. 8. In Afia, we were preffed out of Measure, above Strength, infomuch that we despaired even of Life. Ver. 9. We had the Sentence of Death within ourselves. Ver. 10. God delivered us. vi. 4. In all things approving ourselves as the Minifters of God in much Patience, in Afflictions, in Neceffities, in Diftreffes. Ver. 5. In Stripes, in Imprifonments, in Tumults, in Labours, in Watchings, in Faftings. Ver. 8. By Honour and Dishonour, by evil Report, and good Report, as Deceivers, and yet true. Ver. 9. As unknown, and yet well known, as dying, and behold we live, as chaftened and not killed. Ver. 10. As forrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having Nothing yet poffeffing all Things. xi. 23. In Labours abundant, in Stripes above Measure, in Pritons frequent, in Deaths oft. Ver. 25. 26. Ver. 27. In Wearinefs and Painfulness, in Watchings often, in Hunger and Thirst, in Faftings often, in Cold, and Nakedness. Eph. vi. 20. For the Gospel I am an Ambassador in Bonds. 1 Tim. iv. 10. We Labour and fuffer Reproach. 2 Tim. ii. 3. Endure Hardness as a good Soldier of Jesus Christ. Ch. 4. 5. iii. 11. Thou haft known what Perfecutions I endured. Ver. 12. All that will live godly in Chrift Jefus fhall fuffer Perfecutions. Acts 14. 22. Heb. xi. 25. Mofes chofe rather to suffer Affliction with the People of God, than to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin for a Season. Ver. 26. Ch. 13. 13. Ver. 36. Others had Trial of cruel Mockings, and Scourgings. Ver. 37. They were ftoned, they were fawn afunder, &c. Ver. 38. Rev. xvi. 6. They fhed the Blood of Saints and Prophets, and thou haft given them Blood to drink, for they are worthy. xi. 7. The Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlefs Pit, fhall make War against the Witneffes, and fhall overcome them and shall kill them. xvii. 6. I faw the Woman drunken with the Blood of the Saints, and with the Blood of the Martyrs of Jefus. xii. 6. The Woman fled into the Wilderness. Ver. 14. 130. Their Temperance. Lev. x. 8. The Lord fpake unto Aaron, faying, |