Lev. x. 9. Do not drink Wine, nor ftrong Drink, thou nor thy Sons with thee, when ye go into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, left ye die. Ezek. 44. 21. Luke 1. 15. Luke xxi. 34. Jefus faid unto his Difciples, take Heed to yourselves, left at any time your Hearts be overcharged with Surfeiting and Drunkennefs and the Cares of this Life. 1 Cor. ix. 27. Paul faid I keep my Body under. Jer. 35. 6. See On this wife ye fhall 1 Tim. iii. 3. A Bishop must not be given to Wine. Tit. 1. 7. Wine forbidden to Nazarites. Numb. 6. 3. Amos 2. 12. 131. They pray for the People. Numb. vi. 23. blefs the Children of Ifrael, faying unto them, Ver. 24. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee, Ver. 25. The Lord make his Face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. Ver. 26. The Lord lift up his Countenance upon thee, and give thee Peace. Joel ii. 17. Let the Priefts the Ministers of the Lord weep between the Porch and the Altar, and let them fay fpare thy People, O Lord, and give not thy Heritage to Reproach. Rom. i. 9. Without Ceafing, I make Mention of you always in my Prayers. x. 1. My Heart's Defire and Prayer to God for Ifrael is, that they may be faved. xv. 13. Now the God of Hope fill you with all Joy and Peace in Believing, that ye may abound in Hope, through the Power of the Holy Ghoft. 1 Cor. i. 4. I thank my God always on your Behalf, for the Grace of God which is given you by Jefus Chrift. 2 Cor. xiii. 7. I pray to God that ye do no Evil. Eph. i, 16. I cease not to give Thanks for you, making mention of you in my Prayers. * Ver. 17. That the God of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Father of Glory, may give unto you the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of him, &c. Ver. 18. 19. Phil. i. I thank 3. God on every my Remembrance of you. Ver. 4. Always in every Prayer of mine or you all, making Request, Ver. 5. That he that hath begun a good Work in you, will perform it until the Day of Christ. Ver. 9. This I pray that your Love may abound yet more and more, in Knowledge, and in all Judgment. Ver. 10. That ye may approve the Things that are excellent, and that ye may be fincere and without Offence until the Day of Chrift. Ver. 11. Being filled with the Fruits of Righteousness, which are by Jefus Chrift unto the Glory and Praise of God. Col. i. 9. We ceafe not to pray for you and to defire that ye might be filled with the Knowledge of his Will, in all Wisdom and Spiritual Understanding. Ver. 1o. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all Pleafing, being fruitful in every good Work, increasing in the Knowledge of God. Ver. 11. Strengthened with all Might according to his glorious Power, unto all Patience and Long-fuffering with Joyfulness. Col. Col. iv. 12. Labouring fervently for you in Prayers, that ye may ftand perfect and compleat in all the Will of God. 1 Theff. iii. 12. The Lord make you to encrease and abound in Love, one towards another and towards all Men. Ver. 13. To the End he may establish your Hearts unblameable in Holinefs before God even our Father, at the Coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift with all his Saints. v. 23. The very God of Peace fanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole Spirit, and Soul, and Body, be preferved blameless unto the Coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift. 2 Theff. i. 11 We pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this Calling, and fulfil all the good Pleafure of his Goodness, and the Work of Faith with Power. Ver. 12. That the Name of our Lord Jefus Chrift may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the Grace of our God and the Lord Jefus Chrift. ii. 16. Now the Lord Jefus Chrift himself, and God even our Father which hath loved us and given us everlasting Confolation and good Hope through Grace, Ver. 17. Comfort your Hearts, and stablish you in every good Word and Work. James v. 14. Is any fick among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray over him, Ver. 15. See more Inftances of fuch Prayers. Exod. xxxii. 11. Mofes for the Ifraelites when they offended in making the golden Calf, Deut. 9. 20. Numb. xi, 2. For the People when a Fire from the Lord confumed many of them. xiv. 13. 20. For the People when they murmured. xxi. 6, 7. 8. For the People when bitten with fiery Serpents. 1 Sam. xii. 19. 23. Samuel for the People offending by afking a King. Neh. ix. 6. The Priefts for the People to Ver. 37. Chap. 10. 28. to 39. on which a Reformation enfues, Ch. 12. 43. Dan. ix. 4. to 20. Daniel for the People. Am. vii. 2. to 7. Amos for the People. Hab. i 3. to 17. Habakkuk for the People, Ver, 17, 18, 19. Chrift for the Difciples, John 14. 16.—16. 26.—17. 9. 15. 20. For Peter, Luke 22. 32. For Children, Matt. 19. 13. 132. The Supports of Chriftians in general, of the Lord's Ministers in particular, under Sufferings for Religion. Ifa. lxvi. 5. Hear the Word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his Word, your Brethren that hated you, that caft you out for my Name's Sake, faid, let the Lord be glorified; but he fhall appear to your Joy, and they shall be ashamed. Luke 6. 22, 23. Matt. v. 10. Bleffed are they which are perfecuted for Righteoufness Sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven, Ver. 11. x. 39. He that lofeth his Life for my Sake fhall find it. xix. 29. Every one that hath forfaken Houfes or Brethren, or Sifters, or Father or Mother, or Wife, or Children, or Lands for my Name's Sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting Life. Rom. v. 3. We glory in Tribulations, knowing that Tribulation worketh Patience. Rom. Rom. v. 4. And Patience, Experience, and Experience Hope; viii. 17. If fo be that we fuffer for Chrift, that we may be alfo glorified together. Ver. 18. The Sufferings of this present Time are not fit to be compared to the Glory that shall be revealed in us. Ver. 35. Who fhall feparate us from the Love of Christ? Shall Tribulation, or Diftrefs, or Perfecution, or Famine, or Nakedness, or Peril, or the Sword? Ver. 36. (As it is written, for thy Sake we are killed all the Day long; we are counted as Sheep for the Slaughter.) Ver. 37. In all thefe Things we are more than Conquerors, through him that loved us 2 Cor iv. 9. We are perfecuted but not forfaken, Ch. 6. 8, 9, 10. xii. 10. I take Pleasure in Infirmities, in Reproaches, in Neceffities, in Perfecutions, in Diftreffes for Chrift's Sake: For when I am weak, then am I ftrong. Ver 9. He faid unto me, my Grace is fufficient for thee; for my Strength is made perfect in Weakness. Moft gladly therefore will I rather glory in mine Infirmities, that the Power of Christ may rest upon me. 1 Tim. iv. 10. We labour and suffer Reproach, because we trust in the living God. Heb. x. 34. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your Goods, knowing that in Heaven ye have a better and a more enduring Substance. xi. 26. Mofes had Respect to the Recompence of Reward. Ver. 27. He endured as feeing him who is invifible. Ver. 35. Others were tortured, not accepting Deliverance, that they might obtain a better Refurrection. xii. 1. Seeing we are compaffed about with so great a Cloud of Witneffes, let us run with Patience the Race fet before us. Ver. 2. Looking to Jefus the Author and Finisher of our Faith, who for the Joy that was fet before him endured the Cross, defpifing the Shame, and is fet down on the right Hand of the Throne of God, Ch. 2. 9.-13. 13. Matt. 10. 24. James 5. 10. 1 Pet. 2. 21.4. 1. 13. 14. 16. 19. Rev. 2. 10. Wicked Minifters. 133. Wicked Minifters, their Sin and Punishment. Lev. x. 1. Nadab and Abihu offered strange Fire before the Lord which he commanded them not. Ver. 2. And there went out a Fire from the Lord and devoured them. 1 Sam. ii. 12. The Sons of Eli were Sons of Belial, they knew not the Lord. See to Ver. 17. Their Covetoufnefs. Ver. 22. Their Uncleannefs. Ver. 27. to the End, the Punishment of Eli's House. Ifa. xliii. 27. Thy Teachers have tranfgreffed against nie. Ver. 28. Therefore I have profaned the Princes of the Sanctuary, I have given Jacob to the Curfe, and Ifrael to Reproaches. Jer. ii. 8. The Priests faid not, where is the Lord? and they that handle the Law knew me not; the Paftors alfo tranfgreffed against me, &c. Jer. Jer. ii. 9. Wherefore I will yet plead with you, faith the Lord, and with your Children's Children. x. 21. The Paftors are become brutish and have not fought the Lord, therefore they shall not profper, and all their Flocks shall be scattered. xxiii. 11. Both Prophet and Prieft are profane, &c. Ver. 12. Wherefore I will bring Evil upon them, even the Year of their Vifitation, faith the Lord. Ver. 14. They commit Adultery and walk in Lies, they strengthen the Hands of Evil-doers, that none doth return from his Wickedness, they are all of them to me as Sodom. Ver. 15 Thus faith the Lord, I will feed them with Wormwood, and make them drink the Water of Gall, for from the Priests is Profanenefs gone forth to all the Land. Ver. 22. If they had flood in my Counsel, and had caufed my People. to hear my Words, then they should have turned them from the Evil of their Doings. Ver. 27. They caufe my People to forget my Name by their Dreams. Ver. 30. Therefore I am against the Prophets, faith the Lord. Ezek. xxii. 26. Her Priefts have violated mý Law, and have profaned my holy Things. Ver. 31. Therefore I poured out mine Indignation upon them, their own Way have I recompenfed upon their Heads. Zeph. iii. 4. Her Prophets are light and treacherous Perfons, her Priests have polluted the Sanctuary, they have done Violence to the Law. Ver. 5. The juft Lord is in the Midft thereof, &c. Mal. i. 6. O ye Priefts that defpife my Name: Ver. 7. Ye offer polluted Bread upon mine Altar. Ver. 8. If ye offer the Blind, and the Lame, and the Sick, is it not Evil? Ver. 9. Will he regard your Perfons, faith the Lord? ii. 8 O ye Piets, ye have departed out of the Way, ye have cau'ed many to ftumble at the Law. Ver. 9. Therefore have I made you contemptible before all the People, according as ye have not kept iny Ways. Matt. vii. 22. Many will fay to me in that Day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophefied in thy Name, and in thy Name caft out Devils, and in thy Name done many wonderful Works. Ver. 23. Then will I profefs unto them I never knew you, depart from me ye that work Iniquity, Ch. 25. 44, 45. 2 Tim. iii. 5. Having a Form of Godliness, but denying the Power thereof, from fuch turn away, Ver. 13. 134. Their Covetousness. Ifa. lvi. 11. Her Watchmen are all greedy Dogs which can never have enough; they all look to their own Way, every one for his Gain from his Quarter. See the Covetousness of Eli's Sons, 1 Sam. 2. 12. to 17. Jer. viii 10. Every one from the leaft, even to the greatest, is given to Covetousness, Ch. 6. 13. Ezek. xiii. 19. Will ye pollute my Name for Handfuls of Barley and Pieces of Bread. Hof. vi. 9. As Troops of Robbers the Priests murder in the Way, they commit Lewdnefs. Ggg Mal. Mal. i. 10. Who is there among you that would fhut the Doors for Nought? neither do they kindle Fire on mine Altar for Nought. I have no Pleasure in you, neither will I accept an Offering at your Hands, faith the Lord of Hofts. iii. 11. The Priests teach for Hire, and the Prophets divine for Money. Ver. 12. Therefore fhall Zion for your Sakes be plowed as a Field. John x. 12. He that is an Hireling, whofe own the Sheep are not, feeth the Wolf coming, and leaveth the Sheep, and fleeth. Ver. 13. The Hireling fleeth, because he is an Hireling, and careth not for the Sheep. Acts xx. 29. After my Departure fhall grievous Wolves enter in among you, not fparing the Flock. 1 Tim. vi. 5. Men of corrupt Minds, fuppofing that Gain is Godlinefs. 2 Tim. iv. 10. Demas hath forfaken us, having loved this prefent World. Tit. i. 11. Teaching Things which they ought not, for filthy Lucre's Sake. 2 Pet. ii. 3. Through Covetoufnefs fhall they make Merchandize of you. Jude, Ver. 11. They ran greedily after the Error of Balaam for Reward, 2 Pet. 2. 14, 15. 135. Their Intemperance. Ifa. xxviii. 7. The Prieft and the Prophet have erred; through ftrong Drink they are out of the Way, Ver. 8. 17. Ch. 56. 12. Luke xii. 45. If that Servant shall begin to eat and to drink, and to be drunken, Ver. 46. The Lord of that Servant will cut him in funder, and appoint him his Portion with Unbelievers. Rom. xvi. 18. Such ferve not our Lord Jefus Chrift, but their own Belly. Phil. iii. 19. Whofe God is their Belly, whofe Glory is their Shame, who mind earthly Things. 2 Pet. ii. 13. They count it Pleasure to riot in the Day-time. Jude Ver. 12. Feeding themselves without Fear. Ver. 19. Senfual, having not the Spirit. 136. Their Slathfulness. Ifa. Ivi. 10. His Watchmen are all dumb Dogs, they cannot bark, fleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Jer. xxiii. 1. Wo be unto the Pastors that destroy and scatter the Sheep of my Pasture, faith the Lord Ver. 2. Ye have fcattered my Flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold I will vifit upon you the Evil of your Doings, faith the Lord. Ezek. iii 18. When I fay unto the Wicked, thou fhalt furely die; and thou giveft him not Warning, nor fpeakeft to warn the Wicked from his wicked Way to fave his Life; the fame wicked Man fhall die in his Iniquity; but his Blood will I require at thine Hand. xxxiv. 2. Thus faith the Lord, wo be to the Shepherds; should not the Shepherds feed the Flock. See to Ver. 11. xliv. 8. Ye have not kept the Charge of mine holy Things, but ye have fet Keepers of my Charge in my Sanctuary for yourselves. Ezek. |