1 Cor. iv. 6. Be not puffed up for one against another. Ver. 16. Be ye followers of me. Phil. 3. 17. xi. 1. Be ye followers of me, even as I am of Christ. xvi. 16. Submit yourselves to such as have addicted themselves to the ministry, and to every one that helpeth with us and laboureth. Heb. xiii. 7. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Ver. 17. Obey them which have the rule over you, and submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you. CXXXIX. To esteem and love them, 1 Cor. iv. 1. Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. xvi. 11. Let no man despise Timothy, but conduct him as a brother. 2 Cor. viii. 7. Ye abound in love to us. Ver 24 Shew a prove of your love. Gal. iv. 14. Ye received me as an angel. 1 Thess. v. 12. Know them which labour among you and are over you in theLord, and admonish you. Ver. 13. Esteem them highly in love for their works sake. Phil.ii. 29. v. 17. Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. Tit. iii. 15. Greet them who love us in the faith. CXL. To pray for them. Acts xii. 5. Prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for Peter in the prison, and he was delivered Ver. 7. Matt. ix. 38. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that they would send forth labourers into the harvest. Rom. xv 30. I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me. Ver. 31, 32. 2 Cor. i. 10. God delivered us from death. Ver. 11. You helping together by prayer for us. Phil. i. 19. Philem. ver. 22. 1 Thess. v. 25. Brethren, pray for us. Heb. xiii. 18. 2 Thess. iii. 1. Brethren pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified. Ver. 2. And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked nien. Eph. vi. 19. Pray for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel. Ver. 20. That I may speak boldly as I ought to speak. Col. iv. 3, 4, CXLI. Support them. Deut. xii. 19. Take heed that thou forsake not the Levite so long as thou shalt Five upon the earth. Ch. xiv. 29. -xvi. 17. 2 Chron. xxxi. 4. Hezekiah commanded the people to give the por tion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord. See Neh. xiii. 10. 11. Ezek. xliv. 30. Mal. iii, 10. Matt. x. 10. Jesus said, the workman is worthy of his meat. 1 Cor. ix. 11. Paul said, if we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things? Ver. 13. Do ye not know that they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altur? Ver. 14. Even so hath God ordained, that they which preach the gospel, should live of the gospel. See Ver. 4 to 9. Deut. xxv. 4. Gal. vi. 6. Let him that is taught in the word, communicate to him that teacheth, in all good things. Phil. iv. 16. Paul said, ye sent once and again to my necessity. Ver. 17. Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. Ver. 18. Heb. x. 34. CXLII. Despising them, and not hearkening to their instructions. Deut. xvii. 2. The man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken to the priest that standeth to minister before the Lord, even that man shall die. 2. Chron. xxxvi. 15, 16. The Lord sent by his messengers the prophets, but they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, and there was no remedy. Ch. vii. 25.-xxv. 3, 4. -xxvi. 5-xxix. 19.-xxxv. 5. Isa. xxx. 9. This is a rebellious people which will not hear the law of the Lord. Ver. 10. Which say to the seers, sce not, and to the prophets, prophesy not to us right things, speak unto us smooth things. 1 Kings. xxii. 8. 2 Chr. xxxvi. 15, 16. Jer. xi. 21. Mic. ii. 6. liii. Who hath believed our report. Ch. xlix. 4. Jer. ii. 25. Thou saidst I have loved strangers, and after them I will go. v. 25. Prophets prophesy falsely, and the people love to have it so. vi. 10. The word of the Lord is unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it. Ver. 17. I set watchmen over them, saying, hearken to the sound of the trumpet, but they said, we will not hearken. xviii. 18. They said, come let us smite the prophet with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. See Ch. xxvi. 9. Lam. iii. 61, 62. Lam. iv. 16. The Lord will no more regard them, they respected not the person of the priests, they favoured not the elders. Ezek. iii. 7. The house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for they will not hearken unto me, saith the Lord. xxxiii. 30. The children of thy people are talking against thee by the walls, and in the doors of the houses. Ver. 31. They come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, they hear my words but they will not do them. Ver. 32. Thou art to them as a lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument, for they hear thy words, but do them not. Ver. 33. They shall know that a prophet hath been among them. Dan ix. 6. We have not hearkened to thy servants the prophets which spake in thy name Hos. iv. 4. My people are as they that strive with the priest. Zech. vii. 11. They refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears that they should not hear the words which the Lord hath sent in his Spirit by the prophets, therefore came wrath from the Lord of hosts. Matt. xviii. 17. If one neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man, and a publican. x. 11. Into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, shake the dust off your feet. Ver. 15. It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. Ver. 16. He that despiseth you despiseth me. John i. 11. Christ came to his own, and his own received him not. iii. 11. Jesus said, ye receive not our witness. v. 43. Jesus said, I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not, if another come in his own name him ye will receive. xii. 48. Jesus said, he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him, the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last day. Eph. iv. 14. Be no more chidren tossed to and fro, with every wind of doctrine. 1 Thess. iv. 3. He that despiseth, despiseth not men but God, who hath given unto us his Holy Spirit. See Matt. xxiii. 37. Luke. xiii. 34. 2 Tim. i.15.Paul said, all that are in Asia, be turned away from me. iv. 3. The time will come when they will not endure sound doc. trine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. Ver. 4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables. 1 Cor. iii. 4. One saith I am of Paul, another I am of Apollos, &c. Ch. i. 12. for iv. 6. Puffed up for one against another. CXLIII. Not supporting them. Mal. iii. 9. Ye arc eursed with a curse, have robbed me, even this whole nation. Ver. 10. Neh. xiii. ye 10, 12 SIXTH COMMANDMENT. CXLIV. Of Murder. Exod. xx. 13. Thou shalt not kill. Matt. xix. 18. 1 Tim. i. 9. Death the punishment of murderers. Gen. ix. 6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Ver. 5. Exod. xxi. 12. He that smiteth a man so that he die, shall surely be put to death. Ver. 13, 14. Lev. xxiv. 17. Numb. xxxv. 16. The murderer shall surely be put to death. Ver. 17, 18, 21, 30. Ver. 31. Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, he shall surely be put to death. Ver. 33. Blood defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Deut. xix. 11. If a man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and smite him mortally that he die, Ver. 13. I hine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood. CXLV. Cases excepted wherein the killing of a man was not to be punished with death. Exod. xxi. 20. If a man smite his servant with a rod and he die under his hand, he shall be surely punished. xxii. 2. If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. Ver 3. But if the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him. Deut. xix. 4. Whosoever killeth his neighbour ignorantly whom he hated not, Ver. 6. He is not worthy of death. Numb. xxxv. 15, 22. CXLVI. Threatenings against murderers. Ps. v. 6. The Lord will abhor the bloody man. See Ps. li. 14. Jonah i. 14. Iv. 23. Bloody men shall not live half their days. cvi. 38. The land was polluted with blood. Ver. 40. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled. cix. 31. The Lord shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. Prov. vi. 17. The Lord doth hate hands that shed innocent blood. xxviii. 17. A man that doth violence to the blood of any person, shall flee to the pit, let no man stay him. Isa. lix. 3. Your hands are defiled with blood. Ver. 7. Ver. 10 We are as dead men. Jer. ii. 34. Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents. vii. 9. Will ye steal, murder, commit adultery, &c. Ver. 15. I will cast you out of my sight. Ver. 16. Pray not for this people. xix. 3. I will bring evil upon this place. Ver. 4. They have filled it with the blood of innocents. Lam. iv. 14, 16. Ezek. xxiv. 6. Woe to the bloody city. Ver. 9. Neh. iii. 1. xxxv. 6. As I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. Hab. ii. 10. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. Ver. 11. For the stone shall cry out the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. John viii. 44. The devil was a murderer from the beginning. Gal. v. 21. The works of the flesh are, murders. James iv. 1. 1 John iii. 15. No murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Rev. xxi. 8. Murderers shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. xxii. 15. Without the heavenly Jerusalem are murderers, &c. See Hos. iv. 2, 3. Matt. xxiii 35. CXLVII. Instances of the punishment of murder. Upon Cain, Gen. iv. 5, 24. Upon Simeon and Levi, Gen. xlix. 5, 6, 7.—xxxiv. 25, 26. Upon David, 2 Sam. 11th and 12th chapters, and upon Ahab, 1 Kings xxii. 38. Upon Manasseth, 2 Kings xxiv. 3, 4. CXLVIII. Striking, wounding, maiming. How to be punished. Exod. xxi. 18 to 25. Lev, xxiv. 19. Deut. xxii. 23, 24-xxvii. 24. SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. CXLIX. Adultery and fornication. Exod. xx. 14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Mark x. 19. James ii. 11. Deut. xxiii. 17. There shall be no whore of the daughter of Israel. Lev. xix. 29. CL. Threatenings, or the evil consequences of adultery, and furnication, &c. Gen. xii. 17. The Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abram's wife, who was taken into Pharaoh's house. Ver. 15. xx. 2. Abimelech took Sarah Abraham's wife. Ver. 3. God said to him, thou art a dead man, for she is a man's wife. Ver. 7. If thou restore her not thou shalt surely die. Ver. 9. Abimelech said to Abraham, thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin. Ch. xxvi. 7, 10, 11. xxxv. 22. Reuben lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. Ch. xlix. 4. Jacob said, thou shalt not cxcel, because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile it. Exod. xxii. 16. If a man entice a maid, that is not betrothed, and hie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. Ver. 17. If her father refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. Lev. xviii. 20. Thou shalt not lie carnaily with thy neighbour's wife to defile thyself with her. Ver. 28. That the land spue you not out. xx. 10. The man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. See to ver. 22. xxi. 7. The priest shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane. Ver. 9. And the daughter of the priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father, she shall be burnt. Numb. v. 12. If a man's wife go aside and commit a trespass against him, Ver. 13. And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and there be no witness against her. Ver. 19. The priest shall charge her with an oath of cursing. Ver. 21. Ver. 27. And if she be defiled, her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot. Deut. xxii. 22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, they shall both of them dic. Ver. 23. If a damsel that is a virgin, be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city and lie with her, Ver. 24. Ye shall stone them both with stones that they die, the damsel because she cried not, being in the city, and the man because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. Deut. xxii. 25. But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and lie with her, then the man only shall die. Ver. 28. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Ver. 29. Then the man shall give unto the demsel's father fifty |