ix. 5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. x. 14. I know my sheep, and am known of mine. xii. 46. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. Ver. 35, 36. Acts xiii. 47. I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldst be for salvation to the ends of the earth. VI. Duties of the enlightened, who know God. Acts xvii. 30. The times of ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Rom. xiii. 12. Let us put on the armour of light.-Ver. 13. Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness. 1 Thess. v. 5, 6. Ye are all the children of light and of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. Ver. 8. Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 1 Pet. ii. 9. Ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. VII. The wicked know not God. Exod. v. 2. Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go. Job xxi. 15. Ps. xiv. 4. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? lxxix. 6. Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee. lxxxii. 5. They know not, neither will they understand: they walk on in darkness. Isa. i. 3. Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.-Ver. 7. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire. Jer. iv. 22. My people is foolish, they have not known me; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.-Ver. 27. The whole land shall be desolate. v. 4. They are foolish, they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgments of their God. Ver. 5. ix. 3. They proceed from evil to evil, and know not me, saith the Lord.-Ver. 11. I will make Jerusalem heaps. Hos. iv. 1. The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. v. 4. The spirit of whoredoms is in them; they have not known the Lord. John viii. 19. Jesus said to the Pharisees, Ye neither know me, nor my Father. Ver. 55. 139 xvi. 3. Jesus said unto his disciples, These things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father nor me. xvii. 25. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee. Rom. i. 28. They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, wherefore God gave them up to a reprobate mind. Ps. x. 4. Cor. xv. 34. Some [Professed Christians] have not the knowledge of God. 1 John iv. 8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God. FAITH. 2 Chron. xx. 20. VIII. Faith in God. Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established. Isa. xliii. 10. Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe me, that I am the Lord. Mark xi. 22. Jesus said, Have faith in God, John xii. 44. Heb. vi. 1. Let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance, and of faith toward God. xi. 6. Without faith it is impossible to please God: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. James ii. 19. Thou believest there is one God; thou dost well. 1 Pet. i. 21. That your faith and hope might be in God. Ps. cxix. 66. I have believed thy command ments. IX. Faith in Christ. John vi. 29. Jesus said, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. 1 John iii. 23. This is God's commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another. John xii. 36. Believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. xiv. 1. Jesus said, Ye believe in God, believe also in me. xx. 27. Jesus said to Thomas, Be not faithless but believing. X. Faith in Christ: brief summaries thereof. John ix. 35. Dost thou believe in the Son of God? Ver. 38. xi. 27. I believe that thou art Christ the Son of God, that should come into the world. xvi. 30. We believe that thou camest forth from God. xvii. 6. Jesus said, I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world.-Ver. 8. And they have believed that thou didst send me. Ver. 21. Acts viii. 37. Philip said to the eunuch, If thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayest be baptized and he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.Ver. 38. And Philip baptized him. John iv. 42. We have heard ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. vi. 69. We believe and are sure, that thou art Christ the Son of the living God. xvi. 30. Now are we sure that thou knowest all things by this we believe that thou camest Rom. vi. 8. If we be dead with Christ, we forth from God. Ver. 31. believe that we shall also live with him. x. 9. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 1 Thess. iv. 14. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. XI. Confessing Christ; promises. Matt. x. 32. Whosoever shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father which is in heaven. Rom. x. 9, 10. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 1 John iv. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in him. xvii. 8. Jesus said, They have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. Ch xvi. 27. Acts i. 36. Let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus both Lord and Christ. xvii. 31. God hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Heb. x. 22. Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith. xi. 1. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. See Col. ii. 2. 1 Thess. i. 5. 2 Tim. iii. 14. 1 John iii. 19. Of being strong, steadfast, and persevering in faith. Rom. iv. 19. Abraham, being not weak in faith. Ver. 20-22. He staggered not at the pro Rev. ii. 13. Thou holdest fast my name. mise of God, through unbelief; but was strong Ch. iii. 8. XII. Denying Christ; threats. Matt. x. 33. Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Luke xii. 9. He that denieth me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God. 2 Tim. ii. 12. If we deny him, he also will deny us. 2 Pet. ii. 1. False teachers shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them. 1 John ii. 22, 23. Who is a liar, but he that denicth that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. Jude 4. Ungodly men turn the grace of God into lasciviousness, denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. See Acts iii. 14. Matt. xxvi. 70. XIII. The certainty and assurance of faith. Luke i. 1. Many have taken in hand to set forth a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.-Ver. 3, 4. It seemed good to me also, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed. in faith, giving glory to God: Being fully persuaded, that what God had promised he was able to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 1 Cor. xvi. 13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 2 Cor. v. 7. We walk by faith, not by sight. iv. 18. We look not at the things which are seen and are temporal, but at the things which are not seen, and are eternal. Heb. xi. 27. Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible. xiii. 5. Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Gal. ii. 20. The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God. Eph. iii. 17. I pray that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. vi. 16. Take the shield of faith, whereby ye may be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. Phil. i. 27. Stand fast in one Spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel. Col. i. 23. Continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard. ii. 5, 6, 7. I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him; rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. and in your love to us; see that ye abound in this grace also [of liberality]. Gal. v. 6. Faith worketh by love. Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, 1 Tim. vi. 12. Fight the good fight of faith, faith. lay hold on eternal life. 2 Tim. i. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. iv. 7, 8. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. Tit. i. 13. Rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith. Heb. x. 23. Hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering. James i. 3. The trying of your faith worketh patience. 1 Pet. i. 7. 1 Pet. v. 8, 9. Your adversary the devil, walketh about seeking whom he may devour: whom resist, steadfast in the faith. Eph. i. 15, 16. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints, I cease not to give thanks for you. Col. i. 4. iii. 17. I pray that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted and grounded in love, &c. 1 Thess. i. 2, 3. We give thanks to God, remembering your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.-Ver. 7. Ye were examples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. v. 8. Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity 2 Pet. iii. 17. Beware lest ye fall from your of every one of you toward each other steadfastness. 1 John v. 4. This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. See John viii. 31. Compare with Rom. x. 8. See also, Acts xiv. 22. Eph. vi. 10. 2 Tim. ii. 1. 1 John ii. 14. Rev. ii. 13.-xiii. 10. See Heb. chap. xi. throughout. XIV. Graces and duties accompanying true faith; or marks and evidences of true faith. Exod. iv. 31. The people believed, and worshipped. xiv. 31. The people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord. Ps. cvi. 11, 12. The waters covered their enemies: then believed they his words; they sung his praise. cxvi. 10. I believed, therefore have I spoken. 2 Cor. iv. 13. Ps. xxvii. 13. Jonah iii. 5. The people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast. Acts xv. 9. God purifying the hearts of the Gentiles by faith. xvi. 34. The keeper of the prison rejoiced, believing in God, with all his house. xx. 21. Paul testified both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. xxiv. 24, 25. Felix heard Paul concerning the faith. Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come. 1 Cor. xiii. 2. Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.-Ver. 13. Now abideth faith, hope, charity. 2 Cor. viii. 7. As ye abound in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, and in all diligence, aboundeth. ii. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. 1 Tim. i. 5. The end of the commandment is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned. Ver. 14. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ii. 15. Continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety. iii. 9. Holding the mystery of faith, in a pure conscience. iv. 12. Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 2 Tim. i. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words, in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus. ii. 22. Follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. iii. 10. Thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience.-Ver. 14. Continue in the things thou hast learned.-Ver. 17. Be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works. Tit. i. 1. The faith of God's elect, and the acknowledgment of the truth which is after godliness. ii. 1, 2. Speak thou the things that become sound doctrine; that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, and in patience. iii. 8. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, That they which have believed in God, might be careful to maintain good works. Ver. 14. Heb. vi. 12. Be ye followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. James ii. 14. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he have faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?-Ver. 17. Faith if it hath not works is dead, being alone. Ver. 20. Know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead.-Ver. 26. As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. See ver. 22, 24. 2 Pet. i. 5—7. Add to your faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity. XVI. God being the author of faith, he is prayed to and thanked for faith as his gift. Rom. xv. 13. The God of hope, fill you with all joy and peace in believing. Eph. i. 15. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints, I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. Col. i. 3, 4. Philem. ver. 5. vi. 23. Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thess. i. 2, 3. We give thanks to God always for you, remembering your work of faith and labour of love. 2 Thess. ii. 13. 2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God 1 John iii. 23. This is God's commandment, always for you, brethren, because your faith That we should believe on the name of his groweth exceedingly.-Ver. 11. We pray alSon Jesus Christ, and love one another. ways for you, that our God would count you Jude 20, 21. Ye, beloved, building up your-worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good selves on your most holy faith, praying in the pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of with power. God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to eternal life. Rev. ii. 19. I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. xiii. 10. Here is the patience and faith of the saints. xiv. 12. Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. XV. The author, or cause and means of faith. God the author and supreme cause of faith. Matt. xvi. 16, 17. Peter said to Jesus, Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. John i. 13. They that believed on his name were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1 John iv. 14, 15.—v. 1. Acts xiii. 48. As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed. xiv. 27. God opened the door of faith to the Gentiles. Rom. xii. 3. Think soberly, as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. 1 Cor. ii. 5. Your faith should not stand but in the power of God. Eph. ii. 8. By grace ye are saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Phil. i. 29. Unto you it is given on the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. 2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. See 1 Tim. i. 14. XVII. Christ the author of faith. Luke xvii. 5. The apostles said, Lord, increase our faith. 1 Tim. i. 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ was exceeding abundant, with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus. Heb. xii. 1, 2. Let us run with patience the race set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. 1 Pet. i. 21. Ye by him do believe in God who raised him from the dead. 2 Pet. i. 1. To them that have obtained like precious faith with us, through the righteousness of God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ. See Eph. vi. 23. 2 Thess. i. 12. The Holy Ghost the author of faith. 1 Cor. xii. 8, 9. To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge: To another faith, by the same Spirit. 2 Cor. iv. 13. We having the same Spirit of faith, also believe. Gal. v. 22. 23. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. XVIII. Subordinate mean of faith is God's word. John xx. 31. These are writ ten, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God. Rom. i. 16. 1 John v. 13. Rev. i. 19. XIX. A gospel ministry the means of faith. John i. 7. John came for a witness, that all men might believe. Acts xix. 4. xvii. 20. Jesus said, I pray not for these alone which thou gavest me out of the world, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. xix. 35. He that saw bare record, that ye might believe. Acts ii. 41. At hearing Peter's sermon, there were added to the church about three thousand souls. iv. 4. Many that heard the word believed. viii. 12. They believed Philip, preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ. Ver. 13. xi. 21. The hand of the Lord was with the apostles, and a great number believed. xiv. 1. Paul and Barnabas so spake that a great number believed. xv. 7. Peter said, God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. xvii. 2. Paul reasoned out of the scriptures, &c.-Ver. 4. And some of the Jews believed, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.-Ver. 34. Certain men clave to Paul and believed. Acts xviii. 4. 8. 27, 28.-xix. 9. See xxvi. 17, 18. Jesus said to Paul, I send thee to the Gentiles, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. That they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Rom. i. 5. By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith. x. 8. The word is nigh thee: that is, the word of faith which we preach. Ver. 14, 15. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach except they be sent? Ver. 17. So faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. xvi. 25, 26. The mystery which was kept secret, is now made known to all nations for the obedience of faith. 1 Cor. i. 21. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. iii. 5, 6. Who is Paul or Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. Ver. 7. xv. 2. I have delivered unto you the gospel by which ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.-Ver. 11. So we preach, and so ye believed. 2 Cor. i. 24. Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy. Eph. ii. 20. Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. iv. 11-13. Christ gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man. Phil. i. 25. I shall continue with you, for your furtherance and joy of faith. ii. 17. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. 1 Thess. iii. 2. We sent Timotheus, to establish and comfort you concerning your faith. -Ver. 10. Praying that we might see your face, and perfect that which is lacking in your faith. Heb. xiii. 7. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow. 1 John i. 3. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you. THE GOSPEL CALLED FAITH, AND THE LAW OF FAITH.-Rom. iii. 27. Boasting is excluded by the law of faith. x. 8. The word of faith which we preach. Gal. i. 23. Paul preached the faith which once he destroyed. iii. 2. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Ver. 5. Ver. 23. Before faith came, we were shut up unto the faith that should afterward be revealed. Ver. 25. See 1 Tim. i. 4.-v. 8. Jude ver. 3. Rev. ii. 13. XX. Promises to faith. Justification promised to believing_in_God. Gen. xv. 6. Abram believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Rom. iv. 3. 9. Gal. iii. 6. Jam. ii. 23. John v. 24. Jesus said, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. See Luke i. 45. XXI. Justification to believing in Christ promised. Acts xiii. 39. By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses. Rom. iii. 21, 22. The righteousness of God (i. e. justification) without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets: Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all that believe. Ver. 25, 26. Jesus Christ hath God set forth, to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins: To declare his righteousness; that he might be just, and the justifier of them that believe in Jesus. |