n S u b r 7. But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore fober, and watch unto prayer. 8. And above all things have fervent charity among your felves: for charity * fhall [Or, will] P cover the multitude of fins. 9. Use Hofpitality one to another without grudging. 10. As every man hath received the gift, even fo minifter the fame one to another, " as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11. If any man fpeak, let him fpeak as the oracles of God; if any man minifter, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified ⚫ through Jefus Chrift; to whom be praife and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 12. Beloved, think it not ftrange concerning the e fiery trial, which is to try you, as though fome ftrange thing happened unto you: 13. But rejoice, in as much as ye are partakers. of Chrifts fufferings; that when his glory fhall be revealed, ye may be glad alfo with exceeding joy. 14. If ye be reproach с ed 1 Cor. 1. 7.-Waiting for the Coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Thef 1.7. The Lord Jefus fhall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels. Pet. 1. 5, 6. Who are kept by the Power of God through Faith unto Salvation, ready to be revealed in the lat time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice. though now for a Seafon (if need be) ye are in Heaviness through manifold temptations. i 14. Mat. 5. 11. 1 Pet. 2 20. ti Pet. 3. 14. See on Heb. 11. 26. ed for the name of Chrift, happy are ye; for the fpirit of glory, and of God refteth upon you: on their part he is vil fpoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15. But et none of you fuffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as in 1evil-doer, or as am bufie-body in other mens matters, 6. Yet if any man fuffer as a Chriftian, let him not be fhamed; but let him glorifie God on this behalf. 17. For the time is come that judgment muft begin at the 1oufe of God: and if it firft begin at us, 。 what fhall he end be of them that obey not the gofpel of God? 18. And if the righteous fcarcely be faved, where hall the ungodly and the finner appear? 19. Whereore let them that fuffer according to the will of God, ommit. the keeping of their fouls to him in well doing, is unto a faithful Creator. T a n CHA P. V. HE elders which are among you, I exhort, who am alfo an elder, and a witness of the fufferings of Chrift, and alfo partaker of the glory that fhall a с 15. ti Pet. 2. 20. What gloy is it, if when ye be buffeted for our Faults ye take it patiently? Luk. 23.41. We indeed jufty; for we receive the due Reward of our Deeds: but this Man hath done nothing amifs. m Thef. 4. II. See on 2 Thef. 3. 11. 5 17. † Mal. 3. 5. I will come 10 near to you to Judgment, and I will be a swift Witnefs against the Sorcerers, and against the Adulterers, and against falfe Swearers, and against thofe that opprefs the Hire- 15 ling in his Wages, the Widow, and the Fatherlefs, and that turn afide the Stranger from his right, and fear not me, faith the Lord of Hefts. Ifa. 10. 12. † Jer. 25.20 29. Jer. 49. 12. See on Luk. f 23.31. † Luk. 10. 12, 14. I fay unto you, that it fhall be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom, than for, that City. It fhall be more tolera-25 ble for Tyre and Sidon at the Judg. ment than for you. be 18. P Prov. II. 31. See on Luk. 23. 31. 19. † Pfal. 31.5. Into thine Hand I commit my Spirit; thou haft redeemed me, O Lord God of Truth. Wifd. 3. 1. The Souls of the Righteous are in the Hands of God, and there fhall no torment touch them. + Luk. 23. 46. When Jefus had cried with à loud Voice, he faid, Father, into thy Hands I commend my Spirit. A&s 7. 59. They ftoned Stephen calling upon God, and faying, Lord Jefus, receive Spirit. my 2 Tim. I. 12. I know whom I have believed, and I am perfwaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that Day. I. CHAP. V. at Philem. ver. 9. See on I Tim. 5. I. b See on Luk. 24. 48. C + Rom. 8. 17. + Rev. 1.9. See on Acts 14. 22. d e * h which is a be revealed: 2. Feed the flock of God mong you [Or, as much as in you is], taking the overfight thereof, notby conftraint, but willingly, not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, 3. Neither as being lords over [Or, over-ruling] Gods heritage, but being enfamples to the flock. 4. And when the chief Shepherd fhall ap pear, ye fhall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. 5. Likewife ye younger, fubmit your felves unto the elder: yea, all of you be fubject one to ano-s ther, and be clothed with humility: for God eti Tim. 3. 3, 8. tous. Not greedy of † Tit. 1. 7. Not filthy Lucre. Not Cove- 1 † 1 Cor. refift eth 16., 18. Every one that is proud in Heart, is an abomination to the Lord though Hand join in Hand, he fhall not be unpunished. Pride 5 goeth before Destruction: and an haughty Spirit before a Fall. Prov. 18. 12. Before Destruction the Heart of Man is haughty, and before Honour is Humility. Ifa. 2. 11. The 10 lofty Looks of Man fhall be humbled, and the Haughtiness of Men fhall be bowed down, and the Lord alone fhall be exalted in that Day. Ifa. 13. 11. I will caufe the Arrogan cy of the Proud to ceafe, and will lay low the Haughtinefs of the Terrible. Dan. 4. 37. - Them that walk in Pride, he is able to abaft. Tob. 4. 13. -In Pride is Deftruction, and much Trouble.- Wild. f. 8. What hath Pride profited us? of what good hath Riches with our Vaunting brought us? Ecclefia fticus 10. 7, 9, 12, 13, 18. Pride is † Pfal. 33. 12. Bleffed is the Nation whofe God is the Lord: and the People whom he hath cho fen for his own Inheritance. + Pfal. 74. 2. Remember thy Congregation which thou haft purchased of old: the Rod of thine Inheritance 15 which thou haft redeemed.Ezek. 34. 4. The Difeafed [of the Flock] have ye not ftrengthned, neither have ye healed that which was fick ; but with Force, and 20 with Cruelty have ye ruled them. h† Phil. 3. 17. t 2 Thef. 3. 9. Tit. 2. 7. See on Cor. 11. 1. and on I Tim. 4. 12. 4t Heb. 13. 20. See on Joh. 25 hateful before God and Man. Why is Earth and Abes Proud? The beginning of Pride is, when one departeth from God, and his Heart is turned away from his Maker. For Pride is the beginning of Sin, and he that hath it fhall pour out Abomination; and therefore the Lord brought upon them ftrange Calamities, and overthrew them utterly. Pride was not made for Men Ecclefiafticus 15. 8. She [Wifdom] is far from Pride Jem. 4. 6. But he giveth mort Grace: Wherefore he faith. Gi a " " 6. h the proud, and n giveth grace to the humble. Humble your felves therefore under the mighty hand God, that he may P exalt you in due time. 7. Caftg all your care upon him, for he careth for you. 8. * fober, be vigilant, because your adverfary the de1, as a roaring lions walketh about feeking whom he 9. Whom refift ftedfaft in the faith, ay devour. owing that the fame afflictions are accomplished in ur brethren that are in the world. 10. But the God all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory · Chrift Jefus, after that ye have fuffered a while, ike you perfect, & ftablish, ftrengthen, fettle you. II. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Aen. 12. By Silvanus a faithful brother unto you (as I ppose) I have written briefly, exhorting and teftify3 h that this is the true grace of God wherein ye nd. 13. The Church that is, at Babylon elected together you, faluteth you, and fo doth i Marcus my fon. * Greet ye one another with a kils of charity. Peace be th с th you all that are in Chrift Jefus. Amen. 1 b SIM 2 PETER I Year of our Lord 66. IMON [Or, Simeón] Peter a fervant and an Apoftle of Jefus Chrift, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us, through the righteoufnefs g God, and our Saviour [Gr. of our God and Saviour] Jeles Chrift: 2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jefus our Lord 3. According as his divine Power hath given unto us al things that pertain unto life and godlinefs, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to [Or, by] glory and virtue: 4. f Whereby are given unto u exceeding great and precious Promises; that by the you might be partakers of the divine nature, having efcaped the corruption that is in the world through luft. 5. And befides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; 6. And to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience k 3. Joh: 17:3. This is Life eternal, that they might know thee 10 the only true God, and Jefus Chrift, whom thou haft fent. . Pet. 2. 9. That ye fhould fhew forth the Praffes of him who hath called you out of Darkness into his mar. 15 vellous Light.! e See on Acts 20. 32. and on I Cor. 9. 25. an open Face, beholding as in a Gla it 2 Pet. 2. 18, 20. 5. k2 Pet. 3. 18. Grow in Grace, and in the Knowledge of o Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrif Phil. 3. 13, 14. Brethren, I cou not my felf to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting thofe things which are behind, ard reaching forth unto thofe things which are before, I press toward the Mark, for the Prize of the High 25 calling of God in Chrift Jefus. 4.2 Cor. 7. 1. Having therefore thefe Promifes, dearly belov-26 ed, let us cleanfe our felves from all Filthinefs of the Flefh and Spirit, perfecting Holinefs in the fear of God. See on Joh. 1. 12. 2 Cor. 3. 18. We all with |