o forgive you. 15. But if ye forgive not men their fpaffes, neither will your Father forgive your trefffes. 16. Moreover, when ye faft, be not as the pocrites, of a 1 1 fad Countenance: for they disfiare their faces, that they may appear unto men to faft. erily, I fay unto you, they have their reward. 17. ut thou, when thou fastest, m anoint thine head, and afh thy face: 18. That thou appear not unto men faft, but unto thy Father which is in fecret: and y Father which feeth in fecret, fhall reward thee oenly. 19. Lay not up for your felves treasures pon earth, where moth and ruft doth corrupt, and where ieves break through and fteal. 20. But o lay up for 11 our felves treafures in heaven, where neither moth nor ft doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through Mat. 18. 35. So likewife fhall y heavenly Father do alfo unto Du, if ye from your hearts forgive ot every one his brother their efpaffes Jam. 2. 13. He fhall ve judgment without mercy,that ath fhewed no mercy; and mercy joiceth againft judgment 5 nor felf at all, till three whole Weeks were fulfilled. "Prov. 23. 4. Labour not to be rich. 1 Tim. 6. 9. They that will be rich, fall into temptation, and a Snare, and into many foolish and hurtful Lufts, which drown men in deftruction and perdition. Ifa. 58. 5. Is it fuch a faft that tHeb. 13. 5. Let your converfation have chofen? a day for a Man to1obe without covetousness; and be fit his Soul? is it to bow down content with fuch things as ye is head as a bulrufh, and to spread have; for he hath faid, I will ne ackcloth and afhes under him? vilt thou call this a fast, an accepable day to the Lord? Joel 2. 12,15rich men, weep and howl for your 3. Turn ye even to me with all miferies that fhall come upon you. our heart, and with fafting, and Your riches are corrupted, and your with weeping, and with mourn- garments are moth eaten, &c. 1g. And rent your heart, and not † Ecclefiafticus 29. 11. Lay our garments, and turn unto the2oup thy treasure according to the ord your God. 1 Kings 21. 27. came to pafs when Ahab heard hofe Words, that he rent his lothes, and put fackcloth upon his leh, and fafted,and lay in fackcloth, 25 ver leave thee nor forfake thee. Jam. 5. 1, &c. Go to now ye nd went foftly. commandments of the moft High, and it fhall bring thee more profit than Gold. Luk. 12 33. Sell that ye have, and give Alms: provide your felves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the Heavens that Ruth 3. 3. Wafh thy felf faileth not, where no thief ap herefore, and anoint thee, and put proacheth,neither moth corrupteth. thy raiment upon thee. Dan. Luk. 16. 9. Make to your felves 10.3. I ate no pleafant Bread,30friends of the mammon of unrighteneither came Flefh nor Wine in oufnefs; that when ye fail, they my Mouth, neither did I anoint my m may nor fteal. your heart be alfo. a 21. For where your Treasure is, there will 22. The Light of the Body is the Eye: if therefore thine eye be fingle, thy whole body fhall be full of light. 23. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body thall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darknefs! 24. No Man can ferve two Masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or elfe he will hold to the one, and defpife the other. Ye cannot ferve God and Mammon. 25. Therefore I fay unf Take (2) no thought for your Life, what ye fhall eat, or what ye fhall drink; nor yet for your Bo to you, * dy may receive you into everlafting pleafe Men? for if Ì yet pleasea for you. a * Luk. 11. 34. b See on Mat. 20. 15. с * e See the Note on Luk. 16. 9. f* Pf. 55. 22. Caft thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall fustain 20thee: he fhall never fuffer the Luk. 16. 13. No Servant; the righteous to be moved. Prov. 16. reft of the Verfe the fame. 3. Commit thy Works unto the Lord, d. Gal. 1. 10. — Do I seek to and (2) The Greek Word here rendered take no Thought, fignifies the hav ing anxious, carking, and folicitous Care or Thought; fuch a carefulness as makes the Mind uneafie and unfit for the Performance of our Duty in other refpe&ts; fuch a Care as implies a diftruft of the divine Providence and Promifes, and a cafting off our dependance upon God, without whom all our Care will not profit us. Our bleffed Lord does not forbid a prudent Care and forefight in making Provifion for our Selves and Families, becaufe that is made a Part of our Duty by God. Hence the Lazy, the Sluggish, and the Idle, are fent to the Ant to learn this Point of Wifdom from that induftrious and provident Creature. Hence we are Fam. 44. Ye Adyleens & Adulterepes, know ye not that & friendShip of the world is enmity against God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend off world, is the enemy of God. com dy what ye fhall put on: Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment. 26. Behold the fowls of the air for they fow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27. Which of you by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his ftature? 28. And why take ye thought for raiment? Confider the lilies of the field how they grow, they toil not, neither do they fpin. 29. And yet I fay unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory, was not arayed like one of thefe. 30. Wherefore if God fo clothe the grafs of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is caft into the oyen, fhall be not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31. Therefore take no thought, faying, What hall we eat? or what fhall we drink? or wherewithal hall we be clothed? 32. (For after all these things do and thy thoughts fhall be established. Pf. 37. 5. Commit thy Way unto the Lord: truft alfo in him, and he fhall bring it to pass. Wifd. 12. 13. Neither is there any God but thou, that careth for all.Luk. 12. 22. Take no thought for your Life, what ye fhall eat; neither for your Body, what ye fhall put on. Phil. 4. 6. Be careful for 10 nothing: but in every thing by Prayer and Supplication with Thanksgiving, let your Requests be made known unto God. 1 Cor. 7.32. But I would have you with- 15 but carefulness. 1 Tim. 6. 8. Having Food and Raiment, let us be con tent. *1 Pet. 5. 7. Cafting all your care upon him, for he careth D for you. the g t Job 38. 41. Who provideth for the Raven his Food? When his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat. Pf 104. 27, 28. These wait all upon thee that thou mayft give them their meat in due Seafon. That thou give them they gather: thou openeft thy hand, they are filled with good: Pf.147.9. He giveth to the Beaft his food, and to the young Ravens which cry. † Luk 12. 24. Confider the Ravens, for they neither fow nor reap, which neither have ftore-houfe nor barn; and God feedeth them : How much more are ye better than the Fowls? commanded to do our own Business, and to work with our Hands ; hence we are told that the Hand of the diligent maketh_rich; and that if any do not work, they should not eat. But we greatly offend Almighty God, when we fuffer our Cares to rend and diftract our Minds; when our Care for temporal and prefent things, is greater than for thofe which are fpiritual and eternal; when we are backward and negligent in doing good Works in Proportion to to our Ability; when we ufe difhoneft Methods to provide for our felves; and when we fpend fo much of our Time about thefe things, as to leave little, or what is not fufficient, for Prayer, reading the Scriptures, and other Duties neceffary to fit our Souls for Heaven and Happiness. the Gentiles feek) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33. But feek ye firf the kingdom of God, and his righteoufnefs, and all these things fhall be added unto you. 34. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow that take thought for the things of it felf: fufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. k CHAP. VII. UDGE not, that ye JUD 5 ht Pf. 37. 25. I have been young, and now am old: yet have I not feen the righteous forfaken, nor his feed begging bread. † Luk. 12.31. But rather feek ye the King dom of God, and all these things fhall be added unto you. Joh. 6. 27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth to everlasting lifeTim. 4.8. Godliness is profitable to all things, having the promife of the life that now is, and that which is to come. Pf. 34. 10. They that feek the Lord fhall not want a. 15 ny good thing. with thy felf; for thou that judgeft dof the fame things. Rom. 14. 3, 4 Ic. Let not him which eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath received him. Who art thou that judge another man's fer vant? - to his own mafter he ftand eth or fallet. Why doft thou judge thy brother? or why doft 10 thou fet at nought thy brother? for we fhall all ftand before the judgment feat of Chrift. Luk. 16: 15. God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly effeemed a mongft men, is abomination in the fight of God. 1 Cor. 4. 3, 5. But with me it is a very small thing that I fhould be judged of you, or of man's judgment. Judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darknefs, and will make manifeft the Counfels of the Heart: and then fhall every man have praise of God. i. 1 King. 3. 11, 12, 13. God faid unto him, becaufe thou haft asked this thing, and haft not asked for thy felf long life, neither haft thou 20 asked riches for thy felf, nor haft asked the life of thine Enemies; but haft asked for thy felf understanding to difcern judgment, Behold I have done according to thy words. I 25 have alfo given thee that which thou haft not asked, both riches and honour. k * Luk. 6. 37. Judge not, and ye fhall not be judged: condemn not, and ye fhall not be condemned. I Jam 4. 1, 12. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, fpeaketh evil of the Law, and judgeth the Law: but if 30 thou judge the Law, thou art not a doer of the Law, but a judge. There is one Lawgiver who is able to fave, and to deftroy: who art thou that judge another? Rom. 2. 1. Therefore thou art inexcufable, O Man, who foever thou art that judget: for wherein thou gudget another, thou condemnest ;; with what measure ye meet, it fhall be measured to you again. 3. And in why beholdeft thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but " confidereft not the be m that is in thine own eye? 4. Or how wilt thou fay to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5. Thou hypocrite, first caft out the beam out of thine own eye; and then fhalt thou fee clearly to caft out the mote out of thy brothers eye. 6. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither caft ye your pearls before fwine, left they trample them under their feet, and turn again Ask, and it fhall be given you: feck, and rent you. Mar. 4. 24. what you hear: 7. * Take heed D 2 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. Pf. 118 5. I called upon the Lord in diftrefs: the Lord answered me, and fet me in a large place. Pf. 145. 19. He will fulfil the defire of them that fear him he alfo will hear their cry, and will fave them. Prov. 1015. 29. The Lord is far from the with what meafure ye mete, it fhall be measured to you: and unto you that hear, fhall more be given. Luk. 6. 38. Give, and it fhall be given unto you; good measure, preffed down and fhaken together, and running over, fhall men give into your bo fom. For with the fame measure that ye mete withal, it. fhall be measured to you again. Judg. 1. 7. As I have done, fo hath God requited me. 2 Cor. 9. 6. He that foweth Sparingly, fhall reap alfo 15 paringly: and he that foweth bountifully, fhall reap alfo bountifully. Gal. 6. 1. Brethren, if a man be vertaken in a fault, ye which are fpiritual, reftore fuch an one in the 20 fpirit of meeknefs; confidering thy felf, left thou alfo be tempted. n Lam. wicked but he heareth the Prayer of the righteous. Ifa. 30. 19. He will be very gracious unto thee, at the voice of thy cry: when he fhall hear it, he will answer thee. Ifa. 58. 9. Then fhalt thou call, and the Lord fhall answer; thou fhalt cry, and he fhall fay, here I am. Ifa. 65. 24. It fhall come to pafs, that before they call, I will answer, and whiles they are yet fpeaking, I will hear Mat. 21. 22. All things whatsoever ye fhall ask in Prayer, believing, ye fhall Luk. 6. 41. 3.40. Let us fearch and try our ways, and turn again to 25 receive. Mar. 11. 24. What things the Lord. Prov. 98. Reprove not a forner left he hate thee: rebuke a wife man, and he will love thee. foever ye defire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye fhall have them. Luk. 11.9.sk, and it fhall be given you: fuck, Speak not in the 30 and ye fhall find: knock, and it + Prov. 23.9. ears of a fool, for he will defpife the fhall be opened unto you † Joh. wifdom of thy words. 14. 13. Whatever ye fhall ask in PP. 10. 17. Lord, thou haft my name, that will I do, that the heard the defire of the humble: thou Father may be glorified in the wilt preparé thy heart, thou wilt 35 Son. tJoh. 15. 7. If ye abide in caufe thire Ear to hear. Pf. 34. me, and my words abide in you, ус |