Moses, Go down, charge the people, &c.-Exod. xix. 3, 4. 9, 10. 19, 2022.24. If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision.-Numb. xii. 6. He hath said, which heard the words of God; which saw the vision of the Almighty; falling into a trance, but having his eyes open. Numb. xxiv. 4. 16. The Lord spake to Samuel, by voice, or word.-1 Sam. iii. 4. 10, 11.21. To Nathan, by vision.-2 Sam. vii. 17. The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.-1 Kings iii. 5-7. ix. 2. The Lord answered not Saul, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.-1 Sam. xxviii. 6. 15. For the vision is yet for an appointed time: but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: and though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.-Hab. ii. 3. Behold, the angel of the Lord, appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife.Matt. i. 20. And being warned of God in a dream, that they should not return unto Herod, &c. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child, &c.-Matt. ii. 13.19.22. Pilate's wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.-Matt. xxvii. 19. God speaketh once, yea, twice ; Saul saw a vision, and heard a yet man perceiveth it not: in a dream, voice, saying unto him Saul, Saul, in a vision of the night, when deep why persecutest thou me? &c. A sleep falleth upon men, in slumber- certain disciple at Damascus, named ings upon the bed; then he openeth Ananias: and to him said the Lord the ears of men, and sealeth their in a vision, &c. Arise and go, &c.instruction.—Job xxxiii. 14—-16. Acts ix. 1-11. xxii. 6, &c. xxvi. 13, &c. Thou speakest in a vision to thy Holy One, and saidest, 1 have laid help upon one that is mighty.-Ps. lxxxix. 19. Nebuchadnezzar's dream, which Daniel expounded.-Dan. ii. iv. Belshazzar's vision of the writing against the wall.-Dan. v. 5. 25. Daniel's vision of the beast, &c. -Dan. vii. Of the man clothed in linen.Dan. x. 5, &c. Of other things.-Dan. vii. viii. x. I have also spoken by the prophets; and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.-Hosea xii. 10. I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.-Joel ii. 28. Acts ii. 16, 17. Cornelius saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him, and saying, Cornelius, thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. Peter also had a vision; and God spake to him, &c.-Acts x. 3, 4. 9-15. 28. 30, &c. xi. 5. A vision appeared to Paul in the night; there stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over unto Macedonia, and help us; and after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to_go: assuredly gathering, that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.-Acts xvi. 9, 10. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night, by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, &c. for I am with thee.— Acts xviii. 9. It is not expedient for me, doubt less, to glory: I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ, &c.-2 Cor. xii. 1-3. God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, &c.-Heb. i. 1, 2. CHAP. LIV. among themselves, who should be the greatest: and he sat down and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. -Mark ix. 34, 35. James and John, &c. said, Grant unto us that we may sit one on thy right hand, &c. and when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John: but Jesus called them to him, and saith THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE unto them, Ye know that they which APOSTLES, EQUAL. JESUS, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men, &c. He saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, &c. and he called them, and they immediately left the ship, and their father, and followed him.-Matt. iv. 18-22. Mark i. 16-20. One is your master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren, &c. whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased.-Matt. xxiii. 8. 11, 12. As Jesus passed forth, he saw a man named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom; and he saith unto him, Follow me: and he arose and followed him.-Matt. ix. 9. Mark ii. 14. Luke v. 27, 28. are accounted to rule over the Gentiles, exercise lordship over them, &c. but so it shall not be among you; but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be chiefest, shall be servant of all: for even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, &c.—Mark x. 35—38.41-44. Luke xxii. 24-27. He called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles: Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother: James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James, the son of Alpheus, and Simon, called Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot. Luke vi. 13—16. Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases: and he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick and he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey.-Luke ix. 1-5. Whatsoever ye bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven.-Matt. xviii. 18. He ordained twelve: that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to When Jesus had washed his dishave power to heal sicknesses, and ciples' feet, he said, I have given you to cast out devils: and Simon he sur- an example, that ye ought to wash named Peter, and James the son of one another's feet: now there was Zebedee, and John, the brother of James, &c. and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite, and Judas.-Mark iii. 14-19. By the way they had disputed leaning on Jesus's bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake, &c.—John xiii. 13— 15. 22-25. xix. 26, 27. xx. 2. xxi. 7.20-22. Jesus came, &c. said, Peace be inferior to) unto you: as my Father hath sent am I behind (or any way the very chiefest apostles, &c.-2 Cor. To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: if I forgave, &c. for your sakes I forgave it in the person (or sight) of Christ.-2 Cor. ii. 10. The twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, &c. Look ye out among you seven men, of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business: but we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word, &c. whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.-Acts vi. 2-6. Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem had heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John; who, when they were come down, prayed for them. Acts viii. 14, 15. The believing Jews dispute with Peter for going to the Gentiles; and he gives them an account of God's work upon them.-Acts xi. 2, &c. I speak to you, Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office.--Rom. xi. 13, 14. For I suppose I was not a whit behind (or in nothing inferior to) the very chiefest apostles, &c. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more: in labours more abundant, &c. besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.-2 Cor. xi. 5. 23. 28. 1 Cor. xv. 10. I knew a man in Christ, &c. such an one caught up to the third heaven, &c. into Paradise, heard unspeakable words, &c. I ought to have been commended of you; for in nothing When it pleased God, &c. to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen: immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, &c. Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days; but other of the apostles saw I none, save James, the Lord's brother.-Gal. i. 15-19. When they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter (for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles): and when James, Cephas, and John (who seemed to be pillars), perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision, &c. but when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed: for before that, certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew, and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision, &c. but when I saw that they walked not uprightly, &c. I said unto Peter, before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?-Gal. ii. 7-9. 11–14. I am appointed a preacher, an apostle, and doctor of the Gentiles. 2 Tim. i. 11. CHAP. LV. OF THE RESTORATION AND RETURN TERED. day, that the remnant of Israel, &c. shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth: the remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God: for though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea; yet a remnant of them shall return, &c.-Isa. x. 20-23. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time, to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, &c. and from the islands of the sea: and he shall set AND it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee; and thou shalt call them to mind, among all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, &c. that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return, up an ensign for the nations, and and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee if any of thine be driven out unto the utmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, &c. and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it, &c. and the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, &c.-Deut. xxx. 1-6. The Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left, &c. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people; for he will avenge the blood of his servants, &c. and he will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.Deut. xxxii. 36. 43. O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.-Ps. xiv. 7. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established (or prepared) in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow in unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up, &c. for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.-Isa. ii. 2, 3. And it shall come to pass in that shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth.-Isa. xi. 11, 12. The Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land, &c.—Isa. xiv. 1-3. 32. He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit, &c. ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel, &c. And they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.-Isa. xxvii. 6. 12, 13. Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down, not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed: neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken: but there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers.—Isa. xxxiii. 20, &c. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you, &c. for the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord: joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.-Isa. li. 2, 3. lii. 1—4. lx. lxi. 4, &c. lxii. lxv. 18—23. lxvi. the seed of Israel, for all that they 8-13.15. Micah iv. Zeph. iii. 14, &c. have done, saith the Lord: behold At that time they shall call Jeru- the days come, saith the Lord, that salem the throne of the Lord, and all the city shall be built to the Lord, the nations shall be gathered unto it, &c.-Jer. xxxi. 1. 3-5. 7-12. 37, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem, &c. xxx. &c. In those days the house of Judah Behold, I will gather them out of shall walk with the house of Israel, all countries whither I have driven and they shall come together out of them in mine anger, &c. and I will the land of the north, to the land that bring them again unto this place; I have given for an inheritance unto and I will cause them to dwell safely, your fathers. But I said, &c.-Jer. and they shall be my people, and I iii. 17-19. will be their God.-Jer. xxxii. 37, 38. The days come, saith the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, If my covethat it shall no more be said, The nant be not with day and night, &c. Lord liveth that brought up the chil- then will I cast away the seed of dren of Israel out of the land of Jacob, and David my servant; so that Egypt; but the Lord liveth, who I will not take any of his seed to be brought up the children of Israel rulers over the seed of Abraham, from the land of the north, and from Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause all the lands whither he had driven their captivity to return, and have them; and I will bring them again mercy on them.-Jer. xxxiii. 25, 26. into their land, that I gave unto their xlvi. 27, 28. fathers.- -Jer. xvi. 14, 15. xxiii. 3-8. And in those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping, &c.-Jer. lix. 4. 20. I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people, &c. Again, I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Thus saith the Lord God, Although Israel, &c. thou shalt yet plant vines I have cast them afar off among the upon the mountains of Samaria, thy heathen; and although I have scatplanters shall plant and shall eat, &c. tered them among the countries; yet for thus saith the Lord, Sing with will I be to them as a little sanctugladness for Jacob, and shout among ary in the countries where they shall the chief of the nations, &c. behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, &c. a great company shall return thither, &c. for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel, will gather him, and Ye shall know that I am the Lord, keep him as a shepherd doth his when I shall bring you into the land flock; for the Lord hath redeemed of Israel, into the country for the Jacob, and ransomed him from the which I lifted up mine hand to give hand of him that was stronger than it to your fathers, and there shall ye he: therefore they shall come and remember your ways, &c.-Ezek. xx. sing in the height of Zion, &c. If 42, 43. xxviii. 24-26. come: therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered; and I will give you the land of Israel, and they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, &c.-Ezek. xi. 16-18. heaven above can be measured, and Thus, saith the Lord God, Behold the foundations of the earth searched I, even I, will both search my sheep out beneath, I will also cast off all and seek them out, &c. and deliver |