Commentary on the Old Testament Volume 2-4 — John Mayer

Commentary on the Old Testament Volume 2-4 · John Mayer

A Table of the Principall Heads contained in this Book.

ESAY.

C.	V.
2.	3	THe kingdome of heaven the Church called, why.	The faithful stir up others to come with them to Christ.	4	Peace in the Church of Christ, how.	6	The Eastern manners followed by Jewes what.	16	Tarsis, what it signifieth.	20	By the Mouls and Bats, what meant.	26	Sodometrie amongst Philosophers.
3.	3	A good captain wanting, all ruined.	6	Of a King the duty.	9	By the countenance an ill man known.
3.	16	The vanities of women in their apparell.	2	The branch that should be beauty and glory.	5	A cloud and a flame of fire over tabernacles.
5.	8	Against the covetousnesse of the rich.	11, 12	Against drunkennesse, and singing then.	18	Sins as cords or cart-ropes.	20	Evill called good spoken of things or persons.	21	Wisdome and prudence differ, how.	22	Against drunkennesse.
6.	2	Seraphims whence so called.	3	Of Gods glory the earth full, how.	4	As also v. 2. not to pry into Gods secrets.	7	A Sacrament consists of a signe and word.	Burying with fire why.	10	Why preaching to the wicked being hardened.
7	10	Of the signs, which Ahaz was bidden to aske.	Against Communion or Baptisme-neglecters.	15	Of the virgins bringing forth a son.	20	The beard never cut amongst the Jewes.	Cutting with a razour what signifieth.
8.	1	The prophetesse bringing forth Maher-shalal-hash-baz.	6	The waters of Shiloe running softly.	18	Esa. and his children set for signs.
9.	6	Of Christ many names.	7	The great mystery in Hebr. letter foreign	Of peace by Christ there be 5. sorts.	14	Head and tail, branch and rush, what.
9.	19	Of Civill wars, the great danger.
10.	5	How God works by men good or bad.
11.	1	The spirit manifold.	3	Betwixt Christ and other judges the difference.	6	The Wolfe and Lamb shall dwell together.
11.	15	The tongue of the Egyptian sea vanisheth.
14.	19	The Dead, why to be solemnly buryed.
15.	2	Of the Hair cutting or cherishing.
17.	1	Damascus of Syria why so called.
18.	7	Of the Israelites inclosed in the Caspian mountains.
19.	1	Egypt converted, famous for piety.	12	The Astrologers skill condemned as vain.	By civill wars Aegypt weakened.	The largenesse of the kingdome of Aegypt.	18	The language of Canaan spoken in Aegypt.	19	Of the Crosse, Altar and Sacrifice.	21	Of vowes making and keeping.
20.	2	Of wearing sackcloth in mourning.
22.	13	What laughing and mirth is evill.	22	Of the keyes the meaning.
23.	18	Ministers should have liberall maintenance.
24.	2	Evill Ministers lose their dignity.
27.	6	The Turk threatned by the name Leviathan.	9	The monuments of idolatry to be demolisht.
30.	26	The light of the sun sevenfold.	33	Whether by Tophet hell be meant.
33.	8	Of breaking covenant.
35.	6	Of the Word the great effects.	8	No unclean person in the Church.
40.	2	Punishing double how to be understood.
41.	2	Christ the righteousnesse called out of the East.	5	Idolatry, how first begun.	19	Of the divers trees growing in the wildernesse.
42.	1	The bruised reed what, and of mildnesse.
42.	14	Gods compassion towards his.
43.	20	All sorts of beasts in men.	25	Justification by grace only, taught by Pontificians.	28	The sins of Abraham, Moses, Aaron, &c.
44.	25	Against judiciary Astrology, chap. 47. 10.
45.	11	God not to be expostulated with about his work.	The words [command you me] rightly expounded.	14	Christ God, and in him God hidden.	19	Against teachers in secret places.	Of obscure passages in Scripture.	23	Swearing must be by God, only with all reverence.	Of bowing the knee to God or Idols.
47.	6	Against cruelty in victories.
49.	2	Christ an arrow and a sword.	5	Of the Jewes unbelief in Christ.	7	Christ by the Jewes contemned.	15	Sion taken four waies.	19	The Church not alwaies visible.	22	Children of beleevers to be baptized.	23	Kings how nursing fathers to the Church.	Of outward reverence even by Kings.
51.	15	Heaven and earth the faithfull called.
52.	15	Of sprinkling with water in Baptisme,
53.	2	Christs comming of a Virgin again set forth, Ezek. 36. 2.	8	Christs generation not to be declared.
55.	3	Christ compared with David.
56.	4	Such as contain for pieties sake commended.	A better Name then of sons or daughters.
57.	19	The fruit of the lips what.	20	What peace the wicked cannot have.
58.	2	Debters how to be dealt with.	6	Usury amongst the Jewes.	13	A Sabbath how all our life time must be.
46.	14	The Millenaries opinion confuted.
59.	6	To hatch the Cockatrice egges.	21	The Church cannot erre, how to be understood.
62.	2	The Church not named till the N. T.	A new name Christians have, and are new creatures.	6	Preachers to preach often continually.	9	The Lords Supper never to be intermitted.
63.	16	How Abraham is said to be ignorant of us.
65.	4	Seeking divinations in sepulchres.	11	A superstitious feast of the Aegyptians for plenty.	15	Christ the true accomplishment of all promises.	17	The new heaven and new earth how understood.	20	A man begins then to live, when by grace.	22	The Jewes converted to continue long.
66.	8	Of Christs birth, and the regeneration of many.

JEREMIAH.

Preface.	HOw long the Jewes were without the Book of the Law.
C.	V.	Jer. honoured by the Aegyptians without a sepulchre.
1.	10	The kingdome of sin to be pulled down.	11	A rod shewed to Jeremy denoting power as Moses rod.
2.	22	The foulnesse of sin not to be washed away.	23	The wicked as a dromedary or wilde asse.	25	The foot unshod how to be understood.	31	They are bidden to see the word of the Lord.
3.	14	But few act to turn and be saved.	15	The ceremoniall law to be abolished.	Of the publick service of God and places when.
4.	18	Of the conversion of the Jewes and of all nations.	21	The sorrow of the Jewes when they return.	4	Of the circumcision of the heart.	10	Prophets how to be deceived.
5.	1	Not one man in Ierusalem executing judgement.	15	Sin the cause of unseasonable weather.	31	Gain coming in by false Prophets, what in the end.
6.	6	The old way is the good way, Ch. 18. 15.	29	The Prophets purging as by fire blown with bellowes.
7.	16	Prayer sometimes for the wicked forbidden, yet the Prophet prayeth, vers. 14. 18.	29	Of cutting the hair divers occasions.	32	No new thing to be done in Gods service.	But the old may be more exercised.
8.	1	To be without a buriall a judgement.	21	The balm in Gilead what.
9.	17	Of mourning for the dead.	31	Circumcision in uncircumcision of heart.
10.	1	Against fearing for the signs of heaven.	Of the vanity of Astrologers, see Isa. 47. 13.	23	The way of man is not in himself.
11.	15	Jeremy called my beloved challenged for praying.	16	The faithfull as Oliver trees in 7 things.	23	Persecutors of their own teachers.
12.	1	Satisfaction touching the wicked in prosperity.	9	Judah a speckled bird or peacock.
13.	1	A linnen girdle an embleme of chastity.	Ieremy hides it till it is rotten for a sign.	Of the divers uses of girdles.	15	People seduced punisht as well as seducers.
14.	11	God, not the heavens cause rain.
15.	3	No praying prevails at some times.	10	Contentions with Prophets not trafficking in the world.	16	The word of God sweet how.	19	The precious to be separated from the vile how.
16.	5	Of wine-drinking at funerals.	10	No feasting in times of calamity.	14	Of the deliverance by Christ and returning to Iudea.	18	How God punisheth sinners double.	19	Of the conversion of the Gentiles.
17.	1	Sin graven in the hearts of sinners to the last day.	10	To the partridge the rich likened wherein.	19	The Sabbath why to be kept, if not, God offended.
18.	16	A pretence for the Churches not erring.
20.	7	How the Lord deceived Ieremiah.	14	Ieremiah curseth the day of his birth, how understood.
22.	18	Against exactions in Kings, of Jehoiakim.	24	Names abbreviated for sin, increased for piety.	A warning against licentiousnesse to youth.	Of rings, signets, and seals, the use.	29	Davids kingdome ended in Jecboniah in this world, till Christs coming and then it became spiritual and everlasting.
23.	2	Of the branch Jesus, and the Gentiles conversion.	10	Against the Popes infallibility of judgement.	28	As chaffe all erroneous doctrines.	29	The word as wheat to the godly, as a hammer or fire to the wicked.	30	Of false Prophets three sorts.	33	Against those that will hear none but pleasing things.
26.	20	Prophets had sepulchres made by the publick charge.
28.	9	How Prophets are to be tryed.
29	21	Idolatry and adultery goe together.	24	False Prophets to be put to death.
30	9	A Prophesie of Christ by the name of David.	10	The Iewes shall be converted in the last daies.
31	14	Prosperity described by the priests having enough.	Against those that think tythes too much.	16	Prophesies of deliver. from Babylon and by Christ intermingled	22	After falling away of the Iewes they shall turn.	31	The New Testament why so called.	The Law written in Gods peoples hearts.	34	How Gods people shall not need to be taught.	The faithfull under the Law as well saved as now.	39	The description of the new Ierusalem by the bounds.
32.	14	Christ, not the Church, the Lord our righteousnesse.	17	Christ comming a King and Priest never faileth.
34.	4	Whether a naturrall or violent death be best; and of burials.	18	Of the manner of the Iewes making covenants.
35.	7	Betwixt the Rechabites and Fryers the difference.	Motives to obey God in his Ordinances more then Fathers.
36.	1	The wicked keep dayes fasting.	Of reading sermons or preaching without reading.	26	Of fleeing and hiding a mans self in persecution.
38.	7	The mystery of Ebedmelech and Ieremy.	25	Kings to serve God the way to be obeyed.
40.	1	Of the just see the happinesse in the end.	Even Heathens speak the truth sometimes.
41.	5	The Iewes came to the place where the Temple stood by leave after the destruction.	The devill insinuates to the heart, as of Ishmael.
44.	17	The four pillars of popery pulled down.
51.	10	Our righteousnesse spoken of in what sense.	39	Babylon taken without fighting.	45	Bel and his temple described.

LAMENTATIONS.

C.	V.
5.	20	Turn to God none can, except he turneth them.

EZEKIEL.

C.	V.
2.	6	THe righteous not corrupted by the wicked.
3.	9	Not to be ashamed of good but of evill.	17	True watch men of souls who are, and are not.	20	Gods laying of a stumbling block before men.
4	1	The Sacraments for the institution reverend.	4	A day put for a year.
5.	10	Sons and fathers eating one another.
6.	3	The earth with hils and valleys spoken to.
7.	17	Of hair cutting off or nourishing.
6.	7	Like priest, like people.	14	Mourning for Tammuz.	16	Of worshipping towards the East.
9.	4	The mark of God what.	5	How the righteous are spared, when slain together.
10.	14	The laborious Ministers glory.
11.	2	Of four and twenty Elders according to Revel. 4.	6	Comfort when none outwardly appeareth.	17	A new heart by mans cooperation with God.
13.	10	To teachers an admonition about daubing.	17	How false Prophetesses deceived men.
14.	2	Idols set up in the heart how.	9	How God worketh by punishing sin with sin.	11	They who are lead by erring ministers shall perish.	The word a certain rule in all cases.	12	The prayers of the best save not the wicked.
15.	The Church of God (the Vine) sinning, baser then other trees.
16.	51	Wicked Christians children of Barbarians.	53	The Captivity of the Jewes never to be brought back.	60	Into covenant man comes when he is converted.	The covenant the old in substance.
17.	11	Of breaking covenant the hainousnesse.	22	Of Christ a Prophesie.
18.	24	The difference betwixt Adams sinning and others.	5	He that will live must flee all sin.	6	Of Usury and interest taking.	23	Of damnation, man the cause to himself.
20.	7	The Israelites in Aegypt Idolaters.	12	The Sabbath day a sign, and how to be kept.	25	Statutes not good, what they were.	27	Against mens inventions in Gods worship.	37	Israel brought from Babylon again into a wildernesse.
21.	3	The righteous how slain with the wicked.	10	Divinations made by arrowes amongst heathens.	25	The Diadem of the King, what.	Christ the low one to be exalted.	27	Overturning or perverting the Crown, what.
22.	30	By one to make up the hedge, who to be understood.
23.	4	Of Aholah and Aholibah.	45	The Caldeans how said to be righteous.
24.	6	Jerusalem compared to a pot seething over the fire.	22	The punishment of vilifiers of Gods house.
34.	1	Against idle and covetous Pastours, and Abuses.	Of maintenance given to Churches.	11	Memorable sayings of holy Pastours.	21	One shepherd David promised.
37.	16	The Iewes being converted shall again be one kingdome.
38.	By Gog and Magog who set forth.
40.	7	Christ the gate or the door of the spirituall temple.	The holy Patriarchs and Apostles as thresholds.	Grace increasing by degrees in the faithfull.	8	The Church militant and triumphant.	10	Three times and three sorts of the faithfull.	11	Knowledge increased at three times.	12	The Christian faith alwaies one and the same.	13	No perfect knowledge but in heaven.	Twenty five acts of mercy set forth by twenty five cubits.	17	Preachers and writers treasuries in the outward court.	Preachers to look at the doings of hearers.	22	Seven graces, whereby as by stairs we ascend to heaven.	23	Preachers to speak only out of the Scriptures.	39	Faith, Love, Patience, Benignity, Prophesie, Doctrine, Circumcision and Sacrifice set forth by eight tables.	43	The preachers hands as hooks to draw on his hearers to goodnesse, when he therewith doth good.	45	Of the Hebr. Bible the accurate writing.	The distinction of priests comming of Zadok and Abiathar.	46	Ministers both to teach and rule, no lay-elders.	None but priests come near the Altar, and priests as Zadok.	41.	1	Of regeneration set forth by chambers.	10	Many more called then chosen.	16	The secrets of the Lord not to be pryed into.	18	Christ his humanity and terriblenesse as of a Lion.	22	The Communion Table of wood figured out.
42.	11	The vertues of Ministers, the people must be like them.	14	Ministers to teach in publick plainly.
43.	7	The Iewes once converted to continue ever holy.	9	The offence taken by God at wicked as stinking.	11	By the temple to be built the congregation of comlines meant.
43.	17	Christ set forth by the Altar.	18	Bullocks, goats and rams, how offered now.	26	The Lords day the Christian Sabbath intimated.
44.	3	The Virgin Mary a perpetuall Virgin.	Of resorting to Church sometimes in the week, but wholly consecrating the Sabbath to God.	13	What Minister may not come at the Altar.	17	Of Ministers the vertues.	21	The head uncovered in Gods service.	25	Of Festivals to be kept under the Gospell.	27	Against much sorrowing for the dead.	Of Ministers marrying and not with widowes.	28	The maintenance of Ministers under the Gospell.
45.	7	The Common-wealth preferred before the King: the Minister before both.	The King protector of Church and Common▪wealth.	17	The Ministers maintenance set and not arbitrary.	Houses for Gods service to be dedicated.	20	Of baptizing Infants a ground, ch. 47. 9.
46.	8	None to come nearer then the threshold, neither prince nor people.	Of keeping festivals now, and bounty at such time.	Of constancy without relapsing to the end.
46.	12	Of preaching upon the week-day	13	Of morning prayer in families dayly.	Against the sacrifice of the masse.	The Lords Supper every morning.	18	Against princes exactions of their subjects.
47.	2	The water of Baptisme, and the degrees thereof.	11	Why the Indians are not converted.
48.	14	Against the taking away of Church-lands.

DANIEL.

C.	V.
1.	5	THe Caldeans whence and what they were.	6	In giving names, a care to be had.	9	Abstinence in times of the Churches calamity.	11	Enemies made friends to those that fear God.
2	4	The Syriack, Caldee, and Hebrew tongues.	40	Of brazen armes used by the Grecians.	35	Of the fift Monarchy of Christ.
3	25	Christ represented in Daniel five times.
4	25	Of melancholy, the strange effects.	21	Whether by Almes sins are redeemed.	34	Nebuchadnezzar probably saved.
5.	26	Strange writings appearing as portents.
6.	10	Daniel prayed to be seen to shew no timerousnesse.	17	Lions kept from devouring men, how.	26	Daniel a figure of Christ in 5. things.
7.	5	The four Kingdomes or Monarchies figured.	9	Against representing God by an image.	11	All shall professe one religion before the end.	27	Of monarchicall government.
9	24	Of the 70. years captivity.	The 70. weeks to the Messiah.	25	Christ both obeyed and suffered for us.	26	The desolation of Ierusalem for eve…	27	The temple at Ierusalem never to be rebuilt.
10.	13	The prince of Persia and Grecia, and Michael who.
11.	5	How one angell helps one kingdome, and another another.	20	Sacrilege punished.	38	A parallel made at large betwixt Antiochus and the Pope; for many pages together.	The prescriptions of Popes above God.	The treasures raked together by them.	Their successe and prosperings formerly.	39	The Pope Antichrist.	45	Against the King to arme as not to arme.	Good successe justifieth not evill doers.
12.	2	Of the resurrection at the last day.	4	More knowledge of prophesies then anciently.	11	The Pope takes away spirituall worship and sets up carnall.

HOSEA.

C.	V.
1.	2	WHether Hosea took a whore to wife.	4	The wicked punishing the wicked punished.
3.	1	The Jewes shall turn Christians and live in their own land.	2	Of the Iewes conversion, the time, 1720.	4	The Ephod and Teraphim what.
4.	4	Quarrellers with the Priest not to be reproved.	8	The Priests eat up the sins of the people how.	12	Divers wayes of prophesying amongst heathens.	15	Swearing by God forbidden to idolaters.	Of Bethel and Bethaven, and Gilgal.
5.	2	Of Christs resurrection the third day.	3	The time of the Gospell the day.
6.	5	The word preached as an hewing and slaying.	6	I will have mercy and not sacrifice.
8	4	Kings setting up without God a sin.
9	7	What Prophets and spirituall men fools and mad.
10.	4	As wormwood judgement, or hemlock.
11.	9	The 10. tribes shall one day be converted.	Not to be implacable a point of holinesse.
12.	3	Of Jacobs wrestling with God and prevailing.
13.	15	Of Christs resurrection, and the last judgement.
14.	2	Of set forms of prayer to be used in publick.

JOEL.

C.	V.
1.	1	THe locusts, caterpiller, palmerworm what signifying.	9	Wicked Priests suffer most of all other men.	13	Judgements comming call to fasting and prayer.
2.	28	A Prophesie of the Spirit to be poured out.	31	Signs of Christs second comming.
3	1	By the valley of Jehoshaphat what meant.	3	A boy given for an harlot, and a girle for wine.	17	A Church no more under the Heathens prophesied of.	18	The Gospell compared to new wine.

AMOS.

C.	V.
1.	1	NO Prophets of tradesmen but extraordinarily stirred up.
2.	1	Against taking up and burning the dead.	6	Against taking of bribes.	7	Against tyranny towards subjects.	8	Papists in sinning like idolatrous Israel.	11	Popish votaries like unto Nazarites.	12	Against restrainers of Prophets.
3.	9	Of a dead mans skull shewed at feasts.
4.	2	Against base speeches to Magistrates.
5.	8	Of the 7. stars and Orion.	10	Magistrates patiently to bear just reproof.
6.	10	Some in sicknesse not induring to have the Lord named.
8.	11	Of the word the famine how great.
9.	13	By repairing buildings conversion, a Christ set forth.

OBADIAH

V.
19.	THe Iewes being returning shall inlarge their possessions.	How it was fulfilled also is shewed.	How the Iewes converted these countreys for Christ.	Of which see more in the Epistle Dedicatory.

JONAH.

V.	1…	OF casting lots the lawfulnesse.	14	Jonah a figure of Christ, by whose suffering we are saved	10	The fear of God stands in 4. things.	17	Jonah a figure of Christ in 3. things.
2.	8	The vanity of seeking to any but God.	3	Beasts in Nineve covered with sackcloth.

MICAH.

C.	V.
1.	1	PLentifull preaching a forerunner of destruction.	8	The Dragon, the Elephant, the Ostrich.	13	Lachish punished for King Amaziah slain there.
2.	6	About prophesying and not prophesying law reconciled.	7	Whom it doth good and whom not.	10	Oppressours enemies to God.	11	Against such as would be soothed up in their sins.	13	Of Christs being in the head of the Jewes army converted.
3.	3	Oppressours flea off the skins of men and chop them.	5	False Prophets bite the true by railing.	7	Against such as pretend a new light.	8	The Spirit of power and judgement requisite in Prophets.
4	4	Of war and peace, and Magistrates bearing the sword.	Against going to law to put others to charge.	11	The universall peace when Jewes are converted.	9	The want of king a misery in Israel.
5.	2	Bethlehem famous for Christs birth there.	3	Christ to come before deliverance from heathen kings.	5	7. Shepherds and 8. principall men, who.	Amongst ministers there should not be a parity.
6.	10	The unjust dealer sets a fire on his house.
7.	2	Princes, Judges, and Counsellours sins.	7	One knoweth not whom to trust in speaking.

NAHƲM.

C.	V.
1.	14	AFter Sennacheribs death the Assyrian kingdome ended.	The great ignominy wherein he was amongst other nations.
2.	7	By Huzzah what is meant.
3.	8	Nineveh 480. furlongs in compasse.	No in Egypt otherwise called Noph, since Alexandria.

HABAKKƲK.

C.	V.
1.	1	OF Prophets praying for judgements against the wicked.	10	Examples of proud Kings practices against the subdued.
2.	3	A prophesie of Christ to come after a certain time.	Of writing things most memorable.	5	Who is just, that shall live, and who not.	What it is to live by faith.	14	Of giving drink to his neighbour.	6	The covetous getting goods are heavy laden.	13	The earth filled with the knowledge of God as the sea.	15	How drunkards tempt others to drink.	Of the drunkennesse of those that are made beleeve all warlike undertakings to be for the best.	18	Against the worshipping or using of Images.	Image-worshipping punished by the Turks prevailings.
3.	Habakkuks prayer, a prophesie of Christ.

ZEPHANIAH.

C.	V.
1.	5	WHat the Chemarims were.	Against servers of God and Idols together.	8	Against new fashions in apparell.	Of the apparell peculiar to Gods worship.	Against ministers levity in leaving their fashion.	9	Against souldiers insolencies towards housholders.
2.	3	The meek do righteously and are preserved.	7	The Israelites possessions inlarged to the Philist. countrey.
3.	3	Of oppressing judges the cruelty.	8	Of the finall conversion of the Jewes and all nations.	11	Against the Antinomians boasting of being without sin.

HAGGAI.

C.	V.
2.	7	CHrist comming into the Temple prophesied of.	The abolishing of the old carnall spirit.	By the shaking of heaven and earth before Christs comming what meant.	The time of Messiah his comming past.	20	The wars to come after Christs comming prophesied of.

ZECHARIAH.

C,	V.
1.	7	CHrist riding upon a red horse.	12	The 70. years of desolation ended.	21	The destroyers of the four Monarchies, who.
2.	4	How populous Jerusalem should be under the Gospell.	9	The Romans conversion foretold.
3.	2	God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.	8	Joshua a figure of the branch Christ Jesus.	9	Christ a stone with 7. eyes.
4.	7	The joy at the conversion of the Jewes.	The Magistracy and Ministry set forth by two Olive trees.
5.	2	The Jewes Targum allowing some theft.	The curse of God coming therefore.	6	The talent of Lead on the Ephah the sin of crucifying Christ.
6.	13	Crowns made for Christ to set him forth as King.	14	Knowledge and grace crowned.
7.	1	The names of the 12. moneths Cald. and Hebr.	2	Against Independency, and new wayes without a councell.	5	Monethly fasts keeping or at other set times.
8.	19	Fasts why kept by the Jewes 4 moneths.	22	Of the conversion of the Gentiles.
9.	10	Christs kingdome set up without force of armes.	11	The pit without water what.	A plain proof that Jesus is the Messiah.	The Iewes at the last to be converted.
10.	1	All good things to be craved by prayer.	6	The Iewes shall again inhabit Canaan.
11.	1	The burning of the Temple by the Romans.	7	Two slaves and 3 shepherds.	12	Christ sold for thirty pieces of silver.	10	Foolish shepherds who are.
12.	3	Ierusalem an heavy stone to her enemies.	10	The Iewes mourning for piercing Christ.
13.	2	Idolatry to cease under the Gospell.	3	Seducers to idolatry must dye.	6	Against Tradesmen taking upon them to preach.	8	A third part in the Church onelyonly saved.
14.	2	Ierusalem being destroyed some saved, viz. the elect.	5	The propagation of the Gospell into all parts.	9	Christians ought to have one way of worship.	18	Against those that are conceited of their goodnesse.	21	Common Christians holy as well as preachers, and ought to pray and teach in their families.	Against admitting any unclean to the Lords Supper.	Against buying and selling of benefices.

MALACHI.

C	V.
1.	8	SUspending Communions because of the unworthy censured.
2.	3	Ministers by their wickednesse make themselves abominable.

FINIS.

End of the text · John Mayer, Commentary on the Old Testament Volume 2-4 (1653)

Commentary on the Old Testament Volume 2-4, Table of contents 3

A Table of the Principall Heads contained in this Book.

ESAY.

JEREMIAH.

LAMENTATIONS.

EZEKIEL.

DANIEL.

HOSEA.

JOEL.

AMOS.

OBADIAH

JONAH.

MICAH.

NAHƲM.

HABAKKƲK.

ZEPHANIAH.

HAGGAI.

ZECHARIAH.

MALACHI.