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geneva@Romans:1:16 @ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: (note:)This is the second part of the epistle, until the beginning of chapter nine. Now the whole end and purpose of the discussion is this: that is to say, to show that there is but one way to attain unto salvation (which is displayed to us by God in the gospel, and that equally to every nation), and this way is Jesus Christ apprehended by faith.(:note) for it is the God's mighty and effectual instrument to save men by. power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the When this word «Greek» is contrasted with the word «Jew», then it signifies a Gentile. Greek.

geneva@Romans:2:7 @ To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for (note:)Glory which follows good works, which he does not lay out before us as though there were any that could attain to salvation by his own strength, but, he lays this condition of salvation before us, which no man can perform, to bring men to Christ, who alone justifies the believers, as he himself concludes; see (Rom_2:21-22).(:note) glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

geneva@Romans:3:1 @ What (note:)The first address to the Jews, or the first anticipating of an objection by the Jews: what then, are the Jews preferred no more than the Gentiles? Indeed, they are, says the apostle, by the doing of God, for he committed the tables of the covenant to them, so that the unbelief of a few cannot cause the whole nation without exception to be cast away by God, who is true, and who also uses their unworthiness to commend and set forth his goodness.(:note) advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?

geneva@Romans:3:3 @ For what if some did not (note:)Break the covenant.(:note) believe? shall their unbelief make the The faith that God gave. faith of God without effect?

geneva@Romans:3:26 @ To declare, [I say], (note:)That is, when Paul wrote this.(:note) at this time his righteousness: that he might be That he might be found exceedingly truth and faithful. just, and the Making him just and without blame, but putting Christ's righteousness to him. justifier of him which Of the number of those who by faith lay hold upon Christ: contrary to whom are those who seek to be saved by circumcision, that is by the law. believeth in Jesus.

geneva@Romans:4:1 @ What (note:)A new argument of great weight, taken from the example of Abraham the father of all believers: and this is the proposition: if Abraham is considered in himself by his works, he has deserved nothing with which to rejoice with God.(:note) shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the By works, as is evident from the next verse. flesh, hath found?

geneva@Romans:4:5 @ But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that (note:)That makes him who is wicked in himself to be just in Christ.(:note) justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

geneva@Romans:4:17 @ (As it is written, I have made thee a (note:)This fatherhood is spiritual, depending only upon the power of God, who made the promise.(:note) father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] Before God, that is by membership in his spiritual family, which has a place before God, and makes us acceptable to God. God, who Who restores to life. quickeneth the dead, and With whom those things are already, which as yet are not indeed, as he can with a word make what he wishes out of nothing. calleth those things which be not as though they were.

geneva@Romans:4:20 @ He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving (note:)Acknowledged and praised God, as most gracious and true.(:note) glory to God;

geneva@Romans:4:25 @ Who was delivered for our (note:)To pay the ransom for our sins.(:note) offences, and was raised again for our justification.

geneva@Romans:6:2 @ God forbid. (note:)The benefits of justification and sanctification are always inseparable joined together, and both of them proceed from Christ by the grace of God: now sanctification is the abolishing of sin, that is, of our natural corruption, whose place is taken by the cleanness and pureness of a reformed nature.(:note) How shall we, that are They are said by Paul to be dead to sin, who are made partakers of the power of Christ, so that the natural corruption is dead in them, that is, the power of it is removed, and it does not bring forth its bitter fruits: and on the other hand, they are said to live to sin, who are in the flesh, that is, whom the Spirit of God has not delivered from the slavery of the corruption of nature. dead to sin, live any longer therein?

geneva@Romans:7:2 @ For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.

geneva@Romans:7:6 @ But now we are delivered from the law, that (note:)As if he said, «The bond which bound us is dead, and has disappeared, in as much that the sin which held us does not have anything to hold us with now.»(:note) being dead For this husband is within us. wherein we were Satan is an unjust possessor, for he deceitfully brought us into bondage to sin and himself: and yet nonetheless, as long as we are sinners, we sin willingly. held; that we should serve in As is appropriate for those who, after the death of their old husband, are joined to the Spirit, the ones whom the Spirit of God has made new men. newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the By the letter he means the law, with respect to that old condition: for before our will is shaped by the Holy Spirit, the law speaks but to deaf men, and therefore it is dumb and dead to us, with regard to the fulfilling of it. letter.

geneva@Romans:7:22 @ For I delight in the law of God after the (note:)The inner man and the new man are the same, and are compared and contrasted with the old man; and neither do these words «inward man» signify man's mind and reason, and the «old man» the physical body that is subject to them, as the philosophers imagine: but by the outward man is meant whatever is either without or within a man from top to bottom, as long as that man is not born again by the grace of God.(:note) inward man:

geneva@Romans:8:21 @ Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the (note:)From the corruption which they are now subject to, they will be delivered and changed into the blessed state of incorruption, which will be revealed when the sons of God will be advanced to glory.(:note) bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

geneva@Romans:8:32 @ He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely (note:)Give us freely.(:note) give us all things?

geneva@Romans:9:3 @ For I could wish that myself were (note:)The apostle loved his brethren so completely that if it had been possible he would have been ready to have redeemed the castaways of the Israelites with the loss of his own soul forever: for this word «accursed» signifies as much in this place.(:note) accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the Being brethren by flesh, as from one nation and country. flesh:

geneva@Romans:9:4 @ Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the (note:)The ark of the covenant, which was a token of God's presence.(:note) glory, and the The tables of the covenant, and this is spoken by the figure of speech metonymy. covenants, and the giving of the Of the judicial law. law, and the The ceremonial law. service [of God], and the Which were made to Abraham and to his posterity. promises;

geneva@Romans:9:11 @ (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the (note:)God's decree which proceeds from only his good will, by which it pleases him to choose one, and refuse the other.(:note) purpose of God according to election might Paul does not say, «might be made», but «being made might remain». Therefore they are deceived who make foreseen faith the cause of election, and foreknown infidelity the cause of reprobation. stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

geneva@Romans:10:10 @ For with the heart man (note:)Faith is said to justify, and furthermore seeing the confession of the mouth is an effect of faith, and confession in the way to come to salvation, it follows that faith is also said to save.(:note) believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

geneva@Romans:10:14 @ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? (note:)That is, true faith, which seeks God in his word, and that preached: and this preaching God has appointed in the Church.(:note) and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

geneva@Romans:11:1 @ I say then, (note:)Now the apostle shows how this doctrine is to be applied to others, remaining still in his propounded cause. Therefore he teaches us that all the Jews in particular are not cast away, and therefore we ought not to pronounce rashly of individual persons, whether they are of the number of the elect or not.(:note) Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For The first proof: I am a Jew, and yet elected, therefore we may and ought fully to be sure of our election, as has been said before: but of another man's we cannot be so certainly sure, and yet ours may cause us to hope well of others. I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.

geneva@Romans:11:20 @ Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but (note:)See that you stand in awe of God modestly, and carefully.(:note) fear:

geneva@Romans:11:26 @ And so all Israel shalbe saued, as it is written, The deliuerer shall come out of Sion, and shall turne away the vngodlinesse from Iacob.

geneva@Romans:11:32 @ For God hath concluded them (note:)Both Jews and Gentiles.(:note) all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

geneva@Romans:13:1 @ Let (note:)Now he distinctly shows what subjects owe to their magistrates, that is, obedience: from which he shows that no man is free: and the obedience we owe is such that it is not only due to the highest magistrate himself, but also even to the lowest, who has any office under him.(:note) every Indeed, though an apostle, though an evangelist, though a prophet; Chrysostom. Therefore the tyranny of the pope over all kingdoms must be thrown down to the ground. soul be subject unto the higher A reason taken from the nature of the thing itself: for to what purpose are they placed in higher degree, but in order that the inferiors should be subject to them? powers. Another argument of great force: because God is author of this order: so that those who are rebels ought to know that they make war with God himself: and because of this they purchase for themselves great misery and calamity. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are Be distributed: for some are greater, some smaller. ordained of God.

geneva@Romans:15:31 @ That I may be deliuered from them which are disobedient in Iudea, & that my seruice which I haue to doe at Hierusalem, may be accepted of the Saintes,

geneva@Romans:16:5 @ Likewise [greet] the (note:)The company of the faithful, for in so great a city as that was, there were different companies.(:note) church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the For he was the first of Achaia that believed in Christ: and this type of speech is an allusion to the ceremonies of the law. firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

geneva@1Corinthians:1:30 @ But (note:)Whom he cast down before, now he lifts up, indeed, higher than all men: yet in such a way that he shows them that all their worthiness is outside of themselves, that is, it stands in Christ, and that of God.(:note) of him are ye in Christ Jesus, He teaches that especially and above all things, the Gospel ought not to be condemned, seeing that it contains the principal things that are to be desired, that is, true wisdom, the true way to obtain righteousness, the true way to live honestly and godly, and the true deliverance from all miseries and calamities. who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

geneva@1Corinthians:4:9 @ For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a (note:)He that thinks that Paul and the pope are alike, who lyingly boasts that he is his successor, let him compare the delicacies of the popish court with Paul's state as we see it here.(:note) spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:5 @ Have we not power to lead about a (note:)One that is a Christian and a true believer.(:note) sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

geneva@1Corinthians:10:3 @ And did all eat the (note:)The same that we do.(:note) same spiritual Manna, which was a spiritual meat to the believers, who in faith lay hold upon Christ, who is the true meat. meat;

geneva@1Corinthians:12:10 @ To another the (note:)By «working» he means those great workings of God's mighty power, which pass and excel among his miracles, as the delivery of his people by the hand of Moses: that which he did by Elijah against the priests of Baal, in sending down fire from heaven to consume his sacrifice: and that which he did by Peter, in the matter of Ananias and Sapphira.(:note) working of miracles; to another Foretelling of things to come. prophecy; to another By which false prophets are know from true, in which Peter surpassed Philip in exposing Simon Magus; (Act_8:20). discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

geneva@1Corinthians:12:23 @ And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant (note:)We more carefully cover them.(:note) honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:2 @ By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, (note:)Which is very absurd, and cannot be, for they that believe must reap the fruit of faith.(:note) unless ye have believed in vain.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:3 @ For first of all, I deliuered vnto you that which I receiued, how that Christ died for our sinnes, according to the Scriptures,

geneva@1Corinthians:15:17 @ And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; (note:)First, seeing death is the punishment of sin, in vain should we believe that our sins were forgiven us, if they remain: but they do remain, if Christ did not rise from death.(:note) ye are They are yet in their sins who are not sanctified, nor have obtained remission of their sins. yet in your sins.

geneva@2Corinthians:1:10 @ Who delivered us from so (note:)From these great dangers.(:note) great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us];

geneva@2Corinthians:4:4 @ In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the (note:)The light of plain and enlightening preaching, which shows forth the glory of Christ.(:note) light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the In whom the Father sets himself forth to be seen and beheld. image of God, should shine unto them.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:11 @ For we which (note:)Who live that life, that is, by the Spirit of Christ, among so many and so great miseries.(:note) live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our Subject to that miserable condition. mortal flesh.

geneva@2Corinthians:6:15 @ And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what (note:)What can there be between them?(:note) part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

geneva@2Corinthians:8:19 @ And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this (note:)These alms which are bestowed for the relief of the church of Jerusalem.(:note) grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind:

geneva@2Corinthians:11:22 @ They are Hebrues, so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seede of Abraham, so am I:

geneva@2Corinthians:12:4 @ How that he was caught up into (note:)So the Greeks name that which we call a park, that is to say, a place where trees are planted, and wild beasts kept. And those that translated the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greek, called the garden of Eden by this name, into which Adam was put immediately after his creation, as a most delicate and pleasant place. And from this it occurred that the blessed seat of the glory of God is called by that name.(:note) paradise, and heard Which no man is able to utter. unspeakable words, which it is not Which the saints themselves are not by any means able to express, because it is God himself. This is the way that Clement of Alexandria explains this passage, Strom. 5. lawful for a man to utter.

geneva@Galatians:1:14 @ And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the (note:)He calls them the traditions of his fathers, because he was not only a Pharisee himself, but also had a Pharisee for his father.(:note) traditions of my fathers.

geneva@Galatians:1:16 @ To reveal his Son (note:)To me, and this is a type of speech which the Hebrews use, by which it shows us that this gift comes from God.(:note) in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately He says this because it might be objected that he was indeed called by Christ in the way, but afterward was instructed by the apostles and others (whose names, as I said before, the false apostles abused to destroy his apostleship), as though he delivered another Gospel than they did, and as though he were not of their number, who are to be credited without exception. Therefore, Paul answers that he began immediately after his calling to preach the Gospel at Damascus and in Arabia, and was not from that time in Jerusalem except for fifteen days, when he saw only Peter and James. And afterwards, he began to teach in Syria and Cilicia, with the consent and approval of the churches of the Jews, who knew him only by name: so far off was it, that he was there instructed by men. I conferred not with With any man in the world. flesh and blood:

geneva@Galatians:2:16 @ Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith (note:)In Jesus Christ.(:note) of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall No man, and in this word «flesh» there is a great force, by which is meant that the nature of man is utterly corrupt. no flesh be justified.

geneva@Galatians:3:1 @ O (note:)The third reason or argument taken of those gifts of the Holy Spirit, with which they were endued from heaven after they had heard and believed the gospel by Paul's ministry. And seeing that they were so evident to all men's eyes, that they were as it were graphic images, in which they might behold the truth of the doctrine of the Gospel, just as much as if they had beheld with their eyes Christ himself crucified, in whose only death they ought to have their trust, he marvels how it could be that they could be so bewitched by the false apostles.(:note) foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, Christ was laid before you so notably and so plainly that you had a graphic image of him as it were represented before your eyes, as if he had been crucified before you. before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

geneva@Galatians:3:22 @ But the (note:)By this word «scripture» he means the Law.(:note) scripture hath concluded All mankind, and whatever comes from mankind. all under sin, that the In every one of these words, there lies an argument against the merits of works: for all these words, promise, faith, Christ, might be given, to believers, are against meritorious works, and not one of them can be included as a meritorious work. promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

geneva@Galatians:5:13 @ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; (note:)The third part of this epistle, showing that the right use of Christian liberty consists of this, that being delivered and set at liberty from the slavery of sin and the flesh, and being obedient to the Spirit, we should through love help each other to mature in their salvation.(:note) only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

geneva@Ephesians:4:19 @ Who being (note:)Void of all judgment.(:note) past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with They strove to surpass one another, as though there were some gain to be gotten by it. greediness.

geneva@Colossians:1:13 @ Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne,

geneva@Colossians:3:2 @ Set your affection on things above, not on things on the (note:)So he calls that show of religion which he spoke of in the former chapter.(:note) earth.

geneva@1Thessalonians:1:9 @ For (note:)All the believers.(:note) they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, It is no true conversion to forsake idols, unless a man in addition worships the true and living God in Christ the only Redeemer. and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

geneva@1Thessalonians:1:10 @ And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from (note:)This word «the» is not put here without reason: and by «wrath» is meant that revenge and punishment with which the Lord will in time judge the world in his terrible wrath.(:note) the wrath to come.

geneva@1Thessalonians:3:8 @ For now we (note:)For now you cannot otherwise think of me as at rest and in a good state of being, unless you go forward in religion and faith.(:note) live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

geneva@1Thessalonians:3:10 @ Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might (note:)Paul was forced through the pressing dealing of the enemies to leave the building which he had just begun: and for that reason he had left Silas and Timothy in Macedonia, and when Timothy came to Athens to him, he sent him back again immediately. So that he desires to see the Thessalonians, that he may thoroughly perfect their faith and religion, that was as yet imperfect.(:note) perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

geneva@2Thessalonians:1:10 @ When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe ((note:)They are considered as children of God by the faith which they have in the Gospel, which is preached to them by the apostles.(:note) because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:11 @ And for this cause God shall send them (note:)A most mighty working to deceive them.(:note) strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:12 @ That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but (note:)They liked lies so much that they had pleasure in them, which is the greatest madness that may exist.(:note) had pleasure in unrighteousness.

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:2 @ And that we may be delivered from (note:)Who do not do or care about their duty.(:note) unreasonable and wicked men: It is no wonder that the Gospel is hated by so many, seeing that faith is a rare gift of God. Nonetheless, the Church will never be destroyed by the multitude of the wicked, because it is grounded and stayed upon the faithful promise of God. for all [men] have not faith.

geneva@1Timothy:1:13 @ Who was before a (note:)These are the meritorious works which Paul brags of.(:note) blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.

geneva@1Timothy:1:14 @ And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant (note:)He proves this change by the effects, because he who was a profane man, has become a believer: and he that did most outrageously persecute Christ, burns now in love towards him.(:note) with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

geneva@1Timothy:1:20 @ Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; (note:)Those who fall from God, and his religion, are not to be endured in the Church, but rather ought to be excommunicated.(:note) whom I have Cast out of the Church, and so delivered them to Satan. delivered unto Satan, that they may That by their pain they might learn how serious it is to blaspheme. learn not to blaspheme.

geneva@1Timothy:4:1 @ Now (note:)He contrasts that true doctrine, with false opinions, which he foretells that certain ones who shall fall away from God and his religion, will bring in by the suggestion of Satan, and so that a great number will give ear to them.(:note) the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the From the true doctrine of God. faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

geneva@1Timothy:5:10 @ Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have (note:)This is spoken with regard to the manner of those countries.(:note) washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

geneva@1Timothy:6:21 @ Which some (note:)Not only in word, but also in appearance and gesture: to be short, while their behaviour was such that even when they held their peace they would make men believe, their heads were occupied about nothing but high and lofty matters, and therefore they erred concerning the faith.(:note) professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen. «[The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.]»

geneva@2Timothy:3:11 @ Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at (note:)Which is in Pisidia.(:note) Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord delivered me.

geneva@2Timothy:4:17 @ Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the (note:)Of Nero.(:note) lion.

geneva@2Timothy:4:18 @ And the Lord shall deliver me from every (note:)Preserve me pure from committing anything unworthy of my apostleship.(:note) evil work, and will preserve [me] unto his To make me partaker of his kingdom. heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.

geneva@Philemon:1:7 @ For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the (note:)Because you did so dutifully and cheerfully refresh the saints, that they conceived inwardly a marvellous joy: for by this word {(bowels)} is meant not only the inward feeling of wants and miseries that men have of one another's state, but also that joy and comfort which enters into the very bowels, as though the heart were refreshed and comforted.(:note) bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

geneva@Hebrews:2:14 @ Forasmuch then as the children are (note:)Are made of flesh and blood, which is a frail and delicate nature.(:note) partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the The devil is said to have the power of death, because he is the author of sin: and from sin comes death, and because of this he daily urges us to sin. power of death, that is, the He speaks of him as of a prince, placing over all his angels. devil;

geneva@Hebrews:2:15 @ And deliver them who through fear of (note:)By {(death)} you must understand here, that death which is joined with the wrath of God, as it must be if it is without Christ, and there can be nothing devised that is more miserable.(:note) death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

geneva@Hebrews:3:19 @ So we see that they could not enter in, because of vnbeliefe.

geneva@Hebrews:4:6 @ Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter thereinto, & they to whom it was first preached, entred not therein for vnbeliefes sake:

geneva@Hebrews:5:1 @ For (note:)The first part of the first comparison of Christ's high priesthood with Aaron's: Other high priests are taken from among men, and are called after the order of men.(:note) every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things [pertaining] to God, The first part of the second comparison: Others though weak, are made high priests, to the end that feeling the same infirmity in themselves which is in all the rest of the people, they should in their own and the peoples name offer gifts and sacrifices, which are witnesses of common faith and repentance. that he may offer both Offering of things without life. gifts and Beasts which were killed, but especially in the sacrifices for sins and offences. sacrifices for sins:

geneva@Hebrews:6:1 @ Therefore leaving the (note:)The first principle of Christian religion, which we call the catechism.(:note) principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; Certain principles of a catechism, which comprehend the sum of the doctrine of the gospel, were given in few words and briefly to the poor and unlearned, that is, the profession of repentance and faith in God. The articles of this doctrine were required from those who were not yet members of the Church on the days appointed for their baptism. Of those articles, two are by name recited: the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. (Ed.) not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

geneva@Hebrews:6:17 @ Wherein God, willing more (note:)More than was needed, were it not for the wickedness of men who do not believe God, even though he swears.(:note) abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:

geneva@Hebrews:11:6 @ But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a (note:)This reward is not referred to our merits, but to the free promise, as Paul teaches in Abraham the father of all the faithful, (Rom_4:4).(:note) rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

geneva@Hebrews:11:11 @ Through faith Sara also receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a childe when she was past age, because she iudged him faithfull which had promised.

geneva@Hebrews:11:13 @ These all died in (note:)In faith, which they had while they lived, and followed, them even to their grave.(:note) faith, not having received the This is the figure metonymy, for the things promised. promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and For the patriarchs were given to profess their religion by building an altar and calling on the name of the Lord when they received the promises. embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

geneva@Hebrews:11:17 @ By faith Abraham, when he was (note:)Tried by the Lord.(:note) tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the Although the promises of life were made in that only begotten son Isaac, yet he appointed him to die; and so against hope he believed in hope. promises offered up his only begotten [son],

geneva@Hebrews:13:23 @ Knowe that our brother Timotheus is deliuered, with whome (if hee come shortly) I will see you.

geneva@James:1:1 @ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the (note:)That is, written to no one man, city, or country, but to all the Jews generally, being now dispersed.(:note) twelve tribes which are To all the believing Jews, whatever tribe they are from, dispersed throughout the whole world. scattered abroad, greeting.

geneva@James:2:23 @ And the scripture was (note:)Then the Scripture was fulfilled, when it appeared plainly how truly it was written about Abraham.(:note) fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

geneva@James:5:17 @ Helias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rayne, and it rayned not on the earth for three yeeres and sixe moneths.

geneva@2Peter:2:4 @ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to (note:)So the Greeks called the deep dungeons under the earth, which should be appointed to torment the souls of the wicked in.(:note) hell, and delivered [them] into Bound them with darkness as with chains: and by darkness he means that most miserable state of life that is full of horror. chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

geneva@2Peter:2:7 @ And deliuered iust Loth vexed with the vncleanly conuersation of the wicked:

geneva@2Peter:2:9 @ The Lord (note:)Has been long practised in saving and delivering the righteous.(:note) knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

geneva@1John:2:1 @ My (note:)It does not follow that we must give our wicked nature free rein, or sin much more freely, because our sins are cleansed by the blood of Christ, but we must rather much more diligently resist sin, and yet we must not despair because of our weakness, for we have an advocate and a purger, Christ Jesus the Just, and therefore acceptable to his Father.(:note) little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an In that be names Christ, he eliminates all others. advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

geneva@1John:4:8 @ He that loveth not knoweth not God; (note:)A confirmation: for it is the nature of God to love men, of which we have a most manifest proof above all other, in that of his only free and infinite good will towards us his enemies, he delivered to death, not a common man, but his own Son, indeed his only begotten Son, to the end that we being reconciled through his blood might be partakers in his everlasting glory.(:note) for God is love.

geneva@1John:4:16 @ And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. (note:)A fourth reason: God is the fountain and wellspring of charity indeed charity itself: therefore whoever abides in it, has God with him.(:note) God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

geneva@1John:5:1 @ Whosoever (note:)He advances in the same argument, showing how both those loves come to us, from that love with which God loves us, that is, by Jesus our mediator laid hold on by faith, in whom we are made the children of God, and do love the Father from whom we are begotten, and also our brothers who are begotten with us.(:note) believeth that Jesus is the Is the true Messiah. Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth By one, he means all the faithful. him also that is begotten of him.

geneva@3John:1:5 @ Beloved, thou doest (note:)As becomes a believer and a Christian.(:note) faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

geneva@Revelation:1:1 @ The (note:)This chapter has two principal parts, the title or inscription, which stands in place of an introduction: and a narration going before the whole prophecy of this book. The inscription is double, general and particular. In (Rev_1:1) the general inscription contains the kind of prophecy, the author, end, matter, instruments, and manner of communication the same, in (Rev_1:2) the most religious faithfulness of the apostle as public witness and the use of communicating the same, taken from the promise of God, and from the circumstance of the time, (Rev_1:3)(:note)An opening of secret and hidden things. Revelation of Which the Son opened to us out of his Father's bosom by angels. Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John:[1 AD] The dragon watches the Church of the Jews, which was ready to travail: She brings forth, flees and hides herself, while Christ was yet on the earth. [34 AD] The dragon persecutes Christ ascending to heaven, he fights and is thrown down: and after persecutes the Church of the Jews. [67 AD] The Church of the Jews is received into the wilderness for three years and a half. [70 AD] When the Church of the Jews was overthrown, the dragon invaded the catholic church: all this is in the twelfth chapter. The dragon is bound for a thousand years in chapter twenty. The dragon raises up the beast with seven heads, and the beast with two heads, which make havock of the catholic church and her prophets for 1260 years after the passion of Christ in (Rev_13:11). [97 AD] The seven churches are admonished of things present, somewhat before the end of Domitian his reign, and are forewarned of the persecution to come under Trajan for ten years, chapter 2,3. God by word and signs provokes the world, and seals the godly in chapter 6 and 7. He shows examples of his wrath on all creatures, mankind excepted in chapter 8. [1073 AD] The dragon is let loose after a thousand years, and Gregory the seventh, being Pope, rages against Henry the third, then Emperor in chapter 20. [1217 AD] The dragon vexes the world for 150 years to Gregory the ninth, who wrote the Decretals, and most cruelly persecuted the Emperor Fredrick the second. [1295 AD] The dragon kills the prophets after 1260 years, when Boniface the eighth was Pope, who was the author of the sixth book of the Decretals: he excommunicated Philip the French King. [1300 AD] Boniface celebrates the Jubile. [1301 AD] About this time was a great earthquake, which overthrew many houses in Rome. [1305 AD] Prophecy ceases for three years and a half, until Benedict the second succeeded after Boniface the eighth. Prophecy is revived in chapter 11. The dragon and the two beasts question prophecy in chapter 13. Christ defends his Church in word and deed, chapter 14, and with threats and arms, chapter 16. Christ gives his Church victory over the harlot, chapter 17 and 18. Over the two beasts, chapter 19. Over the dragon and death, chapter 20. The Church is fully glorified in heaven with eternal glory, in Christ Jesus, chapter 21 and 22.