Graphautarkeia, or, The Scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated wherein whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship or manners is reduced to its proper head, weighty cases resolved, truths confirmed, difficult texts illustrated and explained by others more plain.

1st, In General.

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, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live, Deut. 30. 6.

The hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment, &c. by the word, 2 Cron. 30. 12.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right (or constant) spirit in me, &c. restore to me the joy of thy Salvation, uphold me by thy free spirit, Psal. 51. 10, 12.

The God of Israel is he who giveth strength and power unto his people, Psal. 68. 35.

Turn us again, O God, &c. quicken us, and we will call upon thy name, &c. Psal. 80. 3, 18, 19.

I am the Lord thy God, &c. open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it, Psal. 81. 10.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, &c. the Lord will give grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold, &c. Psal. 84. 5, 11.

Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: in thy name shall they rejoyce all the day long, &c. for thou art the glory of their strength, Psal. 89. 15, 16, 17.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and l•…•…an not to thine own under∣standing: in all thy ways acknowledg him, and he shall direct thy paths, Prov. 3. 5, 6.

The preparations (or, disposings) of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, are from the Lord, Prov. 16. 1.

Mans goings are of the Lord, Prov. 20. 24.

Draw me, we will run after thee, Cant. 1. 4. Jer. 31. 3. Hos. 11. 3, 4.

He who is left in Zion, &c. shall be called holy, &c. when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion, &c. by the spirit of judg∣ment, and by the spirit of burning, Isa. 4. 3, 4.

Thou also hast wrought all our works in us (or; for us): by thee only will we make mention, Isa. 26. 12, 13.

Behold, your God will come: then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped: then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert, &c. the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs, &c. and a high way shall be there, &c. the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err, Isa. 35. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

I, the Lord, have called thee in righteousness, &c. will give thee, &c. a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the

prison, and them who sit in darkness out of the prison-house, Isa. 42. 6, 7.

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, &c. in the Lord have I righteousness and strength, Isa. 45. 22, 24.

That thou maist say to the prisoners, go forth: to them who are in dark∣ness shew your selves: they shall feed in the ways, &c. for he who hath mer∣cy on them, shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them, Isa. 49. 9, 10

The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings, &c. he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to pro∣claim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them who are bound, Isa. 61. 1, 2.

Return, &c. and I will heal your backslidings; behold we come unto thee, Jer. 3. 22.

I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart, Jer. 24. 7.

With loving-kindness have I drawn thee, &c. turn thou me, and I shall be turn∣ed: for thou art the Lord my God! surely after that I was turned, I repented: and after that I was instructed, I smote upon the thigh, &c. Behold, the day com∣eth, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant, &c. I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, &c. and they shall teach no more every man, &c. Jer. 31. 3, 18, 19, 31, 32, 33, 34. Heb. 8. 8, 9, 10, 11. ch. 10. 15, 16, 17.

I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, &c. I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me, Jer. 32. 39, 40.

Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned, Lam. 5. 21.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you: and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and I will give them an heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them, Ezek. 11. 19, 20. ch. 20. 43.

Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean, &c. a new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: I will take away the stony heart, &c. and I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them, &c. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses, &c. then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings which were not good, and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities, Ezek. 36. 25, 26, 27, 31. ch. 16. 61, 63.

I taught Ephraim to go, &c. I drew them with the cords of a man, &c. Hos. 11. 3, 4.

I will pour upon the house of David, &c. a spirit of grace and of supplication, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn, Zech. 12. 10.

The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come, &c. and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he shall purifie the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord, &c. Mal. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Jesus did but bid the fisher-men follow him, and they immediately leave all and follow him, Matt. 4. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled, Matt. 5. 6.

The whole need not a Physician, but they who are sick, &c. for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance, Matt. 9. 11, 12.

—The kingdom of God is come unto you. Or else how can one enter, &c. ex∣cept he bind the strong man, and then spoil his goods? Matt. 12. 28, 29.

The son of man is come to save that which was lost, &c. how think ye, if a man have one hundred sheep, and one of them be gon astray, doth he not, &c. and seeketh that which is gon astray? even so, it is not the will of your father, &c. that one of these little ones should perish, Matt. 18. 11, 12, 13, 14. Luk. 19. 10.

Which are born not of blood, &c. but of God, &c. John 1. 13, 16.

And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace, Col. 1. 19.

Except a man be born again (or, from above) he cannot see the kingdom of God, &c. the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one who is born of the spirit, John 3. 3, 5, 7, 8.

For as the father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the son quickeneth whom he will, &c. the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God, and they who hear shall live, John 5. 21, 25.

All which the father hath given me, shall come to me; and him who com∣eth to me, I will in no wise cast out, &c. no man can come to me, except the father who hath sent me draw him, &c. every man therefore who hath heard and learned of the father, cometh unto me, &c. It is the spirit who quickeneth: the flesh, profiteth nothing, John 6. 37, 44, 45, 63.

God sent Jesus to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities, Act. 3. 26.

Jesus, &c. him hath God exalted with his right hand, a prince and a Sa∣viour, for to give repentance to Israel, &c. Acts 5. 30, 31.

God gave them the like gifts as he did unto us, &c. they glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life: Now they who were scattered, &c. spake unto the Gentiles, &c. and the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord, Act. 11. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

Paul having made complaint of himself, saith, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me, &c? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, Rom. 7. 15, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25.

I was found of them who sought me not: I was made manifest unto them who asked not after me, Rom. 10. 20.

That no flesh should glory, &c. but of him are ye in Christ Jesus, 1 Cor. 1. 29, 30.

I have planted, and Apollo watered; but God gave the increase, 1 Cor. 3. 6, 7.

There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all, 1 Cor. 12. 6.

But by the grace of God, I am that I am; 1 Cor. 15. 10.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong holds, casting down imaginations, &c. 2. Cor. 10. 4, 5.

I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live, &c. I live by faith, Gal. 2. 20.

We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath, &c. Ephes. 2. 10.

But unto every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ, Ephes. 4. 7.

Work out your own salvation, &c. for it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure, Phil. 2. 12, 13.

In meekness instruct, &c. if God peradventure will give them repentance to the, &c. 2 Tim. 2. 25, 26.

Now the God of peace, &c. make you perfect in every good work, to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus, Heb. 13. 20, 21.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, &c. James 1. 17.

Giving thanks unto the father, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the in∣heritance of the saints in light; who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of his dear son, Col. 1. 12, 13.