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.

To make them fruitful, or enable them to subdue sin, profit in grace and activity for God.

Then rose up the chief of the fathers, &c. whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, Ezra 1. 5.

Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, &c. he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which bringeth forth fruit in his his season: his leaf also shall not wither, &c. Psal. 1. 1, 2, 3.

Thou wilt prepare their heart, and thou wilt cause thine ear to hear, Psal. 10. 17.

Wait on the Lord, &c. and he shall strengthen thine heart, Psal. 27. 14.

I will go in the strength of the Lord God, Psal. 71. 16.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, &c. The Lord will give grace, Psal. 84. 5, 11.

The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree, he shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age: they shall be fat (or, green) and flourishing, Psal. 92. 12, 13, 14.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, Psal. 110. 3.

I will run the ways of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart, &c. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, &c. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, Psal. 119. 32, 35, 36.

The preparation of the heart, and answer of the tongue, is 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.

Awake, O north-wind, and come thou south: blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out, &c. Cant. 4. 16.

See the effect of Christs voice and drawings with the Spouse, Cant. 5.

Lord, &c. thou also hast wrought all our works in us (or, for us), &c. by thee only will we make mention of thy name, Isa. 26. 12, 13.

A vineyard of red-wine, &c. I the Lord will water it every moment, Isa. 27. 2, 3.

Your God will come, &c. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing, Isa. 35. 4, 6.

The everlasting God, the Lord, &c. He giveth power to the faint, and to them who have no might he increaseth strength, &c. but they who wait upon the Lord shall renew strength: they shall mount up with wings as Eagles: they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not be faint, Isa. 40. 28, 29, 30, 31.

I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, &c. I will pour out my spirit, &c. and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses, Isa. 44. 3, 4.

I am the Lord thy God who teacheth thee to profit: who leadeth thee by the way thou shouldst go, Isa. 48. 17.

Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is; for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and which spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh: but her leaf shall be green, and shall not be careful in the year of drought (or, restraint), neither shall cease from yielding fruit, Jer. 17. 7, 8.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall grow (or, blossom) as a Lilly, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon, &c. I am like a green fir-tree, and from me is thy fruit found, Hos. 14. 5, 6, 8.

Who is a God like unto thee, &c! He will subdue your iniquities, Micah 7. 8, 19.

The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, &c. and the spirit of all the rem∣nant of the people: and they came and did work in the house of the Lord, Hagg. 1. 14.

I will pour out upon the house of David, &c. the spirit of prayer, &c. Zech. 12. 10.

But unto you who fear my name, shall the Son of righteousness arise with heal∣ing in his wings: and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves in the stall, Mal. 4. 2.

Jesus said unto her, If thou knewest, &c. who it is that said unto thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee li∣ving-water, &c. shall be in him a well of water, springing up into eternal life, John 4. 10, 14.

He who believeth on me (as the Scripture saith), out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters, John 7. 38.

I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abun∣dantly, John 10. 10.

I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman, &c. Abide in me, and I in you: as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine: no more can ye except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: he who abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without (or, severed from) me, ye can do nothing. John 15. 1, 2, 4, 5.

Sin shall not have dominion over you: for we are not under the law, but under grace, Rom. 6. 14.

Having then gifts differing, according to the grace which is given to us, Rom. 12. 6.

I have planted, Apollo watered, but God gave the increase: so then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he who watereth, but God who giveth the increase, &c. we are labourers together with God: ye are Gods husbandry, ye are Gods building, 1 Cor. 3. 5, 6, 7, 9.

Not that we are sufficient of our selves, &c. but our sufficiency is of God, 2 Cor. 3. 5.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong-holds: casting down imaginations, and every high thing which exalts it self against the knowledg of God; and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, 2 Cor. 10. 4, 5.

I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, Gal. 2. 20.

For this cause I bow my knees to the father, &c. that he would grant you ac∣cording to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner-man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, &c. Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or think ac∣cording to the power that worketh in us, Ephes. 3. 14, 16, 17, 20.

But, &c. may grow up into him in all thing who is the head, Christ: from whom the whole body fitly joined together, &c. according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, &c. Ephes. 4. 15, 16.

Brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, Ephes. 6. 10.

I know how to be abased, &c. I can do all things through Christ who streng∣theneth me, Phil. 4. 12, 13.

We, &c. do not cease to pray for you, &c. that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, &c. strengthn∣ed with all might, according to his glorious power, &c. And he is the head of the body, the Church, &c. for it pleased the father that in him should all ful∣ness dwell, Col. 1. 9, 10, 11, 18, 19.

Ye received it as the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you who believe: for ye, brethren, became followers of the Churches, 1 Thess. 2. 13. 14.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ, &c. establish you in every good word and work, 2 Thess. 2. 17.

Now the God of peace, &c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will,

working (or, doing) in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, Heb. 13. 20, 21.