Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1240

ra_ —— % : nel. The ARGUMENT T. ug. Eis Book hath beeu held by all Chriſtians to be Canonical ; and eſteemed, though amongſt the hardeſt, yet among [t the brighteſt Jewels that ſhine mn the word of God, Tt 1s an Hiſtory concerning the Church of Chii}t in irs Infancy, Whe and ſhews Gods wonderful care for it, and Powerful Providence over it : It begins where the Goſpel ends, - which the ſame : Author (St. Luke) had wrote ; and is of great uſe to prevent and confute ail feigned ſtories concerning the Lives and Py” Dadtrine -of the Holy Apoſtles, Sr. Luke having accompanied St, Paul, and having been an eye-witneſs, and an ear- is ha witn2ſ5, 04s certainly the fitteſ® to Record what that great Apoſtle did and jaid; and if moſt of this Book be token up Con cerning him, it is becauſe, (ſpeaking of the reſt of tbe Apoſtles, x Cor. 15. 10.) He laboured more than they a!. j i In this Book there is an account of many Sermons, Preacht by the Apoſtles and Apoſtolical men, upon the moſt neceſſary parts of our boly Religion, as the Death, Reſurrection aud Aſcenſion of our bleſſed Saviour ; of Gods mercy through nds im im, and of the life to come, &c. and withal, how holy men lived an/werably to their Profeſſion and hipe. 1 ho, when bim, he we read theſe things, ſeem to ſpeak unto us, and tell us, (what they ſay was inſcribed upon the Statue of ſon? deified Heroz } —_ & f-ceritis ou = eritis ficut nos. Jf ye ſhall do as we have done, and ſuffer as we have ſuffered, then ye ſhall be ” *f as we are, came f (Glorious and Happ) llow his | | CHAYPT L | _ publickly be manifeſt ; and thar that Prophecy 1a. 2. 3. might be ethren 4 account of what the Author's former treatiſe contained, i. e. what | tulfilled. n Of my Father, Luke 24. 49. That is, the holy "Spir:r boy: ] Jeſu did and taught, 1, 2. how he appeared by infallible preofs | promiſed by our Saviour in his Fathers name, John 14. 26. and may | - after his Paſſion, 3. how he charged his diſciples to wait in Jerula- well be called che promiſe ; without which all other promiſes wouid ry Eu lem for the. Father”s Promiſe, q. 5. they aik of him the timeof | be of no vaJue unto us. Iſraels reflorat ion ; he rebuketh their curioſity ; ana promiſeth them the 5 For 0 John truly baptized with water q but * Je * 1, x. 19 r Saviour huly Ghoſt, that they m_—_— witneſſes = him in the world, 6—8. | ſhall be baptized with the p holy Ghoſt 4, not many days Ch. 4. oneluded After his Aſcenſion, Angels appear, and inform the diſciples of his hence "Y 4 Chit gxcond coming,” 9—11. They return to Jeruialem, and continued in : , IO 5 2m os - rajer and ſupplication, 12—14. Peter exhorteth to eledl an Apoſtle | * Mat. 3-11. Water being of a purifying Nature, plentiful. and things, ſapply the vacant place of Judas, 15—22. Twoappointed: They _ to come by. p His Gifts and Graces, which were, (as water eſtimony pray to God for direBion, 23—25- Matthias by lot choſen, 26. on Baptized perſons) largely beſtowed upon them on the day of ; Pentecoſt. 1. That the Apoſtles and all others might be affured of 1; THe former treatiſe have I made 6, O Theo- | the DoQtine of the Goſpel. 2. That they might be enabled to Lars philus c, of all that Jeſus began both to do and _ _ gag __ obey our Saviours commands left with | | them. Ir 4 was but ten days after his Aſcenſion ; but our Saviour ho teh; <> d T7 2 g ure ” tes "efers unto the Goſpel Wrote by this Evangeliſt. 5 Se. would not prefix a cettain day, that they might watch every Wa5 true 1uke, who was undoubtedly the pen-man of this Book ; which | 9Y; Wh | | 1h Foſs hears Teſtimony unto, and confirms ( if need were ) that other. 6 r When they therefore were come together, they ask- ch Jeſus : Ffeemed the ſame name with Jedidiah, ſignifying beloved of | ed of him ſaying*, Lord s, wilt thou at this time reſtore Af. j one, God, or one that loved God : who he was, is not certain : ſome | apain the kingdom to Iſrael ? Ih 3 tain the have taken the name appellatively, It is evident by the Epithere | *,, gither the 120. mentioned wer. 15. of the 500, mentioned given unto him, Luke 7. 3, thar he was one of great Authority, | , cop 15. 6. That they might more readily obtain an Anſwer, Mirae baving the ſame Title which Ter:u/lus gives unto Feſtw, As 24- 3- | they joyn in the Queſtion : 5 Which was taken away by the Ro- te Way and the chief Captain unto —_ Act's a : A— not many | -1azs, and by Herod ; and they exp=Qed ſhould be reſtored to them noble are called, 1 Cor. 1. 26, yet EXZENUS MIS TaFace Unto | by the Meſſiah ; underſtanding the Prophecy Dar. 7. 27. to this ke or done PAaccy 7 WY ſome of all conditions. 4 This w = ar _ _ VIZ, - purpoſe. 1tten, 31t Life, Do&rine, and Death of our bleſſed Saviour ; al- | * . . NO know, fo _ —— ern or deed of our Saviours, could not be | , 7 And he ſaid unto them * 2, It is _y for you to KNOW * Niar. 2.1. Faith in us/ nteſſed, John 21, ule. yet the Evangeliſt was faithful in with-hold- the 4 times or the ſeaſons, which the x Father hath put in 36. ing nothing which was neceſſary tor the Church to know ; and his own power, kaving no room for unwritten Traditions. | . | # Our Saviour blames their curioſity about ſuch things as are not 1 * Until the day e in which he was taken up, after that neceſſary to be known ; and yet though our Saviour does not in be through the holy Ghoſt f had given commandments un- his Aniwer tell them what chey defired ro know, he tells them whar whe apo es whom he had choſen IS you _ " mw roknow. I he petition of wicked men, ' ; WS: ES nay, of Devils (as when they crave to go into the Swine) is ſome- eThatis, the day of his Aſcenſion. This wh — the for- | time granted according to their will. But the praver of the Ditciples fer Book (his Gojpel) unto this, thewing 10w tar he had proceeded | of Chriſt is anſwered to their beſt advantage, (though it does not "inſtring down the DoRtrine of our Salvation. f Which ware may | ſeem to agree to the matter of their delice.) = How Jong any mercy bereferced, either to the commandments he gave, or the ctoice he | ſhall be deferred ; when it ſhall be given : * Who is fons & origo made of the Apoſtles; both being by the Holy Ghoſt. The Ap0-|{ Deitatis : to whom Chriſt, eſpecially as Meajaror, and in tour itead, — Pn 5 w_ —_ _ _ ne —_ a me refers all things It dy L0d, ecially to publith th? GoJjpel tro the whole World, . : _ S , 28. 19, And £ hs at Jeruſalem till the coming of the hob —_ feof oy. | £9 mp " _ x fps f, 4- Holy Ghoſt, Lnke 24. 49. : PL. = || Or, The 1*;To wor aig he ſhewed himſelf alive after his neſſes unto me, both in a Jerufalem, and in all Judea, raph; Wor: raſtion, by- þ many infallible proofs, being # ſeen of them | and in Samaria, and unto the uttermoſt part of the CES forty days, and & ſpeaking of the things pertaining to the | arth. | ; you. kingdom of God : » Nor till then, not of their own ſtrength, but of Gods grace, 5+ Luke 24: | g(i e.) The Apoſtles þ eating, drinking, ſpeaking, walking appeared by Peter's denying, and the others leaving of our Saviour, , wh them: nay ; rt Prgeny very wniads. —_ permitting z, andthat I am indeed the promiſed Meſſiah : my DoQtine, Life, |. ts. 27