JH go fin 3s pardoned, it 15 faid to b2 blotred our, 1j2. 44. 22. and | moſt taroughout ; and CaOUg'Y our Saviour hid told the Aroſties, not (0 be found any more, though it ſhould by lought for, Fer. 50. | thac they ſhould be his wicnetles to the uttermoſt pr of the earch, -0. 2 Or, times of cooling ; as afflictions are called a fiery tryal, fo| As 1.8. they underſtood it onely of thoſe of th-ir own Nation, deliverance from them, 15S a featon of reireſhing or cooling : Such | {cattered o: diſperſed abroad, 1 Pet. n. tr 7 Whi.h wo.d does n a time of refreſhing ſhall come in this lite, commonly trom many | onely reter to the ReſurieGion of Chriſt, bur to hi. (+, 17 coub ituced rroubles ; but when this Jife ends, a Gzliverance cores from all | and appointed to be a Prince and a Saviour ; this fri, f4id, 3 gr-- 47 «Mi&10nS 00 them thar truly fear and jerve God. a Gotl's preſence | Propher is riten up amongſt us, Zike 7, 16. and Gol kick talted wa + the cauſe and ground, from whence all the refreſhment his people ; a hon 07 Satvation, Lake Cy. } Lowioever, 1th by verve of Clif rake, do are ; Heaven would not be Heaven (a place of bliis and | being rated trom rh: dad, ans carrizd into bis King Com, that olory) without. It : and as God 15 the objeUt of our beatitude, fo he | are bleti2d. 5 I 1515 the greats! biefing indeed ; h ace on: 5 the giver Of all comforr, and his Spirit is the onely Comforter. | bath his Name Impoicd by Grey on him, AZze, 1 2a:Jed 20 And he ſhall ſend Jelus Chriit 5, which betore wa { 2 becaule be fave: his peopie om tharkoas; ind withour ri hed unto you : | being ſaved from out fins, nothing can be ate. to us, fr, 2. reac ; Fo : . , | 11, and 57. 21. There is no peace [aith my Gol to IF PRE We To remove all evils and miſeries from his people. When that}, - has 18 am be earned _ TS bog ne - ol. ares ef it os © ES any oz urne mn Oe NIQH!ES, 17 1s th OULHN tis Fan ſhines, all clouds and miſts are ſcattered : this reterrs eſpecially to | bleſſing of Cod in Chriſt, ] 3 LOU Ll
Chriſt's ſecond coming, which 1s here promited to encourage us t9 and to deter us from doing evil : as alſo to move us to re-
do good,
-ntance, and to comfort us when penitent.
21 Whom the heaven muſt receive c, until the times of
refticucion of all things 4, which God hath ſpoken by
the mouth of all his holy prophets, ſince the world began.
; Thar is, contain after it hath received him, as a real place doth true oody ; for ſuch Chriſt's body was, which was received into Heaven, and Heaven 1s the Palace and Throne of this King of Kings, :nd Lord of Lords, where he ſhall reign until he hath pur all his enemies under hisfeet, 1 Cor, 15. 25. 4 Or, reſtauration of all things;
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The Rnlers, being grieved and of ended at Peter's Sermon, annvclicyd bn; examine the Authority of Peter and John, 1—7. P-te: fl-d wich the hily Ghoſt, tcſtifi:th that the lame man was hoaled'by the Pimer of Jeſus : He us the ſtone rejeFed by the builders; | 'y whom alone there z ſalvation, S—12. The Rulers convinced of thts Mirac'c, yet ftraitiy
| forbid them to preach i the name of Jeſrs, 13 —18, Th-; arclare no: 19
leave off: return totherr company aud report what had bean They ail pray unto God for bo/dnifs, ana vlefſing in preachiy God teſi:fi::hthat their prayers are heard by an Ear: bonate,axd by fil- ling them with the holy Ghoſt : their mutual love and concord $1 hoy
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| fel their goods to fups'y the poor © which Barnabas aljo th, 2.) 7. | {I N4 as they ſpake unto the people, the prieits 'J and the || caprain of the temple a, and the Sade! Or, Ran MN _ ' * 4'F duces Came upon them 5, Pi&a. . . 5 Wy.£4:% a The Commander over tho'e Soldiers who were appointe? to gvard | ht - the Temple, and provide that no diforder might happen, by reato1 t FE 2%
, ofthe multitudes thar came to worſhip there ; was a Roman, and not of the Fewijh Nation, m lefs ths chit ot HH | any of the courſes of rhe Pric!ts, ro whom this term cannor 5
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whole main Article 1s the Returre&ion, which they denicd ;- and thus eic'; man, Zews and Gentiles, agres againſt Chiift, as was foreto!d, yz! 2 35
2 Being grieved c that they taughr the people, and preached rhroughJetus the reſurrection 4trom the dead. c Or angry to ſuch a degree, that it was a great troubleto then. The DoGrine of the RefurreCtion alone, could not but vex the ; Sadduces who denied 1t : but it did mere Mi then , rhit the Apo. | {tles Preached itthrough Jcfus ; afkerting, noc en{-ly the Retvrietion ; Of our Saviour, which the Jews gave to much mouey unto the $61dj- ers to hinder the report of, Mat. 28. 12, 13. but alfo that Chriſt was the Author of the ReſurreQion, an the firſt fruits of them that fleep; and becauſe they inferred from Chriſts Reſurrection, that his Dit- ciples ſhould rife from the dead alſo.
3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hoid e unto thenext day : For it was how even tide.
e Some think, this not to have been ſo Nrait a cuſtody as that of 2
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priſon : bur that rather the Apoſtles were delivered to ſome, thar
promiſed that they ſhould be torch coming ; the prediction cf our Saviour. began now to be fulkiiled, Luke 21. 12. They fhill Lay their hands on you, and perſecute you, Howloever, God was pleaſed to fut-
fer pertecution to come by degrees on his Church ; after the Sun was down, (Chriſt was gone from them) it was not preſently pirch-dark- neſs with them. God always remembers his peoples condition, and his own promiſes ; and lays no more upon them, than they are ab!z to bear,
4 Howbeit, many of them which heard the word. believed f; And the number of the men was about fi
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f Faith cometh by hearing, and heariug by the word of Go, Pom. 10. 17. Tt being the ordinary means which God hath appointed ; the Apoſtles themſclves make uſe of it rowards the conviction of this people. g The number of the hearers 15 not intendel to be fer here, or in any other place; but either theſe five rhoutand,. were ſuch a5 were Converted at rhis Sermon, or rather the number Converted by St. Peter's former Sermon, Ch. 2. 14, 41. were at this S:rmon made thus many ; howſoever the increaſe which God gave was very grear
5'& And it came to paſs on the morrow, that theit rulers, and eiders z, and ſcribes,