c The word implies courage and ſtedfaſtneſs of mind, as well as ſuch a poſture of the body. 4 Withour preferring ſome accept- able truths, before others more ingrateful, if necef]ary towar their Salvarion : Chriſt for a time did limit them ; they might no: tell any that he was Jeſus the Chriſt, March. 16. 20. nor the viton which they had ſeen in his transfiguration, AMatzh. 17. 9- Now this prohibition is taken off Thus the Sun does not [ſhine in his full glory all ar once. e Some admit of an Hypallage, and Yn che pronoun to the other ſubſtantive, reading in this place, Theſe wars» of life; and the rather becauſe by 2his life, is ordinarily nodecing the preſent, remporary life, as in 1 Cor. 15. 19- but there needs not this tranſlatitious ſenſe ; by zh7s life, the Ange! might very ® - underſtand eternal life and Salvation, for that was it which ths kw duces denied, and for the Preaching of which life the Apoſtles wer? impritoncd.
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1d againft his crutch and people, unto the advantage of either. heart, and took counſel to flay them.
23 Saying, The prilon truly found we ſhut with all !\ifety, and the keepers ſtanding without before the doors:
"ut when we had opened, we found no man with- I 411 means imaginable were uſed to fecme their priſoners ; but when God will dehver, what can keepthem ? when God will work, who can hinder ? Jeb 11. 10. It is ſtrange, har fo great evidence of the innocency of the Apoſtles, and truth of their Do&rine, ſhould be incff:&12! ; bur prejudice is 1nſuperable, unleſs to the mighty Poirer of the grace of God, and this blindneſs cannot be cured, but by Gods Ep/2p4 at ha. : :
' 24 Now when the high prieſt, and * the m captain of
» doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
1m The Commander over the Soldiers, who were ſet to guard the Temple, either to ſecure the treaſure there, or to be in a readineſs to ſuprels any tumule thereabouts ;_ Pilare ſpeaks of this, Mazrh. +7, 65. # The heads of the Families, or chief of the courſes of the Prieſts, o By what means theſe wonderful things were done ; for they were loath to fee and acknowledge God in them.
25 Thea came one and told them, ſaying, p Behold, the men whom ye put in priſon, are ſtanding in the temple, and teaching the people.
p$o true is thor in Iſaiah 8. to. Take Counſel together, and it ſhall come to nought 3 but the counſel of the Lord ſianaeth for ever. Plal. 33. 31: : :
26 Then went the captain with the officers,and brought
7 They might peradventure, think it needleſs or impoſſible, to bind th:92 againſt their wills, who had opened the prifon, and ſo mirculouſly came out ; howloever another more certain reaſon is civenof it : They ferred men 17ore than God, who had done ſo creat things amongſt them.
27 And when they had brought them, they ſet them be-
fore the r council : And the high prieſt asked them,
r When they are about to dothe greareſt injuries, they prerend to right ; and will not judge thera, without giving them leave to an- lwer for themſelves. :
23 Saying, Did not we firaitly s command you, that you ſhould not teach in # this name ? and behold, ye have filed Jeruſalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring
this v mans x blood upon Us.
5 As indecd they had, 4s 4. 13. hence they aggravated the Apo- Ales crune as done out of malice, and not our of ignorance, & Thes Nume, this mans blood, are odious re:fle&ions, tuil of contumely 2vainſt our bleſſed Saviour ; as if he had not been worthy the nam- ing by them. # They ſhunned not the fin of murder, bur are afraid or aſhamed of the impuration of it ; as many icruple not to commit that wickedneſs, which they would be Joath to be thought guilty of. x The puniſhment of his blood-ſhedding.
29 © Then Peter y and the other apoſtles anſiwered and
{a1d, We ought to obey God rather than men.
7 This they all agree in ; and it is the common ſenſe of all con- ering men. As So:rates in his Apology told the Athenians T im- brace ar:d love you, O Athenians, and yer I will obey God rather than you ; this the Apoſtles had formerly afſerted, Chap. 4. 19.
30 *2, The God of our fathers raiſed up Jeſus, whom
je fiew and 4 hanged a on a tree. 3 This is the rather mentioned by the Apcſtle, that they might no: think our Saviour, or they his Miniſters, Preached any other God