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The A Zihev yielced to tus reaſon and arg:iment, being perſwaded and convince by it, 6 This was what oar Sav our hal foretolJd them, Aa:, 10, 17, rd thits the bn b.nimen took thz houthoiders lervants and b-at tnzm, Az? 21. 35 They bud power yet left them by Remaz, tO puniih offenders in their Synagogues, bur nut capitally nor peblickly. & In this they left the good advice of Gamalie!, who had warned them not t tight againſt Goa. . 41 © And they departed trom the preſence of the council * rezozcing that tney were f counted worthy to ſulicrg
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e it abide by ;r, that chey could account ſuch a diſgrace for Chriſt ſake, to bzan honour. f 'Tisa condeſcenſion and favour, when God ules any to give teſtimony unto his truth, although it be by their ſuſter- ing, Fil 1. 29, Unto jou it is given, wot one!y 80 belicye, but x9 ſufſer; 25 ifo ſuffer for Chrift, were as great, if not a greater gift than to believe in him. g Scowmrging being a ſervile and diſgraceful puniſh-
ment. + Chrifts name, or tor Chriſts ſake, to aflerchis truth, >. |
ſom? Co nog read the Pronoun, but the name put abſolutely for Goa, as was uſual amongſt the Fews, out of reverence to Gods name, left they ſhould prophane ir. :
42 And daily 7 in the temple, and in & every houſe, they ceafed not to teach and preach Jeſus Chriſt,
; This is rhe fame with what we read, 47s 20. 20. publickly, and from hovulz to houſe ; that ts, inthe Temple, and publick places, they preached unto the 7-ws, and in more private places, (or houies) where they ſaw it needtal ; vato ſuch as they converſed with. k& They viiited their flock, and inſtryfted, exhorred, comtoited them as their condition reguired + Seeche power of the grace of God; theſe were the men who for{oo!: Clriſt, when the Sonldiers came to ap- prehend him ; thcy dur( 10! be teen 1n hiscompany : yet now they prof, his Name, and abide by their profeſſion, chough they are deriace and beaten tor 17.
CHAP. VI.
By reaſ1n of the Murmiering of the Grecians againſt the Hebrews, ſcven men ware cheſvir fir Deacons and ordained, 1——6. The Word and Church tnicreaſe and multivly, 7. Stephen one of the Deacons, full of Feich 5a Power, warket is Miracits, 8. The Synagogue of the Liber- tines *iſe up ngainſt, but couia act r2/ift rhe Wiſdom ana Spirit by which he [pake. 9, IO, Fal/: Witneſs (r:00rmed ic teftifie egainſt, and accuſe hm of blaſphemy againſs the Law aud Tewpie : His face inthe Coriieil, jhincs as an Angel, 11-—-1I5,
, \ Ty... i thoſe days, When the number of the diſciples
| wes mittiplied, there arote a murmuring of the [ Grecians again the mebrews, becauſe their 22 widows
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I Teeſe were not ſach, as are elleirkere called Greets, cither as being of that Nation, or mors generally taken for all Gentiles at
large; bur they were (as to their O:igiunl ) Fews, and defcendei from {ſuch ofthem, who in fever! national calamities, were Torced ( or choſe ) ro Jezve their Countrey. and fly to Alexandria, and divers other piaz;s; yet kept theimſeives unmixed with orher Nations, retaining the knowledge of Gol, and coming to werthip upon the ſolemn Feaſts; only eifufing the H-5rew Language, they were more acquainted with the Gree# Tengue, (then, commoniy ſpok-n every where) and uſed the ho!y Seriprure Tranſlated into that Languige, which made them the rath2r called H-lenifts or Grecians. mm They were not taken, as others, into the Coliege, of widows, who in that time had fore care of the poor: or ra-
ther, becauſe they were not fo largely allowved, or carefully looked |
after ; for thote that ſold their goods, being Hebrews, they mighr not bz fo render over the Helleniſ/s, whoſe eſtates lying farther off, could not fo readily be fold for the relief of them elves or others.
2 "Chen thez twelve called the multitude of the diſciples unto them, and faid ®, Ic is not reaſon that we ſhould leave the e word of God, and ſerve tables.
z For ſuch was their number now again, Matthias having ſupplied the place of Judas; this is that bleiſ:d number, or rhe root of it, which God hath ſo much magnified. o Preaching of the word, and
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love-Feaſts, or diſtributing to the necellities whereby they might be ted, and their tables provided.
3 Wherefore brethren * p, look ye out among you ſeven men of q honeſt report r, full of the hoy Ghoſt 5s and wiſdom, whom we may appoint over this b
Þ As carefully and circumſpe&ly, as ye would ih.any caſes of your Own concerns. q A good direRtion, that obliges*o this day, 12 a] elections of any for the ſervice of God, and his Church. » Of The glits and graces of the holy Ghoſt, which were not beſtowed on tle apoſlticsoncly. 5 Or prudence, and Skill in the word of God, waich oncly is abie to make a man wile unto Salvation, 2 7m. 3-15.
4 But we will # give our ſelves continually to a prayer, end to the minifiry of. the word,
; Wew1ll ftick cloſe, and with perſeverance, to this work. u The tx0 great i mpioys ot.a Miniſter of jeſus Chriſt ; to pray unto God $7 FE PLople, and to ipeak unto the people from the Lord ; theſe, CoLgn great eUfinelics, they durit not delegate from themiclves un- & others to pertorm for them.
5 © And the ſaying pleaſed the whole multitude :