what worſhip he requirss, 15 not for his own ſake, for our righte- ouſneſs caanot profit him ; but for mans fake, that he mighr be exer- ciled in thedurics of Religion and devotion. : : , * Boo ppeie ; *Ex. 32.9. $51 Ye *f ftittnecked, and yg f uncircumciſed in | char they might carry, and caft down the heavier : | ones. : - . 1 - 1 - 7 p l olt . #3 I(aAs. + heart, aid þ ears, JE do always relift the holy : Gh 59 And they ſtoned Stephen, calling upon G,1 F Lev.29.41. 25 vour & fathers did, fo do ye. ſaving i, Lord Jefus * receive my & ſpirit, a, Jer. 4 4.X 6. fA metaphor taken from heifers that are unaccuſtomea unto the yoke, | 19) SG 2 4s —_—_ ar” Pte * pr. to. & ©. 276. 7. . : my we XC Ws <IOR i Stephen called upon him whom he ſaw ftandins and t! "© ano Such as had Nill depraved aff:&tions, which they ought to have ah « _ "@HUNzS, ANd that was 8g SUCH a! G } EET | "hs SIO our Saviour. & Or my Sod; Thus our Saviour com OO put away rather thin the foreskin of their fl-ſh; for they were Cine 8 bis Sadtes BR. II. 66. and.oh; mended his commanded to circumciſe their hearts, Deut 10. 16. which alto God a rang = rY d comfi BY himi; ok "_y eqs Dilciple It. promiled to do for his people, Deur, 30 6. And St. Paul was not Coy redbryan 4 hae ins = els f1 F "; tat tt be ſure bij; the firſt who ſpake of a twofold circumciſion, Rem: 2. 28, 29. but | 2007 MONC De Pale, WHAMOCYEL BECAME ON HIS ody. : 6o And he / kneeled down, and cried with a 1q,,
God looked always to the inward and Spiritual part of his own | | O:dinances, and mens obſervance of them : 4+ Such as were not ſo | voice, Lord, Nt lay nat this ſin to their charge. Ar
much 4 willing ro hear, and know thir duty. # Speaking by bis | (hen he had (aid rhis, he » fell aſleep. Prophets and Miniſters, and exhorting to true and ferious piety ; / A poſture uſed in moſt earneſt Prayers; and iffo, he P..... by this St. Stephen would abate their glorying 1n circumciſion, | ge earneſtly for hisenemies, as tor him{elF; Ro, eas which they ſo much boaſted of. & Thus the Prophet Exekzcl, 6. | them kneeling, and: for himlſzIt flanding. = Do ner wes. or 44. unto which may be bcre alluded, as is rhe mother, Jo 15 toe reckon or impure ir, that it may not reinain againſt FR 2 daugh;er. hinder their Convertion ; This our Saviour commanded, Mat. ® $2 Which of the Prophers have not your / fathers this he praiſed, Luke 23. 34 And whoſoever can thus pray fir
periecured ? And they have flain them which ſhewed | his enemies, and do good for evil, hath a great evidence thar the Opt. rit of Chriſt is in him. » He died; his Death being thys expretſ4
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our righteouſneſs, Jer 23.6 and 1» of God made unto us, 3;/dom, Righteouſneſs, Sanfification, and Redemption, 1 Cor. 1. 30. This word is uted in a forenfick lene, and 1s the fame with /zwocent, and | Th, Church at Jeruſalem being perſecuted, 7 ſcattered abroad: Stephen oppoſite to guilty ; whereby St. me Ep Ren vindicates our Saviour, not- buried with great Lamentacion, :32. Saul eroubleth and impriſmuck withſtanding the ugjuſt {nrence patled bye upon him. zIn hiring ſome of the Church, 3, 4. Philip Preacheth at Samaiia, and ws. Judas. 0 Ia that they excited Pilate to es emn him, and aberred | 7,,y, Miracles, to the joy of the people, 5—8. Simon, who with þ. Sm the Souldicrs and others, IN EXECuring OL MM. * : Sorcery had bewitchea the people, believeth, and with many #ther: i Ex. 20. 1. 53 E PRES nn law by the [4 diſpoſition ons js —— "04, Fan _ hands upon thim, of angeis. a ave q not Kept z7. they recerve the holy Ghoſt, I,q—17. imon off cre? micney to bay P Or. Mimtery of Argels : The commandments were publiſhed | the {ike Power, 18, 19. but Peter ſeverely reproveth hm far = from then. Minitterially, or the Son of GuJ, (called an Angel ver. | -ypocrifie, and exhorteth him to repentance, 20-—-23. be defreth 35.) accompanied with the Militia of Heaven, ( for *cis a Military Peter ra pray for him, 24. The Apoſtles returning to Jeruſilem, Metaphor) did in the midſt oi that glorious retinue give the Law, | Preach the Gefpel to _ CO, 25- The Lord ſending Piyliy - Deut. 33. 2. Pſal. 68.8. Gal. 3. 13, 19. q They tranſgrefſed the | to Gaza, he meeteth an Emuch of Ethiopia reading Ila. 5, -. Law, though ſo gloriouſly delivered by Angels, and therefore it | and preacheth Jeſus unto him, 26 35. he is baptized, $6, was no wonder it they _ the Goſpel, that was publiſhed by ſo | Philip ſeparared from him by an Angel, and found at Ao, mean and contemptible Miniſters. 39, 40. 54 © When they heard theſe things, they were » cut | 1 A Nd Saul was conſenting unto his death. And to the heart, and s they gnaſhed on him with 7hezr 4 at that. time there was a 6 great perſecution teeth. againſt the church which was at Jeruſalem, and * they «1
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and w Jeſus x ſtanding on the right hand of God, which was by him, and is by us the more to be acknowledged and t Filled with grace ſuirable fo his preſent rryal and ſuffering. magnified. 6 Nor as heretofore againſt the Apoſtles onely ; but