tSaul was in a great conſternation and doubting, whether it ! ws Gol,or an Ange). p Though he did noc 1atend this per lecurion , ziinſt Chriſt z yet our Saviour looks upon the good or evil done unto hi, members, as done unto himfelf q This kicking ogainſt the pricks is a proverbial ſpeech, taken cither from Oxea, or Slaves, whom they uſed with goads to prick on to their work, which. when they Kicked againſt, or oppoſed themielves to, they did not b:t the goads or pricks, but themſelves ; fo ſhall all peifecutors fad that their miſchiefs recoil upon theinſelves ; Chriſt and his members ſhall be made more glorious by it: This meraphor iS com- phets. 1.2 a. | mon 1n Scripture, Dea?. 32. 15. 1 Sam. 2.29. Yr The pricks Sau 12 7 And hath ſeen in a viſion a man named Ananzias, had kick:d againſt, were the Sermons and Miracles ot Sr. Stephen coming in, and putting bes hand on him that he might ana Otner: | : ;
EE ; receive his ſight, 6 4nd he trembling and aſtoniſhed, faid, s Lord + If thisverſe be the words of Fe, Lake, -contining the Hiſtory,
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2 God tellerch our wendrings, and knoweth our aboad2, and mindeth hz, eſpecially in rheir forrows, which was $345 caſe, f He ſpent choſe three, days ſpoken of, - vez. 9. in att; of great hy. miliarion, in which bs world alfo nor cifte any food ; this is revealed to manias, thr hs might not fear to po unto him; a great change ; iv Su alſo amangit them that pray 2 A greater wonder than that the other Sax! formerly was amongſt the Pro-
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2 » ' 4 E P , Fee fx 2 ? _- b «dill he was but an earth-n veſſz] : 4 of 09 0 Ig - are | Feruſalem, and many had felt his rage. i But how could the 1c. Io. urte or INT3TES NAP CS, 0 _s . Yo _ $- * TR - ulg,o dat ieliins ofthe - va ths be ignorant of his converſion ſo long, if it was thrze years after 3 > | m I his myttery of the calling of the Genrzles BNDLs 4, {it ſeems by Gal 3. 17. Toanſwer, which, may be confidereq, | Th. tc {pread 2broad, and to be made more known, which was nid 1n great diſtance betwixt Jeruſalem 'and Damaſcus, ( (ix days journey
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thule promiſes, 1/a 49 6. Jer. 1. 10. 16 For* I will ſhew him how great things he muſt ſufter for my names fake. o He ſhall ſuffer as great things as he ever did cauſe, or inf}iCt the hatied of his own Countrey-men the Jews, and the tury of ch Gi:/er; fee the catalogue of them, 2 Cor. 11. 23. And were tier
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17 And * Ananias went his way, and entred p into the houſe, and 4 } putting his hands on him, faid -,Bro-- ther Saul,the Lord even s Jeſus that appeared untothee in. the way as thou cameſt, hath ſent me, that chou mighreſt|
receive thy ſight, and be [| filled with the holy Ghoſt.