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to do. 2 Theſe particulars when found true by Corneliizs, did very much: advantage him towards h1s belixving whar Peter in the 2ame of rhe
Lord did tell him. - And when the angel which ſpake unto Cornelius.
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che Evenins Szcrifize 3 none of theſe cauſes nezd ro be alſigaed, for Corte] :1s this blefl:d Apoltle did watch unto prayer, 1 Per. 4. 7: and defiroufly laid hoid upon all opportunitizs to poar Our his Soul un- to God 1o And he became « very hungry, and would nave 4 : "7 . fe p but whi's tzexy made ready, he x fell into a
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» = : UT 8% carefully non what he hears fiom Gods words, [zave him withour ſufficient infireCion. 20 * Ariſe o theretore, and getthee Cown,and go yin chem p, doubting nothing : for | have ſenr them, © o Immediately pur thy {cif upon th2 journey. p Spend no +4. in ditpeting within thy If, bzcaule that they, unto whom chews {cn for, are not Jews, as 21 Then Peter went down to the men which we: ſent unto him from Cornelius; and ſaid, Behold, J an ne whom ve leck : s what #s the cauie wheretigre wv are come ? s Peter being in 10 ſmall conſternation, and not perfectly lngw!... whithzr all tis teaded, makes the more exit inquiry, | 8 22 And they ſaid, Cornelius the centurion f, a juſt man, and one that « fearecth God, and of good Fepor: among all the nation ofthe Jews, was x warned try God by an hcly angel to ſend for thee into his houſe arq to hear words cf thee, "Nt : That they might ſpecd in their meJage, they labour to prev; a!l prejudice Peter might have agunft Cornelirg, who was a Gey;,; by ritle ; telling him, 1. That he was a juſt man, ( as 3; (1g 6 Joſeph, Mats. 1. 19) ». That he u worthipped therrue God, the ſims with the Jews, and not the falſe gods of the Gentiler, 5, That hs
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p Either vifibly to his corporal eyes, as to St. Stephen's ; or rather mentally, more tuitably roche raprure mentioned 1n the former verſe, z Which night fignifie, that Heaven that was ſhut to the children cf ren by the firſt Avam, was now by Chritt the ſecond .{dam, epencd to 21} behevers. a This word ts raken for any utenfil, com- n.c1.Iv utcd about the houſe; and with the ſheet here ſpoken of, beats an Anus) 1Ga Tob'e, ard Table-cloath amongſt us : b So cathercd vp © knit, that the Vyands verſe 12. mighr not fall down. Ang this Coin 1 jaw to come from Heaven, to ſhew the liberty of tking b'n:and other Gratz/es 1nto the Chuich, did comefrom thence Cnelz.,
12 Whercin were all manner of ſour-footed beaſts of the carth, and c wi'd beaſts, and creeping things, and fow)s of the air.
c As well vnclean beaſts, ſuch as were forbidden by the Law ; as clean, ſuch as by the Law mig hr be eaten. |
13 And there Canic a voice tohin, Riſe, Peter ; d kill, «hd car.
a Otthat then ſeefſt, without any exception, whether they by c!can, or (formerly) unclean creatures : The moral of which com- mand is, that he raght now converſe with Jews and Gen tiles indif- terently. and ac. 5 tous thele allo the word of Lite.
14 But Peter fa'd. Not fo, Lord *; for I have never
e Thete word, mey fignifie one and the ſamething, and the latter explain the fort.cr, ſhewing that choſe rhings areſaid to be common, v itch the Law by {6 bidd:pg them, had made wncleay ; Others e1:kefome arfference ; and by things common, underſtand all forts ot creates, which were forbidden to the Fews, but were commonly ted vpon by a! Nations round about them : and by things unclean, they underitaua ſuch as by accidenr became ſo, as when any of the creatures pzrmitted for ule, was ſtrangled.
15 And the voice /pake unto him again the ſecond
g Common. 7 Donor wake in thy eſteem, or praQtice, as common : # that is,