od. wg Of which, ſve the 4. verſe. 5s Unto which, not onely the ourward cifr, but the inward aff:Ction is viſible - and this 1s peculiarly in the ſight of God, the other may be ſeen alſo by Men.
/ Or delay. # Peter did in a great meaſure know the buſine(s he|
Chap. X. n 37 f The word 7 ſay you know, which was publiſhed raroughour all Judea, and * began from Galilee 7, atter * Luk. 4; 14 the baptiſm which John preached
f They had heard of the DoQrineof the Goſp:! by common fame and report, ( which could not bur ſpread abro:d ) all might know that Chriſt and his Apoſtles did Preach, thour' thefs mizhr be 1gnorant of the particular DoQtrines which they taugar, and which Peter was now lent to inſtrutthemin; or by 5/2 word, ( in an uſual Hebraiſm ) the matter of the Goſpel may bz meancd, 2s the Life, Death, and Reſurre&ion of our blf:d Szviour, whit they could not but have heard ſeveral reports of. F. Wao, as rliz Elijah which was promiſed, Mal. 4.5, was the forerunner of the Lord.
38 How God h anointcd Jeſus : of Nazareth with £ the holy Ghoſt, and with power, who went about / do- ing good, and healing all » that were oppreſied of the devil: » for God was with him.
& It was uſual to anoint their Kings, Prieſts, and Problizts, unto all which Offices Chriſt was anointed by bi: Father ; hence called Chriſt, as in the Old Teſtament the Mctfiab. 5 The Apolite is nor aſhamed of this name, though given to our Saviour by way of
contempt ; he gloried in the crols of Chriſt. 4 Chriſt was indued with the Almighry Spirit of God , ard with the power of it, [ All the miracles our ble{ſ:4 Saviour wrought, were works of mercy, for the benefic and relief of thoſe upon whom he wrought
32 t Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon whoſe ſurname is Peter; He is lodged in che houſe of 112 Simon a tanner, - by the ſea ſide; Who, when he cometh, ſhall ſpeak unto thee.
; The ſubſtance of this verſe, is in the fifth and ſixth verſes before- going ; Cornelius might ſay this to excuſe his ſending for Perer, being a ſtranger to him ; as alſo to encourage Peter to ſpeak in ſuch aman- ner as God had appeared in.
3.4 Immediately therefore I ſent to thee ; and thou haſt x well done that thou art come. Now therefore are weall here preſenty before God, to hear all things tha are commanded thee of God.
s As an hungry Soul delays not to ſend for food, afloon as he knows where to have it. x Which does not onely approve of Sr.
P:rer'scoming ; but thank him for ir. » We will ſet our ſelves to attend to thy words, as if we ſaw God looking upon us; whom wecall to witneſs that we are ready to do whatſoever he ſhall re-
them ; he could have wrought miracles to deſtroy and ruine ſuch as viould not believe in him, v-hich he was often provoked unto , (nay, his Apoſtles would have h:4 him bur © permir them by tire from Heaven to deſtroy rhe Samaritans, Luke 9.54; and he wou!d not) The deliverance: our Saviour fo often wrought upon tuch as were pollefled of Devils, was to ſh:ew unto them that he was come to deſtroy the works of the Devil, and co caſt him out of the Souls of men, who were Spiritually poſſ:flzd by him, which alto our Saviour did, jo that it was a happy calamity for them, which brought them to Chriſt. # God was with our Saviovr, 1. By his mig and Jpower doing fuch miracles. 2. In his extraordinary jove to him, Matth. 3. 17. and alxays hearing of him, 7ohn i 1. 42. and alſo, 3. God was with Cariſt, &nwSo5, in the tulnefs of the God. head, Coloſ. 2.11.
39 And weare o witneſſes of «!} things which he did both inche land of th jews, and in Jeruialemp ; whom they ſlew and banged cn a tree,
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b Even though Romans or Tralians, of which Nation Cornelius W, and might probably be worſe thought of by rhe Fews, becauſe icy ſuppoled themſelves to have been hardly uſed by them. c Theſe two particalars include the oblervation of both Tables of the Law : The fearing of God comprehends piery, that is, the true Worſhip of the true God ; and working right2ouſreſs, includes all the duties to our neighbour; and both deſcribe a truly good, and holy. os ſuch as Cornelius was ; unto whoſe wb this 1s to be ap-, P19.
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