were alt becal thar on the Gentiles alſo was poured out the gift ot the
holy (31140ft.
e Such as were not onely them!clves circumciſed, but born of
who are thus called, Gal. 2. 12. f Theſe
circumcifed parents, Ga | | {anding the many predictions of the calling
not minding, or under of the Gentiles, thought that Chriſt was onely promiſed unto the JEWS ;; convince them to the contrary. g Pouring out, ſpeaks the abundant meaſure in which the Holy Ghoſt was given unto tem. : 46 For they heard them ſpeak with þ tongues, and magnitie God, Then anſwered Peter, |
þ W.th variety of Languages, or ſtrange Tongues, as in the day of Pentecoſt, Chap. 2.6. i An ordinary Hebra:zſm: for ſpeaking, theuzh the fiſt part ofany Diſcourſe. And Perer knowing that this
miraculous Fiery Tongues did ſhew, that thele Men did partake of
the ſame Spirit from whom the Apoſtles had received them, he makes an inference fiom thence.
47 & Can any man forbid water, that theſe ſhould not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghoſt as well as We? :
þ This queſtion, as Chap. $.36. is without queſtion, and denies thar any can orbid Water, that is in order to Baptize fuch as theſe. As if th Avoitte had argued thus: They that have the Grace Honifed or pruwled, have a right unto the Seal of the promiſe : Pr: ofe Gentiles have the Grace fignifizd ur promiſed in Baptiſm ; they had the inward part, and therefore the outward part could not be denied unto them. He thar hath th2 Inherirance, may claim the Writings, VWex, and Parchment tnat bzlong unto it,
a8 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord, Then prayed #2 they him to tarry 2 Certain days.
2 Thar is, in the Name of oor Saviour. But this doesnot imply, hat that they were Baprizcd according to our Saviours preſcription, Ataztth. 28. 19. but the Jews by their Baptiſm, they were become the Lords, { and had given up their names to Jeſu Chriſt ) under which Title the Lord, not only our Savi Anointed him, and the Spirir by whom þ-- Anointed, 1s to be und=:food. » Cornelius and the reſt ofhis Friends, which he caufed to be preſent. Ar tieir entreaty Percy and others that came with him (as As 11.3.) tarried there, that they might further inſtruQ, confirm, and comtort them: (as the beſt have ever need ro learn, and to grow in Grace and Knowledge ) and by this Percr ſhewed
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7 They were ſuch Jews as converſed with them of the Chyrc?, .... ” it, JN
and were amazed to fee now ſuch an Argument as might |
bur the Father who ;
argued againſt them tor taking in the Gentiles into any with them. Bur it may be that the believing Jews might for ati. be vety weak, and offended at it, until they were further "WS $ep the following Relation of St. Petcr, *.* Till then they difoureg. " brought what Arguments they could againſt ir, EO OY 3 7 Saying, Thou wenteſt in to men uncircumcijc and didſt eat with them. I + Thas 1s the ObjeCtionthey make againſt Perer, That contri; , the Traditioneof their Elders, and Precepts of their Wiſe Men, he 3 familiarly converſed with the Gentiles, See Chap. 10 28. this the look upon as Piacular, although no converſation in order to _ gaining of the Gent:{es unto God, was ever forbidden ; but only fuck as might withdraw the Jews from God. "0 4 But Peter s rehearſed rhe matter fromthe beginning and expounded iz by order unto them, ſaying, ; s This great Apoſtle condeſcends to the leaſt and weakel} amongſt them, and gives an Account of what he had done, and the Reajg, that moved him unto ir, if by any means he might gain ſome, 10, confirm others. ; 5 * I wasin the city of Joppa praying, andin a trance,
great ſheet, let down from heaven by four corners an; It came even to me.
See this whole Narration ſpoken to in the foregoing Chapter ; To ſhew that he was eſpecially concerned in this Viſion, it bzing for his inſtruQion and regulation.
6 Upon the which when I had « faſtened mine eye; [ conſidered, and ſaw four footed beaſts of the ear} and wild beaſts, and creeping things, and fowls of the alr.
« It ſpeaking his great intentiva of mind upon it 3 (Go 6 ordering of it, that it mich: leave the greater impreflion VD0n him. |
7 AndI heard a voice faying unto me, Ariſe, Peter ſlay, and ear x,
«= He might now uſe them without any diſtinftion jndif., reatly.
Ss But I ſaid, Not ſo, Lord : for nothing » con. mon or unclean hath at any time z entred into my mouth.
7 St. Petey here avoucheth, that he had lived in this ceremoni!] Righteouſncſs, though he thought himſelf far from being juſj. _ thereby. z He abſtained trom all the appearances of thir vil,
9 But the voice anſwered me a again from hez- ven, What God hath cleanied, haz call not thou com: | INOTL | | 3 This is twice ſpoken to St. Perer, that it might be thenere ; unqueſtionable with him and others : it ſeeming othervil: | very ftrange;- and it may be therefore twice by St. Luke re- | corded,
Mi And this was done 6 three times.: and all were 'drawn up again c into heaven.
6 For the ſame reaſon but now mentioned, That God might | more abvndantly manifeſt this Myſtery of the calling in of the | Gentiles, which had been fo long id. c All this was trom Hz ;Ven; unto which allo ir tended, namely, to bring the Genizs ' thither. | | 11 And lehold, immediately there were d three men already come unto the houſe where 1 was, ſent from Celarea, Unto nie.
d yo many fent : and ſuch a Jonrney willingly undertaken, forto gain InſtruCtion in the way of Lite. | ;
12 And * the Spirit bad me go with thero, nothing* | doubting : Morerver, theſe e ſix brethren 2ccompanied&1;
that he looked upon himfelt and others as not bound to obſerve thoſe Precepts (of the Wiſe Men, as they called them) forbidding them all Janiitaricy with tae Uncircumciſed.
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Pater rermring to feruſulem, 75 accuſed ſor going tothe uncircumciſed ; or +þ 72 [1c Def C2, 7s approved, I - 18. The diſpcrſed Be- fevers pregeh the Goppel at Phenice, Cyprus, axd Antioch, where m7: oy fre power of 292 Lord believe, 19---21. The Church at Jeru- Falem ſend 55 Barnbr 7 Antioch, to confirm them that believe,
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me, and we enrred f into rhe mans houſe : x
e Whom they might hear reſtifie the ſame thing, that in ti! mouths of fo many it mighr be eſtabliſhed. F This Man meant, 15 Cornelizs, concerning the entry into his Houſe, and converis with him, the doubt or controverſie was that he was now fp:i- ing to,