3 are ſpoken of, Chap. 6. 1. who were born of Hebrew Parents, ft By a revelation irom the Spirir, a5 one ©f his Gifts. and not tough living out of the Country of Fudea 3 but ſuch alſo amongſt | by Judicial Aſtrology, or any other means real or pretended. For tix Gntiles ( who are generally called Grecks fince Alexander”s | it 1s a Prerogative of Cod onely, to toretell things ro come, as 1/*, tinz, who conquered all thoſe Nations round about, and brought | 41. 22, 23. # This Famine Szezonivs and other Heathen Writers n his own Language amongſt them ) who forfaking Folatry, and | make mention of, though lome place 1t one year, 2ndſomse in a- worthipping the True God, were called £2%uzyor, Devont or Re- | nother year of Claudius his reign, it may b= there were divers ligiew perfons, ſuch as Cornelius is ſaid to be, Chap. 10. 2. And thus | famines, or one migar conrinue divers years; bur thus God, who pro- God by degrees brought in the knowledge of himſelf, and his Son vided for the Patriarchs by mens of Joſeph's foreſecing of the ſcarcity Jus Chriſt. a Which knowledge onely 15 that which is neceflary | 1n Egypt, and elſewhere ; pr vides tor his Church now alſo by a lize uno Salvation 3 and that only which Sar determined to know, | prediction. Gods Oimnitcience 15s exerted for his Churches pre- 1 Cor, 2, 9. tervation.
21 And * the e hand of the Lord was with them - | 29 Then thediſciples, every man « according to his and fagrexr number believed, and curned unto the | abiiry,derermined co fend reliet unto the brethren which Lord, y dwelt in Judea.
e The Power, Afiſtance, and Working of God-exprefſed by x Which 15 the merſure whereby we muſt mere ont unto others, thethnd ; which is the Org2n or Inftrument Men uſe in Working. | Ze 11. 41. we are t give alms of fuch things as we have, or ac- This Hand, or Work of God was manifeſt : Firth In the Miracles | cording as we are able. » Thele brethren- or believers in Judes, which thzy wrought. Secondly, Inthe Converfion of any by theſe ; W-r= very poor, by realon otthe extraordinary maliceand perſecution Miracles. For theſe alone cannor ſotten a heart ; as appeared in | of the Jews againſt thzm, and therefore recommended by St. Par! P.arach, whoſe heart was hardened by them. F Faith and Con- | unto them of A:4ais, (elpectally to the Corinthians) and to the be- V1!on are wrought by the Hand of the Lord, and are his Work. hevers in Macednza. G But in vain is Faith pretended unto, waen there 1s no change in - arlagy Life. What God hatin put together, none may put by the hands of Barnaby _ Saul. LG
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22 © Then tidings of theſe caings cameg unto the | ,f Teruſalem, — the Goren or chief of the Chunk for *$0f the church which wes in Jeruſalem : and they | the famine being to come over all 7:ez, *ris moſt probable, thar ſent forth þ Barnabas, that hs ſhould go as far as the other Churches, belides that in Jeruſalem, did partake of this Antioch , bounty.
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a There were ſeve1a] Hevods mentioned in Scripture, being all of , the funily of Hercd the grear, ( by whoſe name they were called, 3. He: od that killed the children in Berlehems, called A4fcalonita ; ano- ther that beheaded St. John, and derided our Saviour, ( this Herod wa: ſurnamed Antipas } the Herod here ſpoken of was called /gr!ppa; the Son, or as ethers think, the Nephew of Ariſtobulzs, and was the Father of that Agrippa we read of, Chap. 25.26. being Vice- roy, or King under the Roman Emperor : This Herod did not onzly kill ſome, bur 6 puniſhedothers with baniſhment and blows; and c e- {pecially the Goveinours of ohe Church, knowing how much all tut- fer 1n them.
2 And he killed 4 James the * brother of John with the ſword.
& Who had efpecia'ly rke care of the Church at Jeruſalem ; one eminent amongſt the Apoſtles, an1 one of the Sons of Thunder ( or Boanerges ) for his zealous and earneſt Preaching, and therefore the more hated by Herod ; ſo that which our Saviour had foretold him, came now to paſs, Matth. 20. 23. that he drank of the cup our Sa- viour did drink of. There was another James, who wrote the Epi- file, known by his name, and was called 7ares the lefs ; becauſe as ſome think, he was brought to the knowledge of Chriſt after the 0- ther, of whom we read, Aarki Fo 40.
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« All the poſterity of Herod the great, by his example ſtudied chict- ly to pleaſe the Rowan Emperors, and to gratifie the Jews wherher by right or wrong : f Or the Paſſover, which Feſtival ſolemnity laſted cight diys; and God over-ruled the hypocriſie of Herod, ( for he did not out of piety obſerve this time ) for the preſervation of Peter ; and Herod might fear ſome tumult of rhe people, in ſo great 2 concourſe, for which he did defer it ; howſoever, the perverſeneſs