CIp'2s. ”_ # thren ; ſome think Cerinthas to have been one of them. þ The * Ch. 11.23. 22 g Confirming the ſouls of the diſciples, | and EX- | 2+ who ware Chai; - or my Luke 22. horting them to continue 1n che fairh, and lay Ing that the Gate (as they were called) who were not Ciccumciſed, ang ng, _ 29. we mult h through much tribulation enter into the king- profeſſing the True Faith. Theſe,the Pharaſaical profeſſors, would on. 8. 17, ' ro OBEY have excluded from any hopes of Salvation, although Circumcigg O12. e It is not enough to Sow the Seed of the Word, but it muſt be | Was not commanded, but unto the poſterity of Abraham, Gy, 1, Watered alſo, frequent endeavours muſt be uſed, that it may befrait- | 12, TI, 12: and Abraham himſelf was Juſtified before he wa; (ir. ful. Thus the Apoſtles return to viſit ſuch as they had Preached un- cumciſed, Rom. 4. 10, c According unto the Law of Moſs, for, to; the perſecution they had endured encreaſing their reſolution by him did renew and eſtabliſh that Ordinance unto that People; for God, and their ſtrengeh from him. + Leſt they ſhould be offend- although it was long before his time, both Commanded and Pradijcq ed at what they ſaw St. Pau! had endured, or themſelves might be John 7. 22. called to endure,they Preach unto them the Doctrine of the Croſs, | 2 When therefore 4 Paul and Barnabas had no ſm not hiding from them the miſeries which in this World the profel- | diſſention and diſj putation with theme, they determined
fion of Chriſt, and his Truths might bring upon them. God hath that * Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them "= J
indeed dealt all along thus with his People. The troubles which the
I(radlites met with Fa the Wildernef' in their Journey towards an ſhould 80 Up toJ er uſalem f unto the apoſtles and elders
Earthly Canaan, did Typify the Calamities which Gods People will «bout this queſtion. = mect with in this World, as they Journey towards the Heavenly | & That meck Apoſtle, who was willing to become al! thing Canaan, or Jeruſalem, which is above. unto all men, yet hereenters into a holy War with them that woy!] *Tir.1.5. 23 And when they * had z ordained them & elders — Cana _ _ Choech ; bean t, p . . 2 would have no Works of the Law to be an ingredient intoour Wn overy church, and had pray ed with nay ch they Salvation ; but the free grace of God in Chriſt co be all in a1}, ] commended them - tothe Lord, on whom they be- 2. Thatour freedom from all the Ceremonial Law, acquired by lieved. the death of Chriſt , might not be diminiſhed. 3. Tha the 5 The Word properly ſignifies a fretching out of the Hand, ſuch as | ſpreading of the Goſpel might not be hindred , bur that Clif was uſed when they gave their ſuffrages in the EleQion of their | might be excepted, and honoured amongſt all ; now if circumciſion Magiſtrates, whereby was ſhewed for whom they gave their Voice; | had been retained , it would have kept poſſeſſion for all the other and afterwards it was commonly uſed for to conſ?:rute ar appoint ; or, | ceremonies to have continued, or re-entred, there being the ſame as here, to ordain to any Office or Place; which might the rather | reaſon for the one * as for other ; and the circumciſed perſon be done by ſtretching out, or laying on of the Handsof the Apo- | was obliged by his circumciſion to obſerve them all, Gzl.5. ;, 4, files, becauſe by that means the Holy Ghoſt (or a Power of working | e The Church at Antioch, where this controverlie was moved, Miracles ) was tiequently beſtowed, Chap. 8. 17, 18. which in thoſe | f Fames, Peter, and John, who were thought to have been then at times was neceſlary to Authorize their DoQtrine to the Infidel] World. | Feruſalem, the reſt being probably gone to Preach Chriſt in other & Such as might inſtruct and govern the Church. 7 They com- | parts. 5G che Diſciples as a ky % gu © ox Treaſure ; as = 3 And being brought on their way g by the church, ufferers are to commit their very Souls to God, 1 Pet. 4.19. 7 To . ERS Chrift, the beſt and faithful Keonld, that he ſhould keep and further a P aſſed through Phenice, and Samaria, declaring : them in Grace and Goodneſs; to whole Provideace they wholly | *2& Conver ſion of the Gentiles : and they caulcd great!
| joy unto all the brethren,
had committed themſelves.
24 And after they had paſſed throughout n Piſdia, | g The brethren or believers of Antioch, out of reſpe&, went put x of the way with them ; as alſo thereby ſhewing, that Pau! and 3ar-
they came to Pamphylia. 4 :
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Perga, they went down into Attalia : , Satan, to the ever living God, Chap. 26. 18. # Nothing morercjoyces
Þ The Coſpel, the Word of the Lord ; or Chriſt who is the Word, | a good man, than the bringing of Souls unto God, and the enlayg- and who is the Sum of what the Miniſters of the Goſpel Preach | ing of the Kingdom of Jeſus Chriſt.
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as =} wane altered by the Komans, and {ome made larger, and others elders, and they de clared all thin gs /that God kad dons
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work they fulfilled. 14. 27. : + That Antioch which was in $7ria, as appears Chap. 13. 1,2, 3. R |
to which this relates, and is a ſufficient proof that they had not | _ 5 But ”_ there | q oſe up certain of the ſect c_
ſought God in vain, and that there is no better preparation or | Phariſees which believed, ſaying, That it was nee Wy,
proviſion towards any buſineſs, than faithful prayer unto God | to circumciſe them, and to command them to keep ttc
concerning it ; doing our duty, and leaving the event unto his| |, of Moſes, |
4d BP mf theſe. Words be taken for Sc. Luke" (the Pen-man ofthis Book)