holy Ghoſt to preach the word in p Aſia.
1 Phrygia and Galatia were parts of 4//a minor.” o They were forbidden of the Holy Ghoſt by fome Revelation, (though the man- ner 1s not known.) p For that time, though afterwards Pau? preach- td there about two Years together, Chap. 19. io. Thus God ( the great Houſholder) orders the Candle to be removed from one Room unto anothef; ſends, or rakes away the Light of the Goſpel, to whom, and as often as he pleaſeth. Our Calling, as well as our EleQion, 8 free; and we may ſay with our Saviour, Mat. 11. 26. Even fo Fa- titer, for ſo it ſeemed»good in thy ſight.
7 After they were come to q Myſia, they aſſayed 80 into 7 Bichynia : but s the Spirit ; ſuftered them Not,
7A little Country near 7Troas. r Another Province nigh unto the Ine place, over-againſt Thracia, bordering upon the Black Sea. 'The Spirir of Je(us, or of God,as ſome Copies read. £ The Journey- ngs ofthem that preached the Goſpel, as well as their Words, were direted by God ; they might. not ſay, Do, or Go, bur according 0 the Will of God. __
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Jeſus Chriſt, all her Family, whom ſhe conld undertake to bring
ſhipped God, heard 7s ; whoſe zz hearts the Lord opened =_ ſhe o arrended unto tne things which were ſpoken of Paul.
: So called from the Country of that name. ſhe being born in Thyatira. k A City therein; andnow lived with her Family at Philippi. 1 Being a Proſelyte, and one of chem who had lefe the Heatheniſh Idolatry, and owned the one, only and true God ; bur as yet unacquainted with the Goſpelof his Son our Saviour. #2 Flearr, in Scripture-ſenſe, ſignifies both the Underſtanding and the Will : thus with the. heart man believeth unto righteouſneſs, Rom. 10. 10. Her underſtanding was inlightned, her heart changed ; ſhe now loved what ſhe before hated, and hated what before ſhe loved. x This was the Lords work : according unto what our Saviour himſelfhad ſaid, Fohn 6. 37, 44. No man can come unto me, except the Father, which hath ſent me, draw him. And yet we may in a ſenſe open our hearts, by uſing-ſuch means as God hath promiſed to ſucceed for that purpoſe, Revel. 3. 20. and eſpecially when in a ſenſe of our inability and neceſſity, we implore the free Gracz of God, and ingage him to work in usaccording unto all his good pleaſure. Ocherwile creating a Clean heart within us, as *tis called, Pfzl. 51.10. 15 be- yond the power of Nature. o Hearing is an inſtrud&ive ſenſe, and Faith cometh by it, Rozn. 10. 17 . but it muſt then be accompanied with attention.
15 And when ſhe was baptized p, and her houſhold,
ſhe beſought 7, ſaying, If ye have judged me to be
faithful inthe Lord, come into my houſe and abiderhere,
And * q ſhe conſtrained us. * Gen. 19.7 right to Baptiſin, by reaſon of her Faith in & 33+ 1t- +44
Þ When Lydia bad right to Baptiſm, by realo al nyt —_
up in the knowledge of Chriſt, were admitred to that Ordinance Heb. 13. 2. , 1,36
alſo; as all the Seryants, and fuch other as were born in his Hoale, 1 tl
or: bought with his Money, were Circumcifſed with 457aam, Gen. pf [ods RR 5
17.12, 13. Now the Goſpel does not contra& in any reſpect, SOS 181 63
but enlargesthe privileges of Blievers in all chings. And it they ha 4 be 8 Yb
might under the Law have their Children and Servants admitted
into a Covenant with God ( which could not bur rejoyce Religious
Parents and Maſters, who value the Relation they and theirs have
to God, above all Earthly things ) ſurely under che Goſpel none of
our Families are excluded, unlefs they wilfully exclude rhemt2elves.
9 As the two Diſciples that were going to Ea conftrained our
Saviour, Luke 24. 29, With all carne jnircaties, ang joving
violence. 16 & And- it came to paſs, as w2 7 wentto Prayer, . yy” © « 4 32s Ph. 2 - nd f1 P. * - C 4 oy C1 419 damfel, noffelied with a fſoirit 5 fl of divination, 2.0 / 3.37%
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» Towards the place where their publick Prozers were uſually} = How foon is Prayer anſwered, when the fulneſs of time ;; made. 5 Or, of P::40m, the name of peo, from the place where come ? So nigh is God urito all rhar _ upon him, Pſ;;/. Is. 4 be was worſhipped ( which wasafterwards called Delpht ) and from & 145. 18. # An gy” » Gram ly precede ſome wonderfy] whom all Evil tpirits, that pretended ro Divination, . were called { matter; as Mas. 2B. 2. And although God could have delivers P3thors ; as that tus Woman made vitof to delude Saul by, 1 Sam.j theſe his Servants without an Eurthquake ; yer to thew the ny;; ®: that their deliverance was bis Work , and it was no artifice, gr 19 To ime followed Paul, and ws, and cried, ſay-| force of their = £ = = now ahi - 076g after this mange: EE ke ©rfarks of the moſt Koh Gog, | 5 Either, by the Tartaquate, or lome fecret power of an Ange 12g, ! 4BG&CMCenNae ine Iervants of C1 , D >| or by God himſelf immediately, that the Apoſtles and gi... winch ſhow unto as the way nf ſalvation. might know, that the Souls of Men {hould be unloofed ang (.,
; T'be Bevil nick! be torced by God to confefs this; or,, bej free by them, whoſe Bodies for that puipole, were now free) ,, mickr a0 it voluntarily by Gods permiſſion : Firſt, To draw men | Gog. ND 7 on co h-ieve kim in other things, being he commended the Servants 27 And the keeper of the priſon pawaking GUt of h;; of Cod, and ipate the truth in this. Secondly, That by flartering ſleep, and ſeeing tne priſon-doors open, he drew ourhis of Sr. Perl, be might puff him 2p, and occalion him to fin. But]. , 3 os et himelc . 1 4 is 2n Evil fyirit (or an Evil man} when bedifjembles as the were good, [woſG, _m OY ag Tens PPoung tha is then wok of all. . | the priſoners had been fed.
15 And this ſhe did many days. But Paul being «| p By the Earthquake, which being upon an extraordinary ,...
ſion, could not fail to do all thac God intended by it. 9 j{g, bo