_ 4 That God will judge the world, his enemies have with tremb- ling acknowledged 3 but when God wiil judge rhe world he hath { conceai'd it from his triends z yer the ti.uc is already er, Pſal, 99. 13. 2 Cor. 5. 10, and ve ought to te daily prepared for ir. b Shall not: the Judge of all the world do right? «© Our blelſed Saviour, called here man, ſuitably rt. Lis deach and reſurre&ion which Sr. Paul Preached of, as allo as mar he is thus hi.hly exalted tor his debaſing of himſelf for our ſakes, Phil 2. 9, 19 11. 4 An undeniable proof or argument, ir being ſo ifficule a matter ro believe a world ro come, when we fce all thirgs remiin as chey did in this world; and eſpectaily to believe, thar in the general judgment, Chrift whom they had Judged, Con 'emned and Fxe- cuted, ſhould be Judge: God therefore did glorifie him, by raifing him from the dead, that they and we mighc nor be faichleſs, bur believe, Rom. I. 4
32 © and when they heard of the reſurrection of the dead, e ſome mocked : and fothers laid, We will hear thee again of this. matter.
e The Epicureans, whom Paul had ſpoken againſt in his Do&rine of . the ReſurreQion from the dead, and Jucigment ro come. f*Tis thought the Sroicks, who did nor think the Returre&ion to be im- poſli le, bur did acknowledge Rewards and Puniſhmencs in the world to come 3 yer, though this ſeem moſt likely, che G.ace of God is free and powerful, ard can ſubdue, any unto ir felt, We are ſure that there be different Soils inco which the ſeed of the Word 1s caft, Marth, 13,
33 So Paul departed g from among them.
g Leaving whar he had faid, to God's Bleſſing, and their Conf deration,
34 Howbeit, certain men ,*, clave unto him, and believed : among the which was Dionyſins the þ Areo-
pagite, and a woman named z Damuis, and others
with them.
| 4+*, In morethan ordinary friendſhip, they were as glewed to him, great ws their love ro the Apoſtle, by whom their eye were opened ; nay, by wheſe Miniſtry they were caiſed trom the
+ dead, + One of that grea: Council mentioned ver, 19, whoſe con»
2 Who is
' thought to have been an honourable woman, Such are menctoned,
4 Foith, * Ch.2.24
28 For in him r we live, and move, and have our * ver, 12, or ſhe might h..ve. been ſpecially eminent tor ſome Grace
being; as certain alſo of your own 5 poets have ſaid, For we are alfo his off- ſpring.
7 He 1s the God that made us, that preſerves us, and not we our ſelves; he keeps us as in the hollow of his hand, and com-
paſech our pachs. Our breath is in our Noſtrils, and when we ſend |; it torch, we have none to take in again, unleſs God furniſh us with |
it, a5 out of his own hand. s Aratss a Greek Poer ; nor thar Sr, Pal thought ro derive any Authority trom theſe Poets, unto what he had fad; bur thar he might ſhame chem the more by the Teſtimony -of ther allowed authors, Such Quotations as theſe are (as the bring- ing in of a Gree into the Temp. e) very rare 3 yet beſides this, we meer w1:hche like, 1 Cory. Ig. 33. Titys Is 12,
29 Foraſmuch then as we are thee off: ſpring of God,
8* we « ought not to think that the Godhead is like
unto gold, or filyer, or ſtone graven by art and w mans device. |
t This 1s ſpoken by the Apoſtle in a Poerical expreffion, according unto what he had cited, We are indeed the Children, and in our Souls bear the Image of God. Bur as many as have the Spirir of Adoption, they partake of Gods Holineſs, and imitace his Good- nels, are more like unto him, by whom they are begotten again wito a lively hope, 1 Pet. 1. 3. and ar the ReſurreRjon they will appear unco all ro be his Children, when rhey ſhall be acknowledged
his Heirs, an Co-heirs with Jeſus Chriſt Roz, 8. 17. « Taking .
man in his natural principles, conſiſting of Soul and Body, he is not made of Gold and Silver, much lefs can God be made of them : Our Soul, in which we bear the Image of God, cannor be expreſſed by any Graving or Painting; much leſs God whoſe Image it is.
creare tio things to be conſidered in every Image, its matter, and ts form or ſhape; The marter of an image, ler it be never ſo Precious, is much inferior ro man 3 for it lies in the earch (be ir Gold or Silver) for man to trample upon, until he dig it up, and take ir our, As for the form of the Image, it 15 that which men pleaſe to give ir, and man is a kind of Creator of ir; howſoever tis his workmanſhip, and the work is more ignoble than the work- man; arleaſt not to be adored by him. w According to mans will
jo Pecfure, for the Image cannor determine it felf ro be made as uld,
, 39 And the * times of this iznorance x y God wink- * at; but z * now commandeth ail men every where
lO repent. |
7X To prevent an Obje&ion, Might continue in ne 3 God is faid ro have overlooked them ; as if he had arts 65 unworthy of his Care and Providence : And there- __ [ -m corrett or inſtrut rhem. When any are left to go Pra ry without God's inftru&tion or corre&ion, it is a ſad _ = ſcorns to look upon them, or to uſe any means to ng _ 3 Under the Goſpel we are fo far from Having liber- 4 ar we liſt, that we are more nearly concerned to repent come Holy, Rom. 13. Is. Tits 2. Il, 12, I Pet, I. 14, every where, without exception of time or
left any ſhould think that they
Wil h "ll he be that does nor oblerye ir,
:
their unbelief, and fare as well as their Pro- |
or Goodnels ſhe excelied in, and thcreioce hath a name upon re- : cord inthe Word of God,
C H AP. XVII.
Paul cometh into Corinth, and being of the ſame craft, he worketh with Aquila end Priſcilla 3 the Savbath-day, preacheth and teſtifieth to the Jews, that Feſus was the Chriſt, ſhaketh off the Duſt of his Gar- ment againſt the Blaſphemers, and departeth, x ——- 6. coming into th; honſe of Juſtus, he baptizeth Criſpus, and all kis houſe, with ma- ny of the Corinthians, 7, 8. Paul 7» a viſon, encouraged by the Lord, preacheth in that city a year and fix months, 9 IT. The Jews accuſe him to Gallio of the breach of their Law, he refuſeth ther accuſation, 12, -- 16, They beat Soſthenes, 19. Paul witn Aquila and Priſcilla ſailing by 3yria, come to Epheius3 be leaveth them there, and landeth at Ceſnea, ard thence to Antioch, and goeth over all the Country (trengthning the Diſciples, 18 — 23. Apollos preaching at Epheſus the Baptiſm of John is more perf: fy inſtrufted in the ways of God, by Aquila and Priſcilla, 24 - 26. paſſeth into Achaia, helpith them that believe, and Migbtily conviuctth the Jews that Feſus is the Chriſt, 279, 28.
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