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Pan! #:parterh ro Macedonia, thence to Greece, and by Philippi 70 Troas, 1 5. preacheth and adminiſireth the Loras-Snupper, and cont inreth his Spoech till Midnight, 7,8. Eurychus ſinking in- to a dep loop, falleth out of the window, dead Paul ro the comfort ef a, raiſcd him to Life, 9 ——12. Coming t0 Miletus, he callcrh be Elders of the Church, jheweth bis care and faithfulneſs in dis
niniF.xy to them, Faretelleth what world befal him at Jerulalem,
ard declarcth Fe had publijhed zo them the whole connſel of God, © 2%. Exhorteth them to watch ever God's Flock and againſt theſe ericovous Wolves that wouldriſe amongſt them, 28 —— 3I- taketh bis leave of them, ard ſh:weth that his own hands miniſtrea zento his Pecejjiries, J2 35. he kneeleth down and prayern with them, 7/0 accompany him with great ſorrow to the ſhip» 36—38. I Nd attcr the uproar was ceaſed, Paul cailedunto Y him the Giſciples a, and embraced 76cm b, and
* departed for to go into Macedonia.
a Took his Farewel of th:m ( and as th? manner ho Counties was in meeting and parting with friends, ) he kiſſed them, Luke 7. 45. and far more anciently, Gen. 31.55. And this was the tru2 ground of that Kiſs of Peace, - or the Holy Kiſs, re- commended, Rom, 16. 16, 1 Cor. 15. 20. 2 Cor. T3. 12. and elfe- where ; which was only a civility then 1n ule. b YieJding to the preſent fu:y of Demztrins ; not ſo much for his own ſafety, as for the good of the Church, that ir might not be further perſecuted for his fake ; and that eltewhere it might by his Miniftry be enlarged and bu1jt up. » |
2 And when he had gone over thoſe parts, and
had given them c much exhortation, he came d into Greec: ;
c Wiiich after fo great a ſtir and oppoſition againſt them, the Diſ- ciples cold not but ſtand in great need of, that they might not be ofF-nded at the Crots of Chriſt ; as alſo mingling conſalations with his exhortations ; as th: word indifferently ſignihies, as the caſe would well bez; there being a ſpecial bleſſing promiſed unto ſuch as are perſecuted for righteouſneſs ſake, Matt. 5. 10. 1 Pct. 3. I. d Attica; in which Province Athens was : Otherwiſe Maccaonia was 1n Greece largely taken.
2 And :here abode threo months: And when the Jewse laid wait for him, as he was abour to fall into Syria 7, he purpoſed to return g through Macedonia.