21 þ Except t be for this one voice, that I cried Fd . * s 3 | - - x ſ; = '* ſtanding among them, ouching the Reſurrection of
the dead T am called in queition by you this day.
As if he had ſid, Let them objeR, if they can, any other
filet: Bur if this be a fault, to hoJd the ReturreQion of the ized, 1 do acknow. ledge it; and rhere need no other proof
ering ir; not that he held any evil tobe in this Opinion ; i ſpeaks Tronically, knowing that tiey Guſt nor renew their
401g: abouLiutait,
2 And wien Felix heord thete things, having more
purtoct knowledge 4 Ci 7ar Way, be deferred them, 5 ES: - IMC a I ' W - by 8
and faid, When 7 Lyſias the chief captain ſhall come 7 _*? 8 =eny _ « . is ” _ Py
Goun, I will know the uttermoſt of your matter,
97 Some underfland by that way, the cuſtom or menner of the Priefs ro calumniate Paul: Or, 24ly, The Religion of Moſes , and how, and in what it differed from the Religion of Chriſt ; cither of which Feliz might know, and by either of them con- clude Paul to be innocent. Burt 3aly, By that way, as ircquently ?n this Bool:, Chap. 9.2. and 22. 4. is meant the Chriſtian Reli- g50n its felt, which Felrx not only from P3rl's Apology, and
i3/as Account of the whole matter, bur by divers other means
di
having raade 1ſo great a noiſe in the Wortd) could not be * Lorne read, he geferred then rill he could have
The ACTS.
4
a more perfe& knowledge of that way, and till ry, Captain, ſhould come down : For there being Two thine. a . _ "WR . T5 |; to Paul's charge : 1. His evil Opinions in matters gf RE lay {]
(a
And, 2. His cauſing a Sedition. As to the firſt, pe; DE
X Would
4
oy 4,0
detzrmine it till he had had better Information
23 And he commanded a centurion to kegy p,,, and to let him have s liberty, and * that he jhgyp co all
bid none of his : acquaintance to minilter, 9; unto him.
s Not ſo confined as to be kept in a Dungeon, or mg;< .... Priſon ; but to have the liberty of the Priſon, yet {@ 4, ,, Chain about him ; as appears, Chop. 76. 29. and 28, 2, .; lations or Diſciples : for there was a Church at Ceſarca. ch "i 48. and 21 8. When it is expedient for us, God can WE Comforts of theſe outward Enjoyments, Relations, anq Friend unto us ; and that his and our Enemies ſhall contribnre wn It. "0
PTAs (} No illy
LIT IR W107;
24 And after certain days, when Felix , c,, with his wife » Drufilla; which was a Jewel, 1. {ent for Paul, and heard him concerning * the Ft . Chriſt. =
« Having been out of Town to meet and conduG hig\y;s, w Who was Daughter of Herod the Great, and. Siſter of 1. Agrippa of whom mention is made in the Two following (1, ters ; a moſt libidinous Woman, who had lefr her Husbn ,; and whilſt he yer lived, was married to this Felix, whg ,.. taken with her Beaury. Yet Panl preached x the Goſp:] \,,. ſuch, not knowing what Perſons, or in what Hour God 1161. call, w
25 And as he reaſoned of y righteouſneſs, +, te, peratice, and 4 judgment to come, Flix tremhj},g and anſwered, Go thy way for this time, 5 whey | have a convenient ſeaſon I will call for thee.
y Theſe Two, Righreouſneſs and Temperance, the Chr!?;; Religion do indeſpenſibly require : And ail rrue Worthy 7), out theſe, will not make up our moſt holy Religion, or g:v2 © any the Title of a Religious or an Holy Man. But Pas! cho; rather to diſcourſe of thoſe than any other Vertues, by! Felix was moſt defeQtive in them. He would Jiy his P!4
| = ca <>
ſer where there was a Sore, though it pained the Patient, ind hy ſhould get little Thanks for his Labour. Had great Nen ty; ſuch faithful Preachers, it might contribute very much to hinde: them in their career of ſin, and by that means help to mend the World. 2 Or, continence ; the want of which 1s cturged upon both theſe great Perſons, being taxed by Hiſtorians tor Adultery, So that Paul preaches here as John Baptiſt did once to Herid, very ſuirably, though nor gratefully. Yet in the diſcharge of his Dy. ty he meets with no Trouble, not fo much as a Reproich, which probably the ſenſe of the Tudgment to corne m!ght contri- bute to. # Whatſoever is preſent, this 1s certainly to come : And the ſecret Reſle&ions that wicked men have upon it in the midſt of their fulleſt Enjoyments, mingle Fears and Tertors with them. Hence their ſurds wulners. miſgivings and invar guilt (as its contrary, the Peace of Goa) paſſeth _ all Unaerſtanaing b Feltx not liking ſuch Diſcourſe (che. Subject being too quick and ſearching for him,) put it off longer. And fo Men putor the conſideration of their Duties, and of the Judgment rizt will paſs upon every one according unto what he hath dons in the fleſh, till the Judge be, as it were, ſer, and their Cik called.
26 He hoped alſo that *'© money ſhould be given but of Paul, thas he might Toole him : wheretorehe ſont for him the oftner, and communed with him.
© Which ſpeaks the Charge to be true that the Hiſtorians give of Felix concerning his Covetouſneſs, for tiking hold 0: that part of Pauls Accuſation, werſe 5. that he is the Ring- leader of the Se& of the Nazarenes ; he ſuppoſed taar there veing ſo many Thouſands of them, they would give farge ſumms to! the Life and Liberty of this their ſuppoſed Ciptz.n. This dd ſpeak Felix (according to his Birth) to be of a fervile and buc Spirit, that for Money could tranfgrefs the Laws of God, and the Roman Laws too.
27 But after 4 two years Porcius Peſtus came !n'9 | # Felix room : and Felix willing to ſhew the : ſews a
pleaſure, left Paul bound.
@ Either from Paal's being in Bonds, which Hiſtory __ is here ſetting down : Or as others wall, Affer Flix had bc Governour Two Years over Judes ; for that Tertulln: ſlatters _ for, werſe 10. is not thought to have been true 3s 10 721 place, though he had governed the neighbouring parts lone
rous Cruelty and Exa&ions ; infomuch that h his Brother Pallas (a great Favourite,) he had lo — Yet he did not wholly eſcape Puniſhment, but was icn |
is S oe ftp 4 014041 3 by Feſtus, his Succetlor, unto Nero, vis tranſit glorts ;
and man being in honour continueth ut.
Chap, Ny |
17as, the c| 7
48 "8 4 Fr. N
-cars beto1re.
. 4 2 j- 4 . 1. e The Jews had accuſed Feliz unto the Emperor +01 his bar ad it not bcen #0! ſk his Li:
CUAP,
?, {ef Will. mbld ©
TH vy ar) |
$ » ?
mend the ced upon Adultery, rod, Very of his Du- Reproach, ht contri to come : 1 1t 1n the 1 Terrors nd inward derſtanaing, r £00 quick len put off Ment that hath done their Cike
TIVen him re he tent