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B10232	A literal explanation of the Acts of the holy apostles. Written in Latine by C.M. Du Veil ... Now translated into English out of a copy carefully reviewed and corrected by the author. To which is added a translation of a learned dissertation about baptism for the dead, I Cor. 15.29. Written in Latine by the famous Fridericus Spannemius Filius.	Veil, Charles-Marie de, 1630-1685.; Spanheim, Friedrich, 1632-1701.	1685 (1685)	Wing V178A; ESTC R185936	533,973	812

continency of sacred Men Chap. 5. Dissert Lib. 1. de Episc Dignit Jurisdict upon which account he was miserably abused by the Jesuite Dionysius Petavius But also the same Medina affirmed the same openly in the Council of Trent neither did he stick though many fretted at it publickly to contend that so far Jerome and Augustine had a Heritical opinion the matter to wit not being altogether clear Which as it moved others not a little So saith the writer of the History of the Council of Trent this Doctor sticking close to his own opinion maintained it with his might Neither is there ought that makes against it in Storcas Pallavicinus his History of the Council of Trent against Paulus Venetus published at Rome Anno M. DC LVII Further Petavius himself doth also witness that Medina was not the only Man among the Papists who was of this Judgment Theol. Dogm Tom. 3. de Eccles Lib. 2. Cap. 8. but that others also did ascribe the said Heresy to the forecited Fathers And Morton in the forementioned place of his Apology does adduce some of them Rivet also Sum. Contr. Tract 2. quaest 22. Therefore although according to the terms of honour which the Church now useth as saith Augustine in his Epistle to Jerome the Episcopacy be greater than the Presbytery yet Richard of Armach said truly There is no difference found in the Evangelical or Apostolical Scriptures betwixt Bishops and simple Priests who are called Presbyters Lib. 11. ad quaest Arm. Cap. 5. whence it follows that there is the same Power in both Whether saith Cassander the Episcopacy ought to be put among the orders of the Church is not agreed upon betwixt the Theologues and the Canonists but it is agreed upon among all Consult Art 14. that in the age of the Apostles there was no difference betwixt Bishops and Presbyters but that afterward to evite Schism a Bishop was set over Presbyters But as Musculus in his common places saith excellently of the Ministers of the Word Pag. 246. Whether this Counsel whereby such Bishops are more by custom introduced to use Jerom 's words than by the truth of the Lords appointment to be greater than Presbyters be profitable for the Church of Christ or not hath been better manifested in the following ages than when this custom was first introduced c. See what follows there Also Greg. Naz. Orat. 28. August in Psal 105. Whitaker quaest 1. de pont Rom. Cap. 3. and the History of Episcopacy written in English not long ago by that indefatigable Preacher of Gods Word the Reverend Richard Baxter Famous for Knowledge and Piety To feed That is To rule as a Pastor does his Flock and it is extended to every part of managing the Flock such as to Lead Defend Rule and Direct them The care of the Church is equally divided among many saith Jerome For as he saith before that by the instigation of the Devil there were Parties made in Religion and it was said among the People I am of Paul I of Apollos but I am of Cephas the Churches were governed by the common advice of Presbyters Those spiritual Pastors set up by God to feed not their own Flock but the Flock of their Lord and supream Pastor ought to consult the good of the Flock and procure their Salvation feeding the People with divine Oracles and healthful admonitions and by strong reasons refelling the opposers of the Christian Faith The Church See Tit. 1.9 1 Pet. 5.2 3 4. That is a company of Men professing the saving Doctrine of Christ Behold here as also Phil. 1.1 the Church is distinguished from the Presbyters who had the oversight of it which oversight is in the Greek called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Episcopacy above Ch. 1.20 therefore the overseers of the Church who are frequently called Presbyters in the new Testament and four times Bishops from their Office are not alone the Church much less any Bishop of Bishops 1 Cor. 1.2.10.32.11.16 2 Cor. 1.1 1 Pet. 5.1 2 3. Of God The Christian multitude is the Church or Flock of God and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Beza witnesseth that he read in five Copies of the Lord and of God Matth. 16.18 Rom. 16.16 Many other Greek Copies have only of the Lord by which Lord after the Apostolick manner of speaking is deservedly meant Jesus of Nazareth because as it is said above God made him Lord and Christ Ch. 2.36 which excellently agrees with what followeth Which he purchased That to wit it might be to him a peculiar People With his own Blood Poured out upon the Altar of the Cross But if by the Word of God be understood God the Father it is the same as if he should say with the bloody Death of his only begotten Son Jesus Christ Hence saith Beza it is read in one Greek Copy By this Blood of this his own viz. Son The strength of that Article saith Beza is to be observed whereby the excellency of this Blood and the antithesis is declared which is more copiously expounded Heb. 9.12 For this Blood was truly holy yea a truly purifying and Sanctifying Blood flowing out of him See Eph. 1.12 13. Col. 1.14 20. Heb. 9.12 c. 1 Pet. 1.18.19 Rev. 5.9 who as he truly is a most pure Man so is he also truely and in the most perfect manner God We ought to make of what God has bought so dear 29. I know The Spirit revealing it to me That after my departing The Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here used says Ludovicus de dieu is in the Glossary rendred Arrival departing and is used in the Attick signification by Demosthenes as well as here Wolves Heretical teachers who with their false and deadly Doctrine Corrupt and Destroy the Flock of Christ are so called by a Metaphor See our literal explanation Matth. 7.15 Such spiritual Wolves are according to Christs Command to be once and again admonished Matth. 18.16 17 18. if that do not avail we ought to break off familiar correspondence with them but the Apostles Institutions and Examples forbid to exasperate these false Teachers with Curses 1 Cor. 5.9 Tit. 3.10 or to oppress them with carnal violence or to put them to Death See 2 Tim. 2.24 25. Grievous That is Barbarously and intolerably cruel Not sparing the Flock That is Who shall have no pity upon the Flock He goes on in his similitude and Allegory begun v. 28. meaning by the Flock the Church or company of believers in Christ who are frequently called Sheep 30. Of your own selves Lawfully called to the Pastoral Office not only the same Presbyters to whom the Pastoral charge of the Church of Ephesus is committed and to whom Paul then spoke as appears from v. 28. are noted but also such of their Equals and Successors as should even in other Churches degenerate into Wolves Arise That is Spring

feet fast The word in the original is he guarded their feet that is made them secure By a Metonymy as Grotius saith for a Guard secures us In the Wood. that is as it is interpreted in the English Translation in the Stokes which Plautus calls a Wooden Guard 25. And at Midnight When men are as it were buried in deep sleep Sang praises unto God Ruff. Presbyter of Aquilia in the Title of the 72 Psalm saith Hymns are Songs which contain the praise of God If it be praise and not of God it is not a hymn if it be praise and of God if it be not sung it is not a Hymn It must therefore that it may be a Hymn have these three things Praise and of God and a Song In Lib. de fide And therefore deservedly doth Gregorius Baeticus Bishop of the City Granata in Spain call David Hymnidicus Paul then and Silas sung Praises to God for the honour put upon them Ch. 5.41 in that they suffered innocently for promoting the Glory of Christ See above 26. And suddenly there was a great Earthquake By the great Power and Might of God So that the Foundations of the Prison were shaken Not only did the Edifice of the Prison it self totter but also the very ground upon which it was built was greatly shaken by such an Earthquake God shews that he himself is present with his Servants and that by his strength they shall be rescued from the Severity of furious Magistrates And immediately That is assoon as by the Earthquake the whole Prison was shaken All the Doors were opened To wit of that Prison And every ones bands To wit who were bound in that Prison 27. And the keeper of the Prison awaking To wit by the great Earthquake He drew out his Sword and would have killed himself For fear of the Magistrate lest by him he should be put to a more cruel death If the Prisoners escaped saith Grotius the Jaylors used to undergo the same Punishment that they were to suffer L. ad Commentariensem C. de custodia Vinctorum 28. Do thy self no harm For fear of a worse Death For we are all Who were bound in this Prison before all its Doors were opened by the Earthquake Here. Perhaps they who beside Paul and Silas were bound in that Prison listning to their unlooked for Songs and astonished with the wonderful Earth-quake did not observe that their bands were loosed nor that all the Prison-Doors were opened 29. Then he called for a light From his Domesticks who were in his house adjoyning the Prison And sprang in To the Prison with Force and Speed to see if all the Prisoners were there And came trembling For fear of Divine Judgment And fell down before Paul and Silas Worshipping after the custom of the Eastern Kingdoms and thence brought to Macedonia from the time of Alexander the Great when he Conquered Asia 30. And brought them out From the Cloister of the inner Prison to some open place of the Prison where they might more freely breath And said Like those who were moved with Peters Sermons Acts 2.37 Luk. 3.10 12. the People and Publicans converted by John Sirs Thus the Jaylor gave them this honourable Compellation knowing them to be men of great Holiness in that when they were so strictly kept and had deliverance offered them from Heaven their bonds being loosed and the doors set open to them so that they might flee especially if they had suffered him to kill himself as he would have done yet they fled not but were more solicitous for his Life than for their own To call them Sirs whom we would honour saith Grotius was a custom then received both among the Greeks and Romans as witness Martial and others What must I do As much as to say I have heard you declare the way to attain the greatest happiness neither doth the Miracle which God wrought concerning you suffer me to doubt of the truth of it shew me therefore I beseech you what course I shall take that I may attain to this happiness 31. Believe on the Lord Jesus That is rest upon Jesus Christ whom God appointed to be the only Saviour with true confidence of heart firmly believing that repenting of your former conversation and seriously proposing to pass the rest of your life conform to the Rule of his Doctrine you shall be discharged from all your Sins And you shall be saved That is and you shall obtain the chief happiness in eternal life according to Christs promise Job 3.15 16 36.6.47 And thy house That is and your houshold upon the same condition to wit if they also imbrace Christ with the same faith which inclines the heart to repentance and amendment of Life conform to the rule of his Doctrine And they spake unto him the word of the Lord c. That is the Gospel of Jesus Christ what that Jesus the Son of God is what he did upon Earth and suffered for the Redemption of Mankind how great Miracles he wrought how he lived again tho by the Instigation of the Jews he was Crucified and ascended above all the Heavens and was made Lord of all what Promises and Precepts he proposed These things they briefly held out to him For it was usual with the Apostles to declare such things in their Sermons And to all that were in his house As much as to say They not only imparted a clear and distinct knowledge of Christ and of his Doctrine to the Jaylor but also to all his Domesticks who went with him from his house to the Prison to see if any of the Prisoners had escaped the Prison Doors being broke open with the Earthquake 33. And he took them the same hour of the Night and washed their Stripes That is saith Grotius having led them to some Pool which was within the Bounds of the Prison he washed off the Blood which the rods had drawn Blood is washed off with water and by its coldness the flux thereof is stanched also by washing wounds are cleansed and disposed for healing therefore it is usual to wash wounds with Water And was baptized As much as to say Both the Jaylor himself and all his Domesticks who heard the word of the Lord Preached in the next following verse without delay were according to Christs instruction dipped in Water that by this sign they might profess that they would die to Sin and lead a new and godly Life for the future 34. And when he had brought them into his house Joyning to the Prison as Jaylors houses use to be He set meat before them That is he refreshed them with a Treat as Levi did Luke 5.29 Zaccheus 19.6 And rejoyced believing in God with all his house The Participle here gives the reason of his joy as much as to say He rejoyced and was exceeding glad that not only himself but his whole houshold had acknowledged and received the faith of the true God of whom he

By his Magick bewitchings Had bewitched That is Had driven them unto madness Satan can work so much by his Instruments upon the minds of Men when God permits him 12. But when they believed To wit The Samaritans being delivered from their madness Preaching the things c. That is To him Preaching that most Blessed Heavenly State which by the Grace of God through the Merits of Jesus Christ they were about to obtain who did most stedfastly believe the promises of the same Christ and did most constantly obey his Precepts Luke above v. 5. did more briefly express the sum of the Gospel by the Preaching of Christ here more fully by the Preaching of the Kingdom of God and of the name of Jesus Christ but the sense in both places is the same for Christ brings us back reconciles restores us into favour with God afterwards regenerates us by his Spirit that Satan being overthrown God may reign in us and we renewed unto Spiritual Righteousness and dead unto the world may live a heavenly life in the Earth and at length may obtain eternal blessedness in the Heavens They were baptized That is they were dipt in the water according to Christs Command Mat. 16.16 Both Men and Women Who viz. did profess themselves to have imbraced the Christian Religion but not Infants who seeing they do not at all understand the Gospel Preached they cannot consent unto it that is They cannot believe See what we have said above chap. 2. v. 38. 41. and what we shall say below v. 37. 38. 13. Then Simon That man in times past so perverse and notoriously wicked Himself believed also The Doctrine of the Gospel Preached by Philip to wit with a temporary Faith if those things be true which the Fathers have written concerning the same Simon See Mark 4.17 Luke 8.13 And when he was baptized That is and when he had professed his Faith publickly by being dipt in the water according to Christs Commandment He joined himself to Philip. That is He departed not from Philips side and gave heed both continually and daily to his Preaching Beholding the Signs and Miracles which were done That is The Miracles which were wrought by Philip through the power of God for the confirmation of the Doctrine Preached by him Being amazed wondered Such truly is the force of the Spirit of God that it can move the hearts of the most wicked Men and draw them into amazement 14. When. As if he should have said But the Apostles who as is said above ver 1. tarried at Jerusalem when the rest of the Faithful were scattered abroad from thence being informed of the Conversion of the Samaritans unto the Faith of Christ sent Peter and John out of their Company unto Samaria by consent of them all to the end they might lay their hands on the Samaritans and so might give them the singular gifts of the Holy Spirit as appears by that which follows By the way hence we may see that Peter was not a Monarch of the Apostolical Colledge and of the whole Church for the Ambassadour uses not to be greater and higher then he that sends him I do reckon the Pope will not suffer himself to be sent in Embassy any where by his Cardinals and fellow Bishops 15. Who. Peter to wit And John When they were come Viz. Unto the City of Samaria in which Philip the Deacon had Preached the Gospel of Christ Prayed for them Samaritans Hence we may see that the power of bestowing the gifts of the Holy Spirit is not in the power of the Apostles but in the power of God and Christ for otherwise there was no need of Peter and Johns Prayers That they might receive the Holy Ghost That is those excellent gifts of the Holy Spirit with which every where then they who believed in Christ not only they who were to preach the Gospel and govern the Church were wonderfully gifted that having obtained the gift of Prophesying and speaking with divers Tongues they might confirm the Doctrine of Christ which then was new See above chap. 2. v. 38. and below chap. 10. v. 44 45 46. chap. 19.6 1 Cor. 12. v. 8 9 10. 16. For as yet he was not come upon any of them As if he should say None of these Samaritans as yet was gifted with those excellent gifts in which God did present or shew as it were the visible presence of his Spirit for a time to his Church that he might confirm the Authority of his Gospel for ever and that he might witness that his Spirit is to be alway the chief ruler and directer of Believers Were baptized c. As if he should say Although they had now believed in Christ and had professed publickly their Faith by being Baptized with Water according to the Commandment of Christ And hence we may see that those extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit are neither tied to the sincerity of Faith nor to Baptism of Water lawfully received so far are they from being conferred by any vertue of Faith or Baptism of Water 17. Then laid they their hands Many Nations had a Custom but chiefly the Jews to point out the most excellent things not only with words but also with visible signs hence ariseth laying on of hands when by Prayers the Divine Power was invocated for another See Gen. 44. v. 14 15. Matth. 9. v. 18.19 v. 13 14. Ma●k 20. v. 16. but God was wont to give this Honour to his Prophets as to bestow his gifts upon others at the prayers of the Prophets of which prayers imposition of hands was a Symbol So Moses was commanded to lay his hands on Joshua that he by that means might receive the larger gifts of the Spirit at the Prayers of Moses Numb 27. v. 18 20. Naaman the Syrian Prince conjoyneth calling on Gods Name with laying on of hands 2 Kings 5.11 Even so God being called upon by his Apostles did bestow those singular gifts at the laying on of their hands with which he gifted the most part of the faithful at the beginning of the Preaching of the Gospel that they might be a most sure sign of the Faith of those that were converted to Christ and an undoubted token of the verity of the Doctrine of Christ Let us remember excellently says Calvin That the laying on of hands was the instrument of God at which time he did give the visible graces of his Spirit to his own But since the Church hath been deprived of such Riches to wit the visible graces of his Spirit laying on of hands would be but an unprofitable Image And they received the Holy Ghost As if he should have said God did give unto the Samaritans converted unto Christ and dipt into the Water according to his Precept at the Prayers of the Apostles and their laying on of hands the graces of his Spirit wherewith they being gifted could Prophesy and do Wonders such as are mentioned 1 Cor.