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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

sins That is to seal the Remission of your sins either received or to be received by the full assurance of the Conscience Therefore the most learned Ames Bellarmin Enervat Tom. 3. c. 3. The remission of sins consists in the sentence of the offended God nor can be attributed to any outward Ceremony unless it be as to a sign or a seal whereby that sentence of God is manifested to us 4. D. 1. Art 1. Q. 4. Says Bonaventure As the Royal Letters sealed with the Kings Seal are of high Dignity power and value and are said to do great things yet there is not in them any absolute force but only an Ordainment through the efficacy of the Royal Power the same thing is to be understood of the Sacraments And thus speak the texts of the holy Fathers according to common acceptation And ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit That is ye shall be indued with the Prophetick Spirit a specimen of which ye saw in the diversity of Languages For saith Calvin this place ought not to be understood of the Grace of Sanctification which is generally conferred upon all the Godly According to the usual Hebrew phrase the Prophetick Spirit is called the Holy Spirit which by their own confession failed among the Jews after the second year of Darius the Son of Hystaspes but was in a more ample measure restor'd by Jesus Christ according to the Prophesy of Joel 39. To you c. As if he had said For you who believe the Gospel preached by me together with your posterity that shall believe and all that shall obey the call of God are comprehended in their number to whom belongs the above mentioned Promise by the mouth of Joel Who are far off That is aliens from the common-wealth of Israel Peter most skilful in the Scriptures and now enlightned by the Holy Ghost knew very well that the call of the Gentiles was to be Mat. 28.19 Acts 1.8 yea he had learnt it also from Christ But at what time and under what conditions he was ignorant Therefore below c. 11. when the Gentiles were not yet called he shunn'd their Converse as polluted but having known the will of God that they were to be called without the observation of the Mosaical Law he presently made it his business to go amongst them Even as many as the Lord our God shall call That is whoever shall obey the voice of God calling to them For saith Grotius in words that signifie a Benefit the acceptation of the benefit is frequently understood Thus the appellation of called is taken 1 Cor. 1.24 Jude 1. Thus the word to be revealed is taken Is 33.1 Thus God is said to give Repentance 2 Tim. 2.25 To give Bread from Heaven John 6.32 To give a Heart Deut. 29.4 and elsewhere many others of the same kind See our Annot upon Joel 2.32 upon the words Whom the Lord shall call 40. And with many other words c. As much as to say And he was urgent and press'd them with Exhortations follow'd them close perswaded and earnestly entreated them to separate themselves from the rest of the Jews that were unwilling to believe in Christ and contumaciously refusing the Divine Grace that was offered them to prevent their being involved with them in the same destruction 41. They then who gladly received his words were baptiz'd Walafridus Strabo who in the ninth Century was Abbot of Augia the Rich c. 26. in the Diocess of Constans in his work of the beginning and increase of Ecclesiastical things You must observe saith he that in the prinitive times the ordinance of Baptism was only administred to those who through perfection of body and mind had attain'd to this that they knew and understood what profit they received by Baptism what was to be professed what to be believed and lastly what was reserv'd for those that were born again in Christ. Amba Macaire Bishop of Memphis who was Secretary to Cosmus the third of that name Patriarch of the Cophti or Christians of Egypt and lived in the eight Century says as Father Vansleb reports in his History of the Church of Alexandria c. 23. that in the primitive times Baptism was not administred in the Church of Alexandria but once a year and that was upon Good Friday and only to those of thirty years of age Curcellaeus our Country-man Baptism of Infants saith he Institut Relig. Christian l. 1. c. 12. in the two first Centuries after Christ was altogether unknown but in the third and fourth was allowed by some few in the fifth and following Ages it was generally received into ●ustom See our Annot. upon c. 8.37 But from thence that the Jews who were circumcised in their Infancy before Circumcision was abrogated were here baptized by the order of Peter it appears that by Baptism and Circumcision two Covenants altogether differing were to be sealed of which the one was with those who by the Law of nature were born of the Seed of Abraham the other with those who by the gift of Faith like Abraham were spiritually reborn as that great Divine eminent for all manner of Learning Nehemiah Cox by most weighty and solid Arguments has demonstrated in his excellent Discourse of the Covenants that God made with men before the Law Were added That is to the body of the Church which then consisted of a hundred and twenty Disciples Souls That is Persons which in other places we wont to call Heads by Synecdoche of the Member About three thousand There is no wonder to be made that three thousand persons should be plung'd in one day by Peter a Fisherman and used to the Water in regard that in the beginning of the fourth Century Gregory the first Bishop of the Armenians baptiz'd in one day by Immersion no less than twelve thousand as we read in his Authentick Life and which also Isaac Patriarch of the same Nation confirms in his first Invective Serm. in Die Sancti Andreae apud No varin St. Eucherius The Lord saith he calls Fishers to the Apostleship because such were of necessary use who being accustomed to the Water were skilled both in Fishing and Diving Therefore he did not ordain them to change their Art but only made them Fishers of a far nobler degree That person famous for his most exquisite learning both Divine and Humane James Benignus Bossuet formerly Bishop of Condom Tutor to the most Serene Dolphin and now prime Almoner to his most Serene Consort and Bishop of Meaux speaking of the three thousand baptiz'd by Peter The great number of Converts In tr ctat de Commun ●ub binis speciebus saith he is no Argument that he baptiz'd them by Aspersion as some conjecture for besides that there is no obligation upon us to believe that he baptiz'd them all in one day certain it is that St John the Baptist who baptiz'd no less baptiz'd by Immersion and his example

reason In the sight of God Who tho men be never so blind will never suffer any one to be preferred before him To hearken unto you more than unto God Thus the young man answered Antiochus commanding him to eat Swines flesh against the Law of God I will not obey the Kings commandment but I will obey the commandment of the Law that was given unto our Fathers by Moses 2 Mac. 7.33 It is recorded that Polycarpus upon his Martyrdom said We have learnt to give honours which are due to Emperours and Powers established by God and which are no impediment to our Salvation Of the Mother of the Family thus Clement of Alexandria She shall obey her Husband in all things nor shall she do any thing without his consent unless what she believes to be a help to attain Virtue and Salvation Ephes 6.1 Of Children thus St. Paul Children obey your Parents in the Lord. That is according to the Exposition of Chrysostom Declam 271. In what ye offend not God Quintilian It is not necessary for Children to do all those things which their Parents command There be many things which cannot be done If thou commandest thy Son to give a contrary Sentence to his Opinion If thou desirest him to witness a thing of which he knows nothing If thou commandest me to burn the Capitol or seize the Castle it is lawful for me to answer These are things which must not be done The same Author in another place All manner of Obedience is not to be given to Parents otherwise there would be nothing more pernicious than received Benefits should they oblige us to all manner of Servitude In Tit. 2. cited by Gratian Hierome also If a Master saith he commands those things which are not contrary to the Sacred Scriptures let the Servant be subject to the Master But if he commands those things that are repugnant to it let him rather obey the Lord of the Spirit than the Master of the Body In Tit. 3. Again If it be good which the Emperour or Governour commands let him obey the Will of the Commander but if it be evil answer from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 5.28 We ought to obey God rather than Men. The same is to be understood concerning Servants toward their Masters Wives toward their Husbands and Children toward their Parents that they ought only to be obedient to their Masters their Husbands their Parents in those things which interfere not with the Commands of God The same Gratian in the same place out of St. Austins 6 Sermon upon the words of the Lord Whosoever resists the Power resists the Ordinance of God But what if he command that which it behoves thee not to do Here indeed out of fear of Powers contemn Power Observe the Degrees themselves of Humane things If the Governour command any thing to be done is he not to be obey'd Nevertheless if the Proconsul command the contrary thou verily dost not contemn the Power but choosest to obey the more supream Authority Again If the Proconsul command one thing and the Emperour command another can any person doubt but that the latter is to be obey'd the first to be disobey'd So if the Emperour command one thing and God another what think ye Pay your Tribute obey me right but not in the Idol-Temple He forbids Obedience in Idol-temple Who forbids The higher Power Pardon me thou threatnest me with imprisonment he with Hell-fire Here Faith is to be made use of as a Shield by which thou mayest resist all the Fiery Darts of the Enemy c. 98. Ex August in Psal 124. v. 3. The same Author in the same place The Emperour Julian was an Infidel Was he not an Apostate a wicked person and an Idolater Christian Souldiers serv'd a Heathen Emperour But when it came to the Cause of Christ they onely acknowledged him who was in Heaven When he commanded them to worship Idols and offer Incense to them they preferred God before him But when he bid them take the Field and march against such a Nation they obeyed him immediately They distinguished their Eternal Lord from their Temporal Lord. And yet in Obedience to their Eternal Lord they were Subject to their Temporal Lord. C. 101. The same Gratian in the same place out of Isidorus If he who is in Authority has done or commanded any one to do what is prohibited by the Lord or has omitted or commanded any precept to be omitted the Sentence of St. Paul is to be brought to such a ones mind where he says Gal. 1. Tho either we or an Angel from Heaven preach to you any other Gospel than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed If any one prohibits you from doing what is commanded by God or on the other side commands that to be done which God prohibits let him be accursed of all that love God He that is in Authority if he speak or command any thing which is contrary to the Will of God or contrary to what is expresly commanded in Scripture let him be accounted as a False-witness of God and a Sacrilegious person Like to all these things contain'd in Cap. 101. are to be read in the Rules of St Basil briefly disputed c. 114. 103. See also the Book of the Institutes of the Monks written by the same St. c. 14.16 Basil 20. For we cannot c. That is It is not by any means lawful for us or we cannot in Conscience or our Conscience does by no means permit us against the revealed Will of God to conceal what we have seen and heard Thus not to can is taken for not to be lawful frequently in Scripture as may be seen Gen. 43. v. 32. 1 Cor. 10.21 We are to take notice saith Curcellaeus our Country-man that this Speech does not always denote a true and properly so called want of Power or Inability but sometimes a vehement aversion of the mind from any thing As when Peter and John say Acts 4.20 We cannot but we must speak those things which we have seen and heard And John 1 John 3.9 Whoever is born of God cannot sin Also where the Lord Jesus testifies for the Angel of the Church of Ephesus Apoc. 2.2 that he could not bear them which are evil Not that it was impossible for all these to do those things which are spoken of in those places but because they had an abhorrency from such actions Which was the reason why the Jews could not believe in the Doctrine of Christ John 12.39 For finding it to be repugnant to their carnal desires they were so averse to it that they would not admit it though they could easily have done it had they been so minded With which he openly reproaches them when he says John 5.44 How can ye believe who receive honour one of another and seek not the honour which cometh from God only See our