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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

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Translated to Preach signifies saith Grotius to pronounce with a loud voice like a Cryer As Exod. 32 5. Mat. 3.1 and elsewhere often In the Synagogues By these the Religious Assemblies of the Jews are vulgarly signified yet Grotius thinks that here it may be understood of the Christian Congregations as James 2.2 Theophilus of Antioch speaks thus Synagogues which we call Churches Every Sabbath-Day It was the ancient manner of the Christians which amongst the Moscovites or Russians the Syrians and Melchites and Abyssines yet continues to meet together no less on the Sabbath-Days commonly called Saturdays than on the Lords-days Vulgarly called Sundays So the Author of the Constitutions Apostolical under the Name of Clement Bishop of Rome L. 7. Ca. 23. injoyns The Sabbath Day and the Lords Day keep ye Festivals or Holy because that is dedicated to the memory of the Creation this of the Resurrection Constantine the Great as Eusebius Witnesses in his Life L. 4. Ca. 18. Ordained That all who lived in the Roman Empire should on the Days called by the Name of our Lord rest from all work and should also in like manner keep Holy the sabbath-Sabbath-days Gregory Nyssenus in his Oration against those that took Reproofs unkindly With what Eyes canst thou behold the Lords-day who hast despised the Sabbath Dost thou not know that these days are Brethren So that if thou undervaluest one thou offendest the other Asterius Bishop of Amasea in his Homily of Divorce The joyning together and Concourse of these two days is Famous amongst Christians of the Sabbath I mean and the Lords-Day which in a Circle returning time brings about every Week For as Mothers and Nurses of the Church they both Assemble the People and cause the Priests to sit down together to teach them and so both lead and impel as well the Disciples as their Teachers to the care of Souls Socrates in his History L. 10. Ch. 22. Witnesseth That all the Churches every where throughout the World do as duly as the Weeks come about Celebrate the Divine Mysteries on the Sabbath-Day except only the Church of Rome and that of Alexandria And in his 6th Book and 8. Ch. speaking of the Tumults which the Arians stirred up at Constantinople in the time of John Chrysostome saith When the Feasts of every Week came to wit the Sabbath and the Lords-day in which Assemblies use to be held in the Churches c. Sozomen Lib. 7. Ca. 19. Some meet together on the Sabbath-day and likewise on the first day of the Week as at Constantinople and amongst most other Christians But at Rome and Alexandria they do not do so Anastasius of Nica The Sabboth and the Lords day L. Quaest q. 77. are Days Holy and Festival Neither is it lawful on them to fast Theodorus ●alsamon The Sabbath-days are by the Holy Fathers almost in all things made equal to the Lords days Hence it came to pass That as on the Lords days there was no fasting as being Days of Rejoycing as the Gangrensian Synod teaches Can. 18. So neither on the Sabbath-days except on one only which was that before Easter In the Canons of the Apostles as they are called which tho Learned Men know they deserve not that Title yet they must be confessed to be ancient the 65th Canon runs thus If any Clerk shall be found Fasting on the Holy Lords-day or on the Sabbath except one only which next precedes the Paschal Solemnity on which Christ laid in the Sepulchre let him be deposed or degraded but if he be a Layman let him be with-drawn from or Excommunicated Ignatius in an Epistle to the Phillipians goes higher If any one shall Fast on the Lords-day or on the Sabbath-day save only on the Sabbath before Easter He is a Murtherer of Christ And to omit for Brevity the rest of the Testimonies of Antiquity Tertullian in his 4th Book against Marcion saith That the Sabbath-day from the beginning of the World had this Priviledge to be free from Fasting Therefore when Justin Martyr and Tertullian deny that the Patriarchs before Moses did Sabbatize it is to be understood not of their assembling together on that day but of a strict rest during all the day Ignatius in his Epistle to the Magnesians Let us not Sabbatize after the manner of the Jews enjoying Idleness For he that Works not let him not eat and in the sweat of thy Brows thou shalt eat thy Bread say the sacred Oracles But let every one of you Sabbatize spiritually applying your selves with Joy to Meditation on the Law of God rather then to indulge the Body with rest admiring the Works of God not Eating or Drinking superfluously and walking Proudly or pleasing your selves with Dances and unreasonable Frolicks And after the Sabbath is over let every Christian keep Holy the Lords-day Origen Hom. 23. on Numbers It is necessary that every Holy and Righteous Man should also observe the Feast of the Sabbath But what is that Feast unless what the Apostle saith Hebr. 4. There remaineth therefore a Sabbatisme that is a keeping of the Sabbath to the People of God Therefore leaving the Judaical Observation of the Sabbath let us see how a Christian ought to keep the same On the Sabbath-day nothing ought to be done of all Worldly Works Therefore if thou dost forbear secular Imployments and dost nothing Worldly but spendest the times in spiritual Exercises coming to the Church hearing the Divine Scriptures read and handled Imploying thy thoughts on Heavenly things careful of thy future Hope and having the approaching Judgment before thine Eyes shall have a regard not to things present and visible but to those that are future and invisible This is the true observation of a Christian Sabbath But on the Sabbaths in the Assemblies of the primitive Christians the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament were wont to be read to the People even as amongst the Jews Which Custom the Synod of Laodicea which was held about the year 364. altered establishing that on the Sabbath-days the New as well as Old Testament should be read Can. 16. 22. Then it pleased c. As if he should say All that were present at this Jerusalem Council approving the Sentence of the Apostle James as most equitable That it might forthwith be put in Execution and the strife kindled at Antioch which easily might spread it self to other Churches be happily Composed by common Consent Judas and Silas Men of principal note and Authority amongst the Brethren and of whom there was no suspicion that they were more addicted to either Party in this Controversy were chosen that they might go along with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch and carry thither the Epistle of the Synod With Paul and Barnabas Since they were as it were one Party in this Controversie touching the Observation of the Mosaical Rites and to some might be suspected as less Impartial it was not thought so fit that they should

use of for some great work Which is as much as to say saith Calvin as that the best natures excellency is weak except God endue them with peculiar gifts to whom he intrusts any great and noble Office Perhaps this manner of speaking alludes to that notable place of Moses Deut. 18.15 which Peter cited above in his first Sermon ch 3.22 Whom ye slew and hanged upon a Tree That is whom ye put to a shameful death upon the Cross In allusion to that place Deut. 21.22 23. 31. Him hath God exalted a Prince and a Saviour There is an Ellipsis here of the Praeposition In so that the sense may be that Christ whom you have condemned to be shamefully hanged him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour or hath constituted in the supreme degree of honour that he might be more fully and perfectly the Prince of life to wit eternal and the Captain of Salvation See above ch 3.15 Heb. 2.10 5. v. 9. With his right hand That by the right hand of God here being a metaphorical expression is understood his Power and great Vertue is clear unto all If over since the Creation God did manifest it surely it was in this work of Christs exaltation Whence Paul doth deservedly Celebrate it in these words Eph. 1.19 20. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in Heavenly places For what can be conceived more noble than to endow with immortality a Man that was born like other Men subject also to the same infirmities with them except only sin and then set him above all the Heavens and to put all things under his Feet as well in Heaven as in Earth that he might govern and manage them at his pleasure For it appears by the circumstances that all these things are comprehended under Christs Ascension and exaltation to Heaven and not a meer lifting up to Heaven such as was Enoch's before the Law and Elias 's under the Law who neither died before they were lifted up nor attained to any dominion after For these Curcel instit lib. 5. c. 15. n. 16. although they were Preludies and Types of Christs Ascension as of ours also yet were they infinitely short of it To give c. As much as to say That of his great mercy he might bring his people to repentance and by forgiveness of sin which follows repentance quickned by faith reconcile them to himself Calvin saith well Repentance is indeed a voluntary Conversion But whence cometh this willingness except that God change our heart that of stony it may become fleshy of hard and stubborn tractable and lastly of crooked straight But this is done when Christ by his Spirit renews us neither is this the gift of one moment but must be daily increased all our life till we fully adhere to God which will be at last when we shall have put off our flesh It is indeed a beginning of Repentance when a man who first was averse from God renouncing the World and himself begins a new life But because though once upon the way we are far from the mark we must daily be advancing Both which we obtain by Christ For even as he beginneth Repentance in us so he gives us perseverance This is indeed an inestimable Grace but it would profit little unless joyned with remission of sins For Christ first found us Enemies to God and the Corruptions which make the dissention between him and us do always stick to us so that he might justly be displeased with us rather than favourable to us But Justification consists in this if God impute not our sins to us Therefore this latter Grace ought never to be separated from the former Yea the Gospel will be lame and corrupt unless it consist of these two Members That is unless men be taught that they are reconciled to God by Christ by the free imputation of his Righteousness and by the new birth of the Spirit transformed to newness of life Thus we have in short how Salvation is to be obtained in Christ 32. And we are his witnesses of these things As much as to say Now it becomes us not upon any account to suppress these things which I have spoken seeing we are constituted witnesses of them so by vertue of our Office are bound to publish and proclaim them openly to all See above ch 1.8 Luke 24.48 John 15.27 The Greek hath words here for things but the sense is the same for by words Peter understands things themselves after the Hebrew manner of speaking to wit those things of which he briefly spake before that is whatever respecteth the Dignity and Office of Christ or Mans Salvation depending thereon And so is also the Holy Ghost As much as to say Nor indeed do we the Apostles only witness these things but also the Holy Ghost himself who is a witness beyond exception to whom by right ye are bound to assent however ye refuse to give credit to us The Apostles alone for integrity and innocency of life were worth credit but lest the stubborness of men might have any pretext to cloak their unbelief God would add to this testimony another greater to wit the testimony of his Spirit This very testimony of the Spirit is joyned elsewhere with the testimony of the Apostles John 15.26 27. Heb. 2.3 4. but we must not think that the holy Spirit did bear witness apart from the Apostles but by the Apostles to wit by their Miracles and Divine Discourses proceeding from his Inspiration Such an Inspiration also did at that time most evidently manifest itself in the Apostles while with such readiness of mind they spoke of so wonderful things no ways fearing the power or threatnings of the great men After the like manner it 's said Rev. 22.17 And the Spirit and Bride say Come That is the Bride inspired by the Spirit saith Come Whom God hath given That is the gifts of which Holy Spirit God hath given largely and plentifully To all that obey him To wit Christ that is to all that believe in Christ and endeavour to frame their conversation hereafter according to the rule of his Word 33. They were cut to the very heart That is they were ragingly angry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Greek word here and also ch 7.54 saith Hesichius is They raged with anger they were very angry Took counsel to slay them That is they consulted among themselves to kill the Apostles who were personally present and took notice of it 34. A Pharisee The Sect of the Pharisees was in greatest esteem among the Jews and was gentler than the rest in punishing Gamaliel a Doctor of the Law Or a publick Professor Concerning this Judge of the great Sanhedrin Lightfoot saith thus Rabban Gamaliel the first called