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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-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

Aratus his Phaenomena which were translated out of Greek into Latin by Cicero while he was but very young as he saith himself De natur deor Lib. 2. And since by Sextus Ruffus Avi●nus It is agreed upon among the Learned that Aratus being a man ignorant of Astrology did speak most excellently and ornately of the Heavens and Stars as Cicero saith This Aratus surnamed Solensis De Orat. Lib. 1. was born at Solis a City of Cicily which being afterward repaired by Pompey the Great was called Po●●ciopolis he was Famous in the time of Prolomeus Philadelphus and lived splendidly in the Palace of Antigonus Gona●a the Son of Demetrius Poliorceta who took the Government of the Macedonians about the hundred fifty and fifth Olympiad Suidas makes a Catalogue of his works among which his ●hanomena are the most esteemed whose admirable beginning Virgilius hath imitated in his third Eclogue v. 60. What saith Grotius was said by Aratus of Jupiter Paul adop●eth to the true God because by Jupiter the wisest among the Greeks did understand the most high God Thus Aristaeus in Josephus says that the Jews Worship the God of the Vniverse whom the Greeks call Jupiter 29. For as much then as we are the Offspring of God That is forasmuch as we are the Children of God Paul saith Gro●ius accommodat●● hi● self to a P●●tical way of speaking meaning that we 〈…〉 God in our mind and for this 〈…〉 his Children But in the new Testament we are 〈…〉 Children upon a more weighty account because we 〈…〉 Goodness again we shall at our Resurrection 〈◊〉 his Children by parta●ing of his 〈◊〉 We ought not to think c. As 〈…〉 to say None that is in his right mind should 〈…〉 to wit Silver Gold and Stone to God though Graven with the best Art that man can invent For Silver Gold and Stone are things far below man and are cannot be but more ●gnoble then the Artisi●er See Isay 40.18.44.13.46.5 M●●●er saith Beza we must know that by the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Work but also by a Synecdo●●● 〈…〉 all such things 〈…〉 use to 〈…〉 representing God 30. And the times c. As much as to say But God whose purest honour is in a worship that is far from the Senses seeing he hath hitherto passed by those Sins which in those former times the Idolatrous Nations through gross ignorance committed now the darkness of former times being driven away does by the Preaching of the Gospel strictly charge all Men every where without disserence or choice of Nations to amend their former Sins and Mistakes and lead a new Life according to the rule of Gods Commandments Winked The Word in the Greek signifies dissembled By the verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Beza is meant him who makes as if he slightly saw the outside of things This Hor●tius calls somewhere Pervidere that is says the same Beza if I am not mistaken per transe●●am et leviter videre see by the by and slightly Now God is said to have despised overlookt and winked at those times of Ignorance either because he composed not a form of Religion for the Nations as he did for the Israclues by which they were to be bounded in his Service and Worship neither sent he any Prophets to them to drive away their darkness but suffered them to walk in their own ways as is said above Ch. 14.16 or because he did not then severely punish them but patiently suffered them See Rom. 3.26 31. Because A reason is given why men ought to amend themselves He hath appointed a day That is he hath limited a certain day though he hath kept from our knowledge when it is to come In the which he will Judge the World That is the Inhabitants of this World In Righteousness That is Justly according to every ones works without respect of Persons Rom. 2.6 7 8. By that Man whom he hath ordained That is by that Man whom he hath constituted Judge of the Quick and Dead See above Ch. 10.42 Whereof he hath given assurance unto all Men. That is hath by a sure Argument and worthy of credit proved that Christ was to be judge of the World when he raised him from the Dead God saith Grotius by raising Christ again from the dead gave the greatest Testimony to his Doctrine that he could give but this also was in this Doctrine that he was to be Judge of Mankind Matth. 25.31 Seq Joh. 5.25 32. And when they heard of the Resurrection of the Dead That is that a Man was raised from the Dead Some mocked As they use to do who give no faith to what is spoken An Ethnick in Minutius deriding the Christians They build saith he and knit together old Wives Fables they say they are to rise up again after they are dead and in Ashes and I know not with what boldness they believe one another their own lies you might think they are risen again already Neither did the Platonicians who thought that bodies were given to Souls for Punishment believe the Resurrection of bodies nor yet the Epicureans nor the Peripateticians who taught that God had no care of humane things these more openly but those in their secret discourses And others Who thought it not repugnant as Man might at first be made by God so also he might again be renewed by him Said we will hear thee again of this matter To wit when we are at leasure 33. So Paul departed from among them As much as to say Paul being put off to another day went from Areopagus 34. Howbeit certain Men. Of them who heard Paul Preach in Areopagus Cleave unto him That is saith Grotius having insinuated themselves more into his acquaintance So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is taken above Ch. 5.13.9.26.10.28 Dionysius the Arcopagite That is one of those Senators of Areopagus who judged with such integrity of Capital matters that they judged only in the night not in the day time that so they might take notice of what was spoken not of who spoke Eusebius saith that saith this Dionysius the Areopagite was appointed the first Bishop of the Church of Athens Hist Eccles Lib. 3. Cap. 4. as another Dionysius Bishop of the Church of Corinth a most ancient Writer witnesseth And a Woman named Damaris This Woman was the Wife of Dionysius the Areopagite if we believe Ambrose Chrysostome and Augustine And others Less Famous Athenians With them To wit with Dionysius and Damaris CHAP. XVIII 1. After these things Paul having sent Silas and Timotheus who came to him from Beraea back again to Macedonia stayed alone at Athens and himself also again and again intended to go to Thessalonica but could not accomplish it being hindred by Satan therefore he sent Timothy thither to comfort and strengthen the Thessalonians in the Faith In the mean while having left Athens 1 Thess 2.17 18.3.1 2. he came to Corinth which the most eloquent

is I Luke and Paul From Philippi A City of Macedonia of which we have spoken above Ch. 16.12 After the days of unleavened Bread That is after the Jews feast of the Passover which as yet Paul with the other Jews who were Christians seems to observe that he might Lawfully accommodate himself to the Jews and doubtless he neglected not the occasion of Preaching Christ to the Jews at that Feast Vnto them Our fellow Travellers who went before us To Troas A City of the Country of the same name In five days That is Within five days Where we abode seven days That is we passed seven days in the City called Troas 7. And upon the first day of the Week That is That day as Sozomen saith which is called the Lords day 1 Hist Eccl. Ch. 8. which the Hebrews called the first day of the Week but the Greeks dedicated it to the Sun See what I have noted upon Mat. 28. v. 1. The Table of the Canons lately published by the famous John Baptist Cotelerius Ch. 4.16 It was not before Christs Resurrection called the Lords day but the first day but after the Resurrection it was called the Lords day the Lady of all days and Festivities We have the name of the Lords day in Rev. 1.10 In Ignatius his Epistle to the Trallians and Magnesians and sometimes in Clement's Institutions also in that place of Ireneus which the writer of the answers to the Orthodox in Justin Martyr hath preserved to us The edict of Theophilus Patriarch of Alexandria Both custom and honesty requires of us that we should honour the Lords day and celebrate it because Christ our Lord upon that day executed the eminent Office of his Resurrection Lib. 5. Paschal operis Cap. 20. Sedulius In the mean time after that sad Sabbath the happy day began to dawn which being most welcome to the triumphing Lord did take its name from his Majesty called for this honour the Lords day being a day that attained to the Dignity to be the first that beheld the Original of the rising World and the vertue of Christ rising again St. Epist 119. Cap. 13. Augustine The Lords day has been by Christs Resurrection declared not to the Jews but to the Christians Serm. 15. de verb. Apost and from him it began to have its Festivity And this day is called the Lords day because upon this day the Lord rose again or to teach by the very name of it that it ought to be wholly consecrated to the Lord. St. Maximus Taurinensis Hom. 3. in Pentecost The Lords day is therefore venerable and solemn to us because upon it our Saviour as the rising Sun having driven away the infernal darkness shined with the light of his Resurrection and therefore by the common Speech of the World it is called Sunday because Christ the Sun of righteousness being risen did inlighten it The Roman order and Isidor Lib. 2. de Eccl. Offic. Cap. 24. The Apostles therefore did with Religious Solemnity ratifie the Lords day because upon that day our Lord and Redeemer rose again from the dead and which also is called the Lords day that in it abstaining from earthly works or Worldly inticements we should give our selves only to divine Worship giving to wit honour and reverence to this day for the hope of our Resurrection which we have in him Gregorius Turonensis This is the day of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ Lib. 1. Hist Cap. 22. which we properly call the Lords day for his holy Resurrection When the Disciples came together From this place and that which is written 1 Corinth 16.2 is gathered that the Christians did then use upon the first day of the week to keep solemn Meetings Justin Vpon the day called Sunday Apolog. 2. all that live in Cities or Country meet in one place To break Bread To wit that was consecrated to be a Symbole of the Body of Christ offered for us upon the cross Hence the Syrian rendred it That we might break the Eucharist The Arabick That we might destribute the Body of Christ The Ethiopick To bless the Table All understood it of this holy Rite by which the Lord Jesus would have the Memory of his bitter Death to be celebrated by his Disciples See what we have said above Ch. 2. Luke 22.19 1 Cor. 11.24 26. v. 42. 46. Paul Preached unto them The word of God to wit before they celebrated the Eucharist which is denominated from the breaking of Bread Ready to depart From the City Troas On the Morrow That is The day immediately following 8. And there were many lights To wit to dispel the Darkness of the night or as Jerome saith against Vigilantius for their comfort in the darkness of the Night In the upper Chamber Which as Juvenal speaks the roof only covers In this as in the least esteemed part of the house Men of mean fortunes used to live also in the time of the Apostles the Church assembled there and in it performed their Worship not in Magnificently built Temples Where they were To wit The Christians of Text. 〈◊〉 ●●ll down from the third loft That is he fell from the third frame or third floor Servius The houses of old were made de tabulis 〈◊〉 Eneid of Boards whence at this day we say in houses that are ●uildedhigh the first and second tabulatum story but the highest that which supports the roof whence what Juvenal calls tabulata tertia Sat. 3. the third story or loft is expounded by the Scholiast upper rooms And was taken up Dead As much as to say And when some of them who saw Eutychus fall had run from that upper room of the house to take him up they found him already destitute of all strength and without Life 10. And Paul went down His holy discourse being interrupted that he might restore Eutychus to Life who was by an unexpected fall killed And sell on him As Elias 1 Kings 17.21 and Elisha 2 Kings 4.34 fell upon them whom they were about to restore to Life And imbracing him Eutychus by the middle Said To them who Lamented Eutychus being dead His Life is in him That is now his Body begins to grow warm and revive 11. When he therefore was come up again c. As much as to say When therefore Paul was again gone up to that Loft where he had Preached and had there celebrated the Rite of the Eucharist and taken Meat he with unwearied Zeal spent the rest of the night until-day light in Preaching So. That is the Night being spent After the same manner the Particle So is used as a note of what was done above Ch. 7.8 Ch. 17.33 below Ch. 28.14 Joh. 8.59 He departed From the City Troas and that on Foot the rest being to go in a Ship as is told below v. 13. 12. And they brought They to wit who came down to take up Eutychus who had