Acts 18

God wrote the two tables with his own fingers, and if God took pains to write, well may we take pains to read. Apollos was mighty in the Scriptures (Acts 18:24). The Word is our Magna Charta for heaven; shall we be ignorant of our charter?

A Father will keep off danger from his child. God calls himself scutum, a shield: a shield defends the head, guards the vitals; God shields off dangers from his children, (Acts 18:10). I am with you, and none shall set on you to hurt you: God is a hiding place, (Psalm 27:5).

The word [in non-Latin alphabet] signifies to make a curious and critical search. And [text unclear] was mighty in the Scriptures (Acts 18:24). Some gallop over a chapter [hurriedly], and get no good by it.

Being observed by them, they were parts of God's worship, but now under the Gospel they are not — being all abolished with the ceremonial law, to which Christ put an end at his death upon the cross. It is true Paul made a vow and afterward kept the same in the time of the New Te…

Lastly, it signifies the whole Ecclesiastical ministry. Thus Apollos is said to teach the way of the Lord, knowing nothing but the baptism (that is, the doctrine) of John (Acts 18:25). In the third sense is baptism taken in this place, when Paul says, You are all baptized into C…

Yet as before it must be taken generally for any kind of teaching, or instruction; for so the word is used else where in scripture, as Luk 1:4. Act 18:25. Rom 2:18. 1.

For in their preface, they are bold to affirme, that it seems rather to have bin writtenat Corinth, then at Athens: and they give this reason of it, because after the sending of Timothie to Thessalonica, Paul and he meete not at Athens againe, but at Corinth. And Baronius affirm…

None otherwise, then if he would say: Those things which you there read written, you see here truly done, and in very deed performed. The same we read also of Saint Paul, Acts 9, and of Apollos, Acts 18, how they convinced the Jews, and proved by the Scriptures that Jesus was Ch…

Whereby the modesty of the holy man the rather appears, who neither thinks scorn to have, nor yet is ashamed to acknowledge a woman for his companion in the work of the Lord. And this was the wife of Aquila himself, whom Luke calls Priscilla (Acts 18:1). 4 To whom not only I.

Of these that Church had received an abundant measure, especially of those that were Extraordinary, and tended to the Conviction of Unbelievers. For the Lord having much people in that City, whom he intended to call to the Faith, Acts 18. 9, 10. not onely incouraged our Apostle…

John 12. 40, 41. Acts 18. 26. Rom. 11. 8.

Wherefore, in the preaching of it, our Apostle affirms, that he endured all things for the Elects sake, that they might obtain the Salvation which is in Jesus Christ, with eternal Glory, 2 Tim. 2. 10. So God before-hand commanded him to stay and preach the Gospel at Corinth, bec…

3. There may be in that one visible Church, many more real converts in one part thereof, than in another; spices in beds are not in every place of the garden. 4. Though Christ has a singular care of, and respect for, his whole Church, and has a peculiar presence there where ever…

"Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles: for so hath the Lord commanded us." And so Act…

Have you not seen lively flames proceed from glimmering and dying sparks, when carefully collected and blown up? Get among the most lively and quickening Christians; as iron sharpens iron, so will these set an edge upon your dull affections (Proverbs 27:17; Acts 18:15). But abov…

It is a great blessing to have an interest in the prayers of the Saints, and so in all their gifts, 1 Cor. 3. 22, 23. Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, &c. all are yours, and you are Christs: as if he should say, there need no such envying one at another, to say, I am of Paul…

Answer. 1. That branch of teaching has respect to public assemblies, and churches, in which she may not teach: but not to private families, in which she may, and ought to teach: for Bathsheba taught Solomon (Proverbs 31:4). When Apollos was brought to the house of Aquila, Prisci…

The publicans and sinners justified God, and were baptized; but the scribes and Pharisees rejected the counsel of God against themselves, that is, against their own good and happiness. Indeed, so the apostle to the gainsaying Corinthians, when he had disputed long, and manifeste…

You shall not need to study, God will put an answer into your mouth; this many of God's sufferers can set their seal to; the Lord has on a sudden darted such words into their mouths, as their enemies could easier censure than contradict. 2. God has made promises of protection (A…

But if the former sense is intended (as how can it be denied?) — namely, that the word of the covenant is preached to you and an offer of Christ is made in the preached gospel to you — then it cannot be denied that the promise is to all the reprobate in the visible church, wheth…

(4) What if there be no Christ, nor Gospel, but only questions of words? Such clay-pots were framed by Gallio, and Festus (Acts 18:14-15; Acts 25:11, 19). Hence come imaginations of things impossible (Isaiah 14:13): I'll ascend to heaven, says Babylon, I will set my nest among t…

Fourth, if Christ by his death should remove this, he should bring on, by his death, a heart past feeling, and burnt with a hot iron, which is condemned (Ephesians 4:19; 1 Timothy 4:2). Fifth, it speaks a graceless rockiness of heart to sin, and not care for it (Acts 18:17-18; P…

And though perhaps the word Many itself be not sufficient to restrain the object of Christ's death unto Some, in opposition to All, because Many is sometimes placed absolutely for All, as (Romans 5:19), yet these Many being described in other places to be such, as it is most cer…

God hides his servants, Psalms 27:5. In the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me; that is, he shall keep me safe, as in the most holy place of the Sanctuary, where none but the Priests might enter. Christs Wings are both for healing, and for hiding; for curing, and securing…

In this State of things, every thing was under as many improbabilities of Success unto all rational Conjectures as can be conceived. Besides, together with the Doctrine of the Gospel that they preached, which was new and uncouth unto the World, they taught Observances of Religio…

A third difference in the effect is this; the pricking of the heart humbles a man's spirit, so as now he is content to stoop to his underlings, though contemptible to him before, yet now willing to be taught by them; these men in the text inquire of the apostles the way to salva…