Acts 22

(9.) By consenting to another's death. So Saul consented to the death of Stephen (Acts 22:20): I also was standing by and consenting to his death. He that gives consent is accessory to the murder.

It will be such a question as will cause a heart-trembling. God will examine a man as the chief captain did Paul with scourging (Acts 22:24). It is true, the best saint, if God should weigh him in the balance, would be found defective.

We must know that the Mother was the chief doer in this work, and the father though he was not a doer, yet he gave his consent. Now we must remember, that consent is a kind of doing, whether it be in good things, or in evil: for, when Saul did but keep the persecutors clothes th…

and shall not the Rhetoric there practiced, be the purest? Surely, if Moses had written a book of his own, as he was a mere man, and as he was Moses brought up in Egypt: or Paul writ a book, as he was a Pharisee, and Doctor of the Law; they would both have been full of all excel…

(1.) By sending Peter to preach the Gospel to Cornelius, and therein bestowing the Holy Ghost on them that did believe (Acts 10:14, 17, 45, 46, 47; Chapter 11:17, 18). (2.) By giving Paul an open full commission to go to the Gentiles and preach the Gospel to them (Acts 22:22; Ch…

Ans. But this speaks nothing to the nature and kind of their membership, but only to the way and means of attaining it, which may be different from that of adult persons, and yet the thing be the same. If the chief Captain obtain by a great sum to be a freeman of Rome, and Paul…

The apostles who were the eyes of the world, the breasts of the church, earthly angels; yet were counted by some like the dungcart, that goes through the city, into which every one throws his filth. The saints are loaded with invectives, and are not judged worthy to live in the…

Objection. Remission of sins, regeneration, and salvation is ascribed to the sacrament of baptism in Acts 22:16, Ephesians 5, Galatians 3:27, and Titus 3:5. Answer: Salvation and remission of sins is ascribed to baptism and the Lord's Supper as to the word, which is the power of…

The word [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] Presbytery we find three times in the New Testament, twice of the Jewish Presbytery at Jerusalem (Luke 22:66; Acts 22:5), and once of the Christian Presbytery (1 Timothy 4:14): "Neglect not the gift that is in you, which [⟨◊⟩] given you by pr…

And they found written in the law, &c. Whether there was yet another ecclesiastical court, in the middle between the synagogue and the Sanedrim, called [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], a presbytery (Luke 22:66; Acts 22:5), and made up possibly out of the particular synagogues within…

Thus Saul sinned in keeeping the garments of them that stoned Steuen. Act. 22. 20. Fourthly, by prouocation: thus they sin that prouoke others to sin, and hereof Paul speaks when he says, Fathers must not prouoke their children to wrath.

That seeing of the salvation of God, is neither conversion, nor preparation of a people for Christ. 2. The phrase of seeing God, and the salvation of God, being set down as a powerful fruit of the Gospel, has never in Scripture so low a meaning as is not wanting to natural men,…

In the same manner must other phrases be vnderstood; as when it is said, that baptisme saus, 1. Pet 3:21. that men must be baptised for the remission of sinnes, Act 22:6. that we are buried by baptisme into the death of Christ. Rom 6:3.

So of spiritual Joy, as in the stony-ground Hearers, Matthew 13:20, and particularly many of John the Baptist's Hearers, John 5:35. So of Zeal, as in Jehu, 2 Kings 10:16, and in Paul before his Conversion, Galatians 1:14, Philippians 3:6, and the unbelieving Jews, Acts 22:3, Rom…

And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father sent the Son, to be the Saviour of the World. Acts 22:14-15. The God of our Fathers hath chosen you, that you should know his Will, and see that just One, and should hear the Voice of his Mouth: For you shall be his Witness unto…

The main quarrel you grant to be in the second, which is the power of Ordination; appropriated (as you enviously and untruly speak) to ourselves: this you say was in former times in the hands of the Presbyters, and undertake to prove it from (1 Timothy 4:14): Neglect not the gif…

Therefore when this design of the love and wisdom of God was brought to light, it filled the Jews who had lost the faith of it with envy and wrath. See (Acts 13:45, 46, 47, 50; Acts 22:21, 22, 23; 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 16). The stories of all ages from there to this day testify…

The foundation of this Objection lies in Saint Paul's acknowledgement that he was [in non-Latin alphabet], rude in speech (2 Corinthians 11:6). This Origen presseth, and Hierom takes occasion hence to censure his skill in his mother tongue; for so was the Greek to them that were…

This act was symbolic: it prefigured that all things were full of sorrowful confusion, the earth and the air were mingled, the heavens also were cloudy and darkened, therefore they cast dust toward heaven; for as by a stormy wind and tempest, the dust is raised, which thickens t…

For without blood [reconstructed: there] is no remission (Hebrews 9:22). And without remission there can be no salvation (Acts 22:18). And indeed this is one of the great and main ends of giving the law, that the necessity and all-sufficiency of Christ to save us, may be rendere…

2. If we will not try ourselves, God will try us. He will examine us as the chief captain did Paul, by scourging (Acts 22:24). He will ask that question as Christ, Whose image [reconstructed: and] superscription is this?

Having recounted the excellencies which he had, and the privileges which he enjoyed in his Judaism, which were all of a spiritual nature, and a participation wherein made the rest of his countrymen despise all the world, and look upon themselves as the only acceptable persons wi…

Nor is it about a mere denomination that we contend; but the union and form of such a church: and if more churches than one were together called a Church, it is from their participation of the nature of the general visible Church, not of that which is particular, and the seat of…

Ver. 7. After that he was seen of James, then of all the Apostles. Ver. 8. And last of all he was seen of me also (Acts 22:8): Who are you Lord? and he said, I am Jesus of Nazareth. Acts 2:36. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made that same Jesu…

God will give whole Kingdoms to ransome his jewells, Isaiah. 43:3. The wicked think the Godly are not worthy to live in the world, Acts 22. 21. and God thinks the World is not worthy of them, Hebrews 11:38. Hence it is God takes away his Jewels so fast, and placeth them among th…

O but then the price with which Christ bought our freedom, should make us more chary of it, and stand in the defense of it with greater courage and constancy, whatever it cost us. The captain told Paul, that his liberty as a Roman was obtained with a great sum (Acts 22:28). Now…

So are his people thrust out by the world, laid by, as not deemed worthy to be employed for any use. Acts 22:22. Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. This is the judgment which the world makes on God's servants.

Therefore (Proverbs 1:10), if sinners entice you, consent not; enter your dissent, and let not your soul have anything to do with their secrets. This consent may be: 1. By symbolizing and complying actions, as Paul speaks in what was once his own case (Acts 22:20): he consented,…

Zeal without knowledge, is like an ignis fatuus in a dark night, that leads a traveler out of his way, into the bogs and mire. This was the zeal of Paul, while he was a Pharisee, I was zealous towards God, as you all are this day, and I persecuted this way to the death (Acts 22:…

The Lord Jesus prevails with those that are the most refuse persons, even when they are in the rough and height of all their wretchedness; when they are in the extremest outrage and running riot in the ways of wickedness, beyond the bounds of modesty and moderation. Our Savior C…

(Psalm 85:8) I will hear what God will speak to my soul: whereas a corrupt heart when the Word meets with his beloved lusts [illegible] the heart is in league, and indeed would not only pinch, but pluck it away by main force; it's death to him, and so distasteful as that he cann…

But that deliverance [illegible] this freedom — they were little, not the dust of the [illegible] if they be compared with freedom from hell and death, sin and guilt; and with those [illegible] inconceivable benefits of grace and glory. Have you but faith, you have interest in a…

Wherefore I grant that the whole force of this consideration lies in this alone, that those who gave Testimony to the Scripture to be the Word of God, had an Attestation given unto their Ministry by these miraculous operations; concerning which we have good collateral security a…

No man would understand the expression in any other sense than this, that in the midst of the war and battle, he was struck with conviction of his wickedness, and became cordially reconciled to his sovereign. If the Doctor depended on the original words [in non-Latin alphabet],…

So has Christ taken bones, and sap, and strength from the devil, and made him as fruitless, as the feathers that serve to sport children (1 John 3:8). For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, [illegible] that he might dissolve the works of the Devil: The word in Scripture…

Secondly, the fruits of that fellowship; we are buried with Christ by baptism (Romans 6:3-6), and in his resurrection, from where these four fruits flow, which is the second thing. First, justification by his death, remission of sin, that is, justification (Acts 22:16; Acts 2:38…

Secondly, by commandment: so David sinned in the murder of Uriah. Thirdly, by consent, or assistance (Romans 1:31): thus Saul sinned in keeping the garments of them that stoned Stephen (Acts 22:20; Acts 7:58). Fourthly, by provocation: thus they sin that provoke others to sin, a…

Their whole nature is overspread with such a pollution, as is proper only to sin inherent, and does not accompany sin imputed, as we may see in the example of our Savior, who was pure, immaculate, holy, undefiled, and yet the iniquity of us all was imputed to him. Hence are thos…

(6) Because, David confesses that he was shaped in iniquity, and in sin did his mother conceive him (Psalm 51:5). (7) Because, infants that are guilty of no actual transgression need a remedy against sin — namely, absolution by the blood of Christ — a seal of which was given, ac…

So it was in the case of Stephen, and the testimony he gave to Christ (Acts 7:56, 57, 58). And with Paul (Acts 22:22, 23). An instance of bestial rage not to be paralleled in any other case; but in this it has often fallen out in the world.