Acts 3

But we could not be at all condemned, if we were justified from eternity. 2. The Scripture confines Justification to those who believe and repent (Acts 3:19). Repent, that your sins may be blotted out. Therefore their sins were uncanceled and their persons unjustified, till they…

To obey God, is not so much our duty as our privilege: His commands carry meat in the mouth of them: He bids us repent; and why? That our sins may be blotted out (Acts 3:19). He commands us to believe: And why?

This beauty consists in two things. 1. Perfection of parts: there shall be a full proportion of all the members: in this life there is oft a defect of members: the eye is lost, the arm is cut off; but in the Resurrection all parts of the body shall be restored again: therefore t…

How rich is he who has God for his God, who is heir to all the promises (Hebrews 6:17). A man may be rich in bills and bonds; a believer, though he may say as Peter, Silver and gold have I none (Acts 3:6), yet he is rich in bills and bonds, he is heir to all God's promises. And…

We say we receive Christ's body spiritually, they say they receive Christ's body carnally, which is contrary to Scripture. The Scripture affirms that the heavens must receive Christ's body until the times of the restitution of all things (Acts 3:21). Christ's body cannot be at t…

God bids us do his will, and this is for our good; (Deuteronomy 10:13) And now O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, and keep the commandments of the Lord, which I command you this day for your good. It is God's will that we should…

This lyes plain in the command (Matthew 28:20): Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you. And we are directed to it in the injunction given us from Heaven, to hear, that is obey him in all things (Matthew 17:5), he being the Prophet to whose teachings an…

And in the New Testament, our Lord Jesus Christ proposes his authority as the foundation of his commanding, and our observation of all the institutions of the Gospel (Matthew 28:18, 19, 20): Jesus came and spoke to them saying, all power is given me in heaven and earth, go you t…

Christ her Prophet, whose voice she must only hear; as the Father of glory has given her in charge to do (Matthew 17:5). Yes, and the extent how far, in all things, whatever he shall say (Acts 3:22). Knowing, the danger follows, her soul shall be cut off from his people (Acts 3:…

Disdain not therefore to read a little Treatise, called the Difference between the Christian, and Antichristian Church, Delineated according to the Scripture Record, though the truth therein contained (like the Two witnesses, Revelation 11:3) have long mourned in Sackcloth: Yet…

Now, was God so jealous of his glory under the Law, that he that sinned against that worship which God by Moses prescribed, he died without mercy? How much severer punishment are they worthy of, that sin against the Son's authority, seeing he is Lord of the spiritual house, whos…

And there he abides. For although the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him as to the immensity of his divine nature; yet as to his humane nature here spoken of, the Heavens must receive him, until the time of the restitution of all things (Acts 3:21). He is in this sense no more…

So Peter tells them in his first Sermon, that the Promise was to them and their children who were there present, that is, the House of Judah, and to them that are afar off, that is the House of Israel in their dispersions (Acts 2:39). So again he expresses the order of the dispe…

Repent and believe the Gospel (Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:15). And almost all the sermons that we find, not only of John the Baptist in a way of preparation for the declaration of the Gospel, as (Matthew 3:2), but of the Apostles also in pressing the actual reception of it on the Jews…

It may be indeed that those of the Hebrews were in the first place intended. For to them did the Promise belong in the first place, as they were the natural seed of Abraham, and to them was it first to be declared and proposed upon its accomplishment (Acts 2:29; Acts 3:25; Acts…

(2.) They bless the Church in the dispensation and preaching of the Word to the conversion and edification of the souls of men. So speak the Apostles concerning their preaching of the Word (Acts 3:26): "To you first God having raised up his Son Jesus sent him to bless you, in tu…

Whereas therefore those by whom these treasures are communicated to others, are frail, perishing, earthen vessels, or those by whom the Gospel is dispensed are poor, frail, weak men, seen and known so to be, there is no veil by their ministry cast over the glory of God. There is…

We have shown that Christ himself is closed with by a true faith; now I add more particularly; in all his offices he is closed with, or accepted of, otherwise we fall short of him at last. As a Prophet: Jesus Christ is a Prophet; and it is a precious consideration: it was foreto…

Also that parable points to the people of the Jews, to and among whom Christ preached: now the following story of the New Testament tells us, that Christ and his Apostles waited on them, till they appeared altogether incurable and incorrigible, and till their incurable barrennes…

For (says he) you shall not leave my soul in the grave, neither will you suffer your holy one to see corruption. Though the days of this life be days of woe and misery, yet the day of the resurrection shall be to all the children of God a time of rejoicing and felicity, and as P…

But a righteous man's desires excel. 1. He desires Christ for himself; not only for his jewels, but his beauty, not only as he is a Savior, but as he is the Holy One (Acts 3:14). 2. He is unsatisfied without Christ, not the most rich viands, not golden chalices filled with sapph…

Christ comes to make an end of what he has begun he came first to redeem our souls from sin, but then our bodies from corruption. Then all privileges are perfect regeneration (Matthew 19:27), when Heaven's new, earth new, bodies new, souls new, that's a regeneration indeed; so a…

But they say the Jews had set times for prayer; I grant it. Luke in Acts 3:1 mentions the hour of prayer, the ninth, and teaches that there were three daily times of prayer. Maimonides in the Mishnah, Book 2, Tract. on Prayer and the Benedictions of Priests, chap. 1, teaches thi…

Is not this (say they) the Carpenter, the Son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses? And how was he esteemed, or rather disesteemed and undervalued at his death; so that it is said (Acts 3:14), they denied the holy and just one, and desired that a murderer should be granted to…

Indeed, his glory was preached by the Sun, when it was, contrary to the course of nature, darkened: and by the rocks, when they were rent, and the temple cloven asunder, and the graves opened, when men weakly, or wickedly denied him, and would not only not preach his glory, but…

2. To bid them set on duties, as their righteousness before God, and as the way to find rest and peace for their souls, and that speaking nothing of Christ, we disclaim as Antichristian and Pharisaical. 3. It is no argument, but the Arminian objection against free grace, not to…

That Christ in this sense should be the Savior of all men, that he should have a negative voice in the salvation of all, that all the ransomed ones should come through his hands, is no other thing than Peter says, Acts 4:11. That there is no other name under heaven, by which men…

Though we be of that natural, sinful distemper, that we would have all things but Christ and let him go, yet while we are thus speaking to you, God many times conveys such a spirit of grace into us as gives us power to receive Christ. What power had the cripple to stand, much le…

This is humility and self-denial, when a man comes before God, and acknowledges his own unworthiness to ask any mercy of God, and confesses his own inability to ask any blessing according to God's will. Act 3. Thirdly, a man asks in humility, when he puts up his petitions with s…

A point which upon sundry occasions has been touched, but now to speak of it more fully. There is no man that has the Son, but as he has him for his Savior so he has him for his Prince (Acts 3:3). Him has God exalted with his right hand, whom they slew, a Prince and a Savior; so…

Mary Magdalen runs and comes to Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved. Peter went forth and the other disciple, and came to the Sepulcher, so (Acts 3:1). Now Peter and John went up together into the temple, at the hour of prayer (John 21:7).

2. For the future (Deuteronomy 18:19) Whoever will not hearken to the words which that Prophet shall speak in my name, I will require it of him, that is, he must look to answer it another day. Peter renders it (Acts 3:23) Whoever will not hearken to that Prophet shall be destroy…

Think of this rule. 3. For the season, the Apostle says: Pray continually, or without ceasing, yet there are some (as it were) canonical hours of prayer, wherein a Christian's discretion must interpose: only in this case, take the fittest seasons for secret prayer, as when you a…

He is an appointed head to his Church (Ephesians 1:22). He is the prince of life (Acts 3:15). He is a quickening spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45).

Ans. Great: for the children of Abraham are children of the couenant, Act 3:25. and children of God. Rom 9:8.

Notwithstanding, it is a change of number — to wit, the singular for the plural — a thing common in the Scriptures. And however the place ought properly and principally to be understood of Christ (as Saint Peter expounds it in Acts 3), in regard that he is the Prince of the…

And therefore Saint Paul very fitly shows that it were to turn the order of things upside down, if the faithful should live till such time as Christ who is the fountain of life appears. Therefore it is we said before that Isaiah here comprehends the whole kingdom of Christ: for…

But it is utterly abominable and damnable, if we suffer ourselves so to be entangled in these outward helps, as thereby utterly to neglect seeking to God: and in distrusting his gracious promises, to desire to trust in unlawful means. The word to look, signifies often in the Scr…

The same thing often befalls many at this day, which Isaiah bewails touching his nation; to wit, that notwithstanding all admonitions, yet they cease not to forge idols, which they adorn with God's spoils as it were. The Apostles, Peter and John, in their lifetime (Acts 3:12), c…

But after we shall be perfectly renewed, heaven and earth shall be renewed also, and shall recover their first estate. Hence we may gather that which we have often mentioned; namely, that the Prophet has an eye to the whole kingdom of Christ, even to the end thereof: which for t…

The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the Soul: The Testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the Simple: The Statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the Heart: The Commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the Eyes: The Fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever: T…

And on the Acceptance or Refusal of him herein, depended the Life and Death of the Church of Israel, v. 19. Acts 3. 23. Heb. 1. 1.

Third, this repentance that has been described, is indeed the special condition of remission of sin. This seems very evident by the Scripture, as particularly, Mark 1:4: John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins. So, Luke…

Acts 3:19. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. What a pity it is that modern preachers attend no more to the method those took who were first inspired by the Holy Ghost, in…

Where ever this word is used in the New Testament, it is applied to Christ. Acts 3:15, he is called [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], the Prince of life. And chap. 5.31, God is said to make him [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], a Prince and a Savior; that is, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉],…

And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not hearken to my words, which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. This is that signal testimony concerning the Messiah, which Philip urged out of Moses to Nathaniel (John 1:45), which Peter not only applies to him, b…

Sometimes emphatically (Numbers 15:31): [in non-Latin alphabet] Cutting off — that soul shall be cut off from among his people; and frequently afterwards (Exodus 12:15, 19; chapter 31:14; Leviticus 7:10; chapter 20:3, 5, 6). It is rendered by the Apostle [in non-Latin alphabet]…

The end of the Unction there mentioned in the Text, is that the things anointed might be [in non-Latin alphabet], holiness of holinesses, to the Lord. Now it was the Messiah alone who truly and really was this most Holy One, Daniel 9:24. [in non-Latin alphabet], to anoint, or to…

That though he was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God, yet he made himself of no reputation (Philippians 2:6-7). But how superabundant was his grace towards us, that though he was the Prince of life (Acts 3:15), yet became obedient to death, even…

But especially God speaks with his Word by his Spirit, when he sends his Spirit for conversion, and to effect a saving change: thus God speaks when he calls blind sinners out of darkness into his marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9), quickens dead sinners, putting into them a new princ…