с b ત a e them that took Jefus. 17. For he was numbred with us, and had obtained part of this miniftry. 18. Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burft afunder in the midft, and all his bowels gufhed out. 19. And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerufalem; infomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to fay, The field of blood. 20. For it is written in the book of pfalms, Let f his habi tation be defolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his *bishoprick [Or, Office, or, Charge], let another take. 21. Wherefore of thefe men which have companied with us, all the time that the Lord Jefus went in and out among us, 22 Beginning from the baptifm of John, unto that fame day that he was taken up from us, muft one be ordained to be a i witness with us of his refurrection. 23. And they appointed two, Jofeph called Barfabas, who was firnamed Juftus, and Matthias. 24. And they prayed, and faid, Thou, Lord, which knowe it the hearts of all men, fhew whether of thele k a † Luk. 6. 13, 16. He called unto him his Difciples: and of them he chofe Twelve, whom alfo he na med Apoftles. And Judas the Brother of James, and Judas Ifcariwhich alfo was the Traytor. b Ver. 25 A&ts 20. 24. See on Col. 1. 23. :: Acts 12. 25. Acts 21. 19. T C⭑ Mat. 27. 5, 7, 8. He caft down the Pieces of Silver in the Temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And they took coun fel, and bought with them the Potters Field to bury Strangers in. Wherefore that Field was called the Field of Blood unto this Day. d 2 Pet. 2 15. -Who loved the Wages of Unrighteousness. ePfal. 69. 25. Let their Habitation be defolate, and let none dwell in their Tents. two i See on Luk. 24. 48. kActs 15. 22. -Judas firnamed Barfabas. 1 Deut. 31. 21. -I know their 5 Imagination which they go about.t1 Sam. 16. 7. -The Lord feeth not as Man feeth; for 'Man looketh on the outward Appearance, but the Lord looketh on the Heart. 1ot 1 Chron. 28. 9. -The Lord Searcheth all Hearts, and understandeth all the Imaginations of the Thoughts. Chron. 29. 17. I know alfo, my God, that thou 15 trieft the Heart, and haft Pleasure in Uprightnefs. Pfal.7.9.-The righteous God trieth the Hearts and Reins. Pfal. 44. 21. Shall not God fearch this out? for he knoweth the 20 Secrets of the Heart. Pfal. 94. 11. The Lord knoweth the Thoughts of Man, that they are Vanity. Prov. 15. 11. Hell and Deftruction are before the Lord: how much more then the Hearts of the Children of Men? Jer. 11. 20. O Lord of Hofts,that judgeft righteously, that trieft the Reins and the Heart. Jer. 17. 10. I the Lord Search the Heart wo thou haft chofen, 25. That he may take part of this iniftry and apoftleship, from which Judas by tranfgreffion ell, that he might go to his own place. 26. And they gave orth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he as numbred with the eleven apoftles. A m CHA P. II. ND when the day of Pentecoft was fully come, they were all with one accord in P one place. 2. And fudlenly there came a found from heaven, as of a rufhing migh y wind, and it a filled all the house where they were fitting. And there appeared unto them cloven Tongues, like as of ire, and it fat upon each of them: 4. And they were all filled with the holy Ghoft, and began to fpeak with other tongues," as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5. And there were dwelling at Jerufalem, Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6. Now when this was noifed abroad [Or, when this voice was made], the multitude came toHh I す try the Reins. Jer. 20. 12. O Lord of Hofts, that trieft the Righteous, and feeft the Reins and the Heart. Joh. 6. 64. Jefus knew from the Beginning who they were that believed not, and who fhould betray him. A&ts 15. 8. God which knoweth the Hearts bare them witnefs. Rom. 8. 27. He that fearcheth the Hearts knoweth what is the 10 Mind of the Spirit, because he maketh Interceffion for the Saints according to the Will of God. † Rev. 2.23.I am he that fearcheth the Reins and Hearts. 15 S gether, nt Lev. 23. 15, 16. Ye fhall count unto you from the Morrow after the Sabbath, from the Day that ye brought the Sheaf of the Wave-offering, Seven Sabbaths fhall be compleat. Even unto the Morrow after the Seventh Sabbath, fhall ye Number fifty Days, and ye fhall offer a new Meat-offering unto the Lord. † Deut 16. 9. Seven Weeks fhalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the feven Weeks from fuch time as thou beginneft to put the Sickle to the Corn, 32. † A&s 1. 14. P Acts 1. 13. 9t Acts 4. 31. See on Acts . † Acts 1.5. st Acts 10. 46. †i Cor. ià: 10, 28. †1 Cor. 14. 2. See on Mar. 16. 17. m Lev. 16. 8. Aaron fhall caft Lots upon the two Goats; one Lot for the Lord, and the other Lot for the Scape Goat. Jofh. 13.6.-Divide thou it by Lot unto the Ifrae- 20 lites for an Inheritance, as I have commanded thee. Judg. 20. 9. -We will go up by Lot against it [Gibeah]. 1 Chron. 24. 5. Thus were they [the Sons of Aarón] 25 Man; but holy Men of God Spake divided into Courfes] by Lot one fort with another]. Prov. 16. 33. The Lot is caft into the Lap: but the whole difpofing thereof is of the Lord. ༣༠ π 2 Pet. 1. 21. Prophecy came not in old time by the "Will of as they were moved by the holy Ghost. Pfal. 8. 2. Out of the Months of Babes and Sucklings haft thou ordained Strength. * a A CTS II. gether, and were confounded [Or, troubled in mind], because that every man heard them fpeak in his own language. 7. And they were all amazed, and marvelled, faying one to another, Behold, are not all these which fpeak, Galileans? 8. And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9. Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mefopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Afia, 10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Lybia about Cyrene, and ftrangers of Rome, Jews and Profelytes. II. Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful Works of God. 12. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, faying one to another, What meaneth this? 13. Others mocking, faid, Thefe men are full of new wine. 14. ¶ But Peter standing up with the eleven, lift up his voice, and faid unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerufalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15. For these are not drunken, as ye fuppofe, feeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16. But this is that which is spoken by the prophet Joel, 17. And it fhall come to pafs in the (1) laft days (faith God) I will pour out of my a A&ts 1. 11. b・・ 1 Thef. 5. 7. They that be drunken, are drunken in the Night. ΙΟ d b Spi will make an everlasting Covenant with them I will put my Fear in their Hearts, that they fhall not depart from me. + Ezek. 11. 19.1 5 will give them one Heart, and I will put a new Spirit within you, and I will take the ftony Heart out of their Flesh, and will give them an Heart of Flefh. † Ezek. 10 36. 27. I will put my Spirit within you, and caufe you to walk in my Statutes.- † Žech. 12. 10. I will pour upon the House of David,and upon the Inhabitants of Jerufalem, the Spirit of Grace and of Supplication. tJoh. 7.38, 39. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath faid, out of his Belly fhall flow Rivers of living Water. But 20 this fpake he of the spirit. d+Acts 10. 45. They of the Circumcifion which believed, were afto *Joel 2. 28. It fhall come to pafs afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all Flefh, &c. as here. Ifa. 32. 15. Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the Wilderness be a fruitful Field.- Ifa. 44. 3. I will pour Water upon him that is thirfty, and Floods upon the dry Ground I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed, and my Bleffing up- 15 on thine Offspring. Jer. 31. 33. This fhall be my Covenant that I will make with the House of Ifrael, After thofe Days faith the Lord, I will put my Law in their inward Parts, and write it in their Hearts, and will be their God, and they fhall be my People. Jer. 32. 40. I (1) I do not understand this Promife as if every particular Man and Woman on all flesh and your fons and your daughters fhall fie, and your young men fhall fee vifions, and your fhall dream dreams: 18. And on my fervants, and and-maidens, I will pour out in thofe days of my Spi they fhall prophefie: 19. And I will fhew wonders en above, and figns in the earth beneath; blood, and 1 vapour of fmoke. 20. The fun fhall be turned knefs, and the moon into blood, before that great able day of the Lord come. 21. And it fhall come to at & whofoever fhall (1) call on the name of the Hh 2 Lord; The fame Man [Philip] had four See on Mat. 24. 29. * Rom. 10. 13. Whosoever fhall call on the Name of the Lord fhall be faved [or delivered,as it is in Joel 2. 32]. See on A&s7. 59. in the Times of the Meffiah, fhould have the Spirit in an extra Manner poured out upon him; but the Meaning thereof feems hat fome of all forts of Men, fome of every Rank, of both Sexes, ral Ages, Conditions, and Circumftances, young Men and old i Daughters, fhould have the Spirit in a plentiful manner poured n them. So that it fhould be more eafie to attain to the Know f the Will of God, than in any other Age or Time before. The hefe Words in too large a Senfe, has led fome well-meaning into great Inconveniencies and Mistakes. See Dr. Whitby on the [o call on the Name of the Lord,does not only fignifie praying to him, Lord have mercy on me, and the like; but it denotes the Embra Religion of Jefus Chrift, owning him for our Lord and King ving his Laws. Word faved here, probably relates to the being preferved from the ion which came upon Jerufalem, when it was taken by the Romans, the Chriftians were, in an extraordinary manner, being warned by lar Revelations to depart from the City, and go over Jordan to This the Roman General gave the Chriftians an opportunity of dos for without any Caufe, he raised the Siege, and went from before n he might have taken it; at which time the Chriftians departed out and efcaped the Deftruction which afterwards came upon it. No agement can be drawn from hence to defer our Repentance to a fick ath-bed. Not only the great uncertainty of our Lives, and the unty of our being in a Condition to repent then, fhould deter us from but the exprefs Declarations in the Gofpel, that we fhall be judged ling to our Works, and the Affurances given us by our Saviour and e, that it is not the Calling of him Lord, but the doing of his Fathers that will gain us Admittance into Heaven, and that he will bid al Workers of iniquity to depart from him, Mat. 7. 21, 23. Lord, fhall be faved. 22. Ye men of Ifrael, hear these words? Jefus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you, by miracles and wonders and figns, which God did by him in the midft of you, as ye your felves alfo know. 23. (1) Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and flain: 24. Whom God hath raised up, having loofed the pains of death: because it 2 Tim. 2.5. Jefus. Mat. ir. 3, 4. Go and fhew John again thofe things which ye do hear and fee: The Blind re- 5 ceive their Sight, &c. Joh. 10. 25, 37, 38. The Works that I do in my Fathers Name, they bear witnefs of me. If I do not the Works of my Father,believe me not. But if 10 I do, though ye believe not me, believe the Works Rom. 1. 4. Declared to be the Son of God with Power, according to the Spirit of Holinefs, by the Refurrection from the Dead. Heb. 2. 4. God alfo bearing them witness, by Signs and Wonders, and divers Miraeles, and Gifts of the holy Ghost. Mar. 14. 21. The Son of Man indeed goeth, as it is written of him; but wo to that Man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed: good were it for that Man if he had never 20 (1) It is not here faid, that the Jews, by the determinate Counsel and Fore-knowledge of God, fhould take, and by wicked Hands crucifie and flay our Lord. No: What God determined, was to give his Son to die, as a Sa crifice for the Sins of the World. But he did not determine that Judar fhould betray him to the Scribes and Pharifees, and that they fhould deliver him to the Romans to be crucified; that was the Effect of their own wicked Malice. This is manifeft from the Text among the References, Mar. 14. 21. and from the Purport of St Peter's Difcourfe, his Defign be ing to reprove the Jews for their great Sin in crucifying Chrift. They were therefore, Ver. 37. pricked in their Hearts, and said unto Peter and the reft of the Apostles, Men and Brethren, what shall we do? Peter faid unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Fefus Chrift for the Remiffion of Sins; which many of them were, Ver. 41. The Author of the Effay for a new Tranflation of the Bible obferves, that this Verfe fhould be thus rendred, "That having taken him, who had been given them by the determinate Counfel and Fore-knowledge "of God, they had crucified and flain him with wicked Hands. |