Acts 1

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THe former,] namely, the Gospell, according to S. Luke.

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Through the holy,] namely, through his powerand divine authority, or through the inspiration of the holy Ghost, whereof his humane nature was full: being a most perfect relator of Gods will. Others set downe the words in this sort, after he had given commandements to the Apostles, whom he had chosen by the holy Ghost.

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And being,] others conversing, or taking food together, or having assembled them together For the promise,] namely, that soveraigne gift of the sending of the Holy Ghost, from his Father, which was the summary and accomplishment of all his promises.

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Be baptized,] a manner of speaking taken from the Prophets, who doe liken the sending of the Holy Ghost in the Gospell to a great stood of waters, Isay 44. 3. Ezekiel 47:1. Ioel 3. 18. whereby is signified his power of sanctifying and cleansing.

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The kingdome,] such an one as they imagined, namely, the earthly kingdome.

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It is not for you,] Iesus is contented onely with beating back the Apostles curiosity, without inferring that this worldly kingdome shall never be established, in the manner as they meant i Though peradventure there may be here some track of the establishment of the lewish nation into the favour and covenant of God, at the appoined time.

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Receaved him,] parting in sunder, for to hide him on every side. See Luke 9:34.

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In lke maner,] bodily, appearing clearely, 〈1 page duplicate〉 〈1 page duplicate〉 and comming down by a true exchange of place.

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Journey,] Namely so far as it was lawfull to travaile on a Sabbath day, wherein the law had ordered nothing, but the Ecclesiasticall constitution, had limited to two thousand cubits, which are a mile.

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Of James,] Iud. 1. to distinguish him from the traitor Iudas: and it is the same as is called Thaddeus or Lebbeus, Matthew 10:3.

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The women,] Namely those women who had ordinarily conversed with the Lord or according to others the Apostles wives His brethren,] See upon, Matthew 12:46.

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This Scripture,] which is rehearsed, vers 20.

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For he,] in these passages of the Psalmes in ver. 20. there are two things, which in the secret intent of the Holy Ghost speaking by David, had a relation to Iudas. The first that he had receaved the sacred office of Apostle which hee was dispossessed of the other that with the price of his Treason hee had bought a field, which afterwards was disinhabited and prophaned, being put to be a Church-Yard.

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Purchased,] Saint Matthew saith that the Priests did purchase it: but it may be that Iudas himselfe had beene barganing about it, and before hee had laid downe the money, he repented and hanged himselfe: and that after his death the Priests concluded the bargaine. Others by the word purchasing say is meant, that he gave the occasion of purchasing of it Falling head-long,] that is to say hee was strangled, hanging himselfe in some high place, Matth. 27. 5. Others hold that the halter did break, that hee falling downe upon his face did burst a sunder.

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For it is,] Saint Peter by Revelation, knew, that the Holy Ghost had a secret relation to Iudas in these curses pronounced by David.

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Wherefore,] to restore the breach which happened by Iudas his meanes, and to fill up the number which was chosen by the Lord. Not that there were any absolute necessitie in this member of twelve, which afterwards was encreased by Saint Paul but onely by reason of Gods will revealed to Saint Peter.

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From the baptisme,] at which time Iesus began to manifest himselfe in the world A witnesse,] Namely in the degree of Apostle, with the infallible conduct of the Holy Ghost, and with the irreprovable and universall authoritie in the Church mditating the gifts of the Spirit, which Saint Peter was divinely cerified, that he that should be chosen should receave as well as the rest Of his Resurrection,] which was as it were the end of his humiliation, and the beginning of his exaltation, both comprhended under the resurrection which he particularly nameth, because tat Christs life was knowne by all men, but not his Resurrection.

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Which knowest,] that knowest what every man is inwrdly, either by his owne nature, or by the working of the Spirit, in gif and qualities proper for any vocation.Chosen,] not onely destinated by thy will, in thy Councell but also marked, and endowed with proportionable and necessary gifts whatsoever, which are the foundation of a lawfull calling.

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To his owne place,] Namely of eternall damnation.

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They gave forth,] inspired thereunto by God Himselfe, that the vocation might come from him that governeth the lots, Proverbs 16:33. for the immediate vocation from God was one of the qualities required in the Apostleship, Galatians 1:1 Was numbred,]Not to be made an Apostle, but onely to be acknowledged, for such a one.