A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Again, if we look to that which (there) follows after we find vers: 8. I will therefore that men pray every where (or in every place) lifting up holy hands. What means he by [Greek or Hebrew]? He means not in every individual place without exception, for this were neither possible (because there are many places in which there are not, neither can be any to pray) nor fit, because we ought not to pray with lifted up hands in the streets or in the market places, there are fit places both for public and private prayer, and there are also unfit places either for private or public prayer. The meaning therefore is, that the worship of God is not restricted to Jerusalem, now under the new Testament. •o: 4. 21. 23. But that any place being otherwise convenient and fit for prayer, is sanctified for Prayer, and that Prayer made in any such place is no less acceptable to God then the prayer which was made in the temple of Jerusalem. And now why should we not understand [Greek or Hebrew], vers: 4. and [Greek or Hebrew], v: 6. even as [Greek or Hebrew], vers: 8. and the rather if we consider what is interlaced, for the Text runs thus, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time, whereunto I am ordained a Teacher of the Gentiles in •aith and verity. I will therefore that men may pray every where. Whereby it appears that the Apostles plain scope is to take away that difference between Jew & Gentile, and to intimate that we must pray for all sorts of persons, because Christ died for all sorts of persons, and will be worshipped in every nation under the Heaven. So that Beza did fitly express the sense when he rendered vers: 1, 2. 6. pro ⟨p. 283⟩quibusvis, vers. 4. quosvis, and vers. 8. in quovis loco, to note an universality of kinds, not of individuals. Grotius also on Mark▪ 9. 49. noteth the same thing, that [Greek or Hebrew], is used for quivis, not only in the new Testament, but by Aristophanes and Sophocles. Lastly, I know no reason but our Translators should have rendered, 1 Tim: 2. 4. who will have all manner of men to be saved, and vers: 6 who gave himself a ransom for all manner of men, as well as Mat: 4. 23. they render [Greek or Hebrew], all manner of sickness, Mat 12▪ 31. [Greek or Hebrew], all manner of sin, and Acts 10. 12