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Christ the universal peace-makerChrist the universall peace-maker
Christ the universal peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.Christ the universall peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodvvin, B.D.
London: printed by J.G. for R. Dawlman, 1651
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Next see this enmity expressed in their carriages and dealings with the Gentiles, they not only not communicate with them in sacris, in holy things, but their zeal was such, and this after the light of Christianity appeared to them, that they would have killed Paul, Acts 21. 31. for no other crime but this, ver. 28. This is the man hath brought Greeks, (that is Heathens) into the Temple, and hath polluted the holy place, ver. 28. nay they accounted it an abominable thing, [Greek or Hebrew], (as in 1 Pet. 4. 3. the word is rendered, abominable Idolatry) and so the vulgar Here) to keep company, that is, familiarly, yea or so much as to come, (unnecessarily,) to one of another Nation; founding all this, upon that which was a peculiar command, upon a special ground, against the Ammonites and Moabites, Deut. 23. 6. Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. This they extended to all Nations: and This to that rigidity, that they would not do ordinary courtesies of common humanity,
Next see this enmity expressed in their carriages and dealings with the Gentiles, they not onely not communicate with them in sacris, in holy things, but their zeale was such, and this after the light of Christianity appeared to them, that they would have killed Paul, Acts 21. 31. for no other crime but this, ver. 28. This is the man hath brought Greeks, (that is Heathens) into the Temple, and hath polluted the holy place, ver. 28. nay they accounted it an abhominable thing, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, (as in 1 Pet. 4. 3. the word is rendred, abominable Idolatry) and so the vulgar Here) to keepe company, that is, familiarly, yea or so much as to come, (unnecessarily,) to one of another Nation; founding all this, upon that which was a peculiar command, upon a speciall ground, against the Ammonites and Moabites, Deut. 23. 6. Thou shalt not seeke their peace, nor their prosperity all thy dayes for ever. This they extended to all Nations: and This to that rigidity, that they would not doe ordinary courtesies of common humanity,