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Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness
Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness: wherein several important duties, are urged, and the evil of divers common sins, is evinced; delivered in sundry sermons. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green upon assignment of Samuel Sewall, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Those that were styled Proselytes of the Gate. These did own the God of Israel to be the only true God; and hoped for Salvation by the Messiah; and did endeavour to frame their lives according to the holy Rules of the Moral Law; Cornelius was a Proselyte of this, and not of the former sort. And hence Peter was unwilling to converse with him, until such time as God by a vision commanded him so to do. The truth of ⟨p. 58⟩Cornelius his Religion is in this verse intimated by two things.
2. Those that were stiled Proselytes of the Gate. These did own the God of Israel to be the only true God; and hoped for Salvation by the Messiah; and did endeavour to frame their lives according to the holy Rules of the Moral Law; Cornelius was a Proselyte of this, and not of the former sort. And hence Peter was unwilling to converse with him, until such time as God by a vision commanded him so to do. The truth of ⟨p. 58⟩Cornelius his Religion is in this verse intimated by two things.
1. In that he was careful, not only to pray unto God himself alone, but that his Family should do so too. He did worship God with all his House, h. e. with his whole Family. The house is frequently in the Scripture put for the Family, Gen. 7. 1. & 30.30. Exod. 12 3.