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A34956	The iustification of a sinner being the maine argument of the Epistle to the Galatians / by a reverend and learned divine.; Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli Apostoli ad Galatas. English	Crell, Johann, 1590-1633.; Lushington, Thomas, 1590-1661.	1650 (1650)	Wing C6878; ESTC R10082	307,760	323

was from Antioch and therein Barnabas went in company with him and their businesse was to carry thither a collection made in the Church of Antioch for the reliefe of the poore in the Churches of Judea to prevent the misery of the famine foretold by Agabus who for that purpose came with other Prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch See Act. 11.27.30 and Act. 12.25 From which last place it appeares that this journy to Jerusalem with almes for the poore was before the separation of Paul and Barnabas for the worke of the Ministery made by the Presbytery at Antioch at the command of the spirit Act. 13.1.4 But of this second journy Paul mentions nothing in this Epistle because therein was no act done at Jerusalem concerning his present argument to make either for it or against it and because his intent was not heere to write a journall of all his journies to Jerusalem in the same order that hee travelled them but onely to mention such as it seemes his adversaries objected against him 3. His third journy thither was againe from Antioch and therein againe Barnabas went in company with him and their businesse was to consult the Apostles and Elders at Jerusalem concerning the necessity of circumcision not that Paul made any question thereof but because there was a question thereof made in the Church of Antioch where certaine men who came from Judea taught the necessity thereof unto salvation Act. 15.1 For this journy seemes to bee the same with that which is related by Luke in that Chapter where from the Church of Antioch Paul and Barnabas with certaine others are sent to Jerusalem about that question because the particulars mentioned heere in this Chapter by Paul doe suit and agree very fitly with the time and the action mentioned there by Luke as that hee communicated unto the Apostles the substance or summe of that Gospel which hee preached amongst the Gentiles That no decree was there made for the necessity of circumcision to bee imposed upon the Gentiles that hee stoutly opposed such as would have imposed it that by the rest of the Apostles even by the chiefest of them hee was acknowledged for their co-Apostle and com-Minister in the Gospel and that by their approbation and consent hee undertooke for the time to come the Ministery of the Gospel to preach it among the Gentiles This journy then hee therefore mentions in this Epistle because by occasion thereof there passed at Jerusalem those remarkeable Occurrents that were very argumentative to his purpose as to declare that hee was no way inferiour to any of the Apostles thereby to confirme the authority of his Ministery and to confute the calumnies of his adversaries And tooke Titus with mee also Luke in the fifteene of the Acts makes no mention of Titus by name that hee was sent to Jerusalem at that time with Paul and Barnabas for although certaine others are there sayd to bee sent with them Yet it seemes that Titus was none of them that by authority from the Church of Antioch were sent with Paul because Paul saith heere that he tooke Titus with him also i. e. That into the company of those that were sent from Antioch he assumed Titus upon the by over and besides the rest for a speciall purpose And this his Assumption of Titus he mentions heere because of him he was to relate afterward that concerning him being a person uncircumcised the Apostles at Jerusalem gave no command for his Circumcision when the question thereof was there debated q. d. When I went to Jerusalem with Barnabas to confer with the Apostles for the debate of the question about Circumcision I was so confident of my cause that I feared not to take Titus with me also a man who by nation and birth was a Gentile and uncircumcised and him I assumed with mee not only as a companion of my journey but as my fellow-Minister in preaching of the Gospel notwithstanding the distast and opposition of the adverse party who urged the necessity of Circumcision VERSE 2. Text. And I went up by revelation and communicated unto them that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately to them which were of reputation lest by any meanes I should run or had run in vain Sense Communicated i. e. Made a relation or report Vnto them i. e. Unto them of the Church of Jerusalem That Gospel i. e. The substance or sum of that Gospel Privately i. e. Apart at a secret meeting To them which were of reputation i. e. To the chiefest of the Apostles Runne i. e. Continue the course of my Preaching In vaine i. e. Without any fruit Reason Having before declared the time of this journey to Jerusalem and the company who went with him hee now expresseth the causes thereof as the motive that it was by a Revelation from God and the businesse that it was to relate unto the Church of Jerusalem the sum of that doctrine which he Preached among the Gentiles Comment Paul much directed by Divine Revelations which did sometime second a humane determination Hee reports his Doctrine to the Apostles Yet privately to the chiefe of them and for what cause AND I went up by Revelation The maine and speciall motive inducing Paul to goe to Jerusalem at that time with those persons was a particular revelation or vision from God commanding him thereto for as by revelation hee had his instructions in the doctrine of the Gospel so by revelation also he had particular directions in many cases for the execution of his Ministery His departure from Jerusalem after fifteene dayes abode there to see Peter was from a vision wherein he saw the Lord saying unto him Make haste and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem Act. 22.18 His journey into Macedonia was from a vision that appeared unto him in the night Act. 16.9 His appeal to Rome was from the Lord who stood by him in the night and encouraged him thereto that hee might beare witnesse of Christ at Rome Act. 23.11 And this journey heere from Antioch to Jerusalem was by revelation and lest through the abundance of his visions and revelations he should be exalted above measure the Lord layd an affliction upon him 2. Cor. 12.7 But visions and revelations were not proper and peculiar to Paul only for they were communicated and imparted unto the Apostles in generall and unto some that were not Apostles as unto Ananias and Cornelius See Act. 9.10 and Act. 10.3 Yet Pauls going to Jerusalem by revelation is nothing repugnant to his going by the will and decree of the Church of Antioch as Luke relates the cause of his going Act. 15.2 For by severall and divers motives a man may be induced to one and the same action much more when there is a concurrence of Gods will unto mans purpose and very credible it is that when the Church of Antioch had determined that Paul should goe to Jerusalem then Paul was admonished by a revelation from

glory for ever and ever Amen vers 5. 2. History Paul marvels that the Galatians are so soone removed from Christ who called them by his grace vers 6. 1. Because the Gospel wherto they were removed was not another but only there were some who troubled them and would pervert the Gospel of Christ vers 7. 2. Because though Paul himselfe or an Angel from heaven should preach any other Gospel then hee had preached to the Galatians he was to bee accursed ver 8.9 3. Because the matter which he therein perswaded was not man but God against whom he that shall seeke to please men cannot be the servant of Christ ver 10. 3. History The Gospel which Paul Preached was not humane or after man ver 11. 1. Because hee neither received nor was taught it by man ver 12. 2. Because he received and was taught it by the revelation of Jesus Christ ver eod 3. Because during his former conversation in the Jewish religion he excessively persecuted the Church of God and wasted it ver 13. 4. Because he prevayled for the Jewes religion above many his contemporaries among his owne nation being more exceedingly zealous for the ceremonies of Moses and the Jewish traditions ver 14. 5. Because it pleased God who designed him a separate Apostle from his mothers wombe and called him by his grace to reveale his sonne unto him that hee might preach among the Gentiles ver 15.16 4. History When Paul was called to preach Christ among the Gentiles he did not immediatly confer with flesh and bloud ver 16. 1. Because from Damascus where hee was called hee went not immediatly to Jerusalem to them who were Apostles before him ver 17. 2. Because immediatly hee went from Damascus into Arabia and from thence returned to Damascus v. eod 3. Because it was three yeares after he had preached the Gospel before he went to Jerusalem to see Peter with whom he abode but fifteene dayes and there saw no other Apostle save only James our Lords brother ver 18.19 4. Because he would take his oath before God that these things were true and that he lied not ver 20. 5. Because from Jerusalem hee came into the Regions of Syria and Cilicia for unto the Churches of Judea he was unknown by face but only they had heard of him that now he preached the fayth which before he wasted and they glorified God for him ver 21.22.23.24 GAL. CHAP. 2. VERSE 1. Text. Then fourteene yeares after I went up againe to Jerusalem with Barnabas and tooke Titus with mee also Sense Fourteene yeares after Viz. After my conversion Againe i. e. Besides my journy thither three yeares after my conversion Reason A prosecution of his former argument to prove the Divinity of his Ministery and Doctrine because in a solemne Synod or Assembly of the Apostles and Elders at Jerusalem whereat himselfe was present and wherein were made speciall Acts concerning the Ceremonies of the Law there was nothing added by the Apostles to the Doctrine which hee had taught nor any act done that declared his Doctrine in any one point either redundant or defective but rather both his Ministery and Doctrine received in that Synod a full approbation whereby hee would infer that he was inferiour to none of the Apostles Comment The tearme from these yeares are to be reckoned probably from Pauls conversion The eminency of Jerusalem Pauls several journies thither 1. To visite Peter 2. To carry almes 3. To call a Synod there concerning circumcision This last why mentioned and why Titus accompanied him THen foureteene yeares after The Greeke is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Literally foureteene years betweene or the space of fourteene interposed but the particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is heere put for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies after and is truely so rendred for so yee have it Mat. 26.61 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. After three dayes and Mar. 2.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. After some dayes and Act. 24.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. After many yeares But from whence or from what tearme of time these fourteene years are to bee computed whether from Pauls first conversion to the faith or from his former being at Jerusalem to visit Peter three yeares after his conversion which hee mentioned before cap. 1.18 it appeares not from Scripture neither is the knowledge thereof any way elementary or serviceable to the poynt heere prosecuted or to any other poynt elsewhere in Scripture heereby to bee illustrated Yet the greater probability of the two is that these yeares are to bee reckoned from Pauls conversion 1. Because Pauls conversion was a most memorable action especially unto Paul and fit to stand for an epocha unto him from whence hee had good cause to compute all the acts of his Ministery during his life for all epochaes are fixed at a time of some notable conversion in the World that from thence in the memory thereof future times may afterward bee computed 2. Because the yeares remaining betweene this journy to Jerusalem and his last thither when there hee was apprehended and afterward sent Prisoner to Rome will bee too few for those many actions and travells which by Luke are recorded of him especially if wee consider that of those few yeares hee was one and a halfe at Corinth and three at Ephesus See Act. 18.11 and Act. 20.31 Yet Paul heere mentions the space of time to bee fourteene yeares least his adversaries should quarrell at his words whereto all words of actions iterated and frequented are subject if by their severall times they bee not distinguished for by this space of fourteene yeares this journy to Jerusalem with Barnabas is distinguished from a former journy of his to Jerusalem with Barnabas which was before this and therefore lesse then foureteene yeares from his conversion See and compare Act. 11.30 and Act. 12.25 I went up againe to Jerusalem with Barnabas All travelling toward Jerusalem is called ascending or going up not for any locall altitude as if the City and Territory about it were a higher ground then other places but for the jurall eminency or jurisdiction of the Courts there seated consisting of eminent persons for Jerusalem was the Metrople of all the Jewes during the time of the Law and of all the Christians during the plantation of the Gospel and the time of the Apostles Unto Jerusalem Paul after his conversion made severall journies whereof this heere seemes the third 1. His first journey thither was from Damascus and therein either hee had no company at all or none that is named and specified in the Scripture and his businesse was only by way of visit to see Peter and that journy hee mentions in this Epistle cap. 1. vers 18. Because from thence he would have no man gather that hee went thither to learne from the Apostles that Doctrine which for the space of three yeares hee had already preached 2. His second journy thither