84l Book.IV. Part.V. Lookingrmto Jeft14. Chap. 1 .Set't.s_ SECT. 7· Of the time whtH the hoi] Ghuj ?!Ptu fenr. 3· FOrthemiffil.)nofhis Spirit: no fooner was Chrift fet down at Gods right hand, but he fends down the holy Ghoft. It was an ufe amongft the ancients in dayes of great joy and folemnity to give gifts, and to fend prefents anto men; thus after the wall of1erN[IIlemwas built, it is faid that the people N lhem. S,u, JidtAU, Alfd drink_, And frna portions: and at the feaft of Psnim Epb.,.u. thry mAde them d~ltJ offe11ftitJg, 1rndjoy, and of finding portionsene to another, 11nd gijt.r to the foore. Thus Chrii1: in the day of his Majefty and inauguration, in that great and folemne tryumph, whm lie Ajcendea up Qn high, he led captivity cAptive ,Anddid with11l give gifts Hnto men, . · Cpncerning this miffion of the Spirit, or thefe gifts of Cbr' so ~is Churcti, I fltall difcover ~he accomplifument, as it appear in thefe texts; And when the day of Penttcoft 'RIM full) come, they Ai werull with one 11ccord in one· place; ana fuddeniJ t.htre CAme a ,:r...t,l,3•4· found from heaven .u of a rujhing mighty wind, and it filled 11// the houfe '¥1here they were fitting; and there appeared 11nto them clove~a ,IJngues lik! M offi?e,and it [Att upon each of them ; 11nd they were 1111 filled -with the holy ghoft, 11ndbegan to [peak., with other tongues 41 the jpirit gAve them utttrlliolfe. Out ofthefe words I tball obferve thefe particulars: the time when : the perfons to whom : the manner how: the meafure what, and the reafons why the holy Ghoft was (ent. 1. For the time when the holy Ghoft was fent, it is faid when the day o{Pentecoft wM fully come; this was a feai1: of the Jewe~ called ?NvTnr.D>n a '7/'~VTf'X.J'~<t. from {iftJ dilJes: becaufe 'it was ·cvc11 kept on the fiftieth day after die fecond of the Paffeover. .We finde in Scripture lundry m~morat>le things reckoned by the number of fifty. As fifty dayes from Jfraelr coming out of Egypt wnto the giving ofthe law. And the fiftieth yeare was that great feaft of the [Hbi/ee, which was the time of forgiving of debts, and ofreftoring men to their firi1: e{l:ates. And fifty dayes were in truth the appoynted time of' the Jew~s barveft; their harvtft being bound.cd as it were with two remarkable dayes,. i:he one
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