The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§. Brief observations upon some passages in Peters Sermon.

Vers. 15. [It is but the third hour of the day] And on these solemn Festival days, they used not to eat or drink any thing till high noon; as Baronius would observe out of Jo∣sephus and Acts 10.

Vers. 17. [In the last days] The days of the Gospel: because there is no way of sal∣vation to be expected beyond the Gospel: whereas there was the Gospel beyond the law; and the law beyond the light of the ages before it. Yet is this most properly to be un∣derstood of those days of the Gospel that were before Jerusalem was destroyed: And the phrase the last days used here and in divers other places is not to be taken for the last days of the world, but for the last days of Jerusalem: the destruction of which and the rejection of the Jews is reputed the end of that old world, and the coming in of the Gentiles under the Gospel, is as a new world, and is accordingly called a new Heaven and a new Earth.

[Upon all flesh] Upon the Heathens and Gentiles as well as upon the Jews, Act. 10. 45. contrary to the axiome of the Jewish Schools: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The divine Majesty dwelleth not on any out of the Land of Israel.

Vers. 20. [Before the great and notable day of the Lord come.] The day of Jerusalems destruction, which was forty years after this, as was observed before: so that all these gifts, and all the effusion of the Spirit that were to be henceforward, were to be within the time, betwixt this Pentecost and Jerusalem destroyed. And they that from hence would presage prophetick and miraculous gifts, and visions, and revelations to be to∣wards the end of the world, might do better to weigh, what the expression, The great and terrible day of the Lord, meaneth here and elsewhere in the Prophets.

The blood of the Son of God, the fire of the Holy Ghosts appearance, the vapour of the smoke in which Christ ascended, the Sun darkned, and the Moon made blood at his passion, were all accomplished upon this point of time; and it were very improper to look for the accomplishment of the rest of the prophesie I know not how many hun∣dreds or thousands of years after.

Vers. 24. [Having loosed the pains of death;] or rather, Having dissolved the pains of death; meaning in reference to the people of God; namely, that God raised up Christ, and by his resurrection dissolved and destroyed the pangs and power of death upon his own people.

Vers. 27. [Thou wilt not leave my soul.] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 i. e. Thou wilt not give my soul up. And why should not the very same words, My God, my God, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 be translated to the same purpose, Why hast thou left me, and given me up to such hands, and shame and tortures; rather than to intricate the sense, with a surmise of Christs spiritual desertion?

[In Hell,] Gr. Hades: the state of souls departed: but their condition differenced, according to the difference of their qualities; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Diphilus apud Clem. Alex. Strom. 5.

Vers. 38. [Be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.] Not that their Baptism was not administred in the Name of the Father and the Holy Ghost also; but that he would specially work them up to the acknowledgment of Christ. For the Father and the Holy Ghost they acknowledged without any scrupling, but to own Christ for God, whom they had crucified, and to be initiated into Jesus of Nazaret; was the great work that the Apostles went about to work upon them: and therefore especially endeavour to en∣ter them into Jesus, and to have them baptized in his Name.

[Be baptized and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.] Not that every one that was baptized, was presently indued with these extraordinary gifts of Tongues and Pro∣phesie, for they were bestowed hence-forward by imposition of the Apostles hands; save only when they first fell from Heaven upon the company of Cornelius, to compleat that Prophesie which now had its beginning, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; but Peter inviteth them into Baptism, and then should they be capable of those gifts; and no doubt they were bestowed upon some of them by the Apostles hands.