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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,; 1684.
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Subject terms: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.; Church of England.; Theology -- Early works to 1800.; Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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§. 1. Persecution.

THE spite and cruelty of the adversary was not quenched by the blood of Stephen, but rather inflamed. Stephens confuting and confounding the great Scholars of the Synagogue of the Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians and Cilicians, had bred in them so hateful a disdain of being put to a nonplus; and his cutting words at his death to all the people, Acts 7. 51, 52, 53. had galled them so sore; And especially his denouncing of ruine to Moses ceremonoies, and to the Temple as they charged him with it, had so exasperated their blind zeal, that it is not sufficient as they think to have Stephen put to death only, but it is not fit that others should live who were of the same heresie and blasphemy with him, for so they construed it: Hence ariseth a bitter persecution to destroy the Church at Jerusalem, because it held an opinion that Jerusalem and the rites there should be destroyed.

In this Tragedy was Saul a chief actor, sparing neither place from search, Sex from apprehension, nor the apprehended from torture or imprisonment. Such a Testimony doth Luke give of him, Acts 8. 3. and such a confession doth he make of himself, Act. 22. 4. and 26. 11. By which the Epistle of Lucianus concerning the finding out of the body of Stephen may again be challenged for forgery, when it maketh Gamaliel a most zealous convert and professor of the Gospel, and that at this time, insomuch that he took care for the burial of Stephen, and received Nicodemus when the Jews had cast him out, which will prove incredible, in regard of his scholar Saul.

For who can believe either that the scholar should be so great a persecutor when the master was so great a professor, or that if it were so, Gamaliel of all other should scape with his life, when his scholar of all other could not but know where to find him out and how to follow him close? or who can imagine that Paul when he was answering for his life for being a Christian, should plead his education under Gamaliel, if he were as no∣torious a Christian as ••e? This had been to bring his master into danger and not himself out, and to mar another mans cause not mending his own.