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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[CHRIST. XXXVII] ACTS CHAP. IX. from Vers. 23. to Vers. 32.

AFTER three years from his Conversion he cometh to Jerusalem, being driven from Damascus by a machination of the Jews, who had wrought with the Governour to apprehend him, but he is let over the wall in a basket, 2 Cor. 11. 32, 33.

He goeth up to Jerusalem to see Peter, Gal. 1. 18. but at his first coming thither, the Disciples are afraid of him, till Barnabas makes way for his intertainment, Act. 9. 27. His going to see Peter is to confer with the Minister of the Circumcision, himself being ap∣pointed Minister to the Uncircumcised: And how Barnabas who was to be his fellow should come to be acquainted with him before any of the rest we can hardly find out any other way to resolve, then by conceiving he had some intimation from God of his own Apostleship among the Gentiles, and Pauls with him.

He stayeth at Jerusalem but fifteen days and seeth none of the Apostles, but Peter and James the less, Gal. 1. 18, 19. He preacheth boldly there, and disputes so vehemently with the Hellenists that they go about to kill him, Act. 9. 29. But why him, rather then Peter, James, Barnabas, and others that were now at Jerusalem? We may answer, Because he himself was a Hellenist, one once of their own Colledge, and the more zealous he was now against them, the more incensed were they against him, for an Apostate, as they ac∣counted him: and now he that with them had contrived the death of Steven, is forced by them to fly for his own life.