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1817 Oct r 15 Not Paul Ch.
1817 Oct r 15

Not Paul

Ch. Period before Conversion

§ Simon Magus

II. 4. All filled with the H. G. II. 38. […?] to be baptized and ye shall receive the gift of the H. G.

1. At the feast of Pentecost on the occasion on which the /of the/ cloven tongues are spoken of, the whole number of believers being stated at 120 they are all of them stated as being filled with the Holy Ghost: and this without any operation performed by any human hand for the production of the effect.

II. 4

2. In the same chapter when an assembly is represented as having met an assembly composed of persons not as yet disciples but so numerous that three thousand formed but a part of it then it is that Peter says to them ‘Repent and … be baptized every one of you … and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Was this a promise? /What was meant by this/ the performance of it is not stated. Was it a simple prediction? the fulfilment of it is not stated. In the English it is a promise: in the Greek it may be either: for to the English tongue belongs this great and almost peculiar advantage, that when an event is spoken of as future it may and commonly is and always may be made known without ambiguity whether the speaker does or does not it be or be /is or is/ not the intention of the speaker that he should be regarded as being /having been/ instrumental[?] in the production of it. Promise or prediction it seems not much to the credit of the historian, that after having thus reported the delivery of it, it should not have appeared to him worth while to state the accomplishment of it. On that same day about three thousand is stated as the number of those who were then baptized, and who by receiving this gift thus gave themselves so compleat a title /unquestionable a title/ to the other: yet that they ever received it is not stated. To be sure Neither is the contrary stated: and so thus the matter rests.
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    Under the words Holy Ghost

    Acts 1. 2. after that thro’ the H. Ghost had given

    5. after that the H. Ghost is come upon you.

    2. 4. they were all filled with the h. Ghost 4. 31

    33. having received the promise of the h. Ghost

    4. 8. Peter filled with the h. Ghost, said to them

    5. 3. Satan filled thy heart to lye to the h. Ghost

    32. we are his witnesses, so is also the h. Ghost

    6. 3. look out men full of the h. Ghost and wisdom

    5. they chose Stephen a man full of the h. Ghost.

    7. 51. ye stiff-necked, ye always resist the h. Ghost

    55. he being full of h. Ghost looked up to heaven

    8. 15. prayed that they might receive the h. Ghost

    17. hands on them and they received the h. Ghost

    18. when Simon saw that the h. Ghost was given

    19. on whom I lay hands he may receive the h. Ghost

    9. 17. thou mightest be filled with the h. Ghost

    31. walking in the comfort of the h. Ghost

    10. 38. how God anointed Jesus with the h. Ghost.

    44. h. Ghost fell on all them that heard the word.

    45. on Gentile was poured the gift of the h. Ghost

    47. which have received the h. Ghost as well as we

    11. 15. h. Ghost on them, as on us at beginning

    16. but we shall be baptized with the h. Ghost

    24. Barnabas full of the h. Ghost and faith.

    13. 1. the h. Ghost said, separate Barnabas and Saul

    4. being sent forth by the h. Ghost, departed.

    Holy Ghost

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    52. the disciples were filled with the h. Ghost

    15. 8. giving them the h. Ghost as he did to us

    28. it seemed good to the h. Ghost, and to us.

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    19. 2. have ye received the h. Ghost? we have not heard whether there be any h. Ghost.

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    20. 23. Save that the h. Ghost witnesseth in every city

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    21. 11 thus saith the h. Ghost as shall the Jews

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    8. 29. then the S. said to Philip go near and join

    10. 19. the S. said unto Peter 11. 12.

    11. 28. Agabus signified by S. there should be dearth.

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    23. 8. the Sadducees say that there is no angel nor S.

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    Description: 1817 Oct r 15

    Not Paul

    Ch Period before Conversion

    § 3 Cloven tongues

    Add to[?] slander this about the wine: witness Paul

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    On this occasion two meetings it is true are spoken of: one at which the number present was no more than 120: the other in which it was three thousand and more or if we suppose the converts made on that occasion are supposed not to have been all present at one time an any rate some large number abundantly larger than the hundred and twenty: and it is in the first meeting at which there were but the hundred and twenty that the quasi-miracle composed of the wind and the cloven tongues is stated as having place.

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