The Events of the Christian Church, As Set Forth in the Acts of the Apostles, Before the Gospel Was Preached to the Gentiles: Reviewed in a Series of Expository Lectures (Classic Reprint)

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The following discourses embrace the events which took place, as related in the Acts of the Apostles, between the death of. Christ and Peter's preaching to Cornelius at Caasarea, during which period the gospel was exclusively shut up to the Circumcision. That period, a period too much lost sight of, involved three years and a half, and Peter's preaching to Cornelius, his kinsmen and near friends, was illustrative of the meaning of the keys as given to him by Christ, he being singled out from the twelve Apostles to. The special honour of being the 'first among them who should preach the gospel to the Gentiles, or the Un circumcision. At the time pointed out in prophecy, and in accordance with Christ's selection of him for the purpose, a special direction was given to him by the Holy Spirit to go to Cornelius. In obedience to the Divine Command he went, and in preaching the gospel to Cornelius and his friends he unlocked the door of the kingdom of heaven to the Uncircumcisedwhich had not been the case before, neither from the day of Pentecost, nor from the day Christ entered on His ministry. The door into the kingdom of heaven, which was then unlocked, or opened, to the Gentiles, has never since been shut, making from that period the church of Christ to be catholic, or general, or open to all, which had not been the case, it having been exclu sively shut up, or confined, till then to the Circumcised. Then, too, took place Peter's binding and loosing binding all men to faith in Christ for remission of sins, and loosing, or freeing, all men from everything else for-obtaining that important blessing.

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