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Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 4:28

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Acts4:28

28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

The Apostles mind not so much second causes, in what our Saviour or themselves suffered, but see and acknowledg God in all; who makes a streight line with a crooked stick; and is Holy, Wise and Good in over-ruling, and permitting the greatest evils, and does deserve to have praise for all things, Ephes. 5.20. see Chap. 2.23.

Thy Power and right to dispose of all persons and things; alluding to Levit. 16.8. as the lot cast for the two goats, (the disposing of which being from the Lord, Prov. 16.33.) did determine, whether of the goats should be Sacrificed, and whether should escape; so it was not without a Divine disposition, that Christ was made a sin-offering for us; tho this no way excuse the wicked instruments of his death and suffering.

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