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Acts 3:12

The speech of Peter may be regarded in four aspects:

I. As showing the false method of looking at human affairs. "As though through our own power of holiness we had made this man to walk."

II. As showing the true method of regarding the most extraordinary events. "God hath glorified His Son Jesus."

III. As showing the only method of setting man right with God. "Repent ye therefore and be converted."

IV. As showing the sublime object of Jesus Christ's Incarnation. "To bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."

Parker, City Temple,vol. ii., p. 119.

References: Acts 3:12. R. W. Dale, Evangelical Revival,p. 171; Homilist,3rd series, vol. iii., p. 314.Acts 3:13; Acts 3:15 Homiletic Quarterly,vol. iii., p. 460. Acts 3:14; Acts 3:15. J. Baldwin Brown, Christian World Pulpit,vol. viii., p. 321.Acts 3:16. Homiletic Quarterly,vol. iii., p. 461; vol. xix., p. 301.