o Now when Jeſs was riſen early the firit 4:y of *'oh 20.14. the week, *he appcared firſt ro Mary Megdalcnc,*ont ; * Luk. 2. 2. of whom he had caſt ieven devils. | 10 4:d ſhe went and told them that had been with ' him, as they mourned and wepr. 11 And thcy, when they had heard that he was a lize, and had been ſeen of her, believe nor. | Concerning this Appearance of Chriſt t, Mary 3742.7alens, fcc | the Notes on Matth. 28. 9g. and more fu'ly on Job. 24. 2, 5 4., who gives a more full Account than any other of this Appear- | ace. 12 After that, he appeared in another form unto | twoot themzas they waiked, and went into the coun: ; Ery.
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13 And they went and told zt unto the reſidue : nei. ther believed they them,
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1h. 20. 15, ee the Notes there. 15 And he ſaid unto them,Go ye into all the zwor].! and preach the goſpel to every creature. - 16 *He thar believethand is baptized, ſhall be "AS; ved : bat he * that believeth not, ſhall be damneg. 17 And thele ſigns ſhall follow them that believe. *1.)..., *1n my rae ſhall rhey caſt out devils, they ſhall {pea} Qs
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18 *They ſhall take up Frpents, and if they gri; 1; <5 any deadly thing, it ſhall not hurt them; they gz 4;
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See the Notes on Matth. 22. 19. where what we have {1c largely explained,
19 So then,* after the Lord had ſpoken unto then Þ.. he *was received up into heaven,and ** fat on therigh: +,"
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eth of it verv ſhortly. Lyke faith, And he led them gut w 5h Bethany, aud he lifted" np his hands, and bleſſed them, Ani i .,
with great 139. And again gives us this part of this Hiſtory .: fully, A#s 8. from ver. 1, to ver. 12. We ſhall in our Noe
up ta Heaven, And they worſhipped him, and returned to io 17 :
Luk. 24. ſpeak more tully to this, Wears told, As 7, 2 «1 7; Chriſt was f-ity Days upon the Eaiih after his Rejurredli n; ww; 71 ver. 9. Thata Chy1did recetve brim He 1s ſaid ro jir on tre Rite * hand of God. to diitinguiiit hum from Angel, whoſe places 1; St but places of Miniſtration, 6 C07 20 And they went forth and preached every-where, 07. the LORD working with them,and *confirmins the... lat word with ſigns following. Amen, ket, Here 15 now the tiiftory of a great dcal of following tr: ſhortly Epitomized 1n one Verile. The firſt motion of the £':. Li] ; ven to Jerujalem, Lug. 24. 52 And this was accorcinz! the exprets Command of Chriſt, ver. qc. Tyrere ther were cnn, / ally in the Temple praiſing and bleſſing Gid, ver. 53. Ads 1. 1 A At Jera.ulem they went mto an upper Room +: There the; contig a with go accord i Prayer and Supplications, ver. 14. and cho 3;::- 1 th s fer the twelfth Apr/He, Ads 2. The Hly Gho came upp ll them. ſtil! they cortinued Preaching to the Jews.,till, 4s 1, 1: 2 | they Jews by their Unbelzef and Perſecution ndgins theriet: - li worthy of Eternal Life, they turned to the Gentiles, of Gol s conmnies [7 their Word, that is. his Word, tpoken by them, with S7gns f !!in- 4 ing, the whole Hiſtory of the. As of the Apoſtles is an avian! oy Proc. al 1 A Whit , 2
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Oncerning the Penman of this Fiſlory,the certain time when he Wrote it, aud the occaſion of bis -{c2110 o/ 57 wo have little ia Holy Writ ;, and there u ſuch an uncertainty in Traditions, as ut i hardly worth th,- «phy vn
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which fiom the beginning were Eye-Witneſſes, and Miniſters of the Word. Zy which is fairly bined 1: 6; hi b- was 79 Ene-Wirneis, nor (from the firſt at leaſt) a Miniſter of the Word That there was one Like Cotems Doi 2HTEOUS with Paul, and his Fellow- Labourer, appeareth from 2 Tim. & T1. Philemon V. 24 Col. 4. 4. #2 both which latter Texts hes juynca with Demis, ana inCol. 4.14. be ts Called a Beloved Phylician. The three Te s ſcem al ro ſpea of one ard the jams Perſon who (p' 0. 29'y ) at firſt prattiſe Phylick, afrerwaras betas mate a D;ſcipie, exerciſed the Miniſtry 1, 1t is generally thought that this was he, who was the Perman, both of this Hiſtory, ond of + Acts of the Apoitles Whether by Nation ie was 4 Syrian, 9r 4 Roman, vr of what cather Nation, is bat ax rnprofie ible Specu! ation. T oat Ie Was an Evaigelit we 0779p, tA 1, one i|pired by Goa to Tranſmit to the iVorla, the Eiftory of ene Birth, Lite, Deuwrn, Relurre-iion, and AIcenton of our Savinur, as ſo of the Atts of the Apa- f-les, wntil Panl was 4 Pritoner at Kkeme. For bis Hiſtory of the Goſpel, /o far as it relates to Chriſt Eimfelf, Flo cont aineth m-liny remarkable things, not mentione:# by tre other Evanzehſis. The Generation of John B:priſt. he Filer o Zacharias. The Angels comir's ro the Blefled Virgin, Eliz: beths Exclamation, and Salutation 9 ber. The A
[ublicution of Chriſt's Birti tothe Shepnerds, with ''1c things ſp ken by them The Teſtimony which Simeon 271 Anna