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The Acts of the Apostles, Illustr. From Ancient and Modern Authors by J. Ford
The Acts of the Apostles Illustr From Ancient and Modern Authors by J Ford Author:James Ford General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: I. Context, or connection of this treatise with his Gospel, V. 1, 2. 1. General, as setting down the Acts of all the Blessed Apos- II. Text, or narration itself through the rest of the Book,' divided into two portions. ties, in the twelve first chap ters. 2. Particular, as containing more specially the Acts of S. Paul, in the sixteen last chapters. Dean Boys. (An Exposition of the Festivals, Epistles, and Gospels used in our English Liturgy, Ac. Ep. Ascension Day.) The following curious verses were addressed by Dr. Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, to Rodolphus Gualtherus, on his Commentary on the Acts, and are prefixed to the edition, Tiguri, 1569. Multa relucenti debent haec tempora Lucae ; Et debet Lucas multa, Rodolphe, tibi. Lux Lucae luxit totum diffusa per orbem ; Lux Lucae lucet nunc mage luce tua. Ergo tibi, Lucae tantum qui luminis adfers, Christus cum Luca lucida regna dabit. Ejusdem aliud ad Lectorem. Quae Trpageis fuerint Apostolorum, Qui ritus veteres apudque Patres Et quot, discere lector, estne, cordi ? Hue adsis, avido legantur ore, IIaec, qua e scripta vides pererudita, Sacris eruta scripta quaeque Libris, Aut 6 Patribus eruta orthodoxis, Quae multo peperit tibi labore Gualtherus. CHAPTER I. 'THE former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 Until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the Holt Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen: 3 To whom also He showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of ...« less