Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. I. I COMPOSED, O Theophilus, the former treatise con 2 ceming all that Jesus took occasion both to do and teach till the day when he was taken up, after giving a charge by the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, and to whom 3 he had, after his suffering, shewn himself to be alive, by many proofs, during forty days appearing to them, and speaking 4 of what concerned the kingdom of God. Then assembling them together, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard 5 from me.* For John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in a Holy Spirit not many days hence. When they 6 therefore were come together they asked him, saying, Lord, art thou at this time about to restore the kingdom to Israel ? 7 Whereupon he said to them, It is not for you to know times and seasons which the Father hath reserved in his own dispo 8 sal. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the remotest part of the earth. 9 And having said this, while they were beholding [him] he * See John 14. 26: 15.26: 16,7. Luke 24. 49. 10 was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. And as they continued looking stedfastly up to heaven, while he was going, behold! two men stood near them, robed in 11 white, who addressed them, saying, Men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? This same Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same manner as you have seen him going to heaven. 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called 13 Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey* from it. And when they came in, ..
