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2. EYE-WITNESSES, appointed:-Lu xxiv. 48, §88, And ye are witnesses' -Jno. xv. 2. §And ye also shall bear witness, &c.-Ac. x. 39-41. 39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem: whom they slew and hanged on a tree: 4 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly: 41, not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, eren to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.”

of the sufferings of Christ:-1 Pe. v. 1, The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.'

his majesty :- Pe i. 16, For we bare not followed, cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of ear Lord Jesus Christ, bat were eye-witnesses of his majesty."

has resurrection-Ac. i. 38

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ACTS I. The former treatise hare I made. O Theophilas, 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 Holy Ghost had given commandments 3 unto the apostles whom he hai chosen: to whom also be showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, deing seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the 4 kingdom of God: and, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Fa3ther, which, mara be, ye have heard of me. For Joha tray daprired with water: dat ye shall be baptized 6 with the Holy Ghost not many days benen. When they therefore were come together, they asked of him. saying. Lond, wilt thea at this time restore again the kingdom to israel! And he said unto them, it is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the 8 Father hath pat in his own power. Bat ye shall recere power, after that the Holy Ghost is ceme upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jernsalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and uzTO 9 the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things while they beheld, he was taken ap; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked stedfas: y toward heaver as be went up, dehold, two men stood by then in white ap 11 parel: which also said, Ye men of Ga Jee, why stand ye gasing up into heaven this same des is, which is Take no from you into heaven, shall so come in like 12 manner as we have seen him go into heaven. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount exced Olves, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day jour 'S ney.

And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where adodo doth Perer, and James, and John, and Andres, Plip, and Thomas, Barcholomew, and Maridew, Jaines the son of Alp) meas, and Simon Zelotes, and Joiss The beecher of James. 14 These all continued with one second in prayer and supplestion, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

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GENRES XXII. 1–19. 1, And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham, and said Laro ham. Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said. Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thon lcrest and get thee into the land of Morish; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and sääled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the daret offering, and rose up, and went unto the place 4 of which God had told him. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 3 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and È worship, and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the buri: offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and be took the fre in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. And Isaac snske urto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said. Here am 1, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a $ darnt offering! And Abraham said, My son, God wil neevide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so $ they wer: both of them together. And they came to the place which God had told him of: and Abraham Naat als there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon And Abraham stretched forth his hand,

il and took the knife to say his son. And the angel of The Lor ese are him out of heaven, and said, 12 Abraham, Abesham : and he said. Here am I. And he saià, igy not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou Anyong pets him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only 15 m me And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and lokad, and deha'd behind him a ram caught in a PikeMis horns, and Abraham wert and took the offered him up for a barn offering in the Jestem o FK san. And Abraham called the name of ther nace deborahomet; as it is said to this day, In the main of the LORD it shall be seen. And the snow) of the LORD called unto Abraham has me the sanc me. and said. By myself here I swam said the LORD, for because thou hast ekane this thing, and has: not withheld thy son, thine 12 A Phat in blessing I will bless thee, and in

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