Luke

my name, he shall give it

you. Hitherto ye have afked nothing in my name "afk, and ye fhall receive,

that your joy may be full.
"And, addreffing himfelt John xvii.
to God, he fays, As thou 8, 19.
haft fent me into the

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fent them into the world.

-"

And for their fakes I fanc

tify myfelf, that they alf

may be fanctified through

the truth.And the glo-John xvii.
ry which thou gavest me, 22.
I have given unto them

that they may be one, e

ven as we are one."

The evening of the day, Luke

xxiv. 33-n which he arofe from the xxiv. 46

136.

lead, he faid unto them; 49.

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Thus it is written; and

thus it behoved Chrift to fuffer, and rife from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remiffion of fins fhould be preached in his name, or by his authority, among all nations, beginning at 'Jerufalem." He being,

by his refurrection from the lead, declared to be the Son of God, and the heir and overnor of all things, an being in a few days to have power put into his ands.

"And

Mat.

xxviii.

Jefus met the eleven in a
nountain in Galilee (perhaps

xvi. 7. and the very mountain where he
xxvi. 32. chofe them, and where, it
Mark xvi.may be, he was transfigured).
17, 18. according to his appointment
before his death; Mat. xxvi.
32, and Mark iv. 28, and
uft after his refurrection;
Mark xvi. 7. And being
affembled together with them
there, Acts i. 4. (the other
times he appeared to them.
after his refurrection, feems
o have been by furprize),

ays to them; Go into all Mark xvi.
the world, and preach the 15. 19.
gofpel to every creature.

And thefe figns fhall fol-
low them that believe. In
my name shall they caf
out devils; they fhall fpeak
with new tongues, they
fhall take up ferpents, and
if they drink any deadly
thing, it fhall not hurt
them; they shall lay hands

B 4

" on

Jerufa

em.

on the fick, andthey hall "recover."

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And Jefus fpake to them, Mat. faying, "All power is (now xxviii. declared to be, and will 18-20. very fuddenly, viz. at my alcenfion, actually be) gi "ven unto me in heaven and earth: go ye therefore " and teach all nations, baptizing them in the "name of the Father, and

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of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft, teaching! "them to obferve all things, whatsoever 1 have com"manded: and lo, I am with you to the end of the Age." Then he directs them to go up to Jerufalem whither their prefent fears would probably have hinderled them from going, with out his particular orders), and commands them to tarry there till they were endued with power trom on high; or till they received the promife of the Father: "which," fays he, ye have heard of

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me: That John baptized

with water, ye shall be!
baptized with the Holy Luke
Ghoft not many days xxiv. 41.
hence."

The eleven return with

Jefus from Galilee to Jeru

Acts i. 5.

alem, Acts xiii. 31. And AЯs i. 6.
when they were come toge-
ther there, they afk him,

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Jerufalem.

Acts i.

12-15.

Luke

They then receive a mef

fage from angels, that he

fhould come again from hea
ven in the fame manner hel
went thither.

They return from Mount A&ts i. 13.
Olivet to Jerufalem. And
when they were come intoj

xxiv. 52. their upper room, Peter

food up among the dif-
ciples, the number of the
names was about one hun-
dred and twenty (the num-
ber of a Jewish council), and
bespoke them thus: that of Ver. 21-
thole who had accompanied 26.
them all the time that the
lord Jefus went in and out
among them; beginning
from the baptifm of John,
unto the fame day that he
was taken up from among
them, one fhould be ordain-
Jed, and appointed to be a
witnefs with them of the re-
furrection. And they ap
pointed two, Jofeph, called
Barfabas (or Jofes, called
Barnabas), who was fur-
named Juftus, and Matthias.
And they prayed and faid,
"Thou, Lord, which know-

eft the hearts of all men,]
fhew whether of these two
"thou haft chofen; that he
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niftry and apostleship,
from which Judas, by
tranfgreffion, feil." And
they gave forth their lots,

and