A Church History to the Council of Nicaea, a D 325
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. Apostolic Preaching?Its Principles, Method, Agents, and Progress. YE shall receive power, said Christ, a little before His Ascension, to the Apostles whom He had chosen (Acts i. 2?S), after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost fart of the earth. He then declared to them what their work was to be, and the order and method in which it was to be performed. They were to be witnesses to Him, God and Man, to Him, Very Christ, ?dying, risen, ascended into heaven for men and for their salvation, and sending to them the Holy Ghost, ?to Him the Lord of all, and future Judge of quick and dead. And this witness was to be delivered in regular order, first to Jerusalem, then to Judaea, then to Samaria, and finally to the whole world. If we refer to the Chronological Table at the beginning of this volume, we shall see that this divine command was complied with. The first Apostolic preaching of which we read in the Acts of the Apostles was to Jews at Jerusalem (Acts ii. 14?47; iii. 12?26; iv. 8?12); and St. Peter, to whom our Lord had given the keys for the opening of the kingdom of heaven (Matt. xvi. 19), was speciallyJERUSALEM, THE MOTHER CHURCH: ST. PETZR. 35 employed in this work. Jerusalem, the holy city, was the Mother Church of the World. It was regarded as such in primitive times.1 The law was to go forth trom Sion, and the Word of God from Jerusalem (Micali iv. 2, li). There is reason to believe that the Apostles, by Christ's command, remained there twelve years after the Ascension.3 At Jerusalem we meet with the first example of Diocesan Episcopacy in the person of St. James, the Lord's brother, who is entitled Bishop of Jerusalem by early writers.3 At...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217668095 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217668097 |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 In |
| List Price | $23.09 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 308 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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