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The same remarks will apply with equal weight to the book styled "the Acts of the Apostles;""-a title rather calculated to mislead the reader, than to give him a correct idea of the nature of its contents. Nothing can be more obvious from a careful perusal of this collection of writings, than that the purpose designed by its author was not to give a complete history of the labours, success, and sufferings of the apostles, or even of any one of them; but that his design, like that of the writers of the Gospels, was to give such a selection of well authenticated facts as might afford indubitable evidence of the truth of Christianity, and serve for the illustration of some of its most important doctrines.

As it was not necessary, in order to accomplish this purpose, to give a chronological arrangement of facts, so we find nearly the same neglect of this order here, as in the evangelical histories. The various attempts which have been made to divide the history contained in this book into certain epochs, within one or other of which the various facts may with certainty be placed, are only calculated to shew that such attempts are utterly useless. It is true that Luke, in this work, as in his Gospel, has defined with sufficient distinctness, within what period of the history of the world, his narrative begins and terminates. But when this is said, the utmost has he granted relative to the chronology of the "Acts of the Apostles," that can be reasonably required.

With the following Harmonized view of the writings of the New Testament the subject shall be closed. For this analysis, I am indebted to a friend, who has evidently bestowed much attention upon the subject, and who appears to me to have succeeded in an attempt to exhibit in a small compass a tolerably satisfactory harmony of the New Testament. I think it right to state, that this synopsis has already been printed as part of a more extended undertaking, in a periodical work which deserves to be more extensively known, as possessing the strongest claims on the attention and support of the Biblical student: "The Scripture Magazine (formerly Critica Biblica), or Depository of Sacred Literature," vol. ii. p. 15.-Lond. 1825.

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II. THE LABOURS AND SUCCESS OF THE APOSTLES.

Sect. 1. Connecting occurrences with the Ascen

sion of Christ.

2. Unexampled proceedings at this Pen

tecost.

3. Miracles and sufferings of Peter and
John.

4. Punishment of Ananias and his wife:
triumph of the Apostles.

5. The appointment of seven Deacons: the
Disciples increased.

6. Address and martyrdom of Stephen.
7. Jewish persecution: the Apostles preach
in Samaria.

8. Philip and the Eunuch of Ethiopia.

9. Conversion, baptism, and preaching of
Saul.

10. Peter's intercourse with Cornelius and
his family.

-11." Dispersion" of the Gospel to Phenice,
Cyprus, and Antioch.

12. Herod's murder of James, and his own
miserable death.

13. Mission of Barnabas and Saul from
Antioch.

14. Ecclesiastical meeting and letter, at Je-
rusalem.

15. Second departure of Paul and Barnabas
from Antioch.

-16. Paul and his associates at Athens and

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- xvii. and xviii. 22. - xviii. 23 to end. Thess. i.-v. & i.-iii.

Acts xix. 1 to end.
1 Cor. i.-xv.

Acts xx. 1 to end.
1 Tim. i.-v.
Titus i.-iii.
Cor. i.
Rom. i.-xiv.

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Acts xxi.-xxiii. 30.

xxiv.-xxvi.

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xxviii. 17 to end.

Galat. i.—vi.

2 Tim. i.-iv.

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Philem.i. Heb. i.-xiii.

James i.-v.

Pet. i.-v. i.-iii.
Jude i.1—25.
Johni.-v. i. i.

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SCIENTIA BIBLICA.

MATTHEW.

CHAP. I. VER. 1. ΒΙΒΛΟΣ γενέσεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, υἱοῦ Δαβίδ, υἱοῦ ̓Αβραάμ.

The book of the a generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, Luke iii. 23, to the end. Whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Rom. ix. 5.

And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us, Matt. ix. 27. And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David! my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil, XV. 22. What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David, xxii. 42. I have found David my servant, with my holy oil have I anointed him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven, Ps.lxxxix. 20-29. Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me, 35, 36. The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David, he will not turn from it. Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne, cxxxii. 11. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to

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order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the ix. 6, 7. And there shall come forth LORD of hosts will perform this, Isa.

a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots, xi. 1. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, Jer. xxiii. 5, 6. In those days and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David, and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness. For thus saith the LORD, Ďavid shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel, xxxiii. 15—17, 26. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David. As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began, Luke i. 31, 32. 69, 70. Hath not the Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was? John vii. 42. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne,

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