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the prison we found shut very secure, and the keepers posted before the doors: but when we had opened it, we found no body within.

for some time ago one Theudas started up, pretending to be something extraordinary, who was join'd indeed by about four hundred men: but he was no sooner put to death, than his followers all dispers'd, and were reduc'd to nothing.

my opinion therefore is, not to meddle with these men, but to let them go on: for if the design be a human project, it will fall of it self. but if it be from God,

but as they were not able to withstand the force of that sublime knowledge which appeared in his discourse,

the patriarchs being jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt: but God was with him,

but when Jacob heard there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers there.

for he supposed his brethren would have perceiv'd by this, that God design'd to make him the instrument of their deliverance; but they did not perceive it.

but he that did his neighbour the injury repelled Moses, saying, who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

him our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and they return'd to their Egyptian disposition.

you, I say, who received the law by the administration of angels, but have not however observ'd it.

but he, full of the holy spirit, fix'd his eyes towards heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

but they that were dispers'd, preach'd the gospel wherever they went.

but when they had embraced the doctrine of Philip, concerning the kingdom of the Messias, and the authority of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

but Peter said unto him, thy money perish with thee, for thinking that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

but was now upon his return, and sat in his chariot, reading the prophet Esaias.

but Philip was found at Azotus: and passing on, he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cesarea.

Saul still breathing out nothing but threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord,

then trembling with the fright Saul said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? and the Lord said to him,]  but rise, and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do.

the mean while the men who accompany'd him, remain'd astonish'd, hearing a voice, but seeing no one.

but Saul was appriz'd of their plot. and as they were night and day upon the watch at the gates, in order to kill him,