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when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he try'd to associate himself with the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and could not be persuaded that he was a disciple.

but Peter turn'd them all out, and kneeled down and prayed, then turning towards the body, Tabitha, said he, arise immediately. she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

and being seiz'd with hunger, he would have had something to eat: but while they were making it ready, he fell into a trance,

but Peter said, not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

but Peter rais'd him, saying, stand up; I am but a man, as well as you.

said he, how unlawful it is for a Jew, to frequent a stranger, or even to go to his house: but God hath shewed me, that I should not look upon any man as common and unclean.

but in every nation, he that feareth him, and acts justly, is acceptable to him.

but God raised him up the third day, and shewed him openly,

not to all the people, but to those witnesses, which God had before chosen: to us, I say, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.

but Peter represented the whole affair to them,

but I said, Lord, by no means: for I never did eat any thing impure, and defiled.

but the voice from heaven address'd it self to me again, and said, don't call that impure, which God has purified.

then I remember'd that expression of the Lord, "John baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy spirit."

In the mean time they who were dispers'd upon the persecution that arose after Stephen's time, had travell'd as far as Phenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, without preaching the gospel to any, but Jews only.

thus Peter was kept in prison, but the Church prayed to God, without ceasing, for him,

so he went out after the angel without knowing that what the angel had done, was real; but thinking it was all a vision.

are you mad? said they. but she persisting that it was even so, they reply'd, it is then his angel.

but he made a sign to them with his hand, to be silent: and related to them, how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. go, said he, and acquaint James and the other brethren with this affair. after which he departed and went to another place.

Herod was then making warlike preparations against the Tyrians, and Sidonians: but they unanimously sent a deputation to court: where having gain'd Blastus the king's chamberlain, they brought matters to an accommodation: for their country was subsisted by the king's territorys.

but at the instant an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not glorify God: so that he became a prey to worms and died. In the mean time, the