〈◊〉〈◊〉 Gospell preached, and gloriously confirmed by the bloud of the preachers. CHAP. 50.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 then, as it is written, The law shall goe forth of Zion, and the word of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lord from Ierusalem, and as Christ had fore-told, when as (his disciplies •…•…onished at his resurrection) he opened their vnderstandings in the scrip∣•…•… told them that it was written thus: It behoued Christ to suffer, and to rise 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the third day, and that repentance, and remission of sinnes should bee preached in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…mongst all nations beginning at Ierusalem: and where they asked him of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 comming, and he answered, It is not for you to know the times and seasons 〈◊〉〈◊〉 father hath put in his owne power: but you shall receiue power of the Holie 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hee shall come vpon you and you shalbe witnesses of mee in Ierusalem, and in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in Samaria, and vnto the vtmost part of the earth: First the church spred 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…om Ierusalem, and then through Iudaea, and Samaria, and those lights 〈◊〉〈◊〉 world bare the Gospell vnto other nations: for Christ had armed them, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Feare not them that kill the body but are not able to kill the soule: they had 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of loue that kept out the cold of feare: finally, by their persons who 〈◊〉〈◊〉 him aliue, and dead, and aliue againe: and by the horrible persecuti∣•…•… by their successors after their death, and by the euer conquered (to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…conquerable) tortures of the Martires, the Gospell was diffused 〈◊〉〈◊〉 all the habitable world: GOD going with it in Miracles, in vertues, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Holy Ghost: in so much that the nations beleeuing in him who 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for their Redemption, in christian loue did hold the bloud of those