The apostolical history containing the acts, labours, travels, sermons, discourses, miracles, successes, and sufferings of the Holy Apostles from Christ's ascention to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus : a brief description whereof is here inserted : also, a narration of the particular times and occasions upon which the apostolical epistles were written, together with a brief analytical paraphrase of them : to which is added (for the better understanding of this history) a map of the Apostle Paul's travels ... / by Samuel Cradock.

SECT. IV.

AT Derbe they preach the Gospel, and instruct many; Among others that there gave their Names to Christ, Timothy was one, with his holy Mother Eunice, and Grandmother Lois, who had taken great care of his education and had instructed him in the Scriptures from his infancy. He was well acquainted with the sufferings of his spiritual Father Paul at Antioch of Pisidia, Iconium, and Lystra, as Paul afterwards intimates, 2 Tim. 3.10, 11. The Apostles went no further than this City at this time, but returned the very way they came, travelling back again to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch of Pisidia, confirming in the Faith, as they went along, those whom they had before converted to Christ [See Act. 15.32, 41. & 18.23.], and exhorting them to persevere, and to make account that they must meet with many tribulations in the way to the Kingdom of Heaven. And in all the Churches they constituted (a) Elders(b) by fasting and prayer to teach and guide them. And having commended them to the care of Christ, on whom they believed, they took their leaves of them.

(f)

Then travelling over Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia, and ha∣ving preached the word at Perga, they went down unto Atta∣lia, and thence sailed to Antioch in Syria, (from whence they set out two years before, when they were by the prayers of that Church commended to the Grace and Assistance of the Spirit of God, to be carried on in this great work of conver∣ting the Gentiles. And being come thither, and calling the Church in that City together, they declared what God had done by them, and how he had co-operated with them in their Ministry, and how he had opened a door of Faith to the Gen∣tiles, so that great numbers of them came in, and believed in Christ.

Act. 14. v. 21. And when they had preached the Gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch.

v. 22. Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to con∣tinue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

v. 23. And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

v. 24. And after they had passed thorowout Pisidia, they came to Pam∣phylia.

v. 25. And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia.

v. 26. And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been re∣commended to the grace of God, for the work which they ful∣filled.

v. 27. And when they were come, and had gathered the church toge∣ther, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

v. 28. And there they abode long time with the disciples.

Notes

• (b)

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Sic differunt 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ad Electionem pertinet, & de Ecclesiâ seu populo dicitur, qui solebat extensione manuum leges vel magistratus sciscere, & approbare. Sic 2 Cor. 8.19.

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 est actio Presbyterorum qui aliis ad Presbyterium electis ac vocatis solebant imponere manus; ut precationibus, votis, & congratulationibus suis, illis impetrarent confirmationem dono∣rum, quibus ad functionem redderentur apti.

  Tribuitur 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Apostolis quia ipsi hujus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 à populo factae auctores & ductores fue∣runt. Illi enim populum convocarunt, aliquos idoneos viros ipsis praestituerunt, jusseruntque ut Ecclesia extensione manuum approbationem suam declararet. Apostoli ergo ordinarios Presbyteros elegerunt cum approbatione Ecclesiae.
• (f)

  Per Presbyteros intelliguntur omnes qui ad aliquam Leiturgiam seu functionem publicam in Ecclesiá vocatur; sivè sint Doctores & Pastores qui verbum, & Sacramenta administrant; sivè Re∣ctores qui in disciplinae administratione Pastoribus auxilio sunt 1 Tim. 5.17. sive denique ipsi Diaconi qui Elcemosynas administrant: omnes inquam illi officiarii Ecclesiastici, qui Rom. 12.6, 7, 8. diversis enumerantur nominibus, hic uno generali nomine vocantur Presbyteri. Stres. in loc.
• v. 23. Zonaras in Apostolorum Canonem prolixè•• & elegantèr docet Chirotoniam ab initio designasse suffragia, postea antiquitatis primis rltibus pro consecratione u∣surpatum. ••uistorpius.
• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 nihil aliud declarat quam constituere, creare, ordinare designare, sivè id fiat per suffragium unum, sivè per plura, sivè absque suffragiis omninò. Boifius. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 constituentes, non verò ordinantes sensu hodierno Ecclesiastico. Non enim vel argumento vel testimonio adhuc vincor ut credam 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 per se tunc temporis vel à multis post diebus significâsse vel 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vel 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, vel ordinationem, vel consecrationem. vide 2 Cor. 8.19. Ibi frater iste (cujus laus fuit in Evangelio) dicitur 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 constitutus ab Eccle∣siis socius peregrinationis Pauli. Ubi vix eredo quenquam velle asserere eum or∣dinatum fuisse ab Ecclesiis, sensu Ordinationis hodierno Ecclesiastico. Euseb. Eccles.

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  Hist. lib. 6. c. 29. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Omnibus enim fratribus, electionis gratiâ, in Ecclesiâ congrega∣tis. Clariss. Knatchbullus. Hesychius 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, constituere, decernere▪ ••ligere.

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 erunt duorum generum; vel enim docendi munere in Ecclesiâ fun∣gebantur, & alio nomine Pastores seu Episcopi dicuntur; vel Pastoribus, & verbi Ministris adjuncti, morum censuram agere, & disciplinam tueri solebant, 1 Tim. 5. Utrosque eligere necesse erat cum Apostoli non diu in uno subsisterent loco, ne per absentiam ipsorum Ecclesia idoneis privaretur ministris. Freidl.
• v. 27. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] cum ipsis 2 Cor. 6.1. Vocantur Dei 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. vide eti∣am, 1 Cor. 3.9.