...the gospel to every creature; and they went forth (in oDedience to his command after his ascension) and preached everywhere; the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.' Still Christ ' gives some apostles, some pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for...

...depends on the affections of men fixing it iipon their habits of life. So also " the disciples went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the Word with signs following." In this the hearing of the "Word is presumed, but the confirmation of it depended on the signs •which...

...was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached 20. every-where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. «.8. (y) " Uttermost part of the earth." Our Saviour had told them before his crucifixion, in his...

...appeal with full confidence. The third verse of the text is such an appeal : ' And they went forth, and preached everywhere ; the . Lord working with...them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.' In the same manner St. Paul, Heb. ii. 3, 4, says, ' How shall we escape, if we neglect so great...

...unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. 20. And they went forth, and preached every-where, the (¿>) Lord working with...them, and confirming the word with signs following. Sunday after Ascension Day. The Collect. О GOD, the King of Glory, who hast exalted thine only Son...

...that " for about thirty years after Christ," (that is, while the eye-witnesses were still alive, ' and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following,') "no other means of information on these subjects existed," but " the Gospel of Matthew ;" he thus proceeds,...

...makes no mention of "their baptizing; but concludes his Gospel by telling us, " And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following." St. Luke says nothing about the command to baptize, though he does allude to the command to preach....

...till the Sou of man be come. Matt. x. 5—20, 23. And again, we find it written: And they went forth, and preached everywhere; the Lord working with them, and confirming the Word with signs following.— Mark xvi. 15,16, 20. Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word....

...— teach all nations — preach tlte Gospel to every creature: and, it is added, They went forth, and preached everywhere ; the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. How solemn the sanction! how imperative the duty! how great the reward! It is a command spoken by the...

...received the promise of the Father in the more abundant effusion of the Holy Spirit, " they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following." The powers which they had themselves received they communicated to others, in different measures and...