...primitive church, can you conceive that a man should be its source? Tet it was Jesus, for we read, — " Therefore, being by the right hand of GOD, exalted,...received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he shed forth this, which ye now see and hear." The apostle, by a mode of speaking which would be unintelligible...

...gift, without which we should still have perished; and this also descends from a glorified Saviour. " Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted,...the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye now eee and hear." He hath said to his disciples, "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient...

...by wicked hands have crucified and slain, whom God hath raised up; " and, verses 32. 33, lie adds, " This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses ; therefore, being by the * The passage in Jortiri to which reference is here made we presume to bo the following : Speaking...

...accordingly we find St. Peter, after that the Holy Ghost came down upon them, giving this account of it : ' This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are...the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth that which ye now see and hear;'1 meaning the gift of tongues; so that he resolves it into the dispensation...

...resurrection of the Messiah,* that his soul was not left among the dead, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are...the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured forth this, which ye now see and hear. For David ascended not into the heavens : but he himself...

...This the apostle refers the spectators to, when he says, speaking of the glorious, and glorified Lord, "Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted,...of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ve now see and hear." Acts. ii. 3?. On the day of Pentecost, the church of Christ, was most divinely...

...which Peter makes to it in the hearing of all the Jews, a very few days after it had happened — " This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are...witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted." Paul bears testimony also to the ascension, when he says, that Jesus was received up into...

...raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are...received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which ye see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens; but he saith...

...fearless of the enmity and rage of persecutors — " This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God...promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which we now see and hear." What multitudes was Paul the honored instrument of rescuing from the dominion...

...there says of Christ : " Wherefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye novr see and hear." — (Acts, ii. 33.) Now, from this comparison of spiritual things with spiritual,...