The Church In The House A Series Of Lessons On The Acts Of The Apostles

Excerpt from The Church in the House: A Series of Lessons on the Acts of the Apostles Ix The House.3 $crics of iLrssons on tfjr Erts of rfjc Hpostlrs. I. The Gospel Axd The Acts. Thi former treatise have I made. OTheopMlus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teaik. Acts I. I. In determining the relation which subsists between the evangelic histories and the Book of the Acts, it is not enough to observe that while the Gospels contain the history of the Masters own ministry, this book records the labors of the apostles. Both alike narrate the work of the Lord: the Gospels, what he did in person when he was here; the Acts, what he did by the ministry of his chosen witnesses after he had ascended. This distinction is marked in the first verse. Luke intimates that in the former treatise he had recorded all that Jesus began both to do and teach; implying that the history which he is now about to compose will be occupied with what Jesus continued both to do and teach after he had sat down at the right hand of the Father. The distinction is not that the former treatise dealt with what Jesus did, and the latter with what was done by the apostles; the distinction is, that the former treatise told what Jesus did in the first place, and the latter what Jesus did in the second. The first part of Christs work has already in the Gospels been recorded; and now in another treatise the second part, or the continuation, of his work will be told. His ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension constituted only the beginning or foundation of the Redeemers About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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