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<p class="tab-1">The inspired historian begins his narrative of the Acts of the Apostles, I. With a reference to, and a brief recapitulation of, his gospel, or history of the life of Christ, inscribing this, as he had done that, to his friend Theophilus, <a class="bibleref" title="Acts.1.1,Acts.1.2" href="/passage/?search=Acts.1.1,Acts.1.2"><span class="bibleref" title="Acts.1.1">Acts 1:1</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Acts.1.2">2</span></a>. II. With a summary of the proofs of Christ’s resurrection, his conference with his disciples, and the instructions he gave them during the forty days, of his continuance on earth, <a class="bibleref" title="Acts.1.3-Acts.1.5" href="/passage/?search=Acts.1.3-Acts.1.5">Acts 1:3-5</a>. III. With a particular narrative of Christ’s ascension into heaven, his disciples’ discourse with him before he ascended, and the angels’ discourse with them after he ascended, <a class="bibleref" title="Acts.1.6-Acts.1.11" href="/passage/?search=Acts.1.6-Acts.1.11">Acts 1:6-11</a>. IV. With a general idea of the embryo of the Christian church, and its state from Christ’s ascension to the pouring out of the Spirit, <a class="bibleref" title="Acts.1.12-Acts.1.14" href="/passage/?search=Acts.1.12-Acts.1.14">Acts 1:12-14</a>. V. With a particular account of the filling up of the vacancy that was made in the sacred college by the death of Judas, by the electing of Matthias in his room, <a class="bibleref" title="Acts.1.15-Acts.1.26" href="/passage/?search=Acts.1.15-Acts.1.26">Acts 1:15-26</a>.</p>
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