The History of the Bible, Acts
THE ACTS OF THE Apoſtles.
Quest.
HOw are the acts of the Apaſtles deuided?
A. Into the acts of the Apoſtles generally, and into the acts of Paul and Barnabas particularly.
Q. What is ſet downe of all the Apoſtles generally?
A. Their acts whileſt the Church was in bounds of Ieruſalem, and when it was ſcattered on the face of the earth.
Q. What is ſet downe of the Church whilſt it was in the bounds of Ieruſalem?
A. The conuerſation of Chriſt among his Apoſtles. The counſell holden. The comming of the holy Ghoſt. The healing of the lame man. The ſtorie of Ananias and Zaphira. The chooſing of Deacons, and the ſtorie of Steuen.
Q. How long was Chriſt conuerſant among his Apoſtles?
A. Fourtie daies, chap. 1.
Q. What did he in thoſe fourtie daies?
A. He taught them things belonging to the Kingdome of God.
Q. What befell at his aſcention?
A. As they were looking after him, two Angels appeared vntounto them, ſaying. Ye men of Galile, why ſtand ye gazing vp to heauen? &c.
Q. What did the Apoſtles then?
A. They went to Ieruſalem.
Q. What did they there?
A. They held a Councel.
Q. What was decreed?
A. The chooſing of an Apoſtle.
Q. Where was the counſell kept?
A. In a chamber.
Q. What exerciſe did they vſe?
A. Ordinarie and extr…ordinarie.
Q. What was the ordinarie?
A. Preaching and praier.
Q. What were the extraordinarie?
A. Caſting of lots.
Q. Who was choſen?
A. Matthias.
Q. When came the holy Ghoſt?
A. VponUpon the day of Pentecoſt. chap. 2.
Q. In what likeneſſe?
A. In the likeneſſe of fierie and clouen tongues.
Q. What was the effect of it?
A. They were filled with the holy Ghoſt, and ſpake with diuers tongues and languages.
Q. What ſaid the lewes and the people?
A. Some were aſtoniſhed,and ſome ſaid they were full of new wine.
Q. What ſaid the Apoſtles?
A. Peter made an apologie.
Q. What did he in his ſermon?
A. He preached Chriſt, and defeuded himſelfe.
Q. How many were wonne … his ſermon?
A. About three thouſand men.
Q. Who healed the lame man?
A. Peter and Iohn, cap. 3.
Q. Where?
A. At the gate of the Temple called Beautifull.
Q. How long had he beene lame?
A. From his mothers womb.
Q. What did the people?
A. They ranne together aſtoniſhed.
Q. What ſaid the high Prieſts.
A. They laid handes on them, and caſt them in priſon, chap. 4.
Q. VVhat did they then?
A. They asked them in whoſe name they did theſe things.
Q. VVhat did the Apoſtles?
A. Peter made an apologie.
Q. VVhat did the high Prieſts then?
A. They let them go, charging them to preach no more in that name.
Q. VVhat ſaid they?
A. They asked them whether it was better to obey God or man.
Q. Ʋ Ʋhat did the Apostles then?
A. They prayſed God.
Q. VVhat was ſet downe of Ananias and Zaphirah?
A. They ſold their poſſeſſions,& brought part, and laid it downe at the Apoſtles feet.
Q. What became of them?
A. They both fell downe dead.
Q. What troubles were then in the Church?
A. The Apoſtles were put in priſon by the high prieſts.
Q. Who deliuered them?
A. The angel, who bad thē preach in the temple.
Q What counſell tooke the high prieſts againſt them?
A. They would hauehave killed them.
Q. How were they deliuered?
A. By the counſell of Gamaliel.
Q. VVhat troubles were then?
A. The Grecians murmured becauſe their widowes were neglected in the daily miniſtring.
Q. What did the Apostles thē?
A. They choſe Deacons.
Q. What manner of men were they?
A. Men of good report, full of the holy Ghoſt and wiſdome.
Q. Who were they?
A. Steuen, Philip, Prochorus, Nichanor, Timon, Parmenias, and Nicholas.
Q. What is ſet downe of Steuen?
A. He was full of the holy Ghoſt, and prooued by Scripture, that Chriſt was the true Meſſias.
Q. What did the Iewes?
A. They brought falſe witneſſes againſt him, and accuſed him of blaſphemie.
Q. What did Steuen?
A. He defended himſelfe, and preached Chriſt. chap. 7.
Q. What did they to him?
A. They ſtoned him and he ſlept.
Q. Why was the Church then planted? chap. 8.
A. Becauſe of the perſecution of Steuen.
Q. In what places was it then diſperſed?
A. In Samaria, Aethiopia, Damaſcus, Lidda, Saron, Ioppa, Caeſarea, Antioch.
Q. What was Samaria?
A. The chiefe citie of the kingdome of Iſrael.
Q. By whome was it builded?
A. By Omri.
Q. By whome was the Goſpell planted there?
A. By Philip, to whom Peter and Iohn were ſent.
Q. What notable thing is ſet downe of any man there?
A. The ſtorie of Simon Magus.
Q. What is ſet downe of him?
A. He would hauehave bought the holy Ghoſt for money.
Q. What ſaid Peter?
A. Thy money periſh with thee.
Q. What is Aethiopia?
A. A countrie called in Hebrew Chuſh, of one of the ſons of Cham.
Q. By whome was the Goſpell planted there?
A. By an Eunuch of Candaces Queene of Aethiopia.
Q. Who conuerted the Eunuch?
A. Philip.
Q. What is Damaſcus?
A. A citie in Syria builded in that place where Caine ſlew Abel, as ſome write, and thereforecall it Damaſeck, that is, a bagge of blood.
Q. By whome was the Goſpell preached?
A. By the diſperſed Diſciples.
Q. What perſecution was there then?
A. Saul got letters and a commiſſion, from the high Prieſts, to bring the diſciples bound to Ieruſalem.
Q. What befell by the way?
A. A light ſhone about him, and a voice was heard, ſaying, Saul, Saul, why perſecuteſt thou me? it is hard, for thee to kicke againſt the pricke.
Q. What became of him?
A. He was blind.
Q. How was he reſtored to ſight?
A. Ananias was ſhewed him in a viſion, who laid his handson him, and he receiued ſight.
Q. What did Paul then?
A. He preached Chriſt there.
Q. How eſcaped he perſecution?
A. He was let through a wall in a basket.
Q. What was Lydda?
A. A citie called in Hebrew Lod, built by one Shemum of the tribe of Beniamin.
Q. Who planted the Goſpell there?
A. Peter.
Q. What notable things were done there?
A. The curing of Aeneas who had kept his bed 8. yeares, and the raiſing of Tabitha to life at Ioppa.
Q. What were Lidda, Saron, and Ioppa?
A. Hauen townes.
Q. What was Caeſarea?
A. A citie whereof there were two, one in Paleſtina, another in Phenicea.
Q. What was done there?
A. Cornelius was conuerted.
Q. How came Peter to Caeſarea?
A. An angell appeared vntounto Cornelius in a viſion, and bad him ſend to Ioppa for Peter.
Q. How durſt Peter come vntounto him, he beeing a Gentile?
A. The chooſing of the Gentiles was reuealed to him in a viſion, cap. 10.
Q. What was Antioch?
A. A citie on the floud Orentine, it is now called Aleppo: there were ſixteene of that name built by Seleucus ſonne of Antiochus.
Q. By whom was the Gospell planted there?
A. By the diſperſed diſciples.
Q. What was done there?
A. There the diſciples were firſt named Chriſtians.
Q. What is ſet downe there elſe?
A. Agabus fortelleth a famine.
Q. What perſecution followed then?
A. Herod ſlue Iames, and put Peter in priſon.
Q. How was Peter deliuered?
A. By an angell.
Q. How was Herod puniſhed?
A. The angell of the Lord ſmote him, and he was deuoured of worms, becauſe he gaue not glorie vntounto God.
Q. Rehearſe Paules firſt iourney?
A. Saleucia, Cyprus, Perga, Antiochia, Iconium, Lyſtra, Derbe.
Q. Who went with Paule?
Q. Barnabas, cap. 13.
Q. What is Saleucia?
A. A citie of Syria, now called Solda.
Q. Whether went he then?
A. VntoUnto Cyprus an Iſland.
Q. Where landed they?
A. At Salamis.
Q. What did they there?
A. They preached and had Iohn their miniſter.
Q. VVhither went they then?
A. To Paphos the chiefe citie of the Iland.
Q. What did they there?
A. They conuerted Sergius Paulus, and confounded Elimas the ſorcerer.
Q. VVhither went they then?
A. VntoUnto Perga, a citie in Pamphilia.
Q. VVhat befell there?
A. Iohn departed from thē.
Q. VVhither went they then?
A. VntoUnto Antioch in Piſidia.
Q. VVhat did they there?
A. They conuerted many Gentiles, and the Iewes raiſed perſecution, and he ſhook the duſt off his feet, and he went to Iconium.
Q. What did he there?
A. He wan many Iewes and Gentiles, chap. 14.
Q. Whither went he then?
A. VntoUnto Derbe and Lyſtra, cities of Iconium.
Q. What did Paul at Lyſtra?
A. He healed a lame man.
Q. What ſaid the people?
A. They ſaid, gods are come downe vntounto vsus in the likeneſſe of men: and the prieſt brought buls, and would hauehave ſacrificed vntounto them.
Q. What did Paul?
A. He preached, and the people ſtoned him, but he roſe vp and went to Derbe.
Q. What did Paul then?
A. He viſited the churches which he had taught, confirming them.
Q. Rehearſe the places which Paul viſited?
A. Derbe, Iconium, Lyſtra Antiochia, Perga, Attalia.
Q. What exerciſes vſed he in this viſitation?
A. Three: prayer, preaching, and faſting.
Q. What did he betwixt his firſt and ſecond iourney.
chapter 15 A. He went to the Councel at Ieruſalem about the deciding of a controuerſie.
Q. What was the controuerſie?
A. Whether they could bee ſaued without the circumciſiō.
Q. What was concluded?
A. That the Gentiles ſhould not bee troubled with ceremonies.
Q. Rehearſe Pauls ſecond …ournry?
A. Syria, Cilicia, Lyſtra, Derbe, Phrygia, Galatia, Miſia, Troas, Samothracia, Neapolis, Philippi, Theſſalonica, Beraea, Athens, Corinth, Cencrea, Epheſus, Caeſarea, and Antioch.
Q. Whom did he take with him?
A. Sylas.
Syria, is a countrey, Cilicia a countrey now called Carmenia.
Q. What did he at Lyſtra?
A. He circumciſed Timotheus a Grecian.
Miſia, is a countrey of Natolia. Troas, a citie called Antigone.
Q. What befell there?
A. A man of Macedonia appeared vntounto Paul in a viſion, who ſaid, Come and helpe vsus.
Samothracia, is an Iland.
Neapolis, a hauen towne inthe borders of Thracia, & Macedonia.
Philippi, a Citie of Macedonia, where Alexander the great was borne, now called Philippis.
Q. What did Paul there?
A. He conuerted Lidia, and deliuered a maid from the poſſeſſion of the Deuil.
Q. What became of Paul then?
A. He was beaten and caſt into priſon.
Q. What did he then?
A. He conuerted the iaylour.
Q. By whom was he deliuered?
A. By the Magiſtrates, becauſe he was a Romane.
Q. Whether went he then?
A. To Amphipolis and Apolloma.
Q. Whether went he then?
A. To Theſſalonica.
Q. What did he there?
A. He conuerted many people.
Q. What did the Iewes?
A. They perſecuted him.
Q. Whither went he then?
A. To Athens, the moſt flouriſhing Vniuerſitie in the world, yet now there remaineth nothing of it, but a ſtrong Caſtle, called, Sythum.
Q. What did Paul at Athens?
A. He diſputed with the Philoſophers, and conuerted Dionyſius Areopagita, and a woman called Damaris, with others.
Q. Whither went Paul then?
chapter 18 A. To Corinth.
Q. What did he there?
A. He preached and conuerted Criſpus the ruler of the Synagogue.
Q. Ʋ Ʋhither went he then?
A. To Cencrea, where hee ſhore his head.
Q. VVhither went he then?
A. To Epheſus.
Q VVhat did he there?
A. He preached: he bad them farewell, with a promiſe to returne: Apollos preached there.
Q. VVhither went he then?
A. To Caeſarea Stratoris: and ſo to Ieruſalem, and Antioch in Syria.
Q. Rehearſe Paules third iourney?
A. Phrygia, Galatia, Epheſus, Grecia, Macedonia, Philippi, Troas, Aſſos, Miletene, Chios, Samos, Trogilium, Miletum: Choos, Bhodes, Patara, Phenicea, Tyrus, Ptolomais, Caeſarea, and Ieruſalem.
Galatia, is a countrey now called Galogrecia.
Q. What did he at Epheſus?
chapter 19 A. He preached, he burnt the coniurers bookes: and Demetrius raiſed a tumult, which was appeaſed by the towneclarke.
chapter 20 Q. Whether went Paul then?
A. Into Macedonia a part of Greece, called Eumathia.
Q. What did Paul at Troas?
A. He preached, and raiſed Eutichus to life.
Aſſos, a citie of Myſia: now Apollonia.
Mitelene, an Iland in the ſea Aegaeum.
Chios, an Iland.
Samos, an Iland.
Trogillium, a citie of Lidia.
Miletum, a citie of Carea, where he ſent for the Elders of Epheſus.
Q. What did he then?
A. He committed Chriſtes flocke vntounto them. He warned them of falſe teachers: he praied with them, and bad them farewel: and ſo went to Choos, Rhodes, Patara, Phenicea a countrey.
Ptolomias, a citie of Phenicea.
Tyrus a citie of Phenicea.
Q. Where did he lodge there?
A. In a houſe of Philip one of the ſeauen Deacons, who had 4. daughters which were propheteſſes.
Q. What befell there?
A. Agabus foretold Paul of his bonds.
Q. Whither went Paul then?
chapter 2 A. To Ieruſalem.
Q. What did he there?
A. He rehearſed the wonderfulworkes of God done by his hands.
Q. What counſell did they giuegive him?
A. To purifie him ſelfe.
Q. What befell to him as hee was purging himſelfe?
A. The people would hauehave killed him.
Q. How eſcaped he?
A. The chiefe captaine Lyſias deliuered him, and carried him into the Caſtle.
Q. What did he with him?
chapter 22 A. He let him yeeld an account of his doctrine before the Iewes.
Q. What would they hauehave done with him?
A. They would hauehave whipped him.
Q. How eſcaped he?
A. Becauſe hee was a Romane.
Q. What was done with him then?
A. He brought him before a Councell.
Q. VVhat was done with him then?
chapter 23 A. He was ſmitten at the commandement of Ananias the high Prieſt.
Q. How was the councell diſſolued?
A. The Sadduces and Phariſies contended about the reſurrection.
Q. Whither went Paul then?
A. He was brought vntounto Caeſarea before Felix.
Q Why was he ſent thither?
A. Becauſe the Iewes ſought to kill him.
Q. What did he at Caeſarea?
A. He yeelded an account of his life and doctrine before Felix, Feſtus, and King Agrippa.
Q. Who were his accuſers?
chapter 24 A. The high Prieſts and Tertullus an oratour.
Q. Why did not Felix looſe him?
A. Becauſe he looked for a bribe.
Q. Why did he leaue him in priſon?
A. To pleaſure the Iewes.
Q. Why did Paul appeale to Caeſar.
chapter 25 A. Becauſe Feſtus would hauehave carried him to Ieruſalem.
Q. Who was with Agrippa?
A. Bernice.
Q. Rehearſe Pauls fourth iourney?
A. Sydon, Cyprus, Cilieia, Pamphilia, Mira, Gnidum, Creta, Salmona, Faire hauens, Clauda, Malta, Syracuſe, Rhegium, Puteoli, the market of Appius, three Tauerners, and Rome.
Q. Who went with Paul?
A. Iulius the Centurion, & Ariſtarchus of Macedonia.
Sydon a citie in Cilicia.
Cyprus, an Iland in the Mediterranean ſea.
Cilicia, a countrey in Aſia minor, binding the Mediterranean ſea.
Mira, a citie in Licia.
Gnidum, a citie of Carea in Peloponneſus.
Creta, an Iland in the Mediterranean ſea called Claudia.
Salmona, a promontorie in Candia.
Faire hauens, a place in … dia.
Clauda, an Iland by Creta.
Q. What befell to Paul then?
A. He was in great tempeſts.
Malta, is an Iland in the Mediterranean ſea.
Q. What befell there?
A. Paul ſuffered ſhippewracke; a viper did hang on his hand, and he not hurt: he healed Publius of a feauer.
Syracuſe, a hauen in Silicia, in times paſt called Sieania, Trinacria, Triquetra, becauſe it was three cornerd.
Rhegium, a citie of Calabria in Italie, now called Rhegio.
Puteoli, a citie in Campania.
Q. What did Paul there?
A. He remained 7. daies with the brethren.
Appi…forum, is a way ſo called, made by the ſouldiers of Apprus Caecus, in which way were three tauernes.
Rome, the chiefe citie of Italie.
Q. What did the Centurionwith him?
A. He deliuered the priſoners to the generall captaine, but Paul was ſuffered to dwell by himſelf, with a ſouldier that kept him.
Q. What did he then?
A. He aſſembled the Iewes and yeelded an account of his impriſonment.
Q. How long remained he in Rome?
A. Two yeares, preaching the word to all that came vntounto him, and at length he was beheaded by Nero.
FINIS.