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but Peter said unto him, thy money perish with thee, for thinking that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

thou hast no manner of share in this gift: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, to forgive, if it be possible, this suggestion you have entertain'd.

[and Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, you may. and he answered, I do believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.]  

Immediately he maintained in the synagogues, that Jesus was the son of God.

and was a proselyte, together with all his family: he gave much alms to the people, and was assiduous in his prayers to God.

one day about the ninth hour, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God, who addrest himself to him, and said, Cornelius!

and when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, what is it, Lord? and he said to him, thy prayers and thine alms have been observ'd and approv'd by God.

and the voice spake to him again the second time, don't call that common, which God calls clean.

said he, how unlawful it is for a Jew, to frequent a stranger, or even to go to his house: but God hath shewed me, that I should not look upon any man as common and unclean.

and said, "Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and God has approved thine alms.

immediately I sent to you; and you have done well to come. now here we are all in the presence of God, to hear whatever he has given you in charge.

then Peter thus began, now I plainly perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

how Jesus of Nazareth divinely inspired by the holy spirit, and with miraculous power, went about doing good, and healing all that were under the oppression of the devil: because God was with him.

but God raised him up the third day, and shewed him openly,

not to all the people, but to those witnesses, which God had before chosen: to us, I say, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.

and he commanded us to publish, and to testify to the people, that he was the person whom God had constituted to be the judge of the living, and of the dead.

for they heard them express their praises to God in divers languages.

In the mean time, the apostles, and the brethren, who were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles had likewise receiv'd the word of God.

but the voice from heaven address'd it self to me again, and said, don't call that impure, which God has purified.