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This Moses whome they forsooke, saying, Who made thee a prince and a iudge? the same God sent for a prince, & a deliuerer by the hand of the Angel, which appeared to him in the bush.

This is that Moses, which saide vnto the children of Israel, A Prophet shall the Lorde your God raise vp vnto you, euen of your brethren, like vnto me: him shall ye heare.

Then God turned himselfe away, and gaue them vp to serue the host of heauen, as it is written in the booke of the Prophets, O house of Israel, haue ye offred to me slaine beasts and sacrifices by the space of fourtie yeres in the wildernes?

And ye tooke vp the tabernacle of Moloch, and the starre of your god Remphan, figures, which ye made to worship them: therefore I will carie you away beyond Babylon.

Which tabernacle also our fathers receiued, and brought in with Iesus into the possession of the Gentiles, which God draue out before our fathers, vnto the dayes of Dauid:

Who found fauour before God, and desired that hee might finde a tabernacle for the God of Iacob.

But he being full of the holy Ghost, looked stedfastly into heauen, and sawe the glory of God, & Iesus standing at the right hand of God,

And said, Beholde, I see the heauens open, and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God.

And they stoned Steuen, who called on God, and said, Lord Iesus, receiue my spirit.

Then certaine men fearing God, caried Steuen amongs them, to be buried, and made great lamentation for him.

To whome they gaue heede from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that great power of God.

But assoone as they beleeued Philip, which preached the thinges that concerned the kingdome of God, and the Name of Iesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women.

Nowe when the Apostles, which were at Hierusalem, heard say, that Samaria had receiued the worde of God, they sent vnto them Peter and Iohn.

Then saide Peter vnto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou thinkest that the gift of God may be obteined with money.

Thou hast neither part nor fellowship in this businesse: for thine heart is not right in the sight of God.

Repent therefore of this thy wickednes, and pray God, that if it be possible, the thought of thine heart may be forgiuen thee.

And Philippe said vnto him, If thou beleeuest with all thine heart, thou mayest. Then he answered, and saide, I beleeue that that Iesus Christ is that Sonne of God.

And straightway hee preached Christ in the Synagogues, that he was that Sonne of God,

A deuoute man, and one that feared God with all his housholde, which gaue much almes to the people, and prayed God continually.

He sawe in a vision euidently (about the ninth houre of the day) an Angel of God comming in to him, and saying vnto him, Cornelius.