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Whan they came there, they gathered the congregacion together, & shewed them, how greate thinges God had done with the, and how he had opened the dore of faithe vnto the Heithen.

Whan they came to Ierusale, they were receaued of ye cogregacion, & of the Apostles, and of the Elders, & they tolde how greate thinges God had done with the.

Now whan there was moch disputinge Peter rose vp, and sayde vnto the: Ye men and brethren, ye knowe that a good whyle agoo, God chose amonge vs, yt the Heythe by my mouth shulde heare the worde of the Gospell, and beleue.

And God the knower of hertes bare wytnesse ouer the, and gaue the the holy goost, like as vnto vs,

Now therfore why tempte ye God, with layenge vpon ye disciples neckes the yocke, which nether or fathers ner we were able to beare?

Then all ye multitude helde their peace, and gaue audience vnto Paul and Barnabas, which tolde how greate tokens and wonders God had done by the amoge the Heythen.

Simo hath tolde, how God at the first vysited to receaue a people vnto his name from amonge the Heythen.

Knowne vnto God are all his workes from the begynnynge of ye worlde.

Wherfore my sentence is, that they which from amonge the Heythen are turned vnto God, be not disquyeted,

But Paul chose Sylas, and departed, beynge comytted of the brethren vnto the grace of God.

ye same folowed Paul and vs, and cryed, and sayde: These men are the seruauntes of the most hye God, which shewe vs ye waye of saluacion.

But at mydnight prayed Paul and Sylas, and praysed God. And the presoners herde them.

And he broughte them in to his house, and set them a table, and reioysed with all his housholde, that he was become a beleuer on God.

But whan the Iewes off Thessalonica had knowlege, that the worde off God was preached off Paul at Berea, they came, and moued the people there also.

I haue gone thorow, & sene youre gods seruyce, and founde an altare, where vpo was wrytten: To the vnknowne God. Now shewe I vnto you ye same, whom ye worshippe ignorauntly.

God which made ye worlde, and all that therin is, for so moch as he is LORDE of heauen and earth, dwelleth not in temples made of handes,

For as moch then as we are the generacion of God, we oughte not to thinke that the Godheade is like vnto golde or syluer, or ymagery worke of the crafte or ymaginacion of man.

And truly God hath ouersene the tyme of ignoraunce: But now he commaundeth all men euery where to repente,

And he departed thence, and came in to the house of a man named Iustus, which feared God, and his house was nexte vnto the synagoge.

He contynued there a yeare and sixe monethes, and taught them the worde of God.