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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

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REMARKABLE PASSAGES.

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Our Lord's crucifixion, refurrection, and afcenfion. The descent of the Holy Ghoft, or the day of the Pentecoft, or Whitsunday, which was this year, May 24..

The office of deacons inftituted.

The perfecution in which St. Stephen was stoned. Philip, the deacon and evangelift, preaches at Samaria, and among others converts Simon Magus: as he did afterwards the Eunuch, and baptizes him.

Saul, or St. Paul, is converted, and goes into Arabia.

St. Paul returns out of Arabia to Damascus, where he preaches Chrift: for which reason the Jews there fought to kill him.

St. Paul escapes from Damascus to Jerufalem, whence after fifteen days time he goes to Cæfarea: thence to Tarfus.

St. Peter converts Cornelius.

Pilate having been banished A. D. 37. by the emperor Caligula, to Vienne in France, now hangs himfelf.

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Herod the tetrarch of Galilee was likewife this year banished by the fame Emperor to Lyons in France. Barnabas is fent by the Apostles to Antioch.

Barnabas fetches St. Paul from Tarfus to Antioch : where St. Luke was probably one of their disciples.

Difciples were now first called Christians at Antioch.

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St. Paul and Barnabas come up to Jerufalem.
St. Matthew probably about this time wrote his Gof-
pel and the Apostles left Jerufalem to go and
preach in other countries. St. James was beheaded
about the paffover this year by Herod, who dies him-
self not long after at Cæfarea.

St. Paul and Barnabas fet forth from Antioch to preach, and come to Cyprus, and fo to Antioch in Pifidia.

St. Paul and Barnabas come to Iconium, Lyftra, and
Derbe.

Timothy was now converted.

St. Paul and Barnabas return to Antioch in Syria.

Now arifes the controverfy about circumcifion at An

tioch.

St. Paul and Barnabas go up to Jerufalem about it, where a council is held, and a fynodical or canonical epiftle is agreed on.

St. Peter, Paul, and Barnabas were now all together at Antioch where Paul withftood Peter; and a diffenfion arofe between Paul and Barnabas about taking John furnamed Mark with them.

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St. Paul with Silas and Timothy go through Phrygia,
Galatia, &c. to Theffalonica.

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St. Paul goes from Theffalonica to Beroa and Athens,

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and fo to Corinth; whence he is thought to have
written his first Epiftle to the Theffalonians.

St. Paul being still at Corinth is now thought to have
written his fecond Epiftle to the Theffalonians.

St. Paul leaving Corinth fails to Ephesus, whence he
goes to Cæfarea, and fo to the paffover at Jerufa-
lem. Thence he returns to Antioch in Syria, and
through Galatia and Phrygia to Ephefus; where he
now makes a long stay.

St. Paul being ftill in Afia, probably at Ephefus, is
now thought to write his firft Epiftle to the Corin-
thians, and also that to the Galatians. And at the
end of this fame year, or beginning of the next, he
is thought to have written his fecond Epiftle to the
Corinthians.

Leaving Ephefus on the account of Demetrius, he
comes to Troas, and fo through Macedonia into
Greece, and probably into Corinth; whence he is
now thought to have written his Epiftle to the Ro-

mans.

St. Paul leaving Greece goes to Troas, and fails to
Miletus, and thence to Phoenicia, and fo comes to
Jerufalem where he is apprehended, and fent pri-
foner to Cæfarea.

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After two years, being had before Feftus and king
Agrippa, St. Paul appeals to Cæfar; and is fent to
Rome, and caft on the ifle Malta.

After three months ftay at Malta, St. Paul comes to
Syracufe, &c. and fo at length to Rome, about Fe-
bruary, in the seventh year of Nero.

St. Paul having been now two whole years at Rome,
wrote four Epiftles, viz. to the Philippians, Ephefians,
Coloffians, and Philemon.

Having now his liberty, St. Paul staid fome time
ftill in Italy, during which time he wrote the Epi-|
file to the Hebrews.

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St. Paul wrote his first Epiftle to Timothy, and alfo that to Titus.

St. Paul now returning to Rome again, is taken and kept a close prifoner. Now he wrote his fecond Epistle to Timothy.

St. Paul, and also St. Peter, is faid now to have fuffered martyrdom at or near Rome.

St. John the Apoftle wrote the Revelation; and, after Domitian's death, returned from the isle of Patmos to Ephefus.

St. John did now write his Gofpel, at the requeft of the bishops of Asia.

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