upon which Peter said, Ananias, how could satan inspire thine heart to lye to the holy ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

when Peter addressing himself to her, tell me, said he, have you sold the land for such a price? yes, said she, for so much.

Stephen answer'd, my brethren, and you my fathers, lend your attention. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

and said to him, quit your country, and your kindred, to go to the land which I shall shew thee.

he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of land: yet he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, tho' he had then no child.

God declar'd likewise, "that his posterity should sojourn in a strange land, where they should be enslaved and abused four hundred years.

in the mean time a famine spread over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, so that our fathers did not know where to get provisions.

and went to reside in the land of Madian, where he became the father of two sons.

he it was, who delivered them by doing prodigies and miracles in the land of Egypt, in the red sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

"make us gods, said they to Aaron, to be our guides: for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him."

in his humiliation he was judged, he was taken off: and who shall describe the men of his time? for the land has taken away his life."

Peter lent her his hand, and lift her up; and having called the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

where by appointment Paul was to be taken aboard, designing himself to go thither by land.

After we were parted from them, and clear of land, we made directly for Cos, the next day to Rhodes, and from thence to Patara:

and the third day we lent our hands to send the tackling after.

It was the fourteenth night that we had been driving up and down in the Adriatick sea, when the ship's crew about midnight suspected they were making to land:

at day-break they made an unknown land, with a creek, where they resolv'd, if it were possible, to run the ship ashore.

and the rest to get upon the planks, or other pieces of the wreck: and by this means it happen'd that they all came safe to land.