PART II. Afric, near Syria, and not far from Greece, feveral nations from all these parts might repair unto it. Certain it is, that many Jews dwelt herein, whence the dwellers of Pamphylia are mentioned among them that appeared at Jerufalem at the day of Pentecoft. Acts ii. 6. St. Paul comes to 10. As for Perga', the city in Pamphylia, whither St. Paul is faid to come, it was famous among the Heathen for a temple of Diana, and the yearly feftivals there held in Pamphylia. honour of her, who was thence ftyled Diana Pergæa. Perga in 7. Antioch in Pifidia. From hence John, furnamed Mark, departing from St. Paul and Barnabas, returned to Jerufalem; which was the occafion of the heat which afterward happened be tween the two Apoftles concerning him. When the Apoftles departed from Perga, they came Thence to to Antioch min Pifidia, a small province or country lying north of Pamphylia. The city Antioch, whither the Apostles are peculiarly faid to come, was the principal city of the faid country, and is (to distinguish it from others of the fame name) usually styled Antiochia Pifidiæ. It was one of the cities built by Seleucus above mentioned, in honour of his father Antiochus. Here was a fynagogue of the Jews, wherein St. Paul preached that excellent fermon, A&ts xiii. 16, &c. 8. A perfecution" being raised against the Apostles by the Thence to unbelieving Jews, and they being expelled the coast of Lycaonia; particuPifidia, they came unto Iconium, and after that to Lyftra and Derbe, all three cities of Lycaonia, a small region or province lying to the north-east of Pifidia, and adjoining fouthward to Pamphylia and Cilicia. larly 9. To Iconium. Iconium was the chief city of the faid province, and is faid by Strabo to be well built, and in the richest part of the province. It was alfo a place of great ftrength and confequence, and therefore chofen for the feat of the Turkish Kings in Leffer Afia, at fuch time 1 Acts xiii. 13. m Acts xiii. 14. Acts xiii. 50, 51. and xiv. 6. as as they were moft diftreffed by the western Christians. CHAP. II, It is faid ftill to keep fome remains of its old name, being now called Cogni, and in fo confiderable a condition, as to be the refidence of a Turkish Beglerbeg or Bafha. Hence to An affault being here made both of the unbeliev- 10. ing Jews and alfo Gentiles, to use the Apoftles despite- Lyra. fully, and to ftone them, they were aware of it, and A. D. 46. fled to Lyftra, where, having miraculously cured a cripple, they were adored as gods. Though not long after, upon the inftigation of fome Jews, which came from. Antioch and Iconium, the people of Lyftra were fo far fet against the Apoftles, that they even stoned Paul, drawing him out of the city, and not leaving him till they fuppofed he was dead. Thus it pleased the Divine justice, that St. Paul, who had formerly confented to the ftoning of St. Stephen, and took charge of the clothes of the executioners, fhould fuffer in the fame kind wherein he had trefpaffed, and feel fome smart remembrance of his former finful action, proceeding from a mifguided zeal. This city is famous among us Chriftians for being the supposed birth-place of St. Timothy, to whom St. Paul writes two of his Epiftles. 11. to Derbe. St. Paul, as the difciples ftood round about, (after that he was stoned and drawn out of the city, and left And thence as dead by the unbelievers,) being by the divine goodness raised up to life again, came privately into the city, and the next day departed with Barnabas to Derbe, another city of Lycaonia; of which there is nothing more peculiarly remarkable, than that this is by fome esteemed to have been the native place of St. Timothy, and that the preaching of the Gospel had good fuccefs herein. 12. St. Paul re The Apostles leaving Derbe returned again to Lyftra, and fo to Iconium, and thence to Antioch; and having turning the fame way • Acts xiv. 5, 6-20. P Acts xiv. 20. Acts xiv. 21-25. paffed PART II. paffed through Pifidia, they came to Pamphylia; and when they had preached again at Perga, they came down he came, to Attalia, which is a fea-port, and was formerly the chief arrives again at refidence of the Prefect, as Strabo tells us. It is faid to Perga, and goes thence take its name from King Attalus its founder, which it to Attalia. ftill retains with a fmall variation, being now-a-days called Sattalia. It ftands on a very fair bay; and so is commodiously feated for trade, having a good haven; which likely has been the occafion of its being preserved from ruin by the Turks, who are faid to be at this day very careful to keep its fortifications and castle in repair. The city is supposed to stand at present nearer to the fea than it did formerly. A. D. 46. 13. St. Paul fails from Antioch in From Attalia the Apostles fet fail for Antioch in Syria. After they had been here for fome time, certain $ men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, Attalia to that except they were circumcifed they could not be Syria; and faved. Hereupon it was determined that Paul and Barforward for nabas, and certain others, fhould go up to Jerufalem Jerufalem about this matter. In order hereto they took their way through Phoenicia. through Phoenice, or Phoenicia; under which name was thence fets 14. St. Paul ar denoted, in the times of the New Testament, fo much of the coast of Syria, largely taken, as lay between the two rivers, Eleutherus to the north, and Cherfeus (or the Kishon in Scripture) to the fouth. So that it was bounded north with Syria Propria; east with part of Syria Propria again, and Palestine or the Holy Land; fouth with the last again; and weft with the Mediterranean. In the south part of this province lay Tyre and Sidon, whence it is denoted in the Gofpels by the coafts of Tyre and Sidon. St. Paul and the reft thaving paffed through Phonirives at Je- cia and Samaria, the adjoining province in their way, rufalem. they came to Jerufalem; where they were received of the Church, and declared all things which God had done Acts xiv. 26. Acts xv. 1, 2, 3. t Acts xv. 3, 4. with them, especially the particular controversy they were CHAP. III. sent about. Whereupon the Apoftles and the Elders A. D. 48. affembled together to confider of the matter, and, upon mature deliberation, made fuch decrees as were fuitable to the present occafion. CHAP. CHAP. IV. Of St. Paul's Travels and Voyages into Phrygia, Galatia, Myfia, Troas, Macedonia, Achaia, &c. till his fourth Return to Jerufalem, after his Converfion. ST. PAUL, after his next departure from Jerusalem, taking a very great circuit both by land and fea, before he returned again to the Holy City, I fhall therefore diftinguith this chapter into two fections. 1. St. Paul re Antioch. SECT. I. Of St. Paul's Travels, from his leaving Jerufalem, after the THE Council at Jerusalem, having made fuch decrees as turns with were judged proper", dismissed St. Paul and the rest of his Barnabas to company, who returned to Antioch. Some days after they had been here, Paul faid unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and fee how they do. A. D. 46. Hereupon Barnabas, taking with him John, furnamed Barnabas Mark, failed into Cyprus, his native country; and Paul, taking with him Silas, otherwife called, according to the mode of the Latin tongue, Silvanus, went y through Syria, and fo into his native country Cilicia. Thence he came toz Derbe and Lyftra, and fo into a Phrygia. St. Paul and part one from the other. 2. St. Paul comes into Cilicia, thence to The country called in the New Testament Phrygia, is the fame with that which in common authors is generally ftyled Phrygia Major, or the Greater, to distinguish it u Acts xv. 30. z Acts xvi. 1. a Acts xvi. 6. from |