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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF THE

MOST REMARKABLE PASSAGES

OF

ST. PAUL'S TRAVELS AND VOYAGES, &c.

Which ferves to shew the diftinct Times of his faid Travels and Voyages, and fo to illuftrate the Hiftory of the New Teftament.

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

REMARKABLE PASSAGES.

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

The office of deacons inftituted.

The perfecution in which St. Stephen was ftoned. 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 Damafcus, where he preaches Chrift: for which reason the Jews there fought to kill him.

St. Paul efcapes from Damafcus 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 himself.

Herod

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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.

Disciples were now first called Christians at Antioch.

St. Paul and Barnabas come up to Jerufalem.
St. Matthew probably about this time wrote his
Gospel 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
himself 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 Antioch.

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

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

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

St. Paul goes from Theffalonica to Beroa and Athens,

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and so to Corinth; whence he is thought to have written his first Epistle to the Theffalonians.

St. Paul being ftill 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 so to the paffover at Jerufalem. 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 first Epistle to the Corinthians, 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 sent pri-
foner to Cæfarea.

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 stay at Malta, St. Paul comes to Syracufe, &c. and fo at length to Rome, about February, 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 ftaid some time still in Italy, during which time he wrote the Epiftle to the Hebrews.

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