...instruction, that they did go forth, and preach everywhere. This is the last verse of St. Mark's Gospel: " And they went forth and " preached everywhere, the...them, and confirming the word with " signs following." Observe then the circumstances of publicity under which St. Mark's Gospel comes forth. It describes...

...hath been pleased to crown with success obedience to his command, for we are told that his disciples went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working...them, and confirming the word with signs following. The Apostle Peter was honoured to open the door of faith both to Jews and Gentiles, and the terms of...

...salvation which he had then pur179 chased with the price of his most precious blood. Those apostles " went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working...them, and confirming the word with signs following." Still the Jewish nation rejected the overtures of mercy, and the consequence was, that, having filled...

...continual and manifest presence with them. "And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following." Mark xvi. 20. Thus it appears that they were, in the most strict and proper sense of the terms, the representatives...

...gospel, or good news was, we have showed already ; viz., the happy tidings of the Messiah being come : and 'they went forth and preached everywhere, the...them, and confirming the word with signs following.' What the word was which they preached, and the Lord confirmed with miracles, we have seen already out...

...shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Here was the promise of a miraculous agency. " And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the...them, and confirming the word with signs following.'' Here was that agency employed — the signature and seal of Divinity attached to the documents of the...

...preserve all true believers, and take them to himself in heaven ; and also to destroy his enemies. 20. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the...them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. St. Paul, it is probable, preached in England ; others followed him into our country: and the...

...after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord...them and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. Acrs 5: 12. And by the hands of the Apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people....

...Our Lord himself commissioned his apostles to preach the Gospel to every creature ; and, it is added, They went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord...them, and confirming the word with signs following. As our blessed Saviour and his apostles have declared what are the true doctrines of the Gospel, and...

...truth of their doctrines. In proof of this, we read in St. Mark's gospel, at the end, that the Apostles "went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working...them and confirming the word with signs fol-lowing." Also (Acts xiv. 3), Paul and Barnabas abode long time at Iconium, "speaking boldly in the Lord, which...