the great Inftruments to convert the World, from this Place? A. To confound the Wisdom of the Wife, and by the Succefs of fuch contemptible Means to atteft the Divinity of that Doctrine they preached. Q. Of what Profeffion was St. Philip? A. The Gofpel takes no Notice of his Parents and Way of Life, though probably he was a Fisherman, the general Trade of that Place. Q. What is thought by fome to be his peculiar Privilege?. A. That he had the Honour of being fir called to be a Difciple of our bleffed Saviour; because though our Saviour, after his Return from the Wilderness, firft met with St. Andrew and his Brother Peter, and had fome Conversation with them, yet they immediately returned to their Trade; and the next Day, as he was paffing through Galilee, he found Philip, whom he commanded to follow him, the conftant Form 43. he used in chufing his Difciples. And it was a whole Year after, that the other two were called to be Difciples, when John was caft into Prifon. Q. Did St. Philip readily comply with our Lord's Command? A. Yes, he immediately engaged in his Service, though he had not feen any Miracle. But it is reasonable to believe, that he was acquainted with Mofes and the Prophets, and that he was awakeded with the general Expectation then among the Jews, that the Meffias would immediately appear; befides, we are to fuppofe the Divine Grace did particularly accompany the Command of Christ, and difpofe thofe that he called, to believe him to be the Meffias. Q. What John L. John 1. 45. Q. What was the first Effect of his Faith in the Meffias? A. Forwardnefs of Mind to direct others in the fame Way of Happiness with himself; for he finds Nathanael, a Perfon of Note and Eminence, and acquaints him with the welcome News of his Discovery, that he had found him of whom Mofes and the Prophets did write, the Anointed of God, the Saviour of the World, and conducts him to him. Q. What is recorded of this Apostle in the HiStory of the Gofpel? A. That to try his Faith our Saviour propounded to him that Queftion; What they John 6. 5. fhould do to procure fo much Bread as would feed the vaft Multitude that followed him? ch. 12.21. That it was to him the Gentile Profelytes ad dreffed themselves, when defirous to fee our Saviour, of whom they had heard fo great a Fame. And that it was with him our Lord had that Difcourfe concerning himself before ch.14.8,9. the last Pafchal Supper; wherein our Saviour gently rebukes him for the fmall Improvement he had made, after having attended fo long upon his Inftructions. 1 Q. What Part of the World is thought to have fallen to the Care of this Apostle? A. The Upper Afia, where he took great Pains in planting the Gospel, and by his Preaching and Miracles made many Converts. In the latter End of his Life he came to Hierapolis in Phrygia, a City rich and populous, and very much addicted to Idolatry, and particularly to the Worship of a Serpent or Dragon of a prodigious Bignefs. St. Philip, by his Prayers, procured the Death, or at leaft the vanishing of this famous Serpent, and and then by his, Difcourfe made them fenfible how unbecoming it was to give divine Honours to fuch odious Creatures. Q. Where did he fuffer Martyrdom? A. At this City of Hierapolis; for the Magiftrates being provoked by the Success Chriftianity found among the People, put St. Philip into Prison, and caused him to be feverely whipped and fcourged, and then led to Execution; where he was, as fome fay, hanged up by the Neck against a Pillar; though others affirm he was crucified. Q. Is St. Philip reckoned among the married Apostles? A. The Antients generally affirm it, and fay, Eufeb. 1.b. that he had three Daughters; two whereof per- 3. c. 30. fevered in their Virginity, and died at Hierapo lis; the third, after having lived a very spiritual Life, died at Ephefus. Q. What Writings did he leave behind him? A. None; the Gospel that was forged under his Name, was produced by the Gnofticks, to countenance their bad Principles and worse Practices. Q. What Account have we of St. James? A. There is no Mention in the facred History of the Place of his Birth; but he is in Scripture ftiled the Brother of our Lord: And by fofe-Gal. 1.19. phus, eminently skilful in Matters of Genealogy and Defcent, expressly called the Brother of Fe- Antiq. fus Christ. c. 8. Jud. 1. 20 Q. In what Senfe was St. James Brother of our Lord? A. The Language of the Jews includeth in the Name of Brethren, not only the ftrict Relation of Fraternity, but alfo the larger of Confanguinity; Hieron. Eccl. fanguinity; fo that any Degree of Relation juftifies the Expreffion. But the ancient Fathers, especially of the Greek Church, make St. James and them that were ftiled Brethren of our Lord, Children of Jofeph by a former Wife; and then, as he was reputed and called our Saviour's Father, fo they might well be accounted and called his Brethren. Q. Why was this St. James filed the Lefs? A. It is thought he had his Surname from the Stature of his Body, to distinguish him from St. James that was of greater Height and Bulk, and therefore called the Major; though others will have this Diftinction founded in their different Ages. But he got himself a more honourable Name by the Piety and Virtue of his Life, which was St. James the Juft, by which he is still known all over the World. Q. What is recorded concerning our Saviour's particular Appearance to him after his Refurrection mentioned by St. Paul? A. St. Jerom relates out of the Hebrew Gofde Scrip. pel of the Nazarenes, that St. James had folemnly fworn, That from the Time he had drank of the Cup at the Inftitution of the Sacrament, he would eat Bread no more till he faw the Lord rifen from the Dead. That our Lord when he appeared to him faid, Bring hither Bread and a Table; and he took the Bread, and bleed, and brake it, and gave it to James the Juft, and faid into bim, My Brother, eat thy Bread, for the Son of Man is risen from among them that Aeep. Q. What became of St. James after our Saviour's Afcenfion? A. He A. He was chofen Bishop of Jerufalem, fome fay by our Saviour before his Departure from his Difciples; others hold he was elected by the Apoftles, poffibly by fome particular Intimation concerning it, which our Lord might leave behind him; whither Way he was preferred, it is certain he was Bishop of Jerufalem, the Mother of all other Churches; and preferred upon the Account of his Relation to our Saviour, as for the fame Reason was Simeon chofe his immediate Succeffor. Q. What Particulars are related in Scripture concerning him? A. That St. Paul after his Converfion made Q. Wherein did he appear principally active? Q. What is related concerning his extraordinary 13, 19. A. That he was of a meek and humble Temper; the Dignity of his Station, and his Relation to our Saviour, did not exalt him in his own Thoughts; for, in the Infcription of his Epiftle, he only ftiles himfelf Servant of the Lord Jesus. Jan. 1. 1. His Temperance was admirable, he wholly abftained |