Lives of the Apostles of Jesus Christ
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Painted by Raphael. Engᵈ by A. Daggett.
CHRIST’S CHARGE TO PETER.
Matthew XVI 18, 19
LIVES
OF
THE APOSTLES
OF
JESUS CHRIST.
NEW HAVEN: L. H. YOUNG.
1836.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835,
By David Francis Bacon, Author,
in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the District of Connecticut.
William Storer, Jr. Print
New-Haven, Ct
PREFACE.
The fair and just fulfilment of the promise made to the public, in the previous announcement of this work, would require that it should contain, simply, “a distinct, plain, historical narrative of the life of each of the apostles, illustrated by such aids as could be drawn from the works of various authors, of former ages, and of other countries, which hitherto, in the inaccessible forms of a dead or foreign tongue, have been too long covered from the eyes of thousands, who might be profited by their more open communicati