and SAVIOUR, 7ESUS CHRIST, and his APOSTLES, &c. 383 with their Matter, but returned to their occupation. Upwards of a year afterwards, JESUS, palling through Galilee, found Andrew and Peter firhing on the fea of Galilee, where he fully fatisfied them of the greatnefs and divinity of his perfon, by a miraculous draught of fillies, which they took at his command. He now told them, that they fhould enter on a different feries of labours, and, inrtead of fifh, they fhould, by the efficacy and influence of their doarine, catch men ; commanding them to follow him, as his immediate difciples and attend- ants ; and they accordingly left all and followed him immediately. Andrew, together with the rest, was £portly after called to the office and ho- nour of the apoftolate, and made choice of to be one of CHRIST'S immediate vicege- rents for planting and propagating the Chrifian church. We learn from the facred hiforian, that after the afcenfionof the bleffed JESUS into heaven, and the Holy Ghort had defcended in a vifible manner on the apoiles, St. Andrewwas chofen to preach the gofpel inScythia, and the countries adjacent. He accordingly departed from Jerufalem, and firft travelled through Cappadocia, Galatia, and Bithynia, infiructing the inhabitants in the faith ofCHRIST, and continued his journey along the Euxine fea into the foli- tudes of Scythia. St. Andrew afterwards arrived at Sinope, a city fituated on the fame fea, and famous both for the birth and burial of king Mi- thridates: here he met with his brother Peter, and laid with him a confiderable time at this place. The inhabitants of Sinope were molly Jews, who, partly from a zeal for their religion, and partly from their barbarous manners, were exaf- perated againft St. Andrew, and entered into a confederacy to burn the houfe in which he lodged : but being difappointed in their defign, they treated him with the moll favage cruelty, throwing him on the ground, tamping upon him withtheir feet, pulling and dragging him from place to place ; fome beating him withclubs, fome pelting him with ílones, and others, to fa- tisfy their brutal revenge, biting off his flefh withtheir teeth; till apprehending they had entirely deprived him of life, they cart him out into the fields : but hemiráculoufly recovered, and returned publicly into the city ; by which, and other miracles he wrought amongithem, he converted many from the error of their ways, and induced them to become difciples of the Son of God. After departing fromSinope, he returned to Amynfus, paffed from thence through Trapezius, and Neocmfarea to Samofata, where he filenced the acuteft and wifeft philofophers of that country : and, having fpent fome time there in preaching the glad-tidings of the gofpel, he returned to Jerufalem : but he did not continue long in his native country, returning again to the province allotted him for the exercife of his miniiry, travelling firft into the country of the Abafgi, and had great fuc- cefs in preaching the gofpel to the inha- bitants of the city of Sebaftople, fituated on the eaflern chore ofthe Euxine fea, be- tween the rivers Phafis and Apfarus : from thence he removed into the country ofthe Zecchi, and the Bofphorani; but finding the people remarkably barbarous and in- traélable, he did not flay long arnongft them, except at Cherfon, a large and po- pulous city within the Bofphorus, where he had great fuccefs in his miniftry ; and therefore continued fome time with the new converts, to inílrua and confirm them in the faith. From this city he paffed by fea to Sinope, the royal featof Mithridates, to encourage and confirm the churches he had planted in thofe parts; and here he ordained Philologos, formerly one of St. Paul's difciples, bifhop thereof. St. Andrew, after leaving Sinope, came to Byzantium, fince called Cònftantinople, where he inliruéled the inhabitants in the Chrifian religion, founded a church for divine worfhip, and ordained Stachys, firft bifhop
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