25. In this power of the Holy Ghost, Philip
also in the Name of Christ at one time in the city of Samaria drove
away the unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice; and
healed the palsied and the lame, and brought to Christ great multitudes
of them that believe. To whom Peter and John came down, and with
prayer, and the laying on of hands, imparted the fellowship of the Holy
Ghost, from which Simon Magus alone was declared an alien, and that
justly. And at another time Philip was called by the Angel of the
Lord in the way, for the sake of that most godly Ethiopian, the Eunuch,
and heard distinctly the Spirit Himself saying, Go near, and join
thyself to this chariot Ib. viii.
5.. He
instructed the Eunuch, and baptized him, and so having sent into
Ethiopia a herald of Christ, according as it is written, Ethiopia
shall soon stretch out her hand unto God Ps. lxviii. 31.,
he was caught away by the Angel, and preached the Gospel in the cities
in succession.