I have noticed that almost every work I have come across is laden with some sort of introduction or another and I have meekly followed the custom. Whether the reader bothers to do much courtesy to pause and peruse this part of the compilation is question I have always had. But I tempted to think the reader will find it worthwhile to take a glance at this preface and preamble in order to get a better understanding of both this work and the intentions of the author.
There is a popular (or so I think) Latin saying that says "Beware the man of one book." Now everyone of us has has his own opinions on some matter,some wrong and some right, and at times we have asserted or even imposed these convictions of ours on others,both the incorrect and correct equally alike. The greater part of life one may well notice is spent is chiefly spent in trying to impose our wills on others. (That is my opinion.)
It would therefore be of no little advantage to take courage in conference and that is one of the reasons I wrote this work: To condense all the multitudes of writtings that mankind that dared to call itself by the Berian label of Christianity have sat to write. In as much as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things accomplished amongst the believers and insofar as the celebrated scribe and beloved physcian Dr Luke undertook to be a chronicler of earlier events concerning this group dubbed and known thereafter as Christians; I have also burdened myself with the task of sifting through all the works perfomed after the end of the second volume of Luke( The Acts), to the extent to which these are documented and verifiable and to the best of my ability.
In the course of undertaking this task I have made it my divine mandate to use the Gift of God in only writing those stories that I believe are of the true doctrine as far as the Apostles (Paul and others) were concerned and taught. I have been and will be at pains(and may God help me.) to provide only material that is of truth and deemed authetic by those of recognisable station(both the present and the departed.)
