| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 630 páginas
...tribulation." (Rom. xii. 12.) How rational was their joy, who being beaten and forbidden to preach, " departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ." (Acts v. 42.) " Rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers in Christ's sufferings. If.... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 páginas
...their pain ! neither were their backs more full of weals, than their mouths of laughter, " for they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Jesus," Acts v. 41. And, as all these are animated by one and the same Spirit, what other... | |
| William Jay - 1830 - 302 páginas
...obtain a better resurrection. We might show you Peter and John, after being scourged, departing from the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. We might show you the Hebrews, taking joyfully the spoiling of their goods; and men, and women, and... | |
| 1832 - 460 páginas
...all ; for we are assured, in the glowing language of the sacred historian, that they departed from the council " rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for Jtis name." Nor did they com* promise their character, by yielding even a temporary submission to an... | |
| Robert Leighton - 1830 - 640 páginas
...Him on that behalf. Phil. i. 29. Oh ! this love grows in suffering. See Acts v. 41 : They went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. Consider, it is but a short while, and the wicked and their scoffs shall vanish ; they shall not be.... | |
| John Frewen Moor - 1830 - 78 páginas
...whom the world was not worthy," were enabled to go to the cross, to the rack, and to the stake — " rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name." -f- And bear in mind, that the same faith in a crucified Saviour, which made them " more than conquerors,"... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 páginas
...examples we may learn to rejoice and be exceeding glad in such persecution:— as the apostles did, who " departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...worthy to suffer shame for his name." (Acts v. 41.) And St. Peter says, "If ye be reproached for the fied ; they shall not hunger and thirst in vain, and... | |
| Thomas Ken (bp. of Bath and Wells.) - 1831 - 232 páginas
...shamefully l>eaten and dismissed for preaching in the name of Jesus, and planting his holy doctrine, they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name ; and notwithstandin g the abuses of the great, and reproaches of the rulers, yet daily in the temple,... | |
| John Davenant, Josiah Allport - 1831 - 642 páginas
...for the sake of the Gospel, and of our sacred ministry. It is therefore said of the Apostles, They departed from the presence of the council rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Jesus, Acts v. 41. That is a bad soldier, says Prosper, who follows his General sorrowing.... | |
| 1831 - 152 páginas
...example. Thej " lived and walked with God." They suffered the loss of all things for Christ's sake, " rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name." It was the fear of God ever before their eyes, which took away the fear of men. Thus they lived. And... | |
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