...brother p. Jesus being withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, kneeled down and prayed q. Stephen kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge r. St. Paul says, I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom the whole...

...some of the genuine fine traits of pure Christianity. " And they stoned Stephen,calling upon God,and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit. And he kneeled...Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." Acts vii. 59, 60. But why dosttbou judge thy brother? or why dost Ihon set at nought thy brother ? For we shall...

...clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus receive my spirit. And he kneeled...with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge: and when he had said this, he fell asleep. So that this saint died as his Lord did before him,...

...other Christians. Acts 7: 59, 60, " And they stoned Stephen, making invocation (tnHtukovftfvov) and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled...with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep." Now here is a dying martyr, who is expressly said...

...Stephen, when he was breathing out his soul in that hearty prayer for his enemies, it is said, that he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge, Acts vii. 60. So also St. Peter, when he came to raise Tabitha from the dead, is said to kneel down and pray,...

...that of St. Stephen. Even after the expiring martyr had ejaculated, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit," he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, " Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." Let every instance of Roman greatness of mind, let every story of Grecian magnanimity be ransacked,...

...and ran upon him, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him." But while in the agonies of death, he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, " Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when be had said this he fell asleep." The eloquence of Cicero would be mere feebleness...

...aforetime" (Dan. vi. 10). So was Stephen, when on the last occasion he kneeled down on the earth to pray, " cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" (Acts vii. 60). So was the Apostle Paul, when he sent such a noble message to the magistrates, " Nay, verily,...

...their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God and saying ; Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled...with a loud voice ; Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that...

...were a prayer for their forgiveness. (Acts vii. 69.) "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled...with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge ; and when he had said this, he fell asleep." 26 The apostle Paul, before his conversion to...