 | Richard Lloyd - 1825 - 392 pages
...the apostles and primitive believers, you will find that it was a continual subject of holy triumph, that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ. Paul and Silas, though they were immured in the darkness of a prison, were heard at midnight,... | |
 | 1871 - 592 pages
...it, when "at midnight they prayed, and sang praises to God" (Acts xvi. 25). So did the Apostles, when they "departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name" (Acts v. 4). Oh, the precious fruits of grace! Make our souls, O Lord, to know more of them,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1826 - 412 pages
...punishments for preaching the gospel, by the highest ecclesiastical judicatory, they departed from the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ. Yea, they took the spoiling of their goods joyfully. They always rejoiced in God, by which... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 586 pages
...feet of the Man, Christ, the most despised of all men. This is what the apostles did, Acts v. " And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to surfer shame for his name." So also it is said, Psalm xvii. that the enemies of Christ shall " lick... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 626 pages
...as an old soldier in his scars received in the wars for his prince ; the Christians of old rejoiced that " they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ ;" they looked on that reproach as their greatest honour and ornament. You deserve not the name... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...of our deeds : but this man hath done nothing amiss. 1 See on 2 THES. iii. 11. m ACTS, v. 41 : And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. "EzEK. ix. 6 : Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women : but... | |
 | William Wake - 1827 - 454 pages
...life.—Then Peter and the oiher apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.—And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. 18. Q. What if any difference should arise in the commonwealth, of which I am a member, between... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name ; and daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 604 pages
...beaten them, they commanded that they should not " speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they " departed from the presence of the council,...that they " were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name." Such was the spirit which they every where discovered, and on every occasion. Illustrious... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1828 - 332 pages
...scourging, they commanded that they should not speak concerning the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. They rejoiced to find that they had discovered so much attachment to the cause of Christ,... | |
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And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. 
