 | George Stanley Faber - 1829 - 246 pages
...portentous blaze of a meteor. Such was the peace, which the apostles experienced, when they rejoiced, that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ * : and such was that confidence, which made the primitive martyrs appear rather as if they... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 pages
...with Peter and the other apostles, when they were scourged for preaching the gospel of peace ? What pleasing songs didst thou give them in this night...those glorious martyrs and confessors of all times, who sealed the truth of the gospel with their blood. When the night was darkest, their songs were sweetest:... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 632 pages
...tribulation." (Rom. xii. 12.) How rational was their joy, who being beaten and forbidden to preach, " departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...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 ye be reproached... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 630 pages
...tribulation." (Rom. xii. 12.) How rational was their joy, who being beaten and forbidden to preach, " departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...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. ye be reproached... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1830 - 216 pages
...God, rejoice if they be afflicted for his sake ; as it is written of the apostles ; Acts v. 41. " And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name." James saith in his epistle, chap. i. 2. " My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into... | |
 | William Hales - 1830 - 682 pages
...disobeying their orders, and dismissed them, with fresh injunctions not to speak in /he name of Jesus. But they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to be disgraced for his name. And they ceased not, every day, in the temple, and at... | |
 | 1832 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1830 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ken (bp. of Bath and Wells.) - 1831 - 232 pages
...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...that 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... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 pages
...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...that they were counted 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... | |
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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. 
