Acts 25

Quest. 2. What are the properties or qualifications of the Kingdom of Heaven? Resp. 1. The glory of this kingdom is solid and substantial; the Hebrew word for glory, [in non-Latin alphabet], signifies a weight, to show how solid and weighty the glory of the celestial kingdom is:…

Good men have been engaged in the way to their own ruine, and knew it not; but Providence has met them in the way and preserved them by strange diversions, the meaning of which they understood not, till the Event discovered it. Paul lay bound at Caesarca, the High Priest and chi…

Each word helps a tale towards its end, and then in that the vanity, when it's done it vanishes as a sound in the air. What's become of all the pompous solemnities of kings and princes, at their births, and marriages and coronations, and triumphs? they are now as a dream (Acts 2…

(2.) The other thing observable from this text, is, that we have this liberty by Christ, he purchased it for us; this enlargement of heart from the captivity of sin cost dear. Look as the Roman Captain said (Acts 25:28), With a great sum obtained I this freedom. They were tender…

It is like the meteor which lives in the air, so does this in the breath of other men: it's like a gale of wind which carries the ship; sometimes this wind is down, a man has lost his honor, and lives to see himself entombed: [reconstructed: sometimes] this wind is too high: how…

(4) What if there be no Christ, nor Gospel, but only questions of words? Such clay-pots were framed by Gallio, and Festus (Acts 18:14-15; Acts 25:11, 19). Hence come imaginations of things impossible (Isaiah 14:13): I'll ascend to heaven, says Babylon, I will set my nest among t…

And how soon the will is broken and dead, then is the man broken, dead and crucified with Christ. Much will, much life of sin: See (John 5:40), (Luke 19:14), (Mark 6:25), (Matthew 1:19), (Mark 15:15), (Acts 24:27), (Acts 25:9), (Luke 10:29), (Revelation 22:17). All will, argues…