...testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand ami am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers. Unto which prt*tise our twelve tiibes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which...

...beginning, (if they would testify,) tl'at after the straitest sect of our religion. I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers; to which .promise, our twelve tribes, continually serving God day and night,...

...beginning, (if they would testify,) that after the straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers ; to which promise, our twelve tribes, continually serving God day and night,...

...be present with it to the end of the world. For these reasons the gospel must be preached, and why should it be thought a thing in*credible with you, that God should bring about the greatest effects by such an instrument ? What ! is any thing too hard for God ? Or...

...always a conscience void of offence towards God and men." So also before King Agrippa : " And now 1 stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers, for which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible...

...formation or its subsequent support? St. Paul's appeal to Aggrippa was therefore unanswerable, " Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ?" II. The possibility of the resurrection has been proved from particular facts. Three persons were...

...that gave them their first being. Difficulties and impossibilities are for men, but not for him. " Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead ?" Reflection. — And must I rise again ? Then, Lord, how am I concerned to get union with Christ...

...Pet. iv. 5. Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quich and dead. Acts xxvi. 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? Job xii. 10. In whose hand is the untt of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Gen. xviii....

...expression, with which St. Luke speaks of the aged Anna, to the whole Jewish nation. " I stand," says he, " and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers, unto which promise, our twelve tribes, instantly serving God, day and night, hope to come." The promise,...

...immediately after his own resurrection, " and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." "Why, then, should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ?" I have neither time nor inclination to enter into metaphysical arguments upon this subject. I admit...