of good cheer, Paul; for in Jerufalem (the metro- The chief captain being Acts xxiii. informed by Paul's nephew 23. of a confpiracy of certain Jews to take away Paul's life, when he fhould next) be brought before the council, fends him away by night A&ts through Antipatris unto Fexxiii.lix, the governor at Cæ31. farea. Acts Five days after Paul's ar-Acts xxiv. xxiii.rival at Cæfarea, Ananias, 1-9. 33. the High Prieft, with the El-Ver. 10 ders, and Tertullus, the ora- 22. tor, came thither; who accute Paul before the governor of being a peftilent fellow, a mover of fedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the fect of the Nazarenes. Paul denies the charge; but owns that, afiter the way which they call-I G ed Their most remarkable Transactions. Tranfaction. ed herefy, he worshiped the God of his fathers: which was a very proper defence before a Roman governor; ince the Roman law forbad the worshiping of any new Gods. Cic. de Leg. lib. II. cap. viii. circ. init. Felix defers giving any fentence till Lyfias fhould come down, and till he fhould be tully informed by him of the matter; and orders him to be kept as a prifoner, but at large. Afterwards he and his wife Drufilla, a Jewefs, fent for him, and heard him of the faith in Chrift. And on his reafoning of righteouf nefs, temperance (chaftity, iynearias), and judgment to come, &c. Felix trembled. Acts xxiv. However, Paul having gi-125-27. ven Felix no bribe, he is left bound, to please the Jews. Feftus, fucceeding Felix, is importuned by the Jews. at Jerufalem, to fend for Paul thither, lying in wait to kill him. But Feftus ordered them to go down with him to Cæfarea, and accuf Paul there. When they were arrived, as they could prove nothing against Paul, fo Pau afferts his own innocence; declaring, "that he had no offended in any thing against the law of the Jews, against the Tem-k 66 6 * plen pie, or againit Cæfar; and that to the Jews he had done no wrong:" ind ver. 8-10. " that how66 ever he might be accufed of being of a new fect, "viz. of the Nazarenes, yet he did not worship a new "God, which by the Ro"man law (Cic. de Leg. lib. II. c. viii.) was unlawful; "but the God of his fathers, "though according to a new "way." But, to avoid the confequence of his being fent by Feltus to Jerufalem, to pleafe the Jews, appeals to Cæfar, upon Chrift's direction in the caftle at Jerufalem, Acts xxiii. 11. in order to his preaching the gofpel at Rome. But before he is fent to A&ts xxv. Cæfar, king Agrippa and 10, 11. Berenice coming to Cæfarea, and being defirous to hear him, Paul is brought forth, and makes the king an elo quent fpeech; and relates what had paffed on the road to Damafcus, at Damafcus, Acts xxvi. and at Jerufalem, viz. (the 2-24. fecond time of his being here after his converfion), Jand the true caufe of his being taken up by the Jews; hews how he executed both his commiffions, that at Da mascus, and that in the Temple. And declares," that G 2 "he Paul's fourth Apoítolic journey, to convert at Rome, Italy. Spain, and Crete. "he continues witneffing to fmall and great, that Chrift fhould fuffer, and fhould be the firft that fhould rife from the dead, and fhew light to the Gentiles;" the three things which the Jews chiefly objected against Christ. Agrippa and Feftus agree Acts xxvi. that Paul might have been 32. fet at liberty, had he not ap pealed to Cæfar. Melita. Proofs of the Their most remarkable Transactions Tranfactions. month, Acts xxvii. 9.); but the centurion truling rather Acts xxvii. to the judgment of the mafter 11, 12. Acts of the ship than to Paul, and xxvii being unwilling to winter 13. in fo inconvenient a port, A&ts I. fet fail for Crete: where Acts At laft they are caft on xxviii. Melita, where a viper faften- A&ts ed on Paul's hand. But he xxviii. fhook it off, and felt no harm; 3-6. according to our Saviour's promife, Mark xvi. 18. Publius, the chief man of Acts the island, lodged them three xxviii. days courteously. 7, 8. Paul lands at Syracufe; tays there three days; comes Ibid. to Rhegium; thence to Puand teoli, where they found BreVer. thren, and, according to their defire, tarried with them Acts feven days. 14. xxviii. When the Brethren at 15. Rome heard of Paul's being |