...of 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,...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 divers...

...conscience in exchange for its insulting forbearance. " And when they had called the apostles anct beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go." But did this treatment subdue or terrify their spirits ? Not at all ; for we are assured, in the glowing...

...lives of the Apostles at this time, but not totally to exempt them from correction. " When they had beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go." This first taste of persecution afforded a kind of triumph to these primitive disciples of Christ,...

...night of their pain ! neither were their backs more full of weals, than their mouths of laughter, " for they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Jesus," Acts v. 41. And, as all these are animated by one and the same Spirit, what other...

...tribulation." (Rom. xii. 12.) How rational was their joy, who being beaten and forbidden to preach, " departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they 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...

...tribulation." (Rom. xii. 12.) How rational was their joy, who being beaten and forbidden to preach, " departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...that they 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....

...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 women,...

...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...

...slightly hinted at ; or else related in this dry, frigid way. " And when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not...speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go '." " And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and having stoned...

...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 the...