The life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - containing a full, accurate, and universal history from his taking upon himself our nature to his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension- together with (14592788057)

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Title: The life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ : containing a full, accurate, and universal history from his taking upon himself our nature to his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension: together with the lives, transactions, and sufferings of his holy evangelists, apostles, disciples, and other primitive martyrs. To which is added the history of the Jews
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Fleetwood, John Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885, engr
Subjects: Jesus Christ Apostles Martyrs Jews -- History
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Nathan Whiting
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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hteousness of the law he was blameless, anddefied even his enemies to allege any thing to the contrary, evenin his youth. He joined himself to the sect of the Pharisees, themost strict order of the Jewish rehgion, but, at the same time,the proudest, and the greatest enemies to Christ and his holy re-ligion. With regard to his double capacity, of Jewish extraction andRoman freedom, he had two names, Saul and Paul; the formerHebrew, and the latter Latin. We must also consider his tradeof tent-making as a part of his education ; it being a constantpractice of the Jews to bring up their children to some honestcalling, that, in case of necessity, they might provide for them-selves by the labor of their own hands. Saul having obtained a thorough knowledge of the sciencescultivated by the Jews, and being naturally of a very hot andfiery temper, became a great champion of the law of MoSes, andthe tradition of the elders, which he considered as zeal for God. CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL (Pajre 449.)
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^nd suddenltj there shined round about him a light from hearen : And he fell tathe earth, and lieard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, ivhj/pcrscculesl thou me.?- Acts, ix. 3, 4. LIVES OF THE APOSTLES. 449 This rendered him impatient of all opposition to the doctrines andtenets he had imbibed, and a vehement blasphemer and persecutorof the Christians, who were commonly reputed the enemies anddestroyers of the Jewish economy. The first action we find him engaged in, was the disputationhe and his countrymen had with the martyr Stephen, with re-gard to the Messiah. The Christian was too hard for them inthe dispute : but they were too powerful for him in their civil in-terests : for being enraged at his convincing arguments, theycarried him before the high-priest, who by false accusations con-demned him to death. How far Saul was concerned in thiscruel action, is impossible to say ; all we know, is, that he* kept the raiment of them that slew him. The storm of persecution against the c