Lectures upon the history of St. Paul
Subtitle: delivered during Lent, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea
Publisher: Hooker & Agnew
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Philadelphia, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: LECTURE I.; title: Acts ix. 4.; title: "And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice laying onto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me."; title: The early history of Saul — Saul present at the martyrdom of St. Stephen — Saul's journey to Damascus — His conversion — The great practical lesson to be deduced from it — Its wonderful particulars, Page 13; title: LECTURE II.; title: Acts ix. 16.; title: "For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake."; title: Particulars of Saul's conversion continued — The effect of the light from heaven on Saul's companions — Saul in Damascus — The vision of Ananias — Saul prayeth — The Almighty reveals that Saul shall suffer great things — To suffer is still the privilege of Christians, 28; title: LECTURE III.; title: Acts ix. 20.; title: "And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God."; title: The interview between Ananias and Saul — Christian fellowship — Saul receives his sight — Saul while at Damascus dwells with "the disciples" — Preached Christ in the synagogues — "Confounded the Jews" — Retires into Arabia, 42; title: LECTURE IV.; title: Acts ix. 26.; title: "And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he essayed to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that ha was a disciple."; title: Saul returns to Damascus — Driven out of Damascus by the enemies of Christianity — Disowned in Jerusalem by its friends — Saul abides with St. Peter during his sojourn at Jerusalem — On the reception of the truly penitent into Christian fellowship — Saul directed by God in a vision to leave Jerusalem — "Then had the churches rest," 56; title: LECTURE V.; title: Acts xiii. 7.; title: "The deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man, who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of the Lord."; title: Saul spends several years at Tarsus — Religious duties at home — Barnabas takes Saul to Antioch — Saul and Barnabas visit Jerusalem, and carry back With them John, whose surname was Mark — Visit Cyprus — Conversion of Sergius Paulus — Elymas, the sorcerer, strives to turn the deputy from the faith — Saul strikes the sorcerer blind, 69; title: LECTURE VI.; title: Acts xiii. 39.; title: "By him, all that believe are justified from all things." Saul's name is changed to Paul — St. Paul leaves Cyprus and goes to Perga in Pamphylia — John Mark returns to Jerusalem, forsaking the apostles — The probable motive for Mark's conduct — St. Paul at Antioch in Pisidia — St. Paul preaches to the Jews — "All that believe are justified from all things," 83; title: LECTURE VII.; title: Acts xiii. 43.; title: "Continue in the grace of God."; title: The Gentiles desire to hear that word which the Jews rejected — St. Paul persuades his hearers to "continue in the grace of God" — Charges the Jews with judging themselves unworthy of everlasting life,, and putting from them the word of God — "The word of the Lord was published throughout all the legion" — St. Paul persecuted by " the devout and honourable women" — "The disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost," 96; title: LECTURE VIII.; title: Acts xiv. 4.; title: "But the multitude of the city was divided, and part held with the Jews, and part with the Apostles"; title: St Paul so preaches at Iconium that "a great multitude believed" — The city divided — St Paul flies to Lystra — Heals a cripple — Is treated as a Divinity — Protests against this, and is afterwards stoned, and left for dead, 109; title: LECTURE IX.; title: Acts xv. 39.; title: "And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder the one from the other."; title: St Paul opposes the Judaizing teachers — The first general council of the church of Christ — St. Paul and Barnabas disagree — St. Paul takes Silas with him, and visits the churches — Circumcises Timothy — Joined at Troas by St Luke — Conversion of Lydia, 120; title: LECTURE X.; title: Acts xvi. 25.; title: "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God; and the prisoners heard them."; title: A damsel possessed with a spirit of divination acknowledges St. Paul to be the servant of the most High God — St Paul ejects the evil spirit — St. Paul in prison — Conversion of the jailer, 135; title: LECTURE XI.; title: Acts xvii. part of the 6th verse.; title: "These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also."; title: Effects of the jailer's conversion — St. Paul compels the magistrates to go themselves and liberate him from his unjust imprisonment — St. Paul preaches at Thessalonica — St. Paul persecuted by "certain lewd fellows of the baser sort" — Charged with having "turned the world upside down" — St. Paul preaches at Athens, 148; title: LECTURE XII.; title: Acts xix. 2, 3.; title: "He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them. Unto what then were ye baptized?"; title: Conversion of Dionysius the Areopagite — St. Paul preaches at Corinth — Is strengthened by a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ — After residing at Corinth a year and a half, retains to Ephesus, 162; title: LECTURE XIII.; title: Acts xix. 20.; title: "So mightily grew the word of God, and prevailed."; title: St. Paul at Ephesus — Modem miracles — The seven sons of Sceva — The magicians burn their books, 175; title: LECTURE XIV.; title: Acts xx. 24.; title: "None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God."; title: St. Paul at Trees — Eutychue — St Paul's address to the elders of the Ephesian church — "None of these things move me," 185; title: LECTURE XV.; title: Acts xx. 36, 37, 38.; title: "And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and prayed with them all and they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more."; title: St. Paul's address to the elders of the Ephesian church concluded On parting with Christian friends, 139; title: LECTURE XVI.; title: Acts xxi. 13.; title: "I am ready, not to be bound only, but also. to die for the name of the Lord Jesus."; title: St. Paul at Tyre — At the house of Philip the evangelist, at Cesarea — Interview with Agabus — Dangers of the sun-shine hours of life — "The will of the Lord be done," 212; title: LECTURE XVII.; title: Acts xxi. 26.; title: "Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them, entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be tiered for every one of them"; title: St. Paul at Jerusalem — Countenances, by his example an adherence to the ceremonial law - On the concessions made, by religions people, to the world, 225; title: LECTURE XVIII.; title: Acts xxiii. 11.; title: "And the night following, the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul; for as thou hast testified* of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Home."; title: St. Paul a prisoner in the hands of the Romans — the Jews' unholy jealousy of the Gentiles — St. Paul Sentenced to he scourged — Claims the privilege of a Roman citizen — Carried before the Sanhedrim — The Lord Jesus Christ appears to St. Paul in a vision — The Lord's presence with His people to the end of time, 242; title: LECTURE XIX.; title: Acts xxiv. 25.; title: "And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered go thy way for this time; when I have & convenient season I will call for thee." St. Paul before Felix — His reply to the charge of Tertullus — St. Paul before Felix and Drusilla — " Reasons of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come " — The sinner's procrastination, 255; title: LECTURE XX.; title: Acts xxvi. 28.; title: "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian,"; title: Felix leaves St Paul prisoner at Cesarea — St Paul before Festus, Agrippa, and Bernice — Festus pronounces St. Paul to be beside himself — Agrippa almost persuaded to be a Christian — "Almost Christians" 271; title: LECTURE XXI.; title: Acts xxvii. 31.; title: "Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved."; title: St. Paul's appeal to Cesar — The voyage to Rome — Storm — The angel of the Lord sent to St. Paul — "Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved," 280; title: LECTURE XXII.; title: Acts xxviii. 30, 31.; title: "And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching, the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him."; title: St Paul's shipwreck and deliverance — Value of human opinions — Comfort of human sympathy — Journey to Rome — Martyrdom, 295; title: LECTURE XXIII.; title: Romans vii. 19.; title: "For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do."; title: The nature of St. Paul's experience, 313; title: LECTURE XXIV.; title: Galatians vi. 14.; title: "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Christ Jesus."; title: The subject of St. Paul's boast, 326