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another man’s foundation, but constantly passing the track of his predecessors, into the “regions beyond.” The Christian Alliance is now doing wonders among the heathen on the same Pauline plan, refusing to halt on the track of their predecessors, but carrying the message of salvation to the regions beyond. THE PAULINE MINISTRY IN WESTERN EUROPE. 22. “Therefore indeed I was frequently hindered from coming unto you, 23. “But now having no longer a place in these regions, and having a desire to come to you for many years. 24. “As I journey into Spain; for I hope going through to see you and to be sent forth thither by you if in the first place I may be somewhat refreshed by you.” At the time Paul wrote this letter in Corinth, in the winter of A.D. 58, his arrangements were all made to go on his great and last tour to Jerusalem, to bear alms to the poor saints, having already prophetic intimations through the Spirit, anticipating the troubles that awaited him in the land of his consanguinity, and also glowing anticipations of his journey thence to Rome, which really transpired, landing him in the world’s metropolis three years from the date of this writing. The statement, “having no place in these regions,” simply means no appointments out, as he was going away and could not fill them. We see from this writing that Paul contemplated an evangelistic tour into Spain. Whether he ever verified that anticipation we have no record. Suffice it to say, the Anglo-Saxons have a tradition that he visited and preached in the British Isles, of which there is at least a probability in case he did make this tour into Spain. He arrived in Rome, Feb. A.D. 61, and spent the first two years in his hired house with unrestricted liberty, under the protection of Burrus, the commander-in-chief of the Prætorian army. After the death of this friend and protector at the expiration of two years, he was taken out of his hired house and placed in the military barracks, where he wrote the Epistle to the Philippians. The presumption is that he spent but a short time in the barracks till he was tried and acquitted for want of evidence, as Festus, the pro-consul of Judea, was utterly unable to furnish any charges against him criminally in Roman law. After the great fire at Rome, it is believed that he was arrested at Nicapolis, in Macedonia, on charge of the conflagration, not that he was personally guilty of this, but because he was a leading Christian, and this grave allegation was imputed to them by the emperor, Nero. The presumption is that his second imprisonment, trial and decapitation took place in A.D. 68, thus giving an interval of about four years between his two Roman imprisonments, during which he visited the churches in Greece and Asia and wrote the three pastoral epistles, and, for ought we know, carried out his plan to visit Spain, and perhaps went on up the coast to the British Isles, verifying the above mentioned Anglo-Saxon legend, of which we have no record. 25-28. In these verses he specifies his projected tour to Jerusalem, to bear the benefactions of Macedonia Achaia to the poor saints, and after this his anticipated visit Rome en route to Spain. PAUL’S TESTIMONY TO SANCTIFICATION. 29. “I know that coming unto you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ,” not, as in E.V., the “fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ,” “gospel” in this sentence being an
interpolation; but the true reading is, “I will come unto you in the fullness of the blessing of Christ,” which is none other than entire sanctification, so clearly and positively here attested by the beloved apostle. It is the glorious privilege of all God’s children to enjoy this “fullness of the blessing of Christ,” which is none other than complete expurgation of all sin, actual and original, and the infilling of the Holy Spirit. The next three verses is an appeal to the Roman saints that God may give him journeying mercies and deliver him from the unbelieving Jews, and permit him to enjoy a glorious spiritual refreshing with <strong>His</strong> faithful children in the world’s metropolis.
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES PROLOGUE Luke
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER I. DED
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THE HOLY GHOST HIMSELF, THE POWER.
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Christian religion, did their utmos
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they satisfy the proprietor by payi
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on the floor. But they are done pra
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DOUBLE MIRACLE. 5-9. On this occasi
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that the period of oppression expir
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MIRACLES OF THE END. 19, 20. These
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from Saul, and the Keilites receive
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ody on the cross and now walks into
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Scriptures. When we undertake to he
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into hand, dashing in all direction
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scholarly theologian on the globe.
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THREE THOUSAND CONVERTED. 42. To wh
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had need.” Should all Christendom
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can turn you out of a church! The o
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esponded, “Neither can she any mo
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churches, all counseling together,
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wilderness bloom”; “Springs of
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER IV. AP
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of the other Apostles a whole gener
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former and long-standing animositie
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BARNABAS. 33-37. Here we have anoth
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APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION SPIRITUAL AN
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God has commanded us to “preach t
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in that case He gives you His Holy
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER VI. HE
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would only see that none serve as e
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to what carnal preachers call the c
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JOSEPH TYPICAL OF CHRIST. 9-16. The
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Sure enough, the land teems with pl
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y his crying, she at once conceives
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are everywhere getting sanctified a
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superfluities of Babylon that the m
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positively and unequivocally that o
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martyrdom of Stephen, which was tru
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER VIII.
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eceived his Peniel sanctification t
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33. “In his humiliation his judgm
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Zacharias and Elizabeth, Simeon, An
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PAUL’S SANCTIFICATION. 20-25. (Ga
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your faith is, so be it unto you,
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included with it.] In this distribu
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apostles submitted to the Holy Ghos
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that the guardian angel sometimes a
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XIII.
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where I buried a college president,
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20, 21. Now the sorrowing Nazarenes
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13. Now James, the brother of our L
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of the Jewish theocracy, as at that
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men are servants of the most high G
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XVII.
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marble temples to Jupiter, Minerva,
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XVIII.
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ound and round among the churches a
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9. This Tyrannus, who received Paul
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neither Christians nor Jews, but he
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from idolatry, blood and fornicatio
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getting filled up. Felix and Drusil
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PAUL’S TRIAL BEFORE KING AGRIPPA.
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XXVII.
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ship madly plunged, while great sea
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whose lives were perpetuated simply
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of God, but, on the contrary, you a
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5. “But hope maketh not ashamed,
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Lawgiver, making you a subordinate
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