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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 martyrsTo which is added the history of the Jews . cape the sea, hadreserved for a more public and solemn execution. But when theysaw him shake off the venomous creature into the fire, and nomanner of harm ensue, they changed their sentiments, and criedout, that he was a God. After three mont
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 martyrsTo which is added the history of the Jews . cape the sea, hadreserved for a more public and solemn execution. But when theysaw him shake off the venomous creature into the fire, and nomanner of harm ensue, they changed their sentiments, and criedout, that he was a God. After three months stay in this island, the centurion with hischarge went on board the Castor and Pollux, a ship of Al-exandria, bound to Italy. They put in at Syracuse, wherethey tarried three days; then they sailed to Regium, and fromthence to Puteoli, where they landed; and finding some Chris-tians there, staid, at their request, a week with them, and thenset forward on their journey to Rome. The Christians of thiscity, hearing of the apostles coming, went to meet him as faras the distance of about thirty miles from Rome, and others asfar as the Apii-forum, fifty-one miles distant from the kindly embraced each other, and the liberty he saw theChristians enjoy at Rome greatly tended to enliven the spirits ofthe apostle. PAUL SIlTPWRErKKD AT AIKLITA. f^And when Uie barharia^<t siw the vertomons b- isl hang on his hand, they saidamong themselves, jXo dnvbl this iimyi is a murderer, tvhoin, though lie hath escape!the sen, yet rengennre snffrrelh not to live. Jnd he ?^hnok nj the hcast into the Jire, and felt no harm.—Acts, xxviii. 4, 5. LIVES OF THE APOSTLES. 469 CHAPTER VH. # The transactions of St. Paul, from his arrival at Rome, tilthis Martyrdom. Having refreshed himself after the fatigue of his voyage, theapostle sent for the heads of the Jewish consistory at Rome,and related to them the cause of his coming, in the followingmanner : Though I have been guilty of no violenc
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