 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 568 pages
..." and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the Council, rejoicing, that they were worthy to suffer shame for his name." Such was the spirit, which they every where discovered, and on... | |
 | Martin Luther - Sermons - 1829 - 418 pages
...spirit 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,...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 temptations... | |
 | Martin Luther - Lutheran Church - 1830 - 216 pages
...spirit 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,...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 temptations... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...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.... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1830 - 302 pages
...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, and... | |
 | Thomas Ken (bp. of Bath and Wells.) - 1831 - 232 pages
...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...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 temple,... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 pages
...examples we may learn to rejoice and be exceeding glad in such persecution:— as the apostles did, who " departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing...were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name." (Acts v. 41.) And St. Peter says, "If ye be reproached for the fied ; they shall not hunger and thirst... | |
 | John Davenant, Josiah Allport - Bible - 1831 - 656 pages
...indignities for the sake of the Gospel, and of our sacred ministry. It is therefore said of the Apostles, 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. That is a bad soldier, says Prosper, who follows his General sorrowing.... | |
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And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. 
