Paul's readiness to suffer for Christ's sake.
Acts xxi. 13. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart ? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
INNUMERABLE are the devices of our great adversary, to blind our eyes, and to keep us in a course of sin ; and, when we have been enabled to burst the chains in which he once led us captive, he labours still to tempt and beguile us in every possible way, if so be he may prevail at last to turn us aside from God. None, whilst they continue in the flesh are out of the reach of his assaults. Even our blessed Lord, when he condescended to assume our nature " was m all things tempted as we are, though without sin. And such is the subtlety of Satan, that he will instigate even the best of men to become tempters to their brethren He stirred up Peter to dissuade his Lord from submitting to those sufferings which he had covenanted to endure : and in like manner he moved the saints at Cesarea to dissuade Paul from going up to Jerusalem, whither he was proceeding lor the furtherance of his Master's cause. There was at Cesarea a prophet named Agabus, who took Paul's girdle and bound with it his own hands and feet and then declared that the owner of that girdle should so be bound by the Jews at Jerusalem, and