x As his PredecefTor, Felix, before lim, C5 54. 5»: ro o:;y popular applauſe, and rhe good will of that Nation ; cf-c: ily Felix having been dilplaced vpen the complaint of the Fes 1. gainſt him. » Anſwerd, or ſpake- to Par! ;, 25 Chop, 2, v5. ». Io. frus apparently inclines to favour the Jews, though he Jnvs not command, bur 5k tiv's 04 Par; he being priviieved v5 1 Row we could nor againſt his will be forced ro acxnhow!eug! toy ops for competent ſJuuges,
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11 * Forif I be / an offender, or have commi;:red any thing e worthy of death, I refuſe not to die : bur if chere be none of theſe things whereof theſe: accuis me, f no man may deliver me unto them. g I apneal unto Czſar.
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Roman Citizens, to appeal : Neither might they be tried 104inÞ their wills in any Province onr of Reme, Now Pay! might 49. peal unto Ceſar; 1. To make Ceſar more faronrable unto him ielf, and to other Chriſtians. 2». Becauſe he rhought ir more ſafe for himſelf and for rhe Clurch. 3. He was in part admo- nithed ro do it by Chriſt himtelf, Co-ap. 23. 11. who bad rod
him, that he muſt bear wirnefs of him at Rome.
12 Tnen Feftus when he had conferred with re council, anſwered, g Haſt thou appeaied unto Cu? unto Czlar ſhalc thou &
'.* Either of the Tews, and thoſe of the Senhearim;, far Ne might inform them of the: Law or Cuſtom of the Rm ms ; and how that he could nor bur admit of Sr Pav!'s Appe?! : or with his own council; it being uſual for the Roman. Pretidents to do nothing of moment without the Advice of their Council, or Aſſiſtants, g Or, witaour an Interrogition ; {her haſt appealed un!o Ceſar ; which F:fus was glad of, rhar without danger on the one hand, or ill-will on the other, he mjght ver rid of that dif. ficult buſineſs. :
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k To wit, Judgment of Death upon Peul, that he might be ſcircenced according to the Crimes they had laid againſt him ; Hyun being put for »»-dizy., Neither do they 2t all matter thar St. Pav!'s Cafe was not yet heard ; they would rather have hl him condemned unheard, as they had gotten our Saviour to te condemned, though the Judge declared, that he found no £!t in him, Luke 23. 4. which their unjuſt deſire appears by
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16 To whom TI anſwered, It is not the manner / of the Romans to deliver any. man to die, before that he which is accuſed, have the acculers face to tace, and have licenſe to anfwer tor himlelf concerning the crime [10 againſt jim.
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illedged and proved, is not only againſt the Faws of the Roman? ,
but of the Jews, Dent. 23. 4. Nay, againſt the Law of Nature and of all Nations. Yet Malice had fo tar blinded the Enemies of Sr. Paul, that they go about ſuch things as an Heathen reproves, ind the very light of Natmecondemns.
17 Therefore when they were come hither, » with- out eny delay on the morrow TI fat on the judg- ment {cat, aid I commanded the man to be brought forth.
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» Feftns had gratified the Jews in what lawfully he might, not detaining them ar Charges from their habirations : _ that not only commends Fefus his own Juſtice, bur Paw > Innecenc: ; For if Paul had not appeared guiltlelſs, he woulC have left him to the Rage of the Jews, whom he defired t© gratifie whar he could,
18 Againſt whom when the accuſers ſtood up» they brought none accuſation. z of ſuch things as I {uppoſet.
# For Ieflus knowing how Paul had been proſecuted by the "ew before Felix, and what Charge they had been ar, and whar Journeys they had made about him , could not think lefs than that he was a Capital Offender.
19 Put had * certain queſtions againſt him of their own o ſuperſtition, and of one Jeſus, which was dead, whom Paul aftirmed tobe p alive.