28 Then Agrippa ſaid unto Paul, c Almoſt thou p:t- {wadeſt me to be a Chriſtian.
c Some think that theſe Words were ſpoken Ironically, ' ſcoffingly ; as if Agrippa had ſaid, Thou wouldeſt have me 1n*9 ſhort a ſpace (fof ſo <y 35iya may be tranſlated) ro be brougit to-profeſs Chriſt ; ſome think it unlikely thar fuch an one » Agr:ppa would ſpeak ſo plainly as we tranſlate it 1 {uch a place, before ſuch an Auditory ; bur the danger ſeems not tO have _ ſo great from theſe Words; and if it had becn greater, wi knows the power of that convittion under which /g7/pp3 it on time was! and Paul's rejoynder does ſuppoſe the Words 0 © ſpoken in the ſenſe we read them in,
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"7, and g the governour, and þ Bernice, and they that irre with them. f Agrippa, g Feſtus, and þ the Queen, # together with the Governor's Council. Although they had heard this excellent Diſ- courſe from the moſt Jearned Apoſtle, like the Blackmore or Leopard they cannot change their Spots, Jer. 13. 23. or Skin, having ſianed againſt former Mamfteſtations of God's Will ; tor ovght we read, became ineffeQual unto them,
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»> Then ſaid Agrippa unto Feitus, This man m- mich have been fer ar liberty, if he had not appealed rto © alar.
m Theſe Judges and greet Men do, by their Opinion concer- ning Paul, condemn the Jews, whem they declare to have had no cy: for the proſecuting of him. and ſo rhoſe Caitifs retur- id fo *cruſalem, not only with their Labour for their + ains, bur being branded by the Sentence cf fo many eminent per- {-n:ves, not to ſay tormented with the guilt of fo foul a ta& in their own Conicience. Such honour have all Perſccutors, Bur, withall, theſe great Men ſzem to be felf-condemaed, in that they own Paul's Innocence, and yet dare not fer him free for fear of the Fews: For as for this excuſe from his Appealing to Ceſar, [t bound them up indeed from condemning Pal till Ce- ſar had heard him 3 bur they could not be bound by it from acquitting or freeing of him : for Paul might have withdrawn his Appeal ; and enjoyed his Liberty, if they had pleaſed, ar any tine; bur what popularity, or ſelt-ends pur them upon, they 2: willing to varniſh over with Pretence of Layyfulnets and Necefhiry,
CHAT. AX
Paul and other Priſoners ſent :oRome by Tulius a Centrr:on, ſailing they come unto | air-havens, 1 Paul admonithesh them , and foretelleth the great Damage of their Voyage, 9, 1”. The Centurion belierveth the Maſter and Owner of the Ship before” Paul,
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and [ail by Crete, 11-13. A great Terpeſt ar:ſctk ; they caſt et heir Goods, 14. ——- 25. Paul comforterh *cm by tel/mmg his Von, 21 —=—-=-26, They caſt ont four Aichors : The Sea-men in- ter.d 70 flec away, are hindrecd by Paul, 27 — J2. The Pev- 2 after a long Faff, upon Paul's Awvice, J3J—— — 37. They
caſt the Corn into the Sea, 38. and ſuffer Shipwrack, 39 ——41. Terry al ſwim ſafe ro Land, 42 —44-
other pritoners unto one named 5 Julius, a Centurion | © Aupulius band.
a Upon the ſolemn hearing of P#x!'s Cate, it was refol- ved by 1-fs and Jgrippas, with the reft that were taken by Fes to adviſe concerning it. 6 Thought to have been a ied Man of the | amily of Julius, who
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!", t, This Band or Regiment was called :;4/us ( or ine Emperai's) becauſe (as fome will) it was put of his Guard.
2 'And entring into a ſhi» of 4 Adrawitium, we anched, meaning e to {ail by the coaits of Alia, one ? Ariftarchus a Maccdonian, of g Thellalonica, being
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