< The Meſſage which Gods Angels bring from Cod uny};;; people, is, Fearnot, Thus unto Daniel Dan. 10. 12, 19, Arq thus unto the holy women thar attended at our Lords Scpy]ch;. Matth. 28, 5. They are all Miniſtring Spirits, H4, , ,; d "Tis a forenſick word, ſhewing that* Pau! muſt be hearg 1:4 tried by Ceſar. e Graciouſly beſtowed all thy Fellow-Trave!1.,; upon thee at thy Requeſt: For it is implied, that Par! hid pjyy, ed for them, and begged their Lives of God; as Ek þ.1 the Lives of her people at the hands of King A44aſueru;, £3!» 7. 3. There is a remarkable difference between Par! and 5inzh in a ſtorm, though Jonah profeiſes as much as -Pau! does i preceding Verſe. But Joxah 1. 9. it was little more than 4 Pro. teſſion in Jonah, but Paul was aQtually in the Fear and Serrice of God, and doubtleſs there was as great a difference in thei; breſts during the Storm. The true Fear and Seryice of Gol brings with it great Peace and inward Satisfation, which whrn any Jeave, they muſt at leaſt fo long be ſtrangers unto, forth: is no peace to the wicked, Iſa. 48. 22.
25 Wherefore, Sirs, be of Good cheer : for? Ihe lieve God, that it ſhall be even as it was roid me.
f Paul having had Experience of the Power and t aithfulnels of God, and had known his name, profeiicth ro truſt in him; and recommends Gods Veracity unto them, as worthy to bere- lied upon. What a great dealof good does one holy Mando in a place? Theſe hundreds of Men fare the better both in Soul and Body for Holy Paul. 2 25 Howbeit g we * muſt be caft upon a certain'li iſ])and. +
g This was given by Paul as a ſign unto them of the rut: what he had {aid, which when it came to paſs might 1nuce them to beligve the reſt ; which probably it did, and Javed Pau from being killed by the Soldiers, v. 42. Thus Gol preieriss his people, and delivers Paul, and brings all bis fately ol « the laſt, bur it is by Tempeſts and Storms. It may be they mui ſuffer ſhipwrack of all they have in this World firſt. Augaſh per anguſia, Through many Tribulations we mult enter .aco 07 Kingdom of God ; as St. Paul had taught others, AT 14.2%. he experienced to be true himſelf. There was no 1:utli mor experimented than this.
27 But. when the fourteenth night was come, 45 wh" Oo o . n J Is were driven up and down in + Adria, about midnight,”
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h Not in the Adriatick Bay or Gulf of Fenice , which d1v wy Italy and Dalmatia (though that be alſo ſo called) but tis m_— is ſometimes extended to thoſe parts of the Mediterr 1497 - which borders on Sicily and Ionia in Greece, and muſt be Pu over by ſuch as go from Crete, or Candia, to Meiits 0! Maiia,
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