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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86056	The life of the apostle St Paul, written in French by the famous Bishop of Grasse, and now Englished by a person of honour.	Godeau, Antoine, 1605-1672.	1653 (1653)	Wing G923; Thomason E1546_1; ESTC R209455	108,894	368

do them justice They obeyed this his order coming to the appointed place repeated with much heat those accusations which before they had deposed without any more proofe this second time then they had done at the first The Apostle answered likewise in his defence the same as before and Festus being desirous to gratifie the Jews though at the cost of the Apostles innocency and life asked him if he were not willing to go to Hierusalem to be judged there by him He answered No and that he appealed to the Tribunal of Caesar for if I have offended him as I am accused or done harm to any 't is there I will suffer death But if I be innocent of these crimes wherewith I am charged as I maintain I am and as you your selves well know no man can oblige me to suffer my self to be judged by my Adversaries And I appeal to the supream Authority of Caesar Festus surprised with this discourse and having maturely considered what he were best to do in this occasion was enforced to tell him Thou hast appealed to Caesar before him thou shalt go At that time young Agrippa came to Cesarea to salute Portius Festus together with his Sister Berenice who had espoused in her first nuptials Herod her Unckle King of Chalcides and in her second marriage Polemon little King of Cilicia This young Prince was not above seventeen yeares of age when his Father of whose death we have spoken in the first Book left him the Scepter The Emperour Claudius at whose Court he then was conserved to him all the estates of his Father except Iudea which he durst not trust in his hands by reason of his youth and the turbulent humor of the Iewes But Nero added to them many little Provinces Some dayes after his arrival Festus spake to him of the Apostle told him all that had passed concerning that business and that it was now suspended because of his appeal to Cesar Agrippa was very glad of the newes for the reputation of S. Paul had made him a long time desirous to see him At the day appointed he came to the place ordained for publick audience in the company of his Sister Berenice with whom the common rumor famed him to have greater familiarity then honesty permitted The Apostle was brought thither and Festus shewing him to Agrippa said This is the man of whom I spake to you and against whom the Iewes were so fiercely bent as they sought his ruine by all maner of means although for my part I finde him not guilty of any crime In fine I intended to send him to Caesar to whom he hath appealed but being ignorant what to write in this affaire it concerning some point of Religion about a certain man named Jesus of Nazareth whom the accused affirmes to be risen againe after his death and whom the Iewes on the other side condemned as an Impostor I am very willing to have him speak before so noble an Assembly and before a Prince well versed in all those questions Hereupon Agrippa made sign to the Apostle that he should defend himself which he did in this manner It is no small consolation to me King Agrippa that I am to speak this day before you in answer to the accusations of my enemies because you are perfectly instructed in all the questions of the Law whereof I am accused to be a publick enemy Hence also I assure my self that you by your piety being interessed in this cause will afford me a favorable hearing Me thinks I ought to be the least suspected of any person to be guilty of this crime wherewith I am charged For if my accusers would but acknowledge the truth they will know in what manner I have lived in Hierusalem all the time of my youth amongst those of my Nation I was brought up under the discipline of the Pharisees which is the sect the most pure of greatest authority in our Religion I do not believe to have done any thing contrary to the rules of my Profession which might give the least occasion to feare the judgement of men if there were question of my behaviour But all my pretended crime hath relatition to my beliefe and I finde my self reduced to a necessity of defending my self in publique because I place my hope in him who was promised to our foreFathers and from whom I expect my salvation as they have done serving God day and night and carefully observing all the precepts which he gave unto them for that end Now this hope does not terminate in this life it is accomplished in the other by the resurrection of the body which places man in a glorious State where he is to receive the recompence of his good deeds and the accomplishment of that salvation which has been here the subject of hope Behold a second crime raised against me by some who following the principles of their Sect deny what I believe and what I teach concerning this point of the resurrection What is there in it that seems to you incredible who dares say God cannot restore life to the dead who had the power to give life when he placed them in the world For the first point of my accusation I confess I have had opinions far different from that of which they would now make me guilty For sometime I believed as others did that I ought to do all things to the dishonour of Jesus of Nazareth and the more I shewed my rage against his name the more notice was taken of my piety The city of Hierusalem is witness of the violences I used I made search in all places after those who professed that doctrin I have cast many of them into prison by authority from the Princes of the Priests to that effect and when they have been condemned to death I have not only by my vote approved the sentence to be just but have been the bearer of it I went to all the Synagogues endeavouring sometimes by force and sometimes by Stratagems to make those who had imbraced the belief of the Gospel to renounce it and I esteemed it a great victory when I could corrupt any disciple of J. Christ I deserved to have continued in my blindeness and to have found in the end the just punishment of my cruelty which extended it self even to forrain and remote Cities But he whom I persecuted had compassion of my ignorance would in shewing mercy to me shew to all sinners the excess of his goodness and long patience I went to Damasco to imprison all those who believed in him and in the way about noon a great light environed me and those who were in my company we all fell to the ground and I heard a voice that spake to mee in the Hebrew tongue Saul Saul Why doest thou persecute me It is in vaine to kicke against the prickes I answered Who are you Lord The Lord replied I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou doest persecute but arise and

by the Law for Nazarites who had made their vow but for a time or whose vow was intermitted by some legal pollution he by chance was known by some Jewes of Asia who began to cry out that this was the mortal enemy of the law of Moyses and not content to spread his doctrine in remote Provinces was so impudent and wicked as to introduce Gentiles into that holy place They meant Trophimus for having seen him in his company in the city they believed or would have others to believe that he had brought him into the Temple with him At the name of Paul all the town was in commotion the people got together from all parts dragged him out of the Temple and he had certainly been killed if Lysias who commanded a band of Souldiers appointed for the guard of the Temple on festival daies to prevent seditions had not been informed of the Tumult that was beginning and come in haste with his Captaines and Souldiers to appease them The sight of him stopped a little the fury of the people who then ceased to strike and abuse the Apostle Lysias made him presently be bound with two chaines and asked him what he had done and what he was But the noise and cries of the multitude were so great as neither the question nor the answer could be understood Wherefore Lysias was constrained to conduct him to Antoninus Tower that hee might secure him which hee had no small trouble to do for the people who followed would have faln upon him crying out upon every one to kill him Not long before there was an Egyptian in Hierusalem who counterfeited himself to be a Prophet and that by a word onely he could make the walls of the City to fall down this man had got a great multitude of followers amongst them divers murderers The Governour Felix having notice of it sent presently a party of Souldiers who falling upon these poore abused people killed or took the greatest part of them The Egyptian saved himselfe but some of those murthering villaines continued to stirre up the people and to burn the villages where they found any resistance Lysias asked S. Paul if he was not the Commander of those rebels He answered him that hee was a Jew and native of Tharsus in Cilicia a Municipal town well known After the Apostle had made him this answer he desired leave that he might speak to the people which being granted he began his discourse relating how hee had persecuted the Church his miraculous conversion of which wee spake in the first book of this History he added moreover that when hee came to Hierusalem which I believe was the first voyage he made thither Jesus Christ appeared to him as he was praying in the Temple and said to him Depart quickly out of Hierusalem for they will not receive the testimony which thou givest of me and he answering that they ought not to suspect his testimony having shewed himself so zealous in defence of the Law and was not only present at the death of Stephen but consenting to it kept the garments of those that stoned him Our Lord replied again Go do that which I command for I will send thee unto Nations At this word of Nations the Jews lost all patience breaking silence which they had willingly kept hearing him to speak in their tongue they cryed out in a fearfull tone He is a wicked man and ought not to live longer upon the face of the earth let him be put to death they added to those clamours actions which sufficiently manifested their fury for they shook their garments and gathering up dust threw it into the aire to make it known they detested him that had spoken to them This great commotion made Lysias command that he should be led into the Tower of Antoninus for S. Paul had spoken to the people from the top of the staires which lead up to it Lysias his designe was to extort by stripes from him the reason of this great uprore The Apostle would willingly have suffered this great ignominy for the love of his Master but a secret inspiration of the holy Ghost moved him to tell a Captain who was at hand and had charge to see the orders of Lysias put in execution That they should take heed what they did for besides his innocency which ought to exempt him from being whipped he was a Citizen of Rome This was presently told to Lysias who would be assured of it from his owne mouth saying That the Priviledge of a Citizen which he boasts of had cost him a great summe of money The Apostle answered it had cost him nothing for my birth saies he obtained me this honour Indeed amongst many other Priviledges which Julius Caesar Augustus had bestowed on Tharsis in recompence of the services done by the Inhabitants of that place in the warres of Pompey and Brutus one was to be Citizens of Rome Now by a Law of Valerius Publicola confirmed after by a Law of Sempronius and by the Law Porcien Magistrates were forbidden to whip a Citizen of Rome Whereupon Lysias caused the chaines to be taken off the Apostle and that he might sound the depth of this business commanded the Priests of the Jewes to assemble themselves the next day in some place near the fortress which accordingly they did Thither they led this Criminal which made a great uprore and when silence was made he began his discourse with a Protestation that he had lived untill till that time without any reproach both before God and man But he was presently interrupted by the Prince of the Priests there assembled who was called Ananias This man very unworthy of the rank he held being transported with fury against the cause as well as against the advocate or it may be offended in that the Apostle had not given him those titles of honour which he expected saluting them all by the name of Brothers commanded those who were next the Apostle to buffet him S. Paul having as yet advanced no proposition of the Gospel in revenge of which to have received this injury would have been delightfull and judging that in this occasion he ought to defend the honor of his Masters ministery told Ananias in a prophetick spirit and in the tone of a Master God will strike thee whited wall Thou sittest here to judge me according to the Law and contrary to the Law thou makest me to be abused before I have said any thing to deserve this usage Whereupon one of the assistants sayed What doest thou mean to threaten and injure the high Priest of God in this manner The Apostle whom passion had not transported and who perhaps had heard the voice of Annanias and not observed his person in regard of the disorder in the Assembly whence perhaps he sat not in the accustomed place which was used in meetings or for some other reason which imports not much to know replied quietly Brethren if I had