| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...Almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God, &c.— Acts xiii. 7. 44—46. xix. 20. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,...word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so. — Acts xvi.. 11. Apollos, &c. mighty in the Scriptures,... | |
| Universalism - 1828 - 438 pages
...And this was so far from displeasing the apostle, that he highly commended them for it, in the text. "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,...word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." This conduct of the Bereans, in exercising their right... | |
| Charles James Blomfield - Bible - 1828 - 416 pages
...ministry, we may be recommended by you to the grace of God?* * Acts xv. 40. LECTURE IX. ACTS xvii. 11. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,...word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so. now enter upon that division of the apostolic history,... | |
| George Thomas Chapman - Sermons, American - 1828 - 424 pages
...inspired historian has not hesitated to pronounce upon the Bereans the ever to be remembered panegyrick, "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,...the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." On the comparison here instituted, I have little to... | |
| Thomas Carpenter (schoolmaster.) - 1828 - 332 pages
...ye enter not into temptation : the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matt. xxvi. 41. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,...word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.* Acts xvii. 11. affirmed, without contradiction, that... | |
| Timothy Kenrick - Bible - 1828 - 332 pages
...had subsided, his friends took the first opportunity of sending him away to a place of safety. 10. And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night, unto Berea, a town of Macedonia, at some distance from Thessalonica, who, coming thither, went into the synagogue... | |
| Daniel Wilson - Apologetics - 1828 - 832 pages
...the Acts of the Apostles, (and I quote this and other passages now, merely to explain my meaning,) that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.i But to docility must be added SERIOUSNESS ; the attention... | |
| Joseph Fincher - Providence and government of God - 1829 - 442 pages
...meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. IN THE CONVERSION OF THE BEREANS. ACTS xvii. 10—12. And the brethren immediately sent...word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed ; also of honourable... | |
| John Monaghan - 1829 - 144 pages
...attention to them ; for of the Jews at Berea, who attended to the preaching of Paul and Silas, it is said, "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,...word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily whether these things were so." Acts xvii, 11. Here the reading of the scriptures by... | |
| Richard Biscoe - 1829 - 638 pages
...applauded for searching into the truth of those things which were spoken by St. Paul, Acts xvii. 11. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with att readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. And the apostle... | |
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