...Stephen, even from the time he began " disputing with the Libertines and Cyrenians, till the people stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city and stoned him." Such disturbers of the peace were all those ringleaders of the sect of the Nazarenes, (commonly called...

...indeed to the martyr Stephen, and he related it as such, yet his enemies are the more enraged at him; then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, as a blasphemer, and cast him out of the city and stoned him. And those who professed to be witnesses...

...showed itself forth upon this occasion in a very conspicuous manner, the Holy Ghost informing us that " the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul" (Acts, vii. 58); which is followed up by stating that " Saul was consenting unto his death" (Acts,...

...practice of Christians to pray to Christ. The dying prayer of the martyr Stephen, was offered to Christ. " And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus receive my spirit." But to place the fact, that Christ is a proper object of religious homage, beyond all controversy,...

...and said ; Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped...And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God and saying 5 Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice ; Lord, lay not this...

...carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. ACTS, vii. 58 : And east him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses...clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. HEB. xiii. 12 : Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sar tify the people with his own blood, suffered...

...to Damascus. This appears from St. Luke's history, who says, Acts vii. 58, " And they cast Stephen out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses...clothes at a young' man's feet, whose name was Saul." It follows in ch. \ in. 1 — 4, " And Saul was consenting unto his death. At that time there was a...

...have the same correspondence in the New Testament, but the order inverted. The murderers of Stephen " cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord." He was hurried out of the city and stoned. But when now at the point of death, he also, having kneeled...

...cried out with a loud voice and stopped 57 their ears and rushed upon him all together. And a they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And ss while they were stoning Stephen he prayed and...

...said, Behold, 1 see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. . . . And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" (Acts 7:55-56, 59). Before he was stoned, Stephen beheld Christ awaiting him in glory. And at the moment...