...advanced circumstances in the world will not fortify against, or deliver from them, Acts xxiv. 25. As Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled. Even Pharaoh himself, the most hard-hearted sinner in the world, who would fain have forced a belief...

...fear in love," says the evangelist, "but perfect love casteth out fear ; because fear hath torment :" and as Paul " reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come," Felix feared or trembled. Sometimes it expresses that cordial subjection which the child of adoption feels...

...knew that they were guilty of the crime alleged against them. — The case of Felix is to the point. As Paul " reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled!-" Why did he tremble ? His conscience smote him. He knew that he was violating the laws of righteousness...

...Sinner's heart. It had struck terror into his soul, . Nor had he been able to hide his feelings. '« As Paul reasoned of righteousness', temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled." His trembling, however, was but for a moment. He quickly got rid of his fears, and recovered his spirits....

...rid of these convictions. 1. I would, when they were uneasy, promise them a hearing afterwards : " And as Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way, and when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." 2. At other seasons,...

...Drusilla : the Scripture tells us the subjects on which he spoke, and its effects on his hearer. — " As Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled ; and he said unto Paul, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season I will call for...

...splendour and joy of the celestial Paradise, and the gloominess and misery of hell. No wonder, then, that " as Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled." There will, indeed, be fearful reason for " weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth," with those...

...splendour and joy of the celestial Paradise, and the gloominess and misery of hell. No wonder, then, that " as Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled." There will, indeed, be fearful reason for " weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth," with those...

...crimes, permitted to haunt him on the polluted seat of justice, and to harrow all his heart-strings. ' And as Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled.' He trembled, but he did nothing more; he trembled, but it was not the trembling of penitence ; he trembled,...

...* Actsxxiv. 17,26. reason could never supply, the certainty of a future retribution. And therefore, as Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled. The plainest rules of justice, or righteousness, he had violated, as well by his oppressive and rapacious...