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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Fincenti festo si Sol radiet mentor eslo, which has been thus Englished and extended: ? Remember, on St. Vincent's Day, If that the sun his beams display, J5e sure to mark the transient beam Which through the casement sheds a gleam; For 'tis a token bright and clear Of prosperous weather al l the year, The Conversion of St. Paul. This festival (January 25th) was instituted very early, and is mentioned in our history, in the reign of Henry III., in St. Paul, the great Apostle of the Gentiles, originally called Saul, was born at Tarsus, in Cilicia; and though a Jew and a Pharisee, he was by birth a Homira citizen. He was present at the martyrdom of St. Stephen, A.d. 34, and was then a young man. He was highly educated in the learning of the times, went to Jerusalem to study the laws, and being a man of great talent, ardent mind, and inflexible resolution, and devotedly attached to the institutions of his country, he viewed with alarm the new religion. Accordingly, he took an active part against the Christians, and pursued them, breathing out threatenings and slaughter. While on his journey to Damascus, authorized to bring to Jerusalem whomsoever of the disciples he might find there, his miraculous conversion took place, as related ia the Acts of the Apostles, c. ix. This event, so important in its results upon the subsequent fortunes of Christianity, occurred A.d. 35, two years after the Crucifixion of our Lord. His conversion, which involved the loss of all his brilliant prospects, has, next to the miracles and resurrection of our Lord, been justly contemplated as one of the most striking and memorable events connected with Christianity; and Lord Lyttelton considered it a sufficient demonstration of the divine authority of the religion to which the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217795715 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217795714 |
| Weight | 1.22 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.84 In |
| List Price | $24.30 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 378 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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