The almost Christian discovered, in some sermons on Acts 26, 28 with a blow…

IN this Chapter we have St. Paul in his Fetters pleading before that Honourable Sessions of Festus and Agrippa; his Plea we have largely set down from the 1st. to the 24th. Verse, in which he opens his Commission, that he had received in an extraordinary manner from Heaven, for preaching of that Doctrine which was every where spoken against, and for worshipping God in that way which was called Heresy. I shall not at all enter into the consideration of the Apology; but let us look only at the different Effects that it wrought upon the ⟨p. 2⟩Hearers: Festus and Agrippa they we• both of them Unbelievers, the one an […] believing Heathen, the other an unbeli• ving Jew, and thus they both continue yet St. Paul's Speech works very different upon them. In the 24th. Verse you hav• Festus raving; he said with a loud voice Paul, thou art besides• thy self, much learni•• hath made thee mad. Thy Thoughts of Vision and an Apparition, of a Man dea•• and buried, lying safe under ground that he should rise again and appear fro• Heaven to thee, being the Saviour of t• World, is a mere Fancy, proceeding fro• a strong Frenzy: Thus he scoffs an• raves. But this very Sermon which see• ed Madness and an idle Tale to unbelieving Festus, carries a strong Convicti• in it to Agrippa, who was an Unbeliev• too; Almost thou persuadest me to be Christian.

IN this Chapter we have St. Paul in his Fetters pleading before that Honourable Sessions of Festus and Agrippa; his Plea we have largely set down from the 1st. to the 24th. Verse, in which he opens his Commission, that he had received in an extraordinary manner from Heaven, for preaching of that Doctrine which was every where spoken against, and for worshipping God in that way which was called Heresie. I shall not at all enter into the consideration of the Apology; but let us look only at the different Effects that it wrought upon the