...friends not to go up to Jerusalem, he answered, " What mean ye, to weep and to ' break mine heart ? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus : " Acts xxi, 13. That apostle was indeed an eminent example...

...the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world:" " I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die, for the name of the Lord Jesus :" " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ; yea doubtless,...

...heart?" is an interrogatory as intelligible to us in the character of Paul, as the heroic declaration, " I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die for the name of the Lord Jesus." What ground, then, is there for that charge so frequently brought against...

...is this which burnt with holy and consuming ardour in the great apostle's breast, when he declared, "I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die for the name of the Lord Jesus." " I have strived to preach among the Gentiles, where Jesus was not named,...

...him not to expose himself: — "What mean ye," said Paul, "to weep and to break mine heart — for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." " And when he would not be persuaded we ceased, saying,...

...love to his friends, with his devotedness to Christ. " What mean ye to weep, and break my heart ? for I am ready, not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus." Then his friends ceased to persuade him, saying only,...

...dissuaded him from the dangerous path of duty, " What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart ? for I am ready, not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. And now, .behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem,...

...sacrifice, his friends wept around him, he calmly said, What mean you to weep and break mine heart ? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus."' Doubtless multitudes besides have possessed a similar...

...shepherd. Chap, xxi, ver. 13. — Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. When Luther was summoned to attend the diet at Worms,...

...for his life, or hide himself, because he feared death in any of its terrors ; for he was always " ready, not to be bound only, but also to die for the name of the Lord Jesus." Beyond a question, his appeal to those elders of Ephesus was applicable to...