Acts 17:34

REFLECTIONS

Reader! do not fail to observe, how highly Paul was taught, so as to adapt his discourse to the different hearers among whom he exercised his ministry. To the Jews he preached Christ crucified, in all his fulness, suitableness, and all-sufficiency. To the Bereans, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free, still Jesus Christ became the one text, sum, and substance of the Apostle's sermons, in declaring to every hearer, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of, for salvation to everyone that believeth. To Philosophers, falsely so called, (for, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools), who erected an altar to an Unknown God, Paul preached Jesus, and the Resurrection. He, and He alone, as the New Testament Altar, the High Priest, and the Sacrifice. In short, so highly taught was Paul, and so divinely commissioned by God the Spirit, that he became all things to all men, that by all means he might save some. And, what a sweet testimony the Lord gave to the word of his grace, when, even in Athens, the called out his own, and manifested the Savor of his name in every place!

Reader! let you and I learn, rightly to value our mercies. Oh! the blessedness of having the glorious Gospel of the blessed God made known, and proclaimed in his Churches. Lord! grant thy people grace to know the truth, and the truth to make them free. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound; they shall walk, 0 Lord, in the light of thy countenance!