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ency than in the epistle. In the epistle, he retains his hopo 

 *' that he should come unto them with joy by the will of 

 God :" in the history^ his mind yields to the reflection, "that 

 the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city that bonds and 

 afflictions awaited him." Now, that his fears should be 

 greater, and his hopes less., in this stage of his journey than 

 when he wrote his epistle, that is, when he first set out upon 

 it, is no other alteration than might well be expected ; since 

 those prophetic intimations to which he refers, when he says, 

 " the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city," had probably 

 been received by him in the course of his journey, and were 

 probably similar to what we know he received in the re 

 maining part of it at Tyre, chap. 21:4; and afterwards 

 from Agabus at Cesarea. Chap. 21 : 11. 



VI. There is another strong remark arising from the same 

 passage in the epistle ; to make which understood, it will be 

 necessary to state the passage over again, and somewhat 

 more at length : 



"I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's 

 sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive togethei 

 with ine in your prayers to God for me, that I may be de- 

 livered from them that do not believe in Judea — that I may 

 come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with 

 you be refreshed." 



I desire the reader to call to mind that part of St. Paul's 

 history which took place after his arrival at Jerusalem, and 

 which employs the last seven chapters of the Acts ; and I 

 build upon it this observation — that supposing the epistle to 

 the Romans to have been a forgery, and the author of the 

 forgery to have had the Acts of the Apostles before him, and 

 to have there seen that St, Paul, in fact, Avas not delivered 

 from the unbelieving Jews, but on the contrary, that he was 

 taken into custody at Jerusalem, and brought to Rome a 

 prisoner — it is next to impossible that he should have made 

 St. Paul express expectations so contrary to what he saw had 

 been the event ; and utter prayers, with apparent hopes of 



