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no certain dwelling-place ; and labor, working with our own 

 hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we sutler 

 it • being defamed, we entreat : we are made as the filth o{ 

 the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.*' 

 1 Oor. i : 9-13. I subjoin this passage to the former, because 

 it extends to the other apostles of Christianity much of that 

 which St. Paul declared concerning himself 



In the following quotations, the reference to the author's 

 sufferings is accompanied with a specification of time and 

 place, and Avith an appeal for the truth of what he declares 

 to the knowledge of the persons whom he addresses : " Even 

 after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully en- 

 treated, as ye knoiv, at PJiilij)2)i, we were bold in our God 

 to speak unto you the gospel of God v/ith much contention." 

 1 Thess. 2 : 2. 



"But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of 

 life, purpose, faith, long-suifering, persecutions, afflictions, 

 which came unto me at A?itioch, at Iconiinn, at Lystra ; 

 what persecutions I endured : but out of them all the Lord 

 delivered me." 2 Tim. 3 : 10, 11. 



I apprehend that to this point, as far as the testimony of 

 St. Paul is credited, the evidence from his letters is completo 

 and full. It appears under every form m which it could 

 appear, by occasional allusions and by direct assertions, by 

 general declarations and by specific examples. 



YII. St. Paul in these letters asserts, in positive and un- 

 equivocal terms, his performance of miracles strictly and 

 properly so called. 



"He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and 

 worketh miracles, evepyuv dwu/inr, among you, doeth he it by 

 the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith ?" Gal. 3 : 5. 



" For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which 

 Christ hath not wrought by me,^ to make the Gentiles obe- 



* Tliat is, "I will speak of nothing but M^iat Christ hath wrought 

 by mc;" or, as Grotius interprets it, "Christ hath wrought so great 

 things by me, that I will not dare to say what he hath not wrought " 



