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DISC.
II.
EXAMINED
AND
ESTABLISHED.
1:iT
'of
St.
Paul's conversion,
his faith,
and
his
aposleship,
and
for
this
end
we
shall do
well to
remember
these
proofs
and arguments which convinced
him
'that Jesus
was
risen
from
the
dead.
Other
holy
writers
have told us
more
of
the
life,
actions, death,
and
resurrection
of
Christ,
in
the
particular
circumstances
thereof
:
but
St.
Paul
has
told
us
more
of
the blessed
consequences
of
these
transactions.
And
let
it
be always
kept
in mind by
us,
that
he
was
in
a
special
manner
the
apostle
to
the
gentile nations,
of
-which
Great-
Britain
is
a
large
province,
and a
remark-
able
part;
so
that,
in
his
writings
he
speaks directly to
us, and
we
are
bound
to
attend
to
him.
Remark
S.
It
is
very
reasonable
to
conclude,
we
may
safely
believe
what
St.
Paul
believed
and taught
about
this subject
of
the
resurrection of
Christ.
For
if
we
have
but
reason
to believe
that
this
was
Paul's character,
faith, and practice,
and
these
are
the
reasons
of
his,
be-
lief,
what should discourage or stagger
us
?
Let
us sum
up the
force
of
this
argument and put
it
'together.
Here
is-
a
wise,
learned, sincere, honest man, bred up
a
pharisee
in
a strong opposition
to
Christ, and the doe-
.trine
of
his
resurrection,
zealous
for
another
religion,
even the religion
of
his
fathers and
his
country,
who
yet
saw
reason
to
renounce
all
his
ancient
prejudices,
and
submit
to receive
this
new
and
strange
doctrine, who
.believed
and
professed this gospel, which
he
once
griev-
ously
persecuted, and afterwards preached
it, with
much
fatigue,
danger and suffering,
supported it
with courage,
and
A er
constant
divine
zeal
and
piety,
and
the
practice
of
every virtue
;
through
his
whole
life,
glorified
in his
per-
petual
sufferings
for
it,
lived
upon the comforts derived
from
it,
died in
.defence
of
it,
and sealed it
with
hrs.
blood, and left
it
as a
chief
treasure
to those
whom
he
loved best
in
this world, even
to
the
churches
of
Christ.
Now
we
have
not
this
account
of
Paul
from
mere
hearsay and
tradition, but
we
have
his
own
testimony to
:
all
this
in
his
writings,
which have
been'
delivered'
dówn
to
us
through many
ages
:
and
no man
of
sense
can
rea>
sonably
doubt whether
they
are
his
writings-or
no,
any
-more
than
we -can
doubt
the
writings
of Julius
Caasar,
or
e,neca,
Livy,
or
Virgil..
I
add
this
further
:
C;oricern-