 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...•with a particular charge to the jailer to keep them safely ; in consequence of which they were thurst into the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks. But these good men were not unhappy. They 'were persecuted, but not forsaken ; their Master •was with... | |
 | Richard Stack - 1815 - 328 pages
...rods) and commanded to beat them."— And so the history proceeds to relate their being scourged, cast into the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks ; they praying and singing praises to God for thinking them wortby to siift'er in his cause. From this... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...memorable than this of the Apostle : — When he and Silas, his brother and companion in tribulation, were thrust into the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks, " at midnight they prayed, and" — such was the fervour of their devotion, such the holy ardour and... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...chains fell off; the iron gate opened of its own accord : he is delivered. — Actsxii. 1 — 12. When Paul and Silas were thrust into the inner prison, and their feet fast in the stocks, God made the foundations of the prison to shake, and the doors were opened, and... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...chains fell off ; the iron gate opened of its own accord : he is delivered. — Acts xii. 1—12. When Paul and Silas were thrust into the inner prison, and their feet fast in the stocks, God made the foundations of the prison to shake, and the doors were opened, and... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...chains fell off; the iron gate opened of its own accord: he is delivered — Acts xii. 1—12. When Paul and Silas were thrust into the inner prison, and their feet fast in the stocks, God made the foundations of the prison to shake, and the doors were opened, and... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 338 pages
...into prison, after their clothes were rent off, and many stripes had been laid upon them, and they were thrust into the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks, at midnight they prayed, and sang praises unto God. They accounted it all joy to suffer in the cause... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1879 - 398 pages
...Calvary! You have all read of the uproar at Philippi, how Paul and Silas were beaten, and afterwards thrust into the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks. But " at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them." You... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1835 - 558 pages
...tranquillity which might well be envied by their persecutors, though many stripes were laid on them, and they were thrust into the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks." (Acts xvi. 25.) . " At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God." This was to have... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pages
...fire as soft as air." Paul and Silas, after having had many stripes laid upon them, and being cast into the inner prison and their feet made fast in the stocks, yet, such was their spiritual enjoyment, that at midnight they prayed and sang praises unto their God... | |
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Paul and Silas were thrust into the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks, but Jesus drew near and caused them to burst into a song even at midnight. 
