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True, I knew very well that the Apostle Paul had once enjoyed this liberty, through the cool civility of a Roman Governor, and afterwards, through that of a Roman King; but I knew just _as_ well, that Felix and Aggrippa were heathens, while my brethren are Christians; and that the dignity of a court, composed of
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has been much better understood, since the famous
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Diet of Worms,
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Bitter were the tears that flowed; and more bitter still was the reflection, that
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Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of Hosts, be ashamed for my sake; let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. Never shall I forget the sensation experienced while the last sentence was passing through my mind:
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I know not how often, during that night, I repeated these words, and compared them with the exhortation of the Apostle:
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Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. These were the comforts, that,
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then delighted my soul. I was about to go forth
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and it was indeed refreshing, in that hour of trial, to believe, that I was bearing a portion of the same burden that had once bowed down the
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Man of Sorrows.