CXLVI. Elymas the Sorcerer is fricken Blind. Great Saul and Barnabas abroad were fent, To Cyprian Paphos come, accepted there, Nor this Great Paul, who on him fix'd his Eyes, CXLVI. ACTS Chap. XIII. Ver. 9, 10, 11, 146. 9. Paul filled with the Holy Ghoft, fet his eyes on him, 10. And faid, O full of all fubtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteouf nefs, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right way of the Lord? II. And now behold, the band of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the Sun for a feafon. And immediately there fell on him a mift and a darkness; and he went about feeking fome to lead him by the hand. CXLVII. Paul and Barnabas accounted Gods by the Lycaonians. Reat Paul and Barnabas to Lyftra came, GRe Where lay a Wretch who from his birth was They bid him rise and walk, his Limbs obey, A facred Wreath of od'rous Flow'rs adorns, Th' Apoftles rend their Cloaths, and cry- Forbear, To ferve the one Supreme, who ever lives, And Sun, and Rain from Heav'n, and Food and Gladness gives. ACTS Chap. XIV. Ver. 11, to 18. 147 11. When the people faw what Paul had done, they lift up their voices, faying in the Speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. 12. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief Speaker. 13. Then the priest of Jupiter which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands into the gates, and would have done facrifice with the People. 14. Which when the apostles Barnabas and Paul beard of, they rent their cloaths, &c. CXLVIII. The failor converted and baptifed. WITH faithful Silas Paul's in Bonds fecur'd, When cruel Scourgings they had first en- Yet full of inward Peace and heav'nly Joy, For Lights he calls, and when the Saints he fees, And in the Saviour of the World believe: |