The apostle of the gentiles [st. Paul] his life and letters

THE

APOSTLE OF THE GENTILES.

His Life and Letters.

BY THE

REV. CHARLES R. BALL, M.A.,

VICAR OF S. PAUL'S, PETERborough,
AUTHOR OF "THE PROMISED SEED," AND
"LESSONS ON OUR LORD'S MINISTRY."

Published under the Direction of the Tract Committee.

LONDON:

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
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NEW YORK: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.

9 DEC 35

OXFOR

"CHRIST! I am Christ's! and let the name suffice you, Ay, for me too He greatly hath sufficed;

Lo with no winning words I would entice you,
Paul has no honour and no friend but Christ.

Yea thro' life, death, thro' sorrow and thro' sinning
He shall suffice me, for He hath sufficed;
Christ is the end, for Christ is the beginning,

Christ the beginning, for the end is Christ."

PREFACE.

HIS Book has been written in the hope that it may serve to interest the young, and

those who have but little time for reading, in the Life and Writings of S. Paul; and thus serve as an introduction to the many more valuable and important works on the same subject.

The writer wishes to express his acknowledgements of the abundant help he has received from Dr. Farrar's Life and Work of S. Paul, Conybeare and Howson's well-known work on the same subjects, from Professor Westcott's "Historic Faith," and last, and above all, from "The Unity of the New Testament" and "The Epistle to the Hebrews" by the late Rev. F. D. Maurice.

Lent 1885.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. S. Paul's early life and education

II. Saul the Persecutor

III. The Conversion and Baptism of S. Paul

IV. S. Paul's call to the Apostolate

V. S. Paul's mission as an Apostle

VI. S. Paul's method as an Evangelist

VII. S. Paul's great Controversy

VIII. S. Paul before Kings and Rulers