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A81852	The evangelical history: or, The life of our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ comprehensively and plainly related. With practical inferences and discourses thereupon. In four books. I. Of the birth of John the Baptist. Of the conception and birth of Jesus Christ; with an account of what passed to his entrance upon the ministerial function. II. The history of the acts and miracles of our Saviour, in the first two years of his ministry. III. A relation of his acts and miracles, in the third year of his preaching. IV. An account of his acts and preaching, from the triumphant entrance into Jerusalem. Of his Crucifixion, Resurrection, apparitions, and glorious ascension into heaven. With a large practical introduction, by way of preface. Written in French by the learned L.E. du Pin, and Englished by a divine of the Church of England, with additions. Adorn'd with copper cuts.	Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.	1694 (1694)	Wing D2641A; ESTC R229041	170,749	286

better till he came to a perfect sight Then the Son of God sent him to his own House forbidding him to tell any Man what had happened unto him X. S. Peter confesseth That Jesus Christ is the Son of God Matth. 16 13-20 Mark 8 27-30 Luke 9 18-20 Jesus went from thence with his Disciples and ascending up towards the Head of Jordan he went into the Towns adjoyning to Caesarea Philippi a City situate upon the same River on the South-Side of Galilee By the Way he asked them What Men said of him They answered him That some took him for John the Baptist others for Elias others for Jeremiah and lastly others for one of the old Prophets risen from the Dead But saith he to them whom say ye that I am Peter answered and said Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God Whereupon Jesus saith unto him Blessed art thou Simon Son of Jonas for Flesh and Blood hath not revealed this that thou hast said unto thee but my Father which is in Heaven And I also say unto thee That thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it And I will give unto thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven XI Jesus foretels his Death to his Disciples Matth. 16 20-28 Mark 8 30-38 Luke 9.21 22. Jesus after this Discourse forbids his Disciples to publish it that he was the Son of God and then begins to tell them what he must suffer as he was the Son of Man He declares unto them That he must go to Jerusalem and be there disowned by the Jewish Governours Chief Priests and Scribes suffer many Cruelties and Indignities from them be put to Death and raised again the Third Day Peter who by reason of the great Love he had for his Lord and Master could not endure to hear this Discourse took him aside and reproved him saying God forbid that such Things should befal thee Lord. But Jesus rebuking him for giving him such Council which though it testified much carnal Love and Affection to him did so plainly oppose the Sacred Purpose of God in redeeming Man said unto him before all his Disciples Depart from me Satan for thou art an Offence to me for thou savourest not the things of God All this was transacted privately between Jesus Christ and his Disciples but he called the People Luke 9 23-27 and began to preach before them all those Truths which Peter did not understand when he discouraged him from suffering Death for he asserted it publickly That if any Man will follow him he must bear his Cross all his Days That to lay down his Life for him and the Gospel is the only way to be saved and to seek salvation any other way is to destroy himself and that he gets nothing by the World that loses his own Soul That he shall hereafter come in his Glory and render to every Man according to his Works and then he will disown them before his Father who have been ashamed of him and his Word before Men And he adds That there are some among his present Hearers who shall not dye till they see him in his Kingdom and in the Greatness of his Glory XII Jesus Christ is transfigured on the Mountain The Promise Matt. 17 1-13 Mark 9 1-13 which Jesus made in the last Words he partly performed within Eight Days after for he took Peter and James and John privately and led them into a very high Mountain where he went to Prayers and while he was at Prayers his Face became as radiant and shining as the Sun Luke 9 28-36 and his Garments as bright as the Light appeared as white as Snow The Three Apostles in the mean while were asleep but when they awoke they saw their Master Transfigured i. e. clear another Man from what they had seen him before for they saw him in that Glory in which he had promised to discover himself to some of them and they beheld also with him Two Men full of Majesty who talked with him concerning that Death which he should suffer at Jerusalem They knew that these Two Men were Moses and Elias and when they were about going from Jesus Peter that he might detain them with them said unto his Master Lord it is good for us to be here and if thou pleasest let us make Three Tabernacles One for thee and One for Moses and One for Elias But as he was thus speaking scarce knowing what he said in his Transport as the Gospel observes a bright Cloud over-shadowed them and there came a Voice out of the Cloud which spake these Words This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear him This Cloud and Voice filled the Three Disciples with so great Fear that they fell on their Faces to the Earth But Jesus came to them and comforted them and raised them up Then they lifted up their Eyes and looking round about they saw no Man save Jesus only As they were coming down from the Mountain he commanded them to tell no Man what they had seen till the Son of Man be risen from the Dead They obeyed this Command but did not understand the Last Words and they disputed among themselves about the Meaning of this Expression Vntil the Son of Man be risen from the Dead The Disciples having seen Elias with him in the Mount took an occasion to ask him Why the Scribes and the Pharisees did assert That that Prophet was to come before the Messias Jesus answered them That Elias shall indeed come and shall be rejected and evil-intreated as well as the Son of Man yea he adds That he is already come and that the Jews have done what they list to him and so will they make the Son of Man suffer as they have done his Fore-runner This Answer plainly discovered to the Apostles That the last Elias of whom he had spoken was John the Baptist who had gone before the first coming of Jesus Christ in the Spirit and Power of Elias as Elias himself in Person should go before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ XIII Jesus heals a young Man Lunatick and Dumb. The next Day Jesus being come to the Place Matth. 17 14-21 Mark 9 14-29 Luke 9.37 -42. where the rest of the Apostles were he met a great multitude of Men and the Scribes questioning with them As for the People as soon as they saw the Son of God they ran to him and saluted him being full of Admiration and Joy Jesus then asked the Scribes What was the occasion and Subject of your Dispute but at the same Time came a certain Man to him having broke through the Press and kneeling down at his Feet prayed him to have Pity on his only Son whom he had brought unto him because

tormented eternally That to secure themselves from these terrible Punishments we must take away every thing that is an occasion of Falling and if need require cut off Feet or Hands and pull out the Eyes i. e. deprive our selves of those things which may be most profitable and are most dear to us when they become Means and Instruments of making us fall into any Sin XVI Jesus gives Rules for Correcting and Pardoning The Son of God although he uses his utmost Endeavours to keep out Scandals and Offences out of his Church Matt. 18 15-35 Luke 17.3 4. yet he will have us keep a due Charity and Compassion in our Hearts for those that at any Time are the Causes of them And for this Reason it is that in the same Discourse made to his Disciples he gives us most excellent Rules to deal with such Offenders by both as to their Punishment and Pardon for in the first Place he orders That he by whom any Offence cometh shall be admonished in private by the Person offended that if it be possible he may be gained by this means but if a private Admonition have no effect upon him it must be repeated before Two or Three Witnesses and if this prove also unsuccessful and to no purpose we must accuse him to the whole Church and have no more Society or Commerce with him than with an Heathen and Infidel if he contemn the Church's as he hath all private Admonition And that the Church may separate all those from her Communion which may obstruct and hinder the Salvation of her other Children he hath promised her the Authority of Binding and Loosing assuring her That he will ratify and confirm in Heaven whatsoever she shall pronounce and declare upon Earth In the second place he commands when Admonition is successful to pardon the Offence received and that Seven times a Day if the offender repents of what he hath done so often i. e. that we must always forgive him who is penitent and sorry for his Fault for Peter having asked Jesus How often he ought to pardon his Brother whether he ought to do it Seven Times Jesus answered him I say unto thee not until Seven Times but until Seventy Times Seven And to shew him the Necessity and Advantage of such a merciful Temper which is always ready to pardon he propounds a Parable of a King who calling his Servants to an account found One that owed him so great a Sum that he was not able to pay it viz. Ten thousand Talents or a Million eight hundred and seventy five thousand Pounds whereupon he commanded him to be sold and his Wife and Children and all that he had But this Servant falling down at his Feet begged his Mercy and Patience and he forgave him the Debt This Wretch was no sooner gone out but he met one of his Fellow-Servants who owed him a small Debt viz. an Hundred Pence which is about Three Pounds Two and Six Pence of our Mony he takes him by the Throat and would give him no Time for Payment though he earnestly desired Patience but cast him into Prison The King hearing this called this ungrateful Servant reproved his Cruelty and delivered him to the Tormentors till he should pay all he owed Jesus himself made the Application of his Parable saying So shall my heavenly Father use every one of you if ye do not from your Hearts forgive his Brother the Offences which he hath suffered from him XVII Jesus goes to Jerusalem to the Feast of Tabernacles While Jesus thus instructed his Disciples in Galilee some of his Kindred John 7 1-19 that did not believe on him being uneasy that he confined himself so much to one Province urged him to shew his Miracles more publickly at Jerusalem the Capital City of Judea for which he could not have as they thought a fitter Opportunity than the present Feast of Tabernacles for the Jews had Three solemn Feasts every Year which they were all obliged to go to Jerusalem to celebrate upon which account an innumerable Multitude of People met together in that City upon those Days These Three Feasts were the Passover Pentecost Lev. 23.34 and the Feast of Tabernacles This last was kept on the Fifteenth Day of September and continued Eight Days in which the Jews dwelt in Tents made of the Boughs of Trees in remembrance of those Tents or Tabernacles in which they dwelt so long Time in the Desert when they came out of Aegypt This Feast drawing near Jesus's Kindred who were much disturbed that Jesus had never yet been at Jerusalem neither at the Passover nor at Pentecost endeavoured to perswade him to go thither at least at the Feast of Tabernacles to make himself known unto the World and not to deprive those Disciples of his that dwelt in that City of the happy Sight of his Miracles He answered them That they might go to Jerusalem when they pleased but as for himself he must be wary and cautious what he did because he had many Enemies that the World which had nothing to object against them hated him because he reproved their sinful Actions Go ye therefore saith he up to this Feast I will not go up yet with you i. e. so publickly for my Time to appear in that manner is not yet fully come He let them go therefore without him but he went himself soon after but as it were in secret taking his Way through the midst of Samaria XVIII Jesus heals Ten Lepers Jesus passing by a Town of Samaria Luke 17 11-19 saw Ten Lepers that stood afar off and lifting up their Voice said Jesus our Master have mercy on us And Jesus commanded them to go and shew themselves to the Priests Which they obeying were cured in the Way One of them who was a Samaritan and consequently a Stranger in respect of the Jews as we have already observed immediately returned back and glorified God casting himself upon his Face at Jesus's Feet to give him Thanks for the Restitution of his Health Jesus to make known the Gratitude of this Man the more said in a kind of Astonishment Were there not Ten cleansed Where then are the other Nine It is strange that none of them should return to give God Glory for so great a Mercy but this Stranger And he said unto him Arise and go thy Way thy Faith hath made the whole XIX Jesus teaches in the Temple In the mean time John 7 11-53 the Jews enquired after Jesus at Jerusalem at the beginning of the Feast and had much Discourse about him some saying That he was a good Man others that he was a Deceiver About the middle of the Feast he came to Jerusalem and taught in the Temple to the great Wonder of the Jews who could not imagine how he came to have so perfect a Knowledge of the Scripture because they had never seen him study it Whereupon he tells them That he speaketh not of himself and if

lifted up his Hands to bless his Disciples and as he blessed them he was parted from them who saw him ascend up towards Heaven till a Cloud into which he entred took him out of their Sight They still looked after him with earnestness and as soon as they had lost the Sight of him Two Men cloathed in White presented themselves to them on a suddain and said unto them Ye Men of Galilee why stand ye looking up towards Heaven This Jesus who hath left you and is gone up into Heaven shall come again in the same manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Then the Apostles ador'd him who had left the Earth to be seated in Heaven at the Right Hand of God i. e. to receive in his Sacred Humanity the Rest and Glory which was the Reward of his Labour and Sufferings They departed full of Joy from the Mount of Olives and returned to Jerusalem where Ten Days after they received the Holy Ghost Then they went and preached every where according as their Master had commanded them and the Lord confirmed the Word which he had put in their Mouth by Miracles LIII The Glorious Life of Jesus Christ in Heaven John 20.30 31. This is a full account of all the Gospel teacheth us of the Life which Jesus Christ lived upon the Earth He did indeed many other Things and wrought a great number of Miracles which are not written these that are written being sufficient for our Salvation if by reading them we believe That Jesus is the Son of God that by Faith we may have Life in his Name This is the Life which he hath promised us and into which he is entred by his Ascension for he told his Apostles That he went to prepare a Place for them John 14.3 And S. Paul assures us That he is entred into Heaven for us as our Fore-runner Heb. 6.19 20. that we may follow him now in Hope which serveth us as an Anchor sure and stedfast in the various Disturbances and Troubles of this Mortal Life As to the Life which Jesus Christ now liveth in Heaven the Gospel tells us That he sits there Mark 16.19 at the Right Hand of God He siteth i. e. is at perfect Ease and Rest having no more Trouble or Sufferings in his Sacred Humanity to which he is united for our Salvation He sitteth at the Right Hand of God i. e. is made equal with the Father being God of like Nature with him and is raised up above all Creatures This Rest Acts 7.56 which Jesus Christ enjoys for himself hinders him not from acting for us and altho he sits at the Right Hand of God S. Stephen saw him there standing indeed since he came to the Earth not only to purchase the Glorification of that Body and Soul which he assumed in the Womb of the Virgin but also to obtain Salvation for all that believe on him If he hath nothing else to do with his Sacred Humanity yet it is his business to intercede for the Salvation of his Saints till they shall come to be Partakers of his Glory He there finishes the great Work of Man's Redemption which he began upon Earth in Heaven Eph. 1.22.4.15 'T is there as Head of the Church as the Apostle calls him he governs it by his Pastors which he hath appointed enlightens it by her Doctors sanctifies it by his Sacraments protects it by the Help of his Grace and quickens it by his Spirit 'T is there that he prays without ceasing for us and we use him as our Advocate to defend our Cause before his Father as our Mediator to offer our Prayers to him and obtain the Mercies and Graces we petition as High Priest and Sacrifice by offering always the same Blood which he poured out upon the Cross once for all for the Salvation of the whole World Hence it was that S. John saw him in Heaven in the Figure of a Lamb slain and laid upon the Altar which is before the Throne of God Rev. 5.6 7. Heb. 4.16 't is there that he sits upon a Throne of Grace and Mercy where we may go in a Time of Need to obtain Pardon of our Sins before he appears upon his Throne of Justice to judge the World 1 Joh. 2.1 Lastly 't is there that he calls us and invites us to consider upon him in his Glory which he hath merited both for himself and us by the Effusion of his Blood that by the Prospect of that Eternal Happiness which he hath prepared for us he may make us contemn all earthly Things and stir us up to follow him in the Way he is gone before us i. e. to imitate the Examples he hath given us in this Mortal Life of which we have related the History in this Book For this Reason it is that S. Paul exhorts us by these Words which include all the Benefit we ought to make of all that is said of the Life of Jesus Christ Heb. 10 19-31 We have freedom to enter with Boldness into the Heavenly Sanctuary by the Blood of Jesus Christ going after him in that new Way which he hath trodden out for us in his own Flesh And since he is in Heaven an High Priest set over the House of God let us draw near to him with a truly sincere Heart and full of Faith with a Soul purified from the Filth of an Evil Conscience and a Body preserving the Purity which it hath received from the pure Water of Baptism let us remain firm and stedfast in our Faith and in the Hope of that Glory which he hath promised to us for he is faithful who hath promised And to obtain it let us provoke one another to Love and to good Works and let us encourage our selves so much the more as we see the last Day draweth nigh for if we sin wilfully after we have received the Knowledge of Truth we must expect nothing but the terrible Judgments and the Flame of that Revenging and Rageing Fire which shall consume the Enemies of God He that despised Moses 's Law was condemned to Death without Mercy how much greater Punishment doth he deserve think ye who hath trodden under Foot the Son of God and hath counted the Blood of the Covenant by which we are sanctified an Vnholy and Prophane Thing i. e. who hath profaned by Sin the Blood of Jesus Christ by which he hath been purified in Baptism and who hath abused and affronted the Spirit of Grace for we know him that hath said Vengeance is reserved for me and I know how to repay it It is a terrible Thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God LIV. The Conclusion This Living God which S. Paul speaks of is the very same Person which we have seen in this History dying for the Salvation of Men upon the Cross He was judged but he shall judge us and that by the Rules which he hath given us and the Examples