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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

the Multitude That if the Devils who are Man's irreconcilable Enemies should thus cast out one another their Kingdom would not stand long that there were some Persons among the Jews who cast out Devils whom yet the Pharisees did not accuse of casting them out by the Prince of the Devils That an armed Man will not be put out of his own House but by a stronger than himself so that he did not cast out Satan but by the Power of a Spirit stronger than Satan i. e. by the Spirit of God which ought to be a convincing Proof that the Kingdom of God is come unto them that in opposing such manifest Works of the Holy Spirit as they had done they had made themselves guilty of an unpardonable Blasphemy that since we judge of a Tree by its Fruits they ought to judge of him by his Works and not condemn him as a wicked Man whenas he doth nothing but good Actions that the Calumnies which they so rashly spoke against him proceeded from the evil Treasure of their Hearts and should not escape unpunished since at the Day of Judgment we must give an account of every evil Word and be condemned for them as we are justified by good XXIV The Pharisees desire a Sign of him Matth. 12 38-46 Luke 11 29-32 Then certain of the Scribes and Pharisees said unto him Master we desire that thou wouldst shew us some Sign of thy Mission They had been Witnesses of a great Number of Miracles which they cryed down for Cheats and Impostures and as if all that he had done already were not enough to convince them that he wrought them by the Spirit of God they desired to see some new thing But Jesus gave them no other Answer but this An evil and an adulterous Generation seeketh after a Sign and no other Sign shall be given them but that of the Prophet Jonas Jonas was a Prophet who being sent by God to foretel and Threaten to the Inhabitants of Ninive the Destruction of their City within Forty Days instead of obeying this Command took Ship to go to another Place but a Tempest arising in his Voyage he confessed that it was a Punishment of his Disobedience and to appease it bid them cast him into the Sea He was immediately devoured by a great Fish which at the end of Three Days cast him upon the Shore from whence he went to Ninive and preached as God had commanded him The Ninivites believed his Words proclaimed a solemn Fast and so by their Repentance escaped the Punishment which God had threatned them Jesus propounds this Sign of Jonas to the Pharisees and makes a double Application of it the one to himself the other to them for he says That as this Prophet was Three Days in the Belly of the Fish which devoured him so should the Son of Man be Three Days in the Heart of the Earth By which he signifies That he should be buried in a Tomb and should rise from the Dead the third Day He adds for a second Reflection That as Jonas was a Sign to the Ninivites so should he be to the Pharisees which he explains in this manner The Men of Ninive shall rise up in the Judgment against this Generation and shall condemn them because they repented at the Preaching of Jonas but a Person greater than Jonas is here He says further to them That the Queen of Sheba shall also condemn them in the Day of Judgment because she came from a far Country to hear the Wisdom of Solomon which Princess they are so far from imitating that they despise his Words and Miracles who manifested more Divine Wisdom than Solomon ever did Lastly He threatens them with such Fury as the Devil exercises over those Persons from whom they have been once forced to go out but have found out a way to enter again which are therefore the more enraged Teaching us at the same Time That we ought to be always upon our Guard when we are delivered from an unclean Spirit because the Devil doth not wholly abandon us but if we are not watchful against him will return with Seven Spirits more wicked than himself and by this second Possession make the Condition of that Soul more miserable a great deal than it was by the first As Jesus was thus confuting the Pharisees Malice a certain Woman of the Company lift up her Voice and said Blessed is the Womb that bare thee and the Paps that thou hast sucked But he answered her Yea rather blessed are they that hear the Word of God and practise it At the same Time it was told him That his Mother and his Brethren Matth. 12 47-50 Mark 3.31 35. Luke 8 19-21 i. e. his Kindred stood without because they could not get at him for the Press and desired to speak with him But he answered Who is my Mother and who are my Brethren Then looking upon those that were set about him and stretching forth his Hands towards his Disciples he said Behold my Mother and my Brethren for my Mother and my Brethren are they that hear the Word of God and do it and they that do the Will of my Father which is in Heaven XXV Jesus Christ delivers many Parables Matth. 13 1-23 Luke 8.4 15. Mark 4 1-20 The same Day Jesus went out of the House and came to the end of the Lake of Gennesareth but when he saw a great Multitude of People coming unto him from the neighbouring Towns he went into a Ship and instructed the People out of it who gave great Attention to him from the Shore He delivered many excellent and saving Truths to them in Parables which was his ordinary way of Teaching Parables in the Gospel are feigned Stories or Comparisons taken from Nature Things the Application of which being something hard to find out exercises the Attention of the Mind but being discovered opens some Mystery of Religion to us or makes known some important Maxim or Precept for the Government and Direction of our Manners As for Example this is a kind of Parable which Jesus speaks of the strong Man armed who keeps his House but is expelled by a stronger than he The Application of which is this as we have seen The strong Man is the Devil whom Jesus Christ drives out of Men's Souls by the Spirit of God which is stronger than the Devil The First Parable which the Son of God propounded to the People from the Ship where he sat was this A Man went out to sow and some of his Seed fell in the High-Way and it was trodden upon and devoured with Birds Another Part fell upon a Rock and was scorched by the Sun because it had no Root for want of Moisture Other fell among Thorns which chok'd it And other fell on good Ground and brought forth Fruit in abundance Now because the Application of this Parable which our Saviour intended by it was not easy to find out he added He that hath Ears to

had done at Capernaum But he assures them That a Prophet that is well received and honoured everywhere else is neither received nor honoured in his own Country This he proves by Two Examples the first of Elias who in a Famine was not sent by God to the Widows of his own Country but to a Widow of another Country to receive Relief in his need And the other of Elisha who cured a strange Lord of a Leprosy when there were many Lepers in Israel who would not desire a Cure from him These Truths much incensed all those that were in the Synagogue and they arose in their Fury and led him out of the City to the Top of a Mountain to cast him down from it But because he could only dye at the Time and in the manner he himself pleased he withdrew himself from the Fury of these wretched Men and passing through the midst of them he retreated from Nazareth The Gospel observes That he did but very few Miracles and healed a very small Number of Sick People then only by laying Hands on them the Infidelity of his hardned City rendring it unworthy of his Presence and good Deeds XXVIII Jesus goeth about Galilee again and sends his Apostles to preach Matth. 9 35-38 Luke 8 1-3 Jesus being departed from Nazareth went again throughout all Galilee going into every City and every Village teaching in their Synagogues preaching the Gospel and healing every Sickness and every Disease And the Twelve Apostles were with him to whom also were joyned certain Women who had been freed from Evil Spirits and cured of their Distempers Among whom were Mary Magdalen out of whom went Seven Devils and Joanna the Wife of Chuza Herod's Steward and Susanna and several others who ministred to him of their Substance In this Journey he looked upon this great Multitude to whom he was about to preach the Gospel as so many fainting and scattered Sheep which have no Shepherd to look after them and being moved with Compassion he said to his Disciples The Harvest indeed is great but the Labourers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he would send Labourers into it Since he himself was Lord of this Harvest and his Apostles were the Labourers Matth 10 1-42 Mark 6 7-13 Luke 9 1-9 whom he had designed for that Work long before He called them gave them Power to cure Diseases and cast out Devils and sent them Two and Two to preach the Kingdom of God having first given them such Rules as he would have them observe in the Exercise of their Ministry He ordered them to preach to the Jews only and make this the Subject of all their Sermons The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand To use that Power freely that has been given freely not to incumber themselves with Mony or variety of Cloaths that they may be the more free to discharge their Office because they must receive a necessary Maintenance from those to whom they Preach To chuse their Abode in all Places with Honest Good Men To say when they go into their Houses Peace be to this House to stay there so long as they continue in the Place And to shake off the Dust off their Feet against those who will neither receive nor hear them He then tells them That he sends them as Sheep among Wolves and that they ought to live among those Sinners whom they labour to convert with Simplicity and Caution That notwithstanding all their Wariness they shall be persecuted that the only way to escape is to fly and if they are taken and carried before Tribunals they should not trouble themselves how to answer their Judges because the Holy Spirit shall supply them with an Answer That they should only take Care not to be discouraged with Fear and that they should not fear Men who have Power over the Body only but fear God who can destroy both the Body and Soul eternally That if they disown him before Men he will disown them before God at they Day of Judgment but on the contrary he will acknowledge them for his who are not ashamed to confess his Name Lastly to encourage them in suffering the greatest Torments rather than be wanting of their Duty he assures them That nothing should befal them but by the Order of God who counteth all the Hairs of their Heads and by losing their Lives for him in this World they should save it to all Eternity That they could not be his Disciples unless they took up their Cross and follow him and that they ought not to expect better Usage than their Master whom they had seen themselves to be called a Samaritan that had a Devil even by those Men whom he came to save He concludes this Discourse with Rewards that they shall have who hear their Word and furnish them with Things necessary saying Whosoever shall give you but a Cup of cold Water to drink in my Name verily I say unto you he shall have his Reward The Apostles having received these Instructions went throughout all the Country preaching to the People That they should repent and God confirmed their Discourses with Miracles for they cast out many Devils and by Anointing many that were Sick with Oil cured them XXIX Herod beheads John the Baptist Matth. 14 1-12 Mar. 6 14-30 The Fame of Jesus's Miracles spreading more and more in Galilee came at last to Herod's Court Every Man almost was guessing who this Man was that did such great Miracles some said he was Elias others one of the Old Prophets who appeared a-new others among whom was Herod himself suspected That it was John the Baptist risen from the Dead for not long before Herodias who had caused this Holy Forerunner of Christ to be imprisoned had found out a way to satiate her Malice which she had conceived against him by procuring his Death The Occasion was this Herod making a magnificent Feast upon his Birth Day for all his Court the Daughter of Herodias came in and danced before them and so pleased all the Company that the King bid her ask what Favour she would have and promised with an Oath That he would grant it her to the half of his Kingdom She immediately went and consulted with her Mother what she should ask And her Mother bid her ask the Head of John the Baptist She returned in haste to the King and prayed him to give her by and by the Head of John the Baptist in a Charger Herod was much disturbed at this Request but a false Respect to Men hindred him from denying her and not being willing to be accused of being worse than his Word by those who had been Witnesses of his Oath he sent and cut off John Baptist's Head in the Prison gave it to the Damosel who carried it to her Mother The Disciples of John hearing of the Death of their Master buried his Body and laid it in a Tomb and went to Jesus to tell him the

the invincible Courage and austere penitent Life of his Fore-runner He tells them that he was a Prophet and much more than a Prophet because he was foretold by the Prophets and did himself Preach the coming of the Messiah not as the other Prophets did at a great distance but was sent to go before him and prepare a way for him He adds as a compleat Encomium of John That among those that are born of Women there is none greater then John the Baptist that the Law and the Prophets end and the Gospel begins with him that it was he that first Preached the Kingdom of God and ever since this Kingdom is taken by Violence and the Violent get into it by force Lastly That he was the true Elias since as it is abovesaid He had the Spirit and Power as well as the Ministry and Office of that Prophet XXI The Reproofs which Jesus Christ gave the Jews All these great Titles of John might have made him respected by all the Jews Matt. 11.16 -19. Lu. 7.29 -34. yet there were none but the common People Publicans and some loose wicked Men who heard his Sermons with Advantage for the Pharisees and Doctors of the Law slighted them and by that contempt as the Gospel saith rejected the Council of God concerning themselves They used the Son of God himself after the same manner who being troubled for the hardness and blindness of their hearts spake of it with Holy grief before all the People who had gladly heard the Commendation of John the Baptist saying Whereunto shall I liken the Men of this Generation May not the words of those Children who sit in the Market-place and cry to their Companions We have piped and ye have not danced we have sung mournful Songs but ye have not wept be fitly applyed unto them for John came neither eating nor drinking i. e. living a very severe and Monkish Life and they say he is possessed with a Devil The Son of Man came eating and drinking i. e. leading a less Austere Life and they accuse him of being a Lover of meat and drink and a friend of Publicans and Sinners After these reflections he considers upon the small advantage which the City of Galilee where he had Preached and done so many Miracles had made use of all these helps which the mercy of God had vouchsafed them for their Salvation He reproves with threats their Impenitence and Obstinacy and pronounces against them these terrible Curses Wo unto thee Chorazin Wo unto thee Bethsaida for if the mighty Works which have been done in thee had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were two Heathen Cities they would have repented in Sack-cloath and Ashes And then speaking to the City of Capernaum where he had lived longer than in all the other Cities he reproves their pride and hardness in these Words And thou Capernaum which art exalted unto Heaven shalt be brought down to Hell for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom the City which God consumed with Fire from Heaven for their Sins it would have remained to this day Lastly he adds That in the day of Judgment the Inhabitants of Sodom whom God punished so severely for their horrible Lewdness as also of Tyre and Sidon who never knew God shall be punished with less severity than the Inhabitants of these Impenitent Cities of Galilee XXII The Conversion of a Woman that was a Sinner There was in a certain City a Woman Luke 7.36 -50. of a wicked Life much wiser than those before mention'd for as soon as she heard that Jesus was eating in a Pharisees House called Simon she went to him and going behind him washed his Feet with her Tears wiped them with the Hair of her Head kissed them and poured out Ointment upon them which she brought in an Alabaster-box The Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw what this Woman had done whom he knew to be wicked and he said within himself If this Man were a Prophet he would know who this is that toucheth him For he could not imagine that Jesus would suffer himself to be touched by so vile a Sinner But Jesus who knew his thoughts propounded to him the example of two Men who owed to one Creditor the one a great Sum of Mony and the other a far lesser Sum but neither of them being able to pay he frankly forgave them their Debts He then asked him Which of these Two Debtors would love this Creditor most Simon answers him He to whom he had forgiven most The Son of God approving this Answer made the Application of it in these Words Seest thou this Woman I entred into thy House thou hast poured no Water upon my Feet but she hath washed them with Tears and wiped them with the Hair of her Head Thou gavest me no Kiss but this Woman since the Time she came in hath not ceased to kiss my Feet Thou hast poured no Oyl upon my Head but she hath anointed my Feet with Perfumes For this Reason I say unto thee her many and great Sins are forgiven her because she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same will love little As if he had said unto him Thou lovest little because believing thy self to be just thou thinkest thy self to owe God but little This Woman who is Conscious of her own great Crimes hath loved him greatly from whom she hopes for Pardon of so many Sins and for that love's Sake is forgiven Wherefore he saith to the Woman Thy Sins are forgiven thee The Guests that sat at Table with him were offended at these Words saying in themselves Who is this that pretends to forgive Sins But Jesus contemning their Discontents sent the Woman away whom he had pardoned saying to her Thy Faith hath saved thee Go in Peace XXIII Jesus heals a Man possessed with a Devil who was both Blind and Dumb. Mark 3.20 21. Jesus being returned from the Pharisees House there came so great a Multitude of People unto him that neither he nor his Disciples could get Time to eat their Food which when his Kindred heard they went to get him Home out of the Throng either that they might put him under Confinement as a Man beside himself Matth. 12 22-37 Luke 11 14-26 or fearing that he should faint for Hunger and so be trod down in the Multitude Then they brought unto him a Man possessed with a Devil who was Blind and Dumb by that means and he cast out the Devil and the Man both Spake and Saw to the Admiration of all the People who speaking of Jesus Christ said Is not this the Son of David i. e. the Messias which the Scripture assure us should come of the Family of David But the Pharisees and Doctors of the Law which were come from Jerusalem said That he casteth out Devils by the Prince of Devils But Jesus confuted the maliciousness of their Thoughts by telling them before

hear let him hear i. e. let him understand the Sense and Meaning of what I say The Apostles themselves did understand it no more than others and therefore when they were alone with him they prayed him to tell them why he spoke to the People in Parables and to explain what he had already propounded to them In answer to the First Question he tells them How great an Happiness they enjoyed in being with him because they saw and heard those Things which many Righteous Men and Prophets desired to see and hear but could not obtain it And because he made them understand clearly those great Mysteries which he propounded to others in dark Similitudes and Parables only to punish the Blindness and Obstinacy of their Hearts which makes them unworthy and incapable of knowing the Truth Then he teaches them That by the Seed he spoke of he understood the Word of God They that after they have heard regard it not but immediately let themselves loose to their Sins are like the High-Way The Devil is figured by the Birds who are ready to take the Word out of their Hearts lest they believe and be saved Those that receive the Word with Joy but the first Temptation spoils all the Fruit because the Word has had no deep Root in the Soul are the Rock Others that choke the Word with Avarice love of Pleasures and other Passions are the Thorns which must be pulled up if we will have the heavenly Seed to thrive in our Hearts Lastly the good Ground signifies those well-disposed Souls which receive and retain faithfully the Word of God and through Patience and Constancy bring forth as much Fruit as they are able XXVI Other Parables Matth. 13 24.-35 Mark 4 26-34 Luke 13 18-30 He propounded also several other Parables He compares the World to a Field in which the Owner sowed good Seed but afterward discerned it to be mixed with Darnel which his Enemy had sown in the Night his Servants as soon as they saw it would have weeded it up but he hindred them lest they should root up the Corn with it and bad them let it grow with the Corn till the Harvest when he would have it separated from the Corn and burnt but gather the Corn into his Barn He compares the Kingdom of God to Seed which being cast into the Ground springs up and grows the Sower knows not how without any further Care Then to Mustard-Seed which being a very small Seed less than any other becomes the biggest among Herbs Lastly to Leaven which is put into the Dough till the whole is Leaven'd When he had spoken these things he sent the People away and returned to the House with his Disciples who prayed him to declare to them the Meaning of the Parable of the Darnel He tells them That it signifies That the Good ought to tolerate the Wicked with whom they are mixed till God shall separate them the one from the other at the End of the World for then the Sinners shall be cast into Hell-Fire and the Good shall shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of God He teaches them also the same Truth under the Parable of the Fishermen who catch all sorts of Fish in their Nets promiscuously but sitting upon the Bank separate the Good which they carry away and cast away the Bad. Lastly he makes them sensible that we ought to part with any thing to purchase Heaven by the Comparison of a Man who sold all he had to buy a Pearl of great Price or the Field in which he knew there was a great Treasure The Gospel gives us the Explication of none of the other Parables that by an Attentive Consideration of those which are explained we may find out the Sense of those that are not our selves having first begged of God that Spirit of Understanding which Jesus Christ requires of his Auditors when he says He that hath Ears to hear let him hear The Ignorant and Simple who have not Abilities to find out the Signification of those Parables which the Son of God hath not unfolded and who may justly fear mistaking by following their own Sense ought to consult their Pastors about such difficult Places and while we wait for the Resolution of what we demand practising the Truths they know which it is easy for an humble and teachable Soul to understand And for the help of these sort of Persons it is that I composed this Work chiefly and therefore shall give you the Sense of the Three following Parables to that of the Darnel out of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church All Three of them may signify the Preaching of the Gospel The Preacher disperses the Seed of the Word and this Seed groweth by little and little by the secret Operation of God's Grace in the Heart of him 1 Cor. 3.6 that receives it for the Preacher Soweth Planteth and Watereth There was nothing more contemned at first than the Doctrin of the Gospel but like a Grain of Mustard-Seed it hath grown and filled the whole Earth Lastly we must carefully keep and preserve the Word of the Gospel in our Hearts that the Sacred Leaven may leaven the whole Lump and by its secret Vertue reform all the Thoughts Desires and Actions of Man XXVII Jesus Christ goes to Preach at Nazareth Matth. 13 54-58 Mark 6 1-6 Luke 4 16-30 The Son of God after he had finished these Parables went to Preach in the City of Nazareth where he had been conceived and brought up His Disciples were also with him According to his usual Custom he went into the Synagogue on the Sabboth Day where standing up to read they gave him the Book of the Prophet Isaias He opened it and found the Place where the Prophet speaking of the Messias Isai 61.1 says That he was consecrated and sent by the Spirit of God to preach the Gospel to the Poor to heal the Sick to publish the Day of Grace from the Lord and declare the Day of Judgment When he had read this Text he shut the Book and gave it to the Minister Then sitting down he explained this Prophecy and shews that it was accomplished in himself All that were in the Synagogue fixed their Eyes on him while he spake and wondred so much at the gracious Words that proceeded out of his Mouth that they demanded one of another Whence hath this Man this great Wisdom which he shews Is not this the Son of the Carpenter called Joseph the Son of Mary and are not his Brethren i. e. Cousins James and Joses and Simon and Judas and are not his Kindred with us Whence then hath this Man all these thing The Gospel observes That he was not only a Subject of Astonishment but also of Scandal Whereupon Jesus knowing their Thoughts saith unto them Ye will surely apply this Proverb to me Physitian Heal thy self as a Reproach to him that he would not do as great Miracles in his own Country as he

Lamb that was eaten and to the Solemnity which began with the Sacrifice of that Lamb Whence it comes to pass that we often meet with such Expressions as these in the Gospel to Eat Sacrifice and Keep the Passover As the Bondage of Aegypt from which God delivered the Jews was a Figure of Man's Slavery to Sin from which he was about to free Men so the Lamb whose Blood saved the Israelites is a Figure of Jesus Christ who is called The True Passover because 't is by his Blood that we are truly redeemed And for this Reason it is that he would dye at the Passover to fulfil by his Sacrifice the great Mysteries which were represented by all the Jewish Ceremonies XXII Jesus sups with his Disciples This great Feast of the Passover being near Matth. 26 17-20 the Disciples asked their Master Where he would eat the Passover Jesus immediately sent Peter and John to Jerusalem and tells them That as soon as they are entred into the City they should find a Man bearing a Pitcher of Water let them follow him and where-ever he enters let them tell the Master of the House That he intends to keep the Passover at his House with his Disciples and he will shew you saith he a large upper Room furnished and prepared there prepare all Things necessary for us Peter and John did as they were commanded and in the Evening he came thither with his Twelves Apostles where at the Hour appointed they sat down to eat the Paschal Lamb. He saith then to his Disciples With much earnestness have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I say unto you That I will not eat any more thereof till it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God i. e. in Heaven where not only the Passover but also all the other Mysteries shall have a full accomplishment Then he taketh a Cup and giving Thanks said to them Take this and divide it among you for I say unto you That I will not drink any more of the Fruit of the Vine until the Kingdom of God shall come XXIII Jesus washes his Disciples Feet John 13 1-15 From this Time Jesus had his Death continually in his Thoughts which seems to have been appointed at this Feast of the Passover which signifies a Passage to put him in Mind that his Hour was come wherein he was to pass out of this World to his Father He knew that the Devil had put into the Heart of Judas Iscariot a Design to betray him but before he was delivered into the Hands of his Enemies he was desirous to give his Disciples whom he had always loved and would love unto the end a signal Testimony of his Love wherefore he riseth from the Table layeth aside his Garments takes a Towel pours Water into a Bason and knowing that his Father had given all Things into his Hands and that he was come from God and went to God he goes about to wash his Apostles Feet and to wipe them with the Towel he had about him Peter could not endure this great Debasement of his Master and says unto him in a Surprize Why wilt thou wash my Feet Lord And although Jesus answered him Thou knowest not now what I do but thou shalt know afterward yet he still asserted Thou shalt never wash my Feet But because his Master told him That if he washed him not he should have no part in him he chose rather to see him do so mean an Office than be separated from him and therefore replyed Lord not only my Feet but my Hands and my Feet Jesus said unto him He that hath been washed already hath no need to wash any part of him but his Feet and ye are clean but not all Under which Exception he marked out Judas who being his Disciple should betray him This Answer makes it credible that Jesus did wash his Apostles Feet not only to give them a signal Example of his Humility but to shew us that although we are purified by Baptism yet in this Life we have continual need to cleanse our Affections which are daily engaged in Human Affairs in the same manner as our Feet how clean soever the rest of our Body is do continually gather Soil and Filth and therefore only need washing After he had washed his Apostles Feet he took his Garments and sitting down at the Table he saith unto them Know ye what I have done unto you ye call me Lord and Master and 't is reasonable you should for so I am if I then your Lord and Master have washed your Feet ye also ought to wash one anothers Feet For I have given you an Example that ye may consider upon it and do as I have done unto you XXIV Jesus appoints the Eucharist and foretells Judas's Treachery After this they again returned to their Supper Matth. 26 26-29 Mark 14 22-25 Luke 22 19-29 1 Cor. 11 23-25 which being almost ended Jesus who having washed their Feet had as it were prepared them for the Sacrament which he intended to institute at the same Time wherefore he took Bread blessed it by giving of Thanks brake it and gave it to them saying Take eat this is my Body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me Likewise he took the Cup gave Thanks and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of this for this is my Blood the Blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the Remission of Sins Joyn this also with the Bread in remembrance of me Matth. 26 20-25 Mar. 14 18-21 Luke 22 21-23 John 13 21-32 Jesus then suffered himself to fall into a Trouble and Discomposure of Mind either at the Prospect of the Death which he was shortly to undergo or at the Thoughts of the monstrous perfideousness of Judas and said unto the Apostles Verily verily I say unto you that one of you who sitteth at Table and eateth with me shall betray me These Words not only astonished them but grieved them all and every one began to say Is it I Lord He answered them One of you Twelve that dippeth with me in the Dish shall betray me Instead the Son of Man goeth to suffer Death according as it is appointed concerning him in Holy Scripture but wo unto that Man by whom he is betrayed it were better for that Man that he had never been born They knew not who it was of whom he spake and therefore questioned among themselves who it was Peter seeing John who was the beloved Disciple leaning upon Jesus's Breast beckened to him to ask Jesus who it was of whom he spake Jesus then answered him He it is to whom I shall give a Sop when I have dipped it Judas then boldly asked his Master Is it I Jesus said Yes And having dipped the Sop gave it to him When Judas had received the Sop the Devil entred into him to embolden him in the execution of that wicked Design which he