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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

Parents Blessed are they that are persecuted for Righteousness sake for their is the Kingdom of Heaven He adds further to his Disciples Blessed are ye when Men shall hate you and persecute you for my sake and load you with Injuries and Reproaches Rejoyce then for great is your reward reserved in Heaven And after he hath thus shewn that there is no happiness in this Life but in the contempt of Riches Honour and Pleasures and in the love of Religion Peace and Mercy Purity of heart and Patience by which we may render our selves worthy of that Eternal Life which God hath reserved in Heaven for us He pronounces a Wo against Riches against those who live in Plenty Mirth and Worldly Honours because they that place their Happiness in all these things shall one day find that their Pleasures Honours Comforts and Plenty shall end in Eternal Wailing and Sorrow XVI What are the Truths which Jesus Christ teacheth in this Sermon upon the Mount Matt. 5 13-48 Lu. 16 27-36 He next teacheth his Apostles that they were the Salt and Light of the World to reform their corrupt Manners and to illuminate their darkne● Minds that they ought therefore to be Pure and Holy themselves and not to omit any occasion of dispersing the Light of their Doctrin because they are set on a Candlestick i. e. preferred to the Ministry of the Gospel for that end That he came not to destroy the Law of Moses but to fulfil it and to bring it to its utmost perfection by teaching his Disciples a Righteousness far more compleat and excellent than that of the Scribes and Pharisees and without which no Man can be saved Indeed the Old Law forbids several Sins and regulated the exterior Actions But the New Law which Jesus Christ gives in this Discourse aims at the Reformation of the Heart and to suppress Sin in its very Source and Original For it was said to the Jews in the Law Thou shalt not kill But Jesus Christ commands every Man to curb in his Anger and not to utter the least affront or abuse of his Brother and if there be any differences not to offer any Sacrifice to God before they are reconciled The Law forbids Adultery Jesus forbids with the same strictness all Lascivious Glances and commands Men to pluck out the right Eye in which they are i. e. to deprive themselves of that pleasure of the Sight which excites irregular desires in the Heart The Law commands us to avoid Perjury Jesus Christ will not allow us to Swear at all and Teaches us that when we are obliged to confirm our Words with an Oath that very Oath tho' not sinful in it self yet proceeds from a bad Cause viz. as St. Austin says from the Custom of Lying and dealing falsly so much used among Men that they dare not trust to their bare Words The Law regulates Revenge and requires that the punishment do not exceed the Offence on which it is inflicted But Jesus Christ is so far from allowing us to revenge our selves that on the contrary he teacheth us not to resist evil not to go to Law but to give to those that ask and to yield our Cheek to those that smite us i. e. to bear all things rather than lose Charity The Jews believed that the Obligation we have to Love our Neighbour did hinder us from hating our Enemies But Jesus Christ will have us to love those that Hate us and to do good to those that Persecute us that we may excell the Heathens in well-doing and imitate Himself who makes his Sun to rise upon the Evil as well as upon the Good and so deserve the Honourable Title of the Children of God From Sins he passes to Good actions and to make them pure Mat. 6 1-34 he teacheth us to purify the Motives and causes of them shewing us that the Intention is such to the outward Actions as the Eye is to the whole Body and that they are pure or sinful according as the Intention is good or Evil after the same manner as the Body is either Light or in Darkness as the Eye is either Clear or Blind Wherefore he teaches us that we must not perform our good Works as Alms Prayers or Fasting that we may be praised of Men but of God who will reward them He lays down rules for Prayer that it should be made with a full Trust in the Divine Bounty with perseverance and with a mind full of Peace and Love to our Brethren knowing that he that will neither give to nor pardon others deserves neither the Mercies nor Pardon he petitions of God He makes the force and excellency of a Prayer not to consist in a multitude of Words as if God had need of our Words to manifest our Wants to him and that we may know what we may desire and request of God he hath taught us to pray after this manner Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us and Lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from evil Amen In the next place he endeavours to make the Souls of his Disciples contemn the good things of this World by teaching them not to lay up Treasures upon Earth but in Heaven where neither Thief nor any other danger is to be feared that they cannot love God and Mamon i. e. Riches at the same time and that instead of being sollicitous for the necessaries of this Life since God who nourisheth the Fowls and adorns the Lillies will not cease to take care of Man who is far more precious in his sight than Flowers or Beasts We should first seek the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness thereof above all other things and then we may hope that God will give us all other things as an Overplus of favour to us He forbids rash Censures and Judgments Matt. 7 1-29 Lu. 6 37-42 and condemns those Hypocrites who cannot see the Beam which groweth in their own Eyes but would cast out the Mote out of their Brothers Eye He teaches them to distribute Holy things prudently saying We must not cast Pearl before Swine He summs up our whole Duty to our Neighbours in this short Precept Whatsoever ye would that Men should do unto you do ye even so to them He assures us That the way which leads to Life is streight but that which leads to Hell is bread and many there be that go in it He teacheth us to beware of false Prophets who come in sheeps-cloathing yet are ravening Wolves That we must not Judge of them by their Words but by their Works And altho' they may do some Miracles yet God will reject them one day as a People he never knew In the same manner will he also treat all those who content themselves to say Lord

have Holes and the Birds of the Air have Nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his Head As if he had said He must be a Man more regardless of his own Interest and more couragious than can easily be imagined that will choose to follow a Man who is so far from enriching his Disciples that he hath not the least earthly Conveniences for himself Luke 9 57-62 Matth. 8.21 22. But though he thus rejected the Scribe he treated one of his Disciples after another manner for he commanded him to follow him but this Disciple desiring Leave to bury his Father first he answers him Follow me and let the Dead bury their Dead i. e. let those that seek not Life and Immortality as you do bury the Dead but as for you go and preach the Kingdom of God He teaches him by this Answer That the Preaching of the Gospel is a thing more important than paying our Respects to Men which may be performed by all sorts of Persons Those Persons whose Soul is dead in Trespasses and Sins may bury those whose Body is dead but every Man is not fit to preach the Gospel Men must be Holy to exercise that Ministry and being called by God ought to prefer it before all things S. Luke 9.61 62. Luke speaks of a Third Person who being desirous to follow Christ begged to go and bid them first adieu that were at his House and dispose of his Goods Jesus saith to him Whosoever having laid his Hand to the Plough looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God By which Answer I understand That he that will earnestly labour for Salvation ought to mind nothing else but that nor perplex himself with other things VI. Jesus Christ appeaseth a Tempest About the Evening Jesus entred into the Ship Mark 4 35-41 to pass over to the other Side of the Lake of Gennesareth He had with him his Disciples who who had sent away the Multitude but yet there were some of the Multitude that getting into some small Ships which were ready at Hand followed him As they sailed Matth. 8 24-27 there arose a great Storm of Wind and so great a Tempest that the Waves beat with Violence into the Ship where Jesus was and filled it with Water As for himself he suffered himself to fall a-sleep on purpose to try the Faith of his Disciples and therefore slept in the hinder part of the Ship upon a Pillow till his Disciples seeing themselves in great Danger went to him and awaked him Saying Master carest thou not that we perish Lord save us Luke 8 22-25 He saith unto them Why are ye so fearful O ye of little Faith Then he arose and rebuked the Winds and the Tempest and commanded the Water to be still and immediately the Wind ceased and the Lake was calm Jesus then again reproves them for having so little Faith saying to them Where is your Faith and Why are you so fearful But they as also those who were in the other Ships were filled with Fear and Astonishment and said one to another What manner of Man is this who commandeth even the Winds and the Sea and they obey him VII Jesus Christ frees Two Men possessed with Devils Matth 8 28-34 Mark 5 1-20 Luke 8 26-40 Jesus and his Disciples landed in the Country of the Gergesens or Gergashites Deut. 7.1 which lies on the East-side of the Lake which they had passed and as soon as Jesus was come out of the Ship there came to him Two Men possessed with Devils crying out What have we to do with thee Jesus thou Son of God Art thou come to torment us before our Time These Two Men had their Dwelling among the Tombs and were so exceeding fierce that no Man could pass by that way S. Mark and S. Luke speak but of one of them whose Possession they describe more exactly either because he was most tormented by the Devils or because he was the most remarkable of the Two or because his Cure was most admired and talked of for he had been possessed a long time and had neither Cloaths nor Habitation but abode Day and Night in the Mountains and in the Tombs crying and cutting himself with Stones And though he had often been loaded with Chains and had his Feet fettered yet he had always broken the Fetters and Chains And the Devils then carried him into the Wilderness insomuch that no Man could ever tame him This Man saw Jesus Christ a far off and he with his Companion ran to him and the Devil that spake by his Mouth prayed the Son of God not to torment him by commanding him as he had done to go out of the Man possessed Nevertheless Jesus commanded him to go out of the Man and at the same Time asked him his Name he answered That he was called Legion because many Devils had entred into that miserable Man And since it is one of their greatest Torments to be restrained from doing Mischief to Men they earnestly implored Jesus Christ not to command them to go into the Deep but to permit them if he cast them out of these Two Possessed to enter into an Herd of Swine which was feeding not far from that Place upon the Mountains the Son of God granted them what they desired and by delivering these Hogs into their Power he teacheth us 1. That he may dispose of all we have as he pleaseth because we have nothing but what we receive from him 2. That the Devil hath no Power neither over us nor our Goods any farther than God permitteth him 3. That such is the Hatred and Rage of the Devil against Men that he would torment them for ever either in their Persons or Estates and would do all he could to satiate his Fury did not God set Bounds to it as he pleaseth This appears evidently to us from what happened to these Swine for as soon as Jesus permitted them to enter into them they made them all run violently upon the Rocks and from thence cast themselves head-long into the Lake where about 2000 of them were drowned The Keepers of the Swine went immediately into the Cities and Towns round about to carry the News of this Accident and they brought a great Number of People to the place where Jesus was to be fully satisfied of the Truth of their Relation Here they found the Man out of whom Jesus had cast the Legion of Devils sitting at Jesus's Feet cloathed and in his right Mind and as quiet and calm as he had been furious and mad before And those who had been Eye-witnesses of it told them all the Circumstances of his Cure and they were greatly afraid Then came all the City of Gadara to Jesus and could not look upon him but with much Horror They had a great Veneration for him who had so absolute an Authority over the Devils but were afraid of the Man who had driven their Swine into

make of the Gifts of his Mercy and that we need fear but one thing which is to hide or not improve the Talent that God hath entrusted us withal XIX A Description of the Last Judgment After these Parables in which Jesus teacheth his Disciples the importance of watching always Matth. 25 31-46 that they may not be surprized by his Second Coming which must needs be very terrible as the Fathers say to those who have not laboured after Salvation in this Life and who suffer Death to overtake them without a due Preparation for eternal Life He then informs them What he will do upon the Earth when he shall come again in his Majesty accompanied with his Angels He tells them That he shall sit on the Throne of his Glory and all Nations of the World being assembled before him he will separate the Righteous from the Wicked as a Shepherd separateth the Sheep from the Goats That he will say to the Righteous on his Right Hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the World for I was an hungry and ye gave me Meat thirsty and ye gave me drink naked and ye cloathed me sick and ye visited me imprisoned and ye came unto me to see me These good Men being amazed will then ask him When he suffered these Wants and they thus assisted him And then he will answer them I say unto you that forasmuch as ye did it to any of these least of my Brethren ye did it unto my self Afterward he will say to the Sinners on his Left-hand Depart from me ye cursed into Eternal Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels And he will add That the Cause of their Condemnation is this that they did not afford him Relief in his need not giving to his Brethren Not that Sinners say the Fathers shall not be punished for their other Crimes of which they are found guilty and the Good shall not be rewarded for the other good Works which they have done but by assuring us That he will judge Men according to the Works of Mercy which they have done or omitted He endeavours to teach us That without this vertue all the Good we do will be unprofitable for our Salvation and that there is no Sin which Alms-giving done by the Spirit of God cannot blot out Sinners shall be damned because they have not given Alms as a Sick Man may be said to dye of his Disease because he would not use the Medicine which might cure him These Two Sentences shall be followed with different Executions the Sinners shall go into Eternal Torments prepared for them but the Just shall go up into Heaven to be enstated in Life and Eternal Glory XX. The Jews hold a Council against Jesus Matth. 26 1-5.14-16 Mar. 14.1 2 10 11 Luke 22 1-6 While Jesus was thus instructing his Apostles the Priests and Doctors of the Law were devising all ways to apprehend Jesus by Subtilty and put him to Death He did not hide himself from them because his Hour was come He appeared in the Temple in the Day-Time and the People came together early in the Morning to hear him and at Night he went into the Mount of Olives On Wednesday his Enemies met in the Hall of Caiphas the High Priest and held a Council against him But because they feared the People they sought to seize upon him by Craft and that not on he Feast-Day lest they should cause an Uproar among the People In the mean Time Satan entred the Heart of Judas Iscariot that covetous Apostle who being a Thief kept the Mony of Jesus Christ and inspired him with a detestable Resolution to betray and sell his Master This Traitor therefore goes to the Priests and Rulers and saith unto them What will ye give me and I will deliver him into your Hands This Proposition did please them wonderfully and they promised to give him Thirty Pieces of Silver which comes to about Three Pounds and Fifteen Shillings of our Mony Which Sum he accepted From that Time he sought Opportunity to betray him This Jesus warned his Disciples of Ye know that within Two Days is the Feast of the Passover and the Son of Man shall be delivered up to the Jews to be Crucified XXI What was the Jewish Passover The Passover was the greatest and most solemn of all the Jewish Festivals Exod. 12. and God himself appointed it as a notable Remembrance of the Favours he had done for his People and as a sensible Sign of those that he further intended to do for all Mankind by the Death of his Son The Word Pascha signifies a Passage and if we would understand why this Name was given to that Solemnity we must call to Mind the manner how the Israelites were delivered out of Aegypt and from the Slavery of Pharaoh God that he might oblige that Prince to free his People sent several Plagues upon him and his Kingdom and particularly slew all the First-Born in Aegypt both of Man and Beast But that the Jews might not be involved in this Massacre which was intended only to work their Deliverance they were ordered by Moses from God to do these Things On the Tenth Day of the Moon in March they took every one an He-Lamb according to their Families without Blemish or Spot which they Sacrific'd on the Full-Moon of the same Month at Even and struct the Blood of it upon the Lintel and Two Side-posts of their Houses The same Night they eat the Flesh roasted with Fire in haste with unleavened Bread and bitter Sauces having their Garments guirded and trussed up their Shoes on their Feet and a Staff in their Hands as being ready to depart In this Night which was from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Day of the Moon in March God laid this heavy Judgment upon all Aegypt in slaying all the First-born and because he passed over all the Houses of the Israelites which he saw dyed with the Blood of the Lamb which had been sacrificed the Night before he would have this Lamb called by the Name of Pascha or Passover The Aegyptians seeng this Slaughter urged the Jews to be gone themselves who being ready to depart as we have already seen went out of that Country carrying the Dough along with them which they had not Time to leaven In remembrance of this miraculous Deliverance God commanded them to celebrate a great Feast every Year called the Passover that they might have it as a Monument of this Passage of the Lord and he enjoyned them during this Solemnity which was to continue Seven Days That they should eat unleavened Bread and should begin on the Fourteenth Day of the Moon of March in the Evening to Sacrifice and Eat the Lamb in remembrance of their Deliverance out of Aegypt This Evening which began the Feast of Passover was called the First Day of Unleavened Bread and the Name of Passover was given equally to the

thought upon all ways Matth. 27 1-10 how they might put their Sentence in Execution resolv'd to deliver him to Pontius Pilate the Governour of Judaea so Constituted by the Romans When Judas who had betray'd him saw that he was Condemned he repenting of what he had done brought the Thirty Pieces of Silver which he had received to the Priests and Rulers again and said unto them I have sinned in betraying the Innocent Blood They answered What is that to us See thou to That But he casting the Money down in the Temple went away and Hang'd himself The Priests thought it not Lawful to put the Money into the Treasury because it was the Price of Blood and of a Mans Life Wherefore they Bought the Potters Field to Bury Strangers in with it which is therefore called The Field of Blood and in the Syriack Tongue Aceldama Acts 1.19 Thus was the Prophecy of Zechariah ●exactly fulfilled Zech. 11.13 That Jesus should be Sold for the Price of Thirty Pieces of Silver and with it the Potters Field should be Bought XXXIV Jesus is accused before Pilate John 18 28-38 The Priests and Rulers of the Jews carryed Jesus bound from the Palace of Caiphas to the Praetorium i. e. the Palace of the Roman Governour But because they were afraid to go into an Heathens House lest they should be defiled and so be made unfit to eat the Passover they would not go in Insomuch that Pilate was forced to go out to them and ask them What they accused him of that they had brought him to him They answered him in general If he were not a Malefactor they would not have delivered him up unto him The Governour said unto them Take ye him and judge him according to the Rules of your Law But they reply'd That it was not Lawful for them to put any Man to Death They pretended that the Romans had lately depriv'd them of the Power of Condemning Men to Death by which the Word of Jesus was accomplish'd which he spake to his Apostles that he should be delivered to the Gentiles to be Crucified Matth. 20.19 The Governour not being contented with these rambling Accusations Matth. 27 11-14 Mark 15 2-5 Luke 23 1-5 John 18 33-38 which laid nothing special against him whom they required to be put to Death the Jews said unto him That Jesus not only perverted the whole Nation but forbid Paying Tribute to Caesar and assumed the Title of a King and of the Messias Pilate then returning into his Palace and calling for Jesus he ask'd him if he were the King of the Jews Jesus answered him Sayest thou this thy self or did others tell it thee of me Pilate replyed Am I a Jew The People of thy own Nation and the Chief Priests have delivered thee to me What hast thou done Jesus answered him My Kingdom is not of this World if it were my Disciples would fight to keep me out of the Hands of the Jews but my Kingdom is not from hence Art thou then a King said the Governour Thou sayest it replyed Jesus that I am For this End was I born and for this End came I into the World to give Testimony to the Truth Every one that loves the Truth heareth my Voice Pilate ask'd him What is Truth And having said these Words he went to the Jews that attended about his Palace to tell them That he found no Fault with Jesus Then the Priests and the Elders accused him of several Crimes but he answered nothing although Pilate said Hearest thou not how many accusations they bring against thee yet still he held his Peace which greatly astonished this Governour XXXV Jesus is contemned and scorned by Herod The Enemies of Jesus pressing him more fiercely● accused him of having stirred up the People by his Doctrin Luke 23 5-12 which he hath taught throughout all Judea beginning at Galilee Pilate hearing them speak of Galilee asked whether he belonged to that Province and being informed that he was of it and consequently of Herod's Jurisdiction he sent him to that Prince who was then at Jerusalem Herod was very glad to see him for he had a long Time desired it having heard such great things spoken of him and he hoped to see some Miracle done by him wherefore he put many Questions to him but Jesus answered nothing neither to them nor the Accusations which the Priests and Scribes brought against him and urged with great Vehemency Herod being thus deceived in his Expectations contemned Jesus and derided him and cloathing him in a white Raiment sent him again to Pilate This was the Cause that Herod and Pilate from that Time became Friends who had been Enemies before XXXVI A Thief is preferred before Jesus Matth. 27 15-23 Luke 23 13-23 John 18.39 40. Pilate could not be brought to put a Man to Death in whom he found nothing worthy of Death wherefore he called the Priests Rulers and People and told them That having examined Jesus before them he did not find him guilty of any of those Crimes of which they accused him and that Herod to whom he had sent them had passed the same Judgment But to give place a little to their Fury because he knew that for Envy and Hatred only they had delivered him to him he propounded it to them to Scourge him and then let him go again This not being liked he contrived another way to save him He was obliged by Custom upon the account of the Feast to free a Criminal whom the Jews would chuse and all the People who desired Jesus Death were also very earnest with him to shew them the same Favour he had always used to grant them There was then in Prison a notable Thief named Barabbas who had been seized with other Seditious Persons because he had committed Murther in the Sedition Pilate therefore thinking that if he propounded only Two viz. Jesus and Barabbas to chuse one of the Two for whom he should do this Favour they would prefer an Innocent Person before a Thief and a Murderer saith unto them I find no Fault in him whom ye accuse But since it is a Custom to release a Criminal at the Passover whom will ye that I release unto you Barabbas or Jesus which is called Christ There happened also another Thing about the same Time which is no small Proof that the Governour had a Design to save Jesus's Life for as he was sirting upon the Judgment-Seat his Wife sent one to bid him Not to concern himself with this Just Man because she had suffered Many Troubles in a Dream because of him Then did Pilate do all that he was able to deliver him from the Hands of his Enemies and this was the Reason that he propounded him with Barabbas to the People But the Priests and Elders moved the People and perswaded them to require his Favour for Barabbas and that Jesus might be put to Death so that when Pilate ask'd them a