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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

Hundred Thousand Men for Forty Years together with Manna that fell from Heaven Canst thou do any thing greater than Moses did Jesus answered them verily I say unto you Moses did not give you the true Bread from Heaven but 't is my Father that giveth it and this Bread is he that came down from Heaven and giveth Life unto the World They said unto him Lord give us this Bread for ever He answered them I am the Bread of Life he that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst By which words we are to understand That Jesus is the spiritual Food of those Souls that eat him believing on him by a lively Faith which works by Love and by thus eating him they obtain that happy Life with which they shall be fully and eternally satisfied Then he adds that altho' they had seen and been witnesses of so many Miracles which he had done yet they did not believe on him and by reason of their Infidelity they should lose the great advantage which all those which his Father should bring unto him should enjoy viz. to be raised up at the Last Day and inherit eternal Life Nevertheless the Jews murmured against him saying Is not this the Son of Joseph Do not we know his Father and Mother Why then doth he tell us that he came down from Heaven Jesus was so far from mollifying or recanting these Truths tho' they were offended at them that on the contrary he confirms them more strongly and having proved from Scripture that they should be taught of God that all whom his Father teacheth shall come unto him and that they themselves did not come unto him because they did not understand the Voice of him that sent him He tells them again that he is the Bread of Life that the Manna did not keep them from dying who eat of it but his flesh was the true Bread that came down from Heaven which giveth Life to all that eat of it These last words made them the more averse to him and they disputed among themselves how he could give them his Flesh to eat Nevertheless he pursued his Discourse and tells them that his flesh is meat indeed and his blood is drink indeed that they have no Life in them if they eat not his Flesh and drink his Blood and that he that feeds on them shall be raised up at the Last Day and obtain eternal Life Lastly he teaches them what great effects his Body should work in the Souls of all those that receive it worthily saying to them He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him and he shall live by me as I live by my Father which hath sent me These sublime Truths which he taught in the Synagogue at Capernaum offended many of the Jews yea several of his Disciples having hard them said These words are very heard and unintelligible who can patiently hear such Doctrin as this much less believe it But they understood them in a literal which were meant in a Spiritual sense only They thought saith St. Austin that if they eat his flesh they must cut it in pieces as the flesh which is sold in the Market is They were not sensible that besides the manner of eating Jesus Christ by Faith they might also really eat him in the Eucharist under the Figure of Bread a way wherein there is nothing affrighting But instead of believing all that he who was the Truth it self said unto them by attending to his Explication of what they did not understand they were offended at his Speech and withdrawing themselves from following him would be his Disciples no longer The Apostles were wiser than these deserters for Jesus having said unto them Will ye also leave me Peter answered for them all Lord to whom should we go thou hast the words of Eternal Life and we believe and know that thou art the Christ the Son of God Nevertheless among these Twelve which adhered so firmly to him there was one which should afterwards betray him which was Judas Iscariot Jesus knowing it foretold the Infidelity and Treachery of that Apostle saying Have not I chosen you Twelve And yet one of you is a Devil and a Wicked Traytor IV. The Pharisees complain that his Apostles did eat with un-washed Hands Jo. 6.4 The Passover was nigh at hand when Jesus multiplyed the Bread and made the former Discourse It appears by this Relation of St. John that he went not up to Jerusalem to Solemnize that Feast according to the Custom for that Evangelist says that after this he remained in Galilee not daring to go into Judea because the Jews sought to put him to Death Then the Scribes and Pharisees which were of Jerusalem came unto him Matt. 1● 1 -20. Mar. 7.1 -23. and having observed that his Disciples did not scruple to eat their Meat with unwashen Hands they complained of them to him Not that there was any commandment of the Law enjoyning them to wash their Hands before they eat but the Pharisees had annexed several Humane Traditions to the Law which they were more exact in the observance of than the Law it self For this reason it was that they said unto Jesus Why do thy Disciples break the Tradition of the Elders in not washing their Hands when they eat their Food Jesus asked them again Why do you your selves transgress the Law of the Lord by following your Traditions As for example Why do you perswade Children to think that they do a Work acceptable to God in giving him Offerings altho' they suffer their Father and Mother to be in want thus making them to prefer an Humane Tradition before the Commandment of God which injoyns Children so expresly to Honour and Support those from whom they have received Life Then he shews them that notwithstanding all their Ceremonial observances they wore the Hypocrites of whom God speaks by the Prophet Isaias This People honoureth me with their Lips Isai 29.13 but their Heart is far from me Lastly he calls to the People and saith unto them with a loud Voice Hear ye this and understand my sayings Nothing from without a Man entring into his Body can defile him but that which cometh out of the Man defileth the Man Upon this his Disciples came unto him and told him that the Pharisees were offended at his Words But he answered them Every Plant that my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up Let them alone they are blind leaders of such as are as blind as themselves with whom they shall fall into the Ditch and so perish eternally together Then he went into an House and his Disciples desired him to explain to them his meaning in those Words Nothing that entreth into a Man defileth the Man but that which cometh out of the Man defileth the Man He unfolded the Parable to them and taught them that every thing that entreth into the Body

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

would accept such a piece of Service from her who was a Samaritan for the Jews abhor the Samaritans and will have no commerce with them because they being Strangers had possessed themselves of part of their Country and had changed the Laws of Moses by several Pagan Superstitions which they mixed with it This her surprize she discovered to Jesus who said unto her If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that desires drink of thee thou wouldest have asked of him thy self and he would have given thee Living Water The VVoman understood these words in the literal sense Jo. 4 12.-18 and not knowing but he would draw the Living VVater either out of that or some other VVell She replyed Master thou hast nothing to draw with and the Well is deep how then wilt thou get this Living Water Art thou greater than our Father Jacob who gave us this Well and drank of it himself and all his Family Jesus answered He that drinks of this Water shall thirst again but he that shall drink of the Water that I will give him shall never thirst but it shall become a Well in him springing up unto eternal Life which he meant either of that Grace which quenches all humane desires of Earthly and Carnal Enjoyments or else of his Celestial glory which shall perfectly satisfie all our Appetites But the Samaritan VVoman understood it of Corporeal VVater which made her to say to Jesus Christ with great earnestness Lord give me this Water that being a-thirst no more I may not be forced to come hither to draw Jesus said to her Go call thy Husband She answered that she had no Husband whereupon Jesus reply'd Thou hast good cause to say so for thou hast had five Husbands and he that thou now hast is not thy Husband in this thou hast said truly By these words she perceived that he knew how she had lived and she said unto him Jo. 4 19.-26 either to divert his discourse to a more pleasing Subject or that she might get some Advantage and Instruction from a Person so knowing Lord I am sensible that thou art a Prophet I pray resolve me this controversie Our Fathers worshipped upon this Mountain and ye say that Jerusalem is the place where Men ought to Worship VVhich of us are in the Right Jesus takes an occasion to tell this VVoman that God being a Spirit and the Truth he will be adored in Spirit and Truth and be known by those that worship him that this VVorship depends not upon Places and the time is coming when he shall be worshipped in that manner only She replyed I know that Messias will come and when he is come he will Instruct us throughly in these matters Whereupon Jesus said unto her I am the very Messias that thou speakest of In the mean time his Disciples who were gone into the City to buy Food Jo. 4 27.-34 came and wondred to see him Discourse so freely with the VVoman but the respect which they had for him hindred them from demanding the Reason of it Nevertheless she left her Pitcher there and went into the City and said to the Inhabitants Come and see the Man who hath told me all that ever I did Is not this the Christ Jesus remained still at the Well And when his Disciples earnestly desired him to eat he said unto them I have meat to eat which ye know not of and then he explains to them what sort of meat he meant in these Words My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his Work● This Work was the Salvation of Man and his Meat was the Faith of those who were converted by his Preachings Soon after these things the Woman with whom Jesus had talked Jo. 4 39.-42 returned with the Inhabitants of Sychar who believing on him already because of the Womans words came to desire him to abide with them He stayed with them two days and by his Discourses much confirmed them in the Faith and increased the number of those that believed in his Name Insomuch that they said unto the Woman Now we believe not because of thy saying for we have heard him our selves and we know that this is certainly the Christ the Saviour of the World The End of the First Book BOOK II. The History of what Jesus Christ Did and Taught in the First two Years of his Preaching I. His Preaching in Galilee WHEN the two days were expired Matt. 4 12.-17 Mar. 1.14 15. Lu. 4.14 15. Jo. 4.43 -45. Jesus went on his intended Journey into Galilee being filled with the power of the Spirit and was joyfully received by the Galileans because they had seen the Miracles which he did at Jerusalem at the Feast of the Passover Here he began to Preach the Gospel that is to say the Joyful news of the Kingdom of God which he came to publish to the World saying The time is come The Kingdom of God is at hand Repent ye and believe the Gospel And this he taught in all the Synagogues of this Province with great success for he was highly esteemed with all Men and his Fame went abroad into all that Country Jesus being again at Cana of Galilee where he made the Water VVine Jo. 4.46 -53. there came a certain Noble Man to him who desired him to go down with him to Capernaum to heal his Son who was at the Point of Death Jesus knowing the thoughts of his Heart and the Imperfections of his Faith Book II. said unto him Except ye see Signs and Wonders ye shall not believe But this Lord whe● was one of Herod's Courtiers being very earnes● with him to go down before his Child dyed he answered him Go thy way thy Son liveth And he believed Jesus's words and returning home his Sarvants met him and brought him the New●s of his Sons recovery He then inquired of them what hour he began to amend and they told him yesterday about One a Clock in the Afternoon the Fever left him which was the very same hour in which Jesus said unto him Thy Son i● well This Miracle converted the Noble Man and all his Family and they believed on Jesus Christ II. The Calling of Four Apostles Matt. 4 18.-22 Matt. 8.24 On the East side of Galilee there was a great Lake which the Gospel calls a Sea according to th● usual manner of speaking among the Jews and sometimes it is called the Sea of Galilee because some part of this Province adjoyns to this Lake and sometimes the Lake or Sea of Gennesareth of Tiberias Lu. 5.1 Jo. 21.1 from a City of these two Names which stood upon the Shore of it Jesus walking by the side of this Lake saw two Fishermen casting their Nets into the Water The one of them was Simon and the other Andrew his Brother who being one of John's Disciples and hearing his Master say that Jesus was the Lamb of God followed