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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09349	A brief account of the most remarkable prodigies which happened at the birth, in the life, and the death of our blessed savior Jesus Christ. To which is added a lively description of the person of Christ. Also, something concerning Agbarus, prince of the Edesseans; with his epistle to Christ; and Christ's letter in answer thereto collected out of the best historians, both divine and heathen / and illustrated with observations, both in verse and prose by W. L.	W. L.	1696 (1696)	Wing L84A; ESTC R224607	4,603	1

A Brief Account of the Most Remarkable PRODIGIES which happened at the Birth in the Life and at the Death of our Blessed Saviour JESVS CHRIST To which is Added A Lively Description of the Person of Christ 16. March 1695 6. Also Something concerning AGBARVS Prince of the Edesseans with his Epistle to Christ and Christ's Letter in Answer thereto Collected out of the Best Historians both Divine and Heathen And illustrated with Observations both in Verse and Prose By W. L. In the Days of Tiberius Caesar the Emperor Publius Lentulus being at that time President in Judea wrote an Epistle to the Senate of Rome Concerning Jesus Christ the Words whereof are these as followeth THere appeared in these our days a Man of Great Virtue called JESUS CHRIST who is yet living amongst us and of the People is accepted for a Prophet but his own Disciples call him the SON of GOD. He raiseth the Dead and cureth all manner of Diseases Well might the Romans at such Works admire Jove and his Gods could ne're so high aspire Those Mighty Works he did declar'd him more Then all those Idols Rome did then adore The Dead revivd Who could their Life restore But he that first inspir'd it by his power How c●uld the Blind in darkness longer stray When th' glorious Sun dispel'd it quite away And what but Health could seize all Living Things When shadow'd under his All-healing Wings In reproving he is severe in admonishing courteous and fair-spoken pleasant in Speech mixed with gravity It cannot be remembred that any have seen him laugh but many have seen him weep In proportion of Body well shaped and straight his Hands and Arms very delectable to behold in Speaking very temperate modest and wise A Man for his singular Beauty surpassing the Children of Men. When all that 's Good most Perfect and Divine To dignifie our Nature did combine When Innocence descended from Above In brightest Glory and in purest Love What else but Beauty could it self display Far more illustrious then the clearest Day And much more during That one frowning blast At might appreaching makes to look agast But this un●angled by devouring Age Unruffld by tempestuous Heat an Age Continues in a perfect Symetry And will outlast boundless Eternity AFter that Jesus Christ was made manifest unto all men through the working of Miracles he drew unto him an innumerable sort of Strangers far distant from Judea afflicted with sundry Diseases and every sort of Maladies being to recover their health of which King Agbarus Governour of the famous Nations inhabiting beyond the River Euphrates grievously diseased in body incurable by mans cunning hearing the renowned Fame of Jesus the wonderful Works which he wrought agreeable to the same published of all men wrote unto him by Letters requiring deliverance from his Disease Jesus though not presently yielded unto his desire vouchsafed to answer him by an Epistle That shortly he would send one of his Disciples which should cure his Disease promising withal That he should not only cure his Disease but as many as belonged unto him Which promise he not long after performed for after his Resurrection Thomas one of the twelve Apostles sent his Brother Thaddaus accounted among the seventy Disciples by Divine Inspiration into the City of Edessa to be Preacher of the Doctrine of Christ by whom all things concerning the Promise of Christ were performed The Reader hath an approved Testimony of these Things in Writing taken out of the Recorded Monuments of the Princely City Edessa for there are found enrowled in their publick Registry things of Antiquity and which were done about Agbarus's time and preserved unto this Day and copyed out of their Registry and translated by us out of the Syrian Tongue in this manner The EPISTLE of Agbarus unto our Saviour AGbarus Governour of Edessa unto Jesus the good Saviour shewing himself in Jerusalem sendeth greeting I have heard of thee and thy Cures which thou hast done without Medicine or Herbs for as the report goeth thou makest the Blind to see the Lame to go the Lepers thou cleansest foul Spirits and Devils thou castest out and the long diseased thou restorest to Health and raisest the Dead to Life When that I heard these things of thee I imagined with my self one of these two things either that thou art God come from Heaven and dost these things or the Son of God that bringeth these things to pass Wherefore by these my Letters I beseech thee to take the pains to come unto me and that thou wilt cure this my grievous Malady wherewith I am sore vexed I have heard moreover that the Jews murmur against thee and go about to mischief thee I have here a little City and an honest which will suffice us both The LETTER of Christ to Agbarus AGbarus blessed art thou because thou hast believed in me when thou sawest me not for it is written of me That they which see me shall not believe in me that they which see me not may believe and be saved Concerning that thou wrotest unto me that I should come unto thee I let thee understand that all things touching my Message are here to be fulfilled and after the fulfilling thereof I am to return again unto him that sent me But after my Ascension I will send one of my Disciples unto thee which shall cure thy Mallady and restore Life to thee and them that be with thee PRODIGIES at the Birth of Christ IN prosecution of my intended method I first begin with the Birth of the most Holy and Immaculate Son of God incarnate which was according to the best of Chronologers in the 3849 Year of the Word and in the 48th Year of Augustus Caesar second Emperor of Rome it was attended with many surprizing and remarkable Prodigies and Apparitions in the Heavens and that after a more Terrible and Supernatural manner than ever happened in the preceding Ages as the learned and warlike Jew Josephus testifies in his Jewish History which Sights being unusual were therefore more Frightful to humane Nature and put the Magi themselves to whom the Vulgar had ever recourse in things of Consequence to so great a non-plus that they could make no evasion but were forced to conclude as well they might That some more than ordinary Person should arise For besides the Account given by the Evangelists of an Angel appearing to the Shepherds and the Star which directed the Wise Men to the Place of his Nativity we have it recorded by Paulus Horatius and Eutropius then Secretaries to Augustus as also by Eusebius a very credible Author That a Fountain of pure Oyl was discovered in a publick Inn at Rome issuing forth without intermission for the space of a whole Day Which was a very notable Instance of the Coming of Him who was the Fountain of all Goodness And they farther add That at high Noon on a clear and serene Day the visible Body of the Sun was environed with a Circle