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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 Sea and therefore either because they did not think themselves worthy of Jesus's Presence or because they were afraid of greater Losses than they had already sustained they besought him to depart out of their Country The Man who had been possessed besought him who had been his Deliverer to suffer him to go along with him but Jesus answered him Return to thine own House and declare what great Things God hath done for thee He obeyed his Order and went through every City and through all that Country thankfully publishing and commemorating the great Favours that Jesus had done unto him VIII Jesus heals a Man sick of the Palsy at Capernaum Mark 2.1 2. The Son of God departing out of the Country of the Gadarens as they had desired him took Ship again and being arrived at the other Side of the Lake found a great Number of People waiting for him and they received him joyfully He returned to Capernaum where as soon as he was known to be a great number of People came unto him insomuch that not only the House where he was but even all the Space about the Door could not receive them Luk. 5.17 There were also sitting by him certain Pharisees and Doctors of the Law which were come out of every Town of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem To all these Jesus preached the Word of God and manifested that Power which God had given to him Mark 2 3-12 Luke 5 18-26 by Healing the Sick Among others that came to be healed there was brought unto him a Man sick of the Palsy lying in his Bed but not knowing how to carry him to him by reason of the Multitude they who brought him contrived to go up to the top of the House and to uncover the Roof and having made an Hole to let down the Bed on which the Sick Man lay and so place him before the Son of God Matth. 9 2-8 Jesus seeing their Faith saith unto the Sick of the Palsy Son be of good Cheer thy Sins be forgiven thee These Words much displeased the Pharisees and Lawyers which were present who thought in themselves That since God only can forgive Sins Jesus who assumed this Power to himself must needs be a Blaspheemer but he knowing the Thoughts of their Hearts saith unto them Why are your Minds busied about such evil Thoughts Which is easier to say to this Man who was sick of the Palsy Thy Sins be forgiven thee or to say Arise take up thy Bed and walk but that ye may know that the Son of Man hath Power on Earth to forgive Sins he saith unto the Sick of the Palsy Arise take up thy Bed and go unto thine House And the same Moment the Sick Man arose before the Multitude took up the Bed whereon he lay and went to his own House glorifying God All the Spectators were greatly amazed at this Miracle and although the Power of Healing be much less than that of Forgiving Sins yet because it is not so easy to make Men to believe a Cure falsly of which our Senses are Witnesses as Remission of Sin which is secret and invisible therefore all the People who were convinced by their own Sight of the Efficacy of these Words of Jesus Christ Arise and take up thy Bed were fully perswaded of the Truth of the former Thy Sins are forgiven thee For which Reason they glorified God which had given such Power unto Men and said in the Fear into which this Miracle had cast them We have seen strange things to day such as we never saw before IX Jesus commands a Publican to follow him Matth. 9 9-13 Mark 2 13-17 Luke 5 27-32 Jesus departing from this House walked by the Side of the Lake and seeth a Publican as he went along sitting in the Custom-House and he saith unto him Follow me This Man who was the Son of Alphaeus and named Levi or Matthew arose immediately left all and accompanied him that called him Not long after he made a great Feast in his House to which there came many Publicans and others of very wicked Lives and sat down at the Table with Jesus and his Disciples The Pharisees and Doctors of the Law could not endure that our Saviour should converse with Sinners or Publicans which the Jews detested and therefore they murmured greatly and demanded of his Disciples Why their Master and they did eat and drink with such sort of Persons Jesus hearing their Complaints said unto them They that are whole need not a Physician but they that are Sick I came not to call the Righteous but Sinners to Repentence go ye and learn what these Words signify I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice Hosea 6.6 and ye will know that my charitable conversing with Sinners to convert them is more acceptable to God than all your Sacrifices and Ceremonies This Answer nevertheless did not appease the Murmurings of the Pharisees Matth. 9 14-17 Mark 2 18-22 Luke 5 33-39 but they came to him with the Disciples of John and put this Question to him Why do the Disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast often and make Prayers but thy Disciples fast not Jesus answered them Can the Friends of the Bridegroom fast or mourn so long as the Bridegroom is with them That were unfit but the Time will come when the Bridegroom shall be taken away from them and then shall they fast To this Reason taken from the Presence of the Bridegroom which is the Name which S. John Baptist himself gave to Jesus the Son of God adds another taken from the Weakness of his Disciples who were yet in the Entrance upon his Religion and were very imperfect for he tells the Pharisees That to impose any rigorous Austerities upon Men who were as yet weak is to undo all and imitate the Imprudence of him who sews Pieces of new Cloath to an Old Garment or puts New Wine into old Bottles X. Jesus Christ cures a Woman of a Bloody Flux and raiseth a Maid from the Dead While Jesus was thus discoursing with the Pharisees and John's Disciples Jairus Matth. 9 18-22 Mark 5 22-34 Luke 8 41-48 the Chief Ruler of the Synagogue came and falling down at his Feet besought him to go to his House and lay his Hands upon his only Daughter who was about Twelve Years old and was then at the Point of Death Jesus went immediately along with him being accompanied with his Disciples and a great multitude of People At the same time it happen'd That a Woman who had been sick of a Bloody Flux for Twelve Years and had spent all her Estate to get a Cure of it and had endured much by Physicians and could get no help having heard the Fame of Jesus came behind him among the Multitude and touched him by the Border of his Garment for she had so great a Faith that she was throughly perswaded in her self If I can but touch his Garment I shall be

Lord but do not what he commands and those only who do his Will shall enter into his Kingdom Lastly he concludes this long Discourse with a Comparison of his Auditors to Builders saying He that hears and does what I teach is like to a wise Man that built his House upon a firm Rock which no Tempest could beat down and on the contrary he that doth not practice vvhat he hears is like unto a Fool that Built his House upon the Sand vvhich when the Wind and Rain beat upon it was overthrown XVII Jesus Cures a Leper Matt. 8 1-4 Mar. 1 40-45 Lu. 5 12.-15 Jesus having finished this Sermon came down from the Mountain and a great multitude followed him having heard his Doctrin with Attention and Admiration Then came to him a Man over-spread with a Leprosy and falling down at Jesus Feet Worshiped him beseeching him and saying Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me clean This Prayer so full of Humility and Faith pleased Jesus who stretching forth his hand touched him and said I will be thou clean and immediately his Leprosy was cleansed But Jesus straitly charged that he should tell no Man of this Miracle and commanded him to go and shew himself unto the Priest that he might declare him clean and offer the Sacrifice prescribed by the Law This Man notwithstanding could not forbear publishing for all that what had happened unto him and the Fame of the Son of God was so much increased that he could not appear any more in the City but went into the Deserts where he spent his time in Prayer but the People did not cease going to him in great multitudes from every quarter to hear him and to be cured of their Diseases XVIII Jesus heals a Man sick of the Palsey Mat. 8 5-13 Lu. 7.1 -10. Jesus being entred into Capernaum he was entreated by the Elders of the Jews to go down to the House of a certain Centurion or Captain of an Hundred Soldiers to heal a Servant of his whom he greatly loved and who was so sick of a Palsie that he was almost brought to the point of Death by it This Officer having heard of the Fame of Jesus had desired some of his Friends to go to him and beg this Favour of him These Men earnestly besought him representing not only the danger the Servant was in but also the Worthiness of his Master and the obligations which all the Nation of the Jews had to him for say they he loveth our Nation and hath Built us a Synagogue Jesus then went along with them and when they came near the House the Centurion sent others to him to desire him that he would not give himself the trouble to come unto him and to say Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my Roof but speak only in a Word and my Servant shall be healed He adds that he did not think himself worthy to go to meet him nor to receive him and he doubted not of the efficacy of his Word if he would but command the Distemper to depart from his Servant since he himself who was but an under Officer and subject to the command of others could be exactly obeyed by those Soldiers which were under him Jesus admired this Mans Faith who was an Heathen and turning himself to them that followed him He said Verily I have not found so much Faith even among the Israelites themselves To which he adds That many shall come from the East and from the West and shall have a place in the Kingdom of Heaven with Abraham Isaac and Jacob but the Jews who boast of their Descent from these Patriarchs and under that Title are Children and Heirs of the Kingdom shall be excluded and cast into utter darkness where there is nothing but weeping and gnashing of Teeth Which indeed happened to the Jews in whose stead the Gentiles which knew not God are called to the Inheritance of Heaven To this Faith which he so highly esteemed did Jesus grant the Cure of the Diseased Man who was made whole from that very hour And when they whom the Centurion had sent were returned to his House they found the Servant in perfect Health XIX Jesus raiseth a Man from the Dead Lu. 7.11 -16. The next day Jesus went to Naim a City of Galilee lying near the Mediterranean Sea being accompanyed with his Disciples and the Multitude as he always was Being near the Gate of the City there was a Dead Man carryed out to be Buryed who was the only Son of his Mother who was a Widow and followed the Bier and much People of the City were with her Jesus seeing her was moved with compassiom towards this afflicted Widow and said unto her Weep not Then he cometh to the Bier and making the Bearers to stand still he touched him and spake unto the Dead man these words Young Man I command thee to arise And immediately the Dead Man sat up and began to speak and Jesus delivered him to his Mother And all that were present were seized with fear and glorified God saying A great Prophet is risen up among us and God hath visited his People XX. John sends two of his Disciples to Jesus The answer they received from him Matt. 11.2 -6. Lu. 7.18 -23. The Fame of the former Miracle spread it self into all Judea and all the Country round about so that John who vvas in Prison heard of it This Holy Fore-runner of Christ had a full Relation of the Miracles which Jesus did from his ovvn Disciples and vvould not lose so good an occasion of making them acknowledg him for the Messiah He would have them to be convinced of this Truth themselves and for that reason chose two of them and sent them to him with this Question Art thou He that should come or look we for another Jesus instead of giving a direct Answer to this Question wrought many Miraculous Cures in their Presence after which he saith unto them Go and tell John what things ye have heard and seen That the Blind see the Lame walk the Lepers are cleansed the Deaf hear the Dead are raised and to the Poor the Gospel is Preached These were the visible Proofs that he gave them to shew them who he was And he adds Blessed are they that shall not be offended in me as if he had said according to the Explication of the Fathers That it is easie for Men to accept me for the Messiah when they see me Work so many Miracles but few will believe me to be so when they see me suffer the Ignominious Death of the Cross These two Messengers being returned to their Master Jesus turned his speech to the People Matt. 11.7 -14. Lu. 7.24 -28. and discoursed to them concerning John after this manner What went ye out into the Wilderness to see A Reed shaken with the Wind Or a Man cloathed in soft and delicate Attire And having thus put them in mind of

all the Nation should perish Thus did this wretched Man express the cruel Motions of Hatred which he had against Jesus but God delivered by him who thought nothing less the Designs of his Wisdom for the Salvation of Men and honoured his Priesthood in the Person of his High-Priest Prophesying by his Mouth of the Death which the Saviour of the World should suffer to save not only the Jews but also to gather together into one Church the Children of God which are dispersed in all other Nations This advice so took with them that from that time the Priests and Pharisees sought all the ways they could think of to put him to Death and to this end gave order that if any Man knew where he was he should discover him that they might apprehend him But because his hour was not yet come altho ' it drew very near he escaped their Fury for a little time by not appearing in publick but going into a desert place near a City called Ephraim where he abode some time with his Disciples XLVI Jesus is rejected by the Samaritans The Feast of the Passover being the time wherein Jesus Christ was to consummate the great Work of our Redemption by the Sacrifice of his Blood when that Passover drew near Luke 9 51-56 wherein he was to suffer he prepared himself for Death and set forward in his Journey to Jerusalem with a stedfast Countenance signifying the firm Resolution he had taken up to lay down his Life for Men. It seemed good to him to go thro' Samaria but when he came into a City of the Province they would not entertain him because they knew he was going to Jerusalem for there was a great Contest between the Samaritans and Jews about the place where God ought to be Worshipped the first alledging that it was Mount Gerizim and the other the Temple of Jerusalem The reason then why the Inhabitants of this place thro' which Jesus passed rejected him was because he went to Solemnize the Feast and by consequent to Worship in a different place from them The two Sons of Zebedee James and John being incensed at the Injury which they had done to their Master said unto him Lord wilt thou that we command Fire to fall down from Heaven upon them and devour them But the Son of God willing to Teach them that the Spirit of his true Disciples is a Spirit of Love and Charity and not Revenge turned himself to the two Brethren and gave them this sharp reproof Ye know not by what Spirit ye are acted for the Son of Man is not come to destroy mens Lives but to save them And they went to lodge in another Village XLVII Jesus foretells his Death a Third time Matth. 20 17-19 Mark 10 32-34 Luke 18 31-34 This assurance and resolution of the Son of God which appeared even in his Face was not in the Heart of the Apostles who accompanyed him but on the contrary they were seized with terror and amazement and followed him with fear He takes them therefore apart and saith unto them Behold we go up to Jerusalem where all things that are Written concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished For he shall be delivered to to the Chief Priests and Scribes who shall condemn him to Death and deliver him to the Gentiles who shall mock and spitefully entreat him Scourge and crucify him and he shall rise again the Third Day but they understood not this Third Prediction of his Death no more than the Two former and the Gospel assures us That this Discourse was concealed from them so that they knew not the Things that were spoken XLVIII Jesus reproves the Ambition of his Apostles At the same Time Salome the Wife of Zebedee Matth. 20 20-28 Mark 10 35-45 and the Mother of John and James came to him with her Two Sons and worshipped him as if she were about to pray unto him Jesus asked her what she would have and she answered him Command that these my Two Sons may sit the one on thy Right-Hand and the other on thy Left in thy Kingdom He returned her no answer but turning himself to her Children for whom she petitioned he said unto them Ye know not what ye ask Are ye able to drink of the Cup that I must drink of and to be baptized with the Baptism that I must be baptized with By this Cup and Baptism he understood his Death and he asked these Two Brethren Whether they were able to follow him and imitate his Sufferings They answered That they were able Then he tells them That they should indeed drink a part of his Cup but as for the chief Places in his Kingdom they are wholly at the Disposal of his Father to give them to whom he pleaseth As if he had said according to the Explication of the Fathers Do not think that my Kingdom shall be given for Human Motives and Respects it belongs to those for whom my Father hath appointed it and they are such as are qualified for it by their Lives and Sufferings Put your selves therefore into a Posture of Fighting and Conquering and you shall have the Reward which is promised to Conquerors bestowed on you The Ambition of these Two Disciples displeased the other Ten who were very angry with the Two Brethren Jesus who knew their Thoughts being desirous to cure that Pride which made the one ambitious and the other jealous calls them unto him and teaches them That they must not be like the Princes and Grandees of the World who rule with Tyranny over their Subjects but on the contrary he that will be great among them must be Servant of all according to the Example of the Son of Man himself who came not to be waited upon and served but to serve others for their Spiritual Good and redeem Souls by his Death XLIX Jesus lodges at Zaccheus's House Luke 19 1-10 They went on their Journey and came to Jericho In this City there was a certain Man named Zaccheus one of the chief Publicans and very rich who had a very great Desire to see Jesus But because the Multitude hindred him from it being a Man of a small Stature he went before and climbed up into a Sycamore Tree in a Place where he knew he was to pass Jesus accordingly came that way indeed and lifting up his Eyes he saw Zaccheus and said unto him Zaccheus make haste and come down for I must lodge at thy House to Day At this Zaccheus came down immediately and entertained him joyfully while others murmuring against him said He is gone to be a Guest with a Man of a wicked Life But Jesus made it appear by the miraculous Change which he wrought in the Heart of this Publican that he went as a Physician into a diseased Family to cure it for Zaccheus presenting himself before him said to him Lord the half of my Estate I will give unto the Poor and if I have done any

only the Son because he is begotten of the Father to whom the Name of Father is given for that Reason but also the Word because he is the Thought or interior Speech of the First Person which begat him by knowing himself and that from all Eternity because he knoweth himself from all Eternity And upon this Ground it is that S. John says That in the Beginning i. e. when the World began the Word was and the Word was in or with God for the Thought is in the Mind that forms it and that he was God it being the Property of this Word as we have said to be the same thing with the Being that begets it p. 23 The Birth of JESUS CHRIST VII The Human Birth of Jesus Christ. Augustus the Roman Emperor Luke 2. 1-20 being desirous to know the Number of all his Subjects published an Edict commanding every Person to go and be registred in his Native City In Obedience to which Order Joseph went up from Galilee with the Holy Virgin to Bethlehem a City of Judah to have his Name enrolled there because he was of the House and Linage of David For this Prince was born at Bethlehem which is therefore called in the Gospel The City of David While they were there her Time came that the Holy Virgin should be delivered And she brought forth Jesus Christ wrapped him in Swaddling Cloaths and because there was no Room in the Inn laid him in a Manger Not far from thence there were certain Shepherds who kept their Flocks by Night these Men all of a sudden were encompassed with a great Light and saw an Angel which said unto them Fear not for I bring you good News which shall fill all People with great Joy which is that this Day there is born in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord and by this Sign ye shall know him ye shall find the Infant wrapped in Swaddling Cloaths and lying in a Manger As soon as they had received this Message from God they heard a great number of those blessed Spirits praising God and saying Glory be to God in the height of Heaven and on Earth Peace to the Men of his good-liking i. e. to all truly penitent Sinners and sincere new Creatures As soon as the Angels were departed the Shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem where they found Mary and Joseph with the Babe who was laid in a Manger and they acknowledged the Truth of what the Angel had said unto them Then they returned glorifying God published the Miracles which they had seen and raised an Admiration in all those that heard them But Mary seriously meditated upon all these Things in her Mind and was careful to keep a faithful Remembrance of them VIII The Circumcision of Jesus Christ. Luk. 2.21 Lev. 12.3 Gen. 17.12 By the Law of Moses every Male Child ought to be circumcised within eight Days after the Birth according to the Command which God had given to Abraham for God being about to give this Patriarch a Son of whose Posterity our Redeemer should be born and entring into a Covenant with him to be kept by all his Posterity he instituted Circumcision as a Seal and Sign of that Covenant threatning to cut off that Male Child from his People which shall not be Circumcised Abraham himself and all the Jews his Posterity did exactly observe this Law and Jesus Christ was willing to submit to it himself wherefore the Gospel observes That he was Circumcised the Eighth Day and that he was named JESVS which was the Name that the Angel had ordered to be given him before his Conception IX The Adoration of the Magi. Matth. 2 1-12 The Holy Virgin and Joseph continuing still at Bethlehem the Magi which were certain great Philosophers and Astronomers came from the East to Jerusalem and asked Where the Person was who was lately born King of the Jews saying Numb 24.17 That they had seen a Star in the East signifying his Birth and conducting them thither and were come to worship him This Question much surprized the People of Jerusalem and above all troubled Herod who was then King of the Jews Whereupon he assembled the Chief Priests and the most learned in the Law among the Jews to be informed of them Where the Messiah which they expected should be born for he believed that it was he that the Magi enquired after under the Name of the King of the Jews They answered him At Bethlehem according to the Prophecy of Micah And thou Bethlehem Mic. 5.2 in the Land of Judah art not the least among the principal Cities of that Tribe for out of thee shall come a Governour that shall rule my People Israel Herod as soon as he had received this Information sent for the Magi privately to him and enquired of them At what Time the Star they spoke of was seen by them and sending them to Bethlehem said unto them Go and search diligently for the young Child which ye desire to see and when ye have found him let me know it that I may also pay him the like Adoration Being just got into the Way to Bethlehem they saw the Star again which had appeared to them in the East and the Gospel says they were filled with exceeding great Joy for it went before them to conduct them to him and stood over the Place where Jesus Christ was They immediately entred into the House and falling down before him they worshipped him and offered to him for Gifts Gold and Frankincense and Myrrhe And thus having paid their Homage they returned into their own Country but did not go by Jerusalem because they had been admonished in a Dream not to return again to Herod X. The Presentation of Jesus Christ in the Temple The Holy Virgin and Joseph having so punctually observed the Law of Circumcision were not less exact in the performance of Two other Commandments of the Law the One of which concerned Mothers the other their First-born Children Lev. 12 2-8 The First of these obliges every Woman after her Delivery not to touch any hallowed Thing for a certain Time nor to go into the Temple for Forty Days after the Birth of a Son and Fourscore Days after the Birth of a Daughter and at the End of that Term the Mother shall go to the Temple to be purified for which end she must offer a Lamb for a Burnt-Offering and a Pigeon or a Turtle-Dove fo● the Attonement of her Sins But if she be no● able to offer a Lamb she is allowed to offer ● Pigeon or a Turtle for it which being sacrificed by the Priest she is clean The Second Commandment of the Law which concerns the First-born Children enjoyns the Parents to present them to the Lord and to redeem them with Mony Exod. 13.2 15. Every First-born in Israel both of Man and Beast was consecrated to God b● a Command which God gave them when he slew the First-born

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