THE

BLESSED LIFE,

AND

MERITORIOUS DEATH

OF OUR

LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST3

FROM HIS

CONCEPTION TO HIS CROSS,

AND FROM HIS

CROSS TO HIS CROWN.

TOGETHER WITH

The SERIES and ORDER of his MINISTRY and MIRACLES,
as they are recorded by the four Evangelifts, wherein
what is wanting in one is fupplied out of the other.

BY SAMUEL CLARK E,

SOMETIME PASTOR IN ST BENNET-FINK, LONDON.

In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren ; that be
might be a merciful and faithful High Prieft, in things pertaining to God,
to make reconciliation for the fins of the people.

For in that he himself bath fuffered, being tempted,

them that are tempted. Heb. ii. 17, 18.

Luccour

Edinburgh:

PRINTED FOR DENHAM & DICK, COLLEGE STREET,

BY THOMAS AND JOHN TURNBULL, CANONGATE.

1801.

101. i. 55.

THECA

THE

LIFE AND DEATH

OF OUR BLESSED

Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, &c.

IN N the fixth month after John, firnamed the Baptift, was conceived, the angel Gabriel (who had in time past foretold to Daniel, the coming of the Meffiah, by a definite number of weeks) was fent by God to Nazareth in Galilee, to the bleffed virgin Mary, that was betrothed to Jofeph, of the fame tribe of Ju dah with herself, and of the stock of David, who, after falutations, declared unto her that she should bring forth the Son of God, and fhould call his name Jefus; and having more fully taught her of the admirable manner of their conception, to be performed by the power of the Holy Ghoft overshadowing her, with great faith she said, Be it to the handmaid of the Lord according to thy word, Luke i. 26, 38.

Chrift being thus conceived, the mother of our Lord went into the hill country, with hafte into a city of Judah (to wit, Hebron, a city of the priests, fituate in the mountains of Judea, Josh. xxi. 10, 11.) where, when the entered into the house of Zacharias