quence, the characteristics of the territory, Galilee where he should commence and for the most part prosecute his ministry, a "Land of darkness and the shadow of death." 4. PROPHECY AND ITS FULFILMENT ABOUT HIS APPREHENSION, TRIAL, AND DEATH. His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, rejection by men, opposition from the Jewish rulers, betrayal, silence during his trial, innocence, endurance of scourging, crucifixion, raiment divided by lot, bearing insults, dying between two thieves, being pierced with the spear of the Roman soldier, body without a bone broken, burial, resurrection and ascension to glory. IV.-SOME POINTS IN CHRIST'S HISTORY. 1. BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD. Recorded by Matthew, the espousal of Joseph to Mary, the appearance of an angel to him, the obedience of Joseph to the heavenly mission, his flight into Egypt with Mary and the child from the rage of Herod, their return on the death of that governor, and their tak ing up their abode in Nazareth,-Recorded by Luke, the appearing of an angel to Mary giv ing her promise of the Saviour, and informing her of the name he should bear, the meeting of Mary and Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, accompanied by a throng of angels in the neighbouring field, the announce ment of the event to the shepherds, the circumcision on the eight day, the visit to the temple, Simeon giving utterance to his prediction respecting the child, the growth of Jesus in wisdom and stature, and at the age of twelve years his disputation with the doctors in the temple. 3. HIS FORERUNNER, JOHN THE BAPTIST. Predicted under the name of Elijah, to prepare the way of the Messiah, promised to Zacharias his father in the temple,-spent his youth in retirement, entered on the ministry at the river Jordan,-drew around him multitudes, described by Jesus as the greatest of prophets, as a burning and shining light, and as a faithful witness he testified to the pre-existence of Christ to his divine excellence, and to his authority and power to baptize with the Holy Ghost, continuing faithful to death, he was imprisoned and beheaded by Herod. 4. CHRIST'S BAPTISM. At Jordan by John, accompanied by the descent of the Holy Ghost, and by a voice from heaven. 5. FAME OF CHRIST'S PREACHING AND MIRACLES. Crowds waiting upon his ministry, often from a great distance, astonishment and wonder among the people at what they saw and heard. 6. CHRIST'S UNWEARIED ACTIVITY. Labouring in every variety of circumstances, preaching on the mountain, in the plain, in the temple, in the synagogue, on the sea-side,-in the ship,-in the city,-the town, and the village. 7. CHRIST'S PERSON AND WORK OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD. Seen in the conduct, and the language of all classes, the disciples, the priests, the rulers, the common people arising from ignorance, national prejudice, and self-righteous pride. & CHRIST OFTEN OPPOSED AND REVILED. By enemies endeavouring to entangle Him in his sayings, throwing odium upon him as being of Nazareth, representing him as a companion of sinners, a glutton and a wine-bibber, and as working his miracles by Satanic agency. 9. CHRIST PERSECUTED AND CONSPIRED By the Pharisees, the Herodians, the chief priests 1. TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS OF By Satan for forty days. 2. LABOURS AND TRAVELS OF JESUS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. la the districts of Judea, Samaria, Galilee, and beyond Jordan, in the cities of Jerusalem, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Caesarea, Philippi, Sychar, Nazareth, etc., preaching the Gospel, confirming His commission by miraculous works, calling, ordaining, instructing His apostles, etc. 3. SOLEMN ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM, Riding on an ass's colt accompanied by multitudes strewing the way with branches of palm trees, and filling the air with exclamations. 4. THE LAST PASSOVER, Observed in an upper room, by Jesus and the twelve Apostles, after which the ordinance of the Lord's Supper was instituted probably in the absence of Judas who had gone out. 5. TREACHERY OF JUDAS, Bargaining for thirty pieces of silver to hand over Jesus to his enemies, and aproaching his master with a kiss, the symbol of friendship, he betrayed him, afterwards smitten with despair, he committed suicide. 6. APPREHENSION OF JESUS, Designed by the chief priests, scribes, and elders, Jesus in Gethsemane the scene of drops of blood, Judas with a band coming sorrow, in an agony,-His sweat as great into the garden, apprehended him. 7. HIS TRIAL, First before the Sanhedrim, the charge against him being blasphemy, the witnesses false, suborned, and contradictory, sentence of death the Roman governor, the charge sedition, and pronounced. Secondly before Pontius Pilate the sentence clamorously demanded was crucifixion. 8. HIS DEATH. feted, smitten on the head, crowned with presented his prayer on 9. HIS BURIAL. The body procured from Pilate-was taken down from the cross-wrapt in fine linen with spices, and laid in a new tomb-the persons who took part in it being Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, etc. 10. HIS RESURRECTION. The tomb secured by a great stone rolled to went about doing good, our example in purity, in meekness, in self-denial, in patience, and in love. VIL CHRIST'S OFFICES. A PROPHET. the mouth of it-sealed and guarded by a detachment of Roman soldiers,-was opened on the morning of the third day by an angel descending from heaven-Jesus rising again to life the event proved by the subsequent appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene, to the other women from Galilee, to the disciples on their way to Emmaus, to the ten on the Confessed under the designations of prophet of same evening, to the eleven on the following Nazareth, the prophet of the Highest, the prophet Lord's day, at the sea of Tiberias and on a that should come into the world, a great prophet, a mountain in Galilee, and by his frequent and prophet mighty in word and in deed, names verifamiliar intercourse during a period of forty fied in foretelling of false Christs, the downdays-resurrection proving-his work was fall of Jerusalem, the treachery of Judas, Peter's finished-approved-the Father giving as first-denial, His own Apprehension and Death, Burial, and Resurrection, etc. fruits the hope of a resurrection to all his people. 11. THE ASCENSION. CHRIST'S OFFICE AS A PRIEST. CHRIST'S OFFICE AS KING, On the Mount of Olives, and in the presence of His followers, in the act of blessing them, separated from them-seen to ascend and en- King of Zion, King of righteousness, etc., His ter into a cloud, the disciples gazing after Kingdom being universal, eternal, supreme, Him, addressed by two angels, who gave pro- yet subordinate to the Father, His mission mise of His return again to earth, ascension being to glorify the Father, and to finish the necessary for the gift of His Spirit, the pre-work which the Father gave Him to do; paring of heaven for His followers, and making continual intercession for them. VL-CHRIST'S CHARACTER. ORIGIN OF THE JEWISH NATION. exercising this office, accomplishing the con version, sanctification, and glorification of His people--the subjugation of his enemies at the last day, sitting as Judge of the righteous and the wicked, with full power to acquit and justify the one and condemn and punish the other. JEWS. Traced to Abraham; called a people above all others, a holy nation, a kingdom of priests; selected not because better, or more numerous than other nations, but simply of sovereign grace. HIGH PRIVILEGE OF THE JEWS. Covenant with God,-dwelling in his land,protected by his favour,-enjoying the services of his tabernacle,-the ministrations of His priests, and the teachings of His prophets. ISRAEL IN EGYPT, Subjected to cruel bondage, described as a state of oppression, an iron furnace, a rigorous service, but seen and cherished by God; greatly increased in number. COMMISSION OF MOSES, Given by God at the burning bush to demand the release of the tribes; executed by doing signs and wonders, calling down plagues upon Pharaoh and his people-eventually leading forth the chosen people to the land of promise. THE EXODUS. Six hundred thousand marching out of Egypt, besides women and children, accompanied by a mixed multitude, along with flocks and herds; achieved by the power of God; Egyptian pursuers drowned in Red sea. SUBSEQUENT RELATION OF THE JEWS TO EGYPT, Forbidden to look back to it, to traffic with it-to form alliances with it-Egypt a bruised reed to trust in, yet in the wilderness Israel often seeking to return to it. ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS, For forty years, by the way of the Red ses, Edom and the plains of Moab, led by Jehovah in the pillar of the cloud, fed by manna, and water from the flinty rock, defended from enemies by the Captain of the Lord's host. SINS IN THE WILDERNESS, Murmuring against God, and against Moses and Aaron; committing fornication; with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, the entire generation, above twenty years of age, which the captives to return and build Jerusalem, let Egypt in the wilderness, dying. in conformity with which many went back. (REBUILDING OF JERUSALEM, See under CANAAN.) ISRAEL IN CANAAN, Conquering the land, destroying thirty-one kings, settled in it, enjoined to separate themselves from all other nations, were forbidden to make covenant with them. THE SAMARITANS, In one of the provinces of Palestine in the time of our Lord, descended from a colony sent by the king of Assyria during the captivity, at first entirely idolatrous, but afterwards mingled the ceremonies of the Jews with their idolatrous rites; held in great aversion by the people of Israel. WICKEDNESS OF THE JEWS, Forsaking the worship of God, and turning to the worship of idols, in following the customs of surrounding nations, and forming alliances with them, in "hardening their neck," and in disobeying the statutes of Jehovah; famine, and pestilence, and war sent upon the people, God "Jorok His dwelling place," and sent the people into captivity. ISRAEL IN CAPTIVITY, The ten tribes conquered by Shalmanezer king of Assyria, and carried to Halah, Habor, c; Judah, by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and carried to Chaldea, where they remained for seventy years. CONDITION DURING CAPTIVITY, Their land mourning in solitude, Jerusalem sitting in widowhood, Zion covered with a cloud, and the other cities of the land as a wilder ness, the people in captivity as weeping by the rivers of Babylon. THE PRESERVED REMNANT, With the promise that they should be ga thered again, restored to their own land, and there again take root, animated by the hope of deliverance, and by the expectation of seeing their temple again built up. RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY, Accomplished by the proclamation of Cyrus, who had taken Babylon, granting liberty to I. LAWS PROTECTING LIFE. MURDER, OPPOSITION TO THE RETURNED TRIBES. From the Samaritans, false pretences of friendship, false representations to the king, and active opposition to the undertaking. FINAL DISPERSION OF THE JEWS, Predicted by Moses as the consequence of persisting in disobedience, by Christ as the consequence of rejecting him-was accomplished by the Romans under Titus when Jerusalem was destroyed, the Jewish polity broken up, and the people scattered over all nations. PROPHECIES REFERRING TO AND ILLUSTRATED IN THEIR HISTORY. Having allusion to the enemies of Israel, to captivity, to a return from it, to the joy attending such a return, to the enlargement of the nation, to Zion attired in beauty, to the Church of Israel as the light of the Gentiles, etc. PROPHECIES RESPECTING THE GENTILES AS THE SUCCESSORS OF THE JEWS. The heathen as the Messiah's inheritance, all nations flowing to the temple, the isles waiting for God's law, incense being offered from the rising to the setting of the sun, etc. JEWISH FAITH AND JEWISH PREJUDICE. Seen, the former in the converts on the day of Pentecost, and in the numerous converts to the gospel which were gathered by the apostles from all ranks, the latter seen in the obstinacy and zeal with which the nation at large maintained the perpetual obligation of the ceremonial law, instanced in Peter's preaching to Cornelius, in the church at Antioch, in the synod at Jerusalem. THE CHURCH AMONG THE GENTILES, Made up of believers from all nations, Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles. FINAL INBRINGING OF THE JEWS, Involved in God's promise to Abraham, often the theme of prediction by Isaiah, repeatedly foretold by Paul. LAW. Forbidden, by God to Noah, by the law of committed in purpose or fact. Cain, David, Pharoah. HUMAN PENALTY AGAINST MURDER. Mosca, by Christ, and by the Apostles-often Life for life without mercy. DIVINE PENALTY. Punishments natural and supernatural-in this life and in the life to come. MALICE THE CAUSE OF MURDER. Hatred of Esau towards Jacob,-of the brethren of Joseph towards him-of Haman towards the captive Jews-of Saul toward David -and of the Rulers of the Jews towards Christ. MURDERS WERE PREVENTED, and entail, extending to daughters, on certain conditions, as well as sons. IV.-LAW OF DEBT. Regulations respecting the recovery of it, the tionary, etc.; many allusions to it in Scripremission of it, pledges in security of it, cauture; the borrower as servant to the lender. v.-LAW OF MASTER AND SERVANT. Superiority of master-contracts-Abraham, Mephibosheth, and Solomon, and their ser wise and faithful; the latter, as stubborn, unfaithful, and filling their master's houses with violence. By Rebekah, the midwives of Egypt, Jona-vants servants good and bad; the former, than, and by the Spirit of God informing Elisha of the designs of Ahab. VL-ANCIENT SLAVERY. SLAVERY, Or service rendered among the patriarchs, under the kings, in the days of Christ and his apostles, and in foreign nations as well as in Israel. LAW OF SLAVERY, OR BOND-SERVICE, Forbidding all trading in the persons of men, stealing of a Hebrew punished with death,the heathen alone held in bond service, the Hebrew, if so held, might redeem himself, at all events became free on the year of jubilee and whether Hebrew or stranger, servant were to be kindly treated by their masters. NEW TESTAMENT PRECEPTS TO SERVANTS. Obedience to masters, singleness of heart, per formance of duty, not with eye service as men pleasers; allusions as when Christ's people art called servants of righteousness, as made fre by the truth, and when the world is spoke of as the servants of sin, and as being under th bondage of sin. VIL-POOR LAW. POVERTY. An inevitable state of society-the poor shal never cease out of the land; the poor ye have alway with you. BEGGING ALMS. In thoroughfares and places of public resort as at the gate of the temple, and of rich mens houses, the wayside. RICH AND POOR. Often alluded to in their appropriate charac teristics; the former, as strong, honoured, answer ing roughly, and having many friends; the latter using entreaties, being hated, and being separate from their neighbours. GOD'S CARE OF THE POOR. Involving peculiar rights of primogeniture Maintaining their right, being their por |