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Title: The new and complete life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: containing an authentic and full account of all the wonderful transactions, sufferings, and death of our glorious Redeemer
Year: 1803 (1800s)
Authors: Wright, Paul, -1785. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Jesus Christ
Publisher: New-York: published by William Durell, bookseller, No. 106, Maiden-lane
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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eople ; the chiel ot which are re fiance the dving Jesus gave of his fincerelove for his friends and iollowers ; the be-loved difciple had alfo a token of his highcfteem ; he fmgled him out as the onlyperfon among liis friends, to fupply hisplace v/ith regard to his mother. Accord-iiigly, he defired him exprefsly to reverenceher m the fame manner as if (he had beenhis own parent: a duty which the favour-ite dilciple gladly undertook ; for he car-ried her with him to bis houfe, and main- ^ xv^.^j.^..^ «..v^mned her from that hour to the day of jpofiij^ie, to fee whether Eiias would corded in the latter part of the Pfalm abovementioned. When fome of the people, who ftoodby, heard our blefled Saviour pronouncethe firft words of this Pialm, they mifun-derflood him, probably from their noihearing him dillinftly, and concluded thathe called for Elias ; upon which one ofthem filled a fpunge with vinegar, put iton a reed, and gave him to drink, being/defirous of keeping him alive as long, as
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AND LIVES OF HIS APOSTLES. 239 tb talce him down from the crofs. But as Ifoon as Jesus had tailed the vinegar, hefaid, h is jimjhed : that is, ilie work ofmans redcinp:ion is accomphihed ; thatgreat work which the only begotten Son ofGod came into ihe world to j)erfbrm, i$finilhed. In ipeaking the!;- words, he criedwiih an exceeding load voice, and, alterthat, he addrefled his Ah nighty Fatherin word-; v;hich form the belt pattern ofa recommendatory prayer at the hoar ofdeath : Father, into thy kinds I coinmaidmy fpirit and having uttered thele words,he bowed his head, and yielded up theghoil. At the very inftantthat the befTed Jtsusrefigned his foul into tlie hands of his hea-venly Father, behold ! the vail of the tem-ple was miraculoully rent from the top tothe bottom ; probably in the pre fence ofthe priell who burnt incenfe in the holyplace, and who doubtlefs publillied the ac-count when he came out: for oir blefledSaviour expired at the ninth hour, the verytime of of^er ing the e

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