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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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way ; accordingly, he called his seventy disciples, and gave them proper instructions concerning their behaviour, and the doctrines they were to preach. Having laid before them the particular duties of their mission, he sent them into different parts of the country and ordered them to visit those particularities, towns, or villages, where he intended himself to follow them, and preach the doftrines of the everlasting gospel to the inhabitants. The reason which our great Redeemer assigned, for sending these seventy disciples on this important message, was the same which he had before advanced for the mission of the twelve: The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few. And being never more to preach in Chorazin Bethsaida, and Capernaum, the cities wherein he usually resided, and where he had so often delivered his heavenly discourses, and displayed his miraculous power and divine benevolence, in many wonderous works ; he was naturally led to reflect on the reception which himself and
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0 his doctrines had met with, from those wicked, impenitent cities. He was sensible of the terrible evil which would flow from rejecting the Son of God, and persisting in the obstinacy of unbelief, notwithstanding the mighty works which they had seen, and all the opportunities which they had for instruction and improvement; and though he was grieved for their obstinacyand perverseness, he pronounced the following sentence againft them: Wo unto thee, Chorazin! Wo unto thee, Bethsaida! for, if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, at the day of judgment, than for you, and thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrown down to hell. To this our exalted Redeemer added, as a confideration which ought to administer comfort,and give encouragement to his disciples: He that heareth you, heareth me; and

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