Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am. John viii. 58. Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the WALPOLE, N. H. PRINTED FOR THOMAS AND THOMAS, BY D. NEWHALL. 1803. ran hiud 5.1: Dins 11.7", v iii ." TO THE ENGLISH EDITION OF THIS WORK. "Inseris! wdziejme. TAYING found it requifite to publish a new and 1 uniform Edition of SACRED BIOGRAPHY in four yolumes, together with an additional volume of lectures, frequertly called for, on the history of our blefsed Lord and Saviour Jesus CHRIST, I felt myself in justice obliged to print that volume separately, for the accommodation of those who may have purchased prior editions of the book in lix volumes. Bcing of nearly the same Gze with these, it admits of being bound up in the same form, and may be mark. ed Vol. VII. But though of the same Gize, the Read. er will please to obferve that this volume contains fully a third more matter than any of the preceding, the fixth excepted. For the liberal patronage given to the work by the public I feel myself bigbly indebted, and beg leave hereby to express my cordial acknowledgments. To the people of my immediate charge I owe a tribute of peculiar thanks, for the encouragement and support given to my various labours during an union of more than thirty years. Many of them, I know, will be gratified in reading what they heard with so much patience, attention and candor, during the months of November, December and January last. If this vol. ume shall survive me, I bequeath it to them as a small token of an affection and gratitude which no length of time or change of circumstances can diminish. From the very nature of the thing, this could not possibly pretend to be considered as a whole. But is not not every incident of our SAVIOUR's life, a whole of itself, while it is in an intimate connection with others, and a part of the stupendous WHOLE, which far transcends the comprehension of men and of angels ? Though, therefore, the entire volume be but a frag. ment, cach particular discourse aims at presenting one distinct and individual object, gradually melting away into another, and it may, of course, be read either sep. arately, or as a link in a chain. The additional volo ume, and its predeceffors, I again recommend to the blessing of God Almighty, and with equal "deference; as in the beginning, cheerfully submit my work to the judgment of the candid, the serious and the be nevolent. i. 1. HENRY HUNTER. Hoxton, 12th Merck, 1808. CONTENTS.. LECTU Page John i, 1-14.-In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God, and the word was God. All things were niade by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was lite ; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness ; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whole name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh in- to the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as receiv. ed him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God; even to them that believe on his name : which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor ot the. will of man, but of God. And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld bis glory, the glory as of the only 28 History of Jesus Christ. |