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Title: The life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ : containing a full, accurate, and universal history from his taking upon himself our nature to his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension: together with the lives, transactions, and sufferings of his holy evangelists, apostles, disciples, and other primitive martyrs. To which is added the history of the Jews
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Fleetwood, John Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885, engr
Subjects: Jesus Christ Apostles Martyrs Jews -- History
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Nathan Whiting
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rom the aged Elizabeth, broke out into an humble acknowl-edgment of her unworthiness, and the wonderful grace of theAlmighty, in appointing her to the exalted honor of bearing inher womb the Redeemer of Israel, in those known words, Mysoul doth magnify the Lord, &:c. Thus having, by this visit, confirmed herself in the belief ofthe prediction of the angel Gabriel, when the period of Eliza-beths pregnancy approached, she returned to Nazareth, havingresided in Judea about three months. Soon after the departure of Mary, Elizabeth brought forthher son, the appointed harbinger of the King of Glory : and onthe eighth day after his birth, according to the Judaical custom,he was circumcised, and called, according to the appointmentof the angel, John, alluding, in the Hebrew tongue, to the gra-cious display of the wisdom and goodness God was about tomanifest to the world, by the spreading of the Gospel of his Sonof whom this John was the appointed forerunner. m THE ANNUNCIATION. (Page 47.)
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^iid theaij^-el. aiisuered and said unlo her, The Holij Ghost shall come upon thee, and thepiiicer of the Hi:>hesf shall overshadow thee; therefore also that hohj thing, vhich shail be borntif thee, shall be called the Son of God.—Liil*c i. 3d. LIFE OF CHRIST. 49 The promise being thus fulfilled, the aged priest was restoredto his speech, and immediately broke out into praise and rap-ture at the marvellous works of God, in strains which aston-ished all around him. This surprising event greatly alarmedthe people of the adjacent country, wh,o were divided in theiropinions concerning a child, whose birth was attended with somany extraordinary circumstances. Indeed, these incidentswere worthy of general admiration ; that he w ho was to be theforerunner of the mighty Saviour of Israel, should not makehis entrance on life in an obscure and common manner, but withparticular tokens of the favor of heaven, in order to attract theobservation of his countrymen, and excite their attention to

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