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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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ake delight in his companyand conversation : but, as the Baptift wastoo ftriftly virtuous to flatter that prince,he took occafion severely to reprimandhim, on account of his cohabitmg withthe princess Herodias. This roused therage of that haughty woman, who, onthat account, procured his imprisonmentand death, in the manner before related. In the mean time, the blelfed Jesuscontinued in the wilderness of Judea ;great multitudes resorted to him, attendedon his divine inftru6lions, beheld the mi-racles he wrought, and were baptised byhis disciples. His popularity daily in-creafing, it excited the envy of the Phari-sees, on which account, our Lord thoughtproper to retire into Galilee, and therecontinue that great work which he hadso successfully begun. In this journey, he palled through Sa-maria, and being fatigued with travelling,and overpowered with the heat of theday, he sat down to reft by the fide of anoted well, near the city of Sychar (whichwas reported to be given by the patriarch
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AND LIVES OF Jacob, to his son Joseph) while his dis-ciples repaired to the city to purchase pro-vifions. Before their return, a woman came fromthe city to draw water at the well, andJesus being thirfty, afked her to give himto drink. The woman, knowing him tobe a Jew, was very much surprised at thisrequeft ; for the hatred between the Jewsand Samaritans, which had commencedfour hundred years before this time, flillcontinued, and was, on all occafions,carried on by each party : How is it, saidfhe, that thou, being a Jew, ajkejl drinkof me, who am a woman of Samaria P Forthe Jews have no dealings with the Sama-ritans. Little did the woman think, thatno less a person than the Son of God,requefted this small favour at her hands :had fbe been acquainted with his highdignity, fhe would certainly, without hes-itation, have granted his requeft. ButJesus, perceiving her delay, proceeded tolet her know, that he was well able tomake her the moft noble and beneficialreturn for the favour he afke

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