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38 When faw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and cloathed thee?

39 Or when faw we thee fick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King fhall answer, and fay unto them, Verily I fay unto you, In as much as ye have done it unto one of

the least of these my brethren, ye have

done it unto me.

34. Then, Mankind being thus feparated into Two forts, He as a Juft and Impartial Judge fhall país Sentence upon both, declaring at the fame time the Reafon and Equity of his Sentence. And firft, turning himfelf to the Good on his Right-hand, he fhall fay; Come, ye Bleffed Children of God: Enter now into the Poffeffion of that Heavenly Kingdom, which God, who foreknoweth_all things, defigned and provided for you from the beginning of the World.

35 36. For whereas, when I was in want and neceffity, ye liberally communicated to me in all the Offices of Charity and Kindness; God has in recompence appointed, that I should now communicate to you of all the Glory and Happiness of my Kingdom.

37, 3839. Then the Righteous fhall anfwer; Lord, we never faw thee in want or neceffity, nor ever had opportunity of miniftring to thee in any of the Offices of Charity and Kindnefs, that thou fhouldest now recompence it with such a Reward.

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41. After this, turning himself to the Bad on his Left-hand, he fhall pafs Sentence likewife on them, faying; Depart from me, ye Curfed, into that unquenchable Fire, which being at first prepared for the punishment of Apoftate Angels, is now allotted to you also, becaufe ye have chofen to comply with their Temptations, in Oppofition to the Commands of God.

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43. For when I was in neceffity and in want, ye refused to affift me with any charitable Offices; and purfued only the Vanity and Pleafures of the World, without regard to the End and Defign for which God endued you with feveral Gifts and Abilities.

44. Then the Wicked likewise shall anfwer; Lord, we never faw thee in Want or Neceffity, nor ever had opportunity of miniftring to thee in any Office of Charity, that thou. fhouldeft now punish our Neglect of this Duty with fo fevere a Sentence.

45. But Chrift will reply, faying; 'Tis true, ye never did indeed any uncharitable Action to me in my own Perfon, because ye never faw me: Nevertheless fince have been cruel and ye uncharitable to fome of thefe my Servants, in Difobedience to the Commands of God; I look upon it as if you had been fo to my felf, and will punish you accordingly.

46. Then in purfuance of this irreverfible Sentence, the Wicked fhall depart into everlafting Punishment; but the Righteous fhall inherit eternal Happinefs.

41 Then fhall he fay alfo unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye curfed, into ever

lafting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

42 For I was an

hungred,and ye gave thirsty, and ye gave

me no meat: I was

me no drink:

43 I was a ftranger, and ye took me not in naked, and ye clothed me not: fick, and in prison, and ye vifited me not. alfo anfwer 44 Then shall they faying, Lord, when him, faw we thee an hungred, or a thirst, or a ftranger, or naked, or fick, or in prison, and did not minifter unto thee?

45 Then fhall he aníwer them, faying, Verily I fay unto you, Inafmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

46 And these shall go away into everbut the righteous inlafting punishment: to life eternal.

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CHA P. XXVI.

The Jews Confpiracy against Christ, ver. 1. Chrift's Feet anointed, ver. 6. Judas bribed to betray Chrift, ver. 14. Chrift's Paffover-Supper, ver. 17. The Inftitution of the Lord's-Supper, ver. 26. Chrift foretells his Difciples flight, and Peter's denial, ver. 31. Chrift's Prayer and Paffion, ver. 36. Chrift betrayed by Judas, and apprehended, ver. 47. Chrift's Trial before Caiaphas, ver. 57. Peter's denial, ver. 69.

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WHEN Jefus had finish

ed all thefe Difcourfes, he began again to put his Difciples in mind, that at the approaching Paflover, which was to be celebrated within two

days, he fhould be betrayed into the hands of his Enemies, and delivered

over to the Roman Soldiers to be crucified.

3. According to which Prediction, the Chief Priefts, and Teachers, and Elders of the People, who had all along refolved to take the first opportunity of deftroying Jefus, met together about this time, in Caiaphas's Palace, who was High-Prieft this Year, to confult which way they might beft accomplish their Design.

45. In this Confultation they refolved, not to apprehend Jefus openly and by force, but to get him fome way betrayed privately into their Hands, and then to put him to Death. Yet fome advised, not to undertake this at the time of the feaft, when fo great a Multitude of People was gathered together; left the People who looked on him as a great Prophet, fhould raise a VOL. I.

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Tumult and refcue him. But the Zeal of others prevailed to have him seized as foon as poffibly they could. And fo they accomplished the Will of God, that he who was to be the true Pafchal Lamb, fhould fuffer at the time of the Paffover; and that he who was to suffer for the Sins of the whole World, might do it at fuch a time, when there fhould be moft Witneffes prefent at his Death.

67. In the mean time Jefus, being fhortly to fuffer, continued in the Villages near about Jerufalem. And as he was fitting at Meat at Bethany, in the House of one Simen, who had formerly been a Leper, and had been cured by Jefus, there came behind him a Woman having a Box of precious Ointment, with which fhe anointed his Feet and Head.

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89. Which when Judas, of his Difciples, faw, he was angry, and faid; Wherefore doth this Woman. fpend fo much good Ointment to no purpose, which might have been fold for a great deal of Money, enough to have relieved abundance of Poor People?

10. But Jefus, knowing that Judas fpake this not out of Charity but Covetoufnefs, faid: Do not chide the Woman; For That which she has now done is a very good Work; being a Teftimony of her great Love and Honour for me.

II. And as to what you fay about the Poor; I tell you, ye have them al

69 Now when Jefus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he fat at meat.

8 But when his difciples faw it, they had indignation, faying, To what purpofe is this waste?

9 For this ointment might have been fold for much, and given to the poor.

10 When Jesus understood it, he faid unto them, Why trouble ye the woman for fhe hath a good wrought work upon me. 11 For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.

* Οἱ μαθηταὶ feems here to be put for εἷς τῶν μαθητῶν», as δι λησαὶ for εἷς τῶν λησῶν, chap. xxvii. 44. and ἐπεκάθισαν ἐπάνω αὐτῶν, for ἐπάνω ἑνὸς ἐξ αὐτῶν, chap. xxi. 7. and τεθνήκασι,for τέθνηκε, chap. ii. 20. and the like in many other places.

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12 For in that she

hath poured this ointment on my body, fhe did it for my burial.

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13 Verily I fay unto you, Wherefoever this gospel fhall be preached in whole world, there fhall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. 14 Then one of

the twelve,called Ju

das Iscariot, went un-
to the chief priests,
15 And faid unto
them, What will ye
give me, and I will
deliver him unto
you? And they co-
venanted with him

ways with you; fo that ye can never
want Opportunities of relieving them,
if ye be charitably difpofed. But I
fhall continue with you but a little
while; fo that ye need not grudge
what is laid out upon me during this
fhort time.

12. For within very few days I fhall
be dead and buried. And therefore
there is one good thing further in what
this Woman has done, that you are
not aware of; and that is, that she has
anointed me before-hand against my
Burial, and only spent that Ointment
upon me yet alive, which you would
not have grudged to have embalmed me
with, when Dead.

13. Affuredly I tell you, in every part of the World where the Gospel fhall be preached, and the History of my Life and Death preferved; this thing alfo, which this Woman has now done, fhall be kept in memory, to the Praise of her extraordinary Faith and Love.

14 & 15. After this, the fame whom fefus had chofen to be his Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve nearest Companions and Apostles, ungratefully and covetoufly refolving to betray his Mafter, went to the Chief Priefts (whofe intentions and dispositions he well knew,) to fee how much Money they would give him to deliver for thirty pieces of Jefus into their hands; and they agreed to give him + Thirty Pieces of t A very Silver. Small Sum: 16. And from that time forward, The Price of Judas watched all Opportunities of dif- a Slave: covering to them Jefus's private RetireRanfom of ments, that they might fend and appre- aServant's hend him in the abfence of the multi- Life.Ex

filver.

16 And from that

time he fought op-
portunity to betray

him.

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