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THE

NEW AND COMPLETE

LIFE OF OUR

BLESSED LORD AND SAVIOUR,

JESUS CHRIST:

THAT GREAT EXAMPLE

AS WELL AS SAVIOUR OF MANKIND.

CONTAINING

An authentic account of all the real facts relating to his
exemplary life, meritorious sufferings, and death.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

The Lives, Transactions, Sufferings and Deaths

OF HIS

HOLY APOSTLES, EVANGELISTS, AND DISCIPLES.

THE WHOLE INTERSPERSED WITH

PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENTS AND USEFUL
REMARKS.

BY PAUL WRIGHT, D. D.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PUBLISHED BY

DANIEL FENTON, MILL-HILL, NEAR TRENTON,

James Oram, Printer.

1810.

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IT is a real fact, evident beyond contradiction, that every individual should acquire a thorough knowledge of the Life and Death of our blessed Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, who was crucified for our sins, rose again for our justification, and now sitteth at the right hand of God, making intercession for us. If Christians seek a noble example of conduct to copy after, we would recommend to them the glorious and benevolent transactions

OF THE GREAT CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION;

One, who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God, yet made himself of no reputation, suffering his divine essence to be clothed with mortality, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross; that mankind by the merits of his redemption, through faith, might enjoy everlasting happiness throughout eternity in the realms above. The Life and Death of our Holy REDEEMER with other matters herein contained is a Work, if properly exccuted, of the utmost consequence to this Christian land, and is the most valuable of all histories; but it is a circumstance which will be readily allowed by the impartial and disinterested, and which has been long much lamented by many, that no complete and perfectly authentic Work of this kind has yet been published, whereby persons of every capacity may gain a thorough knowledge of the important subject. Hitherto, works of this sort have been published in too small a compass,

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