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 martyrsTo which is added the history of the Jews . ke unto Mo-ses. None of them were lawgivers, they only interpreted andenforced the laws of Moses. None of them had such clearcommunications with God ; they all saw visions, and dreameddreams. Moses and Christ are the only two who perfectly re
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 martyrsTo which is added the history of the Jews . ke unto Mo-ses. None of them were lawgivers, they only interpreted andenforced the laws of Moses. None of them had such clearcommunications with God ; they all saw visions, and dreameddreams. Moses and Christ are the only two who perfectly re-sembled each other in these respects. Moses fled from his country to escape the hands of the kingof Egypt: so did Christ when his parents went into the Lord said unto Moses, in Midian, Go, return-into Egypt; for all the men are dead which sought thy life,Exod. iv. 19 : so the angel of the Lord said to Joseph, in near-ly the same words, Arise, and take the young child, and gointo the land of Israel; for they are dead which sought theyoung childs life, Matt. ii. 20. Pointing him out, as it were,for that prophet, who should arise, like unto Moses. Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter,choosing rather to suffer affliction : Christ refused to be madeking, choosing rather to suffer the like. THE ASCENSION. [Page 40G.]. ^ And it came to pass, uhile lie blessed them, he was parted from (hem, and carriedup into heaven. ••* And they uorshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem vith great joi/.^—Luke,xxiv. 51,52. LIFE OF CHRIST. 409 * Moses, says St. Stephen, was learned in all the wisdomof the Egyptians ; and Josephus says that he was a very for-ward and accomplished youtif, and had wisdom and knowledgeabove his years. St. Ijuke observes of Christ, that he in-creased (betimes) in wisdom and stature, and in favor with Godand man, and his discourses in the temple with the doctors,when he was but twelve years old, wcie a proof of it. Moses was not only
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