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 . to fall into the hands of robbers, who, notcontent with taking his money, stripped him of his raiment, beathim in a deplorable manner, and left him for dead. While hecontinued in this miserable condition, utterly incapable of as-sisting himse
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 . to fall into the hands of robbers, who, notcontent with taking his money, stripped him of his raiment, beathim in a deplorable manner, and left him for dead. While hecontinued in this miserable condition, utterly incapable of as-sisting himself, a certain priest happened to travel the sameroad ; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came andlooked on him, and passed by on the other side. So littlecompassion had these ministers of religion for a brother in themost deplorable circumstances of distress, that they continuedtheir journey without offering to assist so miserable an object,notwithstanding their sacred characters obliged them to perform,on every occasion, the tender offices of charity and was a brother, a decendant of Abraham in distress; andtherefore those hypocrites could offer no reasons to palHate theirinhumanity. Their stony hearts could behold the affecting ob- i THE GOOD SAMARITAN. [Page 213.]. *^ But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed^ came ivhere he was; and tvhen hesaw him, he had compassion en him, ^^ And went to liim, and bound up his ivounds, pouring in oil and wine, and sethim on his oun beast, ond brought htm to an inn, and took care of AtVn.—Luke,X. 33, 34. LIFE OF CHRIST. 213 ject of an unfortunate Israelite, lying in the road^ naked andcruelly wounded, without being the least affected with his dis-tress. Though these teachers of religion were hypocrites, and whol-ly destitute of grace and charity, compassion glowed in theheart of a Samaritan, who, coming to the spot where this help-less object lay, ran to him
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