THE BLESSED LIFE, AND MERITORIOUS DEATH OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST: FROM HIS CONCEPTION TO HIS CROSS, AND FROM H1S CROSS TO HIS CROWN. TOGETHER WITH The SERIES and ORDER of his MINISTRY and MIRACLES, BY SAMUEL CLARKE, SOMETIME PASTOR IN ST BENNET-FINK, LONDON. In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren; that be For in that be himself bath fuffered, being tempted, he ratifi Luccour Edinburgh: PRINTED FOR DENHAM & DICK, COLLEGE STREET, BY THOMAS AND JOHN TURNBULL, CANONGATE. 1801. 101. i. 55. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF OUR BLESSED Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, &c. IN N the fixth month after John, firnamed the Baptift, was conceived, the angel Gabriel (who had in time past foretold to Daniel, the coming of the Mesfiah, by a definite number of weeks) was fent by God to Nazareth in Galilee, to the bleffed virgin Mary, that was betrothed to Jofeph, of the fame tribe of Ju dah with herself, and of the ftock of David, who, after falutations, declared unto her that she should bring forth the Son of God, and fhould call his name Jefus; and having more fully taught her of the admirable manner of their conception, to be performed by the power of the Holy Ghoft overshadowing her, with great faith she said, Be it to the handmaid of the Lord according to thy word, Luke i. 26, 38. Chrift being thus conceived, the mother of our Lord went into the hill country, with haste into a city of Judah (to wit, Hebron, a city of the priests, fituate in the mountains of Judea, Joth. xxi. 10, 11.) where, when she entered into the house of Zacharias |