536 A SHORT VJEW OF ECRIFTURE HISTORY. be this glorious person, this expected Saviour ? A. Since all the characters which so many prophets, in so many different ages, have given concerning the Messiah, or Christ the Saviour, do really agree and meet together in Jesus, and in none besides; they leave us no room to doubt whether this Jesus of Nazareth, the on of Mary, be the Christ or no. THE HISTORY OF TIIE. NEW TESTAMENT. Abridged in Web! of Question and Answer.. THE INTRODUCTION. HAVING finished the history of the 01d Testament, and related in short the afiùirs of the Jews, so far as we find them recorded elsewhere, we proceed now to the history of the New : the chief subjects of it are our Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of mankind ; John the baptist, who was the forerunner : and the apostles, who were his followers. The history of John the baptist is but short ; it contains a brief narrative of his birth, his ministry and his death. The history of Christ our Savour is much larger, and it may be devided into three distinct parts.; N12. the account of his birth and childhood ; the account of his publie life and ministry : and the account of his death, resurrec+ tion, and ascension. The history of the apostles, after our Savi- our's ascension, begins with an account of the twelve apostlesin general, but chiefly of St. Peter, and St. John ; and proceeds more largely to a particular account of the travels, labours, and sufferings of St. Paul : and this concludes the scripture history, except what is contained in the visions of St. John in the Reve- lation. The writers of this history are St. Matthew, St. John the apostles; St. Mark the companion of St. Peter, and St. Luke thecompanion of St. Paul. It is contained chiefly in the four gospels, written by those evangelists whose names they bear ; and in the Acts of the apostles, of which Luke was the writer: though some further hints and memoirs may be collected from some parts of the epistles, CHAP. XXI. Of John the Baptist I. QUESTION. AS the OldTestamentbegins with the creation of the world, so the first question here is, who was the Saviour of the world? Answer. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who was sent down to dwell among men, in order to become their Saviour ; Mat. i. 2L 1 Tim. i. 15. John iii. 17. 1 John iv. 14. Mat. xvi. 16.
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