and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST, " tall and comely, with a very reverend countenance, fuch as the beholders may " both love and fear: his hair is of the " colour of a filbeard full ripe, and plain " almoft down to his ears, but from his " ears downwards fomewhat curled, more orient of colour, and waving about his " fhoulders. In the midfl of his head " ° goeth a Team or partition of his hair, " after the manner of the Nazarites ; his forehead very plain and fmooth ; his " ° face without fpot or wrinkle, beautified °° with comely red ; his note and mouth " fo formed as nothing can be repre- hended; his beard fomewhat thick, and his APOSTLES, &C. 301 " agreeable in colour to the hair of his " head, not of any great length, but " forked in the midlt ; of an innocent, " ° mathe look; his eyes grey, clear, and " quick. In reproving he is terrible; in " ° admonilhing courteous and fair fpoken " pleafant in fpeech, mixed with gravity. " It cannot be remembered that any have " feen him laugh, but many have Peen " him weep. In proportion of body well- " ° íhaped and ftraight ; his hands and arms " right delectable to behold ; in fpeaking " very temperate, modelt, and wife. A " man . for fingular beauty furpaffing the " children of men." 10.t2 '910 §l&ilt.E40 5tcg. The NEW, COMPLETE, L I V and AUTHENTIC E S O F T H E APOSTLES, EVANGELISTS, DISCIPLES, &c. Of our bleffed LORD and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST. St. MATTHEW, the EVANGELIST and APOSTLE. THIS evangelift was alto called Levi ; and, though a Roman officer, was a true Hebrew, and probably a Galilean. Kirften, an Arabian author, tells us, that he was born at Nazareth, a city in the tribe of Zebulun, famous for the habita. tion of Jofeph and Mary, and the place where our bleffed Saviour refided the whole time of his private life. St. Mat- thew was the fon of Alpheus and Mary, lifter, or kinfwoman, to the bleffed virgin, No. 26. both originally defcended from the tribe of Iffachar. The occupation of Matthew was that of a publican, or tax gatherer to the Ro- mans, an office detefled by the generality of the Jews. Amongfi the Romans indeed it was accounted a place of power and credit, and, as fuck,, rarely conferred on any but Roman knights : and T. FI. Sabi- mus, father of the emperor Vefpafian, was the publican of the Afian provinces, 4 D an
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