and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST, and his APOSTLES, &c. 311 particulars omitted by him are, in general, of lefs importance than thofe the other evangelifis forbear to mention. Thé ails of the apofiles written by St. Luke, were no doubt penned at Rome, about the time of St. Paul's imprifonment there, with which he concludes his Rory. It contains the allions, and fometimes the fufferings of the principal apoftles, efpe- daily St. Paul, whole allivity in the caufe of CHRIST made him bear a greater part in the laboursof his mailer ; and St. Luke being his confiant attendant, an eye-wit- nefs of the whole carriage of his life, and privy to his moil intimate tranfalions, was confequently capable of giving a more full and fatisfaltory account of them. Amongfl other things, he enumerates the great miracles the apoftles did in confir- mation of the dollrine they advanced. His manner of writing, in both thefe treatifes, is exaá and accurate ; his fiyle noble and elegant, fublime and lofty, and yet clear and perfpicuous, flowing with an eafy and natural grace and fweetnefs, admirably adapted to an hiflorical defign. In fhort, as an hiftorian, he was faithful in his relations, and elegant in his writings ; as a miniller, carefuland diligent for the good offouls ; as a Chrillian, devout and pious ; and, to crown all the reft, laid down his life in teftimony of that gofpel he had both preached and publifhed to the world, by the commandof his Lord. St. J O H N, the APOSTLE and EVANGELIST; commonly called the DIVINE. TH I S beloved difciple of our Lord was a native of Galilee, the fon of Zebedee and Salome, one of thofe devout women that conflantly attended on our Lord in his miniftry, and brother of James the Great. Before his becoming a difciple of the hleffed Jesus, he was, in all pro- bability, a follower of John the Baptift, and is thought to be that other difciple, who, in the firft chapter of his gofpel, is faid to have been prefent with Andrew when John declared JEsus, to be the Lamb of God, and thereupon to have followed to the place ofhis refidence. - Though St. John was by much the youngeff of the apoltles, he was neverthe- lefs admitted into as great a [hare of his Matter's confidence as any of them. He was oneof thofe to whomhe communicated the molt private tranfaltions of his 'life; one of thofe whom he took with him when he raifed the daughter of jairus from the dead ; one of thofe to whom he exhibited a fpecimen ofhis divinity, in his transfigu- ration on the mount ; one of thofe who were prefent at his conference with Mofes and Elias, and heard that voice which de- clared him the beloved Son ofGod; and one of thofe who were companions in his foli- tude, molt retired devotions, and bitter agonies in the garden. Thus ofthe three who were made the witneffes oftheir Ma- fler's allions, which it was convenient to conceal, St. John confiantly enjoyed the privilege of being one : nay, evenof there three, he feems to have had, in fome re- fpells, the preference; witnefs his lying on his Mailer's bofom at the pafchal fupper: and even when Peter was defirous of knowing who was the perfon that fhould betray their Mailer, and durst not himfelf afk the queflion, he made ufe of St. John to
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