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Title: 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 martyrs. To which is added the history of the Jews
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Fleetwood, John Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885, engr
Subjects: Jesus Christ Apostles Martyrs Jews -- History
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Nathan Whiting
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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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 side.And 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 compassion.It 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.)
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*^ 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 ; and though he found him to be aperson of a difierent nation, and one who professed a religionopposite to his own, yet the hatred which had been instilled in-to his mind from his earliest years, and every objection arisingfrom the animosity subsisting between the Jews and Samaritans,were immediately silenced by the tender sensation of pity, awak-ened by

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