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PUBLIUS LENTULUS, TO THE SENATE OF ROME,

CONCERNING

Jesus Christ.

Ir being the usual cu-ter of Roman Governors to ndvertise the Senate and People of such material things as happened in their Provinces;-in the days of the Emperor Tiberius Caesar, Publius Lentulus, President of Judea, wrote the following Epistle to the Senate, concerning our SAVIOUR:

THERE appeared in these our days, a Man of great virtue, named JESUS CHRIST, who is yet living amongst us, and of the People is accepted for a Prophet but his own Disciples call him THE SON OF GOD. He raiseth the dead, and cureth all manner of diseases; a man of stature somewhat tall and comely, with a very reverend countenance, such as the beholders may both love and fear; his hair of the colour of a chesnut full ripe, and plain to his ears, but thence downwards it is more orient, curling and waving about his shoulders; in the inidst of his head is a seam, or partition of his hair, after the manner of the Nazarites; his for head plain and very delicate; his face without spot or wrinkle, beautified with a lovely red; his nose and mouth are so formed as nothing can be reprehended; his beard thickish, in colour like the hair of lus head, not very long but forked; his look innocent and mature; his eyes grey, clear, and quick; in reproving he is terrible; in admonisha.g, courteous and fair spoken; pleasant in conversation, mixed with gravity; it cannot be remembered that any have seen him laugh, but nany have seen him weep; in proportion of body, most f excellent; his hands and arms deiectable to behold; in Speaking, very temperate, modest and wise-A MAN, dor his singular Beauty, passing the Children of Men.

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BOOKS OF THE BIBLE

In Geness the world was made by God's creative hand.
In Exodus the Hebrews marched to gain the Promised Land.
Leviticus contains the Law, holy and just, and good.

Numbers records the tribes enrolled, all sons of Abraham's blood
Moses in Deuteronomy recounts God's mighty deeds.
Brave Joshua into Canaan's land the host of Israel leads
In Judges their rebellion oft provokes the Lord to smite.
But Ruth records the faith of one well pleasing in his sight.
In First and Second Samuel of Jesse's son we read

Ten tribes in First and Second Kings revolted from his seed.
In First and Second Chronicles see Judah captive made.
But Ezra leads a remnant back by princely Cyrus' aid.
The city walls of Zion Nenemiah builds again.

Whilst Father saves her people from plots of wicked men.
In Job we read how faith will live beneath affliction's rod.
Aud David's Psalms are precious songs to every child of God,
The Proverbs like a goodly string of choicest pearls appe.
Ecclesiastes teaches man how vain are all things here.
The mystic Song of Solomon exalts sweet Sharon's Rose
Whilst Christ the Saviour and the King the 'rapt Isaiah shows.
The warning Jeremiah apostate Israel woorns;

His plaintive Lamentations their awful downfal mourns.
Ezekiel tells in wondrous words of dazzling mysteries.
Whilst kings and empires yet to come Daniel in visions 2006

Of agentland of inercy Hosen loves to tell,

Joel describes the blessed days when God with man she dwell.
Among Tekoa's herdsman Amos received his call.

While Obedish prophesies of Edom's final fall.

Jonah enshrines a wondrous type of Christ our risen Lord.
Micah pronounces Judah lost, lost but again restored.
Nahum declares on Ninevah just judgment shall be poured.
A view of Chalden's coming doom Habakkuk's visions give.
Next Zephaniah warns the Jews to turn, repent, and live.
Haggai wrote to those who saw the temple built again.
And Zachariah prophesied of Christ's triumphant reign.
Malachi was the last who touched the high prophetic chord;
Its final notes sublimely show the coming of the Lord.
Matthew and Mark, and Luke and John, the holy Gospels wrote,
Describing how the Saviour died, his life and all he taught.
Acts proves how God the Apostles owned with signs in every place
St Paul in Romans teaches us how man is saved by grace.
The Apostle in Corinthians instructs, exhorts, reproves.
Galatians show that faith in Christ alone the Father loves
Ephesians and Philippians tell what Christinas ought to be.
Colossians bids us live to God, and for eternity.

In Thessalonians we are taught the Lord will come from heaven
In Timothy and Titus a bishop's rule is given.

Philemon inarks a Christian's love, which only Christians know.
Hebrews reveals the Gospel prefigured by the law.

James teaches without holiness faith is but vain and deat.

St Peter points the narrow way in which the saints are led.

John in his three Epistles on love delights to dwell.

St Jude gives awful warnings of judgment, wrath, and bell.
The Revelations prophecy of that tremendous day

When Christ, and Christalne, shall be the trembling sinner's stay.

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A Nation must be truly blessed if it were governed by no other aws than thous of this blessed book; it is so complete a system, that nothing can be added te or taken from it: it contains every thing needful to be known or done affords a copy for a king, and a rule for a subject: it gives instruction and cour sei to a senate: authority and direction for a magistrate it cautions a wi Bess: requires an impartial verdiet of a jury, and furnishes a judge with entence: it sets the husband as lord of the household, and the wife as ma tress of the table tells him how to rule, and her how to manage bonour to parents, and enjoins obedience to children: it prescribes and limits the sway of the sovereign, the rule of the ruler, and the authority of the mas ter; commands the subjects to honour, and the servants to obey; and promises the blessing and protection of its Author to all that walk by its rules. It give direction for weddings aud for burials: it promises food and raiment, and limita the use of both: it points out a faithful and an eternal Guardian to the departing husband and father: tells with when to leave his fatherlese children, and in whom his widow is to trust and promises a father to the former, and a husband to the latter. It teaches a man how to set his house in order, and how to make his will: it appoints a dowry for the wife, and entails the right of the first born; and shows how the yeang branches shall be left. It defende the rights of all; and reveals vengeance to every defrauder, over-reacher, and oppressor. It is the first book, the best book, and the oldest book in all the world. It contains the choicest matter, gives the best instruction, and afforde the greatest pleasure and satisfaction that over was revealed. It contains the best laws and profoundest mysteries that ever ware penned. It brings the best tid. ings, and affords the best of comfort to the inquiring and disconsolate. It exhi bits life and immortality, and shews the way to everlasting glory. It is a brief recital of all that is past, and a certain prediction of all that is to come settles all matters in debate, resolves all doubts, and eases the mind and onscience of all their scruples. It reveals the only living and true God, and shows the way to him; and set aside all other gods, and describes the vanity of them, and all who trust in them. In short, it is a book of laws, to shew right sad wrong; a book of wisdom, that sendamise all folly, and makes the foolish wise; a book of truth, that detects all lies and confutes all errors; and a book of life, and shews the way from everlasting death. It is the most compendious book in all the world; the most authentic, and the most entertaining history that ever was published: it contains the most early antiquities, strange events. wonderful occurrences, beroie deeds, unparalleled wara. cial, terrestrial, and infernal worlds; and the origin of the angel'e myriada, It describes the celes ouman tribes, and infernal legions. It will instruct the most accomplished me chanie, and the most profound artist; it will teach the best rhetorician, and exercise every power of the most skilful arithmetician; puzzle the wisest anatomist, and exercise the nicest eritic. It correcte the vain philosopher, and guides the wise astonomer; it exposes the subtle sophist, and makes diviners wad. It is a complete code of laws, a perfect book of divinity, an unequalled narrative; a book of lives, a book of travels and a book of voyages It is the best covenant that ever was agreed on, the best deed that ever was sealed, the best evidence that ever was produced, the best will that ever was made, and the best testament that ever was signed. To understand it, is to be wise i deed; to be ignorant of it, is to be destitute of wisdom. It is the king's best copy, the magistrate's best rule, the housewife's best guide, the servant's best directory, and the young man's best companion. It is the school-boy's spellingbook, and the learned man's master-piece it contains a choice grammar for a novice, and a profound treatise for a sager it is the ignorant man's dictionary. and the wise man's directory. It affords knowledge of witty inventions for the ingenious, and dark sayings for the grave; and it la its own interpreter. It on courages the wise, the warrior, the racer, and the overcomer and promises az eternal reward to the conqueror. And that which crowns all in, that the shor is without partiality, and without hypocrisy, for in him is as variableczem, ner shadow of turning."

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Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to he written for our Learning, Grant that we may in such wise hear them, rend, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by Patience and Comfort of Thy Holy Word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed Hope of everlasting Life, which Thou hast given us in our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; who hath taught and commanded us thus to pray: Our Father, dec.

GRACE BEFORE MEAT. Heavenly Father, of thine infinite goodness, thou hast again spread a table with food onvenient for us; accompany it, we beseech thee, with a blessing; and may the strength which it imparts be devoted to the service of thee, to whom we are indebted for every thing. Pardon our past ingratitude, and make as altogether such as thou wouldst have us to be, for Christ's sake. Amen.

GRACE AFTER MEAT.

We give thes thanks, O Lord, for what of thy good Providence we have now received. Keep us ever mindful of our entire dependence upon thee-that it is thy hand, though unseen, which alone feeds and preserves us from day to day. Pardon all our unmindralness of thee, our ingratitude towards thes; and O grant that henceforth, whether we eat, or drink, or whatever we do, we may do all to thy glory, for Christ's sake. Amen.

Contains 3,566,489 Letters; 810,697 Words; 31,173 Verses, 1189 Chapters, and 66 Books. The word "and" occurs 46,227 times; "Lord," 1815; and "reverend" only once, that in the 111th Psalm. The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains the alphabet. The 19th chapter of the 2d Book of Kings, and the 37th chapter of Isaiah, are alike. The first man recorded as buried in a coffin, was Joseph, 50th chapter of Genesis, and 26th verse. Nowhere but in the 1st chapter 2nd Timothy is the name "grandmother" mentioned. There is no name or word of more than six syllables in the Bible.

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