OR, A PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL HISTORIES IN THE Old and New Testament. IN FOUR VOLUMES. BY THOMAS ROBINSON, M. A. THE TENTH EDITION; CONTAINING A BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR, VOL. IV. GOD, WHO AT SUNDRY TIMES AND IN DIVERS MANNERS SPAKE IN TIMES PAST UNTO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, HATH IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN UNTO US BY HIS SON.THEREFORE WE OUGHT TO GIVE THE MORE EARNEST HEED.- HEB. i. 1, 2. ii. 1. LONDON: PRINTED FOR GALE AND FENNER, PATERNOSTER ROW; By Cornish and Co. 24, Nelson Square, Surrey Road, SCRIPTURE CHARACTERS: VOLUME THE FOURTH. CONTAINING the second part oF THE PRINCIPAL HISTORIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. SCRIPTURE CHARACTERS. JESUS CHRIST. SECT. XXXIII. Jesus delivered the parable of the marriage feast— replied to the Pharisees and Herodians, on the payment of tribute—confounded the Sadducees, by proving the resurrection-answered a Scribe, respecting the first and great commandment-baffled the Pharisees, by proposing a question about the Messiah warned his disciples against the Scribes and Pharisees, whom he reproved and condemned in the most awful language. "WHERE is the wise? where is the Scribe? where is the disputer of this world ?"* Such were the opponents of our Lord; and in their proud and malicious contentions with him they were completely vanquished and confounded. Towards the close of his life, especially, they assailed him with all their subtlety, in order to insnare him; but their best-concerted plans were |