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LIFE OF CHRIST ILLUSTRATED.

CHRISTIANITY is seen illustrated in its perfect excellency only in the Life of our blessed Lord and Saviour. His wonderful character, as the "Holy One of God," must be contemplated as a paramount duty, and it will be, with supreme delight, by every Christian.

Divine Goodness has supplied abundant materials for this transforming exercise, in the four Gospels, written by the Evangelists; and these inspired volumes are composed in a style worthy of their heavenly origin, and adapted to the capacities of all classes of society. Hence their unparalleled variety of incident, and the powerful instruction afforded by the extraordinary details of the Life and Ministry of Jesus Christ.

Bishop Jeremy Taylor, Dr. Fleetwood, Dr. Wright, Dr. Malham, and other distinguished Divines, have laboured worthily in compiling from the writings of the Four Evangelists, harmonies of the history of our Saviour; and the large success those works have enjoyed, has evidenced in the religious world the existence of an almost universal desire to possess, as a sacred household volume, a copy of the “Life of Christ.”

Every upright mind will cheerfully acknowledge the instructiveness of these excellent works: but no intelligent judicious Christian will pretend that either of them is perfect ;-or so complete as to supersede any further attempt to illustrate the Character, Ministry, and Virtues of the Divine Founder of our religion. Without referring in this place to the deficiencies of these compilations, it is presumed that there is not only room for a new work of this class, but that in the present state of the Arts, and in the peculiar circumstances of Great Britain, there exists a demand for a “ LIFE OF CHRIST ILLUSTRATED," which none of these publications meet.

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We have therefore determined on the production of a work, in which both the pencil shall equally combine to exhibit the character of our Lord and Saviour in the following order:

I. THE EXALTATION OF CHRIST.
II. THE HUMILIATION OF CHRIST.
III. THE MIRACLES OF CHRIST.
IV. THE DISCOURSES OF CHRIST.
V. THE PARABLES OF CHRIST.
VI. THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST..

The text will consist of the words of the authorized version of the sacred. narrative, with a commentary of the choicest and most beautiful passages selected from the writings of about one hundred celebrated Divines of every Christian denomination; and the cuts, taken from the greatest works of the ancient and modern masters, will be drawn, engraved, and printed in a style of art which, it is confidently hoped, will be in advance of our beautiful and improving pictorial contemporaries, and which shall be worthy of the great subject of our illustrations. The complete work will contain eighty-four engravings: thirty-six representing the grand incidents of " The Life," and forty-eight head and tail-pieces. The "Life of Christ Illustrated" will thus for the first time associate the noblest productions of fine art with the brightest gems of sacred literature, and together form a Family book, equally adapted for the drawing-room, the closet, and the sick chamber of the Christian.

This work will be completed in six parts, forming one handsome volume.

London: Printed by S. BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

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ILLUSTRATIONS TO HUMILIATION OF CHRIST.

1. Christ brought to Golgotha.-(Ornamental Head-Piece)
2. Emblems of the Passion.-(Initial Letter A)

3. Repose of the Holy Family on their journey to Egypt
4. Famine of Christ in the Wilderness. (Head-piece)
5. Christ rebuking Satan

6. Christ praying in the garden.—(Head-piece)
7. Agony of Christ in the garden

8. Christ" set at nought."-(Head-piece)

9. Torture and degradation of Christ

10. Christ bearing the Cross.-(Head-piece)

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14. Time destroying the "last enemy." From a monument by Roubiliac, in Westminster Abbey.- (Tail-piece.)

SARGEANT.

MELVILLE.
PROCACCINO.
GABBIANI.
TITIAN.
CORREGIO.

CARLO MARATTI.

MOSTAERT.

VANDYKE.

GOLTZIUS.

VANDYKE.

RUBENS.

A. CARACCI.

The head of Christ on the Wrapper, from a medal supposed to have been struck by the early Christians.-See Walsh on Christian Coins.

The Cuts Drawn and Engraved by STEPHEN SLY and ASSISTANTS.

PART III.

"THE MIRACLES OF CHRIST,"

will be published on the First of June, and each succeeding Part at intervals of two months.

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