The picture of Christ The wonder of meditation, the earnest of eternitie, the touchstone of faith: or, A counterbuffe to despaire. Gathered from the great fountaine, and store house of liuing waters, the most ancient, sacred, holy, authenticall selfe-assuring, and canonicall scriptures, of the old and new testament.

Out of the new Testament.

* 1.1WHile Zacharias the Priest is burning of Incense in the Temple, an Angell of the

Lord appeareth vnto him pro∣mising him a Sonne. 11.

Zacharias requiring a signe of the Angell, for the further assurance of his promise is stricken dumbe vntill the time of the performance thereof. 22.

Elizabet his wife, hearing the salutatiō of Mary, the babe springeth in her belly: shee beeing filled with the holy Ghost. 41.

Zacharias mouth is opened againe, and his tongue loosed, immediately after he had writ∣ten his sonnes name vppon Tables 64.

The strange conception of the Blessed Virgin,* 1.2 with our Sauiour Christ: by the holy Ghost, ouershadowed by the power of the most high. 18. 35.

* 1.3After the birth of our Saui∣our Christ, the Angel of the Lord, commeth vpon the shep∣heards, in the field, the glory of the Lord shining about them: so that they are affraid. 9.

Presently after the Angels message vnto the sheapheards, there is with the Angel, a mul∣titude of heauenly souldiers praising God. 13.

* 1.4Three wisemen of the East, seeking Christ at Ierusalem: and from thence directed to Bethlem: a starre goeth before conducting them, at last, stand∣ing ouer the place where Christ was. 9.

* 1.5After that Christ is baptized of Iohn the Baptist, the heauens are opened vnto him: Iohn see∣ing the Spirit of God descen∣ding like a Doue, and lighting

vpon him: with a voyce speak∣ing from heauen. 16. 10. 22.

Christ healeth a man in the Synagogue,* 1.6 who had an vn∣cleane spirit. 26.35.

Christ being thrust out of the Synagogue at Nazareth,* 1.7 and led to the edge of a hill, wherevpon the citty was built: to cast him downe headlong, passeth through the midst of them, so departing. 30.

Christ being at a mariage in Cana in Galilee,* 1.8 turneth water into wine. 9.

Christ beeing come downe from the mountaine where hee preached:* 1.9 healeth a leaper. 3. 40. 13.

Christ healeth a Centurions seruant,* 1.10 who by reason of his strong faith, desired our Sa∣uiour onely to speake the

word, and his seruant should be whole. 13. 10.

* 1.11Christ comming into Peters house, healeth his wiues mo∣ther: who lay sicke of a Feuer. 15. 31. 39.

* 1.12Christ, with his Disciples be∣ing at sea, there ariseth suddain∣ly a great tempest: which at his Disciples crie hee calmeth, rebuking the wind and the sea. 26. 39. 24.

* 1.13Christ casteth out the deuils, out of two who were possessed: who hauing obtained leaue of our Sauiour Christ, enter pre∣sently into a heard of Swine: carying them all from a steepe downe place, headlong in the sea. 32. 13. 33.

* 1.14Christ being come from Iu∣dea into Galilee, healeth a ru∣lers sonne, who was sick of a

feuer, at Capernaum: his feuer departing, by the rulers com∣putation, at that very houre, in which Iesus had said, thy sonne liueth. 50.

An Angel at certaine seasons,* 1.15 commeth downe troubling the water of a poole called Bethes∣da, beside Ierusalem, which hea∣led any one, of whatsoeuer dis∣ease, first entred the poole after the Angels departure. 4.

Christ healeth a man lying beside the poole of Bethesda, waiting for the Angels com∣ming: who had beene diseased eight and thirty yeares. 9.

Christ,* 1.16 comming into his owne cittie, healeth a man sick of the palsie. 6. 12. 24.

Christ entring into Simons ship,* 1.17 biddeth him cast out his net: who obeying Christs com∣mand,

although they had tra∣uailed all that night in vaine: take so many fishes, that their net breaketh, sinking also two ships, which came to their aid. 6

* 1.18Christ, as he came neere the gate of a citty called Nain, rai∣seth a widdowes onely sonne, (whom he met in a coffin) from death to life. 15.

* 1.19A woman hauing a disease of a bloudy issue, twelue yeares: touching the hem of Christs garment is healed. 22. 29. 44.

* 1.20Christ raiseth a ruler of the Synagogues daughter, from death to life. 25. 31. 55.

* 1.21Christ giueth sight to two blind men, because of their faith. 30.

* 1.22Christ casteth out a diuell out of a dumbe man, causing the dumbe to speake. 33. 14.

Christ healeth one,* 1.23 who was deafe, and stammered in his speach. 35.

Christ comming to Bethsai∣da, giueth sight to a blind man:* 1.24 who desired our Sauiour onely to touch him. 25.

Christ giueth sight to a man who was borne blind. 7.* 1.25 * 1.26

Christ healeth a man, which had his hand dried vp. 13. 5. 10.

Christ healeth a man,* 1.27 who was blind and dumbe, and pos∣sessed with a diuell. 22. 14.

Christ feedeth fiue thousand men,* 1.28 beside women and chil∣dren: with fiue loaues and two fishes: twelue baskets full of the fragments remaining. 20. 42. 17. 12.

Christ walketh on the sea,* 1.29 about the fourth watche, sa∣uing Peter from sinking in

the water: at last calming the tempest. 25. 49. 19.

* 1.30All those who were sicke through all the country, touch∣ing the hem of Christs gar∣ment are healed. 36. 56.

* 1.31Christ healeth a Canaanitish womans daughter, who was tormented with a diuell: by reason of her strong faith, and vncessant crying. 28. 30.

* 1.32Christ ascending into a moū∣taine, neere the Sea of Galilee: great multitudes come vnto him, hauing with them, halt, blinde, dumbe, maimed, whom casting downe at Iesus feete, are all healed. 30.

* 1.33Christ feedeth foure thou∣sand men, besides women and children, with seauen loaues, & a few fishes: seauen baskets full of the fragmēts remaining. 37. 8

Christ is transfigured vpon mount Thabor:* 1.34 his face shi∣ning like the Sunne, his clothes being white as the light, Peter, Iames, and Iohn, beholding the same: where also appeareth, Moses and Elias, talking with him. 2.3.29.

Meane while that Peter, is desiring of our Sauiour leaue, to make three Tabernacles there: a bright clowd shadow∣eth them, with a voyce speak∣ing out of the clowd: This is my wel-be-loued Sonne, in whom I am well pleased, heare him: they falling on their faces to the ground. 5. 7. 34.

Christ healeth a mans sonne who was lunatike and possessed casting out the diuell. 18. 25. 42.

Christ healeth a woman,* 1.35 who had a spirit of infirmity eigh∣teene

yeares, beeing so bowed together, that shee could not lift vp her selfe in any wise. 13.

* 1.36Christ healeth a man of the dropsie vpon the Sabbath day. 4.

* 1.37Christ, healeth ten lepers, going to Ierusalem: as hee en∣tred a certaine towne of Gali∣lee. 14.

* 1.38Christ departing from Ieri∣cho, giueth sight to two blind men: sitting by the way side. 34. 52. 43.

* 1.39Iesus returning from Beth∣ania to Ierusalem, beeing hun∣gry seeth a fig tree by the way carrying leaues onely, without fruite a hee expected, where∣fore curssing it, it anon withe∣reth the disciples as the pas∣sed that way, the next day, seeing, it dryed vp from the

rootes. 19. 13.

Christ raiseth Lazarus from death to life,* 1.40 after he had lyen foure dayes buried in the graue. 44.

Christ troubled in soule,* 1.41 praying vnto his Father to glo∣rifie his Name: there com∣meth a voyce from heauen saying: I haue both gloryfied it and will glorifie it againe. 28.

Christ,* 1.42 beeing come as his maner was to the mount of O∣liues, and praying to his Fa∣ther in an agony, his sweat be∣ing like droppes of blood: a little before his beetraying, ther appeareth an Angell from heauen comforting him. 43.

Christ,* 1.43 asking those whoe came to beetray him whom they sought: at whose replye,

telling them hee was the man: they goe backwards, falling to the ground. 6.

* 1.44After Iudas had betraied our Sauiour Christ with a kisse: Christ healeth the high Priests seruants eare: which Simon Pe∣ter had stricken off. 51.

* 1.45Christ being crucified vpon the crosse, there is an vniuersall darknesse, from the sixt vnto the ninth houre: ouer all the land. 45. 33. 44.

Christ hauing yeelded vp the Spirit: the vaile of the Tem∣ple, from the top to the bottom renteth in sunder: the earth quaking, the stones cleauing in sunder, & the graues opening, many bodyes of the Saints which slept arising: who after his resurrection appeared to many in Ierusalem. 51. 38. 45.

Mary Magdalen,* 1.46 with the other Mary, being come to the Sepulchre, where Christ was laid: there is a great earth∣quake, an Angell being descen∣ded from heauen, who had rol∣led the stone from the doore of the Sepulchre, sitting thereon. 2. 5. 2. 12.

The resurrection of Christ, from death to life vpon the third day, being the first of the weeke. 6. 9. 6. 2.

Christ appeareth after his resurrection,* 1.47 first to Mary Mag∣dalen and the other Mary, 9. 9. 14.

Christ,* 1.48 appeareth vnto two of his Disciples in another forme: as they walked in the countrey. 12. 15.

Christ,* 1.49 going in to tary with them, at their instant sute:

whilest he is breaking of bread at the Table,* 1.50 haue their eyes opened, knowing him: is ta∣ken out of their sight. 31.

* 1.51Christ appeareth to his ele∣uen Disciples as they were sit∣ting together: reprouing them of their vnbeleefe, and hard∣nesse of heart. 14. 36. 19.

* 1.52Christ appeareth vnto his Disciples, eyght dayes after, the doores beeing shut: cau∣sing Thomas put his finger to his hands, and his hands in his side 26.

* 1.53Christ appeareth to his di∣sciples againe, beside the sea of Tiberias. 1.

Christ commanding, the di∣sciples cast our their net into the sea, not then knowing him, and are not able, for the multi∣tude of fishes which filled their

net to pull it in againe. 6.

Christs glorious ascension into heauen,* 1.54 a cloude taking him vp, out of their sight: now sitting at the right hand of God the Father, in glory and ma∣iesty. 19. 51. 9.

Meanwhile the Apostles are beholding Christs glorious as∣cension into heauen,* 1.55 they see two men standing by them in white: telling them of his glo∣rious returne, as they had now seene him ascend. 11.

After Christs ascension in∣to heauen,* 1.56 according to his promise, the Apostles beeing all in one place: there commeth suddainly a sound from heauen, like the rushing of a mighty winde, filling all the house

where they sate: clouen tounges like fire appearing vn∣to them, sitting vpon each of them: beeing all there-after filled with the holy Ghost, speaking with other tounges, as the Spirit gaue them vtte∣rance. 2.

Three thousand persons of those who came to heare the Apostles speake in their strang tounges: are conuerted by Pe∣ters sermon. 41.

* 1.57Peter healeth one, who was a cripple from his mothers bellie: lying at the gate of the Temple, called beautifull, in the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth. 7.

* 1.58The place is shaken, wherein the Apostles are, after prayer vnto the Lord, to preserue and strengthen them with

boldnesse to confesse his name. 31.

Ananias:* 1.59 concealing a part of the price of his possession, and lying to the holy Ghost: is stricken to death in the same place. 5.

Saphira his wife, a little af∣ter, for the like fault, endureth the like punishment: falling downe dead at Peters feete. 10.

The sicke, are brought into the streetes, laide on beds and couches: that the shadow of Peter as hee passed by, might shadow them. A multitude of the citty round about Ieru∣salem also, bringing sick folkes, and those who were vexed with vncleane spirits: all who are healed. 15.

The Apostles, imprisoned by the high Priest, and those of

the sect of the Saduces: the Angel of the Lord by night, openeth the prison doores, bringing them forth. 19.

* 1.60The Eunuch of Aethiopia, & Philip beeing come out of the water, where the said Eunuch was baptized: the Spirit of the Lord taketh away Philip, the Eunuch: seeing him no more. 39

* 1.61Saul, being on his way neere vnto Damascus, with ful intent to persecute all such as did pro∣fesse the name of Iesus: sudden∣ly there shineth a light round about him from heauen, wher∣at, falling to the ground, hee heareth a voyce from heauen, saying vnto him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 4.

Saul, rising from the ground, and opening of his eyes seeth no man, beeing led by the hand

vnto Damascus: where hee re∣maineth three daies blind with∣out meate or drinke 8.

Saul, immediatly after that Ananias had touched his eyes, telling him that he was sent for that errand, by that Iesus which appeared to him in the way: receiueth his sight, a thing fal∣ling from his eyes, as it had bin scales. 18.

Peter comming to Lyda, hea∣leth a man of the palsie, who had kept his bed eight yeares: by the name of Iesus. 34.

Peter, after prayer, raiseth a certaine disciple of Ioppa, na∣med Tabitha: from death to life. 40.

Meane while that Peter is prea∣ching, at Cornelius conuersion,* 1.62 the holy Ghost falleth on all those who heare him: the As∣sistants

wondring, that the ho∣ly Ghost was poured on the Gentles also: hearing them speake in diuers tongues. 44.

* 1.63Herod, thinking to bring out Peter to the people, whom be∣fore hee had imprisoned: this same night whilest Peter slept betwixt two Souldiers, bound with two chaines, the keepers watching the doores: The An∣gel of the Lord commeth vp∣on them, a light shining in the house: who smiting Peter on the side, biddeth him to be rea∣dy quickly and follow him: Pe∣ters chaines imediately falling from his hands. 7

The Angel and Peter, hauing past the first and second watch, at last come to an iron gate, lea∣ding into the citty: which of it owne accord openeth vnto

them, where, after they had passed through one street: the Angel departed from him. 10.

Herod making an Oration to the people in all his royalty, re∣ceiuing from them a blaspe∣mous applause: is immediatly smitten by the Angel of the Lord, being eatē of wormes, so that he giueth vp the Ghost. 23

Elimas the sorcerer,* 1.64 accor∣ding to the word of Paul, is stri∣ken of the Lord with blindnes. 11.

Paul,* 1.65 healeth a certaine im∣potent man, at Listra, in Lyca∣onia: who was a cripple from his mothers wombe. 10.

Paul in the name of Iesus,* 1.66 causeth an vncleane spirit to come out of a certaine maid, which troubled him and his company, as they were about

to pray in Lydias house. 18.

Paul and Silas beeing impri∣soned by the maisters of the a∣foresaid Maide, praying and singing a Psalme vnto God: suddainly there is a great earth∣quake, shaking the foundation of the prison, all the doores thereof opening: euery priso∣ners bands beeing loosed. 26

* 1.67Paul in his peregrination fin∣ding certain disciples at Ephe∣sus, who onely were baptized with the baptisme of Iohn: bap∣tizeth them in the name of Ie∣sus, laying his hands on thē, the holy Ghost comming vppon them: they speaking the tonges and prophesying. 6.

From the body of Paul are brought Kerchiffes vnto the sicke, the diseases therafter de∣parting: and the euill spirits

going out of them. 12.

Paul rayseth one Eutychus frō death to life,* 1.68 who in hearing of his sermon, which continu∣ed till mid-night, oppressed with a deepe sleepe had fallen from a window, so dying. 10.

Paul cast a shore in the Ile of Melita,* 1.69 warming himselfe by a fire, a viper leapeth out there∣of vpon his hand: which harm∣lesse hee casts off againe. 5.

Paul healeth the Father of Publius, who was the chiefe man of that Ile, of a feuer, and a bloody flixe. 8.

The hope that is deferred is the fainting of the heart: but when the desire commeth, it is a tree of life. Pro. 13.12.

FINIS.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Luke. I.
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  Mathew. I. Luke. I.
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  Luke. II.
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  Math. II.
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  Math. III. Marke. I. Luke. III.
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  Marke. I. Luke. IIII.
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  Luke. IIII.
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  Iohn. II.
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  Math. VIII. Marke. I. Luke. V.
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  Math. VIII. Luke. VII.
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  Math. VIII. Marke. IIII. Luke. IIII.
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  Math. VIII. Marke. IIII. Luke. VIII.
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  Math. VIII. Marke. V. Luke. VIII.
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  Iohn. IIII.
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  Iohn. V.
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  Math. IX. Marke. II. Luke. V.
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  Luke. V.
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  Luke. VII.
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  Math. IX. Marke. V. Luke. VIII.
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  Math. IX. Marke. V. Luke. VIII.
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  Math. IX.
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  Math. IX. Luke. XI.
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  Mark. VII.
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  Mark. VIII.
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  Iohn. IX.
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  Math. XII. Marke. III. Luke. VI.
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  Math. XII. Luke. XI.
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  Mat. XIIII. Marke. VI. Luke. IX. Iohn. VI.
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  Mat. XIIII. Marke. VI. Iohn. VI.
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  Mat. XIIII. Marke. VI.
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  Math. XV. Marke. VII.
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  Math. V.
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  Math. XV. Mark. VIII.
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  Math. XVII Marke. IX. Luke. IX.
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  Luke. XIII.
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  Luk. XIIII.
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  Luke. XVII.
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  Math. XX. Marke. X. Luk. XVIII.
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  Math. XXI Marke. XI.
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  Iohn. XI.
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  Iohn. XII.
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  Luk. XXII.
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  Iohn. XVIII
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  Luke. XXII.
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  Mat. XXVII Mark. XV. Luk. XXIII.
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  Mathew. XXVIII. Mark. XVI. Luk. XXIIII Iohn. XX.
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  Mathew. XXVIII. Mark. XVI. Iohn. XX.
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  Mark. XVI. Lu. XXIIII.
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  Lu. XXIIII.
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  Luk. XXIIII
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  Marh. XVI. Luk. XXIIII Iohn. XX.
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  Iohn. XX.
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  Iohn. XXI
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  Mark. XVI. Luk. XXIIII Actes. I.
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  Actes. I.
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  II.
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  III.
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  IIII.
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  V.
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  VIII.
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  IX.
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  X.
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  XII.
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  XIII.
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  XIIII.
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  XVI.
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  XIX.
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  XX.
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  XXVIII.