The new complete life of our blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ
Subtitle: that great example, as well as Saviour of mankind : containing a more complete, authentic, ample, accurate, instructive, universal, and full account, than was ever before published, of all the real facts, relating to the exemplary life, meritorious sufferings, and triumphant death of our glorious Redeemer ... : to which is added a new, complete and authentic history of the lives, transactions, sufferings, and deaths, of his holy apostles, evangelists, disciples, and other eminent persons and primitive Christians, who first propagated the Christian religion, and laid down their lives in the glorious cause of Jesus Christ ... : also a new, useful, and interesting account of the Messiah's great forerunner John the Baptist, and likewise the life of the blessed Virgin Mary : together with a faithful account of the successors of the apostles, for three hundred years after the Crucifixion, in the five great apostolical churches : comprehending the whole doctrine of Christianity, the evidences fairly stated upon which it is founded, and the manner of its establishment in different parts of the world : including a complete defence of Christianity, containing plain and satisfactory answers to all the objections made against our holy religion, by Jews, Turks, atheists, deists, infidels, and free-thinkers of the present age, who strive to level mankind with the brute creation, whereby the religion of the great Redeemer of mankind is proved to be genuine and truly divine : the whole interspersed with practical improvements, and useful remarks, familiarly adapted to every capacity, and designed to promote, in every Christian, the necessary practice of faith and repentance, as the only appointed means whereby God can be reconciled with man ...
By: by Paul Wright ... ; embellished with the most elegant, valuable, and numerous set of large copper-plate prints ever published in a work of this kind, finely engraved from the original drawings of Hamilton, Chalmers, West, Samuel Wale, Esq. &c. by the best American artists.
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Tertius Dunning and Walter W. Hyer ...
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Apostles
Genres: Biography; Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has inscription: John Mass subscribed for this book in the year ninty fore, bound in 1800 February 25th.
Evans 29927
Published in 30 no., 1795-1796 or 1797, each containing 16 p. and a plate. Cf. Evans.
First published in London, 1785?
Signatures: [A]² B-5K² [5L]².
"List of subscribers' names": p. [1-3] at end.