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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ... Meditations and contemplations on the sufferings of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Johann Jacob Rambach PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. THE history of the Sufferings of our Lord anci Saviour Jesus Christ, has met with the approbation of the devout Christian among every nation DEGREES people, and kindred. To render this history more useful, Dr. Rambach, professor of the University of Halle, near 100 years agOj harmonised and connected this history into its present form. The work being alike distant from religious disputation, as well as political opinion, may be read with advantage by the pious of every deno-t mination; instrumental, and savingly beneficial to those, who read with faith and prayer. The Publisher would beg leave only to rtmark, that as nature furnishes the individual here to his utmost wish, that as the jurisprudence of our country protects virtue and deters vice beyond that of any other; so, like the sun, this great man's Considerations, on so divine a subject, are pro DEGREES cured from about six thousand miles to the east of our metropolis, to diffuse spiritual consolation and advice - to the several flocks of a well directed, leajned, and pious clergy/ ' %, ' "-. . THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE. CANDID READER, I HERE present you with " Considerations on the History of the Sufferings of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." In the year 1721, I expounded the " Account of the internal sufferings of Christ in the garden," to a great number of students, in the time set apart for that exercise in Lent. After a short illustration of the historical circumstances, I drew from them some inferences, which I enlarged upon, and inculcated on the minds of my p'upils agreeably to the circumstances of the audience. In Lent 1722, I discou