A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

2dly. Those acts which he p••form•• during his public ministry which began when he was about thirty years of age, and continued ⟨p. 152⟩for the three last years and an half of his life. Most of the history of the evangelists is taken up in giving an account of what passed during these three years and an half; so is all the history of the Evangelist Matthew, excepting the two first chapters. So is the whole of the history of the Evangelist Mark; it begins and ends with it. And so also is all the gospel of John, and all the gospel of Luke, excepting the two first chapters; excepting also what we find in the evangelists concerning the ministry of John the Baptist. Christ's first appearing in his public ministry, is what is often called his coming, in scripture. Thus John speaks of Christ's coming as what is yet to be, though he had been born long before.

Concerning the public ministry of Christ, I would observe the following things. 1. The forerunner of it. 2. The manner of his first entering upon it. 3. The works in which he was employed during the course of it; and, 4. The manner of his finishing it.

Concerning the public ministry of Christ, I would observe the following things. 1. The forerunner of it. 2. The manner of his first entring upon it. 3. The works in which he was employed during the course of it; and, 4. The manner of his finishing it.

1. The forerunner of Christ's coming in his public ministry was John the Baptist; He came preaching repentance for the remission of sins, to make way for Christ's coming, agreeable to the prophecies of him, Is. xl.3.4.5. and