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

They were works of mercy. In them was displayed not only his infinite power and greatness, but his infinite mercy and goodness. He went about doing good, healing the sick, restoring sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and the proper use of their limbs to the lame and halt; feeding the hungry, cleansing the leprous and raising the dead.

They were almost all of them such as had been spoken of as the peculiar works of God, in the Old Testament. So with respect to stilling the sea, Psal. cvii.29. "He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still." So as to walking on the sea in a storm: Job. ix.8. "Which alone—treadeth upon the waves of the sea." So as to casting our devils: Psal. lxxiv.14. "Thou breakest the heads of leviathan in pieces." So as to feeding a multitude in a wilderness: Deut. viii.16. "Who fed thee in the wilderness with mans." So as to telling man's thoughts: Amos iv.13. "Lo, he that—declareth unto man what is his thought— the Lord, the God of hosts is his name." So as to raising the dead: Psa•. lxviii 20. "Unto God the Lord belong the issues from death." So as to opening the eyes of the blind: Psal. cxlvi.8. "The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind." So as to healing the sick: Psal. ciii.3. "Who healeth all thy diseases." So as to lifting up those who are bowed together: Psal. cxlvi.8. "The Lord raiseth them that are bowed down."

They were almost all of them such as had been spoken of as the peculiar works of God, in the Old Testament. So with respect to stilling the sea, Psal. cvii.29. "He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still." So as to walking on the sea in a storm: