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The ftory of a boy dispossessed of a dumb spirit.

St. MATTHEW.

Chap. XVII,

14. And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and faying,

15. Lord, have mercy on my fon, for he is a lunatick, and fore vexed; for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water:

16. And I brought him to thy difciples, and they could not cure him.

17. Then Jefus anfwered, and faid, Oh faithlefs and perverfe generation, how long fhall I be with you? How long fhall I fuffer you? Bring ? Bring him hither to me.

St. MARK.

Chap. IX.

17. And one of the multitude answered, and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my fon, which hath a dumb fpirit:

18. And wherefoever he taketh him, he teareth him; and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away and I fpake to thy difciples, that they should caft him out, and they could not.

19. He answered him, and faith, O faithlefs and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I fuffer I fuffer you? Bring him unto

me.

20. And they brought him unto him, and when he faw him, straightway the spirit tare him, and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

21. And he afked his father, How long is it ago, fince this came unto him? And he faid, Of a child.

22. And ofttimes it hath caft him into the fire, and into the water, to destroy him; but if thou canst do any thing,

St. MATTHEW. Chap. XVII.

18. And Jefus rebuked the devil, and he departed out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.

St. MARK.

Chap. IX.

have compaffion on us, and help us.

23. Jefus faid unto him, If thou canft believe, all things are poffible to him that believeth.

24. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and faid with tears, Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.

25. When Jefus faw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, faying, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee come out of him, and enter no more into him.

26. And the spirit cried, and rent him fore, and came out of him; and he was as one dead, infomuch that many faid, he is dead.

27. But Jefus took him by the hand, and lifted him. up, and he arose.

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The story of our Saviour's Difciples preparing a place for celebrating the paffover.

Chap. XXVI. 17. Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the difciples came to Jefus, faying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee, to eat the paffover?

18. And he faid, Go into the city to fuch a man, and fay unto him, The mafter faith, my time is at hand, I will

Chap. XIV.

12. And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the paffover, his difciples faid unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayeft eat the paffover?

13. And he fendeth forth two of his difciples, and faith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there fhall meet you

a man

St. MATTHEW.

Chap. XXVI.

keep the paffover at thy house with my disciples.

19. And the disciples did, as Jefus had appointed them; and they made ready the paff

over.

St. MARK.

Chap. XIV.

a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him.

14. And wherefoever he fhall go in, fay ye to the good man of the house, The master faith, Where is the guestchamber, where I fhall eat the paffover with my disciples ?

15. And he will shew you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us.

16. And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had faid unto them; and they made ready the paffover.

By a very cursory and tranfient view of the preceding inftances, every one, who is unprejudiced, will conclude, that St. Mark could not poffibly defign to abridge St. Matthew, unless abridging and enlarging do fignify the fame thing. His accounts are fo much fuller, and contain fo many more particular circumstances, than St. Matthew's do, that to suppose his Gospel to be an epitome of St. Matthew's, is fomewhat like fuppofing the whole to be less than a part. Nor is it only in the inftances which have been produced, that St. Mark's relations are larger than thofe of St. Matthew, but also in abundance of others. It would be tedious to mention all the particular inftances of this nature, especially to write them down at length, as I have done the former; I fhall therefore only mention a few, and briefly hint what they are.

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A Catalogue of fome other inftances, in which St. Mark adds more circumstances to his relations, than St. Matthew.

Chap. i. 45. The leper's publishing what Chrift had done for him, after his cure.

III. 20, 21. The multitudes following Chrift, his friends laying hold on him, and charging him with distraction.

IV. 10. The difciples afking our Saviour the meaning of the parable of the fower, when he was alone.

Ver. 36. Several ships accompanying our Saviour in his

voyage.

VI. 2. Our Lord's preaching on the Sabbath-day in his own country.

Ver. 5. The particular work our Saviour did in his own country, viz. healing fome fick.

Ver. 6. His wondering at their unbelief.

Ver. 7. The manner of fending forth the Apostles, viz. by two and two.

Ver.

37.

The difciples' unwillingness to go to buy bread for the multitude, and the fum it would cost.

Ver. 40. The manner of the multitudes fitting down to be fed by Christ.

VII. 24. Our Saviour's defire to be concealed, but could

not.

VIII. 3. Some of our Lord's difciples came from far.

Ver. 6, 7. The bleffing the feven loaves, and bleffing the fishes, mentioned as done diftinctly and feparately; St. Matthew joins the bleffing the loaves and fishes both together. Ver. 14. The disciples had but one loaf.

IX. 10. The three difciples queftioning one with another, what our Lord meant by rifing from the dead.

Ver. 32. The rest of the disciples at a lofs in the fame ticular, and afraid to afk Chrift.

Chap. vi. 14-30. There are feveral particular circumstances in

par

the hiftory of John's death, which are not mentioned by St. Matthew.

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