Excerpt from The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Together With the Lives of His Holy Apostles and Evangelists The all-gracious God, as it seemed best to his unerring wisdom, was pleased by degrees to Open and fold his glorious counsels; and man by degrees attained to the knowledge of the great plan of salvation, and the means used by its great Author to promote and establish it. Some time before the incarnation of the blessed Jesus an opinion pre vailed amongst the pious part of the J ews that the Great Jehovah would condescend to favour them with a clearer revelation of his mind and will, by the mission of seine eminent person qualified from above to instruct them in the same. This opinion was founded on the predictions of the ancient prophets, who had described, with the utmost beauty and clearness, the person, character, and glory of the Messiah, appointed by God, in his own time, to declare his eternal counsels to mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.