Calvary (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: With towering stature tallest of the throng, And looks of high supremacy and state. And now from either shoulder he unfurl'd 775 His wide-stretch'd pinions, and uprising swift Tower'd in mid-air; the host with loud acclaim Hail'd his ascent; he on the well-pois'd wing Ilovcr'd awhile, till from his cloudy heighth Sweeping the wide horizon he descried 78O Far in the west the holy city of God, His 'deslin'd port, then to the orient sub Tum'd his broad vans, and plied their utmost speed. END OF THE FIRST BOOK. THE DEATH OF CHRIST. BOOK II. chapter{Section 4THE ARGUMENT OF THE SECOND BOOK. Mammon, alighting on the Holy Mount, assumes the form and character of a Levite, and under that appearance goes in search of Judas Iscariot. He meets that disciple most opportunely for his purpose in a solitary place, and entering into conversation with him, pretends a commission from the priests and elders for engaging him in their service with the promise of a reward, and urges many insiduous arguments for detaching him from his Master: They separate with a promise on the part of Judas to report his final answer to the priests that evening. Christ is now brought to view sitting in the midst of his disciples.at his Last Supper: He addresses them in those solemn and affecting terms recorded in the Gospel of St. John, washes their feet, foretells his death, and points out to them his betrayer in the person of Judas then present: The traitor, perceiving himself discovered, hastily departs. Christ, pitying the affliction of his disciples, tenderly consoles them with the promise of his support under their future tribulations, and concludes with an aweful invocation to the Father in their behalf: whereupon, warning them that his hour is come, he goes forth to ...