Lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew, Vol. 2 of 2
Porteus, Beilby Excerpt from Lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew, Vol. 2 of 2: Delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster, in the Years 1798, 1799, 1800, and 1801This instantly suggested to him an idea the most extravagant that could be ima gined, that this very person who assumed the name of Jesus was in fact no other than John the Baptist himself, Whom he had beheaded, and who was now risen from the dead, and was endowed with the power of wo...