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201. The first four books

The first four books of the New Testament are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These books are sometimes called Gospels. They are four histories of Jesus Christ; they were written by four good men, who loved Christ. The names of the books are taken from the names of the men who wrote them. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They are sometimes called Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, &c. Saint means a holy, or pious person.Besides these Gospels, the New Testament contains the Epistles, and the Revelations.Children see Romans, Corinthians, Ephesians, written over the top of the pages of tie New Testament. They see Jude, Feter, Titus, &c.Romans, Corinthians, and Ephesians, mean the letters of Saint Paul tory burch sale to the people who lived at Rome, at" Corinth, and at Ephesus. Jude, Peter, James, mean letters, written tory burch outlet by Jude, Peter, and James.Children cannot understand any thing about the Bevelations.We read in the New Testament, of the Temple, the Synagogue, Scribes and Pharisees; young children do not know what these words mean.The Temple was a very great and beautiful church; it was built by king tory burch shoes Solomon.Synagogues were smaller churches, where the ministers taught the people.There are at this time different sorts or sectsiof Christians; there are Quakers, Roman Catholics, Baptists, &e. There were different sects of Jews. The Pharisees were one sect of Jews. The Pharisees pretended to be better than other people; they pretended to be better than they were. This is to be t tory burch flats hypocrite.Jesus Christ did not love the Pharisees, he called them w hypocrites."Scribes. It has been written in another place, that printed books have not been used more than three hundred years. Before printed books were used, people had no other books than those which were written with a pen. The people who wrote aB the books were called scribes, or writers.