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Chriftian church during the firft thirty years after Chrift’s 
afcenfion ; for he has wholly omitted many fafts, which 
an hi dorian who defigned to write a general account of 
the Chriftian church would not have palled over in (Hence. 
He has alfo omitted many material tranfaftions in the life 
of the apoftle Paul, and given no account of fome of the 
controverfies which took place,and of the heretical opinions 
■which diffracted the church. Of thefe omiftions Michaclis, 
and more particularly Lardner, have feledted feveral re¬ 
markable inftances. But thefe omiftions are no difparage- 
ment to his hiftory ; and the relation of the particulars 
which they have (eleCied was not neceffary for the objeCt 
which he had in view. That objeCt feenis to have 
been two-fold : to relate in what manner the gifts of the 
Holy Spirit were communicated on the day of Pentecoft, 
and the fubfequent miracles performed by the apoftles, 
by which the truth of Chriftianity was confirmed; and to 
deliver filch accounts as proved the claim of the Gentiles 
to admiflion into the church of Chrift, a claim difputed 
by the Jews, el'pecially at the time when St. Luke wrote 
the Afls of the Apoftles. And it was the circumftance 
laft mentioned which excited the hatred of the Jews againft 
St. Paul, and occafioned hisimprifonment in Rome, with 
the period of which St. Luke clofes his hiftory. 
Marcion, a heretic who lived in the firft half of the fe- 
eond century, rejected all the Gofpels except that of St. 
Luke ; and this he mutilated and altered, and interpolated 
in a great variety of places. He would not allow it to be 
called the Gofpel of St. Luke, erafing the name of that 
evangelilt from the beginning of his copy. Some of his 
followers confidered it as written partly by Chrift himfelf, 
and partly by the apoftle Paul. Marcion retrenched the 
firft and fecond chapters entirely, and began his Gofpel at 
the firft verfe of the third chapter, and even read this in 
a manner different from our copies, viz. “In the 15th 
year of Tiberius Caefar, God defcended into Capernaum, 
a city of Galilee.” Some late Chriftian writers have con¬ 
curred in Marcion’s retrenchment; but without fufficient 
authority. 1 
‘St. Luke, fays a modern writer, is pure, copious, and 
flowing in his language, and has a wonderful and enter¬ 
taining variety of felect circumftances in his narration of 
our Saviour’s divine actions. He acquaints us with nu¬ 
merous paffages'of the evangelical hiftory not related by 
any other evangelift; both in his Gofpel and Apoltolical 
A6ts, he is accurate and neat, clear and flowing, with a 
natural and eafy grace; his ftyle is admirably accommo¬ 
dated to the defign of hiftory ; it had a very confiderable 
refemblance to that of his great mailer St. Paul; and, like 
him, he had a learned and liberal education, and appears 
to have been very converfant with the belt daffies; for 
many of his words and expreflions are exaftly parallel to 
.their’s. Blackmail's Sacred CLajJics. Lardner. 
LUKE’s DAY, a feftival in the Chriftian church, ob- 
ferved on the 18 th of OCtober. 
LUKE’s HOS'PITAL. See the article London ; p. 460 
of this volume. 
LUKE’s KE'YS, two fmall iflands near the coaft of 
Honduras. Lat. 15. 50. N. Ion. 86. 35. W. 
LU'KEWARM, adj. [JVarmth, in Saxon, is hleo^S ; in 
old Frific hlij in Dutch, liewte ; whence probably our 
luke, to which warm may be added, to determine, by the 
firft word, the force of the fecond ; as we fay, boiling hot.] 
Moderately or mildly warm ; fo warm as to give only a 
pleafing fenfation.—Bathing the body in lukewarm water 
is of great advantage to contemperate hot and (harp hu¬ 
mours. Wi/eman's Surgery. 
May you a better feaft never behold, 
You knot of mouth-friends : fmoke and lukewarm water 
Is your perfection. Shakefpearc’s Timon of Athens. 
Indifferent ; not ardent; not zealous.—If lome few con¬ 
tinue ftedfaft, it is an obedience fo lukewarm and lan- 
guilhing, that it merits not the name of paflion. Drydcn. 
This fiober conduct is a mighty virtue 
In lukewarm patriots. Addifon's Cato. 
L V L 
LUKEWARM'LY, adv. With moderate warmth.-^ 
With indifference. 
LUKEWARM'NESS, f. Moderate or pleafing heat. _ 
Indifference ; want of ardour.—Some kind of zeal counts- 
all merciful moderation luiewarmnefs. Kin* Charles. 
LU'KIN, a town of Poland, in Volhynia: fifty-fuc 
miles north of Zytomiers. 
LUKIN'GA, a town of Samogitia : twenty-four miles, 
north of Miedniki. 
LUKOI'ANOV, a town of Ruftia, in the government- 
of Niznei Novgorod : eighty miles fouth of Niznei Nov¬ 
gorod. Lat. 54. 58. N. Ion. 44. 20. E. 
LUKOM'LA, a town of Ruftia, in the government of 
Polotlk : fixty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of PoTotfk. 
LUKO'W, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lub¬ 
lin : forty miles north of Lublin, and fifty fix eaft-fotuh- 
eaft of Warfaw. 
LUKO'WA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Belcz : forty-four miles weft-Couth-welt of Belcz. 
LUKO'WO, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Brzefc : eighty miles eaft of Pinfk. 
LU'LA, a river of Sweden, which runs into the Gulf 
of Bothnia fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Lula. 
LU'LA, or Lulea, a feaport town of Sweden, in Weft 
Bothnia, on the north fide of the river Lula, at the north- 
weft extremity of the Gulf of Bothnia, with a good liar, 
bour. It is no miles north-north-eaft of Umea, and fixtv- 
eight weft of Tornea. Lat. 6j. 38. N. Ion. zz. 4. E. 
LU'LA (Old), a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia; 
five miles eaft of Lulea. 
LU'LA LAP'MARK, a province of Swediffi Lap- 
land ; bounded by that of Tornea on the north, by the 
Bothnic gulf on the.eaft, by Pithia Lapmarkon the Couth, 
and by Norway on the welt. 
LU'LAND I'SLE, at the mouth of Padftow-haven, 
Cornwall. 
.LULES (Los), a town of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Tucuman: fifty miles north of Sr. Miguel de 
Tucuman. 
To LULL, v. a. [lulu, Danith 5 lallo , Lat.] To compofe 
to deep by a pleafing found : 
There trickled Coftly down 
A gentle ttream, whofe murmuring wave did play 
Amongft the pumy (tones, and made a found 
To lull him foit afleep that by it lay. Fairy Queen, 
To compofe; to quiet 5 to put to reft : 
To find a foe it (hall not be his hap, 
And peace (hall lull him in her flow’ry lap. Milton. 
LULLABY', f. [from lull: it is obferveable, that the 
nurfes call deep by-by ■, lullaby, is therefore lull to deep ] 
A fong to ftill babes.—Drinking is the lullaby ufed by 
nurfes to ftill crying children. 
Only that noife heav’n’s rolling circles keft, 
Sung lullaby , to bring the world to reft. Fairfax. 
LUL'LESLEY, a village in Worcefterdiire: two miles 
eaft of Suke'ey. 
LUL'LI (John-Baptift), an eminent mufician, was born 
of obfeure parents near Florence in 1633. Difcovering 
almoft from his infancy a propenfity to mufic, he was in- 
ftruCted in the guitar by a benevolent cordelier. He foon 
after applied himfelf to the violin. He was only twelve 
w hen the chevalier de Guife, being on his travels in Italy, 
propofed to his parents to take him into France, and en¬ 
gage mademoifelle de Guile, his filter, to receive him 
among the officers of her kitchen. 
This princefs, having accidentally heard him play on the 
violin, had him taught, and he became in a diort time an 
excellent performer. Louis XIV. being delirous to hear 
him, was lo plealed with his performance, that in 1652 
he appointed him infpeftor-general of his violins; and 
foon after created a new band, which was called les petits 
violons. Thefe new muficians formed by Lulli foon be¬ 
came the firft in Europe, which is not faying much for 
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