The sacred and profane history of the world connected. With the treatise on the creation and fall of man, Volume 11810 |
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... ages a clear light , my endeavours may be of some service towards forming a judgment of the truth and exact- ness of the ancient Scripture - history , by shewing how far the old fragments of the heathen writers agree with it , and how ...
... ages a clear light , my endeavours may be of some service towards forming a judgment of the truth and exact- ness of the ancient Scripture - history , by shewing how far the old fragments of the heathen writers agree with it , and how ...
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... ages . Before the flood , it is most probable that the civil and folar year were the fame , and that 360 days were the exact mea- fure of both . In that space of time the fun made one entire revolution ; and it was easy and natural for ...
... ages . Before the flood , it is most probable that the civil and folar year were the fame , and that 360 days were the exact mea- fure of both . In that space of time the fun made one entire revolution ; and it was easy and natural for ...
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... ages were taken from the records of either Thyoth the Egyptian , or Sanchoniathon of Berytus ; and whatever the original memoirs of these men were , we are fure their accounts were , fome time after their decease , corrupted with fable ...
... ages were taken from the records of either Thyoth the Egyptian , or Sanchoniathon of Berytus ; and whatever the original memoirs of these men were , we are fure their accounts were , fome time after their decease , corrupted with fable ...
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... ages copied them , and from hence the reigns [ or lives ] of Berofus's antediluvian kings [ or rather men ] came to ... age , took care to tell them in a way and manner that should make them wonders in their own . In a word , Mofes is ...
... ages copied them , and from hence the reigns [ or lives ] of Berofus's antediluvian kings [ or rather men ] came to ... age , took care to tell them in a way and manner that should make them wonders in their own . In a word , Mofes is ...
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... ages , be able to collect from the remains of antiquity any pofi- tions fo agreeable to one another , as those which he has given us , and the accounts of Mofes are . But , III . Though the ancients have hinted many of the pofitions ...
... ages , be able to collect from the remains of antiquity any pofi- tions fo agreeable to one another , as those which he has given us , and the accounts of Mofes are . But , III . Though the ancients have hinted many of the pofitions ...
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Page 51 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 180 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 517 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 180 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 511 - Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. 26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
Page 465 - God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened, Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 180 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 179 - And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Page 18 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years ; and was gathered to his people.
Page 305 - Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly : and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he : from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.