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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... agree with it , and how much better and more authentic the ac- count is which it gives of things where they differ from it . What is now published is but a small part of my defign ; but if this meets with that acceptance , which I hope ...
... agree with it , and how much better and more authentic the ac- count is which it gives of things where they differ from it . What is now published is but a small part of my defign ; but if this meets with that acceptance , which I hope ...
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... agrees exactly with the Egyptian year before mentioned . The months differ in name only ; they are the fame in number , and of equal lengths : but this year does not begin in autumn , as the Egyptian does , but from the end of our ...
... agrees exactly with the Egyptian year before mentioned . The months differ in name only ; they are the fame in number , and of equal lengths : but this year does not begin in autumn , as the Egyptian does , but from the end of our ...
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... agreement with him founded the empire of the Medes , at the fame time that the other fet up himself king at Babylon . Dr. Hyded agrees to this original of the Medes ' year , and fuppofes it to have been inftituted about the time of the ...
... agreement with him founded the empire of the Medes , at the fame time that the other fet up himself king at Babylon . Dr. Hyded agrees to this original of the Medes ' year , and fuppofes it to have been inftituted about the time of the ...
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... agree in this man- ner ; but fuch an agreement will not be much regarded by the unbiaffed . To this I answer : The heathen ac- counts which we have of these early ages were taken from the records of either Thyoth the Egyptian , or ...
... agree in this man- ner ; but fuch an agreement will not be much regarded by the unbiaffed . To this I answer : The heathen ac- counts which we have of these early ages were taken from the records of either Thyoth the Egyptian , or ...
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... agree with it , and to be thereby an additional argument of its uncorrupted truth and antiquity , our modern enemies of revealed religion would think it a partiality not to allow them as much authority as our Bible . Origines Sacræ , b ...
... agree with it , and to be thereby an additional argument of its uncorrupted truth and antiquity , our modern enemies of revealed religion would think it a partiality not to allow them as much authority as our Bible . Origines Sacræ , b ...
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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.