The Sacred and Prophane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel, Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah |
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Page ix
... Reasons for the particular Times of fuch Tranfactions , as I have treated of . In the Annals , as I go along , I have chosen to make ufe of the Ara of the Creation of the World , that feeming to me most easy and natural . The ...
... Reasons for the particular Times of fuch Tranfactions , as I have treated of . In the Annals , as I go along , I have chosen to make ufe of the Ara of the Creation of the World , that feeming to me most easy and natural . The ...
Page x
... Reason for the choofing to divide Circles into that Number of Degrees . All the time of the Antediluvian World , Chronology was fixed and eafy ; a Year could be more exactly measured than it now can . At the Flood , the Heavens under ...
... Reason for the choofing to divide Circles into that Number of Degrees . All the time of the Antediluvian World , Chronology was fixed and eafy ; a Year could be more exactly measured than it now can . At the Flood , the Heavens under ...
Page xxvii
... Reason to imagine , that the Countries which the Heathen Writers treated of , were more potent or populous than their Co- temporaries , of whom we have Accounts in the Sacred Pages ; but the Heathen Hif- torians hearing that Semiramis ...
... Reason to imagine , that the Countries which the Heathen Writers treated of , were more potent or populous than their Co- temporaries , of whom we have Accounts in the Sacred Pages ; but the Heathen Hif- torians hearing that Semiramis ...
Page xxxiv
... Reason . They quote Pliny ( a ) , who affirms Berofus to say , that the Babylonians had Cœlestial Obfervations for 480 Years backwards from his Times ; and Epigenes to affert , that they had fuch Obfervations for 720 Years back from his ...
... Reason . They quote Pliny ( a ) , who affirms Berofus to say , that the Babylonians had Cœlestial Obfervations for 480 Years backwards from his Times ; and Epigenes to affert , that they had fuch Obfervations for 720 Years back from his ...
Page xxxv
... Reason Berofus , Epigenes , and Ptolemy af- terwards , took no Notice of what they had obferved before Nabonaffar , not in- tending to affert , that they had made no Obfervations , but , their Aftronomy not being at all exact , their ...
... Reason Berofus , Epigenes , and Ptolemy af- terwards , took no Notice of what they had obferved before Nabonaffar , not in- tending to affert , that they had made no Obfervations , but , their Aftronomy not being at all exact , their ...
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Page 69 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 286 - 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 285 - 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 283 - And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 80 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 286 - 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 286 - And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Page 72 - 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 80 - And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood ; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Page 72 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.