BY W. HILLIARD AND E. LINCOLN, AND FOR SALE AT THE

BOOKSTORE IN CAMBRIDGE AND AT NO. 53,

CORNHILL, BOSTON.

......... .....

1807.

Tappan
copy

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY
二、1的材察; MASS.

He 57-04512

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT

E it remembered, that on the fifteenth day of August,

B in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

"LEC.

seven, in the thirty-second year of the Independence of the Unit-
ed States of America, Mary Tappan, of said District, has de
posited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof she
claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"TURES ON JEWISH ANTIQUITIES; delivered at Har-
"vard University in Cambridge, A.D. 1802 and 1803, by DAVID
"TAPPAN, D. D. late Hollis Professor of Divinity in that Sem-
"inary."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, "intitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by se"curing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors "and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein men"tioned:" and also to an Act, intitled, "An Act supplementa"ry to an Act, intitled, An Act for the encouragement of learn"ing, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the "authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times there" in mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts " of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other " prints."

WILLIAM S. SHAW, Clerk of the District of

A true copy of Record,
Attest, W. S. SHAW, Clerk.

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Massachusetts.

Cift of Dr. Bouruau

ERRATA.

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200. 1. 13. for "intend-," read intended.
217. 1. 1. for "message," read messenger.

CONTENTS.

ORIGIN

LECTURE I.

Political

RIGIN and progress of civil government.

government at first parental or patriarchal. Illustrations

and proofs from sacred history before and after the flood.

Crime of Ham, for which he was cursed. Why this

curse was denounced, not on Ham himself, but on his

son Canaan. In what respects this curse was fulfilled.

Page.

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LECTURE II.

Patriarchal government farther illustrated. Sentence of Jacob

on his twelve sons. Special government of the Jews. Its

leading design, the preservation of the true religion among

them, in connexion with their temporal freedom and pros-

perity. Why temporal blessings and evils were employ-

ed to enforce this constitution. Objections answered.

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LECTURE III.

Objection of partiality in Jehovah toward the Jewish nation,

answered. Objection to the Hebrew constitution as a

system of intolerence and war, of conquest or extermina-

tion, answered. System of Hebrew policy contrasted

with that of the antient heathens.

LECTURE IV.

Hebrew constitution adapted to secure the freedom and hap-

piness of its subjects. Hebrew government originally a

free and equal republic. Fundamental laws required,

that the territory should be equally divided; that estates

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