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tanea Sacra, Vol. I. to which I would refer those who defire a fuller Information of this Matter.

The principal Thing I had in view from the Beginning to the End of this Work, was to fet down fome of the most neceffary and the most important Matters of Fact recorded in Scripture; amongst which I have chofen out those which would be most entertaining to younger Minds, and would make the deepest and most lafting Impreffion upon them, and fuch as would lead them into a Survey of the various and wonderful Tranfactions of the Providence and Grace of God among Men, the fucceffive and gradual Discoveries of the Will of God to Men, the different Forms of Religion in different Ages of Mankind, the Rules of Duty toward God and toward one another; together with an Account of their Obedience or Difobedience to him, with their Bleffings and their Punishments, their Afflictions, Trials and Deliverances, and that from the Beginning of the World to the Promulgation of the Gofpel by the Apostles in the first Age of the Christian Church and this is as far as the Hiftory of the Scripture reaches.

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CONTENT S.

The OLD TESTAMENT.

HE Introduction.

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An Account of the feveral Difpenfations of God toward Men. Chap. I. The History of Mankind before the Flood, (viz.) of Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Enoch, &c.

ibid.

Chap. II. Of Noah, Abraham, and their Families after the Flood.

Sect. 1. Of Noah and his Sons.

II

ibid.

Sect 2. Of Abrahám and Lot, Ishmael and

Ifaac.

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Sect. 3. Of Efau and Jacob, and their Pofterity.

20

Chap. III. The Deliverance of the Ifraelites from Egypt by Mofes and Aaron.

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Chap. IV. Of the Moral Law.
Chap. V. Of the Ceremonial Law of the Jews. 34
Sect. 1. Of the Ceremonies of Purification. ibid.
Sect. 2. Of the holy Perfons, viz. Priefts, Les
vites, Nazarites.

38

Sect. 3. Of the holy Places, particularly the Tabernacle.

4I

Sect.

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