Holy Garments, Sacrifices, Incenfe, Oint- ment, Water of Purification, &c. Sec. 5. Of the Holy Times, Feafts and Fafts, the Sabbaths, the New-Moons, the Pafs-over, Pentecoft, Feast of Taber- Sect. 6. The Ufe of the Jewish Ceremonies both to the Jews and to Chriftians, Chap. VI. Of the Political or Judicial Law of the Jews, namely, Of their Wars, Marriages, Food, Raiment, Cattle, Sab Chap. VII. Of the Sins and Punishments of Chap. VIII. Of the Jews Entrance into Ca- Sect. 1. Of their Poffeffion of Canaan, and deftroying the old Inhabitants, Sect. 2. Of the Government of the Jews by Judges; namely, Ebud, Shamgar, De- borah, Gideon, Jephthah, Samfon, &c. Chap. IX. Of the Government of the Jews Chap. X. Of the Reign of Solomon and Re- boboam over all Ifrael, and the Divifion of the Nation into two Kingdoms, Chap. XI. Of the Kings of Ifrael, Chap. XII. Of the Kings of Judah, Chap. XIII. Of the Return of the Jews from Captivity, and the Building the City of · Chap. XVI. The History of Jeremiah, Chap. XVII. The Hiftory of Daniel, Chap. XVIII. The Hiftory of Efther, Chap. XIX. A Continuation of the Jewish Hiftory from the End of the Old Tefta- Sect. 1. Of Nehemiah's further Reforma- tion; of Synagogues, Targums, Samari-. Sect. 2. Of the Jewish Affairs under the Perfian and Grecian Monarchies, and particularly under Alexander the Great, 174 Sect. 3. The Jewish Affairs under the Pto- lemies Kings of Egypt. Of the great Sy-. nagogue, the Mishnah and Talmud, and Sect. 4. Of the Jewish Affairs under An- . tiochus the Great, Seleucus, and An- tiochus Epiphanes, Kings of Syria, Sect. 5. Of Mattathias the great Reform- er, the Father of the Maccabees, Sect. 6. Of the Jewish Government. under the Afmoneans or Maccabees; and first of the three Brothers, Judas, Jonathan, Sect. 7. Of the Pofterity and. Successors of Simon, and of the feveral Sects among the Jews; namely Pharifees, Sadduc.es, Effenes, Herodians, and Karaites, The NEW TESTAMENT. HA P. XXI. Of John the Baptift, Chap. XXIII. Of the public Life and Mi- Introduction. His Preparation for his Sect. 1. Jefus Chrift's Appearance, with Sect. 2. Of the Subjects of his Preaching, his Parables, Difputes, &c. Sect. 3. Of the Miracles of Chrift, Sect. 5. His calling the Apoftles, and in Atructing them, Sect. 6. His Appointment or Inftitution of the two Sacraments, Sect. 7. Remarkable Occurrences or Transactions in the Life of Chrift, Chap. XXIV. Of the Death, Refurrection, and Afcenfion of Chrift, Sect. 1. Of his Sufferings, Death and Burial, Sect. 2. Of the Refurrection of Chrift, and his feveral Appearances to his Difciples, Sect. 3. Of his Afcenfion to Heaven, Chap. XXV. Of the Acts of the Apofties, chiefly Peter and John, and the Deacons Stephen and Philip, Chap. XXVI. The Acts of Paul the Apostle, his Travels and Sufferings, his Life and Death, Page 268 274 2785 278 281 282 291. 292 294 297** 299. 304 304 312 316 316 328 A SHORT: T TESTAMENT. The INTRODUCTION. HERE is no Hiftory in the World fo ancient as the Bible, nor is there any which gives us fo early an Account of Things. The Old Tefta ment begins at the Creation of the World, brings us into Acquaintance with Adam and Eve, our firft Parents, informs us of their State of Innocence, their Sin against God, and their being driven out of Paradife; it recounts the firft Generations of Men, and their multiplied Iniquities, which provoked God to destroy them by a Flood. B Then Then it treats of the Character, Circumftances and Conduct of Noah and Abraham, and of their Families after the Flood; enlarging most upon the Houfhold of Jacob, or Ifrael, the Grandfon of Abraham, who, at the Invitation of his Son Jofeph, went down with his Family to dwell in Egypt, where they were enslaved by Pharaoh the King. The Hiftory proceeds to the Deliverance of the Ifraelites out of Egyptian Bondage, by Moses and Aaron, and their being fet apart to be a peculiar People to God. It rehearfes the Laws and Statutes which were given them, together with their Sins and Punishments while they were in the Wilderness, travelling to the Land of Canaan, which God had promifed them. Then there follows an Account of their Conqueft over the Land of Canaan under the Condu& of Joshua; their Government by Judges feveral hundred Years; and after that there is a Narrative of their four firft Kings, namely, Saul, David, Solomon, and Rehoboam. In his Days the Nation was divided into two Kingdoms, which were called the Kingdom of ISRAEL, and the Kingdom of JUDAH, There are alfo particular Records of the Government of these two distinct Kingdoms, under a long Succeffion of their own Kings, till they were both carried into Captivity by the Kings of Affyria. After this, the facred History relates the Return, of many of them, (chiefly the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin) into their own Land, and their rebuilding the City of Jerufalem, and the Temple of God, and the Settlement of the Affairs of the Church 2 |