POLITICS: Being a VIEW of the AND Subsequent REVOLUTIONS, IN THE Government Religious and Civil, Of that People, out of whom the SAVIOUR As it is contained in the BIBLE. By SAMUEL CROXA L L, D. D. Ἀπηλλο ριωμένοι τῆς Πολιτείας τῷ Ἰσραήλ. Eph. ii. 12. LONDON: Printed for J. TONSON and J. WATTS. MDCCXXXV. PREFACE. HE Defign of the follow ing Treatife is to make the Bible more eafily under ftood, and confequently better relifh'd by all Sorts of People. Were this facred Book but con fider'd impartially and attentively, in its most advantageous Lights; as it contains all the written Revelation of God's Will now extant; as it is the Bafis of our National Religion, and gives Vigour and Spirit to all our Social Laws; as it is the moft an cient, and confequently curious Collection of Hiftorical Incidents, Moral Precepts, and Political Inftitutions; as the Style of it is, in fome Places, nobly Sublime and Poetical, and in others, sweetly Natural, Plain, and Unaffected: In a Word, as the being well acquainted with it is highly requifite, in order to make Men ufeful and ornamental in this Life (to fay nothing of their Happinefs in the next) It is to be hop'd that a cool Reflection or two of this Sort, might induce the more inge nuous 1 |