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. : THE E N D. THE TABLE O F CONTENT S. The OLD TESTAMENT. HE Introduction. THE Page 1 3 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. 14 Sect. 3. Of Efau and Jacob, and their Pofterity. 20 Chap. III. The Deliverance of the Ifraelites from Egypt by Mofes and Aaron. 24 30 Chap. IV. Of the Moral Law. 38 Sect. 3. Of the holy Places, particularly the Tabernacle. 4I Sect. Sect. 4. Of the holy Things, viz. the Ark, Ta- 53 Sect. 5. Of the Holy Times, Feafts and Fafts, 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, viz of their Wars, Marriages, Food, Rai- ment, Cattle, Sabbatical Year, Jubilee, &c. 62 ibid. Chap. VIII. Of the Jews Entrance into Canaan, and their firft Government by Judges. Sect. 1. Of their Poffeffion of Canaan, and de- ftroying the old Inhabitants. Sect. 2. Of the Government of the Jews by Judges, viz. Éhud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Chap. IX. Of the Government of the Jews under their Kings; and first of Saul and David. 90 Chap. X. Of the Reign of Solomon and Rehoboam over all Ifrael, and the Divifion of the Nation 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 Teftament to the Sect. 1. Of Nehemiah's further Reformation; of Synagogues, Targums, Samaritans, Profe- Sect. 2. Of the Jewish Affairs under the Perfian and Grecian Monarchies, and particularly under Alexander the Great. Sect. 3. The Jewish Affairs under the Ptolemies Kings of Egypt. Of the great Synagogue, the Mithnah and Talmud, and Septuagint or Greek Tranflation of the Bible. Sect. 4. Of the Jewish Affairs under Antiochus Sect. 5. Of Mattathias the great Reformer, the Sect. 6. Of the Jewish Government under the Al- moneans or Maccabees; and firft of the three Brothers, Judas, Jonathan and Simon. 194 Sect. 7. Of the Pofterity and Succeffors of Simon, and of the feveral Sects among the Jews, viz. Pharifees, Sadducees, Effenes, Herodians, and Sect. 8. Of the Government of Herod the Great, Chap. XX. A Prophetical Connexion between the Old Teftament and the New, by a View of The NEW TESTAMENT. ibid. Sect. 1. Of his Sufferings, Death, and Burial, ibid. Sect. 2. Of the Refurrection of Chrift, and his Jeveral Appearances to his Difciples. Sect. 3. Of his Afcenfion to Heaven. Chap. XXV. Of the Acts of the Apostles, chiefly Peter and John, and the Deacons Stephen and |