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Excerpt from The Sacred Interpreter, or a Practical Introduction Towards a Beneficial Reading and a Thorough Understanding of the Holy Bible: Containing, I. A Faithful History of the Four Ancient Monarchies, the Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman, Absolutely Necessary for the Knowledge of the Condition of the Jewish People
And for the reader's better understanding of every part of the Bible, there are prefixed some general remarks on the Pentateuch, and the Prophets in the Old Testament; as also on the Gospels, the Acts, and the Epistles, in the New; and throughout the reader is shewn the design and chief scope of each book.
Further, because our Saviour hath pronounced him to be the happy person not only who may know these things, but who shall do them, such practical observa tions are annexed, as tend to promote religion and prevent mistakes. There is also an addition of the chief periods of the Jewish history, after the return from the Babylonian captivity (where the Old Testa ment ends) to the time of Christ, and thence to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans; together with a brief account of that dreadful judgment, and of the state of the city afterwards.
As to the Chronology of the Old Testament, Arch bishop Usher's Annals have been followed; and for the New Testament, Mr. Archdeacon Echard's Tables in his Ecclesiastical History. From whence there is a Chronological Table drawn up in such a method as will fully answer the design proposed, of instructing the unlearned, for whose further help the distance of time is set down between every observable occurrence, from the beginning to the destruction of Jerusalem.
The remarks interspersed were made by the author in reading over the primitive writers of the Church.
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