pense his reveal'd Will; infuch a Manner, that any ordinary Capacity may be enabled to apprehend the Drift and Design of the Holy Scriptures, upon all Occafions; either when they peruse them at home, or hear others read them by fmall Portions at a time, in the Pfalms and Leffons appointed for the daily Service of the Temple.tolqran For whatever Dangers and Difficulties may have been furmis'd, as attending the Study of them, the whole Scope of the facred Writings, from the Beginning to the End, ap pears evidently to be but this one, The Salvation of Mankind through JESUS JESUS CHRIST. Which being at tainable only by a proper Faith, and asgood do moralLife, the Bible contains nothing but what re lates to one or the other of thefe ; nothing but Genealogies, Types, Pre dictions, and Demonftrations, con cerning the MESSIAH; and Inftitutions, Precepts, Exhortations, and Examples, for living righteously? Therefore, that I might not burden, either the Reader or my self, with more than was neceffary, and perhaps fafe upon this Occafion, I' have omitted confulting any of those very learned Authors who have writ ten profeffedly upon the fame Sub نے ject, ject, except Sigonius; and him, more VI CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. III. Further Particulars of the Law. IV. How the Law was to be taught. V. How the Law came to be neglected VI. The Obfervance of the Law revived. VII. The Law in a languishing State, III The Tabernacle 10-toM ad page 79 IV. The High-Places 10-3000 sdP 90 For V. The Temple. - NT .IV 99 VI. Building of the Temple by Solomon. 102 VII. Dedication of the Temple, P III103 IX: The Idolatry of the Kings of Judah, 108 IX. The City and Temple deftroy'd IIX 111 81XI. Both rebuilt, after the Return. IIIX112 XII. The Second Temple finally deftroy'd. 117 |