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WOODWARD's FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

ORIENTAL CUSTOMS.

PHILADELPHIA, APRIL, 1804.

OR AN

ILLUSTRATIONFW JERSEY

OF THE().LEGE LIBRAR

SACRED SCRIPTURES,

BY AN

EXPLANATORY APPLICATION

OF THE

CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF THE EASTERN NATIONS,

AND ESPECIALLY

THE JEWS, THEREIN ALLUDED TO.

TOGETHER WITH

OBSERVATIONS

ON MANY

DIFFICULT AND OBSCURE TEXTS,

COLLECTED FROM THE MOST

CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS, AND THE MOST EMINENT CRITICS.

BY

SAMUEL BURDER.

An obsolete custom, or some forgotten circumstance, opportunely adverted to, will some-
times restore its true perspicuity and credit to a very intricate passage.

BISHOP LOWTH.

Philadelphia:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM W. WOODWARD, No. 52,
CORNER OF SECOND AND CHESNUT STREETS,

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PREFACE.

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UR estimation of the holy scriptures should be proportionable to their importance and excellence. That ignorance of spiritual things, which is so natural to all men, demonstrates their necessity; and the happy influence which they have upon the mind in seasons of adversity and distress, proves their value and utility. They are admirably adapted to our circumstances, as they present us with a complete system of truth and a perfect rule of conduct, and thus make those who properly understand them wise unto salvation.

But whatever relates either to faith or to practice, was delivered in ages very distant from the present, in places very remote from the spot which we inhabit, and by persons of habits and manners materially different from those with which we are familiar. General and permanently established usages, to which persons conformed themselves from early infancy, must have had a strong hold of the mind, and would greatly influence the turn

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