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Excerpt from Sacred History, or the Historical Part of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, Vol. 1: Digested Into Due Method, With Respect to Order of Time and Place, With Observations, Tending to Illustrate Some Passages Therein For having, not without uneasiness of mind, observ ed how much too many, not to say most, mis-spend their precious time some in reading vain fictions (called romances) lewd novels, lascivious poems, and vice-promoting play-books; others, more soberly and religiously inclined, in reading other books, if not much hurtful, yet not much instructive and beneficial I hoped I should do no unacceptable service, at least to some, in presenting them with the sacred history, so digested, as might both invite their attention, and recompense their pains in reading, with the doublead vantages of godly inetructibn and virtuous pleasure. If any shall think the undertaking needless, because the history is already extant in the bible I intreat such to_consider, that although the bible be, or may be, in every hand, and ought to be read (by all that can read) With diligence and attention of mind; yet since the history lies diffused and scattered throughout the whole hook, it is no small discour - agement to the reader, that is desirous to peruse the history in a regular course, to find the thread thereof frequently cut oil by the inter position of other matters, as genealogies of persons, derivations of families and colonies, ceremonial laws, peculiarly adapted to the I'vlosaic dispensation and ah rogated with it, prophetic denunciations of judgments against some per. Ens or people, of whom scarce any further memorial now remains than their bare names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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