This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...standing fast to their ancient nationality, still upholding to this day their patriarchial religion in the midst of nations who inherit from them the faith of Israel--the belief in one God."i 1 Le Clerc's Grotius, translated by Dr. Clarke, book v. sect. 14. s Oxlee, vol. iii. p. 77. 3 Ibid. vol. iii. p. 20. 4 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...standing fast to their ancient nationality, still upholding to this day their patriarchial religion in the midst of nations who inherit from them the faith of Israel--the belief in one God."i 1 Le Clerc's Grotius, translated by Dr. Clarke, book v. sect. 14. s Oxlee, vol. iii. p. 77. 3 Ibid. vol. iii. p. 20. 4 Primitive Culture, p. 332, vol. ii. Lond. 1871. VOLNEY, as quoted by Dr. Keith, who characterised him as "a most zealous partisan and successful promoter of infidelity,"1 thus expresses himself: --"I journied in the empire of the Ottomans, and traversed the provinces which formerly were kingdoms of Egypt and Syria. I wandered over the country. I enumerated the kingdoms of Damascus and Idumea, of Jerusalem and Samaria. This Syria, said I to myself, now almost depopulated, then contained a hundred flourishing cities, and abounded with towns, villages, and hamlets. What are become of so many productions of the hand of man? What are become of those ages of abundance and of life?"2 "Great God! from whom proceed such melancholy revolutions? For what cause is the fortune of these countries so strikingly changed! Why are so many cities destroyed? Why is not that ancient population reproduced and perpetuated?" 3 II. The New Covenant. Jer. xxxi. 31, 32.--"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the days that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt." Joel ii. 28, 29.--" And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, ...
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