The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected (V. 1)

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PREFACE. THE design of this undertaking is to set before the reader, a view of the History Of The World, from Adam to the dissolution of the Assyrian empire, at the death of Sardanapulus, in the reigns of Ahaz, king of Judah, and Pekah, king of Israel. At this period, the most learned Dean Prideaux began his Connection of the Old and New Testaments, and I would bring my performance down to the times where his work begins; hoping, that if I can set the transactions of these ages in a clear light, my endeavours may be of some service towards forming a judgment of the truth and exactness, of the ancient Scripture history, by shewing how far the old fragments of the heathen writers agree with it, Vol. i. a and'how much better and more authentic the account is, which it gives of things, where they differ from it. What is now published, is but a small part of my design; but if this meets with that acceptance, which I hope it may, the remaining parts shall soon follow. Chronology and geography being necessary helps to history, I have, taken care to be as exact as I can in both; and that 1 might give the reader the clearest view of the geography, I have, here and there, added a map, where I differ in any particulars from other writers, or have mentioned any thing, not so clearly delineated in the draughts already extant. As to the chronology, I have observed, as I go along, the several years in which the particulars I treat of, happened; and where any doubts or difficulties may arise, I have endeavoured to clear them, by giving my reasons for the particular times of the transactions, of which I have treated. In the annals, as I go along, I have chosen to make use of that acra of the creation oi the world, which seemed to me most easy and natural. The transactions of...

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