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Or an Account of the most Remarkable Paffages in the Books of the Old and New Testament: Pointing to the Time wherein they Happen'd, and to the Places of Scripture wherein they are Recorded.

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The World first peopled, after Adam and Eve IV. 1,

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had left Paradife.

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About this time Cain and Abel offer facrifice, and Abel is murder'd by his brother.

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"Nahor, the ninth from Noah, dieth.

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Seth born.

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Enos born.

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Cainan born.

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Enoch the feventh from Adam, born.

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Lamech, the father of Noah, born.

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Adam dieth, aged 930 years.

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Reu, the feventh from Noah, dieth.
Serug, the eighth from Noah, dieth.

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Noah dieth, aged 950 years, 350 years after the flood.

Abram born, he was 75 years of age when his father Terah died, aged 205 years; fo that Terah begat not Abram in the 70 year of his age, but Nahor and Haran, and in the 130 year of his age begat Abram. See Ads 7. 4.

Sarai, Abrams wife, (called alfo Ifcah) Haran, Abrams brothers daughter, born ten years after her husband.

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About this time Chedorlaomer King of Elam, fubdueth the Kings of Sodom, Gomorrha, Admah, 2, 3, &c. Zeboiim and Bela; who ferve him 12 years.

Terah with his family leaveth Ur of the Chal- XL 31. deans, and dwelleth at Haran.

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Enos, the third from Adam, dieth, aged 90s years.
Cainan dieth, aged 910 years.

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Mahaleel, the fifth from Adam, dieth, aged 895

years.

Jared, the fixth from Adam, dieth, aged 962 years.
God commands Noah to preach repentance, and
to build the Ark, 120 years before the flood.
To Noah, aged 500 years, is born Japheth, and
two years after, Shem.

Lamech, the ninth from Adam, dieth, aged 777
years. He is the firft man whom the Scriptures
mention to have died a natural death before his father.
Methufalah dieth a little before the flood, in the
969 year of his age. He was the oldest man,
The flood comes upon the earth in the 600 years
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About this time Nimrod begins to exalt himfelf, by laying the firft foundation of the Affyrian

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of his age, is commanded by God to enter upon the land of Canaan, which God promifeth to give unto his Seed (viz. Chrift Jefus our Lord) all the families of the Earth fhould be bleffed.

In the year following, a famine in the land of Canaan forceth Abram with his family to go into Egypt. From this first coming into Egypt, to the departure of the children of Ifrael out of it, are reckoned 430 years.

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Abram and Lot in this fame year return into Canaan; but the land not being fufficient for both their flocks, they part afunder. Lot goeth to Sodom. God reneweth his promife to Abram. He removeth to Hebron, and there buildeth an Altar. Bera the King of Sodom, with four other Kings, XIV. 4, rebel against Chedorlaomer, but are overcome by him in the valley of Siddim. Lot being taken prifoner, Abram refcueth him, flayeth Chedorlaomer and his confederates, and in his return is bieffed by Melchifedech King of Salem, and Prieft of God, to whom Abram gives tithe. The reft of the spoils, his Partners having had their portions, he restoreth to the King of Sodom.

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to Abraham the deftruction of Sodom, with whom Abraham intercedes for Lot and his Family. See Gen. 19. 29.

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Lot is commanded, for the prefervation of him- Genefis felf and his Family, to get out of Sodom, and to fly to the mountain; but by much entreaty he obtaineth leave to go into Zoar. Sodom, Gomorrha, and all the Cities in the vale of Siddim, with all the inhabitants of them, are for the moft horrible fins detroyed by fire and brimstone from Heaven. The Dead Sea remains a monument thereof unto this day. Lots wife for looking back upon Sodom, contrary to Gods command, is turn'd into a pillar of Salt; and Lot himself fearing to continue at Zoar, leaves the plain Country, and betakes himself to the mountain, carrying his two daughters with him.

Ifaac born in the 100 year of Abrahams age. Not long after to Lot are born Moab and Ammon, his fons at the fame time, and his grandfons.

Hagar and Ishmael, at Sarahs request, are cast

forth.

XXI. 2. XIX. 36.

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Chrift. fon. He interpreteth the dreams of Pharaohs Butler Genefis 1718. and Baker, which come to pafs according to his XL. interpretation.

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Ifaac dieth, aged 180 years, and is buried by his XXXV. fons, Jacob and Efau.

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Jofeph interpreteth Pharaohs two dreams; he XLI. 25. giveth Pharaoh counfel, and is made governor of

the whole land of Egypt.

Here begin the feven years of plenty in the land XLI.47, of Egypt. About this time Manaffeh and Ephraim,

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Jofephs two fons, are born of Afenath the daughter

of Potipherah, prieft of On.

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Here begin the feven years of famine.

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Jacob fendeth his ten fons to buy corn in Egypt; XLII. 1, they are imprisoned by Jofeph for fpies; but are fet at liberty on condition of bringing Benjamin; and Simeon is kept as a pledge.

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Jacob, by his mothers inftruction, obtaineth the XXVII. Bleffing from Ifaac his father, which was defign'd for Efau. Upon which he is forced to fly into Mefopotamia to fhun his brothers rage. Upon the way XXVIII. are foretold unto him in a Vifion, the bleffings of his pofterity. At length he comes to his uncle La- XXIX. ban's houfe, and covenanteth to ferve him feven years for his daughter Rachel, but Laban deceiveth him with Leah; the marriage-week being compleated, Rachel alfo is given him to wife, upon condition of ferving seven years more. Of Leah are born,

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Rachel ftealeth her fathers gods, and is purfued by XXXII. Laban. Jacob by his prudence is reconciled to his brother Efau. He wreftleth with an Angel at Peniel, and is called Ifrael.

About this time Dinah, Jacobs daughter, is de- XXXIV. flowered by Sichem the fon of Hamor. Simeon and Levi, Dinahs brethren, revenge their Sifters quarrel, by putting all the Males of Sichem to the fword; for which thing Jacob reproveth them.

Rachel is deliver'd of Benjamin on the way be- XXXV. twixt Beth-el, or Beth-lehem, and Ephrath, and dieth in Child-bed. Some think that Job lived

about this time.

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Judah lieth with Thamar his daughter in law in XXXVIII. difguife.

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Jofeph is hated by his brethren, and is fold to XXXVII. Merchant-men, Ifhmaelites and Midianites, who carry him into Egypt, where he is fold to Potiphar an Officer of Pharaohs, and by him made Overfeer of his Noufe.

Jofeph refifteth the temptations of his Master's XXXIX. wife; he is falfly accused by her, and caft into pri

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Jacob is with much difficulty perfwaded to fend XLIII Benjamin; Jofeph maketh himfelf known to his brethren, and fendeth for his father, by command from Pharaoh.

Jacob having offered facrifice to God, for that XLVI. his fon Jofeph is yet alive; goes with all his family into Egypt, in the third year of famine, and 130 year

of his age. He is feated in the land of Gothen.

Jofeph getteth all the Money, Lands, and Cattle XLVII. of the Egyptians for Bread; only the Lands belonging to the priests he buyeth not.

Jacob adopteth Ephraim and Manaffeh, and blef- XLVIII. feth them, and all his fons: prophefieth the defcent XLIX. of the Meffiah from Judah, and dieth, aged 147 years; 17 whereof he lived in Egypt. He is with great pomp carried into Canaan, and buried in the fepulchre of his father.

Jofeph on his death-bed prophefieth unto his brethren their return into Canaan; takes an Oath of them to carry his bones out of Egypt, and dieth, aged 110 years.

The Book of Genefis endeth in the death of Jofeph, containing the hiftory of 2369 years; next to which in order of time the Book of Job follows, written (as 'tis generally believed) by Mofes.

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Levi dieth in Egypt, aged 137 years; he was VI. 16. grandfather to Mofes and Aaron.

Here begins the bondage of the children of Ifrael, Exod. I. 8. when a King rose up in Egypt, who knew not Jofeph. Aaron born three years before his brother Mofes, VII. 7. 83 years before the departure of the children of Ifrael out of Egypt.

Pharaoh having in vain commanded the Hebrew Midwives to deftroy all the Males of the Ifraelites, fet forth an Edict, charging that, they be all caft into the river,

I. 15, 22.

Mofes is born, who being hid in the flags by the If. 1, §, river-fide, is found by Pharaohs daughter, and becomes her adopted fon.

Mofes in the fortieth year of his age, having flain an Egyptian, whom he faw contending with an Hebrew, Ayeth into Midian, where he marrieth Zipporah the daughter of Ruel or Jethro a Prieft, and liveth with him forty years.

Caleb, the fon of Jephunneh, born.
Whilft Mofes keeps his father in laws sheep at
Mount Horeb, God appears to him in a burning
bufh, and fendeth him to deliver Ifrael.

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Joshua XIV.7,10. Exod. III. 1, 2, &c.

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Mofes and Aaron having declared to Pharaoh the message in which they are fent unto him from God, are charged by him as heads of a Mutiny, and fent away with many bad words, and more grievous labours are forthwith laid upon the Ifraelites. Mofes being now 80, and Aaron 83 years of VII. 7. age, urged thereunto by God, return again to Pharaoh, where the Magicians, by their forcery, imitating the miracles of Aarons Rod, turned into a Serpent, make Pharaoh more obftinate than he was before. Wherefore God by the hand of Mofes lays ten plagues upon the Egyptians.

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were let go out of bondage, being the complete term of 430 years from the first pilgrimage of their Ancestors, reckoning from Abraham's departure out of Charran, take their journey and march away, being 600000 men befides children, and come to Ramefes, from whence by feveral encampings they Numb. come to the Red Sea, the Lord conducting them in XXXIII. a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. They carry Jofephs bones with them. At the Red Sea Pharaoh with his hoft overtakes them; Mofes divides the waters with his Rod, and the children of Ifrael pafs through on dry ground, unto the defert of Etham; whom when Pharaoh and his Army would needs follow, they are all overwhelmed by the waters coming together at the dawning of the day, whereby the Ifraelites are wholly freed from the bondage of the Egyptians; whofe carcaffes when they fee floating all the Sea over, and caft upon the thore, they fing a fong of praise and thanfgiving unto God.

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Upon the fifteenth of the fecond month (our XVI. Jane the 4th, being Thurfday) the Ifraelites come to the Wilderness of Zin, which lieth between Elyma and Sinai, where for want of food, they murmur against God, and their Leaders; About the eventide God fends them Quails, and the next morning rains upon them Manna from Heaven; and upon that kind of bread they lived afterwards by the fpace of forty years, even till they came to the borders of the Land of Promife. An Omer of it is preferved for a memorial.

At Rephidim, which was the eleventh place of their encamping, the people murmur for want of water: Mofes gives them water, by ftriking the hard rock in Horeb with his Rod.

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The Amalekites falling upon the rear of the 8, 9, &c. Ifraelites, are difcomfited by jofhua, whilst Moses holds up his hands to God in prayer.

God publifheth his Law contain'd in the Ten Commandments, with a terrible voice from Mount

Sinai.

XX.

XXI. XXII. &c.

The People being in great fear, God gives them fundry other Laws, all which being written in the book of the Covenant, Mofes propofeth them to the People: which done, rifing early in the morning, he builds an altar at the foot of the mountain, XXIV. and fets up 12 Statues according to the 12 Tribes of Ifrael, and fends 12 young men of the first born, (whom the Lord had confecrated to himself, as minifters of thofe holy things, before the Levitical Priefthood was ordain'd) which offers facrifice, first for fin, and then for thanfgiving to the Lord: and when Mofes had read the book of the Covenant, he takes the blood of the Calves and Goaths fo of fer'd, and with water, fcarlet wooll, and hyffop, fprinkles the book therewith, and all the people, and thofe 12 ftatues reprefenting them; and fo performs a folemn Covenant between God and his people. Mofes and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 men XXIV. of the elders of Ifrael, go up into the mount, and there behold the glory of God: the reft returning, Mofes with his fervant Joshua abides there ftill, and waits fix days, and upon the seventh day God speaks unto him, and there he continues 40 days and 40 nights, (reckoning thofe fix days which he waited for the appearance of the Lord) eating no meat all that while, nor drinking water, (Deut. 9.9.) where he receives Gods command, touching the frame of the Tabernacle, the Priefts garments, their confecration, facrifice, and other things comprised in this and the fix following Chapters.

9, 18.

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At the end of 40 days, God gives Mofes the two Tables of the Law in Stone, made by Gods own hand, and written with his own finger; bidding him withal quickly to get him down, for that the people had already made to themfelves a molten Calf to worship. Mofes by prayer pacifieth God, XXXII. and goes down from the mount, and feeing the people keeping a feftival in honour of their Idol in the Camp, he breaks the Tables of the Law at the foot of the mount: for which the Jews keep a folemn faft unto this day.

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of the Idolaters to death by the hands of the Levites.

God commands Mofes to frame new Tables of Exodus Stone, and to bring them with him into the mount: XXXIV. Mofes brings them the next morning, and whilst he ftands in the cleft of a rock, God paffeth by, and fheweth him a glimpse of his glory.

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God renews his Covenant with his people, and upon certain conditions gives them his Laws again. In the firft fix months of this year, the Taberna- XXXIX. cle, the Ark of the Covenant, the Altar, the Table of Shew-bread, the Friefts garments, the holy Ointments, the Candlestick, and other Utenfils and Veffels belonging to the Sacrifices, are finished in the defert at mount Sinai, and are brought unto Mofes. The Tabernacle is fet up and anointed with holy Oyl; Aaron and his fons are Confecrated for the Priesthood.

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The fecond Paffover is inftituted. Jethro, who is alfo called Hobab, brings his daughter Zipporah, with her two fons, Gershon and Eliezer, which were left with him, to his fon in law Mofes, and having congratulated his and the whole people of Ifraels deliverance out of bondage, he openly declares his faith and devotion towards the true God. By his advice Mofes imparts the government of the People to fome others, and ordains Magiftrates for the deciding of leffer caufes. Mofes complains to God of the over great burden Numb. XI. of his government; God to eafe him of his charge, gives him for affiftance the Court of 70 Elders.

The People luft for flesh, God gives them Quails in wrath, and sends withal a moft grievous plague among them.

God rebuketh the Sedition of Miriam and Aaron, and maintaineth Mofes his right.

From the wilderness of Paran, near Kadefh-barnea, twelve men are fent (among whom are Caleb and Joshua) to discover the land of Canaan. Returning, they bring with them a branch of a vine, with a cluster of grapes upon it; ten of the twelve fo fent, fpeak ill of the Country, declare it barrea, and magnify the Cities for their strength, and the giantly ftature of the inhabitants.

The People terrified with this relation are about to return into Egypt, from which Caleb and Joshua endeavouring to diffwade them, are like to be ftoned. At this God is fo provoked, that he threatens to deftroy them; but is prevailed upon by Mofes his prayers to fpare them. Nevertheless he denounceth that all who are now 20 years old and upward (except Caleb and Joshua) fhall die in the wildernefs. The men who raised the evil report are all deftroyed by fudden death. Some endeavouring to enter upon the promised land contrary to the command of God, are fmitten by the Amalekites and Canaanites.

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In this place, viz. Kadefh-barnea, the Ifraelites Deut. I. continue many days; but that in fome places they 46. continued many years, appeareth, for that in the fpace of 37 years there are but encampings mentioned.

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To their long continuance in Kadesh, and the Numb. encampings from thence, all that we find deliver'd XXXIII. in the 15th and four next enfuing Chapters of Num1471. bers, seems to refer; as how Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, for railing a mutiny against Mofes and Aaron, were fwallowed alive into the earth, and 250 of their affociates, and how the People murmuring against Mofes and Aaron for the calamity which had befallen their brethren, were destroyed by God to the number of 14700 men; and how 12 rods being brought by 12 princes. and laid in the fan&tuary, Aarons rod only budded and brought forth Almonds, and was laid up before the Ark, for a memorial to those who should afterwards be given to Rebellion.

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The People again for want of water, murmur against Mofes and Aaron, whom when God had commanded to call water out of the rock only by fpeaking to it, Mofes being moved in his mind through impatience and diffidence of the thing, fpeaks fomething, whatever it was, unadvifedly with his lips, and ftrikes the rock thrice with Aarons rod, and thereby draws water from it, but for XX. 12, tranfgreffing Gods command, they are both debarr'd from entring into the land of Canaan.

In the fifth month of this year Aaron dieth at Mofera, on the top of mount Hor, at the Age of 123 years, leaving his fon Eleazar his fucceffor in the High-priesthood.

23, 28.

The People murmuring, are plagued with fiery XXI. 5, 9. ferpents, whereof many die, upon their repentance John III. God commands that a brazen ferpent be made and lifted up upon a pole, that as many as look on it may live.

Ábout the latter end of this year, all those who at Kadesh-barnea mutinied against God being wholly extin& and dead, the Ifraelites pafs over Zered, and come to the border of Moab at Ar, and at length they arrive at Bamoth a valley in the Country of the Moabites, and pitch at mount Pifgah.

Sihon King of the Amorites refufing them paffage through his Country, is flain, and the Ifraelites poffefs his land.

Og the king of Bafan, coming out against Ifrael, is deftroyed with all his People, not one left alive, and his Country poffefs'd by the Ifraelites.

After thefe victories the Ifraelites fet forward, and encamp in the plains of Moab.

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Balak king of Moab, confidering what the Ifraelites had done to the Amorites, fears, left under pretence of paffing thro' his Country, they fhould poffefs themselves of his whole kingdom, takes counfel with the Princes of the Midianites his neighbours, and XXIV. 9. fends for Balaam, foothfayer, out of Mefopotamia, to come and curfe the Ifraelites, promifing him great rewards for his labour; purpofing afterwards to make war upon them.

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Balaam forewarned of God, refufeth at first to come; but being fent for a fecond time, he imporruneth God to let him go, and goes with a purpofe indeed to curfe Ifrael: but God offended hereat, makes the dumb Afs of this wizard, on which he rode, fpeaking in a mans voice, to reprove his folly. Balaam twice offers facrifice, and would fain have curfed Ifrael, to gratifie Balak therein; but being forced thereto by the Spirit of God, inftead of curfing, he bleffeth them altogether; foretelling what XXIII. 5. felicity attended them, and what calamities should Jofhua

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By his advice the women of Moab and Midian are fet on work to turn the Ifraelites away to Idolarry. Wherefore God commands Mofes firit to take all the ringleaders of this diforder, and to hang them up before the Sun, and then gives order to the Judges to put to death all fuch as had joyned themselves to Baalpeor. Laft of all God fends a plague upon the people, whereof die 23000 men in one day; which added to them which were hanged and kille with the fword, amount in all to 1 Cor. X.8. 24000.

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God fignifies to Mofes that he fhall die; and Jo Numb. fhua is thereupon declared to be his Succeffor, upon whom Mofes lays his hands, and gives him Inftructions. Several Laws are made. Twelve thou and of the Ifraelites, under the 26, 27, 28. command of Phineas, vanquish the Midianites, and Numb. put to the fword all the males among them, with. XXXI. their five Princes, and among them Zur, the father of Cozbi, and Balaam the wizard; but they fave the women alive, at which Mofes is wroth, and commands that every male child and all the women, except fuch as be virgins, be killed.

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Mofes commands the people that in their paffage Deut. over Jordan, they fhall fet up great ftones, and XXVII. engrave the Ten Commandments on them, with the form of bleffing upon mount Gerizim, and of curfing on mount Ebal. Exhorting them to obferve XXVIII. the law of God, by fetting before their eyes, the benefit that would enfue thereon.

He alfo renews the Covenant made by God with XXIX. them and their Children on mount Horeb, and again: perfwades them to keep that Covenant, by all the bleffings and curfes which would undoubtedly fol-i low the keepers or breakers of it. Yet with a XXX. promife of pardon and deliverance, if at any time. having broken it, they fhall repent them of their fin; and tells them further, that God had therefore thus declared his will unto them, to the end that none hereafter offending, fhall pretend ignorance.

Mofes having written this law, delivers it to the XXXI. Priefts, the fons of Levi, and the elders of the Peo

ple, to be kept; the fame day alfo he writes his XXXII. moft excellent fong, and teaches the fame to the children of Ifrael to be fung; and having finished the book of the law, he takes order to have it laid up in the fide of the ark,

Mofes now drawing near to his end, bleffeth e- XXXIII. very Tribe in particular, by way of prophefie, fave only the Tribe of Simeon."

In the twelfth month of this year, he goes up XXXIV. to mount Nebo, and from thence beholds the land of promife, and there dieth, aged 120 years: the body of Mofes God tranflates out of the place where he died, into a valley of the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor, and there burieth it, nor doth any man know the place where he laid it unto this day. The Ifraelites mourn for him 30 days.

Here ends the Pentateuch, or five Books of Mofes, containing the hiftory of 2552 years and a half, from the beginning of the world; and the book of Jofhua begins with the 41 year after the departure. of the children of Ifrael out of Egypt.

Jofhua being confirmed in his government by Joshua II. God, fends forth fpies from Shittim to the city of Jericho; who being harbour'd by Rahab, are privily fent away, when fearch is made for them.

Upon the 10th day of the first month (April 30) to wit, the fame day that the Pafchal Lamb was to be chofen out of the flock, the Ifraelites under the conduct of Joshua, a type of Jefus Chrift, go up out of the river Jordan, into, the promised land of Canaan, a type of a more heavenly Country. They pass through the river on dry ground, the waters being for that prefent divided; for a memorial of which miraculous paffage, Joshua fets up 12 other ftones in the very channel of Jordan, and taking 12 other ftones out of the midft thereof, fets them up at Gilgal, the place where they next

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Jericho, the Ark of the Lord having been carried round about it, is taken the feventh day, the walls thereof falling down at the found of the Priefts trumpets, all the inhabitans are put to the fword, except Rahab and her family.

The Ifraelites befiege Ai, and are fmitten by their enemies, God having abandon'd them for facrilege committed by Achan; Achans fin being difcover'd by the cafting of lots, and him elf found guilty, he is ftoned to death, and together with his children and cattle, burnt with fire. God being pacified hereby, Ai is taken by ambushment, and utterly deftroyed.

On mount Ebal, according to the law made, is an altar erected, and the Ten Commandments engraven on it; the bleflings and curfes are repeated on mount Ebal and mount Gerizim, and the book of the law read in the ears of the people.

The Kings of Canaan combine against Ifrael; only the Gibeonites craftily find a way to fave their own lives, by making a league with them, but are afterwards deputed to the fervile offices of the

houfe of God."

Adoni-zedek King of Jerufalem, with the Kings of Hebron, Jarmuth, Lochift, and Eglon, hearing that Gibeon is fallen off from them, joyn their forces together, and befiege it; but Joshua raiseth the fiege, purfueth thofe five Kings, and fmiteth them as far as Azekah, the Lord in the mean while killing more with hailftones from heaven, than the Ifraelites with their fwords. Joshua commands the Sun to ftand ftill over Gibeon, and the Moon over the valley of Ajalon, by the space almoft of one whole day, until the Ifraelites are fully avenged of their enemies. The five Kings hide themselves in a cave at Makkedah, from whence they are brought forth, fcornfully used, and hang'd.

From the Autumn of this year, wherein, after the failing of manna, they began to till the ground, the rife of the fabbatical years is to be taken. Joshua now grown old, is commanded by God to divide all the land on the weft of Jordan, among the nine tribes remaining, and the other half-tribe of Manaffeh. The Lord and his facrifices are the inheritance of Levi.

The reft of the Kings with whom Joshua had waged war for fix years, refolve to fer upon him with united forces; but Jofhua comes upon them unawares, flays them, and poffeffeth their Coun

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Joshua gathers together all Ifrael, exhorts them to obedience, briefly recites Gods benefits to them, reneweth the Covenant between them and God, and dieth 110 years old.

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After the deceafe of Jofhua, and the Elders who Judges outlived him, and who remembred the wonders which God had wrought for Ifrael, there fucceeds a generation of men which forget God, and mingle themselves with the Canaanites by marriage, and III. 6,7,8. worship their idols. In this time of Anarchy and Confufion, when every man did that which feem'd right in his own eyes, all thofe diforders were committed which are reported in the five laft Chapters of the Book of Judges; to wit, the idolatry of Micah, and the children of Dan; the war of the Benjamites, and the cause thereof. God being

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Chrift. highly provoked, gives them up into the hands of Cufhan King of Mefopotamia; which first calamity of theirs holds them but eight years. Othniel the fon of Kenaz, and fon in law to Jo-III. 9, fhua, ftirred up by God, as a judge and avenger of his people, defeats Cufhan, and delivers the Ifraelites out of bondage, and the land refteth 40 years, after the first reft which Jofhua procured for them.

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Othniel dying, the Ifraelites fall again to fin against God, and are given over into the hands of Eglon King of Moab, who joining with the Ammonites and the Amalekites, overthrows the Ifraelites, and takes Jericho, and this fecond oppreffion continueth 18 years.

Ehud the fon of Gera is raifed up by God to be an avenger of his people; for feigning a meffage to Eglon, he runs him into the belly with his dagger; then getting away, he gathers all Irael into a body on mount Ephraim, and flays 10000 of the moit valiant Men of Moab, and the land refteth 40 years after the former reft obtain'd by Othniel.

After him Shamgar, the fon of Anath flayerh 600 Philistines with an ox-goad, and he alfo avengeth Ifrael.

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The Ifraelites finning again, are delivered into the hands of the Midianites; which fourth thraldom lafteth seven years. Hereupon they cry unto God for help, and are reproved by a Prophet. Then Gideon the fon of Manaffes is by an Angel from God fent to deliver them. He firft overturns the Altar of Baal, and burns is grove, and is called Jerubbaal. He out of 32000 men which came unto him, choofeth only (God fo commanding) 300; but with them he puts to fight all the hoft of the Midianites, whom the Ephraimites afterwards pursue and flay their Princes, Oreb ond Zeeb. Gideon having pacified the Ephraimites, ho complain that they were not called to the battle at firft, paffeth the river Jordan, and defeats the remainder of the Midianitifh army; he chaftieth alfo the men of Succoth and Penuel, who had refused him victuals in his journey; and flays the two Kings After of the Moabites, Zebah and Zalmunna. which great victories, the Ifraelites offering to fettle the kingdom upon him and his pofterity, he reffech it; but receiving their golden ear-rings, he makes thereof an Ephod, which afterwards proves an occafion of Idolatry. The Midianites being thus vanquifh'd, the land enjoys reft 40 years, after the former reft restored to them by Deborah and Barak. Gideon dieth, and the Ifraelites falling back again to Idolatry, worship Baal-berith for their God." Abimelech the fon of Gideon (begotten upon his IX. 1, 2, Concubine) purpofing to get to himfelf the kingdom which his father had refufed, flayeth 70 of his brothers all upon one ftone, and having by the 1235. help of the Shechemites, got to be made king. Jotham the youngest fon of Gideon, who only efpaced Abimelechs fury, from the top of the mount Gerizim, expoftulates with them the wrong they had done to his fathers houfe; and by way of a parable, foretels their ruin; which done, he flies and dwells quietly in Beerith.

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