Austin Hall Author:Unknown Author 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: without leave this evening, you shall give us the historical account of Charles's escape to-morrow. Mr. Austin. You will find Boscobel and Clarendon in the li... more »brary, and you may prepare your account for us by Monday evening: your mother forgets that to-morrow will be Sunday, when you will be engaged in more appropriate reading. Mrs. Austin. It is strange that I should have forgotten the day of the week; the assembling of all our party for the holidays should have reminded me of Saturday evening. CHAP. II. SUNDAY EVENING. Charlotte. What do people mean by saying that we are in the third age of the world ? I thought an age was a century, or a hundred years. Is it not a great deal more than three hundred years since the world was made ? Mr. Austin. Yes, silly child ! it is nearly six thousand years since the creation. By the threeages of the world we sometimes designate the three great religious eras: namely, the era of the natural or unwritten law from Adam to Moses ; the written law from Moses to our Saviour; and the law of grace at our Lord's coming, under which we now are. You will also sometimes hear of the seven ages of the world, which are marked by the most important events in Scripture:— 1. The age of the creation, from Adam to Noah. 2. The age of the deluge, from Noah to Abraham. 3. The age of the covenant, when God, by the calling of Abraham, chose a peculiar people to preserve the knowledge of himself and the promise of the Messiah revealed to Adam: this age of the covenant was from Abraham to Moses. 4. The age of the delivery of the written law to the Jewish nation by Moses. 5. The building of the temple by Solomon. 6. The restoration of the Jews, and the foundation of the second temple, under Cyrus; and, 7- The birth of Christ. Florence. Until ...« less