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A Guide to the Study of History. [with] Tables
A Guide to the Study of History Tables - with Author:Guide 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: to " observe " these " testimonies" of the will and the wisdom, the love, and the power of God most high ! While we have these holy writings, let us not waste ou... more »r time, mis-employ our thoughts, and prostitute our admiration, by doating on human follies, and wondering at human trifles. The Scriptures are the appointed means of " enlightening" the mind with true and saving knowledge. They shew us what we were, what we are, and what we shall be; they shew us what God hath done for us, and what he expecteth us to do for him ; they shew us the adversaries we have to encounter, and how to encounter them with success; they shew us the mercy and the justice of the Lord, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell. Thus will they " give to the simple," in a few days, an " understanding " of those matters, which philosophy, for whole centuries sought in vain " Home's Com. on the Psalms, cxix. 129, ISO. SECOND PERIOD, B. From the Epistle of Jude, ver. 14, 15, we find that Enoch prophesied against the Antediluvians, " saying, behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken ;" but of this, Moses makes no mention; the second revelation he records, is that made to Noah respecting the destruction of, the ungodly, by the Deluge. Gen. vi. In connection with this sentence of God against The the Antediluvian reprobates, we may consider as Deluge. typical revelations (perhaps we should say inferences) the Deluge itself, and the Ark in which Noah and his family, and some of every living creature were preserved. The Deluge, (the flood of God's just wrath, from which nothing can be hid...« less