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ACHRONOLOGICAL BIOG tZ API! ICA L,
and THEM, HLSTORY •/* the rRIMARY
and suEsEQuENT AGES oi the W.' • ' Ti.. woJk
carefully compiled tram tO.: Sacred R. : • moat au.
thentic and must appmved Writers of . . ?deist Ara.

By SIEITHOMNIUD,
The Son of /lynch Sha* .
Dedicated to the Honourabl, th, Directs*.
1W SIX t.,Lf iti IV.
Done into Engloh, a,id Notes, Historical, Geo-
graphical, and Criric..l, ..nd the whole einbellmlied with such
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For the titular page, the above w.. 1 suffice :—hut as it wil
possibly be expected that a more circumstantial Detail should
accompany it, tne Translator, sputum' to inert the Wishes ist
the Pu'llic Mid, enters into the follown:z Doqui.ition of its
Run a Departments

Of the characteristic Properties of the Work, both in their
Latent and Arrangement, it will be necessary to remark,
Ist. That in the Arrangement dile. References to Theology,
it diesents very inimaterially from the Sacral Records of our
Scripture. The proofs it eidetic, of the Attributes of the great
Creator, will, it is thought, be sufficiently clear to weaken, if
not to remove, the unfavourable bias which exists in minds
unacquainted with the Code ~f Melehonsinedan Belie,. Its
limo Affinity to the Book of Genesis is particularly conspi-
cuous, and in its Refernices thereto, it is more comprehen-
sively Descriptive than perhaps any Work which has beets
hitherto presented to the Literary World.
4.11y.—1n its Ifistoric Departiecid, the Lives of Adam, Eire,
Cain, Abel, Seth, Enoch, Noah, and his Some, their Genera-
uons, and the Lives of the Prophets, continued down to the
consuieneennett of the Iligera, or the Flight of PA.M'hoin-
turd, from Mecca se Medina (A. D. 622), are detailed in
Chronological Order; and w:11 be found on perusal particu-
larly interestiog. Many Passage. iii the Old and New Testa.
meat, which have heretufure appeared, if not Oriente, can
taint' not intelligible, will be sufficiently explaisted in this
Work to resider them clear to every Mind.
adly.-oThe several Trance occasionally visited by the inspired
Preachers of God ; their religious principles, and the conferees
they occupied, wi'l be correctly detailed. The OriginaJity of
Languages; the Longevity of the Proplieteeecheir proper
Naines,--toe Reasons why these Names were assigned t 3 them,
and the Derivations of the Words we kit constitute such Names,
will, with many other subjects equally interesting and useful,
be discussed iu regular omer.
4thly.--Copious Indexes will be given at the end of each
Volume, wherein every interesting metier relative to the sub-
ject will Its recerded in Chronological Order i--eaelt chapter
of the Work (as far as the separate and collective matter may
be referable to each other) will be COulpited with Bradalaw's
late Translation of Josephus, and the Books of Moses called
Genesis; both of which wig he regularly transcribed, and the
Writings of other Authors of diff sere it at'nmequotal as proofs
in support of the authenticity of this Work, rendering the
whole as complete as pos.ilile.
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detection • that he has bee's ...Wieleittly coMmimiaitive. Ile
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