A new analysis of chronology; in which an attempt is made to explain the history and antiquities of the primitive nations of the world, and the prophecies relating to them - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ...vicious are not entitled to relief, Acts xi. 29, 2 Cor. viii. 13, Luke xv. 16, 2 Thess. iii. 10. But "never turn away thy face from any poor man, carelessly, or scornfully, and then the face of the Lord shall not be turned away from thee," Tobit. iv. 11, Luke xvi. 19--25. Thus, even those precepts reckoned paradoxical, and impracticable, by gainsayers, when fairly interpreted, not according to the letter, but the spirit, as explained by our Lord's conduct, and by parallel passages, exhibit useful lessons of prudence and discretion. The seventh commandment prohibited the actual crime of adultery, and under the penalty of stoning to death, Exod. xx. 14, Levit. xx. 10, Deut. xxii. 22, John viii. 5. But Our Lord combines it with the tenth commandment, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife," and extends the guilt to " the lust of the eye," in looking lewdly upon a married woman, as committing anultery in in the heartand denounces against even the intentional offender, the dreadful punishment of hell Jive, unless the offending member, " the right eye" or the ruling passion, of which it is the instrument, be "plucked out," and "cast away" with abhorrence, by a timely repentance, to save his $oul alive in the day of judgment. Matt. v. 27--29, Ezek. xviii. 27. Divorces, which were tolerated by the law of Moses, for the hardness of tlieir hearts, to prevent worse consequences, and carried to a scandalous excess in that age, as we have seen, p. 804, are confined by ouu Lord, to the sole case of adultery. And if any man married a woman divorced upon any other account, both arc represented as guilty of adultery, Deut. xxiv., Matt. v. 31, 32. The eighth commandment is also coupled with the remainder of the ...