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THE

USE

OF

SACRED HISTORY;

ESPECIALLY AS ILLUSTRATING AND CONFIRMING THE
GREAT DOCTRINES OF REVELATION.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

TWO DISSERTATIONS;

THE FIRST, ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE HISTORY CON-
TAINED IN THE PENTATEUCH, AND IN THE BOOK OF JO-
SHUA; THE SECOND, PROVING THAT THE BOOKS AS-
CRIBED TO MOSES WERE ACTUALLY WRITTEN BY HIM,
AND THAT HE WROTE THEM BY DIVINE INSPIRATION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

BY JOHN JAMIESON, D. D. F. A. S. S.

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, EDINBURGH.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY A. NEILL AND CO. FOR THE AUTHOR;

AND SOLD BY W. CREECH, OGLE AND AIKMAN, EDINBURGH;
M. OGLE, GLASGOW; MATTHEWS, OGLE, AND

HATCHERD, LONDON,

1802.

ADVERTISEMENT.

T has often occurred to the Author, that

IT

as it could not be without a fpecial defign that fo great a portion of the Holy Scriptures was caft into an Hiftorical form, the principal reafon of this must be, that it appeared to Him, who "knoweth our frame," the most proper mode of conveying inftruction, even on thofe fubjects in which we are interested for eternity. Under the forcible

impreffion of this idea,

in the following work.

the Author engaged

Whatever

Whatever may be

faid with respect to the execution, the plan at least has the recommendation of novelty. For, as far as he knows, the ground which he has taken has been hitherto unoccupied.

It was not originally meant, that the two Differtations prefixed fhould be published in connexion with the work on Sacred Hiftory. They were written at a time, when the greateft exertions were made to diffeminate the

principles