A Summary of Biblical Antiquities

BIBLICAL ANTIQUITIES;

COMPILED FOR

THE USE OF SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS,

AND FOR

THE BENEFIT OF FAMILIES,

BY JOHN W. NEVIN,
Late Assistant Teacher in the Theological Seminary of Princeton.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

11~140 Ott

Revised and Corrected by the Author for the American S. S. Union.

AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

PHILADELPHIA:
No. 146 CHESNUT STREET.

1830.

CHARVA-i
UNIVERS

464130

Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighth day of February, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1830, Paul Beck, jun., Treasurer in trust for the American Sunday-School Union, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Pro. prietor in the words following, to wit:

"A Summary of Biblical Antiquities; compiled for the Use of Sunday-school Teachers, and for the Benefit of Families. By John W. Nevin, late Assistant Teacher in the Theological Seminary of Princeton. In two Volumes. Vol. II. Revised and corrected by the Author for the American S. S. Union."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned"-and also to the act, entitled, "an act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints."

D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL HISTORY OF RELIGION.

Origin of the Church, 8. Its General Scheme and Relation to

the World, 9. Its Unity, 10, and Diversities of Outward Con-

stitution withal, 12. State before the Flood, 14. Call of Abra-

ham, 14. Organization of the Jewish Church, 15. General

Plan of the Jewish State-different Sorts of Laws, 16. The

Moral Law, 18. Ceremonial Law, 19. Continuance of the

Jewish Church all its appointed time, 22. Respect which

that Dispensation had to the Gospel, 24. Hope of the Mes-