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POLITICS:

Being a VIEW of the

Original CONSTITUTION,

AND

Subsequent REVOLUTIONS,

IN THE

Government Religious and Civil,

Of that People, out of whom the SAVIOUR
of the WORLD was to arife:

As it is contained in the BIBLE.

By SAMUEL CROXALL, D. D.
Arch-Deacon of Salop in the Diocese of Hereford.

Ἀπηλλοἶριωμένοι τῆς Πολιζείας τῦ Ἰσραήλ. Eph.ii. 12.

LONDON:

Printed for J. TONSON and J. WATTS,
MDCCXXXV.

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PREFACE.

T

HE Design of the follow

ing Treatife is to

make the

Bible more eafily under

stood, and confequently better re lish'd by all Sorts of People.

Were this facred Book but consider'd impartially and attentively, in its most advantageous Lights; as it contains all the written Revelation of

God's Will now extant; as it is the

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Basis of our National Religion, and

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gives Vigour and Spirit to all our

Social Laws; as it is the most an

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cient, and confequently curious Collection of Historical Incidents, Moral Precepts, and Political Institutions; as the Style of it is, in fome Places, nobly Sublime and Poetical, and in others, sweetly Natural, Plain, and Unaffected: In a Word, as the being well acquainted with it is highly requifite, in order to make Men useful and ornamental in this

Life (to say nothing of their Happiness in the next) It is to be hop'd that a cool Reflection or two of this

Sort, might induce the more ingenuous and rational among them, to let the Bible take it's Turn, in their riper Years, among those Volumes which pass through their Hands ei ther for Amusement or Instruction. And should fuch an Entertainment once become fashionable, of what mighty Service would it be to the Interest of Religion, and confequently the Happiness of Mankind!

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In order to this, I have endeavour'd to range together, under proper Heads, the several difpers'd Circumstantials relating to the peculiar

Constitution both in Church and

State, of that People, to whom God

more especially vouchsaf'd to dif

pense

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