f Alverftoke in Hampshire, and Chaplain to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. 1 with MAPS and GENEALOGICAL TABLES, the HEADS of the KINGS, the Sovereign fo Twenty Three Small Historical Copper Plates at the Beginning of the Several Books. HIS Number contains part of the Reign of King James I. S Work will be contained in Four Hundred and Twenty Sheets, beautifully printed, les the Maps, Genealogical Tables, Heads and Monuments of the Kings. A REVIE W Of the STATE of the Antediluvian WORLD: Wherein is fet forth I. The Inconfiftency of the Imagination of Pre-Adamites. II. From the concife Account that Mofes gives us of the Pofterity of Adam and Eve, we may easily conclude, that there were Multitudes of their Pofterity on the Earth when Cain flew Abel. III. From his fucceeding Accounts may be obferved that the World was pretty well Peopled even in the Days of Adam. IV. How decay'd Religion was revived by Seth. V.That it was continued in the Patriarchs in the Line to Noah. VI. How the Degeneracy from Religion fpread, and of the Antediluvian Giants, and of the Sons of God marrying the Daughters of Men, &c. VII. The Goodness of God in putting a Stop, by an univerfal Deluge, to those monftrous Violences that univerfal Wickedneffes had occafioned. To which is added, A SHORT DISCOURSE upon the Preaching of Chrift to the Spirits in Prifon, which were fometimes difobedient in the Days of Noah, &c. The PREFACE, containing Directions how the Hiftorical Parts of the Scriptures ought to be looked upon; and that that Part of the Scriptures, which contains Laws and Precepts, has not been fo capable of Corruptions by Transcribers, and how to judge of Corruptions by Commentators, &c. All which being carefully obferved, will make the Sacred Writings appear in their trueft Luftre. By BENJAMIN PARKER, Author of the Philofophical Meditations, Philofophical Differtations, Survey of the Six Days Works of the Creation, &c. LONDON: Printed for W. REEVE, at SHAKESPEAR'S Head near Serjeant'sInn-Gate in Fleet-freet. 1748. |