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A

NEW AND COMPLETE

UNIVERSAL HISTORY

OF THE

HOLY BIBLE,

FROM THE

CREATION OF THE WORLD,

TO THE

FULL ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY,
BY OUR BLESSED LORD AND SAVIOUR

JESUS CHRIST,
AND HIS HOLY EVANGELISTS, APOSTLES,

DISCIPLES, &c.

CONTAINING A CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF EVERY REMARKABLE
TRANSACTION RECORDED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES, DURING

A PERIOD OF UPWARDS OF FOUR THOUSAND YEARS.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

BY THE REV. EDWARD KIMPTON,
VICAR OF ROGATE, IN SUSSEX, MORNING PREACHER OF ST. MATTHEW, BETH.

NAL-GREEN, AND LATE OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
ASSISTED BY MANY LEARNED GENTLEMEN, WHO HAVE MADE

TIE SACRED WRITINGS THEIR PECULIAR STUDY.

VOL. IJ.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

ZOONOS AJILI AIU

LIBRAPY.

TRENTON:
PUBLISHED BY J. J. WILSON, AND D. FENTON,

James J. Wilson, Printer.

1813.

The History of that stupendous Work the Creation of the

World.
The Creation of Adam and Eve—their Temptation, Fall, and

Expulsion from Paradise --Its fatal consequences, &c.
The Wickedness of Mankind.—The General Deluge. The

Preservation of Noah and his Family, &c.

The Building of Babel-Confusion of Tongues, and Dispersion

of the People.

History of Abraham and his family.--Destruction of Sodom

and Gomorrah, &c.
History of Joseph and his Brethren, &c.
Persecutions of the Israelites by Pharaoh King of Egypt, with

the various Transactions that took place previous to their

being miraculously released from Bondage.
The astonishing Miracles performed by Moses in Egypt, the

Wilderness and other places.
The Travels and various Revolutions of the Israelites, with the

great Miracles wrought in their favor by Divine Interposi-

tion before their Settlement at Jerusalem.
History of Sampson, Saul and Jonathan, Naomi and Ruth.

Judith and Holofernes, Susanna and the Elders, Haman and

Mordecai, Deborah and Barak, &e.

History of the Babylonish Captivity.-Destruction of Jerusa-

lem, &c. &c.

Account of the ancient State of Jerusalem, with an accurate

description of that magnificent Building, Solomon's Temple.

The various Predictions of the Prophets, concerning the Com-

ing and Offices of the Messiah, the Restoration of the Jews,

&c. with other Prophecies that have been, and are now ful-

filling, in different parts of the World.

INCLUDING PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS

OF THE

LIVES AND TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

MOST EMINENT PATRIARCHS, PROPHETS,

AND

OTHER SERVANTS OF GOD,

Who, by an inspired Grace, have distinguished themselves in the

Display of Divine Wisdom;