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The Crucifixion to face Titlé.

Eve tempted by the Serpent...
Cain and Abel sacrificing.

Samuel presented to Eli.......................

Ruth and Boaz.......

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SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHY.

ADAM.

Died in the Year of the World 930; or in the Year before Christ 3074.

IF it be pleasing to review the lives and actions of those persons from whom we derive our immediate descent, and who have done honour to their family name by their talents and virtues; it must certainly be interesting to all of us, as the common descendants of ADAM, to be acquainted with the particulars of his life.

No history of the world pretends to give an account of the first parents of the human race, but that of Moses; although it is evident, from the nature of things, that the animated as well as the inanimate world must necessarily have had a beginning. To ascribe eternity to matter is to give it qualities which experience continually proves it does not possess ; and to suppose a never-ending series of men, is the folly of atheism. All civilized nations agree in this, that the world had an origin, though their accounts of its creation are extremely different. The mythologists have, indeed, given descriptions, and the philosophers have fabricated theories, of the creation, which only serve to perplex the inquiring mind, and to render it dissatisfied; as they are not supported by any rational evidence.

The account of this important event, recorded in the book of Genesis, possesses all the marks of truth, and agrees exactly with the principles of sound philosophy.

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