The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ . belonging tothe English, where they are allowed, without any molestation,the full freedom and exercise of their religion. They are a poorharmless sort of people, zealous in their superstition, rigorous intheir morals, and exact in their dealings, professing the worshipof one God only, and the belief of a resurrection and a futurejudgment, and utterly detesting all idolatry, although reckonedby the Mahometans the most guilty of
The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ . belonging tothe English, where they are allowed, without any molestation,the full freedom and exercise of their religion. They are a poorharmless sort of people, zealous in their superstition, rigorous intheir morals, and exact in their dealings, professing the worshipof one God only, and the belief of a resurrection and a futurejudgment, and utterly detesting all idolatry, although reckonedby the Mahometans the most guilty of it. For although theyperform their worship before fire, and towards the rising sun,yet they utterly deny that they worship either of them. Theyhold, that more of God is in these his creatures, than in anyother, and that therefore they worship God towards them, asbeing in their opinion the truest Shekinah of the Divine presence t Thevenots Travels. Sanaona Present State t Per-ia. Tavernier, Rclig. c. 2<). (Kingtons Travels. z Herod, lib. 7. <\ Nchcm. xii. 10. Jos. Anr. 1. 10. c. 5. ? Aulustull. 1. 15, ,•. 13, e Diod. Sic. lib. 11. s 2. 485-4SJ.] XERXES 1-4. 2()1 among us, as darkness is tlmt of the devils: and afl to Zoro-astree, they -till have him in the same veneration as the -Jhave -. looking on him as the great prophet of God, bywhom he sent bis law, and communicated his will unto them. Xerxes having ascended the throne x employed the first year his reign in earning on the preparations for the reduction ofEgypt, which his father had begun. He yconfirmed to the Jewsat Jerusalem all the privileges granted them by his father, espe-cially that of having the tribute of Samaria for the furnishing ofthem with sacrifices for the carrying on of the divine worship inthe temple of God in that place. In the second year of his reign he marched against the , and having thoroughly vanquished and subdued these re-volters, he 7- red
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