The Life of Jacob and his son Joseph . eforeChrist, 1836. A little calculation will 3 4 LIFE OP JACOB, show you that this was about 2168 yearsafter the creation of the world. In the first chapter of the first book ofChronicles you will see a list of all theancestors of Jacob, from Adam down-wards. And it is remarkable, that fromthe first, God had some one family orrace which he preserved from this way he kept up a perpetual raceof true worshippers, and he will keep itup until the end of time. Much of the Bible history is biography,or the lives of particular men. Some ofthese are go
The Life of Jacob and his son Joseph . eforeChrist, 1836. A little calculation will 3 4 LIFE OP JACOB, show you that this was about 2168 yearsafter the creation of the world. In the first chapter of the first book ofChronicles you will see a list of all theancestors of Jacob, from Adam down-wards. And it is remarkable, that fromthe first, God had some one family orrace which he preserved from this way he kept up a perpetual raceof true worshippers, and he will keep itup until the end of time. Much of the Bible history is biography,or the lives of particular men. Some ofthese are good, and some are bad one great reason for giving theirmemoirs is, that we might see how JesusChrist descended from Adam. We havea complete list of all the generations fromAdam to Christ. You will find it in thebeginning of the New Testament. As the human race spread itself overthe earth, the greatest part became verywicked ; yet, as Avas just said, God waspleased to select a portion, to whom hemade himself known. Out of Adam^s. AND HIS SON JOSEPH. 7 family, Seth Avas chosen. Out of Noahsfamily, Shem was chosen. Out of Te-rahs family, Abram was chosen. Andout of Abranis family, Isaac was the mean time, the remaining portionswere multiplying by thousands and mil-lions, and overspreading Asia, Africa, andEurope. Let me try to give you some notionof the countries about which you willread in this history; for you can neverhave a proper knowledge of any narra-tive unless you know whereabouts theevents took place. The little map onthe opposite page shows you the wholeat once. And if you Avill travel withJacob, as he goes from place to place,you will fancy yourself in many regionsvery far apart. For, sometimes he wasin Asia, and sometimes in Africa. Andwhile in Asia, he was sometimes inMesopotamia, among the branches of thegreat river Euphrates ; sometimes in Sy-ria, between the Euphrates and the Jor-dan 5 and sometimes in Palestine, between 8 LIFE OF JACOB, the Jorda
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