Ten Sermons on Various Subjects (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ten Sermons on Various SubjectsHE Devil has had (0 much influence upon the heads of even fome good men, as to make them fuppofe that tins very beautiful book of the laered fcriptures is nothing more than a dialogue between Solomon and Pharaoh's daugh ter, and to perfuade others that this was the firii intent of Solomon in the writing of it, but that he being an infpired writer, the book, notwithfianding the originald intention of its author, was typical of Chrili and his Church But let good men fuppofe what they will, or bad men endeavour by their vain imaginations, fiep by liep, to undermine the au thenttcity of the holy fcr'iptures, this book contains in it certain and indubitable evidence of the divinity of its origtn. There are in it feveral expreflions not in the leali adapted to create love, and feveral remarks that ma ke it certain that it could not have been wrote for Pharaoh' s daughter. Would Pharaoh' s daughter have ever laid, Look not upon me becaull: I am black, becaufe the fun hath looked Upon me my mother's children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. If the biethren of the daugh ter of a poor Arabian had turned their til er out to keep the B vineyards, i 2 tineyards, and (he had been under the nece¿ity of obeying their imperious dictates, it is not likely that the daughter of the great King of Egypt, ' w ho gave leveral cities to Solomon as a portion with her, ihould be m fuch a {ituation with her btethren, or that had they been (0 inclined, that Phataoh would hate permitted it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.