BIOGRAPHY:

OR THE

HISTORY OF THE

PATRIARCHS.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

THE HISTORY OF

DEBORAH, RUTH, AND HANNAH.

BEING

A COURSE OF LECTURES

DELIVERED AT THE SCOTTS CHURCH, LONDON WALE.

BY HENRY HUNTER, D. D.

THE THIRD AMERICAN EDITION.

COMPLETE IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was,
I am.. -John viii. 58.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which
is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.-

Revelation i. 8.

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PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY ISAAC PEIRCE, NO. 5 NORTH FRONT STREET,
AND JOHN RICHARDSON, NO. 31 MARKET STREET.

1818.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME THIRD.

LECTURE I.

INTRODUCTORY LECTURE.

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Rev. xx. 11, 13.-And I saw a great white throne, and him

that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled

away, and there was found no place for them.
And I saw

the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books

were opened: and another book was opened, which is the

book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things

which were written in the books, according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death

and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and

they were judged every man according to their works.

LECTURE II.

HISTORY OF MOSES.

Numb. xxi. 4, 9.-And they journeyed from mount Hor, by

the way of the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom; and

the soul of the people was much discouraged because of

the way. And the people spake against God and against

Moses, Wherefore have you brought us up out of Egypt,

to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is

there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And

the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit

the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the

people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we

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