This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1756 Excerpt: ...on the contrary, I most highly reverence them. " But, you, certainly, set-too great a value upon this temple; ' when you would confine to it the divine presence, and all accep " table Ver. 46. ' Sec on Acts xiii. 32. 2 Sain. vii. 2, &c. Psal. cxxxii. 1,--5. k I Chron. xxii. 8, 9. and xxviii. 3. IwAkS St. Stephens ipeech. 139 " table ivor/hip. For king Solomon, at the dedication of it, very An.Christi " justly acknowleged, that the presence and favor of the most high 34 " God are not confined to any temple made with hands ': as, also, 1 _, " faith the prophet; Isa. lxvi. 1, 2. Thus faith the Lord, heaven /jBook I. " my throne, and the earth is my foot-stool; where, or what, is s£Py" " house, that you will build unto me? (or to what particular place Acts vii. " would you confine my presence? Have not I made all things f 48, &c " And am not I, the omnipresent being, able to show favor to the " pious and virtuous, in one place as well as another, through" out the whole creation? Nay; the whole creation is a temple c too narrow for God to be confined to. " Thus have I given you a brief account of the various periods " of revelation, or the several dispensations of God to men; from " the time, in which Abraham, our renowned ancestor, was called, " out of idolatry, to the knowlege of the true God, unto this very " day, when the kingdom of the mefjiah has begun to take place; «--that feed of Abraham, in whom all the nations of the earth " are to be blessed! And what I would have you understand, by " all that has been said, is this: That, in various ages and circum" stances, God hath made various revelations, and appointed diffe,l rent positive ...