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PREFACE.

I undertake to bring before the eyes of the modest Reader the most glorious example of Virtue and Piety found in either divine or human writings: ABRAHAM THE PATRIARCH; surely the most blessed and illustrious Personage (excepting, with all reverence, the Savior of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ) that the ages have ever seen. For who—to recall only sacred examples, for neither the Alexanders nor the Caesars The author refers to Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, the typical subjects of classical Greek and Roman epics, to argue that his biblical subject is more worthy of study than these secular "conquerors." may be weighed here—who then, I say, of the divine Heroes of Faith obtained from the holy Writers so much renown for his untainted virtue or his pious and righteous conduct? Neither the divine Moses, the patient Job original: "Hiob", the pious David, nor the wise Solomon obtained so many glorious names of praise and titles of honor. Upon whom do so many salutary promises rest? Whose name is, according to one of those very promises, so greatly glorified across the whole earth? A Name, which during his life [was] not