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and again Deliverance, with the encounter of Melchizedek, in circumstances sufficiently corresponding with the account of Moses; his Journey to Egypt, and his experiences there, his two-fold Marriage; the Sacrifice of Isaac, commanded by God, yet prevented by an Angel, who provided a ram in his place; his Sons from another Marriage, and the sending away of the same to Arabia. These may be found more extensively in Eusebius in his Evangelical Preparation original: "Euangelische Voorbereidinge," referring to the Praeparatio Evangelica, a 4th-century work by Eusebius of Caesarea intended to prove the superiority of Christianity over pagan religions using their own writings..

However much these excellent testimonies of so many principal parts of our History are here and there tarnished with fabulous stories and circumstances—according to the measure that the light of Truth shone, more or less, by twilight or reflection, into the dark intellect of those peoples—and however little these accounts hold up as equal in their details when tested upon the pure touchstone of the holy pages The "holy pages" refers to the Bible; the author uses the metaphor of a "touchstone," a hard stone used to test the purity of gold or silver., the more beautifully and illustriously must the fine gold—the truth of our history—display its hallmark and shine forth in the eyes of Unbelief; especially when it sees the truth of Moses’ Writings confirmed, as if by so many blind witnesses The term "blind witnesses" refers to non-Christian or "pagan" historians who confirm biblical events without realizing they are supporting the authority of the Hebrew Scriptures.. Should anyone, however, still offer resistance, sucking poison from the same flowers, which