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Title: A New method of stating and explaining the Scripture chronology, upon Mosaic astronomical principles, mediums and data, as laid down in the Pentateuch
Year: 1752 (1750s)
Authors: Kennedy, John, 1698-1782
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: London : Printed for the Author
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A NEW METHOD O FSTATING and EXPLAINING THE Scripture Cpironology, ^c. iCcording to the Hebrew (which is theonly true) chronology, we are nowin the fixth millenium of the worldspad duration, viz. in the 5758thcurrent year. And yet, even in thefelatter times, in a philofophical, aftronomical, andmathematical age, neither the learned of ourown, nor of any other, nation, (as experience tef-tifies) have been able to teach us, how to accom-modate by fixed and determinate rules, the truemeajurcs of the annual periods of the two greatluminaries, either to civil or religious ufes: I mean,not with that exadnefs and certainty, by plain,fimple, and yet, unerring laws, which the pri- A mitive
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( 2 ) mitive patriarchs were originally taught and prac-tifed ; as will demonftrably appear from the Pen-tateiich of Mofes. Firft then we are to ftate and determine theoriginal pofition of the 3 orbs, the Sun, Moon, andEarth to one another ; which is the fimdamentaldatum of the Pe7itatcuch^ and to us a necefTaryand important point of knowlege. Mofes concludes his hiftorical account of theHexaemeron, with this remark, And Godfaw allthat he had jnade, and behold^ it ivas very good,i. e. every part of the univerfal fyftem, whetherinanimate, animate, or rational, was created in aftate o^ original perfeStion. As the two great luminaries are ever varyingtheir mutual afpedts to each other, their relationsand diftances; was I to afk the aftronomer, whatwe might infer from nature, to be xhtujirftfifu-ation^ with refped: to the Earth ? He would, itis probable, fmile at my fimplicity j or, perhaps,give me fome fuch ferious anfwer as this, viz.In a circle there is no firft point by nature^ butonl

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