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The First Book of Moses,

CALL'D

GENESIS

Tranflated from the ORIGINAL,

AND

Infcrib'd to his GRACE, the LORD
ARCH-BISHOP of CANTER-
BURY, Primate of all England,
and Metropolitan.

By JOHN LOOKUP, Efq;,

LONDON:
Printed for J. ROBERTS, at the Oxford Arms in

Warwick-Lane.

M DCC XL.

[Price Two Shillings.

101. f. 145.

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TO HIS.

GRACE,

The LORD ARCH-BISHOP of

CANTERBURY,

Primate of all England, and Metropolitan.

May it pleafe your GRACE,

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PON confidering that the Scriptures, as vulgarly tranflated, reprefent both God and created Nature in a very falfe Light; and in

the Accounts there delivered of the Formation of this World, tell us of

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Things being made by God that truly never did exist, but in the * deluded Fancies of the unlearned Vulgar; I could not but fearch the original Text, : in order to find out if it was poffible or not so to interpret these antient Writings, that natural as well as religious Truth may be found in every Page of them. Nor had I learned much of the Hebrew, until I obferved from the Dictionaries that the fame Word often bears many different, and fometimes even oppofite, Meanings; as is the true State of the Cafe with moft Languages,

that the Sense of fuch Word in this or t'other Text is often determined from the Authority of the Rabbins only; and that the Points, made ufe of by the more ignorant Students of that Language, never were received into the Rolls kept in the Synagogues.

IF the Jews are by Providence defigned to be the proper Keepers of the Scriptures of the Old Teftament, it ap

*The Firmament of the Heavens, mentioned in the firft Chapter of Genefis, is an Example of this.

pears

pears evident that thofe Books are only to be received as fuch, which have been by them made use of in Divine Service; and in that very Manner in which they there appear, that is, divefted of the Points and Accents.

THE fame Tradition, which gives us Notice what Books we ought to receive as fcriptural, informs us alfo that the Rolls preferved in the Jewish Synagogues are exact Tranfcripts of that heretofore kept in the Temple; from which the Inference is plain, that the Bible as there found is to be acknow

ledged as the only true and genuine Scriptures.

IF this is not yielded to, the Authority of the Sacred Writings must immediately fall to the Ground; for put the Cafe, a Chriftian is ask'd, From whence have you the Old Teftament? His Anfwer muft be, From the Jewish Synagogues. But what Reply can he give to one further enquiring why the Scriptures are not received among Chriftians in the fame Manner as they

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