A Practical Application of the Five Books of Moses, Adapted to Young Persons (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1848. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... A practical application of the five books of Moses, adapted to young persons Harriet Henslow PREFACE. In the present age, when so many religious books are daily issuing from the press, I should scarcely have ventured to add another to the list, had it not h$en for the persuasion that if we would "train up our children in "the way they should go-" we must not only impress them with early nabits of piety, but must be careful that the great truths of God's Holy Word be laid before them in such a way, that they may not rest contented with the outward form of religion only, but be enabled to grasp the substance also. Young persons are too apt to consider the Old and New Testaments as distinct books. Whilst they acknowledge the contents of the New to be especially addressed to them as Christians, they look upon most of the events A 2 PREFACE. recorded in the Old, as merely incidents in an historical narrative which they read indeed with interest, but without sufficiently reflecting how they may be made practically applicable to themselves. It has been my object in this little volume to shew how the various incidents related of the earliest period of man's history may be turned to our profit as Christians--proving St. Paul's assertion that "whatsoever tllings were "written aforetime, were written for ourlearn"ing," "upon whom the ends of the world "are come." In regard to the history of the Jews in particular, (more especially that portion of it, to which this book is limited, ) whether we view it with reference to God's dealings towards his sinful creatures, or to the many trials and difficulties under which they laboured, it is impossible to read it with attention, without deriving much that must tend to our ...