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Magians in Perfia, from the ten Tribes in
Captivity there.

XIV. That Zerdught their Legislator did not

live in the Days of Darius Hyftafpis, but of Artaxerxes Mnemon.

XV. That the Religion of Zerdufbt was that of the Jews, without Circumcifion, as it was in the Days of Abraham.

XVI. That the Occafion of his Inftitution of covered Fire Temples, was the Miracle that is related in the forementioned Epiftle of the Jews of Jerufalem to the Jews of Egypt. XVII. Extracts out of the Book of Enoch. XVIII. A Differtation to prove it genuine. XIX. The Teftaments of the XII Patriarchs. XX. A Differtation to prove them genuine. XXI. Fragments of Apocryphal Books of the Old Teftament now loft; with Notes upon them.

- PART II.

I. Arifteus's Hiftory of the Septuagint Version of the Law of Mofes.

N. B. The Genuineness of this History has been proved at large in my Appendix to the Literal Accomplishment of Scripture Prophefies, p. 117– 154.

II. An Epiftle of the Corinthians to St. Paul, with St. Paul's Answer: In Arabick, Latin

and English; recovered now first intire from the Armenians.

N. B. It was afterwards publifhed by my Sons in Armenian and Latin.

III. Reasons for their being genuine.

IV. The State of Spiritual Gifts in the Churches; and their Government by Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, in the Age of the Apostles.

V. Of the Magical Arts of Simon Magus. VI. That the Ebionites rejected the Authority of all the Apostles.

VII. The Unlawfulness of eating Blood among
Chriftians.

VIII. A Demonftration of the Truth of the mi-
raculous Gifts in the Age of the Apostles.
IX. Fragments of the Apocryphal Books of the
New Teftament now loft.

X. An Ebionite Apocryphal Fragment.
XI. A large Part of the Synopfis Sacra Scripture.
with Athanafius's Feftal Epiftle, in parallel
Columns.

XII. A Scholium, proving the Synopfis to be as
old as Origen: With other Obfervations. -
XIII. A compleat Collection of the ancient Ca-
talogues of the Books of the Old and New
Teftament, Canonical, Contradicted, and Apo-
cryphal: With Notes.

XIV. Appendix (1.) A Table of the Subject and Order of the several Prophecies of the Old Teftament, from Ifaiah to Efdras.

• XV. Appendix (2.) Arguments to the Pfalms

of David.

XVI. Appendix. (3.) A Sufpicion that a Prophecy of Micab has been dislocated.

XVII. Appendix (4.) A Sufpicion that a Prophecy of Zephaniab has been diflocated. XVIII. Appendix (5.) The feveral Predictions concerning the Destruction of the Affyrian Army of Senacherib before Jerufalem: With the undeniable Evidence of their Completion. XIX. Appendix (6.) Concerning the different Statures of Mankind in different Ages, from the Deluge to the Days of Chrift.

XX. Concerning the Statures of three Sorts of
Giants before, and after the Deluge.
XXI. Appendix (7.) The exact Time when mi-
raculous Gifts ceas'd in the Church.

XXII. Appendix (8.) Of the Corruptions brought into the Church by the Ebionites. See alfo the Sacred Hiftory of the New Testament, P. 279,283.

XXIII. That Jofephus the Jew was an Ebionite. XXIV. Appendix (9.) A Confutation of Sir Ifaac Newton's Chronology.

XXV. Appendix (10.) Armenian Records taken from the Archives of Edeffa.

XXVI. Reasons for their being genuine.

N. B. Thefe Authentick Records (which I very often refer to in my Six Volumes of the Old and New Teftament, to prevent too great Repetitions there) with the Ellay on the Old Testament, and

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its Chronological Table, and with the Literal Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies, and its Supple ment; all depending one upon another; I once efteemed my Opus Palmarium, I mean before my Edition of Jofephus: All together bearing the Price of One Guinea, including the Authentick Records of the fmall Paper only.

N. B. The Teftament of Levi, one of the XII Patriarchs, is greatly illuftrated by my old Scheme of the Seven Heavens therein mentioned, but not formerly published; as published; as it will be now at the End of this Book.

In the Year 1726, I procured to be made me by Mr. Crofedale, a very skilful Workman, but according to my own Directions, and at the Expence of about forty Guineas, A Model of the Tabernacle of Mofes, and of the Temple at Jerusalem, serving to explain Solomon's, Zorobabel's, Herod's, and Ezekiel's Temples; and had Lectures upon that at London, Bristol, Bath and Tunbridge-wells. The Substance of which important Lectures, I added about the Year 1728, or 1729, to a large Scheme of that Model, after I had compared it with Sir Ifaac Newton's Scheme of the Temple of Solomon, then juft pubished in his Chronology, to which it almost entirely agreed. I have alfo had the like Lectures upon the fame Model above two Years ago, at Hackney, and Tunbridge-wells, to the great Satisfaction, I think, of both my Audiences; as I infend many more the like Lectures, and those that are a

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Preparatory to the Restoration of the Jews hereafter, while it fhall please God to continue my Health and Abilities to go through them. And this I take to be my peculiar Business at prefent; fince I have, I think, plainly discovered, that it will not be many Years before the Meffiah will come for the Reftoration of the Jews, and the firft Refurrection, when the last of these Temples, the Temple of Ezekiel, will be built upon Mount Sion, as the three former had been built upon Mount Moriah. Of which more towards the End of thefe Memoirs. One Thing, however, I will add as to this Model, when twenty-two Years ago I explained it at Bristol, viz. that a Schoolmafter there, Mr. Catcot, by Name, one of my Auditors, was fo affected and pleased with the Model and the Lectures, that long before I had made that Scheme or Ground-plot which is now in my Jofephus, he from his Memory made one for himself, and brought to me to be corrected. This Mr. Catcot I then took to be one of the best Scholars, and of as fober a Mind as any of my Auditors or Friends at Bristol. Whatever unhappy Biafs afterward made him a Profelite to my real Grief and Surprize, to that wild Hebrew Enthufiaft Mr. Hutchinfon.

It may also be worth mentioning, that in this Year 1726, and at my Course at Bristol, the Bifhop of the Diocefe, Hooper, who had been one of the Court of Delegates, that fat upon me in Contradiction to the Opinion of good Bishop Waddington, who used to kneel by me when we were there at the Communion together, fent Orders to

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