SCRIPTURAL ANTHOLOGY; OR, BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATIONS: DESIGNED AS A Present for all Seasons. BY NATHAN C. BROOKS, A. M. PHILADELPHIA: BALTIMORE: BAYLY & BURNS. 1837. HARVARD 4 apr 1947 Entered according to the act of Congrees, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by JOHN S. HORTON, in the Clerk's office of the District of Maryland. PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. ALTHOUGH the articles, generally, in the SCRIPTURAL ANTHOLOGY, have appeared in two of the most respectable periodicals of the day, the Religious Souvenir and Lady's Book, their length has prevented their being extensively copied, and consequently, they are comparativery little known, except to the readers of the above-mentioned publications. Impressed with the belief that a work blending exalted sentiment and devotional fervour with the enchantments of poetry will be acceptable to the Christian community, we offer them, as a suitable PRESENT, the Scriptural Anthology, in a dress, in some degree worthy of the merits of the author, and of the object for which the work is intended. In the paraphrase upon the different sub |