The Antiquity of China or an Historical Essay: Endeavouring a Probability That the Language of the Empire of China Is the Primitive Language, Spoken Through the Whole Word, Before the Confusion of Babel
The Antiquity of China or an Historical Essay: Endeavouring a Probability That the Language of the Empire of China Is the Primitive Language, Spoken Through the Whole Word, Before the Confusion of Babel
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1678 edition. Excerpt: ...of the sepulture of his Progenitors, be it never-so remote from that Territory where he dies which happeneth oftentimes to their Rulers who being net to be advanced to the Government of anyplace, within that Provincewhero they were' born, are sent to command in several Other parts of the Empire, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1678 edition. Excerpt: ...of the sepulture of his Progenitors, be it never-so remote from that Territory where he dies which happeneth oftentimes to their Rulers who being net to be advanced to the Government of anyplace, within that Provincewhero they were' born, are sent to command in several Other parts of the Empire, and therby many times, departing this life out of their own Countrey, are upon that occasion brought home, and buried tied therein. As the body of Jacob was tranflated out of AEgypt upon the lame account, Gen, so. v. 7. and buried in the fame sepukher, wherein these rive Abraham, Isaac, Sarah, Rebelah, and Leah were laid, himself making the sixth; the first Letters of all their names being contained in that one name of I S R A E L. fb likewise were (he bones of Joseph carried up out of AEgypt, and inhumed in Sychm in the land of Cati, Exq. 15. v. where in like manner the other Patriarchs were buriedt AU.', v. 16. And even by the modern Jews this custome is observed at this day from a conceited opinion t j "That if %Goiwtn "Israelite be buried in any strange Countrcy out Ant.Jud. "of the promised land, helhall not bAparraker hK6.c.s. "so much as of the Resurrection, t except the jLord vouchsafe to make him hollompaffages un"der the earth, through which hisodyby acon"tinual volutation and rolling may be brought "into the land of Canaan. Wherefore from Italy, and other places where they, ue tolerated, I have heard, that oftentimes they fraight whole Ships with coffins of dead bodies, which are transported to the Ports of 5yrw, and thenCe convey-, ed into Jud q, and there interred, V. Furthermore, the Cbinois observe the New and Full: Moon-days with great ceremony, and reckon the year by the Moon like the Htbrtw, nearly relating to whom, .
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