Scripture Characters, Selected from the Old Testament, Containing Brief Notices of Enoch, Jacob [And Others]. Republ. from the Cottager's Monthly Visitor - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828. Excerpt: ... memory, lie rebuilt the high places which had been piously destroyed, "reared up altars for Baal, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them." And moreover, in order, as it were, to insult more directly the God of heaven, he built altars to his idols not only in Jerusalem, where the Lord had recorded his name, but even in the courts of the temple itself. Nor was this wicked conduct of short continuance; for we read that he made " his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Himmon;" that is, he offered them as sacrifices to Moloch', either by the horrible rites of burning to death, or of passing through fire, by which they would necessarily endure much torture. Further, he " used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards:" that is, with those who pretend to hold communis cation with invisible agents. These sinful impostors were his oracles; and to such a length did he proceed, that he committed himself, and seduced his people to do, " more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel." Nor was this all; he shed "innocent blood very much, till he had filled 'An idol worshipped by the Healhen nations. Jerusalem from one end to another;" probably in authorizing the offering of infants by fire to Moloch, and cutting off in his rage, those who opposed and reproved his idolatries. Young persons may derive excellent instruction from this portion of Manasseh's history. He was his own master at twelve years of age. Youthful reader! art ihou anxious for liberty, for freedom from the restraints of thy father's house, for wealth to indulge thy inclinations and thy passions? Learn from Manasseh's fall, that it is much safer and happier for thee to be under the shelter and control of th...
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