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4181 Adam and Eve created:-The seventh day distinguished by God:-The marriage bond established:-Paradise: -Forfeiture.

A Saviour promised,

Cain-Abel.

Seth.

Enos,

Cainan.

Mahalaleel.

Jared.

3000 Enoch, prophecies:-foretels the majesty of God's final judgment:-is taken up into Heaven.

Methusaleh,

Lamech.

Noah.

Shem-Ham-Japhet,

Universal depravity of mankind:-The Flood foretold. 2469 One hundred and twenty years of warning given of the impending catastrophe.

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2348 Noah and his family descend from the Ark upon Ararat, a mountain in Armenia:-The Rainbow made the Divine pledge, that the earth should not be again destroyed by Water: (being reserved for a final catastrophe by Fire.)-Noah plants the Vine.-He imparts his knowledge to the new race.-His family multiplies in Armenia.

2234 First migration of the new race, to the plain of Shinaar, between Euphrates and Tigris:-They prepare to build the Tower of Babel, for a mark and centre to prevent their dispersion:-The miraculous multiplication of languages, and providential dispersion of the heads of future nations to their destined seats, are the cousequences of that attempt.

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2188 Mizraim founds a sovereignty in Egypt:-Nimrod in Shinaar:-Assur on the East bank of the Tigris:-Arphaxad settles in Chaldæa, or Chaldia, by Armenia.

2126 Terah..

1996 Abraham.

1921

Sarah.

CALL OF ABRAHAM.

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The Giants pile up the mountain to assail Heaven. (Passim.)

The progenitors of a people of Asia Minor suddenly lose their
primitive language, and acquire a new one.
(Arrian, Exped. Alex.)

Japetus, regarded by the Greeks as the father of mankind.

Menes.

(Passim.)

FIRST EGYPTIAN MONARCHY.

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