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LECTURES
ON THE
BOOK OF GENESIS,
BY THE
REV. W. K. BURROUGHS. A.M.
Curate of Grange Silva.
DUBLIN:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,
BY PURDON, BROTHERS, 23, BACHELOR'S-WALK.
1848.
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CONTENTS.
LECTURE I.
The Reasonableness of the Commandment-Its Holiness
-The Necessity of the Penalty-The Justice of the Com-
mandment-Its Goodness and Spirituality-The Nature
and Extent of the Penalty-The Immortality of the
Soul-This Commandment Beyond the Inventive Powers
of Man
Page
1
223
LECTURE II.
The Temptation Investigated, and its Literal Character
Established The Effect of Sin on Adam and Eve in
the Total Corruption of their Nature-The Conduct of
Adam before God-The Sentence of the Serpent-Its
Literal Character, and the Necessity for it-The Sen-
tence of the Tempter; the Necessity for this to be Con-
veyed in Terms Indicating the Destruction of the Serpent
-The Seed of the Woman Considered; His Twofold
Nature Established from the Record The Command-
ment Ceased to bring Good to Man from the Moment
of the Fall; this is since Connected with the Promise
LECTURE III.
The Necessity of Ordinances for Worship, and Command-
ments to Guide the Conduct of Men being given,
Demonstrated-What these Commandments were-What
the Religious Ordinance and the Institution of Sacrifice
-The Necessity for Adam's Expulsion from the Garden,
and its Retention, and the Curse of Barrenness on the
Earth-The Conversion of Adam.
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LECTURE IV.
Eve's Mistake as to the Seed-The Character of the two
Brothers-The Motives for the Presentation of their
Offerings-How Abel came to Offer a Bloody Sacrifice-
The Probable Effect of Cain's Rejection on Adam-The
Necessity for the Death of Abel-The Change in the
Regards of Eve to Cain-The Effect of his Rejection on
Cain-His Punishment, and the Reasons for it -Part of
it Remitted-His Conversion
94
LECTURE V.
Adam's Third Mistake, and its Calamitous Results-The
Perilous Experiment Tried by the two Races: of Re-
ligion without Civilization, and Civilization without
Religion Their Idolatry-The State of Religion from
the Death of Abel to the Flood-The Necessity for that
Awful Calamity to Prepare for the Fulfilment of the
Promise
136
LECTURE VI.
The Arguments of Bishop Butler in his Analogy, and
of Dr. Chalmers in his Natural Theology, Examined
-Natural Religion Shown to have no Real Existence
185
LECTURE VII.
Incidental Proofs of Veracity from the Promise that no
Second Deluge should occur-Opinions as to the Division
of the Earth Examined-The Difficulty in the Text itself
Considered-In what the Sin of Nimrod and his Asso-
ciates Consisted-The Awfulness of their Punishment-
The Danger of Suffering Religious Truth to be Cor-
rupted The Insufficiency of the Patriarchal Religion,
and the Necessity for a New Dispensation
224
LECTURE VIII.
Brief Examination of the State of Religion among the
Heathen-The Imputation of Righteousness and Objec-
tions to it Considered-Brief Review of the Remainder of
the History-Some Proofs Offered of its having been
Written by Moses
265
LECTURE IX.
Forms and Structure of the Patriarchal Religion-How far
Changed after the Dispersion-Revenues of the Priest-
hood-Structure Enlarged into National Establishments
-The Ambition and Power of the Heathen Priesthood-
The Structure of the Jewish Priesthood, and Favourable
Contrast with that of the Heathen
293