This sermon, written by the author of The Annals of the World seeks to establish the doctrine of the incarnation its amazing aspects and its wonderful effects upon the human race.From the intro:"The Holy Prophet, in the Book of the Proverbs, poseth all such as have not learned wisdom, nor known the knowledge of the holy, with this Question. Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath establi...

The Annals of the World is a chronological history of the world that follows the Christian creationist view. It was first published in 1650.

Considered not only a classic work of literature, but also esteemed for its preciseness and accuracy, The Annals of the World has not been published in the English language since the 17th century. Almost completely inaccessible to the public for three centuries, this book is a virtual historical encyclopedia with information and footnotes to history that otherwise would have been lost forever.Covering history from the beginning through the first century A.D., Ussher relate...

This issue of the Free Grace Broadcaster is on "Spiritual Warfare." Thomas Brooks introduces this vital subject by urging us that Christ, the Scriptures, our own hearts, and Satan's devices are the four prime subjects that should be first and most diligently studied. J. C. Ryle declares that the believer's spiritual warfare is of far greater importance than any war that man has ever waged. What is spiritual warfare? James Ussher defines it and then introduces us to the war and to ...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. TABLE OF CONTENTS:Wars of the Jews or Jewish War or the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem (c. 75...

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich MuellerIntroduction by Daniel J. BoorstinIllustrations by Giovanni Battista PiranesiEdward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgm...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. TABLE OF CONTENTS:The Life of Flavius Josephus or Autobiography of Flavius JosephusAppendix: 1. Maps o...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. TABLE OF CONTENTS:Against Apion or Flavius Josephus Against Apion (c. 97)Appendix: 1. Maps of Palestin...

In AD 70, after a war that had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only eighty years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary consequences? This superb book, by one of the world’s leading scholars of the ancient Roman and Jewish w...

Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from the Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157-43 bc. Whether describing the would-be dictators Marius and Sulla, the battle between Crassus and Spartacus, the...

Most of the great changes in the world's history come about gradually and wise men can see them coming, for it is very hard to run counter to the nature of average men, and all great advances and degradations of society are the result of persistent causes; but a few times, since our records have been kept, there has arisen a single genius, who has done what no number of lesser men could accomplish, who has upset theories as well as dominions, preached a new faith, discovered some new appli...

History of Phoenici by George Rawlinson.