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THE

MOTHERS OF THE BIBLE;

OR,

Maternal Characters

EXEMPLIFIED FROM THE

SACRED SCRIPTURES.

LONDON:

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
Instituted 1799.

DEPOSITORIES, 56, PATERNOSTER-ROW; 65, ST.
PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AND 164, PICCADILLY:
AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS.

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THE

MOTHERS OF THE BIBLE.

EVE.

1.; Iv. 1-16.

GEN. II. 21-25;

"ADAM called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living." And who is there, of all the living-especially among her daughters, who would not look back to her origin, her character, and conduct, with deep and peculiar interest? What a spectacle for us, could we have beheld it, to see one with all a woman's charms and excellences, unblemished by a failing or defect-with a mind mature, and, at the same time, uninjured by an evil habit, a

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