The book is an account of the manners the ancient Israelites. The subtitle continues “ou l’on voit le modele d’une Politique simple & sincere pour le Gouvernement des Etats & la reforme des moeurs.(where one can see the model for a simple and sincere policy for the government of the states and reform of manners). The present volume is the 4th edition, corrected and augmented.

Claude Fleury was a historian, born Paris, France, 1640; died there, 1725. After practising law for nine years, he became a priest, and for over 30 years was tutor to several young court nobles. The most notable of his many works is his immense church history to the year 1414, continued to 1595 by John Claude Fabre. Though his judgments are tinged with Gallicanism, they are expressed moderately and with restraint.

This is bound with: L’esprit de l’ancien et du nouveau Testament. Paris: Chez Sebastian Mabre-Cramoist, 1683. This is an introduction to the books of the Holy Scripture where by an easy method one can in a short time make a review of what is contained in the Bible and in the N.T.