CONTAINING AN ABSTRACT OF THE SCRIPTURE-HISTORY OF THE APOSTLES, IN A NEW METHO D. WITH FOUR CRITICAL ESSAYS: I. ON THL WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. II. ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN APO STLES, ELDERS, AND BRETHREN. III. ON THE TIME WHEN PAUL AND BARNABAS BECAME APOSTLES. IV. ON THE APOSTOLICAL DECREE. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ESSAY ON THE DISPENSATIONS OF GOD TO MANKIND, AS REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE: TOGETHER WITH A DISSERTATION ON HEBREWS XII. 225 W ERST PUBLISHED. PRINTED BY W. BOWYER AND J. NICHOLS: SOLD BY B. WHITE, AT HORACE'S HEAD, ADVERTISEMENT. T HE very high opinion entertained of the Mifcellanea Sacra by the Learned of all denominations, and the scarcity of the firft edition, would be fufficient reafons for a fecond; even if the work had not received fuch improvements from the Author, as add new force to his arguments, and elucidation to his criticisms. He employed the interval between its publication in 725 and his death in 1734 in reviewing, correcting, and enlarging it. The additions, which bear no fmall proportion to the original work, are now faithfully given to the world VOL. I. * a world from an interleaved copy written in the Author's own hand. The uncommon ingenuity and erudition with which Mr. Bryant has fupported his hypothesis with regard to the island of Melite, has occafioned the tracing St. Paul's voyage in the new map, according to his opinion, as well as the commonly received one; that, upon a comparative view of both, the preference may be given to that which feems beft intitled to it. The alterations in the Ellay on the Difpenfations of God to Mankind were too trivial of themselves to have given rise to a third edition; had not the difficulty of procuring copies of either of the preceding ones rendered it neceffary. 6 As |
