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THE GENUINENESS, PRESERVATION, AUTHENTICITY,
INSPIRATION, FACTS, DOCTRINES,

MIRACLES, PROPHECIES, AND PRECEPTS,

OF

THE WORD OF GOD.

THE WHOLE OF THE ARGUMENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

DRAWN FROM THE PAGES OF

THE COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE,

BY THE

EDITOR OF THAT WORK.

LONDON:

SAMUEL BAGSTER, PATERNOSTER ROW.

M.DCCC.XXXL

MINA

CHEC

LONDON:

SAMUEL BAGSTER, JUN. PRINTER,

14, Bartholomew Close.

PREFA CE.

As the present volume is derived from the pages of the "COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE," it may be necessary to state briefly of what that work consists. Besides the Sacred Text, the Chronology, the Various Readings, the Contents, Indexes, and a vast body of Parallel Passages, it contains (what more particularly demands a distinct specification,) upwards of 4000 Notes, and an ample Introduction.

The NOTES are chiefly selected from the most eminent Biblical Critics and Commentators, both British and Foreign; and are designed to improve the Authorized Version, where it has been conceived to be faulty; to explain words which, since the days of our venerable translators, have either become obsolete, changed their signification, or become less comprehensive in their import; to elucidate really difficult passages; to reconcile or account for apparent discrepancies, whether in the History, Chronology, or any other department; to illustrate the ideas, images, and allusions of the Sacred Writers, by a reference to objects, idioms, customs, manners, and laws, which were peculiar to their age or country, or to Oriental nations; to explain, by short notices, the Geography, Natural History, and Antiquities of Judea, and other Eastern countries; and to furnish brief but comprehensive Introductions, embracing a short analysis, to each book.

In the General INTRODUCTION, the object of the Editor was to supply such information as might be necessary to a correct acquaintance with the Sacred Volume; and it consists of disquisitions on the Genuineness, Uncorrupted Preservation, Authenticity, and Inspiration of the Sacred Writings; on the

Divisions and Marks of Distinction which occur in the Scriptures; on the Manuscripts and Printed Editions; on the Samaritan Pentateuch, Ancient Versions, and the Authorized English Version; on the Jewish Writings, the Apostolic and Primitive Fathers, and Doctors of the Church; on the Jewish Sects, Factions, and Orders of Men; on the Jewish and other Coins, Weights, and Measures; on the Jewish and Roman modes of Computing Time; and on the Geography and History of the Nations mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures.

From this mass of materials such portions have been selected as comported with the design of this work, merely adding occasionally a few connecting words, or such passages of Scripture as were necessary for the correct apprehension of the subject. A great body of notes, (at least as much as would form a volume of equal dimensions with the present) on the Geography, Natural History, Antiquities, Manners, Customs, &c., of Judea and other Eastern Countries, has necessarily been left untouched, as they were foreign to the object of this work. This object was, generally, to establish the Genuineness, Uncorrupted Preservation, Authenticity, and Inspiration of the Sacred Volume, and specially, in the illustration of the arguments on these all important topics, to prove the principal Facts, to illustrate the Miracles, to shew the fulfilment of the Prophecies, to exhibit the Harmony, and to display the Doctrines and Precepts of the WORD OF GOD. In the prosecution of this design, the Author has sedulously laboured, he trusts not altogether in vain; and he would earnestly implore the Divine Blessing to render the work efficient for the purpose of convincing the unbeliever, of confirming the wavering, of strengthening the weak, of instructing the ignorant, and of building up the believer in his most holy Faith, that being built " on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone," and led by the Holy Spirit, both the Writer and Reader, through the merits of the Atonement of the Son of God, may finally find that, "when heart and flesh fail," God is "the strength of their heart, and their portion for ever."

LONDON, January 4, 1831.

SYNOPTICAL

CONTENT S.

CHAPTER I. The Genuineness of the sacred Scriptures proved
1. From their having always been received as genuine
(1.) The earlier books being cited or alluded to by the subse-
quent sacred writers.

(2.) By the testimony of Jewish translators and writers to the

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Old Testament

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(3.) By quotations or allusions to the New Testament by a re-
gular succession of Christian writers

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(4.) From their genuineness never having been impugned by
Jewish or heathen adversaries, or heretics

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2. From the language and style of writing both in the Old and New Testaments

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(1.) Their diversity of style proving them to be the works of
various authors

Of the style of Isaiah

Of the style of Jeremiah

Of the style of Ezekiel

Of the style of Daniel
Of the style of Hosea
Of the style of Joel
Of the style of Amos
Of the style of Jonah
Of the style of Micah
Of the style of Nahum
Of the style of Habakkuk

Of the style of Haggai

Of the style of Malachi

Of the style of Matthew

Of the style of John

Of the style of Paul

Of the style of Peter

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