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A TABLE of the ARTICLES

For JAN U A RY 1731.

Art. I.

A

Discourse of the History, Reli-

gion, and Laws of the Jews. By

the late Reverend and Learned W. Wotton,

D.D. &c. communicated by Anthony Ham-

mond, Esq;

p. 5

II. A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of

St. John, &c. by Charles Daubuz, M. A. &c.

New modell’d and abridg'd by Peter Lanca-

ster, A. M. &c.

p. 27

III. Sermons on several Subjects, being a conti-

nuation of the Pofthumous Works of Samuel

Clarke, D.D. &c.

p. 40

IV. The present State of the Cape of Good

Hope, &c.* Done into English from the Ori-

ginal by Mr. Medleg.

p. 55

V. Letters, giving an Account of several Con-

versations, &c. Written originally in French

by Mr. St. Hyacintbe, F.R.S.

VI. Eternal and Immutable Morality, by Ralph

Cudworth, D. D. &c.

VII Lectures in Opticks, read in the Publick

Schools by Sir Isaac Newton, Knt. &c. p. 69

P. 62

P. 66

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VIII. State

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PRESENT STATE

OF THE

Republick of Letters

For JANUARY 1731.

ARTICLE I.

A DISCOURSE of the History, Religion,

and Laws of the Jews. By the late Reverend and Learned W. Wotton, D.D. Author of the Reflections of ancient and modern Learning. Now first published from bis Original Manuscripts.

T

HE great key which will lead us to the

understanding of the Old Testament, is

the consideration that it directs us all along to a nobler dispensation which is set forth to us in the New. Christ Jesus was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world ; for as soon as Adam and Eve had, by eating the forbidden fruit, lost their innocence in Paradise, from whence they were immediately thereupon JANUARY 1731.

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