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let the sweet savour of Jehovah our God be upon us,

AND THE WORK WE TAKE IN HAND DIRECT FOR US;
THE WORK WE TAKE IN HAND DO THOU DIRECT!

PSAL. XC. 17. BISHOP HORSLEY'S VERSION.

IF I HAVE DONE WELL AND AS IS FITTING THE STORY, IT IS THAT WHICH

I DESIRED; BUT IF SLENDERLY AND MEANLY, IT IS THAT WHICH I COULD ATTAIN UNTO.

2 MACCABEES XV. 38.

DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.

ORDER FOR PLACING THE ENGRAVINGS AND MAPS.

The Fac-Simile of the Biblia Pauperum, to face the Title Page of Vol. II.

Plate I. The Fac-Simile of the Codex Vaticanus to face Vol. II.

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II. Codex Cottonianus of the book of Genesis, to face
III. Codex Cottonianus, Harleianus, &c. .
IV. Codex Bezæ

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V. Fac-Similes of the Codex Rescriptus, discovered at Milan, and of the Codex Argenteo-Purpureus at Vienna ... 94 VI. Codex Rescriptus of St. Matthew's Gospel... VII. Fac-Simile of a MS. of the Acts of the Apostles VIII. Codex Ebnerianus

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IX. Map of Palestine, with the Divisions into Tribes, to face the
Title Page of Vol. III.

X. Map of Judæa, adapted to the Gospel History, to face Vol.
III. page 14.

XI. Map of the Journeyings of the Israelites, to face the Title

Page of Vol. IV.

XII. Map of the Travels of the Apostles, to face Vol. IV. page

304.

XIII. Fac-Simile of the Codex Montfortianus, and of the Complutensian Polyglott, to face Vol IV. page 436.

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

CRITICAL STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE

OF

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

ON THE GENUINENESS, AUTHENTICITY INSPIRATION, ETC. OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

CHAPTER I.

ON THE NECESSITY, ETC. OF A DIVINE REVELATION.

1. Revelation defined. - II. A divine revelation, possible. -- III. And probable.-IV. Its necessity shewn from the state of moral and religious knowledge among the antients.-V. And also from the actual state of religion and morals among the modern heathen nations.-VI. Refutation of the objection, that philosophy and right reason are sufficient to instruct men in their duty. — VII. On the possible means of affording a revelation.

THAT there now is, and that for more than three thousand years there has been, in the world, a separate people called the Jews, who are distinguished by peculiar customs, and profess a peculiar religion: -Further, that there now is, and that for more than eighteen centuries there has existed, in the world, a religion called the CHRISTIAN; and that its professors, as well as the Jews, appeal to certain books, by them accounted sacred, as the basis on which their religion is founded:-These are FACTS which no one can controvert.

I. The volume, to which Jews and Christians thus respectively appeal is termed the BIBLE, that is, THE BOOK, by way of eminence. It comprises a great number of different narratives and compositions, written by several persons, at distant periods, in different languages, and on various subjects. Yet all of these, collectively, claim to be a

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