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A

COURSE OF LECTURES

ON THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OF THE

HOLY SCRIPTURE,

AND THE

Interpretation of it from the Scripture itself.

DELIVERED IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF

NAYLAND IN

SUFFOLK,

IN THE YEAR 1786;

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

FOUR LECTURES ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE

OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,

AS IT IS SET FORTH IN

THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.

A SINGLE

ALSO,

LECTURE ON THE

NATURAL EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY;

DELIVERED AS A SERMON ON MR. FAIRCHILD'S FOUNDA
TION, AT THE CHURCH OF ST. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH,

On the Tuesday in Whitsun Week, 1787.

BY WILLIAM JONES, M. A. F.R.S.
Author of the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, &c.

SECOND

EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON, Pater-noster Row.

M DCC LXXXIX.

TO THE MOST REVEREND HIS GRACE

JOHN MOORE, D. D.

LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,

PRIMATE AND METROPOLITAN OF ALL ENGLAND;

THIS VOLUME OF

LECTURES

INTENDED TO PROMOTE A MORE ACCURATE AND

INTERESTING KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIVINE

LANGUAGE AND DOCTRINE OF THE

OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,

IS MOST HUMBLY RECOMMENDED

LECTURE I.

THE

INTRODUCTION:

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IN WHICH IT IS SHEWN, HOW THE LANGUAGE

OF THE SCRIPTURE DIFFERS FROM THAT

OF OTHER BOOKS; AND WHENCE ITS OBSCU

RITY ARISES.

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HEN the maker of the world be- LECT comes an author, his word must

be as perfect as his work: the glory of his wisdom must be declared by the one as evidently as the glory of his power is by the other: and if nature repays the philosopher for his experiments, the scripture can never disappoint those who are properly exercised in the study of it.

The world which God hath made is

open to every eye; but to look upon the works

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