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A

COURSE OF LECTURES

ON THE

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

OF THE

HOLY SCRIPTURE,

AND THE

INTERPRETATION OF IT FROM THE SCRIPTURE ITSEL?

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.

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

AND INSCRIBED,

BY

HIS GRACE'S

MOST OBLIGED,

MOST FAITHFUL AND OBEDIENT

HUMBLE SERVANT,

WILLIAM JONES.

A

COURSE OF LECTURES,

&c. &c.

LECTURE I.

THE

INTRODUCTION:

IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN, HOW THE LANGUAGE OF THE SCRIPTURE DIFFERS FROM THAT OF OTHER BOOKS ; AND WHENCE ITS OBSCURITY ARISES.

WHEN the maker of the world becomes 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 of nature, and to look into the ways of nature, are very different things; the latter of which is the result of much labour and observation. If the œconomy of nature be not to be learned from a transient inspection of the heavens and the earth; and if the ground will not yield its strength

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