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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;

то 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 Whitfun Week, 1787.

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

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

M DCC LXXXIX.

BIBL

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.

LECTURE I

THE

INTRODUCTION:

IN WHICH IT IS SHEWN, HOW THE LANGUAGE

OF THE SCRIPTURE DIFFERS FROM THAT

OF OTHER BOOKS; AND WHENCE ITS OBSCU-
RITY ARISES.

WHEN

I.

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

The world which God hath open to every eye; but to look B

made is

upon the

works

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