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; 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. Printed for G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON, Pater-nofter 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 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- 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 |