AN

EXPOSITION

OF THE

HISTORICAL WRITINGS

OF THE

NEW TESTAMENT,

WITH REFLECTIONS SUBJOINED TO EACH SECTION,

BY THE LATE

REV. TIMOTHY KENRICK.

WITH A

MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.

FROM THE SECOND LONDON OCTAVO EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW.

BOSTON :

MUNROE AND FRANCIS, 128 WASHINGTON-STREET,

CORNER OF WATER-STREET.

1828.

PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

Ar an interval of seventeen years from its first appearance, a new edition of this work is offered to the public. Those who have used it in their private study of the Scriptures, or the religious instruction of their families, have borne uniform testimony to its clearness as a guide in the interpretation of the New Testament, and to the piety, simplicity, and energy, with which the hopes and duties of the Christian are illustrated and enforced in the practical reflections.

When this new edition was originally projected, it was intended to add Notes; but this plan having been abandoned for want of adequate encouragement, the present work will be found to vary only by some verbal alterations and occasional difference of arrangement, from the first edition. Nothing has been added