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INTRODUCTION

TO THE

CRITICAL STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE

OF THE

HOLY SCRIPTURES.

BY

THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D.

OF SAINT JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

RECTOR OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF SAINT EDMUND THE KING AND MARTYR AND SAINT NICHOLAS ACONS,
LOMBARD STREET; PREBENDARY OF SAINT PAUL'S.

FROM THE EIGHTH

NEW EDITION,

LONDON EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS MAPS AND FAC-SIMILES OF BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS.

VOLUME I.

Philadelphia:

PUBLISHED BY J. WHETHAM & SON, 144 CHESTNUT STREET.

STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON.

1841.

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THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

WILLIAM,

BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE

LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,

PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND, AND METROPOLITAN.

MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,

In offering to the British Public a new edition of the Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, to whom can I dedicate it with more propriety than to your Grace?

While you, my Lord, presided over the Diocese of London, when I was unknown, except by the publication of the first edition, you were pleased to consider the production of a layman, who, by the death of his parents, had been deprived of the opportunity of prosecuting his studies at one of the Universities, sufficient to authorize your Grace to admit me to Holy Orders: and I was thus enabled to realize the long-cherished wish of devoting myself to the service of our Reformed Church, in attachment to whose principles I had been educated at the ROYAL AND ANCIENT FOUNDATION OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.

Your Grace has since honoured my various publications with your approbation; and, in presenting me to the benefice which I now hold, your Grace has enhanced the value of the favour conferred, by the manner in which it was bestowed; kindly and promptly, without expectation, without solicitation.

The former editions of this introduction were inscribed to a late eminent nobleman,* from whom I had received many favours, the grateful remembrance of which I hope to cherish through life. But I could not suffer the work again forth to the public, without offering some memorial of my gratitude to your Grace.

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The very kind and encouraging reception given to my efforts for facilitating the study of the Sacred Volume has animated me to renewed exertion; and in dedicating to your Grace the Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, with the latest corrections and additions, I indulge the hope that it may prove not unworthy of the patronage which your Grace has been pleased to extend to its author.

I have the honour to subscribe myself, my Lord,

Your Grace's much obliged and faithful Servant,

THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE.

JUNE IV. MDCCCXXXIV.

*The Rt. Hon. Charles, Baron Colchester.

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