THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT CONNECTED, IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS, AND NEIGHBOURING NATIONS; FROM THE DECLENSION OF THE KINGDOMS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH, TO THE TIME OF CHRIST. BY HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX, D. D. DEAN OF NORWICH. SECOND AMERICAN, FROM THE TWENTIETH LONDON EDITION. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, CONTAINING SOME LETTERS WHICH HE WROTE IN DEFENCE AND ILLUS- THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND PLATES. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS No. 82 CLIFF-STREET. 1836. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DANIEL, EARL OF NOTTINGHAM, PRESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL. MY LORD, IT being by your recommendation to your noble father, that I was by him made Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Norwich, while he was Lord Chancellor of England, and it being also by your Lordship's like favourable recommendation of me to her late Majesty, Queen Anne, that I was promoted to be Dean of the same church, I humbly offer unto your Lordship this product of my studies, in a grateful acknowledgment of the favours I have received from you. And, if the public receive any benefit from it (as I hope some may,) nothing is more just and reasonable, than that they should receive it through your Lordship's hands, who, in having been so much a patron to the Author, have acquired thereby the best title to all the fruits of my labours. What I now offer unto your Lordship is only the first part of what is intended. If God gives life, the second shall follow, and beg its passage into the world under the same patronage. The only additional favour I am now capable of receiving, is your Lordship's kind acceptance of this expression of my gratitude; which I humbly pray from your hands; and I am, MY LORD, Your most obedient, and Most obliged humble Servant, HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX. |