AN

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

STUDY OF THE BIBLE.

AN

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

STUDY OF THE BIBLE:

BEING THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE

ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY;

CONTAINING PROOFS OF THE

AUTHENTICITY AND INSPIRATION OF THE

HOLY SCRIPTURES;

A SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS;

AN ACCOUNT OF THE JEWISH SECTS;

AND A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SEVERAL
BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

BY THE LATE

GEORGE TOMLINE, D.D. F.R.S.,

LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.

NINETEENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

MDCCCXLV.

J. BILLING,

PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, WOKING, SURREY.

Ir having been suggested to me that a separate Edition of the First Volume of the Elements of Christian Theology might be useful to many persons who have no occasion for the Second, I have been induced to publish the First Volume of that work in this cheap form. If it should be the means of diffusing more widely a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and a belief of their Divine Authority; and especially, if it should lead those who are entrusted with the Education of Youth to make this most important of all Studies a regular branch of Instruction to their Pupils, my object will be fully answered.

This Volume consists of two parts: the first