Mr. CLARK begs leave respectfully to acquaint the CLERGY and STUDENTS of DIVINITY, that the undermentioned Works will speedily be published.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

1. JUSTIN MARTYR-HIS LIFE, WRITINGS, AND DOCTRINES.

By the REV. CHARLES SEMISCH, of Trebnitz, in Silesia.
Translated from the German by J. E. RYLAND, Esq.

2. ELEMENTS OF CHURCH HISTORY. By the REV. DAVID WELSH, D.D.,

Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Edinburgh.

BIBLICAL CRITICISM AND EXPOSITION.

3. HISTORICO-GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT
OF PALESTINE IN THE TIME OF CHRIST;
Or, The Bible Student's Help to a thorough Knowledge of Scripture.
By D. J. RÖHR.

SEVENTH EDITION.

Translated from the German by the Rev. DAVID ESDAILE,

WITH NOTES AND CORRECTIONS.

4. COMMENTARIES ON THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN. By DR. C. C. TITTMAN,

Professor of Theology in the University of Wittenberg.

5. EXPOSITION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, &c. By DR. E. W. HENGSTENBERG,

Professor of Theology in the University of Berlin,
Translated by the Rev. PATRICK FAIRBAIRN.

SACRED HERMENEUTICS.

Just Published, in one large volume, Octavo,

SACRED HERMENEUTICS DEVELOPED AND APPLIED;

INCLUDING

A HISTORY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION, FROM THE EARLIEST OF THE FATHERS TO THE REFORMATION.

By the REV. SAMUEL DAVIDSON, LL.D.,

Professor of Biblical Literature, Ecclesiastical History, and Oriental Languages, in the Lancashire Independent College, Manchester, Author of "LECTURES on BIBLICAL CRITICISM."

Προηγουμένως πρόσεχε τῇ τῶν θείων γραφῶν ἀναγνώσει· ἀλλὰ πρόσεχε,
πολλῆς γὰρ προσοχῆς ἀναγινώσκοντες τὰ θεῖα δέομεθα.—ORIGEN.

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M DCCC XLIII.

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PREFACE.

THE following work is intended to complete the plan which the writer proposed, when publishing his Lectures on Biblical Criticism. Having prepared the way for the interpretation of the sacred volume by describing the principles on which the text is adjusted, it remained for him to unfold the general rules that should guide the Biblical expositor in ascertaining and presenting the truc meaning. Such a system of Hermeneutics has accordingly been attempted. The fundamental principles, constituting the theory of interpretation, have been laid down and exemplified. As it would have been comparatively useless to state naked precepts apart from the mode in which they should be applied in exegesis, numerous examples are given, which may lead the inquiring student to a right apprehension of the extensive operation of a few hermeneutical laws.

The volume is published under the impression that such an one was needed. It is true, that there are various books on Hermeneutics in the English language, but none of them is constructed on the plan which the author regards as best adapted to the subject. They are unnecessarily brief, encumbered with a multiplicity of rules, deficient in examples, objectionable in arrangement, or partially antiquated. A course has been pursued differing in several respects from that of other writers-a course