L XXIPENIUS in his Bibliotheca realis Theologica; Cave in his Hiftoria Literaria; Du Pin in his Nouvelle Bibliotheque; Bray in his Bibliotheca Parochialis; Calmet in his Bibliotheca Sacra; Fabricius, De Bure, Walchius, and a great many others, have published accounts of the principal writers on Theological Subjects; I have no intention to emulate the labours of these learned Men; but as fome of the Clergy have ability to purchase, and many of them inclination to use a Theological Library, I thought it might be of advantage to the younger part of them, if I put down a few of the most approved Books in Divinity, which have come to my knowledge. My chief difficulty in forming this Catalogue, has been to make it a fhort one; for the number of books explanatory of Scripture, which any perfon, who has a tafte for this kind of learning, would wish to be poffeffed of, not so much for the fake of perufing, as of confulting them, is very great. Our English writers alone on Scripture Subjects, are exceeding numerous; the reader who wishes to see what the number was, above a century ago, may consult a book published at London, 1668, 2d Ed. intitled,-The Catalogue of our English Writers on the old and new Teftament, either in whole or in part, whether Commentators, Elucidators, Annotators, Expofitors at large or in fingle Sermons.-It might have been expected that I fhould have given a more scientific form to this Catalogue, and if I had been making a complete Bibliotheca Sacra, I would have done it; but in the few books which are here enumerated, I thought it as ufeful to arrange them according to their fize, as to their fubject. I am fenfible that I have omitted in this Catalogue the mention of many books, which other men would have introduced into it; but fo I should have done, though I had made it twice as long as it is; and yet it is fo copious, that, I believe, there are few fubjects in divinity, on which the Student may not find fufficient Information, by confulting fome or other of the Authors here enumerated. It is probable too, that fome may find fault with me for having introduced books which they would have omitted; I mean those books, efpecially, which maintain Doctrines oppofite to the Articles of the Church of England. But I intreat them to confider, whether we were not Members of the Church of Chrift, before we were Members of the Church of England; and again and again to reflect, whether we can promote the interefts of the Church of Chrift, by stifling the Arguments of those who think, that as the Church of Ferufalem, Alexandria, Antioch and Rome have erred, fo alfo the Church of England hath erred, not only in their living and manner of ceremonies, VOL.VI. A but but also in matters of faith. If in this point they think amifs, their ar guments will be overthrown and produce no effect; but if they think rightly, God grant that they may produce their proper effect the prevalence of Gospel Truth,-And whether they think rightly or amifs, can never be fo clearly known, as by encouraging them, on the most liberal principles, to publish to the world the refult of their critical inquiries into the meaning of Scripture Language. XXNETUS Teftamentum Hebraicum cum variis Lectionibus. EdiV dit Benj. Kennicot S.T.P. Oxonii, 1776-80, 2 vol.-The Author of this Work certainly poffefled the pooviav of the diftinguifhed writers of the laft century: the great utility of this Collation of Hebrew MSS. will beft be known, when the prefent English Tranflation of the old Teftament fhall be amended by Authority; an event which many good men anxiously expect. Biblia Hebraica cum Notis criticis et Verfione Latina ad Notas criticas facta; accedunt Libri Græci qui Deutero-Canonici vocantur in tres Claffes diftributi. Auctore Car. Fran. Houbigant, Lutetiæ Parifiorum, 1753. 4 vol.-The opinion of the Integrity of the common printed Hebrew Text is fhewn, in this Edition of the Bible, to be erroneous; Houbigant having, in this point, anticipated, in fome meafure, the labours of Kennicot. The Latin Verfion, from its conformity to the Idiom of the Hebrew Language, is efteemed inelegant; but it may not on that account be lefs ufeful. The Hebrew Concordance adapted to the English Bible, difpofed after the Manner of Buxtorf, by John Taylor of Norwich, Lond. 1754, 2 vol.-The firft Concordances of the Holy Scriptures were compofed in the 13th Century, and were of the Latin Vulgate. Concordances gave rife to Lexicons and Dictionaries; and the learned Author of this Concordance recommends it, as not merely ferving to find places of Scripture, but as the beft Hebrew Lexicon which is extant. Other Hebrew Concordances are, That by Marius de Calafio, Rome, 1621, 4 vol. A new edition of which was published by W. Romaine, Lond. 1747.-That by W. Robertfon, intitled, Thefaurus Linguæ Sanétæ five Concordantiale Lexicon Hebræo-Latinum-Biblicum, Lond. 1680.-And that by Buxtorf, which Taylor made the Ground-work of his own, and of which bishop Barlow fays, though it be lefs, yet whether it be not better than Calafio's, Docti judicent. Vetus Teftamentum Græcum ex verfione LXX Interpretum, ex Antiquiffimo quiffimo MS. Alexandrino, et Ope aliorum Exemplarium, ac prifcorum Scriptorum, præfertim vero Hexaplaris Editionis Origeniana emendatum atque fuppletum; fumma cura edidit Joan. Erneftus Grabe S.T.P. Oxonii, 1707, &c. 2 vol. An improved Edition of this Work was publifhed by Breitinger Tiguri Helvetiorum, 1730, 4 vol. 4to. A Colation of the MSS. of the Septuagint, as recommended by Dr. Ower, would certainly be very acceptable to the learned World; and I have no doubt in thinking, that the Syndics of the University Press in Cambridge, would lend a very liberal Affiftance to any one, who wou.d undertake to publifh a properly collated Edition of this ancier.t Verfion. Daniel fecundum Septuaginta ex Tetraplis Origenis, nunc primum editus e fingulari Chifiano Codice annorum fupra 800, Romæ, 1772. The portion of the Chifianus Codex, which is here published, is diftinguished in the MS. itfelf by this note, Daniel fecundum LXX defcriptus eft ab Exemplari ejufmodi Notationem habente depromptus eft Tetraplis cum quibus eft recognitus." In all the Editions of the Septuagint, the Book of Daniel is thought to be printed from the Tranflation of Theodotion, or at least not from the pure Verfion of the LXX, (fee Dr. Owen's learned Inquiry into the present State of the Septuagint Verfion), but the Tetrapla of Origen contained the real pure Verfion of the LXX; and it is this Verfion of the Book of Daniel which the learned Author has published, after it had been neglected for above 1500 years. A literal English Tranflation of this real Septuagint Verfion of Daniel, accompanied with proper Notes, would be a Work of Credit and I throw out the hint in hopes that fome one amongst ourselves may have inclination to purfue it. ; Abrahami Trommii Concordantiæ Græcæ Verfionis vulgo dicte Septuaginta Interpretum. Amftel. 1718, 2 vol. Taylor, in fpeaking of his Hebrew Concordance, commends this Greek one as a very exact and judicious Work, and points out the manner of using it to great advantage in conjunction with his own. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta complectentia Textus Originales Hebraicum cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Græcum; verfionumque antiquarum Samaritanæ, Græcæ LXXII Interpretum, Chaldaicæ, Syriaca, Arabicæ, Æthiopicæ, Perficæ, Vulg. Lat. quicquid comparari poterat. Edidit Brianus Waltonus S. T. P. Lond. 1657, 6 vol. Other Polyglots of repute are, That published under the Aufpices of Cardinal Ximenes at Alcala cr Complutum in 1514, &c. 6 vol. That by Arias Montanus at Antwerp, 1569, &c. 8 vol. That which goes under the name of Vetablus, at Heidelberg, 1568, 2 vol. and that by Mich. le Jay at Paris, 1645, 10 vol. of which De Bure, in his Bibliographie Inftructive, fays, that Walton's was but a re-impreffion. The truth is, that every fubfequent Polyglot was an improvement upon the preceding; and Walton's, as being the laft, comprehends, together with various Additions, every Thing of Value that is contained in any of the reft. The Prolegomena prefixed to this Polyglot will give much information to the Reader, concerning facred Chronology from the Creation of the World to the Deftruction of Jerufalem by the Romans; concerning the Monies, Weights, and Measures of the Hebrews, A 2 Greeks, Greeks, and Romans; concerning the Geography of the Holy Land; Lexicon Heptaglotton Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samarita- Novum Teftamentum Græcum Editionis receptæ, cum Lectionibus va- An ufed more than once by the Writers of the new Teftament; for, by a comparison of the fenfes in which it has been used in different places, he will be able to investigate the fenfe it bears in the place in queftion. Harmonia Evangelica, cui subjecta eft Hiftoria Chrifti ex quatuor Evangeliis concinnata. Accefferunt tres Differtationes de annis Chrifti, de que Concordia et Auctoritate Evangeliorum, auctore Joan.Clerico. Amftel. 1699. and in English in 4to. Lond. 17or. An Harmony of the Gofpels, in which the Original Text is difpofed after Le Clerc's general Manner, with fuch various Readings at the Foot of the Page, as have received Wetstein's Sanction in his folio Edition of the Greek Teftament. Obfervations are fubjoined tending to fettle the Time and Place of every Tranfaction, to eftablish the Series of Facts, and to reconcile feeming Inconfiftencies. By W. Newcome, D. D. Bishop of Offory. Dublin, 1778. Many other Harmonies of the Gofpels have been publifhed, but none preferable to this. Critici Sacri, five doctiffimorum Virorum in SS. Biblia Annotationes et Tractatus. Lond. 1660, et Amftel. 1698. Cornelius Bee, the Printer of this great Work, and who had a Patent for the Sale of it, thus intimates its Value to the Reader. "Hic enim circiter libri nonaginta, iique integri, in novem coierunt, et libræ plus minus quinquagena (nuper vix aut ne vix minoris hæc omnia coemiffes) jam ad quindenas rediguntur." The prefent Price of this Work is not above two or three pounds. Amongst the 90 Authors whofe Annotations on the whole or on different parts of the Bible are here printed intire, we meet with the names of Munfter, Fagius, Vetablus, Caftalio, Clarius, Drufius, Grotius, Erasmus, Scaliger, Cafaubon, Capellus, Scultetus, Pricæus, &c. Synopfis Criticorum aliorumque S. Scripturæ Interpretum. Opera Mat. Poli. Lond. 1669-74, 5 vol.-This Work is a kind of an Abridgment of the preceding, inriched however with many additions. It certainly may be of great ufe to those who have not the command of many Books; and it is now fold for five and twenty or thirty fhillings. It was reprinted at Utretch in 1684; and fince that time two other Editions of it have been publifhed in Germany: which fhews, that, into whatever degree of neglect this Synopfis may have fallen amongft,ourfelves, it is much efteemed abroad. Hugonis Grotii Opera omnia Theologica in tres Tomos (usually bound in four Volumes) divifa, ante quidem per partes nunc autem conjunEtim et accuratius Edita. Amftel. 1679, 4 vol. Another Edition at Bafil, 1732. Grotius was of the fame age with Epifcopius, whose Theological Inftitutes he fo greatly admired, that he is said to have always carried them about with him. Calmet affirms, that Grotius' Opinions are very ambiguous as to the Article of Chrift's Divinity, and the Doctrine of Original Sin; that his Preface and Explanation of the Canticles are fcandalous; that he weakens or reduces almost to nothing the Prophecies relating to Jefus Chrift. Notwithstanding this cenfure, Grotius is deservedly esteemed one of the best general Commentators on Scripture. Vitringa fays of him, Hugo Grotius Evros Ev doypaow & hiav axgins, fed eruditionis et limati cætera judicii refpectu haud A 3 dubie |