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COLLECTION

OF

THEOLOGICAL TRACTS,

IN SIX VOLUMES.

By RICHARD WATSON, D. D. F. R. S.
LORD BISHOP of LANDAFF,

AND

REGIUS PROFESSOR of DIVINITY in the UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE.

VOL. III.

CAMBRIDGE,

Printed by J. ARCHDEACON Printer to the UNIVERSITY;
for J. & J. MERRILL, Cambridge; T. EVANS, London;
and J. & J. FLETCHER, Oxford.

M. DCC.LXXXV.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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CONTENT S.

A Dissertation on the Ancient Verfions of the Bible; fhewing why our English Translation differs fo much from them, and the excellent Ufe that may be made of them towards attaining the true Readings of the Holy Scriptures in doubtful Places. In a Letter to a Friend. The second Edition, prepared for the Prefs by the Author before his Death, and now printed from his own Manufcript. By the late Rev. Dr. THOMAS BRETT. Lond, 1760.

p. 1. In the Year 1729, Doctor Brett published a Chronological Effay in Defence of the Computation of the Septuagint: In that Tract he obferves, that if the Reader "compares the xivth Pfalm in his Bible, which is tranflated from the Hebrew, with the fame Pfalm in his Common→ Prayer-Book, tranflated from the Septuagint, he will find that in his Common-Prayer-Book, there are four whole Verfes more than are in his Bible, viz., 4, 5, 6, 7. Yet these Verfes are every one of them cited by St. Paul in the fame Words, Rom. iii. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18." For the clearing up of this and fimilar Difficulties, he wrote, in the fame Year, the Effay which is here re-published; the first Edition of it came out in 1742, feveral Years after it had been compofed. It is an excellent Differtation, and cannot fail of being very useful to fuch as have not Leifure or Opportunity to confult Dr. Hody's Book, de Bibliorum Textibus; Bishop Walton's Prolegomena to his Polyglot; Du Pin's Canon of Scripture; Dean Prideaux's Account of the Hebrew Scrip→ tures in the 2d Vol. 8vo, of the Old and New Teftament connected; The 2d Book of Lamy's Apparatus Biblicus; Lewis' Origines Hebrææ, and other Works of a like Nature. Dr. Owen's Inquiry into the prefent State of the Septuagint Verfion, Lond. 1769, is very deferving of the Reader's Attention.

An Hiftorical Account of the feveral English Translations of the Bible, and the Oppofition they met with from the Church of Rome. By ANTHONY JOHNSON, A. M. Lond. 1730. p. 60.

In the Preface to Poole's Annotations on the Bible, there is a fhort Account of the English Translations of it; and a Tract was printed in London, 1778, intitled, A Lift of various Editions of the Bible, and Parts thereof, in

wifhes to English, from the Year 1526, to 1776. If the Reader

wifhes to make a deeper Inquiry into this Subject, he will find full Information, not only with respect to various Tranflations of the Bible into English, but into a great many other Languages, in Mr. Le Long's Bibliotheca Sacra.

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