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The first American, from the Sixteenth London edition.

TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED,

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Which contains some Letters which he wrote in Defence and
Illustration of certain parts of his CONNEXIONS.

THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT NEW MAPS ANT)
PLATES, AND A FINE PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.

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To the Right Honourable DANIEL, Earl of

MY LORD,

Nottingham.

HAVING now, by God's assistance, finished this Second Part of the Connexion of the History of the Old and New Testaments, which I promised your Lordship when I presented you with the First Part, I humbly offer it to your acceptance, hoping it may be received with the same favour and candour as the former; which I humbly pray from your Lordship and am,

My Lord,

Your most obedient, and

Most obliged humble Servant,

HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX.

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PREFACE.

THE SECOND PART of this history, which I now offer to the public, completes the whole of what I intend. My first purpose was to have concluded at the birth of our Saviour, and to have left what thenceforth ensues to the ecclesiastical historian of the Christian church, to whom it properly belongs. But since what is to connect the Old Testament with the New will there best end where the dispensation of the Old Testament endeth, and that of the New begins, and since that was brought to pass in the death and resurrection of our Saviour, I have drawn down this history thereto. For then the Jewish church was abolished, and the Christian erected in its stead; then the law of Moses ceased, and that of Christ and his gospel commenced, and therein the accomplishment of all the prophecies of the Old Testament relating to the person of the Messiah, which began at his birth, was fully perfected. And therefore, here I have thought it properest, to fix the conclusion of this work. But to avoid encroaching too far upon the Christian ecclesiastical historian, I have from the time of Christ's birth treated but in a very brief manner of what afterwards ensued to his death; and have passed over the whole time of the public ministration both of him and his forerunner. For all things that were done therein being fully related in the four gospels, which are, or ought to be, in every one's hands, barely to repeat them here would be needless, and all that can be done beyond a bare repetition, is either to methodise them according to the order of time, or to explain them by way of interpretation; but the former belonging to the harmonist, and the latter to the commentator, they are both out of the province I have undertaken.

I having, in the preface to the First Part of this history, recommended to the reader, for his geographical guidance in the reading of it, the maps of Cellarius,

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