REFERENCE BIBLE, Designee le Facilitate The Acquisition of Scriptural Knowledge In Prible Classes, Sunday Schools, & Brewster: Also bythe American Sunday 1826. WITH REFERENCES AND A KEY SHEET OF QUESTIONS, GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, DOCTRINAL, PRACTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL; ACCOMPANIED WITH VALUABLE CHRONOLOGICAL HARMONIES OF BOTH TESTAMENTS; CORRECT AND ELEGANT MAPS, AND HIGHLY USEFUL TABLES OF SCRIPTUre names, SCRIPTURE GEOGRAPHY, SCRIPTURE CHRONOLOGY, SCRIPTURE REFERENCES, &C. The whole designed to facilitate THE ACQUISITION OF SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE IN BIBLE CLASSES, SUNDAY SCHOOLS, COMMON SCHOOLS, AND PRIVATE FAMILIES. BY HERVEY WILBUR, A. M. VOL. I. STEREOTYPED BY T. H. CARTER & CO. BOSTON. Boston: PUBLISHED BY CUMMINGS, HILLIARD, & CO. AND CROCKER & BREWSTER; ALSO BY THE AMERICAN SUN DAY SCHOOL UNION, PHILADELPHIA. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the eighteenth day of August, A. D. 1825, in the fiftietn year of the Independence of the United States of America, Her vey Wilbur, A. M. of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit-The Reference Bible, containing an accurate copy of the common English Version of the Old and New Testaments: with References and a Key Sheet of Questions, Geographical, Historical, Doctrinal, Practical, and Experimental; accompanied with valuable Chronological Harmonies of both Testaments; correct and elegant maps, and highly useful tables of Scripture Names, Scripture Geography, Scripture Chronology, Scripture References, &c. The whole designed to facilitate the acquisition of scriptural knowledge in Bible Classes, Sunday Schools, Common Schools, and Private Families. By Hervey Wilbur, A. M." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act, entitled, “An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical, and other prints." Clerk of the District NO. W. DAVIS, of Massachusetts. Advertisement. The editor of the Reference Bible has felt a deeper interest in promoting among the young an intimate acquaintance with the Scriptures than in any other object whatever. His success in turning the attention of the public to this object, is strongly attested in the circulation of above fifty thousand copies of works with his name. The approbation so universally bestowed on the New Testament, on the plan which is here, with enlargement, applied to the whole Scriptures, encourages the hope that the imperfections of this The work will not prevent it from meeting with a favourable reception. destruction of some of the copy when the Stereotype Foundry was burnt, must be his apology for the obviously hasty application of some reference letters. The Chronological Harmony of the Old Testament is the syllabus of a new English publication by Townsend, and reputed of sterling excellence. The peculiar advantages to be derived from a work which costs nine dollars, is here condensed within the compass of thirty pages. For the excellent harmony of the New Testament, the editor is indebted to the kindness of his literary friend the Rev. S. F. Jarvis, D. D. late Rector of St. Paul's Church, Boston. A Bible Atlas recently executed in England has supplied the maps. Renewed acknowledgments are here tendered to Rev. Drs. Miller and Lindsley of Princeton, Rev. Professor Goodrich of New-Haven, Rev. Justin Edwards of Andover, and Messrs. J. E. Worcester, and J. W. Gibbs for the assistance received from them in preparing the Tables. By the politeness of Professor G. access has been had to a new work from Edinburgh, from which important aid has been obtained in the application of Walker's general principles of pronunciation. It is now confidently believed that the Reference Bible can be read more understandingly, correctly, and profitably, than any other edition. The REFERENCE LETTERS and KEY are adapted to exercise the understanding about the ideas contained in each paragraph of the oracles of God, and thus break up a habit lamentably common of reading mechanically or without reflection; the MAPS and TABLES relating to Etymology, Geography, Chronology, Prophecy, and other miscellaneous subjects, by elucidating many passages, will add to the interest with which they will be perused; and the marking of the proper names with the figure vowels of Walker's Dictionary, a work now in general use, will tend to render their pronunciation easy, accurate, and uniform. What ANALOGIES between What prophecy is here ACCOM- written? What BLESSING is here sought; What trait of moral CHARAC What DUTY is here enjoined? What DIFFICULTY attends the E What EVANGELICAL EX- What FACTS are here related: What can you discover here that is commendable or censurable in What HEAVENLY DISPOSI- t What corresponding affections T What INSTITUTION or ordi- Dance! What INSTRUCTIONS are imparted in this parable? or in this metaphor? What is their practical tendency? What KNOWLEDGE, or want of knowledge of human nature is here particularly manifested i What statute, rite, service, or appendage of the LEVITICAL DISPENSATION is here mentioned? Why appointed? What LOFTY FLIGHTS of devotional fervour? What longings after intimate communion with God are here manifested! What MIRACLE is here recorded? By whom, and for what purpose wrought! In whose name, and by whose authority? What effect had it on the witnesses ? What is worthy of particular notice in this NÁMÉ ! What ORIENTAL or ancient What prophecy is here RE- What affecting SCENE is here What SUBLIMITY of thought or of language is here? What inference follows! What doctrinal TRUTH is here What UNJUSTIFIABLE ac- ⚫ Denotes the propriety of profound attention. |