Excerpt from Observations on Various Passages of Scripture, Placing Them in a New Light and Ascertaining the Meaning of Several, Not Determinable by the Methods Commonly Made Use of by the Learned, Vol. 1 of 4 In reference to this intended improvement, I had already made some considerable collections of additional materials, to be arranged under the same heads; and had corrected many things in the former edition. To make the work more worthy of the patronage by which it had been honoured, I judged it necessary to make a new ar rangement of its materials; for as the four volumes were pub lished at two different times, and the two last under the same arrangement as the two former, giving additional information on the same subjects, I saw it necessary to amalgamate the first with the third, and the second with the fourth. This I found an extremely difficult task, as multitudes of the Observations had to be variously transposed to bring them into connexion with those of a similar denomination, without which a heterogeneous mixture must have been the consequence. With this, both the Printer and myself were often puzzled; and notwithstanding all the care that has been taken, I have observed a few that have got out of their proper places and probably the reader may find out more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.