Expository Notes, With Practical Observations, on the New Testament, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Right Hon. and Bight Bev. Father in God, HENRY, LORD BISHOP OF LONDON, one of herM ajestys moat Honourable Privy CounciL My LORD, rever my mean labours were a blessing to the people of my charge, I with them, and they with me, have abundant cause to bless Almighty God for your Lordship, who was the immediate instrument of my coming amongst them. And we jointly lie under superadded obligations to your Lordship, for repeated inB tances of respect to this poor town in general, and to myself in particular, in an allowance for one to assist the minister of this place, in that great work which is here daily incumbent upon him. I think myself therefore obliged, both in duty and gratitude, to gie your Lordship anaeeount how I have spent my Ume here, (especially since I have had help by your Loidships particular favour;) which has been employed as I could redeem it, in an endeavour to render the reading of theN ew Testament profitable and delightful to my people, both in their families and private apartments. In which undertaking my care has been, to be as clear and particular as I could, with an eye to the benefit of the plain and unlearned reader; and have suited things, as far as their nature would bear, and my skill would reach, to the most ordinary capacities and vulgar apprehenaions. And whatever the success may be, I hope I shall receive the reward of an honest endeavovr from Him, who esdmates our pains, not by their events, which are not incor power, but by their natural tendencies, and our sincere intentions. My Lord, controversies are here industriously declined, as inconsistent with my -chief design; yet not so as knowingly to betray any text, or wilfully to deliver up truth into the hands of its avowed enemies, wheU ier Feasts orS oeiniafu, A gainst the contagious corruptions of the former, and the more refined subtilties, yet no less pernicious errors, o
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