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A Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament. In Two Volumes. The First, containing The Four Gospels, and the Acts of the Holy Apostles. The Second, All the Epistles, with a Discourses of the Millennium. To which is added, A Chronology of the New Testament. A Map, and Alphabetical Table of all the Places Mentioned in the Gospels, Acts, or the Epistles. With Tables to each, Of the Matters contained, and of the Words and Phrases explained throughout the whole Work. The Second Edition
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London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row. 1706. 2 volumes. Folio, 313 x 193 mms., pp. [xvi],xlviii, 720 [721 - 732 indexes]; [viii], xl, 742 [743 - 748 Chronological Index, 749 - 789 tables and indexes, 750 blank], folding engraved map between pages 748 and 749 in volume 2, handsomely bound circa 1830 by Hering, with the stamp, "Bound by Hering/ 9 Newman Street" on the verso of the front free marbled end-paper in each volume, contemporary plum morocco with a lozenge on each cover, surrounded by 90 degree triangles with acorn motif and the gilt arms of John Lumly Savile, Eighth Earl of Scarborough, within lozenge, with large gilt armorial shield within large lozenge on covers, gilt spine, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; some occasional foxing and slight staining to some margins from the gilding process, but a fine and attractive set, with the Rufford Abbey bookplate on the verso of the leaf preceding the title-page in each volume. Whitby (1737/8 - 1726) published this work in part in 1700, followed by a second volume in 1703. An anti-Catholic Arminian, Whitby found his work unacceptable in many quarters, but it was frequently reprinted in the 18th century. Ramsden, London Book Binders, 1780 - 1840 (1987), page 81.
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- A Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament. In Two Volumes. The First, containing The Four Gospels, and the Acts of the Holy Apostles. The Second, All the Epistles, with a Discourses of the Millennium. To which is added, A Chronology of the New Testament. A Map, and Alphabetical Table of all the Places Mentioned in the Gospels, Acts, or the Epistles. With Tables to each, Of the Matters contained, and of the Words and Phrases explained throughout the whole Work. The Second Edition
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- London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row. 1706
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