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NEW TRANSLATION;

By the late ROBERT LOW TH, D. D.

BISHOP of LONDON.

WITH Α

SUMMARY VIEW AND EXPLANATION
OF THE SAME.

CONSISTING OF

1. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS and GENERAL
RULES for understanding the Prophetic Stile.
II. A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT of each CHAPTER in
order.

IN WHICH

The general Stile of the Prophet is characterized; the Beauty and
Sublimity of particular Paffages remarked; the change of Perfons
or Speakers, the tranfition from one part of the Subject to ano-
ther, and the connexion and fcope of the whole pointed out;
Improvements in the Tranflation where they feem to be of most
confequence, taken notice of; with Illuftrations of the Cuftoms,
Manners, and Circumftances to which the Prophet alludes, and
the Application of the different parts of the Prophecy to thofe
Events to which they are fuppofed to refer.

THE WHOLE BEING INTENDED

To render the Prophecy intelligible, useful, and
agreeable to Readers of every Description.
By 70 HN SMITH, D. D.
Minifter of the Gospel at Campbleton.

LONDON:

Printed by C. PARAMORE, Paul-Street, Upper-Moorfields;
And fold by G. Whitfield, Chapel, City-Road; Meffrs. Johnson,
St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. Parfons, No. 21, Paternofter.
Row; 7. Bruce, No. 5, City-Road; and by all other
Bookfellers in Town and Country. 1791

[Price Three Shillings fewed.]

Entered at STATIONERS HALL

101. f. 120.

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PREFACE

BY THE

EDIT O R.

THE following Tranflation of the Prophecy of Isaiah by the late Rev. Dr. Lowth, Bishop of London, is a Work of such distinguished merit and acknowledged utility as precludes the neceffity of faying any thing in its favor. But the price has hitherto placed it out of the reach of many perfons who would very willingly read it. To remedy this inconvenience and give those persons an opportunity to purchase it, it is here reprinted in a fmaller

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