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OF THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

SAMUEL THE PROPHET.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"SCRIPTURE RECORD OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN,
THE MOTHER OF OUR LORD."

"Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these
shall fail, none shall want her mate :"-Isa. xxxiv. 16.

London;

RIVINGTONS, 3, WATERLOO PLACE:

AND 41, HIGH STREET,

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Nothing can be more perfectly fitted to their end than the Holy Scriptures; and when once their wonders shall be fully developed, no other miracle will be necessary to convert either Jew or Gentile. Of this deeply comfortable fact I become more and more convinced, the more I examine the various parts of the sacred volume, and perceive how divinely they all unite in one magnificent and infinitely harmonious design." See Alexander Knox's Works, vol. i. p. 244.

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INTRODUCTION.

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IT has been truly and beautifully said by the late Archer Butler, in his admirable sermon on sought and found in the Old Testament Scriptures," that "Expectation is the inward spirit of the Old Testament, as Fulfilment of the New; wonderful itself, its function clearly is to testify wonders more august to come; . . . . . the Old Testament Scriptures overladen by one sect of Jews, curtailed by another, candidly studied by none, witnessed internally to a mighty future." "I pass not," he proceeds, "beyond its own pages, I ask not whence it came, nor how, I ask no external confirmations from contemporary history; I interrogate the Book alone, and its answer is unequivocal. Nay, in this view, its answer is often most direct when its language is most obscure. That mysterious volume, so large, so various, whose remotest authors are a thousand years asunder, had a single character, and that character was pro

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