Vol 04 - GENESIS — EARLY CHAPTERS, AND PATRIARCHS.

GENESIS — EARLY CHAPTERS, AND PATRIARCHS.

144 BONAR (HORATIUS, D.D.) Earth’s Morning; or, Thoughts on Genesis. I2mo. 5/- Zonal., Nisbet & Co. 1875. An exposition of the first six chapters only. The author endeavors “to investigate the meaning of each verse and word; that, having done so, the exact revelation of God in these may be brought’ out, and the spiritual truth evolved.” He has in a great measure attained his object. What more could be said in his praise ?

145 BUNYAN (JOHN). Ten first chapters of Genesis, and part of the eleventh. [In Bunyan’s Works.] Complete works, S. 30/- Allegorical and spiritual. Bunyan’s characteristics are very prominently manifest.

146 EDERSHEIM (ALFRED, D.D.) World before the Flood, and History of the Patriarchs. Small sq. 8vo. 2/6. Land., Religious Tract Society. x875. The author has mainly aimed at giving instruction to the Sunday School Teacher, and the Bible Class Student. He may be read with profit by students of a higher grade. The work is not a Commentary, but is full of instruction.

147 HENRY (PHILIP, M.A. 1631 — 1696). Exposition of the first eleven chapters of Genesis 18:1-33 mo. Zonal., x$39. S. x/-

Interesting as the exposition of Matthew Henry’s father, taken down from his lips at family prayer by Matthew, his son. This probably suggested the famous Commentary.

148 HURDIS (.TAMES). Select Critical Remarks upon the English version of the first ten chapters of Genesis 8:1-22 vo. Zonal., x 793. 2/- “Judicious observations”; but it is so easy to be judicious. Unimportant.

149 LUTHER (MARTIN). On the first five chapters of Genesis, translated by Dr. Henry Cole. 8vo. Edinb., x858. S. 5/6.

Cole made a choice selection. Luther left four volumes upon Genesis in Latin. How these Reformers worked 1

15o MACDONALD (D.) Creation and the Fall. The first three chapters of Genesis 8:1-22 vo. Edinb., T. & T. Clark. x z/-”We do not hesitate to designate this volume as the most complete examination of the literature and the exegesis of the Creation and the Fall which has appeared in England.” — Journal of Sacred Literature.

151 NEEDLER (BENJAMIN). Expository Notes, with Observations, towards the opening of the five first chapters of Genesis. Small 8vo. Land., x655. 3/-

Needler was one of the eminent divines who took part in the famous Morning Exercises. The little work is a curiosity, but nothing more.

152 ROSSE (ALEXANDER). Exposition of the fourteen first chapters of Genesis.

8vo. Lond., 1626. 4/6. A very scarce catechism by that Scotch divine who is mentioned in Hudibras in the lines —

“There was an ancient sound philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over.”

WHITE (John, M.A. ,4 Puritan Divine, called” The Patriarch of Dorchester.” Died I648.) The Three First Chapters of Genesis. Folio. x656. 7/’ to 10/6. A folio upon three chapters! There were giants in those days. Manton says, “To speak of the worth of the author is needless, his praise being already in all the churches,” and he adds that he had been greatly refreshed by the perusal of this book.

154 WILLIAMS (IsAAc, B.D.) Beginning of Genesis, with Notes. Sm.

8vo. 7/6. Lond., Rivingtons. 1861. A very remarkable work by a high churchman, opening up in a masterly manner the mystical teachings of the early chapters of Genesis. To be read cum grano salis.

[‘The following works are placed in chronological order.]

155 BONNET (L.) The Exile from Eden; Meditations on the Third Chapter of Genesis, translated from the French, by Rev. W. Hare. Small 8vo. Land., 1839. S. 5/’

After the French manner. In nine meditations the salient points in the all- important story of the Fall are touched upon. One of the best separate treatises upon the subject.

156 OLMSTEAD (J., American.) Noah and his Times. 2/. Edinb., Collins.

One of the dreariest works ever written. We have often wondered why it was reprinted, or even printed at all It is as dry as Noah in the ark.

157 BLUNT (HENRY, A.M.) Twelve Lectures on the History of Abraham. 12mo. 5/6. Eight Lectures on the History of Jacob. 4/6. Lond., Hatchards. 1842. S. 1/6 each.

Like the rest of this author’s lectures. Good, plain addresses.

158 SHUTE (JOSIAS, B.D. “Above three-and-thirty years Rector of St. Mary, Woo1noth.”) Sarah and Hagar; or, Genesis xvi. opened in Twenty Sermons. Folio. x649. 5/- In shape, the editor tells us, “this book is somewhat slender, like the encouragements of learning.” He informs us that the author was “one of the five famous brother-preachers, somewhat like the five fingers on the right hand of fellowship;” and that Chrysostom did so much lie in his bosom that he became like him in his flowing style and golden eloquence.

He writes like a learned man, and treats the Scriptures as if “each book were a course, each chapter a Benjamin’s mess, and ever3’ verse a morsel of the food of angels.” x59 BOUCHIER (BARTON, M.A.) History of Isaac. 12mo. Lond., Houlston. S. 2/- A charming book, in Bouchier’s gracious style. i6o ROLLINSON (Francis, B.D.) Twelve Prophetical Legacies; or, Twelve Sermons upon Jacob’s Last Will, recorded in the 45th chapt, of Genesis.

4to., [.and., 1612. Scarce. Hardly to be priced. Say 5/’

Old-fashioned learning, and singular remarks; its rarity is no great calamity.

I61 CUMMIN. G (JOHN, D.D.,F.R.S.E.) The Last of the Patriarchs; or, Lessons from Life of Joseph. Sm. 8vo. i856. S. 2/-Fitted for popular reading: ministers need more thought.

162 GIBSON (T.) Lectures on Joseph. 8vo. Lond., 1848. 1/- Very respectable sermons, bringing out the gospel of Joseph’s history. x65 LAWSON (GEORGE, D.D., 1749 — -1820). Lectures on Joseph. 2 vols., I2mo. Edinb., 1807 & 1812. 4/-

,Dr. Lawson had a fertile mind, and a heart alive both to the human and divine side of truth. ]are writes with pleasing simplicity of style. One of the highest compliments to this book is found in the fact that a distinguished American scholar issued much of it as his own. t64 SMITH (THORNLEY). History of Joseph viewed in connection with the Antiquities of Egypt, and the times in which he lived. Cr. 8vo. 4/-

Edinb., W. Oliphant. 1875. “Written under the full light of the most recent archecological discoveries, modern scholarship, and theological science, it is THE book on the subject. Now we have it, we cannot dispense with it.” — Homilist.

165 WARDLAW (RALPH, D.D.) Life of Joseph and the Last Years of Jacob. 12mo. x845. S. 2/3.

Wardlaw, though rather wordy, is always instructive.