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• Bible -- O.T -- Early works to 1800
• Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Early works to 1800

• Manasseh ben-Israel, of the term of life. (London : printed for W. Whitwood at the Rose and Crown in Little-Brittain, 1700), by Manasseh ben Israel (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The mirrour of religious men, and of godly matrones. Exhibited in the golden legends of these six famous and faithfull persons. Abraham & Sara, Isack [&] Rebecca: Iacob [&] Rahel. Very comfortable to be read of all the sonnes and daughters of such faithfull parents according to the promise, for the rectifying of their liues and the confirming of their faith. By I.M. Master in Arts. (London : Printed [by E. Alde] for E. White, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the gun, neere the little north dore of Pauls, 1611), by James Maxwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The ruinous fal of prodigalitie. (Imprinted at London : By Henry Kirckham, and are to be solde at his shoppe, at the little northe doore of Paules, at the signe of the black Boie, [1575]), by Jude Smith, John Wharton, and John Carr (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An essay toward the clearer discovering of the true beginnings, durations and endings, of each particular king in Judah and Israel and the two lines thereof, compared and adjusted, according to the scriptures referring thereunto; and, in order to understanding of the reference of those 390, and 40 dayes, mention'd Ezekiel 4th. v.5,6. (Beginning after Solomon.) Upon enquiry thereinto, and examination thereof, I premise 2 or 3 things. (1.) That Rehoboams and Jereboams reigns must begin much together; else the 18th of Jeroboam's could not be the first of Abijahs, and his 20th the beginning of Asa's, Kings of Judah. (2.) That there's a dispute with some, whether Jehoram, Jehosaphat's son, and King of Judah, did reign 8 years or 4? some say the latter, (and 4 more only with his father. But to clear, that there must be 8 to him alone (or 4 more to his father and him, which amounts to the same number of years.) ... and so at last, to the remainder of the kings of Judah ending in Zedekiah; when the kings of Israel had ceased in Hoshea before. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1700) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A briefe exposition of such chapters of the olde testament as vsually are redde in the church at common praier on the Sondayes set forth for the better helpe and instruction of the vnlearned. By Thomas Cooper Bishop of Lincolne. (Imprinted at London : By H[enrie] D[enham] for Rafe Newbery dwelling in Fleetestreete, [1573]), by Thomas Cooper (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The leper, and the leper's house, cleansed being, an exposition upon some part of the XIVth chapter of Leviticus; the mystery of which is explained and applied to the state and condition of a sinner's becoming a saint. With profitable uses and applications. As also, what chapter may be applied to, as to the cleansing or destroying of any particular church of Christ, in and under the time of the gospel. Divided into ten parts. Written for the information of those which seldom concern themselves about the types and shadows of the Old Testament: very useful for all people. By Thomas Worden, author of, The types unvailed. (London : printed for William and Joseph Marshal; and sold by the Bible in Newgate-street, and at the Bible in Gracious-street, [1695?]), by Thomas Worden (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A holy alphabet for Sion's scholars full of spiritual instructions, and heauenly consolations, to direct and encourage them in their progresse towards the new Ierusalem: deliuered, by way of commentary vpon the whole 119. Psalme. By William Covvper ... (London : Printed by H. Lownes, for Iohn Budge; and are to be solde at his shop at the great south-doore of Paules, and Britannes Bursse, 1613), by William Cowper (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ecclesia triumphans: that is, The ioy of the English church for the happie coronation of the most vertuous and pious prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defendour of the faith, &c. and for the ioyfull continuance of religion and peace by the same. With a briefe exposition of the 122. Psalme, and fit application to the time: wherein are declared the manifold benefits like to grow by these good beginnings to the church and common-wealth of England. Dedicated to the most gratious ladie and vertuous princess, Ioland Anne, by the grace of God, Queene of England, Scotland, France, &c. ([Cambridge] : Printed by Iohn Legat, Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge. 1603. And are to be sold in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Crowne by Simon Waterson [London, 1603]), by Andrew Willet (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Of the head-corner-stone: by builders still ouer-much omitted that is; a forme of teaching Iesus Christ, out of all the Holy Scriptures, both of the Old Testament (that are canonicall) and the New ... The whole worke being digested into two seuerall tomes: eyther of which tomes, hauing two bookes therevnto appertaining: as more at large is to be seene in the next leafe. Togither with certaine tables of diuers sorts, for the better vnderstanding, and vse of these bookes ... By Edm: Bunny, Batcheler of Diuinitie. ([London] : Printed by W. Iaggard, 1611), by Edmund Bunny (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 2 (At London : Printed by H. L[ownes] for S. Macha[m], & are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Bul-head, 1614), by Joseph Hall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 3 ([London] : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes and Eliot's Court Press] for Nathanael Butter, and William Butler, 1615), by Joseph Hall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 4 (London : Printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1618), by Joseph Hall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 6 (London : Printed by I[ohn] H[aviland] for Nathaniel Butter, 1622), by Joseph Hall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 8 (London : Printed by M. Flesher for Nath. Butter, 1626), by Joseph Hall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Contemplations upon the principall passages of the holy storie. Vol. 5. (London : Printed by E. G[riffin] for Nathaniel Butter, 1620), by Joseph Hall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 7 (London : Printed by I. Haviland for Nath. Butter, 1623), by Joseph Hall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The healing of Israels breaches. VVherein is set forth Israels disease. Cure. Physitian. Danger. All paralleld with, and applyed to the present times. As they were delivered in six sermons at the weekly lecture in the church of Great Yarmouth. By John Brinsly minister of the Word, and pastor of Somerleiton an adjacent village. Published by order of a committee of the House of Commons. (London : Printed for John Bartlet, at the signe of the golden Cup, neere S. Austins gate, in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1642), by John Brinsley and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Collection of Authentick Records Belonging to the Old and New Testament (2 volumes: London: Printed for the author, 1727-1728), trans. by William Whiston
  • Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Thesaurus librorum philologicorum et historicorum : in qvo habentur ... (Apud Henricum Teeringh, 1700), by Johann Eric Ostermann, Abraham Coster, Laurentius Fabricius, Bonaventure Corneille Bertram, Salomon Glass, Theodoricus Hackspan, and Thomas Crenius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Matthiae de Janov dicti Magister Parisiensis Regulae Veteris et Novi Testamenti. (Sumptibus Librariae Universitatis Wagnerianae, 1908), by Matěj z Janova (page images at HathiTrust)
• Augusti Pfeiferi D. Critica sacra, : de sacri codicis partitione, editionibus variis, lingvis originalibus & illibatâ puritate fontium, interpretatione scripturae legitima, nec non ejusdem : Translatione in lingvas totius universi de Masora & Kabbala, Talmude deniq; & Alcorano. : Accessere, suisq locis inserti, Tractatus qvatuor, I. De antiqvis ritibus Ebraeorum. II. De natura, usu & subsidiis lingvarum orientalium omnium. III. De compendiaria ratione legendi scripta rabbinico-talmudica. IV. De accentuatione tàm prosaica qvàm metrica facilè discenda. (Impensis Mart. Gabriel. Hübneri, excudebat Vidua Bergeniana, 1680), by August Pfeiffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Io. Dieterici Winckleri Animadversiones philologicae et criticae quibus varia sacri codicis utriusque foederis : loca illustrantur : accedit Mantissa Tergemina haud dissimilis argumenti. -- (Sumptibus haeredum B. Lud. Schroederi, 1752), by Johann Dietrich Winckler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observationum sacrarum pars prima [-V] : in qua multa scripturae veteris ac novi testamenti dubia vexata solvuntur ... (Sumpt. Heredum Frid. Lanckisii, 1720), by Salomon Deyling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelles dissertations importantes et curieuses : sur plusieurs questions qui n'ont point été traitées dans le commentaire littteral [sic] sur tous les livres de l'Ancien & du Nouveau Testament (Chez Emery, 1720), by Augustin Calmet and Bibliothèque de Mont Olivet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Variarum lectionum libri IIII : in quibus ecclesiae utriusque foederis ritus moresque antiqui ... explicantur, emendantur (Apud Carolum Morellum, 1633), by Samuel Petit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertatio ecclesiastica, apologetica, et anticritica, adversus F. Claudium Frassen : seu, dissertationis Alexandrinae, de Vulgata Scripturae Sacrae versione, vindiciae. (Apud Antonium Dezallier, 1682), by Noël Alexandre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philologia sacra. (Apud Joannem Wolters, 1711), by Salomon Glass (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sämmtliche Werke (Im Büreau der Deutschen Klassiker, 1826), by Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann Georg Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conciliationes locorum scripturae : qui specie tenus inter se pugnare videntur, centuriae duae (Nori[m]bergae [Nuremberg] :, 1561), by Andreas Althamer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurtzer Bericht an alle Puysancen von Europa, in deren Gebiet Juden sind : wo jetzt von Oliger Paulli geredet wird, betreffended seinen Beruff ... dienende zur Vereinigung der Juden und Christen. (s.n.,], 1704), by Oliger Paulli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedanken über die Lehre der heiligen Schrift von Sünde und Genugthuung (bey Johann Heinrich Cramer, 1779), by Johann David Michaelis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observationum sacrarum libri xvi : quorum duodecim anteà editi, sed nunc primùm renovati : reliqui quatuor planè novi prodeunt (Apud Aegidium Radaeum, 1594), by Joannes Drusius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica sacra, oder, geheiligte Natur-wissenschafft derer in Heil (Gedruckt bey Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731), by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer and Johann Andreas Pfeffel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations importantes et curieuses sur plusieurs questions (Chez Emery ..., Saugrain, pere ..., Pierre Martin ..., 1720), by Augustin Calmet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regulae Veteris et Novi Testamenti (Nákladem Universitního Knihkupectvi Wagnerova, 1908), by Matěj z Janova and Vlastimil Kybal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betser ba-Midbar : derushim ʻal pesuke Tanakh ʻal derekh ha-Kabalah (Columbia University Libraries, in the 18th century), by Raphael Ben Zion and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medulla bibliorum, the marrow of the Bible : or, a logico-theological analysis of every several book of the Holy Scripture, together with so many English poems ... (London : Printed for George Calvert, 1652., 1652), by William Ainsworth and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exercitations divine : containing diverse questions and solutions for the right understanding of the Scriptures, proving the necessitie, majestie, integritie, perspicuitie, and sense thereof, as also shewing the singular prerogatives wherewith the Lord indued those whom he appointed to bee the pen-men of them, together with the excellencie and use of divinitie above all humane sciences : all which are cleared out of the Hebrew, and Greeke, the two originall languages in which the Scriptures were first written, by comparing them with the Samaritane, Chaldie, and Syriack copies, and with the Greeke interpretors, and vulgar Latine translation ... (London : Printed by T. Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shoppe at the signe of the three Golden Lyons in Cornehill, neere the Royall Exchange, 1634., 1634), by John Weemes and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred literature : shewing the Holy Scriptures to be superior to the most celebrated writings of antiquity, by the testimony of above five hundred witnesses, and also by a comparison of their several kinds of composition... To which are added, epistles and extracts, from some of the most early of the Christian fathers. (Birmingham : Printed by M. Swinney, 1788., 1788), by David Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Scripture account of the faith and practice of Christians : consisting of large and numerous collections of pertinent texts of Scripture, upon the sundry articles of revealed religion. (Dublin : Printed for the author, by S. Powell., 1763), by Hugh Gaston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exercitations divine : Containing diverse questions and solutions for the right understanding of the Scriptures. Proving the necessitie, integritie, perspicuitie, and sense thereof. As also shewing the singular prerogatiques wherewith the Lord indued those whom he appointed to bee the pen-men of them. Together with the excellencie and use of divinitie above all humane sciences. All which are cleared out of the Hebrew, and Greeke, the two originall languages in which the Scriptures were first written, by comparing them with the Samaritane, Chaldie, and Syriack copies, and with the Greeke interpretors, and vulgar Latine translation (London : Printed by T. Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shoppe at the signe of the three Golden Lyons in Cornehill, neere the Royall Exchange., 1632., 1632), by John Weemes and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annotationes in Biblia. English (London : printed by T.B. for Nicholas Fussell: and are to be sold at the Green Dragon, in St. Pauls Church-yard, M.DC.XLIII. [1643]), by Giovanni Diodati and Wenceslaus Hollar (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A distinction between the new covenant and the old and how that in the old covenant the Jews priests lips were to preserve the Jews peoples knowledge: but in the new and everlasting covenant Christ the high-priest, is the treasure of wisdom and knowledge, and he filleth the earth with the knowledge of the Lord God; and the earth being full of the knowledge of the Lord God, then there is no want of it in the eath. And Christ the high-priest, he doth not only fill the earth with knowledge of the Lord God, but covereth the earth with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters do the sea; so the earth shall not be seen. So then it may be seen, that the substance in the new covenant is far beyond the figure in the old covenant. Read, hear, see, perceive and understand, receive and possess. ([London : s.n., 1679]), by George Fox (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sober whisper, concerning the evil of things present, and the good of things to come. By Tho. Narjenn (London : [s.n.], printed in the year, 1665), by Thomas Tanner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The agreemente of sondry places of scripture seeming in shew to iarre, seruing in stead of commentaryes, not onely for these, but others lyke, translated out of French, and nowe fyrst publyshed by Arthure Broke. Seene and allowed, accordyng to the ordre appoynted in the Queenes Maiestyes iniunctions. (Imprynted at London : In Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Crane, by Lucas Harrison, Anno. 1563), by Arthur Brooke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A demonstration in brief, of what I have noted in a book, intituled, a dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker. Wherein is mainifest that Thomas Hickes and his confederates speak not by the Spirit of God, neither is he ruled, touching the mystery of God in faith, by Holy Scripture, but on the contrary. Thom. Hickes, what thou hast to say in answer (charge me only) and no other person. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1673), by Robert West (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The covenant of nature made with Adam described and cleared from sundry great mistakes. And thereby proving, I. That the kind of death that was threatned in that covenant, in Gen. 2.17. ought not to be understood of any other kind of death but of a double spiritual death, 1. By depriving Adam of Gods concreated image: and 2. By corruption of nature that followed thereupon. II. Proving that the said covenant was totally extinguished and made utterly null, as soon as Adam had but tasted of the forbidden fruit, and received the said threatned punishment. III. Expounding Gal. 3.10. and proving that the curse therein threatned must not be understood of the curse of the said covenant of nature, but of that curse that is threatned in the covenant of grace to the fallen posterity of Adam, for their not doing of Moses law by faith in Christ, which was given to them for the covenant of grace and reconciliation only. ... VIII. Expounding Rom. 8.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8. in ch. 25. By William Pynchon. (London : printed for the author, and are to be sold at the Bishops-head in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1662), by William Pynchon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The voyce of him that is escaped from Babylon. Reasons given forth to all sober minded people, why I departed from the ministry of those called ministers of parishes; and why I departed from the ministry of those called Anabaptists; and why I have, and what I have contended for, some years past. ([London : s.n., 1658]), by Robert West (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Damnable heresie discovered and the head of Gods church uncovered, and the spirit of man from the true light distinguished, according to the scriptures of truth, and testimony of saints. ([London : s.n.], Printed 1672), by Robert West (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The reasonablenes of scripture-beleif a discourse giving some account of those rational grounds upon which the Bible is received as the word of God / written by Sir Charles Wolseley ... (London : Printed by T.R. & N.T. for Nathaniel Ponder ..., 1672), by Charles Wolseley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An exposition touching al the bokes of holie Scripture, and their excellencie ([Londini : In ædibus Richardi Graftoni Reginæ a typographia excusum, Anno Domini. M.D.LIII. [1553]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A few words in brief for the worldly teachers and worshippers to consider of, who think that God heareth sinners; and though they alwayes erre in their hearts, that they shal be saved. For the awakening of such, I shall shew them, with the light, as it is noted in the Scriptures of truth, that God heareth not sinners; neither shall they that alwayes err in their hearts from God's wayes, enter into God's rest; the Lord hath sworn it: and this was finished from the foundation of the world. And also, what that light is in men, that every man is lighted withal, from the writing of prophets, philosophers, and modern teachers: and how men have pitched besides the Eben-ezer, or stone of help. (London : [s.n], printed in the year, 1663), by Robert West (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The pride of Jordan spoiled Which magnified it self against the Lord and his people. ([London : s.n., 1674]), by Robert West (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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