AND DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF ORDER, THE READERS OF THE WORD OF GOD, OSAN LIBRARY LATE VICAR OF CHARLES, PLYMOUT BY ROBERT HAWKER, DANSFERRED TO A New Edition. "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom." C'olos. iii. 16. E. SPETTIGUE, 67, CHANCERY LANE; I HAVE been prompted to the work proposed in There can need no recommendation of the word of God more than its own intrinsic excellency. In the Jewish Church, so infinitely important was it considered, that the prince of the people was enjoined, "to write a copy of the Law of the Lord with his own hand in a book; and to read in it all the days of his life; that he might learn to fear the Lord his God and that his heart should not be lifted up above his brethren," Deut. xvii. 18, 19, 20. How vastly increased is the obligation in the Christian church, which adds to the Old Testament Scripture, the whole confirmation of the New; and compriseth within its life-giving contents, every thing that canbe called interesting, in reference to the person, work, character, offices, and relations of the Lord Jesus Christ? Which hath indeed, in the fullest sense of the word, the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come. Here, the claim of the Word of Life, is upon every soul! Here, both high, and low; rich and poor; the king, and the beggar stand upon a level. And here, from hence, must issue the final decision of every man's everlasting state. "The word," saith Jesus, "that I have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last day." John xii. 48. Many have reproached themselves in a dying hour, for having neglected the study of the word of life. But never was it known in the annals of mankind, that any in the close of life regretted, that he had regarded the things of the world too little, and the Bible too much. It will be highly proper that the reader should be informed in this place, and before he enters upon the work here presented to him, what is proposed in the contents of it: that he may not expect more from it than is intended, and in the end find himself disappointed. He should be told then, that the present Concordance is meant to differ in a great measure, |