The Christian's new and complete family Bible Or, Universal Library of Divine Knowledge. Containing the sacred texts of the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha, at Large. Illustrated with notes and annotations, historical, chronological, biographical, geographical, theological, moral, systematical, practical, admonitory, divine, and explanatory. In which the most difficult passages are rendered clear and familiar, the seeming contradictions reconciled, the mis-translations rectified, and important truths confirmed, so as to confute the insidel, dispel the mists of darkness, enlighten the ignorant, encourage the diffident, reclaim the vicious, reconcile the doubtful, lead the wavering into the paths of truth, and implant in the mind of every Christian that divine knowledge which is essentially necessary to salvation. Forming a complete treasury of divine revelation.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by booksellers of Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Canterbury, Cambridge, Coventry, Chester, Derby, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Liverpool, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Northampton, Oxford, Reading, Salisbury, Sherborn, Sheffield, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Winchester, York; and by all other bookseller in England, Scotland, and Ireland
1787, [1787?]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | "There are at least three varieties of this edition" (Darlow & Moule). - Authorised version. - Darlow & Moule, 1341. - English Short Title Catalog, T301474. - Final leaf = 11E2 (Apocrypha), the New Testament having been issued first as sigs. 7P-9P; with 9 final leaves containing an index and tables. - In this issue, "Address to the Cristian reader" [A]2r, line 11 of text ends: "in the", line 20 ends: "delivered" and line 21 ends: "writer in. - Issued in 78 weekly parts, starting on May 27, 1786. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Signatures: [A]p2s B-7Op2s 9Q-11Ep2s 7P-9Pp2s a-ep2s (-e2). - The New Testament has a separate titlepage (7P1r). - With plates "Engraved for the Revd. T. Bankes's Christians family Bible"; engraved by various engravers |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([946], 5, [1] p) [79] leaves of plates (metal cut) 2° |