Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-27
PROPOSALS
FOR THE PUBLICATION OF
LECTURES ON THE NEW TESTAMENT
BY REV. WM. G. DAVIS

VNIIIS work is to be printed on good paper, in
Il plain type, well-bound in sheep in four VOL
umes super-royal octayo-each volume containing
six or seven hundred pages; and will be furnished
to subscribers at TWO DOLLARS per volume, to
be paid to the Publishers Agent on the delivery
of the work. disqualification will be put to press
as soon rs fifteen hundred copies are taken. Pro-
posals have been printed, and placed in the hands
of Agents, who will proceed to canvass for the
work.
Inasmuch as application for patronage will be
made to the reading portion of the community in
this and the adjoining Districts, justice alike to the
enterprise and to those who are asked to favor it,
demands that some account be given of its charac-
ter.
1t is the work of Divine of acknowledged tai
ent and scholarship, of piety and success in the
Ministry; of one who devoted himself to the stu
dy of the Scriptures, and the preaching of the
Gospel for upwards of forty years, with on assidu
ty so intense, as to preclude him almost entirely
from the secular cares and pursuits, common to
many in the sacred Office. The voluminous pro-
ductons of his pen thatnow lie in manuscript, be-
sides his Lectures on the New Testament, bear
testimony to the zeal and industry with which he
prosecuted his Theological researches, until with
in few years of his death. In the Lectures
which We here recommend to the favorable regard
of the public, the reader is presented with har-
mony of the Four Gospels, clear and consistent
exposition of the Sacred Text, and large num-
bcr of Critical Notes and observations on obscure
and difficult passages, and on important points in
doctrinal Divinity. The grand design of the au-
thor evidently is, to assist his reader to acquire
sound and accurate understanding of the Mind
of the Spirit, impaired. in the Sacred Oracles,
whatever sacrifice of his own prepossessions, or
the prejudices of others, it may have cost him.
The style of the work is purely didactic-sim-
pie and Misunderstanding rather to instruct, than
to please the taste Much, however, will be found
in the perusal of the Commentary, to delight the
earnest student of the Scriptures; but that pleas
urc will result, chiefly, from the unexpected and
wonderful manifestations which are furnished, Of
the perfect harmony of all the parts in the grand
scheme of salvation; their indissoluble connection,
and their intimate dependency upon each other,
from the eternal foundation, to the topmost stone
in the imperishable edifce. The writer Of this
brief notice has given some portion Of his time to
the study of the Bible, and to the perusal of Com
mentares and writings Oh Divinity, and he is con-
strained to acknowledge, that he feels much in
debted, under God, to these Lectures for the COM
fort and satisfaction with which he is enabled to
read the New Testament Scriptures, especially the
Epistolary portions of them. Persuaded that
others may be equally profted, he takes pleasure
in recommending the work to the favorable notice
of his fellow Christians everywhere, and particular
" to that of Ministers of the Gospel and Students
in Divinity. While the plain and humble lover of
the Bible will be furnished with q safe and faml-
lar assistant to q correct knowledge of the pre-
cious part of Divine Revelation, on which these
Lectures are written, and will find himselfinstru
ted, encouraged, and comforted in Christ, the
Public Teacher of religious Truth will find in these
volumes treasure, from which he may draw large
y to the increase of his own spiritual wealth. the
edifcation of the Church, and the salvation of
souls.
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