ILLUSTRATED WITH TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE, BY JOHN GILLIES, D. D. ONE OF THE MINISTERS IN GLASGOW. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Mufes haunt B. III. 266 THE SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR B. WHITE AND SON, T. LONGMAN, B. LAW AND J. SEWELL, J. MURRAY, T. HOOKHAM, W. COLD- W. LOWNDES, W. OTRIDGE AND SON, C. AND T. WILKIE, J. SCATCHERD, J. TAYLOR, E. JEFFERY, W. MILLER, AND Z. NEWBERY. M.DCC.XCIII. Το THE HON. SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, BARONET, LORD HAILES; THE REV. DR. JOHN ERSKINE, ONE OF THE MINITERS OF EDINBURGH; AND THE REV. DR. ROBERT FINDLAY, PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW; THIS ILLUSTRATION O F PARADISE LOST, WITH TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE, IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY THEIR AFFECTIONATE FRIEND AND SERVANT. PRE FAC E. BISHOP NEWTON, in his Edition of Paradife Loft, with notes of various authors, obferves, that "Throughout the whole, the Author appears to have been "a moft critical reader, and a moft paffionate admirer "of Holy Scripture. He is indebted to Scripture in"finitely more than to Homer and Virgil, and all other “books whatever. Not only his principal fable, but "all his episodes, are founded upon Scripture. The "Scripture hath not only furnished him with the << nobleft hints, raised his thoughts, and fired his ima"gination, but hath also very much enriched his lan= 66 guage, given a certain folemnity and majesty to his "diction, and fupplied him with many of his choiceft, "happiest expreffions." This juft obfervation gave occafion to the prefent edition, in which many texts are added to thofe quoted by the Bishop; and perfons well versed in the Scriptures will, doubtless, be able to add more. Paradife Loft is admired by all judges of fine writing. Poets, hiftorians, wits, philofophers, divines, all agree in acknowledging its excellence. But in their remarks they difcover great variety of fentiment. What is moft efteemed by fome, is by others thought flat and infipid: on the other hand, the passages most extolled by the latter, Jeem |