EORGE the Second, by the Grace of God, King Faith, &c. To all to whom thefe Prefents fhall come, Greeting. Whereas James Buckland, James Waugh, John Ward, Thomas Longman, and Edward Dilly, Citizens and Booksellers of our City of London, have by their Petition humbly represented unto Us, that they have purchased the Copy-Right of the WHOLE WORKS of the late DOCTOR ISAAC WATTS, and that they are now printing and preparing for the Prefs, new Editions with Improvements, of feveral of the feparate Pieces of the faid Doctor Ifaac Watts. They have therefore most humbly prayed Us, that We would be graciously pleafed to grant them our Royal Licence and Protection for the fole printing, publishing, and vending the faid Works, in as ample Manner and Form as has been done in Cafes of the like Nature; We being willing to give all due Encouragement to Works of this Nature, which may be of publick Ufe and Benefit, are graciously pleafed to condefcend to their Requeft, and do therefore by thefe Prefents, as far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that Behalf made and provided, grant unto them, the faid James Buckland, James Waugh, John Ward, Thomas Longman, and Edward Dilly, their Executors, Adminiftrators, and Affigns, our Royal Privilege and Licence, for the fole printing, publishing, and vending the fad Works for the Term of fourteen Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, ftrictly forbidding and prohibiting all our Subjects within our Kingdoms and Ďominions, to reprint, abridge, or tranflate the fame, either in the like, or any other Volume or Volumes whatsoever, or to im port, buy, vend, utter, or diftribute any Copies thereof reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforefaid Term of fourteen Years, without the Confent and Approbation of the faid James Buckland, James Waugh, John Ward, Thomas Longman, and Edward Dilly, their Executors, Adminiftrators and Af figus, by Writing under their Hands and Seals first had and obtained, as they and every of them offending herein, will anfwer the contrary at their Peril; whereof the Commiffioners and other Officers of our Cuftoms, the Mafter, Wardens, and Company of Stationers of our City of London, and all other our Officers and Minifters, whom it may concern, are to take Notice, that due Obedience be rendered to our Pleasure herein ignified. Given at our Court at St. James's the Twenty First Day of March, 1758, in the Thirty First Year of Our Reign. By His Majefty's Command, W. PITT. VIE OF THE WHOLE W SCRIPTURE HISTORY: WITH A Continuation of the JEWISH Affairs AND An Account of the chief PROPHECIES Represented in a Way of QUESTION and ANSWER. Illuftrated with various REMARKS on the Hiflory and the By I. WAT T S, D. D. LONDON: Printed for J. BUCKLAND, and T. LONGMAN, in Pater- -THE PREFACE, SHEWING The Design of fuch a Short VIEW of ScriptureHiftory, and the Advantages of it. TH HE Holy Scripture is divided into two Books, which are commonly called the Old Teftament and the New. And as each of thefe Books contains feveral Articles or Propofitions which God has revealed to Men for the Direction of their Faith and Practice in the fucceffive Ages of the World; fo there are feveral Hiftories all contained in them, or Narratives of the Life and Death of Men, of the Affairs of Nations, and especially of the Tranfactions of God with Mankind. Some Knowledge of these historical Matters is neceffary and useful, in order to obtain a more clear and full Acquaintance with the Principles of our holy Religion, as well as to affift and engage us in the Practice of it by way of Motive. It is the Hiftory all along introduces the peculiar Doctrine and Duties; and all the latter Revelations of the Mind and Will of God, relating to Religion, have fome Connection with and Dependance upon the Events which went before. A 3 The |