The Christian guide to a right understanding of the sacred scriptures ...

Introduction To The New Testament

BY JOHN SAMUEL THOMPSON,

MINISTER OF THE FIRST UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY, UTICA, N. Y.

THE HOLT SCEIPYURES ARE ABLE TO MAKE THEE WISE TTXTO SALYATIOSr, THROUGH FAITH IJV CHRIST JESUS. PAUL.

UTICA, N. Y.

P'RINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY A. G. DAUBY. 1836.

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK— ro WIT :

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fifth clay of January, lo

,^^M^^ the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of ^m^^^^ America, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, aEBWiJJOHN S. THOMPSON, of said District, hath deposited in this

*^5^^^ office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as pro- '^"^ prietor, in the words following, to wit :

"The Christian Guide to a right understanding of fhe sacred Scriptures; Designed as a Select Commentary on the four Evangelists, harmonized and chronologically arra^^ged in a new translation on the basis of Wakefield's Version : to which are prefixed a brief memoir of the Author, and a copious introduction to the New Testament. By JOHN SAMUEL THOMPSON, Minister of the first Universalist society, Utica, N. Y. The Holy Scriptures are able to make thee wise unto Salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. — Paul.

In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "Anact for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and also to an act entitled, "An Act, supplementary to an act, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the aVts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching historical sind other prints.*'

RICH'D R. LANSING, Clerk of the J^^orthern Distrivt of JVeW'York.

TO THE MEWSOHY OP THB

tlEV. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L. L. D. F. R. S.

The most Philosophical Advocate of Pure Christianity, and the Most Successful Opposer of its Corruptions;

« OF THE

REV. GILBERT WAKEFIELD, A. B.

Tlie most Critical Translator of the Christian Scriptures^*

OF THE

REV. NATHANIEL LARDNER, D. D.

"VVho, in his "Credibility" and "Jewish and Heathen Testimonies"

Has erected an everlastifig and impregnable bulwark

For the safety of the Christian Religion;

AND OF THE

REV. THEO. LINSEY, & REV. THOMAS BELSHAM,

Successively Ministers of Essex-st. Chapel, London; the brightest

Examples of Disinterested Devotion to the Cause of Pure

and Undefiled Religion, and the most Fearless and

Candid Confessors of Truth, when most

Despised and Unpopular :

ALSO TO THE

REV. ABNER KNEELAND, OF NEW-YORK, AND

REV. HOSEA BALLOU, OF BOSTON ;

For their indefatigable labours t© reclaim Mankind to tlte

Knowledge of the true God, as a Universal

and Uncliangeable Father;

AND ALSO, WITH GREAT CORDIALITY, TO

ALL THE MINISTERS OF RECONCILIATION,

In fellowship with the Universalist Convention of the State of N. Yorkj

THIS WORK,

Designed to promote the knowledge of the only true God, and jesus Christ whom he hath sent,

Is most Respectfully Dedicated,

By their Sincere fellow laborer In the Gospel of Christ,

JOHN S, THOMPSON.