ΤΟ THE OLD TESTAMENT AND APOCRYPHA: OR AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR SEVERAL BOOKS, THEIR CONTENTS AND AUTHORS, AND OF THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY WERE RESPECTIVELY WRITTEN. BY ROBERT GRAY, D. D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF BRISTOL. TO WHICH IS ADDed A KEY TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. BY THOMAS PERCY, D.D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF DROMORE LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, No. 73, CHEAPSIDE. 1842. TO THE REV. JOSEPH HOLDEN POTT, A. M. PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN, AND ARCHDEACON OF ST. ALBAN'S. DEAR SIR, THE happiness I enjoy from that friendship with which you have long honoured me, and the reverence I entertain for the various excellencies of your character, excite me to profit by every occasion of expressing towards you my sentiments of sincere acknowledgment and lively regard. At the first appearance of the following work, I did not think myself authorized to indulge my wishes in dedicating it to you, because it had not been previously submitted to your examination. Aware of that just veneration for the sacred volume which you derive from an intimate acquaintance with its contents, I knew with what concern you would find your name employed to sanction an account of the inspired writings, if that account should prove unworthy of your countenance. Since, however, the work has experienced a favourable reception, and you yourself have stamped a value on it by your approbation, I do not hesitate, though still without your permission, to inscribe to you the first fruits of my application to those studies which you |