Much pleasure does it give me, thanks do I owe my and many worthy and ingenious friend, that I was furnished with the opportunity of feeing this interpretation, before the foregoing work was publifhed. For, otherwife, the reader would perhaps have fuppofed, that I had taken the idea of the two kings of Judah and Ifrael, being the two kings meant in the prophecy, from the learned authors of the Univerfal Hiftory; and by with-holding all acknowledgement, had intended to conceal my obligation to the compilers of that very useful work. A fpecies of literary fraud, which, I hope I may fay, without fubjecting myfelf myfelf to the imputation of vanity, I abhor;—but which, every literary man must have had too frequent occafions for obferving and lamenting, as the general practice of those little minds, who prefer a reputation for knowledge, to it's real attainment;—but which, therefore, pride fhould prevent writers from imitating, if candour do not. FINIS. The Readers of Dr. Cooper's "One Great 66 Argument, &c." are requefted to correct the following Errata. Introduction, p. xxii. for attached,---read,---attached. Lectures, p. 15, in the note, for TISTEVONTE,-read,---πιστεύσητε. p. 62, lines 6 and 7, reverse the words, 66 LATTER" and " FORMER." to 'p. 82, lines 3 and 4, inflead of " p. 88, in the note, for RENNICOT,--read,--KEN NICOT. p. 121, l. 7, read WITH,---inftead of without. F. 225, for GENERAL,---read, --- GENERIC |