THE BRITISH CRITIC, FOR JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, M DCCCI. *Ερχείαι VOLUME XVII. London: PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON, 1801. PRINTED BY T. RICKABY, PETERBOROUGH-COURT, FLEET STREET PREFACE. is feldom that we can fatisfy an author with praife. Readers are more eafily contented. They are rather apt to think us faulty on the other fide; efpecially when they happen to have purchased an indifferent book. Our Prefaces ought to pleafe both parties. Authors, because they contain only commendation; readers, because, if they fulfil their plan, they do not even mention a production unworthy to be purchased. We write no Index Expurga. torius. Silence is here our heaviest cenfure; and departed authors muft not haunt us, if we speak no evil of them after their decease. Οὐχ ὁσίη, καμένοισιν ἐπ ̓ ἀνδράσιν εὐχε άασθαι. DIVINITY. When we open this article with the two works of Mr. Jeffe, which we commended together, his Differtation on the Apoftles, and his book on the Study of the Scriptures*, we have an eye to the amends we promised then for accidental delay. The works, however, deferve diftinction. They are acute as well as pious, and cannot fail, particularly the latter, to increase the love of facred ftudy. In treating of the Prophe * No. III. P. 289. BRIT. CRIT. VOL. XVII. a 2 cies, |