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822 BURROUGHES (JEREMIAH. Puritan. 1599 — -x646). Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea 4:1-19 vols. 4to. Zonal., 1643 — 1651. [The original work does not include Chapter XIV., upon which there is an Exposition by Sibbes, and another by Bp. Reynolds. The reprint, by James Sherman, contains the Exposition completed by I-fall and Reynolds. Nichol’s Series of Commentaries. 1 vol., imp. 8co. 10/6. Nisbet, x863.

Masterly. A vast treasure-house of experimental exposition. With the exception of Adams, we prefer it to any other of the expositions reprinted under the editorship of Mr. Sherman.

HORSLEY (SAMUEL., Bishop of St. Asaph). Hosea. Translated from the Hebrew; with Notes. 4to. Lond., 1804. S. 3/-And in Vol. 2 of Biblical Criticism.

Horsley occasionally succeeds in elucidating obscurities, but frequently his treatment of the text reminds one of the old army surgeons who cut and hacked their patients without mercy. This translation is still valued, but is to be followed with discretion.

824 DOWNAME (JOHN, B.D. Died I644). Lectures upon the Four First Chapters of Hosea 4:1-19 to. Lond., 1608. 3/6. An exposition of the richest kind. Get it by all means, if you can.

825 DRAKE (WILLIAM, M.A.) Notes, critical and explanatory, on the Prophecies of Jonah and Hosea 8:1-14 vo. Cam&, Macmillan & Co. 1853. For Hebraists only.

826 NEALE (JAMES, M.A.) Hosea. Translation, Commentary, and Notes. Royal 8vo. Lond., i85o. S. 1/6 to 2/6.

We do not think many ministers will value it for homiletical purposes.

827 POCOCK(EDWARD, D.D. 16o4 — 1691). Commentary on Hosea. In Vol. 2 of his Works; 2 vols. folio. ].and., 174o. 12/6. Orme says Pocock was “one of the finest Oriental scholars, and certainly the first Arabic scholar of his age.” His book is a treasury filled with the products of laborious research.

WOLFENDALE (J.) Homiletical Commentary on Hosea. [In progress: being Part 5 of the Preacher’s Commentary.] I/. Lond., R. D. Dickinson.

[1875.] On an excellent plan, and moderately well executed. With Bur-roughes and others to quarry from, and so good a method to work by., Mr. Wolfendale ought to have produced a better book; but even as it is he deserves a measure of commendation.

829 SMITE (SAMUEL). An Exposition upon the Sixth Chapter of the Prophesie of Hosea 4:1-19 to. Lond., 1616. 5/’ In Smith’s usual quiet, rich, expository manner.

83c MARGOLIOUTH (MosEs, B.A.) Genuine Repentance, and its Effects. Exposition of Hosea XIV. 8vo. Lond., i854.. 3/’ Respectable discourses.

83I REYNOLDS {EDWARD, D.D., Bp. of Norwich. x599 — - I676). An Explication of the Fourteenth Chapter of Hosea, in Seven Sermons. 4to. x649. 2/- Reprinted by the Religious Tract Society. I8mo. I/6. See also under Burroughes, No. 822.

Reynolds was one of the greatest theological writers in an age of great divines. He worthily takes place with Burroughes.

832 SIBBES (RICHARD, D.D.) The Returning Backslider, or a Commentary upon Hosea XIV. 4to. 1639, etc. 2/-Also in Vol I I. of his Works, Nichol’s edition.

Manton says of Sibbes, that he had a peculiar gift in unfolding the great mysteries of the Gospel in a sweet and mellifluous manner, and therefore he was by his hearers usually termed the Sweet Dropper, “sweet and heavenly distillations usually dropping from him with such a native elegance as is not easily to be imitated.” This commentary on Hosea is a fair specimen of his sty&

833 CHANDLER {SAMUEL, D.D.) A Paraphrase and Critical Commentary on Joel. 4to. Land., 1735. 2/6.

Chandler makes very few remarks of a spiritual kind, but explains the letter of the word with considerable skill. In writing upon Joel he does not appear to the same advantage as in his “Life of David.” He does not effect much in clearing up the “things hard to be understood” in the prophet, and he is of the old broad school.

834 HUGHES (JOSEPH, B.A.) The Prophecy of Joel. The Hebrew Text metrically arranged, with a New Translation and Critical Notes. Fcap.

8vo. 2/6. Land., Bagsters. A purely literary treatise, useful to Hebraists only.

835 POCOCK (EDWARD, D.D.) A Commentary on Joel. 14forks, vol. I.

Folio. Oxf, 1691. [The same volume contains his common. taxies on Micah and Malachi.] Full of antique learning. Holds a high place among the older comments, but will never again be popular.

836 ROWLEY (ADAM CLARKE, M.A.) Joel. Metrical Translation.

Sq. 8vo. Lond., Hamilton. 1867. S. 1/6. The translation has been carefully executed. The notes are illustra tive and literary only; they do not profess to open up the moral and spiritual teaching of the prophet. Could Adam Clarke rise from the dead, he would rejoice to find his grandson following in his footsteps.

837 TOPSELL (EDWARD). Times Lamentations; or, An Exposition on the Prophet Joel. 4to. Lond., 1599. 9/-Among the old English commentaries Topsell is the writer on Joel. He has the usual force, homeliness, piety, and fullness of the Puritan period.

UDALL (JoHn). The true remedie against Famine and Warres. Flue Sermons upon the first Chapter of the prophesie of Joel. ],and. 12mo.

I586. 15/-

We gave so high a price for this small black letter volume that we should like to make it profitable to our brethren, and therefore we commend to the more starchy of them the following extract, which will also serve to show how the old preachers lashed with vigor the fashions of the times. Udall says: “For the feeding of our monstrous humor of vanity, how many thousands of quarters of the finest wheat, which God ordained for the food of man, are yearly converted into that mast devilish device of starch. A sin so abominable that it doth cry so loudly in the Lord’s ears for vengeance, as his justice must needs proceed against us for it, without speedy repentance.”

839 BENEFIELD (SEBASTIAN, D.D. 1559 — 163o). A Commentary upon the first Chapter of the Prophecie of Amos. Delivered in twenty-one Sermons. 4to. Lond., 1629. Upon the second chapter, in twenty-one Sermons, ]r62o. Upon the third chapter, in seventeen Sermons, 1629. [Sometimes to be met with in one volume.] 9/-, or with ]fall (No. 84o), 2 vols., 18/- to 2o/-

Dr. Benefield was Lady Margaret Professor in Oxford, a Puritan and thorough Calvinist. His volume was, in its time, the standard Commentary on Amos. It is somewhat prolix and plentifully sprinkled with Latin; it only discusses three chapters in 953 pages.

840 HALL (THOMAS, B.D., Puritan, Born 161o). An Exposition; by way of Supplement, on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth. and ninth Chapters of Amos 4:1-13 to. Lond., 1661.

Hall took up Amos where Benefield left off. He says he studied brevity, and perhaps he succeeded, for he does not quite fill 6oo pages with six chapters. The two quartos make up a complete work, of an antique type, not suitable to modern tastes, nor up to the mark of present criticism, but still instructive. What Puritan is not ?

841 RYAN (VINCENT WILLIAM, M.A.) Lectures on Amos. 12mo.

Lond., Seeleys. 185o. 2/- A commendable series of Lectures; the more valuable because so few moderns have ventured to touch the subject.