The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

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The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
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London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,
1684.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Church of England.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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"The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.

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VIII. An account of his imperfect pieces.

BEsides the Works of this our Learned Man, that saw the Light, and of which we have spoken somewhat, he had several other considerable things upon the Anvil: which shew as well his abilities as his inexhaustible and continual labour and industry. Of which give me leave to give this Catalogue.

In Latine.
  • I. Historia Quadripartita Chronica Universalis, Judaica, Romana, Ecclesiastica, De rebus Gestis, Imperante familia Flaviana, Vespaciano, Tito, Domitiano. The Chronica begins at the birth of Christ, and is digested under six Columns, viz. The first con∣tains the year of the World; the second of Rome; the third of the Emperor; the fourth of Christ; the fifth Rerum Gestarum; the sixth of the Consuls.
    Pars Secunda, viz. Iudaica.
    CAP. I.
    Cineres Hierosolymorum, & Vastatae terrae facies.
    CAP. II.
    Synedrium magnum collocatur in Iabne.
    This is sufficient to shew the design of that Book.
  • II. Computus Temporum Iudaicorum ab Urbis Excidio ad conscriptum Talmud Hierosoly∣mitanum.
  • III. Index aliqualis Talmudis Hierosolymitani.
  • IV. Disquisitio modesta de LXX, & de Graeca Versione.
  • V. Discrepantiae 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 LXX a textu Hebraeo in Pentateucho.
  • ...VI. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 LXX. Giving an account of all the errors of all kinds at large.
  • VII. Hillel, a short discourse.
  • VIII. De spiritu prophetiae. A discourse occasioned from 1 Cor. Chap. XIV.
  • IX. Concio ad Clerum, Habita in Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae, Ian. 12. 1651/2. pro Gradu Doctoratus.
  • X. Disputatio in publicts Comitiis pro Gradu Doctoratus.
  • XI. Orationes & Determinationes, cum Procancelariatu functus est.
  • XII. Aetates Rabbinorum.
  • XIII. Quaedam de Israelitica sparsim collecta.
  • XIV. Annotationes in primum & quartum Caput Geneseos.
  • XV. Memorabilia quaedam sub Ezra, & Synagoga ejus magna, Chronologice disposita.
  • XVI. Correctiones & observationes in Textum Samaritanum.
  • ...

Page XXV

  • XVII. Adversaria e Rabbinis collecta in Iosuam, & in quaedam Capita Exod. & Nume∣rorum.
  • XVIII. The Minor Prophets in the Vulgar and LXX translations compared with the He∣brew, and the various readings and additions taken notice of.
  • XIX. Divers other loose papers, concerning the destruction of Ierusalem, situation of places in the Holy Land. Chronology, History, &c.
In English.
  • I. The Book of Chronicles of the Kings of France, and of the Kings of the House of Otoman the Turk. Written in Hebrew by Ioseph the Priest, and Translated in English by I. Lightfoot.
  • II. The Consent of the four Evangelists. A Century. Perfect.
  • III. A plain and easie Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea.
  • IV. An Exposition upon the Old and New Testament by way of Chronology, and Harmony; with a preface instructing how to understand the Scripture.
  • V. The Motions and Stations of Israel in their March out of Egypt.
  • ...VI. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Things appropriated by the Iews Traditions to the Land of Israel.
  • VII. Names of places in the Holy Land explained out of the Rabbins, set down by way of Alphabet.
  • VII. Of the Creation. A Chapter.
  • IX. A Discourse upon Joh. XIII. 27, 30.
  • X. History beginning from the fall of Ierusalem.
  • XI. Historical passages in the first year of Trajans reign.
  • XII. A Table of the years from the birth of Christ to the Fall of Ierusalem.
  • XIII. The Iewish, Christian, Roman History, Anno Christi XXXVI.
  • XIV. The Chronology and History of Dioclesian, Constantine and Constantius.

Indeed some of these were only Notes and Memoranda for his own private use; but several of them undoubtedly were intended to have seen the Light at one time or other, but that he found the Press so loth to receive things of that nature, and so he cast them by, some only begun, and as it were in Design; all of them imperfect, but One.

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