Mr. Brewster,
WE have perused, as our occasions w••uld permit, the Book you brought us, call'd The Apostolical History, containing an Analytical Paraphrase on the whole Book of the Acts of the Apostles, and all the Apostolical Epi∣stles, which are in number Twenty one. And seeing you desire our opinion upon it, we declare, That we judg it a Work which (with the blessing of God) will be exceeding useful and beneficial to seve∣ral sorts of persons: Particularly,
1. To such Ministers as are not furnished with good Libraries.
2. To young Scholars who should be directed in Chronologie, and how to reduce the passages and transactions of the Apostolick Times, to their due and proper places, and should be guided in a right way and method of studying the holy Scriptures.
3. To Masters of Families, that they may thereby be enabled to instruct their Families.
4. To private Christians in the daily reading of the Scriptures, who have not time or leisure to read larger Comments.
5 'Tis a Book sit for Parents to give to their Children that are grown up, to bring them to a love and delight in the Scriptures, they being made plain, and facile, and intelligible in this Para∣phrase.
6. The Notes in the Margin are very useful for Scholars to give them an account of the particular interpretations that the Au∣thor giveth of sundry difficult places; and yet they are so ordered, that they will not disturb the unlearned in reading either the Apo∣stolical History, or the Paraphrase on the Epistles.
7. The Map of Paul's Travels is useful and delightful, not only for the clearer understanding how that blessed Apostle planted the Gospel up and down in the world; but it may be useful also for the understanding of several passages in the History both of the Old and New Testament.