AN EXPOSITION, WITH PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS, UPON THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS

This work having been originally intended only for the private use of a family circle, I have taken upon me the responsibility of making some retrenchments; conceiving it probable that the author would himself have done so, had he printed it for general circulation.
"The Bible," says the excellent Cecil, "resembles an extensive and highly-cultivated garden, where there are a vast variety and profusion of fruits and flowers, some of which are more essential or more splendid than others; but there is not a blade suffered to grow in it, which has not its use and beauty in the system." As it was the object of my pious forefather in composing, so it is my prayer in publishing, the following interesting elucidation of some of these beauties and excellencies of the sacred volume, that it may be made instrumental in promoting the glory of God, and in setting forth "the unsearchable riches of Christ."