An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures: being the book of Genesis, Explain'd after the following Method, viz. I. The common English translation render'd more agreeable to the original. II. A paraphrase, wherein the Text is explain'd, and divided into proper Sections and other lesser Divisions. III. Annotations as Occasion requires. Hereto is prefix'd IV. A preface, at the end whereof whereof are publish'd the proposals for printing the four remaining books of Moses. By Edw. Wells, D.D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.

All titles

• An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures: being the book of Genesis, Explain'd after the following Method, viz. I. The common English translation render'd more agreeable to the original. II. A paraphrase, wherein the Text is explain'd, and divided into proper Sections and other lesser Divisions. III. Annotations as Occasion requires. Hereto is prefix'd IV. A preface, at the end whereof whereof are publish'd the proposals for printing the four remaining books of Moses. By Edw. Wells, D.D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.
• Bible. O.T. Genesis. English. Wells.
• Help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures. Genesis.

People / Organizations

• Will. Wells ("printed by")

Imprint

Oxford: printed at the Theater, 1724. And sold by Will. Wells Bookseller in Oxford; and Ja. Knapton at the Crown in St Paul's Church Yard, London, [1724]

Added name

Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.

Publication year

1724

ESTC No.

T112333

Grub Street ID

164330

Description

[2],v,[1],277,[3]p. ; 4⁰

Note

With the text.

Some copies contain a 'General Preface' (paginated: [2], xv, [1], 91, [29]) to the Old Testament as a whole, apparently written after the completion of the Pentateuch.