THE

FAMILY EXPOSITOR;

OR,

A PARAPHRASE

AND

VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT;

WITH

CRITICAL NOTES,

AND

A PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENT OF EACH SECTION.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME FIRST, CONTAINING THE FORMER PART OF

THE HISTORY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,

AS RECORDED BY THE FOUR EVANGELISTS.

DISPOSED IN THE ORDER OF AN HARMONY.

BY P. DODDRIDGE, D.D.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY ANDREW KIPPIS, D. D. F.R.S. AND S. A.

Ει δε τις υπο τελων μη πάσχη των λόγων, υπό μόνων αν των εν αδε δικαςηρίων
U-.
Simplic. in Epictet. Proem.

Etheridge's Edition,

FROM THE EIGHTH LONDON EDITION.

SOLD BY HIM AT WASHINGTON HEAD BOOKSTORE. SOLD ALSO BY SAID
ETHERIDGE AND COMPANY, IN BOSTON.

S. Etheridge, printer, Charlestown, Massachusetts.

1807.

THE LIFE

OF

DR. DODDRIDGE.

THE family from which Dr. Doddridge descended appears to have been originally settled in Devonshire. No memoirs of it, however, are capable of being traced farther back than to his great great grandfather, whose name was Richard, and who was an eminent merchant at Barnstaple, in that county. Of his great grandfather we are not told whether he was a gentleman who lived upon his estate, or whether he was of any particular profession. That the family was ancient is evinced by its arms; and that it was of some consequence, is apparent from the liberal education, and the respectable situations, of such of the members of it as have not been consigned to obliv. ion. John Doddridge, brother of the doctor's great grand father, was of no small distinction in the law; passed through several eminent stages of it, in the reign of king James the first; received the honour of knighthood; and at length arose to be one of the judges of the court of king's bench, An account of him will be given below.*

a This John Doddridge, one of the sons of the Richard Doddridge above men. tioned, was born at Barnstaple, in the year 1555. In 1572 he was entered of Exeter college, Oxford, where he studied four years, after which he was removed to the Middle Temple, London, where he became a great proficient in the law, and a noted counsellor, In the forty fifth year of the reign of Queen