Α GREEK AND ENGLISH LEXICON TO THE NEW TESTAMENT: IN WHICH The WORDS and PHRASES occurring in those SACRED BOOKS And the Meanings assigned to each authorized by References to Passages of And frequently illustrated and confirmed by CITATIONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT AND FROM THE GREEK WRITERS. TO THIS WORK IS PREFIXED, A PLAIN AND EASY GREEK GRAMMAR, THE SEVENTH EDITION, CORRECTED, ENLARGED, AND IMPROVED. BY JOHN PARKHURST, M. A. FORMERLY FELLOW OF CLARE-HALL, CAMBRIDGE. MAT. XXII. 29. ΠΛΑΝΑΣΘΕ, ΜΗ ΕΙΔΟΤΕΣ ΤΑΣ ΓΡΑΦΑΣ. Των παντων κακών αιτιον μη αναγινωσκειν βιβλια, ψυχης Φαρμακα. CHRYSOSTOM. LONDON: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; G. WILKIE; J. WALKER; J. CUTHELL; LONGMAN, 1817. LIFE OF THE LATE REV. JOHN PARKHURST, A.M. THE Rev. JOHN PARKHURST, the subject of this sketch, was the second son of John Parkhurst, Esq. of Catesby-house, in the county of Northampton, by Ricarda, the second daughter of Mr. Justice Dormer, and was born in June, 1728. He received the earliest rudiments of his education at the school of Rugby, in the county of Warwick;-an education which, by intense mental labour, aided by a mind eminently gifted with sound judgment and deep penetration, he rendered perfect in itself, and beneficial to the world of letters, as well as to the cause of the Christian religion. The whole life of this truly excellent man and devout Christian was honourable to human nature; and his death a sublime example of faith and resignation. From Warwickshire he removed to Clare-hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded A.B. 1748, A.M. 1752, and was some time fellow of his college. Being a younger brother, he was intended for the church; but not long after his entering into holy orders, his elder brother died: this event made him the heir of two considerable estates, the one at Catesby in the county of Northampton, and the other at Epsom in the county of Surrey: but as his father was still living, it was some years before he came into the full possession of them; and when he did, the acquisition of fortune produced no change in his habits or his pursuits. He continued to cultivate with ardour the studies becoming a clergyman; and from his family connexions, as well as from his piety and learning, he certainly had a great right to look forward to preferment in his profession; but an early attachment to retirement, and to a life of close and intense study, prevented him from seeking any. In the capacity of curate, but without any salary, he long officiated for a friend with exemplary diligence and zeal. When, several years after, it fell to his lot to exercise the right of presentation, he was unfashionable enough to consider church-patronage as a trust rather than a property; accordingly, resisting the influence of interest, favour, and affection, he presented to the vicarage of Epsom, in the county of Surrey, the Rev. Jonathan Boucher. This gentleman was then known to him only by character; but having dis tinguished himself in America during the revolution, for his loyalty, and by teaching the unsophisticated doctrines of the Church of England to a set of rebellious schismatics, at the hazard of his life, Mr. Parkhurst thought, and justly thought, that he could not present to the vacant living a man who had given better proofs of his having a due sense of the duties of his office. two sons; In the year 1754, Mr. Parkhurst married Susanna Myster, daughter of John Myster, Esq. of Epsom; this lady died in 1759, leaving him a daughter and both his sons have been dead some years, but his daughter survived him, and married the Rev. James Altham. In the year 1761, he was married a second time to Millecent Northey, daughter of Thomas Northey, Esq. of London, by whom he had one daughter, married, in 1791, to the Rev. Joseph Thomas. This lady, reared under the immediate inspection of her learned and pious father, by an education of the very first order, has acquired a degree of classical knowledge which is rarely met with in the female world; and those mental endowments are still more highly embellished by the exercise and example of every domestic virtue. Mr. Parkhurst's second wife closed her well spent life at the advanced age of 79, on the 27th of April, 1800, having survived him upwards of three years. Never were modest worth, unaffected piety, and every domestic virtue, more strongly illustrated than in the character of this most amiable and excellent woman. Her sweetness of temper, simplicity of manners, and charitable disposition, are seldom paralleled, and never excelled. In the year 1753, Mr. Parkhurst began his career of authorship, by publishing, in 8vo, "A Friendly Address to the Rev. John Wesley, in relation to a principal Doctrine maintained by him and his Assistants." This work, however valuable, we may safely say, was of very little importance when compared with his next publication, which was "An Hebrew and English Lexicon, without points; to which is added, a Methodical Hebrew Grammar, without Points, adapted to the Use of Learners," 1762, 4to. To attempt a vindication of all the etymological and philosophical disquisitions which are scattered through this work, would be fruitless; but it is not perhaps too much to say, that we have nothing of the kind equal to it in the English Language. Continuing to correct and improve this excellent work, he published a second edition, much enlarged, in 1778, and a third edition in 1792. His philological studies were not confined to the Hebrew language; for he published "A Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament; to which is prefixed a plain and easy Greek Grammar," 1769, 4to; a second edition, 1794; and, being desirous of making his literary labours more generally useful, he determined on publishing octavo editions of both Lexicons, |