SHAKSPEARE

AND

THE BIBLE.

'I commend my Soul into the hands of GOD, my Creator; hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of JESUS CHRIST, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my Body to the earth, whereof that is made.'

SHAKSPEARE'S WILL.

ON

SHAKSPEARE'S KNOWLEDGE

AND USE OF THE BIBLE.

CALIFORNIA

BY

CHARLES WORDSWORTH, D.C.L.

BISHOP OF ST. ANDREWS. P

'I will preach to thee; mark me!'-King Lear.
'Meliùs Chrysippo et Crantore.'-HORACE.

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 65 CORNHILL.
1864.

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