. The sacred classics defended and illustrated, or, An essay humbly offer'd towards proving the purity, propriety, and true eloquence of the writers of the New Testament : in two parts : in the first of which those divine writers are vindicated against the charge of barbarous language, false Greek, and solecisms : in the second is shewn, that all the excellencies of style, and sublime beauties of language and genuine eloquence do abound in the sacred writers of the New Testament, with an account of their style and character, and a representation of their superiority, in several instances, to t
. The sacred classics defended and illustrated, or, An essay humbly offer'd towards proving the purity, propriety, and true eloquence of the writers of the New Testament : in two parts : in the first of which those divine writers are vindicated against the charge of barbarous language, false Greek, and solecisms : in the second is shewn, that all the excellencies of style, and sublime beauties of language and genuine eloquence do abound in the sacred writers of the New Testament, with an account of their style and character, and a representation of their superiority, in several instances, to the best classics of Greece and Rome : to which are subjoin'd proper indexes . THE SACRED CLASSICS Defended and A Difcowfe on the Various Readings of the New Tejlament. Various reading is in general atranfcribers differing from theoriginal author, either in wri-ting, or in meaning, or firft may be afcribd to the copyiftshafte, negligence, or ignorance ; the fecondto prefumption, impudence, and a wickeddefign. The glorious originals of the facred canonof the New Teftament are long fince moul-derd away, and deftroyd by time. Wchave remaining a great number of preciousmanufcripts, which give us the originals in all 2i 8 The Sacred Classics all their eiTentials. The difference of thefefrom each other occafions what we call va-rious readings: which ftric~rly woud be asmany as the differences of fingle words andletters are in thofe books; which woudfwell them to a monftrous and enormousheap. Thofe, that are moil: pertinently allowdand regarded as various readings, are diffe-rences of copies, collected and offered to thereaders judgment; of which probable andjuft reafons may be given of doub
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