. 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 . nd pattern of all prayer, 112 Asa, its propriety, and properreading, 288 Lucas Br«^e«/7f,prefumptuouflydifparages the original He-brew of the Old Teftament,331. Inftance of his difinge-nuity, ibid. His monftrousaffurance, ibidi Lucian, a merry buffoon, chargesbetter authors than himielfwith iblcciims, 42. His ca-vils confuted, 43,44. Directswords to be vomited up, thatwould have fat eafy upon afounder itomach, 44. Hisintolerable iniblence with re-gard to Plato, ibid* Lucretius ufes vas for cor pore, 19 Ludovicus de Die*, 344 Bb x i-tikg INDEX. Luke ii. ft. 6 < x. ult. I I •—— ii. 12. — ii. f. 13 ? xvi. 40. 14 ii. 49. \f unneceffary pains ta-ken to lolve a paffage there, 16Luke viii. 43, 44. 14 • ix. 49 is . xx. %f. 5-4 —— xxiv. 49. 75 —— vi. 27, ad 37. a noble paf-fage, 106 ii. 38. 291 St. Luke, Sec. obliquely wound-ed by Tanaquil Fabers boldliberties, 9. And by Kufter,14. His fine ftyle and beau-ties, 22. Intended not, by acertain phrafe, to excufe the. S 24 44 s° st 7l IS86 wrong tranflated in our veriion, 166 ———v. if, a very glorious paf-fatre, 272. Wrong notionsof ibme fmall critics relatingthereto, ibid. St. Marks phrafe relating to thecure of the flux of blood, in-telligible, beautiful, ernpha-tical, 24. By a different phrafefrom St. Luke, meant not toblame
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