. The apocryphal books of the New Testament, being all the gospels, epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His apostles, and their companions, not included. m the Greek MS. in the BodleianLibrary, copied by Dr. Mills, and trans-mitted to Dr. Grabe, who edited andprinted it in his Specilegium. These are The Genuine Epistles ofthe Apostolic Fathers ; being, together withthe Holy Scriptures of the New Testamenta complete collection of the most prim Hive An-tiquity for about a hundred and fifty yearsafter Christ. Translated and published witha
. The apocryphal books of the New Testament, being all the gospels, epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His apostles, and their companions, not included. m the Greek MS. in the BodleianLibrary, copied by Dr. Mills, and trans-mitted to Dr. Grabe, who edited andprinted it in his Specilegium. These are The Genuine Epistles ofthe Apostolic Fathers ; being, together withthe Holy Scriptures of the New Testamenta complete collection of the most prim Hive An-tiquity for about a hundred and fifty yearsafter Christ. Translated and published witha large preliminary discourse relating to theseveral Treatisesby the most Here raid Fatherin God, William, (Wake) Lord Bishop ofLincoln, afterwards Lord Archbishop ofCanterbury. The authorities and proofsadduced by this erudite and honest pre-late will be found in great number in theintroduction and discourses to the Edi-tion of the Archbishops Translation ofthese Epistles, published in 1817, by , Paternoster Row. Note.—Column 1 contains the proper names of the Books; col. 2the No. of chapters ineach; col. 3 the page whereon each Book commences; col- 4 the authorities for eachbriefly stated. \. THE BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN. [Pace 19. FROM A GREEK DIPTVCHON OF THE THIRTEENTH OR FOURTEENTH CENTURY. THE ^porriipljot Una testament The GOSPEL of the BIRTH OF MARY. [In the primitive ages there was a Gospel extant bearing this name, attri-buted to St. Matthew, and received as genuine and authentic by severalof the ancient Christian sects. It is to be found in the works of Jerome,a Father of the Church, who flourished in the fourth century, fromwhence the present translation is made. His contemporaries, Epipha-nius, Bishop of Salamis, and Austin, also mention a Gospel under thistitle. The ancient copies differed from Jeromes, for from one of themthe learned Faustus, a native of Britain, who became Bishop of Riez, inProvence, endeavoured to prove that Christ was not the Son of God
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