A Testimony of antiquity concerning the sacramental body and blood of Christ, written in the old Saxon tongue before the conquest : being a homily appointed, in the reign of the Saxons, to be spoken at Easter, as a charge, to the people ; together with the two epistles of Aelfric on the sam subject . riving at; you would play one fa-vour it \\\ox upon me againft another, andingage me unawares in an ijzvidious Com-parifon. But lam upon my guard. Theyare Writers in a different Tafle^ and willnot admit of being compared, tho theyhave each their feparate excellencies, andthofe very confiderabl
A Testimony of antiquity concerning the sacramental body and blood of Christ, written in the old Saxon tongue before the conquest : being a homily appointed, in the reign of the Saxons, to be spoken at Easter, as a charge, to the people ; together with the two epistles of Aelfric on the sam subject . riving at; you would play one fa-vour it \\\ox upon me againft another, andingage me unawares in an ijzvidious Com-parifon. But lam upon my guard. Theyare Writers in a different Tafle^ and willnot admit of being compared, tho theyhave each their feparate excellencies, andthofe very confiderable ones on both two great Gcniufes are in all refpcdtsalike: nor were it to bedefired they ihouldbe fo. The world would then wantmuch of that Pleafure it now receives fromvariety oiManners, Tis of great ufe to thedifferent forts of Readers, to have the funcC 2 Truths ( 12 ) Truths placed in different lights; there isa probability of theiry?r//(7/2^ greater num-bers. Inftruftion is a kind oi Phyfc; itmufl be differently prepared for differentConllitutions. B Y this time we were called in to fup-per; the remainder of the Evening pafsdoff in a general Ccnverfation lipon feveralindifferent matters, jufl as they happenedto occur, without order or connexion ^and at Eleven we bad p A R r ( 13 )
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