. 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 . They woud appear to be workmenthat woud not need to be afhamed, rightlydividingy juitly comparing, and interpretingthe book of God our Saviour, the words ofeternal life. I end this chapter with a remark uponthat fublime and marvellous paiTage in Colojfii. 1, a, 3. by forgetfulnefs not put in itsproper place, which joind together makea complete period of the molt harmoniousfound, and important fenfe : where we mayobferve, what is indeed the leaft beautyin this grand inftance of divine eloquence,that the article is omitted and ufed beforethe nouns with fuch propriety and feafbn-ablenefsy that gives a grateful variety;heightens the harmony of the numbers ;and adds grace and ftrength to the wholefentence. There is in it all the fweetnefsand fmooth run, without the profufion andfuperfluous multitude of articles frequently occurring Defended and Illujtrated. 141 occurring in Ifocrates ; fometimes in otherfelecl: writers of Greece, hoc ??mW t yvoo&oos ct-TiiKpvQQty Ver. 2, 3*. CHAP, \^z The Sacred Classics CHAP. II. A floort Account of the Tranflations ofthe Greek Tejlament, efpecially themojl common and celebrated LatinTranflations $ whereby it will ap-pear ^ that thofe Sacred Books lietinder fome T)ifadvantages, by reafonof federal Faults and Miflakes inthofe well meant, and, in general,uleful Performances
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