. 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 Illuftrated. PART II. A Dijfertation on the prefent Divifionof the hew Teflament Into Chaptersand Verfes 5 and the faulty Transla-tion of that divine Book, in many in-flames 5 which weaken its Reafoning,and fpoil its Eloquence and Beauties. CHAP. I. E have endeavourd to vindi-cate the facred writers of theNew Teftament, with refpectto their language and phrafe-ology in the original ; andfhewd that there is true eloquence in thofeheavenly authors ; and more beauties than can. 124 The Sacred Classics can be found in the Greek and Roman Cla£-fics; more than have been difcernd, andallowd, by many pious divines, and cele-brated fcholars. There are difadvantages, which the di-vine writers lie under, as they are turndand reprefented in their tranflation into mo-dern languages; which the learned are con-cernd for, and the unlearned take offenceat, and are unhappily prejudiced againft thegreat original, for the faults of inadequateverfions. There feem to me no conveniencies in thedivilion of the facred books into chaptersand verfes, that can balance the inconvenienceand prejudice they bring. The moft valuablehook in the world is the worft divided \ andis deformd and encumberd with the moftimproper fections and paufcs. Stops aremade, chapters and verfes ended, where thefenfe, n
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