. 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 . ary, after xxx General Preface after the redemption of mankind that:glorious oeconomy of grace and wif-dom is finally and fully accompliflid:When all oppofition mull: ceafe, andall enemies be fubdud to the Meffiahseternal and moft bleffed kingdom andempire. And here tis time to conclude thislong difcourfe. I humbly take leaveof my good reader, recjueft his prayersfor me, and with mine recommendhim to the fafe protection and infinitemercies of the ever bleffed God ourSaviour: Not doubting but he willconftantly join with the holy catholickchurch of our Lord Chrift in thefollowing, or fome other devout formof fervent ejaculation, upon this bleffedand moil; comfortable fubjecl; whichis the great and glorious object of ourChriftian faith 5 and will be the con-fummation of all our moft exaltedand well grounded hopes* to this SecondVolume. xxxi (decs tAcSirj) n BaoiA«<x 2b* tq Ylvzufj^ x« ft No^ptf XiyUCTLVy EAr^F. Kott 0 OLKUWl g/W-Ttt, EA^f. IN]a), epp£» KJ&*g l»o-y t»^. THE C ? ]
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