. A Collection of tracts relating to the Deity, worship and satisfaction of the Lord Jesus Christ ... : to which is prefix'd a true narrative of the proceedings of the dissenting ministers of Dublin against the author ... deceivd withfuch Pretences, that they will not now pafs,when contradidled by rational Arguments ; andby flrong Evidence on the other fide, fromall the Greek Manufcripts which are older, asfome of them are, than thofe Times, and fromall the Greek Fathers, and even from St. Jeromhimfelf, as I hope is made to appear. For tho Mr, 16o A Kb P to Mr. Martin^ with all his Pretenc
. A Collection of tracts relating to the Deity, worship and satisfaction of the Lord Jesus Christ ... : to which is prefix'd a true narrative of the proceedings of the dissenting ministers of Dublin against the author ... deceivd withfuch Pretences, that they will not now pafs,when contradidled by rational Arguments ; andby flrong Evidence on the other fide, fromall the Greek Manufcripts which are older, asfome of them are, than thofe Times, and fromall the Greek Fathers, and even from St. Jeromhimfelf, as I hope is made to appear. For tho Mr, 16o A Kb P to Mr. Martin^ with all his Pretences to Logick,is unreafonable in expeding pofitive Proofs ofa negative Point; yet I have juft Reafon to re-quire a pofitive Proof of the Affirmative, (notmere Prefumptions) viz. That this Text is, orever was, in any antient Greek Manufcripts, oreven in St. Jeromes own Verfion corredled bythem. And therefore, when Mr. Martin can informus truly, that one of his many fuppofed, mi/laid,or loft Greek Manufcripts, is found again, theWorld will be ready to hear of it •, but when aControverfy comes to confiil only of tedious Re-petitions, and perfonal Refledtions, tis a fignit either is near to an end, or ought to POST- Mr. Martins Examination^ &c. 16 i POSTSCRIPT, concerning the DublinManufcript, calld Codex Montfortius. THE Code>: Montfortius was formerly wellknown, being mentiond in xhtEnghJhPol-jglotpublifhd by Walton^ and in Dr. MiWs Prolegomenaand Notes y m both which Works the variousReadings of it are inferred, as far as to the firilChapter of the Epiftle to the Romans: but whetherit reachd any farther, was not known, nor whereit was depofited, till the learned Father le Longinformd the World of it in his Letter to ^ printed in the Journal des Scavans oVjUne1720. who having feen Mr. Martins Dijfertationon I John 5. 7. wrote to him, among other things,that it was certain that Robert Stephens had butfeven Greek Manufcripts which containd the Cano-nical Epiftle
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