. 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 . ^Defended and Illujlvated. 117 drank the fatal potion, I JbaU no longer conti-nue with you, but fhaU go to the felicities ofglorious Jpirits, Then, in the lame vein ofunaffected chearfulnels, he defird his friend,that when he favv his body burnt or depo-fited ID the earth, hewoud not be concerndon that account, that he had brought out,carried away, or interrd Socrates6. Tho this great mans hopes and prefagesof a bleffed immortality were dafhd andweakened by doubts and fcruples, yet headvances ftrong reafons, and expreifes a greatfatisfaction in joyful expectations of theirtruth and certainty. Some learned menthink, that this dubious manner of propo-fing thefe noble notions proceeded, in a goodmeafure, from the modeft way of that philo-ibphy, the ftudiers of which never affirmd,they were fure of any thing. Tho, I be-lieve, it chiefly proceeded from the want ofa clearer light, and of the difcoveries andrevelation of that fupreme Teacher, and Sa-viour of human race, who has brought life. I 3 and \ 18 The Sacred Classics and Immortality to light by his gloriousGo/pel This great man, both upon his tryal, andat his death, exprefsd the nobleft bravery,and moft fedate courage, and yet is dubiousabout a future ftate, tho his hopes weregreat and pleafing. Take the laft words ofhis moft admirable defence ; Aaa*
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