EPISTLES of IGNATIUS, Both Larger and Smaller, in Greek and Englifb. VOL. II. The Apoftolical Constitutions, in Greek and English. VOL. III. An ESSAY on those VOL. IV. An Account of the Primitive Faith, concerning the TRINITY and INCARNATION. By WILLIAM WHİSTON, M. A. There is fcarce any Church in Christendom, at this Day, that does not LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR; And are to be THOMAS And to The Right Reverend The BISHOPS Of the fame Province, His GRACE's Suffragans; And to the Reverend The CLERGY Of the Lower House Of CONVOCATION; THIS Hiftorical Preface, WITH THE Four enfuing VOLUMES Are with all due Submiffion offer'd To Their, and the Publick ferious CON- (RCPPG) .970 The Author. 80602-piz Advertisement ΤΟ ΤΗΕ READER· Y Hiftorical Preface, especially, as now MY including both the University's and Convocation's Proceedings, is fo full and particular, that it prevents the Neceffity of any other long Preliminary Difcourfe in this place. I fhall therefore be as brief as poffible; and rather call this an Advertisement, than a Preface to the Reader; Who is here to obferve, that I have been oblig'd to make fome Alterations in this Design fince it was firft propos'd; tho' not at all to his disadvantage, either as Purchaser or Reader. Thus I have not publish'd the Arabick Didafcaly as I formerly intended,fince it proves to be not the Genuine Doctrine of the Apoftles, as I once hoped, but a partial and fpurious Edition of the καθολική διδασκαλία, or former Six Books of the Constitutions,and to be generally taken from them verbatim; fo that there was no neceffity of repeating it. Yet is its Preface, which feems plainly to belong to the Original Doctrine of the Apoftles, exactly here fet down; and the Contents of its feveral Chapters alfo. And for a compenfation I have added the Accounts of the University's and Convocation's Proceedings relating to me; as alfo the Apologetick of Eunomius, together with the common Edition of the Se A 3 ond |