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that I may not be found guilty of breaking any of the Rules of Chriftian Meeknefs, Hu mility, Modesty, and Deference to Lawful Authority while I am aiming to promote, to the best of my Judgment and Ability, the Purity of Chrift's Religion among Men. And Imuft own,that I am, upon Reflection fenfible, that in feveral Expreffions, and in many Cir cumftances of my Management, I have not always kept within thofe ftrict Rules of the Gospel, which the Meekness and Gentleness of Chrift, and of his Religion requires in fuch Cafes ; and that therefore I may fometimes have given Occafion of Offence to my Chri ftian Brethren, and to thofe in Authority in particular. For which Faults, wherever they have appear'd, either by Word or Writing, I do heartily beg forgivenefs of God, and of all good Men. And I now add, that as I have aim'd fince that time, not to break the promise I then made, That I would thenceforward be more careful not to be guilty of the fame Fault afterward, fo do I again promife hereby to keep it, if poffible, ftill more faithfully for the time to come; being heartily defirous, that I may by the Chriftian Manner, as well as Honeft Zeal of my future Procedure, endeavour to recommend thefe Sacred Truths and Books of Genuine Chriftianity to the World.

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And now to conclude the whole, and detain the Reader no longer from the work it felf, I must still add one thing more, viz. That fince I have now honeftly difcharg'd my Duty, been faithful to my Truft, and laid my full Thoughts, Discoveries, and Evidence, before the Chriftian World in thefe Four Volumes,

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have no Delign hereafter to reply to fuch hafty, and injudicious Pamphlets as may be written a gainst me, by thofe that cannot ftay fully to confider, and throughly to examine, as I have been fometimes prevail'd on to do hitherto; but shall defire rather to leave all for a confiderable time with the Church and the Learned; and to wait till fome well qualifyed and judicious Perfons, after full and mature examination, fhall publish fomewhat really confiderable upon these important Subjects, before I trouble the World any farther with my own Thoughts about them. But in the mean time I fhall take care? to have the whole tranflated into Latin for the ufe of Foreigners, affoon as conveniently may be; and fhall review the Tranflation my felf, that fo it may, as exactly as poffible, express my Sense all RA

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way. Thave alfo juft now an Hint, as if the Conftitutions themfelves are found in Arabick at Cambridge, and at least one MS. more, thereto relating; but can yet give no particular Ac count of them.

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THE

JEW OT EPISTLES

netisʻT woolkup bi OF

IGNATIUS, BP of Antioch;

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ΒΟΤΗ

Larger and Smaller, in Greek and in English, 5930 with the various Readings from all the Greek MSS.

To which is Prefixed:

An HISTORICAL PREFACE, hop Including the Accounts of the University's and Convocation's PROCEEDINGS, With Relation to the AUTHOR.

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AS ALSO,

A Preliminary DISSERTATION,
Proving that the Larger Copies of IGNATIUS
are alone Genuine, and the Smaller only
Heretical Extracts from them, made in the
Fourth Century of the Church.

To which is Subjoin'd the Apologetick of Eu-
nomius entire in English.

By WILLIAM WHISTON, M. A. * Μακάριοι οἱ δεδιωγμένοι ἕνεκεν δικαιοσύνης, ὅτι αυλών δτιν ἡ βασιλεία * ρανών. Matt. V. Io.

LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR ; And are to be
Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. 1711.

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JOHN Lord Archbishop of YORK,

PRESIDENT;

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

ESSAY

ON THE

Epiftles of IGNATIUS,

WITH THE

EPISTLES themselves;

Are Humbly Dedicated,

And with all due Submission offer'd to Their and the Publick ferious CONSIDE

RATION, By

The Author.

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