Ihave no Design hereafter to reply to such hafty, and injudicious Pamphlets as may be written againft me, by those that cannot stay fully to confider, and throughly to examine, as I have been sometimes prevaild on to do hicherto ; but thal defire rather to leave all for a considerable time with the Church and the Learned ; and to wait Ull fome well qualifyed and judicious Persons, after full and mature examination, shall publish somewhat really considerable upon these important Subjects, before I trouble the World any farther with my own Thoughts about them. But in the mean time I shall take care to have the whole translated into Latin for the ufe of Foreigners, affoon as conveniently may be; and Thall review the Translation my felf, that to it may, as exaâly as possible, express my Sense all

I have also just now an Hint, as if the Con Ititutions themfelves are found in Arabick at Cambridge, and ardeast one MS. more therero relating but can yet give 'no particular Ac count of them.

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VOLUME. I.

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THE
E P I S T L E S

: OF IGNATIUS, BP of Antioch;

B O T H Larger and Smaller, in Greek and in English,

with the various Readings from all the Greek MSS.

To which is Prefixed : An HISTORICAL PREFACE,

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

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 Ex

nomius entire in English. By WILLIAM WHISTON, M. A. Μακάριοι οι διδιωγμένοι ένεκεν δημιοσύνης, όπ αυθεν

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J OH N
Lord Archbishop of TORK,

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

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Epistles of IGNATIUS,

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Are Humbly Dedicated,
And with all due Submission offer'd to Their

and the Publick serious CONSIDE-
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T'he Author.