eating the Paffover.) Then he makes his Puppet tell us how they led Chrift away to Annas; which quite breaks St. John's Measures. There, at Annas's Houfe, he makes his Puppet tell us there was another Scene of fuch like Actings for a while, before they delivered our Bleffed Saviour to Pilate. Then this Juggler makes his Puppet tell us how our Saviour being now, before Pilate, there they brought in againft. him Two falfe Witneffes. Of thefe there is not a Word in St. John's Gofpel; nor in any other, while our Saviour was before Pilate. But indeed St. Matthew fays, there were Two falfe Witneffes, brought againft our Saviour when he was before the Sanhedrin in Caiaphas's Houfe. This was only a flip of the Juggler's Memory.. I will not detain you with this Stuff any longer, than to fhow you how you may furely diftinguish it by another of your own Obfervations. You have it in Harm. p. 115. That the Three first Evangelifts reckon'd their Hours by the Jewish Account, from fix in the Morning, till fix in the Evening: But St. John reckons his Hours the Roman Way, from Twelve at Midnight, and at Noon. According to this way of reckoning, You and I understand what St. John tells us, John xix. 14. that when Pilate fat down on the Judgment-Seat, it was rem, about the fath Hour. But how did this Juggler understand it? Not as we do to be fure; for he makes his Puppet fay, that at the fixth Hour they crucifyld our Saviour, having receiv'd the Sentence at the Third Hour. What he faid of the fixth Hour we know he had from St. John; but what he makes St. John fay of the Third Hour, is out of his own Head. You do alfo rightly obServe, that St. Job was very exact in metho

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dizing the things that he found in the Three former Gofpels. St. Luke indeed takes this to himfelf, that he had written Things as in order as they happen'd; fo that he had no need of any other to correct the order in which he deliver'd them. But this Impoftor makes his St. John neglect all that St. John the Apoftle had told us in his Gofpel. Instead of that, he takes up Things from the other Three Gospels, as I have fhewn; and with these he goes on to the end of his Hiftory of our Saviour's Paffion. Particularly from the Two firft Evangelists he tells us how about the Ninth Hour, i. e. about Three of the Clock in the Afternoon, Jefus cryed Jaying, My God, My God, why baft thou forfaken me? Mat. xxvii. 46. Mark xv. 34. He goes on and fays, Met' ¡aíjov: A LITTLE AFTER THIS he cryed, Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. But where are we now? This which he calls a little after, was fome five or fix Hours before. For he has this out of Luke xxiii. 34. Where St. Luke tells us thefe Words were fpoken by our Saviour on the Crofs, immediately after it was fet up with his Body nail'd to it; which St. Mark tells us, Mark xv. 25. was at the Third Hour, il e, at Nine of the Clock in the Morning. But here this Impoftor makes his John tell us it was a little after Three in the Afternoon. That must be his Meaning; for his next Words are thefe, that Jefus faid, Father, into thy Hands I commend my Spirit ; and having thus faid he gave up the Ghost; which he has from St. Luke xxiii. 46. What an Impudent Fellow was this, to impofe on his credulous Readers, and fo wickedly to abuse the Holy Apoftle in making them believe that he had all this from his Mouthfhould have queftion'd the Judgment or Honefty of his moft Learned

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Editor Cotelerius, if he had let this pass without a Stricture. But he does not. For in his Nore 44. which is on these very Words, air, he calls him Pfeudoclements: And fays, Tirrianus does in vain endeavour to excufe him. The most unpleafant Pains that I take in my Studies, is that which I beftow in the detecting of: Impoftures; and therefore I willingly go off from that. Work. Only that I may not feem to be Singular in this Detection, I fhall add what others have obferv'd of thefe Conftitutions; and particularly what that great Man Primate Uber has told us in his Differtation before his Ignatius's Epiftles. There, CXVI. he charges this Pfeudoclements, as he alfo calls him, with anλasia, wicked Forge

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feveral Inftances. First, from Const. Apost. VI. Book 12,13, 14 Chapters; where this pretended Clement brings together all the Twelve Apoftles, after the Council at Jerufalem, of which we have the Hiftory in the XVth Chapter of Acts. There among the Twelve he brings in James the Brother of John. But of him we certainly know from Act. XII. 1. that he was kill'd fome Years befor that Council. With them this Impoftor joins James the Brother of the Lord, and Paul the Teacher of the Gentiles; as he makes them here ftile him. But St. Paul in Galat. II. Chapter giving an Account of his Bufinefs then at Ferufalem, does certainly fhew that at that Time there was no other Apoftle at Jerufalem but Peter and John, and Fames the Brother of the Lord. And they are the only Apoftles then at Ferufalem that are fpoken of in the Hiftory of the Council before-mention'd. But for Barnabas, the Impoftor feems to have forgotten that he was S. Paul's Fellow-Apoftle. Next, from Conft. Apathe VIIIth Book the 4th Chapter, where

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Impoftor, bringing the fame Twelve Apoftles together, makes them fay, We the Twelve Apostles of the Lord being here, together with our Fel low-Apostle Paul, and James the Bishop, and the other Presbyters, and the Seven Deacons with us, do charge you with thefe Divine Conftitutions. It is cer tainly falfe that ever the Apostles at Ferufalem did own Paul to be their Fellow-Apoftle while James the Brother of John, was living. And when they of the Twelve who were then at Jerufalem, who were only Peter and John, did own St. Paul to be their Fellow-Apoftle, they own'd Barnabas with him, as we fee in Gal. II. abovementioned. Again, in Conft. Ap. VIIIth Book cap. ult. this Impoftor, coming to fpeak of Ordi nation, brings in the Twelve, and Paul with them, faying, We Twelve Apostles were ordained by our Saviour: Surely not at the Time spoken of in John XX.) Then he makes James and Cle ment fpeak for themfelves, I James was ordained by the Apostles and I Clement, and others with us and we all ordained Priests, and Deacons, and Subdeacons, and Lectors. How this pretended Cle ment was ordained he makes St. Peter tell us in thefe Words, Const. Ap. VII. 46. Of the Roman Church the firft Bishop was Linus, ordain'd by Paul; and after the Death of Linus, the Second Bifhop was Clement, ordain'd by me Peter. There is no Church-Hiftorian that makes the Death of Linus to have been before 4. D. 64. and that was full 20 Years after the Death of James the Apoftle: Yet here in the VIIIth Book, caput. this Impudent Fellow takes upon him to lay,! Clement was ordained by the Apostle; and he faid it as in the Prefence of James, tho' James was dead 20 Years before that Ordination. There follow more Inftances in that Chapter of Pri

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mate Ufher. But thefe are enough to justify the Cenfure of that Pious and Learned Man, in calling the Writer of thefe Conftitutions Idle Impo for, and Larvatus Clemens, and Pfeudo-Clemens, as he ufually does. The best Account that any one has given of thefe Conftitutions, as far as I am able to judge, was given by that great Man Bifhop Pearfon, in his Vind. Ignat. 1. IV. There he fheweth that there were anciently feveral fpurious Books that were faid to be written by the Apoftles, or dictated by them to their Difciples, who put them in Writing under the Names of the Apoftles; or perhaps they were only pretended to have been received from the Difciples of the Apoftles, and fo have been put out under their Names. Of the firft fort he is of Opinion that one was called did Amosov, another διαλάξεις Αποςόλων And perhaps there might be feveral of thefe. Of the other Sort, one was called manta Kue another and, of Ignati#s: Another of Polycarp; another of Hippolytus: And perhaps there were thofe that went under the Names of feveral others. The Confarcina tor of thefe, he faith, had his Choice of all thefe great Names. But he took a particular Fancy to that of Clemens Romanus, whom he plainly imitates in fome little Things, not worth mentioning; for which Bifhop Pearfon juftly calls him the Ape of St. Clement, p. 63. 1. X. But that he fhould put out fuch Stuff under the Name of Clemens Romanus, was furely a horrible Abuse to that Holy Bishop, whom St. Paul mentions with Honour in his Epiftle to Philemon, [it fhould be to the Philippians: And falutes Timothy in his Name, in his laft Epiftle before his Death. [This isa Miftake alfo, for Linus.] But that thefe fhould be the Genuine Work of that Clements, I think never came into the Head of any Learned Man since

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