Ihave no Design hereafter to reply to fuch hafty, and injudicious Pamphlets as may be written against 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 Thall review the Tranflation my felf, that fo it may, as exactly as poffible, exprefs my Senfe all the way

I have 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.

WILL. WHISTON

VOLUME I.

THE

EPISTLES

OF

IGNATIUS, B of Antioch;

BOTH

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 Eunomius entire in English.

By WILLIAM WHISTON, M. A. Μακάριοι οἱ δεδιωγμένοι ἕνεκεν δικαιοσύνης, ὅτι αὐτῶν Bayi Barcía ferv. Matt. V. 10.

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

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 Submiffion offer'd to Their and the Publick ferious CONSIDE

RATION, By

The Author.