216 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. thanwhom there could not be abetter judge, skewed his great respect both for our author and his performance, by sending it with his own Annals as a present to Dr. Arnold , Boate, then residing at Paris.. Though this literary production was a very considerable, work, and greatly increased the author's reputation, it was,, indeed, no more than a specimen of a much larger work, in which he had been employed for many years. He at first intended his discourse against Pfochenius only as an appendix to this celebrated performance; but that treatise being ready, for the press, and it being verydoubtful whether he should live to complete the other, he judged it most expedient to publish that alone, particularly that he might see what kind of recep, tion his larger work was likely to meet with from the republic of letters. Finding this specimen universally applauded, he determined to publish the first two books of the other, the whole being divided into six, to which he gave this title : Thoma Gatakeri Londinatis Cinnus ; sive adversaria mis- cellanea animadversionum veriarum libris sex comprehensa : quorum premores duo nunc prinaitius prodeunt reliquis. deiriceps (Deo favente) seorsim msecuturis," 1651. In the preface, the author shews, that these collections were pub, lished in fulfilment of his promise made in his dissertation on the style of the New Testament; which promise would have been fulfilled much sooner, had he not been prevented by his numerous avocations, and by a dangerous eruption of blood, by which he was brought very low, and for a long time withheld from his studies. The first book is divided into eleven chapters, and the second into twenty, but they are mostly independent one of another. The account given of the foregoing work renders it unnecessary to enlarge upon this performance. They are exactly the same in their nature, except that this tends to no one particular point, but dis- covers, innumerous instances, the author's opinionon difficult passages in the Old and New Testaments, the primitive fathers, modern critics, and, as his subjects occasionally led him, he illustrates a vast variety of obscure, or perplexed places both in Greek and Latin authors; and there are some observations on words and phrases in our own language. This work was received with the highest commendation. Morhoff particularly applauds the author for his singular happiness in distinguishing the true sense of the most difficult passages, and of making it appear 'that what he defends it Parr's Life of Usher, p. 559.
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