25 / 504
A
?reface
to the Reader.
to
have con
idered thofe concernments
of
his
Author
which are obvious
to
every
ordinary
enquirer:
Vedelius
his
Edition
of
Ignatius
at
Geneva came
forth with
his
notes in
the
yeare
1623
Tong
before either Salmadus,or
R1ondellus
had
written
any
thing about the
fuppofititi-
oulnefs
of thefe Epiftles: in
the
e/Ipálogie
for Ignatius whereto
prefixed,he
is
forced
to
labour
and
fweat
in
the Anfwer
of one,
whom he delervedly
(tiles VirumDsllilfirnum;
arguing (
not
contemptibly)that Ignatius
never
wrote any
fuch Epifiles , and
that all
thofe which were car-
ried
about
in his
name,were falle and counterfeit.
But perhaps
the Doftor
had taken caution
of
one
of
the Fathers
of
his Church
that á
Ge-
rovenfbus
iftieTypographisPrater
fraudes,
&
faces,
C7
pratigias
non
eft quad quicquamexpe5le-
mus
(
Montacu: Appar:
bb.5.Se£1:46.pag:i9. )
and
fo
thought not
fit
to look into
any
thing
that
comes from
them.
Efpecially may
this be fuppofed
to
have
Come
influence
upon
him
,
confidering
the
gentle
cenfure
added
in
the
next words by
that
Reverend
Father
of
his
church con-
cerning the
endeavour
of
Vedelises
in his
notes on
that
Edition.
Nei
Audax
ille
&
impor-
tunes
Ignati!
Cenfor,quicquam actinic
at
paging, rum
implendee
prates
iofcitiátn,ea incuriam,t
impadentiam fingularem
(
nec
favi
magne facerdos
)
hum
ad
fuun,
Genevalifmum
antignitatem
detorquet
invitiffimam,
non
amen) quod
oportuit,
Calvinifmum
amuftat
adantiquitatem. And
what
I
pray
is
the
reafon
of
his
Epifcopal cenfure
?
That
he
fhonld
deale with poor
Vedelius
in
that
language wherewith no men
of
his
Order ,
and Authority were
wont to
deale
with
preaching Minifters at their
vifrtations
?Why this poor man
in
that
paffage which
you
have
in
the
Epiftle to the
Magnefians
(
in
that
Edition: p: 56.)
where treating,
of
the
Ancient
Fathers
expeiations
attic
coming
of
Chrift,
retains
the common reading of,
ate
w
ob
,m
ixníAn
i
3vv
referring
the
word
to their
expectation
of
feeinghim come in the flefh,which upon the
Tefti-
mony
of
our
Saviour
himfelfe,
they defired
to
fee
,
and faw
itnot
, not
correcting
it
by
a
change ofxo1
nra
into xorróv:aix4d`a
fo
referring
it
to
theirfaith
in
Chrift
and
fahation
by
him
as
in
his
Judgment,
he
ought to
have donee
'Idñ
uoJ
oo's
'p
,
ñ>,irgr
vAfW
áoilr+tsr
A
little thing would
provoke
the indignation
of
a
Prelate againft any thing
that
came
from
Cjeneva.
I
fay
hwould fuppofe,that
this
might divert
out
DoElor
from calling
his
eye
upon
Videlicet;
whole
defenfative
would
have informed him
that
there Epiftles had been oppofed
as
falfe
and
counterfeit,
before
ever Salmafiue ,
or
Blondelluc
had taken
them into
confideration;
but
that.
I
findinghim fometimes
inlfting
on
that
Geneva
Edition.
For
whereas
Cap:
z. Sell:
2:
he
tells,
you
that
he
intends
to
abide
-only
upon the Edition
of
'brae
Vows
in
Greek,
publifhed from
the
Archives
of
the
Library
of
Lawrence
de
ctedices,
and
the Latin Edition publifbed by Bithop VJber,out
ofour
Library
here at
Oxford,
yet
cap.
8
:
being preffed
with
the
Teftimony
of
the writers
of
the Epiftle to the Magnefians,
in
that
Edition calling
Epifcopacyrimrsoiok
s
fn,
plainlyintimatinga omparative21(oveltie,mthat
order
to
others
in
the Churches,
and
fearing
(
as
weil he
might) that
his
tranflation
of
rei,mpt
xi,
ors
into,the
ordination
ofayoung
mar,would
fcarce be received by
the
men
of
his
own pre-
judice
(
for
Purely
he neverfuppofed
that
he
thould
impole on any
other,
by fuch grofs fig.
ments)
he prefers
the
Vedelian
Edition
(
where there words are
not
fo
tiled
)
before
it:and
in-
formes
us
that
fir legendum
(
as
it
is
in
the
Geneva
Edition)
fuadetrota
Epiflola
feries.
Now
this
truly
is
marvelous
come
(if
the
Doftor
confulteth Authors any farther
,
then meetly
to
ferve his prefent
turne
)
how he could everadvile with
that
Edition
ofVedelire, ,
and
yet
fo
confidently
affirme
,
that
Salmafiresand Rlondellus
were
the firft thatrejeéted
there
Fpiftles,
as
feigned and
counterfeited.
But
yet
a
little farther
!the
firft Edition
of
there
Epi
files
in-
Latine
was
s
4tagufla Vindeli-
corum,
an:1529:
in
Greek at
Baf :l
1566:
Before
which time
I
fuppofe
the
Dottor
expeas
not,
that
any oppofition
thould
be
made
to
them,confidering
the
heaps
of
filth
&
dung,that until
about that
time
, were
owned for the
off-
fpring
of
the Antient Fathers.
Upon their
firft appearing in
theworld what
is
the entertainment
they receive?
One
who
was
dead
before either the Do£lor,oteither
of
his Anragonifis were
borne,
and whole
Renown
among the
people
of
God,
will
live
when they are
all
dead,gives them thiswelcome
into
the
world:
Ignarium
quid
obtendunt,fi
velint
quicquans.üabere mamenti probent Apoflolos legem
talif-
fe
de
quadragrffima, c
(imilibus corroptelis.
t1(ihil raniis
ifl
is
qua
fal6
Ignarii
iromimeedera
funs
putidius.
'.'too
minus tolerabilis
ell
earum
impudentia qui
talobus
larvis ad
falkneltem
fe
beraunt.
Cal.
in/it.
lrb
i
cap.
t 3.
Sell: 29.
What
ever be
the
Judgment
of
our
Do
&or
concerning this man,(as
tome
there
are
of
whom
C
a