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A
Preface
to theReader.
Hare:
gives
us
this fentence from
Ignatim
;
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as
we,noes<s
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ä
ndixr
d,ù
;
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:ter
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iciev
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.wiuf
<s
,!iv.`.v
iron
2,Sla r:u:
Zz',v
'7W
á.rrire7r
u.v
mayCLoa.
nu
X0151,117
a
lIa7éq
gyErp<.r
:which words you
will fcarcly find
in
that
Epifile to
rt;e
Church
òf
Smyrna,
from
whence
they
were
taken:
Hierome
alfo,Dsa1;3. Con. Pelag
:
huh
this
paffage
of
hrm,and from
him. Ignatius
vii
Apofltlicu,+
& Martyr
fcribit
audatler, chgi¡
Dominm
ergpcflolcs
yuifnprr
omnes homines
peccatorrserant:
which words
as
they are not now
in
aieie Épiflles,fo
as
one ob-
ferves
if
ever he
wrote
them
as
is
pretended,he did
is
audaile,
indeed.
But
of
thefe
things
our
Doetor
takes no notice.
The
Me
of
thefeEpif'íes doth not
a
little
weaken
the credit
of
tbem,being
turgent,[welling
with uncouth words, and phrafes,affefted manner and wayes
ofespre3ron,
new
compofirions
of
words,multiplying
Titles of
honour
to men, exceedingly remote and diflanr from the
plain
-,
nefs
and fimplicity
of
the
fidi:
writers
among the Chrillsans,
as
is
evident
by
comparing there
with the
Epifiles
of
Clement
before mentioned
,
that
of
Polycarpm
in
Eafrbiru, The Church-
es
of
Viena
in
that
fame
Author,
and others. Inflancesfor the confirmation
of
this Obferva-
tion
are multiplied
by
Blondellru: my
deligned work will
not allow
me
to
infift on particulars.
In many
good words thischarge
is
waved,
by
affirming
that the
Author
of
thefe Epifiles was
an rlffyrian,and near
to
cMartyrdome,and
that
in
the
Scriptures
there are fundry
words
of
as
hard a compoution
, as
thefe
ufed by
him:Ham:d;(fer:
2.cap.3.And
as
he faies,from
this
kind
of
writing an
Argument
of
fufïicient:
validity
may be
drawne to
evince him
to
be
the Author
of
thefe
Epifiles. Hieromewas
of
another
mind fpeaking
of
Didymtu. Imperitua
(faith
he)
fer-
mono
eft,
&
non
feientia,Apo/lolicam
oirssm
ex
ipfo
fermane exprimens,tam
fenfunm
nomine,guam
fmplicitateverboram. But teeing
Ignatitu
was
a
Syrian,and near
to Martyrdome(though
he
writes his Epiftles
from Troar,and Smyrna,which
without doubt
were
not
in his way
to
Rome
from
Antioch:
&
yet every where he faith he
is
going
to
Rome:
ad
Epherm:
i
r
ra
we:as
es4Xei
powis
eeseepipw
which in the clofe he affirmeshe
wrote
from Smyrna,
whither
he
was
had
to
his
lviartyrdome
)
what
is
it
to
any
man,
what flyle
he ufed
in
his
writings
what fwellingtitles
he gave
to
any,or words
he made
ufe
of. Who (hall
call thofe writings(efpecially
fixation
bey
Mg a
Syrian)
into quel
}ion.
But perhaps fome
farther Queilion
mayhere arife,
(&
which
bath
by
fundry been
airea=
dy flatted
)
about the
ufe
of
divers
Latine words in
thofeEpifiles
,
with
doubtlefs cannot
be
handfomely laid on
the
fame
account
of
theirAuthor
being a Syrian,
and
nigh
to
marryrdome,
sboa
ra,diabwtra cho*Tapgziaiailvor,are
ufually inflanced in:words
to
whofe
ufe
no
Roman'ew-
f
omes,obfervations,Orders,nor rules ofGoverment,do
adminifter the leafl occafion,Of
theft the
Donor
tells
you,
he wonders
only
that
in
fo
many
Epiftles,
there
are
no
more
of
this kinds
And
why
fo
?
The
epiflles are
not
fo large
'a
Volume
;
a very few
hours
will ferve
to
read them
o-
ver
;
and
yet
I am
perfwaded
that
in
all
that
compafs
of
reading
,
in
the
GreekFsrherj
which
bur
Dodìor
wnes,he
cannot
give fo
many inflances
of
Words
barbarous
to their language,no
way occafioned
by
the
meanes
before mentioned
as
have been given
in
thefe Epiflles. But
he
wonders
there are
no
more,
and
fame
wonder
that
all
are
not of
ht's
mind.
But he
farther
informes
us,
that
a diligent Reader
of
the
Scripture ,may
obferve Many more
Latine
words
in the
new
Tefla-
ynent
then are ufed in
there
Epiflles
;
and for
a
proofofhis
diligence
and
obfervation
,
reckons
up
our
of
the
endof
Pa
ffr's
Lexicon
fundry words
of
that
kind
,
made
ufe
of
by
the
Sacred
wri-
ters.
I
feare
unto
fome
men,this
will fcarce be
an
4pàlogie
prevalent,to the
difmiffion
of theft
Epiffles, from
under the Cenfure
of
being at leaf' lowly
Corrupted.
Of
the
wholecollefti-
on
of
words
of
that
fort made
by Pall'or
,
among which are thofe efpecially cull'd
out
by
out
IJotlor to Confirme
his
obfervations, there
is
fcarce
one,
but either it
is
expreiiive
of
fome Ro-
man
Office,
Cuflome,mony,arder,
or the like:words
of
which
nature
pals as proper names(
as
one
of
thofe mentioned
by
the Doelor
is,
and no
otherwife ufed
in
the
new
Teftament)
from
one
Country and language to an
other
or
are indeed
of
a
pure Gree,t;Óriginal,or
at
leaf'
were in
common
ufe in
that
Age;neither of which
can
be
fpoken
of
the words
above
mentioned,ufçd
in
the
Epiftles: which were
never ufed
by
any before
Drafter them
,
nor
is
there
any
occafron
imaginable why
they
fhould:
Pasmos habentfpes crpiflole,/i tales habent:I
would
indeed
gladly
fee
a
faire,candid,& ingenious
defenfative
of
the
Style & manner ofwriring'ufed
in
thofe
Epi-
flles
,
departing
fo
eminently from
any
thing that
was
culloinary
in
the writings
of
the men
of
thofe dales,
or
is
regular for
men
of
any
generation,
in
Repetitions,
affeéled compof+.tions,
Barbarifines
Rhyming
exprefjrans,
and the
like;
for
truly notwithifanding
any thing
that
hitherto
I
have been able
to
obtaine for help
in
this kind,
I am
enforced
to
encline
to
Vedeliuá
his anfwers,to all the
particular Inflances
given
of
this
nature; this,and that
place
is
corrupted,
this
is
from Clemen's
Con
Amiens
,
this
from
this
or
that Tradition:
which alto would much'
C'
z
better