A Preface to theReader. Hare: gives us this fentence from Ignatim ; 'fi.sxaprs as we,noes<s = ä ndixr d,ù ; wx :teró. yrir ,i%iu;t iciev oápxm é'Z3 rä .wiuf <s ,!iv.`.v iron 2,Sla r:u: Zz',v '7W á.rrire7ru.v mayCLoa. nu X0151,117 a lIa7éq gyErp<.r:which words you will fcarcly find in that Epifile to rt;e Church òfSmyrna, from whence theywere taken: Hierome alfo,Dsa1;3. Con. Pelag : huh this paffage of hrm,and from him. Ignatius vii Apofltlicu,+& Martyrfcribit audatler, chgi¡ Dominm ergpcflolcs yuifnprr omnes hominespeccatorrserant: which words as they are not now in aieie Épiflles,foas one ob- ferves ifever 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 littleweaken the credit of tbem,being turgent,[welling with uncouth words, and phrafes,affefted manner and wayes ofespre3ron, new compofirions ofwords,multiplyingTitles ofhonour to men, exceedingly remote and diflanr from the plain-, nefs and fimplicity ofthe fidi: writers among the Chrillsans, as is evident bycomparing there with theEpifiles ofClement before mentioned , that ofPolycarpm in Eafrbiru, The Church- es ofViena in that fameAuthor, and others. Inflancesfor the confirmation ofthis 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 ofthefe Epifiles was an rlffyrian,and near to cMartyrdome,and that in theScriptures there are fundrywords of as hard a compoution , as thefeufed byhim:Ham:d;(fer: 2.cap.3.And as he faies,from thiskind ofwriting anArgument of fufïicient: validity may be drawne to evince him to be the Author of thefe Epifiles. Hieromewas ofanother mind fpeaking ofDidymtu. 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,whichwithout doubt were not in his way to Rome from Antioch:& yet every where he faith he is going to Rome: adEpherm: i r ra we:as es4Xei powis eeseepipw which in the clofe he affirmeshewrote from Smyrna, whither hewas had to his lviartyrdome ) what is it to any man, what flylehe ufed in his writings what fwellingtitles he gaveto any,or wordshe madeufe of. Who (hall call thofe writings(efpecially fixationbey Mg a Syrian) into quel}ion. But perhaps fome farther Queilion mayhere arife, (&which bath by fundry been airea= dy flatted ) about the ufeofdivers Latine words in thofeEpifiles , with doubtlefs cannot be handfomely laid on the fame account oftheirAuthor being a Syrian, andnigh tomarryrdome, sboa ra,diabwtra cho*Tapgziaiailvor,are ufually inflanced in:words to whofe ufe noRoman'ew- fomes,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 areno more ofthis 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 ofreading , in the GreekFsrherjwhich bur Dodìor wnes,he cannot give fomany 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 famewonder that allare not ofht's mind. But he farther informes us, that a diligent Reader ofthe Scripture ,mayobferve Many more Latine wordsin the newTefla- ynent then are ufed in there Epiflles ; and for a proofofhis diligenceand obfervation , reckons upour ofthe endof Paffr's Lexicon fundry words ofthat kind , made ufe ofby theSacred wri- ters. I feare unto fomemen,this will fcarce be an 4pàlogie prevalent,to the difmiffionof theft Epiffles, from under the Cenfure of being at leaf' lowly Corrupted. Of thewholecollefti- onof wordsof that fort made by Pall'or , among which are thofe efpecially cull'dout by out IJotlor to Confirmehis obfervations, there is fcarceone, but either it is expreiiive of fome Ro- manOffice, Cuflome,mony,arder, or the like:wordsof which nature pals as proper names( as one of thofe mentioned by the Doelor is, and no otherwife ufed in the newTeftament) fromone Country and language to an other orare indeedof apure Gree,t;Óriginal,or at leaf' were in common ufe in that Age;neither of whichcan be fpoken of the words abovementioned,ufçd in the Epiftles: which werenever ufed by any before Drafter them , nor is thereanyoccafron imaginable why they fhould: Pasmos habentfpes crpiflole,/i tales habent:I would indeedgladly fee a faire,candid,& ingenious defenfativeof theStyle & manner ofwriring'ufed in thofeEpi- flles , departing fo eminently from any thing that was culloinary in the writings ofthe men of thofe dales, or is regular for menofany 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 toencline to Vedeliuá his anfwers,to all the particular Inflancesgiven ofthis nature; this,and that place iscorrupted, this is from Clemen'sConAmiens , this from this or that Tradition: which alto would much' C' z better
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