Cbap.6. the Epijlle to the q a/attam. 4-2 9 A tranil,-ar-ot-Jr a-gr_e_e-:;rh-w-:-;ith-m-e,-:-in-,affi=-r-n::t--' .no!-tl~lat I 11 .,., wmren from Ephc[Hs;and [odothB.vo– "'"' Ann.!. tom. r.pAg.494.1·39· Againe,the poll.fcriptofthe :.to the Corinthians harh ltwaswriuenfromPbilippi of Maa drmia, • .,d {"'t 6JTiru...•dLuke:whereas the Rbcmifls (ifwe maygiueanycredittotheirtcflimony, lfho elfewhere make titles parr of theCano– nicall Scripture) [ay,itwaswritten tttTro.u,as 1t is thought, And Baron.annal. tom. 1.pag. 590.1. S1. Antw!rp. thinkcsit was writun at Nscupult,vponthisoccafion; that in his for– mer Epift!efromEphcfsupromifingtocome vnto rhem as he patTed through Macedrmja, andcommmgnor, J.Cor,J(), hedothintbts cxcufe himfdfe, >.Cor. 1.15,16, 17. compa– Goclm their fir(! conucrGon: but alfo the end and accomplin1ment ofir, by workes ofcon· dJgnttie,which (as they (ay) are merrtortous ofetcrnallltfe. Further, obfcrue, wirhwhat emph4jisthe Apoflle condudes his Ept!lle: F11ll oppo· Gng Chrill the Lord of rhe hou(e, toMofe~ Heb.;. f,6, who was bur afecuant in the houfe.Secondly, ' rhe grace of Chril\ to inheremiunicc, and "'ermof workes.Thirdly,the fpmt,mwhtch he would haue graceto be feated,to the flefh, in whtch the falfe Apotlles gloriedfo much. Lallly,brotherlyvnitieone with another,im· plied in rheword6rtthren, to the proud and lordly carriage of the falfe Apomes ouer them. The Conci•Jion, In the endofall, it is added, in the qmk_•, andSpiac~copies,thar this EpiC!Iewas»rit– unrorheGAlati4mfromRom~. VVhich pofl· [q1pt feemesto be erroneousand falfe :_ for fi r[! rhere is nor aride in rhe whole Eptllle, rh;a, giueth the lean inkling that it !h.ould hauc beenewritten from Rome:whereas Jn all the rell,which arc written from thence, Potu! makes mention ofhts bonds, and imprtfo,. menr.Sccondly,thevarictie ofcop1es argues che vncerrcntieofit, (eeing in fomc copies it isfaid ro haue beene [entfrom Eph,{rM, as c 11iet4nand H]ptrimaffirm e, in rhcir Com– mentaries vpon rhis pl;~e.T hir~ly, 8~roni1~s 1\nnaJ.to'":'l. (tfhis authoritie bee of any wetght m thts •.p.6n)· ca(e)affirmeth that it is not likely or ctedihle t 6 .Ancu· chatitwaswritteofrom thence. But, bee it "rp. graunted that this poG-fcript w~rc true ~n· Jeede; yet it is no part of Canontcall Scrtp· rure,as not being wricrenby rhe ApotlleJ but addedafrcrwards by the (cribeswhich copied out rhc Epi!lles.Neither is this onely true B red with the:. Cor.7.5. Neither is it agood reafon to proouerhat Tirus caried this Ept· Gle(as itis in the poll-fcript) bocaufe P•ul faith, He j(NtTttustoth~m,t!lnd 'mother with him,z.Cor.8.18.12.& u.18,for Paulfpeakes ofTuHshiscommingvmo them be(orcthat rime:neithermay it bee thought that Ti:us was Cent the fccond time votothcm confide– ring char departing fromM11cedoni;, and r~. kmgTitNJ with bim,he lefthim in Cruu.Sea C•(ar Baron.annal. tom. 1. Antwerp. P·59I.I. 40, BeGdes, theRhemi/ls control! thdilb· fwptionof the firll EpiC!Iero tb.:: Thellalo– nians,lllhich hath irrhus,Thefirft Epi{lle tu the Thef{alomanJ,wrmmfrom Arhmt. For in rhei..r preface, they are bold ro affirme, rhat itfie– ofpofi-fcrip·rs,butalfo oflnfcriptions or Ti· ties prefixed before Epi!lles,thcy are no part ofholywrit. This may ea(ilybeprocued 10 porticular:for fie(!, touchingpo(!-fcripts,the Greeke copies agree inthis,tbat the firll Epi– !Ucto the Corinthiam, was writtenfrom Phi~ lippi,Aml{entbySteph4na&, Fortun11tUJ, Achai- D cut,.cndTonorheus : when as it isccrten, irwas wrirren fromEphefm, For firll. chap.16.v. 5. C mnh rather to har>~e 6ene writ;en4t Corinth, then at Athcnt: and they giue this reafono(it, be– caufe after rhe fendmg of r;mothieto Thef[a– !onict~,Paul and he merre not at Atheniaga1nc but at Corinth.And B;rroniutaffirmcth,that i: feemeth to haue bene written prefently after thatSy/.uand Tim<~theuscame tohim toC•– rinth, out ofMacedoni11, by comp:tringAd'. t8.s. with J, Theff.3.6. Amtal.tom. 1. P·457· I. 1.AndEm,anodSa doth ceofure the Syri– acke pofl-fcript, which faith it was fenr from Athens byTimothir,Ceeing rhar Titmlhu w:~s then abfenr. The like rhey affirme in the ar– gumenrofrhc fecond Epi£lle: for albeit the Greeke poll.fcript hathit,that it waswritten from Athens, yet they rather thlnke it was wrirtenfromCtrit;th,whcre P~tHI abode ayeare and Gxemoneths, Act.J 8.1 1. becaufe the ti– tle is likevnto the firfl Epillle, Paul, andSJI· Ha-nm,4ndTimorhrut, &c. AndBllronius[aith, that it fhould be written fromAthens,impuf– fi~s/e eP affirmart;becaufe 1t was written foone afccrthe former, asmayappeare by the in– (cription,P"u/, andSJIUAnut, and Timothtut, (they continuing together:) but the former was written from C<rinth, (asbath bin proo– ucd)and therefore the latter: fpecially conG– Jering that P4ul went thence from AthffJI and abode at Co,-intha y~are and ahatfe 1 :md returned nor hacke agame ro Athens, bur wentto Ephe[us,4nnal.tom, 1.pag.45 7.l.z8. · hefaith, Hn"Pi!lcorntto themwhm hefoaOgoe rhroul)hM4ctd?nia. Therefore P11u/was nor tben~tPhilippi, achiefe cirie in Macedrmi~t. Secondly,in rhe 19.v.ofthefamechapter,he fatth, AllthechurchesofA{iafalureyou,which O.ewes plaioely, that whenPardwritthis l;pi– llle, he was a• EphefUJ in AGa, notat Phtltppi inEurope.Thirdly,v.8.hefaith, be wi//a6idt at Ephejiu rill Prnteco{l, therefore heewas not then at Philippi. Fourthly,rhat it waswritten before thctumulr in Ephe(tu raifed byDtmt– "im and hiscomplices, and fo confequently before his comming tu Philippi: as alfo thu 11 was fcnt byTimothmsandEraffus, lt is mani– fefl,v.lo ofthat chapter, beeing compared with A<l.•9·;·.u.z:. Laflly,theS]'iack_e .. Adde hercnnto, that wherea. the pofi– (crlpt ofrhe 1. to7lmolhJ.t(aith it \\•as u'rittct,
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