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On a BOOK Intituled

CHRISTIANITY AS OLD &c.

With Regard to

Ecclefiaftical Antiquity.

On a BOOK Intituled,

Chriftianity as old as the Creation, With Regard to

Ecclefiaftical Antiquity.

PART I. Continued.

By a Priest of the University of Cambridge.

Sententias video, fed nullis ferè, aut admodùm infirmis pre fidiis munitas.. Quâ fi viâ pergere fas erit, majorumque ex turbare opiniones, exilis ingenii homines facilè cœlum ipfum fulltitiâ petent. Mofheim. Vindic. cont. Toland. p. 91.

Διενή τις ἡ κακία, καὶ τῶν θείων ἀμαθία, καταφρονεῖν ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν, καὶ ἐπισύξειν. Porphyr. πρ, ἀποχ. Lib. 2. §. 53.

Hæc omnia nunquid ullam aliam ob caufam, nifi utique dum fefe intra facratæ atque incorruptæ vetuftatis caftiffimos limi tes profanæ ac novellæ curiofitatis libido non continet? Vincent, Lerin. Cap. 6.

Τὰ ἀρχαῖα ἔθη κρατείτω. Can. Nic. 6,

There is also added a POSTSCRIPT, Defending JEROM and other Antient Writers against the Learned MOSHEIM.

By the fame Author.

CAMBRIDGE.

Printed at the University Press for Cornelius Crownfield, and John Crownfield, at the Rifing-Sun in Sr. Paul's Church, Yard. LONDON. MDCCXXXIII.

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PREFACE

WE

E have often been alarm'd for Jeveral Months past with fresh Advices and Aurances of a II. Part of Chriftianity as old as the Creation. As the Firft was fo terrible a Work, and had made fuch mighty Devaftations in the Chriftian World, the News of a fecond of the fame kind could not but affright us exceedingly, and throw all the Honeft Chriftians of the Land into Panic and Defpair. Being feiz'd among the reft with the common Fears, I thought it advifeable to interrupt my Remarks for fome time, till the real Appearance of the Thing expected fhould Jatisfy me, whether it were fafe or not to continue them. Thus I remain'd in

Sufpence for fome Months; but finding at length that the Progrefs of this Labor Herculeus was extreamly flow, and the Intelligence itself concerning it not abfolutely clear and certain, I refolv'd without

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