Methods Would he use to wrong or to defamethem ? For a greater Injury cannot be done toholy Writ, than to set out its grave Narrativeswith such Spruceness and Gaiety of Expression.

Again, Mat. xxiv, 45. Our Lord comparesthe vigilant Christian to the Cafe of a Servant,left in Trust with the Family, during his Master’sAbsence, and to give the Servants their Meat indue Season. But our Interpreter chooses, on thiscommon Occasion, to make our Lord talk theLanguage of the Treasury, and say, who distributestheir Allowance according to the Establishment.So also Zacchœus , who for Time out of Mind,was always stiled Chief among the Publicans, inthe new Version, is become Collector Generalof the Customs, La. xix. 2. We hear no moreof Rulers, our modish Translator has turned themall into Telsons of c DistinUion 3 Luke xiv. 1.xviii. 18. Even Antichrist is spoken of withhigh Ceremony, being no longer to appear , butto make his Parade. 2 st best. ii. 9. Covenant , anold fashion’d Word , is changed into Alliance^ eventhat between God and Man, which Christ sealedwith his dying Blood , and to make the Languageuniform, Jesus is declared the Guarantee of thatAlliance , Heb. vii. 22. But never sure did Af-fectation of this Kind succeed worse, than in thenew Version of Acts viii. io. where the Inter-preter makes the People of Samaria fay of Si-mon Magus , this Man is the 5 P lenipotentiary ofGod . In short, so great a Lover is he of mag-nificent Expression, that he speaks of plain Men,as if they were so many Princes, or Persons ofgreat Distinction. Thus Lu. xv. 2. the Thari-2 fees