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Sides of the fame Question, and then the Accountwould be found to stand thus. Against St. Peter’s j

being the Author of the Epistle that goes by his :

Name, Phree: For the affirmative Side of that ;Question at least Pbree Hundred. .

SECT. IV.

The Genuineness of the Epiftle of St.

Jude vindicated.

ERE, as in the former Cases, our Anno- -

tator makes no Pretences to an honest In- *

quiry into the Truth of Things, but behaves like ia standing Council for Infidelity. He begins there- ifore with References to Origen and Eufebius, who- tmention Jude as a Writing, whose Authority was inot owned. For both which he is beholden to <Dr. Mills. The Doctor had honestly laid together 'the Testimonies from Antiquity relating to this E- -pistle, whether making for or against its Canonical IsCharacter. But our Author, it seems, had no Oc- - jcaston for any but the latter Sort. So remarkable p ■a Difference is there between the Conduct of Chri- * 1jlian Clergymen on such Occasions, and that of f ]the Advocates for Unbelief. The former scorn to fstifle Evidence, however adverse it may seem to the : ;Cause of Religion ; knowing that the Pruth never 1fosters by a just Representation of Things. Thelatter, like other Pleaders for a bad Cause, addColouring to the Evidence that favours them, and i 1suppress whatever makes against them. 1

But to return to Origen , Com. in Mat. p. 488. 1

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