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4. The Bible of Charlemaigne , corrected by AUcuiti and others, at the Command of that Empe­ ror , and upon a Collation of MSS, above 900 Yearsago.

5. The Generality of the Latin Copies for the.last 600 Years, have this Paragraphs as Simon hi in-fest, and thole who follow him in opposing theText, freely confess.

6. The Antiqiatm CorrcUlorium Bibliœ, made bythe. Doctors of the Sorbonne , above 700 Years ago,confirms also the disputed stallage.

7. Th cOrdoRomanus, composed about the Year730, according to Cave and Archbishop U/her, di-rected the Reading of 1 John v. 7. between the Oc-taves of Easter and Whitsuntide, as we learn fromDurandus , a Writer of the fourteenth Century, inhis Rationale of Divine Offices ; where he fays,that the stallage was read conformably to the Or-do Romanns: St. Bernard also has the stallage in

' his Sermon on the Octave of Easier , and in manyother Discourses. Thus much for Latin MSS andRituals , that attest to the Ge?iuinenejs of this con-troverted Text. Next follow the Latin Writers thattestify on the fame Side.

1. Lertullian , who wrote An. 200. plainly al-ludes to 1 Joh.v. 7. /. contr. Pr ax. c. 25.

2. St. Cyprian , who flourished 248. expresslyquotes as Scripture, what we no where find butin the controverted Text. For in his Book of theUnity of the Church, he fays thus: Dixit Domi-nus , Ego & Pater unum fumus. Et iterum de Patre

, Filio & Spiritu J'anElo J'criptum ejl. Et hi tres u-num J'unt y j. e. The Lord said, I and my Fatherare one1 And again, it is written of the Father , the