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Citations from the Old Tistament mere Accom-modations. For this general Assertion, he refers usto a Note of his own on Heb. i. 9. where he tellsus, that some look on the Citations in that Chapterfrom the Psalms , to be mere Accommodations orAllusions. Now what is this, if true, to Citationsfrom the Old Testament in general? But indeedthis is not true even of those particular Cirations.Those Passages in the Psalms are applied to Christ ,because he was meant therein, not by way of mereAllusion.

she Disciples could not cure the Epilepsy . Andagain, Jesus cures the Epilepsy . The Gospels re-present this Cafe as more than the ordinary Di­ stemper which goes by that Name, and proceedingfrom direct Possession by an evil Spirit, whom Jesus formally ejects. But about this entire Species ofMiracles , the Index is wholly silent: Insomuchthat when Mention is made of what Jesus did inthe Countrey of the Gergejenes , we find it thusexpressed; Jesus J ends a Legion into the Herd ofSwine. He chuses to be obscure, rather than say,they were a Legion of Devils, that had been firstejebted out of the mad Demoniac.

Grotius thinks the second Epistle os St. Peter aForgery. This is very gross Misrepresentation. ForGrotius allowed the Epistle to be genuine Scri-pture; only he thought some particular Passageshad been inserted in it, to gain Belief that St. Peterwas Author of it; which Suspicion of his was ut-terly unsupported, and merely gratis dictum.

Forgerers (I. Forgers) in the Opinion of some—— no bad Men, 953. n. He should have laid033.11. But when we come to the Notes in thatV ' Page,