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any other-named John, was at this Time banish-ed into the Isle of Patmos . Since therefore theAuthor of the Revelations was John, a ChristianPreacher, banished into the Isle of Patmos for hisReligion: And since the Apostle (and noo-ther John) was at this Time under these veryCircumstances, it is almost a Demonstration, thatJohn the Apostle saw and committed to Writingthe Things contained in that Book .

Fourthly , The Epistle of John to the sevenChurches of the Minor or Proconsular Asa, andconsequently the Revelation itself was most pro-bably written by that John, who had the imme-diate and particular Care of those Churches, viz,John the Aposle.

The Presidency of our Evangelist over theseChurches, is one of the most notorious and bestattested Facts of early Antiquity, Eufebius, His.Feel. I. 3. c. 1. tells us from Tradition , that uponthe Dispersion of the Apostles, Asa fell to John’sLot. Certain however it is, that he preached theGospel there, and founded Churches in manyPlaces. And as Ephefiis was the principal City ofthe Province, there John chiefly resided, visitingand directing the neighbouring Churches, as Oc-casion required *. But had any other John atthat Time so high and so general a Relation toEphefus and to the other Churches of the lesserAsm? Papias indeed, and after him Dionysus ofAlexandria , Eujebius ■m&Jerom mention another

* See Iren. I. 3. c. 1. and I. r. c. 39. and I. 3. c. 3. Clan. Alex.*7/5 0 Tertull. Pr&fer. adv. Hares. c. 31. With whoin

agree Eufebius, Jerom and chrosoflom Nor is thi' 1 radition de-nied by any ancient Writer whatever.

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