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v. 2. ’Jesus faith, And let him that is athirjl come.And whosoever will, let him take the Water of Lifefreely. The same Jesus alluding to the very sameScripture Job. vii. 37. faith, If any one thirst, lethim come to me and drink. See also ch. iv. v. 10,14. where our Lord calls his own spiritual Gifts,Living Water , and a Fountain of Living Water.But out of St. John’s Writings we meet with nosuch Allusions.

If it should be said that an Impostor mighttranscribe these parallel Expressions and Senti-ments from the extant Writings of St. John theApostle and Evangelist, to make his Fraud passthe better, we have it to answer, that such a Pre-tence has no Place here. For most certainly St. John’s Gospel was written after the Revelations.So that an Impostor, when that Book was com-posed, had not St. John’s Gospel to copy after, orto imitate. Those peculiar Sentiments thereforeof St. John the Apostle, which abound in the Apo­ calypse , do strongly prove that he was the Authorof that Book.

Sixthly, The Sameness of Construction andAcceptation of Words in the Revelations, and theunquestionable Writings of St. John, and whichare less frequent with the other sacred Penmen,makes it extremely probable, that one Person wasAuthor of them all.

1. The Emphatical Repetition of the Articlebetween the Substantive and Adjediive is very fre-quent in the Revelations. As 0 udf v: 0 ttiAs,Rev. i. 5. j ; -zulxig -) peyct\?i, ch. xiv. 8. See moreInstances, ch. xii. 9. ch. xviii. 10. ch. xxii. 16.Now I do not fay, that this Use of the Article is

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