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who yet was so thoroughly persuaded of its divineAuthority, as to make those, that maintained thecontrary, a Species of Hereticks. Besides, whyshould it be doubted, whether Nazianzen wouldcall the Revelations a divine Work, when in oneof his Writings yet extant, viz. his 35 th Orationde filio he cites Rev. i. 4. to prove the Son s Divi-nity. On this Passage Andreas Ceefarienjis alsogives us Gregory's Explication, saying, in Chri-Jluni J'olu?n tranjlulit: He applieth it to Chrijt alone.Again, he gives us Nazianzen 's Explication ofthe 15 th Verse of this first Chapter; and on thelast Verse, he tells us what Gregory the Divine'sOpinion is, dum prœsens hoc caput edijferit. Oncemore we have Nazianzen 's Exposition onch. iii. v. 15. Besides therefore the Authorityof Andreas Ceefarienjis, who expressly asserts,that Nazianzen did call the Revelations a divineWork ; the Probability of the Thing appears fromhis citing that Book in Defence of an Article ofFaith.

After so many false Facts and fallacious Rea-sonings, I was glad to find my Author, p. 89. be-gin a Sentence with these Words, To Jay the“Truth: Hoping, after such an Introduction, to meetwith nothing for some Time, but what was spe-cious, if not unqueflmiably true. But how wasI disappointed, when before the Conclusion of thisvery Sentence, I found him asserting a t?ionfrousUntruth, to the Dishonour of Andreas Ccefarien-fis, whom he had but too much injured before?" The Author, says he, laid very great Stress on" the Assistance, which he flattered himself St." John, whom he invokes at the very Beginning,

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