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the New Teftament.

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in his epiftle; that Ignatius and Po lycarpe receive it; and that the fame fathers, that give teftimony for Matthew, give it likewife for Mark.-If the fathers of the firft century do mention fome paffages, that are agreeable to what we read in our Evangelifts, will it follow that these fathers had the fame gofpels before them? To fay fo is a manifeft abuse of Hiftory, and quite inexcufable in writers that knew, or fhould have known, that these fathers made use of other gofpels, wherein fuch paffages might be contained, or they might be preferved in unwritten tradition. Befides which I could almost venture to affirm, that thefe fathers of the first century do not exprefsly name the gofpels we have of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John." These affertions, which in fome refpects are well founded, render it of the greatest importance to every enlightened Chrifțian, carefully to examine the evidences

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