THE DOCTRINE OF THE GREEK ARTICLE; APPLIED TO THE CRITICISM AND THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. BY T. F. MIDDLETON, D. D. RECTOR OF TANSOR IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, AND OF BYTHAM IN LINCOLNSHIRE. ARTICULI certe naturæ cognitio sat est necessaria, quamvis cum publico malo BOHLIUS IN THESAURO THEOL. PHILOI NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY EASTBURN, KIRK, AND CO. AT THE LITERARY ROOMS, CORNER OF WALI Paul & Thomas, Printers. 1818. ADVERTISEMENT. THE suffrages of enlightened scholars in Britain have furnished MIDDLETON'S "Doctrine of the GREEK ARTICLE" with a literary passport which may supersede the necessity of a new introduction to scholars in the United States. The American Editor claims no other merit than that of contributing, by a careful superintendence of the press, to the diffusion, in an accurate edition, of a work which ought to be in the hands of every one who has learning and taste enough to perceive its value. The first part, which contains the author's general doctrine of the Article, powerfully supported by references to the original writers, is equally interesting* to every student of the classics.-The second, which contains its application to the New Testament, is of peculiar importance to the student of Theology. He will find that what some dignify with the name of “rational Christianity," as opposed to what is termed, in a large sense, "Evangelical religion," receives as little countenance and as much opposition from fair criticism, as from the construction put by common sense upon the plain declarations of God's word. phrase, “evangelical religion," is qualified by the expression "in a large sense," so as to comprehend all who embrace those cardinal truths—the proper divinity, and the propitiatory sacrifice, of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, The bias, The so prevalent with many of the British Divines, and so evident in the author, against several Calvinistic doctrines, has led him to make a number of remarks in which the editor can by no means acquiesce; and which, it is believed, will appear to have very little connexion either with the substance of the work, or with its critical principles. In two instances notes have been added by the editor on his own responsibility; and they are distinguished accordingly. But not |