Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis, in Answer to His Defence of the Three Heavenly Witnesses, I John (Volume 7) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1790. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LETTER III. 'Tis fit it should be (hewn what an arguer he is, and how well he deserves for his performance to be dubbed by himself Irrefragable.* Locke. In school-divinity as able As he that hight Irrefragable*; A second Thomas, or at once, Tq name them all, another Duns. Hudibras. SIR, We are now arrived at the Complutensian. X edition, in which the honest bigotry of the j Sac Vindex on the use of epithets, Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1789, p. 12. I perceive, from the fame Magazine for March 1789, p. 225, that he has not profited by the wholesome advice which I gave him. And how ungenerous it is, as well as cowardly, after swaggering and blustering, to sneak away from the combat, and leave Mr. Travis alone to bear the burthen and heat of the day f In the mean time I earnestly intreat Mr. Travis's admirers to refrain from boasting of their proselytes and repeating their defiances. Such quackery is unworthy any person who pretends to learning. editors I editors has inserted the doubtful text. By honest bigotry Mr. Gibbon probably means, that the editors thought the verse genuine 'indeed, but inserted it contrary to their Greek i MSS. If they thought it genuine upon such flight grounds as the authority of the Vulgate, of Pseudo-Jerome, and of Thomas Aquinus, they were bigots. But if they really thought it genuine, their bigotry was so so far honest. The same fort of bigotry predominated in your mind, when you quoted p. 286, the barbarous Greek of the Lateran council, and finding a chasm, supplied it by a still more barbarous translation of your own from the Latin. Thus would the Com / plutensian .editors reason: M This verse h genuine, though it is not in the Greek copies. We will translate it therefore from the Latin Verity, and restore it to the context." But yo...