volume. 3. The various readings of the oriental and occidental Jews which we have also elsewhere. 4. Conjectures how the LXX, or vulgar Latin read, by altering letters only. 5. Conjectures of his own how the text may be mended, and a very little room will take up what remains; by that cursory view I have taken of them, I see not one word that can pretend to be a various lection; unless it belong to the Keri and Ketib, or the difference between the oriental and the occidental Jews: so that, as I said before, as to my present design I am not at all concerned in that collection; those that are may farther consider it.

As short an account will seem for the general consideration of the whole bulky collection of various lections that we have here presented unto us; for those of the several translations we are not at all concerned in them: where any or all of them fail, or are corrupted, we have a rule, blessed be God, preserved to rectify them by. For those of the originals I have spoken to them in particular; I shall only add, that we have some of them both from the Old and New Testament given us thrice over at least, many of the Keri and Ketib, after a double service done by them, are given us again the third time by Grotius, so also are those of the New Testament by the same Grotius, and Lucas Brugensis.

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SACRIS SCRIPTURIS

ADVERSUS HUJUS TEMPORIS

FANATICOS

EXERCITATIONES APOLOGETICÆ QUATUOR.

Ερευνᾶτε τὰς γραφάς. John v. 39.

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LECTOREM ADMONITIO.

QUAS hic conspicis pagellæ (lector erudite) theologicarum quarundam quæstionum determinationes, quas vocant, tibi exhibent. Quid eas ad disputationum privatarum usum, tumultuarie pene conscriptas, seorsum a reliquis ejusdem generis laciniis, in lucem protulerit, paucis accipias velim. De authoritate, atque integritate sacrarum Scripturarum tractatus binos, lingua vernacula emittens, quorum occasiones ac rationem omnem alibi fusius exposui, disputationes hasce quibus cum illis arctissimum est materiæ consortium, et quæ quod reliquum est circa verbum divinum controversiarum paucis absolvant, quamvis sermone ab iis disjunctas, una in medium producendas censui. Utrum ob doctrinæ consortium, aut linguæ dissidium, illorum tractatuum pars aliqua, aut alius ipsa tractatulus scriptiuncula hæc habeatur, penes lectorem arbitrium esto. Fanatici sunt, erroribus et stultitia hisce diebus notissimi, quos inprimis hic aggredimur. Nemo autem post homines natos, æque ac ego delirasse censendus esset, si ipsos scriptis hisce redarguere statuerim, cum nihilo plus sermonem illum quo hic utimur intelligant, quam nos aliquoties inconditum illum verborum sonum omni sano sensu vacuum, quo ipsi non tantum omnibus aliis, sed et ipsi sibi in dicendo obstepere videntur, mente percipere possimus. Juniorum instructioni (erunt enim forsan qui opellam hanc nostram inspicient) quibus in sacrarum literarum studium ingenii acumen ovv Oɛ in