CLEEF LIBRARY I. A farther Demonstration of the Propriety, Purity, and found Eloquence of the Language of the NEW II. An Account of the wrong Divifion of Chapters and Verfes, and faulty Translations of the DIVINE Book, which weaken its Reasonings, and fpoil its Eloquence and Native Beauties. Wherein is fhewn the Neceffity and Ufefulness of a By the late Reverend and Learned A. BLACK WALL, A. M. General PREFACE TO THIS SECOND VOLUME. T length I present the world with the Second Volume of the Sacred Claffics, finish'd not without very great labours and pains, tho' accompany'd with pleasure; as from the nature of the subject, fo from the hopes of further clearing it; and that these labours wou'd not be altogether difagreeable, or unedifying to the good reader. (RCP26) 5136 183 1. The firft difcourfe is an addition of fome felect inftances and obfervations that prove the purity of the New Teftament ftyle, the emphasis of its expreffions, and grandeur of its fentiments to be equal, often fuperior, to the best foreign writers. This I thought proper, further to defend and illuftrate our much attack'd, but invincible, and most glorious cause, against the vain pretences and accufations of folecifms, barbarisms, and other roughly-founding words, that fignify nothing but the ignorance, inattention, or impiety of those who lay fuch a fenfelefs and odious charge on the inspir'd writers. Here we have fometimes repeated what has been advanc'd in the first volume; but have given fresh and further proof to the fubject, by new paffages, and parallel places out of the choiceft authors of Greece. As to Hebraifms, it ought not, it cannot be deny'd, that there are confiderable |