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The Authors of the enſuing Annotations (* Supplemental io My. Poole) preſent tothe Reader an Hiſtorical Account f " Tranſlition of the Scriptures ito our Englith-Tongue, the mighty Workings of Divine Providence concurive to 5t 4 the ſeveral Notes or Annotations which have beers publiſhed, end a particular Account of the Reverend Mr. Poole's, Thezr preſent Ondertaking, with the Reaſons of it. I
HE ſame Reaſon which teacheth us to conclude that there is a Firſt Being, and muſt be a F;ri? Canſvand M,; ( whom we call God ) That 7t is he who hathmade uy and not we our ſclues, and that we ave his People ard t ſheep of his paFure, will alſo oblige us To enter into his Gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praif and to be thankfull unto him, by fulfilling his Will 5 which we cannot do without ſome Revelation of it 1
vs. God therefore having ceaſed roſpeak to Men face to face, as te. Abrahams, and Moſes, &c. ( which he never ordins
ly did but toſome particular Fayorites ) we are by Reaſon inforced to conclude,that there are ſome Books in the World it which this Revelation is to be found. ) The Clarchof God * the Mother of us all ) hath conſtantly held forth the Boo of the O14 and New Teitaments, ( which we have in our B:Lles ) for this Sacred Revelation, which hath juſtly oblige all her Children to look upon them, as hug out to them for that uſe, upon that Noble Pilar the Church. Looking ing them upon the Churches notice ( as the Child does upon the Mother's telling it, That is the Sun ) every rea{onable Ma finds them of fo vercrable Antiquity, and difcerneth in them ſuch Stamps of Divinity, in the Majefty of their Sty/e, the Pu
rity of the Matter, the Sublimeneſs and Spiri ality of the Propoſrtions contained in them, the Self- denial of the Pen men. t
, Heavenlineſs of thp Scope and Endot thoſe Sacred Writings, the Harmony of the Parts, the Seal of Miracles, and princt
pally in the zzighty Power andFEfficacy of them upon the Souls and Conſciences of Mulritudes,both for Conviion and for $;
port, and Conſ-lation 3 that he eaſily concludes, This 2s the voice of God, and not of Man; and looks back upon his Mo ther che Church ' as a Child upon his Nurſe ) thanking her tor ſh: wing him ſnch a Treaſure, and ſaying as the Samaritan to their Countrey-woma!, John 4. 42. Now we believe t' eſe Books are the Word of God, not becauſe of thy ſaying ſo, by becauſe we have looked into them our ſelves, and find them of a different S1y/e, Nature and Matter, and to have a diffe rent Scope, End, Power and Efficacy upon the Souls of Men, from whatany other Writings in the World have. Thousg! the rruth is, that until a Man comes to be fully per{waled of the Truth of them from the ſame Spirit that dictated them every Soul will be as apt to waver 1n his Faith, concerning their being the Word of God, as hein Tully, who orly believe ed the Immortality of the S-ul trom the reading of Flato's Book, which (1f I remember right) the Rozx2n Orator expreſs
ſth in Words to thisSenlie ; I have read over Plato': Book again and again; but I know not how it comes to ps, jo lorg a
1am reading, I acre withit but 10 ſooner is the. Book out of my Hands, but De immortalitate anime d:birare ce1i, ibe
oin ro doubt whether rhe Soul be immortal yea or no. Bur h »wever, in one Degree or other everv Chriſtian makes tha the Principle of his Religion, That the Holy S:rirtpres of the Old and New Teſtament are the Word f God. Some believe it more ftly and incertainly; ſomemore fixedly and firmly; and accordingly the Faith of Perions, as to them, is more
or I* (s Operative. f, This Revelation of the Divine Will was made perfect gradually ( as it pleaſed Godin ſucceeding times to reveal what was
his Secret Wil] before, but /i! from Ages. Soas: it Chronvlogers compute right ) there were more than 1500 Year
paſſed b-rwixtthe \\ riting ofthe firſt Book of Ge-e/#s by Moſes, and the Revlation (C which was the lift) by Jotn; and
Divines generally judge that he Sealedupthe Book, by thoſe words, Revelations 22. 18, 19. So thar, as to things to bebeliewk
ed or done, we are to expect no further Revelation. | ", \V hen the Migh'y God, eventl.e Lord, had thys ſpoken, and God had thus ſfhined out of Sion the perfeFion of Beauty, it
was but reaſon ble hat his People ſhould come iO the &»oxledge of what he had ſaid, that they might anſwer the end o
the Rew-lation both by Believing and Obeying. | | | | .I The Old Tefament being written in the Hebrew Tongue, when great Multitudesof the Hebrews or Jews. by their Cap=
tivitv in Babylon, had much forgotren, or corrupted their own Larguage.it was thought reaſonable there ſhould be 5 Cxl=
daick Paraphraſe 5 and the Wiidom of Divine Providence provided a vep nagint Verſion, as for rhe benefit of others, {0
poſſibly oi the Jews them(clves, the moſt of whom. before Chrilt's time were more Grecians than Hebricians; and it is ges
nerally thought that all the Books of the New 7 eftament were writen in the Grcc/a7 Languoge. ;