| Epheſtans, patch'd up and forg'd a ſhort, but groſs and trifting Epiftle, and fathered ir on the Apoſtle, though very diſenant from his Charadter and Style, whereupon it hath been rejc- ted as Spurious and Apocryphal by the learned Fathers, and the ſecond Council of Nice ; and fince by the learned on all hands; except fome few of the Papiſts, and except Quz- ters, who printed a Tranſlation of it, and plead for it. Some Papiſts urge this, to argue that the Church gives the S057. ptures Authority amongſt Chriſtians, Bat though ſhe is hound to preſerve the Books of Divine Authority, it doth not belong to her to Authenicate them, or preſcribe them as the rule of Faith; that were no lefs than to outrage the Majeſty of the Author ; others alledge it, as being loft, and thereupon would inter the Canon of Holy Scriptures to be defeFive, But ſuppotigs, yet not granting, that Paul had written an Epifile to the L.:9- diceanr, winch had not come down to us, it were altogether in- coniequent that the Cannon of Scriptures, we hare, doth not contain all things neceſſary to Salvation. Some ftill harpinz on the vulgar Tranſlation of the Zeodiceay Epiitie (thouzh that | in common »peech might argue they wrote it rather than received it would fancy that 'twas. the Epiſtle Paul wrote to the Epbo- ſians; but Tertallian did brand the Impoftour Marci:z for changing the Title of Paul's Epiſtle 10 the Epheſizns, Others conceit, it may be underſtood of Paul's Epiſtle to Philemon. whom Par calls his tellow-labourer, likely exercifing his Mini-
/imus, for the ſake of Oneftmus (who was a Colo{jian} was to be read at Coloſſe, others becauſe Luke is mentioned, verſ; 2 4. that it was an Epiſtle of his, to the Laodicears, but of that there's no evidence. Neither is it probable that Pau} would in this Epiſtle to the Colors have ſaluted the Laodiceans, had þhÞ written a diſtin& Epiftle to them. Wherefore *tis moſt ra- tional to underſtand it, not of an Fpiſtte of Paul written 10 the Laodiceans, but as our Bibles, according to an Arthentick Copy, have with the Greek Fathers, faithfully tranſlatee, and repreſented it, written from Laodicez, ome conj-eturs it to be the firſt Epiſtle of Fob» which they conceive was written from the City of Laodicezs, Others think it was the firſt Epiſtle to Timorky, from the inſcription or ſub{cription of P long tie put at the end &f it, as if written from Luodicea,
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