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I do not simple not to avow — the a great greatest part
of it was supplied by me.
As to one Section of it, I will have nothing to
say to it for very obvious reasons: [I will
not sacrifice myself.] I will not betray my
friend. I will not make myself a sacrifice
all that I shall say of it, is that, whoever
it was that wrote it, I wish it had not
been written.
Yet those who interest themselves in that Section
wish to have it understood , that ---
They thought themselves at liberty to produce
such passages parts as might be fit to confront
with that Author's account of the whole to
shew - how We departed not from the strict & liberal signification.
They We s. corrupted not, say they, the sense: even
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scarce modified the words. If there is any
in the sense, which over and above it's incongruity
with what the Author has said of
it, is not to the taste of certain persons,
the fault's not our's. We know that
there have been learned explanations? but what
have we to do with the explanations? The
explanations are of men: the text it is said,
is of God. We stick to that which is of
God.
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Amyntor de Sect III. cont. Rellig.
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