Comparisons in the new Tefta- ment appofite, excellent, 299 -parallel to comparisons in nobleft Claffics, 175, 176 Compofition in the new Tefta- ment clean, ftrong, excellent, 287, 288 Compound words in the new Teftament fine, ftrong, em- phatical, 198 Conflagration of this world, 341 Contradictions, appearances of, in the new Teftament how folv'd,
1 Cor. iii. 21, 22, 23. 299
ix. 27. ch. xv. a rapturous piece of eloquence, fublimity, live-
ly figures, 2 Cor. iv. 17, 18.
Eloquence false, Eloquence true, found, 214 in the new Teftament. vid. New Teftament. "Hulw, for us a classical word,
Enjedin a bold Socinian, 255 193 Ephefians Ep. to, i. 19, 20.
'count of the style of the new Gregory the Great his noble
character of his favourite
author St. Jerom, 243, 244 Expletives in the new Tefta- ment feafonable, beautiful,
Hebraifms in the new Testa- ment never violate the ana-
writers of the new Testament, 244, 245 St. John's Gospel chap. xi. a perfpicuous, lively and mov- ing narrative, 252 -his ftyle and character, 331 St. John, bis Gospel own'd to be pure, eloquent, fublime, by Dennis of Alexandria, 153
As to his Epiftles and Apo- calypfe unjufily cenfur'd by bim, 333, 334 St. Irenæus, his character of St. Luke, 330 Ifidore Peleufiota, bis juft cha- racter of facred Claffics, 249 St. Jude's ftyle and character,
342 his Epifle ver. 13. 264 Julian apoftate, gives a high cha- racter and encomium of pri- mitive Chriftians, 321
Vid. St. John xi. Legeon, account of, furprising- ly entertaining, grand, 250 Mr. Lesley his judicious and excellent account of the ftyle and beauties of the facred Scriptures, 226, 227 Mr. Lock, his notion of tro- pical and figurative expreffi- ons explain'd, 295
takes prodigious liberty in altering and perverting St. Paul's noble paffage, Rom. ix. S.
366 By his interpretation of many places of facred writers of the new Teftament, depre- ciates and weakens their no- ble fenfe, 365 St. Luke, bis ftyle and chara- Eter, 330, 331
Luke's Gospel, iii. 23. 362 vi. 38.
Keys of David, bell, death,
Chap. xv. a great piece of natural and noble eloquence,
173 Bishop Kidder's just character of the divinely infpir'd wri- ters, 225
Language plain and common fometimes neceffary and beau-- tiful. Vid. Idiotical style. Lazarus, biftory of his death and refurrection admirable.
St. Matthew's ftyle and chara- ter,
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