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§. 2. The Books of Holy Scripture where all these are sound, are certain uncorrupted records thereof; preserved by the unquestioned tradition and care, and to this day attested by the general confession, of the Jews, who are the bitterest enemies to Christianity.

§. 2. The Books of Holy Scripture where all these are sound, are certain uncorrupted records thereof; preserved by the unquestioned tradition and care, and to this day attested by the generall confession, of the Jewes, who are the bitterest enemies to Christianity.

There are no men of reason that I have heard of, that deny the Books of Moses, and the Psalms, and the Prophets, &c. to be indeed those that went under those titles from the beginning: And that there can be no considerable corruption in them, which might much concern their testimony to Christ, the comparing of all the Copies, and the Versions, yet extant, will evince; together with the testimony of all sorts of enemies; and the moral impossibility of their corruption. But I will not stand to prove that which no sober adversary doth deny. To these Books the Christians did appeal, and to these the Jews profess to stand.

There are no men of reason that I have heard of, that deny the Books of Moses, and the Psalms, and the Prophets, &c. to be indeed those that went under those titles from the beginning: And that there can be no considerable corruption in them, which might much concern their testimony to Christ, the comparing of all the Copies, and the Versions, yet extant, will evince; together with the testimony of all sorts of enemies; and the morall impossibility of their corruption. But I will not stand to prove that which no sober adversary doth deny. To these Books the Christians did appeal, and to these the Jews profess to stand.