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Sect. 8. 3 I am not without Apprehensions that opere in longo obrepsit somnus, ⟨p. 197⟩and that whilst the learned Collectors had their hands and minds busied about other things, some mistakes did fall into this work of gathering these various lections. Some things I meet withal in it, that I profess, I cannot bring to any good consistency among themselves; to let pass particular instances, and insist on one only of a more general and eminent importance. In the entrance unto this collection an account is given us of the ancient copies, out of which these observations are made; Among the rest one of them is said to be an ancient copy in the Library of Emanuel College in Cambridge: this is noted by the letters Em: throughout the whole collection. Now whereas it is told us in those preliminary cautions and observations, that it contains only Pauls Epistles, I wonder how it is come to pass, that so many various lections in the Gospels and Acts, as in the farrago its self are fixed on the credit of that book, could come to be gathered out of a copy of Pauls Epistles; certainly here must be some mistake, either in the learned ⟨p. 198⟩Authors of the previous directions, or by those employed to gather the varieties following; And it may be supposed that that mistake goes not alone; so that upon a farther consideration of particulars, it may be, we shall not find them so clearly attested, as at first view they seem to be. It would indeed be a miracle, if in a work of that variety many things should not escape the eye of the most diligent observer.

Sect. 8. 3 I am not without Apprehensions that opere in longo obrepsit somnus, ⟨p. 197⟩and that whilst the learned Collectors had their hands and minds busied about other things, some mistakes did fall into this worke of gathering these various lections. Some things I meet withall in it, that I professe, I cannot bring to any good consistency among themselves; to let passe particular instances, and insist on one only of a more generall and eminent importance. In the entrance unto this collection an account is given us of the antiert copies, out of which these observations are made; Among the rest one of them is said to be an antient copy in the Library of Emanuell Colledge in Cambridge: this is noted by the letters Em: throughout the whole collection. Now whereas it is told us in those preliminary cautions and observations, that it contains only Pauls Epistles, I wonder how it is come to passe, that so many various lections in the Gospels and Acts, as in the farrago its selfe are fixed on the credit of that book, could come to be gathered out of a copy of Pauls Epistles; certainly here must be some mistake, either in the learned