The Work will not, he prefumes, be judged altogether useless, or unnecessary at this Time. The Fathers have not been hitherto confidered in this Method. Though many excellent and beautiful Passages have been transcribed out of them byothers, in modern Languages, none have yet, so far as he knows, attempted the transcribing at length their Testimony to the Sacred Scriptures. Nor has the Canon of the New Testament been often confidered and inquired into, in this Method, of placing together at once the Testimony of every Age as it arifeth: But generally the Evidence for particular Books has been collected, and placed by itself: Which, tho' not without its Uses, will, he believes, be found less advantageous than the Method he has pursued. It was the reading of the Works of Eufebius of Cafarea, and particularly his Ecclefiaftical History, in which he has collected fo many Passages of ancient Writers before him, that, as Mr. Lardner acquaints us, gave the first Rise to this Undertaking. A large Part of the Riches of that Work will, as he adds, be transferred into this, and will be its greatest Ornament. As his Aim therein has been, according to his Ability, the Interest of true Religion, so he expresses a great Satisfaction in the first Part of it having been fo well received as it was at home, and at its having been so far approved abroad, as to be tranflated by two learned Foreigners, viz. by Mr. Cornelius Westerbaen, of Utrecht, into Low Dutch, and by Mr. J. Christopher Wolff, of Hamburg, into Latin. After this general Idea of Mr. Lardner's excellent Performance, it will fuffice to say a few Words of the Contents of that particular Volume now before us. It opens with an admirable Introduction, which comprehends a very fuccinct, but compleat and well Hh2 3 well harmoniz'd Epitome of the Evangelical History. It then proceeds in exhibiting the Testimonies of several Christian Writers (disposed in the Manner above specified) to the Truth of the Facts there recorded. The Witnesses here produced in Proof of the Gospel Story are St. Barnabas, St. Clement, Hermas, St. Ignatius, St. Polycarp, Papias, Justin Martyr, Dionyfius of Corinth, Tatian, Hegesippus, Melito, St. Ireneus, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Pantaenus. : THE : lection, 159 Antiquities, Their Uses, 354. An Account of fome very curious ones, 359 200 Arts, A Prince's Duty with regard to them, B BAnieres (M. Jean) A View of the Differtation which he prefix'd to his Examination of Bernouillı (Mr.) Some Hints of his Deficiency in point of Candour, 129 Bremond (M. de) An Account of his Index to the Society, 220 CARRE, C CARRE (Mr.) His Notion of the Cause of the Refraction of Light, 130 Catullus, His Character, 164 Claudian, His Character, 179 Cyrillus Lucari (Patriarch of Constantinople) An Account of him, 409 Czar, (Peter I.) A Synopsis of his Life, compiled by D Dragons, An Inquiry about the Creature fo called Durand (Mr.) His Project of a compleat Edition E A BYE, The various Changes made therein, either Earth (The) Some Thoughts concerning the Figure of it, G Corboduc, A late Edition of it cenfured, 63 Greaves (Mr. John) Some Particulars relating to bim H 407, 416 Hiftory (Roman) Its Uncertainty demonstrated, To 136-156 Contradictions to be found in relating to the Rape of the Sabines, 145 I 167 JEphson (Rev. Mr.) A Synopsis of bis Discourse the Observation of the Lord's Day, 74 Ignorance, Its Causes, 195. Its Confequences, 198. Jurin (Dr.) An Abstract of his Essay on Distinct The Remedies of it, 199. and Indistinct Vision, Juvenal, His Character, L 455 Ardner (Rev. Mr.) An Account of his Credi- nity of bis Funeral, 40. Liberty, Proved to be a Property of the Divine Literature, The Honour and Advantages of it to a |