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aoe sa ‘ © To the Reader. Effigie, and few of their late Hiftorians do any where occafionally mention “him without fome little Wiping Character as it were eafie to find Materials for Inflances in ſeveral Particulars. Tet (what was fure tò be tbe Confequence, and indeed’ was but Fuft,) be impaired bis Efteem with the Romanifts at n9 fafter a Rate than‘be advanced bis Repuration with the Reformed, - eſpecially here in England, where a Tranflation of bis Paraphraſe on the New Teſtament was in the Firft of Edward the Sixth ordered to be placed in all Pariſ Churches, and in ſome of them to: this: Day remains : The Method whereof is very Profitable, and the Stile both Eafie and Eloquent ; yet on ſome Texts there is impoſed but a harf Interpretation, as T am in onse Particular more efpecially engaged to’ rake notice, becauſe the fame Senfe isgiven of the fame Paſſage toward the latter ond of this following Piece, where Animad=wérting upon the Difingenuity of Commenta=* trs, be fingles ont Francifcus de:Lyra, who tréarinz on that Text of St Luke, c: 23. y. 36. {He that hath no Sword: let him Sell his Garment, and Buy’one,] bad wirhout muchsInpropriery taken* the whole Literally, tho indeed: with a very extravagant Inference for the Legitimacy of Private Defence in cafe of Perfecution. Our A sibor misht reaſonably Arraign this Deduction of a dange
