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many instances repeating not single words, nor yet whole 

 sentences, but parts and fragments of sentences. Of all these 

 varieties the examination of our two epistles will furnish 

 plain examples ; and. I should rely upon this class of instan- 

 ces more than upon the last, because, although an impostor 

 might transcribe into a forgery entire sentences and phrases, 

 yet the dislocation of words, the partial recollection of phrases 

 and sentences, the intermixture of new terms and new ideas 

 with terms and ideas before used, which will appear in the 

 examples that follow, and which are the natural properties 

 of writings produced under the circumstances in which these 

 epistles are represented to have been composed — would not, 

 I think, have occurred to the invention of a forger ; nor, il 

 they had occurred, would they have been so easily executed. 

 This studied variation was a refinement in forgery which 1 

 beheve did not exist ; or, if we can suppose it to have been 

 practised in the instances adduced below, why, it may be 

 asked, was not the same art exercised upon those which wo 

 have collected in the preceding class ? 



Ephes. 1 : 19 to 2 : 5 : "To us-ward who believe, accord- 

 ing to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought 

 in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, (and set hiiri 

 at his ovv'n right hand in the heavenly places, far above all 

 principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every 

 name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that 

 which is to come. And hath put all thmgs under his feet, 

 and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 

 which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in aU.) 

 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses 

 and sins ; (wherein m times past ye walked according to the 

 course of this world, according to the prince of the power of 

 tlie air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of diso- 

 bedience : among whom also we all had our conversation in 

 times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires oi 

 the flesh and of the mind : and were by nature the children 

 of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, foi 



