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humane, polite, and fcientifLc nation, and more efpeciaily. 

 from the fovereign Louis XV. I gave to his cabinet a part 

 of every thing curious I had collected abroad ; which was 

 received with that degree of confideration and attention 

 that cannot fail to determine every traveller of a liberal: 

 mind to follow my example. 



Amongst the articles I configned to the library at Paris, 

 was a very beautiful and magnificent copy of the prophe- 

 cies of Enoch, in large quarto ; another is amongft the books 

 of fcripture which I brought home* {landing immediately 

 before the book of Job, which, is its proper place in the A- 

 byffinian canon ; and a thirdxopy I have prefented to the Bod- 

 leian library at Oxford,, by the hands of Dr Douglas the Bi~ 

 iliop of Carlifle. The more ancient hiftory of that book is 

 well known. The church at firft looked upon it as apocry- 

 phal ; and as it was quoted in the book of Jude, the fame 

 fufpicion fell upon that book alio. For this reafon, the 

 council of Nice threw the epiftle of Jude out of the canon, 

 but the council of Trent arguing better, replaced the apo- 

 ftle in die canon as before. 



Here we may obferve by the way, that Jiide's appealing 

 to the apocryphal books did by no means import, that either 

 he believed or warranted the truth of them. But it was an ar- 

 gument, a fortiori^ which our Saviour himleif often makes 

 ufe of, and amounts to no more than this, You, fays he to 

 the Jews, deny certain facts, which mufl be from prejudice,, 

 becaufe you have them allowed in your own books, and be- 

 lieve them there. And a very flrong and fair way of argu- 

 ing it is, but this is by no means, any allowance that they 

 are true. In the fame manner, You, fays Jude, do not be- 



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