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Thus I have collected and produced at large feveral of those paffages of St. Matthew's Gospel, which the Apoftolick Fathers appear evidently to have cited or referred to; fo that it will be henceforth manifeft, by a bare caft of the eye upon the preceding tables, how much Mr. Dodwell and his followers have been mistaken in their famous notion, that none of our Gofpels were cited by thofe Fathers.

CHAP.

CHA P. III.

St. Matthew's Gospel farther proved Canonical by the Citations out of it made by the Fathers next the Apoftolick Age. Thirtyfive places in Juftin Martyr's Works produced, where it is cited. It is cited four Times in the fmall Treatise of Athenagoras; five Times by Theophilus Antiochenus; above two bundred and fifty Times by Irenæus, in nine of which Places be is named; feventy-three Times in the Works of Clemens Alexandrinus; and twenty-feven Times in his fmall Tratt entitled, Quis Dives falvetur? This Gospel proved Canonical, because it was read in the Chriftian Churches, and is in the Syriack Verfion.

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T appearing thus, how particularly the apoftolick Fathers have cited St. Matthew, I proceed now to fhew, how the Fathers immediately fucceeding the apoftolick age have cited St. Matthew; not as above to produce all the feveral places at large, which would be almost to transcribe the Gospels, but only to lay down the several chapters and verses of the Gospel, with the particular places of thofe Fathers' works where they are cited; nor fhall I think it needful to do this, with all the writers of the firft four centuries, but fuch only as were the moft early, and are the most confiderable. It will be enough. to fhew inftances in fuch as Juftin Martyr, Athenagoras, Theophilus Antiochenus, Irenæus, Clemens Alexandrinus, &c. who lived in the second century, and to observe concerning the Fathers of the next centuries, fuch as Origen, Cyprian, Cyril, Auftin, and others of and about their time, that, they do in innumerable places cite this (as well as our other) Gofpels; for the proof of which I would refer the reader, who will take no farther pains in the matter, to the Indexes of the Texts of Scripture, which are made and put at the end of their works by their editors. I proceed then to those early Fathers above-named, viz. Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, Theophilus Antiochenus, Irenæus, and Clemens Alexandrinus, whose

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works I have with this view carefully examined, and find them very often to have cited or referred to this Gospel of St. Matthew.

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I. As to JUSTIN MARTYR.

A Catalogue of feveral places which are cited out of St.
Matthew's Gospel in the Works of Juftin Martyr.

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JUSTIN MARTYR's Works.

9 Ibid. p. 253.

10 Apolog. 2. pro Chrift. p. 64. et Dialog. cum Tryph. Jud. p. 301.

11 Dialog. cum Tryph. Jud. p. 301, 349, 370.

12 Apol. 2. pro Chrift. p. 62.

13 Ibid. p. 66.

14 Dialog. cum Tryph. Jud.

p. 271.

15 Apol. 2. pro Chrift. p. 95. et in Dialog. cumTryph. Jud. p. 326.

16 Dialog. cum Tryph. Jud. P. 334.

17 Ibid. p. 354.

18 Ibid. p. 302, et 327. 19 Apol. 2. pro Chrift. p. 62.

20 Dialog. cum Tryph. Jud. p. 269.

21 Apolog. 2. pro Chriftian. p. 62.

22 Ibid. p. 63. et Dial. cum Tryph. Jud. p. 328.

23 Ibid. p. 66.

24 Dialog. cum Tryph. Jud.

p. 272.

25 Ibid. p. 235.

26 Apol. 2. pro Chrift. p. 64.

27 Dialog. cum Tryph. Jud.

p. 308.

28 Apol. 2. pro Christ. p.

96. 29 Ibid. p. 63.

St.

St. MATTHEW's Gospel.

30 Ch. xxiii. 23, 27.

31 Ch. xxiv. 24.
32 Ch. xxvi. 26, &c.

JUSTIN MARTYR's Works. 30 Dialog. cum Tryph. Jud. p. 235, et 339

31 Ibid. p. 253.

32 Apol. 2. pro Chrift. p. 98. This he fays is delivered by the Apostles, ἐν τοῖς γενομένοις ὑπ ̓ αὐτῶν ἀπομνημονεύμασιν, ἃ καλεῖται svaysénıa: i. e. in the Commentaries or Books made by them, which are called Gofpels.

33 Dialog. cum Tryph. Jud.

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p. 326, et 331.

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34 Ch. xxvii. 42, 43. 46.

34 Ibid. p. 328.

35 Ibid. p. 326.

II. ATHENAGORAS.

He was a writer of the fecond century, either coeval with, or not long after Juftin Martyr; he wrote an excellent Apology for Christianity, which is infcribed to M. Aurelius Antoninus, and L. Aurelius Commodus, in which, though a short work, I have observed the following references to St. Matthew's Gospel.

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He lived under the fame Emperors, and was cotemporary with Athenagoras; he wrote three fmall treatises,

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