non by Origen and Clemens Alexandrinus, the only two Fathers who have made use of it: it was never read in any of the Christian Churches till the time of Jerome, and then only in fome few among the Apocryphal Scriptures; it contains several things which are absolutely false, of which I have produced ten instances; it contains a great number of trilling, filly, and idle things, and is not in the Syriack Version. This I have endeavoured to prove ; all which laid together, does (I think) afford us as much evidence as can be expected in things of this fort, that the high opinions, which many learned men have entertained of this Epistle, are groundless, and that it is not to be looked upon either as a sacred book, or any thing like a sacred book of the New Testament.

I have nothing farther to add concerning this Epistle, unless it be to conjecture, that, because only Clemens Alexandrinus and Origen have cited it, it was forged at Alexandria ; and because there are so many pious frauds in it, that it was the forgery of some such person as corrupted the books of the Sibyls, and that it was written about the middle of the second century,

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'futed, 440.

dicts it, 4424

cerning four pictures of Christ, miracles ascribed to his infancy, made during his life on earth, forgeries and lies, 245, n. He 24. A prayer of his (probably entertained a great veneration for a Mahometan forgery) different reliques, 256. cites the Acts of from that in the Gospels, 27. Pilate, 330, n. mentions the Acts proved (purious, 29, n.

of Paul and Thecla, 391, n. Christ's Infancy, the Gospel of, CLARKE, Dr. S. his opinion of

published and translated by Mr. Barnabas's Epistle, 429, n. re-
Henry Sike, at Utrecht, in 1697,
p. 166. Another under the name Clemens ALEXANDRINUS, his
of Thomas, out of Cotelerius's testimonies concerning Barna-
notes on the Constitutions of the bas's Epistle, 413. His copies
Apostles, who printed it out of a corrupted, and Barnabas inserted
Ms. in the French King's li-

for Clemens Romanus, 419. he
brary, 221. These seem to be had too high an opinion of Bar-
originally the same, 226. The nabas's Epistle, 441. yet contra-
antient Gospel of Thomas dif-
ferent from this of the Infancy Le Clerc, Mr. cenfures, the story
of Christ, 227. They are men and Epistles of Christ and Ab.
tioned by the antients as two di gärus for fpurious, 9, n. His
ftinet books, &c. 228. Christ's opinion upon the text, Col. iv,
Infancy a forgery of the Gnuf 16. refuted, 41. his opinioni con-
ticks, ibid. received by the Mar cerning the Acts of Pilate, 334,
cosians in the second century, n. concerning Barnabas's Epistle,
229; known to Mahomet, and 430.
made use of by the compilers of Cocus condemns, ás fpurious, the
the Alcoran, 230, contained in whole story and Epistle of Christ
the Legends of the Persians, 232, to Abgarus, 8, n. rejects the
n. They are Apocryphal, and Epistles of Paul and Seneca, 77.
not received by the antient Christ COLLINS, Dr. his observation on
ians, 235. The design of them John ii. 1. p. 238, n.
false, ibid. proved froin Scrip.

COLLYRIDIANI, whence so named, ture, and the universal filerice of 253 the first Christian writers, 236. COTELERIUS, his fragment of the and from St. John's Gospel, ch. Infancy of Christ, 221. His opi. ii. 11. p. 237. That text criti nion of Barnabas's Epiftle, 426. cally discussed, 238. Intimations LA CRoze, Monsieur, cites a fyin Scripture, that Christ wrought

nod, held in the diocese of Anga. no miracles in his infancy, 241. mala, in the mountains of MalaThis positively afferted by several bar, A. D. 1599, which conFathers, 243, n. These Gospels demns the Gospels of Christ's Inproved Apocryphal from the tri fancy, &c. 167, n. 258, n. His fing stories, and many falsities in opinion of those Gospels,-ibid. n. them contained, 246. because Cross, the practice of signing with, they contain things later than the by whom first mentioned, 348, time in which they pretend to be 406. written, 251. because of the pro

CYPRIAN makes mention of The. digious respect paid by them to

cla, 389. the Virgin Mary, 252. The

D opinions of Dr. Mill, Mr. La Croze, and the author, concern. Darius Comes, in an Epifle to ing these Gospels, 258, t.

Austin, seems to refer to the let-
CHRYSOSTOM asserts, the first mi. ters of Christ and Abgarus, 7,

racle wrought by Christ was in
Cana of Galilee, and calls the De Dieu corrects a mistake of Ca.
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Hh

saubon

n.

faubon in the Arabick transla 389. His testimonies concern-

tion of Mark iii. 21. p. 242, n. ing the Epistle of Barnabas, 420.
DODWELL, Mr. his opinion of the
Epistle of Barabas, and of Her-

F
mes, 427, n.
DURANT, Monsieur, A digreffion FABER, TANAQUILLUS, his opi-

out of him concerning feveral nion concerning the Acts of Pi.
pictures of Christ, made during

late, 333, n.
his life on earth, 24.

FABRICIUS, Mr. his censure on

the story and Epistles of Christ
E

and Abgarus, 9, n.

He was of

opinion, that the Epistle to the
EACHARD, Mr. rejects the Epistles Laodiceans was stolen out of the

of Paul and Seneca as fpurious, Epistle to the Philippians, 48, n.
77, n. his opinion of Barnabas's

rejects the Epistles of Paul and
Epistles, 429, 11.

Seneca as fpurious, 77, n.

His
EPHRAEM SYRUS mentions the

collection of the sentiments of
Epistles of Abgarus to Christ, Protestants and Papists, concern-
and Christ's answer,

ing the Protevangelion, 164. He
EPIPHANIUS, a' notorious error in

takes the Gospel of Thomas for
our present copies of him con-

the Infancy of Christ, 167, n.
cerning Marcion's Evangeliúm

His opinion of the Acts of Pilate,
and Apoftolicon, 38, n. He e-

333•
steemed the miracles of Christ's

FELL, Bishop, his sentiments con-
infancy to be fables, 244. A cerning Barnabas’s Epistle, 426,
relation from him about some

n. His vindication of the allego-
silly women, who first facrificed

ries, contained in that Epistle,
to the Virgin Mary, 252. His examined, &c.

account of Thecla, 390,
ERASMUS, his opinion that the

G
Epistle to the Laodiceans was
Itolen out of the Epistle to the Gelasius rejects, as Apocryphal
Colossians, 48, n. He attempts and fpurious, the Epistle under
to prove the Epistle spurious from the name of Chrift to Abgarus,
its stile, 48.

7, n. and also the Gospel of
Estius condemns for spurious, the Thomas, and the book of Christ's

accounts of the miracles wrought Infancy, 228. declares the Acts
by Christ

his infancy, 240, n. of Paul and Thecla Apocryphal,
EUAGRIUS confirms a story of the 388, n.

city of Edesfa, that it should never Grabe, Dr. his arguments for the
be taken, &c. 7, n. relates a Epistle of Christ to Abgaris, 8,
furprising miracle wrought by He esteems the history of
Christ's picture, which he sent to Paul and Thecla as true and ge-
Abgarus, 23.

nuine, 392. contradicts himself,
EUSEBIUS cites an Epistle of our

398.
Saviour to an Arabian king, 2, GREGORY NAZIANZEN makes

A character of Eusebius by mention of the Acts of Paul and
Scaliger, and others, 18. He says

Thecla, 391, n.
he saw a brass ftatue of our Savi. Grotius is of opinion with Ter-
our at Cæsarea Philippi, 25. as tullian, that the Epistle, now in-
also the pictures of Peter and Paul,

titled to the Ephesians, was for-
ibid. He appeals to the Acts of merly intitled to the Laodiceans,
Pilate, 331, n.

Three citations 38, n. refuted, 41. His observa
out of him, proving those Acts to ation on the text John ii. 11. p.
be Pagan forgeries, 338. A short 238. His arguments about the
account from him of Thecla, Acts of Pilate, 333, n.

GRYNÆUS,

n.