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Philology I before added Divinity, and, as I hope to prove, not without Reason. As they relate to our Question, they both agree in this, that the Subject of them both is truly Ancient; and that it is impossible to become very excellent in either of them, without a familiar Conversation with those Original Books, to which the great Masters of both these Sciences do constantly appeal. Our Blessed Saviour did not reveal his Law by Halves to his Apostles, nor is the New Testament an imperfect Rule of Faith: The Old Testament likewise has constantly been at hand; and the Jews have, ever since their Return from the Babylonish Captivity, been scrupulously sollicitous to preserve the (f) Genuine Hebrew and Chaldee Text of the Old Testament, pure and uncorrupted,