I  will  render  it,  as  nearly  as  our  idiom  will  admit,
(and  that  is  very  near,  in  this  instance,)  precisely
as  the  words  occur  in  the  original,  though  necessa-
rily with  diminished  force  and  certainty;  thus:
'^For  hath  appeared  the  grace  of  God,  which  is  sal-
vation-bearing to  all  men,  teaching  us,''  &c.  In
the  Greek  the  word  hoik  appeared  QSat/B^vyi)  occurs
first  of  all  in  the  sentence ;  and  cannot  in  any  right
way  affect  the  syntax  or  the  sense  of  "  all  men ;"
which  occurs  at  the  end,  in  the  dative,  plainly  go-
verned by  the  adjective  which  I  have  rendered  ^^sal-
vation-bearing." If  there  is  any  defect  in  this  evi-
dence, it  is  wholly  relative.  It  respects  simply  the
fact  that  ordinary  readers  cannot  appreciate  an  ar-
gument drawn  from  the  Greek  language.     Still,  or-


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dinary  readers  may  believe  the  facts  which  I  allege ;
and  no  scholar,  tyro  though  he  be  in  Uteris  graecitj
can  help  seeing  the  truths  of  the  facts,  if  Hlf  will
open  his  Testament  at  the  place.  But  if  the  facts
are  true,  so  are  the  inferences :  this  any  common
mind  of  common  honesty  can  well  discern ;  ftnd
all  that  is  *  excellently  and  evidently*  proved,  bj  the
passage  of  Barclay's  inspired  and  confident  qnota-
tiosi,  is — ^that  the  inqwation  of  the  Quakers  is  sor-
ry imposture,  and  that  the  word  of  God  yields  them
no  support.     Quakerism  is  NOT  Christianity.
