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Writest thus, Grant the Points to have the Original pretended, yet they deferre
all Regard, and are of singular use for the understanding of the Scripture, so that
it is not lawful to depart from them without urgent necessity.

And yet (to go round again) pag 244. thou wriest Semi-diametrically
Oppositive, thus: I must crave liberty to professe, That if I could be throwly con-
vinced that the present Punctuation were the Figment and Invention of these men,
I should labour to the utmost, to have it utterly taken away out of the Bible, nor
should I in its present station make use of it any more: To have it placed in the
Bible, as so great a part of (Secundum Te) the Word of God, is not toler-
able.

Here's a pretry Triangular piece of Work, two Corners of which, square a squint with the third, in which J. O. dances the Hay, up and down, in and out by himself alone, like Three Kites, in the Clouds of Confusion.

CHAP. V.

AS to the matter of the Scripture remaining entire to a Tittle in the
outward Text of it as at first given out, what a fidling and pidling
makest thou to prove and make it good? what Figures doft thou caft in
thy Fancy throw that part of thy Second Treatife, wherein thou treateft
for it, for the defending of it, and to fence off that fault of falhood from
falling upon that thy Arch-Affertion, having once over-shot thy self so
far, as in thy First Treatife, as false as frequently to affirm it; and yet
when all's done, after thy tedious Tracings to and fro in thy wonted

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