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the learned, than of tlie p~ople ; whereas the HO\l1ilies, whiclf
~ the Lati~~" calf Tr~;i:ifes.; and we Sermons, ';"e;e- piouS'"
lethlres upon the h~ly fcdphu'es. We, h.we none. df the
Sch~li; remaini!}g;,nor hardly any of the Homilies i.n Gre;},.
and '~ho[e which we have in .Latin are tran~ated by RzifJin.us
'and 'dther~, with fo ml1ch liberty, 'that it is thought to be'
difficult, if not impoffible, to difccm What is Or.ifTen'S owp..
\ from what has been .foi41ed in ,by his interpreters. ° A great
part likewife of I his commelltaries,h loll:. The 'other ~l'eatt{es '
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~ of Or£gen :are not near fo'many in number as hjs works 'Upon'
, the tciiptures, and yet they were very confide;able. All Origm's
works, which remain only in Latin, were collected by ldolinus,
and afterwards by Erafmlfs, and prihted in t'r'o ;o!umes foli~
at Paris, in 1512, and atJ3afil, In J536. /The eight books
in defence of the chrifl:ian: religi~n agaififl: theobjethons of
Celfus, an E'pfcurean philOfopher, which is judged the mofl:
valuable of Of£gen's works, were publi!hed in Greek, with the
tninflation of Gelenius, in 16°5, quarto, and at Cambridge in
'-1658; ...quarto. His exhortations to inartyrdom, an~ fome_
other ofhis writings were publI!hed at London in J 7I 8, quarto:
The quarrels and., difputes which 'arore ,in the chrilli,m'
church !after Origen"s death, on account of him and his'
writings,.are [prcely credible to thOle who have n~t examine~
the hif\ory ~f th.ofe times. -The uiliverfal church 'fas fpli!·
intq.):wo panies; and th,efe parties ft>ug'ht -a's vigoroufly for and
a:;aiafl: G~iien, as if the chrifl:jan religion itlelf had bem in the
grea-tefl: danger. ,Huetius·has employed the fecond book of his
()rigeni/:ma, which confi'fts of above two hundred pag~s" in
folio, in pointing and .adverting 911 fuch opinions, 'in t4,is '
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Jl1iifl:rious' father, -as are either quite jnexclilabJe, or v ryexceptionaltle';
and it is corlfeIfed by all th~t, he fwerved very
,much 'frQm the orthodox fa1h. But the corruption of ,his
~ -writings is a point, 'fhich his apologi!1:s have ~lways injifte?
;on ftrongly,; - RujJinus p'anicula~ly in his defence-of OrigefJ
~6ainft Jerom: N'ay, .origen himfeIf heavily complained of
~hls.uf4ge in'hi:dife-time.· : -
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