Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHEHS. 205
for the improvement of the
Church, why does
he not also refer us. to what Solomon wrote concerning
trees, beasts, fowls, creeping things, and
fishes * And likewise, to that multitude of
WTitings which the magicians burnt on their
conversion to Christianity f
These would have
made a considerable show among the losses of
the Church, and attached the simple more
closely to the invaluable traditions which have
flowed from the mouths of former generations.
After all the vast loss of books which the
Church has sustained, more remain than are
carefully perused even by the R. " Solomon,"
says he, " spoke three thousand and five pro-
" verbs." By turning to the place to which he
refers his readers, he will find the following
words, " He spake three thousand proverbs,
" and his songs were a thousand and five."
Two of St. Paul's epistles, he says, are consigned
to oblivion ;
" one to the Laodiceans
" which in his last Epistle to the Colossians he
" ordered to be read in that Church, and one
*'
which he mentions in his first Epistle to the
*'
Corinthians, / wrote to you an Epistle, v. 9.
Will he inform us, where he learnt that this
apostle wrote more than one episiie to the Colossians
When he calls the cue which remains
the last, why does he not add the others to his
list of lost books That he wrote one epistle to
I
this
* I Kings, iv. ^l» f
Acts, xix. 19.