THE SACRED CLASSICS DEFENDED AND ILLUSTRATED OR AN ESSAY HUMBLY OFFER'D TOWARDS PROVING THE PURITY, PROPRIETY AND TRUE ELOQUENCE OF THE WRITERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN TWO PARTS [COMPLETE]

London: Rivington. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1727. Hardcover. []8], 9-432, 2 indexes pages; 1727 bound in contemporary sheep ruled in gilt [faded], hinges cracked but solid. Two parts complete. Contents bright and clean. Title page printed in red and black. The Author's own description proves incredibly accurate in this case. He writes that this work is "An essay humbly offered towards proving the purity, propriety, and true eloquence of the writers of the New Testament : in two parts : in the first of which those divine writers are vindicated against the charge of barbarous language, false Greek, and solecisms : in the second is shewn, that all the excellencies of style, and sublime beauties of language and genuine eloquence do abound in the sacred writers of the New Testament, with an account of their style and character, and a representation of their superiority, in several instances, to the best classics of Greece and Rome"This linguistic defense of the poetry of the New Testament is incredibly interesting theologically as it represents the works of the new testament as written shaped and manipulated by authors rather than being true representations of the word of God himself", [courtesy of The Law Library]. Provenance- two generations of Bradstreets dated 1731 and 1733. 5" x 8". Separate indexes for parts I and II. .