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As to manuscripts, it is well known there is no fixing them precisely to a year, merely from the hand or character: and there are but few, in comparison, that carry their own certain dates with them. The best judges, therefore, in these matters, will think it sufficient to point out the king's reign, or sometimes the century, wherein a manuscript was written: and in the very ancient ones, above one thousand years old, they will hardly be positive so much as to the century, for want of certain discriminating marks between manuscripts of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries.

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Excerpt from A Critical History of the Athanasian Creed

The "Critical History of the Athanasian Creed" had its origin in Dr. Waterland's controversy with Dr. Clarke, and other Anti-Triniarians, on the subject of the blessed Trinity. First published in 1723, in the interval between his "Second Vindication of Christ's Divinity," and his "Farther Vindication," both of them directly controversial works, it yet is singularly free from polemics; and it is only in the last chapter that he thinks it well to answer the objections of Dr. Clarke, who "out of his abundant zeal to promote Arianism had taken upon him to disparage this excellent Form of Faith.

After an Introduction, in which the Author explains the scope and method of the work, disclaiming any pretence at originality, and declaring that it professes to be nothing more than a careful digest, in a form convenient for the English reader, of all that he had been able to discover written on the subject, the treatise is divided into eleven chapters, of which eight are concerned with the history of the Creed, and the remaining three with its substance, and its use in the Church of England.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.