Laurentii Ramiresii de Prado Pente- Lmentioning the Socinian Authors to be met with in the Bibliotheca Fratr. Polon.
Lewis de Dieu’s Comment upon the four Gospels, and Animadversions on the whole New Testament were printed at Leyden, in 1627, and 1646, in 4to.
John Dowty wrote Analecta on the New Testament; printed at London, in 1658, and 1660, in 8vo. Rodolphus Gualtherus wrote Comments on the whole New Testament; printed at Zurich, in 1610. the third Edition.
Daniel Tossanus intitled his Comments upon the New Testament, Opera Theologica; printed at Hanover, in 1604, in two Volumes in 4to. John Cocceius, and Lambert Bos, we have already spoken of.
See M. Fabricius, tom. 3. l. 4. chap. 5. p. 122. of his Bibalioth. Græca. Here he has a chronological Table for the whole New Testament, wherein he shews in what Year, and under what Emperor, every Apostle or Evangelist wrote; afterwards he makes an Abridgment of their Lives, and many critical and select Remarks upon their Works.
He put out likewise the Codex Apocryphus of the New Testament, at Hamburg, 1703, in two Volumes in 8vo. This is a Collection of spurious Gospels, and other forged Pieces, which he published in Greek and Latin, with Notes. This makes the Sequel of his Codex Apocryphus of the Old Testament, whereof we have already taken notice. A Man must know very little what to do with himself that employs himself about Writings which cannot be of any use in the discovery of Truth, while there are so many others which may contribute to this purpose, and can never be enough studied. From hence it is that we have taken most of what we have said in our Dissertations upon the apocryphal Gospels. See upon St. Matthew.
John Frederick Homberg wrote sacred Observations upon the New Testament; printed at Utrecht, 1712, in 4to. in Latin. His manner of writing is not ill suited to the Title of his Work, Parerga. He seems to throw out his Thoughts at random; but they are, on the contrary, well meditated upon, and very subtle, such as could proceed only from great application to the Study of the sacred Text, and great Knowledge of the Greek Authors. contarchus, seu Observationes in varia loca Novi Testamenti. This Work is called Pentecontarchus, because it is divided into five Chapters; wherein the Author explains several Places of the Scripture by the Customs of the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans. It was printed at Antwerp, 1612, in 4to. He was a Spaniard, a Lawyer; and died in 1658.
Alexandri Mori in novum Fœdus Notæ; printed at London, in 1661. and at Paris, 1668, in 8vo. He was a Frenchman, of Castres, a Calvinist; Professor at Geneva, and Minister at Charenton. He died in 1670. His Notes upon the New Testament are likewise in the Great Criticks, tom. 10. of the first Edition.
Joan. Gaspar Mercken published an Essay of sacred Reflections upon the Person of Jesus Christ: wherein he examines first, whether he were subject to any Disease; 2. if there was any defect in his Body; 3. His different Unctions; 4. the three Presents of the wise Men: in the Bibliotheca Philologica, tom. 4. p. 883.
Petri Possini S. I. Spicilegium Evangelicum. We have already spoken of him in the third Article of this Part. Fabricius has lately published it, together with the preceding Works, in one Volume, at Hamburg, 1712, in 8vo. because they were become very scarce; and besides, deserved well to be better known. Possin put out also three chronological Letters upon the Birth, Baptism, and Death of Jesus Christ; printed in Henschenius’s Apparatus to the Chronology of the Popes, in the Bollandits, the fourth Tome, for the Month of May. Another Work upon the Genealogy of Jesus Christ; printed at Toulouse, in 1646, in fol. with his Catena, whereof we shall say something in another Place.
Possin was of Narbonne; turned Jesuit in 1624. and died in 1686. after having written a great number of Works, and put out several Editions of the Greek Fathers.
Joan. Vorstii de Stylo Novi Testamenti, apud Crenium Fasce 3. It was printed at Rostock, 1641. and at Rotterdam, 1693, in 12mo. He, moreover, published a Philologia Sacra; wherein he expounds all the Hebraisms in the New Testament. This is in two Parts: the first printed at Leyden, 1658, in 4to. the second at Amsterdam, 1665, in 4to. and at Frankfort, 1705, in two Volumes in 4to. Lastly, he wrote a Dissertation upon the Proverbs in the New Testament; printed at Leuwarden, 1701, in 4to. the third Edition. He was a German; from being a Lutheran he turned Calvinist, and died in 1676.
Thomæ Gataker, de Stylo Novi Testamenti; Operum Trajecti. ad Rhen. tom. 1. fol. 1698. Gataker wrote this Piece against Sebastian Pfochen. It was printed separately at London, in 1648, in 4to. He also put out Miscellanea upon this second Part of Scripture, ibid. 1653, in 4to. under the Title of Cinnus; and other Miscellanea upon the whole Scripture, ibid. 1659, in fol. He was an Englishman, of London, Master of Trinity-College in Cambridge; and died in 1654. and in the 80th year of his age.
John Matthias Florin wrote five Dissertations upon the New Testament; printed at Frankfort on the Mein, 1707, in 4to. In the first he endeavours to prove that the whole New Testament was written in Greek, even the Gospel of St. Matthew; which gives him an opportunity of enlarging much upon the Original and Progress of the Greek Language. The four other Dissertations relate to the Life of the four Evangelists.
John Ens wrote a particular Dissertation upon the Canon of the Books in the New Testament; printed in Latin at Amsterdam, in 1710, in 8vo. In it he proposes two Things: first, to assign the Time wherein the Canon of the New Testament was fixed; the second, to shew that this Canon is the same with that which we have at present in our hands. There is some Erudition in this Piece; but it is, as we may say, drowned in an extremely diffuse Style.
Richardson, of whom we have already said something, wrote a Defense, in English, of the Canon of the New Testament; printed at London, 1702, in 8vo. He attacks Toland, who had written a Book under the name of Amyntor; wherein he called in question the Canon of the New Testament. This Work, at first, was received very differently. The Deists and Libertines triumphed in it; honest Men were scandalized at it. The Learned despised it, and came to a resolution to let it drop: but Richardson thought it necessary to write against it. He falls upon the Errors of it with great strength of argument, and answers Toland’s Reasons in a clear and methodical manner.
We may likewise place here R. Simon’s Observations on the New Testament; printed at Roterdam, 1689, and 1690. in 4to. They are divided into two Parts. The first relates to the Text, the second to the Translations.