AN

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

CONTROVERSY ON THE DISPUTED VERSE OF ST. JOHN:

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY.

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

CONTROVERSY

ON THE

DISPUTED VERSE OF ST. JOHN,

AS REVIVED BY MR. GIBBON:

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY;

OR,

A SECOND LETTER TO MRS. JOANNA BAILLIE,

ON

THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY.

BY

THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY.

SALISBURY:

W. B. BRODIE AND CO., CANAL.

M.DCCC.XXXV.

478.

"Such was the state of the Controversy, and all the learned had abandoned the defence of the Verse. Mr. Gibbon expressed the general opinion with great exactness and impartiality."

Mr. Porson's Preface to his Letters, p. viii.

ΤΟ

THE VERY REVEREND

THOMAS TURTON, D. D.,

DEAN OF PETERBOROUGH,

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

AND AUTHOR OF A VERY VALUABLE VINDICATION

OF THE

PRESENT TEXT OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE,

THE FOLLOWING TRACT

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.