THE

MISCELLANEOUS

WORK S

Of the late REVEREND and LEARNED

CONYERS MIDDLETON, D. D.

Principal Librarian of the University of Cambridge.

Containing all his

WRITINGS,

Except the LIFE of CICERO:

Many of which were never before PUBLISHED.

VOL. II.

LONDON,

Printed for RICHARD MAN BY on Ludgate - hill,
and H. S. Cox in Pater-nofter Row.

M.DCC.LII.

THE

CONTENTS.

1. Some Curfory Reflections on the Difpute or Diffenfion, which hap-
pened at Antioch, between the Apoftles Peter and Paul.

II. Reflections on the Variations, or Inconfiftencies, which are found

among the four Evangelifts in their different Accounts of the fame

Facts.

III. An Efay on the Gift of Tongues, tending to explane the

proper Notion and Nature of it, as it is defcribed and delivered to

us in the Sacred Scriptures. And as it appears alfo to have been un-

derstood by the Learned both of the antient and modern Times.

IV. Some Short Remarks on a Story told by the Antients, concern-

ing St. John the Evangelift, and Cerinthus the Heretic; and on the

ufe, which is made of it by the Moderns, to enforce the Duty of

Shunning Heretics.

V. An Efay on the Allegorical and Literal Interpretation of the

Creation and Fall of Man.

VI. A Letter to Dr. Waterland; containing fome Remarks on his
Vindication of Scripture: in Answer to a Book, intitled, Christi-
anity as old as the Creation, together with the Sketch or Plan of ano-
ther Answer to the fame Book.

VII. A Defence of the Letter to Dr. Waterland; against the falfe

and frivolous Cavils of the Author of the Reply.

VIII. Some Remarks on a Reply to the Defence of the Letter to

Dr. Waterland: wherein the Author's Sentiments, as to all the prin-

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