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Primitive RULE of FAITH,
Translated from their Originals:
With NOTES, for the Advantage chiefly of
English Readers, and a PRELIMINARY
DISCOURSE upon each Author.
Together with

A PREFATORY DISSERTATION about the Right USE of the FATHERS.

By WILLIAM REEVES, M. A. Rector of Craneford, in Middlefex.

Vol. II.

Tu fcito nobis nihil effe antiquius quam Chrifti jura fervare, nec Patrum transferre terminos. Hieronym. Epif. 68. ad Theo.

LONDON, Printed by W. B. for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Nofter-Row. 1709.

THE

CONTENTS

OF THE

PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION

TO THE

Octavius of Minucius Felix.

THE

HE Difference between Tertullian and Minuci-
us in point of Stile, with the Reason for that

Difference

P. 1, 2

2

ibid.

The Design and Structure of the Dialogue

Cæcilius, Octavius, and Minucius, all three Afri-

cans, with their feveral Parts in this Dialogue 3

All three Heathens

Octavius, and Minucius, both Lawyers, with their

Charader and Converfion

The Converfion of these two famous Advocates gave

new Life and Luftre to the Chriftian Caufe 4, 5

The Charader of Cæcilius, with the Difficulty of his

Converfion

3, 4

5,6

Octavius, dies firft, and the Primitive Way of expref

fing our Sorrow upon the Death of our Friends, in

the Example of Minucius

This a real Dialogue, put together by Minucius after

the Death of Octavius

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The