and Dr.
Beveridge
, never failed of proving out of these great Authors Things which no Man living would have denied him upon his
own
single Authority. One Day resolving to come to the Point in hand, he said, According to that excellent Divine, I will enter upon the Matter, or in his Words, in the fifteenth Sermon of the Folio Edition, Page 160.
I shall briefly explain the Words, and then consider the Matter contained in them
.
This honest Gentleman needed not, one would think, strain his Modesty so far as to alter his Design of
Entring into the Matter
, to that of