Excerpt from Sacred Literature, Vol. 3 of 4: Shewing the Holy Scriptures to Be Superior to the Most Celebrated Writings of Antiquity, by the Testimony of Above Five Hundred Witnesses, and Also by a Comparison of Their Several Kinds of Composition, in Twelve Books Let not the pious Chriftian, whofe mind isa flranger to fpeculations of this kind, be offended with the Com piler for uniting and comparing in this manner things Sacred with things Profane. He profeffes, that how ever much he may prefer the Divine Writings to all others, he has frequently found much pleafure and profit from feveral of the beautiful and well written treatifes here collec'ted together from the Pagan world. The Apology of Socrates, the Manual of Epic'tetus, the Commentaries of Antoninus, the Picture of Life by Cebes, the Golden Verfes of Pythagoras, the Choice of Hercules by Prodicus, Hefiod's firft book of Works and Days, the Satyrs of Horace, Juvenal and Perfins, with thefeveral pieces from Cicero and Seneca, are well worthy of a frequent perufal. The Epiflles and Extracts from the Chriftian Fathers alfo, breathe fuch a fpirit as fets them indifputably above all other compofitions that are commonly called human. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.