PORSON'S

LETTERS TO TRAVIS ECLECTICALLY EXAMINED

Works by the same Author.

The HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY of ARABIA. 2 vols. 8vo. 1844.
The ONE PRIMEVAL LANGUAGE. Parts I. II. III. 8vo. 1851-52-53.
MAHOMETANISM UNVEILED. 2 vols. 8vo. 1829.
SINAI PHOTOGRAPHED. 1 vol. folio. London, R. Bentley. 1862.

LIFE of BISHOP JEBB. 2 vols. (Second Edition, 1 vol.) 8vo. 1836-7. APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY of the EPISTLE to the HEBREWS.

1 vol. 8vo. 1838. CRITICAL ESSAYS on GENESIS xx. and ST. MATTHEW ii. 18, 19.

1826. DISCOURSES on SUBJECTS of SCRIPTURE HISTORY. 8vo. 1823. SIX-PREACHER SERMONS. 8vo. 1853. ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS;' or, Gleanings from the Scenes of the

Wanderings. 1 vol. 8vo. 1865. London, R. Bentley.

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FOR THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE TEXT OF THE

THREE HEAVENLY WITNESSES :

OR

PORSON'S LETTERS TO TRAVIS ECLECTICALLY EXAMINED

AND

THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL EVIDENCES FOR 1 JOAN V. 7

ECLECTICALLY RE-SURVEYED.

BY THE

REV. CHARLES FORSTER, B.D.

SIX-PREACHER OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, AND RECTOR OF STISTED, ESSEX :

AUTHOR OF
'THE APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY OF THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.'

"He who has lived to throw light upon a single passage of Scripture, has not
lived in vain.'

SCALIGER,

To the Illustrious Memories

OF

ARCHBISHOPS WAKE AND SECKER ;

OF

BISHOPS BULL AND PEARSON, BEVERIDGE AND ATTERBURY, BARLOW AND HUET, GASTRELL AND HORSLEY, BURGESS AND

MIDDLETON;

AND OF

MILL, BENGEL, AND KNITTEL,

THE FAITHFUL ADVOCATES OF 1 JOHN V. 7,

Tbe following pages are reberently Inscribed.