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TO THE

READER

H E Entertainment the ﬁrjt Month oft hi:
undertaking found in the World, waefuch M
to eneourttge the continuance ofit, and a grea-
ter improvement too, if it were as ea/ie to get
in the materials an I could dejire. Dut M to the 300k: Trin—
ted in England, I haw not yet had that Aﬂiﬂance all Fo-
reigners have from time to time, which is to have Ahﬂrafts
ready drawn, ﬁnt them by the DuhIi/her-s, or Authors, with-
out which it u not poﬂihle for any one Man to go through with
fuch a Task as thit is I attribute that mgreat part to the
newnefsqf the thing, it being not yet f ﬂuently knonm, nor ta-
ken notice ;

3w then greate/t Diﬂi‘cultyt lies, M to the Theolo ical
$09.1“, in the grefent State of things in England. Ifat ce
Isnowhere, what to take or omit,“ All ‘Mttes [hould he plea-
f?“ :fit. wereMihle nhut 191511]qu ﬁdg think; this at too much
and the other, that it u! too Wm WM mortal Mien can adjuﬂ'
the querence. > '

I would wiﬂingiy nqt deceive the World in anything. And
therefore in the ﬁg]? place 1‘ nﬂiine it, I am of the Reli mm by
Law Eﬂahlijhed, and would not knowingly dtmor ay my
thing that jhould in the lea/l he contrary to the Intereﬂ of
the Chuth of England: 3“t then, ‘neither would I do any ill
thing to promote it , Iknotqmeowell, ﬂee doth not ﬂand tn need

ofany ill praftice‘: for‘ her [upport tho other: may. ;
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To the Reader;

In a piece of this Nature, there will many things appear that ‘
are not found 1n point of Daftrme, nor true 1n point of Specu—
lation, this heing a kind J common Theatre, where every man
that plea/1th comes forth, and afts his part as he thinks ﬁt,
and the Reader, and notI,1s to Cenfure him. .
' And which 1s yet more, the Ahjtrafts are nor of 7191 drawing
neither, for in many inﬂances I am hut a Tran/Iator of what
others have faid hefore me ,only, hecaufe I follow [0 many, I am

forced to omit many things that ﬁem le necejﬂzry, and to jhor-

ten others when the} are too long g, ﬁt that if at laﬂ‘, any Au-
1h or is nn/reprJaned ( If I have truly followed my Guide, who
is quoted 1n the text, or in the Margin) I ought not to he
blamed, hecau/e I do not always pretend to have made thefe
Extraﬂs out of the very Authors 111} [elf

Nor is there an} reafon I, or the Licenfer, fhould he re-

fponjihle for all the Doﬂrines- here advanced by Mn J the

moﬂ d1ﬂant Cmm mam, W1! 1.1 mm
to teach a Daftrine‘ arid another thing to reprqrém 11 as an
Hi/torian. And this 1: nothing hut an Hiﬂory 11ququ

All that I canﬁnefee as poﬂihle to he ohjetted againﬂ' this
11, that then I ought to Cerfune what 13 ant/1.13m I am not a

perjonﬁt to undertake it And it is tn he prefu’ir’iéd, 115nm
are not to [eek their Faith 19191,, hut to judge (f what theyﬁnd
here, h} what 1119111121: [(11an el/ewher’e.

If I were to make an Ahﬂ‘raft of the Alchoran, and to tell
119 'Reader ﬁeryexai‘hly what was the thjeﬁ J m1; Chapter,

it were no) unreaﬁhahle lﬂmtld‘ he thought” 1131114va- “[111
did ”0‘ \C 01f 11!!

It 15 no part of ivy huflneﬁ to oppofe any thing, or to contrao '
1111‘}, or dijgrare an} Author, or Book, hut to jet forth as truly

in Iran, what arethe Contents, 01‘ Scopes Jall tht BooktI
mention. ~ .. 3 -
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To the Reader.

Tho/h of the Church ofRomc in Italy, and Spain, and of
tate‘ianrancc, will not [afar any $00k to appear, that is
in the leaf? contrary to their Religion; nay, a Learned man
tells us, they will not fuﬂhr Cardinal Bellarminfs Controver—
ﬁes, which were written injher Defence, to be jizld in Italy. _ I-
doubtﬂot' but they know-the reafen of this Nicemffs but the?!
the. Church Of England neverwas', nor ever need be [o [014- ,
Pﬂlws or exaé}. If things arenot Wicked and Seditioua, fuch
as tend to ‘theRuin of “,Chri/lianity, and the Imbroyling of the _
State, it is enoughﬁerer. 1 - 'She is, not afraid Her Children .
[bould be turn’d aﬁde 5)"?wa wind of ﬂoﬂrine that blows
upon them. And Experience law, there is" no great red/on
She [hould fear any mans Sop iﬂry.

But then there is no reajon neither, that a bare Imprima-
tut, jhould be taken for an approbation of any thing herein
contain’d, it being only a‘Permi/ﬂon, that it may he Trinted,
and the Reader whatever he is, is to dieem it no otherwi/e.

When I ﬁt]? began this Work, I did intend to have taken
January of this prefent Year, and then February of the laﬂ,
and [a to have rPrinted them interchangeably, but I cannot get
Materials over yet for a Mbnth in this Year, and therefore I
thought it was better to take the next Alonth of the [ormer
Mrﬁthan to keep the Reader too long in doubt, whet er the
Work should be continued or no. ﬂat [0 [iron as ever I can get
enough over Sea, I will begin this Year too. .

My greate/t care shall be to give good Accounts of Books
worth the Reading, a»: near as-I can judge, and therefore I
shall not be over-[crupu lous as to the exaft times when they were
Trinted, but go backward, or forward, as occa/ionferves. For
which I beg the Readers pardon.

All the Titles 0f Books that are Dutch, French, or Italian,
shall ﬁt the future be tranflated, as they are here, and / ome of

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the Latin Titles where they are diﬂz‘cult, the re]? I think need
not, debeingjuﬁciently Explain’d to all thoﬂ: that will read»
fuch a’Paper ((6 this is. '

I ﬁnd in the two Months I have done, [We good q’apers'
@uhlishtd concerning, Philofophy, q’hjﬁk', Hﬂory,‘ and the.
Mathematicks; mm Ofwbicb, hm “19th“ no notice takm
of them by our Thilojhphical Fan/aftiom, hat I haugmom,
for then. 19“! therefore I think the‘heﬂ may i: to Trim them
by themﬁlve: once in a quarter, if Iﬁnd the Remr’deﬁ,“
them. Becagtfe the Books, which is the priheipal- thing, ”51:1,.
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BIBLIOTHEQUE,

-' February, 168 6.

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Hugeni: ﬂratii Epz/Zolee Fol. ex Oﬂfcizm 3/4;-

wana umpribm Sbcietatir, 16 8 6.

N the former Month we have reprelénted to the Englifh, a {hart
Etraei: of the more remarkable things relating to Critick; and Fe [’1‘ 1447‘}.
Tbeology, in the Letters of Grotim: and we {hall now proceed m
with what concerns Law, Hz'ftor] and Politiclu. For altho he fel-
dom defigns an exat‘l diIEuIIion of any of theIE, yet there is in
his Letters many aﬂages which are of great ufe for the underﬂanding
many very abﬁru e ueﬂions of Law, Hiﬂor] and State-policy.
III. :I‘ o the 51'“: o thefe the famous ueﬁion concerning the Domi- La Biblio-

nion of the Sea may be referred, whic has been lo often debated in trhﬁqulg univer-
C C CVrlCI'.

thele parts of the World. In the beginning of this Century there was a 686
'Dilpute between the Engjzjh and the Hollanders, touching the Filhing 1 '
for Mala, on the Coaft Greenland. And there were Commiﬂioners
appointed on bochﬁdes, for the determining this DifFerence. And
Grotiu: was one of thofe which was nominated for the Province oF
Hoﬂand. And in his ﬁfty ﬁxth Letter, peg. I. he gives an Account ofT
the Conferences they had with the Englifb: he Iaith, they alledged,
that neither Greenland it fell, nor the Seas that walhed it, belonged
to the Englzjh; and thattherefore the Dun/2 could not iullly be hin-
tiered From failing to, or filhing on thole Seas where no body had any
PIZOPCFW. We proved this (faith he) by lhewing, that till the year 1 516.
no body had ever been in that Country: That the Hollander: were the
tirlt which-difcovered, and gave name to this Land, which in all the
late Geographers, Globes and Sea-Charts, is called by the Dutcb name
agotnzlanbt. To which (ﬁith he) the Engl/ﬂJ replyed, that Sir

Hegb Wil/cugblzie in the year 155;. dllZJOVCI‘Cd this Land. But we
- L (laith

70 The “raver/at Hijiorzcal
Februar , (faith he ) made it appear by his own Journal, that he {ailin from
vy-J F' wascaﬁupanthe Iﬂandthat ﬂillbearshisname,.wh§eh lies
" ve diﬁant from Greenland, andthat he andallhisCompany periihed
wit hunger and cold upon the {bores of La land, Where fome of the
Laplandm found, their Bodies in the Spring the next year, by whom
his Papers were preferved, and {em aﬁet- into -Wnd. To which,
faith he, the Engli/h replyed, there was a great lnmry done their Ma-
Rer, b endeavomin to deprive his .Subyeéts of a Trad; which.they - :3
had tillthen peaceab‘ly enioyed. It is not to be doubted, but that Gro- '
rim has related this Treaty with all the Advantages that were ‘pofiible, g
on the {ide of his Country-men, who never want pretences to juﬁiﬁe i
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their Incroachments on the Tradesof' their Neighbours ; and therefore
I deﬁre to be only taken here for ’a bare Relator of what Grotz’m and
my Author faith, asto this point.‘ . ,
In his Letter 15. Mg. 2. He difcourfeth anorher point much of the
fame nature with the former. Whether the Earl: if Holland could
yield any thing touchin the “Rights of Navigation ‘and‘Comm’er’ce ,4,
without the confer): of tgheit Staten and he maintains the-Negative, ill
becauf‘e the Earls of Holland were only Guardians ofthe'Ri hrs of ~33;
their People, without any power of alienating them, As (fait he )
may be eahly ihewn by the Laws of this Country. And upon this
man inﬁavegméhamnd was .a Free Stétzibgn when it gas
u tom :3 . M ' “I!“ .. ﬁrm . P "P
the Second, King 095,45” was - toilette otfitieed athisRir:
or when the True was made With Iim.’ And he gives fome Rea ons
For this which the Reader may ﬁnd in that Letter. .
Grotim had written in the year 16! . to the Embaflador of the State:
in France, mocha? thofe Controve ies which then troubled the Uni-
ted Provinces, an his Letter had been ihewn to Peter du [doubt], then
Miniﬂer of Cbaenton, who had made {ome Reﬂeétionson that Letter,
which were fent to Gratin: this ve him occaiion of writing to the
lime Embailador the lixty {econ Letter of the ﬁrﬂ Part, where he
treats of ﬂame of thele Controverﬁes, and with them, of the Power
of the Magiﬂrate in Ecclehaﬂical Affairs. It leems by this Letter,
pg. 27. that Du Mon/m thought that a Civil Magiﬂrate mutt be
knowing, or Learned, before he could have any Authority in Eccle-
liaﬂick Affairs. Gratin conﬁnes this Opinion , and makes it his bu- ”'
zinels to ihew that the Authorityof a Prince doth not depend on the
truth of his Sentiments in matters of Religion; and to that purpolé he
.7 . ‘m m cites the words of S. Ange/Yin, in his Letter to V incentiu: : lVben King:
£5,341”! are in an Error the] make Law: for Error again/l Truth. And in like mm.
P” W, En}. an urban tbq are in tbe rigbt val, tbt} decree for Trutb gain/2 Error.
re L (gt! ton- He producethallo the Example of the Emperor Aurelius, who, at the
".1 t-mmtrm requcli of the Chriﬂians, chaled Palm Samoﬁuenﬁ: from his See, who

fi'rlmr : . ml) .
m :c. Hth‘ Jim: ﬁrm/ten can: re Errorem pro tpﬂ: venue: deem:

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would

BIB L I o THE._Q1LE;T.¢1686. - 7;

would not ﬁtbmit to a Council. which hadnondeuin’d his Deanne." Fe _ my
Gr‘otiu: faith here alfo many other things concerning-the power of WN-
Princes for the regulating Conn-overlies which arife in Religion; but i” '
then he treats this Affair more exaé‘tly in his Book rle Imperio Summa-

rum Poteji‘atum circa Sacra.

In his three hundred and twenty ninth Letter, Part I'.'there is the
Relolution of a Qiei’tion which concerns the Canon Law, viz. Whe—
tber tho/e Religious Perﬁam, to whom the Pope hath given permeﬂion to
Preach and Confej}, can do it witbout the knowledge cg the Biﬂsops, and
without demondmg their Liters/e. 114. de S. eran under t e name of Petra:
Aurelio: maintain’d the Ne ative; and the 7efuit: pretended on the con-
trary, that thofe privilege religious perions had no need of the BilhOps
Licenfe. Mde: Carde: one of the Canons of Lineage, and one of Cro-
tlu: hisgreat Friends, hereupon demanded his Judgment. And he re-
plyed, that if Antiquity were to determine the Controverlie, the O-
pinion of M.de S. eru was without doubt true. And that even
where theie Conceﬂions were received, they on ht to be fo'interpre-
ted, as toallord the lea-lit prejudice that was poﬂibiie to the Comm, and
the received Cuﬂoms. But then he adds, that he cannot lee how
111 de S. Cyran, as well asthe jeluits, attributing to the Pape‘a power
without any bounds almoﬂ, can maintain notwithﬂanding thathe can-
not ‘do that which we fee the Bifhops do every day, via . to grant Li.
ten/e: to preach and take Confeﬂiom. He faith alfo, that whilelt they
give the Pope this power, they mull neceliarily fall into the lame in-
convenience the Romam did under their Emperors, who would have
. all [aw-Queﬂzions fent to themfelves. .

In his {ix hundred ninety third Letter, addreilEd to a Polilh Lord,
who had asked his Opinion concerning Racking ; he anfwers, that there
was nothing lefs to be relyed on, than a confeiﬁon which was cxtorted
by the force of torments, upon which he cites theie words From an
ancient Writer; Mentietur qui fem non potuert't, meotietur qut' ferre
potum't. Both be that can, and be that. cmot bur them, avid lje. I can
faith he) produce an inﬁnite number of Example: of M9150!!!” been been '
put to death upon tbdill grounded ﬁmdotiou, without can I. And there-
fore lam nor concern’d to ice, that there are many wi e men, who are
of o imon, that Chriliians ought not to make ule of tortures to extort .
con eﬂions, feeiug there is nothing of that nature to be found in the
Laws of Mo er. And that in England men live in as great {county as
any where e (e, the they never make any ul‘e- of the Rack; and that
Wh‘m R0!" pmferved her Liberty, her Citizens could net be put to
the torture. , .

Mlliam Gratin: had propoied {ome ueries to his BrOther, concern-
ing the Publick Law, or lug: - upon w ich our Author lhews‘ in his
fourth Letter, Part 2. T sdifFetenoe there is between the public]:
and the private Right, and Ilhews thattthey both equally take their

' L 2. Origin

72.

February.
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Hillary.

The Mariner/a! Hﬂdrical 1

Origin from the Laws of Nations and Nature, and from the Civil
Law. .After which he examines this Qlelﬁon, whether the Law of
Nature can fufferan change ? He divides this Law Linto divers Branch-
es, and {hews .in w at fenfe it may be changed. He treats alfo of
this Qaellion in the fixth Lener. It being, as it feems, objeé‘ted to
him, t at Civil Laws had Chmﬁfd the Law of Nature, when they de-
clared the Promifes an Infant all make Without the confent of his
Guardian, void; becaufe it is lawful in that cafe for the Minor to via.
late that Law of Nature, flint Progrn'fe: .ougbt to be performed. Grotim
hereupon lhews how the (3in Law in this agrees With the Law of Na-
ture, and unfolds fome other cafes of like Nature, as if a Minor
has borrowed any thing without the confentof his Guardian, and is
thereby become more wealthy, he is then obliged to pay his Creditor.
And hereupon Grotiu: adds, that tho by the Civil Law of the ancient
Roman: a Creditor could have no Aé’cion againlt a Minor; yet the Mi-
nor was obliged by the Law of Nature to pay him, it being one of her
inviolable Rules, 7'th none ﬂwuld be inricbed b] the impwnijhment of
another. And accordingly he cites many Laws to that purpofe.

In the twelfth Lerter he fpeaks at large of Covenant: in general, and
Promiﬁ: in particular. He makes it appear, that the Law of Nature
obligeth men to keep their words, upon which account many Philofo-
phers called Ji‘iﬂice by the name of Truth. And Simonidu faith, that Ju-
Rice 00an in‘fpeoking truth. andin repayin What; manhastaken. -
And Plato and nearby!” wene of opinion, (ﬁat there ought not to
be any power given to force men to kee their words, but that they
ought to have as much liberty to break t eir promife if they would,
45 they. had to be unthankful or 'ungencrous. But this Philofophy
( faith Gratin: ) willill fuit the temper of our times, in which there is
but a few men to be found which are vertuous upon choice, and with-
out the fear of a Law. After which he defcends to the queltion,
how the Civil Law can derogatc from the Law of Nature in the
matter of Covenants and Promiles? He explains in a few words how
the Roman Laws have taken from thole that were liibjeét to them, the
liberty of promiling fome things; infomuch, that in thefe Affairs
thole Laws have declared their Contraéts void : asalfo in fome Other
cab, when the promifes have not been made in the exact form the
laws prelcribe. And he lhews, that in all this the Roman Laws have
not Violated the Laws of Nature. And he has alfo feveral Other
things relating to Law, which may be omitted here.

IV. We pals now to our Hi/larical Extraas. Part of which relate to
Ancient, Civil and Eccleliaflical Hiliory: and part to the Hillory of
the times in which Gratin: lived. . And we lhall touch in a few words
the more excellent pallages relating to all thele. . ' .

He reprelents ( in Letter :99. p. 2.) the people of Atbem very in-
genuoully. They were, laith he, a paﬂionate, uniuﬂ: and unconltafit

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BI'BLIOTHEQHE, 1686. 7;

pe0ple, and yet at the fame time eafie to be turn’d, Merciful, Piriful, .
Glorious, Cowardly ﬁerce andtimerous. . He reprefents the Character February.
.ofthele in the perfon of a Man, as I would almoﬂ: have the People of
Hoﬂanol reprelented by the perlon of a Woman, with this only addition,
that ﬂieis {till a Mad, but weary of her Virginity. , . ‘
He obferves in his hundred twenty and {econd Letter, P. 1. that
the Anc1ent few: had a cul’tom , when they made ufe of Oaths in
thin S ofimall Import, not to Swear by God, but by their Fathers or
MO.t GFS, by the Earth, the Sun, the Stars, the Heavens, and the
Univerfe; as appears by the beginnin of Pbilo’s Book ole Legion: Spe-
cialibm» This Notion in theo inion o Grotim, is of great uie for the
Explaining what our Saviour iiiith of Oaths Mattb.v. where he com-
mands us not to {wear at all (3M: ) that is to lay, in any ofthofe ways
which the jaw: then uied. And he makes fome Other reflections on
that paﬂ‘agein the Scripture, but then (as he has enlar ed himlelf in his
Annotations, it is better to fend the Reader thither or further {atisfa-
drion, and to pals on to another oblérvation, which he makes in thele
Letters concerning thc‘yews. He faith, that ever fince they have
been driven From their Country, and dilperfed about the World a- ,
\ mongﬂ- the Nations, which perfectly deteﬂ and hate them, the are.
‘ extreaml expofed to Calumny, and that we ou ht not too light y to
believe t e hard things which we may meet wit concerning them;
and yet he will nor always be refponhble For their Innocence, leeing
they believe it is lawful to emit: the Chriliians, as it appears by the
Ilzalmnd, and fome Other Books. And the have not been contented
with ill words, but have proceeded to war e Actions, when they have
thought themfelves {trong enough to doit. You may ( Euth he) in
[I Dion’s Hiltory , iée what the Few: of Cyrenc have heretofore ll m Trajano
done, andin Sozomen, lib. vii. cap. I}. and in Socrates, lib. vii. cap. 17. '
what the few: Which lived between C/Jalcedon and Antioc/J did. And
tho " Nicepboru: palliath for an Anthor that cannot much be trulted, t Lib. xvii.
yet it is worth the while to ﬂee what he faith of the jaw: of Arabia, c. .6- C63,.
Samaria, and Antioch, becaiife it is Conﬁrm’d by the Telhmony oFL’b-XVm-C-M-
T Paula: Diaconm, and b that of Zonarw, in the Life of Pbocm‘. Polj- ’r L112. mm
olore Virgil aliures us al 0 in the Sixreenth Book of his Hiﬂory, that
they were Banilhed out of England, becaulc a bale Viilany they had
perpetrated, was dileoverecl ; Stump/Jim {Thomas Barbarian/f: in his For-
‘ talitium Fidei, and Michael Neandrr, in his Eroremizta Linguie .S'au‘c‘t‘ae,
Accule them of murdering Infants, and getting their blood For lome
unknown ufcs at Illunﬂer, Zurich, Bern, lVezj/éncb in 7in'ingiq, at U-
lltrtingue near Augrbourgb, and at Dieﬂenbof, Sic. Salt/lira: tells us the
lame thing of the 7am; ofTrmr, in his E1 hth Book, Email the tenth.
And Bonﬁnius, faith the lame thing of thegﬁ'w: ofTrina'vc in Hangar]:
Maviii. Dec. V- Not to lay any thing of the Magick tiles may be
made ofChildrens blood ; It being thought a Medium: for the Lepro-

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The Maria! .Htﬂorical

Pgbmayy, ﬁe, which [Everal Princes have been accufed of trying; the EM!

Phyﬁaans may have been'eafily prevaii’d upon by the hatred whiéh‘

m they have ﬁn- Chnfhans, to try the EXperiment, whenthey hare.

thought they might efcape the Puniihmentofthe Laws. However it

is apparent that this has been laid to their charge for feveral Ages , ‘

llaﬂ: pail, whether the Accuﬁtion betrue or falfe. Vide Letter 69;. ‘
. 1.

But we {hall entertain the Reader with another Ohfervation of his
concerning the yaw, which perhaps will feem better founded. The
moﬂ: exa& Cbronolager: fay ( as Grotim oblerves ) that Pjtéggorw lived
about the end of the Reign of ermr NW!!!» P "1’51"“, mid Hermip—
par, who were of the number of his Followers, lay that he was a 3‘22».
And that in many things he followedthc opinion of the jam. Now
( laith he) if we enquire what Sea of the 31m: was the model which
Pjtlmgorar took up, we ﬂiall ﬁnd none which we can fufpecﬁ, but
that of the Eﬂcm. There was never aux thing more like to another,
than the Alfomblies of theie 7m, an the common Auditories of
the P tbagoream, as Porpbjrw gamblicw, Hierocles, and fame others
deferige them. And in eEe& ofeplm faith, that the Pytbagman way
of living was the ﬂame With that of the Eﬂém. But then whereas
7oﬁpbm never mentions the Eﬂém, till he comes to {peak of an acci-
dent which happened under j‘armtbpn one of the Alma» Princes,
this was oooaﬁOn’d by his hep ' then to gasket” the Pbmfm,
andSaJJu-a; and thathedod'tnot 1 what 56am And.
therefore Gratin believes, that their Fraternities were Form‘d by thofc
of the Recabitex, and Naureem. Letter 5 57.. P. I . ,

There arofe about the Year 1630. a very warm dil ute between-
M. Jel’ Auk/pine Biihop ofOrleam, and 114. Rigaut, Who ad then new. '
I printed {ome pieces of imam, corrected by fomc Ancient Manu-

cnpts, touching the fenle of a paﬂaﬁe of that Author in his Book
De Exborratione Caﬂdam. M. Rigaut 0th believe, that Tortuﬂian faith
there, that Lay-men may Confecrate the Lords Supper, when they
arein places where there are no Prl€ﬂ5.. On the contrary, M. de l’
(lube/pine maintains, that there was norhmg concerning the Euclmriﬂ
in that paiTage, but that it concern’d onl 1 that which is now call’d bol]
Bread, becaufe the Council of Trent has eﬁn’d, thar it belongs to none
but the PrieﬁtoConﬁcrate the Euchariﬁ. The words of Tcrtul/ian are
theft: : Name (9' Dirt [athletes ﬁstula? Scriptlm) 6]} Regnum 7140711:
no: (9’ ﬁxation: Dec (9' Patrifuo fecit. ,Dxﬂrermiem inter Ordimm @-
Plebem Conﬂitui: Etch/fa ; (9' Honor per 07,12” conceﬂum Sanc'hﬁcam: :
Adm ubique Eccleﬁoﬂici 0713118 nor: .1} confrﬂm‘, é o FFE R s ¢~ n N.
G U! S, (9' Sacerdo: e: tibi fella. Std ubi tre: Eccltﬁa eff lice: Lai'ci,
éc. Grotiar here took M. Rigaut’s part, and Pubhlhed a fmall Dif-
fertation, D: AJWratime can: uh Pat/hm mm flint, which may be
found in his third Tome of Theology. And there is an Abridgment of

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'itin a Letter to Salmatiw, which is the'zéo. Letter, of the Firll: Part. Egg”);
Where Grams faith he. is of Emfm his Opinion, m. That in the m
hrﬁ times, the Faithful Confecrated Bread and Wine, and Commu— ' .
nicated together, tho often times there was no Prieﬂ in the company.
See Erafnmc his Letter to Catbbert Tonlial Lib. xvaEpiﬂz '

This Controverlie has had a new Examination by the Learned and
Pious Mr. Henry Doa’well, in a Book Intituled, V. Cl. Hugonar Grotii ele
Creme Adminiﬂ‘ratione ubi Pit/fare: non fant, Item an femper communicandum
P" SIMOI“ Diﬂérmtio- Londiﬁi, 1685.2}: 8. Wherein'all the little pre-
tenCCS 0f Gram, are conﬁdered and conFuted with great Learning
and Reafon. ‘

Gratin: feems to have had a great refpeé’t and reverence for‘Chriﬂian
Antiquity, as will afppearby all his Works, and by that alla cm the
hundred ninety ﬁr Latter of the Second Part, where e aith thus,
It M be tbeﬁ tbat are of VOCtius be} Opinion, wiﬂ believe that it :3 a kind
0f Sbcinianifm to make tbe incipal part of Religion to con/if} in the ob-
feruau'on qftbe Commandsqf eﬁe: Cbriﬂ. But I fee at the fame time that
the Ancient Cliff/ﬂaw, tbe Primitive Cbm'cbex, tbe Doélorx, and tbe Mar-
tyr: W0 of tbi! opinion, am: there We“ but little neeeﬂ‘aribv to be known;
. andtbat a: to the reﬁ Godjuagetb after by tbe obedience wbicb we have i-
even ban. The ﬂame thing appears allo in a Difcourfe he had with t e
Prince oFConde’, in the Year 1639. and of which he gives an account
to the Chancellor of Sweden, Oxcnﬂ'iem in the 1108.Letter, p. 1. He
tells him there, that the Prince had made him a viﬁt, and that they
hadodifcourﬂed many things, and that the Prince had much approyed
ofhis Sentiments. That in this prelent Age in order to the acqumng
thename of Catholick and Chriltian, he ought to believe the famed
Scriptures, interpreted not according to the Judgment of private Men,
which has caufed Seditions, Schifms, and oftentimes Wars; But accord-
ing to the Univerfal and perpetual confentof the ancient Churches,
which may be found in the Writings of many excellent men, and prin-
Cipally in the Creeds, and the A613 of truly General Councils, which
were held before the Schifm becween the Eaﬂern and the Weltern
Churches, and which the Emperors and the whole Church have ap-
vaed: and that allo we ought to be careful nm to calumniate any
man, to avoid being partial, to endeavour to rellore the Unity
of the Church, fuch as Chriﬂ a pointed it to be, and asthe Apoliles
founded it, and to elteem all tiiofe our Brethren, that 15.» Chrilhans
and Catholicks who agree in thele thin s, tho thole that Rule over.
Fhe ChurChCS, have feparated them From t e outward Communion 0t
1t. Heec omnia Prineep: é fibi dicebat probari, é/apientiﬂtmn qua: (agnof-
let Hominilnu, Tbe Prince ( faith he ) find be approved tbeﬁ' t/ng: : at al-
jb all tbe am] e men be knew were of the fame mind. . .

My Author here makes a long Extract out of his thrcchundrcd

twenty ninth Letter, Partthe Firlt, concerning Baptilin and Conﬁrma-
' tron,

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tion, and the ancient Ceremonies which were ufedin both, to which
he ﬁibiovns the three hundred fifty third Letter of the fame Part, which
is ashe ﬁith, much to the fame purpofea And he adds, that in his {ix-
ty fecond Lecter of the ﬁrft Part, he fpeaks very refpetStﬁilly of the
ancient Ceremonies; before he left ‘Hoﬂanda All which, ma in
nliy ludgment be well {pared here, to make room for, more ufb’ﬁil
t in s.

Ing his Anfwer to a Friend of his, ﬁom whom he had received Ler-
ters from Grand Cairo, and who had confulted him Concerning the
Schifms of the Ne oriam, and Eutjcbiam, he faith thus: The Schilin
of .AExandria, which you wrote to me about, began in the times of, Di-
ofcorm, many followers of which are lhll in Egypt, notwithﬂanding
the condemnation of it by the Council of Cbalcedon, which have alio
f read themfelves as far as wimp».- as the Ne/Zorian arty feded
t eml‘elves about Babylon, from whence they have f read) themfelves

allover Aﬁa.’ Idoubt nOt (faith he) but that many ard expreﬂions

efcaped from Nejlorim, who inclin’d too much to one ﬁde, as Eur]-
cbic: fell into the other extream. And Iarn willingly in this Controver-
lie of the Opinion that was embraced by the reatelt part of the anci-
ent Churches. And yet it feems to me that e Ancients were too apt
to calf out of the Church, thole who did not a ee with them in every
thin . See Letter 139.1%; And asGrotiu: Elieved that his Friend
was fhen in t/Etbiopia, he takes oeuﬁonto fpuk of man Ceremonies
of the e/I-Itbiopicn: thus, ti‘uarezg in his Books dc Logibru, gith, that tho .
they retain Circumcifion, yet if they do nor believe itto be abfolutely -
neceilary to Salvation, they may for all that be admitted asa part of
the Church. I believe (faith Grotiut) they ufe this mark n0t in imi-
tation of the am, or from the times of Solomon, as theythink, but .
that it is muc more Ancient, becaule Herodotus puts it among“ the
Culioms which were always received amongft the c/Etbiopiam. And
“I conceive that they abﬂain from (ome Meats rather for the prelerva-
tion of Health, than out of a Religious deﬁgn. And their Annual
Commemoration of Baptifm,isa Ceremony that may be endured. I:
being better to interpret Ceremonies favourably, when they are con-
ﬁrm d b the Praaice of fo many Ages, than to tear in pieces the ﬂare
of the C nrch at once, upon that account.

To (intermix fbme thing that is divertifiing with (0 many lérious
Subjects, 1 [ball fec down here what he remarks concerning the riIé of
Univnﬁtier, which ma ' be found in his Letter 2.85. Part 1. In thofe
times ( faith he) when t e Roman Empire ﬂourilhed molt, every Town
had its Profeflbrs, not only of Rbetorick. ( Non tamtum £110qu 69‘
Pbilojopbicmm Hareﬁum(nom1um ob id Nomm comburi bomim: caperant)
[El é' malaria; quoque.) And do: Pbiloﬁpbicl: Here/fer ( for m» were not
tbm come to 51m: one anotber for Ibis IVorJ) : out alﬁ: of Medickr. There
was then ( ﬁrth he ) nathing required to this, but a Decree of the De.

curtom,

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carions, or Common-Council. And this earsb the Pandefl: the Code
and many Greek and Latin Authors. app Y , 1W
4 In the times ofthe Controverﬁes about Grace, Gratin: wrote a {mall

Traéiat under this title Dijpntatio, an Pelagiana [int ea Dogmata uee nunc
ﬁch eo nomine tradacantar: which is in his third Tome of T eology.
He endeavours in that {hort Difcourfe to ihew, that 'thole Opinions
which were call’d Pela ia'n, were not fuch, but in his Letter 19. R2.
He oes further, and ews, that they are very far from the Doctrine
of t e Semi-pelagian}. The Divines (faith he ) of Marfeilles, which
were call’d Semi~pelagiam , preilEd the neceility of Grace, fo as
to deny that Grace dorh fore 0 (or prevent) the ﬁrl’t good moti-
ons of the Will, at leaﬂ: in ome Men. We need only For this to
conﬂilt the Council of Orange, which doth condemn the Semi-pelagi-
an Error, and we {hall there fee ( faith he) that this was all their Er-
ror, which the Council condemn’d (0, as not to refufe thofe that held
that Opinion, the Communion of the Church. But then ( faith he)
that the opinions of thole who hold that Predeﬁination is Founded on
preVifion; the Univerfality of Suﬁcient Grace; and the belief that
Grace may be loll, or refif’ted, are Simi-pelagian Doctrines; is a meer
Sahinian Dream. Rita Sabina guod Ibolnn‘t fomniant. And to the lime
purpofe there is a paﬂhge cited out ofVe’ncentin: in Liriren/z}, in. his Let-
ter 31. P. 1. upon which Gratin: there makes {ome reﬂections.

To come down to fome Hiflorical paiiages of his own time, in his
Letter 366. P. 2. he mentions a debate between the P0pe and the Ve-
netiam, which happen’d in 1636. upon the account of an Infeription
which the Po cauléd to be made at the bottom of a Picture, in the
place of anot er which had been defac’d by time. There was in the
Vatican a' Table where Pope Alexander III. and Frederick Barharoﬂa at
his feet, were repreiented with thefe words under it. Alexander
Papa III. Frederict' Imperatorn Iram é‘ impetum fugien: Ahdidit fe Vene-
tiac (9' d Senatu perhonortﬁeé ﬁtﬁ'eptnm, Ottone Imperatori: ﬁlio Nae/alt
pnelio a‘ Veneti: *w'élo, captoqne, Frederica: pace fitéla ﬁepplex adort, Fi-
dem (9' ohedientiam Polieitae. Ita Pont'y‘ici [ha Dignitae V enetee Reip. henc-
, ﬁcio reflz’mta eﬂ. Which I render thus. Pope Alexander 111. ﬂying the
anger and far] of Frederick the Emperor, conceal’d himfelf at Venice, and
heing h] the Senate «my Honourahl] Entertain’d, and Otho the Emperor:
Son, heing overcome, and taken Prifonerin aSea Fight 12] the Venetians,
Frederick the Emperor made Peace; and humbly Adored the Pope, promi/Ing
ﬁdelity and obedience. There the Papal Dignity wao Reﬂored h} the hencjz’.
Cid] Aﬁftance of the Common-Wealth of Venice. There expreﬂions
feeming to give too much Honour to that State, the Pope cauled the
Infcription to be thus made. Frederick 1. Emperor, after he had a long F redm'cm 1.

time P"f“"‘“d Pope Alexander III. after he had made condition: if Peace ”Wow"
Alexandrum

III. Pomiﬁccm, queen din inﬁenttu fuerat poﬂ Con/Mum; cum :0 Part} conditioner, 69’ 04mm.

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with him, and condemn? Schefm, humbly V cneratecl him (the Pope ) at
Venice. Gratin: ﬁends to his Brother a Latin Ep' 4m, wherein he con.
demns both the Aaion of Alexander III. and t tof Urban. ' which
Poem ends with thefe two Verfes,

Nolite in Fa/Im tituloﬂetaitt ahuti
Eﬂe juhet Regan: lihera «Ea Dem.

This conteft Oftl'le VMM: With the Pope, makes mmlnbgr a
report which was very hot in Paris in 1630. when It wnsfajd, that
Fm. Falgentio, a Divine of Venice, and the Succeifor of Freal’nulo, made
it his bulineﬁs to infpire into the Greek: which were Subjea to a,“
State, the Sentiments of the Proceﬂants, to the end he might Intoo.
duce the Reformation into Ital]. See Letter 2.38. P. a. It may be
this was nOthing but a meet groundlels flay, Gratin: being then too
far From the lace to inform himfelf throughly of the truth of it.

But then couldnot but be pefeé’cly inﬂruaed in what happened
in How, whill’t he was yet there. And he tells us Letter I 1. P. I.
That in a Conference which Arminiu: and Gamma had before the
Lords, the States of Holland, when Oldenherneml: {aid to the Lords,
that he thanked God that the Contrwerﬁc: were not concerning an} of the
fundamental Articles. Com replyed, that the Opinion: of Arminius has"
Colleguegvere afthu N'ann, that hemﬂmr atpe8 to «new with tho/e
Sentiment: before the Throne GuL. And faithGrm'm, the Diﬁaute
was only concerning Prede ination, an the greateﬂ: diﬁ’ei-ence be.
tween them was, that Canon: believed, that God had refolved to Cm.
ate the greateﬂ part of Mankind to Damn them, . Without any regard
to their Aaions; only to lhew the terror of his Juﬂice; Wham;
Aminiu: maintain’d that God did not damn Man, but with r ﬁt to
their forefeen unbelief, and impenitence; and he' adds a! 0, that
this latter was the opinion ofMelaa-bat. Vii. Ep.58. pJ. and ellewhere.

The Lords of the State of Holland, made an EdiB‘in 1614,. which
may yet be {Gen in Gratin: his Third Vol. of Theological Tram,
by which they commanded bath the Parties which werethen in the
Reformed Churches of the LowCatestrcjr, to bear each with other,
and to Handle their Controverlies with Moderation. And he faith,
jam: I. of 1"“. much commended thisat ﬁr“, and that divers
Bilhops approv of it, as a . rs by his twenty eighth and twenty
mnth Letters, Par. I. Bet t is’Pnnce chang’d his [udgment after-
wards, and difapprov’d this Condugﬁt as agpears by his third Letter,
P. I. to Antonia: 1c Dominic Archbilhop o Synlato. But that which
touched Gretna moﬁ near] , and thofe of his Party, was, that m di.
vets Provincial Synods, w ere they had no great kindnels ihewn
them, the Magilirates of the Towns permitted the Paiiors of this Par-
ty to Exerciﬁ: their ordinary Funalons,‘ but then thofe of the Other

ﬁde,

ﬁde did not think themfelves bound to allow the lame liberty to them. pdmmf
And fome refufed to Preach in the Churches, becaufe the other lide °
were Tolerated there, and AHEmbled apart. So that the Magillrates m
feared that thele feparate Alliamblies might caufe troublcin the State,
as well as they had done in the Church. Vz‘zle Letter, 64. P. 1. At
Raterdamthey attempted to end thefe Controverlies by a private Con-
ference, in which the Realons of the Paﬂors were heard and Examin’d,
who refufed to Preach in the Churches with thofe who were wt of
their Opinion. But this Conference had no good ﬂeet, as may be
feen 1n Letter 65. and 66. P. I. where he gives an Account of what
was laid on both fides. _

At lall: the Schifm was made as all the World knows, and this be:
{ides many other accidental thin s in the opinion of Gr'otim, ‘ ave no
fmall obltruéﬁon to the deﬁgn w ich many pious Perfons form d ﬂame
years after, for the uniting all the Protellants. The King ofSweden
himﬁelf took fome pains in this before his death, having to that pur~
pofe call’d divers Lutberan and Calrw'mhn Divines to Lei ﬁck. 'The
Authority of that great Kin , made thele Divines end this onference
with great {Weetnels on hot (ides, but his death which followed foon
after, put an end to all hopes of an Accommodation. And it was
alf'o about this time, that aDivine of England call’d Duty, who had de-
dicated himfelf to the work of this Reunion, Travail’d to no purpole,
through all the Protellant States, to perlwade them to a peace. And
that Archbilhop Laud, whom " Gratin: commends in many places, and ’t [41). 2. [5].,
many other-Biﬂaopsof England, deﬁred it with great earneﬂnels. And 405,406. 532.
Gratin: tells us, that an .Anfwer made by one Dr. Ho], Preacher to the 53°. .
Eleétor of Sax-079', which was too {harp upon the Calviniﬂt, much hin-
dered this deli n. Via’e Letter 44.4.. P. I.

The Prote ants being not able to unite with one anather, there

was no likelyhood thata reunion between them and the Roman Catlin-
licks could ﬁrccced. Yet there was much dilcourle of it in Frame.
And Cardinal Ricbelieu gave conﬁdent Allurances of it,iF we may believe
Grotiu: whole words in his 4; 1. Letter, P. 2.. are thele, Cardinali: quit:
drainer: negotittm in Gaﬂia Succeﬂumm tt Dubitare fe negat. This con-
ﬁdence of his, made many Learne men £111 to writing, and propole
to the World many different Ways and Proyects of a Reunion, but a-
monglt them all, there was none that made {a much noile as .Tbeo-
plts'le Bracbet de la Milletiere, and that which feem’d molt extraordinary
W35, 9hr before the taking of Rachel, this very Author had Attacked
the Kings party, and the Roman Catholicks, with an extraordinary
heat in a Book which he wrate in defence offomc AHEmbhcs which
wcfe held then at Rocbel. Gratin: {peaks of this in feveral places, but
particularly in Letter 37;. p.385. 543.545. P. 2.

There was allo in thofe times a common reportin Pam, which gave
fome hopes to there who could not penitirate to the b0ttom of Cardi-l

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- nal Richeliea’s policy, that there would be a great change made in the
French Church, which would promote the Reunion very much.‘ And
that was that the Cardinal had a deﬁgn to make himfélf Patriarch of
France, and f0 to Withdraw the French Church from the Obedience of
the Court of Rome, and Gratin: faith, the following Verfes quored by
him in his Lener 982. P. I . had a refpeét to that Pro'

Celui qui e’toit hiert avant Jan: 1e Regne
Aiant Chef roug’ , proche hierarchie,
Apre é” Cruel, (9' ﬁfera taut Craina’re
Sacceclera a‘ Sacrec Monarchie.

But he was fo far then from attempting this defeétion from Rome, that
he durﬂ lbarcc defend the Priviledges and Liberties of the Gallican
Church. The King who had given order for a Colleé’tion of the

‘Edias of the Kinizéf France, and the Decrees of the Parliaments,

which had till then 11 o pofed to the exceﬂive Power of the Court
of Rorne ; cauﬁn _ this Co eétion in 1639. fo loon as ever it was Prin-
ted to be fuppre s’d. Whereupon Grotiu: who till then had promiléd
himfelfvery much from the coura e of the French in this affair; could
pct conceal his Refentment, whic he exprels’d a little too warmly
in thefe Words, Ita fuh Regiha: ant Ignace: ant ignari: tantnm [cape ﬁt ~
Domini, quantum Sncceﬂ‘ore: ogre fareiant : W eﬁ pro regihn: fer;-
hi Lute/i; non licere, cunt Rome quotidie contra Rege: é’ eorarn jtcra lihri
ﬁant. Thu: ( faith he) tender Ignorant or Tinteroa: Prince:, there :3- often
more mifchiefdone thantheir Succeﬂor: can eaﬁl] repair: an! it it a ﬂrange
thing that no nun dare: write‘on the hehalf of Ki : at Paris, when there
come: out every day Book: at Rome, written again King: and their Rights
And he fpeaks of it with the fame liberty in isLetper tro5.P. I. to
Lewi: Camerariu: the Sweden Embaﬂidor in Hoﬂana’.

Thefe and fevcral other fuch events, made Gratin: doubt whether
ever the Roman Catholicks would give the Pratel’rants any {atisfaétion as
to thole Complaints which the latter fo frequently make of the abufes
which they believe to have crept into the Church of Rome. He lhews
fome ofthele his Doubts, Letter 8;. P. 2.. Where he faith, We have
much more realbn to defire, than to a Peace, ef cially after the
Cenfurc of Antonia: .3 Dominic, and e burning his ead Body. It 15
well known, that this Prelate thought it was calm to Reunite the two

Reli ions by correéting fome abules in theChurch of Rome, and Gro-
tilt! ‘haith of him, Letter, 37. P. 2. Marc. Antoniarde DOMiﬂit, doth
now [a] Mfr at Antwerp. He fan”!!! the Caffandnan Opinion in all,
hut ha too open Attach: again/l Tranﬁch/lantiation, and fhme other Da-
éirinet. I cannot [it] what he wiﬂpleadfor be changing ht: Religion, except
he wiﬂ pretend he ha: not changed at a . For he believer, that the Religi-
cn ofthe Protcﬂants, and that of the Roman Catholicb, i: the fame. rI'But

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BIBLIOTHEQUE, 1686. 81'

when the burnt his Body at Rome, after he was dead, they gave the February.
world a uﬂicient caution nor to unit too much to fuch fine fpun No- \I'W
tions, which may cheat and delude, but can never. allure any man. “ ‘
AnOther thing which made him defpair of ever, leemg a reunion of

the Religious, was the fettlingthe Councils at Rome: for the. prom-

gating their Faith, of which he complains 11]. his Lerter to the Lord-
Chancellor of Sweden, Dated the twenty ninth of 7am, 1639.

My Author defcends in the next place to relate Rivera] Stories of
leITer confequence, which may be found in theft: Letters; as firﬂ: of
the Eaverity of Amhroﬁa: Spinola, who being general at the Siege of
Brecht, of the Spaniards, forbade all Duels in his Army, upon pain 0f
death ; and would have executed his own Son For that fault, if he had
not ﬂed into France, and the French King had not reﬁlled to deliver
him, é'c. Lett. 83'. Pa. The great Miltakes of a Melittnger that was
fem to the Dutch Ambaﬂhdor at Pam, in 1625. How M da Moulin
was forced to leave France upon the {core of a Letter he had written
to King am: the Firﬁ of England, to exhort him to ﬁlccour his Son
in Law t e King of Bohemia, Letter 640. P. 2. OF a Soldier, that at
the Siege of L4ndﬂcj, being in the Trenches, was preferved by
dreaming there Was a Mine fpringing under him, which came to pals
fo {can as ever he was gone From the place. OF a French Man who in
a dream heard theﬂ: Greeh Words, "A7731: 9» 56¢:an 71“; 01“? dxlvx'u’
and he not underlianding what they ﬁgniﬁed, WrOte them in the
common Letter, and fhevved them to Salmaﬁu:, who told him they
ﬁgniﬁed, Be gone, doﬂ thou not [me]! out 1h]. approachin death. The
Man :therereupon left his Houfe, and the new: night after, it fell
down; Letter 40;. P. 2. Grotiu: his Prazdiétion concerning the prerent
King of France, when an infant; Letter 1079. P. I. and Lert.189.P.I.
All theﬁ: particulars are well worth the relating at large; butl am fen-
lible the Account of this Book will without that be too large. .

I lhall for the fame reafon omit what my Author exrraéts out of the
Letters to difprove leveral paliages in M. Auherj’: Memoire: pour Sew
a‘ 1’ Hiﬂot're de Hollande, wherein that Author has made a ihort Abridg:
ment of the Life of Grotim, in which he advanceth leveral matters of
Fact, which are not to be reconciled with thele Letters.

1 lhall then defcend to the fifth and lalt Head, which concerns the
Politich Paﬂages which are to be found in thele Letters. And in this.
“3le Peter Grotiu: his Son, would ulually lay, that the Letters his
Father had written, during his Embafly in France, were no lefs excel-
lent m Pth of Politicks, than his AnnOtations were, as to Theology;
but he being his Son, the judgment of this ought tobc‘let to them‘
that are lefs Concerned than be And this would be leS difficult, if
Gratin: had nor written the molt conliderable paﬂigcs of thole Letters
in Characters, and made ulc ol: ﬁctitious Names. M. Il/Idurier isof a

contrary judgment tovhisSon, and pretends, that Grmm, having with.
drawn

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1“ Sweden, “‘P " Grubﬂreet Mam in elegant Latin. ‘ '

N3; 90"" In truth it 5 no: to be wondered at, iF Gratim, who :was Forced to
' write into Sweden every Poi}, .Whethﬁl' he had any thing worth the.
writing or no, was fometimes (miﬁaken, 111d anther times Forced to
{end intelligence of things of no £23 moment; but. buhefe things
as they will, we {hall collea fome ' gs out of their: letters whiChrbe-
long to this Head. _ , . , . "
In Letter 364.. P. I. There IS a very nice and curious Difpure con-
cerning the Power of {ending Embaﬂadm; The Lord Chancellor of
Sweden, Oxesﬂieme, after the death of Gig/tam, havmg Pcceived a .
Commiﬂion to do whatever he found neoelliry for the good of that ‘

Kingdom, to ﬁend Emballhdors, é‘c. .had atcordingly fem Gratin: into
France. And there Grotiu: met with fome Obieétions againft his Com-
miﬂion, which he anﬁvers in this Letter by feveral Examples, and
particularly by thoﬁ of the Emballadors fent From Flanders by the
Arch-Dukes, by virtue of a power they had received, from Madrid to
that purpo‘e, which Embaﬂadom were received in Frame and England,
as the Emballftdors ol' the King of Spain. Aﬁer which Gratin: tells us
the manner of his reception, after he was acknowledged for the Em-
bafﬁdorof Swede». ~ . . - —.- , ~-
Sometimes he makes Reﬂeajons on the :nempersof. different Nat-'-
tions, and acquaint: us‘howthey are whom ,Asﬁx example,
Letter 37!. P. I. He iiith, the French at ﬁrﬂ are hard to be managed,
but by degrees they become more maablas when they perceive they
I et nOthing by acting With 3 Hi b Hand. This Nation, ﬁith our Au-
3:"; chat/(‘11.. ﬁsor, Letter 582.. P. I. boaﬂs 0 its Riches when It needs Allies; but
do! 71mm": When they are to pay'a Debt: Of (’0 part With any M01137? thCﬂ they are
maxim! pre- not alhamed to-confefs they are exrremely poor. Sohe {peaks in ano~
fmmt Dtvi- ther place of their manner oftreadng with the Court of Rome. That
M’- w” W’ when they cannor get what the defire, they Fall to threatmng. They
Z‘Zﬂmuff “’ might (faith Grotim) make u e of this way to abate the Popes power;
"Km. fiance}- but for the moﬂ part, if private Men’s buﬁnefs go well, no Body con-
mem. ' cerns themfelves For the State. it is thought the .Cardinal would
willingly fright the Po into a neceﬂity of making hinthts perpetual
Legete in Hence; for t Rm of our times doottentimes do that

out of Fear, which they would never do wrllmgly; Lett. 1197.. P. I.
The Reader may find alfo in there Letters the manner how the
Cardinal J; Ricbelz'euulcd to tranlaCt Affairs, and what ufe he made of
the famous P, 7ofepb. The Cardinal, {31th he,‘imploys him to open
Tranfaﬁions, 5nd put them into a condition of lucceedin tohisomtnd,
and then the Cardinal undertakes the management of t ~m htmfelf.
Faber Bm'ler and jafepb the Capuclu'n take buhncllés when they are'
green, and after they have ripened them, then they turn them over if;

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the Cardinal; Letter 3' 5. P; I. 'And’we ma feel an Exam le of this Fe ‘ i
Nature; Letter 371.9 the fame part; a in the three huiidred and hmdry
eighneth Lener there IS the ﬁery of a Conference which Gratin: had ‘
withthe Cardinal and Father yam/J. ThisCapuchin began the Trea-

ty With the Swea’i 2 Emballhdor, and bore the brunt. of the ﬁrﬂ: con.

tell. And afterwards the Cardinal interpofed as a kind of Arbitrator,

and propofed a middle way to reconcile them. I ﬁt, fare] the earth. Dixit deinde
1131, you and JOléph cannot agree, and I will arbitrate hetween you, and Cardz‘na/i: ei-

mahe you Friends. dere e inter
me 39’5-

phu‘m menu: can vem're velleﬁ' we szcilt'atorem mama inter m: Renew/emu.

After he had oblérved in ,a Letter to Leave Camerariut,that the Swede:
were lo mueliin debt, that they could no longer ﬁnd any body, that
would truﬁ them, and, that the” Nci hbotir ﬁnd Nations were as much
exhaulle’d, "he adds-Chis politiclc Re eétibn: Pro divider n'ohir erit earlem
apucl he e: paupertas: The pawn] of our Enemies will he our wealth;
Letter 4 8. P. I. ~But there is Tcarce any politick pa‘flh 6, more lively,
or more worthy of regard,than his Delcription ofg' the Court of
France 10 I6 8 5. The Cardinal I faith he )' _oaa'iu2helmeel _ with the ”alti-
Male of Jfain, altfchmgeth the harder: of them; «part a Milk, 4.1 ﬂit
Monk manageth them-wry careleﬂy. Bohtiller theyounger irfhr the Jiﬁmtch-
ing aﬂ thing: quickly, and his Father is all for delays. The Commiﬂloner:
(f the Exchequer, andthe Commander: of the Arm} helze've them/elm; called
to a golden Har‘veﬂ. Anal in the interim the Cardinal :3 charged with the
ﬁn: of a” the world, and a} when afralal ofha't life. ‘ , . . , ._ \

It happened in the year 1637. that Gratin: and the Earl 'of. Lace/hr,
the Embaﬂiador of England. havmg lent their Coaches to meet a Dutch
Embalﬁdor. The Swedes took the way'before the Engliﬂa, which oc-
calioned the drawing of Swords by the latter. The. Dulce De la Force
who was lent to meet the. Emballiador, run in u n the noiﬁe, and
thought he might ealily‘hwe determined. the Siﬂ’hrencegtbnt the
Swede: foon madeitag . at,~ that th came preparedfror thisaecrdent,
by lhewing himnhe r’ onsth’eyﬁadihr TR) doin . .. Theft: realims may
be feen in the ieVen huﬁdred.and‘twenty {Econ Letter, P. I.

Iforgot to obferve, that in the feeond Part which has, much Fewer
Lerrers relating to Politicks, than the hrfi Part. Grotim his Jndﬁmcnt
maybe found upon theﬁe two queliions. I. Whether a Prince 1;, ound
t9 lend thole fiiccors he has promiléd,when he {hall happen to 9004 “Wm
lnmfelf; Letter is. And wherein the United State: areDc'mwmmfé i?
Letter 7:09. This is. all that. I thought fit to remark in thcrg Lcttcrs
concerning POIiticks. And the Subieft of Grotlm his Embfllly may he
icon in the new‘ Hiﬂo of Sir/elicit; written by M. Puﬂemlorp, Lila.
VII. 5 4.. OF whichl lhal ina {hort time give an account, .. .. _

It may e11-61 ‘ bé jud ed, that info ' alt a Collcdtion 91316:!” there
arefome’ofél Torts. [It‘l have endeaVbured only to pom: outthtf

.- prmt‘ipa .

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Oratory.

The univeifol Hﬁorical . ,

principal. And to thefe I may add the Letters of Conjolotio of which

n
‘ thefe arethe principal, Letter I 3;. to M. Manner, upon the death of

his Wife letter IM— to G. Ila/I‘m, uponthe death or If s" 1;
Letter 44;. to M. nuance: and the 1 I 16th. to a Prince ofmmgthazﬁ;
of the Palatinate. _’ .

 

 

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Oeuvres Diver/e: do: P. RA- Diver: Work: of Fatba- R A PIN,

P I N, coneernant 1e: belle: Letters,
Torn. II. qni contient Jet Reﬂeﬂi-
on: far 1’ Eloquence, la Poetique,
1’ Hiﬁoirc es» la Pbilofopln'e, owe
le judgment qu’ on don Faire dc:
Auteur“ é' qm' 3’] font ﬂgnalex.

concerning Polite Learnin ’ Tom.
H. Whit!) contain: Keﬂe ion: upon
Eloquence , Pom], If: my and
Pbilofopb] , with the udgmem
tbat ﬂoould be made of tbe Autbor:
wbo bow exceﬂed in on] of tbeﬁ.

torick, that there IS noching more to be deﬁred in the Judg-
ment of our Author, fo he gives an Abridgment of thele
Works in his Preface. Ari otle has reduced Rbetorick into an Art, he
gee the Rules of it, and ws theHeads from which proof}. may be
ched. Cicero 15.90: altogether {o methodical; but then he is more
polite and moreelegant, and rather gives Examples-of Elegance, than
Rules of it. @im‘ilx‘m makes it his buﬁneﬁ to ihew how ‘a erfon
{hould be’educated, who is deﬁgned for an Omar; the Stu ies he
ought toapply himfelf to, and howhis Spirit ought to be Form’d.
Father Rapin makes Reﬂeaions upon the Eloquence of thofe times
in general,and fearcheth out the caufes of its decay. Tho Arzﬂ'otle, Cice.
r0, Quintana and ' : did all believe thatOratoty could not ﬂouriih
bat in Commonwealt ,' yet he is net of their opinion : For Eloquence
( faith he) may ﬂouriﬂr my wbere when it it tral] fucb, and wben it i:
encouraged. It was then the Honours which the Greek: beﬂowed upon
Oratory, and the hopes of obtaining the greateli places m the State,
Which were n given to Orators amongﬂ the Roman: which ena-
bled them to endure the toyls and troubles they met. With, in acqui-
ring this Art. We meet ( faith he) no longer With any of thofc
teat Wits which adorned Antiquity, becauie If a man really bad all
Sicil- Endowments (which yet. is very difﬁcultl'yet he would want
time to apply himfelf to Rudy this Art, and there IS n0t fufﬁdent care
taken to cultivate their parts; and when all is done, the Advantages
gain’d by it would n0t quit the pains. How i: it poﬁblefto inﬂrué?
another in who: a men 1': not in meted bimfelf? P.27. It is neceflary ‘a
man lhould be learnedin a the Sciencestin orderito his being elo-

quent,

’ q S Anﬂotle, Cicero and @intilian have written (0 well of’Rhe-

BIBLIOTHEQUE. 1686. s;

. 'quent, the mind can neitlier conceive, nor brin forth an thin till it a} wa- ,A .1 ‘
fared witb 4 ml} ﬂood of Learning. But bec‘guie For {he mill: art men 1%,
want matter, they think to content their Heaters with wor s. Ano- Neque conci-
thel‘ dCfeBC he, obferves is, that men do net apply themfelves enough pere, neque (-
to compo/z‘ng. And therefore for the molt part,- they fpeak either too dm’ Perm"
much, or too llttle, few men know how to kee the mean as they ::?:I:;Potejth
Ought. Men do n0t Rud their own Natures, t ey rather offer vio- ngj’; I
lencc to them, by forcing t emfelves upon what does no: befit them. ﬂumine mm.
This was it Which fpoil’d Demetrius the Pbalerian, who aﬁ'etﬁed more of m. Petr. Suit.
Art than his Genius would bear. Men neglect the Pronunciation,
which is one of the principal arts of Oratory, they are prefently di-
fcouraged when they meet wit any difﬁculty init; and yet Demo/Hae-
me: who was admired for this, had no natural inclination to it, and he
was only indebted to the violence he put upon himfelﬁ for the good
'fuccefs he had in it. Men do nor fuﬂiciently inform themfelves in the
Art of Reafoning, they do noc accuﬂom themfelves to range their
thoughts in good order, and this Art cannot be learn’d without Rea-
ding 4rzﬂotle’s Rbetorick ; and inﬂead of this, men abandon themﬂelves
to the impetuofity of their Imaginations, never ap roportioning their
'difcourfe to their matter; nor taking their meafures FEom the capacity of
their Heaters. It is alfo a Frequent miﬂake in thofé that havea geni-
us .to Eloquence, that they think it beneath them to Rudy Grammar,
and the Rules of the Tongue they fpeak. Thofe who can {peak well
themfelves, are the only men who can Judge well of Others; and the
faults of the Ex reiiion, arife only from the naturaldefeéts in the Ima-
gination. An yet this is not (aid, becaufe men {hould noc make it
‘ more their buﬁnefs to touch 'mens hearts by the forCe of the things they
difcourﬂe of, rather than to pleafe them with ﬁne words. Allgreat
Expreﬂiom which are de/fitute of great Senfe, being very like empty Ship,
tbq ﬂoat upon tbe waveganol never fail ﬂeadilj. ] f a man would be 1J3;
thetick it is ﬁt he ihould aint the Manners of Men vcryhvelil , not
deviate from the Rules 0 Chaﬁity and Virtue, and that he ihou d be a
perfbn ofa gdod Education.
As Eloquence is ofufe either to the Church, or to the State, the Au-
thor makes reﬂections on the Oratory of the Bar, and of the Pulpit.
In {peaking of the ﬁrﬂ, in his enquiry into the cauﬂes of its decay, he
deplores the misfortune of our Plea ets, who have net half that time to
{pare for it, which is neceiiary for the acquiring this Art, the Modern
' Law being of f0 val} an extent, that what pains Ioever they take,_ " Fara/Im-
they can never fee the end of it. And beﬁdes this, the Eloquence or demw.
the Bar has {ubjeéted it (elf too much to the fancies of Language, A:
firm year: fierce it [uﬁn’d it felftoo vainly tofoﬂow :5: long period: of tbe
Port Royal, wbicb only [need to perplex and dijlurb it : 01‘ elle it falls
into too great a negligence,‘*b0th as to the choice of cod words, and
the Order of the things that are to be {poker};I An thoie that haze
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.' The unmet/’41 Hﬁoncal.

the greatelt Reputation, are molt {ubieet to this fault: whereas young
men for the mall part fallinto a contrary mif’take,which is to fut-charge
their Headings with common places, to aﬁ‘eét Eloquence in all they
fpeak, and to be more conceited of aﬁne paﬂige in Seneca, than with _
a good reafon. . After which the Author blames thoR: who neglea

their Pronunciation. We may fay (faith he) to. thefe oold Declaimeis,
what Cicero {Bid to Caaidim, who fpoloe moving, things with an un.
concern’d Air. An {/14 ﬁ ‘00" eﬂmi ﬂ‘ 4‘ '5 ‘1‘“? W“? ? If the/é thing:
had heen true, wouldjou have [poke them that? He attnbutes the caufe of
this to the meannefs of the things which are for the molt part man-

. nag‘d at the Bar.

Father in entering upon his-reﬂeaions on the Eloquence of the
Pul it, wldfiders that lo very few Preachers fhould be famous, feein
all t ofe Morives this Eloquence imploys, are fo apt to move the pa -
ons of Men. And as it is but too true, that of all other profelﬁons ’

‘ this is it, wherein the pretenders to Eloquence, have the feldomeﬂ:

liicceeded, he enquires very carefully into the means of preventing theﬁe
inilcarriages. And the ﬁrfl: defe&s he oblerves, are the wants of Ho-
linefs, Meditation. and retirement. And thus whilﬁ men do not
enough polfels their minds With the belief that they fpeak on the behalf
of God, they do not fuﬂiciently terriﬁc the breakers. of his Laws.
There is need of a lively way of {peaking to touch the Hearts of the
People. For Reafon it not the thing which for the no]? part teacheth the ,
grqﬂirfpiritt, ad pat: then into m : hemfe the] firmware
ahle to apprehend it : hat rather the “motion, bed, ltd tone or noyfe, with
which a thing a {poker}. .

As to Theology, our Author does indeed advife an earnelt ﬂudy of

it, but yet he is of Opinion, that the Cmver/ation which Preacher: ham . l

with the SchooLrnen to rather prejudicial, than advantageow, and (he
faith) he re perfwaded that the reading of S. Thomas, how folltd and Ale.
thadieal fower ha Work: are, ha: nude more had than good Preachers; hea
eaufe he wrote in a liter] miferahle and wretched Age, who/e ta/i ( as to
Eloquence ) was intirel] corrupted. And we ought to judge f0 of all
the Latin Fathers, till S. Bernard. For( faith he ) all the world know:
to what extremities all good Sen/E and Learning was reduced by the inunda-
tiom ofthe baharm Nation's. Yet he excepts out of this number Minu-
cm Felix, Sal-via» Andria, 5. 7mm, and fame pillage: in the Works
of S Arnhrofe, and Swing-ﬂirt. As to the Greek Fathers, he eﬂeems
them much more Eloquent than the Latin Fathers. Altho the dzfpo/in.
errand method of their thcoarfet lit oftentimes not very regular. But yet .
let no man think that P. Rapin would difwade Preachers from the
reading of the Fathers. Thefe are the prof} natural Expander: of the
Gofpel, and the Chareh cad: thern h} the Sacred name of F A T HER S,
heeaa e their Work: are in forne fort the Patrinlon] and Inheritance which
the} m lft to the Faithful, a: to their true Children. . To the {hut};

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of Theology, ought to be added the Gofpel-Morals, for all other Mo. Fehmar' '
ralt can at heft he nothing hut Pare Philofoph], and an Heathen ohitj. AF. ]'
ter this our Author Falls into a mighty paﬂion againft tho e Preachers, m
who 12} their own Authority damn Women for wearing coloured Riham, or ﬁzr
having gone abroad on a Saint: day, and in the interim ﬁem to Authorize
Impz'et], h] the dreaab‘itl repreﬂmtatz'om they make of Virtue: [or h] theft
ways, the] make it tncomparahly more ﬁtghtfal and fafvage t an in truth
It 76'.
; Father Rapin doth not pretend in the mean time to ﬁnd fault with
true zeal, fuch as that of Phiﬂip ole Narm' the Capuohin was; who
preachin before Gregor] XV. concerning Non-refidence, frighted
thirty Bi ops f0 very much, who were then in the Popes Court, that
they ﬂed the next morning to their feveral Biihopricks: or that of Ed-
mund Auger Confelior of Henry the Third and a Jefuit, who conver-
ted 4.0000 Hagonot: in the Riﬂe of that Hereﬂe. But as to that Preach-
er, who divided his diicourfe into the jitﬂert'zg: in Pleafure : and the Plea-
fare: in fuﬂerz’age; he was no doubt none of the Jefuits, for amongft
them our Author had the ﬁttisfaétion of ﬁnding the two we]! pefeét
Preacher: that he 8'08? luau. . Father Lingende: and Chaﬁt'llon. '
' II. Father Rapier in his Preface to his reﬂeaions on Poetry, pom.
lories that hehas taken them from Ari/totle; becaufe Lopez. ele Vega
caving this path, and having ventured ona new Method of Poetry,
under the title del Arte Nue'vo, of the New Art; was f0 unfortunate,
that this Treatife was not thought worthy to be put in the Colleétion
of his Works.
. Our Author begins his general Reﬂe&ions on Poetry with an afﬁx-
rance, that to bea good Poet, reanires ,an extraordina Genius, a re-
gular Spirit, fertil,piercin , folli , and General, arig tand pure Un-
erﬂandmg, and aneat, C can, and pleafant Imagination,é'e. Thele
Endowments do all of them appear in Homer, whereas in our Poets,
there is {eldom any thin to be found beﬁdes a little Fat], or at belt
a good but unimproved Genius, fuch as that of Rama was. But
then, tho good Natural parts are the Soul ofPoetry, the alliﬂances of
Art are nevertheleis abfolutely neceﬂary. And therefore it is, that
our Author here treats of Invention, or of the .defign of a Poem, of
the Fable, or Story, of the Manners, of the Sentiments, of the exprell
[ion of the Figures, of the Numbers, Harmony, and Veriﬁcation,
P. 1 31.160. .
. He enters upon his particular Reﬂections by oonﬁdenng in the ﬁrﬁ school-Plano.
place an Heroic}: Poem, which he calls the no]! Aeeoacplt ’{1 Work the {OPhY-
Spirit of Mn empoimhb ale/2g»: for if the Spirit be too val , It milleads,
if too narrow,.mdﬁn “‘5 can he invented by it. And there-
fore for the avoiding the F ts he obferves in the~Spamﬂr and Italian
Poets, he propofeth Anﬂatle’s Rules. Henfgealts hrlt ol’ the Subject
of an Hetmck Poem, which are Kﬁgﬁ a Princes, of the Unity 1of
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Hillary.

: The uniwfal Hi/Zortcal ‘

the Aaion re‘preIEnted, of the Art of Varyin , or diverﬁfying, and of
Embelilhing the Subjea by 'Tanﬁtions, of e Narration, of the Fi-
aion, of the exaa: proportion of the Parts, and wherein the Marvel-
lous part of this Poem conﬁlts. Homer and Virgil are the only Models
of this, that can be propos’d. Tragedy, ferves to make a man modeﬂ
by re'prelenting to him the Falls of great Men. The two greateﬂ
Paflions which the Greek: endeavoured to exc1te by Tragedy, were
Terror, and 'compaffion towards unfortunate Innocence; as may be
km in Sopbocle: his Oedipm' which is the goﬂperfeét of the ancient
Models. The genius of'the French Trag dy is Pity, and Gallantry.
After thisour Author gives the Hiﬂory of this fort of Poetry, and fers
down the Excellencies and defects of the Ancient and Modern Trage.
dians. He laith Comedy is an Image of the common life of men, its
end is to lhew upon the Stage the faults of particular Men, for the cor-
reétion of the Publick, and to reform the People by the fear of being
publickl expos’d The Eclogue or Paftoral, is nathing but an Image
of the S epherds Life, and is the moﬂ conﬁderable of the leffer Poems
for this reafon, becaule Virgil and Tbeocritm have both of them handl’d
it. Its Charaaer is to be Plain, and its Expreflion Familiar. In which
particular thole Italian: which have written in this fort of Poetry are
much deceived. For they afeé? to be alwa]: too full of Spirit, and to ex-—_
pref: tbirtg: too ﬁne! ., .The principal end. of Satyr, is to inﬂruét the.
People, and to difé’redit Viee.‘ It was a fort 1f Satyr whicb S.’ Jerome
made rife to deer; the Error: 9f Vigilantins, and. Ruﬁnns; and 1126126
S. Bernar made ufe of to repref: tbe Infolertce of Abilard ; and the 1;; all
that Satyr a good for, and may be put in praffite, without breaking the
rule: of good Manners. The Romance call’d Dort Quint, which Micba-
el deCematte: Compofed to Ridicule the S am’ﬂ: Nobility, which was
become fond of Cbe'valr]; and the Catbo icon, wherein the. Author
has very pleafantly inﬂruéted the World, what the defigns of the Houié
oquife in relation to their pretended Zeal for Religion were, are Sa-
tjr: in Profe, and writtent'rt 'ver near :17: fame manner. In the next Pa-
ragraph our Anthor difcour eth of Elegiei, Odes, and Epigrarm; He
blames the {harp and ill taﬂe of Martial, who was in fome fort the
Author of thelatter. And he faith a Noble Venetian, whole name was
Andrea Niagara, was wont every year to (acriﬁce a Volume of Mar- '
ital: E igrnm to theGhoﬂtof Cate/lat, and asour Author is extreamly
exact c has n0t Forgot to mention the Madrigal, the Sonnet, the R95.
dal, nor even the Ballad. .And ends with Remarks on the Frencb Poetry.

11L Father Rapitt in his Preface to his Reﬂeaions on Hiﬂory tells us,
that he has taken them from Diary/fa: Haltcamﬂeeui, from France/2:0 Pa-
ma, Girolam Matti, Argo/fine Mafcardt', Paolo Bent, Lewis Cabrera, .
and atom. And he aﬂiires us the judgments he has made in this Book,
were the Sentiments of theﬁ: great Men, and not his own, for( ﬂiith
he ) Wbttta Adan attainable: alowdegree afWJdomJebeeamI {hie ofDe-

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BiIBLIOTHEQUE’, 1686. 89'

termining any thing in an Age wherein Men are po/feﬁ’d 1!] nothing ”4"” e February;
than a ﬁndneﬁ. for their own Opinions. . “- ‘
The firPc Rule which Ra in prefcnbes to the Hi/iorian, concerns his
Stile, he alliires us, that w en a man writes gentily, fen ably, purely
and plainly, he pleafeth his‘jReader in what Langua foever he
writes. For the matter of Hiltory, tho it, extends it elf over all
the A<9cions of Mankind ; yet Cicero requireth two things here,
that it {hould be imploy’d on Aé’tions that are great and worthy of the
publick Knowledge. The molt ellential Charaéter of an Hillorian, is
t9 {peak the Truth; the delign of a Romance is to pleafe, that of an
Htﬂ'or] is to teach. I had rather ( faith Thncidiale: ) plea/e h] [peaking the
Truth, than divert men h] telling them Fahler, hecanfe tho I jhould (lifpleaﬁ:
them h] the'trnth, yet I ma] olo them good ; whereae perhaps, Ijhoulrl hurt
them [of endeavouring to pleafe them. After this, our Author returns to
{peak of the Stile, and examines whether the Sublime which is Sale/F5,
or the brisk and ﬂourilhing Stile, {itch as that onu'ntm Coma: be the
better, but then he determines nothing here, becaule he found the
quel’non too difﬁcult. As to the Narrative, he faith, it ought to be
clear, to Follow theerder of time, «‘a’titl’tosbe ‘oonﬁqrmable to the many-
netof mens tifual A&i0ns, and to 1-be conneéted withhappy’andm
rious Tran‘ﬁtions, attended with attraé’ting circumﬂances,‘ which give
light to the Aét'ions, and dilcover the Motives which it men upon
them, together with the fecret fprings, or wheels,whichcontribute to
the greatelt Aé’tions, As'to' Figures, they are of great ufe in Oratory,
whe‘nthereisa def ntO'deeeive-;- but they are of no-ufe inﬂiﬂory,
beca'ulE- they-Moan thejCa-ntlor; an’dfshfurt: the: Ingenuity 'Oflt. And
when too marijFigur‘es-‘aré implored here, _ t'h’" ‘make Hi/ior} look like Her-
cules a’refs’d'iﬁ hh‘Mﬂriﬂe’: czar/as; :Aintl‘grthe fame realon all Palli-
ons ou ht to be ma-nag’d witha might care, _ And as there is nothing
lo ch11» ilh as an Over ﬂorid-Deleription: and the greatelt part of the
young Hiltorians, who have fallen into'this fault unawares, have made
it very odious ; 97mm can never be too carefulof his Conduétin this
particular; As to Harangu'es, tho they 'arelluﬂa‘in’d by the Authority
of Herodotus, Thucirlirlet, Xenophon, and Saluﬂ, yet dur‘"Auth0lj .iSOECio
cero’s Opinion, who lpealting of Thuciolide: his fpeeches, Wilely ﬁnd,
I grant they are very Beautiful, hut I could not make jo man] if I ”would ;
and I would not do it- if I could. Father Rapinis mm for Portraitt. We
aneufe "W191?!” (faith he) with defoription: of the p‘erfonit and '{hapes of
mm: Wave thinkﬁt, when yet it a. no part of our hnﬁneﬂ : fin-.995“ '4' “ ‘0
as whether Hanibal’: teeth were white, ifhre Hi/torian h'hut able to
make at hat know the Grandure of hit Spirit. . ' _ '
The very reflee'tions upon Hilton-y, ought to be manag’d with a migho
ty care ; It a a piece of wtfdom in an Author not to he too fond of on own
Senfe, nor to Philofophize indiferentl upon every thing that falls. in'hre we .
IF any be to be made, he would have-them exprels’dxin elem-woeb ,
- 0t

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Philofuplly.

;_ 2 T1» never/'41; fit/lance ;,
but great and Noble. Inch as thatofLiw’s was, who having told the
Rory 0? the Pumlhment 0F Appim, who had taken away Vitgim'a, fud-
de‘nly fell mto theft: thoughts, Dee: eﬂ}, nan mglzgere bumana, Superbiae
é” MGM, ”/1. f era, non law PM mantra. ﬂare are Goth, who do
got ”951ch the Aaron; of 111m : tho the Ptmtﬂmtetttt of Pride and Cruelt]
‘0'"! ﬂow, 7:: the ,amlig‘bt. After this our Author treats of Di ref-
f'm, and lhcws Examples taken out Of atlmeat Writers, that ﬁmey
ought to have a_' near Alliance With the rmcrpel Sublcﬁ, and the man
ner of brin 'ng them rate the Body of t eStory. Aﬁer Rune remarks
Upon the. oquence, the Sentiments, the GORIUS, and the Morals of
an Hiﬂorian, he concludes with a judgment of the molt celebrated,
bath Aneient and Modern Hiltorians. . .
1V. Hrs Refle£tions upon Pbilofopb] eontain principally the Hxﬁopy
of this Science. The Egyptian: in his opmion were the ﬁrﬁ Phrlofophers
1.11 the Werld. And they gave their Pbilo/bpb] ﬁt nay/terror“ a Jrgﬂ’, that
359 made it pal} in :6: opinion of their people, for a part (f their Religt'on.
But then asRapt'tt believes, that there is very little of their true Doarme
known, .and that it ts not much different from that of Pjtbagorm‘, he
aPpltes hrmfelf to the exaét examination oEthe Genius and Method of
that Phrlofophy.’ He (lath the lime in relation to that ofSocrzttet, P14.
1;, aid gtﬂotkg where he 'ves‘ £15 2mg the‘lbatter, , It} thefe
0' P '40“. MM any.» ; :r.r ..e. _ at“? man
«rhinitis-5 051nm» 10mm ' with?“ MW 14.110
’4‘“ 5‘ ﬂ!“ {M9 4 Uk’aféén H3 “gap?“ mrfwligﬁid’:
tbatm but Sppbi err, ad Rbetart'ci { Mfgfafoid m jamfpokm ill
gr Anﬁotle;- ﬁnch our Authors.- 19qu 'wbaﬁmra ﬁlm?» we {aﬁ
Ayah waﬂ ‘ , tbg M be fwd ca qitbewﬂ¢IWU met, this
Chm-4th; P ofophy had without doubt been happy . menhad taken
tl‘us rare Soul ﬁx that! Guide; but [on degenerated ﬁam tbe Nobility.
of (Mr Birth, mtﬁu’ing initbt [ricotta Ago, at!) tbt'ng that came m the
Gm of tbefc great m Aﬁmthig he prefents—us with the falfe. Vir-
tues ofthe Schoolof Zeno», and then-we Vices of the E icunam, &C.
With the numcrhow Philolophy was brought in amon the Roman,
M an account of the Philofophy of the Eclefticb, w ich had fcarce
any followers but Cluiﬂians; and he tells us, that Potam of Alexan-
Jria, ﬁmn’dthisSoﬁat Rm, under the Reign ofAugtg/Eta. And that
the lever: Profoﬁonioon degenerated into a bale complunce Wlth the
Tyranny of Tm and his Sucocﬂws. That it bcgm to revive un-
& (be Reigns ofdln’a, We, Manta Aweliw, and Commodw.
And begun to be entemin’dby the Chnl’nans, who had at ﬁrﬂno-
(lung but horror and deteﬂauon for It. But then the Barbarous Na-
tions, which agreed the Rm Emmre, brought m Barbarifm
wuh them, and all Leammg. The Arabian: becoming after
ths d: Matters of World. recitablilhed Ari/fall’s Philolo by:
And :6: Swat-m who form?! Mew/217m by :12: reading If ﬁrabiclt
. at on,

BIBLIOTHEQu E,-i686. .' 9.

Harbors, took thatﬁthtil and N147. 8 ﬁt. The Author oblérves three - » ‘
great Periods iii: this Philolbphg.’ 'Il‘hiz firl‘t lafted almoll: tWo hundred February
years,» and was founded by Peter Lombard, who ohfeureel the Purity (3"
Religion, h} a 'Uot/i‘ numher of needle/i gag/Ham, which eonﬁzma'ea' it: and
this Period ended in Alhm the Great. ' This Alhert was thebeginner
of thefecond Scholaﬂick Period, which lalied to Durandof Porcian,
who gave birth to the third Period. And thenit was that the Narnia
nals and Realiﬁs appeared under their two great Leaders Command
Scott .T he Animolities of theﬁ: two See'ts brought things to thole Ex-
tFGmltless as all Antiquity affords no Example of any thing like it-
for they oftentimes determined their Difputes by dint of SWOFd- A '
ter this he {peaks of Raimana’ Luﬂim, Cardenas and Partial/at; and of
the particular Genius of every Nation in Europe, with r pea to Phi-
lolo by; and of the latter Philofophe‘rs that have made the greatelt
noi e in the World in latter times, Galilee“! in-Italy ;- Bacon, Hohh: and
Boile in England; Gaﬂéna’m and De: Carter in France, and Van .Helmont
in Flandert. ‘ The Author puts an end to thefe general Reﬂeétions by
a cornparifon of the ancient and modern Philofo by, and with advices
how to manage the ﬂudy of this Science, and oblervations on the faults
men'commit ”in it. . To which put-poll: he has an. exteilent Remark;
which he attributes to Ariffotle, which is- this ;- That new two rational
and wife men are of contrary opinions; forthe‘moﬂ part a"! the di érence
lie: in their various Expreﬂiom, and all the difpute it about the name, and
not about the thing.

The particular Reﬂeétions fet before us the Hiﬁoryof Lo ieh, Mo- Logic};
ralit], Ploy/{ck and Metaphyﬁchr; the ufe that ought to e ma e of theft:
Sciences; and of the Authors that-have cultivated them. He tells us,
that Zeno» the Elean was the inventer of Logich; that Ari/fork, that
Soul that fa abounded with reafon and under/handing, gave it its lal’t per-
feétion. Then he gives us an account of the methods of Reafoning, ta-
ken up by the Epicureans, Stoicks, by Laurentim Valle, Karma, Ludo-
view View, Van Helmont and De: Carter. -' Socrates wasthe Man who Morality.
ﬁrﬂ: laid down the Principles of Morality», a feience brought'from
Egypt by Pythagoras; and Plato brought it to perfeéhon. But Diogenes
Was a SOphif’ter in Morality, there was nothing but ride at the bottom
of his honeﬂy, and oftentation in his modefty. 'T e preaching of the
Golpel, enforced by the Lives of the Primitive Chrillians, broke all
the meafures of the Pagan Morality, and men entertained an equal
contemptfor the Stoichr, Cynick: and Epicuream.‘ He tells us, he‘cannot Natural phi...
conceive how men durf’t ever attempt to fet down the Prim)?!“ Of'Naf lofophy.
tural Philofophy or Phyﬁcks, there being nathing in hisopmion that 15
more obfcure and uncertain, and endeavours to provexby the divetﬁty
of Opinions which the reatelt men have entertained here. Speaking of
the Modern Phyﬁcks, he faith De: cam would at Hrl’t h‘ave'admitted

the notionof a Vacuum; but the Father Merfem having written to this.
l’hilolophcr,

9. 1
Peerage)I
Metaphyﬁckx.

17:; umfdﬂuﬁm , ._; a

Philofo her, ‘ thatthis nation was nor in falhion at Pare}, he inven
the S tile War. As to Meta bjﬁeki', he faith Ariﬁotlg was the t1:
venter of them. He makes an bridgment of De: Cane: his Medita-
tions, and concludes, 72m: we tougbt not to approve the Idea andDeﬂgn of
ﬁrm fpeculative Men, who mix t_oo mid/3 Metdpr/ick: with their Religion
wbieb ﬂmeld be treated with greater ﬁmpliCit]; and in a Ieﬁ abﬂraéied man:
ner (ban an] otber Subjeéf. ’ k _ ; i , ' 7

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'III.

'Hi/ioire du Monde par M. wareau, 'YZe Hi/ior] tftbe Worldb] M Cbe-
(9’6. A Paris cbez. la V eu've *vreaa.
Edme Martin, (9' year: Boudot,
I 686. in Qearto, 2 V 0/.

T will ap r by the reading of the ﬁrﬁ pages of this Work,
that the uthor’s principal deﬁgn was to {cc down in certain e-
riods of time, and. under certain Heads, the mo“: conﬁdera .le
Events , which either the ancient or modern Stories have re-
corded. He begins ( lib.1.c.i.) with the Creation of the World;

and after he has made ﬁme Remarks on the Lives of the Patriarch»
the Deluge, Noah and his Children, and the Diviﬁon of the Earth;
he declares), that he follows that Chronology which Baekoleer has drawn
out of'the Sacred Scriptures, which makes the world three thouﬁnd nine
hundred and leven ears old at theBirth ofjel‘us Chnﬂ. After this
he makes a table Orza the different COmputations of the Cbronolo m,
and there lhews, that there is none of them that reckons lefs t an
three thou and and (even hundred years; nor more than feven thou-
Iand before the Birth of Cbre‘ﬂ‘. ~

As the Aﬁn’an Em ’ iscommonl thou ht to have been the ﬁrli
that arofe inthe worl ; M. Cbmme peaks of it aftetthe Flood
(“P- 1-) and makes many "critick and hiﬂorical Reﬂections upon
Nimrod, Bela), Nim'u, Semiramis, Nmiae and Sardanapulu: : upon the
Chronology which Eaﬁbiu: has given us of the Kin of Aﬂzrta; upon
the Kin of B In, the names and can of w ole Reigns he {cts
down two ' erent ways that Oinemtingw, and that of_Cbri/}o.
pber Adam Ram, and ends thisChaptet b reportmg the opinion of
George Haw/art, 9'30 54; endea‘vqujed to overt ow a” tbe ancient Cbronoo

, and to ﬂxv itbat tbg Eqpire of Ali ria wee founded b] Phul-
Be och, tube 1': tbe,Greelt Belus, a: tbeir mus re Tiglath.Phul.Aﬂhr
in :6: Sacred Scripture:, and tbat tbe Bel'fhazzar in Daniel :2 put or Beles
Altar the Alryrian Belalis, wbo badtbe Gwerment of Syria an Ali-yria,
in the tine: 9f Cyrus tbe Tm er, or diet allude b‘fo": f we may rely
up. Xenopim: sea at. Ten, c quelus, ”like”; 'aabyion, m

4 i ruined

BIBLIOTHEQIIEJ686. 9;

ruined h] this Cyrus: that this, and not the ﬁr]! Cyrus it he that j: mete- Fehruaty.
’tt'oned h] Daniel the Prophet. He expound: the Fourth King, which i: '
menttoned .Daniel XI. 2. of Darius Codomanus, who was the Fourth

after Darius Nothus, and which made a War upon the Kingdom of Javan, ‘

or againﬁ Alexander the Fir/t Kin of Greece.

_ The third Chapter contains C ronologick Remarks on the Sacred
Story from the Creation of the World to the Babylonian Captivity. He .
faith, in relation to the Book offfadqer, that Fome fay Ezechiat,
Efdrao, or Pinchae were the Authors of it, and that .Others have be-
lieved, that it is a Colleé’cion of what every Judge .1“ particular had
written concerning his own life, but he is of opinion, that it is the
bell: way n0t to determine any thing in this oblbure bufinefs. As he
paliéth, he makes fome Other Remarks on the Manna, the Nazaretr,
the Unﬁion of Kings, the falle Gods which Solomon ﬂawed in his old
age, and upon the Fifh called T hanni, which fwallowed up 7onah.

The fourth Chapter treats of the Kings of the Moder. And in the firft
- place, as his cuﬁom is, he makes a lhort defcription of the greater Me-
dia, Chaldea,‘ Mefbpotamia, Aﬂjria, Armenia and Per/fa. To this he
adds a lhort Account of the Hiltory of their Kings. He learcheth
out their Etymologies, relates the different 0 inions of the Geogra-
phers Hiltorians and Chronologers, and con utes the Fables in Hero~
dotm, u on the Birth and Education of Cyrus. _

The h Chapter fpeaks in the fame manner of the Kings of Petfia.
He pretends here to prove from a pallage in Eﬁhjles, that Darius, the
Son of Hﬂlaﬁtet, did nor immediately fucceed Mergi: the Mage; but
that Martin, Maraphte, and Artapherne:, who were of the number of
the Confpirators, reigned before him. _

The ﬁxth Chapter contains Chronolo ick Obfervations on the Hi-
ﬂow of Greece from the foundationof t e Kingdom of xii-got, anno
Mandi, 2.113, to theyear 3628, in which Alexander the Great went
into Aﬁa.

The ﬁrﬁ Chapter of the Second Book ihews the foundation of the
Greek Monarchy, and contains the Hillary of the Life and Conqueﬂs ,
OF Alexander. He obferves, that the Provinces he fubdued were at hrlt
divided into ten, and after his death into four Kingdoms, viz. Mace-
donia, Syria, Aﬂa the left, and Egypt: our Author t erelore proceeds,
and treats in the fecorid Chapter, of Macedonia, and gives us the Hi-
ﬂory’ of their Kings, from Caramu the Twelfth, of the Race of the
,Heraelida, to Perfetu, who was ihhdued by Paula: «ﬂint/tut” Who re-
duced Macedonia into the form of a Roman Province. In the third
Chapter is the Story of the Kings of Syrid, from Seleucm-to Tjgmnet.
In the fourth there is the Hillary of the ancient Kings of Egypt. And
ﬁrit he lets down aVCh‘ronologick Table made by john frencciut, on
which the Author makes many Reﬂeétions, taken out of Manetho the

Egyptian for the molt part. It begnsowith the Ocean, for charm the

. “£11116

94 ' - The ﬂutter/fol Hﬂmcal

Fehxuax name the Fables have given to Maﬁa the Fit-ft Ki of 'E2 t he-

mng caué he inhabited that part of E pt which lies on ﬁe thorgpo’f the
Nilg in the year of the World 1 0;. And it ends with Noét‘anehm,
who was driven out of his Country, by Artaxmte: Ochm, in the year of
the World 361?. In the ﬁfth Chapter is the Hither-y of the Ki of
15.21% From Ptolomw the Son of u: to. Cleopatra. And theni‘iith
Chapter contains Chronologiek férvations on the Hjﬁory of
Greece From Ariﬂ'otle and Demo/then“, From about .the Year ofthe
World 3650, to the Philofopher Canada, who died in the Year of ,.
the World 84;. . ' .

The thir Book treats of the Monarchy of the Kornam, tothe Reign
of Ner'va. Intheﬁrﬂ: Chapter he gives a defEription of the ancient
Latium, the diﬂerent Opinions concerning the. Foundation of Rome,
the Succeﬂion of the Latin Kings from Jam: in the year of the World
279 I, to Amalia; Sjl’UiuJ, whoafcended that Throne in the year 3178?,
and reigned forty and two years, as is pretended, for the Author has
no: much Faith for this Chronology. Romulus built Rome, and be-
gan his Rei n in the year 32.01 ; and he, together with the fix Kings,
who ﬁt ed him, fwayed that Scepter till the year 34.64. when
Tarquinim the Proud was hanilhed. The fecond Chapter propofeth all
the moi} remarkable things which happened under the Confalr, from
Lucite: fftmim Bram: and Collatinw, who were made Confabin 3,464, ‘0
the Con/um of Cicero, and the defeat of attain innhe year 3910-,
Thethmd Chapter contains Chronological Remarks m;&e,Rm
Story, ﬁ'om Romulus to. the ’ of We: and. cam in the
year 3928. The twelve Following C pters are an Abridgment of
the Lives of the twelve ﬁrlt Emperors. The fixoeenth comprehends
Chronological Remarks upon Eccleﬁafticlt and Prophane Hiﬁory.
There may be féen the times of the greatelt Adions which happened
under the Reigns of thefe Emperors, and the Births and Deathsof
many great Men. Our Author ﬁxeth the Birth of the Saviour of the
World in the year 3970. A: for the da] and month (he faith) who-
ever would well oh/Erve the opinion: of fame Chronologert, who are not agreeJ
that the common account of the twent] ﬁfth of December 2': not Wallihle,
ma] perhap: confeﬁ, that :1»: h/eﬂed Day, which cmtrihuted ﬁt much to
our Salvation, 3': a: much am a: the terrible :14] of yudgment,

a . 4.81.

p gI‘he fourth Book contains in ﬁfteen Chapters all the Emperorsboth
of the Ea“ and We“, from Nerva to Cinematic Paleol .m, (11613“;
Emperor of Coaﬂmople, and ev . Chapter is followed y Chrono-
logical Ohfetvations, which expre the exact times of the greateﬁ-
Aétions, whether in Church or State throughout the world. Therein
you me] alfo fee the Pride and the Earharit] of the Pagan Emperors, who
thought the] might gain a: much Glory from the Murder: the] contained
upon their Chet/ﬂan thjeﬁe, a: ﬂora their Vittoria, ohm} againﬁ ’63

. . Germans,

BIBLlo-THE on E. 1686.

Germans, Perﬁa-ns and Scythians, and their may be made appear by fame
Infeription: belonging to the time: of Diocletian, and by a Medal of Maxi-
rmans, where he a reprefented, treadin down a terrible Hydra in the ha-
bit of Hercules. He ohferves alfo, t rat in the .year of our Lord, 79 i,
there was a,Sjnod at Aix la Chapelle, or Aquifgrane, from whence De-
putie: were ﬁnt to Pope Leo, to pray him to permit them to fin puhljelely
'in the Church the Creed with thi: addition, He proceeds from t e Father

and the Son. .Which Leo, who ﬂood for the ancient Form, would not.

41107”: adding, That we are not bound to admit into the Liturgie: of the
Church whatfoerver i: true. This is the more remarkable, becauje thi: Ad-
dition to the Creed, which we: received by the Latin Cnurch in after-tiara,
hat made the breach between the Ea/lern and Wejlern Church irreconcileable;
the ﬁrmer perﬁ ing to thi: day ( at they have good reafon)‘ that no Additi~
on how true oeeterit be, ought to be made to the Creed, without the con-
fent of a General Council, both of the iEaﬂzern and WelternChurch. And
the Latins at reﬁtlutel] maintaining that Addition, becaufe it a conformable
to .the holy Scripture:, and the Tradition: of the Church. But then when
the] had oncehrohe the Churche: Rules, by the adding this Article, we may
conﬁde?“ what ﬁllogwd, and that wid in a great degree ju/ly‘ie the Procedure
Qf the Greeks.

The ﬁcond Volume of ' this Work, (which conﬁﬂs in Four Books,
and begins with the ﬁfth Book, which treats oftht Arabian: and T aria,
the Cali e: and Ottoman Emperors; wherein he {hevvs their Origin and
Progrels, and how they made themfelves Mallets of the greateﬁ part
of the old World. In the Remarks on the ; reat thin s Wthh hap-
peneddnn'n their Reigns, he takes nocice oft Craifa es, and {peaks
of the incredible numbers-that took upon them the Crols. Bur then
he adds, out of Mlliam of 7%, That they did not all of them do thi: with
riﬂed? to the Glory of God, that fame if them went to accom an] their
Friend:, or to accommodate their Devotion with their tempera Interejln
other:, that the] might not be thought Coward:, or to avoid paying their
.Dehm In {peaking of Bertram or Ratram a Monk of the Benedietine
Order, and afterwards ,AbbatrdeiOrhai‘g who lived near-the end of the
ninth Century, heﬁith, If he had .lived in our ddjt, and had written in
the ante-manner, ashe did then in hi: Explication of the Sacrament of the
Eu: riﬂ, it i: probable, that of a Monk he had never been made an Ab-
hat. _,1 the year,119[._April 15. Hemythe Fourth Emperor of Ger-
"“1: ingatt the Feet of Pepe Celeﬂin, 1n order to his bei Crown’d,
.That wPrope~~ fetthe Crown upon hi: Head, and then kicked it 2%agatn with
hi: Foot. Batonius, faith our Author, commend: thi: A6750”; but in my
opinion th' tarelmneh oharged ﬂute that time, and away]? all the Prince:
in C5717} ’3, there ievperha snot one to he found who can with an] [ince-
rit) a prove the 1}!th of t t Cardinal.

'In the fourth Maggy" the Author confutes the common
opinion, that the Mantel” . 0. d

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trnnﬂatcd into
Eng/ﬂ: , in
1686. in duo-
deeimo.

Egypt were the Children of Clu‘illians, .

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February;
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The univerfal Hﬁwical '

and tells us, that one Noimo Eddin, who was called the Mailer of the
Turks, was the Founder of this Order. And that he bought of the
Tartar: a thoufand Tar-kill: Lads. Thefe Slaves having afterwards
{ignalized their Valour againﬂ the Frank. m the Wars 0F the Hal;
Land, came to great Dignities, and they were called in Arabick, Mam-
melicb, that is to lay, purcbaﬁd Slaves.

The Author not being able to difcourfe at large of ionic Cities of \

reater Note, the Hiﬂories of which were neceﬂarz; for the under-
{landing ancient Authors, chofe rather to treat of m apart in the
fixth Book, than to break the order of his Story. He therefore here
gives an Hiltorical Account of Babylon, Niﬁims 7 "“f “1"", Ptolmair,
Tripoli in Pbenicia, Sjcioae, Argos, the Illes of Crete and Cyprus, Tm],
Cartba e, Atbem, Sparta, Corintb and Rome. He (peaks of their Ori.
gin, t cir Culloms, and their anaent and modern Government: and
explains the Hiﬂories and Fables whichconcern them

The feventh Book is {pent in defcribing the {even Wonder: of the .
World, the Colols of Rhoda, the Mauﬁle, the Statue of yupiter Oljm- ‘
pins, which was at Eﬂir, the Walls of Babylon, the Temple of Diana at
preﬁu, and the Pyramids of Egypt. To which" the Author adds, as
the eighth, the Temple at yew/aim.

After all thcﬁ: delicate Delcriptions,the Author having nothing more
to do in the old world,takes a Voyage into the other,and runs over what-
ever he can ﬁnd remarkable in laureate, or the We}? Indies. He (beaks
of the manner how it was difeovered, of the more famous Voyages
thither fince it was found, of its ﬁtuation, ofthe manners of its In-
habitants, of their Origin, and of the principal parts of which it
dOth conliﬂ‘, that is, Canada, New France, Virginia, Florida, New
Granada, New Spain, New Gaﬂicia, Mexico and the Peninfula of Taaa.
ran in the Northern Parts of America; and in the Sonthern hedeféribes
Caﬂiﬂ, 1’ Or, Bogota, or the new Kingdom of Granada, Peru, Braﬁl,
Cbilo, Cbica, Caribana, New Guiana and the Biguiri, é'c. The léeond and
third Chapters are a particular Hiltory of Peru. The fourth Chapter
treats of the Ea]! Indies, and comprehends the lllands of japan,
Lafon, the Malacca", the Sound, lean, the Mdla'tm, and the States
of the great Mo «1, in which are Cafear , Turkeﬂ‘an, .Gmrate, and
the Kingdom 0 Bengala. The ﬁfth Chapter contains the Deleti-
prion of Cbina, its Antixity, Extent, Riches and moﬂ: conﬁderable
Cities. There is allb Chronologiclt. Table of ‘ﬁanne: Baptiﬂa
Rumh, upon which the Author makes his Remarks, containing an
Abridgment of the Hiﬂory of the Kings of China from Fobi their
ﬁrﬂ King, who began his Reign two thouland nine hundred and ﬁﬁy
two years before the Birth 0 our Savxour; and it ends with rum-i
who fate upon that Throne in the year of our Lord, 1677. . .

1n the end of each part he hasadded Nores u n fome 9mm his

Hillary, which the Author illuftrates and co ms by Authenties. _
‘ Gerhardt

BIBLIOTH EQUE,1686.

IV.

Gerhrena’i van Leeuwen V. D. M An Orzm'on made hr Gerbrand Van
Oratio de perpetuo Ecoleﬁee Doﬂo- Leeuwen. Y?) prove that Moles
re Mole, Hahita in Illa/hi Amﬂe‘ is_ the perpetual Doétor of the
lodamen/ium Athemeo, mm S 8 Church, Spoken February 24;.
T heolgite prOﬁ’ﬂionem Aufpioare- ' 1686. in the Coll. at Amﬂerdam,
Mr. V- Cal. Martial. Am/felo when the Author entered upon the
446%); ~ Apud yoamtem Riewerts, i Prey‘eﬂor of Divinitiet place there.
I o '

T H E City of Ant/indent has not loll all the Scholars of M Coc-

 

aine, bV‘the death of M. Badaan : the Magiﬂrates of it having

lately {'ethd M. van Leeuwen Profell‘or of Divinity there. It
was on Monday Feh.25. that he {poke this Latin Oration. He men-
tions his Age, and the time when he was call’d to the Sacred Miniﬂry
in the beginning of It. Obferving that whereas the Levin: under the
old Law, were tobebut thirty years of Age when they entered upon
the Exercife of their Funétions, and were to be diféharged after twen-
ty years Attendance, becaufe it did conhﬂ in a \ laborious Eatercife,
wherein the Body was more concern’d than the Soul; under the New
T ellament, on the contrary, the Service pi‘eleribed by it, being only
Spiritual and feated in the Confcience, there is nothing fo much to
be confidered as the giftsﬁ the holy Spirit, and the Rudy of the holy
Scri tures, which made moth] wife in his Childhood, and enabled
8. ohn to Prophefie, and write hisGol‘pel in his greatelt old Age.
"And for thefe Conﬁderations our Author faith, he made no difﬁculty
‘ to receive the Miniih'y by im ﬁtion of hands at twenty years oFAge,
nor the imployment of Profe or of Divinityxat forty.
~ The main deiign of our Author in this Oration is to prove the Chri~
ﬂian Reli ion in all its Eilentials, is the ﬂame with the jaunt), am!
therefore t at Mofes tit the Perpetual DireéTor of the Church; He. repre-
iénts this holy Man as the greateit Lawgiver that ever was; and it is
from his Books ( faith he ) that the Ancrent Attick and Rontnn Laws
'were borrowed, and from thence the Fahlet and Urge: of the Pagans
had therRiie. Their Beech»: was this Mofes. But then whereasthe
Heathens adored him as a God, the Chriltians eltccm and reverence
' his Works as the Fountains ofReli ion. For there we learn the Cre-
anon 0F the World; and the Fall 0 Man, em. Thoie very myﬂerlcs
by which we are diﬂinguiih’d from the 7am, our Author fetched)
from his Books, viz. that of the Trinity and the Incarnation. To prove
this, he Cites there Words in Deuteronom],Heer O Iﬁ'ael, the Loreljour God
:3 one God. And he compares them with thole in S. john, There are

three that hear witneﬁ in Heaven, the Father, the IVord, and the Spirit:
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anJ tbefc three are on}. He cites the ﬂory of the burning Bulh, and the
melhble Name of the Angel that Conducted the Children of Ifrael,
which he takes to be the Son of God; and he mentions the Spirit
that mov’d upon the Waters, which the melt knowing 7w; took For
the Spirit of the Mtjfmb. He maintains, that the Ppclence of God in
the Tabernacle, was a Figure ofthe Incarnation of the Word, who
(4“flwﬂ) dwelt anion ﬂ: us, as in aTabernacle. Theﬁ; Writings of
Mo’ei, were a Rule to a the Prophets, and to them [fa-41,, M41405],
an 3‘ E 51] S C H R I S T himfelf, do fend their Heaters. And in
the opinion of many gtcat Men, WhiC-h 15 aP raved byour Author,
the la": Song of Moﬁ: IS an Abridgment of a the Prophe’ﬁestwhjch
concern the Church When 8. Paul had taught the prefzam- the
whole Chriftian Religion, he affurcs them, that he had taldgm
nochingwhich was notin Mofe: his Writings. There wante nothin

more to convince the molt obllinate, but a place of S. Augu/h‘n, and
hepzahceth theﬁ words of his fbr that purpole, Tbat Religion wbicb
it maﬂ’d lb: Cbr’yQ’m, it the Religion (ftbe Ancieutr, and bad it: be-

gm; with Mankind : but it we: ca”?! 112: Cbri/h'an Relfgim only ﬁnce

thxwrriugof'5‘ewabriﬁ. The reafon of this Conformity is, :becaufe
the Son of God would not introduce any Noxielties, molt ofhis Para-
hles are borrowed From the Ancient Doanrs of the 3am, being cited
Inﬁll: Game, upon the Babﬂom’ax Talrmd, intituled qucofbor Bcv
“Mia. The Parable of the ﬁve wile andﬁve fault} I: Virgins, 13:0
W_@;moet-che ' corn, is in the, Tameﬂuqun, .u 2 at
hoakwhichttcats ‘ ' ;.andtmmd\:Cern-mia of t ejhm,
gilzqrrowed the Sacraments of 3495de IprdSISuppﬁg- ‘ Thfir

.M-v ' mick-s. ' Kim mama». -.Anfw.zmot 49¢ a.
Pﬁfbu. Maryland Pater: inthe Primitive Church”. .Iheir ,Niildai
and ‘ , to 8.1”.- from .thesactament, Examicaﬁm.
The Author believes :thefe Remark var! ul'éful For the Comedian
of the firm, and inertia-to the bdngng dram/m unbraceChn-

{ban . ,

I huzd a deﬁgn to fpeak here faith my Author) ofa Commentary
of Mum’s u the two ﬁr Clnpters of theEpiltle to the Ro-
nag Printed in Year 1684.. But hearings: mtirc Work 15 now
inlhe M1 lhall Ray till it comes out, and once for all obferve
the Audio. Win thatWoi-k.

V. .8 TE-

B I B M 0 TH 11qu B,‘ 1686:

V.

STE PHANI MO R INI. S. 72 D.V. D. M.‘ «9- Ptoﬁvﬂ‘orzir Lingua-
rum- Orientalium in Illa/Hi Amﬂelodam/iam Mm O R A T I O
I N AG UK A L I S a'e Ling‘nmmm Orientalium ad Inteﬂégentiem S.Scri-
puma utilimte [whim- Febrmm'i 27. 1686. Lugdum' Batawrum. 731m
yogurt? Lindani, 1 686.

S all the World'is already agreed, that the Knowledge of the
Oriental; Languages is. of great ule to the right underl’tanding

. of the/Sacred Scriptures, the Old Teﬂament being intitely
written in thoie‘Tongues, and the New Teﬂament tho__ Origi
Greek, yetbecaufe.=written altdgether by term, has much oftheldio ,
. of thoie Tongues m. it . beﬁdes the va, number oF'Cltations out of
_ the Ol’d‘Teﬂament, anti Aﬂuﬁons to places in it, which withoutlome

skillz’ in the Heérew,‘ are hard” to’ be underﬂoor}: So it is perhaps not
Ignﬁedgul 1m to. ”A5: any “”3? upon thiixs (2123:1311, or to trouble
to ca CI: 311 ’pidgme' ﬁt it» Tot' ' »-’meA tho has"
addeti‘andthetfmallcTraétate; the TitleoFWﬁichis',‘ . 9 r

v- f v

VI:
'. Deﬂeﬂm De Hone- Sal’wﬁae Pqﬂibmk 3‘. C. D, N 39:9.

WlMein the Author endeavours to reconcile all the feeming dif-
ferences and contradiétions which we meet with in theEvange—
hits, concerning the time of the Pallion oFour Lord and Saviour Jelus
Chriﬂ‘, and the particular circumll'ances that attended it. '

After this my Author returns m-give‘an Account ofthe tworemain-
‘ing Books of Antonia“- Membm; DeNobih’taré, 8:0. which were the
laﬂ- Month ref’crved by'him’ For-this; ~ "But ﬁnding by- his Excraas that
theyare intirely {pent in the Illuﬂ‘ration 0? the Dun-b“ and momma:
Titles, which will be of little,ufe to the-'greateﬂ‘ part of the Engliﬂz

Nation. I conceive it bell: to omitthem' too, and CO paﬁ on to hiss

MM which-is this. V \ .

. vn. LEBR'Ej'

February 1

i_ oo The “ninetfal Hﬂort'cal

Fehruar . .
W31. ' V“

LEERE D ER WAARHEID The Daffﬁm ofPietj according to
die n4 de Godzaligheid (if, 8m. Tim”. Put into a natural Method,

' ‘ and agreeable to the Sacred Scri-

Ptuf‘f- B? G. B ODAAN
anjfer thbe Church of Ani-
ﬂerdam, Fir . and Second Part,

in4. Print in they 686.
by Peter and Abrahamea‘faln So-
meren.

 

Oreigners hearing very Frequently of Cocaine, and his Scholars
do often e trite what the. Opinions of thefe Gentlemen are.
And 'there n0t till this time been any Book publifhed in

French that could inform and {htisﬁe the World in that Particular.
We {hall therefore endeavour to give the Reader a Full account here,
becaufe thofe Divmes of the United Praoincer, who itudied under him,
or which have taken up his Sentiments, upon Readin his Works, do
write much in Dutch and Latin. I have therefore c _ fen the Works
of M. Bodaon, to give the World an Eﬂay of the Method thefe Gen-
tlemen ufe in the Explication of “today, becaufe this Author was a
potion of great Reputation, one the Mmdlers ofAmjfeer :
and this Book is a clear and very large Syﬁem of Divinity, tho the
death of the Author prevented its being ﬁniihed. But then however,
I hope in a {horrome to ﬁnd an op rtunity of {peaking oFthofe things
which M Bola» has not mention’ . '
The Author having in the Introduaion, {poken of the Method he
followed in his Studies, defcends to Particulars, and [bows how he
endeavoured to get a true Knowledge of the whole. Body of Theolo-
. Fifi}, he diihnguiiheth between a Teﬂarnent and a Covenant : A Te-
ﬁgment in his Opinion, is a Free and unchangeahle IViU of God, by which
he hoe refrained to give certain good thing: in inheritance to certain Perfom,
A Covenant iii a Contraé? nude h] God with nun, h] the which God by a
pm efeg f by Goodne/it, be: obliged hirnfehf to do good to Man, and to
male hint may In ,‘ upon certain Conditioni, with the addition of
[were threat: again/I thofe who infh'nge orhreak thoﬁ: Conditions. And
it is thefe Conditions which the Scripture calls the Law of the Tefta-
ment or Covenant. . _
Tm Cam: God, to act as becamehis Inﬁnite Perfections, was obliged to ive
of Works. Man at his Creation, 3 Spirit which could know him, and a Will which
was capable of [loving him, but then he was to Create him Free as to
both thefe, to the end that this reafOnable Creature, loving him bya
love of choice, and preferring him before all finite Good things, might
ave

BJBJLIO'IHEQUE. i686. * mi.
.1 have arightto ask ofGOdthe fﬁproine Gobd as a -ReWard,,' Which the ‘ ,'

Divine Truth and Juftice had b"-.Contr'a& pramifed to'i him. And Pm
this is that which the Scripture cal S-the Law. or Cowmint of Work:. In
which the parties contraéting are God, as a’Cr‘eator, and Legiﬂator,
and Man conﬁdercd as Free, and perfectly enlighcned as to thofe
things which concern Eternal Happinefs.‘ The conditions here were,
to love God and our Neighbour. Matt/J. 22. 37. 39. . The Promiﬁas
are life and happinefs, Rom. 10.5. And the threatnings Death, and
Malediéfion. Gal. 3. 10.12. - ‘ ’

Man having fallen'into Sin, and {0 broken the Covenant of Works, Five degree:
which promifed life, only upon the condition of a perfeé’c Obedience, 0f ic Abl’?‘
it became impoﬂible for him to attain eternal happmeﬁ this way. €3,223?th
Elie impoﬂibility offaving Man by the Law oberks, appears by ﬁve ‘

t in s. - . ‘

LgMan has 101% all Right to demand Life as a Reward, having
violated the conditions upon which it was promifed. Rom. 3. 10. Gal.
2.. 16. ., ' ~ ,

111. Sin, and {Enﬁble pleafurcs, have made themfelves more and
more mailers of his heart, his aﬁeﬁions and all the faculties of his
.Soul, andhave thereby ﬂib'eétedhim to t ofe Curfés, which the Law
threatens to the breakers o it. Rom. 7. . .

III. In order to the ihewin how far men are from being perfeét-
ly iuf’t, and from obtaining 1i e by the Covenant of Works, God did
oblige his Favourites to confefs themfelves eve day guilty of Death,

.byan. V-inﬁnite What of Sacriﬁces, and ot er obfénvances. Col.
tidied-0.x ,5},ir'.":.i 7:73.;7.‘ ' . " 3. .- 2'. '.% .

IV.:Hehas puniihed [men with death, Rom. 2.510.. -

V. In— a ward, the. ' poﬁtion that Mankind at prefen't is 03‘, is E)
oppoﬁte to a perfeét Union with God, that he mull Raile from the
dead all thoﬁe that he will make hap y, he muﬂ: give them an incor-
ruptible and'Spiritual. BOW; .Which all not be iub get (other neceﬂi-
ty ofveaﬁingrpr.dﬁnkingg,nor to any fenﬁble pl ureg'.md-this 15 the
.lfaitdeg'reeloftheabmwngf the Law ofWorks, and of all itsi‘con-

,e uences.;;. ,) ., ‘r a ‘--. . ~ , , — 1‘ .mr? "
' - ilBut thofalleniMan deferv’d a fudden Death, which God had threat-
netl upon the ﬁrl’t Breach he committed. Gen. 2:17. Yet this good
Rmﬂvas pleaEd to prolong the term, to Open to him the Gate of
' . ,‘.-.and.t‘o givehimanew rightto eternal life. Thisdelay,
dis new. light,,d0th vilibly fuppole a new Covenant, . and. this IS
the CovenantyoﬁGraoe, which. God entered into with our ﬁti‘t Father
preﬁntlyaﬁ‘er the Fall,Gezn.z.15. and whichin the followmg Ages
he conhrm’d, and moreclearly reveal’d from time to time. We may -
oblerve, that in this. fewnd Covenant, the Parties are on the one
iide God, as mercifuiyand Almighty to faves-and on the Other Man;
not now conlidered asFree, and i)nnocent, but .as Guilty, andn the
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[lave of Sin. The condition is Faith ,W‘Orking by Love, or an Aﬂii-
rance that God is able to ﬁve thol’e that come to him and. obey him.
Heb. 11‘. The Bleﬂings promifed are, . I. A deliverance from Sin.
2- A right to eternal life. ;. The Spirit of Sanaiﬁcation. 4. The
Hope of Glory. 3'. Salvation and a perm union with God after
this Life, and the Refurre'étion from the dead. job, 3, 35. 1 job” 5,
I I, 11. Rom. ;. I, 2, I6, 18.. The threats Which are here made to
Unbelievers, are condemnation, and death. f‘j’obn 3. 18, 6.

But God who isJuﬂice it Elf, Will nor take the Guilty or Innocent,
Exoa’. 10. And his inﬁnite Perfections will n0t {uﬂ’er him to have
Communion with the Sinner, and the Wicked, Heb. 1,13. Unlefs
I. The Curﬁe of the Law be born by lome body in a.Spirit of love to
God and Man. 2. Unlefs the Image of the Creator be renewed in
Man. ;. Unlels he render to him a perfect obedience for the future.
To the end therefore, tbatf‘f’u/tice and Peace might luﬂ each other, there
was need of a Mediator between God and Man. And [‘0 the Cove-
nant of Grace does neceﬂhrily {uppofe another Covenant (and this is
that Carafe! of Pace between God and Man, wbofe. name i: t/ae
B R A NC H, Zech. 6. 12, i 3.) between the Father, and the Son, by
which the Father has remitted the Kingdom to theSon, as by— Teﬁa-
ment, Luk. 22. 2 . And has given him the Nations in Inheritance,
and the ends of t Earth for his Poﬂ‘eﬂion, PfaLa. and has promifed
him a numerous Poker-Ry, a _ and a ham Reign, andthe bleﬂing
of Heaven upon his taboos, ‘ n. 10., Upon. condition that he
[heuld bear the Oirleof the Lev, M diet it gimba- Saw! a ran—
ﬁzm for man}. The Son accepted theﬂe Con 'tions laying, Lo I come to
do tb} WW 0 God, PM. 40. 8, 9. Heb. Io. 5, 8.: In confequence. of
which, H: M ting/29" of no reputation, and bum «Dalian unto dtatb,
’wn the dud: :5: Cr 1, Phil. 2. 7,8.

Altho the eﬂings §C{a Cbnjﬂ‘ has purchaled For his People, be in
truth the very fame in a 1 Ages, yet it is oblérvable, thatGod has di-
f nf'ed them very differently according toth various Ages in which
iii: Faithﬁil have lived ; we may fee the Patriarch: who lived before
Mofu,‘ lived in as great a calm, and approached God with as much
liberty, as if the EXpiation of their Sin, had been already made:
That after Mali: his time, the Faithﬁil were oppreﬁ’d Withanunfup.
portable yoak of Obfervations, Abitinences, Punﬁcations, and Sacri-
ﬁces,éc. And that they were held under the inlpeé‘tion of lbvere
Mafiers and Directors, to whom they were bound to {ubmit inwhat—
ever concern’d this Law, and thele carnal Cb’mmandments. And lalt-
ly, we fee that after the earning of our Saviour, the Faithful are delive-
red from this burthen of Ceremonies, and this Servitude under thefe
Malieisnvho out of all the Nations are come into the Church, to hear
thisheavenly Teacher,and to fetve him in Spirit and in Truth.

Theﬁ

B I B L10 THE (111E... '~ I686.

- Thefear’e thofe lateral Difpenfations, which the Scriptures call the
Old and the New Teltaments. It iscommonly thought that the Old
Teftament is the Covenant of W'orhr, and the New Teﬂament the
Covenant of Grace.‘ But this is a miﬂake in the Opinion of this Au-
thor, and thofe Divmes who follow thefe Prrncrples. The Old Te-
ﬂament was Inﬂitutedon Mount Sinai; Gal. 4'. 2.4. _ The Covenant
of Works is much more Ancient, it was made in the Terreﬁial Para-
dife; God Created Man for himfelf, and would not promife him‘ fu-
preme felimty, but u n condition of a perfeét obedience. This was
not the Covenant w ich was renewed on Mount Sinai, becaufe it
could never procure Salvation to the Sinner, who had already broke it;
And which was at the utmoﬁ diftance from the perfeéhon which it re-
quired. We fee elfewhere, that God had before this made a Cove.
nant with Abraham, when commanding him to come out of Caldea,
he had promifed to give the Land of Grandmas anzlnheritance to his
Pollerity, Gert. 12. 1.2;. and that he confirm’d this Covenant by the
Seal ofCireumafm, addin a Promife to make him the Heir of the World
by Faith, Rom.4. 13. an to blefs all the Nations of the World in his
Seed, the Chrzﬁ who waste come out of. his Loins, Gen. I 7. I. 14.. Gal.
;. 16. : And this laihsthe Covenantfwhich Ghdmiewed on Mount
-‘ Simi;when Four hundred and thirty years after, he was jolt going to Ful-
ﬁl his ﬁrﬂ Promife.‘ And fo the Old Teﬁe‘mrmt were an Immutable Mﬂ of
God, 177 which he obliged himﬂelf to give the Land of Canaan a: an Inhe-
ritance to the Poﬂerit] of Abraham, that they might remain there till the
coming if the Meiiiah. This Tei’rament was then akind of Codicil,
bytherwhieh God'gave by way ofﬁirchatge, or over-plus, to draft: who
were already Oomprized in the Covenant of Grace, a rich and con—
vcmcnt-‘Countrey, and promifed,_them there all lClI‘S of temporal
Blefiings, provided they obcy’d his Laws, threatning them on the
contrary, to drivethem out of that Fruitful Land, and to make them
the Curfe of the whole Earth, if they rebel’d againﬁ him, Let/.16. a.
39. Thisthen was a true TeﬂamenC, ' and at the fame time an Old
Teﬁament, M the Death of the Mel/34h was to abolﬂr it. He!»
8.1. ' '..-.';" i. '

.. Aden will withouti'doubtbe'ourimis to know what chef}: Gentlemen
thmkofdaemem'aliLaw. They fay, that is Q) far from being a
Covenant - that it was a unifhment for the breach of the Covenant,
one branohoﬁ the pens impoiizd. upon the Sin which'the I/iulire:
committedbyanaltingndle Wﬂaﬁ and in their Opinion, there
needs no more to convincew man of thetruth of this, than to con-
ﬁdcr how different ' the Condm‘i of God“ towards this People, after
it), fell into that Sin was, from that which he ufed towards them

are. Before this, God onlyPnbliﬂted the'Meral Law, as a pattern
of that Santhty which the Members of the Covenant of Grace ought
to Aipire to: and not as a rigorous Covenant of Works, which remits
P 1 nothing,

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men it. We fee on t contrary, that God promiEth the Ifraelz‘m,
that he would be their God, that is, that he would be Favourable to
them, and lhew mercy to thole that feared him. He did not therefore
Pnblilh this Law, to the intent toplunge themin Defpair, but to make
them mindful of thofe duties which: all are obliged to, that will enter
into the Covenant of Grace. He 7‘gewe them bi: Sabbatlu, that the}
migbt be a Sign to'tbem tbarbe were tbeirGod, end theirsmﬂgﬁer. ~ He
had ordered the makin the Tabernacle, and whatbelonged to it, the
Anointing Aaron, and is Sons, to Exercile the Prielihood, as Marks
of his being the Lord their God, to remain amongl’t them, and to
comfort them bythele Types and Pledges of his Love, till the :Meﬂié
ah, whom they expeae’d, fhou’ld comeinto his Tem le, Exod. 2.0. 4.7..
46.11441. 3. I. Butafter the Iﬁaelit‘e: had-violated t is Covenant, by
giving themfelves up to Idolatry. . Altho'_ God at the earnel’t Prayer of
Mofex, yield fo Far, that he did not'eXterminate‘them‘, yet he punilhed
this Crime very feverely. -. He gave them Statute: that were not good,
and jaws}; wbicb‘ the jbould not lime, Ezek. 20. 25. Becaule
they all conﬁﬂedi'n external ' ercifes,'r which they were indeed obliged
to obfe’rve, but yet did'not Sanaiﬁe the Soul; and contributed nothing
tothe calming of the Conleience: TAndm mortiﬁe yet more the}.r '
nrefumptuous Spirits, he :eﬂablilhedjudgesnvet' the" , that .had. the
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Right to Punilh‘thebreakenuhhem. . .~-%"t‘ 33-; . ' - j. -—. g _
Thus you lee precilely the Sentiments ofthefe Gentlemen, concern-
ing the Ancient Teﬂament which efue Cbri/fhas abohlhed; to theins
tent to Inﬁ‘e another, which 5 much more excellenthmifes,
Heb. 8. 6. Our Author Deﬁnes this New Teﬂzament to be an Tram?
table ma of God, to give It a Overplree to tbe Heir: of the Covenant of
Grace, who [battle] live If"? the Aﬂ'uﬁmiqf Etc/it Chi/f, to the end of
tbe World ﬁirituetl Bleﬂing: and Grace, in tbeﬂaee of 1:»:me Bleﬂmgx,
and oftbe. Land of Canaan. The parties here contraazing are of one
lide, God the Eternal, the Amen, the Faithful, and the True: andod
the other ﬁde, the Eleaed out of all N3d03§,"ﬂl'1h0fé that Iihould be-
lieve in fie/iv. Clmﬂ, as well 7am, as Gentila. 'Tbe condition annexed
to thefe Promifea, amtmw agenenl Faith, in the mercy of God,
and in the Redeemer prank}, :mthout a d’ ' knowledge of him;
But determin’d to 74¢ the Son-of May, 'and‘ . Son. Of God, Who
was born at Bethlehem; who died and tore again, being the true Jc.
ﬁts, the perﬁti Sayiour, and is now the only King, Priel’t, and Sove-
reign Tacher of the Church, in Excluﬁon of thofe Who were called
Gods, thole Mallets, and Teacheﬁef the Ancient People; which are
the Principalities and Powers, whichhe haslpoil’d of their ADthOi‘ity‘

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BplBLIIOTH EQHE, '1686. to;

The Bleﬂings promif'ed under the New Teﬁament, are compriléd in Februaty. .
the Promife which God made b the Prophet jeremiab, C. 3 i. v. 3;. m
and 34.. the Author confeliéth t at atthe hrﬂ: reading of this pallage, ' '
he believed that thele Bleﬂings did no more belong to the Faithful of
the Chriflian Church, than to thofe of the jam». But he adds, that
if we conﬁder a little more nearly the nature of the two Teﬂaments,
and therefore of the terms in this Pr0pheﬁe, accordinlg‘to the Ex lica-
tion of the Apoﬂle in the E iﬁle to the Hebrews, we all eaﬁly ee in
how excellent a degree the e Blefﬁngs belong more particularly to the
Heirs of the New Teﬂament. The fix-{l of thcfe bleﬂings is, I will
put my Law in their inward part5. Under the Mofai'cal difpenﬁtion,
the Mylleries of Salvation were wrapt up in a thick cloud of Ceremo-
nies, and all the promifes of it, were covered With a concealing Vail,
as the face of Moﬁ: was. But under the Gofpelof eﬁr: Chi/i, his.
Sufferin' ’ , hisDeath, hisjuﬂice, and his Merits are c early propofed;
and he imfelf is in the inward parts of us by his Spirit, 1Cor. 3.18.
I Tﬁdﬁgg. {. ‘ The féconcl Promife is, And I will write my Law in their
beam. God had conﬁrm’d the Old Tellament to the Ijiaeliter, by
giving them the Law, written upon Tables oFStone, and byan inﬁnite
number of Miracles, which. he had wrought in mercy to them,“ and
yet theywere not Converted by all thefe Methods, Butt. :9. 23,24.
The Promile$ of the Meﬂiah, and of the Remiﬂion of ﬁns, which are
the only Promiles that are capable of producing this great effect,
were f0 little relied, and were propofed in lo Enigmatical amanner,
thattheypoulp notteach their hearts: whereas the threats of the Law
ﬁll’d theirf Ears. ’ But now {es/a: Chi/t bein pmpoﬁd to Sinners, as a
Propitiatton thro Faith in. ' blood, that ove of God which has gi-
ven us his own Son netrates the heart, and makes a lweet violence
upon our Souls, an enforceth them to return love for love to God,
M. Bodaan confirms this Explication, by apaliage of the Second Epiftle
to the Corintbiam, Chap. 3. v. 4.. 5, 6. - -

Thethird Promili: is, And I vi! 1:: tbeir God, and thy M be try
Pec‘p'ie. That isto fay, “in the‘Senfe ofour Author, I wiﬂpBle/i’ tlim ad
make them fee by eﬁeﬂx, in tbe accompli/hmm of Prmiﬁg, and}, giving
delimit]: 'after the Figures, 'Tbat I am the God 9:) a bath made 'a Covenant
witb'tbe'm. And to this he refers the Promifes that God made, Gen. i7,
8._ Leo‘i:,2.6. 17.. ' This Phrafe (as he adds ) then has the famefim e
With thatbwhere God ﬁith, thathe was not known to the Patnarchs
By the Name JE H O V A, beeaufc this Name! {igniﬁeth a Bemg,
that is able ,a nd faithful to perform that which he has pmmiledAnd that.
the romife of givin the Land of Canaan to’ their l’oﬁents’, was not
yet ulﬁl’d. 50 .God takes upon him the Title of the God of the Chri-
i'lians, and calls them his Peo le in a particular manner, becauﬁ it was.
under the New Tef’tament, . t t he veriﬁed the ptoiniles'made by the
litephets, by fendingthe Meﬂ'iah.‘ ‘ - ‘* 1 " -- Th' e

't is

7166 f ‘ The uniotrfal Phﬂorieal _

Feb"; ' ' ‘T his Erpreﬂipn has alfoin the Opinion of the Scholars of M. Coe.

Main a very particular Relation. The ffeaw Were Govern’d by Seven-
ty Elders, amongfi which the Spirit of Mo 0: was divided. Theﬁ:
were the Tutors of the Ancient People, t' the times determin’d h} the
Father came, Gal. 4.. 2.. They were call’d Gods, hecaufe the word of
God we; direﬁed to theni, John 10.. 35- and ‘59] gave Oracle: upon Earth, '
Heb. 12. 25. Buttgefus Chnﬂ bein come, God being mamﬁﬁed in tbe
Fla/h, the Reign of 09% who were ca l’d Gods was at an end, and they
died like other men, Pﬁzl. 82. 6, 7. fee Pfal.97.7. Citedby the Apofﬂc
tog‘the Hebrew, C. I . v. 6. Where God commandeth the Elohim or Gods,
that is the Magiﬂrates of the 7am, to Worfhip his Firfi-born. See alfo
Ifaiah 9. g. 6. So that this Expreﬂion, I xvii! he their God, Imports, that
under the Gofpel, the Lord himfelf lhall Reign2and that efu: Chri the
Kin of the Church, {hall have no Com amon, and ere {h nei-
therie in Heaven nor upon Earth, any ot. er God, than God the Fa.
ther, nor an Other Lord, butJefus Chnﬂz, I Car. 8. 5, 6.

The fan Blemng is, And the] ﬂux” teach no more every man he}
Neighbour, and every man his Brother, flying, know the Lord ;_ for the]
ﬂu” 4” know me ﬂow the lea]? of them unto the groan/i. The Succeﬂbrs of
Mofe: had the Kc] of Knowledge, and fat upon his Chair; and to, them
men were then to have recourfe for the learning the {énfe of the Law,
and to be informed what all thole Shaddows and F1 tires meant, Deaf.
new ewe answerer err" see

, are . o e ets,
Luh 2.4. 2;. 32. The lealgyamongmie Faithﬁve undefiiig Go-
fpel this Divine Key, becaufé they all know that ffefm Chrij} was con-
med 5] th‘ Hob Gho , and that he was horn of the Virgin Mary, é'c.
This is the. Spirit w °ch God had promifed to pour upon his 561'-
vants, and his Hand-Maids of all A es, and of all conditions, without
any difference, joel 2.. So all the aithﬁil having received the Unﬁt.
on o the holy Spirit, and knowing (I things; that is, all that is neceﬂiry
to vation, 1 john. 2. 20.27. And the word of the Gofpel being
near themin theirmafh, and in their heart, Rom. IO. 4, 8. There is fo, lit-
tle need that the lhould be Magiﬂerially taught, that this Airoﬁa Ty-
rant, and a M er, who commands allhis diciﬂionstobebeheved, un-
der pain ofdmhem, is the ve Charaéter ofAntichnl’r, r ffohan 8,19,

The ﬁfth We is, I Myergwe their iniquity, and I will rememher
their fen no we. Our Author in appropriating this Promife to the
Faithful under the New Teltament, deth not deny that the Saints who
preceded the coming of the Meﬂ‘wh, were nor laved, nor yet, that they
did net obtain the happinefé of Eternal life prelenrly after their deaths.
ﬂu Chn‘ﬂ‘ is the lame yeﬂerday, to da , and for ever, andhis Re-

'on is of an Inﬁnite value; but t 15 was not always known fo
clear , nor dldit opera: {0 werﬁilly upon their Souls. We have
alreacg feen that by reafon 0 their Idolatry in Worfhiping the Gol-

den

BIBLIOTHEQH E, 1686. to}

den Calf, 90d added that Load of (Eremonies to the Old Teltament, Fahrudr ’
as the Apol’tle faith esprelly, Gal. 3.16. That that L4»: war a Mini- ”‘1'
1’3“” of C0”dem”“’i°”; 7- Car. .9- Becaufe ( laith our Author) ha-
vrng been initituted to punilh t e Ifraelite: for that great offence, and
the Blood of .Bulls and of Goats not being able to puriﬁe the Con-
ference, .all this Train of Sacriﬁces lerved for no other ufe than to put
them in mind, that they had deforved the wrath of God, and that their
Sins were not yet ex iated, feeing they were forced every day to renew
thele Sacriﬁces; an therefore Mr. Balm paraphraleth this promife
thus, I 905” pardon their Iniquitier, that is, I will deliver that» ﬂow the
5"”! Tue 0f Ceremonies, attended with the Cur/e of the Law, which I
laid upon them at Mount Sinai for their Reheﬂim, and to math: them ra-
mmher that their Sim were not yet expiated. And upon this it is, that he
founds the Famous diﬂinétion between 1pm, Fgr‘giotmfr, and ulnar.
Rentﬂiw, which is fo- ufual with the Divines this Perfwalion, a-
mongit whom, fetus: Forgivmeﬁ, ligniﬁes an alt/61m: Remiﬂion, and
fuppofcth an entire ayment; whereas dime Remigion, meaneth no-
thing but the con el'oenﬁon or Forbearance, whic one lhevveth to a
Debtor, when one doch nor trouble him, but {Eiffers him quietly to
enjoy his Goods, as if he had payed the Debt, provided he doth but
with good Faith confefs the Debt, and makes certain acknowledg-
ments to the Creditor.

After this M. Bodaan lhevvs the advantage of this Syllem of Theo-
logy, for the underﬁanding of the Sacre Scriptures, by makingan
Ana 55 of the Epiﬂlesto the Hebrews, Roman: and Galathiam. Alter
whic he gives {ome Advices for the Study of Divinity, and condemns
abfolutely the School-Philol0phy, becaule in his opinion itconﬁlts in
nothinigut words which {igniﬁe nothing; and becaule allo it is ulEFul
at the it for none, but thofe who would read the Writings of the
Monks, and thofe other Writers of the Church of Rome. He is not
of the fame opinion, as to the Philofophy of De: Carm, but he believes
it well adapted, and proper to form the Spirit; but then he gives men
a .caution to take great care, that they take not falﬁ: Cam/ion: for their
Guides, who are of the fame party with Ho“: and Spine/a, and de-
ﬁgnnOthing more than the ruin of all Religion; and therefore he

1th we ought to renounce all thele Metapy ical Speculations, when
they agar contrary to Chril’iian Verities. That therefore the belt
Conn that can be given, is to ﬁudy diligently the Style and Ex-
Prelﬁons of the Sacred Scriptures, and the manner how God treats
the Sons of Men. ~

And for the aﬂiltance of the Church of Amflerdam in this great
Dehgn, our Author faith he wrate this Work. Which at ﬁrﬂ: was
only a Sermon concerning the Profeilion of Faith, which is ordered
every year to be made the ”W/Zaj‘beﬁl‘c Eaﬁer, in the Dutch Churches.
But this ﬁrlt Draught increafed inlenlibly;andif the Author had livelc‘l,

e

._ 5108

.‘ marry/4: Htﬁoriadl rs; t; z 41 - '

he would have form’d a fui‘ﬁcient Body of-Tbeoloﬁy; Teeing thatftho
we have nothing almoﬂ: but the beginning, yet t eie twb Parts and
the Prefaces make neareighty Leaves. i . . i' . . _. ‘ f '

There is in the ﬁrﬁ Part a Treatifc Oprd,'of'_ the Scri re, of

“the Trinity, of the Divine-Attributes 0f the Decrees oFG , ‘whiCh

latter the Author conceives according t9 chiRMCIQIder which masca-
pture has revealed them in» beginning “nth the Creation, and ending
With thofe Si ns whiéh'were to go before the ﬁrﬁ and fecond coming
of Jelus Chriit. He had,refolved to “13W 1“ [the fecend part of this

Work the Execution of thele Decrees; but .he was go: only into the ‘
Treatife of the ‘Mcdiator, when death fu rifed him, andtoek' him ’

from thefe pious Labours. His Friends owever Printed this: fg¢ond
Part, tho it were thus im rfec’t, and the world has received 5‘,f9”kihd.
ly, that in a {mall time ere has been two Impreﬂions of FhlS}W§rk
There is in the fame Bobk three Sermons preached by the'Author ;'
the ﬁrﬂ: treats oﬁhe Refurreétion of the two thndiés, (1pm: 50- I L
And the two Others concern the Duties of the Minii’ters of the
Gofpel: and are upon Eula. xliv.2;,z4.. andl Pet. iv'.tr._ ; . _ _ ,

 

 

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B. c HRJSTQ PHORI . 5c H124 DE R I ﬁbula .cgarmlagicé

3, ﬁrm “11"”.— K ’ ,aéw f. i 4dr ' , 1 W , 5, in
- - Fol. Printed 4:th &2 % £41114 “mg-fin! ai'
Amﬂerdam, of Waesbcrge. i ,1 ‘

He Reader is-here prefented with an Abridgment, of the Hi-
I Rory of the World in Fourteen Tables: the firﬁ five contain
the Datesof the mo“: conﬁderable Events, the times of the
Lives and Deaths of‘angs,‘ Emperors, Ca 'ns, Writers, and the
more illuilrious Men of all lbrts, which are the moﬂ part ranged
in four Columns, the ﬁrﬂ is for the Sacred Hiﬂorv, the fécOnd for
the Creek, the third for the Roman, and the fourth for thoie other E-
vents which could not be conveniently brought under any of the Other
three Heads. And fometimes this fourth Column is dmded mto two
parts, alga that; thqie Men uhofghlameshaye been molt celebrated in
Hiﬂory, have one. e parts aﬂigned to them. He begins to
count the years of our Lord in thethree thoufand_ nine hundred and
ﬁftieth year of the World. The nine'followmg Tables which coni-
tain the Hillary of verylnear leventeen hundred years, beginning
with the Birth of our Savrour, and endin with the year 168;, are
difpofed much after the fame manner. THC Affairs of the Empire,
and of the Church, the Perfons and. the Aaions which have been
molt regarded, are ranged in eight or ten Columns. The year 168d:
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BIBLIOTHEQUEJéSG. 109

'ends this Work with three very conﬁderable Events .in the Empire, February
the Church, andthe World, m. the Impr'ifomnent of Count 'Iézkel'r, ' “ ..
the dillolving the Edié’t of Nantes, and the Execution of the late Dulte
of Monmouth. To thefe Tables there is added a very Copious Index of.
the Names and Things which are contained in them. *, ‘

 

 

IX.

UﬁiWT/k Hi/foriaz tum Sacm, tum propbame Mm, A. C. M ad 471mm;
I 686. deduﬁa, ab ipfo Auﬁore c’orrec‘la, completiorque fac’t‘a, cum pnefm
tiane dupliee : gum-um mm Regm' Dani‘s ab antiqu temporz'bu: ﬁaj/é Hat’-
reditarium, .uberiu: quam in prioribu: faﬂum editionibu: deducitur ('9' ﬁr.

. .mzﬂima‘s argiam'mtzé, gramﬁmifque te/limonia't conﬁrmatur, ﬂudz’o (‘2' opera
3‘ O A N.N I S. B UN ON I S in illuﬂri Gymnaﬁo Lumelzm'g'enﬁ. RP,
Francqfurti (9‘ Lipﬁae 1686, in Duodetimo. And may be had of

- : Wde'rlzerge. . i - ,

‘An ID EA .of' the :Vniverfal. Hiftory both Sacred and Profane,
A -‘ brought down to the year 1686, Correéted and Enlar ed by the
. ‘ Author himfelf, with a double Preface; one of w‘hic fheweth,
‘ that the Kingdom of Denmark hath been hereditary from ancient
.‘ times, more largely than was done in the former Editions,wvhich al-
‘ (0 is conﬁrmed by the {trongeft Arguments, and the gravelt Telli-
' 1' modes, bythe Study and Labour of job» Bum, Prqfcfor in the
. ‘ Ian/2mm Unimrﬁtj of Lunebourg. . _

His BOok, [faith my Author, havin been Printed feveral times,
there' is no need that I lhould well long upon it. That
which is moll: remarkable in this laﬂt Edition, is, that he has

muchenlarged the ﬁrft Preface. As For the (econd, it treats of Hi-
ﬂor in“ general. .: The Work is divided into Millenaries, and each '
Mil away into Centuries, each tithe latter into Periods of ten ears,
as fat as the Hiftory would it it. But ﬁ-om the Birth 0 Jefus
' Chi-ill to our own times, the uthor has only divided it by Centuries,
" becauﬁ: this Method has been a long time in ufe. This Hiﬂory ends
With theMiferiei of the Reformed in France, the Viétories of the Em-
m .in ngarj, and the Famine which was laid to be in Awergm,
therewas no ram foreight Months in the foregomg Year.

Q ' ' X. mu.

t 10 The meerfal Hiﬂo‘rtcal

February. _ X '

mm ° ._ .

THEATRUM MACHINARUM NOVUM; Eadliiéém
aquariw, alarm, ‘j'umema‘riao', mmarim; Pe’dibm a‘c ponderit'am “tier;
fatiles, pluresé“ diver/2v Molar, warm ffummtif comwolendis, Char-
m: (‘2' Nitrato pulveri apparando, Jiverﬁ: tundendis, ﬁrmmlz's, rere-
bramlix, panno ﬁz’pamlo , Jacaranda aliifque uﬁbm defiinatzu (9' ad'-
aptamx: cum utilibus- é‘ rariorilm: derotec/mé’matis, fczlicet baa/ink,
Antlz'i: per Splmrzu, capfula: prerﬁovmdis, effc.’ organis' PMﬂidn
trocbleis, cacbleis, aliifque deregeri: 'varii: perqme in failing aqua
attclliﬂeri'vari é‘ traduci alio pate/f. Annexi: preterm trgmrm; u.
rmﬁlium neceﬂ'ariorum é? utilium ad but: apparamda ﬁgurine? Explicuioni- _
17m, (“fa Per Georginm Andream Booklernm,.Eddia Newm. A; (:30.
logne in 1686. And nray be had 'at' Atﬂﬂe'rdém‘ ORWWWVE' ' '

‘ A NEW THEATRE O F M I LLS: Shewing Water-
‘ Mills, Wind-Mills, Hand-Mills and Foot-Mills, and Mills turned
‘ by Weights, many and diverfe Mills ﬁtted andadopted to the grind:
‘ ing variOus ﬁxts ‘OfCOrn and the preparing-Paperand Gunpowder -
‘ and for the poundin , (with and borirg..féveml. hiaterialsjﬁn
‘ for the idling-and ' 'édtbgwﬁhthe mbmﬁﬁfnhndr'mrer
‘ WW mM' ‘ I 5* ‘hvﬁdtWheels
‘ and Domain: Warns . . Hike. , -w:;ﬁmlwich
‘ Pullies, Screws and Piges, With Ot er vanOns WaterthOtks for the
‘ carrying Water on hig 1, by which“ may bow, andeamed
‘ elfémhere. Adding alfo the Figutes and Deﬁnptions of the In-
‘ {{an and Tools, which are math-y and ufoﬁﬂ to when}! ,
‘king theta, (7c. - ‘ "4

Tms Book is compoféd Of one hundred an my mssgmés,

 
 

the explication and uﬁe of Which is {heWn in forty nine. Pa-

ges, to which are added the Stawtes of the Bmpnemoawénté
inngills. The Reader may fee theme the Forms of anY‘Et‘sﬂles
Wthh «are of rear ufe to the life of Man: fuel: as Windmills and
Water-Mills 0% divers forts; «has are turned by the {bength of the
Arms, Others by the; Fear, or by Comer‘Weyghts, and Others by
Horlés; (bmem {inﬁll forth inding Com, Otherstomaltel’aper,
or Gunpawaer, or to‘pound an m grind Colony-s, (in. or to palm:
Marble, é’c. Others, lerve for the fawing, and bonng Wood and Stone,
éc. and Others for the beating and dreﬂing Cloth. There is all man-
ner of Aquatduéts, Fountains, Pumps, Inﬂruments to call Water,
P4»: to t out ﬁre, and man Other Water-Engines, with the Inﬂru-
ments w ich are needful for the making of them. The World is in-
debted tO 34:05:“ J: Strode dc Rosberg,’ Antiquary to the Enilpem?
Fer than ,

i B 1 3 L1 .0 reassign E.‘ . 1686. t. t

Fgrdbmml; Maximilian, and Rngolpbm II. for this Colleﬁtion of E!» Feb
gmes. By the credit which his Imployment gave him, he had the
means to colle& and dcﬁgn the greatef’t part of theie Machines. 0574-
'w'anm de Stradn his Grandchild glued them to_ be 51‘“ Printed in the
year 16138.ntllci‘c W36 3 fcconcl Edition made in 1.629.. and when there
wgsicalice any of them to be had, Andrea 306111", 8 Gimme Architect,
;and:lng€iieer, made a third Editipn in 1652. Upon which this Work
was tranﬂated into Latin by Henry Schmitz.

mar}.
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XI.

V ET EJZU MAM'N ALEiczio RUM TOMUS IV. Comp/e-
that item Gnmnicum Domini 70mm Mabiﬂon é“ Domini Michaela
Germ é congregation: Sanéi‘i Mauri cum monnmenta'r in ca reperm.
MarimPariﬁgmn 4W4 {aiduam Edmundi Martin (9‘ 3:05. Boudot, ann.
f_’ )68‘505‘“o.aap0. '. [21»
skiers: liarsihesathtee' Testes ahead x blithedunder the Title . ,' -
. . 9f l. ﬂeéiiomi, «the Amwwert. hﬁaﬁnﬂabﬁm ame- :33? to
‘. .‘ Jed ”gawk an, and extremely ﬁudious of prom‘otin the 1686.1.x'pﬁa
Church Antiquities. The ﬁri’c in 167 5. the ﬁzcond in 1676. an the mf’ﬁﬁ: 34mm-
;third in 1682. Under this Title are contain’d Letters, Prefaces, ""
' §upplements, Pigments, Ederfes, and kitgilhblikethonciiments of Anti};
gutsy swivels. a ne eel. or ever y 0: ts“ oververymuc
:cnntribptoep «Mannheim theChureh Hiﬂorv OF this nature are
all that} pieces whigh-makethe fprgner three Volumes, but then there
were -,all umribed from the Libraries of France and Flanders. In this
fourth Volumeour Author rﬁiémsxuswith what he found in a Journey
hemacleimeﬁmn , hymiieQrders, and at the Char es of the molt
,Chriﬂign aRang; w~ stein he hastcpmprehended .What he found worth
.trenfcsihimiinmbm’, .8de and java»; forthcﬁ‘: were all
the Pram. , ) .' ° _ his pomponjon Michael Garment.
In the ‘ 'nning of'this Tome thivostefcription of his Journey,
WShiChh€ ihﬁlﬂﬂ day Of 7m, 1683. andended 1n Oéfober fol-
lagging. JAnd‘herehetellsus whet Monaﬂerieshe Wired, and what
ancient Monuments or .Manufcnpts he found in them, and .he de-
Icribes not only the Cities, but the other Places through which .he
went, their various Rites, lnfcri tions, Epitaphs and other things
which were worth obferving. A er thefe he puts his Collefliom, the
ﬁr“: of which is Aﬂ‘a Alammarii Martyn, Tb: A3: bf Mammariu: the
Martyr, which till now were utterly unknown: and which, as Ma-
-bidon conceived, might contribute fomethin to the illuﬂrating the
Hillary of the African Church: but then inc 1 is his candor, that he
' will not undertake for the ﬁncerity of thele Aﬂx. The death of
Q 2 - Anulinu:

  
 

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February.

Amt/mu: m
ipﬁ) momenta
turbatiom:
diabo/i expi-
raw't C5 Cor-
fu: eta: a V0-
lucrr'lm: com-

ejtum eﬂ.

' The univetfal Hiﬂortcal
Anulinm difpleaiéth him, of which the Ac‘h-ﬁy, That in tb‘e'very me-
meat of the fentenee be waa poﬂeﬂed b] the. Devil, expired; and be: Bod]
war eaten by the Bi‘rdx. And the timem which this Martyr is faid to
have fugered under Analinm, Proconﬁil of Aﬁiea, viz. mmo Cbrz'ﬂz'
304.. but then it is apparent; he was Proconful in 31 I. when
[Wiltiatler was Pope, and gave an account of the caufe ofCacilian,
Bilhop of Carthage, to Con/lantine the Emperor. Nor is he ﬁnished
with the ufe of the word Pagan there ufed by Pagan: in ourvfénfé, nor
with the form of the lentence: qu' imperatorum reeeeﬂta'contempﬁrunt,
gladio anima; eorum interﬁci placet. After thefe ollows Paﬂi'oBenerfﬁ
Martyr’z’: Marculi, who was a Donatiﬁ, after which he puts (Macrobii
Donatt/la: epijlolam de mee Maximiani é‘ Ifaaci: ) A Letter written by
Macrobius a Donattﬂ, concerning the Jeatb of Maxnnianus and Ilhacus,
which tho he cannot aver to be genuine, yet may afford fome light to
the hiﬂory of thoﬁa times. After which Follows the Aét: qf t/Je Mar-
tjrtlom of Theodoritus and Philip Blﬂloﬁ of Hadrianople, which tho bet-
ter written, or lefs. Ihfpeéted, are muc corrupted by Tranfcriptions in
his Opinion. After thele follow vvaria Opufeula (9' Monumenta, as Frag-
mentum earta’ia’i Arriam' ad Mariam Viﬂorirmm, é’ Reﬂex/i0 Marii
V iﬂm'm' Rbetori: Urbi: Roma: ad Candida”: Arriarmm, Diligentia Mona-
cborum Ammoaii (9' Honorii dc Libri: Canonici: Veteri: (9' New Te/ia-
menti, (9' C eﬂio Fidei Catbolica, gum brewiter ‘viro illu ri Ibeopbila
dixerm. 'eh Confemop is almoft the fame with under the
nameof 5. Andre]? 4pm! V ’ ' fI‘apMm, “.mm‘l’dadim, 'c. 6.
prﬂola Aviti Presbyteri a Papam Palcom'um , Vita Sam‘h' Hieronomi
Prerlyteri ( written by Geanadim, as Meet/Ion conceives ) é“ Vita Beati
Aridii Leonmh'ciai Abba"), Formulae Andeganenje: digeﬂed into one
Body, in the Reign of Cbildebert the Firﬂr, as the Author thinks.
Twen {ix Letters written by Alcatau: and Others, amongﬂ which are
two 0 Cbarle: the Great. Two Leners ainﬂ: the Do&rine of Be-
rmgarim. Amide: Rai/ﬁmfes, Webgartea e: (9' Einﬁedlenfn, ée. To
all which Mabillws has added very Learned Obfervations on all thele
Pieces. My Author mlheth he had continued his Journey to Leipﬂck,
and had learched their Manufcripts too, which would have afforded
him Materials for an hundred Tomes of fuch Colleaions, there being
there fome thoufands of Manuicri t Traaates, a Catalogue of which

would be piibliihed ina ibort time M. yoabim Feller, their Library-
Keeper, as he informs us.

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BIBLIOTH EQUE,1686.

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Liturgy was at ﬁrft, by the confeﬂion of all, different from
_ . the Roman; and that it was changed for the latter before the
.Vea 830, in the Reign of Charles the Great, the cauie of which he
has nOt thought ﬁt to determine, tho he commends the indufiry of
the Pope‘in procuringa conformity of Rites. He proves, that in the
Reign of Charles the Bald, the memory of the ancrent French Litur~
turgy was obliterated, and that no body concerned themfelves about
it, till Mattbi/Ié‘ Flacce'm Illjricm Printed an ancient Miﬂ‘alat Straf-
how-g, which he believed was in ufe amongﬂ; the French and German:
before they. received the Rbman Miﬂal. Whofe Jud ment in this Was
approved by Mlliam Pejrate, and Charlee Coint; but di approved. by Car-
dinal Bona, who rather approved two other Miﬂals put out lately by
yofepthhomac. Then Our Author tells us, that in the Monaftery of
Luxetn'l , in the County of Burgundy, he found a very ancient
Electinnaty, which he took to be the old French Liturgy, and by the
advice of his Friends, wrote a Difcourfe upon it in three Books, the
Heads ofyvhich are here fubjoyned by him. In the ﬁrﬁ, after a ihort
Introduction concerning the various Liturgies of the Latin Church, he
produceth the marks of the true ancient French Liturgy, conﬁders and
proves them; then makinga comparifon between this and the Moza-
raht'ch ( or ancrent Spanifh) he {heweth and illuﬁrateth the whole fe-
ries of It out of Georgfm, Biﬂmp of Tours, and Other ancient Monu-
mentS. Then he delcribes the Forms and Ornaments of the ancient
French Churches. And both in the beginning and end of it he endea-
vours to ihew what_the opinion of the ancient French Church was con-
cerning the Eucharift. The {econd Book reprefents this Sleaionarp,
with a Preface concerning Advent, and the Fe/Iioal: received an-
ciently by the French. From Whence he colleé’ts the Antiquity of this.
Piece, there being few Fei’tivals, and none after S. Genoruefa, as alfo
from the {hape o the Letters, which he ﬂtith is as old as the Merovin-
' ian times. A Specimen of which he ives us, and refers us to his
fifth Book ale Re Diplomatica‘. The third Book contains three Miiials,
the ﬁri’t of which was Printed by yofephu: Maria Thoma/in: in the year
1680; this ﬁrft was that which was ufed by the French Gotht: the (e-
cond is called the French Miﬂal, which he believes was written after
the times of Gregor] the Great. The third is called the Galh'can. Ma-
hz’llon difcourfeth at large of theft: three Miﬂals in the beginning ofghig

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‘ In the ﬁrft Dial-egue he difcourf'eth concerning the o erations hf Fegmdryj

God in 115,: according to his own princigles, taking occa 1011 to do {0 ‘
r

ﬁ'omithe ﬁre," by which they fat, and om a {harp Thorn. Era/h):
havingheard what was laid by both concludes thus. It za‘ﬂeitbef' we
Soul, nor the Thom which pincer/9, that make: a: have a fen/{He pain, but
a bngerfmfttltj‘WIJiCb lamwetb 1r felf; hﬁd '45}: 5] it: 021111 21215, by which
‘be 'credtégl tbir Thain and ”weak“ it, and ‘19! 'q‘inﬁm'té power at the mé
téme" HIM—[9e with" mm 1/912: T507”; ' 'ﬁe'rigfore there 554 Got], and 1' than?
2110?: hbt‘, I Wald neither he pierced", 71017921412715 ,mrﬁe, nor under/farm!
it. In the feCOHdDialogue, he Anﬁvers'this ﬁeé’cion. EGod works
in 1111-6: fmﬁa if Pain and Pleafure, then z'tﬁﬂoaw, that we are at: much

mead. 5] W fbitbe 1071344:st oral and 'S‘en/ible; at if Spiritual good
, , t

ﬂying? To"-’ﬁhieh lie-rep at God works by'reafon : butchen a
inanis net-moved by'reafon to the love, but to the” ’ufe of Corporal
things-'glanii’tﬁat the love oFthefe things,‘is' to be 'afcribed to corrupt
ream; o’r the inﬁi’nét. And he faith the fame of Concupifcentia, but
with'ﬁsme'dnfferenge : To the Re ly made, My God, orcﬁeingﬂn did
not hinder it. Heifiﬂth, ﬁlenjce wil anfwerit, by whic we fhew, that
tiiefjﬁwﬂfas bf'GOd ate'coﬁceai’d" Fromm, and that in the interim,
we-lougldt to {fans} to the cleaif' Revelations ;' or. it may be (aid, that
Godth‘erefore left man aliberty‘of' firming, without a‘ preventin de
termination toowhat was good, that he might reap the greater Giory,
by the 'Reﬂitution of Man by Chrift, alledging this Exprcilion, Ofelix
calpa, . qua? talem ac tamum babm’t Redemptorem. But then he tells us, that
“1' his 'BQOJG' Je‘thum (9' Gratia,’ and in Mtditatianiéu: Cbriﬂidﬂifa he
had mpiainid.%,nime at large: In his third Dialogile he fhews, that
Cdrm' his Aitom, dc mm inquirmla'in caufzzi ﬁnal“, of mm inquiring in-
to the 'ﬁnal Ca'uFes ofthings, is very good in Phyﬁck but nm in The-
ology. And'therefore he difcourEth of the order of Nature in the
Creation, and how we may fee the Eflence of God in Created Beings,
61's: ' Inthe fourtth'al man inquiry is made into the cattle of Sm,
or~ihtdthe Original ‘mn%remon which'i’s' the true catife,‘ that ,we do

not Fee and 'fe‘el’ Gddin a thingym not-"ﬁerceive his Piefeuceé’igr. 3f
1 o ‘.

we could do this, we. Ihould neither love nor {ear anything-b

But Adam the he clearly faw and knew God in all things, yet becaufe
be 801116 ”not-feel him, as he felt the creatures, by attributin too much
t0’h‘iﬁ‘56ﬂf65’, was, mind, from God The tranfm‘iiiion a Sin is de-

JCribe'd "by‘ him; as made by" theUniou which the Child has With it's-

Mothet} asha'vm the famev-imprefﬁons upon'its ‘hrain‘,-and the

fame emotion o Spirits which {he has, but then" "theNotions .

of God are not equally communicatedhbecaufe God is not {enli-
ble, or to be felt by our Senfes; he delcribes Concupifcencc, {0 as to

make it norhing but a want of that Power which the Soul ought-

toh ‘ypgovpt‘the Body, but 109: by the {in oan’am. Yet he thinks it

.is not a ﬁn in Adult perfons, becaufe they have a voluntary love out
' of

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of choice to God, which doth net fuli'er Concupifcenee to Reign: but
in Children Concu ifeence doch reign, beeaule they are deﬁitute ofa
voluntary love, an ‘ therefore they are the children of Wrath, and may
periih, tho at the lame time for want of a free choice, he fuppoféth
they fuller norhing but the( pertain Darnm' )penalty of lofs. Becauie
the juilice of God will not permit the inﬂie’tin eternal Torments on.
thole who have lin’d involuntarily. .Our Aut, or confeﬂ'erh, that his
opinion concerning the Trannuﬂion oF-lm is new, (ﬁve. . The fifth.
Dialogue in its Introdué’tion, tells us, that it is not neceﬂhry to {catch
out, and know how Original Sin, is tranfnutted in us, but it fuﬁcechthat
we acknowledge that we are born Sinners. Then he dileQurfes of the re-
medies of this evil, and ihews, that we {land in abfolute indilpenﬁble. need
of the Mediator jefw Cbrif}, God and Man. And infers the necefﬁty of
a Satisfaétion, from the Juflice of God; againil the Soeiniam. After.
other thin 5 he fhews, that from this very OEeonomy of God, the
plurality o Perfons Follows, and may be demonﬂrated In the {latch
Dialogue, he anfwereth the impudent Doubts of Atheills, concerning
the truth of Mofe: his Miracles, and Writings. And amongﬂ “other
things, exhorts men to the diligent Study of the Scriptures. His feventh
Dialogue, is a Juﬂiﬁeation of the Chriﬂian Difeiplirze, or Ethicks. The
eighth Explicates this point more at large, and endeavours to perfwade
men, that the lcOpe of the Gofpel is to Withdraw them from Corporal
things and. (in, dimmeUmted to Chriﬂ, they ma _ be carried up ,
to Heaven. And ‘ _ he notthe perfe ' nof' Know-
ledge, but that of Charity, which I endure to Eternity, and doth
( as he faith) deferve Eternity. In the ninth Dialogue, he lhews the
neoeﬂity ofAﬂiilin Grace, and ihews, What preparation is neceﬂ'ary
for the making it 1 to us. And alfo that civil Society is not in-
conﬁﬂent with Grace. In the tenth Dialogue, Era/tee doth not appear,
but fends a Later, wherein he ﬁgniﬁes, that he was gone tobetake
himfelf to a lolitary life. And Ariﬂ‘arebu: was in the lame dilpoﬁtion,
and refolved to betake himfelf intirely to the Study of the Sacred Scri-
ptures, which Theodora: much approves of: in the End are added eer~
tain Meditations. '

The Rule of my Author upon the whole is, 72m: :50 there are ﬁrm
thing: in the e Dialogues, whicb are Paradoxical new, and deduced ﬁom
:be Author: S ﬂew, whit!» perhaps win be Examia’d and Cert/wed,
jet tbere are mart] to’ingx, salad: for be rare Aeuteneﬂ, and tire Power 0
bit Exprgﬂiom, are] conduee to tbe exciting tbe mired: of tbe Reader:, to t e
Exereife of true Pier].

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XIV.

Conradi Peutingeri Sermone: Convitw'ales, ale ﬁm'bzzs Germzmia’ contra
. -Gallos. Accedz’tEjufdenh ale inclinatione Imperii ﬁggmentum’ Item Beati
. Rh'enani Origine: Gathicaz, Hermanni Nuemm'i Orig-inc; Framim,
. Abgfamig'Ortelii Antiquitate: Gallo-Belgium Jenx Apud Tab. Oertling.
., .16t ' in . a '

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Pi’bm-ai'j”.
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. - Hen Learning was not arrived to that height we now ﬁze ‘
it in, great Men who had deferved well of the Pub-

. lick, did even in the Courts of Princes, and the moft
flounihin Cities take, care, that norhing {hould be entertain’d contra-
l'Y ‘0 tru : ﬁnd to the publick Good and Peace. This being done
frequent] bﬁ very fmall Difcourfes, which were then numerous, and
very g. ; t ey began in time to be loll, if fome perfons had n0t
made 1: their buﬁnels to collea thefe rare Tables, to whom we owe
the prefervation, of them. Amongfl the chief of thefe Ireckon (faith
m‘K Author) Sim.$cbar:lim, and MelchGoldﬂhs, who have adorn’d
Li raries with whole Volumes of theﬁ: fm l Traétates, by. recolle-
éting What lay difperfed before, and preferving for Poﬂerity, what
had perilhed by parts, if not reduced into thefe Bodies by them. Borh
of them have theft: Table Difcourfe: of Conrado: Peutingerm; the ﬁr“:
of them in the ﬁrft Tome Rerum Germanicarum, and the other in the

”wieth Part Politicorum Imperialium. This Peutmgeru: being. ac-
' with the\moﬂ Ancient Records of Gama»), and having .no
“mean placein the Council of Maximilian the Firl’t, out of love to his
yNative Coun , from Monuments of an uncorrupted‘Faith; proved
agamft thoieilthat oppoféd it, that the Provinces beyond the RM», to
wit, The Low-Cowman Lorain, Bmgund], and its Neighbouring Al-
ﬁm’a, with the Cities near them, were ever under the Empire: This.
Dilcourfe was, occaﬁoned by Matthew: andjutor to the Archbilhop‘ of
;Saltz.burg', WhOIWa afterward“ Cardinal, who makin an Entertain-

ment at Rampart, difcourfed this Author about many ings that were ~

«to in enuous, and little known; which Peatiqgerm afterwards put in
; Vitiytinggunder this Title. But becaufe it was inthe hands of few men,
, My,” aggloaed by the'molt, efgecxally lnvtl’llS A e, when the face
toﬁdtiagjsmuch changed, it leemdreafonable to e Learned peorge
"‘5 In. ' conifer it. ain, to'the eyes of men. The ref! areadded,
not f0 much wincreafet e bulk, asto invite the ﬂudious of Antiqui-
.w. by their very brevity ; to delerve well of the Worldsby a greater in-
duﬂl'Yol '- . : .. ' . . 1.5.15; . . .

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importante quefiion, Si 1e Cancile
de Trente a decide’ on de’clare’ gm
1’ Attrition confué' par la ﬁttle
erainte Jet peine: ale 1' Enfer, (if
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14 Remiﬂien Jet pe’che: (9' la grace
de la j‘u/itﬁcation, an Sacrament
Je Penitenee: Ttre’ det Decret: (9’
de l’ Hiltoire die Conciie (‘5‘ Jet
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important Quﬁion, IVhechr the
Council ofT R EN T, he: deci-
ded, wﬁdeclnzeﬂthat Attrition,
ari in am t e ole ear 0 the
"£5 Heﬂ, withoutfh" [ﬁtof
' ﬁlinn for
the receiving the Rent: oﬁSint,
and the Grace of yu/i'g‘t‘cation ,in
(or with ) the Sacrament of Pe- ‘
nance : drawn out of the Decree:
and Htﬂery of the ﬂu’d Council,
and out of the Writ: of the Prev
late: who Aﬂijied there, and .ef
others, who Man in thefame Age,
or a little after.

 

8. And may be d at Ant/ter-
Jam of Mortier. ‘

His Work is dividadimo‘fua-Ba-ts; incheﬁitﬁ, isihewnﬂie
'fiate of the Doarine'of 0mm and Amide», hefonelle
Council of 7' rent. In the Second, - by my OFPPWCMOMW ,

by Othel- Arguments, it is proved, that this Gmmuthas not at .51
Declared the'Mdieney of Attrition, 'nor condemned‘thofe who hold
the neceiﬁty bftrne Com-5m». ’In the Third isproved,thatthe Coun-
cil has followed and Conﬁrm‘d that Deanne In their Decrees. And

'in the Fourth Part, is 'Anfwereddivmmjeetiom againihdae‘neoeﬂity

of the love of God, or of true Contrition.

Firﬂ, the Author Ihews, that the very word A TT R I T I O N, was
total! unknown to the Church for above twelve hundred years,
Gulie rmee mezmﬁs, being the ﬁrﬂ: that can be ibund tohave. vied this

term, who lived in the Year 1-240. And at ﬁrﬂ too, it did not ﬁgniﬁe
what it does now; hit-was‘thm1talten‘forh 1er degree oFContrition,
' but of the fame naturewith that properly fo call’d. For the proof of
this, our Author brings ten Arguments, founded u
‘ the Divine; of thole times, their two Compariﬁhns, t eirf three-princi-

. the words of

pal Norions of Contrition, and on divers principles then : received.
After which he lhews the divers degrees, by which they palled ﬁctmhe
neceﬂi of Contrimn to the fuﬁciency of Attrition, by all which he
ﬂiews,3lat the love of God was included in their Notion of Attrition,
and thatthe latter Nation of Attrition, was not invented before the [33;
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teenth Century. And he beiieves, that it was not brou hr in the Schools - .
till after the Council of Trent. g PM,
Secondly, Upon the fecond Head he brings twenty three proofs oF
his Afl‘ertion. The Hill of which, he draws from the general temper
of the Council of Trent, which was this, as he defcribes it, The dl/poﬂ- Que fa diﬁm~
tion of the Council was“ fit to meafure-it: defcijiont, and to choc/e and labour ﬁtion 51 ﬁts? dc
th term: ( of them )that the] might give no ﬂtoch. to therliﬂercnt Sentiment: “1‘3“"? “31f“.
of the School, concerning which the Catholich Doﬁor: were otherwi/e much ‘35:: 8:86 3‘
divided. And he adds, That in truth, it hecante the wifalom of the Coun-’choiﬁr& limcr
6i] ”0“ 1‘0 expo/e the Church to new trouble: h] the wxatioas Canto/h, which tellementles
would have ariﬁn among/f her own Divines, if the Council had attempted tCI‘mCS (111'91‘
to Cenﬁere their Do noes, or Opinions. Anal that ( faith he) was prac‘l‘tfed ightniuihiiit‘
with that eccafine .t, that one may fee h] the words in which they made Ateintc au‘x
their Deﬁnitions, that the Father: of the Council were [crupulouﬂj careful diﬂ‘mm 3mg,
tofearch 01¢ ﬁwh term: a: might not wowed the Sentiment: of the one, .or of mens dc l'
the other, in expreﬂing the truths, which were determin’a’. And for this. he Ecolc fur 163
cites Cardinal Palavicino; and thereupon he infers, that there being “511?“: 3"-
nodifpute bemeen the Catholicks and the Proteﬂants, upon the Point uqﬂ:éto:cn€‘
of Attrition, the Council which intended only to deﬁne what was in d' 3mm, m.
Controverﬁe between theﬁ: two Parties,in all probability never intend- partagcr.
.ed to make any Decrees for the Suﬁciency of Attrition, and againft
the neceliity ofContrition. .
Thirdly, The reﬂ of his Negative Arguments, tho ﬂrong and good,
Ilhall omit, and proceed to his Politive and direét Proofs, and here
he produceth in the third Part, twenty Arguments, to. prove that the
Canons which were Publilhed in this Council, concerning this Matter,
1.110% and conﬁrm the Ancient Doctrine of the neceflity of Contri-
tlon. .And he ihews, that Melchior Genus, was the firﬁ Patriarch of the
Doétnne concerning the Sufﬁciency of Attrition, which has linee been
protetfi‘ed by the moﬁ knowing of the yefum, tho in the reﬂ, that Soci-
ety is nOt overmuch pleafed with that Prelatc. And this Order has
,( as he pretends) found out an hundred fubtilties, and as many Fet-
ches to melt the Warden? the Council to this fade, or at leaﬂ to elude
and avoid the plain Confequences of them. In the end of this Di.
fpiltc he oblérves, that M the Archhi/hop of Reims, having learned after
his return ﬁom the Aﬂemhlj of the Clergy held at Paris, in the Month of
MafCh, 168I. that there tame a The/it maintain’d in his Aletropolitan Cit ],
that the Council of Trent favoured their Opinion, who maintain that
Attntxon, without the love of God, was fuﬂicient with the Sacrament
( of Penance) ( which war contrary to the Ritual of hi: Province ) the
Archbllhop {pole f0 well, and clearly concerning it, to the Reflor of the Col-
lege, where t :3 Theﬁ: wait maintain’d, and to the Profeﬂor, who had Pre-
ﬁded at that Aft, that he obliged, them to make the contrary, he formal/7

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R ’— Fourthly,

120 The univerfal %H[forical :

February. Fourthlv, the fourth Part of this Work, maintains the Doctrine of
W the neceﬂity of Confclling to a Prieft, in-order to remilﬁon which
there were fome pretended this other Doctrine had made unnecefiary;

all being agreed, that true Contrition (without the Other) is ﬁiﬂicient

to reconCile us to God, and he having proved, that Confeliion with.

out true Contrition, would not do it. And here our AuthOr has pro-

)o‘ol'ed excellent things, to take away this and other difﬁculties, whiﬂt

e ropoleth. But this whole Difputebeing eittreamly intricate and-

digcult, as I have no inclination to miﬁ'epreftmt either party, I {hall

leave the Reader who delires further fatisfaétion to the Author.

The Author of the Nam/ell“, Sic. advanceth two matters ofFaét here.
The ﬁrPc is this, that Pope Alexander; VII. by a Decree of M4} 6‘. 1667,
forbad thele two parties nm to Cenfure one the Other, hoping to put
an end by this temperament to the Cenfures of the Curate, and Jelurts
ofGaml,who had mutually Excommunicated each other, and he faith,
that P0pe acknowledged, that the Doétrine 0f the fuﬁiciency CF AC-
trition was become the common DoBtrine of the Schools, and there.
Fore bi: Holineﬁ made this Decree. The Econd matter of Faétis,
That one 1’. Charla yoﬁpb de Troyes, a Capra/ﬁn Fryer, inaintain’d in a
Book Printed at 134m in 1679. that not only the Sufﬁciency of Attntie‘
on was clearly decided by the Council of Trent, but alfo that the
fame Do&rine was taught by S.Auguﬁin. ' '

M. uric. in This Pregmaff, ha ° charged the Church of Rome, '
or at aka (2th 13m ofheri ' ' withﬁsiltlDoarine,
this Frencb Roman Catbalick, Puhiiihed this Book, ’to Clear that Church
from this Mxﬁeyrefentatzon, but as for the mayor part of her Divines, and
School-men, he may have conﬁned, butit is uncertain, whether he has
convinced them. And till this Deanne is dilclamed by that Church,
the will be liable to the feandal of it, and thofe that differ- from her,
will diﬂicultly be brou ht to Iiibmit to that Authority, orto believe
her polléfs‘d of an Infalli ility, whilf’t they fee the manager-dares not
put an end to this Controvcrlie, which is fo warmly manag’d, not on-

"ly in her Schools, but in oppolite Prints, and which clearly lhews, {he
is “St like aCity, which is at unity within it felf, whatever fome pre-
ten . , .

XV, Traﬂatm

,,:§;_‘ “ﬁg.“ _V ,.

BIBLIOTH EQUE,"-i686.

XVII

Trac'htz/c cIe feﬂfu (5‘ Authorimi‘e Decr‘etorum‘ Conﬂantinenﬁs Concilii
’ Styﬁone quarter é“ quintet circa poteﬂatem Eccleﬁaﬂz’cam editorum. , Cum
' A63? é’pGeﬂIA' do! illczm, fpec‘l‘ontz’om ex M. S. Italiczéf, Grenmaniczc, ac
‘ Gollz'czlr, immc prz'mum~ in Lower” erutic opera ‘6’)“ Studio D. Emmett-e123 cz‘
' Sebeiﬂmtel 'S.'T. D. BMW/gem Van'c‘am pmﬁéh., , .r '_
Romee type/Li S. Congregatiom'c De Propaganda Fide. 1686. in 4..

. HE Learned .AuthOr of this Difcourfe, having written a
' I Book "ori‘this; Subject before, was foon after attack’d by
i' i' ‘ ’M.’M‘dz’rhbomg, C'i'n-ihis'Hiﬂorical Treatiﬁe. of tbe Eﬂaoli/hgemb

and ofth Prertitfeti’roe: of we Cburcb of Rome, - and of her. Bijhop:,- .rin-.

ted innTWClVes ht Amﬂerc'lczm, in ‘1685. M Maimbourg undertaking
therein" the defence of the Deciﬁons ofa' late Aﬂémbly of the Clergy
of Fmrhe. The point in ,Debate was, whet/oer a General Council 2;: above
tZé-Pope,fancl barb over him a Sovereign Authority? The Franc/9 Clergy
are for the: Afﬁrmative, alledg‘ing the Decrees of the Council of C071-
[fé‘nce tdgthat' urpofe. ‘~ \To" which-’M4Scéelflmrein ' former Book re-

rz 1»

February;
W,

—.. .,

plyid,“ 4'1. T at,wemay,and'bugh‘t ‘in're'albn,’ todo ti'of the tAuthori— -

tyOf thofe Decrees. 2. That we ought to unde‘rl’tand them as {peak-s
ing only of the times ofSChilin, and of doubtful Popes. 3. _That they
were {o far from being approved by a Bull, thatthey. were rejected, and
difapproyed rby'an ‘exprelé Bull. He laid then that: he had found Ma-
hlifcri . "CdpitéS‘oftl-teiéﬁﬁsof that Council; which were more Cor-
rect It many "had befbre been kept, and he 'ﬁirlﬁthat Ionic terms
were not to be " found in’thefe Mantilcripts, Which had ltoln into the
other COpies, by the‘ﬁ'au’d’of the'Fath‘erS'of-the Council of Baﬁl.

In anlwer to what M. Moimlrourg had objected againlt theﬂe Alicia
tions ; M. Scbeljfrote, ~h5§iﬁ‘his-’l‘al’t’ piece, EXaminidth’isi great Subject
the fecond' time. _And he 'advan’ceth againﬁ his Adverflry thele fol.
lowing Propof‘itio‘iie.‘~ 1Pirﬂ;‘_’eliat7thelﬁrf£ Decree 'of thefourth 8.6133011

.of‘ the Council ofCon 23736:: {is come down to us much deprav.’d, and

that it does not at all prove the Superiority of a Council, when it is,

Corrected by the Manufcri t Acts of the Council. The fecond is, ”that
two ﬁrft Decrees of the 5 th Seﬂion, were made by only one of the
three Obediences, or Orders, That after the Reunion of all the three
Ordersg. thefe. Decrees were not Authorized, neither by the Council,
nor by P0pe Martin V1. to which he adds a I-Iiﬂory of the Councrl,
and many Acts which were never before l’u blilhecl.

XVII. Trot/Mm

The three 01“
tlcrs are here
the Cardinals,
‘Ellliops, and
Mitcr’d Ab-
bots.

f 2-1
.Felaruaiy.

The Mniverf 41 Hgﬂm‘iml‘ ,1
XVII.

Trailing Hi/Iorico-Tbeologiew ale fejfo Carport} Cbrifli tribm Partibm (ab/blu-
we : game». I . Originem é“ progreﬂum buju: feﬁi e S criptoribw Pontiﬁ-
cik proponit. 2. Variz: Arguments) illud impugn}. g. Denique precipuay
Adverfariorum objeéfione: o Corjirmatione bujmﬁﬁi dilait, Auébre
gohanne Zuingero, S. 01. D. (9‘ Prtfeﬂore in Academia Bqﬁ-
imfi,

Bailiae Sumptilm 7. Pbilipgi Ricbtm'. 1685'. M4.

Y Author obferves, that this D. isthe third Profeﬂbr of his
M Family, his Grand-Father, and Father, having beeninéeir '
times both Profeffors before him in this very Univerﬁty. ‘

Our Author begins this Book with an Hdiorical Relation 0 what /
Bzo'vim, Antonixm Archbifhop of Florence, .Naucleme, Bartbelemi Fizen,
and a great number of other Roman Cathohcks, have reported concern-
ing the Ori ine of Corpm Cbriﬁi day, or the Feaﬂ: of the Sacrament.
This Feaﬂ ﬁlming been ﬁrﬂ eﬂabliihed in the Bithprick of Leige by
the order of the Bilhop thereof, in the Year [2.46. was fometime af-
ter Cmﬁrm’d by Two Legates, d latere, in the Year 1264.. By a Bull
pf Urban IV. and afterwards b Clement V. in theCouncil of Vzenmz,
1n the Year 1311. And at hit by 5‘06» XXII. in the Year1318.
The Author tranfcribes moﬁ oftheﬁ', AGES. Nor does he forget the

nieswlndzatdivetstimeshve ﬁnceadded.‘ ' .

In his Second Part, he makes Ob1e&ions againii this Feel}. The
Firﬂ of which is the Novelty at it. And his thud, is the weaknefé of
the Reaibns which induced the Church of Rome to introduce this
Feaﬂ. In which he takes occaﬁon to confider fever-a] Miracles
which have been alledg‘e: to vindicate the Inﬂitution of this Feal’c,
and (bin: Revelations t gave the ﬁrft occaﬁon of It.

This Work is even loaded with a vaft number of Citations, the
Author being every where deﬁrous to give his Reader the Iatisfaéti-
on of {being where he had his Materials, and upon what grounds

hegoes.

XVIII. u

BiBona-"Hraou E, 1686.

XVIII.

Le Origini deﬂa Lingua Indiana Tb: Origine if the Italian Tongue,
Comfile (Ill S'gnore E iJio Me- Colleéled by M. Egidius Menage
negro Gentilunto France e, c004 gi- a [French Gentleman, witb we
nnta de modi dire Italiant', .raccolti Addition of the Mode: if the Itali-
édiebiarati I’ll medeﬁrno. an Heritage, Colleéfed and Ex-

flain’d ] the fame.
Printed at Geneva , by 70.
Ant.Cbo:2et, in fol. in 1685.

 

Content which arofe between one . M. Cbapelain, and M. Me’.

. tag"

' Pedant):

m '

0, concerning the Senfe of a Verfe in Petmrcb, having -

ged them bath to refer the point in Controverﬁe to the
Decifion of the Academy della Cruﬁa, the determination thereof
was in‘favour of the latter. Soon after our Author had the Honour to
become a Member of .that'famous Society, and this put him upon a
moreearneﬁ ﬁudy oftheItnlian Tongue, and M Menage bein a great
inquirer into the Etymologli‘es of Words, foon bent his thoug ts that
way. He had before Publi ed a Piece concerning the Origine of the
Freneb Language, and the Academy della Crufca, underltanding that
he had made Colle&ions for another fuch undertaking u on the Itali-
an,-took-care of this Collection it felt, and deiiredto ee theManu-
'icript. This-new mark of their eiteem, .made the Author Print iome
hundreds of it, that- the Members of that Academy might read it with
the greater cafe, and ﬁtisfaétion. The greateﬂ: part of thefe Copies,
were rent - to theft: Gentlemen to Florence. So that properly (peaking,
this Work was never publiihed before. However it has met with great
ApplauiE, and the Learned Ferrarim, who hadtakenmuch pains a-
bout- the fame matter before, has. much approved of this, tho he is nat‘
always ofM Me’nage hisi ‘ ' ' -

adamant.
The :Author hasswiiely taken the fame ‘Method; here, . which heuied ,
' in- the be 'nning of his 'Freneb-Etynologiee. When he began with an .

lexaét‘co leétion of the relations or agreements of the-Letters, one

with anOther, by reafon of which they are eaiily chang’d one For ano—*

”then and a van: number oftraniboﬁtions hap n amongii them, where
he runs overall the-Lettersin Order, a. confiders howthey'late
ufed in divers Languages. The Authorhad alfo a-deiign to ion to
theie general literal obfervations, many, rules concerning the Italien

‘Tongue in- particular: but he bgthought. himfelf, that itwas better to ~
publiih them apart. -So he fatished himfelf with giving us one inliance.

whiclrconcemsnthe Adverbs —ending-in»-Menre. AWherein he Aﬁrms,

that they are com poked of the Ablatrve cafe Marie; and the Adjeétiw, .

(harm-before. It, as Sagaceménte, is compounded of Sagan and mm

He-

{19-4
was

1 joum. dc
Scav. an. [3.
chr. 1679.

of the Learned Men of .
,Plaious, or Alluﬁve Latin or Greek Names, as Petra: Crinitm, gram-

emnns . : And he has promiICdt

He gives a large Catalogue of thefe words. "He had before made the
fame obfervation concerning the French Adverbs. Can/zammm, For-
tement, 8m. ‘ -

. The Body of the Work is digeﬂed into 'an Alphabetical order, and
is ﬁll’d with curious obfervatiOIIS, both 35 ‘0 Grammar, and aﬁ‘fﬁzHiﬂti-
7:]. As for Inﬂance, 'upon the Italian word Awai'nare, whichﬁgni-
hes to blind, he {hefws us; that it is "derived from-digsnbﬂamivé' Baci-
‘no, a Bafoﬁ, 'and thereuPon he gives a largeaccouatof the, Barbarous
cuﬂom of putting out mens eyes, by drawing a red hot Bafon before

,them, Which was ancrently in ufe among“: us, and is {ﬁll in Perﬁa.

,And here our Author gives a large account of the Princes and great
Men, who have been thus treated, which I need not tranfcnbe.
'He dees not only obferve the Etymoldgies of the Appellations, b , alfo

0E pmpe‘r Names, which belongto fome Families, and Places, yljich
evabpingaloag with it ﬁmie or other Hiﬂortcal Relations, Thus; he

obferves of the Frangi am‘, an ancient Family of Rome, of which 5. Gre-
gar] the‘Great was a ranch, That it took its Name from a Lord of
that Houfe, who in time of great fcarcity, did in the Scripture Phrafe,
heal: 1m} Breadto tbe need}. _ ‘ , ' . . ,
He takesnotice amon It other things, ofthetrue Names OE many
time laﬂ: Century, who, afeaed and tookgup

w Pad:am,$mm . plum etc... iliutthenthéckémsrk 0504-
ﬂelvetro, is not to Be waited; . Thefe Learned menatQGlepthe 1m-

mor ofchanging their Name, when they, were admitted into the Am.

dew] qum, which was then fet up in Ital]; becauie they‘thought thofe ’
who were thus Honoured, had a {econd Birth, like thofe'who of Inﬁ-
dels became Chriﬂians, or Seculars Monks, He obferves alfo, that
one jorJane a f‘facobin Monk, who lived in the beginning of the thir-
teenth Century, told the People in a Sermon that it was, was not above

; tw years before that time, that Speaacle: were invented, and there-

upon e gives a Learned account of ﬁle/copes. . - 5 '

- ,T he fame Author has written a Book of the Etymologres of the Greek
Ton c, and anOther of the Root: of it, which he aﬂirms are but three
hun . And he gives us in this Work aconﬁderable Specimen of
this laﬁ inthe word Po,in Latin Padm, which he faith, comes from the
Greek word we», and thereupon he ﬂiews the defcentof the word
MG. Tho one 1 M. Lamqlat. has publilhed'aGarden of Greek Rain,

which is much eﬂeem’d, yet this Work oFMmagg’s, is much defired by

dreLearned- '

a: the end of this Work, he has put a coueaign' qr. therein» as.
verbs, with a very agreeable Ex lication of their Origine and Signiﬁ-

' eﬁmeaswdlslfrcpebliravcrbs-gm;
,... ﬁg... (”1"; _‘ i- . ‘.

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B 1. 3. Liorr'i-I E. Que: ‘ 3 686.

Iii/hire du Pontiﬁcat d: S. Gregoire The Hillary of the Popedom of Gre-
le Grand, par M Maiznhourg. . gory the Great, h] M. Maim-
‘- . urg. ‘

Printed it Paris h} Claude Barbin in erto; and. at Amiterdam h}
Wetltein, Defbordes, and Manner, in Duodecimo, in 1686.

- His Hiftory is divided into four Books; theﬁrﬂ of theﬁ: tells

' us, that this great Man did more to avord being chofen POpe,

than others now adays do to get that Chair: fo that had it not

been for a Miracle that difbovered him by the guidance of a Star, the

Papal Lift had never been honoured with his Name. Whereupon the

religious M Maimhourg checks the [furious ambition of thoﬁ' who h] their

ﬁamlalow Intrigue: ofera'himl of via ence to the Holy Ghoﬁfh] intruding into

the ﬁg} place of the Church again/i hi: Orders, by was}: that are. purely
human, and very much uncanom'cal. But alas, Who can help this?

Befides, the ﬁrﬂ Book treats of the .NegOtiations of this Pape with
the Lomhards, before and after their abjuring 'Ariam‘ 7», when they be-
came better Neghbours to the Romans; of his a pea ing fucceﬁfully the
Schifm which was ariling about the bufinefs o the three Chapters; a
neat Abridgment of which is in our Author : the pains this Pope took to
end the Schifm of the Damn/2:, which were then in being,in which he
had not the fame ﬁiocels. . But what he could nor eﬁ'ea, the Sarazem
foon after did, by extirpating Chriftianity it {Elf in Aﬁica. By the
by our Author obferves in this Book how much the Eleétion of the
Po 5 depended then upon the People and the Emperor. And he
oblgi‘ves allb the teat induﬂtry of this Pepe, 1n inltruaﬁng the Peo-

le, which he wiiﬁeth were continued. _ .

The lecond Book reprefents three DifFerences which arofe between
this Pope and the Emperor. T he'ﬁrft With 3‘01»: the Fa/ier, Patriarch
of Con/iamimple, upon the Title of Univerfal Bilhop. And here
M. Maimhourg gives a noble Charaéterof this Patriarch, and he much
blames (he Popes, for difputing f0 warmly afl‘itle which was no ways
injurious to the POpedom. In which Aﬁ‘air he contraditis what he
had laid himfelf before in his Hiﬁory of the Schilm of the Gmhx; but
that is necefi‘ary fbmetimes to bedone by men of much buﬁnels in the
World. The fecond Conteﬂ: was concerning the Elsa-ion of a
Bifhop of Salome, a City of Dalmatia, which the Pope would never
approve, thothe Emperor had conﬁrm’d the Ele&ion. The third was

rounded upon a Law of the Em , for reﬂraining the number of
t e Clergy and Monks, which came fo exceﬂively great, that the
State was thereby damnified. And here M. Maimhourg appears {Er
' S t c

12.5‘

February.
m

L‘

’126 _~ The Univerfalj Hﬁorical

February. the Emperor againft the Pope, and confutes all his Arguments againft
VW 'the Emperors Edict. But when he has done this, commends his com-
pliance with‘the Emperors Commands, and his Writing to him in re- .
fpeﬂul Terms. And he faith, It were to be wijhed that the] were written ‘
in Marbleor Bra/i, and ﬁt up in the rnoﬁ publick places, that a” the W'orld
might learn by the Example off/h great a Prelate, the obedience 13‘ due to ' -
the Powers God hath fet over us. Nay, he falls foul upon Baronin: too,
for [it ing this Pope did n0t publilh that Law till his Holinels had cor-
reéte it, and proves him worfe than miﬂjaken.
1n the third Book he féts forth the manner of the Converﬁonof the
Saxons, and lhews h’ow civilly Ethelrede King'of Kent entertained the
Preachers this Pope lent to him. And having much. commended that
Prince for giving his Subjects leave, to turn Chnl’tians, or cont" e
as they were; becaufe, as Bede tells us, he had been taught by t em
that Chriltianity was not to be forced upon any Body. Whereu on
this Prince lhewed molt kindnelé to them who left Idolatry. hie/t
( ﬁtith the good Father) a: Lewis the Great has done in our day: for the
Con‘verﬁon of the pretended fjformed, who have no caafe to complain; for it!
truth no perfon is forced; a g'ffome awurs have been granted to the con-
werted, which he i: not obliged to a 0rd them that obﬂinatel] per/2']? in He-
re/ie, yet there is no injury or injuﬂice done them, feeing there is nothing taken
This Gentle from them, but what the} ham ufurped contrary to the Edic‘h, and he has
23:31:: it; good right to punijh them when the] break his Lawr. After which he
his Epifilgbc- commends ““0 die eat Care (1115 Pope “”15, . that thc-lews in Ema.“
dicatory to the might m be £0 £91m .. - 5 13313,“ their-mils. . H.600?!“
King before eludes the third Book With an account 0 the State of S. Peter’s Patri-
this very Hi- mon , or the Lands of the Church in thofe days.
ﬂow. The fourth Book fecs before us the indefatigable Application'of this
Pope to the regulating the Church Dilcipline. I. As to the Number
of his Domelticlts. 2.. As to the Liturgies and Hymns, his Holinefs
takin great pains to inﬁruét, the fin 'ng Men and Boys himl'elfI
;. W at concerns the regulating the eétions of Biﬂmpsand their
Relidence. He lhews the ancient Forms of Elections, the Reps by
which the Cardinal: mounted to their prelent height. And he efpecially
oblerves this Pope treated Bilhops as his Brethren, and with an air very
tlilferent from the principles of the Ultrarnontam. And heis angry
that Epifoopacy, which is a Divine Inﬁitution, lhould, {ince the
year 1093, be let beneath the Cardinalat, which is only of Eccle-
liallick. And in the fourth place he tells us how 8. Gregory treated
Princes and their principal Minillers.
Tho he pretends n0t to write the private Life of this great Perfon,
{oumal dc: yet he has nOt Failed to lhcw us, that he was defcended of one of the
swim. Mr. molt Ancient andNoble Families of Rome, which before had given
18. 1686- to the Church 3 Pope called Felix the Third, great Grandfather to
S. Gregor] , and to the State fmany illuﬁrious Senators; and S. lire???
m e

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BIBLIOTHEQUE.1"686.

himlelf was one of the principal Men of this Body, and [6 much ap-
lauded,‘ that :fujiinian the Younger made him Prefec‘t of Rome; yet
e left the World, and took 11 the Habit of a Monk in the Monaltery
of S. Andrew, which he had ounded in his Patrimony; from whence
Pope Pelagiu: the Second foon drew him to make him one of his fe-
ven Deacons, and fént him his Nancie to Con/tantino'ple, to demand

. Succors of the new Emperor Mauritius the Cappadocian. He ﬁicceeded

this Pope in the year go, and overned that Sea thirteeen or four-
teen years with an inde atigableinsduﬁry. Preaching and ordering the
great Affairs of that Church himlélf, tho he was grievoully affliéted
With the Gout, extending his cares to Aﬂa, Africa and Europe, in all
which he’ laboured to re-el’tabliih or p. .Erve’ the Purity of the Faith,
and gOOd manners : Enlarging the Church by the-Converﬁon of the

Saxon, and the Redué’tion of the Lombard: and Viﬁgotlu, from Aria-
nifm to the Catholick Religion.

 

XX.

Memoire: Hi/iorique: é' .Geograi- A Geographick and Hi/forical Relate?

pbique: du‘Rojaume de la Mom: on oft/2e Morea, Negropont, am!
' Negropont civic: place: Maritime: . the Maritime place: a; far a;

yufque: ‘3 Teﬂaloniq” Recuili: é‘ Thelialonica. With Maps and

‘enricbi: Jet Game-s de: pail: é“ dc: Plane: of tbe Cities, 86c. ‘

12140:: par P.M.Coromli Geogra be Printed at Amllerdam; and may be

de la Rep. detVeni/e. Amﬂer am bad of M. George Wells , t/se

in Offer/o. I686. Publiﬂier of Hair.

 

yet there has been ﬁx feveral Editions of it Printed, faith the

-IT is not a full year agone ﬁnce this Work was lit-{t publilllcd, and

'- -'Authorof theymml JlxxScarpm. . Thefe two laﬂ in Fremb are
-much larger than thoie which were Printed in Italian at Venice.

The ﬁrﬂ part treats of the various Names by which this Countty
has been called in the different A es of the World, of its Figure,
Divilions Ancient and Modern, of its Provinces and Conﬁnes, to
which the Author has added a Geogra hick and Hiﬂorical Delcription
of the Maritime Places of this King om. And in the l'econd part he
lpeaks of the Gulfs or Bays, the Shoals and [Hands lying near it, with
their principal Towns, and fome other places of the Ionian Sea.

All the World knows, that the Morea was anciently called Pelopon-
mfm, from Pelop: the Son of Tantalus, Kin ‘ of Pbrygia: but then all
the World is noc fo well‘ac uainted with t c Hiﬂory of its Revolu-
tions under the Emperors o Con/tantinople, nor how itiell under the
Dominion of the Tar/ts, Coronelli tells us, that after it had been 3 Hon-

8 2 rilhing

I 2 7
February;
m

"t 2.8 ’77:: uniwdal Hﬁwiml'

February. rilhing Kingdom For fo {mall a Monarchy, and had fubmitted to di-

m vers greater wers, as they role one after anorher, it fell atlait into
the hands Emanuel Emperor of the Greeks, who parting his Eﬁate
between his {even Sons, gave 'the Morm to one of them. Theﬂe
Princes were called Defpotes. Yet this Di nity was nor Hereditary,
becaufe it ap ars the Emperors difpoﬁed o it to others, who had de-
lerved their avour, afterwards. '

Conﬂrmtim Dragares, Brother of Header the Second was .Deﬁwte of
the Morea , when Amaratb the Firﬂ mVaded it. And he bought
himfelf out of that danger with Many. And after this afcend'mg the
Imperial Throne, he divided the Morea between Demetrius and Thomas
his Brothers. The ﬁrﬁ had Sparta, and the fecond Corintb. - The
therences thele Brethers had with each other made them have re-
courfe to Mabomet the Second For his Proteétion. By which they both
loft their Sovereignty. For the Turk: declaring for Demetrius, fell

,‘ upon Tbomw, who being not able to rem}, ﬂed to Rome with S. An-
drej») his Head. Nor was Demetrius more happy, for contrary to their
Faith, the Turks carried him a prifbner to Adrianople. Where the
Htﬁory aﬂiires us to preferve his Daughter from dilhonour he was for-
ced to marry her himfelf; as if this had not been the worﬁ of Mileries.

After the dili‘nembrihg of the Greek Empire, this Country fell mto
the Hands of the Venetian, which, exerted their. name-then ti: to
defend it From the 'gTurb, and tp'rfW it when . hadliﬁ it:

, which hath had a great eﬁiaa 'in the three iaﬁ C‘ampams, _

The Author has taken care to give us delicate Planes and Pt". eéts
of allthe rincipal Places to the number of thirty, with about 1x fe-
veral fmallPMaps,_ahd Other ﬁne F tires, as the Turks Banner, (9'6.

In his Defcripnon of every place elhews the fabulous, ancient and
modern Hiﬂory,and he ives us Catalogues of their molt ancient Kings
with many other partic ars worthy of memory, all windiisperfomeci '
with great Brevity and Clearnef . _

As to the neighbourmg Iﬂands, the molt pleafaut are thole of Cgmou
and Cepbalania. The Gardens of King Aimee}, Io muchcelebrated
by the ancient Poets ,were in the firlt cruise; .

There are great numbers of other-things which would greatly spleafe
the Reader, if I hadtoom forthemmthisoonﬁned Paper.

XXI.

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XXI;

MIMa'rtim' Lifew'i Biﬂiotbem malt-r Theologica cranium ,wdtzridmm renew
a: titulamm ex univerﬁt SS. Thelalogiee' ﬁnder: occmmt'umtordttxe al-
phabetico’dﬁaﬁta (Tin 'reluor'ftvmoi divifé. ' .Frmzcofme‘i ml Mammy; a-
pud yobannemfFrideﬁtt).168ﬁ. in F121. .. .. .. ~ f.~ a. .

making a good Divine, it'does yet at leaft contribute... much to, the
improvement of his Learning and Knowledge. .'But:then, as this
.Faculty is norm hie-too much truﬂzed, mere is 3317665; need oﬁﬂrge

IF Memory is not one of the principal Faculties'req’uired to the

commonplace? Booksfor- jts relief, and to ﬁemamhed‘ametime
the mensenf? timejigle'quired for thefearc’lmhgimtf an tailihrau’y thofe
things mdhnd' 2m; need of: This hasu'pntmny Muted gMnn {upon
‘the drawing up Lexicons or Catalogues of , Authors. Where the Au-
thors namBS kid'— The way,’and the Subjects they treated 'of-were put
without anys'AlphabeticahQideg aﬁertdieir mum’s Names: {Sterne
Others have taken notice of the Matter: Books treat of; and have «put
after them the Names of all the Authors which have written upon
each Subjeé’t: which is the method ufed by Draudt‘m, and our prefent
Author MLipem‘ur. He pr0p0ﬁ:d to himfelf a valt deﬁgn, which
wasto draw up an Unt’verfal Btbliotbeque of all Subjeﬁr, divided into
four parts, accordingxo the fouraﬁaeultiesr-He ' Mof
thefe in the year 1679, at Franckﬁtrt under the Tit e of the Real Biblio-
tbeque of Law and Plajﬂck. He gives it the name of Real, becaule it
follows the order of things, and not of perfons, or Authors. Three
years after he publilhed in two Volumes the Pbilofopbt’ek Bibliotbeque,
where he gives Philofophy 'fo vaﬂ anxextent, that it takes in the whole
Body of Polite Learning. And then in 168;, he publifhed this
Tbeologick Bibliotbegue in two Volumes alfo. As this method was of
great ufe to thofe who deﬁred to know what Authors had written
Upon any Sumac}; f0 it was ’not ﬁtted for their fatisfaétion who
deﬁred to know what any particular Authoi had written; and to fa-
tisﬁe-{hemour Author-has put at the cndofeallhmmlﬂiﬂiaxbeques,
a largeTable of all the Anthors, and of all their Works; and summer
where the Sirnames are put before the Chriﬁian Names.

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The univetfal Hzﬂorical

XXII.

La Conﬁlatton ale 1’ Eglife en deax The Confolation of tbe Chuck in
Sermon: nuance: dam 1’ Eghﬁ two Sermon: , Preaclzed‘ in tbe
de la [gaffe par Frtderic . Span- Charcb'at the.‘Hague3 b] Fre-
lm’m. A la Ha]: Cbez. Abrabant 3der1ck Spanheim. 'j '
77'0”]; 1686.173 [2. ‘

Hefe Sermons are of great value upoo many Aeeounts ;‘ and
l yet {uch was the Modelty of the Author, that nothing 1d;

- than the Solicitations of her Royal Highnefs the Princefs 6f
Orange, who was prefent when he dehvered both of them, could have

~ prevailed with him to Print them. The Subjeét of the ﬁrlt Sermon _
. is taken out of the Lamentations of fferemz'ab; Where the Prophet con.

feﬂéth, that if the People were not entirely confumed, it was owing

‘ to the I?“ Mercy and meer favour of G O D. The fecond is taken

from t
reed.

ole Words of Iﬂtiab the Prophet, He will not break tbe [trailed

ADVERTISEMENT.

He Note at the Foot of page 121, i: a Miftake; for b} tbetbree
Oberlin“: in that place are meant tbe t/Jree Parties tbat adbered at
that time to tbe tbree contending Paper.

21 n dreamt of Boo/(r Trlnted by tbe ’Umlerai
taker bereof. '

I. N Addrefs to the Freemen and Free-holders of the Nati-
on, in Three Parts, Printed for George PVellr, at the Sun in
S.Paul’s Church-yard, London, in Quarto, in 1687., 8: 168;.

2. Reﬂections on a Pamphlet Stiled a jult and modell: Vindication
of the Proceedings of the two lal’c Parliaments, or a Defence of His Ma-
jef’ties Declaration, in Quarto, for the fame. '

, 3. The Jul’tice of Peace his Calling, a Moral Efl‘ay. For the fame,
in Octavo. in 1684.. .

4.. A Defence of Sir Robert Filmer, againlt the Miﬂakes and Mil‘re-
prefentations of Algernon Sidne Efquire, in a Paper delivered by him
to the SherifE‘ upon the Scafl‘o d on Tower-Hill, on Friday December 7.
1683. before hisExecution. Printed in Fol. for Walter Kettilb], at
the Biﬂrop: Head, 1n S. Paul’s Church-yard. 1684.

5. The Origine of Atheifm, in the Popilh and Proteltant Churches,
lhew’ri by Dorotbeare Sicurw, made Englsz, and 3 Preface added. Prin-
ted in (Luarto, for the fame. 1684..

6. Patriarcba, or the Natural Power of Kings, by the Learned
Sir Robert Filmer Baronet, the fecond Edition. Correéted according
to the Original Manufcript of the Author, out of which, in feveral
places, many large Additions are made, amounting in the whole to ten
pages, and many millakes retftiﬁed. To which is addeda Preface to
the Reader, in which this piece is Vindicated from the Cavils and
Mileonﬂmtﬁtions of the Author of a Book Stiled Patriarcba non Monar-
cba, and alto a Concluﬁon, or Poltlcript. By Edmund Bobun Elduire, in
Oétavo. Printed for Ricb.C/oifwell, George W'ells, SIC, ; 685.

7. The Apology of the Church of England; And an Epiltle to one
Seignior Scipioa Venetian Gentleman, concerning the Council of Trent,
written bathin Latin, by the Right Reverend Father in God, {fa/2n
7mm], Lord Billiop ofsamour]. To which is added the Life 0 the
{aid Billiop, by the T ranllator. Printed for Rich. Cbszell, at the Rafe
and Crown in S. Paul’s Church-yard, in Oétavo. 1685.

8. The Method and Order of Reading both Civil and Eccleﬁaflical
Hillories, in which the moPc excellent Hillorians are reduced, into the
Order in which they are lucceﬂively to be read;_ and the judgments of
Learned Men concerning each of them, lubjoin’d. By Degoneu:
ll/beore, Camden Reader ofiHiltory at Oxford. To which is added an
Appendix concerning the Hiltorians of particular Nations, as well An-
Cient as Modern, by Nichol/z: Hor/emon. Made Englifb, and enlarged
by Edmund Bobun ER]; Printed at London, for Clmrle: Broome at the
Gun, at the Well end of SPaul’s Church-yard, in Qétavo. 1685‘

 

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