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"comme il fault parler, & proceder en jugement, vous fupplie humblement luy doner un procureur, lequiel parle pour luy. Ce fefant farés bien, & no"ftre Seigneur profperera voftre republique. Faict en voltre cité de Geneve le 22. daoft, 1553.

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Michel Servetus de Ville neufve en fa caufe propre.

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To my most Honoured Lords the Syndics and Council of Geneva.

"MICHAEL Servetus humbly fheweth, That Profecution of a Man for the Do"ctrine of the Scripture, or for any Question arifing from it, is a new Invention, unknown to the "Apoftles and their Difciples, and to the Ancient "Church. As it appears, First, from the Acts of "the Apoftles, Chap. 18, & 19. where fuch Accu

fers are caft off, and referred to the Churches, "when there is no Crime in the Cafe, and 'tis on"ly a Matter relating to Religion. Likewise in the "Time of the Emperor Conftantin, when there were great Herefies, and criminal Accufations,

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both on the Part of Athanafius and Arius, the faid "Emperor with the Advice of his Council, and of "all the Churches, decreed, That according to the "Ancient Doctrine, fuch Accufations fhould not be "admitted, even tho a Man were an Heretick, as

Arius was; that all their Difputes fhould be deter"mined by the Churches, and that a Man con"victed, or condemned by them, fhould be banish

ed, unless he repented. That Punishment was at "all Times inflicted upon Hereticks in the Ancient Church, as may be proved by a Thousand other

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"Paffages and Authorities. Wherefore, my Lords, "the faid Petitioner begs, that he may be no longer profecuted as a Criminal, agreeably to the "Doctrine of the Apostles and their Difciples, and "of the Ancient Church, who never admitted any "fuch Accufation.

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"Secondly, my Lords, the Petitioner befeeches you to confider, that he has committed no Fault ἐσ in your City, nor any where elfe; that he has 66 not been a Seditious Man, nor a Difturber of the Publick Peace; (for the Matters treated by him are difficult, and fuch as can only be un"derftood by Learned Men); that all the Time "he was in Germany, he never difcourfed of those Things but with Oecolampadius, Bucer and Capi

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and that he never imparted his Opinions "to any Body in France. Befides, he always dif approved, and continues to difapprove the Anabaptifts, who oppose the Magiftrates, and would have all Things to be common. Wherefore he "concludes, That he ought not to be profecu"ted as a Criminal, for fetting forth fome Que "ftions debated by the Ancient Doctors of the Church, fince he has done it without acting like a Seditious Man,

"Thirdly, my Lords, because he is a Fo reigner, wholly unacquainted with the Customs "of this Country, and knows not how to fpeak and proceed in his Trial, he humbly befeeches you to give him an Attorney, who may speak for him. It will be well done; and the Lord will profper your Republick. From your City of Geneva.. u August 22. 1553,

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Michael Servetus of Villanueva, pleading his own Cause.

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Servetus prefented fome other Petitions, of which I fhall give you an Account hereafter. I am,

SIR,

Yours, &c.

See the Fourth Letter in Art. XXXVI.

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ARTICLE XXIX.

HALL.

NEW Life of Henry the Fowler, King of the Saxons, has been lately published by M. Gundlingius Profeffor of Eloquence."

D. Nic. Hieron. Gundlingii, Confiliarii Boruff. & Prof. Eloquentia Halenfis de Henrico Aucupe, Francia Orientalis Saxonumque Rege, Liber fingularis, in qué Reipubl. facies ex genuinis documentis, diplomatibus, tabulis, chartis fcriptoribufque æqualibus in luce collo catur. Hale Magd. 1711. in 4to.

The Author designs to publifh the Lives of the other Saxon Kings and Emperors.

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M. Deylingius has put out the fecond Part of his

Obfervationes Sacra.

D. Salomonis Deylingii Obfervationum Sacrarum Pars fecunda, cum figuris aneis & Indicibus neceffariis. Lip fie 1711. in 4to..

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This Book contains Fifty Obfervations upon fo many Paffages of the Old and New Teftament. In the firft the Author undertakes to clear Mofes from the Accufation of Pantheifm. In the IX h he fhews that the Land of Canaan was a very fruitful Country, as we read in the Scripture; and alledges the laft Verse of the IVth Chapter of Malachi, and fome other Reasons, to account for its prefent Barrenness. M. Deylingius does frequently confure Sir John Mar fham, Mr. le Clerc, Father Hardouin, and feveral other Authors.

[A further Account of this Book will be inferted in another Article.]

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TUBINGEN.

M. Hiller has published a Book, containing many Grammatical Obfervations upon the Hebrew

Tongue.

Matthai Hilleri, SS. Theol. Gracaque & Orient. Lin guar. Prof. Publ. Inftitutiones Lingua Sancta. Tubinga, 1711, in Octavo.

PARIS.

ATHER Mabillon publifhed Four Volumes in Folio of the Annals of the Benedictins, and left behind him a Vth Volume, that reaches to the Year 1157. That Volume was to be printed by Father Ruinart, who defigned to go on with the Annals of his Order, if Death had not prevented it. Father Maffuet, Author of the New Edition of St. Ireneus, has undertaken to publifh the Vth Volume of those Annals, and to carry on that Work to this fent Time.

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AMSTERDAM.

M. Gronovius has lately published a Book, wherein

he criticizes Dr. Kufter's Edition of Suidas. The latter is preparing an Answer.

The Second Edition of Mr. Le Clerc's Ars Critica is in great Forwardness: It will come out with fome confiderable Additions.

A New Edition of Diodorus Siculus is to be printed here, with feveral Learned Obfervations of Mr. Wasse.

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ATHER de Gravefon, a French Benedictin, Doctor of the Faculty of Paris, and Profeffor of Divinity at the Minerva, is printing a Chronological Book relating to the Life of Jefus Chrift. De annis myfteriis Chrifti. The Author was very much efteemed at Paris, and has acquired a great Reputati on in this City.

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