thor. Having obferved, That Thomas, a Ciftercian Monk, and Abbot of Dundranan in Galloway, was fent to the Council of Bafil by the Clergy of Scotland, he takes Occafion from thence to infert an Hiftorical Account of that Council. Adam Blacater, having cenfured Livy for his Digreffion concerning Alexander the Great, our Author gives us, in the Life of that Scotch Writer, an Account of the Faults, that are generally imputed to that Famous Hiftorian by the Criticks of the former and latter Ages. Such is the Method of the Au thor.

To make the Readers fully fenfible of the, Ufefulnefs of this Work, I think it neceffary to inform them, that the Author has inferted in it the following Pieces, among others.

1. An Account of the Controverfy between the Eastern and Western Churches about the Celebration of Eafter, ma

d2. A Difcourfe fhewing by what means Papacy rofe, its prefent Greatness.

0 39 An Abstract of Claudianus Mamertus's Book concerning the Immateriality of the Soul, by which fays our Author) the Reader will find the Arguments that were then made ufe of for defending the Materiality of the Soul, and Mamertus's Reafonings against them, which are the very dame that have been made ufe of fince by the Fas mous M. Defcartes in his Meditations".

6. An Account of the Difpute relating to the immaculate Conception of the Bleffed Virgin."

7. The Origin of anointing Kings, and how and when that Cuftom was introduced into Scotland.

8. A fhort Hiftory of Church-Mufick.

9. An Account of the Book of Sentences written by the Famous Peter Lombard.

10. An Account of Lully, and his Opinions.

11. A Difcourfe wherein our Author fhews what Prejudice the Schoolmen have done to the Christian Religion, by their extravagant Fondness for Aristotle's Philofophy.

The Tranfactions of the Council of Bafil, as I have already obferved.

of Geography be St. Virgil, Bishop of mn I schni

13. An Account of the State fore, and at the Time of Saltzburg.

14. An Account of the Deftruction of the Knights Templars.

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5. An Account of Wickliffe, and his Opinions.

Hiftory of Scotland to which fhall be conti

16. An Abridgment of the the Death of King James V. nued in the IIId Volume, till the Union of the Two Kingdoms.

17. The firft Rife of the Reformation among the Brethren of Bohemia,

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18. The Proceedings of the Councils of Conftance, against John Hufs and Jerome of Prague.

19. An Account of the Reformation in Germany, and other Countries.napsida.

20. The Proceedings of the Council of Trent.
20. The Proceedings of th

21. The Hiftory of the Pragmatick Sanction.

22. An Account of all the Ancient Customs among the Romans, and of their Government Civil and Military.

23. The firft Rife and Progrefs of the Civil Laws and alfo the firft Occafion of many particular Laws and many other Incidents, the Knowledge whereof is abfolutely neceffary to understand the Roman HiItorians, and the Claffick Authors.

24. An Account of the Jugurthine War.

25. The Life of St. George, Patron of England.

26. An Account of the Hebrew Golpel of St. Martothew, and of all the Gofpels forged by the Hereticks in the Primitive Times.

27. An Account of the Diftinction between the Civil and Ecclefiaftical Power, and the different Obli gations we owe to them.

28. The various Opinions of the Learned concerning the Situation of the Terreftrial Paradife. -os ad, lad de

T2941 A Geographical Description of Scotland.

30. The Hiftory of the Knights of St. John of Ferufalem is to gat

31. The Hiftory of the Rife and Progress of the Canon-Law.

32. The

32. The Hiftory of the Inquifition.

33. An Account of the Sibyls and their Oracles, with the Ceremonies ufed by the Heathens in confulting them, and the Strange Agitations of their Priests, fo, perfectly imitated by our New Sect of Enthu fiafts, called the Prophets.

34. An Account of Pythagoras, and his Discoveries in Geometry and Aftronomy.

35. The Origin and Progrefs of Judicial Aftrology, with an Account of the Famous Apollonius Tyaneus.

36. The various Methods of the Ancients and Mo derns to measure the Earth.

37. Some Curious Obfervations concerning the Height of Mountains, and the Depth of the Sea.

38. An Account of the Lives of many Ancient Philofophers and Poets, fuch as Virgil, Horace, A; thenæus, Strabo, Plutarch, Palephatus, Diogenes Laertius, Cicero, Pliny, Ariftotle, Theophraftus, Philo Fudaus, &c.

Thefe are fome of the principal Digreffions in ferted in this Work; to which I add, That the Reader will find in the Preface of the Second Vo+ Jume a fhort Hiftory of the Scots College at Paris.

Dr. Mackenzie hopes this Collection may be "of fome Ufe to thofe Gentlemen, whofe Occafions and Circumftances cannot allow them to be "furnished with great Libraries, or Collections of 84 Books ; fince they will find (in what he has al"ready published) an Abftract or Abridgment of an Hundred

"Hundred and Forty Three Volumes, and Seventy "Six Letters, written upon the moft ufeful Parts of Learning; befides the Hiftory of the Proceedings and Decifions of Forty Four Councils, upon the most important Points of Theology.

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What has been faid, is fufficient to give a general Notion of the Nature of this Work. I fhall, in the next Place, take Notice of fome Paffages contained in it

1. The firft Author who appears in this Collection, is the Famous Pelagius. 'Tis agreed on all Hands, that he was born in Great Britain; but many Learn ed Men are divided in their Opinions about the Place of his Birth. Some will have him to have been bborn in Wales, and others in Scotland. Our Author maintains, That he was a British Scot, and alledges Three Paffages of St. Jerome to prove it. The First is expreffed in thefe Words: Nec recordatur (Pelagius) ftolidiffimus & Scotorum pultibus prægrava tus * Dr. Mackenzie gives us an Account of the Life of that Heretick, and of the Difputes wherein he was engaged.

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Richard de Sancto Victore † writ, among other Books, Two Treatifes upon Emanuel, or a Commentary upon thefe Words of Ifaiah, A Virgin fhall conceive and bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call his Name Emanuel; in which he proves against a Jew, that they ought to be understood of Jefus Chrift, and the Bleffed Virgin. Dr. Mackenzie obferves, that the chief Objections of that Jew, and the Anfwers to them, deferve to be taken Notice of.

So called, because he was made Abbot of St. Vi&or in France.