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This Trearife concerning the Chriftian Priefthood is an Excellent Piece. St. Chryfoftom difcovers a great Knowledge of Human Nature: His Defcriptions are lively, his Obfervations very Judicious, his Moral Precepts admirable; and the whole Book is written with great Perfpicuity and Elegance. The Publick is very much obliged to Mr. Thirlby for publishing fuch a fair Edition of that Work. It were to be wifhed that the beft Pieces of the Fathers were printed by themselves for the Ufe of thofe, who are not able to buy the Works of those Ancient Writers.

Mr. Thirlby informs us that the Greck Text of this Treatife, efpecially in the three laft Books, has been collated a fecond Time with Manufcripts, and is more correct than it was in the foregoing Edition. He has revised the Notes, and made fome Alterations in them, He has alfo mended feveral Faults, and altered fome things in the Differtation. The whole has been performed according to the Notions of the late Editor, who defigned to reprint St. Chryfoftom's Treatife.

As for what concerns the Differtation prefix'd to this Work, I fhall only obferve, that the Author undertakes to prove,

I. That the Chriftian Church is a true, (tho' Spirirual,) Society properly fo call'd, diftinct from all other Societies; and that every Man is bound to be a Member of it.

II. That the Government of that Society was committed by the Apoftles to the Bifhops, with a Power of ordaining the Minifters of the Church.

III. That this Chriftian Society was not confounded with the Civil Society ever fince the Time of Conftantin the Great, but always remained a whole Body diftinct from the Civil Society in every thing relating to the Spiritual Power.

IV. That the Power of Excommunication belongs to the Church Jure Divino,

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V. That none have a Right to adminifter the Lord'sSupper but Priests duly ordained by Bishops.

VI. That the Laity never had a Right, properly fpeaking, to give their Votes at the Election of the Clergy. Thefe are the Heads on which the whole Differtation runs.

I fhall hereafter give an Account of St. Gregory Nazianzen's Apologetical Oration, and of Mr. Thirlby's Notes upon it.

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SOME Particulars relating to CASTALIO, In a Letter to *** By the Author of these Memoirs.

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AVING mentioned a Paffage of Caftalio in the foregoing Article, I fhall infert here aLetter occafioned by thefe Words of Dr. Spencer in his Notes upon the First Book of Origen against Celfus, pag. 10. " Per"beatum hominum genus! quibus licitum erit cuticu"lam fimul & religionem impentius reliquis curare,

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congeftis frui decimis, & nefcire Mufas, jactaque "harpagine fibi rerum omnium emolumenta atque ip"fos homines adhamare, qua nec ftipites curfu flumi❝nis devectos attrahere Caftellioni concedebatur.

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HAVE by me a Letter written by Caftalio to the Magiftrates of Bafil, whereby I am able to clear the Paffage, about which you defire fome Information. You know that unhappy Man (infelix Literator) was violently perfecuted by Calvin and Beza. It appears

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from the Letter of that Good and Learned Mau, that thofe two Illuftrious Reformers took hold of every Opportunity to cry him down, and deftroy his Reputation. They called him a Papist, which was a moft unreasonable Accufation. They faid he had tranflated the Bible into Latin at the Inftigation of the Devil. Unum eft (crimen) quod Biblia tranftulerim impulfu, inftin&tuque Diaboli. Cogitate quam verifimiliter hoc fcripferunt. When Rivers overflow, they frequently carry down feveral Pieces of Wood, which any Body may lawfully get and keep for his own Ule. Caftalio, who was poor, and had a Wife and Children, got with an Harping-Iron fome Wood float ing upon the Rhine. When Calvin and Beza heard of it, they proclaimed every where that he had ftolen fome Wood belonging to his Neighbours. "Alte"rum (crimen) eft, quod vicini mei ligna harpagone rapuerim. Hinc cognofcite, mei clementiffimi Domini, quales fint accufatores mei. Si enim eorum accufationi credetis, oportebit non folum me, verum etiam vicinos tunc meos, & pifcatores multos, aliofque cives Bafilienfes, fortaffe plufquam "trecentos, mecum dare furti pœnas, quippe qui "eadem ligna mecum palam rapuerint. Hoc ifti

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PAGONEM, &c. This is a Remarkable Inftance of Odium Theologicum. I think, Sir, I have fuffici ently cleared the Pafiage about which you have been pleated to confult me, &c.

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Bellefontaine complains, that our Physicians feel the Pulfe of their Patients too haftily. "The Chinese † (fays he) are more fuccessful in Feeling the Pulfe: Which is not to be wondered at, because they generally beftow an Hour upon it; during which Time the Mafs of the Blood goes feveral Times through the Ventricles of the "Heart: And therefore, after fuch a long Obfer"vation, they are able to judge of the Conftitution "of the whole Mafs. But our Phyficians take a "different Course; and I think they are to blame "for not beftowing all the Time that is Neceffary. "When they have obferved fome Beatings of the Pulfe, they immediately give over, and fancy they know the Confiftence of the whole Mafs of the "Blood; wherein they are mistaken. For it may happen, that the Particles of Blood that follow "immediately, will have another Confistence, and "be differently mixed. Befides, an extraneous Ferment, coming from the Conduits of the folid

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Parts, may get into the Blood, which never"theless remains found, till thofe heterogeneous "Particles are conveyed into the Heart, where "they cause a Fermentation in the whole Mass. "And therefore the Pulfe muft needs have different Beatings, and be fometimes ftronger or weaker, quicker or flower.

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* This is a Continuation of the News from Amferdam in the iv Article.

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The Author fays, That if Two of those Animalcula, or Worms, that are in a Man, get into a Woman's Egg, there will arife from it a monftrous Production, like that which he faw at Mofcow in the Year 1701. at the Houfe of M. Bafil Pofnikof, who has been employed by his Czarian Majefty in feveral Embaffies and Negotiations. That Monster liv'd but few Hours. It had four Arms and four Legs, and but one Head; but the Neck was a little bent to the right Side, and there was a kind of a Neck without a Head on the left Side a little above the Clavicula. I believe, fays M. Bellefontaine, that thofe two Necks stuck one to another, whilft the two Bodies grew up; and that one of them had no Head, because that Part could not grow for want of Nourishment. The Author diffected the Breaft and the Abdomen of that Monster, and found the Parts quite otherwife than they fhould have been. Afterwards he diffected the Head, and found every thing dif pofed according to Nature. That Monster was pur into Brandy, to be preferved by M. Peter Pofnikof, Doctor of Phyfick, eldest Son to the Gentleman above-mentioned.

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The Author has inferted in his Book fome Obfervations, which he made in the Year 1705. at Bandar-Abaffi, in the Perfian Gulph. 1. All the Time that he was there, viz. from the Beginning of April to the End of August, he obferved no other Difeafes but Malignant Fevers attended with Paroxyfms. 2. The Fever did generally redouble every Day; bur in fome Perfons, only once in two Days. 3. During all that Time, every Body died after the Third Paroxyfm, unless that Paroxyfm, or the Second, was attended with a Sweat. 4. When the Sweat was very plentiful in the firft Paroxyfm, the Second was not fo violent, but the Sweat increased; and when the Sweat came out in the Second Paroxyfm, the Third alfo was lefs violent, and the Sweat more plentiful. The Author fays, That feve-ral Perfons, who feem'd to have a very ftrong Con

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