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* H ARTICLE LXH.

THEOLOGIE

SPECULATIV Æ SCHEMA, è variis Syftematibus mo!: dernis, magnam partem, excerptum, ab incautis quorundam placitis repurgatum, Sacrarum Scripturarum authoritate confirmatum, nec non Ec**clefiæ Anglicanæ Articulis maxime confonum. Cui acceffit brevis præcipuarum Controverfiarum per totam Theologiam Difcuffio, è variis Autoribus in opem & fubfidium Tironum colle&ta, & ad locum cuique congruum relata. Per LAUR. FOGG, S. T. P. Dec. Ceftrienf. Londini. Excudebat J. H. pro R. Mingbul Bibliopola Ceftri enfi, & proftant venales apud H. & G. Mortlock ad Infigne Phanicis in Area Paulina. 1712.

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A COMPENDIUM OF DIVINITY, taken (for the greatest Part) from five

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ral. Modern Systems; cleared from the wrong Opinions of fome Divines; cónfirmed by the Authority of the Holy Scriptures, and perfectly confonant to the Articles of the Church of England. To which is added a bort Difcuffion of the chief Theological Controverfies, collected from feveral Authors for the Ufe of Students, each of which is inferted in its prod per Place. By LAURENCE FOGG, D. D. and Dean of Chefter. London 1712. in 8vo. Pagg. 461.

THE Reverend Dr. Fogg, Dean of Chefter, is the First English Divine, who has published a full Syftem of Divinity. Being fenfible, that Books of that Nature, compofed by the Foreign Prote ftants, contain fome Opinions difproved by the Church of England, he thought it neceffary to put into the Hands of the English Students a Course of Theology perfectly agreeable to the Thirty-nine Articles. The Author's Syftem is fhort, perfpicuous, and very methodical. All needlefs Questions have been laid afide: The Objections are propofed, and anfwered in a few Words: The most important Controverfies are interfperfed through the whole Work, and treated with great Clearness.

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This Syftem confifts of XIII Chapters,

In the Ift, The Author treats of the Nature of Theology:

In the IId, Of the Holy Scripture a

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In the IIId, Of God and his Attributes:

In the IVth, Of the Holy Trinity:

In the Vth, Of the Internal Works of God

In the VIth, of his External Works :

In the VIIth, Of his actual Providence:

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In the VIIIth, Of the Government of Men after the Fall.

In the IXth, Of the new Covenant of Grace, and its Mediator :

In the Xth, Of the Sacraments of the New Co

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In the XIth, Of the Application of Redemp

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In the XIIth, Of the Church.

In the XIIIth, Of Regeneration, Juftification, Sanctification, and Eternal Life.

I fhall only take notice of Two Paffages. . The Author makes fome Obfervations upon fome Verfes of the IXth Chapter of the Epiftle to the Romans. Thofe Obfervations are entitled, Annotationes in Com mata quædam Cap. IX. ad Rom. que dum multi ad Predeftinationis Doctrinam minus congrue applicant, duré fonant, & conceptus haud Deo dignos mentibus noftris ingenerare apta funt.

2. He advises young Students to read the Fathers with Judgment, because they frequently differ in their Notions of the Words Substance, Hypoftafis,

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and soía. Cum judicio legendi funt Patres, qui non raro fententiis diffident in ufu pocum, Subftantiæ, Hy. poftafews, rias, ut patet ex Hieron. ad Dardan. Aug. Lib. V. de Trin. Cap. vIII, p. 1x, Socrat. Hift. Tri, Lib. VI.

This Compendium of Divinity is written with great Judgment: It contains a great deal of Mat ter in a little Compafs, and is perhaps the moft fub. ftantial Abridgment in that Kind that ever was pub lifhed. The Author fays, it would have been more perfect, had it not been for his great Age, and the Weakness of his Sight

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A REMARKABLE Paffage concerning the Trials of Witches, which I Should have inferted above,) taken from M. Leibnit's Effay upon the Goodnefs of God, the Free-will of Man, and the Origin of Evil, pag. 216, 217:

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LEIBNITZ having mentioned a Book of Father Frederick Spee, a Jefuit of a Noble Family in Weftphalia, goes on thus:

"The Meinory of that Excellent Man ought to "be dear to all Learned and Judicious Perfons, be

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† I have given an Account of that Essay.

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cause he is the Author of the Book intituled, Cau "tio Criminalis circa proceffus contra Sagas *, which "made a great Noife, and has been tranflated into

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many Languages. I have been informed by the "Illuftrious Elector of Mentz, John Philip de Schon "born, Uncle of his prefent Electoral Highness, "who glorioufly follows the Steps of his Worthy "Predeceffor, That Father Spee, who happened to "be in Franconia, when the pretended Sorcerers "were burnt apace, having attended many to the "Place of Execution, and found out by his Inqui ries, and their Confeffions, that they were all innocent, was fo moved with it, that tho' it was a dangerous thing to fpeak the Truth, he refolved to write that Book (without putting his Name to it,) which had a very good Success, and made "fuch an Impreffion upon that Elector, who was "then only a Canon, and fince Bifnop of Wurtsburg, "and at laft Archbishop of Mentz, that he put an "End to the Burning of any Body on Account of "Witchcraft, as foon as he came to the Regency. Wherein he was followed by the Dukes of Brunf wick, and at laft by moft of the Princes and States of Germany."20051074

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That is, A Caveat about the Proceedings against Witches.

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