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ma vim legis Decalogi effe fublatam do"ceat apertiffime, adhuc tamen locum unum adjungam, ut innovationem per adventum Chrifti fa"ctam melius intelligatis. Decalogi igitur legem effe "fublatam cognofces tu manifefte, fi locum unum legas Jeré, 31. Foedtis initum cum patribus quando "egrediebantur de Egypto, fublatum docet Propheta. Hoc autem fuit foedus Decalogi. Dicitur enim 3 Reg. 8. quod in Arca erat foedus initum cum pa"tribus in egreffu de Ægypto, fcilicet Decalogus. "Hinc dicebatur Arca foederis, Tabule foederis, & "decem verba fœderis. Hæc autem fuit pacifcendi "formula. Deus promittit illos fore fibi populum, fi "ea verba faciant: Et illi ea verba fe facturos recipiunt. Ecce foedus. Hoc autem foedus fublai. tum docet Jeremias dicto cap. 31. & Ezechiel cap. 16. & Paulus Heb. 8. Si ea lege nos nunc in fuos recipiat Deus, eo jugo preffi fimilitér periremus, & effemus, fub maledicto. Sublata eft ergo lex illa. Non fub eo foedere nos nunc in fuos recipit Deus, fed fide fola Jefu Chrifti filii dilecti. "Afpicite igitur quale fit Evangelium veftrum Lege "confufum. Evangelium veftrum eft fine uno Deo, "fine fide vera, fine bonis operibus. Pro uno Deo ἐσ habetis tricipitem Cerberum, pro fide vera ha"betis fatale fomnium, & opera bona dicitis effe inic anes picturas. Chrifti fides eft vobis merus fucus, "nihil efficiens: Homo eft vobis fervi arbitrii chi

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mæra. Regenerationem ex aqua coeleftem non "agnofcitis, fed velut fabulam habetis. Regnum "coelorum clauditis ante homines, ut rèm imagina"riam a nobis excludendo. Væ vobis, væ, væ. Hac "tertia Epiftola te ita monitum volo, ut melius co Vol. IV.

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This Letter bears no Date. The Superfeription runs thus: A Monfieur M Abel. Servetus writ a very fair Hand.

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gites, non amplius ita moniturus. Offendit vos "forfan quod pugnæ illi Michaelis me immifceam, & vos immifceri defiderem. Sed locum illum diligenter expende, & videbis homines fore qui ibi pugnabunt, animas fuas morti exponendo, in fanguine & teftimonio Jefu Chrifti. Angelos vero dici obvium eft in Scripturis. Annon vides ibi agi de Ecclefia Chrifti jam tot annos fugata? An non de re futura eft divifio, ut ipfemet Johannes afferit? Quis eft ibi accufator ille, qui ob legum " & præceptorum tranfgreffionem nos ante accufa bat? Ante pugnam ait fore accufationem illam, " & orbis feductionem: Ergo fequitur pugna, & tempus prope eft, ut ait. Qui funt illi, qui victo"riam reportabunt de Beftia? Non accipientes characterem ejus. Mihi ob eam rem moriendum effe certo fcio; fed non propterea animo deficior, ut fiam difcipulus fimilis præceptori. Hoc coleo quod per vos non licuit emendare locos aliquot in fcriptis meis, quæ funt apud Calvinum. Vale, & a me non amplius literas expecta.

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Super cuftodiam meam ftabo, contemplabor, & "videbo quid fit dicturus.

Nam veniet, certe veniet, & non tardabit,"

This Letter contains feveral offenfive and extravagant Expreffions. Servetus was a great Zealot, as noft Hereticks are: Can it be expected that a Zealot fhould keep within the Bounds of Moderation ? Befides, it ought to be confidered that he lived in an Age, that was not fo polite as ours; in an Age wherein the Great Calvin himself did not fcruple to call him a Dog, even in his. Commentaries upon the Bible. The Heterodox Writers of our own Time have much ado to observe the Rules of Decorum: They break out fometimes into unbecoming Expreffions. I really believe that Servetus expected to fuffer Death for his DoAtrine fome time or other. I am, SIR,

Yours, &c.

See the third Letter in Art. XXVIII.

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ARTICLE XVII.

ROME.

HE Abbot Fontanini is printing a Catalogue of Cardinal Imperiali's Library. That Library con fifts of many Choice Books; and that Catalogue is drawn up in a very good Method.

PARIS.

M. Billecoq has published a Book that will be of

Ufe to the French, and to Foreigners. He thought it neceffary to print the Rules of the French Pronunciation.

Les Regles de la Prononciation de la Langue Françoise. Par Monfieur B. Paris, 1711. in 12mo. pagg. 356.

The Author owns that Pronunciation is to be learned by Ufe; but because there is a right and a wrong Pronunciation in Ufe, he thinks they cannot be well diftinguished without Rules. The Rules prefcribed in this Book, contain all the Difficulties of the French Pronunciation, difpofed in an Alphabetical Order, and expreffed with grear Perfpicuity.

A Third Edition, very much enlarged, of M. de la Mothe's Odes is lately come out.

Les Odes de Mr. de la Mothe de l' Academie Françoife, avec un Difcours fur la Poefie en general, & fur l'Ode en particulier. Troifiéme Edition augmentée de plufieurs ouvrages. Paris, 1711. Two Volumes in 12mo. pagg. 293, and 305.

Six new Pieces have been added to the firft Volume, viz. Five Odes, and a Poem in the Praise of Homer. M. de la Mothe defigns to publifh a French Tranflation of Homer's Illiad in Twelve Books. He takes a great Liberty in his Tranflation, and leaves out whatever, appears to him unworthy of that Excellent Poet. The Author feigns, in one of his new Odes, that Homer appears to him and prescribes to him the following Rules. CHOISIS

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Si la Parque me remettoit au bord François.
Croi que de plus d'une harangue
I abregerois mes longs combats :
Mes heros dignes de leur gloire,
Impatiens de la victoire,

Vaincroient & ne fe loueroient pas.

Du faux merveilleux de la Fable Mes vers fe feroient garantis,

Et j'y tiendrois au vrai-femblable

Les Dieux même affujetis.

There are Eleven new Odes in the fecond Volume, befides fome other new Pieces.

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ARTICLE XVIII.

BERNARDINI RAMAZZINI in Patavino Gymnafio Practice Medicine Profefforis Primarri, de Principum Valetudine tuenda Commentatio, dicata Sereniffimo Mutinæ Principi Francisco ESTENSI. Acceffit præter Indicem rerum, Vita Autoris & nova Præfatio MICHAELIS ERNESTI ETMULLERI, Philof. & Med. D. Anatomiæ & Chir. Prof. Publ. Extraord. Facultatis Medicæ Lipfienf. Affeff. & Academiæ Naturæ Curiof. College. Juxta Exemplar excufum Patavii, fumptibus Jo. Frider. Gleditsch. & Filii, Bibliopol. Lipf. M DCC XI.

That is,

A TREATISE fhewing how the Health of Princes may be preferved, by BRRNARDIN RAMAZZINI Profeffor of Phyfick in the University of Padua. To which is added the Life of the Author, and a new Preface by MICHAEL ERNESTUS ETmuller, Doctor of Phyfick, Profeffor of Anatomy, &c. at Leipfick. Reprinted from the Copy of Padua. Leipfick, 1711. in 8vo. Pagg. 144. Sold by Paul Vaillant in the Strand.