&c. which was repeated Nov. 1. By these means the inflammation a bated, and the pain grew less. Nov. 5. the iris began to recover its movement, except that part which was wounded, and the patient could diftinguish objects, tho' faintly.

For a ftill further derivation from the part, I made a fontanel in the arm; and now freed the eye from the compress and bandage, the air being to the eyes a natural element. What next demanded attention was the wound itself, at which a small veficle by its prominency gave fome uneasiness. I pierc'd it with a couching needle, but by the next day it was filled again. I then attempted to deftroy it by a touch of the Lap. Infernal. yet unfuccefsfully, for when the flough caft off, it appeared no fmoother than before. Rejecting this painful method, I had recourse to as tight a bandage as the part would bear, together with a collyrium, ex aq. rofar. & facchar. faturn. which fucceeded better, but not entirely well, there ftill remained fome degree of elevation.

Nov. 21, every thing was thrown aside but the collyrium. Dec. 12, which was yesterday, I faw her again. The cicatrix appears smoother, is not at all troublesome, and the fight (excepting the interruption from the cicatrix) as clear and strong as that of the other eye.

A cafe not very unlike this is recorded in the Philofophical Tranfa&ions (vide Mibles's Abridgment of the Essays, &c. Vol. 2. p. 364.) com municated by Mr Baker, attended too with the like happy event.

Mr URBAN,

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Cambridge, Nov. 27, 1747.

OW far the Cyclopædia may be improved, and rendered more copious (without enlarging the price) fufficiently appears by the fpecimens publifh'd in the Mifc. Cor. No. 3, 4, 5, 6.The propofer of this Improvement, inftead of hinting the leaft defect in Mr Chambers, feems to extol him too much. His character is not very high here; however his greatest fault is copying the faults of others. That he had a genius far beyond fome other compilers of dictionaries, is easily discovered by comparing their prefaces. Poor Nat. Bayley, being told of his preface, honesty owned that (like fome mechanics) he could furnish tools for others, but knew not to use them himself.

However master Bayley's work, if you can pardon the infertion of fome indecent words, has not near fo many faults, as the highly extolled English and Latin Compendium, of which the fecond edition, tho' unpurged of them, is lately published under the fanction of the royal name, procured on pretence of great labor; what that only can effect, may be discover'd by the new preface, which stands much more in need of honest Nat's apology, as this dictionary is defigned to furnish phrafes as well as fingle wards, for the use of the British Nation.I fhall, if it be acceptable, in my next, by giving a fhort lift only of the corrigenda (for the whole will fill a pamphlet) fhew, how many improvements may yet be made even upon Ainsworth, and what room there is for a better Latin Dictionary.

Yours,

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NUMBER VIII.

CONTAINING,

I. Remarks on DANIEL and the REVELATION, continued from Number VI. P. 327 II. Animadverfions on fome Paffages in Archdeacon Chapman's Vifitation Sermon, entitled Popery the Bane of true Letters. 331 III. An Apology for Empirics, or Quack-Doctors. 337 IV. An Enquiry into the Situation of antient Scythia. Tranflated from the Latin of Theophilus Sigefridus Bayer.

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V. Objection to Mr Tate's Hypothefis of the rectilineal Motion of the late Comet.

VI. Mr Tate's Answer.

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VII. Obfervations on the Controversy between the Rev. Mr White and a Diffenting Gentleman. 349 VIII. Remark on a Paffage in Mr White's Defence. 352 IX. Specimen of a Supplement to the Cyclopædia, exemplify'd under the Word Mofchus, or Mufk, fhewing how to diftinguish that Drug from Adulterates, and its Efficacy in Madness, Hydrophoby, Gaol-Diftempers, and other convulfive and deplorable Disorders.

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NUMBER VIII.

Remarks on DANIEL and the REVELATION, continued from Numb. VI. Page 280.

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Efore I begin with the Revelation, or the Prophet Daniel, I fhall produce the following Paffages to the fame purpose. 2 Theff. ii. 3. "That day shall not come, [i, e. the day of judgment] except there come a falling away firft, and that man of fin be "revealed, the fon of perdition."

4. "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that "is called God, or that is worshipped: fo that he as God fitteth in "the temple of God, fhewing himself that he is God."

9. "Whose coming is after the working of Satan, with "all power, and figns, and lying wonders."

Here is a fhort defcription of the man of fin, who is likewife called the fon of perdition, or rebellion, for fome copies read arouías. He oppofes all government, and exalts himself above it; is a pretended christian, for he fitteth in the christian church, the only temple which God has had fince this was wrote. But he gives himself up to diabolical arts, ufing religious cheats, and force over the confciences, bodies, and estates of men, boafting of false miracles in order to gain profelytes, and to raife his own power, fhewing himself that he is God, or a governor, not only of this world, by dethroning princes, and abfolving fubjects from their allegiance, but of the world to come, by forgiving fins.

1 Tim. iv. I. Now the spirit fpeaketh exprefsly, that in the " latter times fome shall depart from the faith, giving heed to feducing fpirits, and the doctrine of devils."

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The doctrine of devils ought perhaps to have been tranflated, the doctrine about dæmons, the original word being daar, which fignifies the dæmons worshipp'd by heathens. Now as these dæmons were faid to be male and female, their heathen worshippers muft mean by them the fouls of dead men and women. Befides, Marcus Antoninus calls the human foul the demon within us.

2. "Speaking lies in hypocrify, having their confcience "fear'd with a hot iron."

Speaking lies in hypocrify 'about the apparitions of thofe dæmons, or faints, and the miracles done by them, and by their relicks. 3. "Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain. "from meats, which God has created to be received with thankful"nefs."

Placing virtue in abstinence from marriage, injoining many superstitious and ridiculous fafts.

Rev. ix. 20.

"Repented not of the works of their hands, that "they should not worship devils [i. e. dæmons, Sasovía] and idols of gold and filver, and brafs, and ftone, and of wood."

21. "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of "their * forceries, nor of their fornication, [i. e. idolatry] nor of "their thefts."

The Romish church is vaftly addicted to the worship of dæmons, or faints, and not only fo, but even of idols made of metal, wood, and ftone. Our hiftories are full of their murders, and of their thefts, or unjuft gain by pious frauds and tyranny. Moft perfons have heard of the papifts holy wars, as they were falfely called, of the Inquifition, French and Irish maffacre, queen Mary's bonfires, gunpowder plot, the behaviour of the duke of Alva in the Netherlands, of James the fecond in England, of the Spaniards in the Indies, and, to mention no more, the late bloody doings of French and Highland papists in Scotland, and fome parts of England.

"graves."

xi. 9. "And fhall not fuffer their dead bodies to be put in

The papifts not only murder the innocent for refufing to belye their confciences, but alfo deny them burial,

xiii. 1. "And I ftood upon the fand of the sea, and faw 6s a beast rise out of the fea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns.

This must be understood of the western empire of the Romans, whose metropolis was built on feven hills, and thence call'd the feven-hill'd city, which had gone thro' seven forms of government, and was on its fall divided into ten European kingdoms, viz. the kingdom of the 1. Vandals. 2. Suevians. 3. Vifigoths. 4. Alans in Gaul. 5. Burgundians. 6. Franks. 7. Britons. 8. Hunns. 9. Lombards. 10. Ravenna. This Roman empire was Daniel's fourth beaft, or kingdom upon earth,—had ten horns,—the ten horns are ten kings that fhall arife. Dan. 7 and 11th chapters. The three beafts, or kingdoms that went before, were the Babylonian, Medo-Perfian, and Grecian.

II.

"And I beheld another beaft coming up out of "the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

"beast."

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"And he exercifeth all the power of the first

This fecond beast is the pope's kingdom, which came up out of the earth, or Roman empire, which govern'd the whole then known earth; has two horns, or a temporal and spiritual power; puts on the appearance of the lamb, or Chrift, whofe vicar and reprefentative the pope pretends to be, but speaks as the dragon, or fatan, in matters of religion, teaching that fyftem of irreligion and villainy fet up by fatan in the Reman empire. And exercifeth all the power of the first beaft, does as tyrannically perfecute fincere Chriftians, as ever the hea

then

It is app in the original, . e. poisonings, much used by papifts.