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6. Our Author exclaims against the Court of Rome, and the Romish Clergy in the following Words. "What Extravagancies will not Men commit, when "they give themfelves up to ungovernable Ambi"bition and fordid Avarice? What Seas of Blood, "and immenfe Treasures, have been expended in "the fupport of this wild Notion of Supremacy? "How many crowned Heads have bled under their "execrable Refentment and what vile and un "juftifiable Actions have been committed by their "Partifans, to maintain this ill-gotten Sovereignty? That MEEKNESS, which our Bleffed "Lord and his Difciples taught and practifed, and "commanded all, efpecially the Paftors of his "Flock, to imitate, is by them turned into ex "tream Cruelty; their very Priefts, whofe Office

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7. Mr. Howel calls the Office of the Holy Inquifition, the Scandal and Scourge of the Chriftian Religion, the Rack of Confciences, and Shop of Cruelty and Butchery. He quotes a remarkable Paffage of Ludovicus a Paramo, which I have read in that Author: Ludovicus a Paramo (fays Mr. Howel) "who was an Inquifitor, in his Book de Orig. Officii "S. Inquifit. l. 1. tit. 2. c. 1. moft ridiculously lays the Foundation of it in Paradife, making God "the firft Inquifitor, and our firft Parents by their "Fall guilty of Herefy : And left this pretty "Story fhould want Embellishment, he tells us, "That after the great Inquifitor had condemned "them in a formal Manner, he enjoyned them a Penance, which they performed, wearing Lea"thern Garments; in Imitation of which, the Vol. IV.

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Benedictins afterwards wore the Sanbenito. He "might much more properly have made Adam the "Author of open-knee'd Breeches ".

It appears from this Book, that the Chriftian Church has been very unhappy under the Government of the Clergy, from the beginning of the Pontificate to the end of the Council of Trent.

ISHALL Occafionally infert fome modern Falfi fications of the Holy Scripture. I have extracted them from the New Teftament printed in French at Bourdeaux in the Year 1686. When the Perfecu tion of the Proteftants was in its Height. Tis a remarkable Piece of Impofture; and I with it may be known to thofe Readers, who never heard of it.

That New Teftament came out with this Title: Le Nouveau Teftament de Notre Seigneur Jefus Chrift, traduit de Latin en François par les Theologiens de Louvain. A Bourdeaux chez Elie Routier 1686. Avec Approbation & Permiffion in 8vo.

The Approbation of the Doctors of Bourdeaux is dated February 11. 1661. from whence I infer that this Tranflation (made by the Louvain. Divines) was then Printed the firft Time at Bourdeaux, but without any Falfification. The License of the Archbishop of Bourdeaux bears date July 17. 1686. It imports that this New. Teftament has been re

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If I am not miftaken, it should be: In Imitation of which, the Hereticks, condemned by the Inquifitors, wear the Sanbenito. This Book of Ludovicus Paramo was printed at Madrid in 1698,

That New Teftament is very scarce.

vifed and exactly corrected. Several Paffages of the New Teftament have been horribly falfified in that Edition. Here follow fome Inftances of it.

Luke II. 41. Inftead of thefe Words, Now his Parents went to Jerufalem every Year, there is in that New Teftament, And his Parents went every Year IN PILGRIMAGE to Jerufalem: (Et fès père & mere alloient tous les ans en pelerinage a Jerufalem.)

Acts XIII. 2. As they miniftred to the Lord, &c. New Teftament of Bourdeaux. As they WERE OFFERING UP to the Lord THE SACRI FICE OF THE MASS, &c. (Or comme ils offroient au Seigneur LE SACRIFICE DE LA MESSE.)

1 Cor. III. 15. But he himself shall be faved; get fo, às by Fire. N. T. of Bourdeaux. But he himfelf fhall be faved; yet fo, as by the Fire OF PUR GATORY (Mais il fera fauvé quant a lui, ainfi toutefois comme par le feu DU PURGATOIRE.)

1 Cor. VII. 1o. And unto the married I cóm3 mand. N. T. of Bourdeaux. But as for thofe, whd are united by THE SACRAMENT OF MAR RIAGE, I command them. (Mais à ceux qui font conjoints par le Sacrement de mariage, je leur commande, &c.)

1 Cor. X. 21. Te cannot be Partakers of the Lord's Table, and of the Table of Devils. N. T. of Bourdeaux. Tou cannot be Partakers of WHAT IS SACRIFICED UPON the Lord's Table, and of WHAT IS SACRIFICED UPON the Table of the Devils. (Vous ne pouvez pas étre parti cipans de ce qui eft facrifié fur la table du Seigneur, & de ce qui eft facrifié fur la table des Diables.)

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1 Cor. XI. 26. For as often as ye eat this Bread, &c. N. T. of Bourdeaux. For as often as ye eat this LIVING Bread, &c. (Car toutes les fois que vous mangerez ce pain vivant, &c.)

V. 28. But let a Man examine himself, and fo let him eat of that Bread. N. T. of Bourdeaux. But let a Man examine himself, and so eat of that LIVING Bread. (Or que l'homme f'éprouve foyméme, & ainfi qu'il mange de ce pain VIF.)

2 Cor. VI. 14. Be ye not unequally yoked toge ther with Unbelievers. N. T. of Bourdeaux, Be not united with Unbelievers BY THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE. (Ne vous joignez point par Sacrement de marriage avec les infidelles.) See also 1 Tim. IV. 3.

1 Tim. IV. 1. Now the Spirit Speaketh exprefly, that in the latter Times fome shall depart from the Faith. N. T. of Bourdeaux. Now the Spirit plainly Says, that in the latter Times fome fhall depart from the ROMAN Faith. (Or l'Esprit dit clairement, qu' és derniers temps quelques uns fe fepareront de la foy Romaine.)

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THESE Falfifications bring into my Thoughts a Paffage of Beza, which deferves to be inferted here. That Illuftrious Reformer tells us, That Monluc, Bifhop of Valence, complained in the Conference held at St. Germain in the Year 1561. that the Doctors of the Sorbonne had approved a Book written in Verse by Arthus Defiré, tho' he had falfified the Second Commandment, as it appears from the following Lines.

Tailler

Hiftory of the Reformed Churches of France. Vol. I. Lib. IV. pag. 693, 694. Antwerp 1580.

Tailler tu te feras image

De quelque chofe que ce foit.
Si honneur lui fais & hommage,
Ton Dieu grand plaifir en reçoit.

ARTICLE XLV.

MONTPELLIER.

MR. Matte has made an Experiment of an extraordinary Congelation. He fhews that two Drams of Oil of Tartar per deliquium being put into a Glafs, and mixed with the fame Quantity of the Liquor of Armoniac Salt, do quickly coagulate, infomuch that one may make a Ball of the whole Matter of fuch a Confiftence, that will run upon a Table; and yet neither of thofe Liquors receives any other Alteration, but that of lofing its Fluidity.

AMIEN S.

HE late Mr. Thiers *, Curate of Vibraye,

THE Wale Mere Enemy to fuperftitious Pra

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• Mr. Thiers's Differtation was fupprefs'd by a Decree of the Council of State in 1699.

+ The Letter, written by that Anonymous Author, was condemned in 1697.

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