the divine Persons. To the third Question, it he muft fpeak properly and ftrictly, his Anfwer is Negative. Becaufe a higher and lower Rank of divine Honour, ftrictly speaking, implies a Plurality of higher and lower Gods, which Chriftianity does not allow.

SEVERAL other Objections are brought from Scripture, Reason and Authority, which are folved in a manner, that fhews our Author thoroughly acquainted with the Sacred Text, the Sentiments and Doctrine of the antient Fathers, and a fair as well as a clofe Reasoner. We fhall take notice of one Objection more, which is the seventh here produced; and has been particularly infifted on by the modern Arians. And when the World fees how ill grounded it is, and how little to the Purpose, if really true, they may form fome Judgment of the great Erudition and Abilities of thofe Gentlemen.

CHRIST, they tell us, is never call'd in Scripture, eds, but only ds. Therefore he is not the fame God with the Father. To this it is replied, that if the Scripture allow'd two Gods; the Obfervation, if true, might prove that Chrift is the inferior God. But if ds, and os in the Scripture, fignify (as they do) the very fame God, it is evident that Chrift, whether he be Jeds, or i Deds, is the fupreme God." Articles in Greek have no more Force than they have in English, and fometimes lefs. There is more Emphafis when the Article is used, but as much Godhead in the Word, whether with, or without it. But this profound and invincible Argument has no Foundation on Fact. For our accurate and indefatigable Author has found out no less than five Texts of the New Teftament, in which Jefus Chrift is called Seès.

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DR. Clarke, and others of the fame Principles, were as unfortunate in this Point, in regard to the first Greek Writers of the Church. For our Author has produced a Cloud of Witneffes, fuch as St. Ignatius, Juftin Martyr, St. Irenæus, St. Clement of Alexandria, St. Hippolytus, Origen, St. Dionyfius of Alexandria, who all call our Bleffed Redeemer is.

IN the fifth and laft Chapter, we have a large and curious Collection of Quotations from the Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church, who flourished in the three firft Centuries, and declare for the Divinity of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, as the general Belief of the Church in thofe Ages. Amongst these the great and learned Origen appears, whofe Authority has been. employ'd in Favour of the Arians. Our Author obferves, that the chief Question here is, rather what the Catholick Church held in Origen's Time, than whether that Writer was Orthodox in regard to the Bleffed Trinity or not. St. Epiphanius and St. Jerome, impeach him of Heterodoxy in this Point. But, fays he, it must be granted, that many of the Arguments, employ'd against him by learned Men, are weak; and gives fuch Explanations of feveral Paffages alledged out of his Works, which render him much less favourable to thofe Hereticks, than he is ufually fuppofed to be.

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ARTICLE III.

A brief and distinct Account of the mineral Waters of Pyrmont, containing the natural History of the adjacent Country, of the feveral medicinal Springs therein, a new analytical Examination of the Waters, and Defcription of the true Mineral Contents of the fame, with their various Effects, and the most approved Method of using them, both in Drinking and Bathing. Extracted from a Treatife on this Subject, published fome time ago in the German Language, by the Learned Dr. John Philip Seippius, first Phyfician and Counsellor to the Prince of Waldeck, and ordinary Phyfician at the Wells.

As alfo a like Account of the Waters of Spa, from the beft Authors. By George Turner, M. D. London: Printed for A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head, over

against St. Clement'-Church in the Strand; and fold by J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane. 1733. 8vo. p. 133.

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HE Learned Phyfician, the original Author of this Account, after above twenty Years Refidence and Practice at the celebrated Wells of Pyrmont, and feveral judicious and nice Obfervations made on the Nature and Effects of the Waters, published his Treatife in his own Language for the Information of fuch of his Countrymen, as fhould have recourfe to them. This Extract, as we are inform'd in the Preface, is made with a View of giving thofe of this Nation a more full and diftinct Account of their particular Qualities, and of the right Method of ufing them, than has yet appear'd in English.

THE firft Chapter contains an accurate Defcription of the Valley of Pyrmont, of the Chalybeate, and other Springs, which are to be seen in it; and concludes with obferving, That many Inhabitants of the County of Pyrmont, and other adjacent Places, particularly thofe of Oeftorff, make use of this Water through the whole Course of the Year, when they are thirsty, and at their Meals, as their common Drink. They have found from long Experience, that commonly it is good for every one, keeps the Stomach in good order and fharpens the Appetite; and in this County, People are ftrong, healthy and long lived; for in the lower Part of it, during the laft thirty Years, it is computed, that about 1500 Men have died: among whom

128 where fixty Years old; 109, seventy; 57, eighty; 37, ninety; and 6 one hundred or more; fo that the Number of old People amounts to 339, which is almost a fourth Part of the whole.

IN the fecond, the Doctor undertakes a chymical Examination and Enquiry into the Nature of the Pyrmont Waters, and to difcover their real Contents and Ingredients. He profeffes to differ from several learned Phyficians on this Point; but, without ftopping to examine and confute what they have advanced, he propofes to fhew, First, that the Spirit, which preferves the whole Mixture, and all the chief Properties of the Water, is a fubtile, acid, fulphureous Spirit. 2dly, That this Spirit is herein entirely different from the common Spirit of Sulphur; that it brings with it a fubtiliz'd Mineral Fat, with which it was mixed under ground. 3dly, That this Spirit, contrary to the Opinion of all Authors, does not diffipate, and is not volatile; but on the contrary, the longer it is in the Water, the more fix'd it is. Particularly, 4thly, This Spirit does by little and little unite itself with the alcaline Salt, or with the fubtile sweet alcaline Earth, which is found in all Mineral Waters, and fo makes of it a Sal enixum or neutrum; like a Tartarus vitriolatus, Sal polychreftum, or very like Sal Mirabile Glauberi. sthly, That by this Union of the acid Spirit with the Alcali, it muft let fall all the diffolved Iron, that it had affum'd, and fo the Water muft lofe all vitriolick Qualities. 6thly, That the fubtile, fweet alcaline Earth in the Water does far exceed the acid Spirit in Quantity; fo that, confequently this Steel Water muft operate more as an Acali, than an Acid. 7thly, That befide all these Ingredients,

there