falfly afferted in our Days by that nafty, proud, Spanish Dog Servetus, &c. The Epiftle Dedicatory or Preface, prefixed to that Commentary, is dated Au gust ift. 1560. I fhould have obferved in my firft Letter, That Servetus never went into Barbary to get a more complete Knowledge of the Alcoran, tho' Spondanus and fome other Writers affirm it. What is faid of Servetus's Skill in the Arabick Language, is a mere Fiction grounded upon his pretended Journey into that Country. To conclude, I muft acquaint you, Sir, That the prefent Magiftrates and Divines of Geneva exprefs their Abhorrence for all manner of Perfecution upon all Occafions. They believe, That whoever preaches up Perfecution, ought to be looked upon as a Seditious Man, and a Difturber of the Society. 1. God Almighty will blefs and profper the Clergy of the Church of England for their Moderation; and I hope, their Chriftian Temper will be a powerful Means to put an End to a groundless Separation from a Church, that is the Glory of the Refor. mation. I am, Sir, &c. P. S. Far from being too prolix, I think I have been very fhort upon fuch a curious and im portant Subject. AN AN ADDITION to the foregoing Letters, containing an Account of Servetus's Notes upon a Bible Printed at Lyons in 1542. I Have faid in my Account of Servetus's Life, That this Physician being at Lyons in 1542, cor rected the Proofs of a Latin Bible, which is very fcarce; that he added to it a Preface of his own, under the Name of Villanovanus, and feveral Notes, which have been called impertinent, and impious by Calvin; and that this Reformer fays, the Bookfeller gave Five Hundred Livres to Servetus for his Pains. Since the first Edition of these Memoirs of Literature, I have received from Paris a curious Account of that Bible, for which I am very much indebted to the Learned Perfon, who has been pleased to communicate it to me. That Piece deferves to be inferted here, being an excellent Supplement to my Account of Servetus's Life, The Bible, I am speaking of, was Printed at Lyons by Hugh de la Porte, with this Title: Biblia Sacra ex Sanctis Pagnini tranflatione, fed ad Hebraice Lingue amuffim ita recognita & Scholiis illuftrata, ut plane pova Editio videri poffit. Here follows the Account of that Bible. SERVETUS's SERVETUS's PREFACE. MICHAEL VILLANOVANUS LECTORI S. "D° 66 OCUIT nos fapiens ille JESUS Filius S1RAC in Proamio Libri, quem Ecclefia"fticum vocant, Hebraica verba deficere, five obtorpefcere, cùm in aliam Linguam fuerint tranflata probè dijudicans vivam illam fpiritus energiam, di" &ionum emphafes, concurfus, antithefes, allufiones, & reliqua ejufmodi, non poffe in Verfionibus noftris ad unguem fervari. Unde meritò,& olim, & nunc Bibliorum interpretationi plerique defu "dantes, rem integram nunquam funt affecuti. Quum præfertim hiftoricum & litteralem fenfum, qui certum eft futuræ rei monumentum, ii qut 66 Hebræorum res geftas ignorant, facilè contemnant. "Unde & myfticos fenfus fruftra illi & ridiculè paf66 fim venantur. Quamobrem te femel & iternm ve"lim rogatum, Chriftiane Lector, ut primum Hebrai ca difcas, deinde Hiftorie diligenter incumbas, antequam Prophetarum lectionem aggrediaris. Singult enim Prophete fuam juxta literam fequebantur Hiftoriam, que & futura prefigurabat, & in qua CHRISTI myfteria fecundùm Spiritum conclude, bantur. Nam omnia in figura contingebant illis, "ut ait PAULUS, & teftimonium Jefu Chrifti, ut "ait JOHANNES, eft Spiritus prophetiæ, quan quam alius juxta litteram fuerit tunc Prophetarum "fenfus, ut rei gefte ferebat historia: Quod fi fen"fum illum effe verè litteralem quis neget, eò quod "vis litteræ non femper verè congruat, id ego dicenti lubens concedan. Illud tamen perpendendum, He "braicam "braicam Linguam effe totam hyperbolis plenam, & "majora alia ibi contineri myfteria. Perpendendum "item qnod fi litteralis ille fenfus non dicatur, aliqua"lis tamen erat future veritatis obumbratio, ut in "umbra Davidis relucet veritas foli CHRISTO "conveniens. Ab ejus enim Hiftoriis defumpte in "Pfalmis funt prædicendi de CHRISTO occafiones. "Imò hac ratione dicitur fuiffe CHRISTI typus. "De Salomone etiam in umbra dictum eft, Ero illi "in Patrem: & de Ifraelitico populo dictum eft, Ex "Egypto vocavi filium meum: cùm tamen foli "CHRISTO id verè conveniat: ut & literalem propheticum fenfum effe de CHRISTO dicamus. "Adde quod Liber hic dicitur fcriptus intus & ex"tra, & duplicem effe conftat Scripturæ faciem, inftar gladii utrinque fcindentis. Facunda eft Scriptura vis, & fub vetuftate occidentis litter.e novita. tem ita continet vivificantis fpiritus, ut collecto in"de uno fenfu, alium fit nefas omittere: eò ma"gi quia hiftoricus ille alium ultrò patefacit. Unde "nos literalem illum veterem, feù hiftoricum, paffim neglectum fenfum conati femper fumus Scholi 66 66 66 eruere, ut ejus typo myfticus, imò verus innotefceret, utque illum, qui fcopus eft omnium, JESUM CHRISTUM fub illis umbris & figuris obvelatum, quem ob id non vident caci Judæi, nos omnes revelatà facie Deum noftrum clarè videamus. In qua re, ficut in Pagnini noftri Verfione, non parum eft "nobis poft omnia ejus Annotamenta defudatum. Annotamenta, inquam, qnæ ille nobis quamplurima reแ liquit, nec folum Annotamenta, fed & exemplar ipfum locis innumeris propria manu caftigatum, ex quibus omnibus affirmare aufim, & integras magis nunc effe fententias, & Hebraice veritati propinquiores. Ecclefiæ tamen & Hebraicæ linguæ peritorum fit "de hac re judicium alii enim id judicare neque 68 unt. Quidquid verò commodi hinc, Lector, retuleris, primum Deo optimo maximo, deinde Hugoni à Por ta Lugdunenfi civi gratias agito, cujus operâ & impenfis has in lucem prodeunt. Vale. 26 : "Next "Next to this Preface of Servetus, there are two "others. The firft by Joannes Nicolaus Victorius, "and the fecond by Pagninus. The latter which “contains near feven Pages in Folio, is to be found "in the other Editions of that Tranflation. Buc 66 66 66 "the Preface of Victorius appears only in this Edi "tion. We learn from it that Pagninus made lire"ral Notes upon the whole Bible, which have not "been printed: Atque utinam noftri hodie Bibliopo“læ ita erga fanctiffima hæc studia fint affecti, `ut doctiffimas tanti Viri (Sanctis Pagnini) annotatienes, que etiam nunc apud heredem affervantur, in pu "blicam omnium utilitatem velint excudere. It appears alfo by the fame Preface, that this Edition of 1542 was made from an Edition of Cologne, which Pagninus himself revised, and upon "which he added other Notes. Interim banc Bi"bliorum Interpretationem, Christiane Lector, ipfius auSpiciis prodeuntem obviis ulnis amplectere, non ita pridem, fateor, Coloniæ excufam, fed poftliminio "ab ipfo Autore, nefcio quid jam imminente fate fuaviùs modulante, ita recognitam, ita annotationi, "bus locupletatam, ut nunc non tam reftituta, quàm primùm edita videri poffit. 'Tis true there are "fome differences between that Edition of Pag"ninus's Verfion, and the other Editions of that Tranflator; but they are neither very numerous, nor very material. 66 66 66 66 66 "As for the Notes, there are but few; and "they would hardly have been minded, had not "Calvin taken notice of them. What is most con"fiderable in thofe Notes concerns JESUS CHRIST 66 66 figuratively represented in the Scripture. Servetus “had already intimated in his Preface, that Prophecies have a proper and natural Senfe in the Hi"itory of the Ancient Ifraelites, and that CHRIST "is no further concerned in them, than as his Av "ctions were figuratively represented by Hiftori cal Facts; or even that thofe Prophecies could |