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Jin Historical . Account of the Life and Trial of Nicholas Anthoine , Burnt j or Judaism , at Geneva , .... . . t ! ' ' ¦ ' ' [ From the Harleiaa Miscellaay , 8 vo . iiM 68—17 * ]
Nicholas Anthoine was born of Popish parents , at Brieu , in Lorrain . His father took a particular care of his education , and sent him to the college of Luxemburg , where he studied five years . From thence he was removed to
Pont-4-Mousson , Triers and Cologne ; wtere be went on with his . studies undef the direction of the Jesuits , till he was about twenty years of 4 ge . Being : returned to his father ' s , and disliking the Church of Rome , lie rep 8 iired to MeU , and Applied himself to M . Ferry , an eminent divine of that pity , who instructed him in the Protestant religion , which he heartily embraced . From that time he professed himself a Protestant , and endeavoured to
convert his relations to the retormedVeligion , From Metz , he was aent to Sedan , in order to study divinity ; and from thence to Geneva , where I 15 continued his theological studies . He applied him-» elL particularly , to the reading * mUf 9 Tmttinti and fnding
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several difficulties in the New , which seemed to him unanswerable , he inwardly embraced the Jewish rel | gion ^; about fivq or . six " " years before his tri ^ l * His firs t dpybts were occasioned , hy his comparing the two genealogies of Jesus Christ ,
as they are related by St . Matthew and St . Luke ; but when he came to examine the passages of the Old Testament , that ' are / - 'Applied ] to the Messias in the New , he proved so weak as to renounce his
Christianity , And , as new potions of religion frequently make a greater impression than those whereia men have been bred up from their younger years , he grew so zealous for Judaism , that he resolved to make an open profession of it . Accordingly , he left Geneva , and re « *
turned to Melz , and immediately discovered his opinions to the Jews of that city , and desired to be admitted into their synagogue : but they refused him , for fear of bri ngs ing themselves into trouble j anil advised him to ao to the Jews of Aiosreidam or Venice . Where . *
upon he resolved to take a journey to Venice , and earnestly in treated the Jews of &iat town to circi ; inciae him * ) Bui he wa ^ again dis * appointed ; for those J ^ ws jefusei
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/1/
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