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made up of allegories , is to be called sublimity of speech , I own John to be sublime : for there is scarcely one discourse of Christ which is not altogether allegorical and very hard to be understood "; " Sac . Class , i . £
99-Such a censure ofEnjedin ' s Work otHit , in justice , to have been accompanied with the original , which a p assionate translator was likely enough to exaggerate . The Explicatio
according to Sandius , ( p . 93 ) was confuted on its first appearance in Transilvania by the irresistible argument ofa public burning , and reprinted in Holland .
Sandius says that Enjedin flourished about 1587 , and died in 1597 , in the prime of life . IGNOTUS .
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religion ? Three Parts with several Additions . By Ant . Ascham . Gent . London : printed by W . Wilson , dwelling in Well Yard , near Smithfield . 1649 . " * 12 mo . Pp . 200 . The barbarous assassination of
Aschum , at Madrid , where he sustained a public character from the commonwealth , has a place in the English History . Of his life I have found no account but in the following article , by Wood , Ath . Oxon . ii . 385 ,
" A . Ascham was born of a genteel family , educated in Eton School , and thence elected into King ' s College , in Cambridge , 1633 . Afterwards taking the degree of faster of Arts , he closed with the Presbyterians , in the beginning of the Rebellion , and took the Covenant . Then sided with
the Independents , became a creature of the Long Parliament , by whose authority he was made tutor to James Duke of York , and an active person against his sovereign . At length , being looked upon as sufficiently anti-monarchical , was by the Rump
Parliament sent their agent or resident to the Court of Spain , in th 6 latter end of the year 1649 . In the beginning of June following he arrived at Madrid , f and had an apartment appointed him in the Court ; but certain English Royalists then in that
city , —named John Guillim , Will . Spark , Sec . ( six in number ) repaired to his lodging . Two of them stood at the bottom of the stairs , two at the top , and two entered his chamber ; of whom Spark being the first drew up to the table where Ascham and another were sitting , and pulling
off his hat , said , * Gentlemen , I kiss your hands , pray which is the resident ? ' Whereupon the Resident rising- up , Guillim took him by the hair of the head , and with a naked dagger gave him a thrust that overthrew him . Then came in Spark and gave him another , and because they would make
* Wood mentions a first edition in 1648 , and supposes Ascham to have been the author of other works . f- According * to a French author quoted , hy Oldmixon , ( House of Stuart , p . 385 ) Ascham was furnished and directed bv the
Parliament to equal in the splendour ot his entry an Ambassador of king's . Lc IMinistrc jit une des enlrcs les plus superbes qu * on cut jamais veut J ' airtf des AmLassiideurs dc tctes Couronnees ,
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Book-Worm . No . XXTI . 431
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Book-Worm . No . XXIII . Sir , June 25 , 1815 . fTlHE Master of Christians took oo JL casion thus to distinguish his
followers : By this will all know that ?/ e are my disciples , if ye have love one to another . How loudly the Christian soldiers of civilized Europe have lately asserted their claim to this discipleship , employing , like Milton ' s rebel angels ,
terms of weight , Of hard contests , and full of force urg " M [ home ! Well might a spectator of the bloody field of La belle Alliance have exclaimed in the language of an -ancient , See how these Christians love one another ! To such an age of sanguinary conflicts and sudden revolutions there are
some passages , not unsuitable , in a small volume now before me , though written for a generation which has long slept with their Fathers . The work is entitled : " Of the Confusions and Revolutions of Governments . Wherein is
examined how far a man may lawfully conform to the powers and commands ° fthose who , with various successes , hold kingdoms divided by civil or foreign wars . Whether it be , 1 . In paying taxes . 2 . In personal service .
s « In taking opposite oaths . 4 . In a man ' giving himself up to a final alle fiance , in case the' end to the adyantagc of that power or party which * j s upposed unjust . Likewise , vvhe' ^ the nature of war be inconsistent XV | & the precepts of the Christian
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/31/
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