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    agreed on twelve articles as a basis of re-union . ( See Butler ' s Life of Bossuet , Works , Vol . III . p . 242 . ) Molanus having conducted the negociation thus far , appears to have resigned it to Leibnitz . His views differed in some respects frorn those of Rfolarjus . Bossttet distinctly declared that the Church of Rome , though she might shew indulgence in matters of discipline , would not yield a single article of faith propounded by the council of Trent ; while Leibnitz , aware that there were some of these articles to which the Lutherans

    could not assent , wished that the re-union should take place provisionally , these points being reserved to the decision of a general council , to which , if fairly constituted , the Lutherans should promise to submit . After a correspondence which lasted ten years between Bossuet and Leibnitz , the plan was ultimately abandoned , and tjie Catholic writers charge Leibnitz with having caused its failure by hfe presumption and double-dealing—an imputation from which Mr . Butler , in the passage before quoted , declares that in his opinion he stands free . The correspondence to which we have referred terminated apparently in the year 1701 , If we knew the date of a letter of Leibnitz to Ernest , Landgrave of Hesse-Rheirifels , we might be able to decide

    whether the work of which we are speaking be that referred to in it or not . " Je veiix , " says he , " dresser un jour quelque ecrit , sur quelques points de controverse enlreles Gathoiiques et Protestans , et s'il est approuve par des personnes judicieuses et moderees j'eri recevrai beaucoup de joie . Mais il nefaut pas qu \ on sache en aucune fagon que V auteur rCest pas dans la Communion Momaine . Cette seule prevention rend les meilleures choses suspectes . " There Is every probability that the work lately published is that which Leibnitz here declares his intention of comDOsinerThe in which the ueuicires iu wiuca

    . manner mi * § im , enuou oi composing . iue muuu ^ F m uie doctrines of tlie phurch of Rome are viewed , is precisely that which would be required for the conpealjment which fye deemed necessary in order to obt ain an unprejudiced hearing . The inscription " Systema Theologicum . Leibnitii" was notj p laced on the coyer of the volume by Leibnitz himself , ( it has no internal titlej but was given hy some one who recognized his hand-writing and designatjed ^ he worl ^ according to its contents * Aj ^ e pro - ceed to mention wfeat these arei

    In regard to what are cabled the mysteries of religion , Leibnitz Ipiad already declared his opiniori in the Discours d p la Conformite de la Foi avec la Raison , ^ pre $ xi ? d to his Th ^ pdicie , that tbe . doctrine p £ the Trinity ( to which he adds cre ^ on ajid the distinct knowledge on the part of God of an infinity of things at once ) ^ 5 afy ) ve ' reaspif , hut not contrary to it , so that it cannot demonstrably he proved ijalse . jn pursuance of the same mode of arguing , fie contends in' this \ vorj f , that the itoctrine of Transubstantiation cannot be dernonstrateifU ) be fake , Oxi g inal sin J ^ e thus defines : "Peccatum originate genus hominum in primo parente invasit ; i . e . contracta est pravitas quaedam

    qu ^ e facit ji qt homines shit a ^ d bene agendum segnes , ad male agendum p ronipti ^ o ]) nuhilato ihtellectu , sensibus vero praevalentihus . Etsi ai ^ tena $ nima p yra a . Dep emanat ( neque enira adhuc an i ma rum [ probably impuritas . 1 $ to be inserted ] intelligi pptest ) tamen vi uuionis cum corpore ex

    pa-^ entum vitiq prave constituitur ^ siye per connexionem cum ext , ernis peccatum orj g inale seu dispogitio ad peccandum in e ^ exoritur . Ata ^ ue ita facti sunt omnes filii irae et cquc ^ usi mb peccato et in exitium praecipites ituri , nisi nja ^ & IJJei ^ Vi ^ su ^ ventur ; nop eo taroen extendenda est vis peccati origihpj ^ , \ xi parvuli , cjui niillum actuale peccatum conimiserunt , damuentur ,

    ^ uerA ^ dmodum rn ^ lti yolunt : mb justo eiiim judice Deo , nemo aine culba bu ^ miser esse pote&t . ' - fym are divided intp venial and , deadjy , under tne letter hpip ^ understood those " quee malo animo et cpwtm conscientlain ex-

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    254 On a recently-discovered Work of Leibnitz ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/2/