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    into disgrace ,, was advancing under James II . Among other marve llous relations is an account of Constant ! ne ' b mother , Helena , discovering the true cross , 300 years after the crucifixion ^ and thus adding a festival to the church . An old English Homily for that day is quoted from the Roman Feativalc , p . 100 , That part of the quotation which Herder may be supposed to have

    imitated , is verbatim et literatim as follows : « Whan Adam our fyrst fader was seke for aege , and would fayne have ben out of this world ; Adam sente Setb , his so » e to the aungcl-keeper o £ Paradyse , prayenge the aungel to sende him the oyle of mercy , to anoynt his body therewith whan he were dede . Tkan went Setb

    to Paradyse , and sayd his message to tkc aungel . Than answered the aungel , and said , that he might not have it tyll the yercs were fulfilled . But have this branche of the tree that thy fader synned in , and set it on his grave , and whan it bereth fruyte , then shalt he have mercy , and not erste . Than toke Scth this

    branche , and came home and found his fader dede ; than he set this branche on his fader ' s £ rave , as the aungel bfiddc him do . The whyche branche growed there , tyll Solomon was kinge ; and he made to fell it downe , for it was fayre to the werke of his temple , but it woldc not accord with the werke of his temple . Therefore Solomon made to cast it down

    into the earth , and was hidde there to the tyme that the bishop of the temple let make a wayre in the same place whereas the tree laye , to washe in shepe that weare offred to the temple . Than whan this

    wayre was made , they called it in their \ &T \ g \\ 3 . ge , firobatica phcina , tp the whyche water came an aungel certain times fro hcven , and did worship to the tree that lay in the ground qf the wayre , and

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    xnoved the water ; and what man or woman that came to the water nexte afjter the aungel , was made hale , what seke 4 ness that ever he had , by virtue of the tree ; and so endured many wynters to the tyme Chryste was taken , and should be

    done upon the crosse ; than this tree by the ordinance of Godde swamme upon the water ; and whan the Jetos had none other tree re 4 y to make the crosse of , for great haste that they had , they tokc the same tree , and made thereof a crosse , an < A

    so dyed our Lord thereon , and than the tree bare that bles&yd fruyte , Chryste * body , of the whyche welleth tbe oyle of mercy to Adam and live , and all other o f their offspringe . " Hist , of Popery , i- 31 » 32 . ^

    The work to which I am in ,, debted for this quotation , displays throughout too much of the ranL corous spirit of Calvinism , ventt . ing itself not only upon Popery ,

    but also against every Protestant heresy . There have indeed been zealous Calvin is ts ( Top lady * for instance ) impartial enough in the case of Servetus to " execrate the

    tyranny that doomed him to the flames , " though , as might have been expected , " they give the glorious sufferer little praise , " if they danot pass him over with silent neglect . But the murder of Servetus is

    defended in this Protestant History of Popery , ( ii . 351 ) . Grotius had called Calvin Serveti exustoremy the burner of Servetus , which it seems " is a bold calumny , " because Calvin had " dissuaded /' not from the execution of his an .

    tagonist , but ' from this kind of death , " though it is not said where even this tender niercy ap _

    • In the " Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Chprch of England ;" Toplady , whose generally abusive language in that "Wotk has so much discredited his cause , expresses himself justly as to the case of $ <; rv < 9 tu ? -. Adrpitly , Jteqpwg out of the question the name of his favourite , Calvin , he says , " la it not "VJ'yj ^ - traordinary , that a person of Melancthon ' s tender spirits , arid goodness of heart , « hould justify and applaud the magistrates 6 f Geneva , for punishing Servefcus ^ ir £ - ligious mistakes with death ? * They acted right / Bays Mckwicthon , « in bringing that blasphemer to the stake , after having first granted ; him tfcfi privilege of * fair trial i Ala # , what is man ! " Hiat . Pxwt & 70 $ .

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    Origin of Ilerdeh \ s Story < jf t he Death of A dam i § f

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/27/