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character , ' giveli in Memoirs of Socinus , ( p , 41 S- ) that I hope it can be easily proved to be a calumny . In the Nouveau Dictionnaire Historique , ( 1772 , ii . 343 . ) at the end of a * short article of
CrelliuS ) having mentioned among his works , Des Scrits . de Morale , meaning his Christian Ethics the writer adds , Dans lesquels ii permet aux mans de battre leurs femmes . Cette decision r 6-
volteroit < i coup suit nos Fr ^ nsoises . " Having referred to the " Memoirs of Sopinus , " I am persuaded that the candid author of that
valuable work will readily allow iiie to correct , or rather to render complete , the following passage in his account of Lelius , ( Introduction , p . xi . ) «* ' At the age of twenty-one , he left
Italy , in 1547 , and passed four years ravishing France , Holland , Germany , apd Poland : at last , h ? fixed his residence at Zurich , in Switzerland . " The author of the Memoirs lias very liberally acknowledged his obligations to the Life of Socinus , prefix ^ cl to His . works by A : Pplish knight , Przipcovius . I li ^ ve a copy of that Life in a very small 24 mo . volume ^ p rinted MleittheropoU Ty # * $ < Mpdfiidi Ph $ ladeU phi , 165 lv ' The travels of Lelius
are thus exposed , ( p . € : )< 154 ^ , Proxim o quaotriennW ^ alliami Britanniam * Belgium , Germaniam uni-
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170 Authors of ' " Forms of Devotion . *
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versam , ipsam quoque Poloniam emen * sus , apud Helvetios Tiguri sedem fixit-From this passage it appears , that Lelius Socinus visited Britain , as well as the various countries mentioned itr the Memoirs . It was during the reign of Edward VI . when Cranmer , Ridley , and
Latimer , professed advocates for the free use of the Scriptures , were employing the roy ^ l child ' s authority to persecute unto death such , as could not find in those
Scriptures the same doctrine with themselves . The visit of Lelius Socinus to our cp ^ nti ^ y , at such a period , could not be very ftgree .. able , nor indeed , safe , had he discovered his ; opinions .
Your insertion of flartley s J ^ ei texs reminded me . ^ of an . ^ ecdo . te Concerning himy which I heard some years agoy I believe in conversation with Dr . Priestley , ^ yhile he resided in this vill ^ gei Dr . JS when preparipgi his great work , engaged several of his friends ^ one of whom was the late bishop Law , to communicate their observations
on young persons with a view to the confirmation of his theory . This correspondence , if recoverable , could hardly fail to be very interesting . Yours , R .
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AUTHORS OF *? £ OflMS OF 1 > EVOTION * *'
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.. " : ¦ ¦ : ; ; ¦ . : r .. " , < > 1 " ¦ ¦ To the Editor , of the Monthly Repository .
SIR , i In your fourth vol . p > 551 , there is ah inquiry after the authors of a 12 mo volume , intitled Forms of Devotion for the Use of Families , " printed 1758 . I have a copy of it , in a blanlt ¦ leaf of which it is ascribed , as is said , on the authority of a living dis-
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senting minister , well known in the biographical department of literature , to Dr . Leland , ( author of the View of Deistical Writers , ) Dr . Weld , Dr . Duchal , and Mr , Mears , who wrote a Treatise on the Lord ' s Su I pperi am ,, Sir ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/10/
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