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No . ' CXL . ] AUGUST , 1817 . [ Vol . XII . — ¦ ¦ : — ¦ - ¦ ¦¦
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Some Account of Dr . JBalthasar JBekker and of the Mennonite Baptists . [ We have received the following valuable communication from a venerable foreign correspondent . The reader will have the goodness to bear in mind that English is not the writer ' s native language . We have taken some pains to give names and titles of books correctJy ; but we may have fallen into some errors , which , should any of our readers discover , we shall be happy to correct . A friend into whose hands the M . S . fel ]* has added a few
notes . Ed . ] Olden barneveld , State of New York , America * Sir , March 4 th 9 1817 . IN a letter of August 26 , 1816 , containing an extract from Robert Robinson * s Works , by Flower , Vol . I . p . 79 , in your Repository , October , 1816 , p . 594 , is desired some farther information about Dr . ' Bekker and the Mennonite Baptists . I shall be gratified if , the little which I can communicate on these subjects is
acceptable . . r Balthasar Bekker , D . D ., was a minister of the Reformed Christian Church at Amsterdam , and possessed of a vast erudition and an undaunted spirit , and made the best use of his talents , in every way , to enlighten his fellow-christians . His task was the mare arduous , and its execution the more daring , as the prejudices
of his contemporaries were strong , and the belief in witchcraft and sorcery wa 3 deep-rooted in the minds of the vulgar , learned and unlearned , in the latter part of the seventeenth centjury . He published a worlf on comets , on occasion of the appearance of that in 1680 and 1681 , about the same time in which P . Bayle published his Pen-
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stes sur la ComHe . * He defended the system of Descartes in a treatise , De Philosophia Curtesiana Admonitio , and . though little was yet wanting to entitle him to the name of a Naturalist—an Atheist , he ventured on the bold step
of driving the devil from his long usurped empire in this world . He exposed his rich armory in his En * chanted World , a work of great learning and ingenuity , which , although its manner was confused , and its language uoharmonious , throws much light on this subject , and anticipated many of H . Farmer ' s principal
arguments . A host of antagonists rose against him , among whom the foremost were Jo . Way en , JPetr . Mas trick t , Melch * Leydekher 91 Jo . Marcky Ever . Vanden Hooaht . Menr . Groeneweaen . Simon de
VrieSy P . Hulsiny and Petr . Poiret . % Not one dared to approve his doctrine before Chr . Thoina Snis , not one during his life , so afraid were clergymen and laymen to incur the devil ' s displeasure . See Fred * Spanheim Elench * Controv . p . 673 . Weisman . Hist . Eccles .
* There is an English translation of Bayle ' s Work , entitled u Miscellaneous Reflections , occasioned by the late Comet , which appeared in December 1680 , chiefly tending" to explode popular superstitions 5 written to a Doctor of the Sorbonne . " 8 vo . 1708 .
f Professor of Divinity at Utrecht , who died in 1721 , aged 69 . £ Who died at Rhinesberg ' , in Holland , in 1719 , aged 73 . He had , by his intercourse with Madam Bourig-non , become a zealous Mystic . The first of the six publications , attributed to this learned divine , was in Latin , and entitled Rational Thoughts
on God , the Soul and Evil . The last was aw edition of Madam Bourig-non ' s Works , in 19 vols . 8 vo ., with her Life , and several pieces , by Madam Guyon . See Nov . Diet , Hist . Paris , 1772 , Article , Poiret . %
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/1/
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