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sec . xvii . p . 95 £ , 3- Buddei Isag . p , 281 , and tartly , Sum . Mw&mm Comp , Th 9 Dognutt . |> . 192 , wdi deserving an English translation . Often had Dr . Bekker been persecuted by his brethren , but without success , though their inveterate malice
was not assuaged . They laid only on their oars , well persuaded that Ms ardent lofty mind ere long would procure them a new handle , by which they might cut down this tree , if they could not destroy it , roots and all . They succeeded , when he published his Enchanted World , so far , that be
was removed from the ministry , or rather suspended ; he was not permitted to preach , but fee continued to wear his clerical garments , occi > pied his seat in the minister ' s pew * and received , ( as iu our days , the Rev . Dumnu at Berlin , ) his salary through
the Magistracy oi Amsterdam , not priest-ridden enough to be intimidated by the vociferations of embittered clergymen . I suppose the admirers of H . Farmer cannot be displeased to throw here a glance on the principal works published on this subject , before and since that period .
Jac . B&mage * Antiq . Jud . vol . IL chap . 8 . J . Le Clerc , BibL Chois . torn . XIH . p . £ 1 Q . The Doctrine ofDwib , Load . 1676 , * and upon this treatise Des Maizeaux , in wot . ad Epist . P . Saylii , tooa . II . p . 4 &S .
Benj . < de Oaillon , Exauaeu d < e 1 ' oppression des Reformes en France . * " The Doctrine of Devils proved to be the grand Apostacy of these later Times . A n Essay tending to rectify those undue Notions and Apprehensions Men } iave about J 3 sctn < jns and Evil Spirits * " 12 mo . The
anonymous author appears to have been a member of Xhe Church of England , from some unfriendly expressions respecting- & £ Nonconformists . He speaks with great disapprobation of Sociniaps , and teatously advocates the Godhead of Christ , yet rej ^ ardittg * a be lie f in diabolical agency , expressed by admitting the reality of
possessions , and of the temptation as the greatest of Heresies . To this work Baay be added oji ^ , which this Author defended , ^ bQti ^ Jted u The Questjiajn of Witchcraft de > I ^ tad , 01 a X > i ! ftc «> urfie ^ ain ^ t * h eir Opiuiou £ h » t aftnn WitchiB * . " 12 mo . im % hy Wa ^ staff . ^ e Moii . Bepes . V «[ . fii 54 , ^ 17 and 649 .
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Apist . 1687 , in l ^ mo ., and ^ ip ^ o this p ^ rfoiroanc ^ , J . Le Gi&iL &ibl . Hist . Univ . totn . VII . p . 339 . J 5 . Daillon , Dfemonologia , or aTreatrseon Spirits . Lond . 172 S , 8 vo . Jo . Camp . Stede , Diss . Philos . de An ^ elis , Groningae , 177 , ^ .
Ja < e . Ode , Comra . de A « gelis , Traj . ad . Rheti ., 1739 » 4 to , witb several others mentioned in Sam . Mursinna ^ Corap . Th . Dograat . p . 137-I subjoin the contents of the books and chapters of Dr . Bekker ' voluminous work . It appeared under the following title : —
Enchanted World : being a thorough inquiry into the common opinion , with regard to Spirit 3 , their nature and power , government and action : as also into what men by their energy
and communion may operate ; in four books , by Balthasar Bekker , D . D ., and minister in the Reformed Christian Church at Amsterdam , by Dan . Vander Dalla , 1691 , in 4 to . It has been
translated into German and French . * First Book—In which the sentiments and opinions , which all nations have at any time embraced of God and Spirits , or yet embrace , are developed . Dedication , Preface—Explaining" his motives of writing and the nature of
his work , and mentioning a curious , though not a singular example of ecclesiastical decisions : viz . that one of bis works , on the Catechism , was in Friesland condemned unanimously ,
although not one of two hundred clergymen could give a reason why'it was condemned , and afterwards again unanimously twice approved , without any alteration having been made with regard to contested points of . doctrine , t
• The French translation , from the Dutch original , was made under the Author ' s iospectiioD , and published in 169 * , at Amsterdam , with the title of' Le Monde Enchant 6 , &c . iu 4 vob . 12 ma . The Author ' s portrait is prefixed to the first volume . Bach volume has a dedication , with the signature , Balthestzr-Rekker ,
apparently an autograph . Before the first hook is an abridgment of the wfoole work . See Hekfcet j in the catalogue of printed books , Brittek MFuseitm . This French translation , or , at least , the first volume , including' the abridgment , was rendered into Ertg-tisb , and published in ttttKt , mwJer the * trlie of The iVorid Bewitched , & , & > lT 2 mo . t Bekker add * , " Thie has ooii&Hntt ]
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450 Some Account of Dr . Balthasar j&ekher and of the Mennonite Baptists .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/2/
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