On this page

• Departments (1)
  • 
• Text (3)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    528 Reflections on Burners Travels.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    Book-Worm . No . XXV . Reflections on Burnefs Travels * Sir , Aug . Hth , 1817 . AM disposed to send you some I account of another book written against Burnet , of an earlier date , and from a very different quarter than the former . Instead of an orthodox

    malcontent of his own church , the following title-page will discover a Roman Catholic opponent , sheltered under the wing of the Pope , and even launching Kis critical thunders from the Vatican .

    " Reflexions on Dr . Gilbert Burnetts Travels into Switzerland , Italy , and certain parts of Germany and France , &c . Divided into five Letters . By Monsieur * * * . London , printed 1688 . 12 mo . Pp . 164 . "

    A former possessor of the book has attributed it , on the title-page , to M . Schelstrate , keeper of the Vatican Library . Dr . Burnet appears to have seen him in 16 S 5 , for he speaks of

    ** the famous Greek manuscript of great value which the Chanoine Shelstrat , who was library-keeper , asserted to be 1400 years old . " He adds , " The passage [ 1 John v . 7 ]> is not to be found in the Vatican M . S . no more

    than it is in the King ' s M . S . at St . James ' s . ' * Travels , 1737 . P . 45 . Let . I . ad fin . Emanuel de Schelstrate has no place in any English collection of lives or authors , which I have met with . A

    Parisian biography has described him as Canon and Chanter of Anvers , his native place , and afterwards keeper of the Vatican Library and Canon of St . Peter ' s at Rome , where he died in 1690 . Aged 46 . Many works have been attributed to him . Those named

    are , Antiquitates JEcclesice illustrates , 2 v . fol . Ecclesia Africana sub Primate Carthaginiensi , 4 to . The biographer charges both with ultramontane prejudices , referring , I apprehend , to

    the questions between the retainers of the Roman court , and those who contended for the rights of the Galilean Church . Schelstrate published also Acta Constantiensis Concibii , and is said to have discovered in all his

    writings more learning than critical discernment , taste or philosophy , son savoir nfaoit pas SclairS par le flambeau de la critique , du gout , et de la Philosophie . Nov . Dick Hist . Paris , 1772 .

    Untitled Article

    It appears by Mr . Thomas Burnet ' s Life of his Father , annexed to his Own Times , that , " in December 1684 , by an extraordinary order from the Lord Keeper North to Sir Harbottle Grimston , " Dr . Burnet ** was forbid

    preaching any more in the Chapel at the Rolls . Thus , at the time of King Charles ' s death [ Feb . 1685 ] , he was happrly disengaged from all those ties which might have rendered his stay

    in England any part of his duty . " Accordingly he obtained * ' leave to go out of the kingdom' * on the accession of James , *• an excellent prince / * according to the Librarian of the Vatican , who thus dilates on the favourite

    theme . ** England hath been blessed with very many renowned and good princes , all whose virtues seem to concentre in him , than whom certainly none ever more promoted the safety of his people , and the glory and profit of his

    whole kingdom , with so much goodness , prudence , courage and constancy . His subjects own all this , and are sensible of the bounty and magnificence of their king , yet are uncapable of taking so full a prospect as those who from foreign parts calmly view and

    consider all things : even as men in a great ship , making its way to the haven through raging waves and furious tempests , being each too intent upon his own affairs , cannot so well judge of the dexterity and prudence of the pilot , as they who carefully behold all

    at a due distance . So great is the reverence and renown of this prince amongst other nations , that what Scipio said of the people of Rome may be truly applicable to him ; There is no king upon earth they less desire should be their enemy K or whose friendshi p they covet more . " Pref .

    What nation humbly could enjoy his reign 1 If lost ) with patience such a loss sustain ? As Young , a Courtier , even On the Last Day , sang in 1713 , of James ' s grandson , the deceased Duke of

    Gloucester , a child who promised somewhat , yet never lived to perform any thing , or perhaps to shew that he had been all promise , though under the tuition of Burnet , to whose story i

    return . Dr . Burnet , on leaving England , passed throughFrance into Switzerland and Italy , returning through Germany into Holland , where he soon becam e

    528 Reflections On Burners Travels.

    528 Reflections on Burners Travels .

    Untitled Article

    V . p . 324 .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1817, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2468/page/16/