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outrage on the consciences of his clerical brethren at Exeter : " 1688 , Nov . 9 . The first thing his Highness did , was to go and pay his grateful acknowledgment to Almighty God , and to cause Te Deum to be sung in the Cathedral Church for his safe arrival .
After the Collects were ended , Dr . Burnet began to read his Highness e s declaration , at which the ministers of the church , there present , were so surprised that they immediately left their
seats and went out ; however , the Doctor continued reading , and the declaration being ended , he said , God . save the Pinnae of Orange , to which the major part of the congregation answered , Amen . "
P . 1 . " The Nonconformist" has well chosen , in the Italian Reformation , a subject unacountably overlooked , so far as I have observed , by our ecclesiastical historians . I had occasion to make this remark in Vol . X . of Priestley ' s Works , where , at p . 290 , some of your readers may find a note on the subject .
I there quoted the complaint of Cornaro " on a sober life , " in 1549 , that / ' opinion Luther ana was one of tre mail costumi which then prevailed in Italy . The other two were V
adulazione , et la eeremonia , and la crapula ( intemperance ) . This , Cornaro attacked , in his Discorsi della Vita Sobria , the English translation of which is a very common book . As to the other two , the noble Venetian
fondly predicted , ( for he says , son certo , } that some great genius , qualche gentile spirito , would soon appear , to oppose and drive them from society , leimrle dal mondo . Alas , for the credit of Italian prophecy , a third century is wearing away while we wait the advent of qualche
gentile spirito . Still l opinion JLutherana proceeds ; nor ( judging from the Styles very lately displayed at Brighton , according to the Morning Chronicle , ) does l adulazione retrograde . In the note to which I have referred .
I also mentioned an Italian Testament , printed in 155 J , at Lyons , as translated from the Creek » - a mode then ,
I apprehend , peculiar to the Reformers , for whose use , in Italy , it was no doubt designed . I also referred to Clarke's Persecutions , l (> 51 , ( pp . 231 —^ 241 , ) for an ( account of martyrs in Italy , from 1546 to 1560 . A Papist ,
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whom he quotes ; says their execut fofg " resembled the slaughter of calves and sheep . " P . 3 , col . 2 . " John Valdesius or Valdesso , " of whom , I think , there is some account in one of your eajl y volumes . Walton , in his " Life of
Herbert , " on the authority of Mr . Farrer , who translated the " One Hundred and Ten Considerations , " describes " John Valdesso" as " a Spaniard , " who " had followed Charles
V ., as a cavalier , all the time of his long and dangerous wars . " At length he resigned his appointments to the Emperor , saying , " there ought to be a vacancy of time between fighting and dying . " If this account , which I have also seen in some writer quite as
early as Walton , be correct , he was not merely " a civilian" and " private secretary" to the Emperor . Yet Sandius , I observe , who clahns Valdesso as an Anti-trinitarian , gives no hint of his military character . Young , I see , in his Centaur , ( Letter II ., on
Pleasure , ) refers to the story , with some variations , thus addressing a gay assembly : "' Ye fine men of rank aad parts , a common soldier , ( your contempt no doubt , ) shall reproach you . ' One of them , requesting dismission from Charles V ., gave , this reason for
it : Inter vitce negotia , ejetrcmumqw diem oportet aliquod temporis intercedere . Much more inter vitas voluptates , and our last hour ; " as if fig hting , were much more rational and praiseworthy than " dancing , into death . "
P . 6 . Dr . Morell ' s valuable remarks on a highly important subject , remind me of an anonymous publication , so early as 1648 , which has been long known as the production of Sir William Petty . It is a pamphlet of four sheets in small quarto , entitled , " The Advice of IV . P . to Mr . Samuel
Hartlib , for the advancement of some particular Parts of Learning . " I had once the curiosity to examine it at the British Museum . After proposing- " that proper persons be employed to collect from books
all real and experimental leaning contained in them , in order to facilitate the way to farther improvements , " the author recommends " that there be instituted Ergastula Lite r'aria , ( literary workhouses , ) where chiMreI 1 may be-taught as well to-do sofltf *
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Y 4 Italian Reformationy Valdesso 9 SfC .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/10/
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