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and a note of Dr . Isaac Watts to him , dated Feb . 2 , 1741-2 , and regarding that work , is in my possession J . . K .
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Kennington , Sir , October 8 , 1825 . REMARK of my esteemed friend A Mr . Rutt , in your last numbei % ( p . 535 , ) relating- to myself , may seem to require some notice im reply . I am aware that lam a defaulter with the
public on the score of unredeemed pledges ; but my conscience does not accuse me of having failed in the fulfilment of any promise relating to the Bibliotheca Antitrinitariorum of Sandius . Quite satisfied I am that I have never committed myself hv an
engagement to attempt a translation of that very excellent work . It is true , indeed , that a few years ago I employed myself at intervals of leisure in writing . a hasty English version of it - , but before I had gone through my rough draft I saw reason to be convinced ,
that with the materials in my hands it would be easy to embody in an English history of the same kiad a considerable mass of new and valuable matter in addition to what Sandius Jhad been able to collect . I therefore
laid the undertaking aside , with the intention of inserting all the biographical information contained in the " Bibliotheca" in ipy projected History of Unitarianism . This iiitention I have not abandoned . But when I
shall be able to complete for the press a work of which former experience warns me that I ought not to flatter myself with the hope of being reimbursed even the bare expenses of the publication , I cannot take upon myself to say . All I shall now remark is , that the materials are on the anvil .
I am not aware that there exists a translation of Sandius ' s Bibliotheca in any one of the vernacular languages of Europe . Dr . Toulmin ,, it is evident , had never seen the French work to which he alludes - , and his words , strictly interpreted , seem to intimate that it was a translation- —not of the
Bibliotheca Antitrinitariorum—but of the Abridged History of the Socinians , " which he states it to contain . It is most likely that the French work , of which Dj % Touhniu had heard , was the " Histoire du Sociniamsme" in
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4 to ., published at Paris * in 1723 . The Secopd Part ( about one half of 4 he whole ) of this publication is biographical , and includes most of Saadius * s facts , melted down , indeed , in a Catholic crucible , and sent forth with a good deal of Catholic alloy and
colouring . This book is anonymous , but is understood to have been written by Lamy . It is little to be relied upon as authority . Such is Bock ' s judgment of it , and every reader of discernment will , I conceive , concur in this opinion . It displays , however , considerable research , and may in some cases be consulted with advantage .
The Vita F . Soeini , &c , by a"" Polish Knight , " is not prefixed to the works of Socinus in the BihliotheGa Fratrum Polonorum , but is printed in the additional volume , ( 419 , ) contain * .
ing the works of Przipcovius . The small edition possessed by Mr . Rutfc was first printed in that size in England , in 1651 , and appended to a Latin edition of the Racovian Gate *
chism , which was ordered by the Parliament , in its horror of heresy , and in the spirit which persecuted the eminently pious Biddle , to be burnt by the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex , at the ? Exchange , and at the New Palace , Westminster , The original printed Vote ( a single leaf ) I had the gratification to discover in the British
Museum , and it is inserted as a curiosity , sui generis , in my edition of the Racoviaa Catechism * When my translation of the Racovian Catechism was first announced as
in preparation , my venerated friend Dr . Toulmin informed me , that this had long been a favour ite project of his own ; and that he had relinquished it by the advice of his friends , who thought it was not Jike ' y to answer as a , literary speculation . Happy should I have been to have had my labours anticipated by so competent a hand ] THOMAS REES .
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Dr . Rees on Translation of Sandius' Bibliotheca , &c . 603
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SrR , October 7 , 1825 . Y OBSERVE that the subject of X what are called " Ordination
Services , " continues to occupy the attention pf your correspondents , and every npw service seems to afford ground for fresh animadversion . That which took place lately at Norwich having fallen under the censure of n
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1825, page 603, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2541/page/27/
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