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No . 2 . Dear Sir , Howton Square , Feb . 22 , 1730-1 . I hope you will excuse the trouble I am about to give you . 'Tis the opinion of the goodness of your judgment that brings it upon you . I am desirous of knowing your opinion concerning the Epistles ascribed to St . Ignatius .
I will first inform you that I have read Daillee * , * Pearson , f and lately Larroque , }; who treat professedly of the genuineness of these epistles . I have also myself made a pretty exact comparison of the smaller and larger epistles : and upon that comparison am fully persuaded , that the larger epistles are an interpolation of the smaller , and not the smaller an abridgment of the larger . The only question , therefore , that remains with me , is about the genuineness of the smaller . About which I have only some doubts , but am not positive . I am in a wavering condition . But it is of importance in my design to come to a fixed determination , § if possible , concerning such early Christian writers . 'Tis not the design of this request to put you on the trouble of a particular
* De Usu Patrum . 1646 . " A Treatise concerning the right Use of the Fathers , written in French by John Daille * . 4 to . MDCLXV . " John Daille * , born at Chatelieraut , in 1594 , had travelled over Europe , in early life , as tutor to two grandsons of Duplessis Mornay . At Venice he became acquainted with Father Paul , who , in vain , endeavoured to detain him in that city . Returning to France , he became Minister of the Protestant Church at Saumur , and afterwards at CUarentoti . He died at Paris ia 1670 .
Daille is described by a Catholic biographer as " illustre par sod erudition autant que par sa pro bite . Les Protestants font beaucoup de cas de ses ouvrages , et les Cathoiiques avouent qu'ils sont dignes de Fattention des controvertlstes . " Yet , as to the treatise , * De Usu Patrum , tres estim ^ daus sa communion , " the biographer adds , " II ne veut point qu ' on termine les diffe ' rents the * ologiques par l ' autorite * des Peres ; inais e ' est pr £ cise * ment cette autorite * qui forme la chaine de la tradition . " Having noticed the various learned works of the author , the biographer thus agreeably portrays the man : " Daille * e " toit d ' un caractere franc et ouvert . Son entretien e " toit aise" et
iastructif . Les plus fortes meditations ne lui otoient neu de sa gaiete * naturelle . En sortant de son cabinet , il laissoit toute son austeYice * parmi ses papiers et ses livrcs . 11 se mettoit a la porte * e de tout le moude , et les personnes du commun se plaisoieut avec lui com me les savans . " Now . Diet . Hist . ( 1789 ) , III . 199 , 200 . t " S . Ignatii Epistolae Genuinae , juxta exemplar Medicium denuo recensitse , una cum veteri Latina versione : annotationibus D . Joannis Pearsoni , uuper Episcopi Cestriensi 8 , et Thomae Smithi , S . T . P ., illustratae . Oxon * 4 to . Anna MDCCIX . "
X Probably Matthew de Larroqne , Protestant Minister at Cbareuton , and afterwards at Rouen , who died in 1684 , aged 65 . " C ' e ' toit , " says his Catholic biographer , " un grand et rigide observateur de la morale . II ne se contentoit pas de la pratiquer ; il tonnoit en chaire contre ceux qui s ' en 61 oiguoient . Tous les accidens de la vie le trouverent ferme et in ^ branlable . " After mentioning Larroque ' s History of the Eucharist , ( " pleiue de recherches curieuses , " but , in his opiniou , weak in argument , ) the reply to Bo&suet , aud a treatise on the lit ! gale , the biographer ascribes to him , ** Deux savantcs Dissertations latines sur Photin et Libere , " aud " Plusieurs autres Ecrits de Controverse ea-Hinds dans son parti . " Nouv . Diet . Hist . ( 1789 ) , V , 182 .
In the Catalogue of Dr . Williams ' s Library are aeveral works of Larroque ' s , but nothing , apparently , on Ignatius . Daniel de Larroque , the son of Matthew , " aussi savant que son pere , mais ^ crivain moins solide , " on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes , retired to London , &c . At length he returned to France , and became a Catholic . After an Imprisonment of several years for writing a satire on Louis X . IV ., he obtained a post aud a pension under the Regency . Daniel de Larroque died in 1731 , aged 70 > with the reputation of ' * un homme poli et un c * crivaiu auasi mifidiocre . " Ibid , § See Credibility , Pt . II . ( nrst published in 1733 ) . Works , II . 68—70 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/23/
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