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aetfepte $ te fltti&t > 4 * # bett ^ > impimis b eve Ood ^ tt > jealous of trirth , ^ tdf be an % fl ^ iivy t 6 tbe utmost ite ^ dom of its c <> mmutiication to men . It doe * not&ppeaavtlter ^ for ^ , that it ^ as fbt ^ ay * cnm ^ that this ancient ; sa ^ e , i who > * va ^ so 25 ^ at ^ n ^ tix ehl igtetea human kiady and that * many anaon *^ the philosophers ,: m&& d ^ fived ^ f fightJ Or ^ should I mention those men of old so deseEV ^ ii ^^ of ^ adttiirati'on ^ fdp ^ heit x » Ml wisdom as also M for their great actions ? Aiul ^ VtihiJy ^ in ^ ott ^ o ^ 'Cortoh , th ^ deliverer of » own city and of all Sieilyi ? tliuw # hbftt ^ WhetifeFidtotit > ^ or tn or ^> PeV e refl in the i common wealth , n o
age ha ^ ptrodm ^ dv Nextj ^^ pk ^ dauditts ^ ^ ho , ^ by nbbly deelariisg his sentimentsin th 0-actuate ^ : 'I P ^ livet ^ uaiy ffoiia yrrhus ^ a : forMidablekaeiwy ; but himWf deli ^ rfed * » Ot ^ dtti blindness . ( Tken € aecililis JVieteiliis the highpries ^ whb ^ k ) sP his weadm e ^ itig froiti tlie fl ^ not the city only but the Pail&aiiiiBf ; oil whiekfaffltg tfee destiny of-the city , as also the most sacred of the'r ^ li ^ k ) ti Si : itiyyfer kjs ^^ Hdugh on othe r oeca » ions it is- certain that God has declared thttt his favour attends ' - ^ devotedtiess- so extraordinary e ^ en-a na 6 ng
tlieGeiitile ^ . Wha «|^ ttee ^ efore ^ ha& happened to such a man , I can hardly tkh ) k sh&nld bt M % n ide * eA as ah evil . <• Why should f add others © f later toeS' ^ as Dafldolo / -Prince of Venice , the-fit ^ st nian byfer of all bis compatriots , •' " of Ziska | % \ i& pliant Dake ^ of Bohemiaj champion of the ! orthodox Mth ? ' Why ^ di ¥ ines of'highest nain ej Hiertunymus , Zanehius ; With some others * f wM& it $ s WeU knrdWn , that the patriarch Isaad himself , tian whom no tnortal wtts ^ ttV ^ r mdfe dear to ^ God ^ livea blind no small number of years ; aiidifei *^ 0 "me rti ttJei t ^ ernabs , Jacob also / his son , of God no less beloved ;
whettyin fine ; His beyond all doubt , from the divine testimony ( of- » Cftti « our SaviBiir , that-thte inkn whom he healed hkd been blind eren from the womb , for rio sin ) e 4 ther-6 fhiniself or of his parents . As for myself , I call thee , O God ^ tb v ^ i « rtess ^ the searcher of the inmost spirit and of every thought , that I ami not c «> tiiaiou ^ ' of any thing- ^ ( though to the utmos t of fcny poWcry I have often &erteiu ^ ly ekafn 5 ned myself , on this point , though I have visited all the recesses af my hea ^ t ; ) that I am not conscious of any crime , the heinousness of which cbuldjia ^ e Justly caused ; could have called down , this calamity upon
me above othei > Si . Whatever I have written , yea , at any time , ( since the'royalists in their exul ^ tion iraa ^ ine ? i am now suffering from it * by wajrof atonement , as they Will have it , ) I call the same God to witness , that I have written nothing which I was not persuaded at the time , and am still persuaded , was right and true and pleasing to God ; and this without being moved by ambition , by lucre , or by glory ; but solely by a sense of duty , of grace , and of devotion to my country ; that , above all , I have done this with a view not
only to the deliverance of the commonwealth , but likewise of the church . Hence , when that office against the royal defence * was publicly assigned me , and at a time when not only my he alth , > Ya £ unfavourable , but when I had nearly lost the sight of my other eye ; and nay physicians expressly foretold , that if I undertook the task , I should in a , short tinie . lose both ; in no wise dismayed at this warning , mefcUougJit it was np pUysicmn ^ S voice I heard , not the voice even of Esculapius from the shrine pf Epidaurus ^ but of some diviner monitor within ; rnethought that foy . fl certain fatality in wy birth , two
- . . . i i , ' ¦ , -, ; — , i — .-* Defensio Jlegia pro Carolo Prifpojld Carohim ^ tytityfym— 'fA Royal Defence for Chinics the First to Charles the . $ evond ^ . ^ / i ^ i ^ e )[ ep < je ^ was . written by Claudius Salmasius , or Claude de Saum < 4 ^> a li ^ an renpwped ^ or . hia Jearning throughout Kurope , and at the time of , its . publicativu Honorary Ppfestibr in Uic University of kcydi ' ii .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 681, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/25/
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