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angels; (Hebrews ii. 5.) or from neglect to compare every passage in Enoch which coincides with Scripture with the place with which it coincides, in order to judge respecting the priority, the agreement, the references, the confirmation of both. Compare, for instance, Genesis v. 29. with Enoch x. 23, &c. and Rev. xii. 4. with Enoch xxi. 3. and Luke xvi. 26, with Enoch xxii. 10. and Matt. v. 8. with Enoch xxxviii. 4. and Rev. iv. 6. with Enoch xl. 9: or it may arise from pure scepticism, and determination to decide, a priori, that no evidence can be admitted in proof that the history of the fallen angels, as recorded in the Book of Enoch, can be either true or consistent with a belief of the divine wisdom.

Such a mode of reasoning, a priori, concerning what revelation ought to teach, will unquestionably condemn the Book of Enoch as severely as the Book of Enoch condemns those who reason after this manner. Suqadd yo Whether I may add the testimony of Eschylus to that of Enoch respecting the antediluvian world, Fmust leave to better judges to decide. If this be permitted, I would observe that Lord himself plainly alludes to the flood by the same word

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TAXATIO PAPALIS; being an Account of the Tax-Books of the United Church and Courts of Modern Rome; or, of the Tara Cancellariæ Apostolica, and Taxæ Sacræ Pœnitentiariæ Apostolica. By EMANCIPATUS, 1825. Rivingtons, 2s. 6d.

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IN literary researches, provided the subject possess intrinsic importance, in proportion to that importance, hardly any effort is more useful and acceptable, if successful, than that of rectifying the mistakes, and of unravelling the embarrassments, into which writers, especially if they be writers of eminence, have fallen. Scarcely any work exists, in which this is more palpably and unaccountably the fact, than in that which is indicated above, and of which the existing accounts, previously to the appearance of this pamphlet, were distinguished, hardly more by the information they conveyed, than by their deficiency and tendency to mislead. Even the acute and accurate Bayle, whose critical discrimination bas seldom found an equal, in his account of these extraordinary and interesting productions, under the names of those who gave re-impressions of them, Du Pinet, Banek, and Tuppius, has introduced such a chaos of contradiction and confusion into hiscionjectures, that no consistent notion can be collected even of his own opinion on the subject. Something to this amount is observed in the work proposed for examination; but the charge is confirmed ex abundanti by reference to the articles. This giant in literature of this class, has, as might be expected, misled, most, or indeed all, of his followers. These are principally the successive editors of one form of the Taxa. It does not appear that the author was acquainted with the discussion on the subject, which occupies the whole of one of the Lettres (the xxvith) Historiques et Dogmatiques sur les Jubilés, &c. par Charles Chais: and which, for the state of knowlege at the time, 1751, is respectably correct. But the writer who threw a blaze of light at once on the darkness enveloping the mysterious volumes under consideration, is the minute and laborious Marchand, in his Dict. Hist. under the word Taxa, in 1759. He had the means, and he took the right method, of elucidating the subject by a particular enumeration, and some occasional description of all the then known copies of the Taxa. His list was pretty extended, and his criticisms genes rally accurate but he suffered himself to be bewildered by the notion of an entire and an abridged edition of this document, and on this hypothesis attempted to account for the variations observable in the contents of different copies. The present work

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appears to have settled this point in the only legitimate way, by a particular examination and comparison of the actual contents of the Taxæ; and to have shown, if not to demonstration, which the subject will hardly admit; yet to reasonable satisfaction,-that the whole of the printed editions belong to two classes, one of which is derived from the copy appended to the Centum Gravamina, presented at the diet of Nuremburg in 1522, and copied by Musculus into his Loci Communes, and from him by the French editors: the other class is by far the most authentic and valuable, and is divided into four distinct parts, which by their title-pages purport to have been printed at Rome, by the printer of the Apostolic Chamber, from the year 1471, the date of the first known edition; separately for the most part, as it should appear, and perhaps not collectively until the celebrated edition at Paris in 1520.

A slight inspection of this work, accompanied by a comparison with any other on the same subject, will discover, that there is no where else extant so complete an enumeration and description of the volumes inquired into. And it may be observed in recommendation of their rarity and consequent value (although their rarity certainly does not constitute their only or chief value), that most of the early editions are known only by copies, actually, or nearly, unique. The author might (and possibly with benefit to his general argument, at least to its more perfect elucidation) have made more copious extracts from the documents to which he has in general very briefly adverted. There might have been added from Muratori's Antiq. Ital. Med. Ævi, tom. v. col. 741. the following very liberal remark, as proceeding from an undoubted Roman Catholic :—" Quare, ex quo Canones Pœnitentiales in Occidente prodierunt,et invecta fuit forma ejusmodi Redemptionis, multis, ne dicam plerisque, e clero via lata aperta est ad suum sibi commodum procurandum, non minus quam alienum." Indeed, the more devout individuals of that communion have as deeply deplored the abuses which have insinuated into their church by such means, and have as strongly reprobated the books which seem to countenance them, as many Protestants would feel and express of either affection. Marchand himself has adduced from the answer of Dom Gabriel Gerberon to Jurieu, the following passage: ces vieilles Taxes du vieux Livre de la Chancellerie de Rome, non seulement ne sont de nulle autorité dans l'Eglise, mais quelle les a toujours eu en horreur," &c. The late Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District, the well-known and learned bishop of Castabala, Dr. Milner; and Mr. C. Butler, almost equally well known,-have attempted an explanation of the Taxæ, from which the books considered in the Taxatio Papalis derive their name, by representing them as fees of office and certainly any explanation coming from such quarters, whether ultimately satisfactory or not, is deserving of attention.

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Had the author thought proper fo enter into the subject of the Court, from whence the books which he inquires into originated, he might have obtained some light and assistance from a work, De S. R. Ecclesia Vicecancellario, illiusque munere, &c. Peculiaris Enarratio Joannis Ciampini, &c. Romæ, 1697, in 4to. The most important part of the information contained in it is derived from an earlier work on the same subject by Gomesius, who informs the reader, that the first dignity after the Pope is the Vicechancellor; the next, the President of the Apostolic Chamber; the third, the Chief Penitentiary. 29977.

In the body of the work is contained a rather copious extract from a very curious manuscript, comprehending several forms of the Taxæ, in the British Museum. It consists of two volumes written on vellum, with every appearance, as the author affirms, of genuineness and coeval antiquity-that is, of the former part of the sixteenth century. There is likewise an Appendix, containing an entire section, being the first of two, into which the Fourth Part is is divided of the Parisian edition of 1520: it exhibits about four folios of the original; and they are marked in the margin. Nov. 23, 1826. PHILO.

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CONFESSION OF FAITH OF CYRILLUS.

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SIR, TAKE the liberty of sending you some information relative to the valuable Confession of Faith of Cyrillus, which you have placed at the head of your last number. I have an edition, the first with the Greek: the first part of the title is in Greek, the translation of which is subjoined:-Cyrilli Patriarche Constantinopolitani Confessio Christiana Fidei. Geneva: Excudebat Johannes de Tournes, anno M.DCXXXIII, in 4to. In a Latin preface by the Editors, the reader is informed, that a Latin copy was obtained by the Dutch ambassador at the Porte from the Patriarch, and printed three years before; that much calumny and persecution was the consequence to all parties, but that the dignified Confessor stood firm that a Greek translation was made and furnished by him, fortified by Scriptural authorities, and enriched with the addition of certain questions, which the ambassador desired to be made public,

sending the autograph of the author, as a monument of the honorable act, to be inspected by all whose interest in the true faith should incline them so to do. Dated Geneva, Kal. April. M.DC.XXXIII. This edition contains both the Greek and the Latin, article by article, and in the Greek accurately cor responds with your reprint.gta

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NOTICE OF

GREEK EXERCISES; or, an Introduction to GREEK COMPOSITION; so arranged as to lead the Student from the ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR to the higher parts of SYNTAX. In this work the Greek of the words is not appended to the text, but referred to an Index at the end. By the REV. F. VALPY, M.A. Trin. Coll. Camb., and one of the Under Masters of Reading School.

THE following extract from the Preface of this useful work will put our readers in full possession of the design of the author:

"The Reader may be inclined to ask two questions: What is the use of Greek Composition? and, What is the use of a' new work introductory to it?

***It is granted that many of the apologies for Latin composition are not applicable to Greek composition. But whoever considers how much Latin composition familiarises the student with the Latin language; how it insensibly gives him a command over the signification of Latin words, and over the structure of Latin phraseology; how it enables him to read the Roman writers with more ease, accuracy, and pleasure; will be satisfied that the same results with respect to the Greek language may be expected to follow from composing in Greek. So that the question of the propriety of Greek composition in general, almost rests on another, whether the Greek language is worth learning at all.

"Then, as to the present work in particular, its leading feaVOL. XXXIV. Cl. Jl. NO. LXVIII. X

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