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LEAST my young readers fhould be mifled by the eloquent, but grofsly partial reprefentation, which Hume has given of the first reformers from popery, to rank them with the fanatics who, in other periods, have difturbed Chriftianity, I beg leave to transcribe a single paragraph from Dr. Maclaine's Ift Appendix, inferted in Mofheim's Eccles. Hift. of Cent. 16, chap. iv. end of 1ft fect." The principal reformers were Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, Melanchton, Bucer, Martyr, Bullinger, Beza, "Ecolampadius, and others. Now these were all men of "learning, who came forth into the field of controversy (in "which the fate of future ages, with respect to liberty, was to "be decided) with a kind of arms that did not at all give "them the afpect of perfons agitated by the impulfe, or feduced

by the delufions of fanaticifm, They pretended not to be called to the work they undertook by vifions, or internal il"luminations and impulfes; they never attempted to work "miracles, nor pleaded a divine commiffion; they taught no "new religion; nor laid claim to any extraordinary vocation; "they refpected government, practised and tanght submission "to civil rulers, and defired only the liberty of that confcience "which God has made free; they maintained that the faith of "Chriftians was to be determined by the word of God alone; "they had recourse to reason and argument, to the rules of "found criticifm, and to the authority and light of hiftory; "they tranflated the fcriptures into the popular languages of "different countries, and appealed to them as the only teft of "religious truth; they exhorted Chriftians to judge for them"themselves, to fearch the scriptures, to break afunder the "bonds of ignorant prejudice and lawless authority, and to "affert that liberty of confcience, to which they had an una"lienable right as reasonable beings.

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Page 9, line 16, for Nathaniel, read Nathanael.
16, last line, for Nazarites, read Nazarenes,

124, line 3, for unparalled, read unparalleled.
130, line 9,
before blindnefs, infert their.

141, line 10, for Nazareth, read Nazarene,
149, line 20, for fubject, read fubjects.

155, line 15, for univerfally, read unavoidably.

156, line 23, for end, read ends.

158, line 12, before vifions, infert the.

185, line 2,

221, line

Coloff, read Coloffe.

1, for deverfified, read diverfified. 265, line 10, for thmfelves, read themselves.

316, line 25, for of an event, read or of an event.

317,

line 32,
for

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