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    Sketch of the lAfe of Ser*cetu$.—Letter ...

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    Dec. 9, 1807. Dear And Respected Sir, Ho...

    the title bears the name of Lyons , many concluded , that he h ^ d returned again to that city , which , however , is not presumptive . But they did not pay attention , that ih the title-page , the place where the Bibles were sold is announced .

    There they actually , as is mentioned upon the last page , were printtetf'by'Gasp . Trechselius , who a little before had established a printing press at Vienne , as ma . nifestly appears from the dedication of the second edition of Ptolo .

    maeus . The preface of Servetus to this Bible has been published by La R & che * and MosheiHi , t who selected many of his annotations ;

    to which , by Mosheim , is joined a catalogue of several passages condemned by the Roman church , in their list of prohibited books . J It may deserve a peculiar observation , with regard to the

    annotations of Servetus , that , according to him , none of the prophecies of the G . T . did directly regard Jesufc our Lord , but that every on * of these had a double sense , 0 N & literal or historical , the other

    spiritual ; the latter , however , the * genuine and most emphatic : so he explains Ps , ii . 7 * Paul , he says , brings the word this day ( hodie ) to Christ ' s resurrection , as i ^ ithe day in which David was delivered from his enemies , David is said to have bee A born , and in

    Dec. 9, 1807. Dear And Respected Sir, Ho...

    that day again have been chosen king , Ps . xxii . he explains of David ' s ( light ; in Ps . ex . he understood Solomon by DavicTsLord ; Hezekias by Emmanuel , Lsa . vii . He explains lsa . liii . in the first

    sense of Cyrus , afterwards of Christ , || which exegesis had been objected to hiai as an impious and malignant crime : though it must be confessed , that Calvin , who , in the same manner , explained in the prophecies and Psalms , the moral and

    historical sense , only in the typical sense of our Lord , was marked with the same odiaus stamp by iEgidius Hunnius , in a book ,

    Calvinus Judaizans , Wittemberg , 1593 , 8 vo , pp . 19 ., 20 ; against whom , Calvin had been defended by Paraeus . You well know , Sir , that this double sense has been adopted by later commentators , of eminent

    learning and piety , of all denominations , -v pri ncipally by the followers of Co ccej Us , and in so far there was certainly less reason to find fault with Servetus ' s edition of the Scriptures , much less such a fault , which could scarce be

    expiated by the lire . But it would be considered by you a violation of truth not to exculpate this work , as if every p & ge of it \ N $ k inquinated partly with futilious trifles , partly with impiou ? Uonsense / ' § The contrary is

    evisimitarecog & itaet scoliis illuttrata ut nova plane cditio videri posset . Lugd . apud Hug . a Porta . 154 a , in fol . Of this edition may be consulted Z > . COment Bibl . Hist , et Crit . torn . iv . jp . 127 . * Bibl . Angl . toua . v . tMbahcim , 1 . cinDocum . viii , ix , x . p . 406—414 . t Card . $ )> mif 0 ga t € » tal . Ind . Lib * Prohib . Madrid , tdifr Anfonln , a Soft Major * Catalogue of Book * which ought to be prohibited or corrected , Madrid , 1667 . p . xa $ . % J | More etamples have been brought forward by H , Vcncma , Inst , H . E . Sec . ^§ 466 , ^^ . ^ 4 66 . S Dc Erroribus Scrreti , p . 803

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/9/