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    • THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND LIMBORCH, TRANSLATED, WITH HISTORICAL NOTJES.
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      The Correspondence between Locke and Litnborch , 1685—1704 . ( Continued from p . 13 . ) No . 37 . Philip & Lirnborch to John Locke * Amsterdam , March 11 , 1698-My worth y Friend , SEND you , by this opportunity , I some extracts from Paul Servita ,

      which may be inserted in the History of the Inqqisition . The Authors I now meet with I read with peculiar reference to the Inquisition , and generally extract whatever occurs which may still further illustrate that subject , and thus serve to complete my

      History . You may , if you please , add these to what I sent you before . As to what you communicated to me three years since from the travels of Du Mont , * the more I consider it , the more I am disposed to add that passage to my History . For though the regulations of the Papal Court forbid the disclosure of secrets revealed

      in confession , yet in favour of the faith they do many things which their laws seem to forbid , though ,, in truth , they sanction only what may more easily seduce and entangle the simple . Therefore , I think that not only the laws of the Inquisition should be

      considered , but especially the acts of its administration , which are very often directly opposed to its regulations . One thing is worthy of remark . Du Mont says , that the Confessors at

      Malta are obliged to reveal to the Inquisitors whatever any persons disclose to them in secret confession , if it concern the faith . I have no doubt that these secret confessions are

      revealed to the Inquisitors ; though I can scarcely believe there is really a law to reveal them . Perhaps there is a verbal order given to the confessors , though no such la , w exists . Thus a Protestant and a stranger may be led into an error by conversations * See XIII . 478 , 481 .

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      The Correspondence Between Locke And Limborch, Translated, With Historical Notjes.

      THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND LIMBORCH , TRANSLATED , WITH HISTORICAL NOTJES .

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      with the inhabitants , whose state * ments are often very uncertain , and even false , as I have frequently discovered in travels , which contained a description of Holland . Whence it is to be considered how such cavils

      of the priests may be most surely refuted . Yet , however it be , this narratioD seems to me worthy of a place in my History , if it can be confirmed by any writer whose authority is unsuspected by the priests . If in the course of your reading you meet with any other passages of this sort , pray mention them .

      1 informed you , two or three months since , * that a certain excellent person was very desirous of seeing your arguments on the Divine Unity . I wished to deal freely and openly with you , and could not conceal what was given me in commission * I am unwilling to interrupt your more important occupations , or to give you any trouble . I know , however , that if you can detach your thoughts from business , a . sight of your arguments will highly gratify that eminent person ; for he esteems greatly your

      judgment and ingenuity . Yet should not your avocations allow you the leisure requisite for the consideration of such a subject , and for writing more at large , or should I be in danger of giving you too much trouble , ( which 1 beg of you to ^ decline , ) I will , if you desire it , excuse you to that emineut person as well as 1 can ; but in that case pray dictate to me such an excuse , or rather , if you can , without finding or fearing any inconvenience ,

      pray do this favour to that eminent person , who will thus have a clearer view of a subject on which your thoughts have been so long occupied . Farewell , my worthy friend , Yours , affectionately , P . k LIMBORCH . ^ __ , * See XIV . 9 :

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/10/