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    A Memoir of Samuel Cre ^ lius : A translation from Fred . Samuel Bock ' s Historia At : titrinitariorum ; '' Tom . I . Pars 1 . Pointed at Loipsic , 1784 .

    The very learned and ingenious Samuel Civilius- grandson of the celebrated John Crellius % was

    born in March , i 66 ' O . i-A *» pursued the studies of ins youth in the academy of the Arrmnian : ? at Amsterdam . In V 6 ' > he went to Berlin ., and after ' having spent some time there , proceeded to

    Prussia . From this country he removed to Ku-juigsxyald , near Frankfort tin the / Oder ; where he lived -many years , discharging the functions of the Christian ministry , among the Unitarians , after the death of Preusius , to

    whom he was a son-in-law , and indeed in his lift time , after he was laid aside . In \ 6 S 7 r at the synod of Selchovia , held in the

    inarch of Brandenburg ! ^ he was chosen into the number of the el , ders of the synod . From this place of residence he made frequent journeys to Frankfort and Berlin . In 1697 , he went to

    Holland ., and from Holland passed over into England , and published at London in reply to Bull ' s Defence of the Nicene Faith , his View of the Faith of the Primitive Christians proved from Barnabas , Hennas , and Clemens 1

    Romanus . Duringhis stay in England he was favoured with the patronage of the Earl of Shaftesbu ' ry . From hence , it is likely , he returned to Holland , and printed his piece entitled a Compendium of New Thoughts concerning

    * Sec Memoirs of the Life , &c , of Faustus Socinuf *

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    the First and Second Adam : in which he advanced several singular , whimsical and unsupported speculations , H < then went back to Germany , and visited again Berlin , ami was courteously

    received by Ancillonius , to whom he . carried introductory letters of recommendation from Reinierius

    Leers tb < bookseller . He afterwards took up a second residence of some years at Koenigswald , sustaining the office of a minister to the Antitrinitaiians of the March and of Silesia : making

    frequent visiis to Berlin , where he contracted a friendship with some learned men , particularly with La Croze ; to whom he addressed many letters between the years 1710 and 1725 ; which were published in the

    correspondence of that scholar . When he applied to be admitted into the number of the fellows of the academy at Hail , of which Stryckius *

    was then rector ^ he was denied the privilege ^ About the end of the year 1725 he took another journey to Eng « land , where he published his Remarks on the Introduction of

    John ' s Gospel : and in April > 1727 , he xeturncd to Holland . tie wrote thus 17 th of July , 1727 , from Amsterdam to La Croze z iC Now I am , for cogent reasons ^ fixed here ; though I reluctantly leave Germany and am very

    unwilling to lose your obliging-and learned conversation . " During his stay in England and Holland , he enjoyed the friendship of some eminent characters besides that of the earl of Shaftesbury ; as that of the fa-

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    50 A Memoir of Samuel CrelHus :

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/2/