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Footnotes

¹ Exod.iv. 25.

² Pausan. lib. 5. pag. 153.

³ Cicero, de Nat. Deor. liv. ii, cap. xxv.

⁴ Plin. lib. ii. cap. vii. pag. m. 143, 144.

⁵ Tacit. Hist. lib. i. cap. iii.

⁶ Cicero, de Inventione, lib. i. fol. m. 29.

⁷ Apuleius, in Apologia, pag. 291.

⁸ A celebrated Protestant minister.

⁹ Justin, lib. 28. c. 1.

¹⁰ Plutarch de sera Numinis vindicta.

¹¹ Montagne’s Essays, b. 2. c. 36. p. 763.

¹² The Egyptian sultan who levied upon the Jews in consequence of the jewels and ear-rings borrowed of his ancestors on the departure of their forefathers from Egypt, may be added to these plausible pretences. Ed.

¹³ Sulp. Severus, pag. 165.

¹⁴ Cicero, in Verrem, lib. i, fol. 22, B.

¹⁵ Bayle knew very well, that to ask this question is to answer it. Ed.

¹⁶ Spondan. ad ann. 1533, num. 15.

¹⁷ Revelat. x.

¹⁸ It is a saying of Simonides,“those men are not subtle enough to be deceived by such a one as I am.” Balzac said the same thing of the maids of his village. Agesilaus complained that he had to do with enemies who understood not the war; his stratagems were useless, he could not deceive inexperienced troops. See Plutarch in his Life, towards the end.

¹⁹ Note, that this is the discourse of an abbot. I am obliged to give the reader notice of this in this second edition, because I know that several persons of the Protestant religion have been offended to see the mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation paralelled with the doctrine of the Real Presence and Transubstantiation.—Note in Second Edition.

²⁰ Those who hold Transubstantiation place the essence of matter in the faculty of receiving extension, and so with the essence of every thing: nothing is actual; every thing is a passive capacity; but that capacity way consist with a spirit, &c. which confounds all definitions.

²¹ La Mothe le Vayer, de la Vertu des Payens, tom. v. pag. 220.

²² La Plaeette, Traité de la Conscience, pag. 377.

²³ It must be confessed that, considering the tendencies of Bayle, he concludes this long passage with a very consolatory quotation. Ed.

²⁴ Cicer. Tuscul. Quaest. lib. v, cap. iii.

²⁵ Justin lib. xx, cap. iv.

²⁶ Apul. in Florid.

²⁷ Justin, lib. xx. cap. iv.

²⁸ Olymp. Od. II.

²⁹ Aul. Gell. lib. iv, cap. xi.

³⁰ Plut. in Numa, pag. 65.

³¹ Joan. Scheffer. de natura et constitutione Philosophiæ Italicae, cap. x, pag. 78.

³² Val. Max. lib. viii, cap. vii, num. 2, in ext.

³³ Freigius, in Vita Rami, pag. 24.

³⁴ Pelisson, Discours sur les Œuvres de M Sarrazin, pag. m. 39 et 40.

³⁵ Sorel, Bibl. Franc. pag. m. 11°

³⁶ Father Charles Le Gobien, in his Preface to the Histoire de l'Edit. de l'Emp. de la Chine.

³⁷ La Bruyere Dialogue 2, sur le Quietisme, pag. 33, et seq.

³⁸ Molinos Guid. Spirit, b. iii. ch. xiii. apud Bruyere.

³⁹ Madame Guyon, Moien Court, apud Bruyere Dial. v. page 171.

⁴⁰ Regie des Associez a l’enfance de Jus, apud Bruyere, page 172.

⁴¹ Madame Guyon, in the Book of Torrents, apud euud. ibid.

⁴² Madame Guyon, explicat. du Cant. des Cant. pages 3, 4, Dial. vii. page 239.

⁴³ La Bruyere, Dial. 7, page 261,

⁴⁴ The abbot d’Estival, confer. mystic. apud eund. Dial. ii. page 35.

⁴⁵ Madame Guyon, in the Book of Torrents, apud eund. Dial. vii, page 258.

⁴⁶ La Bruyere, Dial. vi. page 222, 223.

⁴⁷ Ruysbrocbius, in Libro de vera Contemplat. c. xix. p. 445.

⁴⁸ Spizelius, in Felice Literato, pag. 12. He cites Barthol. Bononiensis in Vita Codri.

⁴⁹ Spizelius, pag. 13.

⁵⁰ Spiz

⁵¹ Pierius Valerianus de Litteratorum Infelicitate, lib. i, pag. 21, 22.

⁵² Cicero de Natura, Deor. lib. ii. cap. ii.

⁵³ This reasoning in favour of Catholic saints and relics is precisely similar to that which an English prelate opposed to the repeal of some grossly absurd ecclesiastical Statutes, when a motion was some years ago made by earl Stanhope, to get rid of them.—Ed.

⁵⁴ P. de Farnace, p. 20.

⁵⁵ P. de Farnace, p. 21, et seq.

⁵⁶ Ibid, p. 25.

⁵⁷ P. de Farnace, p. 17, et seq. 6 3

⁵⁸ Esdras, Book III, ch. 3 and 4.

⁵⁹ Arnold. Hist. Theol. Mystic. p. 308.

⁶⁰ Beza, Hist. Eccles. lib. xv. pag. 429.

⁶¹ D’Aubig. Hist. tom. i. page 216.

⁶² Plutarch in Flamin. p. 379.

⁶³ See the Article Partizans.

⁶⁴ Willemur in Dissertat. Philologica de Sadduceis.

⁶⁵ Willemer, ubi supra, p. 41.

⁶⁶ Godeau, Hist. Eccles. Tom. i. p. 126, of the Paris edition in folio, 1674.

⁶⁷ Joseph Antiq. lib. xiii. cap. xviii, pag. 454.

⁶⁸ Arnob. lib. iii. pag. in. 106, 107.

⁶⁹ Desid. Heraldus, in Arnobium, pag. m. 134.

⁷⁰ Les faictz et dictz de bonne memoire Jehan Molinet, fol. 229, verso Paris, 1540, in 8vo.

⁷¹ Thomas Brown, Religio Medici, Part. ii, § ix. pag. m. 397.

⁷² La Croix du Maine says, that Heroet, native of Paris, was related to Chancellor Olivier.

⁷³ Plutarch in Demetrio, pag. 907.

⁷⁴ Plutarch on Love.

⁷⁵ Guicciardini, book iii, near the end, fol. m. 127, ad ann. 1498.

⁷⁶ Mystere d’lniquité, in Epist. Philosoph. Savonarolæ præfixa.

⁷⁷ Balzac, Socrate Chrestien, Discours v. pag. m. 71. et seq.

⁷⁸ Jam. i. 5, et seq.

⁷⁹ Tit. iii. 9, 10.

⁸⁰ Luke i. 34, 35.

⁸¹ Lactant, lib. iv. cap. ii. pag. m. 226.

⁸² Lib. iii. cap. i. pag. 149.

⁸³ Rom. iv, 18.

⁸⁴ Mr. de St Evremond, in his “Conversation between Mareschal d’Hoquincourt and Father Canaye,” tom. i, p. 181, of the English translation, London, 1728.

⁸⁵ “I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an ‘ O Altitudo.'” Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, part i, § viii, page m. 46.

⁸⁶ Id. Ibid. pag. 21, 22.

⁸⁷ Johannes Craig, Epist. Dedicat.

⁸⁸ Rapin, Réflexions sur la Philosophic, pag. m. 447.

⁸⁹ Oeuvres meslées, tom. ii, pag. m. 24.

⁹⁰ This Epistle Dedicatory is dated the first of August, 1584.

⁹¹ Balthasar Bonifacius Historiæ Ludicræ, lib. v. cap. iv. pag. 127.

⁹² Cicero de Natura Deorum, lib. i, pag. 83, Edit. Lescalo perii.

⁹³ Tertullianus in Apologetico, cap. xlvi.

⁹⁴ Daillé of the right use of the Fathers, book ii, ch. iv, pag. m 354.

⁹⁵ Lescaloperius in Ciceron. de Natura Deorum, 1. i, p. 84,85.

⁹⁶ Charron, des trois Vérités, liv. i. ch. v.

⁹⁷ Arnob. lib. i, pag. m. 17.

⁹⁸ Minut. Felix, p. m. 143.

⁹⁹ Father Bouhours, Entretiens d’Ariste, pag. m. 54.

¹⁰⁰ See father Bouhours, Entretiens d’Ariste et d’Eugene, p.201.

¹⁰¹ Strabo, b. 10.

¹⁰² Pensées diverses sur les Cometes, num. 89, pag. 592.

¹⁰³ Cocceius, in Examine Apolog. Equitis Poloni, pag. 305.

¹⁰⁴ Confession Catholique de Sancy, livre i, chap. vi.

¹⁰⁵ Mercure Francois, St. John, page 761-762.

¹⁰⁶ Voyages, part I, pag. 8 & 9.

¹⁰⁷ According to Menage, it was an angel who imprinted those characters, when the possession was over.

¹⁰⁸ Histoire des diables de Loudun, pag. 469.

¹⁰⁹ Journal des Scavans, pag. 311.

¹¹⁰ Journal des Scavans, ubi supra.

¹¹¹ Such is the atrocious imposture, fraud, and cruelty which an ultramontane and fanatical portion of the priesthood would restore in France. M. Sismondi, by recently illustrating the lauded age of St Louis, has well exposed the rancorous folly and bigotry of this temporarily revived faction. Ed.

¹¹² See Prateolus, in Elencho Hæresum, Voce Almaricus, page m. 23.

¹¹³ Plutarchus adversus Colotem, p. 1115, b.

¹¹⁴ Seneca, Quæst. Natur. lib. ii. cap. xiv.

¹¹⁵ Gassendus, in Examine Philosoph. Fluddanæ, num. 29, Operum, tom. iii, pag. 247.

¹¹⁶ Bernier, Suite des Memoires sur l’Empire du Grand Mogul, pag. 202, et seq. Dutch edit.

¹¹⁷ Caramuel, Philosophiae Realis. lib. iii. sect. iii, pag. 175.

¹¹⁸ Viz. Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Thomas Hobbes, and Benedict Spinoza.

¹¹⁹ Jam. i, 17.

¹²⁰ Ovid. Metam. lib. xi, Fab. vii, ver. 221 et seq.

¹²¹ Id. Ibid. lib. xiv, Fab. xvi, ver. 647, et seq.

¹²² Boëthius, de Consolat. Philosoph. lib. i. Prusa iv. pag. m.

¹²³ Kuffelaer Speciminis Artis ratiocinandi naturalis et arti ficialis, pag. 113.

¹²⁴ Benedictus Pererius, de commininibus Principiis, lib. v, cap, xii, p. m. 309.

¹²⁵ See his Letters lvi, lviii, lx.

¹²⁶ Pensées diverses sur les Cometes, num. 181.

¹²⁷ Virgil. Æneid. lib. i, ver. 245.

¹²⁸ Aristot. de Prædicam. cap. ii.

¹²⁹ Drelincourt’s Avant-coureur de la République à M. le Camus, Evêque de Belly.

¹³⁰ See his Answer to the Avant-coureur of M. Drelincourt, pag. 156.

¹³¹ Cicero, Acad. Quæst. lib. iv. cap. 28 et 29.

¹³² Africanus, lib. lxxxviii.

¹³³ Seneca, Epist. xiv. pag. m. 241.

¹³⁴ Tacit in Vita Agricolæ, cap. iv.

¹³⁵ Cicero, Academ. quæst. lib. iv. p. 65.

¹³⁶ Terentius in Phormione, Act. II, Seen. Ill, ver. 18 & 19.

¹³⁷ Montagne, Essais, livr. iii, cap. viii, pag. m. 252, 253.

¹³⁸ Rohault’s preface to his Physics.

¹³⁹ Cicero Tusc. 1, fol. m. 250.

¹⁴⁰ Ibid. fol. m. 250.

¹⁴¹ Cicero, Tuscul. I, fol. 248.

¹⁴² Nouvelles de la Repub. des Lettres, August, 1684. Art. VI.

¹⁴³ Dionysius de Sammarth. ubi supra, pag.284,285,

¹⁴⁴ Bouchet Annales d’Aquitaine, fol. m. 267.

¹⁴⁵ Verse 183 of the Odyssey V.

¹⁴⁶ Journal· duVoïage de Perse, pag. 465.

¹⁴⁷ Chardin.pag. 464.

¹⁴⁸ This was written in 1698.