aggression principally originated the measured kind of warfare which afterwards took place between the Indexes of Rome and of Spain. FRANCIS DUARENUS honourably deserved the castigation which he has received for his almost only important work, and an important one it is-Pro Libertate Ecclesiæ Gallicæ, &c., in which, particularly section 77, are detailed the enormous exactions of the Papal See. Under H. CARDANUS, we might expect that the eulogy of our excellent Edward VI. would not be allowed to stand: he was a heretic; ob id eradendum nomen ejus una cum laude. The same fate attends our heretical queen, Elizabeth, in a Dedication prefixed to an edition of PLATO. But we ought not to omit the censure upon the Dict. Hebraic. of JOANNES FORSTERIUS, on account of the marked attack upon the words gratis and gratuita in their protestant application. The lexicographer had explained a passage in scripture thus-quicunque fide acceperit verbum de misericordia Dei omnibus gratis promissa propter Christum non trepidabit. The critic comes -verbum, gratis, juxta sensum Ecclesiæ delendum. Again, de gratuita misericordia, &c., dele, et repone, de divina misericordia, &c. I add another analogous article: Et infra, atque non paucos persuaserunt, ut existimarent non solum in Christum fide nos justificari, &c., dele totum, quia

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habentur plura quæ non sibi constant. The last writer to be noticed by us, contained in this Index, is POLYDORUS VIRGILIUS, whose work, de Rerum Inventoribus, is subjected to correction, pp. 685, et seq. Many passages in this writer must be highly offensive to the advocates of Romanism. That, in particular, does not escape, which occurs in lib. viii., cap. i., where, from our Bishop of Rochester, Fisher, a very recent origin is assigned to the doctrine of Indulgences, and the discovery of Purgatory is represented as the most powerful cause of the estimation and demand for the forWith this encouragement, he adds, as his own observation, Indulgences rapidly increased, and produced an abundant harvest; and, with reference to their venality, he adopts from a Christian father the observation, that where purchase intervenes, spiritual gifts come to light estimation. Quæ utinam (he feelingly concludes) non nisi illa vidisset ætas. The only other passage appointed to expunction in this author, which I shall adduce, is in the fifth book and ninth chapter, Nullius animalis effigiem colito. This is meant by Virgilius to express the second commandment; for he is evidently speaking of the Ten, which he expresses compendiously, like that given, nearly in their original order. But the Roman church and its advocates cannot endure

the slightest recognition of that Commandment of Jehovah, which, having violated in practice, they thus virtually erase from the divinely inscribed Table, that it may cease to condemn them. The charge in the present instance does not rest here. For, as if the author before us had studied to provide an evasion for the guilty, and secure the integrity of his own epitome, he has restricted the prohibition to the worship of the image of any animal, leaving other images untouched: yet so sensitive is guilt, that even this distant approach to an accusation, if it might not rather be considered as the kind suggestion of an excuse, must be condemned and expunged*.

Nothing more remains on the subject of this Index, than to report what is contained in the inaccessible work of ZOBELIUS, Notitia Indicis, &c.

It may not be unacceptable to the reader to understand that this Index has been noticed by Fra Paolo; and that this acute critic has observed, as resulting from one of the main principles regulating the construction of it, that it affords ocular demonstration that the instances in which expunction and alteration were made in many good writers found their cause frequently in their having, in those passages, defended the authority given by God to the Prince. This, indeed, is a charge which he urges against the Roman church in general at great length. See Discorso dell' Origine, &c., dell' Inquisitione, &c., p. 173, edit. 1639, no place. Another Tract by the same author, exactly similar in external circumstances and form, bound up with it, though of a different date, has the place, Mirandola. It may just be observed here, as a flagrant instance, that the atrocious work of MARIANA, de Rege, &c., has never been condemned by any Index, Roman or Spanish, although other works of the same writer have attracted the papal lash.

but repeated from him by STRUVIUS, or JUGLER, his editor, in the Bibliotheca Hist. Lit.*, that

* As the work of Zebelius is extremely scarce, it will probably please the reader to see the whole extract as given by Jugler.

Primus tantum hic est tomus celeberrimi Indicis, quem Auctor privato composuit studio, atque id quidem, ut profitetur, eam ob causam, quia Magister esset sacri Palatii, cujus requirat officium, libros expurgare, ideoque ii, qui tales possiderent, non haberent necesse, abolere eosdem, sed uti his potius, secundum censuram emendatis, possent. Cuncta vulgo tribuuntur Guanzello, dicto a patria Brasichellano, quæ in hoc Indice expurgatorio sunt præstita, quanquam certum est omnino, socium laboris fuisse Thomam Malvendam, ex ordine Prædicatorum hominem, qui recognovit Bibliothecam Patrum, ex editione Margarini de la Bigne, præcipuam hujus Indicis partem efficientem.

Res ipsæ, in Brasichellano Indice ad expurgandum notatæ, multifariam testantur censorum lectionem, judicium acutum, rerum ecclesiasticarum peritiam haud vulgarem, studium denique singulare pro servanda auctoritate Romani Pontificis, et universi ipsius cœtus. Rebus sic præstitis, auctores hujus Indicis omnem laudem et existimationem promeruisse, existimares: secus tamen res cessit, et ipse, quem nominavimus, Index Brasichellanus primum a. 1607 suspensus, postea, eodem Bergomi a. 1608, prelis iterum subjecto, denuo suppressus, tandem vero, quum anno 1612. novis typis in Belgio destinaretur, iterum impediri jussus, et, editione tunc temporis jam absoluta (Antwerpi seu Andorfii) venum dari prohibitus fuit. Accedit, quod inaudito hactenus exemplo hic Index expurgatorius, cum imminutione dignitatis Magistri sacri Palatii, qualis Brasichellanus fuit, quique in titulo libri auctorem solum se profitetur, pro libro, auctoritatem duntaxat hominis privati tenente, habitus, et, quod maxime mirandum, ipse in librorum expurgandorum et prohibendorum Indice collocatus sit. Tomus cæteroquin secundus, quem primo adjicere constituerat auctor, statim in herba est suppressus. Verba hæc sunt Nicolai Ern. Zobelii in Notitia Indicis libr. expurgand. editi per Fr. Joh. Mar. Brasichellen, Altorf. 1745 in 8, qui aliquot saltim plagularum libellus jam rarius occurrit. In eodem, p. 51. § vii. docemur, Bergomenam editionem Romana multo nitidiorem esse, et ad evolvendum commodiorem. Omnia tamen exemplaria, sæpius ac diversis in locis producta, quum raritatem incredibilem retinerent, adeoque unum alterumve, alicubi repertum, magno satis pretio venderetur, Ge. Serpilius,

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BRASICHELLEN*, or GUANZELLUS, was assisted in the work by THOMAS MALVENDA, a Dominican;

sacrorum olim in civitate Ratisbonensi Antistes, Indicem hunc ibidem, omisso autem loci indicio, anno 1723. in 8. recudendum curavit sua haud dubie impensa; quod quidem nulla ratione vituperandum erat, nisi nunciatum in Novis literariis fuisset, inventa esse Romæ complura editionis primæ exemplaria, studiosissime adhuc occultata, quæ nunc Ratisbonam delata æquo comparari pretio possint. Lætum fuit rei initium, nec exigua exemplarium pars avide careque ab eruditis empta, qui librum nunc se possidere rarissimum existimabant. At paullo post adparuit, fucus esse omnibus factum. Novitas enim chartæ typorumque iis innotuit, qui paullo adcuratius acutiusque videre solebant. Per plures deinde annos apud hæredes Serpilii adservata sunt reliqua hujus editionis exemplaria, donec anno 1742. Joh. Adam. Hesselius, typographus Altorfinus, consilium suum de recudendo Indice Brasichellano singulari schedula evulgaret. Tunc enim illi, ut retraherent ab instituto typographum, eodem quod is proposuerat, pretio editionem Serpilianam eruditis offerebant. Vid. die Leipz. gel. Zeit. anno 1743. p. 613. Sed Hesselius, nulla indicii hujus Ratisbonensis ratione habita, exsequutus destinata est anno 1745. quo ipso exhibuit Indicem Brasichellanum, ad formam exempli Bergomeni expressum, neque tamen annum locumve, quo id factum, titulo libri adjecit. Hæredes deinde Serpiliani exemplaria sua venum dedere Joh. Gastelio, bibliopola Pedepontino, prope Ratisbonam, qui eodem anno 1745 primam plagulam, solito more, denuo typis describendam curavit, et, omisso primi Tomi vocabulo, secundæ editionis elogium subjunxit. Atque hæc de celeberrimo illo Indice, de quo plura notatu digna congessit doctissimus Zobelius in laudata supra Notitia. Jam diu ante argumentum hoc pertractaverat GUIL. Ern. Tentzelius Select. Observat. Halensium Tomo 3. p. 133. sq. Observat. vi. de Indice expurgatorio Romano rarissimo, quem Joh. Mar. Brasichellanus, Sacri Palati Apostolici Magister, primus et hactenus solus edidit, item Tomo iv. Observat. vii. p. 71. ac Tomo v. Observat. x. p. 314 sq. quibus locis bina Indicis ejusdem Specimina proferuntur.et CLEMENT, Biblioth. de livres difficiles à trouver, Tomo v. p. 207 sq. Pp. 1650-3 of BIBLIOTH. Hist. Litt. selecta, cujus primas lineas duxit B. G. Struvius, &c. post variorum emendationes, &c. Joh. Fr. Jugler. 3 vol. 8vo. Jenæ 1754-63.

*See an entire chapter concerning this author in CATALANI de Magistro, &c., l. ii., c. xlix.