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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	grace_n	sin_n	4,888	5	5.2180	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30476	Dr. Burnet's travels, or Letters containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany, &c written by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing B5934; ESTC R9984	167,242	250

Manuscript Bibles at Basle where he printed his Edition of St. Jerom's Works In the old Manuscript Bible of Geneva that seems to be above seven hundred Years old both the Preface and the Passage are extant but with this difference from the common Editions that the common Editions set the Verse concerning the Father the Word and the Spirit before that of the Water the Blood and the Spirit which comes after it in this Copy And that I may in this place end all the Readings I found of this Passage in my Travels there is a Manuscript in St. Mark 's Library in Venice in three Languages Greek Latin and Arabick that seems not above four hundred Years old in which this Passage is not in the Greek but it is in the Latin set after the other three with a sicut to joyn it to what goes before And in a Manuscript Latin Bible in the Library of St. Laurence at Florence both St. Jerom's Preface and this Passage are extant but this Passage comes after the other and is pinned to it with a sicut as is that of Venice yet sicut is not in the Geneva Manuscript There are two Greek Ma●uscripts of the Epistles at Basle that seem to be about five hundred years old in neither of which this Passage is to found they have also an ancient Latin Bible which is about eight hundred years old in which tho' St. Jerom's Prologue is inserted yet this Passage is wanting At Strasburg I saw four very ancient Manuscripts of the New Testament in Latin three of these seemed to be about the time of Charles the Great but the fourth seemed to be much ancienter and may belong to the seventh Century in it neither the Prologue nor the Place is extant but it is added at the foot of the Page with another hand In two of the other the Prologue is extant but the Place is not only in one of them it is added on the Margent In the fourth as the Prologue is extrant so is the Place likewise but it comes after the Verse of the other three and is joyned to it thus Sicut tres sunt in coelo It seem'd st●ange to me and it is almost incredible that in the Vatican Library there are no ancient Latin Bibles where above all other places they ought to be lookt for but I saw none above four hundred years old There is indeed the famous Greek Manuscript of great value which the Chanoine Shelstrat that was Library-Keeper asserted to be One thousand four hundred years old and proved it by the great similitude of the Characters with those that are upon St. Hippolite's Statue which is so evident that if his Statue was made about his time the Antiquity of this Manuscript is not to be disputed If the Characters are not so fair and have not all the marks of Antiquity that appears in the King's Manuscript at St. James's yet this has been much better preserved and is much more entire The Passage that has led me into this Digression is not to be found in the Vatican Manuscript no more than it is in the Ki●g's Manuscript And with this I will finish my Account of Zurich The publick Library is very noble the Hall in which it is placed is large and well contr●ved there is a very handsome Cabinet of Medals and so I will break off But when I have gone so much farther that I have gathered materials for another Letter of this Volume you may look for a second Entertainment such as it is from Your c. POSTSCRIPT I told you that in Bern the Bailiages are given by a sort of a Ballot which is so managed that no mans Vote is known but I must now add th●t since I was first there they have made a considerable Regulation in the way of voting when Offices are to be given which approaches much nearer the Venetian method and which exposes the Competitors more to chance and by consequence may put an end to the Intrigues that are so much in use for obtaining those Imployments There is a number of Balls put into a Box equal to the number of those that have right to Vote and that are present of these the third part is gilt and two parts are only silvered so every one takes out a Ball but none can vote except those who have the gilt Balls so that hereafter a man may have more than two thirds sure and yet be cast in a Competition There is one thing for which the Switzers in particular those of Bern cannot be enough commended they have ever since the Persecution began fi●st in France opened a Sanctuary to such as have retired thither in so generous and so Christian a manner that it deserves all the honourable Remembrances that can be made of it such Ministers and others that were at first condemned in France for the Affair of the Cevennes have not only found a kind Reception here but all the Support that could be expe●●ed and indeed much more than could have been in ●ea●on expected For they have assigned the French Mi●●sters a Pension of five Crowns a month if they were unmarried and have increased it to such as had Wife and Children so that some h●d abov● ten Crowns a month pension They dispersed them over all the Pais de Vaud but the greatest number s●ai● at Lau●anne and Ve●●● In order t● the supporting of this Ch●rge the Charities of Zu●ich and the other neighbouring Protestant States were brought hither Not only the Protestant Can●ons but the Grisons and some small Stares that are under the protection of the Cantons such as Neufchastel S. Gall and some others that have sent in their Charities to Bern who dispence them with great discretion and bear what further charge this relief brings upon them and in this last total and deplorable dispersion of those Churches the whole Country has been animated with such a Spirit of Charity and Compassion that ●very Mans house and purse has been opened to the Refugi●s that have passed thither in such numbers that sometimes there have been above Two thousand in Lausanne alone and of these there were at one time near Two hundred Ministers and they all met with a kindness and free-heartedness that lookt more like somewhat of the Primitive Age reviv'd than the degeneracy of the A●e in which we live I shall Conclude this Postscript which is already swell'd to the bigness of a Letter with a sad Instance of the Anger and Heat that rises among Divines concerning matters of very small consequence The middle way that Amirald Daillè and some others in France took in the matters that were disputed in Holland concerning the Divine Decrees and the extent of the death of Christ as it came to be generally followed in France so it had some assertors both in Geneva and Switzerland who denied the imputation of Adam's Sin and asserted the Universality of Christ's death to●ether with a sufficient Grace given to all men