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The fame Mr. 'Boyle fhews how the Effluvia even of cold at the true effential Religion of Chrift, immediate Re^e-
Amulets, may in tract of Time pervade the Pores of a liv- lation mutt be added to the dead Letter of Scripture : Ex
ing Animal ; by fuppofing an Agreement between the revelatianibus divinis judicandumeffe dicebat, %$ ex bibliis,
Potes of the Skin, and the Figure of the Corpufcles. Set- MtmceTUS. — In effect, if thefe two Perfons were not the foil
tint has demonftrated the Poffibiliry of the Thing in his Inventors of the Doctrine 5 they appear, at leatt, to have
laft Propofitions, 1)e Febribus : And the like is done by Dr. been the firft Teachers, and Propagators thereof. See Lu-
Wainwright, Vx.Keil, &c. See Effluvia, Pore, Skin, theranism.
Plague, £$c. Sleidan funifnes the beft Account of the Origin of the
Amulet, in Cookery. See Omelet. Anabaptifls, in his Hiflorical Commentaries.— Luther, he
AMURCA, in Pharmacy, a Medicine made of the Lees obferves, had preach 'd up fo ftrenuouily for the Evangelical
or Sediment of Olives. — It is an Aftringent. See Olive. Liberty ; that the Peafants of Suabia flocking together,
AMY, in Law, the Perfon next of kin to an Orphan, or leagued themfelves againft the Ecclefiaftical Powers, on pre-
Infant ; who is to be intrufted for him tProcbein Amy. See Prochein, $£c.
The Word is French, and literally fignifies Friend.
AMYGDALA. See Almone,
properly called tence of defending the Evangelical Doctrine, and fliaking off the Yoke of Servitude : Obduffa caufa quafl £5? Evan- gelii dotlrinam tueri, & fervitutem ab fe projligare vellent. Luther wrote 'em feveral Exhortations to lay down their
AMYGDALATE, an Artificial Milk, or Emulfion, made Arms, but in vain : They retorted his own Doctrine upon
of blanched Almonds, ££c. See Almond. him ; maintaining, that having been made free by the
AMYLUM. See Starch. Blood of Jefus Chrift, it was injurious to the Name of
AMYNTICA Emplaflra, in Pharmacy, defenfative, or Chriftian, that they had hitherto been reputed Servants :
ftrengthening Plaifters. quod hnc ufque fint babitivclut conditione fervi. Accordingly,
ANA, or *«, in Medicine, denotes an equal Quantity of they proclaimed every where, that they only took up Atms,
any Thing, whether in liquid or dry Meafure. See A. by rcafon they efteem'd themfelves obliged thereto by
Hence Anatica 'Proportio is ufed by fome Writers to fig- Commandment of God.
nify the Ratio, or Proportion of Equality. See EquALlTV, Luther finding ail his Exhortations ineffectual, pu'olifh'd
Ratio, &c. a Book, wherein he invited all the World to take up Arms
Ana, in Matters of Literature, a Latin Termination, againft thofe Fanaticks, who thus abufed the Word of God.
adopted into the Titles of feveral Books in other Langua- — He was obliged to write a fecond, foon after, to juftify his
ges. Ana's, or Books in Ana, are Collections of the me- Conduct 5 which to many appeared too fevere, and even
morable Sayings of Perfons of Learning, and Wit ; much cruel.
the fame with what we otherwife call 'fable Lalk. The Anabaptifls, to the Number of forty thoufand, ra-
Wolfius has given the Hiftory of Books in Ana, in the vaged all the Places wherever they came. John of Lei- Preface to the Cafauboniana : He there obferves, that tho fc ny w ho headed 'em, declar'd himfelf their King 5 and fuch Titles be new, the Thing it felf is very old ;.that Xe- ne ver ftirr'd out or appear'd in publick, without a large Re- nophon's Books of the Deeds and Sayings of Socrates, as tinue of principal Officers : Two young Men always rode well as the Dialogues of 'Plato, are Socratiana: That the immediately after him, the one bearing in his Hand a Apothegms of the Philofophers, collected by Diogenes La- Crown, and the other a naked Sword. — Their Pretence ertius 5 the Sentences of Pythagoras, and thofe of EpiBe- was to eftablilfi the new Reign of Jefus Chrift on Earth, by tus 5 the Works of Athencus, Stobeus, and divers others, f orc e of Arms ; condemning all ufe of Arms for other Purpofes. are 'fo many Ana's. Even the Gemara of the yews, with Calvin wrote a Treatife againft the Anabaptifls, ftill ex- feveral other Oriental Writings, according to Wolfius, pro- tant in his Opufcula. — What they chiefly fupported their perly belong to the fame Clafs. See Gemara. _ great Doctrine on, was thofe Words of our Saviour, He
The Scaligeriana was the firfl: Piece that appear'd with a that believes and is baptized, Jball be faved, Matt. C. XVI. Title in Ana. It was compofed from the Writings of Vaf- v . itf. As none but Adults are capable of believing, they Cant and Verthunian, who, as 'tis faid, took 'em from the argued, that no others were capable of Baptifm : Efpeciaily Mouth of Scaliger, whom they had conftantly attended a as there is no Paflage in all the New Teftament, where
long time. The firft Edition was in 1666. -Soon after the Baptifm of Infants is clearly enjoined. Calvin, and
came the 'Perroniana, T'btiana, Naudfana, 'Patiniana, Sor- ot her Writers againft 'em, are pretty much embarrafVd to leriana, Menagiana, Anti-menagiana, Fureteriana, Chev- anfwer this Argument 5 and are obliged to have recourfe to neana, Leibnitziana, &c. to Arlequiniana. Tradition, and the Practice of the'Primitive Church. In
ANABAPTISTS, a Religious Sect, whofe diflinguifhing this Point they have apparently the Advantage over 'em ; Tenet is, That Children are not to be baptized, till they mention being made of Infant-Baptifm by Origen ; the Au- arrive at Years of Difcretion ; as holding it requifite, that t hor of the Queftions attributed to Juflin ; a Council held they give a Reafon of their Faith, before they can receive i n Africa, fpoke of by St. Cyprian, where the Baptifm a regular Baptifm. See Baptism. of Infants immediately after they were born, was exprcfly
The Word is compounded of etm, denuo, again ; and enjoin'd ; and feveral other Councils, of A'ltun, of Mafon, /SiMrafa, I baptize ; of fWI«, Iwafb ; it being their Prac- f Giron, of London, of Vienna, &c. befide other Fathers, tice to re-baptize fuch as had been baptized in their Infancy, as Ireneus, Jerom, Ambrofe, Avgnflin, &c.
There were Anabaptifls even in the Primitive Church 5 It muft be added, that very confiderable Arguments may that is, Hereticks who baptized a fecond time : Such were be drawn againft the Anabaptifls even from Scripture ; the Novatians, Cittapbrygians, and Donatifls. See Nova- Children, we are told, are capable of the Kingdom of Hea- TiAN, Cataphrygian, and Donatist. ven : Mark X. 14 ; Luke XVIII. 16 ; and our Saviour mad*
There were alfo in the Hid Century feveral Catholick fuch be brought near him, and blefs'd'em. Yer, He allures Bifhops in Afia and Africa, who held the Baptifm of He- us in St. John III. 5. that unlefs a Man be baptized he can' reticks invalid ; and therefore re-baptized fuch as were con- not enter the Kingdom of God. Whence it follows, that verted to Orthodoxy. Children, inafmuch as they are capable of entering intd
But thefe antient Re-baptifts were not called Anabaptifls. Heaven, are alfo capable of being baptized. — The Ana- See Re-baptizer. baptifls anfwer, that thofe here fpoke of by our Saviour t
In the Xllth Century, the Waldenfes, Albigenfes, and were grown big, fince they could come to him 5 and con- (Petrobn/ffitms, are alfo recorded as of the fame Belief; but fequently were capable of an Act of Faith : But this is con- neither was the Denomination given them. See Alei- trary to the exprefs Terms of Scripture, which in St. Mat- genses, Waldenses, %$c. thew and St. Mark, calls 'em nAiha ; and in St. Luke, fyipti,,
Thofe properly called Anabaptifls, are a Sect of Prote- little Children : The fame St. Luke writes, that they were Hants, who firft appeared in the XVIth Century, in fome brought to Jefus ; which is a Prefumption that they were not Provinces of Germany, particularly Weflphalia, where they yet able to walk.
committed feveral Outrages. — They taught, that Baptifm Another Argument much infifted on, is drawn from thefe was not to be conferr'd on Children ; that it is unlawful to Words of St. 'Paul to the Romans, C. V. " If by one Mans
fwear, or to bear Arms 5 that a true Chriftian cannot be a Magiftrate, &c. 'Tis not known who was the Author of this Sect : Some
" Offence Death reign'd j much more they who fe- '* ceive abundance of Grace and df the Gift of Righteoui-
- fs, fhall reign in Life by one, Jefus Chrift." For, if all
charge it on Carloflad ; others on "Luinglius. Cochl£ns fays become criminal by one 5 then are Children criminal : Con- it was Balthazar c Pacimontanus, who began to teach in fequently, if all arejuftified by one, then are Children ju- 1527; and was burnt, at Vienna, fome time afterwards. — ftified : But this cannot be without Faith. And confequent" Mezorilis affirms it was firft broach'd by 'Pelargus, in 1512 ; ly Children may have the Faith required for the receiving who was feconded by Bodeflcin, Carloflad, Wefletiberg, g>uic- of Baptifm, i. e. an Actual Faith, preceding the Sacramentj cou, Didymas, More, &c. as a Difpofition requifite thereto. This Faith they have, not But the common Opinion fathers it on 1'homas Mim- of themfelves 5 but by others, viz. their Parents, or theit fter, or rather Muncer, oC Zwickau, a City of Mifnia ; and Godfathers and Godmothers, who anfwer for 'em. Nor is Nicb. Storck, of Stalberg in Saxony ; two Perfons originally there any thing in the whole Difpenlition, but what is very Difc'plesofZtjtter.fromwhomtheytookoccafiontofeparate, equitable: It being but juft, that as they had finned in the on pretence that his Doctrine was not perfect enough ; that he Will of another, they might alfo be jutlified by the Will ot had only carried the Reformation half-way ; and that to arrive another.
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